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"After a bumpy start, Florida governor Ron DeSantis sets out his bid to become US president.", "The British superstar gives these Florida high school band students the surprise of a lifetime.", "Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says he wants to \"lead our great American comeback\" with his campaign.", "Chris Heaton-Harris is criticised for declining an invitation to the Police Federation's conference.", "A weakening housing market had been expected following the continued rise in interest rates.", "\"A star whose light will never fade\" - celebrities and fans alike react to the singer's death at 83.", "Amarii, 14, says she's been unable to sleep since the altercation at a teen disco in Sunderland.", "Family of Harvey Evans, 15, and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, say they were both loved by their communities.", "The move comes two months after SVB's collapse triggered fears of a banking crisis.", "Politicians are grappling with the trade-offs involved in designing a post-Brexit immigration regime.", "The government is threatened with legal action if it does not hand over the former PM's unredacted messages.", "More than 100 firefighters attempted to extinguish the huge fire in the Surry Hills area.", "The singer's decision to reveal the details of her violent marriage still helps inspire other women.", "Cars are at the heart of the culture wars and anger at road-blocking tactics has led to armed raids.", "Tina Turner was a legendary singer who survived her first husband's horrific abuse and became a global star.", "All of the ships are said to be on course to be delivered on time and on budget to Scotland by 2025.", "Det Ch Insp John Caldwell has met King Charles during a royal event at Hillsborough Castle.", "\"You are the epitome of passion and power,\" says Beyoncé, as stars react to the singer's death.", "Landlords says plans to abolish fixed-term tenancies in England could cause \"chaos\" for student housing.", "King Charles and Queen Camilla are on their first official visit outside England since the coronation.", "The singer speaks frankly about her life in a BBC interview in 2018.", "The outgoing boss Sir Iain Livingstone admits that Police Scotland is institutionally racist.", "After a long inquiry, a judge has concluded many questions about Melissa Caddick's fate will go unanswered.", "Anne Boden says nobody believed a \"5ft tall Welsh woman in her mid-50s\" could achieve what she has.", "Households will see bills fall in July, but experts say costs will remain far higher than two years ago.", "The prime minister refuses to put a \"precise figure\" on an acceptable number of legal migrants.", "IT upgrade will allow patients to exercise their right to choose where they are treated, ministers say.", "Government minister pushes back against EU and US calls for removal of Sultan al-Jaber as head of COP28.", "The documentary focused on the prime minister's role in anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002.", "The home secretary refuses to confirm if she asked civil servants to arrange a one-to-one speeding awareness course.", "They will walk out between 07:00 on Wednesday 14 June and 07:00 on Saturday 17 June.", "Climate change protesters Last Generation pour \"vegetable charcoal\" into the Rome landmark.", "Mike Carey hosted a programme called Memorable Melodies on Radio Derby for almost 20 years.", "The government says wi-fi is not a priority for passengers, but one expert claims trains could lose custom.", "A couple win compensation from a farm after the animals cause £25,000 of damage in the garden.", "A number of other people were treated at the scene of the smash in Glasgow's south side.", "The home secretary tried to arrange a private speed awareness course while she was attorney general.", "The 23-year-old was given 12 months to live five years ago and went on to complete a list of ambitions.", "He has been named locally as Chris Adam, a 38-year-old who ran a motorbike dealership.", "This evidence was not shown to juries where bankers were jailed for smaller-scale interest rate 'rigging'.", "Tesco Bank initially refused to refund the mum but changed its mind after a BBC show got involved.", "Susan Hart, 74, was on holiday on the island of Telendos when she disappeared three weeks ago.", "His decision comes a month after he resigned in the wake of a bullying inquiry.", "A system to allow all schools to move to cashless payments is the latest casualty of education cuts.", "The airline benefits as travel demand rebounds and one expert warns fares are set to rise further.", "The home secretary said she had been 'moved' by personal testimonies from victims of abuse.", "The PM wrapped up an intense few days of diplomacy at the G7 with questions about Suella Braverman looming.", "The dispute is over Facebook's transfer of European data to US servers.", "Sly Bailey said she had 'no knowledge' of the activities and wanted 'to put the record straight'.", "Parents Kate and Gerry McCann have spent 16 years searching for answers over their missing daughter.", "Timelapse footage shows the Popocatepetl volcano in the state of Puebla erupting.", "Mark Cavendish, one of Britain's most successful cyclists and winner of a joint-record 34 stages of the Tour de France, announces his retirement.", "The presenter shares her diagnosis of debilitating womb disorder adenomyosis with BBC Radio 5 Live listeners.", "Julian Alvarez's goal helps Manchester City celebrate a third successive Premier League title triumph with victory over Chelsea.", "Artie Moore's homemade station picked up the ship's distress signals - but nobody believed him.", "Exhuming Prince Alemayehu's body would disrupt the remains of others, Buckingham Palace says.", "An sexual assault allegation has been made against ex-North Lanarkshire council leader Jordan Linden.", "Stand-in presenters Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary discuss Phillip Schofield following his exit.", "The party is now the largest in Northern Ireland's local government as well as its assembly.", "Better early warning systems and disaster management mean fewer lives lost to extreme weather.", "Violence broke out in Hiroshima as riot police clashed with far-left anti-G7 protesters.", "Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav was speaking a graduation ceremony for students at Boston University.", "No option \"off the table\" ahead of SNP summit, says independence minister Jamie Hepburn.", "The entertainer was well known in the 1970s and 1980s as one half of the comedy and musical act.", "Josh Freese played drums at the rock band's two memorial concerts for Taylor Hawkins last year.", "Some young Manchester Arena attack survivors have not received professional support, research finds.", "Oscar-winning actress tells BBC about working with documentary maker Sahra Mani on Bread and Roses.", "Exhibitors are making last-minute adjustments to their displays before the gates open on Tuesday.", "The black Stratocaster destroyed by Nirvana's frontman is signed by all three band members.", "Jack Rigby, 12, who lives in Halifax, says he has raised the cash \"in honour\" of his father.", "One hundred significant records are being showcased by the public records office to mark its centenary.", "It is China's first major move against a US chip maker, as tensions increase between Beijing and Washington.", "The link between the deaths and the disorder in Cardiff remains unclear, a police boss says.", "The civil service chief wants to discuss plans for government after Sinn Féin's local election gains.", "Russia's Wagner group claims to have taken full control of the city after a bloody months-long battle.", "The actor from Northern Ireland was reportedly taken to hospital while filming on Italian island Ischia.", "Ten people were taken to hospital after the crash in Glasgow's south side on Sunday.", "Centre-right Kyriakos Mitsotakis falls just short of outright victory and plans for a second round.", "The late Queen Elizabeth II visited the world famous Chelsea Flower Show more than 50 times.", "The BBC Verify team explains how it uncovered Russia's preparations for a Ukrainian counter-offensive.", "A by-election is now more likely in Margaret Ferrier's Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency.", "Fortifications against Ukraine's counter-attack are uncovered by a BBC analysis of satellite images.", "Thousands of people find themselves stranded in South Sudan after fleeing the conflict to the north.", "How junior medics have reached the brink of their biggest walkout, in a fight for a 35% hike.", "Ukraine denies involvement and says Russian paramilitary groups are responsible for the incursion.", "A nerve agent specialist says he was cut from a conference because of his political opinions on other issues.", "Newcastle secure a top-four Premier League finish with a goalless draw against relegation-threated Leicester, whose fate is now out of their hands.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 May.", "Shadow health secretary says regional waiting lists could help people get hospital treatment quicker.", "The footballer fought back tears as he described the bravery of Isla Grist, who has the rare condition.", "Prosecutors say they cannot try Christian Brueckner for unrelated charges of rape and sexual abuse.", "The new Scottish government pay offer comes after BMA Scotland members voted for strike action.", "Police will start combing the area, which is 50km from where the toddler went missing in 2007.", "A massive blaze tore through Manila’s historic Central Post Office late Sunday.", "The call by two eminent experts follows the death of head teacher after an Ofsted inspection.", "The 16-year-old suffered serious injuries after falling from the roof at Edinburgh Waverley station.", "Republicans have been demanding more than $4tn spending cuts in return for raising the debt ceiling.", "Sir Keir Starmer says tackling the three \"biggest killers\" is central to Labour's NHS mission.", "Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr says \"Spain is known as a country of racists\" after facing abusive chants at Valencia.", "Fresh accounts emerge of the final days of deceased members of a Christian doomsday cult in Kenya.", "Ukraine's president says in Germany that Kyiv is preparing to liberate its regions seized by Russia.", "AI boss on the future of artificial intelligence and what will happen if computers become more clever than humans.", "Arsenal's fading title hopes were dealt a devastating blow after losing to Brighton to leave leaders Manchester City one win from a fifth Premier League title in six seasons.", "Shaden Gardood, 37, died one day after Sudan's warring parties signed a deal to protect civilians.", "Miyo Aoetsu invented Brioche Japonaise, which is flavoured with matcha, white chocolate and fruit.", "Cabinet minister Grant Shapps also tells Laura Kuenssberg that local election results were \"disappointing\".", "The Leeds event is named in honour of ex-rugby league player Burrow, who has motor neurone disease.", "With nearly all the votes counted, it seems neither President Erdogan nor his main rival will reach the key threshold of 50%.", "Half a million people are evacuated to safer areas in Bangladesh as the powerful storm nears.", "Stav Danaos has the latest forecast.", "Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli air strikes continued for hours after the ceasefire began.", "Annie Duplock took to the circus ring in front of a cheering crowd as the blades began to fly.", "But the band members announce that Hannah Spearritt will not be joining the anniversary tour.", "Notts County beat Chesterfield on penalties in the National League promotion final to secure their return to the English Football League.", "Early results show Move Forward exceeding predictions to win 151 of the 500 seats in the lower house.", "Danny Beard was among the stars pictured before the ceremony at London's Royal Festival Hall.", "The emotional moment came at the end of the first Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon.", "Turks are at a historic turning point, facing dramatically different visions of their country.", "Ben Whishaw and Kate Winslet were among the acting winners at the Royal Festival Hall ceremony.", "Ternopil was hit by Russian missiles before Tvorchi took the stage in Liverpool, authorities say.", "She played an instrumental piece pre-recorded in Windsor Castle's Crimson Drawing Room earlier this month.", "Barrie Evans, who felt suicidal after losing his leg, is calling for greater support for amputees.", "Sam Kerr is match-winner yet again as Chelsea take a third successive Women's FA Cup title with win over Manchester United in front of a record crowd at Wembley.", "Operations at Gatwick were suspended temporarily with 12 planes diverted but have since resumed.", "Neon green bolero jackets, a piano fit for a princess and other highlights from Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool.", "Speculation about Alexander Lukashenko's health has grown after he missed a key state celebration.", "Chelsea have agreed terms with former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino to become their new manager.", "Grant Shapps says the government is committed to them and people should wait to judge progress.", "The boss of the supercar maker said it would be \"arrogant\" to dictate to customers what they can buy.", "It follows a review into how the former Archbishop of York handled a child sex abuse allegation.", "Heavy rain and winds of up to 195kph (120mph) batter Bangladesh and Myanmar.", "Polls have closed in the most pivotal election in Turkey's modern history.", "A singing \"Brussels sprout\", Italy's soft play area and a man in a soap dish - catch up with all the night's highlights.", "The country's only Islamic centre for trans women is in jeopardy after the death of its leader.", "Turkey's leader is favourite to win another five years as president, after taking a first-round lead.", "The former home secretary blames \"those in power\" for Tory local election losses in a speech.", "The results came down to the wire, but ultimately the country to beat, Sweden, came out on top.", "Many Germany-based Russians are repeating Kremlin disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine.", "BAE Systems launched an inquiry into \"intentional damage\" of HMS Glasgow at its yard on the Clyde.", "She had something none of the other contestants did - experience of winning it before.", "The party is working on proposals on voting rights but says no final decisions have been made.", "Rory Gallagher stepped aside from his role as Derry senior football manager ahead of the Ulster final.", "The union boss urges ministers to reopen pay talks in England after members rejected a lower offer.", "Electric performances have been firing up Eurovision fans in Liverpool for this year's final.", "The most powerful cyclone to hit the Bay of Bengal in more than 10 years made landfall.", "The PM is a lifelong fan of the club, but his support was not enough to inspire them to beat relegation.", "A 25-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murder after the discovery of a woman's body.", "The party should have done more and it is hurting, says Plaid Cymru's interim leader.", "New facilities to check goods at Cairnryan have stalled due to a funding dispute.", "The singer scored a genuine hit with I Wrote A Song, so why did voters award her so few points?", "Justin Welby speaks out against the controversial law as it begins its passage in the House of Lords.", "Jaime Carsi, from Edinburgh, died after a suspected carbon monoxide leak at a holiday home in Spain.", "Palestinian militants fire hundreds of rockets as Israel strikes dozens of Islamic Jihad targets.", "The US congressman is accused of laundering funds, lying to Congress and illegally receiving benefits.", "The Republican congressman talks to reporters after pleading not guilty to charges including fraud and money laundering.", "The defiant president praises his troops as Russia's military might is displayed in Moscow's Red Square.", "The BBC has found the Treasury did not sign off the decision to use taxpayer funds to foot the bill.", "Organisers expect that more than 120,000 people will attend the show at the Eikon Centre near Lisburn.", "At least 1,400 people have been arrested and eight have died in violence since the former PM was held.", "Adam Price quits after review found misogyny, harassment and bullying in his party.", "Other parts of England have also seen torrential rain, causing damage to homes and businesses.", "Bar associations across Scotland expected to oppose pilot of juryless rape trials, says leading lawyer.", "More goods can be carried in fewer trips, says government, but campaigners have safety concerns.", "The former US president appears to mistake E Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples.", "Dame Sharon White says the firm will keep its employee-owned structure ahead of a vote of confidence.", "UKIP has lost almost all of its councillors, as the Eurosceptic party struggles to redefine itself.", "Watch a man in a lime green outfit get mistaken for Finland's Eurovision entry.", "The prince said Ms Davy decided \"a royal life was not for her\", as his High Court case against Mirror Group Newspapers begins.", "Adam Price was long-regarded as a great hope for Plaid Cymru but departs amid a bullying scandal.", "Nante Niemi went missing for two days while camping in remote woodland in Michigan state.", "The Met Police apologises for not disclosing documents it says were found in a cabinet at its HQ.", "Researchers produce a new version of the human genome that could improve medical treatments.", "The actress and comedian will reveal the UK jury's favourite acts during Saturday's grand final.", "The BBC's Steve Rosenberg will be playing your favourite Eurovision songs live on the piano from 15:00 BST right here.", "Hundreds of thousands are prescribed medication without enough scientific proof it helps, UK experts say.", "Top Republicans warn Trump's 2024 chances are damaged even if his supporters dismiss the ruling.", "DCI Banks star Stephen Tompkinson denies inflicting grievous bodily harm on Karl Poole in May 2021.", "The former newspaper editor tells the BBC phone hacking is wrong and \"shouldn't have been happening\".", "The 86-year-old is able to climb stairs and do laps of the garden at an Edinburgh nursing home.", "The publisher apologises to the prince for unlawful information gathering as the trial begins.", "Joanna Cherry wants The Stand to admit that it acted unlawfully, issue an apology and reinstate the event.", "US women voters told the BBC how they think the trial will affect Donald Trump's image and his 2024 run.", "The end-of-year timetable had sparked concern that important legislation could fall away by accident.", "The veteran Hollywood star revealed the news while promoting his new film, About My Father.", "Tributes pour in for Arman Soldin, killed while reporting from the war zone near Bakhmut.", "Experts say it was the wrong place for the 16-year-old, but she had nowhere else to go.", "The internet search giant is rolling out generative artificial intelligence to its core engine.", "Mr Trump defended himself via video while Ms Carroll shared in detail how the alleged rape harmed her.", "Inter Milan take a big step towards reaching the Champions League final as they beat city rivals in a thrilling Milan derby at San Siro.", "The jury in the civil case also finds the former president liable for defaming writer E Jean Carroll.", "Nina Cresswell said tattoo artist William Hay attacked her after they met in a nightclub in 2010.", "New York Republican George Santos is facing multiple investigations related to a series of scandals.", "Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg takes a brief break from the day job to indulge his musical passion.", "Most of the baby's DNA comes from their two parents, with a small percentage from a donor.", "The collection belonged to Heidi Horten, whose German husband took over Jewish firms in the 1930s.", "It was probably the most high-profile hack in social media history, hitting dozens of famous accounts.", "Cities on both sides are predicting a rise in attempted crossings when a pandemic-era policy expires.", "The High court dismisses case brought by animal activists against a government change in policy.", "Justin Welby speaks out against the bill as its begins its passage through the House of Lords.", "Ireland's Wild Youth and Latvia's Sudden Lights are among the acts going home after the first semi-final.", "The eastern city is a crumpled, skeletal wreck. But Ukraine knows losing it could be costly.", "Nicholas Bateman has been jailed after violently shaking his seven-week-old son in 2018.", "Kevin de Bruyne's screamer earns Manchester City a Champions League semi-final first-leg draw at Real Madrid to keep their dream of a Treble on track.", "Video filmed by a person near the shop in Ginza shows the assailants smashing a display then fleeing.", "The Turkish president's main rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, vows greater freedom if he wins the election.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales cause a stir by having a lunchtime drink in a historic London pub.", "Labour and the Lib Dems make gains, with the Conservatives losing more than 1,000 council seats in England.", "Four members, including ex-leader Enrique Tarrio, are found guilty of seditious conspiracy.", "Liv Stirling's wedding dress accidentally ended up for sale at a car boot sale.", "The singer-songwriter had denied stealing parts of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On for his 2014 hit.", "A new report urges improvements to the process of submitting complaints within the armed forces.", "Meteosat-12 promises a step-change in forecasting imminent, extreme weather conditions.", "Councils and mayors are being elected in the biggest round of local polls since 2019.", "The US star pays tribute to her idol Sir James Galway after the Belfast musician performs with her in NYC.", "A medical examiner rules the cause of death to be homicide from compression of the neck.", "The Federal Trade Commission says it wants to stop Facebook's owner from making money out of children.", "The UN's top aid official tells the BBC he has asked the warring sides to allow humanitarian aid.", "A Canadian man is being held on suspicion of selling a substance linked to suicides to people worldwide.", "\"We don't attack Putin or Moscow. We fight on our territory,\" the Ukrainian leader says.", "Highland Council said the carcass was within a tidal zone and could be washed back out to sea.", "Jamie Mitchell, 25, is sentenced to a minimum of 22 years after stabbing Steven Wilkinson to death.", "A 59-year-old man arrested outside Buckingham Palace days before the Coronation will receive care in hospital.", "NatureScot warned there are likely too few pure-bred Scottish wildcats for the population to be viable.", "Manchester City striker Erling Haaland scores against West Ham to break the record for goals in a Premier League season.", "Sir Richard Branson says the pandemic left his businesses near collapse and him \"a little depressed\".", "Johanita Dogbey's family describe her as a \"smart, dedicated and loving girl\".", "Parents encouraged to check their children are up to date with their vaccinations.", "Asia Abdelmajid, famous for her stage performances, is buried in the grounds of a kindergarten.", "Four women, including a former deputy chief constable, speak of misogyny in the force.", "The final flight concludes an operation that has seen more than 2,300 people airlifted to safety.", "Competition watchdog to investigate whether AI development is in consumers' best interests.", "Cases include Lola James, Kaylea Titford and Logan Mwangi, who all died in horrendous conditions.", "Humza Yousaf was quizzed by opposition party leaders during first minister's questions.", "Rebecca Steer was among the pedestrians drink-driver Stephen McHugh deliberately ploughed into.", "British number one Emma Raducanu will be out of action for the \"next few months\" while she recovers from hand and ankle surgery.", "Three people break into a shop in Peru and make off with 200 trainers - all for the right foot.", "A report says the NHS is failing to meet targets around services for pregnant women and new mums.", "There's concern among Conservatives at the party's losses, with further results to come in the afternoon.", "RMT members back fresh rail strikes, meaning industrial action could continue until November", "The Royal Family have been preparing for the Coronation, along with fans and the workers making it happen.", "Demonstrators are calling for justice for Jordan Neely, who died after being placed in a chokehold.", "Murray Foote says he is willing to bet the ongoing investigation will not result in any charges.", "The US says the Kremlin's spokesman is \"lying\" after he claimed the US guided Ukraine to carry out the alleged attack.", "Napoli win their first Serie A title for 33 years as they draw with Udinese at Dacia Arena to spark jubilant celebrations back in Naples.", "The oil and gas giant makes $9.6bn between January and March despite a dip in energy prices.", "The Star Wars actress's siblings were not invited to her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.", "Heck says the public's appetite for meat-free sausages and burgers is \"not really there yet\".", "Having grown up birthing calves, this Florida officer was ready for action when needed.", "Russia has accused Ukraine of carrying out the alleged attack on Wednesday with Washington's support.", "The deputy first minister says pupils in P6 and P7 will be included in the scheme by 2024.", "The red, white and blue postbox is plastered in Welsh independence and republican stickers.", "In Westminster Abbey, Alis Huws will join the Coronation Orchestra for Karl Jenkins's Tros y Garreg.", "Two Palestinians accused of last month's deadly attack are killed during an Israeli raid in Nablus.", "A 13-year-old schoolboy is arrested after at least nine are killed at a primary school in Belgrade.", "The changes will come into effect on the online group-chat platform \"over the coming weeks\".", "After the Coronation service, who will be invited to appear on the palace balcony?", "Her estranged husband says she has assets including 25 residential properties worth $80m and 21 farms.", "The air force says the drone went out of control and was destroyed to avoid \"undesirable circumstances\".", "Lewis had solo success in the 1970s and sang backing for the likes of David Bowie and Rod Stewart.", "DCI Banks star Stephen Tompkinson denies inflicting grievous bodily harm on Karl Poole in May 2021.", "The Ukrainian president is in western Europe amid speculation over Wednesday's drone attack on the Kremlin.", "Xiaotong Huang used money to pay her University of Stirling student fees and to buy luxury items.", "After a 13-year-old opens fire on his class, mourners leave tributes to the murdered children.", "Friends of Adam Woods, who died of an accidental drug overdose last year, meet up every week.", "Justice committee says more must be done to ensure police recognise all types of domestic abuse situations.", "A video of nightclub revellers being flogged in Somalia's capital sparks debate over a drug crackdown.", "If Moscow's claims of an assassination attempt are accurate, then its air defences publicly failed.", "Some 8,000 council seats are up for grabs, as voters decide who will run services in 230 local councils.", "A report says a relative of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had tuition paid by a billionaire.", "A letting agent says some landlords are raising rent by up to £200 a month due to mortgage hikes.", "The baby suffered life-changing brain damage and multiple fractures, a court hears.", "The ex-president appears to mistake E Jean Carroll for Marla Maples in a deposition played in court.", "The 11-year-old was crossing a road in Lancaster when he was hit and taken to hospital.", "Authorities are investigating the ex-Pink Floyd star after he wore the controversial outfit in Berlin.", "The Consumer Council warning comes as wholesale UK gas prices fall to below 70p a unit.", "The drug can target one of the three most dangerous bacterial superbugs, say researchers.", "Nine consultants have left in the past year, and the hospital's stroke service is being withdrawn.", "New CCTV footage shows three vehicles police believe were used in the Omagh shooting travelling in convoy.", "\"Pretty cool with all the jewels\" - the Queen's verdict on schoolchildren Charles and Camilla's crowns.", "The High Court rules the actor can bring action over phone-tapping, but not for alleged voicemail hacking.", "The victims of the attack in Nagano include two policemen, and the suspect has been detained.", "Author Mohammed Hanif on the troubled relationship between Pakistan's former PM and the powerful army.", "Witnesses report officers pointing Tasers at a man who was held on suspicion of criminal damage.", "Tests were carried out near Rea's Wood on the lough's shoreline following the death of a dog.", "Gas cookers harm the environment and have been linked to respiratory disease, campaigners warn.", "The boss of a major Welsh visitor attraction says he does not want tourists to be \"turned off\".", "Ex-officer barred for misconduct says she been made a \"scapegoat\" for failings over Sarah Everard's murder.", "The singer is in Edinburgh to perform his show, Harry Styles: Love On Tour, at Murrayfield Stadium.", "Soaring food prices mean some families are missing meals and desperate for deals, but preparation can help.", "Journalist Jonny McFarlane recognised the silver Kia Ceed when he saw it on the news on Friday.", "The presenter says he has agreed to step down \"with immediate effect” after more than 20 years.", "The system was tested for the first time last month, with messages sent to millions of smartphones.", "Three women arrested on suspicion of taking the lambs from a field are released on bail.", "The 61-year-old is leaving ITV with immediate effect as he apologises for misleading employers, his family and the public.", "Transport was suspended and nearby residents evacuated after a building went up in flames on Thursday.", "BBC Scotland understands the UK government is likely to permit the scheme - with several conditions.", "Five French soldiers are accused of failing to help during the incident when 27 people died.", "The 10-month-old was killed by his parents in 2020 - just 39 days after he was placed back in their care.", "The billionaire's Neuralink implant company wants to help restore people's vision and mobility.", "Stephen Boden, 30, denies murdering 10-month-old Finley Boden in 2020.", "Ron DeSantis' launch of his White House presidential campaign was hit by technical problems.", "Police Scotland officers say their job will be harder after their chief constable said the force is institutionally racist.", "Material recovered from the area 30 miles from where Madeleine went missing will be analysed, say police.", "About 60% of homes need to be more energy efficient to meet targets, a new report finds.", "Stephen Boden and Shannon Marsden killed Finley Boden, who was returned to them through a court order.", "Tony Corden wants his lodgers to buy the house so its \"creative spirit\" continues.", "UK Athletics has banned transgender women from competing in the female category in its competitions and events in the United Kingdom.", "Newly released FBI documents say there were “ever-present“ IRA threats during her US visits.", "British Cycling is to ban transgender women from the female category of its competitions following a review and consultation.", "At least two people were killed and more than 30 injured in the attack in the city of Dnipro.", "Some pupils are struggling to access period products in schools, data shared with BBC News suggests.", "Maksym saved Ivan's life in Bakhmut, then stayed to lead their men. A week later he was dead.", "The investigation will establish whether the police were in pursuit of the two boys who died.", "Two pistols and nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition also went missing over the past two years.", "WBC world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury claims he wants to fight fellow Briton Anthony Joshua at Wembley in September and has sent him a contract.", "Kyrees Sullivan and Harvey Evans died in an e-bike crash in Cardiff's Ely suburb on Monday.", "Video filmed on a phone shows the driver losing control of the car before getting caught in the current.", "The seaweed, pebbles and sand make Pwllheli look like an aquatic mammal.", "Reports suggest scavengers have targeted two British ships sunk in Asia during World War Two.", "Harvey Evans and best friend Kyrees Sullivan died in a crash while riding an electric bike.", "Stephen Boden and Shannon Marsden murdered Finley Boden, who suffered 130 \"appalling\" injuries.", "Aderrien Murry has been released from hospital and is recovering from his injuries.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 19 and 26 May.", "NI parties meet the head of the civil service to discuss the budget and government crisis.", "German prosecutors say it will take time to examine materials recovered from this week's search in Portugal.", "Scotland's environment agency said dry weather had affected river flows around Loch Maree in Wester Ross.", "Det Ch Insp John Caldwell is one of the Police Service of Northern Ireland's best-known detectives.", "The former US president is one of several Republicans Mr Johnson has met on a trip to the US this week.", "The Prospect union says action on 7 June will not take place after government offered \"meaningful talks\".", "The boss of the mercenary group says it is transferring control of the city to the Russian army.", "Why has an NHS Trust failed to improve maternity care after a near-decade of failure?", "Custody officer Lorraine Barwell was kicked to death by a prisoner she was escorting.", "Brentford striker Ivan Toney received a reduced ban from football because of a diagnosed gambling addiction.", "Olivia Perks, 21, was found dead in her room at Sandhurst military academy in 2019.", "The British superstar gives these Florida high school band students the surprise of a lifetime.", "Despite repeated calls for help, the man and his disabled wife were not assisted, his family says.", "Watchdog says it is seeking legal advice \"on the impact of leaked confidential information\".", "The presenter left ITV's This Morning after reports of a strained relationship with Holly Willoughby.", "Det Ch Insp John Caldwell has met King Charles during a royal event at Hillsborough Castle.", "The ongoing Hollywood writers strike is one factor behind the move, BBC News NI understands.", "Ryan Reynolds says he is \"so grateful\" to have met Wrexham fan Jay Fear before his death.", "Author Mohammed Hanif on the troubled relationship between Pakistan's former PM and the powerful army.", "Det Ch Insp Caldwell has given investigators his account of the shooting in Omagh in February.", "The High Court judge rules there is no new evidence linking the tests with harm to babies.", "Chemical Intelligence won £162m of government contracts to supply personal protective equipment.", "Bacari-Bronze O'Garro, better known as Mizzy, is notorious for pranks including acts of trespass.", "Philippa Chapman was left in bloody sheets for three days at a unit that was nearly forced to close.", "Thousands of people have had their plans upended as disruption at Heathrow continues for a second day.", "Ross Burns has taken pictures of his son's toys all around the UK, after starting in lockdown.", "BBC Sport looks at the key questions in the debate around the inclusion of transgender women in female sport.", "Anne Boden says nobody believed a \"5ft tall Welsh woman in her mid-50s\" could achieve what she has.", "Documents which led to Finley Boden being returned to his parents, who then murdered him, obtained by BBC.", "Mounting evidence seen by the BBC suggests that medical facilities are being targeted by both sides.", "The trust has apologised to a woman for failing to admit a surgeon was responsible for a massive haemorrhage.", "Cadbury Flake makers' Mondelēz International say action is being taken to address the crumbly issue.", "Derek Richford's determination led to an inquiry into maternity care at East Kent hospitals.", "Manchester City's stunning Champions League semi-final win over Real Madrid banished the \"pain\" of last year's defeat, says manager Pep Guardiola.", "Damian Green says it was \"regarded as acceptable\" when he was a child.", "Nationalists also chanted racist slogans at the event marking Israel's capture of East Jerusalem.", "More bodies are found after almost every river flooded between the coast and Bologna.", "The children disappeared after their plane crashed but it remains unclear if they have been rescued.", "Barcelona police trawl the city's port after witnesses suggest the rugby player \"fell into the sea\".", "A father from north Wales has set up a petition with 100,000 signatures calling for action.", "All missiles over the capital were shot down, but falling debris caused some damage, Ukraine says.", "Manchester City will face Inter Milan in the final of the Champions League after thrashing Real Madrid at Etihad Stadium.", "Jurors hear police interviews with a woman accused of killing her newborn baby at her parent's home in 2019.", "The pair have fronted the ITV show since 2002 and will hit the pause button after the 2024 series.", "Prince Harry is among high-profile figures accusing Mirror Group Newspapers of unlawful practices.", "Police Scotland said the black Honda Civic had been stolen from a property in Annan.", "Scratches, cuts and bruises on nine-year-old Alfie Steele not from \"classic childhood bumps\".", "West Ham players confront AZ Alkmaar fans who attacked an area in which friends and family are watching the match.", "Brentford striker Ivan Toney is banned from football for eight months after he accepted breaking Football Association betting rules.", "The nurse is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others - charges she denies.", "Home Secretary Suella Braverman says she recognises the concern around the testing on animals.", "Rishi Sunak says the government is in control of legal migration but doesn't commit to specific figures.", "Michael Harrison, 41, delayed calling an ambulance and claimed his son had fallen from a tree.", "The British pop star challenged record labels to pay songwriters a living wage as she picked up a prize.", "Five years on from a government pledge, schools grapple with a subject as divisive as it is sensitive.", "The decision comes as a legal battle between the company and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis escalates.", "The Italian coast guard helicopter rescued two people after catastrophic flooding in the Emilia-Romagna region.", "The Court of Appeal has previously ruled against Heidi Crowter, saying the Abortion Act was lawful.", "As the NHS enters the difficult winter period, find out what's happening in your area.", "Water companies apologise for sewage spills in England, but critics say customers should not foot the bill.", "Lee Kyle will return to Edinburgh with his tent this summer to avoid soaring accommodation costs.", "Islamist extremist Sayfullo Saipov killed eight when he drove a truck at pedestrians in New York in 2017.", "About 10,000 people flee their homes in Emilia-Romagna, with nine confirmed deaths across the region.", "Lucy Letby accuses a \"gang of four\" of \"apportioning blame\" on to her \"to cover up\" hospital failings.", "The Chinese-owned platform said the ban \"infringes on the First Amendment rights of the people of Montana\".", "A charity in Northern Ireland says the cost of living means families are more desperate than ever.", "Journalists Woodward and Bernstein tell the BBC the press is essential in finding the truth.", "\"I think they were being chased the whole day or something,\" says New Yorker Sonny Singh.", "West Ham reach their first European final since 1976 as they overcome AZ Alkmaar in their Europa Conference League semi-final.", "It took more than three clicks of Dorothy's heels to solve the theft of her ruby-red shoes 18 years ago.", "Rishi Sunak says a new defence partnership will see closer co-operation between the armed forces.", "Rafael Nadal will miss the French Open for the first time in 19 years after a hip injury rules out the 14-time men's champion.", "Kayden Frank was found dead along with the body of a 38-year-old man whose death is not being treated as suspicious.", "The supermarket chain says it is consulting on whether higher pay for some employees \"makes sense\".", "You could save money by buying a chocolate chip biscuit rather than a chocolate-covered one.", "Can an industry reliant on private jets, air freighters and convoys of trucks ever go green?", "Rishi Sunak says he hopes other countries follow the UK and bring in new sanctions against Russia.", "The scheme will benefit spouses who were forced to give up their pensions if they remarried.", "Members of the RMT union will strike on Friday 2 June in a national dispute with 14 train companies.", "Andrew Miller, also known as Amy George, sexually assaulted the primary aged girl for 27 hours after taking her to his home.", "The advert for an Italian restaurant showed Michelangelo's naked statue of David eating pizza.", "Mariupol's former Azovstal workers yearn for their old lives in the now Russian-held city.", "He says songwriters face \"a battle\" to defend work against the growing use of artificial intelligence.", "She believed his use of the letters in an email asking for more information was sexual harassment.", "Reports say eight people died and 17 were injured in heavy shelling in the war-torn south and east.", "Backgrid says the couple demanded photos taken of them during a paparazzi pursuit through New York.", "The mother of Khayri Mclean, 15, pleads for an end to violence as his killers are sentenced.", "The results could open up new ways to spot, treat and prevent some diseases, including cancer, experts say.", "A huge rise in demand for antibiotics for children saw shortages of the medicine.", "A total of 807 candidates are competing for 462 seats in council chambers across Northern Ireland.", "The couple decline to comment after giving a voluntary interview to Essex Police officers.", "Citizen's Advice says the high cost of living means many are struggling to afford the essential service.", "Det Ch Insp Caldwell has given investigators his account of the shooting in Omagh in February.", "Police confirm an incident took place on Tuesday night, but say there were no arrests or injuries.", "Party Pieces, started by Carole Middleton in 1987, is sold after falling into administration.", "The controversial US actor says he will not let his legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard define him.", "A total of 1,305,553 people were eligible to vote, according to the Electoral Office for NI.", "Waiting lists in Wales rise while thousands still wait two years for treatment, figures show.", "Samantha Lee investigated a complaint made about Wayne Couzens just before he went on to kill.", "The prime minister says the government is talking to the EU over rule changes that could hit UK car plants.", "Thousands of foreign firms, some linked to Russian oligarchs, are breaking a new UK transparency law.", "The priority was that events up to and including the funeral ran \"smoothly\", the Treasury said.", "The 46-year-old, who had just rejoined the pop band, was found dead in his home in Dorset in April.", "The telecoms giant plans to shed up to 40% of its workforce by the end of the decade to cut costs.", "An invitation to Kathleen Stock is not behind a split with the debating society, Oxford SU says.", "Farmers and vets traumatised by mass culls do not get enough mental health support, a report finds.", "The official photographs marking the King and Queen's Coronation were taken after the lavish ceremony.", "Seventy years after the last coronation, the crowning of King Charles III was a very different spectacle.", "The Canadian pop-punk rockers say the band has \"brought us some of best moments of our lives\".", "The 33-year-old who killed eight people as they were shopping may have had far-right links.", "Graham Smith, from anti-monarchy group Republic, was one of 64 protesters held during the Coronation.", "Children could miss out on important life experiences due to higher prices, says Go Beyond.", "Andy Murray wins his first title in nearly four years by beating Tommy Paul 2-6 6-1 6-2 in the final of the ATP Challenger event in Aix-en-Provence.", "The Prince of Wales tells a packed Coronation concert Queen Elizabeth II would be a \"proud mother\".", "A beginner's guide to the Eurovision Song Contest: how it works, memorable moments, Eurovision heroes and what to watch out for.", "In his only UK interview, the star talks books, Hollywood egos and who should be the next James Bond.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales meet crowds celebrating the Coronation at Windsor.", "More details are emerging about the eight victims of Saturday's deadly shooting at a mall in Allen.", "There are fears about cheating, but new advice says students should be taught how to use AI tools.", "Graham Smith from the Republic campaign group was detained on Coronation day.", "They were arrested on suspicion of breaching the peace and their \"not my king\" placards were seized.", "The royals are \"deeply touched\" and grateful to the crowds who showed their support at the Coronation.", "A sign pointing drivers in mid Wales to a fictional airport is returning to the side of the A44.", "The force says it happened after they received reports a woman was attacked by a dog in east London.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin seemingly U-turns on his threat to withdraw from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.", "A 48-year-old teetotal woman survived on wine and snacks after getting stranded in bushland.", "The driver has been arrested and police say it is not yet clear if the incident was intentional.", "Rights groups warn the chemical is \"notorious for the severity of the injuries it causes\".", "King Charles has visited Ireland many times, but will he have the same impact as Queen Elizabeth?", "The ghostwriter of Prince Harry's memoir has written about his experience of finding himself in the spotlight.", "Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli-Zare were accused of burning the Quran and insulting the Prophet.", "He joins Princess Charlotte and Prince George at a scout hut in Slough, as part of an effort to get people across the UK volunteering.", "Data shows there are now fewer local chemists than at any time since 2015, despite rising demand.", "Gower Seafood Hut owner Chris Price calls the timing of the move \"a concern\".", "Eight people, including children, were killed while shopping at a mall. Here's what we know about them.", "The death toll is expected to rise as rescuers pull the vessel out of shallow, muddy waters.", "The BBC's Sean Coughlan writes that surrounded by candlelight and the glow of gold, you could feel the expectation", "The footage went viral, often with no warnings. Experts say it's a disturbing failure by moderators.", "Gary Prado Salmón led troops who caught the famous Cuban revolutionary in the Bolivian jungle in 1967.", "The former president was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation and must pay $5m in damages.", "Lucy Frazer says police were right to factor in the momentous occasion after criticism over 52 arrests.", "A controversial new law, used to detain the group, is being criticised as too crude and too broad.", "The driver, identified as George Alvarez, is charged with eight counts of manslaughter in Texas.", "Halifax apologises to a Money Box listener after rejecting his home loan application.", "Joanna Cherry wants The Stand to admit that it acted unlawfully, issue an apology and reinstate the event.", "Organisers did not want “to offer a platform” to far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.", "Photos of the day after King Charles's Coronation, including street parties and lunches around the UK.", "A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after Renell Charles, 16, was fatally stabbed in Walthamstow.", "The US Treasury Secretary warns Congress it must act to raise the country's borrowing limit.", "A 45-year-old man has been arrested after a fire which badly damaged buildings in a boat yard.", "Ryan Wyn Jones is charged with three counts of attempted murder and possession of a knife.", "Protester Matt Turnbull is one of the people arrested in the build up to the Coronation.", "A brilliant variety of pop stars, beloved characters and masters of music come together on stage.", "Volunteering events are being held across Wales to mark the last day of the Coronation celebrations.", "Lawyers in Aberdeen join colleagues in Glasgow and Edinburgh in opposing juryless trials.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales have been joining the Big Help Out with their three children.", "Prime Minister Terrance Drew tells the BBC he will ask the people about making the country a republic.", "The pop group bury the hatchet to play at a pre-Eurovision concert in their home city, Liverpool.", "Civilians are hurt in Kyiv, and one man dies in Odesa, where a Red Cross warehouse is hit, officials say.", "The BBC's Duncan Kennedy breaks down the brief trip the Duke of Sussex made to the UK for the Coronation.", "Nick Read has admitted last year's accounts contained an \"incorrect statement\" about work done for the Horizon Inquiry.", "The traditional Immortal Regiment procession will move online due to security concerns, authorities say.", "Writer E Jean Carroll is accusing Donald Trump of assaulting her in the mid-90s, which he denies.", "Jennifer Coolidge and Pedro Pascal show their support at the MTV Movie and TV Awards.", "Colourful drone displays take to the sky across the country as part of the Coronation concert.", "Ralph Gonsalves says he would welcome an apology for injustices related to slavery.", "People across the UK are urged to help with beach cleaning, litter picking and flower planting.", "The Conservatives have lost seats to Labour and the Liberal Democrats.", "Demonstrators are calling for justice for Jordan Neely, who died after being placed in a chokehold.", "Rebecca Steer was fatally hurt by Stephen McHugh as he drove at people \"like they were skittles\".", "For the first time at a coronation, the public are being invited to swear allegiance to the monarch.", "Mohamed Nur is accused of murdering Johanita Dogbey and of recent stabbing attacks on three others.", "BMA Scotland members overwhelmingly back a three-day strike amid a pay dispute with the Scottish government.", "The business lobby group appoints advisors to try to salvage its reputation as police investigate rape claims.", "One mum says she is \"flabbergasted\" about the help offered for her deaf four-year-old daughter.", "The King and Camilla, Queen Consort have recorded a safety message for rail and Tube passengers.", "Inspections are increasingly seen as \"something to dread\", the Early Years Alliance charity says.", "Reigning champions Kalush Orchestra kick off the official build-up to the song contest in Liverpool.", "Losing over 1,000 council seats would be an extremely bad result for the Conservatives, the BBC's Nick Eardley explains.", "Earlier the King, joined by the Prince and Princess of Wales met well-wishers on The Mall", "Labour and the Lib Dems make gains, with the Conservatives losing more than 1,000 council seats in England.", "The Tories suffer from a competitive political landscape, writes BBC political editor Chris Mason.", "Conclusions must be drawn with caution because there are plenty of results still to come in, the BBC's Chris Mason explains.", "Joseph Sullivan was convicted over covering up a security breach of 57 million user accounts in 2016.", "DCI Banks star Stephen Tompkinson denies inflicting grievous bodily harm on Karl Poole in May 2021.", "Napoli finally end their 33-year wait to win Serie A, sparking scenes of celebration in football-mad Naples.", "An episode from the popular children's show included Bluey's parents complaining about their weight.", "There's concern among Conservatives at the party's losses, with further results to come in the afternoon.", "Lucy Letby, who is accused of murdering babies, tells a court one child's death left her \"stunned\".", "Xiaotong Huang used money to pay her University of Stirling student fees and to buy luxury items.", "Most hotel rooms were snapped up but there is speculation a train strike has led to cancellations.", "Major Apollo is a ceremonial drum horse and will lead 200 other horses on the procession.", "The force said it was necessary so officers and staff could wear protective FFP3 masks.", "Forres-based Orbex has proposed launching up to 12 rockets a year from Sutherland Spaceport.", "Footage on social media shows people clambering to escape from the train at Clapham Common Station.", "Napoli win their first Serie A title for 33 years as they draw with Udinese at Dacia Arena to spark jubilant celebrations back in Naples.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 28 April and 5 May.", "Labour, who secured 33 seats, has taken control of the Kent council for the first time.", "Labour says it is heading back to power after Tories lose 1,000 councillors in English local elections.", "Close to 20 million people are likely to have died during the last three years, says the WHO.", "Barclays said 77% of scams are now happening on social media, online marketplaces and dating apps.", "The Deaf Arts Festival will tour Northern Ireland after premiering in Belfast this weekend.", "The singer-songwriter had denied stealing parts of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On for his 2014 hit.", "A Limavady man recalls the procession of 1953 and a Rathfriland man shares his royal memorabilia.", "Video shows people smashing windows to try to escape at Clapham Common station.", "The Star Wars actress's siblings were not invited to her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.", "Sir Ed Davey says he has a \"Cheshire Cat\" grin on his face as his party gains control of 12 councils.", "Iñaki Ereño says any future pandemic cannot result in the interruption of routine healthcare.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says it has been disappointing to lose colleagues in the local elections.", "Around 15,000 children are not fully immunised against measles, mumps and rubella, a report finds.", "Pyrénées-Orientales will be officially declared at drought \"crisis\" level from 10 May.", "Liberal Democrat Chris Twells was set to represent both Tetbury with Upton and Ordsall.", "Recrimination, even infighting, is already under way among the Tories, writes BBC political editor Chris Mason.", "Thousands of people will get the medal for their contribution to the ceremony and public services.", "The video shows Donald Trump mistaking his accuser E Jean Carroll for his ex-wife in a photo.", "At least eight people are killed and several more injured in villages south of Belgrade.", "The former president says that, although politically incorrect, his accuser is \"not his type\".", "The public is on course to shell out £200m on food and drink this weekend, one retail body predicts.", "The High court dismisses case brought by animal activists against a government change in policy.", "After the Coronation service, who will be invited to appear on the palace balcony?", "The White House say firms have a \"moral\" duty to make sure their products are safe.", "The monarch is seen laughing and shaking hands with crowds on the Mall a day before his coronation.", "The prisoners, accused of having been part of the Islamic State group, claim they have been unjustly treated.", "The ex-president appears to mistake E Jean Carroll for Marla Maples in a deposition played in court.", "Flash flooding surrounded a lorry driver who was crossing the Gulana-Kulalu causeway in Kenya.", "Christopher El Gifari appeared in court charged with the murder of Mark Lang.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin poses among dead mercenaries, blaming defence officials for lack of ammunition.", "Passengers arriving in the UK faced hours of delays - but the situation is now resolved.", "An extra day off is cause for joy for many, but for others it extends a weekend of isolation.", "The last hours of Turkey's presidential race turn sour as the candidates argue over refugees.", "Authorities are investigating the ex-Pink Floyd star after he wore the controversial outfit in Berlin.", "The lawyer told the judge he did not know content from the artificial intelligence could be false.", "Maksym saved Ivan's life in Bakhmut, then stayed to lead their men. A week later he was dead.", "Jonas Brothers, The 1975, Anne-Marie and Cat Burns took to the stage for the three-day festival.", "The expulsions follow increasingly strained relations between Russia and Germany over Ukraine.", "The Consumer Council warning comes as wholesale UK gas prices fall to below 70p a unit.", "Ukraine denies involvement and says Russian paramilitary groups are responsible for the incursion.", "Harvey Evans and friend Kyrees Sullivan died after the e-bike they were on crashed in Ely, Cardiff.", "New CCTV footage shows three vehicles police believe were used in the Omagh shooting travelling in convoy.", "Edwin Castro won the jackpot last November - but Jose Rivera claims he is the rightful winner.", "The man said he had opened the door because he was feeling suffocated and wanted to get off quickly.", "The health and science editor is remembered as a \"true trailblazer\" and \"devoted mother and wife\".", "The detective was shot while putting footballs into his car at a sports complex in Omagh in February.", "Turks are at a historic turning point, facing dramatically different visions of their country.", "Fortifications against Ukraine's counter-attack are uncovered by a BBC analysis of satellite images.", "Crews had been searching the River Eden in Carlisle after four teenagers got into difficulty on Friday.", "WBC world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury claims he wants to fight fellow Briton Anthony Joshua at Wembley in September and has sent him a contract.", "Two pistols and nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition also went missing over the past two years.", "Schofield quit ITV on Friday after admitting he'd had an affair with a younger male colleague and lied to cover it up.", "Turks finish voting in a presidential run-off to decide on their country's future path.", "Author Mohammed Hanif on the troubled relationship between Pakistan's former PM and the powerful army.", "The adverts will say people 'face being detained and removed' if they come to the UK by small boat.", "Ken Paxton, Texas' Attorney General, is now suspended from office pending a trial in the state Senate.", "Kyrees Sullivan and Harvey Evans died in an e-bike crash in Cardiff's Ely suburb on Monday.", "A document shows racist language was used to describe sub-postmasters being wrongly investigated.", "Video filmed on a phone shows the driver losing control of the car before getting caught in the current.", "The UK government has excluded glass from the Scottish deposit return scheme, casting doubt over its future.", "She says he lied to her when she \"directly\" asked him about rumours of a relationship.", "Police said the damage to the building and statues amounts to thousands of pounds.", "Harvey Evans and best friend Kyrees Sullivan died in a crash while riding an electric bike.", "Turkey's leader is favourite to win another five years as president, after taking a first-round lead.", "Oleksiy Danilov tells the BBC that Kyiv has an \"historic opportunity\" to strike a major blow to Russia.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 19 and 26 May.", "The shadow chancellor is calling for a \"proper windfall\" tax on energy firm profits.", "Filmmaker Justine Triet becomes the third female director ever to win the prestigious prize.", "Bacari-Bronze O'Garro, better known as Mizzy, is notorious for pranks including acts of trespass.", "Ex-officer barred for misconduct says she been made a \"scapegoat\" for failings over Sarah Everard's murder.", "Bacari-Bronze O'Garro, known as Mizzy, denies breaching a court order over social media.", "Supplying F-16 jets to Ukraine will be a military boost for Kyiv - but the devil is in the detail.", "The 43-year-old man is released under investigation over the crash but faces the unrelated charge.", "Harvey Evans and Kyrees Sullivan died in an electric bike crash, which sparked a riot in Cardiff.", "The US and Mexico are urging the WHO to declare a public health emergency over the outbreak.", "Luton beat Coventry 6-5 on penalties after a 1-1 draw at Wembley to win promotion to the Premier League for the first time.", "Edinburgh and Glasgow airports say passengers may be impacted by UK-wide problem with barriers.", "The 61-year-old is leaving ITV with immediate effect as he apologises for misleading employers, his family and the public.", "Why has an NHS Trust failed to improve maternity care after a near-decade of failure?", "Custody officer Lorraine Barwell was kicked to death by a prisoner she was escorting.", "Paul Heaton pays for fans' drinks at a festival after doing the same to mark his 60th birthday.", "\"You can run but you can't hide,\" commissioner Thierry Breton warns Twitter over upcoming rules.", "Mr Johnson spoke to a reporter in Washington about his diary entries being handed to police.", "Andrei Kelin tells Laura Kuenssberg Russia has \"enormous resources\" but UK and US weapons are to blame.", "Olivia Perks, 21, was found dead in her room at Sandhurst military academy in 2019.", "British Cycling is to ban transgender women from the female category of its competitions following a review and consultation.", "Just Stop Oil protesters force stoppage of the Gallagher Premiership final between Saracens and Sale at Twickenham.", "A campaign to stop the permanent closure of the O2 Academy Brixton after a fatal crush is launched.", "A jury on Tuesday found Mr Trump liable for the sexual assault and defamation of writer E Jean Carroll", "More than 50 businesses in the national park want the official name to be in English and in Welsh.", "The Bank of England raises rates from 4.25% to 4.5% - their highest level in almost 15 years.", "The government's decision to drop deadline to scrap EU laws sparks a row in the Conservative Party.", "A head teachers' union says even staff struggled to understand parts of a Year 6 reading paper.", "The government will now run the service after months of delays and cancellations.", "The Storm Shadow cruise missile will give Ukraine new capabilities in its conflict with Russia.", "The train drivers' union leader insists Eurovision events in Liverpool were not targeted by strikes.", "Tougher penalties may be introduced for the street drug that has led to people jumping off buildings.", "President Cyril Ramaphosa's office says it is disappointed by the claims and demands evidence.", "Experts say it was the wrong place for the 16-year-old, but she had nowhere else to go.", "The troubled rail operator cancelled around one in six of its trains last month, the regulator says.", "A police motorcycle was escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh when the crash happened, police say.", "The Bank of England governor says buyers should treat these sometimes riskier deals with caution.", "Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch is told off by Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle over Telegraph leaks.", "Daniel Penny, 24, will be accused of causing the death of Jordan Neely who was placed in a chokehold.", "The World Health Organization says future outbreaks remain possible, as it ends the highest level of alert.", "The deadly attack in Rehovot follows the killing of Islamic Jihad's rocket chief and his deputy.", "The BBC has found the Treasury did not sign off the decision to use taxpayer funds to foot the bill.", "The prince said Ms Davy decided \"a royal life was not for her\", as his High Court case against Mirror Group Newspapers begins.", "After months of slow Russian advances in the devastated city, the momentum seems to have shifted.", "DCI Banks star Stephen Tompkinson maintained he only pushed Karl Poole and that it was self-defence.", "The sportswear giant has about 1.2bn euros of Yeezy shoes sitting in storage.", "The claim, reportedly against a shadow minister, is not being investigated \"at the victim's request\".", "The 86-year-old is able to climb stairs and do laps of the garden at an Edinburgh nursing home.", "The internet search giant is rolling out generative artificial intelligence to its core engine.", "Inter Milan take a big step towards reaching the Champions League final as they beat city rivals in a thrilling Milan derby at San Siro.", "The sting was part of a wider operation to crack down on crimes including fraud and drug-trafficking.", "The service - the only NHS gender clinic for children in England and Wales - will close in March 2024.", "The eastern city is a crumpled, skeletal wreck. But Ukraine knows losing it could be costly.", "Nicholas Bateman has been jailed after violently shaking his seven-week-old son in 2018.", "David McCue had been missing since he failed to appear in court for sentencing on 31 March.", "Palestinian militants fire hundreds of rockets as Israel strikes dozens of Islamic Jihad targets.", "Too many people face long waits for cancer and planned care, but the NHS says huge progress has been made.", "Rory Gallagher was speaking after \"very serious\" allegations were made against him by his estranged wife.", "Wind power overtakes gas for the first time in the UK during first three months of year.", "After her celebrated sword carrying at the Coronation, Penny Mordaunt describes preparing for the role.", "Michael Gove says the system is unfair but getting rid of it will take longer than he hoped.", "The five-piece band, whose singer is an immigration lawyer, are one of 10 acts going to the final.", "Researchers produce a new version of the human genome that could improve medical treatments.", "Mr Gaines, known as Eddie, transported 35 tonnes of dynamite to Omaha beach in June 1944.", "The PM has U-turned on a government plan to get rid of thousands of EU laws by the end of the year.", "Ten go through from tonight's semi-final - including Belgium, Australia, Austria, and Poland.", "Judges order the immediate release of Pakistan's former PM, who has been charged with corruption.", "Major UK renewable energy projects being delayed by more than 10 years as grid reaches capacity.", "Prince Harry's lawyer claims investigators received huge sums to illicitly obtain private information.", "Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg takes a brief break from the day job to indulge his musical passion.", "Bank industry group UK Finance calls for tech firms to help reimburse fraud victims.", "Jaime Carsi, from Edinburgh, died after a suspected carbon monoxide leak at a holiday home in Spain.", "Police in the US were later told the distress call was a goat who had been separated from his friend.", "There are four alleged stations in the UK, with a senior MP saying one is in Belfast.", "Prince Harry's lawyer says activities were “authorised at the highest level” by Mirror group executives, editors and managers.", "Organisers expect that more than 120,000 people will attend the show at the Eikon Centre near Lisburn.", "Adam Price quits after review found misogyny, harassment and bullying in his party.", "A suspect has been arrested after opening fire at the plant in south-western Germany.", "Ms Armstrong found success in the 2000s documenting the ups and downs of motherhood on her \"Dooce\" blog.", "North Wales Police says it is investigating the incident after footage circulated on social media.", "Adam Price was long-regarded as a great hope for Plaid Cymru but departs amid a bullying scandal.", "Richard Sharp resigned as BBC chairman last month, after failing to disclose dealings with Boris Johnson.", "The former newspaper editor tells the BBC phone hacking is wrong and \"shouldn't have been happening\".", "The Countess of Chester trust chief executive also accuses the chairman of putting finance over safety.", "America's largest city joins a movement to make size a protected trait on par with race and gender.", "The end-of-year timetable had sparked concern that important legislation could fall away by accident.", "PC Imran Mahmood used a Taser on Jordan Walker-Brown, who broke his back and now uses a wheelchair.", "The first minister warns about carbon monoxide after an Edinburgh man died in a Spanish villa.", "The billionaire has been under pressure to name someone else to lead the company and focus on his other firms.", "Outgoing Prime Minister Sanna Marin says she is \"still best friends\" with her husband.", "Cities on both sides are predicting a rise in attempted crossings when a pandemic-era policy expires.", "The concert by The View was halted after the lead singer apparently threw a punch at the bassist.", "The competition watchdog will look at whether a failure in competition means customers are overpaying.", "Ukraine's president says in Germany that Kyiv is preparing to liberate its regions seized by Russia.", "Stagecoach's fleet of autonomous buses will run every half hour between Fife and Edinburgh.", "Arsenal's fading title hopes were dealt a devastating blow after losing to Brighton to leave leaders Manchester City one win from a fifth Premier League title in six seasons.", "Vice Media Group, which was once valued at $5.7bn, is set to be sold but will keep operating.", "The ex-minister suggests his party brought in the controversial measure to boost their election chances.", "Cars were torched in Wimborne and Poole from Sunday night into the early hours of Monday.", "The Leeds event is named in honour of ex-rugby league player Burrow, who has motor neurone disease.", "With nearly all the votes counted, it seems neither President Erdogan nor his main rival will reach the key threshold of 50%.", "The 2021 census counted 10 million people living in England and Wales who were born outside the UK.", "But the band members announce that Hannah Spearritt will not be joining the anniversary tour.", "Prosecutors have told Ms Hanlon's family they have closed the 2009 case due to lack of evidence.", "David Hunter killed his ill wife in Cyprus in 2021, in what his defence says was assisted suicide.", "Researcher Joseph Dituri has been living underwater in the Florida Keys for more than 70 days.", "Early results show Move Forward exceeding predictions to win 151 of the 500 seats in the lower house.", "Turks are at a historic turning point, facing dramatically different visions of their country.", "The British Championship near Swindon was abandoned after a bike without a rider hit Simon Mitchell.", "The villagers allege torture, sexual assault and beatings by soldiers contracted by the oil company.", "With photo manipulation technology now extending to videos some want authorities to intervene.", "UK net migration was the highest ever in the year to June, creating many political and societal quandaries.", "Ternopil was hit by Russian missiles before Tvorchi took the stage in Liverpool, authorities say.", "Ben Whishaw and Kate Winslet were among the acting winners at the Royal Festival Hall ceremony.", "Elijah died at 12 days old and his parents say authorities have left them \"in limbo\".", "The 49-year-old says only the voice behind the microphone has changed as he takes over from Ken Bruce.", "Operations at Gatwick were suspended temporarily with 12 planes diverted but have since resumed.", "Artian Lushaku was critically injured on Balmore Road in the north of the Glasgow on Wednesday.", "The report looks at how the FBI investigated alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.", "Speculation about Alexander Lukashenko's health has grown after he missed a key state celebration.", "A review is being held into what the BBC knew about former DJ Tim Westwood's alleged conduct.", "Wellington fire commander Nick Pyatt says the blaze is the city's \"worst nightmare\".", "The private equity owner of the resort firm wants to sell the business for up to £5bn.", "Cancer experts want VAT removed to make sun creams more affordable in the cost-of-living crisis.", "The postal service faces another fine by the industry watchdog for falling short on first class mail.", "Campaigners call for fully-funded counselling services to be included in the upcoming Victims Bill.", "Officers used a stun gun on the boy after being called to a caravan park in South Ayrshire.", "Heavy rain and winds of up to 195kph (120mph) batter Bangladesh and Myanmar.", "The UK agrees to provide extra missiles and military drones as Rishi Sunak meets the Ukrainian leader.", "Grant Shapps says the government is committed to them and people should wait to judge progress.", "Royal journalist claims the ex-Daily Mirror editor was briefed about source of Kylie Minogue story.", "Staff and passengers were \"upset\" by the incident, for which two people have been charged.", "Turkey's president says he will win five more years in power, after taking a first-round lead.", "Turkey's leader is favourite to win another five years as president, after taking a first-round lead.", "Lindsey Burrow set out with the aim of raising £7,777 - but has seen donations top £50,000.", "Atiq Ahmed was an MP but also had around 100 criminal cases against him.", "Ukraine and the UK have been discussing weapons supplies ahead of an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive", "Curtis Jones scores twice as Liverpool brush aside Leicester to maintain their winning streak and push the Foxes closer to relegation.", "The party is working on proposals on voting rights but says no final decisions have been made.", "A BBC journalist was told \"You do not have ADHD\" by an NHS doctor - but private clinics said otherwise.", "Rory Gallagher stepped aside from his role as Derry senior football manager ahead of the Ulster final.", "Pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are told their grades will be protected from Covid disruption.", "Extinction Rebellion protesters interrupt speeches by leading Tory MPs at right wing conference.", "Menopausing is Book of the Year and Salman Rushdie gets a special accolade at British Book Awards", "Fabio Vincenti is now considering alternative names for his pig-based treat.", "With photo manipulation technology now extending to videos some want authorities to intervene.", "An undercover probe finds agents brokering deals between migrant women and men with UK passports.", "She is accused of failing to investigate Wayne Couzens properly over two instances of flashing.", "An undercover journalist for Panorama is diagnosed and given drugs without proper checks.", "Javad Marandi's foreign firms were at the centre of a global investigation, BBC News can finally reveal.", "Ukraine's President Zelensky and PM Rishi Sunak hold two hours of talks in the UK.", "President Erdogan is favourite to stay in power, with a lead of almost 5% over his main rival.", "The most powerful cyclone to hit the Bay of Bengal in more than 10 years made landfall.", "A 40-year-old family recipe helps a North Lanarkshire butcher win the inaugural title.", "New facilities to check goods at Cairnryan have stalled due to a funding dispute.", "A Merino ram from Australia was used to create a new \"multi-purpose\" breed on two Gwynedd farms.", "The instant-messaging service, which is used by 2 billion people, counts India as its largest market.", "How junior medics have reached the brink of their biggest walkout, in a fight for a 35% hike.", "The home secretary refuses to confirm if she asked civil servants to arrange a one-to-one speeding awareness course.", "They will walk out between 07:00 on Wednesday 14 June and 07:00 on Saturday 17 June.", "All domestic air routes are stopped where the same journey could be made by train in under 2.5 hours.", "Andy Haldane's comments come after the prime minister said legal migration was too high.", "State police were forced to seek out a cattleman's help to catch the bovine, which is now safe and has not been charged.", "Ukraine denies involvement and says Russian paramilitary groups are responsible for the incursion.", "Two people died in the crash involving an electric bike, sparking a riot on Monday evening.", "The writer submits a new legal filing over the ex-president's remarks during a CNN town hall.", "Car parks are a good place for solar panels, providing shade and electricity where it is needed.", "Mike Carey hosted a programme called Memorable Melodies on Radio Derby for almost 20 years.", "Ex-No 10 spin doctor Alastair Campbell tells a court his mortgage details were unlawfully accessed.", "David Boyd evaded justice over Nikki Allan's death for decades before DNA was found on her clothing.", "The violence began after car crash took place in the Ely area, according to police.", "After a school stabbing, a BBC investigation into Evolv’s AI weapons scanner reveals doubts about its effectiveness.", "Lab analysis finds vapes confiscated from teenagers at a school pose a potential risk to health.", "Parents Kate and Gerry McCann have spent 16 years searching for answers over their missing daughter.", "A nerve agent specialist says he was cut from a conference because of his political opinions on other issues.", "Micah Richards says La Liga president Javier Tebas' response to the racist abuse suffered by Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr \"makes my blood boil\".", "The 23-year-old was given 12 months to live five years ago and went on to complete a list of ambitions.", "Washington says it does not encourage strikes in Russia, after a border attack.", "Russia claims to have defeated insurgents who crossed the border from Ukraine to launch attacks near Belgorod.", "Samantha Lee investigated a complaint made about Wayne Couzens shortly before he went on to kill.", "Sophie has spent two days in the Iraqi capital to learn about challenges facing Iraqi women and girls.", "The public are being asked to share their experiences of how Holyrood ministers handled the pandemic.", "A blaze at a school in the central town of Mahdia may have been started maliciously, police say.", "Opposition parties accuse the PM of \"dither and delay\" over decision on home secretary's conduct.", "The announcement comes days before official statistics are expected to show record migration levels.", "Accounts of racism, sexism and homophobia by serving officers were heard in a review of force culture.", "Police say \"nothing untoward\" was found at Henry Jones playing fields after an extensive search but enquiries were ongoing.", "Newcastle secure a top-four Premier League finish with a goalless draw against relegation-threated Leicester, whose fate is now out of their hands.", "The 44-year-old Florida governor is set to sit down for a live discussion on Elon Musk's platform.", "The link between the deaths and the disorder in Cardiff remains unclear, a police boss says.", "The streaming giant will charge users for sharing passwords in countries including the UK and the US.", "Protesters rush the stage at the oil giant's annual general meeting in London over climate plans.", "The government plans to extend a ban on dealing ivory to five endangered species.", "Exhuming Prince Alemayehu's body would disrupt the remains of others, Buckingham Palace says.", "CCTV captured a police van following the pair, but it would appear bollards at the end of one street meant the police couldn't follow further.", "The Home Office says wealthy individuals should not be able to \"buy\" security from the police.", "The actor from Northern Ireland was reportedly taken to hospital while filming on Italian island Ischia.", "Police will start combing the area, which is 50km from where the toddler went missing in 2007.", "Clare Nowland - who has dementia - was critically injured after she was Tasered at an Australian care home.", "The driver has been identified as a 19-year-old Missouri man. He now faces several criminal charges.", "The 72-year-old hillwalker was rescued from the remote Highland cliff by a lifeboat crew.", "His decision comes a month after he resigned in the wake of a bullying inquiry.", "Officers search an area in Portugal about 30 miles from where the toddler went missing 16 years ago.", "Two teenagers killed in a crash which sparked a riot are named as Kyrees Sullivan and Harvey Evans.", "The Cabinet Office made the referral after reviewing documents for the Covid inquiry.", "The relatives of Mark Hall and Jim Donegan, who were shot dead in separate Belfast attacks, speak out.", "Rape, assault or being touched without consent accounted for more than one in five cases.", "The western state last week became the first in the US to ban the hugely-popular video platform.", "The fund sharply upgrades its growth forecast, but warns inflation remains \"stubbornly high\".", "Ahead of the bank holiday and half-term break, the Port of Dover claims new steps will stop delays.", "The senior Tory MP abused his power, a report concludes, but he says the findings are \"flawed\".", "Valencia are sanctioned with a partial stadium closure for five matches and fined following the racist abuse of Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr.", "The disgraced former TV entertainer, who was jailed for indecent assaults on girls, dies aged 93.", "Christian Glass, 22, was killed in his vehicle last June while suffering a mental health crisis.", "Police are searching a reservoir in Portugal, 31 miles from where she went missing in 2007.", "The band who are staunch republicans had their most famous song removed from a Coronation playlist", "Mechelle Davis says she was discharged from hospital without sufficient information.", "Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, is deeply saddened by the death of Helen Holland, 81, the palace says.", "Rescuers find a body in the search for a boy of 17 who went missing in a river in Gloucestershire.", "The region - which borders Ukraine and Belarus - has seen various acts of sabotage.", "Mark Selby creates history as he becomes the first player to make a maximum 147 break in a World Championship final, but trails Luca Brecel 9-8 overall.", "The two \"exceptional\" evacuation flights had taken off from Port Sudan earlier on Monday evening.", "One of the world's most famous skateboarders says a north coast park would be in constant use.", "The attack happened in Caerphilly county, where there have been two previous fatal dog attacks.", "Ding Liren, 30, defeated his higher-ranked Russian opponent in a rapid tiebreaker game.", "The former prime minister says most of the bill relates to using Chevening for government business.", "The city of Pavlohrad, a logistics hub, was hit ahead of a much-anticipated Ukrainian counter-offensive.", "Another 80,000 Russian soldiers have been wounded in fighting since December, the White House estimates.", "Video shows burning chunks of the large building's facade falling to the ground.", "The young royal was photographed in Windsor by her mother, the Princess of Wales, at the weekend.", "Mourners at the funeral of brother and sister Dan and Christine McKane hear how the community is 'broken'.", "An airbase was transformed into a life-size replica of the procession route for the troops to practise.", "The Pensions Regulator has told hundreds of funds to check details of customers after a data leak.", "The London club, which has hosted the Chemical Brothers and Aphex Twin, will become an office block.", "Leicester City and Everton have to settle for a draw in a chaotic match which leaves both in deep trouble at the wrong end of the Premier League table.", "Lack of ammunition is hampering Ukrainian fighters as they prepare an expected major offensive.", "Aged 37, Aurélien Pradié has exploded onto France's political stage after ruining Macron's plans.", "Steven Tyler and co will say \"peace out\" to North America from later this year.", "A driver captured video of a car being flipped upside down by a powerful storm in Florida.", "Police have announced a reward of $80,000 for information leading to the suspect's arrest.", "In a blow to the London stock market, the firm said in March that it would not list shares in the UK.", "Video shows suspects making a getaway on motorbikes from the city's flagship Bulgari store.", "Sudanese citizens say they can't escape because their passports are inside closed European embassies.", "The UK has the largest contingent of military special forces in Ukraine, according to a leaked file.", "New rules on extremists in custody will also stop them from playing a \"leading role\" in religious services.", "'Fashion's night of nights' celebrates the life and work of iconic designer Karl Lagerfeld.", "Labour MP Stella Creasy was investigated after a troll told authorities her children were at risk.", "An ex-BBC journalist says her ancestor, referenced in the Fields of Athenry, failed Irish people.", "One of Wales' busiest railway stations has no lift and steep stairs between platforms.", "The youngest child of linebacker Shaquil Barrett fell into the family's Florida pool, said police.", "Ukraine's spring offensive and Chinese hypersonic weapons are among the issues highlighted in the leaks.", "A lifeboat has been sent and everyone on board is safe, says the ferry company.", "Belgium's Luca Brecel becomes the first player from mainland Europe to win snooker's World Championship, beating Mark Selby 18-15 in Sheffield.", "Pavel Kuzin single-handedly manned a machine gun in Bakhmut so his comrades could be evacuated.", "Fighting in the north-east African nation is ringing alarm bells around the world. Why does it matter so much?", "The presenting duo are goodwill ambassadors for King Charles III's charity, the Prince's Trust.", "Almost 300 people are arrested across France in clashes with demonstrators angry at pension reforms.", "Warring sides agree to extend the current truce even as the capital is hit with air strikes.", "The ex-Sinn Féin leader meets the test for compensation after having convictions quashed, judge says.", "Authorities in a Japanese city decided too many people were displaying poor manners while playing it.", "Thousands of people have left Sudan's capital but the situation is getting worse for those left behind.", "It follows the evacuation of 2,122 people on 23 flights from an airfield near Khartoum.", "The former US president has flown into Aberdeen on his first visit to the UK since 2019.", "Host Jeremy Seydoux challenges a climate activist when he interrupts a local election debate.", "Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi was killed by Turkish forces on Saturday, Turkey's President Erdogan says.", "Five other people have since been released from hospital, with two recovering from surgery.", "The Scottish-born chef and presenter died suddenly, aged 46, on Sunday.", "A university student told staff he ate the fruit on display because he was hungry.", "Dan McKane, Christine McKane and Julia McSorley are named locally as the those who died on the A5 road.", "Shareholders claim the sportswear giant knew about the rapper's behaviour before it cut ties in 2022.", "The village of Pennan and its red phone box were made famous by the classic 1983 Bill Forsyth movie.", "The French leader tries to relaunch his presidency as a video is shared by a group linked to the far right.", "The crash sparked a security alert with residents moved from homes around the east Belfast police station.", "Former PM Abdalla Hamdok says the Sudan conflict could become worse than the wars in Syria and Libya.", "Charlie McLeod's mum Emma Laney says she feels \"a lot more should have been done\" to help him.", "The King will wear layers of glittering garments, some of which were created for George V.", "The BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet reports from Port Sudan as thousands flee.", "Ian Smith couldn't help the impromptu move as Rita Ora performed at the Prince's Trust event in New York.", "The victim, aged in his 30s, died at the scene and a man aged 24 is arrested on suspicion of murder.", "On the ruined streets, some blame the president while others tell the BBC the disaster was unavoidable.", "Thousands entitled to pension credit are being urged to claim it or risk missing out on extra support.", "A former wedding venue could house 400 asylum seekers in 37 bedrooms and temporary units.", "The newly crowned monarchs make a surprise appearance with Katy Perry and Lionel Richie.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales meet crowds celebrating the Coronation at Windsor.", "More details are emerging about the eight victims of Saturday's deadly shooting at a mall in Allen.", "There are fears about cheating, but new advice says students should be taught how to use AI tools.", "They were arrested on suspicion of breaching the peace and their \"not my king\" placards were seized.", "The bank will pay a \"substantial\" sum after facing claims it underpaid female staff in the US.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin seemingly U-turns on his threat to withdraw from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.", "Anna Ekvist, 36, says people in the city have helped refugees feel \"part of the Liverpool family\".", "The ghostwriter of Prince Harry's memoir has written about his experience of finding himself in the spotlight.", "Rescuers scour underground caves for the boy as New Zealand's largest city declares a state of emergency.", "The former president was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation and must pay $5m in damages.", "Lucy Frazer says police were right to factor in the momentous occasion after criticism over 52 arrests.", "Users of Emerade pens, which treat anaphylaxis, are being warned to change to another brand.", "Organisers did not want “to offer a platform” to far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.", "John Allan refutes allegations he touched women during events at the supermarket and CBI.", "Civilians are hurt in Kyiv, and one man dies in Odesa, where a Red Cross warehouse is hit, officials say.", "The BBC's Duncan Kennedy breaks down the brief trip the Duke of Sussex made to the UK for the Coronation.", "The board held an extraordinary meeting to try to find more than £200m in savings.", "Kevin de Bruyne's screamer earns Manchester City a Champions League semi-final first-leg draw at Real Madrid to keep their dream of a Treble on track.", "Russia's president says the Ukraine war represents a \"decisive\" moment for civilisation, claiming Russia has the moral high ground.", "Angel Lynn was kidnapped by her then boyfriend before being found injured on a dual carriageway.", "The former US president appears to mistake E Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples.", "The BBC's Will Vernon in Moscow explains why recent events are casting a shadow on celebrations.", "Marques Walker is ordered to serve a minimum of 19 years for killing Jermaine Cools.", "UKIP has lost almost all of its councillors, as the Eurosceptic party struggles to redefine itself.", "Schools need to improve education and parents to set boundaries, the children's commissioner says.", "Finland's Käärijä, Sweden's Loreen and Israel's Noa Kirel are among the 10 acts through to Saturday's final in Liverpool.", "A controversial new law, used to detain the group, is being criticised as too crude and too broad.", "The Labour leader says last week's local elections mean his party has a \"mandate\" on the issue.", "The woman died in hospital two days after being shot, with a man still in a critical condition.", "The singer's unforgettable mash-up of industrial metal and hyperpop is among the bookie's favourites.", "The jury in the civil case also finds the former president liable for defaming writer E Jean Carroll.", "Most of the baby's DNA comes from their two parents, with a small percentage from a donor.", "No casualties are being reported from the air strikes which are said to have targeted Kyiv.", "It was probably the most high-profile hack in social media history, hitting dozens of famous accounts.", "The people of Brienz are threatened by two million cubic metres of rock and have to leave by Friday.", "The official photographs marking the King and Queen's Coronation were taken after the lavish ceremony.", "It comes as a new survey suggests one in three managers have seen inappropriate behaviour at work events.", "Justin Welby speaks out against the controversial law as it begins its passage in the House of Lords.", "The defiant president praises his troops as Russia's military might is displayed in Moscow's Red Square.", "The opera company was told by Arts Council England to leave the capital or lose its public funding.", "A beginner's guide to the Eurovision Song Contest: how it works, memorable moments, Eurovision heroes and what to watch out for.", "Protesters call for the resignation of top officials in the wake of two mass shootings.", "King Charles has visited Ireland many times, but will he have the same impact as Queen Elizabeth?", "Vladimir Putin has made it an annual event, but amid war in Ukraine 9 May has taken on new significance.", "Lancashire Police will not face action for sharing the missing mother-of-two's personal information.", "The regulator said the channel did not do enough to protect viewers from potentially harmful content.", "Protester Matt Turnbull is one of the people arrested in the build up to the Coronation.", "But the Labour leader says he would never do a deal with the SNP if his party fails to get a majority.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales have been joining the Big Help Out with their three children.", "Mr Trump defended himself via video while Ms Carroll shared in detail how the alleged rape harmed her.", "Internet access is cut in the country as people rally against the arrest of Imran Khan.", "Writer E Jean Carroll is accusing Donald Trump of assaulting her in the mid-90s, which he denies.", "Ralph Gonsalves says he would welcome an apology for injustices related to slavery.", "Jaime Carsi, from Edinburgh, died after a suspected carbon monoxide leak at a holiday home in Spain.", "E Jean Carroll says she did not report the rape because she is a \"member of the silent generation\".", "In his only UK interview, the star talks books, Hollywood egos and who should be the next James Bond.", "The country braces for retaliation after overnight strikes kill three militants and 10 civilians.", "Bar associations across Scotland expected to oppose pilot of juryless rape trials, says leading lawyer.", "The actor also appeared in shows like the Crown, Wallander and Doctor Who.", "The force says it happened after they received reports a woman was attacked by a dog in east London.", "Top Republicans warn Trump's 2024 chances are damaged even if his supporters dismiss the ruling.", "The government says the continued action is \"disappointing\" and puts further pressure on the NHS.", "Joanna Cherry wants The Stand to admit that it acted unlawfully, issue an apology and reinstate the event.", "Photos of the day after King Charles's Coronation, including street parties and lunches around the UK.", "The CEOs of Thames, Yorkshire and South West Water will not take their bonuses this year.", "Samsu Miah arrived in Wales in 1969 - just in time to travel to Caernarfon for the investiture.", "The traditional Immortal Regiment procession will move online due to security concerns, authorities say.", "The former president says that, although politically incorrect, his accuser is \"not his type\".", "Ireland's Wild Youth and Latvia's Sudden Lights are among the acts going home after the first semi-final.", "The family of Colum Marks, who was shot dead in April 1991, disputed the police version of events.", "The musicians all have wealth of more than £150m, according to the latest Sunday Times Rich List.", "A charity in Northern Ireland says the cost of living means families are more desperate than ever.", "A campaign will urge homeowners to consider simple measures to save costs and heartache from flooding.", "Five years on from a government pledge, schools grapple with a subject as divisive as it is sensitive.", "The man confronted a group of climate activists who were blocking traffic in east London.", "Backgrid says the couple demanded photos taken of them during a paparazzi pursuit through New York.", "A routine traffic stop in the US turned into a chase when officers discovered the driven had a warrant.", "Edward Little planned to target Christian preacher Hatun Tash, who is a regular speaker at the park.", "The decision comes as a legal battle between the company and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis escalates.", "The website enabled criminals to appear as if they were calling from banks in order to trick victims.", "Video footage shows chaotic scenes inside the AFAS Stadion, Alkmaar, in the Netherlands.", "The mother of Khayri Mclean, 15, pleads for an end to violence as his killers are sentenced.", "Timothy Schofield's victim says he was \"trapped in a loop of fear and anxiety\".", "Nationalists also chanted racist slogans at the event marking Israel's capture of East Jerusalem.", "Each move to militarise leaves the country more divided over its post-war pacifist ideals.", "Armed officers were brought in to control the dog which seriously injured Jonathan Hogg, aged 37.", "The Ukrainian leader addresses the Arab League ahead of a visit to the G7 in Japan.", "Those who receive qualifying benefits will receive £150 between 20 June and 4 July to help pay bills.", "The influencer tells a jury she did not intend to harm a man blackmailing her mother.", "More bodies are found after almost every river flooded between the coast and Bologna.", "A total of 807 candidates are competing for 462 seats in council chambers across Northern Ireland.", "Syrian's President Bashar al-Assad is coming out of diplomatic isolation - to the terror of refugees.", "A father from north Wales has set up a petition with 100,000 signatures calling for action.", "Care home resident Clare Nowland is not expected to survive the incident, a family friend says.", "Ukrainian and Russian pilots are fighting to control the skies. Could Western jets change the war?", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 May.", "TV presenter Jake Humphrey will be stepping back from his lead presenting role with BT Sport.", "Det Ch Insp Caldwell has given investigators his account of the shooting in Omagh in February.", "World record cap holder Alun Wyn Jones and flanker Justin Tipuric quit international rugby with immediate effect, just four months before the World Cup.", "The prime minister is criticised for excluding blind users by not fully describing images in a tweet.", "Murder-accused Lucy Letby says a delay in administering antibiotics \"may have had an impact\".", "Snowmelt has brought waves of ice down the Yukon and Kuskokwin rivers.", "All missiles over the capital were shot down, but falling debris caused some damage, Ukraine says.", "The pair have fronted the ITV show since 2002 and will hit the pause button after the 2024 series.", "President Biden backs a plan to supply advanced fighter jets and train Ukrainian pilots.", "The former PM and his wife, who married in May 2021, already have two children aged three and two.", "Warning getting a million Welsh speakers by 2050 requires many more teachers speaking the language.", "One school sees more special arrangement applications, including students sitting in smaller rooms.", "Officials opened an investigation after Carly Nunes claimed her prize with a torn and burned ticket.", "Leaders of the G7 countries gather in Japan, amid a focus on Ukraine and tensions with China.", "The supermarket says John Allan is leaving as allegations over his conduct \"risk becoming a distraction\".", "One CEO says the government's semiconductor strategy does not address the needs of UK chipmakers.", "The acting legend was in Cannes ahead of the premiere for the fifth instalment of Indiana Jones.", "Former England captain Michael Vaughan will return the to BBC for this summer's men's Ashes series and the Test match against Ireland.", "A total of 1,305,553 people were eligible to vote, according to the Electoral Office for NI.", "Rishi Sunak says he hopes other countries follow the UK and bring in new sanctions against Russia.", "Harrison Ford received an honorary Palme d'Or at the premiere of his final outing as the action hero", "Auriol Grey confronted Celia Ward, who was cycling on a pavement and fell into the path of a car.", "An ex-Daily Mirror news editor told a court he \"had no reason to believe\" freelancers broke the law.", "Criticism of the PM has become increasingly personal, with Labour accusing him of being out of touch.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of being in charge of a dangerously out of control dog, police say.", "The CBI business lobby group says it \"made mistakes that led to terrible consequences\".", "The psychological effects of Russia's invasion are starting to show in Ukraine, at the front and at home.", "John Allan refutes allegations he touched women during events at the supermarket and CBI.", "The party says fewer people would be waiting if the government had maximised use of private clinics.", "Jurors hear police interviews with a woman accused of killing her newborn baby at her parent's home in 2019.", "Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep is charged with a second breach of anti-doping rules, over \"irregularities in her athlete biological passport\".", "Guitarist Johnny Marr confirmed Rourke died after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer.", "West Ham players confront AZ Alkmaar fans who attacked an area in which friends and family are watching the match.", "Both current and retired staff face \"a severe and drastic impact\" from the delays, say solicitors.", "Members of the RMT union will strike on Friday 2 June in a national dispute with 14 train companies.", "The US space agency turns to a second billionaire to help put astronauts back on the lunar surface.", "Ahead of Sunday's election, Greece's worst rail crash is held up as proof of a broken government.", "The US will soon send the first of its Abrams tanks to Ukraine, but Poland has stopped sending weapons.", "The nurse is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others - charges she denies.", "The prime minister refuses to put a \"precise figure\" on an acceptable number of legal migrants.", "A judge says 16-year-old Kaylea Titford suffered \"a horrifying case of sustained neglect\".", "High-profile Aboriginal journalist Stan Grant says he has \"had enough\" of receiving racist abuse.", "The 86-year-old is still in hospital after suffering from a lung infection linked to his leukaemia.", "Ornate coaches, Red Arrows and marching bands - some of the likely highlights of day's main procession and fly-past.", "Explore a virtual tour of the royal church in the footsteps of King Charles.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby places the St Edward's Crown on King Charles's head.", "Reigning champions Kalush Orchestra kick off the official build-up to the song contest in Liverpool.", "King Charles III and the Queen Consort Camilla are accompanied by the King's Procession as they ride to Westminster Abbey in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach.", "Police are investigating after a woman in her 60s fell into the road and died from head injuries.", "The Tories suffer from a competitive political landscape, writes BBC political editor Chris Mason.", "Red Bull's Sergio Perez takes pole position for the Miami Grand Prix while team-mate and title rival Max Verstappen will start only ninth.", "President López Obrador says he wants China to help fight the deadly opioid ravaging the US.", "He is found wounded in the street on Friday afternoon.", "Labour says it is heading back to power after Tories lose 1,000 councillors in English local elections.", "A Limavady man recalls the procession of 1953 and a Rathfriland man shares his royal memorabilia.", "Around 15,000 children are not fully immunised against measles, mumps and rubella, a report finds.", "He was not invited to appear on the Buckingham Palace balcony after the service, the BBC understands.", "The video shows Donald Trump mistaking his accuser E Jean Carroll for his ex-wife in a photo.", "The High court dismisses case brought by animal activists against a government change in policy.", "The monarch is seen laughing and shaking hands with crowds on the Mall a day before his coronation.", "Rodrygo scores twice as Real Madrid win the Copa del Rey for the first time since 2014 after beating Osasuna.", "Seventy years after the last coronation, the crowning of King Charles III was a very different spectacle.", "Mohamed Nur is accused of murdering Johanita Dogbey and of recent stabbing attacks on three others.", "Sporting events play the national anthem in special tribute to mark the coronation of King Charles III.", "Lawyers for Daniel Penny say he and other passengers acted in self-defence when they restrained Jordan Neely.", "The BBC understands the force asked the NCA to carry out a peer review of its inquiry last year.", "Republic CEO Graham Smith was among 52 detained in London, as protests were held around the UK.", "Penny Mordaunt carries sword ahead of King Charles", "The BBC's Sean Coughlan writes that surrounded by candlelight and the glow of gold, you could feel the expectation", "The Deaf Arts Festival will tour Northern Ireland after premiering in Belfast this weekend.", "The rival armies prepare to hold their first face-to-face negotiations after weeks of fighting.", "The King and Queen waved at crowds from Buckingham Palace after a Coronation ceremony full of pageantry and symbolism.", "Guests from around the world were at Westminster Abbey to see the King crowned.", "Thousands of soldiers, sailors and airmen will all be taking part in today's Coronation.", "King Charles and Queen Camilla appear on Buckingham Palace's balcony, ahead of the flypast.", "King Charles arrives at Westminster Abbey for his Coronation.", "How King Charles' Coronation day unfolded", "The King's Coronation marks a moment of reinvention for a nation at ease with its eccentricity.", "An MP holding a sword took a surprising star role, while the royal children shared a tender moment.", "Some of the most memorable looks among the congregation at Westminster Abbey.", "Photos of King Charles III's Coronation, the first to take place in the UK in 70 years.", "At least 30 people are reported to have been killed in violence over job and opportunity quotas.", "Here's how to follow the musical celebration at Windsor Castle", "Ant and Dec are among the celebrity guests arriving at Westminster Abbey for the Coronation.", "Conservative colleagues have paid tribute to Gillian Lemmon, who died on Friday.", "UN watchdog warns of \"threat of a severe nuclear accident\" at the Zaporizhzhia plant in Ukraine.", "Rights groups warn the chemical is \"notorious for the severity of the injuries it causes\".", "King Charles has visited Ireland many times, but will he have the same impact as Queen Elizabeth?", "Close to 20 million people are likely to have died during the last three years, says the WHO.", "Phosphorus weapons are not banned, but they are prohibited against civilians and civilian targets.", "Manchester City are four points clear at the top of the Premier League - but Pep Guardiola still wasn't happy after their win over Leeds.", "Protester Matt Turnbull is one of the people arrested in the build up to the Coronation.", "Habib Chaab was a founder of a group calling for independence for ethnic Arabs in Khuzestan province.", "How Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte enjoyed a big day at their grandfather's Coronation.", "The Duke of Sussex looked happy and relaxed as he entered the abbey with his cousins Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, the daughters of Prince Andrew.", "Watch the live feed looking down the Mall.", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla are crowned at Westminster Abbey", "Questions about the country's gun laws are being asked following two separate attacks this week.", "BMA Scotland members overwhelmingly back a three-day strike amid a pay dispute with the Scottish government.", "A special King James edition of the book has been edited to be as close to a 1611 text as possible.", "Thursday's vote was a useful snapshot, showing Labour is well on its way and the Tories are in trouble.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury placed Queen Mary's crown on her head.", "Video shows people smashing windows to try to escape at Clapham Common station.", "Follow the King's Coronation order of service, line by line.", "Zakhar Prilepin has surgery after car bombing killed his driver in Nizhny Novgorod region.", "The Archbishop will 'invite' people to express support for the King, rather than 'call' for allegiance.", "The former president says that, although politically incorrect, his accuser is \"not his type\".", "Flash flooding surrounded a lorry driver who was crossing the Gulana-Kulalu causeway in Kenya.", "A host of events have been planned all over the country for the Coronation weekend.", "Her unmistakable voice on hits like The Best and What's Love Got to Do With It made her a superstar.", "The home secretary refuses to confirm if she asked civil servants to arrange a one-to-one speeding awareness course.", "CCTV has captured two thieves armed with guns robbing an Australian jewellery store wearing what appear to be burkas.", "Barclays warns mortgage holders and renters will spend up to 30% of their income on higher costs.", "Vauxhall-maker Stellantis is calling on the government to renegotiate some Brexit rules or risk losing electric", "Minister Tom Tugendhat criticises Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook's extension of message encryption.", "The company says the move is to protect its employees amid \"confrontational behaviour\" in some stores.", "Two people died in the crash involving an electric bike, sparking a riot on Monday evening.", "Talks between the government and Tata are believed to be at an advanced stage.", "A paralysed man has been able to walk simply by thinking about it, thanks to electronic brain implants", "The announcement comes days before official statistics are expected to show record migration levels.", "Police say \"nothing untoward\" was found at Henry Jones playing fields after an extensive search but enquiries were ongoing.", "Steve Rodhouse, who investigated false high profile paedophilia claims, faces a gross misconduct hearing.", "Katie Harkin's daughter has severe learning difficulties and fears budget cuts will impact her future.", "Moscow says it repelled the raid and vowed a harsh response to further infiltration of its border.", "Numbers on the register reach a record high but the regulator is worried about the amount leaving the profession.", "Officers search an area in Portugal about 30 miles from where the toddler went missing 16 years ago.", "The senior doctor is recorded questioning why changes to the controversial Tavistock clinic are required.", "The relatives of Mark Hall and Jim Donegan, who were shot dead in separate Belfast attacks, speak out.", "The teenage girl in Guyana carried out the deadly arson after being disciplined, officials say.", "Some at the Bank of England suggest less competition from EU firms is part of the picture.", "Valencia are sanctioned with a partial stadium closure for five matches and fined following the racist abuse of Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr.", "A musician who defied the constraints of age, gender and race to become a rock legend.", "State police were forced to seek out a cattleman's help to catch the bovine, which is now safe and has not been charged.", "Police had his name and details of a car he allegedly used to expose himself, the watchdog says.", "There have been warnings in the US about its flesh-eating properties and role in 7% of fatal overdoses.", "Insiders say the move, revealed exclusively by the BBC, is the most significant investment in the sector since Nissan came to Britain in the 1980s.", "Joseph Nee is banned from riding a motorbike or owning more than one mobile phone, police say.", "Samantha Lee investigated a complaint made about Wayne Couzens shortly before he went on to kill.", "The officer was shot at a sports centre - reportedly multiple times - in Omagh, County Tyrone.", "Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman exchange letters, as she is told she will not be investigated over speeding row.", "The defence minister's comments come as further drone attacks are reported in Belgorod region.", "A free scheme helps parents with young autistic children experience a busy airport setting together.", "CCTV captured a police van following the pair, but it would appear bollards at the end of one street meant the police couldn't follow further.", "The renowned scholar is cleared of rape and sexual coercion by a court in Switzerland.", "\"I am still assured that the youths were not being chased,\" South Wales Police's Alun Michael says.", "The Cabinet Office made the referral after reviewing documents for the Covid inquiry.", "The Labour leader says the PM has \"lost control of immigration\" but Sunak insists his government is \"clamping down\".", "The disgraced former TV entertainer, who was jailed for indecent assaults on girls, dies aged 93.", "The justice secretary says civil servants would have been criticised if they had \"sat on\" information.", "All domestic air routes are stopped where the same journey could be made by train in under 2.5 hours.", "An ex-independent member says he and his colleagues were treated as \"expendables\".", "Murder-accused nurse Lucy Letby says there was \"raw sewage coming out of sinks\" at the hospital.", "King Charles III was just 12 years old when he arrived in Northern Ireland for his first official visit.", "TikToker Orla Melissa Sloan bombarded Mason Mount and Billy Gilmour with messages.", "The King receives condolences from the Assembly speaker as crowds gather to greet him.", "A police operation prompted by a note left on a gate caused playing fields and a school to close.", "Rhys Bennett, 22, appears in court after the body of Jill Barclay, 47, was discovered on Saturday.", "\"Would you let me finish,\" Deputy Chief Constable Rachel Bacon asks BBC journalist at press conference.", "The owner of the car maker will not be building a battery factory in Coventry, West Midlands Mayor Andy Street says.", "The 44-year-old Florida governor is set to sit down for a live discussion on Elon Musk's platform.", "Cameron Dixon was attempting to order food from a McDonald's drive-through in Eastbourne.", "Rishi Sunak says the home secretary did not break the rules, as she apologises \"for the distraction\".", "Cars set alight and fireworks thrown at police as up to people gathered in Ely.", "A new display of crowns and royal regalia opens - but visitors want to know about the Coronation sword.", "Highland Council says it will not allow inflatable castles and slides at events on its premises.", "Det Ch Insp John Caldwell is one of the Police Service of Northern Ireland's best-known detectives.", "Inflation falls below 10% for the first time since August - but food bills are still up almost 20%.", "Baroness Falkner has \"every confidence\" that her name will be cleared.", "Harvey Evans and Kyrees Sullivan died in an electric bike crash, which sparked a riot in Cardiff.", "After a bumpy start, Florida governor Ron DeSantis sets out his bid to become US president.", "Honda will return to Formula 1 in 2026 as engine partner for the Aston Martin team.", "Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, is deeply saddened by the death of Helen Holland, 81, the palace says.", "More than 800 oysters were brought over from Scotland and have been settling into Glenarm Marina.", "Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says he wants to \"lead our great American comeback\" with his campaign.", "Chris Heaton-Harris is criticised for declining an invitation to the Police Federation's conference.", "A weakening housing market had been expected following the continued rise in interest rates.", "The former PM continues to loom large over the Tory brand despite Rishi Sunak's efforts to move on.", "\"A star whose light will never fade\" - celebrities and fans alike react to the singer's death at 83.", "Family of Harvey Evans, 15, and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, say they were both loved by their communities.", "A Florida zoo's handling of one of New Zealand's most beloved birds has sparked public outrage.", "Jill Barclay, 47, was attacked and burned alive by Rhys Bennett in Aberdeen in September last year.", "The government is threatened with legal action if it does not hand over the former PM's unredacted messages.", "Tina Turner was a legendary singer who survived her first husband's horrific abuse and became a global star.", "More than 60 community organisations are told their Stormont funding is being cut.", "Washington says it does not encourage strikes in Russia, after a border attack.", "Det Ch Insp John Caldwell has met King Charles during a royal event at Hillsborough Castle.", "The ex-president says a judge's decision to hold the trial in March next year is \"very unfair\".", "An independent panel will assess claims of wrongdoing at Teesworks, the UK's largest industrial zone.", "The streaming giant will charge users for sharing passwords in countries including the UK and the US.", "South Wales Police says it has referred itself to the police watchdog.", "King Charles and Queen Camilla are on their first official visit outside England since the coronation.", "Bacari-Bronze O'Garro, 18, also known as Mizzy, admitted breaching a community protection order.", "The state's Republican governor is now expected to sign the bill into law but legal challenges will follow.", "It follows fierce debate about whether such groups can legally be defined as criminal organisations.", "The Ramirez's lives changed forever a year ago when a gunman killed their daughter alongside 20 others.", "Bacari-Bronze O'Garro, 18, also known as Mizzy on social media, was charged on the evening of 23 May", "Documents which led to Finley Boden being returned to his parents, who then murdered him, obtained by BBC.", "Clare Nowland was Tasered by police at a care home in New South Wales last week, sparking an outcry.", "As usual, the Eurovision Song Contest brings the most eclectic mix of performers.", "An English reading paper fuels debate about the purpose of the tests for Year 6 pupils in England.", "A jury on Tuesday found Mr Trump liable for the sexual assault and defamation of writer E Jean Carroll", "Alice Chambers was handcuffed on the Mall when police officers mistook her for a Just Stop Oil protester.", "Official photo shows the King with his elder son and grandson, who are next in line to the throne.", "Justin Welby admitted the offence and was given three penalty points at a magistrates' court.", "The Tories accuse Lorna Slater of hypocrisy for chartering a boat instead of taking a Calmac ferry to Rum.", "There are calls for extra funding for caterers so they can deliver better food for pupils.", "The Labour leader faces questions about an investigation that found a senior party aide groped an intern.", "Mid and West Wales Senedd member says Plaid needs a culture change after leader's resignation.", "A head teachers' union says even staff struggled to understand parts of a Year 6 reading paper.", "Six piece girl band Vesna have already made the final, with a song that urges support for Ukraine.", "Islamist militant Matthew King faces sentence for planning attacks on British soldiers and police.", "North Wales Police says it has suspended an officer who was filmed seemingly punching a suspect.", "Prince Harry is among high-profile figures accusing Mirror Group Newspapers of illicit practices.", "The Storm Shadow cruise missile will give Ukraine new capabilities in its conflict with Russia.", "Civil servants told the home secretary to halt plans to house asylum seekers at the Lincolnshire site.", "The train drivers' union leader insists Eurovision events in Liverpool were not targeted by strikes.", "President Cyril Ramaphosa's office says it is disappointed by the claims and demands evidence.", "The economy grew only slightly in the first three months of the year, as high prices kept purse strings tight.", "NBCUniversal's former advertising head is revealed as the new chief executive of the social network.", "A former nurse at The Christie alleges trust bosses intimidated staff to stop them voicing concerns.", "Daniel Penny, 24, will be accused of causing the death of Jordan Neely who was placed in a chokehold.", "Joanna Cherry's show was cancelled over her views on transgender issues, but the venue apologised.", "Rikki Peebles was favourite to win in 1987, singing about an extra terrestrial spotted over the M8.", "After months of slow Russian advances in the devastated city, the momentum seems to have shifted.", "The organisers said the inclusion of Russia could bring the competition into disrepute.", "Pavel Kuzin single-handedly manned a machine gun in Bakhmut so his comrades could be evacuated.", "They agree to allow safe passage for civilians and to protect relief workers but not to a ceasefire.", "RMT union members from 14 rail companies are walking out on Saturday in a long-running pay row.", "The eastern city is a crumpled, skeletal wreck. But Ukraine knows losing it could be costly.", "Daniel Penny, 24, faces up to 15 years if convicted of the death of 30-year-old Jordan Neely.", "The organisers of the song contest turned down a request from Ukraine's president to speak.", "Mike Lynch is accused of overinflating the value of his firm Autonomy when he sold it to Hewlett-Packard.", "A beginner's guide to the Eurovision Song Contest: how it works, memorable moments, Eurovision heroes and what to watch out for.", "The boat, hired at a cost of £9m, still has an issue which prevents it from sailing on the Islay route.", "The government came to power a year ago promising greater action on climate change.", "The presenter issues a statement following reports his relationship with Holly Willoughby has cooled.", "Attendance in one Welsh country remains lower than pre-pandemic levels, following trends across Wales.", "Simon Thompson was under pressure after a long industrial dispute and accusations he had misled MPs.", "The five-piece band, whose singer is an immigration lawyer, are one of 10 acts going to the final.", "A police motorcycle was escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh when the crash happened, police say.", "Satellite images show much of Canada and parts of US blanketed by smoke from the Alberta wildfires.", "From Bucks Fizz to Sandie Shaw, what do Liverpool children think about previous champions?", "Trevor Jacob will plead guilty to obstructing an investigation by destroying the wreckage.", "Prince Harry's lawyer claims investigators received huge sums to illicitly obtain private information.", "Mae Muller, Victor Vernicos and Gustaph answer six Eurovision questions.", "Keely Morgan died as she walked home after spending the day with her family, an inquest hears.", "Police said the \"dangerous\" Genesis Market had been dismantled, but it is still selling hacker products.", "Before the ex-Beatle rang her, a choir burst into song with her Eurovision entry, I Wrote A Song.", "David Boyd lured seven-year-old Nikki Allan to a derelict building where he beat and stabbed her.", "Daniel Penny is charged with manslaughter after putting Jordan Neely in a chokehold on a subway.", "A record number of people are arriving at the southern border after a pandemic-era rule ended.", "Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be the largest explosion ever detected.", "The teachers and a 14-year-old pupil were injured in an incident at Johnstone High School.", "Former Labour MP Paul Clark represented Gillingham in Kent for 13 years.", "Former Aberdeen FC players who famously won the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup are honoured.", "Adam Price quits after review found misogyny, harassment and bullying in his party.", "Doctors can now help people suffering from incurable diseases or severe injuries to end their lives.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 5 and 12 May.", "Adam Price was long-regarded as a great hope for Plaid Cymru but departs amid a bullying scandal.", "The English actress, one of the song contest's co-hosts this year, is already a fan favourite.", "\"Symbol of resilience\" Loonkiito was killed after preying on livestock in a Kenyan village on Wednesday.", "Cindy McCain tells the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme the deal must be renewed by 18 May.", "Andrew Green KC says there have been \"extreme allegations of dishonesty\" as the group mounts its defence.", "The Countess of Chester trust chief executive also accuses the chairman of putting finance over safety.", "America's largest city joins a movement to make size a protected trait on par with race and gender.", "The billionaire has been under pressure to name someone else to lead the company and focus on his other firms.", "It follows a Supreme Court ruling that his arrest on corruption charges was illegal.", "The concert by The View was halted after the lead singer apparently threw a punch at the bassist.", "Some countries were not included in the main rankings table after delaying testing due to the Covid pandemic.", "Donald Trump's former lawyer is accused of coercing an ex-employee into sex in a $10m civil case.", "New chief Margherita Della Valle says the mobile firm's performance \"has not been good enough\".", "Vauxhall-maker Stellantis is calling on the government to renegotiate some Brexit rules or risk losing electric", "The bakery chain said hot food like chicken goujons, wedges and pizza were particularly popular.", "Training places in other health fields are also being cut at Ulster University, the BBC understands.", "The report looks at how the FBI investigated alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.", "A review is being held into what the BBC knew about former DJ Tim Westwood's alleged conduct.", "The private equity owner of the resort firm wants to sell the business for up to £5bn.", "The businesswoman says she wants to inspire other women, adding: \"This is kind of historic.\"", "Rishi Sunak says more visas will be available after the home secretary said the UK could train its own.", "Rhiannon Morgan has grown used to people making comments or asking if her condition is contagious.", "Seven times British women's champion Lucy Campbell is calling for more environmentally friendly surfboards and wetsuits.", "Subscribers must be at least 18 years old and submit a government ID and a selfie video to qualify.", "Parents and teachers say last week's Year 6 reading paper was so difficult it left children in tears.", "Only two buildings are finished and open, the BBC has found, with the majority still awaiting budgets.", "An 88-year-old German man is charged with involvement in one of the most infamous World War Two Nazi atrocities, at Oradour-sur-Glane in France.", "House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says the two sides are far apart but an agreement is possible this week.", "A man is arrested after Katie Higton, 27, and Steven Harnett, 25, were killed in Huddersfield.", "Scotland Yard refer an allegation of serious sexual assault by Julian Knight to Essex Police.", "Sam Altman says government regulation is \"critical\" to control the risks of artificial intelligence.", "The cases in England were found during screening and there is no sign of human-to-human transmission.", "A care home resident, 80, died after an ambulance was stood down due to a do not resuscitate order.", "Penalties put more pressure on already struggling families, charity leaders tell a government inquiry.", "Wellington fire commander Nick Pyatt says the blaze is the city's \"worst nightmare\".", "Duke of Sussex is among high-profile figures accusing Mirror Group Newspapers of unlawful practices.", "Marcel Pinte was a French Resistance messenger, shot dead by accident in 1944.", "The UK agrees to provide extra missiles and military drones as Rishi Sunak meets the Ukrainian leader.", "The 28-year-old rapper from Northampton is expected to appear before Oxford Crown Court next month.", "Tenant Sam Lowe, who is fighting eviction, says the government must give renters more security.", "Menopausing is Book of the Year and Salman Rushdie gets a special accolade at British Book Awards", "Passports belonging to vulnerable people were doctored and sold to the UK's most wanted criminals.", "MPs brand Brexit a \"disaster\" but the government says leaving the EU was a \"democratic choice\".", "Huw Pill says he regrets saying people should get used to being poorer or risk high inflation.", "Elena Gordon's son Vladimir Kara-Murza was convicted of treason for criticising Putin's war in Ukraine.", "The media personality makes the allegation as part of a new documentary for Channel 4.", "Psychiatrists and mental health charities say digital therapies are no substitute for one-to-one care.", "Chris Turner believes recent high tides may have unearthed the vintage litter from its hiding place.", "The request for permission to search Nicola Sturgeon's home was not granted until after the SNP leadership contest ended.", "Russia denies its Kinzhal missiles were hit and says one destroyed a Patriot air defence system.", "Renters tell the BBC how they have been evicted for complaining about the state of their homes.", "In 2019 the gang broke into a museum in Dresden and stole treasures worth €113 million (£98m).", "The UK's financial regulator says 40% more adults are finding it hard to pay debts and bills.", "The Institute for Fiscal Studies warns a freeze on income tax thresholds will hit middle earners.", "A BBC journalist was told \"You do not have ADHD\" by an NHS doctor - but private clinics said otherwise.", "A news crew for broadcaster ABC helped the pup escape the wreckage of a damaged home in Texas.", "The government is introducing a new law designed to overhaul the rental sector in England.", "The Princess of Wales is meeting students in Bath supported by the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust.", "Recruiters, a manager and a workplace psychologist give their advice on how to negotiate for more money.", "The competition watchdog will look at whether a failure in competition means customers are overpaying.", "Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, testified to the US Senate that artificial intelligence regulations are needed.", "The decision is the second time the government has extended the cap for bus operators in England.", "Minister admits it is cheaper to build a new ship but that would threaten jobs at Ferguson Marine.", "Daniel Cordier, who died aged 100, was one of France's last remaining \"Compagnons de la Libération\".", "Retail investment in cryptocurrency is too risky to be regulated as a financial service, a committee says.", "Detectives are following potential leads after launching a campaign to identify 22 victims in Europe.", "Eight people are arrested over the attack which came after a TV interview by President Macron on Monday.", "Royal journalist claims the ex-Daily Mirror editor was briefed about source of Kylie Minogue story.", "Asante king uses Coronation visit to press British Museum to return gold to Ghana.", "The number out of work through ill health has been rising sharply - and no-one is really sure why.", "The end-of-year timetable had sparked concern that important legislation could fall away by accident.", "Curtis Jones scores twice as Liverpool brush aside Leicester to maintain their winning streak and push the Foxes closer to relegation.", "An undercover probe finds agents brokering deals between migrant women and men with UK passports.", "Javad Marandi's foreign firms were at the centre of a global investigation, BBC News can finally reveal.", "Edmond Réveil, 98, said he wanted them to be remembered and their families to know where they are.", "Volunteers will test a pill designed to remove radioactive contamination from the body.", "Michelle O'Neill says her party's gains in council elections represent historic change.", "He will succeed former presenter Ryan Tubridy who has hosted the show for 14 years.", "Care home resident Clare Nowland remains in critical condition three days after the incident.", "A charity in Northern Ireland says the cost of living means families are more desperate than ever.", "Among the 351 objects being repatriated is a 2nd-Century statue of Alexander the Great.", "A campaign will urge homeowners to consider simple measures to save costs and heartache from flooding.", "There could be less than hundreds and thousands of flavours if production costs continue to rise.", "The former head of Brazil's Indigenous protection agency is accused of indirectly playing a part in journalist's death.", "The Ukrainian president says \"peace will become closer\" as he meets world leaders in Hiroshima.", "The website enabled criminals to appear as if they were calling from banks in order to trick victims.", "President Zelensky's appearance has dominated the meeting - but leaders also take aim at China.", "The stadium is expected to cost at least £110m and is part of the UK/Ireland Euro 2028 bid.", "England's Chantelle Cameron inflicts the first professional defeat on Katie Taylor to defend her light-welterweight world titles.", "Wagner mercenaries claim the city has fallen, but Ukraine denies it saying the situation is \"critical\".", "Oscar-winning actress tells BBC about working with documentary maker Sahra Mani on Bread and Roses.", "Ukraine's president made a dramatic appearance in Japan, as China warned against \"economic coercion\".", "Two men attempt to hide their phones from West Yorkshire Police on the roof of a cannabis farm.", "The influential author of Money and London Fields was one of the most celebrated writers of his generation.", "The home secretary tried to arrange a private speed awareness course while she was attorney general.", "Russia placed ICC boss Karim Khan on a wanted list, after he issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.", "The Ukrainian leader addresses the Arab League ahead of a visit to the G7 in Japan.", "Each move to militarise leaves the country more divided over its post-war pacifist ideals.", "Humza Yousaf expects firms to demand compensation from the UK government if Scotland's deposit return scheme is scrapped.", "Officers believe an industrial unit was being used to convert blank-firing guns into lethal weapons.", "The actor and ex-governor tells Laura Kuenssberg politicians must move faster to preserve the planet.", "The presenter issues a statement following reports his relationship with Holly Willoughby has cooled.", "Armed officers were brought in to control the dog which seriously injured Jonathan Hogg, aged 37.", "A total of 807 candidates are competing for 462 seats in council chambers across Northern Ireland.", "Syrian's President Bashar al-Assad is coming out of diplomatic isolation - to the terror of refugees.", "Ukrainian and Russian pilots are fighting to control the skies. Could Western jets change the war?", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 May.", "All missiles over the capital were shot down, but falling debris caused some damage, Ukraine says.", "Det Ch Insp Caldwell has given investigators his account of the shooting in Omagh in February.", "President Biden backs a plan to supply advanced fighter jets and train Ukrainian pilots.", "The former PM and his wife, who married in May 2021, already have two children aged three and two.", "Joost ten Wolde asked to take over the tenancy of his late wife Stacey but his request was rejected.", "Read how the two-day council election vote count unfolded, minute by minute.", "A total of 1,305,553 people were eligible to vote, according to the Electoral Office for NI.", "Manchester City are crowned Premier League champions for a third successive season after title rivals Arsenal lose to Nottingham Forest.", "Rishi Sunak says he hopes other countries follow the UK and bring in new sanctions against Russia.", "It follows the death of a 37-year-old man who was attacked by a dog in Greater Manchester.", "The rapper says he was \"racially profiled\" by police who claimed they could smell cannabis in a car.", "Police spent much of Saturday trying to get the man down from a scaffold outside Broadcasting House.", "New posts continue to be added to James Allchurch's site despite him being jailed for hate crimes.", "Criticism of the PM has become increasingly personal, with Labour accusing him of being out of touch.", "Supplying F-16 jets to Ukraine will be a military boost for Kyiv - but the devil is in the detail.", "The presenter says he has agreed to step down \"with immediate effect” after more than 20 years.", "There are strong links to Wales in Patagonia, with the national anthem sung in one school daily.", "Ofgem is poised to announce a cut in its price cap next week, according to an energy consultancy firm.", "Both current and retired staff face \"a severe and drastic impact\" from the delays, say solicitors.", "A new cross sector advisory body is being set up to advise schools on developments in the field.", "Ahead of Sunday's election, Greece's worst rail crash is held up as proof of a broken government.", "ITV's chief executive defends This Morning's under-fire hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.", "The US will soon send the first of its Abrams tanks to Ukraine, but Poland has stopped sending weapons.", "Marelle Sturrock was 29 weeks pregnant when she was found dead at her home last week.", "Ministers agree to pay a 5% rise in England - but nurses are still threatening strike action.", "Cost savings for milk and other dairy goods should be passed on, the industry body says.", "A meeting later is likely to see a deal in England agreed but nurses are still threatening strikes.", "The two \"exceptional\" evacuation flights had taken off from Port Sudan earlier on Monday evening.", "Shares in several regional banks have dropped 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the window to see a sea of orange\".\n\nStation manager Terry Maher said the fire started in an outbuilding before spreading to the roof of the house.\n\nStation manager Terry Maher said the owners were alerted to the fire by their Chihuahuas barking in the early hours\n\nThe neighbour said: \"It was about 02:45 BST and my first thought was a plane had come down - I was living here when the Korean plane came down in 1999 at nearby Stansted Airport - and then realised it was a house and my partner and I ran out to see if our neighbours were awake and to ring the fire service.\"\n\nShe found the couple in the garden with their two Chihuahuas.\n\nThree neighbours then helped the police lead three horses from the property's stables.\n\nOne of them said: \"It was absolutely terrifying - the stables had filled with smoke, the horses were terrified and we had to lead them through blowing smoke and blowing embers.\n\n\"They were really good in the circumstances, but they were obviously traumatised by what was going on as there were blue lights everywhere, there was the fire and it was dark.\n\n\"You're on autopilot then afterwards the shock hits you, but you can't leave a horse to die of smoke inhalation.\"\n\nFirefighters from Stansted, Newport, Harlow, Stansted Airport and Bishop's Stortford helped tackle the blaze\n\nThe neighbours, none of whom wished to be named, said the fire was still smouldering and \"the smoke is still horrendous\" and they have not had power since 06:00 BST.\n\nThey said they were relieved no one was harmed in the blaze at the property, which was rebuilt after a previous house fire in 2007.\n\nMr Maher said the firefighters \"worked incredibly hard\" with a limited water supply.\n\nThe house has been left uninhabitable and an investigation will be carried out to discover the cause of the blaze.\n\nDunmow Road remains closed and a diversion is in place.\n\nTwo neighbours and a police officer led three terrified horses from a smoke-filled stables, led by a third neighbour lighting the way with torches\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sinn Féin is now the largest party in both local government and Stormont for the first time after making huge gains in council elections.\n\nWith all seats counted, the party has won 144, up from the 105 councillors returned in 2019.\n\nIts vice-president Michelle O'Neill called for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to end its boycott of power sharing at Stormont.\n\nThe DUP has 122 seats, with the centre-ground Alliance Party in third place.\n\nStormont's assembly and governing executive is not functioning because of the DUP's protest against post-Brexit trading rules.\n\nIn last year's assembly election, Sinn Féin became the largest party at Stormont.\n\nMs O'Neill described the council election result as \"historic\".\n\nShe said Sinn Féin's campaign, which has seen it make breakthroughs in areas such as Coleraine, Ballymena and Lisburn, was about \"positive leadership, it was about a restoration of the executive, it was about making politics work\".\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said his party wanted to consolidate its vote to have a mandate to seek changes to the post-Brexit rules so it could return to Stormont.\n\n\"That's about ensuring that Northern Ireland's ability to trade with the rest of the United Kingdom is not only respected but protected in law, and that our place in the union is restored,\" he said.\n\nThe Alliance Party, which also came third in the 2022 assembly election, has increased its number of councillors from 52 to 67.\n\nThis includes its first ever council seats in Ballyclare, Fermanagh and Limavady.\n\nIn terms of first preference votes, Sinn Féin, Alliance and Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) increased their share from the 2019 council election.\n\nThe DUP dropped by 0.8% to 23.3%, with falls in first preference vote share also for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said his party's vote had held up well\n\nIt has been a disappointing election so far for the UUP and the SDLP, which have losses in their overall seat tallies.\n\nUUP leader Doug Beattie said his party's message is clear but not resonating.\n\n\"It's clear also that many unionists and people who are pro-union are simply not getting out to vote so we have a real issue getting people out of their doors,\" he added.\n\nThe SDLP leader, Colum Eastwood, said the election had been a \"reassertion of the assembly election last year\", adding he did not believe he should stand down.\n\n\"I have no interest in titles or positions, but if I thought the right course of action was to step down, I would do it in a heartbeat,\" he said.\n\nIn all, 807 candidates competed for seats in Northern Ireland's 11 local councils.\n\nThere were 1,380,372 people registered to vote and turnout was 54%.\n\nThis Sinn Féin victory may not be a surprise but the size of it probably is.\n\nNot only is the party dominant in traditional nationalist areas, but it's reaching places it has never reached before.\n\nThe DUP is secure in second place, with the party claiming an endorsement for its policy of boycotting Stormont over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nNevertheless there have been calls for unionist realignment, with the former DUP leader Edwin Poots saying unionism needs to \"wake up and smell the coffee\".\n\nThe former UUP leader Mike Nesbitt says there should only be two unionist parties - one traditional and one more liberal.\n\nThe Alliance Party is now secure in third place after leapfrogging the UUP.\n\nBut the new political landscape seems to have less room for smaller parties, with losses for People Before Profit and the Greens, whose leader Mal O'Hara lost his seat.\n\nBut remember this election was to Northern Ireland's 11 so-called super councils.\n\nThe results are unlikely to have any immediate impact on the stalemate at Stormont, with the DUP holding out for movement from the government over the Irish Sea border.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Alliance Party deputy leader Stephen Farry said the results so far could \"marginally increase\" the chances of the executive returning.\n\n\"The TUV have not landed blows on the DUP; I think the DUP have perhaps more room for manoeuvre,\" he said.\n\n\"From our perspective there should not be a boycott of the assembly - we should be back in.\"\n\nFiona McAteer, elected for the Alliance Party in Belfast, celebrated with her husband Richard and daughter Emmie\n\nIt has been a mixed picture for other smaller parties in the 2023 council election.\n\nPUP leader Billy Hutchinson, first elected as a Belfast councillor in 1997, lost his seat, with Russell Watton in Causeway Coast and Glens left as the party's only elected representative.\n\nHe said there will be a meeting of the party in the coming weeks to determine its future.\n\nPaul McCusker, who left the SDLP in March, was elected as an independent in Belfast\n\nIndependent Paul McCusker, who left the SDLP in March, was elected in the Oldpark ward in Belfast.\n\nIn the same council, Mal O'Hara, leader of the Green Party in Northern Ireland, missed out.\n\nYou can listen to the BBC's 5 Questions On, where Ireland Correspondent Chris Page explains the significance of the 2023 council election.", "Scotland voted against independence by 55% to 45% in 2014\n\nUsing the next general election as a \"de facto referendum\" is still an option, the Scottish government's independence minister has said.\n\nJamie Hepburn said \"no option should be taken off the table\" ahead of a special SNP independence convention next month.\n\nMr Hepburn also revealed the Scottish government will resume publishing a series of papers which set out the case for a Yes vote.\n\nOpposition parties have criticised the SNP's renewed focus on independence.\n\nLabour's shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray argued the cost of living crisis should be a bigger priority for SNP ministers.\n\nAppearing on the BBC Scotland Sunday Show, Mr Hepburn said the SNP would use the independence convention event on 24 June to \"discuss what our platform will be in advance of the 2024 general election\".\n\nAsked if the possibility of a de facto referendum approach was still on the table, he said: \"The first minister has said that so long as it's rightly within the parameters of a legal, electoral route then no option should be taken off the table.\n\n\"So that will form part of our discussion.\"\n\nJamie Hepburn said SNP members will discuss the party's independence strategy at a special conference next month\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has said he wants a \"consistent majority for independence\" and will focus on making the case for a Yes vote because he knows pushing for a referendum immediately will be rejected.\n\nBut when Nicola Sturgeon was first minister she said she wanted to use the next UK general election - which must be held by January 2025 at the latest - as a de facto referendum.\n\nThis would involve treating the votes for the SNP at a general election as votes for independence and then looking to open negotiations with the UK government about Scotland's exit from the UK.\n\nHowever, the UK government has previously dismissed the idea, which has also attracted some criticism within the SNP.\n\nHumza Yousaf has pledged to take a positive independence message to people around the country\n\nThe convention in Dundee next month is likely to form part of more activity from the SNP on the issue of a second independence referendum.\n\nMr Hepburn told BBC Scotland that in the coming weeks another paper on the case for independence, produced by a team of Scottish government civil servants, will be published.\n\nThe first paper of this series - called Independence in the Modern World. Wealthier, Happier, Fairer: Why Not Scotland? - made comparisons between Scotland and other European countries and was published in June last year.\n\nSubsequent papers were billed as looking at areas including currency, tax and spend, defence, social security and pensions, and EU membership and trade.\n\nHumza Yousaf has also pledged a \"summer of independence campaign activity\" which would \"take our positive message to every corner of the country\".\n\nWriting in The National, he said the party was working hard to organise regional independence assemblies, something he pledged on the campaign trail for the SNP leadership.\n\nLabour's shadow Scottish secretary Mr Murray said the Scottish government should be \"concentrating on bread and butter issues\".\n\nHe added: \"It's the same old story, over and over again.\n\n\"The Scottish public will not be very amused that during the worst cost of living crisis in history the SNP are reverting to type and talking about independence.\n\n\"Why we have a very expensive £100,00-a-year minister for independence when we need everyone's focus on the cost of living crisis is completely beyond my comprehension.\"\n\nDonald Cameron, Scottish Conservative constitution spokesman, added: \"Jamie Hepburn couldn't have made it more obvious that the SNP have no intention of tackling Scotland's real priorities.\n\n\"They're having yet another conference, just for their members, on how to break up the UK - something Scots decisively rejected.\"\n\nThey want Scottish independence to be achieved by a process which is beyond any legal or moral dispute and in clear accordance with international law.\n\nTheir ideal scenario is a second independence referendum on a straightforward yes-no question.\n\nBut the Supreme Court made it clear that Holyrood does not have the power to hold one without UK government permission.\n\nThere are a number of other options - none of them straightforward.\n\nOne argument is that a future election - perhaps the next general election or Scottish Parliament election- could be turned into a defacto referendum.\n\nIf more than 50% of people voted for the SNP or another pro-independence party, it would be considered by them to be a vote for independence itself. The hope of those who advance that argument would be that this would quickly result in an actual referendum on independence itself.\n\nAnother argument is that SNP MPs could try to \"force\" a future Westminster government which was short of a majority to concede a referendum in return for their support.\n\nBut both Labour and the Conservatives are adamant that will not happen.\n\nThen there is the argument that the best way forward for supporters of independence is simply to keep on trying to increase support for it.\n\nThey would contend that, sooner or later, the point could come when it was clear that independence was consistently supported by a significant majority of Scots so it would be impossible in practice to deny a referendum.\n\nThese ideas, and other strategies, will no doubt be discussed at next month's convention.", "Rescue workers waded through the flooded roads of the village of Nantgarw in Rhondda Cynon Taf during Storm Dennis\n\nWelsh ministers have been accused of lacking urgency on flood risks due to climate change, after postponing planning rule changes twice.\n\nThe policy, based on the latest advice, was due to come into force next month, but the minister said that was no longer \"achievable\".\n\nOpposition parties and environmental campaigners have expressed concern at the delay.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was important to \"get it right\".\n\nMinisters want to update the planning rules, known as TAN 15, to reflect the risk of flooding and ensure future development considers the potential impact of climate change.\n\nThe new policy will require developers and councils to consult maps produced by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) that show projected as well as current risk levels.\n\nThe government had intended to introduce the new rules on 1 December 2021, but a week beforehand they were postponed after councils raised concerns.\n\nThe village of Crickhowell was cut off after the river Usk bursts its banks during Storm Dennis\n\nAt the time, Minister for Climate Change Julie James said the delay was to \"enable local planning authorities to consider fully the impact of climate change projections,\" and that the rules would come into force on 1 June 2023.\n\n\"There would be no further extension,\" she warned.\n\nHowever last week, Ms James wrote to Senedd members (MSs) saying that date would \"no longer be achievable,\" and it that it was \"unlikely\" the changes would happen \"before the end of this year\".\n\nShe said this was because the government was still considering responses to a new consultation carried out on revised proposals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Record river levels following intense storms show how climate change is affecting Wales\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Politics Wales programme, the Welsh Conservatives' climate change spokeswoman Janet Finch-Saunders described the delay as \"unacceptable\".\n\nPlaid Cymru MS Heledd Fychan said the postponement was \"not helping those living at the continued risk of flooding\".\n\n\"The planning system needs to be reformed, needs to be changed, this is a long time coming and should already be in place,\" she added.\n\nEnvironmental campaigners have also expressed concern at the delay, with the chief scientist at Greenpeace UK Doug Parr telling the programme: \"Every year, every month that we're installing things that need to be changed later is cost and difficulty.\n\n\"We know the misery that flooding can inflict upon people so we really urge the Welsh government to get this out as quickly as possible.\n\n\"Of course it's important that it's right, but there is no time for delay.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Blaenau Ffestiniog: What is Wales' wettest town like?\n\nResponding to the comments, the minister for climate change told the programme the revised rules were designed to \"make sure that climate adaptation is properly done in our local authorities, that the serious flood containment assessment plans are in place, and that we have the right development for our towns and city centres so that it's resilient into the 21st Century\".\n\n\"That's not something you can do overnight and it's important we get it right,\" she said.\n\nIn the meantime councils have welcomed changes made to the wording of the proposed new rules since they were first due to be implemented.\n\nSwansea Council leader, and Welsh Local Government Association spokesman, Rob Stewart, said the changes as they were initially put forward would have prevented the redevelopment of large swathes of Wales' major towns and cities.\n\nHowever, the revised wording of the policy is \"much, much better\", and supports \"sustainable development,\" he added.\n\nPolitics Wales is on BBC One Wales at 10:00 BST on Sunday 21 May and on iPlayer", "Water in the Trevi Fountain turned black when climate change activists released \"vegetable charcoal\" into Rome's famous landmark.\n\nProtesters from Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) standing in the water unfurled anti-fossil fuel banners. The group's website says it is campaigning against \"government subsidies of fossil fuel\".\n\nRome's mayor Roberto Gualtieri says the city will have to \"throw away 300,000 litres of water\" to clean-up the tourist attraction, because it uses recirculating water.", "Greece has been spearheading efforts to force museums and private collections to return stolen artefacts\n\nGreece says it has recovered hundreds of looted artefacts, including a 2nd-Century bronze statue of Alexander the Great.\n\nThe trove was recovered after a legal battle with the company of a British antiquities dealer, officials said.\n\nRobin Symes had amassed thousands of pieces as part of a network of illegal traders.\n\nFor years, Greece has been fighting to recover looted artefacts from museums and private collections world-wide.\n\nThe announcement that 351 objects from Symes's collection were being repatriated after a 17-year legal battle was made by Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni on Friday.\n\nMs Mendoni did not say if the artefacts were linked to the discovery by Italian and Swiss police in 2016 of a haul of archaeological treasures said to have been stored by Symes at the Geneva freeport in Switzerland.\n\nArguably the most high-profile artworks in the debate about whether museums should return items to their countries of origin are the Parthenon Sculptures.\n\nThey were removed from the Parthenon temple in Athens in the early 19th Century by the British soldier and diplomat, Lord Elgin. The sculptures were then bought by the British government in 1816 and placed in the British Museum.\n\nTalks about their return are said to be advancing.\n\nIn March, the Vatican returned three fragments of Athens' Parthenon temple it had kept for centuries.", "If cabinet ministers don’t like one thing, it’s having to talk about a colleague who is in trouble when they are not sure exactly what’s gone on.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Therese Coffey was the minister finding herself in that position this morning. The question, what was her colleague Suella Braverman up to when she asked staff to arrange a one to one speeding awareness course after she was caught breaking the limit?\n\nThe suspicion is that she was trying to avoid the press or the public finding out. But the environment secretary was resolutely sticking to her line.\n\nHer line was not to try really to defend the action, but just to say she had no information she could share.\n\nHer colleague Jake Berry, the former chair of the Conservative Party suggested that Braverman did have ‘questions to answer’, and was expecting that the home secretary will have to tell her story in Parliament before too long.\n\nIt’s not likely that will satisfy opposition demands for an immediate investigation by the PM’s ethics adviser. The prime minister apparently didn’t know anything about what happened until the story broke in the Sunday Times last night.\n\nThe kind of headline - while he is wrangling world leaders far away from home - a headache at home that he certainly doesn’t need.\n\nHaving promised on day one in his job that he’d run a government with the highest levels of transparency and integrity, any slight suggestion that his team’s behaviour is less than perfect creates political pain for him.", "President Zelensky’s presence dominated the headlines here in Hiroshima from the minute he landed.\n\nBritish Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described it as a moment of “historic significance”. The French president called it a “game changer”. Indeed, the Ukrainian president standing at the centre of the “family photo” shoulder to shoulder with the leaders of the G7 does send a strong message.\n\nThe optics of this trip are just as important as the closed-door meetings and you’d be right to expect them.\n\nIt’s sometimes easy to think that the whole world stands against Russia and it’s military aggression against Ukraine. That’s not the case.\n\nWhile the G7 nations have shown unwavering solidarity and support for Ukraine and its president, other countries – including India - continue to maintain close ties with Moscow.\n\nAt a time when the G7 has announced more sanctions against Russia to stifle its revenue sources, India has maintained that it would continue to buy Russian oil - and large amounts of it at that.\n\nSo, it’s worthy of attention to see President Zelensky next to the Indian prime minister engaging in conversation – uncomfortable as it may have been.\n\nWe’re into the second year of the war on Ukraine and so far Western alliance support has not wavered.\n\nBut the Ukrainian leader knows that this is now a phase where he needs to be physically present on the world stage whenever he can, and he needs to reach beyond his circle of alliance and take the case for his country further.\n\nEven if that means sitting down with leaders of countries with close relations to his nation’s invaders.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nEngland's Chantelle Cameron delivered the first professional defeat of Katie Taylor's career to retain her undisputed light-welterweight crown.\n\nTaylor's Dublin homecoming was seven years in the making, but the undisputed lightweight champion could not deliver the dream result for her supporters as she lost out on a majority decision.\n\nOne judge scored it a draw, while the other two had it 96-94 to Cameron.\n\nThe 32-year-old extended her undefeated record to 18 wins.\n\n\"If I'm honest, I wasn't expecting the decision to go my way,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live after her win.\n\n\"I'm over the moon it went my way and the right woman got her arm raised.\"\n\nTaylor, 36, suffered her first loss since the 2016 Rio Olympics and her first defeat in 22 pro fights while Cameron staked her claim as one of the world's best by beating the sport's biggest female star.\n\nAs Cameron was embraced by her team when the results were read out, Taylor dropped her arm, visibly distraught at seeing her long-awaited homecoming end in defeat.\n\nThe scorecards deflated the partisan crowd, but promoter Eddie Hearn quickly raised spirits again by revealing there would be an immediate rematch in the autumn in Dublin.\n• None From snubbed champion to main spotlight - Cameron emerges as pound-for-pound contender\n\nCameron said she expected to be treated as the champion in their next fight.\n\n\"I need to speak to my team because everything was in Katie's favour in this fight,\" she said.\n\nTaylor, who grew up just a 30-minute drive from the 3Arena, was humble in defeat.\n\n\"I was expecting a gruelling fight and that's what it was,\" she said.\n\n\"I obviously came up short. I always love a challenge and I'm looking forward to the rematch.\n\n\"This isn't how I wanted the homecoming to go but I'm grateful that this event could sell out in a couple of minutes.\"\n\nIn a career brimming full of incredible achievements, Taylor's homecoming will surely go down as one of her most memorable nights, if not her most accomplished performances.\n\nPro boxing in Ireland has been on its knees since a gangland shooting at a weigh-in at the Regency hotel in 2016 effectively ended big-time boxing in the country.\n\nIt was only fitting that potentially Ireland's greatest ever boxer was the one to bring it back.\n\nTaylor waited her entire pro career, 22 fights, to fight at home again and was competing as the challenger for the first time in four years, having stepped up in weight.\n\nCameron had not been afforded any of the trappings of the champion in fight week, her name second on the posters and the Northampton fighter was the first to make her ring walk, breaking from tradition.\n\nMany had wondered whether the occasion would overawe Cameron, but she cut a relaxed figure as Three Little Birds rang out during her ring walk.\n\nThe first glimpse of Taylor promoted the noise to a new level. Cameron, shadow boxing and sharing jokes with her team, turned her back on Taylor's entrance as her challenger finally appeared.\n\nDressed in gold and black like Cameron, Taylor enjoyed an unusually long ring walk, singing as she slowly made her way to the ring.\n\nShe stopped at the ropes to take one last look at the feverish crowd before entering the ring.\n\nCameron had vowed to swarm Taylor from the off and she made good on that promise in the opening round, piling the pressure on her opponent and rarely firing single punches.\n\nThe 2012 Olympic gold medallist was fighting on the back foot, trying to deliver counters as Cameron continued to push the pace brilliantly.\n\nCameron was light on her feet as the aggressor, but the crowd roared whenever Taylor's renowned accuracy shone through.\n\nThe home favourite landed a right-left combination at her trademark lightning speed in the second to huge roars, but those moments of success were fleeting.\n\nCameron came out quickly in the second, producing a lovely combination on the back foot as Taylor moved in.\n\nTaylor was able to respond moments later and was trying to push Cameron back with straight hands, but could not stop the champion pouring forward.\n\nThe partisan crowd would erupt with every punch Taylor landed, no matter how glancing. UFC star Conor McGregor was among those going hoarse at ringside urging Taylor on.\n\nCameron remained dominant, however, and Taylor's hair began to fall out of her plaits as she tried her best to time power-counters.\n\nBut Taylor needed to move at a relentless pace to avoid Cameron.\n\nCameron regularly mixed up head and body shots, and was in control of the contest at the midway point.\n\nBut Taylor's heart is well documented, she has dug deep in fights before and come out on top.\n\nSearching for that spark, Taylor stood in the centre of the ring in the sixth with Cameron, content to box up close, targeting Cameron's head at speed.\n\nBut as she would do throughout the entire fight, Cameron responded with her own heavy shots and never appeared troubled.\n\nThe Briton then enjoyed a stellar seventh round, landing a right hand in the opening seconds and more heavy punches to the body of Taylor.\n\nInto the eighth, and the crowd urged Taylor to stand and fight with Cameron, which she did, before having to eat a sharp uppercut from the champion.\n\nThe eighth bell arrived with both women swinging from the hips.\n\nThe penultimate round saw Taylor desperately trying to wrestle control, but Cameron expertly rode the storm, landing when she could with some smart boxing.\n\nThe two went toe-to-toe again moments later, both lowering their heads, but once again Cameron appeared to come off the better in exchanges and strolled back to her corner confidently for the final instructions.\n\nThe fight's pace barely slowed throughout and Taylor, sensing she needed a big finish, began to step forward first in the final round, punching in threes and fours.\n\nCameron tagged her challenger with short rights as the crowd began to chant \"Katie, Katie\" trying to encourage their fighter, but a last-gasp knockdown never seemed likely as Cameron reached the finish line with ease.\n\nApprehension filled the arena as both fighters' teams celebrated.\n\nThere were several nervous minutes for Cameron and her corner as they awaited the results.\n\nThey would have been forgiven for fearing the worst when the first scorecard was announced as a draw, but there was to be no hometown controversy as Cameron was confirmed a deserved winner.", "The battle for Bakhmut has become the longest of the war that Russia launched last year\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated the Wagner paramilitary group, after it claimed to have captured the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.\n\nWagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin - posing with some of his fighters - made the claim in a video posted to social media on Saturday.\n\nUkraine's deputy defence minister rejected the claim, but admitted the situation in the city was \"critical\".\n\nOne of the war's bloodiest battles, fighting has raged since August.\n\nWagner paramilitary forces have led the Russian attack on Bakhmut - which analysts say is of little strategic value to Moscow - and has seen thousands of troops killed.\n\nUkraine, for its part, has also decided to make a stand in a battle which has become the longest and bloodiest of the war so far.\n\nBut in comments carried by Russian state media, Mr Putin claimed Wagner troops, supported by Russian air force jets, had completed \"the operation to liberate\" Bakhmut on Saturday after months of intense fighting.\n\nMr Prigozhin, a close ally of the Russian president, leads the thousands-strong group, nominally a private military company.\n\nHe has claimed before that his forces have taken Bakhmut - or most of it - only for Ukrainians to swiftly deny the claims. Mr Prigozhin has also targeted top Russian military officials, criticising them publicly for not supplying his troops with enough ammunition.\n\nIn his latest video claiming control of Bakhmut, Mr Prigozhin said \"no-one can pedantically reproach us for the fact that at least some piece was not taken\".\n\nExplosions can be heard in the background, suggesting fighting continues close to the city, if not inside it.\n\nHe also promised to hand the city over to regular Russian troops later in the month.\n\nHis claims were echoed by the Russian defence ministry on Saturday night, state media in Moscow reported.\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin claimed to control Bakhmut in a video flanked by Wagner fighters\n\nBut in a statement on the messaging platform Telegram moments afterwards, Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said: \"Heavy fighting in Bakhmut. The situation is critical.\n\n\"As of now, our defenders control some industrial and infrastructure facilities in the area and the private sector.\"\n\nWestern officials estimate between 20,000 and 30,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded in Bakhmut, while Ukraine's military has also paid a heavy price.\n\nThere is hardly a building left unscathed, and the city's entire population has vanished.\n\nThe latest Wagner claim came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went to Japan to attend a meeting of the leaders of the world's most industrialised countries, the G7.\n\nHis Western allies pledged more support, including taking a significant step towards providing F-16 fighter jets, and announced more sanctions on Russia.\n\nRussian troops invaded Ukraine on 24 February last year and control parts of its east.\n\nUkraine has been expected to launch an offensive to retake seized territories, but Mr Zelensky recently said that more time is needed to prepare.\n\nHe has called Bakhmut \"a fortress\" of Ukrainian morale.\n\nUkraine's hope is that the fight over Bakhmut has blunted Russia's ability to conduct its own offensive operations, and exhausted its army and supplies.", "Jennifer Lawrence, pictured in late 2022, is the producer on a new documentary called Bread and Roses, which explores the day-to-day lives of three women in Afghanistan\n\n\"You only oppress women,\" the young woman says to the Taliban fighter.\n\n\"I told you not to talk,\" he shouts back, \"I will kill you right here!\"\n\n\"Okay, kill me!\" she replies, raising her voice to match his. \"You closed schools and universities! It's better to kill me!\"\n\nA camera phone has secretly, and shakily, captured this direct confrontation inside a car between the woman and the militant.\n\nShe had just been arrested following a protest and was about to be taken to a holding cell in Kabul.\n\nIt is a scene from the documentary Bread and Roses, which explores the day-to-day lives of three women in the weeks following the takeover.\n\nThe producer is the Oscar-winning actress, Jennifer Lawrence, who is telling the BBC why this moment in the film is so significant to her.\n\n\"My heart was beating so fast watching these women defy the Taliban,\" Lawrence says. \"You don't see this side of the story, women fighting back, in the news every day and it's an important part of our film, and the stories of these women.\"\n\nShe says it is devastating to think about the sudden loss of control Afghan women have endured.\n\n\"They currently have no autonomy within their country. It is so important for them to be given the opportunity to document their own story, in their own way.\"\n\nThe film has been made by Excellent Cadaver, the production company Lawrence set up in 2018 with her friend Justine Ciarrocchi.\n\n\"This documentary was born out of emotion and necessity,\" says Lawrence, who describes feeling helpless and frustrated about what she was seeing on the news.\n\nCiarrocchi says that Lawrence \"had a seismic reaction to the fall of Kabul in 2021 because the circumstances were so dire for women\".\n\n\"And she said, 'We've got to give somebody a platform to tell this story in a meaningful way.'\"\n\nThat somebody was Sahra Mani, a documentary maker who co-founded the independent Kabul production company, Afghan Doc House.\n\n(l-r) Director of Bread and Roses, Sahra Mani, editor Hayedeh Safiyar, Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi.\n\nBoth Lawrence and Ciarrocchi had watched her critically acclaimed documentary A Thousand Girls Like Me, which profiles a 23-year-old Afghan woman who goes on national television to expose sexual abuse by her father, after being ignored by her family and the police.\n\nCiarrocchi tracked down Mani, who said that she had already begun a project, following three women in the country as they tried to establish some kind of autonomy in the months following the Taliban takeover, as girls and women were barred from universities and schools.\n\nMani filmed using covert cameras, and even asked the women to film themselves at safehouses with their friends and families.\n\nAnother sequence captures a secret meeting in a windowless basement, off a side street in Kabul. More than a dozen women sit in rows of desks and chairs, arranged like a makeshift classroom. Steam rises from the drinks in their plastic cups.\n\nThey do not know each other, but all are from different groups who protested after the Taliban retook Afghanistan in August 2021.\n\nOne of the women, a dentist called Zahra, has led the viewer to this secret meeting. When she speaks to the group, she reminisces about wearing high heels and perfume and going to the park with her friends. The women around her smile.\n\nBread and Roses was secretly filmed with the use of multiple covert cameras in the weeks following the fall of Kabul.\n\n\"Women must write their own history,\" Vahideh says passionately to the group, to murmurs of agreement. \"Women are not properly celebrated around the world.\"\n\nMani was well aware of the challenges of filming in such private and dangerous situations.\n\n\"I understand how to deal with difficulties because I am one of them.\n\n\"They are not victims,\" she says, \"they are heroes.\"\n\nBut getting the balance right between keeping the women safe and telling their story was not easy. She tells the BBC that there were several late-night conversations between her, Ciarrocchi and Lawrence during the production process.\n\n\"They were there whenever I faced any issues or problems,\" Mani says. \"When women unite, everything is possible.\"\n\nJennifer Lawrence pictured with director Sahra Mani and producer Justine Ciarrocchi at the Cannes film festival\n\nWith Mani and the other women featured now all out of the country, the producers felt comfortable submitting Bread and Roses for wider distribution, starting at Cannes.\n\nCiarrocchi and Lawrence say their next challenge is to get the film in front of a large audience - not always easy when the story is a snapshot of an ongoing and devastating conflict.\n\n\"There's not an end to this story,\" says Lawrence, \"and you feel pretty much helpless when thinking about how to do anything about it. It's a hard thing to market.\"\n\nAs women executive producers, Ciarrocchi and Lawrence are still in the minority in Hollywood. A 2022 study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film showed that women comprised only 24% of directors, writers and producers in the top-grossing films, a decrease from 2021.\n\n\"I think there's a long, long way to go, but I do feel inspired and positive by the end product when you have more diversity in filmmaking,\" says Lawrence. \"It's what people want. The audiences want it.\"\n\nCiarrocchi adds: \"That's why we take the responsibility of Jen's platform so seriously as a woman who's giving opportunities to other women... to employ women, to tell women's stories, to always employ a diverse body of people.\"\n\n\"That's also because I am a woman,\" replies Lawrence.\n\n\"I'm lucky enough to not have the biased idea that women aren't as good at things!\"", "This Morning has regularly won best daytime show at the National Television Awards (Schofield and Willoughby pictured in 2020)\n\nIf a casual viewer of This Morning had turned on the show at any point last week, it's unlikely they would have noticed anything was wrong.\n\nPhillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby were presenting as normal, with the usual revolving door of celebrity guests balanced with regular items on cooking and consumer advice.\n\nBut viewers who had been following the tabloid stories about an apparent behind-the-scenes feud between the presenters could tell something was up. There was less eye contact between the pair, less arm-touching, less general camaraderie.\n\nOn Saturday, Schofield announced he would be leaving the show after 20 years - referring directly to the \"very difficult last few days\".\n\nThe show had limped on throughout what we now know was Holly and Phil's last week together, as viewers and media pundits watched with interest to see if the pair could leave any personal drama at the door and still give the appearance of friendship on screen.\n\nHowever, in the end everybody involved knew the headlines surrounding the increasingly strained relationship between the daytime TV's golden couple were becoming too much of a distraction. When you can't convince the viewers at home of your authenticity, the whole show crumbles.\n\nSchofield began presenting This Morning in 2002, with Willoughby joining him as a co-presenter in 2009\n\nIt is worth remembering how great Schofield and Willoughby were together before their relationship went off the rails. Excellent on-screen chemistry and an easy, affectionate relationship is precisely the dynamic needed on mid-morning television.\n\nThey regularly went viral for their propensity to crack up at mishaps or sexual innuendo. One of their most famous corpses, when Gino D'Acampo told Holly \"if my grandmother had wheels, she would've been a bike\", has 12 million views on YouTube alone.\n\nViewers loved it when the pair showed up, apparently still drunk, the morning after the National Television Awards in 2016, having partied most of the night.\n\nFor all the air miles they clocked up, Schofield and Willoughby were involved in scandals only occasionally. In 2012, Schofield was deemed to have gone too far by presenting then-prime minister David Cameron with a list of alleged Conservative paedophiles he had found online.\n\nBut broadly speaking, the duo maintained a healthy relationship for well over a decade - which is no mean feat. They brought in healthy viewing figures, rarely upset the apple cart, and even went on holiday together.\n\nThe wheels began to come off as early as last September with what became known as queue-gate. When Holly and Phil visited Queen Elizabeth II's lying-in-state, their actions were interpreted by many as skipping a queue outside of up to 20 hours.\n\nThe pair had not technically done anything wrong, they were granted press access to visit the late Queen's coffin just as hundreds of other journalists had been that same week.\n\nBut because they were two of the most famous faces to have done it, there was suddenly a target on Willoughby and Schofield's backs. When other stars like David Beckham had dutifully queued outside, it was not a good look.\n\nITV's chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall admitted the whole affair had taken a toll on the duo. Schofield appeared to reference the backlash as he collected the best daytime trophy the National Television Awards several weeks later, telling the crowd: \"This means so much to us every year, especially this year.\"\n\nUnfavourable headlines and gossip continued over the following months. There was much speculation about Phillip's personal relationships since coming out as gay in 2020, and no shortage of unsubstantiated rumours surrounding the split from his wife.\n\nThe pair also present ITV's Dancing On Ice together\n\nBut the relationship between ITV's second most popular presenting pair really appeared to turn sour in the early part of this year.\n\nIn April, Schofield's brother was found guilty of sexually abusing a boy. According to reports, Willoughby was upset that her co-star had not warned her in advance about what Timothy Schofield was accused of or that the trial was coming.\n\nPhillip Schofield had to take time off from presenting This Morning for the duration of the court case, which is always a risk in broadcasting. There's a motto in the media industry to \"never go on holiday\" - in case your cover presenter is more popular than you.\n\nBear in mind that it is rare to see one half of a successful presenting duo without the other. Although both Schofield and Willoughby had hosted other shows without the other, when it came to This Morning they were very much a double act. They took their holidays at the same time, so the show's viewers were used to seeing them either both together, or not at all.\n\nSure enough, the guest presenters who temporarily took Schofield's place were hugely popular with viewers. Alison Hammond in particular worked well with Willoughby, and it was not long before fans were calling for them to host the show together permanently, sparking another flurry of media stories.\n\nThose headlines would have put additional strain on the already fragile relationship between Schofield and Willoughby.\n\nThis Morning was previously presented by husband-and-wife duo Judy Finnigan and Richard Madeley\n\nLast week, Schofield tried to get ahead of the feud story by releasing a statement, in which he admitted the last few weeks \"haven't been easy for either of us\".\n\nThat was only one sentence in a statement which otherwise praised Willoughby to the hilt (\"Holly is my rock, we're the best of friends\", he also said), but it was the only sentence that mattered. It was seized upon.\n\nWilloughby was reportedly \"blindsided\" by the release of his statement, but kept quiet. To this day, she has not acknowledged any fallout on the record, unlike Schofield. However, certain journalists in certain newspapers seemed curiously well informed about her feelings.\n\nThis Morning itself had become the story. Liberated by the coverage, other ITV daytime presenters such as Ruth Langsford began to make jokes and comments about behind-the-scenes feuding. (Langsford previously had her own on-air clashes with Schofield.)\n\nTwitter users noticed Willoughby had recently changed her biog to remove a previous reference to Schofield, who had introduced her to the platform. Meanwhile, stories appeared in the tabloids claiming she had made clear to bosses she would want to stay on the programme if Schofield was to exit.\n\nBy this point, the writing was on the fake digital backdrop of the Thames.\n\nThis Morning was extended by half an hour after The Jeremy Kyle Show was taken off air 2019\n\nIt is telling that Schofield, rather than Willoughby, has been the one to leave. They are, after all, a 50/50 partnership. If a double act has to be broken up, why should Schofield automatically be the one that has to go?\n\nThere are several reasons, but perhaps one of the most significant is their respective ages. Schofield is 61, Willoughby is 42. That is a hugely important factor in the world of broadcasting and talent management.\n\nGiven his older age, it is likely Schofield would be seen as nearer the end of his career, and therefore might be less of a priority for a TV network to hang on to.\n\nWilloughby, on the other hand, is two decades younger, and far more ripe for poaching by other TV networks. She is very well connected in the industry herself, having hosted many non-ITV programmes including the first two seasons of The Voice UK, when it was on BBC One.\n\nHer husband Dan Baldwin is a renowned TV producer, whose company Hungry Bear is behind big hits such as Michael McIntyre's The Wheel. At a time when Willoughby was clearly unhappy at This Morning, keeping her sweet in an attempt to stop her going to a rival broadcaster would have been a high priority for ITV bosses.\n\nHaving said that, ITV would ideally want to keep Schofield too. The broadcaster was at pains to say in their statement on Saturday that he will still host The British Soap Awards in June, as well as a brand new peak-time series on the channel.\n\nBut Willoughby will be seen as the bigger star - a balance of power which has shifted during the time the pair have worked together as she has built up her own brand.\n\nBosses will be hoping a new co-presenter will be able to build an authentic on-screen relationship with Holly\n\nWhen The Jeremy Kyle Show was removed from the ITV airwaves in 2019 following the death of a guest, bosses filled the gap in the schedule by giving an extra half hour to Good Morning Britain, and an extra half hour to This Morning.\n\nSchofield and Willoughby's viewing figures varied between 500,000 and one million based on all kinds of factors - the time of year, that day's content, the weather outside. Many viewers dip in and out, rather than sit down to watch for the full three hours, which means it is hard to make sweeping statements about any rise or fall.\n\nNonetheless, there were some headlines last week about a drop in viewing figures of around 100,000, which many media outlets chalked up to the controversy. In reality, all ITV daytime shows declined last week, including Lorraine and Loose Women, likely an effect of the sunshine.\n\nBut as unfavourable media coverage continued, network chiefs would have been aware that the likely direction of travel for This Morning was downwards, and keen to pre-empt any further drop. The show relies on advertising and sponsorship to keep it afloat.\n\nSchofield's departure appeared to be welcomed on Saturday by other TV stars who reportedly weren't fans of his, including Eamonn Holmes and Amanda Holden.\n\nAll eyes will now be on whoever is hired as Schofield's permanent replacement, to see whether he or she can build a convincing relationship with Willoughby. That is ultimately what will rescue the show.", "Martin Amis, one of the most celebrated British novelists of his generation, has died aged 73.\n\nHe died of oesophageal cancer at his Florida home, the New York Times said, quoting his wife, the writer Isabel Fonseca.\n\nAmis is best known for his 1984 novel Money, the 1989 work London Fields and 1995's The Information.\n\nHe authored 14 novels, several non-fiction books and a memoir in a career spanning 50 years.\n\nBorn in 1949 in Oxford, he was the son of the novelist and poet Sir Kingsley Amis.\n\nThe younger Amis followed in his father's footsteps after graduating from Oxford University. His first novel, The Rachel Papers, was published in 1973 while he was working at the Times Literary Supplement.\n\nThe story follows the romantic exploits of a teenage boy in London before university and - like his father's debut - won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction.\n\nAmis was a contemporary of the likes of James Fenton, Salman Rushdie, and Ian McEwan.\n\nThey belonged to a colourful set which reinvigorated the British literary scene and has been credited with inspiring a generation of younger writers.\n\nHis close relationship with the journalist Christopher Hitchens, who died of oesophageal cancer in 2011, was well-documented.\n\nRushdie paid tribute to Amis, telling the New Yorker: \"He used to say that what he wanted to do was leave behind a shelf of books - to be able to say, 'from here to here, it's me'.\n\n\"His voice is silent now. His friends will miss him terribly. But we have the shelf.\"\n\nAnd another contemporary, Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, told the BBC: \"He was a standard-bearer for my generation of novelists and an inspiration to me personally.\n\n\"For all the bite of his satire, the brilliant swagger of his prose, there was always something tender not far from the surface, a yearning for love and connection. His work will last, surviving the various shifts of fashions and mores.\"\n\nWitty, provocative, linguistically daring - and, in his heyday, a celebrity. Martin Amis was often described as the Mick Jagger of the literary world (and Carrie Bradshaw was seen reading his novels in Sex in the City).\n\nHe was one of the key names on that era-defining first list of best British novelists under 40, famously chosen by Granta in 1983, and every decade since.\n\nAmis was by then already established as the enfant terrible of English literature.\n\nHis semi-autobiographical first novel The Rachel Papers had propelled him onto the literary scene in 1973. It was verbally inventive, with an understanding of the frustrations of a certain type of clever (horny) young man.\n\nHis second novel, Dead Babies, published in 1975, charted a weekend of debauchery and showcased his extraordinary, lacerating use of language.\n\nBack in the 1980s and 1990s Amis was never far from view - often quoted, often photographed. A literary rock star.\n\nHis novels summed up eras, whether that was his satire of the excesses of the shiny, hollowness of 1980s Thatcherism in Money and London Fields, or his exploration of the Holocaust written backwards in Time's Arrow about the life of a German doctor in Auschwitz.\n\nAmis had a truly recognisable voice. He was a British writer who bridged the gap between the somewhat cosy style of the English novel that preceded him and the expansive fiction of America.\n\nThe response to his passing reinforces his stature as one of the great British novelists of his age.\n\nAmis's work was often characterised by its darkly comic subject matter and satire.\n\nHe published two short story collections, six non-fiction books and a memoir, Experience, in 2000.\n\nHe was known as a public intellectual and an often controversial commentator on current affairs and politics.\n\nMoney became his most acclaimed work and is often cited as a defining novel of the 1980s.\n\nThe book, set in New York and London, follows a director of adverts as he attempts to make his first feature film, and was based on Amis's own time as a script writer on Saturn 3, a widely-panned sci-fi film starring Kirk Douglas.\n\nHe returned to the subject of the Holocaust throughout his career in novels such as Time's Arrow and The Zone of Interest.\n\nAlongside Salman Rushdie, left, and others, Amis was part of an influential literary set in Britain in the 1980s\n\nAmis moved from London to the US in 2012 and his most recent novel, Inside Story, came out in 2020.\n\nHis friend Zachary Leader, a literary critic, said Amis was \"charming and very generous\" but \"much bothered by his success\".\n\n\"His life was a series of invitations, many of which he turned down, and not all of which he turned down with kind of good grace he would show to his friends. He wasn't curmudgeonly with the people he liked, I think he tried his best,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAmis's UK editor at Vintage Books, Michal Shavit, said: \"It's hard to imagine a world without Martin Amis in it. He was the king - a stylist extraordinaire, super cool, a brilliantly witty, erudite and fearless writer, and a truly wonderful man.\n\n\"He has been so important and formative for so many readers and writers over the last half century.\"\n\nIn a statement, Penguin Books said: \"We are devastated at the death of our author and friend, Martin Amis. Our thoughts are with all his family and loved ones, especially his children and wife Isobel.\n\n\"He leaves a towering legacy and an indelible mark on the British cultural landscape, and will be missed enormously.\"\n\nThe Twitter account of the Booker Prize posted: \"We are saddened to hear that Martin Amis, one of the most acclaimed and discussed novelists of the past 50 years, has died. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.\"\n\nTime's Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and his 2003 novel Yellow Dog was on the long list.\n\nAmis at his London home in 1987: He penned 14 novels, a memoir and several non-fiction works over 50 years", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTen people have been taken to hospital after a double-decker bus crashed into a bridge and had its roof torn off.\n\nThe crash happened in Cook Street in Glasgow, near the O2 venue, at 11.35 BST.\n\nThe injured people were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.\n\nA Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: \"A number of additional casualties have been treated at the scene but do not require to be taken to hospital.\"\n\nThe crash happened in Cook Street on the south side of Glasgow\n\nThe roof viewed from behind the bus after the smash\n\nSeveral people were treated at the scene for minor injuries\n\nCh Insp Elaine Tomlinson, of Police Scotland's Greater Glasgow Division, said: \"Around 11.35am on Sunday, 21 May, 2023, we received a report of a bus crashing into a bridge on Cook Street, Glasgow.\n\n\"Emergency services attended and 10 people were taken to various hospitals for treatment.\n\n\"A number of road closures remain in place, with disruption to some rail services.\n\n\"I would like to thank the public for their co-operation and ask they continue to avoid the area while enquires are ongoing.\"\n\nFirst Bus confirmed it was one of its buses which was involved.\n\nA company spokesperson said: \"We are working closely with the emergency services at the scene and our thoughts are with those involved in the incident.\"\n\nNetwork Rail said its engineers would need to carry out an inspection of the bridge before it could be used by trains again.\n\nThe rail infrastructure agency said: \"We're assisting the emergency services, who are responding to a bus trapped beneath a bridge between Glasgow Central and Paisley Gilmour Street.\n\n\"We need to complete a safety inspection of the bridge before trains can use it again. We can only do this once the bus has been removed.\"", "There is nothing suspicious about the misspelling Cobain's name\n\nA guitar smashed by Kurt Cobain, the late frontman of US rock band Nirvana, has sold at auction for nearly $600,000 (£480,000).\n\nThe broken black Fender Stratocaster had been expected to sell for a tenth of that amount at Saturday's auction at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York.\n\nCobain, who took his own life in 1994, was known for his intense performances.\n\nThe guitar was destroyed as Nirvana were working on their break-out album Nevermind in the early 1990s.\n\nIt has been put back together but is no longer playable.\n\nThe instrument is signed by all three band members in a silver marker. It also features an affectionate inscription by Cobain to his friend and musical collaborator Mark Lanegan - who died last year.\n\nCobain, who often misspelt his own name, signed the instrument \"Kurdt Kobain\".\n\nCobain shot to worldwide fame in the early 1990s as Nirvana's creative force\n\nThe grunge pioneer is known to have smashed a number of Fender Stratocasters during his career.\n\n\"The man was angry, and you could feel that on stage. And you would feel that by the way he would treat his instruments,\" Kody Frederick of Julien's Auctions told AFP news agency.\n\nThe Fender Stratocaster went on sale with an estimated price of $60,000-$80,000. Julien's called the closing bid of $596,900 \"astounding\".\n\nAccording to the auction house, Cobain gave the guitar to Lanegan during the North American leg of Nirvana's Nevermind tour in 1992.\n\nThe identity of the buyer is not known. The auctioneers name the previous owner as Tony Palmer.\n\nTwo years ago, the acoustic guitar Cobain used for his legendary MTV Unplugged performance in late 1993 sold for $6m.\n\nJulien's ongoing three-day sale also includes memorabilia from other music legends including Elvis Presley, Freddie Mercury, Janet Jackson, and Dolly Parton. It concludes on Sunday.", "Rishi Sunak is to consult his ethics adviser on Monday to discuss Suella Braverman's handling of a speeding offence.\n\nThe home secretary sought advice about arranging a private speed awareness course via officials and an aide, the BBC has been told.\n\nLabour and the Lib Dems have called on the ethics adviser to investigate whether she breached the rules.\n\nMrs Braverman was caught speeding when she was attorney general last summer, and faced three points on her licence and a fine, or a course as part of a group.\n\nShe is under scrutiny, not over the speeding offence itself, but over whether she acted properly in trying to arrange a one-to-one awareness course.\n\nOn Monday the prime minister will talk to Sir Laurie Magnus, the independent official who opposition parties want to examine the claims, after he returns from the G7 summit in Japan.\n\nMr Sunak earlier declined to say whether he would be ordering an inquiry, when asked about the story at the summit.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference, he also declined to say he backed her - but a Downing Street source later said that \"of course\" he did.\n\n\"I don't know the full details of what has happened, nor have I spoken to the home secretary,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"But I understand she has expressed regret for speeding, accepted the penalty and paid the fine.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Did you have any questions about the summit?\" Rishi Sunak asks the BBC's Chris Mason\n\nShadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the prime minister was \"too weak\" to sack her or launch an inquiry.\n\nAnd the Liberal Democrats say Mr Sunak should make a statement in Parliament on Monday to \"explain this farce\".\n\n\"Rishi Sunak is so weak he can't even make sure his own ministers maintain the very basic level of integrity,\" the party's chief whip Wendy Chamberlain said.\n\nAfter being caught speeding, Mrs Braverman was offered the choice of either a fine and points on her driving licence, or a speed awareness course.\n\nA government source told the BBC the senior minister had been \"concerned\" about her insurance premiums, and favoured doing a course.\n\nShe asked civil servants about arranging a course for just her, citing security concerns about doing one as part of a group, but was told it was not a matter for the civil service.\n\nMrs Braverman then asked a special adviser to try to arrange a one-on-one course.\n\nWhen the course provider told her there was no option to do a private course - and after she was reappointed home secretary in Mr Sunak's government - she opted to pay the fine and accept the points because she was \"very busy\" and did not have the time to do a course, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe same government source refused to say whether Mrs Braverman's motivation to do the course in private was to reduce the chances of her being recognised by members of the public.\n\nThe prime minister apparently did not know anything about what happened until the story broke in the Sunday Times.\n\nThis kind of headline, while he is wrangling world leaders abroad, is a headache at home that he certainly does not need.\n\nHaving promised on day one of his job that he would run a government with the highest levels of transparency and integrity, any slight suggestion that his team's behaviour is less than perfect creates political pain for him.\n\nSpeaking to Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Conservative cabinet member Therese Coffey said she knew no more about it than what she had read in the papers, while Tory MP Jake Berry said there were \"definitely questions to be answered\".\n\nHe said he expects the issue to be discussed in Parliament in the coming days. Mrs Braverman is already due in the Commons on Monday afternoon for Home Office questions.\n\nThe ministerial code sets standards of conduct expected of ministers, including that they must uphold the political impartiality of the civil service.\n\nAfter serving as attorney general between February 2020 and September 2022, Mrs Braverman was promoted to home secretary under Liz Truss.\n\nShe resigned on October 19 after sending an official document from a personal email to a backbench MP - describing it as a \"technical infringement of the rules\". But she was reappointed to the same role by Mr Sunak six days later following the collapse of the Truss government.\n\nA source close to the home secretary said: \"Mrs Braverman accepted three points for a speeding offence which took place last summer.\n\n\"The Cabinet Office was made aware of the situation as requested by Mrs Braverman. She was not and is not disqualified from driving.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"It would not be appropriate to comment on the existence or content of advice between government departments.\"", "The Ukrainian leader was in Saudi Arabia ahead of an expected trip to the G7 in Japan\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky has accused some Arab leaders of \"turning a blind eye\" to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, ahead of his trip to the G7 in Japan.\n\nThe Ukrainian president made the comments while attending an Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia on Friday.\n\nOf the Arab League nations, only Syria has openly supported Russia's invasion. Others have sought to maintain good relations with Moscow.\n\nBut some states must reflect on their ties with Russia, Mr Zelensky said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there are some in the world and here among you who turn a blind eye to those [prisoner of war] cages and illegal annexations,\" said Mr Zelensky.\n\n\"I'm here so that everyone can take an honest look, no matter how hard the Russians try to influence, there must still be independence.\"\n\nMr Zelensky also told the assembled leaders in Jeddah that his country was defending itself from colonisers and imperialists, appearing to invoke the Arab world's own history of invasion and occupation.\n\nHost nation Saudi Arabia has walked a delicate line on the conflict - on the one hand supporting a UN resolution calling for Russia to withdraw its troops and pledging $400m in humanitarian aid to Ukraine, while on the other hand resisting imposing sanctions on Russia, preferring to see itself as neutral on the conflict.\n\nSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman renewed his offer for Saudi Arabia to mediate between Moscow and Kyiv to end the fighting at the summit.\n\nSyria meanwhile has only just been readmitted to the Arab League - its leader Bashar al-Assad told the summit there was an historic opportunity for the region to reshape itself without foreign interference.\n\nMr Zelensky also took aim at Iran, which is not a member of the Arab League, for supplying Shahed drones to Russia. Iran denies supplying drones for the conflict.\n\nThe Ukrainian leader will travel from Saudi Arabia to the G7 summit on Sunday, Japan confirmed on Saturday morning. Officials said he will take part in the summit's leaders' session and take part in a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.\n\nEarlier, Mr Zelensky's office also told Ukrainian media that he would meet with US President Joe Biden \"in the next few days\" in Japan.\n\nThe summit kicked off on Friday with a renewed condemnation of Russia and an announcement of further sanctions.\n\nThe group of seven nations, made up of the US, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Canada and Japan, represent the world's richest democracies. This year, eight other countries including Australia and India have also been invited.\n\nG7 leaders slapped more sanctions on Russia on the summit's opening day\n\nThe trip to Japan will be the furthest Mr Zelensky has travelled from Kyiv since the war began in February 2022.\n\nIn the past few days Mr Zelensky has visited Italy, Germany, France and the UK, where he nailed down promises of military support. He also continues to push allies to provide advanced fighter jets to Ukraine, but so far no country has committed to directly providing them.\n\nOnce he reaches Hiroshima he will probably try to persuade more cautious leaders to provide aid, such as Mr Kishida and Indian leader Narendra Modi.\n\n\"By showing up in person, it is a chance for him to ensure he does not come away empty-handed, and that he will head back to Kyiv his arms full with the weapons deals that he wants\", including a promise of lethal weapons from Japan, said John Kirton, director of the G7 Research Group think tank.\n\nThough Japan has been hugely sympathetic to Ukraine, its strict military laws have meant that so far it has only given non-lethal defence equipment.\n\nEarlier on Friday, G7 leaders were welcomed by Mr Kishida at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park where they laid wreaths to honour those who died in the US atomic bombing which hastened the end of World War Two.\n\nThe summit's first day ended with a statement in which member countries pledged \"new steps\" to stop the war in Ukraine and promised further sanctions to \"increase the costs to Russia and those who are supporting its war effort\".\n\nThey said they would \"starve Russia of G7 technology, industrial equipment and services that support its war machine\" and limit Russia's revenue from energy and diamond sales.\n\nSeparately, British PM Rishi Sunak told the BBC the UK would sanction the Russian diamond industry, and would target more people and companies connected to Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nIn response to what it termed \"anti-Russian\" US sanctions, the Russian foreign ministry announced its own set of sanctions on 500 US citizens, including former US President Barack Obama.\n\nThe G7 summit, which ends on Sunday, is expected to end with a communique on the war in Ukraine.", "The ICC's Karim Khan played an integral part in issuing the arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin in March\n\nThe International Criminal Court says it is \"undeterred\" by Russia putting its chief prosecutor on a wanted list.\n\nIt comes two months after the ICC's Karim Khan issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, the court said the move was an attempt to undermine its \"lawful mandate to ensure accountability for the gravest crimes\".\n\nRussia, which is not an ICC member, previously described the warrant against Mr Putin as being \"void\".\n\nMr Khan, a British lawyer, issued the arrest warrant for President Putin in March. It alleged he is responsible for war crimes, and has focused its claims on the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia.\n\nA warrant was also issued for Russia's child rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova on similar charges.\n\nMore than 16,000 children are thought to have been forcibly transferred to Russia from Ukraine since the war began, according to officials in Kyiv.\n\nThe ICC said at the time there were reasonable grounds to believe both Mr Putin and Ms Lvova-Belova bore individual criminal responsibility.\n\nThe Kremlin's investigative committee in turn announced this week that it would begin an investigation into Mr Khan for the \"criminal prosecution of a person known to be innocent\".\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, the Hague-based ICC said it was \"aware and profoundly concerned about unwarranted and unjustified coercive measures reportedly taken against ICC officials\".\n\nBranding the measures \"unacceptable\", the court said it would not be prevented from continuing to \"deliver on its independent mandate\".\n\nMr Khan is yet to comment on the action against him.\n\nMeanwhile, the special representative of the United Nations secretary-general for children and armed conflict, Virginia Gamba, came under separate scrutiny after she reportedly met with Ms Lvova-Belova in Moscow.\n\nThe Russian was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying the conversation was \"constructive and sincere\".\n\nRights groups and senior officials took issue, though, with some suggesting the meeting was inappropriate.\n\n\"Ukrainian victims deserve to see Lvova-Belova behind bars in The Hague, not meeting with high-level UN officials,\" Balkees Jarrah, associate director in the International Justice Programme at Human Rights Watch, said.\n\nLast September, Ms Lvova-Belova complained that some children removed from the city of Mariupol \"spoke badly about the [Russian President], said awful things and sang the Ukrainian anthem.\"", "Volodymyr Zelensky made a scene-stealing arrival at the G7 summit in Japan on Saturday, as world leaders issued a veiled warning to China.\n\nThe Ukrainian president arrived in Hiroshima on a French government plane, after a stopover in Saudi Arabia.\n\nHis hastily-organised visit prompted G7 leaders to issue a statement early, in which they condemned Russia.\n\nThey also warned against \"economic coercion\", which Beijing is accused of using against several countries.\n\nThis year's gathering of the world's richest democracies saw them extending invitations to several emerging economies in the so-called Global South, as well as India and Australia.\n\nTop of the agenda is the Ukraine war, and Mr Zelensky's last-minute appearance has added heft and urgency to discussions - as well as star power.\n\nHe arrived hours after Washington said it would train Ukrainian pilots on American-made F-16 fighter jets and allow allies to provide the advanced warplanes to Kyiv - a move condemned by Russia but hailed by Mr Zelensky as \"historic\".\n\nFor the previous 24 hours, a \"will he or won't he\" drama over Mr Zelensky's trip to Japan dominated the news cycle. News of his possible visit broke on Friday and stole the limelight, just as leaders visited a peace memorial park in Hiroshima.\n\nBut even as news outlets scrambled to confirm it, there were confusing signals from Ukrainian officials on whether the Ukrainian leader was coming. It was a sign that, while his visit was reportedly mooted weeks ago in chats between Mr Zelensky and Japanese PM Fumio Kishida, the final decision was made abruptly.\n\nEven his exact arrival time was shrouded in secrecy, until Japanese TV stations suddenly flashed live footage of him arriving at Hiroshima airport on a plane loaned to him by his close ally French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nMr Zelensky was brisk upon touchdown, running down the stairs into a waiting car and diving straight into one-on-one meetings with various world leaders, including British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who greeted him with a friendly \"You made it!\".\n\nNow that he is here, Mr Zelensky's presence not only adds a zing to the placid diplomatic proceedings, it overshadows them.\n\nBut it is unlikely the G7 leaders will mind. Their sanctions so far have failed to stop Russia's invasion, and Friday's pledge to \"starve\" Russia of resources for its \"war machine\" remains vague.\n\nBut with world leaders literally standing shoulder to shoulder with Mr Zelensky, the optics send a firm message to Moscow that they mean business.\n\nThe leaders also sought to deliver a message to Moscow's ally, China.\n\nBesides addressing key topics such as nuclear non-proliferation and climate change, their joint final statement talked about their commitment to the Indo-Pacific region, which they tried to demonstrate by inviting countries such as Indonesia, India and the Cook Islands.\n\nThey stressed their support of South East Asian and Pacific countries, which have been heavily wooed by Beijing, and called for a \"free and open Indo-Pacific\" - rhetoric used in the past in response to China's territorial claims in the South China Sea.\n\nMore importantly, the leaders took a strong stance against what they called \"economic coercion\" - using trade to bully other countries - and called for China to \"play by international rules\".\n\nStressing their commitment to \"economic resilience\", they vowed to take steps to \"reduce excessive dependences in our critical supply chains\" - a reference to how the G7 countries are still inextricably linked to China in trade.\n\nBut they also said they wanted \"constructive and stable relations\" with China and added that their polices were \"not designed to harm China nor do we seek to thwart China's economic progress and development\".\n\nChina on Saturday expressed \"strong dissatisfaction\" with the G7's joint statement, and complained to the summit organiser Japan, Beijing's foreign ministry said.\n\n\"The G7 insisted on manipulating China-related issues, smearing and attacking China,\" a spokesman for the foreign ministry said.\n\nThe summit will close on Sunday with Mr Zelensky, US President Joe Biden and Mr Kishida expected to speak.", "More than a million people are estimated to have been displaced since the war began\n\nA temporary ceasefire in Sudan has been agreed as fighting between two warring factions entered its sixth week.\n\nPrevious truce attempts between Sudan's regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have tended to collapse within minutes of beginning.\n\nBut the new deal will be enforced by a \"ceasefire monitoring mechanism,\" according to a US-Saudi statement.\n\nAs part of the seven-day humanitarian ceasefire, Sudanese officials have agreed to restore essential services.\n\nFighting between the two sides has plunged the country into chaos since it began last month, with more than a million people thought to have been displaced.\n\nQatar said on Saturday that its embassy in the capital Khartoum had been ransacked by \"irregular armed forces\", and it called for the perpetrators to be held accountable for the \"heinous act\".\n\nOther embassies, including Jordan's, have also been previously ransacked, along with aid warehouses of the UN.\n\nStocks of food, money and essentials have fast declined and aid groups repeatedly complained of being unable to provide sufficient assistance in Khartoum, where much of the violence has taken place.\n\nBoth the regular army and the RSF have been urged to allow the distribution of humanitarian aid, restore essential services and withdraw forces from hospitals.\n\nThe United States and Saudi Arabia, who sponsored the peace talks in Jeddah, said the ceasefire would come into effect on Monday evening.\n\nIn a statement, the US State Department acknowledged previous failed attempts at brokering peace in Sudan, but said there was a key difference this time.\n\n\"Unlike previous ceasefires, the agreement reached in Jeddah was signed by the parties and will be supported by a US-Saudi and international-supported ceasefire monitoring mechanism,\" it said, without giving more detail.\n\nTaking to Twitter, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken added: \"It is past time to silence the guns and allow unhindered humanitarian access.\n\n\"I implore both sides to uphold this agreement - the eyes of the world are watching.\"\n\nThe war broke out in Khartoum on 15 April following days of tension as members of the RSF were redeployed around the country in a move that the army saw as a threat.\n\nThere was also a power struggle between Sudan's regular army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who leads the RSF.\n\nHundreds of people have been killed in the fighting and the UN has warned of a worsening situation in Africa's third-largest country, where a huge number of people already relied on aid before the conflict.\n\nIt has been two weeks since representatives of the warring factions first gathered in the Saudi capital for peace talks.\n\nOn 11 May, both sides signed a commitment intended to lay the groundwork for humanitarian assistance in Sudan.\n\nBut earlier this week, UN aid chief Martin Griffiths told the AFP news agency there had been \"important and egregious\" violations of that agreement, which he added fell short of a ceasefire.\n\nReports of violence across the country remain rife, with strikes reported on Saturday by eyewitnesses in southern Omdurman and northern Bahri, the two cities that lie across the Nile from Khartoum.\n\nAn Omdurman resident recalled her house \"shaking\" early on Saturday as a result of \"heavy artillery fire\".\n\n\"It was terrifying, everyone was lying under their beds,\" Sanaa Hassan, a 33-year-old living in the al-Salha neighbourhood, told Reuters by phone. \"What's happening is a nightmare.\"", "\"I myself am a boomer! I'm, like, horrible!\"\n\nThere's something a bit unexpected about one of the most famous people on the planet using what's become a term of abuse about themselves instead of choreographed gushing about their latest project.\n\nBut Arnold Schwarzenegger's path in life has been unexpected, and unprecedented: celebrity bodybuilder; Hollywood action hero; Republican Party governor of California; climate campaigner.\n\nTechnically, he is indeed one of the post-war generation - the baby boomers, much mocked for not moving with the times.\n\nBut when we meet to talk at his glossy climate conference in Vienna where everything, including the hot dogs, is vegan, he teases himself to make a big point.\n\nPoliticians must move much faster, he believes, to preserve the planet for the generations to come. And Schwarzenegger's strong belief is that the technology exists to crack down on emissions but the \"boomers\" might miss the chance.\n\nThis is the man who - as governor of California - in 2006 enacted a landmark climate change bill, the California Global Warming Solutions Act, which established greenhouse gas emission targets for the state.\n\nHe told me: 'We have to change with the times. I would not want to drive, except maybe for fun, a car that is 50 years old.\n\n\"I don't want to make investments that were really cool 50 years ago - you would lose your shirt today if you made those investments. We have to change with the technology, it's as simple as that.\"\n\nAnd his message applies to environmental activists too, calling on campaigners not to try to block development as a solution to climate change, but to push for a different kind.\n\nHe said it's \"the same with the environmental movement, we have to get out of the mode of stopping every project from being built. We've got to go and build, build, build all these green projects.\" In other words, hurry up!\n\nHis challenge is exactly the question that's being put to our governments too. It's true the UK has had a decent record on renewable energy compared with other countries.\n\nEnergy Secretary Grant Shapps boasted last weekend that \"we're ahead of the game because of the level of renewables that we've got coming into our system right now\".\n\nBut there is anxiety about that progress stalling, just when the scale of what's needed becomes clear.\n\nOnly two onshore wind turbines were built in England last year, for example.\n\nThe number of heat pumps that are being installed is woefully behind its ambition - the target is for 600,000 low-carbon heat pumps to be installed every year within five years; currently it's only 50,000 - less than 10%.\n\nJust this week the world's fourth-biggest auto manufacturer Stellantis said the government's post-Brexit trade deal needed to change, otherwise it would have to reconsider building electric cars here.\n\nThe boss of the battery firm that went bust, Britishvolt, claimed the government foot-dragging was partly to blame for it going under - although that was denied by ministers.\n\nAnd National Grid, not exactly prone to hyperbole, said \"unprecedented\" and \"transformative\" change was needed right now.\n\nThe statistics they published this week about what's needed by 2030 illustrate that in a pretty jaw-dropping way. They calculate the UK needs:\n\nLabour's shadow climate change secretary Ed Miliband accuses the government of a \"failure of ambition and action\" when it comes to clean power.\n\n\"The planning ban on onshore wind alone is costing £180 for every family, and a government asleep at the wheel has allowed grid delays to grow to more than a decade,\" he says.\n\nLabour, he promises, will lift the ban on onshore wind generation and \"be builders, not blockers, for the clean power we need\".\n\nAnd when you talk to industry insiders, the frustration with the government's pace is obvious.\n\nOne source told me that \"the government isn't accelerating - it's not doing much more than was agreed at Carbis Bay\" - an international summit two years ago - even though the need is becoming more and more obvious and the conflict in Ukraine has made reliance on fossil fuels precarious in a different way.\n\nAnother, frustrated with the difference between the government's rhetoric and reality, told me Grant Shapps was \"all hat, no cattle\".\n\nThe differences are more obvious as the US has introduced an enormous plan for subsiding firms moving to use or produce green energy, the Inflation Reduction Act. And the EU has brought in its Net Zero Industry Act.\n\nFor now, the UK government is taking a very different approach.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt and Chancellor-turned-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are instinctively, and politically, not fans of that kind of intervention. Although when it comes to specific cases, they may still be prepared to act.\n\nIn fact, there are suggestions that Jeremy Hunt has offered cash incentives to Tata, the owner of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), to build a gigafactory for electric car batteries here. JLR says it hasn't been offered government money, and that decisions about the final location for the Tata factory are a matter for different European governments and Tata.\n\nLabour's plans are in contrast, inspired by what President Joe Biden has done in the US, to use billions of pounds of taxpayers' cash to stimulate green industries and create many thousands of green jobs.\n\nAs we get closer to the election the clash between the two main parties on this will only become clearer.\n\nUpping the pace of protecting the planet is obviously not as straightforward as writing a Hollywood script, or making a speech. It requires huge amounts of cash from somewhere and a reckoning with the planning system - classic material for backbench bust-ups - and political will.\n\nActing decisively on climate change is a long-term game when politicians like the sugar-rush of quick wins.\n\nPublic budgets are tight. Personal budgets in a cost of living crisis more painful still. Yet there is a political and economic risk, as well as an environmental one, to governments that fall behind.\n\nAt 75, self-professed \"boomer\" Arnold Schwarzenegger says: \"Sometimes I'm not with the programme when it comes to technology.\n\n\"Luckily, I have kids that kind of remind me all the time 'daddy, you're so old fashioned, come on, get out of it…' I have somebody that pushes me away from that old-fashioned way.\"\n\nPoliticians can't afford to fall out of fashion or voters may push them out of the way.\n\nClarification 21 May: this article has been updated to make clear that reports suggest the government has offered cash incentives to Tata, not to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), for a UK gigafactory. JLR says it hasn't been offered government money.", "It took months for Serena's housing association to remove the mushrooms from the ceiling\n\nA mum of three says she \"doesn't know what to do any more\" as she has had to live for two years with mushrooms growing out of cracks in her ceiling.\n\nSerena, from Hackney, told the BBC there had been a stream of problems in her flat for over 10 years.\n\nShe says the housing association, Peabody, has \"left her and her sons in this condition without a care\".\n\nA Peabody spokesperson said: \"We are sorry for the time it has taken to fully resolve the issues raised.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"We understand that the situation is frustrating, and we will be inspecting the building and looking at what more we can do to stop the problems from reoccurring.\n\nSerena, a key worker in the NHS during the pandemic, said the cracks in her flat's ceiling and walls had been getting progressively worse.\n\n\"At one point we had mushrooms growing out the ceiling, leaks in the bedroom and corridor, and water-flies everywhere.\n\n\"Now there's a huge crack running from the floor to the ceiling in my son's bedroom - it's clear there are subsidence issues, but Peabody won't acknowledge the problem.\"\n\nThe walls in Serena's son's bedroom are water-damaged and have multiple large cracks\n\nShe added: \"My home is meant to be a place of comfort where me and my family can be at ease.\n\n\"I don't feel safe in my own home any more.\"\n\nSerena says Peabody has sealed the cracks in the ceiling over 10 times since she's been in the property, but the problem continues.\n\n\"It takes months, if not years, to get someone from the housing association to look at the problem.\n\n\"They aren't interested in the underlying problems of subsidence, they just plaster over the cracks and then disappear again.\n\n\"When they investigated the mushrooms, they just pulled them out of the ceiling and gave me £300 in compensation.\n\n\"No one has ever issued me with an apology or acknowledged my request to be moved out of the property.\"\n\nIt's not just the physical impact of the problem that is taking a toll on Serena and her family, it's also mental.\n\nSerena is worried about the mental health of her son who has to sleep under the cracks\n\n\"My son has stopped sleeping in his bedroom because he's scared the ceiling might collapse on him.\n\n\"He feels like his own bedroom is like a prison.\n\n\"This is having a huge impact on his health and wellbeing.\"\n\nHackney councillor and the Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, Zoe Garbett, told the BBC she was \"really shocked when I found out about the mushrooms growing on the wall of Serena's home; no-one should have to live in these conditions.\n\n\"Too many people live in substandard housing. Landlords including housing associations need to listen to residents about the situations they are living in and find and fix the root cause of problems.\"\n\nSerena says she is sure that there are subsidence issues that make the flat unsafe to live in\n\nA spokesperson for Peabody said: \"We have paid compensation to the resident by way of apology for the delays.\n\n\"There are some outstanding repairs still to do and we have agreed with the resident that we will complete them by mid-June.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "At this week's summit, G7 leaders made clear to Beijing their stances on issues including the Indo-Pacific and Taiwan\n\nAs the G7 leaders sent a strong message to Russia by inviting Volodymyr Zelensky to Hiroshima, another rival was also on their minds - China.\n\nBritish Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said China posed \"the greatest challenge of our age\" in regards to global security and prosperity, and that it was \"increasingly authoritarian at home and abroad\".\n\nAnd in not one but two statements, the leaders of the world's richest democracies made clear to Beijing their stance on divisive issues such as the Indo-Pacific and Taiwan. But the most important part of their message centred on what they called \"economic coercion\".\n\nIt's a tricky balancing act for the G7. Through trade their economies have become inextricably dependent on China, but competition with Beijing has increased and they disagree on many issues including human rights.\n\nNow, they worry they are being held hostage.\n\nIn recent years, Beijing has been unafraid to slap trade sanctions on countries that have displeased them. This includes South Korea, when Seoul installed a US missile defence system, and Australia during a recent period of chilly relations.\n\nThe European Union was particularly alarmed when China blocked Lithuanian exports after the Baltic country allowed Taiwan to set up a de facto embassy there.\n\nSo it is unsurprising that the G7 would condemn what they see as a \"disturbing rise\" of the \"weaponisation of economic vulnerabilities\".\n\nThis coercion, they said, seeks to \"undermine the foreign and domestic policies and positions of G7 members as well as partners around the world\".\n\nThey called for \"de-risking\"- a policy that Ms von der Leyen, who is attending the summit, has championed. This is a more moderate version of the US' idea of \"decoupling\" from China, where they would talk tougher in diplomacy, diversify trade sources, and protect trade and technology.\n\nThey have also launched a \"coordination platform\" to counter the coercion and work with emerging economies. While it's still vague on how this would work exactly, we're likely to see countries helping each other out by increasing trade or funding to work around any blockages put up by China.\n\nThe G7 also plans to strengthen supply chains for important goods such as minerals and semiconductors, and beef up digital infrastructure to prevent hacking and stealing of technology.\n\nBut the biggest stick they plan to wield is multilateral export controls. This means working together to ensure their technologies, particularly those used in military and intelligence, don't end up in the hands of \"malicious actors\" .\n\nThe US is already doing this with its ban on exports of chips and chip technology to China, which Japan and the Netherlands have joined. The G7 is making clear such efforts would not only continue, but ramp up, despite Beijing's protestations.\n\nThey also said they would continue to crack down on the \"inappropriate transfers\" of technology shared through research activities. The US and many other countries have been concerned about industrial espionage and have jailed people accused of stealing tech secrets for China.\n\nAt the same time, the G7 leaders were clear they did not want to sever the cord.\n\nMuch of their language on economic coercion did not name China, in an apparent diplomatic attempt to not directly point a finger at Beijing.\n\nWhen they did talk about China, they stood their ground in a nuanced way.\n\nThey sought to placate Beijing, saying their policies were \"not designed to harm China nor do we seek to thwart China's economic progress and development\". They were \"not decoupling or turning inwards\".\n\nBut they also put pressure on the Chinese to cooperate, saying that a \"growing China that plays by international rules would be of global interest\".\n\nThey also called for \"candid\" engagement where they could still express their concerns directly to China, signalling their willingness to keep communication lines open in a tense atmosphere.\n\nWe won't know how, privately, Chinese leaders and diplomats will take the G7's message. But state media in the past has hit back at the West for trying to have it both ways, by criticising China while also enjoying the fruits of their economic partnership.\n\nFor now Beijing has chosen to fall back on its usual angry rhetoric for its public response.\n\nAs the G7 summit kicked off, China hosted a parallel meeting with Central Asian countries\n\nChina had clearly anticipated the G7's statements and in the days leading up to the summit, its state media and embassies put out pieces accusing the US of its own economic coercion and hypocrisy.\n\nOn Saturday evening, they accused the G7 of \"smearing and attacking\" China and lodged a complaint with summit organiser Japan.\n\nThey also urged the other G7 countries not to become the US' \"accomplice in economic coercion\", and called on them to \"stop ganging up to form exclusive blocs\" and \"containing and bludgeoning other countries\".\n\nIt is worth noting that China has also sought to create its own alliances with other countries, and late last week just as the G7 summit kicked off, it hosted a parallel meeting with Central Asian countries.\n\nIt's still not clear if the G7's plan will work. But it is likely to be welcomed by those who have called for a clear strategy to handle China's encroachments.\n\nIndo-Pacific and China expert Andrew Small praised the statement as having \"the feel of a real consensus\", noting that it expressed the \"centre-ground\" view of the G7.\n\n\"There are still major debates playing out around what 'de-risking' actually means, how far some of the sensitive technology export restrictions should go, and what sort of collective measures need to be taken against economic coercion,\" said Dr Small, a senior transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund think tank.\n\n\"But there is now a clear and explicit framing around how the economic relationships with China among the advanced industrial economies need to be rebalanced.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City celebrated a third successive Premier League title triumph with victory over Chelsea in a relaxed party atmosphere at Etihad Stadium.\n\nCity were confirmed as champions without even playing after Nottingham Forest's win against Arsenal on Saturday, allowing manager Pep Guardiola to make nine changes from the side that thrashed Real Madrid to reach the Champions League final.\n\nErling Haaland was rested but Julian Alvarez provided the cutting edge in his absence with a clinical finish to put City ahead after 12 minutes, as their jubilant fans basked in warm sunshine waiting for the trophy presentations and celebrations.\n\nChelsea had some of the better chances as the game went on, with City's deputy keeper Stefan Ortega saving from Raheem Sterling when clean through and Conor Gallagher heading against the post.\n\nKalvin Phillips headed against the woodwork for City as they closed out another win in the relentless run that has brought them the title and the chance of a Treble, with the FA Cup final at Wembley and Champions League final in Istanbul to come.\n• None All the reaction to Sunday's games\n• None 'Man City are two games away from immortality'\n\nThe hosts played with the pressure off after the title was secured and manager Guardiola was able to give members of his shadow squad game time on an occasion where most fans were simply waiting for the final whistle to hail their heroes.\n\nGuardiola's selection gave an illustration of the vast resources of talent he has at his disposal with simply a glance at City's substitutes' bench.\n\nHaaland, Kevin de Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan, John Stones, Jack Grealish, Rodri, Bernardo Silva, Ruben Dias and goalkeeper Ederson were not included from the start.\n\nHas there ever been a more talented bench than that one?\n\nThey are all likely to be restored when those two big finals come around but it was a demonstration, if indeed it were needed, of what other teams must overcome if they are to loosen the stranglehold City have domestically and which now gives them the chance of their first Champions League.\n\nGoalscorer Alvarez may have worked in Haaland's shadow for much of the season but what an acquisition he has been and what a season he has had, with the chance to add the Treble to his World Cup win with Argentina.\n\nThe Premier League is Manchester City's once more - now it is on to Wembley and Istanbul.\n\nChelsea must be ready for reset\n\nChelsea may have had some decent chances here and only lost by a single goal to the newly crowned champions, but they carry all the appearance of a team and club that cannot wait for an abject and miserable season to end.\n\nFrank Lampard is seeing out time on the touchline before making his second departure as manager, while Chelsea's players await the arrival of incoming Mauricio Pochettino to discover what the future has in store.\n\nThere is talent within this squad but they, and Chelsea as a club, have lacked direction under the new co-ownership of Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali and now it is time to start getting the big decisions right.\n\nPochettino will enter Stamford Bridge with the bar set low but there are materials to work with, providing he is allowed to do it his way, while his intense attacking style could fashion this into a quality team given time.\n\nFor now, however, Chelsea must complete the formalities of a desperate campaign that sees them currently in 12th place, and deservedly so.\n• None Go straight to the best Chelsea content\n• None Attempt missed. Trevoh Chalobah (Chelsea) header from the left side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Mykhailo Mudryk with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Mykhailo Mudryk (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Carney Chukwuemeka.\n• None Attempt missed. Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Cole Palmer (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by John Stones. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 May.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nRise and shine: \"I took this photo of my partner Catrina Imray at sunrise from the summit of Beinn a'Chrùlaiste, Glencoe,\" says Daniel Warren. \"An incredible cloud inversion.\"\n\nA touching gesture: \"Two gannets in an archetypal pose,\" says Jacki Gordon at Bass Rock.\n\n\"I had a morning job to do in Kinghorn and managed to grab this beautiful sunrise over the bluebells before I started,\" says John Pow who took this picture.\n\n\"Found this deer on the edge of a rapeseed field in the Carse of Gowrie,\" says Peter Wilkinson of this wonderful photograph.\n\nYvonne Macfarlane took this calming picture at Inverkip just before the weather cleared.\n\n\"An athlete running out the haar into the sunlight on the Kintyre Way Ultra,\" says William Halliday.\n\n\"This squirrel seemed to stop and enjoy the aroma as it approached the peanut feeder on the bird table,\" says Iain MacDiarmid. \"Taken in our back garden at Drumnadrochit.\"\n\nCherry picker: \"I loved how these petals landed amongst the roots of the tree in a street in Perth,\" says Valerie Pegler.\n\nTop dog: Coco trekked up Lochnagar on a glorious day for a majestic view alongside Gillian Thomson and son Andrew.\n\n\"Makes my day when I see a kingfisher, even better when she poses for me,\" says George Kelsey of this superb shot at the Water of Leith in Edinburgh.\n\nWaiting for the weather to clear on Suilven in Sutherland, says Stan Arnaud.\n\nThis lovely swan family action shot is from Katie Paton at Figgate Park in Edinburgh. \"I call this 'look at me mum',\" she says.\n\nPuffin to see here: A contemplative moment captured by Craig Lambert at Isle of May.\n\nMoving moment: \"Taken through the window of our motorhome while traveling on the road home to Perth,\" says Brian Johnston of this shot of Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe.\n\n\"On holiday in Orkney from Lancashire, we went to the Brough of Birsay where I caught this picture of a shag standing watch from a cliff, maybe looking for his dinner,\" says Stephan Devine.\n\nCycle path: \"An image of my gravel bike descent into Glen Feshie,\" says Alan Maclennan. \"This was part of a ride from Aviemore, taking in the new gravel road between Glen Tromie and Glen Feshie.\"\n\nWhale of a time: \"This is a photo I took of the orca bull #34 of the 27s pod (which featured on David Attenborough’s Wild Isles) who gave us a close encounter at St Mary’s Pier in Orkney,\" says Lucy Dobbs.\n\nWell spotted: \"My 12-year-old daughter Edie snapped this photo of a ladybird at our allotment,\" says Aileen Snowden at Newport on Tay.\n\nDouglas Coutts and Margaret-Anne Wilson silhouetted at their wedding, courtesy of Matty Pearce at Lossiemouth East Beach.\n\nThe eyes have it: \"I was up at Troup Head gannet colony,\" says Colin Denholm. \"They do give you a good hard stare if they catch you looking.\"\n\nHigh tea: \"An Exmoor pony grazing beside the Act of Union beech trees that were planted in 1707 on North Berwick Law,\" says Sylvia Beaumont.\n\nQuite a mouthful: Jan Graham spotted this bird ready to feed some newborns at Eden Estuary Centre, Guardbridge, Fife.\n\nPeak viewing: \"This picture is from the summit of Goatfell on Arran, Ailsa Craig in the far distance,\" says Donnie Mathers. \"Six friends, all senior citizens, spent the week walking and socialising. George, pointing out landmarks, first scaled the peak 60 years ago. The six friends live in various parts of the UK ranging from the Highlands to Shropshire.\"\n\n\"This photograph was taken by my daughter Cara, aged 13, in a park in Aberdeen,\" says Andy Freeman. \"She and her friend spent ages waiting for it to settle long enough to allow them to get close. Worth the wait!\"\n\nHat trick: Not the usual traffic cone on the Duke of Wellington statue in Glasgow, spotted by John Dyer.\n\nChain gang: \"A pair of returning swallows taking a well-earned rest,\" says Steven Neish in Dundee.\n\nWoolly jumper: Bryan Wark spotted this lamb admiring the view after scaling a height in Greenock.\n\nRapeseed near St Andrews in an eye-catching image featuring greens, yellows and blues, from John Watson.\n\nLove is in the air: These swans in Victoria Park in Glasgow captured the heart, as seen by Rosie McGeachan.\n\nHouse call: \"Enjoyed an afternoon at Covesea Lighthouse near Lossiemouth,\" says Danny McCafferty.\n\nFirmly planted: Dave Harrower spotted this deer looking settled in an old boat at St Fillans, says daughter Lisa.\n\n\"This tawny owl was enjoying some Spring sunshine in Milton of Campsie,\" says Sarah Thurlbeck.\n\n\"This multi-storey cluster caught my eye on a walk through Craiglockhart woods in Edinburgh,\" says Mike Andrew.\n\nUnpheasant company: \"I took this picture of two pheasants scrapping with each other from the approach road to Muirshiel Country Park,\" says Ken Ramsay.\n\nGarlic spread: \"Wild garlic and bluebells covering the forest floor at Dalkeith Country Park,\" says Huw Rees Lewis.\n\nSwanning around: \"Daisy, aged 11, took this photo whilst walking by Carlingwalk Loch, Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway,\" says Charlotte Taylor. \"It was a lovely sunny evening and her grandma's birthday.\"\n\nWalkies? Millie's thoughts seemed clear at the door in Newburgh, Fife, according to Ben Guthrie.\n\nHello deer: \"A roe deer in amongst the gorse on Perwinnes Moss, Aberdeen,\" says Norval Strachan.\n\nNeigh better feeling: \"I’m so proud of my daughter Millie Boo who won her Riding for the Disabled (RDA) regional qualifier in Glasgow,\" says Steven Smith of this photo with Jake the horse who smiling Millie Boo rode. \"She has cerebral palsy and bilateral hearing loss. She will now attend the RDA National Championships in Gloucester. I think the photo says it all. It captured her feelings.\"\n\nFlower power: \"Bluebells in full bloom at Tornagrain, Inverness-shire,\" says Kirsten Ferguson.\n\nPuppy love: \"My daughter Eva, 16, took this photo of our new puppy, Frank, the miniature dachshund,\" says Stuart Mackinnon in Troon.\n\nIn a spot of bother? \"This cheetah was sleeping as we approached the enclosure and despite our best attempts to be quiet the noise from the gravel path woke him,\" says Mike Tolmie at Five Sisters Zoo in West Calder. \"I think the expression tells you exactly what he thought.\"\n\nOn the right path: \"Managed to capture this beautiful sky on whilst walking the dog at Brodick, Isle of Arran,\" says Fee Proctor.\n\n\"The Milky Way over Arbroath cliffs,\" says Nick MacIvor of this awe-inspiring view.\n\nDriving at night: The scene at Abernethy Golf Club, courtesy of Lucie Bush who too this image of husband David.\n\n\"Walking home after a lovely fish and chip supper in Oban I saw this incredible sunset,\" says Ross Tetlow.\n\nCatching some sun: \"I headed down to Ayr beach in the hope of a decent sunset and managed to capture what looks like a seagull taking the sun in its beak,\" says Claire McIntosh. \"There's always something quite serene whilst watching the sun setting, it brings an inner peace and each sunset is always different to the last, a beauty I hope to never tire of.\"\n\nThe view of this long and winding road persuaded Alex Mackintosh to pull over. \"We had visitors staying and we took them to Gairloch. On the way home we saw this sunset. It was one of those 'we need to stop and take a picture' moments!\"\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Labour would give people greater choice over where they receive hospital treatment, the shadow health secretary has pledged.\n\nWes Streeting said organising waiting lists by region would give patients more freedom and help tackle backlogs.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to commit to delivering the idea across England during a speech on Monday.\n\nThe address is also expected to include new pledges on NHS targets.\n\nIt will be the third in a series of speeches he is making on Labour's five \"missions\" for government if it wins power. These missions are likely to form the backbone of the party's manifesto at the next general election, expected in 2024.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Streeting said organising waiting lists on a regional basis would give patients \"real choice\" over where they are seen.\n\nThe party says this would allow patients to get treatment more quickly if queues are shorter at nearby hospitals.\n\nUnder Labour's plan, it is understood that waiting lists would be shared across integrated care systems - coalitions of several neighbouring NHS trusts that usually cover populations of between 500,000 and 3 million people.\n\nPatients already have some rights to choose where they receive non-urgent care under NHS England's constitution, but the party sees this option as under-used.\n\nIn his BBC interview, Mr Streeting said many patients were unaware about their rights to choice over treatment, or don't \"feel the freedom to exercise that choice\".\n\nHe said that a trial in West Yorkshire, where NHS trusts are sharing waiting lists for conditions affecting blood vessels, showed the approach worked.\n\nThe change would also \"build more capacity in the system\", he added, to help tackle waiting lists that have ballooned since the pandemic.\n\nElsewhere, Mr Streeting said Labour also wanted to see a greater share of NHS spending outside of hospitals to tackle health problems earlier.\n\nHe said that the proportions of spending were \"very different\" in other developed economies that have \"much better outcomes than we have here in the UK\".\n\n\"We under invest in primary care, community services, mental health, diagnostics, and capital, and we've got to shift that focus,\" he added.\n\n\"Lots of hospital trust leaders are already doing this. They recognise that the pressure we see in hospitals is in part driven by the clogged front door to the NHS in primary care and community services as well as delayed discharges in social care.\"\n\nSpeaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, former Tory chairman Sir Jake Berry rubbished Labour's approach, saying the party was aiming to \"do more of what the Conservative government is already doing\".\n\nThe government says it wants to boost community NHS services. It recently announced plans to let high street pharmacies prescribe a greater range of common prescription drugs, including antibiotics, to ease the pressure on GPs.\n\nAnd as part of efforts to cut waiting lists, ministers say new community \"diagnostic centres\" opening this year will allow people to access checks and scans for conditions such as cancer, heart disease or lung disease without travelling to a hospital.\n\nLabour does not want to make multiple expensive promises. But it might be tricky to translate its ambitions into concrete plans that the public believe will make an immediate difference - and getting voters excited about structural changes to the NHS might be a tall order.\n\nMr Streeting also confirmed that a review of social care policy carried out for the party will be published next month.\n\nThe report, by a Labour-affiliated think tank, is expected to inform the party's position on social care ahead of the next election.\n\nHe did not offer details of what will be in the blueprint, but said Labour has previously stressed the need to improve pay in the sector, as well supporting people more in their own homes.", "A defiant Volodymyr Zelensky has insisted Bakhmut \"is not occupied\" by Russia after a Moscow-backed mercenary group had claimed control.\n\nUkraine's president was speaking during a scene-stealing visit to Hiroshima, Japan, for the G7 summit.\n\nBut Ukrainian military sources told the BBC they still had control of a handful of buildings on the outskirts of the city.\n\nAt a press conference on the final day of the summit, Mr Zelensky refused to provide precise details. But he said the city, where the war's longest and bloodiest battle has raged since August, was \"not occupied\" by Russia \"as of today\".\n\n\"There are no two or three interpretations of those words,\" he added, after earlier confusion about his remarks on the status of the city.\n\nIt was in a video posted on Saturday that Wagner's Mr Prigozhin claimed his fighters - who have led the Russian assault on Bakhmut - were in full control of the city.\n\nMr Zelensky compared Bakhmut to Hiroshima, which was hit by an atomic bomb in World War Two, promising a similar \"reconstruction\" of his country.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, he visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida - whose relatives died when the United States dropped the bomb on the city in 1945.\n\nMr Zelensky laid a wreath for those who were killed in the attack.\n\nOn Sunday, Zelensky and Japanesee PM Fumio Kishida visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park\n\nAfter a meeting with Mr Kishida, he strode into an auditorium at the peace park to speak to reporters.\n\nAs he entered, one journalist shouted from the back of the room: \"Slava Ukraini\" (glory to Ukraine). Mr Zelensky nodded to acknowledge her.\n\nHe drew several parallels between Hiroshima and Ukraine, saying that pictures of the Japanese city in ruins after bombing reminded him of present-day Bakhmut. He vowed there would be a similar \"reconstruction and recovery\" of Ukraine.\n\n\"Now Hiroshima has rebuilt their city, and we dream of rebuilding our cities,\" he said.\n\nThere had earlier been some confusion about the status of Bakhmut, after Mr Zelensky said \"today Bakhmut is only in our hearts\".\n\nHis office later clarified that he had not said that the city had fallen.\n\nBut Russian fighters at least control most of Bakhmut. Wagner mercenaries have concentrated their efforts there for months, and their relentless, costly tactic of sending in waves of men seems to have gradually eroded Kyiv's resistance.\n\nUkrainian forces have resisted calls for a tactical withdrawal to this point, but say that if they did pull out it would be a \"Pyrrhic victory\" for the Russians.\n\nMr Zelensky also alluded to his troops continuing to carry out \"important work\" in the area.\n\nThe commander of Ukraine's ground forces later said Kyiv's forces were making advances on the outskirts of Bakhmut and were getting closer to a \"tactical encirclement\" of the city.\n\nGen Oleksandr Syrskyi added that he had visited troops on the frontline.\n\nThe Institute for the Study of War (ISW) appeared to corroborate Gen Syrskyi's claims, writing in a ground report that \"geolocated footage\" showed a Ukrainian brigade \"striking unspecified Russian forces south of Klishchiivka, 7km south-west of Bakhmut\".\n\nAnalysts say the city is of little strategic value to Moscow, but its capture would be a symbolic victory for Russia after the longest battle of the war in Ukraine so far.\n\nHowever, when Russia fought fiercely to claim the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk last summer, Ukraine soon reclaimed swathes of territory elsewhere.\n\nIt will no doubt be hoping to use a similar strategy for an anticipated counter-offensive this year.\n\nIn a separate piece of analysis, the ISW said Wagner had only been able to continue its sustained attack on Bakhmut City after \"Russian regular forces\" took responsibility for the flanks.\n\nIf Mr Prigozhin, Wagner's leader, sticks to his word and withdraws his forces from Bakhmut in the coming days, \"Russian conventional forces will be even more unlikely to pursue [other] offensive operations,\" the ISW added.\n\nThe war in Ukraine has dominated the three-day summit of G7 leaders in Japan, with Mr Zelensky meeting with several world leaders to lobby for more support.\n\nHis persistence paid off. At the summit, the US announced it would allow its Western allies to supply Ukraine with advanced fighter jets, including American-made F-16s.\n\nHowever, as yet no country has committed to supplying the jets to Ukraine.\n\nAsked by the BBC how confident he was about getting F-16s from his allies, Mr Zelensky said: \"We will be working on that, I'm sure… I cannot tell you how many - this is not a secret, we really don't know.\"\n\nThe BBC also asked him when his delayed spring counter-offensive would begin.\n\n\"Russia will feel when we have a counter-offensive,\" he replied.\n• None Defending the last Ukrainian streets in Bakhmut", "Susan Hart's daughters said she had been showing signs of dementia\n\nA grandmother who went missing on holiday on a Greek island three weeks ago has been found dead in a remote area.\n\nSusan Hart, 74, from Bath, was in Telendos with her husband, Ed, when she disappeared on 30 April.\n\nMrs Hart could not be found after her husband went rock climbing while she planned to read a book.\n\nHer daughter Ruth Landale said she was identified by her stepfather and the family were heartbroken.\n\nMs Landale said they were now waiting for her body to be repatriated to Switzerland where she was living.\n\nA post-mortem examination is expected to be carried out in Greece.\n\nMrs Hart has three daughters who grew up in Bath but now live in Canada, Australia and London with their young families.\n\nMs Landale said her mother had been showing symptoms of dementia over the last few years, but had not yet received a diagnosis.\n\n\"It's been a stressful and distressing time for the whole family,\" she said.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman confirmed staff were providing consular assistance to the family and were in contact with local authorities.\n\nThe BBC has asked police in Greece to comment.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "And that's a wrap on our 2023 local election coverage.\n\nAfter two days of counting across 11 councils all 462 seats have now been filled.\n\nIf you're still up, thanks for sticking with us.\n\nThere will be plenty of news and analysis across TV, radio and online from tomorrow morning, including an hour-long special of the Sunday Politics on BBC One at 10:00 BST.\n\nBut for now, we're off to bed. Goodnight.", "Police are investigating an allegation of sexual assault made against former SNP council leader Jordan Linden.\n\nMr Linden stepped down from North Lanarkshire Council and left the party earlier this year.\n\nThe Sunday Mail reported that five men have made allegations regarding the former leader, with two speaking to detectives.\n\nMr Linden told the newspaper he did not accept the allegations which had been made against him.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"Officers are investigating a report of a sexual assault incident having taken place in 2017. Inquiries are at an early stage and ongoing.\"\n\nMr Linden stepped down as council leader in July last year amid accusations of groping and sexual harassment, leading to the collapse of his party's administration.\n\nThe ex-SNP politician then quit the council in March after fresh claims of misconduct, dating back to 2015.\n\nAt the time, Mr Linden said he refuted the allegations and vowed to \"robustly\" defend himself.\n\nSeveral councillors have since left the SNP's group in North Lanarkshire to sit as independents.\n\nOn Saturday, SNP leader and first minister Humza Yousaf was campaigning in Bellshill ahead of a by-election triggered by Mr Linden's resignation from the council.\n\nHe said the party would investigate how it handled complaints regarding Mr Linden and admitted the SNP's issues in the area \"could have been handled better\".\n\nMr Yousaf added: \"We're absolutely holding our hands up - I, as first minister and leader of the party, say that things of course could have been handled better.\n\n\"That's why we'll do the investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sunak at G7: Russia must \"pay a price\" for illegal Ukraine invasion\n\nRishi Sunak has said he wants to ensure \"Russia pays a price\" for the war in Ukraine, after announcing new sanctions targeting Russian exports.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Chris Mason at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, the prime minister said he was leading the way with new sanctions on Russia.\n\nHe said he hoped other countries would follow suit.\n\nRussian diamond imports to the UK are among the items that will be banned by the government.\n\nThe Russian diamond industry was worth $4bn (£3.2bn) in exports in 2021.\n\nRussian-origin copper, aluminium and nickel imports will also be blocked, under legislation to be introduced later this year.\n\n\"We believe in democracy, freedom, the rule of law - and it's right that we stand up for those things,\" Mr Sunak told the BBC.\n\nUK PM Rishi Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, arriving in Tokyo ahead of the G7 summit\n\n\"I'm hopeful and confident that our partner countries will follow as they have done when we've done this previously.\n\n\"That will make the sanctions more effective, ensure that Russia pays a price for its illegal activity.\"\n\nThe UK government said it was also planning to target 86 more people and companies connected to President Vladimir Putin, including people who were \"actively undermining the impact of existing sanctions\".\n\nSince Russia's attack on Ukraine, the UK has targeted more than 1,500 individuals and entities and frozen more than £18bn assets under the sanctions regime.\n\nLast year the UK, US, Canada and Japan banned imports of Russian gold in an effort to hit the country's ability to fund the war in Ukraine.\n\nDowning Street said more than 60% of President Putin's war chest has been \"immobilised\" - worth about £275bn.\n\nBoth the US and the EU have announced similar sanctions on Russia - with US President Joe Biden setting out plans to ban Russian diamonds, seafood and vodka last year.\n\nThe President of the European Council, Charles Michel, says the EU also wants to restrict trade in Russian diamonds to try to further isolate Moscow.\n\nDiamonds extracted from the Yakutia region by Russian mining company Alrosas Dynasty\n\nMr Sunak is in Hiroshima for the G7 summit, which is made up of the UK, Japan, Italy, Canada, France, the US and Germany.\n\nThe prime minister visited the Hiroshima Peace Park, the site where the US dropped the first nuclear bomb, alongside other G7 leaders before the meeting, where the Ukraine war and economic security are likely to be high on the agenda.\n\nRussia has significantly increased the frequency of its missile attacks on Ukraine recently, while Ukraine appears to be shooting down more of Russia's missiles.\n\nAt the meeting, Mr Sunak is expected to warn other world leaders \"against complacency in defending our values and standing up to autocratic regimes\".\n\nOn Sunday, he will meet the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, who is attending the G7 summit as a guest.\n\nMr Modi has remained neutral on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, calling for peaceful dialogue to end the conflict.\n\nMr Sunak told reporters travelling with him in Japan that he had seen \"positive\" steps from India in its stance on the war.\n\nThe prime minister said the sanctions demonstrated the G7 was unified in the face of the threat from Russia.\n\nHe said: \"We are meeting today in Hiroshima, a city that exemplifies both the horrors of war and the dividends of peace.\n\n\"We must redouble our efforts to defend the values of freedom, democracy and tolerance, both in Ukraine and here in the Indo-Pacific.\"", "Kyriakos Mitsotakis made clear he wanted to govern without the involvement of other parties\n\nGreece's conservative prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has won national elections, hailing his party's big victory as a \"political earthquake\".\n\nHis centre-right New Democracy party were heading for almost 41% of the vote, five seats short of a majority.\n\nHis centre-left rival Alexis Tsipras congratulated him, with his Syriza party set for a poor result of 20%.\n\nMr Mitsotakis said the result showed that Greeks had given his party a mandate for a four-year government.\n\n\"The people wanted the choice of a Greece run by a majority government and by New Democracy without the help of others,\" he said in a victory speech.\n\nHours earlier party supporters in Athens cheered as an exit poll indicated the unexpected scale of New Democracy's victory. As results emerged, it was clear that pre-election polls had underestimated the 20-point margin between the two main parties.\n\nMr Mitsotakis's party won 146 seats, five seats short of the 151 required for a majority. An interior ministry vote map showed all but one of Greece's electoral districts coloured in New Democracy blue.\n\nThe prime minister's remarks were taken as indication that he would not look to share power with another party but go for a second election in late June, when the winning party picks up bonus seats.\n\nGreek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou will offer him a mandate to form a coalition, which he is likely to refuse. She will then pass it to the next two parties, and if that fails she will arrange a caretaker government until new elections.\n\nThe result was an immense setback for Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras, who described his party's performance as \"extremely negative\". He came to power in 2015 campaigning against the austerity of international bailouts, but ultimately agreed to creditors' demands.\n\nThe centre-right has governed Greece for the past four years, and can boast that the country's growth last year was close to 6%.\n\nMr Mitsotakis's pitch to the nation was that only he could be trusted to steer the Greek economy forward and consolidate recent growth. Greeks appear to have responded positively - more than expected.\n\nGiorgos Adamopoulos, 47, voted for New Democracy a few hundred metres from the Acropolis in Athens.\n\nGreece deserved a better form of politics, he told the BBC, but he backed Mr Mitsotakis because he was impressed with his record after four years as prime minister.\n\nI think that he has a plan. In all my years of voting, it was the first time that I saw someone where with 80% of what he said, he did it\n\nFour years ago winning 41% of the vote would have been enough to secure a majority in Greece's 300-seat parliament.\n\nNow it requires more than 45%, because the winning party is no longer entitled to a 50-seat bonus in the first round, making a re-run more likely.\n\nMr Mitsotakis will have his eye on the extra seats he would be entitled to if he won the second election. An outright majority would give him four years in power with a cabinet of his choice.\n\nIf he were to seek coalition talks, then Syriza's socialist rival Pasok would be a potential partner, as one of the election's big winners with 11.5% of the vote.\n\nBut that would prove tricky as Pasok leader Nikos Androulakis was the target of a wiretap scandal last year.\n\nIt led to the resignations of a nephew of Mr Mitsotakis, who was working as the prime minister's chief of staff, and also of the head of Greek intelligence.\n\nMr Androulakis believes the prime minister was aware he was one of the dozens of people targeted with illegal spyware.\n\nMr Mitsotakis comes from one of Greece's most powerful political dynasties.\n\nHis father Konstantinos Mitsotakis was himself prime minister in the early 1990s; his sister Dora Bakoyannis was foreign minister and her son Kostas Bakoyannis is the current mayor of Athens.\n\nIn the end a rail tragedy in February that overshadowed the election campaign played no obvious role in the result.\n\nFifty-seven people died in the disaster, many of them students. Opposition parties highlighted the tragedy as a symptom of a dysfunctional state pared down to the bone after years of economic crisis and under-investment.\n\nGreeks have the right to vote from the age of 17, and an initial analysis of voting by Greek TV suggested that 31.5% of voters aged 17-24 backed ND, almost three points higher than Syriza.\n\nFirst-time voters Chrysanthi and Vaggelis, both 18, voted for Syriza because their generation wanted \"something new, something different\".\n\nI think everyone deserves a second chance. [Tsipras] only had four years\n\nOther than Pasok, the communist KKE party also increased their share of the vote.\n\nBut another casualty was former Syriza finance minister Yannis Varoufakis, whose MeRA25 party failed to qualify for parliament.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City have been crowned Premier League champions for the third successive season after title rivals Arsenal lost at Nottingham Forest.\n\nThe Gunners, top for the majority of the campaign, are four points behind City with only one game left to play after being beaten 1-0 on Saturday.\n\nPep Guardiola's side have won the title in five of the past six campaigns.\n\nThey also have a chance to claim the Treble, with FA Cup and Champions League finals to come next month.\n\nOnly Manchester United, in 1998-99, have previously achieved that feat - and it is their derby rivals whom City will meet at Wembley on 3 June, before facing Inter Milan a week later in Istanbul, where they will hunt a first Champions League triumph.\n\nCity will lift the trophy after they play Chelsea on Sunday (16:00 BST).\n\nCaptain Ilkay Gundogan - who has scored four goals in the past two league games - said: \"The Premier League is without doubt the most demanding and competitive league in the world, so that tells you everything about what an achievement this is.\n\n\"To have won this trophy three times in a row and five times in six years is incredible. That quality and consistency helps sum up what Manchester City stand for and ensures the club will continue to strive for success going forward.\n\n\"It has been a season I will never forget.\"\n\nCity, champions for a ninth time in the club's history, had trailed Arsenal by eight points on 7 April, although they had played one game fewer than Mikel Arteta's leaders at that point.\n\nIt is only the fourth time that a team has been as many as eight points clear after at least 28 Premier League games and failed to win the title.\n\nOnly one team has ever had 69 points with 10 games remaining - as Arsenal did - and failed to win the title. That was Liverpool in 2018-19, when they finished on 97 points, one behind City.\n\nBut City have won 11 league games in a row - and dropped just two points from a possible 42 - to overhaul Arsenal and clinch the title with three games remaining.\n\n\"Arsenal have pushed us right to the limit,\" said full-back Kyle Walker. \"They've been fantastic and full credit to them, but I think we just went on an incredible run, and we've managed to end up where we have now. They've had a few hiccups and we've managed to capitalise on that.\n\n\"It's the players we've got. We're a bunch of lads who have achieved so much over the last number of years and we understand the standards we've set.\"\n• None 'An unstoppable juggernaut' - where will Man City dominance end?\n\nCity are only the fifth club to win three successive top-flight titles in England, following Huddersfield Town (1924-26), Arsenal (1933-35), Liverpool (1982-84) and Manchester United, who did it twice under Sir Alex Ferguson (1999-2001 and 2007-09).\n\nIt is also the third occasion Guardiola has managed to win three league titles in a row, having done so in La Liga with Barcelona from 2009-11 and in the Bundesliga from 2014-16 with Bayern Munich.\n\nCity's Premier League dominance of five titles in six seasons was last achieved by Manchester United between 1996 and 2001 - a period where they also won the Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League.\n\nUnited also won seven titles in nine seasons between 1993-2001; as well as five titles in seven seasons between 2007-2013 - so City's current dominance is not unprecedented.\n\nBefore that, Liverpool in the late 1970s and early '80s enjoyed similar periods of league success.\n\nCity will complete their league campaign with away games against Brighton and Brentford, before resuming their Treble bid.\n\nTheir push for that achievement has been driven, in part, by Erling Haaland's remarkable goalscoring record since the forward joined from Borussia Dortmund last summer.\n\nThe 22-year-old Norwegian has scored 52 goals in 48 games in all competitions - including a record-breaking 36 goals in 33 Premier League appearances.\n\nHaaland is just the second player in English top-flight history to score more than 50 times in all competitions - and the first to do so for 95 years.\n\nHe broke the Premier League record for goals in a season with his 35th at the start of March, which moved him one clear of Andy Cole and Alan Shearer - whose 34-goal tallies had come in a 42-match campaign.\n\nThe title win comes three months after City were charged by the Premier League with more than 100 breaches of its financial rules following a four-year investigation. The charges cover the period of 2009-2018, since the 2008 takeover by the Abu Dhabi United Group, led by billionaire Sheikh Mansour, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family.\n\nThey are accused of effectively falsifying their accounts and artificially inflating sponsorship and commercial deals over a number of years to allow them to spend more but stay within Uefa and Premier League rules.\n\nCity said they were \"surprised by the charges\" but welcomed the \"review of this matter by an independent commission to impartially consider\" their case, which City said was supported by a \"comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence\".\n\nCity, who have always denied financial wrongdoing, said they \"look forward to this matter being put to rest once and for all\".\n\nThe club has been referred to an independent commission, which can impose punishments ranging from a fine and points deduction to expulsion from the Premier League. It is not known how long the process will take.\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been arrested after allegedly hitting a controversial statue outside the BBC's HQ in London with a hammer.\n\nPolice were called at 04:15 BST on Saturday to reports a man had climbed scaffolding outside Broadcasting House and was damaging Eric Gill's Prospero and Ariel.\n\nThere have been calls for it to be removed because the sculptor recorded abusing his daughters in his diaries.\n\nIt is the second time the 1930s work has been targeted.\n\nThe man was brought down from the scaffold shortly after 18:00 BST.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said he had been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and going equipped and that he would be taken into police custody.\n\nIt comes after a protester took a hammer to the statue in January last year. Repair work from the damage done during that incident is continuing.\n\nThroughout Saturday, a man could be seen on the scaffold wearing a Spider-Man mask and shouting intermittently at officers on the ground. Footage also appeared to show him hitting the statue with a hammer and chisel.\n\nA cordon was put in place and police initially said it was not possible to \"safely detain the man given the circumstances of the incident, including the height\".\n\nThey added that specialist officers were attending the scene.\n\nThe statue was damaged in January 2022 by a protester\n\nBorn in 1882, Gill became an influential artist whose work included several large sculptures for buildings in central London, including Westminster Cathedral and the original headquarters of the London Underground.\n\nHe was also the designer of Gill Sans, a widely used British typeface.\n\nGill died in 1940, but in 1989 a biography was published detailing diary entries in which he described sex abuse committed against his two eldest daughters, an incestuous relationship with his sister, and sex acts carried out on his dog.\n\nThe statue outside Broadcasting House, installed in 1933, features the characters Prospero and Ariel from Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Ariel, a spirt of the air, is depicted as a young naked male.\n\nBBC culture editor Katie Razzall said Gill was an \"incredibly successful and renowned sculptor and artist\" whose career raises questions \"about whether you can judge an artist or anybody based on their actual lives or whether their art stands alone\".\n\nThe BBC has previously said the repair work to the damage done last year was due to be completed on 19 June. There are also plans for a QR code to be placed nearby to provide context about the statue and its history.\n\nThe corporation said the latest incident was a matter for the police and emergency services.", "Voters have sent a clear signal to restore power sharing at Stormont, said Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) must return to power-sharing government at Stormont, Sinn Féin's vice-president has said as her party clinched a second historic election win in 12 months.\n\nSinn Féin is now the largest in local government as well as the assembly.\n\nIt won a total of 144 seats after Thursday's council election - a rise of 39 on its 2019 showing.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said the result showed voters want Northern Ireland's governing executive back.\n\nThe power-sharing government collapsed last year as part of the DUP protest against post-Brexit trading rules.\n\nThe party has also blocked the functioning of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nThe overall turnout for the election was 54.7%, up from just under 52.7% in 2019.\n\nThe DUP, now the second largest party in local government, won 122 seats, the same as four years ago.\n\nThe cross-community Alliance Party had a positive result, increasing its number of councillors by 14 to 67.\n\nHaving come third in last May's assembly election, the gains mean the party takes up the same position at council level.\n\nThe Alliance Party increased its number of councillors to become the third largest party in local government\n\nHowever, there were net losses for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).\n\nThe leaders of both parties, Doug Beattie and Colum Eastwood, dismissed any suggestion they would leave their positions after the election.\n\nIn Belfast, the leaders of both the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) and the Green Party in Northern Ireland lost their council seats.\n\nMs O'Neill hailed what she called a \"momentous\" result, after her party made breakthroughs across Northern Ireland, including having its first councillors elected in Ballymena and Coleraine.\n\nIt emerged as the largest party in four councils: Mid Ulster; Derry and Strabane; Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon; and Newry, Mourne and Down.\n\nIt will also have overall control of Fermanagh and Omagh, after winning 21 out of 40 seats.\n\n\"These results are a positive endorsement of Sinn Féin's message that workers, families and communities need to be supported, and that the blocking of a new assembly by one party must end,\" she said.\n\n\"This election was an opportunity to send a clear signal.\"\n\nShe said the onus was now on the British and Irish governments to focus efforts on the immediate restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and called for an urgent meeting of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference.\n\nHer party colleague and MP John Finucane told BBC's Sunday Politics that people voted for the party because they want to see \"parties working together\".\n\n\"There should be an acceptance that the people have spoken now twice within the past 12 months, the voice is getting louder.\n\n\"The British and Irish government I think need to pay heed and attention to that voice and need to now take action to prioritise the restoration of our assembly.\"\n\nThe DUP will be the largest grouping in three councils: Lisburn and Castlereagh; Mid and East Antrim; and Ards and North Down.\n\nThe unionist party will also have the largest number of councillors in Antrim and Newtownabbey and Causeway Coast and Glens councils.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson (second from right) joined party colleagues as results were declared in Belfast\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there were lessons to learn from the results, which showed voters were fed up with unionist bickering and infighting.\n\n\"The DUP has had a good election but unionism needs to do better, we need to be winning more seats,\" he said.\n\nDUP assembly member Jonathan Buckley told Sunday Politics that voters had backed the party and that it had stood up \"to get a fair and balanced outcome that can restore devolution\".\n\nHe added that a three-way split in the unionist vote - between the DUP, Ulster Unionists and Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) - was \"dispiriting the unionist electorate\".\n\n\"It's the number one issue on the doors, unionist voters want to see unionist parties working together for the best interests of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nHowever, Ulster Unionist councillor Philip Smyth said he believed there was a pro-union majority in Northern Ireland but that people were not coming out for to vote unionist.\n\n\"The big question for me is how does unionism kick on from here, we need to be able to sell a positive message and we cannot rely on the core vote,\" he told Sunday Politics.\n\n\"We need to target younger voters and non-traditional audiences.\"\n\nAlliance assembly member Eoin Tennyson told the programme it was a \"fantastic election\" for the party but there was disappointment in Derry and Strabane where they lost their only two seats.\n\nMr Tennyson said the party's vote in the area largely held up but it was the Sinn Féin vote that \"changed the dynamics\".\n\nThe party largely failed to make targeted gains west of the Bann, but Mr Tennyson said there were bright spots such as in Enniskillen and Limavady.\n\nMeanwhile, SDLP MP Claire Hanna said it was \"a tough election and we knew it was going to be\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richie McPhillips This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLeader Colum Eastwood has come under pressure, with former party assembly member Richie McPhillips tweeting it was time to step aside, but Ms Hanna said the party was in the process of modernising.\n\nShe said it had adopted a new plan in September but that the party was \"turning around years, possibly decades, of failure to modernise and that requires all hands on deck\".\n\nIn a statement, Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris congratulated those elected and said \"stable and accountable local government is the best way of delivering on the issues\" that matter to people in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Alongside the new councils, it remains my hope to see the assembly and executive return to work, as laid out in the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"I remain in close contact with parties and will continue to do everything I can to facilitate the restoration of the executive.\"\n\nYou can listen to the BBC's 5 Questions On, where Ireland Correspondent Chris Page explains the significance of the 2023 council election.", "At least twelve people have died after a crush at a football stadium in El Salvador's capital, San Salvador, officials have said.\n\nThe incident occurred during a match between local team Alianza and the Santa Ana-based team Fas at Cuscatlán Stadium.\n\nPresident Nayib Bukele described the event as \"unprecedented\", and said an \"exhaustive investigation\" would be launched.\n\nPolice had earlier said that seven men and two women were among the dead, with all the victims over the age of 18.\n\nThe disaster reportedly occurred after a large number of fans tried to enter the venue after the gates had been closed.\n\nOfficials believe some fans had been sold fake tickets, and said that an investigation was under way.\n\nFootage shared by local media appeared to show fans attempting to pull down barricades at the stadium's entrance.\n\nA livestream of the match posted on YouTube shows the match being suspended after an apparent commotion in the stands. People are later seen being carried away by emergency services on stretchers.\n\nFans are also seen waving their shirts at people on the ground to try and cool them down.\n\n\"It was an avalanche of fans who overran the gate,\" a volunteer with the Rescue Commandos first aid group told journalists. \"Some were still under the metal in the tunnel. Others managed to make it to the stands and then to the field and were smothered.\"\n\nPresident Bukele said \"everyone\" will be investigated, including teams, managers, stadium officials, the league and the federation.\n\n\"Whoever the culprits are, they will not go unpunished,\" he said in comments posted to Twitter by his press secretary.\n\nOfficials also said that 90 people were being given medical attention, and that men, women and children had been treated for \"multiple traumas\".\n\nLuis Alonso Amaya, from the Civil Protection of El Salvador, said that about 500 people had been given medical treatment, with many transferred to hospital.\n\nHealth minister Francisco Alabi said that most of those injured are in a stable condition and that there have been no reports of deaths from hospitals.\n\nThe Salvadoran Soccer Federation said that all national level football matches on Sunday would be suspended. It also said it regretted what had happened and voiced support for the victims' families.\n\nEl Salvador's health minister, Francisco Alabi, tweeted that the government had deployed ambulances from nearby hospitals to the stadium with the injured being sent to different public institutions for treatment.\n\nMr Alabi also called for the public to cautiously evacuate the area to make it easier for medical teams to carry out care.", "Phillip Schofield says he has agreed to step down from ITV’s This Morning “with immediate effect” after more than 20 years.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"I understand ITV has decided the current situation can't go on.\"\n\nHis departure comes after reports claimed relations between him and co-host Holly Willoughby had come under strain in recent weeks.\n\nWilloughby said: \"The sofa won't feel the same without him.\"\n\nShe will remain as a presenter on the programme, and will be joined by \"members of the This Morning family\", ITV said, while confirming Schofield's Thursday appearance was his last.\n\nSchofield will continue working with the broadcaster, ITV's statement added, saying this included The British Soap Awards in June and a \"brand new peak time series to come\".\n\nOn Instagram, Schofield wrote: \"Throughout my career in TV - including in the very difficult last few days - I have always done my best to be honourable and kind.\n\n\"I understand that ITV has decided the current situation can't go on, and I want to do what I can to protect the show that I love.\n\n\"So I have agreed to step down from This Morning with immediate effect, in the hope that the show can move forward to a bright future.\n\n\"I'd like to thank everyone who has supported me - especially This Morning's amazing viewers - and I'll see you all for the Soap Awards next month.\"\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, Willoughby said: \"It's been over 13 great years presenting This Morning with Phil, and I want to take this opportunity to thank him for all of his knowledge, his experience and his humour.\"\n\nKevin Lygo, ITV's managing director, media and entertainment, called Schofield \"one of the best broadcasters of his generation\" and thanked him for \"two decades worth of absolutely terrific television\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSchofield has been a regular presenter on This Morning since 2002, and Willoughby since 2009. The pair also present ITV's Dancing On Ice together.\n\nAfter reports of a \"cooling\" in the pair's friendship appeared in The Sun earlier this month, Schofield told the newspaper: \"The last few weeks haven't been easy for either of us.\"\n\nBut he said his co-host was his \"rock\", adding: \"She is an incredible support on screen, behind the scenes and on the phone.\"\n\nWilloughby will take an \"early half term holiday\", ITV said, and will return to screens on 5 June.\n\nSchofield recently returned to the show after taking pre-planned leave around his younger brother's sex abuse trial at Exeter Crown Court.\n\nTimothy Schofield was jailed for 12 years on Friday for 11 sexual offences involving a child between 2016 and 2019.\n\nPhillip Schofield first found fame on children's TV in the 1980s on the BBC's Broom Cupboard, and then on Saturday morning show Going Live!\n\nHe starred in West End productions and fronted TV game shows like Talking Telephone Numbers and Schofield's Quest before joining This Morning.\n\nThe programme has won a host of awards, including the prize for best daytime programme at last year's National Television Awards.\n\nWhile their on-screen relationship may have won plaudits and attracted audiences, Schofield and Willoughby were criticised in September last year over claims - which they denied - that they skipped the queue for the Queen's lying-in-state while attending to film a segment.\n\nWilloughby also took time away from the show in April after she contracted shingles.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Andy Murray has withdrawn from the French Open to prioritise the grass-court season in the build-up to Wimbledon.\n\nMurray, 36, has only played at Roland Garros once since 2017.\n\nThe three-time Grand Slam champion won the clay-court Challenger event in Aix-en-Provence in May but has struggled for consistency on the surface.\n\nThe French Open, the second Grand Slam of the year, takes place from 28 May to 11 June.\n\nMurray lost to long-time rival Stan Wawrinka in Bordeaux earlier this week and also had early exits at the ATP Tour events in Rome, Madrid and Monte Carlo.\n\nHe did, however, beat America's world number 17 Tommy Paul when he came back from a set down in Aix-en-Provence to secure his first clay-court title since 2016 and his first singles trophy for four years.\n\nMurray said earlier in May he was not sure about playing at Roland Garros, telling the Guardian: \"It's just what the right thing is to prioritise at this stage in my career.\n\n\"I trust my body now but I'm aware that my best chance of having a deep run is more likely to happen at Wimbledon.\"\n\nMurray is set to play in the Cinch Championships at Queen's Club, which takes place from 19-25 June.\n\nThe first event of the British grass-court season will be the Surbiton Trophy from 4-11 June.\n\nMurray reached the 2016 French Open final, when he was beaten by Novak Djokovic, and the semi-finals in Paris the following year, with Wawrinka ending his challenge.\n\nThe Scot dropped to 503 in the men's rankings after having career-saving hip resurfacing surgery in 2019 but has worked himself back up to 42nd in the world.\n\nIn January's Australian Open, he spent 10-and-a-half hours on court in victories over Matteo Berrettini and Thanasi Kokkinakis, before being beaten in the third round by Roberto Bautista Agut.\n\nMurray joins 14-time champion Rafael Nadal in withdrawing from Roland Garros, while Italy's Berrettini and Australia's Nick Kyrgios have also pulled out.\n\nBritish women's number two Jodie Burrage will also miss the French Open, where she was due to take part in qualifying, after failing to recover in time from a niggle.\n\nWith Emma Raducanu sidelined long term after operations on both her wrists and an ankle, 106th-placed Burrage was set to be Britain's highest-ranked woman in Paris.\n\nShe is hoping to return for the grass-court event in Surbiton beginning on 4 June and will overtake Raducanu after the French Open irrespective of her results.\n\nAnalysis - Playing on grass considered best preparation for Wimbledon\n\nMurray's principal goal right now is Wimbledon - and if at all possible trying to get himself seeded.\n\nHe is currently ranked 42, and although only the top 32 will be seeded, a few players will inevitably be missing through injury.\n\nBy not playing at Roland Garros, Murray passes up the chance for some significant ranking points.\n\nBut the trade off is he is now likely to be able to play in the Surbiton grass-court Challenger event which takes place in the second week of the French Open.\n\nMurray has played on clay in Madrid, Aix-en-Provence, Rome and Bordeaux in the past month. Some rest and an early opportunity to lace up his grass-court shoes are now considered the best preparation for Wimbledon.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None The rise and fall of the jeweller-turned-criminal: Listen to Gangster: The Story of John Palmer\n• None The story of how the Hollywood icon was let back into the wild", "Violence broke out on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima as riot police wrestled people protesting the meeting of world leaders.\n\nPolice could be seen pinning protesters to the ground on Sunday after a brawl broke out.\n\nThe demonstration was organised by various far-left groups. Those who took part included the extremist group Revolutionary Communist League National Committee, which denounces the G7 summit as a conference of \"imperialism for nuclear war\".\n\nThe G7 comprises the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan – and eight other nations have been invited this year. They're meeting to discuss the war in Ukraine and other foreign policy points - including their relationships with China.", "Ukrainian forces are preparing for a counteroffensive near the besieged city of Bakhmut\n\nIn a bunker just outside the city limits of Bakhmut, Ukraine's 77th Brigade direct artillery fire to support their infantry - their last line of defence on the western edge of the city.\n\nUkraine is still clinging to the last few streets here.\n\nBut the live video feed the artillery gunners watch intently, from a drone flying above the city, suggests that even if Russia can finally wrestle control, it would be little more than a pyrrhic victory.\n\nThe prize is now a crumpled, skeletal city - with hardly a building left unscathed, and with its entire population vanished.\n\nThe battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut has been the longest and bloodiest of this war so far. Western officials estimate between 20,000 and 30,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded here, while Ukraine's military has also paid a heavy price - and it still isn't over.\n\nThe plumes of smoke still hang heavy over the besieged city, accompanied by the relentless rumble of artillery fire.\n\nRussia has been trying to capture Bakhmut for months, and it's been a testament - so far - to Ukraine's determination not to give ground. But it's also a reminder that its coming counteroffensive could prove far more challenging.\n\nDrone footage from above Bakhmut shows the devastation caused by the continuing battle for the city\n\nBack in the bunker, Ukraine's 77th Brigade orders another artillery strike on a house. Seconds later a plume of smoke rises from the rubble. Two men emerge from the smoke, stumbling down a street. One appears to be injured.\n\nI ask if they're Wagner soldiers - the Russian paramilitary force which has been leading the assault. \"Yes,\" replies Myroslav, one of the Ukrainian troops staring at the screen.\n\n\"They are fighting quite well, but they don't really care about their people,\" he says.\n\nHe adds that they don't seem to have much artillery support and they just advance in the hope that they'll be \"luckier than the last time\". His comrade, Mykola, interjects: \"They just walk towards us, they must be on drugs.\"\n\nLooking at this shell of a city it's hard to understand why either side has sacrificed so many lives for it.\n\nMykola admits that the defence has also been costly for Ukraine. He says many soldiers have given their lives, and it's hard to fight in the densely packed streets. He says they've been replaced by troops with less experience, but adds: \"They will become the same warriors as those who fought before them.\"\n\nThe whole point of Bakhmut is to keep the enemy there\n\nTo the south of the city, Ukraine's 28th Brigade has been helping prevent Bakhmut from being encircled.\n\nThe Wagner forces they once faced have already been replaced by paratroopers of Russia's VDV, or airborne forces. But they're still locked in daily skirmishes.\n\nDuring a lull in the fighting, Yevhen, a 29-year-old soldier, takes us on a tour of their defensive position in a small wood.\n\nThe arrival of spring has provided them with some leaves for cover, but many of the trees have been stripped by the constant shelling.\n\nUkrainian troops seek cover behind bushes on the outskirts of the city of Bakhmut\n\nAs we run from a trench, across exposed ground pock-marked by shell holes, the Russians open fire with their mortars. \"That was pretty damn close,\" says Yevhen in perfect English as we reach some cover.\n\nAs we move to another position he says: \"Now we're going to fire back.\"\n\nMinutes later his men follow up with a volley of small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). There are no casualties this time. But hours after we leave one of their soldiers is seriously injured.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky has called Bakhmut \"a fortress\" of Ukrainian morale. Yevhen displays that determination not to give up. \"The whole point of Bakhmut is to keep the enemy there,\" he says.\n\nIf Ukraine gave up Bakhmut, he says, they'd only lose more lives later. \"We could retreat to save a few lives, but we would then have to counter-attack and we'd lose even more\".\n\nUkraine's hope is that the fight over Bakhmut has blunted Russia's ability to conduct its own offensive operations, and exhausted its army and supplies.\n\nIn a bunker just outside the city limits, Ukraine's 77th Brigade direct artillery fire to support their infantry\n\nBut Russia has also been preparing to stymie Ukraine's upcoming offensive.\n\nRecent satellite images of the occupied south show it has built hundreds of miles of deep trench lines and dragon's teeth tank traps to slow down any attempted advance. More difficult to punch through than the razor wire and mines we saw in front of these Ukrainian positions.\n\nSouthern Ukraine is where many expect the focus of the Ukrainian offensive to be. Russia has already ordered a partial evacuation near the nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia.\n\nUkraine, too, has been rationing artillery rounds in preparation for an attack that will be spearheaded by newly trained brigades of troops and some of the 1,300 armoured vehicles and 230 tanks supplied by the West. Though we have also witnessed convoys of Western military equipment heading East.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has tried to dampen down expectations - warning against \"overestimating\" the outcome.\n\nI ask Yevhen if he feels that pressure too. He says he knows it won't be easy, but adds: \"We've already changed the whole world's opinion of the Ukrainian army and we still have lots of surprises.\"\n\nBut this time it may prove harder to conceal the element of surprise.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReal Madrid forward Vinicius Jr said \"La Liga belongs to racists\" after he was again racially abused by opposition fans during a match.\n\nThe 22-year-old Brazil international was sent off for violent conduct in the 97th minute of the 1-0 La Liga defeat at Valencia after an altercation with Hugo Duro.\n\nEarlier in the game, an incensed Vinicius attempted to bring Valencia fans to the referee's attention.\n\n\"The championship that once belonged to Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Cristiano and Messi today belongs to racists,\" Vinicius wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"It wasn't the first time, nor the second, nor the third. Racism is normal in La Liga. The competition thinks it's normal, the federation does too and the opponents encourage it.\n\n\"A beautiful nation, which welcomed me and which I love, but which agreed to export the image of a racist country to the world. I'm sorry for the Spaniards who don't agree, but today, in Brazil, Spain is known as a country of racists.\n\n\"And unfortunately, for everything that happens each week, I have no defence. I agree. But I am strong and I will go to the end against racists. Even if far from here.\"\n• None Racism allegations in Spanish football - what happens next?\n\nBBC Sport understands two fans who racially abused Vinicius have been identified and are expected to be given permanent stadium bans by Valencia.\n\nVinicius has been the target of racial abuse multiple times this season.\n\nLa Liga said in a statement it would investigate and take \"appropriate legal action\" if a hate crime was identified, calling on people to submit any relevant footage.\n\nWriting on Twitter, La Liga president Javier Tebas said Vinicius twice did not turn up for a meeting to discuss what it \"can do in cases of racism\".\n\n\"Before you criticise and slander La Liga you need to inform yourself properly,\" Tebas said.\n\nVinicius criticised the post for targeting him instead of the \"racists\", saying he wanted La Liga to take \"actions and punishments\".\n\nSunday's game was paused in the 70th minute as Vinicius tried to point out fans in the crowd who he believed were abusing him.\n\nHe was ushered away by team-mates and Valencia players, before being spoken to by referee Ricardo de Burgos and Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti.\n\nVinicius was later sent off for the first time in La Liga for his involvement in a mass altercation between the two sets of players.\n\nAncelotti said: \"What we saw today is unacceptable - an entire stadium chanting racist slurs.\n\n\"I don't want to talk about football today. There is no meaning in talking about football today. I told the referee he should have stopped the match.\n\n\"La Liga has a problem. For me, Vinicius is the most important player in the world. These episodes of racism have to stop the match.\n\n\"It's the entire stadium that is insulting a player with racist chants and the match has to stop. I would say the same if we were winning 3-0. There is no other way.\"\n\nAncelotti said Vinicius' reaction was \"understandable\" in the circumstances.\n\n\"I asked him if he wanted to keep playing, and he stayed in the game,\" Ancelotti said.\n\n\"Vinicius is very sad; he is angry. Something like this can't happen in the world we live in.\"\n\nReal Madrid issued a statement on Monday stating its \"strongest revulsion\" at the racist abuse suffered by Vinicius.\n\nIt added: \"Real Madrid considers that such attacks also constitute a hate crime, for which reason it has filed the corresponding complaint with the State Attorney General's Office, specifically with the Prosecutor's Office against hate crimes and discrimination, so that the facts can be investigated and clear responsibilities.\"\n\n'This is an isolated episode' - Valencia\n\nValencia said they would investigate and \"take the most severe measures\".\n\n\"Valencia CF wishes to publicly condemn any type of insult, attack or disqualification in football,\" a club statement read.\n\n\"Although this is an isolated episode, insults to any player from the rival team have no place in football and do not fit in with the values and identity of Valencia CF.\"\n\nLa Liga said it had been proactive after previous racist abuse against Vinicius, and had filed nine reports in the past two seasons to legal authorities in Spain.\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino said he had \"full solidarity\" with Vinicius and highlighted the world governing body's protocols for events like those at Valencia.\n\n\"Firstly, you stop the match, you announce it. Secondly, the players leave the pitch and the speaker announces that if the attacks continue, the match will be suspended,\" he said.\n\n\"The match restarts, and then, thirdly, if the attacks continue, the match will stop and the three points will go to the opponent. These are the rules that should be implemented in all countries and in all leagues.\n\n\"Clearly, this is easier said than done, but we need to do it and we need to support it through education.\"\n\n'The authorities don't help him' - Ferdinand\n\nFormer England and Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand wrote on Instagram: \"Bro you need protecting.... who is protecting Vinicius Junior in Spain??\n\n\"How many times do we need to see this young man subjected to this? I see pain, I see disgust, I see him needing help... and the authorities don't help him.\n\n\"People need to stand together and demand more from the authorities that run our game.\n\n\"No-one deserves this, yet you are allowing it. There needs to be a unified approach to this otherwise it will be swept under the carpet AGAIN.\"\n\nReal goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois said he heard some \"monkey noises\" after 20 minutes.\n\n\"If Vini wants to keep playing, we keep playing, but if Vini says he's not playing any more, I'm leaving the pitch with him, because we cannot tolerate these things,\" Courtois told Movistar.\n\nBrazilian football federation (CBF) president Ednaldo Rodrigues said: \"How long are we going to experience, in the middle of the 21st century, episodes like the one we just witnessed, once again, in La Liga?\n\n\"How long will humanity remain just a spectator and an accomplice in cruel acts of racism?\"\n\nJuan Castro, a journalist for Marca who was at the game, told BBC World Service: \"Valencia fans abused Vinicius and called him a monkey.\n\n\"We have a problem here in Spanish football and we have to solve it. It's the 10th time that this has happened to Vinicius.\n\n\"Maybe the solution is to suspend the match. Maybe the solution is that Vinicius decides not to be on the field any more. Maybe that will be the solution to make people aware that they cannot behave like this in a football stadium.\"\n\nAnti-racism charity Kick It Out's head of player engagement Troy Townsend said \"the welfare of Vinicius is not being protected and that needs to change\".\n\n\"Vinicius Jr has now been subjected to racism numerous times this season while simply playing football for Real Madrid, and it has clearly taken its toll. How could it not? And yet the response from the Spanish football authorities has been to criticise him,\" he added.\n\n\"Perpetrators of this shocking and continued racism need to be punished and banned by clubs. Clubs need to be held accountable and be sanctioned by La Liga.\n\n\"Spanish authorities need to take further action against this problem. So far, it is not working.\"\n\nThe racist abuse that Vinicius has had to deal with this season\n• September 2022 - Some Atletico Madrid fans sang racist songs toward Vinicius outside their Wanda Metropolitano stadium before Real Madrid played them in September 2022.\n• September 2022 - some pundits in Spain criticise Vinicius' goal celebration, in which he dances by corner flag. by saying \"the happiness of a black Brazilian in Europe\" is behind the criticism.\n• December 2022 - Vinicius appeared to be subjected to racist abuse at Valladolid while he walked past fans after being substituted. La Liga said it has filed charges relating to the racist abuse of Vinicius to the \"relevant judicial, administrative and sporting bodies\".\n• January 2023 - An effigy of the Real Madrid winger was hung from a bridge near the club's training ground before a game against Atletico Madrid in the Copa del Rey. Atletico said the incident was \"repugnant\".\n• February 2023 - the Brazilian during a game against Real.\n• March 2023 - La Liga said \"intolerable racist behaviour was once again observed against Vinicius\" in a game against Barcelona and it had reported the racist insults to the Barcelona Court of Instruction.\n• None Attempt missed. Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt saved. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Toni Kroos with a through ball.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Eray Cömert (Valencia).\n• None Attempt missed. Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Toni Kroos following a corner.\n• None Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid) is shown the red card for violent conduct.\n• None Attempt saved. Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Federico Valverde (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Karim Benzema. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None The rise and fall of the jeweller-turned-criminal: Listen to Gangster: The Story of John Palmer\n• None The story of how the Hollywood icon was let back into the wild", "Members of the Royal Family have been spotted leaving Westminster Abbey after a rehearsal in advance of the King's Coronation on Saturday.\n\nKing Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, were smiling and looked relaxed as they left a dry run of the big day.\n\nThe Queen Consort was accompanied by her pages for the event\n\nPrince Louis was pictured alongside the Prince of Wales after playing his part\n\nThe Princess Royal met cavalry officers preparing for Saturday, chatting with them during a visit to Wellington Barracks.\n\nPart of the regiment's officers and senior non-commissioned officers posed for a photograph\n\nThe King took part in a Coronation garden party at Buckingham Palace - the first of his reign - and met guests including Dame Doreen Lawrence and singer Lionel Richie.\n\nPeople have already started gathering at the Mall outside Buckingham Palace, with some royal fans like Faith Nicholson camping out in tents to make sure they do not miss out on a prime viewing spot on Saturday.\n\nOfficers have been on patrol along The Mall, part of the historic approach to Buckingham Palace\n\nCelebrations started early for these banqueters in London's Carter Lane\n\nArtist Claire Eason created a 90 ft by 65ft sculpture on Bamburgh Beach in Northumberland\n\nA groundsman put the final touches to a re-laid and pristine lawn at Parliament Square\n\nYeoman warders at the Tower of London admired Coronation benches designed by schoolchildren\n\nAll photographs are subject to copyright.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "Bona Mugabe seen with her husband at the funeral of her father in 2019\n\nDivorce court papers seen by the BBC allege that the daughter of Zimbabwe's ex-President Robert Mugabe owned 25 residential properties, including a Dubai mansion, worth a total of around $80m (£64m).\n\nBona Mugabe filed for divorce from former pilot Simba Mutsahuni Chikore in March.\n\nMr Chikore wants to split their assets, which also include 21 farms, he says.\n\nMs Mugabe has not yet commented on the claims but will be able to do so.\n\nA source close to the Mugabe family told the BBC that the former president had nothing in his name when he died, although he received £10m from the state as part of his pension. The source also questioned whether Bona Mugabe owned all the assets listed by her former partner.\n\nHowever, Zimbabweans have reacted with shock and outrage to the extent of the wealth allegedly accumulated by just one of Mr Mugabe's children.\n\nLuxury vehicles, farming equipment and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash were also mentioned in the divorce papers.\n\nSome of the 21 farms were allegedly acquired by the Mugabe family during the contentious takeover of white-owned farms in the early 2000s, and despite the government's policy of \"one-man one-farm\".\n\nMr Chikore, who is also demanding joint custody of the couple's three children, says the assets were acquired solely and jointly during their marriage, through inheritance and donations from the late president for work carried out on his behalf.\n\nHe adds that the assets he has listed are a drop in the ocean, compared to the wealth Ms Mugabe owns outright.\n\nIn response, George Charamba, who was Mr Mugabe's spokesman and now serves in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office, denied that the couple owned 21 farms.\n\n\"All Agricultural Land belongs to the State, with farmers using it on LEASE BASIS,\" he tweeted.\n\nHe added that no-one should \"build any politics or arguments around so-called 21 farms allegedly owned by Cde Bona and her estranged hubby\".\n\nBona Mugabe pictured with her father, former President Mugabe, during his 91st birth celebrations, and mother, Grace\n\nIt is unclear when the divorce case - being heard by a court in the capital, Harare - will end.\n\nMs Mugabe and Ms Chikore were married at a lavish wedding in 2014 that was attended by several African heads of state - and was broadcast live on state television.\n\nMr Mugabe died in 2019 at the age of 95, reportedly without leaving a will. He is survived by his wife Grace, Bona, two sons and a step-son.\n\nHe was in power in Zimbabwe from the time of independence in 1980 until he was ousted in 2017 by Mr Mnangagwa, his former ally-turned-rival.", "More than a million NHS staff in England are to receive a 5% pay rise, after health unions backed the deal.\n\nStaff including ambulance workers, nurses, physios and porters will also get a one-off sum of at least £1,655.\n\nThe pay deal was signed off at a meeting between the government and 14 health unions representing all NHS staff apart from doctors and dentists.\n\nMinisters said it was time to bring the strikes to an end - but three unions are threatening to continue action.\n\nHowever, only one - Unite - currently has a strike mandate and that is for local strikes in some ambulance services and a few hospitals.\n\nUnison head of health Sara Gorton, who chairs the joint NHS union group, said: \"NHS workers will now want the pay rise they've voted to accept.\n\n\"The hope is that the one-off payment and salary increase will be in June's pay packets.\"\n\nBut Ms Gorton said health staff should not have needed to strike on such a scale - nurses, physiotherapists and ambulance staff have all taken strike action since December.\n\n\"Proper pay talks last autumn could have stopped health workers missing out on money they could ill afford to lose,\" she said.\n\n\"The NHS and patients would also have been spared months of disruption.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said he was pleased the offer, proposed in March, had been accepted by the unions after members had voted on it.\n\n\"Where some unions may choose to remain in dispute, we hope their members - many of whom voted to accept this offer - will recognise this as a fair outcome that carries the support of their colleagues and decide it is time to bring industrial action to an end.\n\n\"We will continue to engage constructively with unions on workforce changes to ensure the NHS is the best place to work for staff, patients and taxpayers.\"\n\nDespite some of the unions rejecting the offer, the deal was agreed after a majority backed it as a result of the support of some of the biggest unions in the NHS, such as Unison, the GMB and those representing physiotherapists and midwives.\n\nAll staff will now receive the extra pay.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN), one of the unions that rejected the offer, has warned it will continue to pursue strike action.\n\nBut it needs to hold another ballot of its members, as its six-month mandate expired at the end of Monday, when its latest walkout ended.\n\nRCN general secretary Pat Cullen said the union would start balloting in the coming weeks.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Barclay, she said while she \"entirely respected\" the other unions who had voted to accept, she would continue to fight for her members, who voted to reject the offer despite the RCN leadership recommending it to them.\n\n\"Nursing is the largest part of the NHS workforce and they require an offer that matches their true value,\" she added.\n\nUnlike last time, the RCN is holding a national ballot rather than a series of local workplaces ones.\n\nThat means it will be harder to win a strike mandate - something dubbed an \"all or nothing\" approach, in one last attempt to persuade ministers to return to the negotiating table.\n\nThe health secretary also met the British Medical Association on Tuesday to see if the two sides could agree a way forward in the junior doctors' pay dispute.\n\nThey are on a different contract so not affected by the agreement reached with the other NHS staff.\n\nThe BMA wants a 35% rise, to make up for 15 years of below-inflation wage increases.\n\nJunior doctors have held two strikes so far. Mr Barclay has said the pay claim is unaffordable.\n\nA government spokesman said the discussion was \"constructive\" and both parties would meet again in the coming days.\n\nDo you work for the NHS or are you an NHS patient? What do you think about the proposed pay rise? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC News journalist. You can also make contact in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page but cannot see the form, visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or email HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That's it for our coverage of Prime Minister's Questions this week.\n\nAs ever, you can find plenty more politics stories on our website, and we have a section dedicated to local election coverage too - you can find that here.\n\nWe'll have a full results service, with a live page beginning on Thursday evening - it will be clearly signposted on the site.\n\nAnd if you're voting tomorrow, and even if you're not, here's a chance to read Chris Mason's thoughts on what's at stake.", "The pub windows were partially boarded up after the building was targeted with vandalism\n\nA pub has closed for business a month after its collection of golly dolls was seized by police.\n\nFive Essex Police officers removed the offensive dolls from behind the bar at the White Hart Inn, Grays, following a hate crime allegation.\n\nHeineken and Carlsberg have told the pub to stop serving its lager, while maintenance company Innserve refused to continue working on site.\n\nThe pub's leaseholders closed the doors to customers on Monday night.\n\nIn an interview with Thurrock Nub News, co-leaseholder Benice Ryley cited opposition from the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) and the suppliers, and said: \"I've had enough.\"\n\nThe police seized the dolls on 4 April and the building was vandalised with white paint and had its windows damaged on 16 April.\n\nCamra removed the pub from its Good Beer Guide and also removed the Pub of the Year awards on display.\n\nMrs Ryley said the collection of about 30 dolls were donated by her late aunt and from customers, and had been in the pub for nearly 10 years.\n\n\"If they don't like it, they don't have to come through the door,\" she told the BBC last month.\n\nCarlsberg told the pub to stop serving its lager\n\nA Heineken UK spokesperson said it told the pub on 20 April to stop serving its beer, and that it would stop supplying materials such as glasses, and said in a statement: \"After being made aware of the abhorrent display feature in the White Hart Inn, we advised the pub owners that we want nothing more to do with them.\n\n\"They go against everything we stand for.\n\n\"We believe pubs should be places of inclusivity and respect for all people, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion or gender.\"\n\nCamra national chairman Nik Antona said on Wednesday: \"We believe pubs are for everyone - there is never a place for discrimination.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company said the company believed pubs should be \"an enjoyable place for everyone\".\n\n\"Whilst we do not directly supply the pub in question, after being made aware of the police investigation we contacted our third-party distributor to make our views clear,\" they said.\"We believe that all venues that serve the public, including pubs, should be inclusive and welcoming to everyone, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion or gender.\n\nJames Knight, managing director of Innserve, said: \"We take matters of equality and diversity seriously and we are committed to promoting a safe and inclusive working environment for all our colleagues.\n\n\"Hence, we have taken the decision to terminate our services to the outlet in question.\"\n\nAn Essex Police spokesperson said: \"At this stage our investigation is still ongoing.\"\n\nMrs Ryley declined to comment when contacted by the BBC and said she preferred to wait until police speak to her husband and fellow licensee, Chris Ryley, later this month.\n\nAdmiral Taverns, the company which owns the pub building, said: \"The licensees have made us aware of their decision to leave the pub.\n\n\"We will be looking to reopen the pub under the management of new licensees.\"\n\nThe dolls are thought to date back to minstrel entertainment shows, when typically white actors painted their faces black and depicted negative stereotypes of black people.\n\nIt became a fictional character that appeared in books from Florence Kate Upton in the late 19th Century.\n\nThe name for the dolls has since been used as a racial slur.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US will not delay a deadline for airlines to refit planes with new sensors to address possible 5G interference, despite concerns the cut-off date could cause travel disruption.\n\nTransport Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Tuesday that airlines were told the 1 July deadline would remain in place.\n\nAirlines have warned that they will not be able to meet the deadline and may be forced to ground some planes.\n\nTelecoms firms have previously delayed 5G rollout to allow airlines to adapt.\n\nIn the US, the radio frequencies being used for 5G are in part of the spectrum known as C-Band.\n\nThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and aviation companies have previously raised concerns that C-Band spectrum 5G wireless could interfere with aircraft altimeters, which measure a plane's height above the ground.\n\nIn a call with airline companies on Tuesday, Mr Buttigieg told them to work aggressively to retrofit their planes before the deadline, according to the Reuters news agency.\n\nConcerns about 5G interference led to some disruptions at US airports last year.\n\nMajor tech companies, like Verizon and AT&T, agreed last year to delay the rollout of 5G technology until 1 July 2023 to allow airlines time to retrofit their altimeters.\n\nThe decision came after several previous delays.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association (IATA), a trade group representing more than 100 airlines that fly in and out of the US, has said the decision not to extend the deadline makes summer disruptions more likely.\n\n\"Supply chain issues make it unlikely that all aircraft can be upgraded by the 1 July deadline, threatening operational disruptions during the peak northern summer travel season,\" the organisation said on Tuesday, adding that the estimated cost to upgrade planes is $638m (£511m).\n\n\"Airlines did not create this situation. They are victims of poor government planning and coordination,\" said Nick Careen from the IATA.\n\nAirlines have previously said they want 5G signals to be excluded from \"the approximate two miles of airport runways at affected airports as defined by the FAA\".\n\nPhone companies have spent tens of billions of dollars upgrading their networks to deploy the 5G technology, which they say brings much faster internet services and greater connectivity.\n\nTechnology companies have said 5G is safe and have accused the aviation industry of fearmongering and distorting facts.\n\nIn the EU, networks operate at lower frequencies than those which US providers are planning to use - reducing the risk of interference. 5G masts can also operate at lower power.\n\nNevertheless, some countries have taken further steps to reduce possible risks.\n\nIn France, there are so-called \"buffer zones\" around airports where 5G signals are restricted, while antennas have to be tilted downwards to prevent potential interference.\n\nThe UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has said \"there have been no confirmed instances where 5G interference has resulted in aircraft system malfunction or unexpected behaviour\".\n\nBut it has stressed that \"different national mobile telecommunication strategies may mean that some [countries] have a higher threat exposure than others\".\n\nIn a separate development, the FAA on Tuesday proposed new rules for many Boeing aircraft due to the possibility of new 5G interference.\n\nThe proposed rules affect nearly 20,000 planes worldwide. They require revised flight manuals, bans on some landings, and new operating procedures for landings and approaches when dealing with 5G interference.\n\nA representative for Boeing told Reuters that the company \"continues to work with suppliers, regulators, the airlines and telecom companies to ensure long-term stability and help mitigate operational restrictions where possible\".", "Party leaders are making their final pitch to voters on the last day of campaigning for local elections across England.\n\nThey are set to visit battleground areas before polls open on Thursday to elect around 8,000 councillors and four local mayors.\n\nThe polls will decide who will run services in 230 local councils.\n\nThey are also being closely watched as a key test of public opinion before the general election expected next year.\n\nOpposition parties have sought to attack the Conservatives' record on crime, as well as running key services such as the NHS.\n\nCampaigning, taking place against a backdrop of stubbornly high inflation, has also been dominated by the cost of living.\n\nLeaders from the main parties are all making campaign stops later, following the last session of Prime Minister's Questions before polls open.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, Rishi Sunak said \"good councillors will lose tomorrow\" because of the turbulence in the Conservative Party over the last year.\n\nEarlier in the day during a visit to Buckinghamshire, the prime minister said: \"We are concentrating on delivering on people's priorities.\n\n\"Nationally, I'm focused on my five priorities - that's halving inflation, growing the economy, reducing debt, cutting waiting lists and stopping the boats.\n\n\"We're going to keep delivering for people. My priorities are the people's priorities.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the country \"desperately needs change, I think you can sense that in the air\".\n\nSpeaking to supporters in the Labour target of Medway, Kent, Sir Keir said: \"There's one question that really stands out and that is people asking themselves after 13 years 'am I any better off since this mob started?\"'\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, who is targeting rural and suburban seats held by the Tories, visited a string of target seats in southern England.\n\nVoters were getting \"increasingly fed up with the Conservatives, we're getting lifelong Conservatives telling us they will never vote Conservative again,\" Sir Ed said.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats were \"getting a great response\", he added.\n\nThe campaign has been dominated by exchanges on the issue of crime, with the parties trading statistics on the record of the Conservatives in tackling the issue in government since 2010.\n\nEnvironmental issues including sewage dumps in England's waterways, has also been pushed by opposition parties and has emerged as a key election battleground.\n\nThe elections, mostly taking place in rural areas where the Conservatives still hold many councils, will decide council seats that were mostly last contested in May 2019.\n\nFor Labour, which has a healthy lead over the Tories in opinion polls, the elections present a chance to demonstrate momentum ahead of the general election widely expected to take place next year.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats will also be hoping to convert their success in a trio of by-elections last year into increased local representation, while the Greens are aiming to take outright control of an English council for the first time.\n\nThe Conservatives will be hoping to limit losses and demonstrate that a narrowing of its poll deficit since Rishi Sunak took over from Liz Truss shows a possible path to victory for the next general election.\n\nThe elections will also be the first polls to take place since a new requirement to show ID at voting stations in Great Britain came into force.\n\nThe government argues the rule is necessary to guard against voter fraud, but opposition parties say there is no evidence of this and accuse ministers of voter suppression.\n\nPeople without the required ID were able to get a free certificate instead. Official figures show about 4% of those without ID signed up to receive one.\n\nThe figure does not include people who applied by post or in person. Others may have applied for a different form of valid ID.\n• None What photo ID do you need to vote?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Richard Branson has said he feared he was going to lose his entire business empire during the pandemic.\n\nThe British businessman said he found a media backlash \"painful\" after the Virgin Group asked the UK government for a loan to save the company.\n\nGiven his personal wealth and home on a Caribbean island, he was criticised for asking for a bailout when airline Virgin Atlantic hit trouble.\n\nSir Richard told the BBC he personally lost around £1.5bn during the pandemic.\n\nThe struggles to save his businesses left him \"a little depressed\" for a couple of months, he said. \"I'd never experienced that before in my life.\"\n\nHe explained: \"We had 50, 60 planes all on the ground, and the health clubs all closed, the hotels all closed. And the worst [case] would have been 60,000 people out on the streets.\"\n\nThe support the company requested was, he said, \"not gifts from government, but underwriting loans so the cost to the airline... was not prohibitive.\"\n\nThe government refused his request for a reported £500m bailout, however. A private rescue deal eventually saw the Virgin Group inject £200m, with an additional £1bn provided by investors and creditors.\n\n\"There was a time when I thought we were going to lose everything,\" Sir Richard said. \"We sold shares in companies that were public and that was one way we managed to find money.\"\n\nSir Richard, pictured with burlesque artist Dita Von Teese in 2010, said people would feel \"uncomfortable\" with such photoshoots today\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Amol Rajan, Sir Richard also discussed his marketing campaigns and publicity stunts of the past - often involving glamorous women, who he sometimes threw over his shoulder.\n\nAsked if those stunts now made him wince, he replied: \"It would make me wince if I felt the women were uncomfortable at all.\n\n\"I don't think that I ever made anybody feel uncomfortable. In those days, it made them smile... But today obviously, I think people would feel uncomfortable with something like that.\n\n\"So it's changed and I fully accept that. And I've changed alongside everybody else.\"\n\nSir Richard Branson travelled to space in 2021 in his Virgin Galactic commercial space plane\n\nIn 2021, Sir Richard achieved a lifelong ambition and reached the edge of space in his Virgin Galactic commercial space plane. \"It was one of those most extraordinary days, every aspect of it\", he said.\n\nHe defended space exploration as a worthwhile investment, when asked whether launching rockets should be a priority for the ultra-rich, or is compatible with tackling climate change - a cause to which he has devoted extensive effort and money.\n\n\"Communication between people is being transformed because of space travel and satellites up there,\" he said. \"Monitoring things like the depredation of rainforests and illegal fishing... [there are] all these kinds of benefits that come from space travel.\"\n\nHowever, his satellite launch rocket company Virgin Orbit filed for bankruptcy in the US last month after failing to secure new investment.\n\nIn recent years, Sir Richard has also campaigned to promote awareness of dyslexia, a term rarely used and even less understood when he dropped out of school at 15. He revealed that, shortly after being sent to boarding school aged seven, he was beaten so badly - \"for being stupid\" - that he bled.\n\n\"It was... pretty horrendous in those days. And yes, as a dyslexic, I thought I must be stupid because they had never heard of [it]. The word dyslexic didn't exist.\"\n\nAs well as dyslexia, Sir Richard thinks he probably has attention deficit disorder, and acknowledged he does get bored easily.\n\nAt the age of 72, the businessman still heads the Virgin Group - but admitted he does have thoughts about succession planning.\n\n\"We have serious discussions as a family about how the company can transform hopefully thousands people's lives in the years to come and hopefully in the centuries to come,\" he said.\n\nThe entrepreneur with a rock star persona, Sir Richard Branson, tells Amol Rajan how he went from 60s hippy to global business icon, reshaping industries and ending up in space.\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK Only) or on BBC2 at 7pm", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man was arrested outside Buckingham Palace after throwing suspected shotgun cartridges into Palace grounds, police have said.\n\nA cordon was erected and a controlled explosion carried out following the incident, which unfolded at around 19:15 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe man was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon. There are no reports of any injuries.\n\nThe incident is not currently being treated as terror-related.\n\nOvernight rehearsals for the Coronation on Saturday went ahead as planned.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, deputy assistant commissioner Ade Adelekan said the man approached police asking to see a soldier, but when told that was not possible allegedly began throwing shotgun cartridges over the palace gates.\n\nPolice say the man was searched and a knife was found but that he was not carrying a gun.\n\nWhile being arrested, the man told officers they should handle his rucksack with care, leading to a controlled explosion being carried out on the bag, Mr Adelekan said, adding that the suspect was detained within seconds and arrested within five minutes.\n\nThe suspect has undergone a mental health assessment and has been deemed fit to be interviewed, Mr Adelekan said.\n\nThe arrest comes just four days before the King's Coronation celebrations - which will be attended by world leaders and other royals from around the world.\n\nSecurity minister Tom Tugendhat described the response as \"a fantastic piece of policing\", adding that \"a huge security operation\" is in place ahead of the Coronation.\n\n\"As you saw last night, the police and security services are absolutely ready to intervene when necessary,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nThe King and the Queen Consort - who live at nearby Clarence House - were not at Buckingham Palace at the time of the arrest, although the King did host Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the palace earlier on Tuesday.\n\nChief Supt Joseph McDonald said: \"Officers worked immediately to detain the man and he has been taken into police custody.\n\n\"There have been no reports of any shots fired, or any injuries to officers or members of the public.\n\n\"Officers remain at the scene and further enquiries are ongoing.\"\n\nThe BBC's royal producer Sarah Parrish was in the broadcast compound outside Buckingham Palace when she was told to leave and wait outside.\n\nShe told the BBC News Channel that those who were evacuated had \"heard the controlled explosion and then we were allowed back in again.\"\n\nThe suspected shotgun cartridges have been recovered and will be examined by specialists. Roads in the area have now reopened and the cordons have been lifted.\n\nThe King and Queen Consort will return from the Coronation in the Gold State Coach which was ridden alongside the military during a full overnight rehearsal of the Coronation ceremony\n\nRehearsals for the Coronation saw soldiers dressed in bright yellow and red uniforms file past the palace and along the Mall in the early hours of Wednesday morning.\n\nThe parade also featured soldiers on horseback and the Diamond Jubilee State Coach, which will carry the King and Queen Consort from the palace to Westminster Abbey.\n\nExtra security is expected in the capital for the Coronation, which policing minister Chris Philp has described as a \"huge policing operation\".\n\nAsked about the prospect of protesters disrupting the weekend's events, Maj Gen Chris Ghika, a senior British Army officer overseeing the ceremony, said the Metropolitan Police has \"an excellent security plan in place, which will allow the parade to go ahead\".\n\nChris Phillips, former head of the UK National Counter Terrorism Security Office, told the BBC that police have been planning for the Coronation for years, and that an \"enormous amount of planning\" has gone into the security operation.\n\n\"The police should be celebrated for it, and fingers crossed it all goes well on Saturday,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: First look at golden carriages King will use in Coronation", "Shares in several regional banks in the US have dropped sharply, as investors fear the banking crisis that has gripped financial markets is not over.\n\nThe falls come a day after the collapse of First Republic, which was seized by regulators and sold after worried customers withdrew more than $100bn.\n\nIt was the second biggest bank failure in US history and the third since March.\n\nShareholders were wiped out - and are now eyeing risks at other banks.\n\nCalifornia-based PacWest Bancorp, which has been under scrutiny for its lending to firms backed by venture capital, saw shares plunge 28%.\n\nThe turmoil comes as the banking sector is adjusting to a sharp rise in interest rates.\n\nThe US central bank has raised its benchmark rate from near zero last March to more than 4.75%. It is expected to announce another 0.25% increase this week.\n\nThe moves are impacting the US economy, which could hurt banks as businesses and households start to struggle to make debt payments.\n\nMany analysts are worried about risks to banks lurking in the commercial property sector, which has been hit by a fall in demand for office space due to the expansion of remote work.\n\nThe rise in interest rates has put some banks in a bind, as higher rates hurt the market value of some debts issued when borrowing costs were lower.\n\nThe fears intensified in March, when panic sparked by the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank - then the US's 16th largest lender - prompted global sell-offs of bank shares and led many US bank customers to shift their money to firms seen as safer.\n\nBigger banks proved to be the winners, while regional firms came under pressure.\n\nThe fears claimed Signature Bank and ultimately First Republic, which could not survive the loss of funds.\n\nPacWest reported last month that its deposits shrunk 16% from the end of December to the end of March, while Western Alliance shares fell 11%.\n\nBoth banks said they had seen deposits start to increase again more recently as the fears subsided.\n\nJamie Dimon, chief executive of JP Morgan Chase, which bought First Republic from the government, said on Monday that he thought the fall of First Republic marked the end to \"this part\" of the crisis.\n\n\"This part of the crisis is over,\" he said. \"Down the road, there are rates going way up, real estate, recession - that's a whole different issue, but for now, everyone should just take a deep breath.\"\n\nAnalysts have said the US banking system - which has more than 4,000 banks - could be poised for a wave of consolidation as the economy weakens.\n\nThey have compared the situation to the 1980s, when hundreds of lenders closed after being caught off guard by a sharp rise in interest rates and bad commercial property loans.\n\n\"It's primarily been an interest rate problem but if we slide into a recession, it could be a double whammy,\" said banking consultant Bert Ely.\n\n\"I think maybe heads are screwed on a little bit better than they were in the 80s but there's still lots of uncertainty that's out there.\"", "Jair Bolsonaro said his mobile phone and that of his wife had been seized during the raid\n\nPolice have searched the home of former President Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, as part of an investigation into his Covid vaccination records.\n\nPolice suspect the ex-leader's vaccination record was forged so he could gain entry to the US.\n\nOfficers seized the mobile phone of the former president and that of his wife and arrested some of his close aides as part of the operation.\n\nThe former president is a vocal opponent of Covid vaccinations, who repeatedly spread false information about the vaccine and its alleged side effects.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 21 April 2020: The BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson looks at how Bolsonaro has responded to the virus in Brazil\n\nWhile he had always said that he would not get the vaccine, he had refused to make his vaccination record public, arguing that it contained sensitive private data.\n\nBut an official in the new government of his successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ruled that the information was in the public interest.\n\nThe record showed that Mr Bolsonaro had had a vaccine in 2021 but police think the record may have been forged and launched the investigation which led to Wednesday's raid.\n\nAccording to federal police, \"false data\" was inserted into the Covid-19 vaccination records held by the Brazilian ministry of health so that the individuals whose vaccination status had been changed would be able to get the vaccination certificates necessary to enter the United States\n\nSpeaking after the raid, Mr Bolsonaro denied tampering with any records. \"For my part, there was nothing falsified,\" he told reporters.\n\nHe also denied having had a Covid jab: \"I didn't take the vaccine. Period.\"\n\nThe false data was allegedly inserted in the records between November and December of last year, when Mr Bolsonaro was still president.\n\nMr Bolsonaro travelled to Florida at the end of December, just days before his rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was sworn into office.\n\nThe US has not commented on what visa the then-president entered the country on or what, if any, vaccination records he provided at the time.\n\nSince his return to Brazil on 30 March, Mr Bolsonaro has had to appear before police on two occasions to testify in two separate investigations.\n\nOne is examining his alleged role in the storming of the Brazilian Congress by his supporters in January. He is also being investigated over whether he tried to illegally import and keep millions of dollars' worth of jewellery he and his wife were given by Saudi Arabia in 2019.", "Pubs are open longer over the coronation, but it will depend on staff working when others are celebrating\n\nWith the Coronation approaching, there has been a call to \"spare a thought\" for millions who will have to carry on working through the holiday weekend.\n\nTrade union leader Paul Nowak hailed those in jobs such as shops, transport and hospitality who will be working, as well as emergency services.\n\n\"Their labour will allow others to make the most of the celebration,\" said TUC general secretary Mr Nowak.\n\nAbout a fifth of workers regularly work on bank holidays, say the trade unions.\n\nThe Coronation on Saturday 6 May will be followed by a bank holiday weekend, with many public events planned.\n\nBut the Trades Union Congress, the umbrella group for unions, said the Coronation celebrations would depend on millions keeping working, whether in public transport, retail, pubs, restaurants and hotels, as well as those in emergency and health services.\n\n\"Their labour will allow others to make the most of the celebration,\" Mr Nowak told the BBC.\n\n\"The fact that so many people work during events like this should pause us to think. We need a national conversation about public holidays in the UK. Everybody should get the chance to enjoy them,\" he said.\n\nMr Nowak warned that workers in the UK had fewer public holidays than in many European countries.\n\nFigures from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development suggest about a quarter of the workforce now work on Saturdays - and the institute says similar numbers could be working this weekend.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Brolly or sun cream? Your weather forecast for Coronation weekend\n\nFor those working in hospitality it is going to be busier than usual, with pubs allowed longer opening times over the weekend.\n\nUK Hospitality, representing hotels, restaurants and pubs, is expecting a £350m spending boost from the weekend.\n\nTravel website Expedia has reported a spike in interest in visiting London and market research firm Euromonitor International says the Coronation is particularly driving an increase in tourism from the US, expected to rise by about 14% compared with last year.\n\nAlso working this weekend will be thousands of police and members of the armed forces, with a major security operation planned and military processions.\n\nSome NHS staff who are not working that day are getting special recognition, with viewing areas provided for about 3,000 health workers on the route of the Coronation procession in London.\n\nAnd trade union leader Mr Nowak says those celebrating should remember the efforts of those toiling away to make it possible.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man suspected of killing five of his neighbours in Texas has been arrested after police found him hiding in a cupboard underneath a pile of laundry.\n\nFrancisco Oropesa was detained north of Houston. He was several miles from his own home where the shootings happened late on Friday.\n\nMr Oropesa is accused of attacking his neighbours after they allegedly asked him to stop practising with his rifle as the noise was keeping a baby awake.\n\nThey were all from Honduras, and the country's foreign ministry identified them as Sonia Guzman, 28; Diana Velasquez, 21; Obdulia Molina, 31; Jonathan Caceres, 18, and Daniel Enrique Lazo, nine.\n\nThe arrest of Mr Oropesa, a 38-year-old Mexican national, brings an end to a four-day manhunt that swept up law enforcement officials across multiple jurisdictions, including the FBI. Drones and scent-tracking dogs were used as police searched an area as far south as the Mexican border.\n\nAuthorities offered a reward of $80,000 (£64,000) for information leading to his arrest and, on Tuesday, the FBI said Mr Oropesa \"could be anywhere\" as the days-long search failed to yield any leads.\n\nBut a member of the public contacted the FBI's tip line on Tuesday evening and the suspect was captured just over an hour later near the town of Cut and Shoot, officials said in a news conference.\n\nPolice have not said who owns the home he was arrested in, but the New York Times reported that property records show it belongs to a relative.\n\n\"They can rest easy now, because he is behind bars,\" Sherriff Greg Capers said of the families of the victims. \"He will live out his life behind bars for killing those five.\"\n\nAuthorities launched a massive manhunt for Francisco Oropesa after the shootings in Cleveland, Texas\n\nThe suspect was taken into custody by members of the Border Patrol Tactical Unit, or Bortac, a specialised unit, said Sheriff Capers of San Jacinto County.\n\nHe will be charged with five counts of murder. The alleged attacker was deported four times between 2009 and 2016, US immigration officials said, although it is unclear on what grounds this happened.\n\nAn investigation is under way into how the suspect obtained the weapon used in the killings, which was an AR-style rifle.\n\nOn Wednesday, police said Mr Oropesa's wife had also been arrested. Divimara Lamar Nava, 53, was detained in connection with the Friday night shooting in the small town of Cleveland.\n\nMontgomery County Sheriff Rand Henderson said she allegedly hid Mr Oropesa before he was captured by police. She faces the felony charge of hindering the apprehension or prosecution of a known criminal.\n\nAlso on Wednesday, officials said Mr Oropesa was spotted in Montgomery County - where he was later arrested - on Monday afternoon but managed to evade capture.\n\n\"We did confirm that was him on foot, running but we lost track of him. That was not a false alarm. That was him,\" Sheriff's Deputy Tim Kean said.\n\nA makeshift memorial with floral tributes, balloons and soft toys has been placed outside the home where the shooting took place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Wilson Garcia describes the tragic events that allowed him to flee", "Alan Cameron was described as a lovely son\n\nPolice have named a 19-year-old who died following a crash on the A83 in Argyll and Bute.\n\nAlan Cameron was travelling in a black Renault Clio at about 21:00 on Sunday when the crash happened between Ardgenavan and Clachan.\n\nThe apprentice agricultural engineer from Inveraray was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nHis family described him as a \"lovely son, brother, grandson, nephew and cousin\".\n\nIn a statement released through Police Scotland, Mr Cameron's family said they were \"devastated\" by his death.\n\nIt said: \"Alan was studying/working as an apprentice agricultural engineer. His passion was agriculture and he had a keen interest in farming.\"\n\n\"Ourselves, family, friends and colleagues respectfully request our privacy at this very difficult time.\"\n\nThe road was closed for about eight hours while officers carried out investigations.\n\nSgt Brian Simpson said: \"Our thoughts are with Alan's family and friends at this very distressing time.\n\n\"We would again appeal to any witnesses, who have not already come forward, to get in touch.\"\n\nHe also urged anyone who may have relevant dashcam footage to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Humza Yousaf says he only learned the party had no auditors after he won the SNP leadership\n\nThe SNP has signed a contract with a new auditor more than six months after the previous firm quit.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster group risks losing £1.2m of public funding if it does not submit audited accounts by 31 May.\n\nGroup leader Stephen Flynn said he was now confident that the deadline would be met.\n\nThe party must also file its audited accounts with the Electoral Commission in July.\n\nHumza Yousaf, the SNP's leader and Scotland's first minister, said Manchester-based AMS Accountants Group had agreed to complete the accounts for both the party and its Westminster group.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"There is hard work ahead but it is really encouraging to have them on board as we work towards challenging deadline\".\n\nIt emerged last month that the SNP's previous auditors, Johnston Carmichael, had quit last September.\n\nMr Yousaf has said he only found out after winning the contest to succeed Nicola Sturgeon in March that the party no longer had an accounting firm in place.\n\nA source told the BBC that Mr Yousaf, Mr Flynn and their teams had \"put in some shift to fix the situation they inherited\".\n\nThe source added: \"They have managed to turn things around in a matter of weeks and both the party and the Westminster group now have auditors in place.\"\n\nMr Flynn previously told the BBC that the party was having problems finding new auditors and that he could not guarantee it would be able to meet the 31 May deadline.\n\nHe also said the SNP was likely to lose £1.2m of Short Money if it was not able to file its accounts by that date.\n\nShort Money is given to opposition parties to help them carry out their parliamentary work, and is based on how many MPs they have.\n\nHowever, Mr Flynn said on Wednesday that he was \"confident we'll meet the deadline, as in previous years\".\n\nMr Flynn was recently accused by his predecessor, Ian Blackford, of giving \"false assurances\" that a new auditor had been found - a claim that he dismissed.\n\nJohnston Carmichael, which had worked with the party for more than a decade, said the decision to stop auditing the SNP's accounts was taken after a review of its clients.\n\nPolice removed several boxes from the SNP's headquarters after searching the building last month\n\nIt comes amid an ongoing police investigation into the party's finances that saw Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell - who was until recently the SNP's chief executive - and former treasurer Colin Beattie being arrested last month.\n\nBoth men were released without charge pending further investigation.\n\nDetectives also spent two days searching Ms Sturgeon and Mr Murrell's home in Glasgow, and the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh as part of the inquiry.\n\nAnd a luxury motorhome which can sell for more than £100,000 was seized from outside the home of Mr Murrell's 92-year-old mother in Dunfermline, where it was said to have sat for more than two years.\n\nThere was a lingering note of caution from Humza Yousaf when he talked about the \"challenging\" deadlines facing his new auditors.\n\nBut the first minister will hope this is one less thing on his plate to worry about.\n\nHe would far rather be focusing on bread and butter issues of government, like the anti-poverty summit he convened this morning.\n\nBut there are still plenty of party matters cluttering his in-tray, and the opposition are only too keen to capitalise on them - as evidenced by the Holyrood debate this afternoon on \"the transparency of Scotland's governing party\".\n\nMr Yousaf's only option is to work through the items which he least has some control over. He has appointed new auditors, and launched an internal review of how his party is run.\n\nWhat may be of more concern are the issues which are out of his hands entirely - like the big unknown of the police investigation which continues to loom over the SNP.\n\nPolice Scotland launched its Operation Branchform investigation in July 2021 after receiving complaints about how more than £600,000 of donations from activists for a future independence referendum campaign were spent.\n\nQuestions were raised after accounts showed the SNP had just under £97,000 in the bank at the end of 2019, and total net assets of about £272,000.\n\nIt also emerged that Mr Murrell had given the party a loan of more than £100,000 in June 2021 to help it out with a \"cash flow\" issue after the previous month's Scottish Parliament election.\n\nAbout half of the loan had been repaid within a few months, but Mr Yousaf has said the party still owes money to Mr Murrell - although he has not yet said how much.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives are to push on Wednesday afternoon for the government to make a formal statement on the chaos that has engulfed the SNP since Ms Sturgeon stepped down as party leader and first minister.\n\nSpeaking ahead of a Holyrood debate on the issue, Tory leader Douglas Ross said the SNP's time in government had been characterised by \"unacceptable secrecy\" on a range of issues.\n\nAnd he claimed that the country's \"real priorities\" were being ignored by Mr Yousaf and his government because they are \"distracted by the meltdown in the party\".\n\nA similar call was previously rejected by the first minister, who said: \"I don't think parliament is the place to do a statement on the party's finances.\"\n\nThis latest attempt by the Conservatives is also likely to fail, with the SNP and their Scottish Green partners in government holding a majority of seats in the parliament.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nRussian racing driver Nikita Mazepin has begun High Court action against Foreign Secretary James Cleverly to get British sanctions against him lifted.\n\nMazepin and his father Dmitry were sanctioned by the UK, Canada and European Union in March 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMazepin was also sacked by Formula 1 team Haas as a result of the invasion.\n\nNeither Mazepin nor his father were at the hearing.\n\nHis lawyer Rachel Scott said Mazepin wanted his challenge heard as a matter of \"urgency\" because of the need hold talks with prospective race teams for the 2024 season.\n\nMazepin and his father are subject to an assets freeze and travel ban as part of the sanctions, though lawyers representing the Foreign Office argued that Mazepin could still negotiate with Formula One teams with the sanctions in place.\n\nMazepin is also challenging EU and Canadian sanctions as part of his attempt to return to Formula One.\n\nIn September 2022, Mazepin had requested \"revocation of his designation\" - a lifting of the sanctions - but UK government ministers had decided to \"take no action\".\n\nIn a witness statement, he said that \"even if - or while - the Canadian sanctions remain in place, there is at least a prospect of me being able to enter into negotiations to return to Formula One if sanctions are lifted in both the EU and UK\".\n\nFollowing the invasion, Haas also terminated the contract of their title sponsor, the Russian chemicals company Uralkali. Mazepin owed his seat to sponsorship funding from Uralkali, which is part-owned by his father through his company Uralchem.\n\nA judge is due to oversee a further hearing in London in June.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nArgentina captain Lionel Messi has been suspended by Paris St-Germain for two weeks after travelling to Saudi Arabia without the club's permission this week.\n\nThe trip followed the French club's home defeat by Lorient on Sunday, in which Messi played the full 90 minutes.\n\nMessi will not train or play for PSG during the period of his suspension.\n\nIt is understood the 35-year-old asked permission to make the journey to carry out commercial work but was refused.\n\nMessi believes he did originally have permission to travel to Saudi, but that was then withdrawn due to a change in the club's training schedule.\n• None Lionel Messi: Why dream return to Barcelona looks very unlikely\n\nMessi, who has also been fined by the club, has a role as a tourism ambassador for Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe World Cup winner's two-year contract with PSG expires this summer.\n\nBarcelona vice-president Rafael Yuste claimed in March that the Spanish club were in contact with Messi about a return to the Nou Camp.\n\nMessi has scored 31 goals and contributed 34 assists in 71 games in all competitions for PSG, and won the Ligue 1 title last season.\n\nHe is set to miss matches against Troyes and Ajaccio as PSG, five points clear with five games to go, look to clinch a ninth league title in 11 seasons.\n\nLionel Messi has taken a decision that effectively calls time on his Paris St-Germain career.\n\nYes, they have three games left after Messi's suspension has been completed and there is work remaining to secure another Ligue 1 title, but PSG are on a different course now - and it does not involve Messi, who less than five months ago achieved the crowning glory of his stellar career by lifting the World Cup.\n\nPSG do not view their actions as being anything extraordinary. In their minds they are effectively punishing an employee who has gone somewhere else on a work day miles away from where he is supposed to be.\n\nBut they also feel it is a statement about the future direction of the club, which they are adamant will be around younger players. It is also confirmation of their zero-tolerance approach to discipline.\n\nPSG's fans don't want Messi any more. It is certain his contract will not be renewed.\n• None 'The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life': Joe Wicks learns why sleep is fundamental to our health\n• None How many footballing milestones do you know? Test yourself in this fun quiz", "A Belarusian opposition activist arrested after his Ryanair flight was forced to land in Minsk has been sentenced to eight years in prison.\n\nRoman Protasevich was hauled off his flight and arrested on charges of inciting unrest in May 2021.\n\nOn Thursday, the Minsk regional court found him guilty of a series of offences relating to his work as an editor at an opposition media outlet.\n\nBelarusian state media, Belta, said he would serve the time in a penal colony.\n\nAmong the charges Mr Protasevich was tried for were organising mass riots, calling for sanctions against Belarus, creating or leading an extremist group, and conspiring to seize power.\n\nMr Protasevich had been flying from Greece to Lithuania in May 2021 when Belarusian air traffic control suddenly diverted the flight to Minsk, claiming there was a bomb threat.\n\nHe was hauled from the plane and arrested, alongside his girlfriend, Russian citizen Sofia Sapega.\n\nThe arrests caused international outcry and led to the EU imposing sanctions against the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nWestern countries accused Belarus of hijacking the Ryanair plane under the pretext of the bomb threat.\n\nIn May 2022 Sofia Sapega was sentenced to six years in jail for inciting discord.\n\nUntil November 2020, Mr Protasevich worked as editor of the opposition Nexta channel on the Telegram messaging app.\n\nThe channel was founded by a fellow dissident, Stepan Putilo, who was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison on Thursday. Mr Putilo is currently in exile in Poland.\n\nNexta and Nexta Live were used to mobilise protests across Belarus in 2020 - which were the biggest in the country's history.\n\nAfter Mr Protasevich's arrest, his family said he was forced into making fake confessions and issuing apologetic statements on state television.\n\nIn one appearance, he praised the Belarusian leader and admitted to attempting to topple him. His public criticism of the Belarusian opposition has fuelled speculation that he has come under intense pressure from authorities.\n\nBelarus has been ruled by the same leader, Mr Lukashenko, since 1994. He defied months of protests in 2020 as opposition politicians and activists were arrested and held in prison.", "Actor Jeremy Pope attended the Met Gala wearing a cape with Lagerfeld's face on it\n\nThis year's Met Gala - an annual celebration of all things fashion and celebrity - was billed as a tribute to the late German designer Karl Lagerfeld.\n\nA-listers invited to the glamourous fundraiser in New York were asked to pay homage to the man who, as creative director for Chanel and Fendi, was one of the industry's most prominent and prolific figures.\n\nBut he was also controversial, and his views on the #MeToo movement and Germany's decision to open the door to Syrian refugees widely condemned.\n\nAmong those to have criticised Monday's event on social media is BBC Radio 1 DJ-turned-Hollywood actress Jameela Jamil.\n\nOthers have suggested some attendees deliberately chose to wear outfits that would have challenged Lagerfeld's views.\n\nAnd notable absences from the red carpet included singer Lana Del Rey, whom he once called \"a little too fat\".\n\nVogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, who co-chaired the event, told BBC News it was a night to celebrate Lagerfeld's body of work - not the man.\n\nBut Jamil accused organisers of awarding \"the highest honour possible to a known bigot\".\n\nIn a post on Instagram, the British actress said: \"Last night, Hollywood and fashion said the quiet part out loud, when a lot of famous feminists chose to celebrate at the highest level a man who was so publicly cruel to women, to fat people, to immigrants and to sexual-assault survivors. And all the women's publications, and spectators online, chose to gleefully ignore it.\"\n\nThe Good Place star accused the industry of \"slippery tactics and double standards\", separating the art from the artist when it was \"convenient\".\n\n\"This isn't about cancel culture. Its not even about Karl,\" she said. \"It's about showing how selective cancel culture is within liberal politics, in the most blatant way so far.\n\n\"And it's not just Hollywood here - the general public online participated and were entirely complicit in the erasure of the truth last night.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Piers Morgan used a column in the New York Post to accuse the celebrities who attended the Met Gala of hypocrisy.\n\nThey turned \"a blind eye to his monstrously offensive side just because they want to wear his fabulous clothes and show off at one of the biggest media events of the year\", he wrote.\n\nEmily In Paris star Lily Collins had Lagerfeld's name on her dress\n\nFew other celebrities have spoken out against the decision to honour Lagerfeld - but there has been social media speculation that some used other means to protest.\n\nA picture of famously proudly plus-sized pop star Lizzo eating chips while wearing her red-carpet outfit was posted on her social-media accounts.\n\nHer black dress with pearls echoed a famous Lagerfeld piece worn by Linda Evangelista in 1991.\n\nBut was her pre-show snack simply preparation for the night ahead, after complaining last year about the lack of food and a long queue for the red carpet?\n\nOr was it a retort to Lagerfeld's opinions on fuller figures? \"No-one wants to see curvy women,\" he once said.\n\nAnd asked about women who object to thin models, he replied: \"They are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by lizzobeeating This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany guests wore black and white - reflecting Lagerfeld's signature look - but some, including actress Viola Davis and model Ashley Graham, wore pink.\n\nBut had they decided to deliberately ignore one of his most quoted mantras, \"Think pink, don't wear it\"?\n\nOr did they just like the colour? After all - despite his outspoken opinions - pink did appear in some of his collections.\n\nGraham wrote on Instagram: \"Honoured to wear this show-stopping creation... paying tribute to the iconic Karl Lagerfeld - I just feel so beautiful\", while Davis called it a \"true princess moment\".\n\nSinger Courtney Love, a friend of Lagerfeld, complained on Twitter that in general the Met Gala showed \"total disrespect for your legacy\". That, and it was \"BORING\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Courtney Love Cobain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Medicinal cannabis can help relieve pain caused by cancer and reduce the number of drugs patients need, Canadian research suggests.\n\nIn a study of 358 cancer patients, researchers concluded it was a safe option for managing pain, alongside other drugs.\n\nOnly specialist hospital doctors can prescribe cannabis-based medicines on the NHS, mostly for severe epilepsy.\n\nResearch on how well they treat pain is still being collected in the UK.\n\nThe study, published in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, researchers found medicinal cannabis to be \"a safe and effective complementary treatment for pain relief in patients with cancer\".\n\nProducts with an equal balance of the active ingredients tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) seemed to be the most effective.\n\nCannabis plants contain both - but while THC produces a \"high\", CBD does not.\n\nThe most common side-effects were:\n\nThe researchers, from McGill University, in Montreal, Harvard Medical School, in Boston and the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, among others, say about a third of all cancer patients and two-thirds of those who are terminally ill experience moderate to severe pain.\n\nPainkillers are the standard treatment - but a third of cancer patients are still thought to experience pain.\n\nEvery three months for a year, the patients were asked:\n\nAfter taking the cannabis medicines, they felt much less pain and noticed it interfering less with their daily life.\n\nBut more rigorous trials using a control group to compare the effects of cannabis medicines with a dummy drug are needed to confirm the findings, the researchers say.\n\nIt is very rare but since 2018 UK law has allowed the prescription of unlicensed cannabis-based medicines in very specific circumstances:\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"Licensed cannabis-based medicines are funded routinely by the NHS where there is clear evidence of their quality, safety and effectiveness.\n\n\"Like any other medicine, unlicensed cannabis-based products for medicinal use must be proved safe and effective before they can be considered for routine NHS funding.\n\n\"We are working closely with partners to establish clinical trials to test the safety and efficacy of more cannabis-based products for medicinal use to inform future NHS funding decisions.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Stephen Tompkinson denies causing grievous bodily harm to a man he confronted outside his home\n\nActor Stephen Tompkinson caused traumatic brain injuries to a man he punched outside his home, a court has heard.\n\nThe 57-year-old, best known for his role in ITV drama DCI Banks, is accused of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Karl Poole on 30 May 2021.\n\nNewcastle Crown Court heard he punched Mr Poole to the ground, causing him to bang his head and fracture his skull.\n\nMr Tompkinson, who lives in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, denies the charge.\n\nProsecutor Michael Bunch told the court the actor had called the police at about 05:30 before approaching two drunk men.\n\nHe told officers he had taken a bottle of Jagermeister from them and wanted them \"moved on\" as they were causing a disturbance outside the house he shared with his partner and her child.\n\nIn the call, played in court, he said he had \"two incapable drunks\" outside his house and that one of them was \"just in his underwear\".\n\n\"I've asked them to move. They can't move,\" he told the call handler.\n\nThe jury heard Mr Poole and his friend, Andrew Hall, had been drinking since around midnight and had gone to the beach to watch the sunrise before walking back to Mr Hall's house, passing Mr Tompkinson's home on Beech Grove on the way.\n\nA neighbour, Caroline Davidson, was woken by the noise of \"laughing and carrying on\" and looked out of her bedroom window to see the two men lying on a path, where Mr Poole was only wearing underpants with a towel lying next to him.\n\nShe looked out again about five minutes later and saw Mr Tompkinson speaking to the men and \"formed the view, from his hand gestures\" that the actor was telling them to \"get on their way\", Mr Bunch said.\n\n\"It appeared that one of the men said something back and Mrs Davidson saw her neighbour draw back his fist, before apparently thinking better of it and lowering his hand,\" he said.\n\nThe two men were \"obviously heavily drunk\", Mr Poole \"could hardly stay upright\" and stopped after walking a short distance before \"wobbling from side to side\", the court was told.\n\nMr Tompkinson then \"slapped Mr Poole with his right hand before punching him to the head with his left fist\", Mr Bunch said.\n\n\"Mr Poole stumbled and then fell backwards striking his head on the roadway, where he lay unconscious,\" he added.\n\nStephen Tompkinson found fame in the TV show Ballykissangel in 1996\n\nThe court heard that on seeing Mr Poole fall, Mrs Davidson told her husband to call for an ambulance.\n\nJurors heard the actor, who starred as Father Peter Clifford in Ballykissangel, used his mobile phone to record two videos of the men but did not call the ambulance service himself.\n\nStill unconscious, Mr Poole was taken to hospital and found to have a fractured skull and significant traumatic brain injuries.\n\nMr Tompkinson, who was born in Stockton-on-Tees, told police he had acted in self-defence and only pushed Mr Poole after the men became \"aggressive\" towards him.\n\nHe said he turned to face Mr Hall and, when he looked back, Mr Poole was on the ground, the court heard.\n\nHowever, the actor's claims that the men had been aggressive were \"simply not supported by any of the evidence\", Mr Bunch said.\n\n\"The truth is that the defendant's story is nothing more than a weak attempt by him to deflect blame onto others for what were his wholly unjustified aggressive actions.\"\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Poole said he had \"absolutely zero\" memory of that night and his police statement's description of what happened was \"from what I've been told\".\n\nMr Tompkinson's defence, Nicholas Lumley KC, suggested to Mr Poole he \"fell as a result of a simple push\" and had since exaggerated what happened.\n\nMr Poole confirmed he had made a compensation claim through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.\n\nThe trial, which is expected to last four days, continues.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tayabullah breathes oxygen through a tube held by his mother\n\nThree-month-old Tayabullah is quiet and motionless. His mother Nigar moves the oxygen pipe away from his nose and puts a finger below his nostrils to check if she can feel him breathing.\n\nShe begins to cry as she realises her son is fading.\n\nAt this hospital in Afghanistan, there is not a single working ventilator.\n\nMothers hold oxygen tubes near their babies' noses because masks designed to fit their small faces are not available, and the women are trying to fill in for what trained staff or medical equipment should do.\n\nEvery day, 167 children die in Afghanistan from preventable diseases, according to the UN children's fund Unicef - illnesses that could and should be cured with the right medication.\n\nIt is a staggering number. But it's an estimate.\n\nAnd when you step inside the paediatric ward of the main hospital in the western province of Ghor, you will be left wondering if that estimate is too low.\n\nMultiple rooms are full of sick children, at least two in each bed, their little bodies ravaged by pneumonia. Just two nurses look after 60 children.\n\nIn one room, we saw at least two dozen babies who appeared to be in a serious condition. The children should have been continuously monitored in critical care - impossible at this hospital.\n\nYet, for the million people who live in Ghor, this basic facility is still the best equipped public hospital they can access.\n\nMothers are left distraught at this Afghanistan hospital where children die of preventable or curable diseases\n\nPublic healthcare in Afghanistan has never been adequate, and foreign money which almost entirely funded it was frozen in August 2021 when the Taliban seized power. Over the past 20 months, we have visited hospitals and clinics across this country, and witnessed them collapsing.\n\nNow the Taliban's recent ban on women working for NGOs means it's becoming harder for humanitarian agencies to operate, putting even more children and babies at risk.\n\nI'm also a mother, and when I saw the baby die, I felt like I've lost my own child\n\nAlready defeated by a lack of resources, medics at the Ghor hospital used whatever little they had to try to revive Tayabullah.\n\nDr Ahmad Samadi was called in to check his condition, fatigue and stress visible on his face. He put a stethoscope to Tayabullah's chest - there was a faint heartbeat.\n\nNurse Edima Sultani rushed in with an oxygen pump. She put it over Tayabullah's mouth, blowing air into it. Then Dr Samadi used his thumbs to perform compressions on the boy's tiny chest.\n\nWatching on looking stricken was Tayabullah's grandfather Ghawsaddin. He told us his grandson was suffering from pneumonia and malnutrition.\n\n\"It took eight hours on rubble roads to bring him here from our district Charsadda,\" Ghawsaddin said. The family, who can only afford to eat dry bread for meals, scraped together money to pay for the ride.\n\nFor half an hour, the efforts to revive his grandson continued. Nurse Sultani then turned towards Nigar and told her Tayabullah had died.\n\nThe sudden silence which had enveloped the room was broken by Nigar's sobs. Her baby boy was wrapped in a blanket and handed over to Ghawsaddin. The family carried him home.\n\nTayabullah should be alive - every disease he had was curable.\n\n\"I'm also a mother and when I saw the baby die, I felt like I've lost my own child. When I saw his mother weeping, it broke my heart. It hurt my conscience,\" said Nurse Sultani, who frequently does 24-hour shifts.\n\n\"We don't have equipment and there is a lack of trained staff, especially female staff. When we are looking after so many in serious conditions, which child should we check on first? There's nothing we can do but watch babies die.\"\n\nThere are no oxygen masks in the hospital small enough to fit a baby's face\n\nMinutes later, in the room next door, we saw another child in severe distress, with an oxygen mask on her face, struggling to breathe.\n\nTwo-year-old Gulbadan was born with a heart defect, a condition called patent ductus arteriosus. It was diagnosed six months ago at this hospital.\n\nDoctors have told us the condition is not uncommon or hard to treat. But Ghor's main hospital is not equipped to perform routine surgery that could fix it. It also doesn't have the medicines she needs.\n\nGulbadan's grandmother Afwa Gul held down her small arms, to try to prevent the little girl from pulling down her mask.\n\n\"We borrowed money to take her to Kabul, but we couldn't afford surgery, so we had to bring her back,\" she said. They approached an NGO to get financial help. Their details were registered but there's been no response since then.\n\nGulbadan's father Nawroze stroked her forehead, trying to soothe his daughter who winced with every breath she took. Stress etched on his face, he pursed his lips and let out a sigh of resignation. He told us Gulbadan had recently begun to talk, forming her first words, calling out to him and other members of their family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I'm a labourer. I don't have a stable income. If I had money, she would never have suffered this way. At this moment, I can't even afford to buy one cup of tea,\" he said.\n\nI asked Dr Samadi how much oxygen Gulbadan needs.\n\n\"Two litres every minute,\" he said. \"When this cylinder gets empty, if we don't find another one, she will die.\"\n\nWhen we went back later to check on Gulbadan, we were told that's exactly what had happened. The oxygen cylinder had run out, and she died.\n\nThe oxygen production unit at the hospital isn't able to produce sufficient oxygen because it only has power at night, and there isn't a steady supply of raw material.\n\nWhen this [oxygen] cylinder gets empty, if we don't find another one, she will die\n\nIn a matter of a few hours, two children died of diseases that could have been prevented or cured. It's a crushing but all too familiar blow for Dr Samadi and his colleagues.\n\n\"I feel exhaustion and agony. Every day we lose one or two beloved children of Ghor. We have almost got accustomed to it now,\" he said.\n\nWalking around the rooms, we saw an overwhelming number of children in distress. One-year-old Sajad's breathing was raspy. He's suffering from pneumonia and meningitis.\n\nIn another bed is Irfan. When his breathing became more laboured, his mother Zia-rah was given another oxygen pipe to hold near his nose.\n\nWiping tears that rolled down her cheeks with her upper arm, she carefully held both pipes as steady as she could. She told us she would have brought Irfan to the hospital at least four or five days earlier if the roads had not been blocked by snow.\n\nSo many simply can't make it to hospital, and others choose not to stay once they get there.\n\n\"Ten days ago a child was brought here in a very critical condition,\" Nurse Sultani said. \"We gave him an injection, but we didn't have the medicines to cure him.\n\n\"So his father decided to take him home. 'If he has to die, let him die at home',\" he told me.\n\nMothers sit alongside children with oxygen cylinders - but the hospital is unable to provide sufficient quantities\n\nWhat we saw in Ghor raises serious questions about why public healthcare in Afghanistan is crumbling so quickly, when billions of dollars were poured into it by the international community for 20 years until 2021.\n\nWhere was that money spent, if a provincial hospital doesn't have a single ventilator for its patients?\n\nCurrently there is a stop-gap arrangement in place. Because money can't be given directly to the internationally unrecognised Taliban government, humanitarian agencies have stepped in to fund salaries of medical staff and the cost of medicines and food, that are just about keeping hospitals like the one in Ghor running.\n\nNow, that funding, already sorely inefficient, could also be at risk. Aid agencies warn that their donors might cut back because the Taliban's restrictions on women, including its ban on Afghan women working for the UN and NGOs, violates international laws.\n\nOnly 5% of the UN's appeal for Afghanistan has been funded so far.\n\nA burial ground in the hills near the hospital in Ghor, where at least half of the new graves belong to children\n\nWe drove up one of the hills near the Ghor hospital to a burial ground. There are no records or registers here, not even a caretaker. So it's not possible to find out who the graves belong to, but it's easy to distinguish big graves from small ones.\n\nFrom what we saw, a disproportionate number - at least half - of the new graves belong to children. A man who lives in a house close by also told us most of those they are burying these days are children.\n\nThere may be no way to count how many children are dying, but there is evidence everywhere of the scale of the crisis.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nCristiano Ronaldo has become the world's highest-paid athlete for the first time since 2017 following his move to Saudi Arabian side Al Nassr.\n\nForbes report the 38-year-old Portugal forward earned $136m (£108.7m) over the past 12 months.\n\nHis contract with Al Nassr is reportedly worth more than 200m euros (£176.5m) per year.\n\nArgentina's World Cup-winning captain Lionel Messi is second on Forbes' list having earned $130m (£103.9m).\n\nForbes' top 10 also features basketball star LeBron James and boxer Canelo Alvarez, while 20-time tennis Grand Slam champion Roger Federer is the only retired athlete on the list in ninth place.\n\nDustin Johnson (sixth) and Phil Mickelson (seventh) are the first golfers to make the top 10 since Tiger Woods in 2020.\n\nJohnson was not in the top 50 in 2022 but after becoming the first high-profile player to join the controversial Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational Series, he has rocketed up Forbes' rankings.\n\nThe American two-time major winner - who received $18m (£16.2m at the time) after winning the inaugural LIV Golf championship - earned $107m (£85.5m) over the past year.\n\nForbes say Mickelson, who earned $106m (£84.7m), surpassed $1bn in career earnings pre-tax last year.\n\nForbes' figures include both on-field earnings - including salaries, prize money and bonuses - and off-field earnings - sponsorship deals, appearance fees and memorabilia and licensing income.", "We could be entering the era of Alzheimer's treatments, after the second drug in under a year has been shown to slow the disease.\n\nExperts said we were now \"on the cusp\" of drugs being available, something that had recently seemed \"impossible\".\n\nThe company Eli Lilly has reported its drug - donanemab - slows the pace of Alzheimer's by about a third.\n\nHowever two volunteers, and possibly a third, died as a result of dangerous swelling in the brain.\n\nDonanemab works in the same way as lecanemab, which created headlines around the world when it was the proven to slow the disease.\n\nBoth are antibodies like those the body makes to attack viruses. But these are engineered to clear a sticky gunk from the brain, called beta amyloid.\n\nAmyloid builds up in the spaces between brain cells, forming distinctive plaques that are one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's.\n\n\"The decades-long battle to find treatments that change Alzheimer's disease is changing,\" Dr Cath Mummery, the clinical lead for the cognitive-disorders clinic at the UK's National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, said.\n\n\"We are now entering the time of disease modification, where we might realistically hope to treat and maintain someone with Alzheimer's disease, with long-term disease management rather than palliative and supportive care.\"\n\nThe full details of Eli Lilly's trial have yet to be published - but it has revealed the key findings:\n\nHowever, brain swelling was a common side-effect in up to a third of patients.\n\nIt was mostly mild or asymptomatic despite being detected on brain scans - but 1.6% developed dangerous brain swelling, with two deaths directly attributed to it and a third volunteer dying after such a case.\n\n\"We are encouraged by the potential clinical benefits that donanemab may provide, although like many effective treatments for debilitating and fatal diseases, there are associated risks that may be serious and life-threatening,\" Eli Lilly group vice-president of neuroscience research and development Dr Mark Mintun said.\n\nThe company said it would begin the process of having its drug approved for use in hospitals in the next few months.\n\nDr Liz Coulthard, from the University of Bristol, said there were \"significant side-effects\" and a lack of long-term data but the drug could \"help people live well with Alzheimer's for longer\".\n\nHaving two drugs slow the disease by targeting amyloid in the brain has also convinced scientists they are on the right track after decades of misery and failure.\n\n\"This should dispel any lingering doubts about this approach,\" Prof John Hardy, from the UK Dementia Research Institute, whose work led to the idea of targeting amyloid, 30 years ago, said. \"Having two drugs is great for competition.\"\n\nDr Susan Kolhaas, from Alzheimer's Research UK, said: \"We're now on the cusp of a first generation of treatments for Alzheimer's disease, something that many thought impossible only a decade ago.\"\n\nHowever, these drugs appear to work in only the earliest stages of the disease - before the brain is too damaged.\n\nAnd if they are approved in the UK, it would still take a revolution in how the disease is diagnosed to make a difference.\n\nOnly 1-2% of people have either brain scans or a spinal-fluid analysis to determine whether they actually have Alzheimer's or another form of dementia against which the drugs would be useless.\n\nAnd the NHS would have to decide whether it could afford them. Lecanemab costs more than £21,000 per person per year.", "Prosecutors in Serbia have stated that the suspect in the school shooting in Belgrade may not face criminal charges, due to his age.\n\nThe age of criminal responsibility in Serbia is set at 14 years old. But the suspect is still two months shy of his 14th birthday.\n\nPolice will continue to investigate his involvement in the deaths of his classmates and a school security guard. But, as things stand, prosecutors will not be able to bring criminal charges.\n\nIt may be possible to hold the boy’s parents responsible. Both of them have already been taken into custody.\n\nPolice say that the father held permits for the two pistols which were found in the suspect’s possession at the time of his arrest. They are holding him on suspicion of committing serious offences against general security.\n\nSerbia’s president, Aleksandar Vučić, says the suspect will be transferred to a psychiatric facility. The boy is being assessed by social workers, who will check whether he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the attack.\n\nA prosecutor has told Serbian media that actions after that will be carried out by the social work service.\n\nVučić also insists that it is “impossible for no one to be held accountable” for the shooting.\n\nHe suggests lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 12 years old – as well as a range of restrictions on gun ownership and use.", "The artwork has been unveiled in Orangefield Park in east Belfast\n\n\"For every dark night there's a brighter day.\"\n\nThat's the message a group of young men in east Belfast is hoping inspires and gives comfort to people struggling with their mental health.\n\nThe young men have been meeting as a group every week since the death of one of their friends last year and have now unveiled a public art piece in a local park, in his memory.\n\nAdam Woods was 21 when he died of an accidental drug overdose.\n\nThe artwork is part of a project based in Orangefield Park.\n\nThey hope it will also promote mental health awareness among young people who use the park.\n\nThe initiative has been supported by community groups including East Belfast Alternatives and Communities in Transition as well as Belfast City Council.\n\nAdam Woods was 21 when he died last year\n\nCameron Watson, who is part of the group, believes the opportunity to meet up each week and have a laugh with mates helps young people who may be sad or depressed.\n\n\"It's brilliant because you never know, someone could be sitting in their house and they could be feeling very low, very down,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We do it every Thursday night. Having a chat for an hour, an hour and a half, it could make somebody's week.\"\n\nThe group said the project has been in the works for about one year\n\nDaniel Hodos also paid tribute to his friend at the art's unveiling.\n\n\"Adam's just another one of those unfortunate people to have lost their lives to the mental health crisis we have in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\nAnother of the group's participants, Luke Allison, hopes the project will help older generations have a better understanding about young people in the area and hear their voices.\n\n\"I think there's a bit of a divide with people not understanding us and thinking maybe we're just messers, we're young lads, we're negative, we're anti-social,\" he added.\n\n\"This just shows how much we aren't and how we're going to be the future of this place.\"\n\nThe group hopes the artwork will change perceptions about young people\n\nAdam's mother, Lynda Woods, told BBC News NI she was overwhelmed by the effort that has gone into the project.\n\n\"It's just a testament of what they think of Adam and how much he touched their lives,\" she said.\n\n\"They're just so articulate and so passionate about mental health and helping the community.\"\n\nAdam's family and friends want the inscription on the art piece, \"for every dark night there's a brighter day\", to be an inspiration to other young people who may be struggling with their mental health.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this article you can find help and advice at BBC Action Line.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is the physical toll of loneliness?\n\nA top US health official has warned the country is facing an epidemic of loneliness that is as dangerous to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.\n\nSurgeon General Vivek Murthy told BBC News he was among millions of Americans who have experienced a \"profound sense of loneliness\".\n\nUS health authorities are calling for social isolation to be treated as seriously as obesity or drug abuse.\n\nNearly 50% of all Americans are thought to have been affected.\n\nMr Murthy said in an interview that his own battles with loneliness came during and directly after his first stint as Surgeon General ended in April 2017.\n\n\"I had neglected my family and my friends during that time, thinking that it was too hard to focus on work, and focus on family and friends,\" he said.\n\n\"I was really suffering from the consequences of that, which were a profound sense of loneliness that followed me for weeks, which stretched into months.\"\n\nLoneliness is reported to increase the risk of premature death by almost 30% - through health conditions including diabetes, heart attacks, insomnia and dementia.\n\nLack of social connection is also linked to lower academic achievement and worse performance at work, according to a new advisory.\n\nMr Murthy said that loneliness is a \"profound public health challenge\" that \"we should talk about\" and address.\n\n\"It... may surprise people to learn that the increased risk of premature death that's associated with social connection is on par with the risks that we see from smoking daily, and greater than the risk we see associated with obesity,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why an 'epidemic' of loneliness affects health\n\nThe issue has been exacerbated by the Covid pandemic, which led many people to reduce the size of their social circles.\n\nOne study quoted in the report found a 16% decrease on average in the social network size of participants from June 2019 to June 2020.\n\nIn order to tackle this, Mr Murthy has called for a collective effort to \"to mend the social fabric of our nation\" in order to \"destigmatise loneliness and change our cultural and policy response to it\".\n\nHis strategy has six pillars that include efforts to strengthen social infrastructure in communities, in part by utilising public health systems.\n\nThe advisory calls for more \"pro-connection public policies\" that are developed with the help of a research agenda to help address gaps in the data surrounding the effects of social isolation.\n\nIt also highlights the need for more data transparency from tech firms and a reform of digital environments.\n\nAdditionally, Mr Murthy said that there \"are steps we can take as individuals\", such as spending 15 minutes with loved ones, avoiding distractions such as devices while speaking to people, \"and looking for ways to help one another\".\n\n\"Service is a powerful antidote to loneliness,\" he said. \"These can all help\".\n\nThe advisory is part of the Biden administration's broader efforts to address mental health, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Monday. May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the US.\n\nWhile the declaration is intended to increase awareness, no new promises of federal funding to combat the issue have so far been made.", "The BBC's South Asia correspondent Yogita Limaye reports from an Afghan hospital where dozens of children are critically ill with preventable diseases.\n\nIt comes as Unicef estimates 167 children under five die each day from these types of illnesses.", "The UK's financial watchdog has announced plans to shake up its rules in a bid to attract more companies to list shares on UK stock markets.\n\nIt comes after British tech firm Arm and other businesses have shunned the UK and chosen to list in the US.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said its proposals would simplify regulations to make the UK \"more competitive\" with stock markets abroad.\n\nBut there are concerns the changes could erode shareholders' rights.\n\nArm's decision to list in the US raised concerns over the attractiveness the UK's stock markets.\n\nThe Cambridge-based firm, which designs microchips, is reportedly aiming to raise up to $10bn (£8bn).\n\nHermann Hauser, who pioneered Arm's technology whilst at Acorn computers, told the BBC this week that the New York stock exchange was \"much deeper\" than London's while Brexit had harmed the UK's image as place to do business.\n\nThe FCA's proposals include replacing two listing categories with one single one and removing the requirement for shareholders to have a vote on transactions such as acquisitions.\n\nNikhil Rathi, chief executive of the FCA, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that this will simplify the rules and \"make it easier for companies to join the market quicker\".\n\nHe said it will also allow the founders of technology firms to hold onto controlling shares for longer.\n\nBut he added that there would be more risk for investors, who would have to \"get to know companies better\" before investing.\n\nWhile the UK has been Europe's biggest financial hub for many years, listings in the country have dropped by 40% since 2008, according to a government review.\n\nThe revamp of the listing rules also comes after the boss of Microsoft hit out at the UK after the firm was blocked from buying US gaming firm Activision. He claimed the EU was a better place to start a business.\n\nWith the government making one of its post-Brexit goals to bring in a \"light-touch\" set of rules for science and technology to encourage economic growth, companies deciding to list abroad and British firms being taken over by overseas ones has stoked fears that the UK failing to compete.\n\nListing a firm on a stock exchange takes it from being a private to a public company, with investors able to buy and sell shares on specific exchanges. Companies usually list on stock exchanges to gain access to a wider range of investors.\n\nThe FCA said it wanted to make the rules companies must follow to be allowed to list their shares in the UK, \"more effective, easier to understand and more competitive\".\n\nIt said the current regulations had been seen by some as \"too complicated and onerous\", though it pointed out decisions by firms to list are based on more factors than regulation alone, such as taxation and investment opportunities.\n\nThe changes include replacing existing \"standard\" and \"premium\" listing categories with one single category and set of requirements.\n\nIt would mean eligibility criteria that can deter start-ups and newer companies are removed, the FCA said.\n\nCurrently, businesses wanting to list shares on any of the FTSE indexes - which include some of the largest global firms - have to hold a premium listing and are required to comply with the UK's highest standards of regulation and pay substantial costs.\n\nThe FCA has also proposed the removal of mandatory shareholder votes on transactions such as acquisitions to reduce barriers to companies pursuing their business strategies.\n\nInvestment groups broadly welcomed the plans, but there were warnings that the current proposals could erode shareholders' rights and undermine market standards.\n\nRichard Wilson, chief executive of interactive investor, said his firm \"strongly\" supported the principles of reforming the listing rules, but said \"eroding shareholder rights risks undermining market standards, and this is not the right answer\".\n\nHe warned that removing mandatory shareholder votes on transactions was a \"major red flag\".\n\nAnne Fairweather, head of government affairs and public policy at investment company Hargreaves Lansdown, said the move from the FCA was \"welcome\", but said there needed to be consideration over the impact removing some investors' rights would have.\n\n\"A focus on disclosure and engagement of investors, rather than reems of paper in a prospectus which aren't read, is welcome,\" she added.\n\nAndrew Griffith, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, said the proposals were an \"important step forward\" in improving the international competitiveness of the UK.\n\n\"We are the largest financial centre outside the US but we recognise that companies and investors have a choice and it is important our rule book keeps pace with practices elsewhere whilst still benefiting from the high-quality reputation of our markets,\" he said.\n• None Bid to make financial terms and conditions clearer", "Two Russian ships were seen in this satellite photo at the blast site three months before the explosions\n\nRussian ships able to perform underwater operations were present near to where explosions later took place on the Nord Stream pipelines, according to an investigative documentary.\n\nThe vessels were reportedly located using intercepted Russian navy communications.\n\nUnderwater explosions last September knocked the two Nord Stream pipelines - built to carry gas from Russia to Europe - out of action.\n\nThe cause of the blasts is unclear.\n\nFormal investigations are still taking place in countries close to the blast site. So far, they have said only that they believe the explosions were the result of sabotage rather than any kind of accident.\n\nBut one possible lead pointing towards Russian involvement has emerged from details of suspicious Russian ship movements in the run-up to the Nord Stream blasts, reported by four Nordic public broadcasters and an accompanying English-language podcast Cold Front.\n\nAnd Denmark's Defence Command has confirmed a separate report that a Danish patrol boat called Nymfen took 26 photos of a Russian submarine-rescue ship in the area days before the explosions. The Information website said the SS-750 had sailed from Kaliningrad and was close to Bornholm island on 22 September 2022.\n\nThe investigation by Denmark's DR, Norway's NRK, Sweden's SVT, and Finland's Yle focuses on the movements and actions of ships between June and September last year which they describe as highly unusual.\n\nThe ships are believed to include the Russian naval research vessel Sibiryakov, the tugboat SB-123, and a third ship from the Russian naval fleet that the media outlets have not been able to identify by name.\n\nThese were so-called \"ghost-ships\", which had their transmitters turned off. The broadcasters, however, say they were able to track their movements, using intercepted radio communications the vessels sent to Russian naval bases.\n\nJust five days before the blasts, Russian tug SB-123 reportedly arrived at the site and stayed for an entire evening and night\n\nThe first vessel departed from a Russian naval base in Kaliningrad before arriving near the pipeline on 7 June.\n\nOne radio message places it directly above Nord Stream 2 before moving further north, close to the Nord Stream 1 pipelines, spending hours in the area where the pipeline runs about 80m (260ft) below the surface and where some of the leaks would later occur.\n\nThe Sibiryakov arrived on 14 June and went to the same position as the first vessel, close to Nord Stream, and remained there until the next day.\n\nThe movements were tracked by a former British naval intelligence officer, who worked on interception of the Russian Baltic Fleet until he retired in 2018. The anonymous officer says he used open-source information and radio communications to carry out his research.\n\nHe says the pattern of radio communications in June indicated they were in an \"operational phase\" at some points.\n\nThe tugboat, the SB-123, sailed out to the area on the evening of 21 September. The broadcasters say they intercepted communications that suggest it was operating close to the pipelines and the areas of the explosion from late that evening until around 14:00 on 22 September.\n\nThe tugboat is also mentioned in the Information story about the SS-750 submarine-rescue ship, which followed up a German report in March of suspected Russian involvement in the area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Underwater drone footage of the damage to the Nord Stream pipeline\n\nSatellite imagery examined by the broadcasters is said to support the claims about the unusual routes, and other reports in Germany had claimed it was in the area on 21-22 September.\n\nThe Sibiryakov is believed to be capable of underwater surveillance and mapping as well as launching a small underwater vehicle. It can be used to support and rescue submarines and has the ability to carry out operations on the seabed, according to experts interviewed by the broadcasters.\n\nThe Nordic broadcasters do not say there is conclusive proof of what the vessels were up to or that Russia was behind the blast. But the documentary raises questions about the unusual nature of the activity.\n\nLast month the series revealed that Russian vessels appeared to be mapping out wind farms in the North Sea, including off the UK coast.\n\nRussia has consistently denied any involvement in the blasts.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath, some in the West pointed the finger at Russia, while Moscow blamed Western countries, including the UK.\n\nMore recently, there were reports that intelligence pointed towards pro-Ukrainian operatives, although not the Ukrainian government itself.", "Leeds United: Javi Gracia sacked and replaced by Sam Allardyce at struggling Premier League club Last updated on .From the section Leeds United\n\nSam Allardyce's more recent Premier League jobs have included spells at West Brom, Everton and Crystal Palace Leeds United have sacked manager Javi Gracia and appointed former England boss Sam Allardyce in a bid to avoid relegation from the Premier League. Spaniard Gracia, appointed in February, has been dismissed after just 10 weeks and 12 games in charge at Elland Road. Allardyce, 68, is tasked with guiding 17th-placed Leeds, who are out of the bottom three only on goal difference, to safety with four games remaining. His first game in charge is against Manchester City on Saturday. 'A desperate throw of the dice' - the Don't Go To Bed Just Yet podcast discusses Leeds appointing Allardyce\n• None Gracia out, Allardyce in - listen to a Don't Go To Bed Just Yet podcast special\n• None 'A club in meltdown turns to the old street fighter' Allardyce - who will be assisted by former MK Dons, Charlton and Oxford United manager Karl Robinson - told Talksport it \"took him two seconds to say yes\" to the job. \"I was shocked. I never thought at this stage of the season [this would happen]. I thought there would be no jobs,\" he said. He added: \"I could have done with more time, but we've got four games and hopefully I can keep this fabulous club in the Premier League.\" Director of football Victor Orta left the club by mutual consent on Tuesday having been in disagreement with the board over Gracia's position. Gracia was appointed on a \"flexible contract\" on 21 February - two weeks after the dismissal of former boss Jesse Marsch, who was sacked less than a year after replacing Marcelo Bielsa. The 53-year-old Gracia's final match in charge was Sunday's 4-1 defeat at Bournemouth. It was the club's latest heavy defeat under the former Watford boss, following 6-1, 5-1 and 4-1 thrashings by Liverpool, Crystal Palace and Arsenal respectively last month. It also meant the Whites' winless run extended to a fifth match - including four losses - since a 2-1 victory over Nottingham Forest on 4 April.\n• None Quiz: Can you name the footballers who played under Big Sam? In a statement, Gracia said he was \"grateful for the opportunity\" and \"proud of the team\" after a \"very intense period\". \"I am confident the team will achieve its objective. It is a committed squad full of quality,\" he said. Gracia also paid tribute to Orta, describing him as \"honest, sincere and committed to the club\". Leicester, Leeds and Nottingham Forest are all on 30 points - one more than 19th-placed Everton Gracia, who led Watford to the FA Cup final in 2019 before spells at Valencia and Qatari side Al Sadd, won three of his 12 games in charge as Leeds manager. In a promising start they kept a clean sheet in a 1-0 win over Southampton in his first match at Elland Road but more recently they have been on the receiving end of a number of heavy losses. Gracia's dismissal takes the total of managerial changes in the Premier League to 15 for the season - five more than in any other previous campaign. Leeds are the fourth top-flight side to have sacked two managers this season. Allardyce to do 'all I can' Allardyce has four games to guide the Yorkshire club to safety, however Leeds have arguably the most difficult run-in among their relegation rivals with Manchester City, Newcastle United, West Ham and Tottenham to come. Having previously worked with Leeds chief executive Angus Kinnear at West Ham, Allardyce becomes Leeds' fourth manager this season, with Michael Skubala having been interim head coach prior to Gracia's appointment. Allardyce has been out of management since the end of the 2020-21 season when his West Brom side were relegated from the Premier League - the first top-flight relegation of his managerial career. Speaking to Talksport about the \"difficult games\" ahead, Allardyce said: \"We can only do what we can try and achieve, from my point of view, that is stopping the goals from going in. \"We've conceded 28 goals in the last 10 or 12 games and that has to stop if we're going to get out of trouble. We're needing to score three goals every game to win. \"If we're left to do that, that will be impossible. I'm doing all I can with the staff to try and get the players out of trouble.\"\n• None Our coverage of Leeds United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Leeds - go straight to all the best content", "Voters are electing councillors and mayors across England\n\nVoting for councillors and mayors is continuing across many parts of England, in the biggest round of local elections since 2019.\n\nA total of 230 councils are holding elections, with voters choosing the councillors they want to run services in their local area.\n\nMayors are being elected in Bedford, Leicester, Mansfield and Middlesbrough.\n\nVoting is taking place between 07:00 and 22:00 BST, with the results due on Friday.\n\nFor the first time in England, voters need to show photo ID in polling stations - passports, driving licences and some other forms of ID can be used.\n\nSome voters have taken photos of their dogs outside polling stations, in what has become an election-day tradition in recent years.\n\nThe first results are expected just after midnight on Friday morning, with 65 councils counting votes overnight.\n\nThe rest will begin counting later on Friday morning, and results will continue to come in throughout the day, including for the four mayoral races.\n\nThe final result is expected to be announced around 20:00 BST on Friday, although this could be later depending on factors such as recounts.\n\nElections are not taking place in London, Scotland or Wales.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Opens in a new browser tab More information about these elections Who won in my area? Enter your postcode, or the name of your council area to find out To find your council candidates and polling station\n\nCouncil elections in Northern Ireland have been moved back to Thursday 18 May because of the Coronation of King Charles III on Saturday.\n\nMost of the councils up for election in England are district councils, responsible for services including bin collections, parks, public housing and planning applications.\n\nOther services in these areas such as roads, schools, social and care services are managed by county councils which are elected at a different time.\n\nThe rest of the councils being elected on Thursday are a mixture of metropolitan and unitary ones - single local authorities that deal with all local services.\n\nThe elections mark the first time in England that voters are required to show ID to cast their ballot in person.\n\nPassports, driving licences, and older or disabled people's bus passes are among the documents that will be accepted at polling stations.\n\nThose without the right ID were encouraged to apply for a new free voter certificate, the deadline for which closed last week.\n\nThe BBC, like other broadcasters, is not allowed to report details of campaigning or election issues while polls are open.\n\nOn polling day, the BBC does not report on any of the election campaigns from 00:30 BST until polls close at 22:00 BST on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC, however, is still able to report on other political events and stories which are not directly related to the elections.", "The Kremlin's airspace is supposed to be under heavy guard\n\nA dramatic statement from the Russian presidential administration claimed that Ukraine had used two drones to attack the Kremlin - at the heart of Moscow - overnight.\n\nRussian forces apparently used radar equipment to disable the drones. There were no casualties, and the president was unhurt, it said.\n\nBut the Kremlin did call it \"an assassination attempt\" against Vladimir Putin.\n\nA number of videos then surfaced. They appear to show at least one drone flying towards the Kremlin, followed by an explosion. Another appears to show smoke rising from a Kremlin structure, and a fire. The BBC has been unable to verify that it was a drone and it is unclear what really happened.\n\nBut if what the Kremlin is saying is true, and this was a genuine attempt on the president's life, then it would be a highly embarrassing incident for the Kremlin.\n\nBy all accounts, Mr Putin appears to be one of the most closely-guarded leaders in the world. At his events in Moscow attended by BBC journalists, extremely tight security has been in place, including extensive checks and long convoys of vehicles, with airspace closed and traffic halted.\n\nQuestions will now be asked about how well-protected the Russian leader is - and about the effectiveness of Russian air defences.\n\nIn recent months, anti-aircraft systems have been spotted on Moscow rooftops in the vicinity of key buildings, including the defence ministry. They have been placed there precisely for this reason - because the Kremlin is concerned that Ukraine, or those sympathetic to Ukraine, may attempt to carry out aerial attacks on high-value targets.\n\nIf that's what this incident was, then those measures failed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is the latest in a string of attacks and explosions that have hit Russian territory in recent weeks and months.\n\nThe last few days have seen a spike in such incidents. On Wednesday morning, a fuel depot caught fire in Russia's Krasnodar Region, reportedly caused by a drone attack. Two freight trains were derailed in Bryansk Region, near the border with Ukraine, on Monday and Tuesday, in separate but identical incidents. The local governor said improvised explosive devices were to blame.\n\nOver the weekend, Russia-installed officials in occupied Crimea claimed Ukrainian drones were responsible for an attack on a fuel storage facility.\n\nThe frequency of such attacks is causing nervousness amongst ordinary Russians.\n\nRussian media report that police in Moscow have been inundated with calls from the public reporting drone sightings in the capital.\n\nUkraine has vehemently denied attacking the Kremlin or targeting President Putin. But whether the Russian account of what happened is accurate or not, the question now is whether Moscow will respond - and if so, how.\n\nSome Russian officials have already called for tough action. An assassination attempt against the president, if that's what this was, is an extremely serious matter. Russian generals have warned many times of harsh responses to strikes on Russian territory.\n\nBut does Russia have the capacity to carry out any meaningful retaliatory strikes? It remains to be seen whether this incident will lead to any significant escalation on the battlefield.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLionel Messi will leave Paris St-Germain this summer at the end of his current contract.\n\nThe Argentine World Cup winner had reached an 'agreement in principle' to extend his stay for another year but neither club nor player now want to sign the deal.\n\nMessi is unconvinced the club can compete at the top of the European game, due to financial issues, while the French champions want to focus on developing young talent.\n\nHe signed a two-year deal in Paris in 2021 with an option to renew for another year but that will now not be activated.\n\nIt is understood his father Jorge Messi informed Paris St-Germain's football advisor Luis Campos a few weeks ago.\n• None Why Messi's dream return to Barca looks unlikely\n\nThe player believes PSG's budget could be limited next season to comply with Financial Fair Play rules - putting the quality of their squad at risk.\n\nHis reluctance to commit to a new deal in recent months has frustrated PSG's Qatari owners, who believe Messi's lack of response was a clear message he didn't want to stay\n\nThe 35-year-old was suspended by PSG for two weeks on Tuesday after travelling to Saudi Arabia without the club's permission.\n\nBarcelona and Messi would be keen on securing a dream return for the forward to the Nou Camp but, with the La Liga leaders facing severe financial difficulties, a move back 'home' looks increasingly unlikely.\n\nHe also has interest from Inter Miami in Major League Soccer and an eyewatering offer of about 400m euros (£354m) to play in Saudi Arabia for a year with Al-Hilal.\n\nMessi though believes he can still compete at the top of European football for another season - eyeing the chance to win a fifth Champions League trophy - but, with a move to Barcelona looking impossible, his options are looking increasingly limited.\n\nMessi has scored 31 goals and contributed 34 assists in 71 games in all competitions for PSG, and won the Ligue 1 title last season.\n\nHe is set to miss matches against Troyes and Ajaccio as PSG, five points clear with five games to go, look to clinch a ninth league title in 11 seasons.\n\nMessi, Barcelona's all-time top scorer with 672 goals in 778 games, left the Nou Camp in 2021 because of financial issues at the club.\n\nHe is favourite to win an eighth Ballon d'Or in October, which is three more than any other player, after winning the World Cup with Argentina in December.\n• None 'The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life': Joe Wicks learns why sleep is fundamental to our health\n• None How many footballing milestones do you know? Test yourself in this fun quiz", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Met Gala: Lizzo and Sir James Galway get suited and fluted\n\nUS singer Lizzo has written a gushing tribute to her musical idol - and fellow flautist - Sir James Galway after they duetted at the Met Gala.\n\nThe pair performed for sharply-dressed guests at the prestigious fashion event in New York on Monday night.\n\nFor Lizzo it was an opportunity to play with her hero; for Sir James it was late-night rehearsals, trips to the Vogue offices and keeping big secrets.\n\n\"It was amazing - she is a very good player,\" said Belfast-born Sir James.\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that he \"really enjoyed\" the gig and he praised Lizzo's performance.\n\nNicknamed \"the man with the golden flute\", 83-year-old Sir James is a world-renowned classical musician and has previously claimed to be Lizzo's number-one fan.\n\nThe adoration is clearly mutual.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by lizzobeeating This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an Instagram post on Wednesday night Lizzo shared a video of her playing with Sir James and said he had \"changed the trajectory\" of her life.\n\nShe wrote that when she was 11 years old and learning the flute she needed a challenge and found Sir James's 1976 album The Man With The Golden Flute.\n\nShe added: \"Now, years later I had the honour to play beside Sir James Galway, and receive lessons from him and even play his alto flute.\n\n\"I can confidently say I wouldn't be the musician I am today without his influence.\n\n\"Thank you for everything this week. You are truly the King of Flutes and I can't wait to play with you again.\"\n\nThe annual Met Gala is one of the biggest events in the New York celebrity calendar, raising money for the city's Metropolitan Museum of Art.\n\nTickets are rumoured to cost upwards of $50,000 (£40,000) and the 400 or so guests are handpicked by organiser Anna Wintour, Vogue's editor-in-chief.\n\nBig, bold fashion statements are the order of the night and this year the guests were asked to wear outfits in honour of German designer Karl Lagerfeld, who died in 2019.\n\nLizzo, pictured on the red carpet at Monday's Met Gala, is best known for massive pop hits such as Good As Hell, About Damn Time and Juice\n\nLizzo dazzled in a long, black gown donned with strings of pearls and wore matching black leather gloves and Chanel earrings.\n\nThe Grammy-winning singer and classically-trained flute player was chosen as the performer for Monday's event and she and Sir James duetted on The Flight Of The Bumblebee.\n\nSir James and his wife live in Switzerland but were in New York to visit friends and family when they were invited to join Lizzo at the gala.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, he praised Lizzo as a \"great entertainer\".\n\n\"When she gets on the stage she takes full command,\" he said.\n\n\"It was quite funny - they wanted to give us chairs and Lizzo complained so they came up with these two thrones.\n\n\"I was definitely impressed, she was very respectful.\"\n\nHis wife Lady Jeanne Galway said they had been sworn to secrecy ahead of the event but ultimately had a spectacular night.\n\nSir James Galway has sold tens of millions of records in a career spanning six decades\n\n\"When we first met Lizzo at the rehearsal on Saturday at 11pm at night she came and she bowed down to my husband and said what an honour it was,\" she said.\n\n\"She kept saying to me: 'I'm so nervous, I'm so nervous, he's my idol.'\"\n\nLady Galway said the performance was centred around the flute \"and that's why they wanted Sir James\".\n\n\"It started with 18 flautists planted around the hall and they're in incredible costumes.\n\n\"It was the most elegant group and they were so quiet when Sir James and Lizzo were playing.\"\n\nLady Galway, also a famous flautist who regularly duets on tour with her husband, spoke of her amazement at the Met Gala.\n\nLizzo often plays a flute during her live performances\n\n\"We had to sign more forms to secrecy that Sir James was playing,\" she said.\n\n\"And when we got invited Sir James said, typically: 'Ah, I don't think I want to get involved in this. This is going to be very complicated.'\n\n\"But the team is so professional and they brought us down by car to Vogue and they would give him anything he wanted to wear.\n\n\"They refitted my gold dress with pearls and they couldn't have been kinder.\n\n\"[The performance] was spectacular - it was a minute-and-a-half on stage but it was a strong minute-and-a-half.\n\n\"Then they went into the rest of the gala and the afterparty and we went home.\"", "The New York City medical examiner has ruled a subway passenger was killed by a chokehold after a fight with another passenger that was caught on camera.\n\nOfficials say Jordan Neely's death was caused by homicide, from \"compression of neck [chokehold]\".\n\nVideo of the incident shows Mr Neely, 30, struggling as another man grabs him and holds him on the ground.\n\nPolice have questioned and released the 24-year-old US Marine who restrained the passenger.\n\nHomicide means a death caused by another person, but is not necessarily a murder. It is now up to police and prosecutors to determine if charges are warranted.\n\n\"As part of our rigorous ongoing investigation, we will review the Medical Examiner's report, assess all available video and photo footage, identify and interview as many witnesses as possible, and obtain additional medical records,\" a spokesman for Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement following the ruling.\n\n\"This investigation is being handled by senior, experienced prosecutors and we will provide an update when there is additional public information to share,\" he added.\n\nThe incident happened on Monday afternoon on the F-line train in the SoHo section of Manhattan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Wednesday, a rally for Mr Neely was held on the train platform near to where he died.\n\n\"Justice for Jordan Neely,\" the crowd chanted, according to CBS. \"If we don't get it, shut it down.\"\n\nNew York City Mayor Eric Adams urged the public to be patient and allow the investigation to determine all of the facts. \"There are so many unknowns at this time,\" he told CNN.\n\n\"We cannot just blanketly say what a passenger should or shouldn't do in a situation like that,\" he added.\n\nA video captured by a freelance journalist on the train shows the former Marine holding the 30-year-old man - who was said to have been acting erratically - around the neck for two minutes and 55 seconds.\n\nTwo other riders are also seen restraining his arms. All three later let go of the man, who is then seen lying motionless on the floor.\n\nPolice sources told BBC's US news partner CBS that the man who died was throwing rubbish and yelling at passengers. Mr Neely was a Michael Jackson impersonator and was living on the streets, according to US media.\n\nOfficers arrived at the scene at about 14:27 local time (19:27 BST) and found the man unresponsive. He was later taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\n\nJuan Alberto Vazquez, the freelance journalist who filmed the incident, told the New York Times that the deceased man was screaming on the train before he was restrained.\n\n\"'I don't have food, I don't have a drink, I'm fed up,'\" the man screamed, according to Mr Vazquez. \"'I don't mind going to jail and getting life in prison. I'm ready to die.'\"\n\nHe added the passenger was frightening, but had not assaulted anyone. At the time of the incident, Mr Vasquez said he did not believe the man would die.\n\n\"None of us were thinking that,\" he told the New York Times. \"He was moving and he was defending himself.\"\n\nNew York Governor Kathy Hochul called the video \"deeply disturbing, and that causes a lot of fear for people\".\n\nShe said the state would work with the city to determine whether homelessness and access to mental health services \"were a factor here\".", "Evacuees with soldiers boarding an evacuation flight in Sudan\n\nThe final UK evacuation flight has now left Sudan, the government has announced.\n\nIt had said previously the last flight would leave on Wednesday, with British officials who have been working on the evacuation expected to be on board.\n\nAn update by the Foreign Office said the last flight had left Port Sudan and that no more would be running.\n\nThe airlift - which began amid a tentative ceasefire last week - has seen more than 2,300 people rescued.\n\nThose taken to safety included Britons, their dependents, Sudanese NHS staff and other eligible nationalities.\n\nA renewed 72-hour ceasefire was due to end at midnight local time on Wednesday. The Foreign Office had warned that, following the end of the agreement, violence in the country could escalate.\n\nDozens of people were evacuated on flights that left Sudan on Wednesday.\n\nThe country - the third largest in Africa - was plunged into crisis after fighting broke out between rival military factions on 15 April.\n\nHundreds have been killed, according to official figures, but it is feared the actual death toll is much higher, and tens of thousands have already been displaced in a growing humanitarian crisis.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the UK's focus would shift to providing humanitarian aid, though he warned that any continuing conflict was likely to impede relief efforts.\n\n\"We have given aid to Sudan, we are giving support to countries in the region, we will continue to push for an extension of the ceasefire and a permanent end to the conflict because that is the best way to maximise the effectiveness of our humanitarian support,\" he said.\n\nForeign Office advice for British nationals still hoping to leave Sudan is that unscheduled chartered ships will be operating from Port Sudan to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.\n\nIt also states that British Embassy staff remain temporarily available on the Egyptian side of the Egypt-Sudan border to provide support.\n\nThe UK government joined other countries in evacuating citizens from Sudan after the commercial airport was taken out of action by fighting and communication networks went down.\n\nInitial evacuation flights organised by the British military left from an airstrip close to the capital Khartoum, but the operation was moved to the eastern coastal city of Port Sudan, which has been less affected by fighting.\n\nDespite criticism the UK government was slow to start its evacuation, the Foreign Office says it has now overseen \"the longest and largest operation of any Western nation\".\n\nDiplomats were also rescued in an earlier operation involving special forces after fighting broke out around the embassy.\n\nAre you in Sudan? Or have you been airlifted to safety? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The UK should open more shared banking hubs to help those who feel uncomfortable managing their finances online, a charity has said.\n\nBank hubs - which are spaces shared by several different High Street lenders - are meant to help communities that have seen all their bank branches close.\n\nBut only four hubs have opened so far, while an average of 54 UK branches have shut each month since January 2015.\n\nAge UK said older or vulnerable people could struggle with online banking.\n\nThe charity's research suggests 27% of over-65s and 58% of over-85s rely on face-to-face banking.\n\nCharities and consumer groups have called for an acceleration in the introduction of banking hubs, when all branches have closed in an area.\n\nThese hubs have counter services run for the major banks, often by the Post Office.\n\nThey also have a dedicated room where customers visit community bankers from their own bank, with different banks visiting on different days of the week. The costs of the hub are shared between the participating banks.\n\nAnother 48 banking hubs have been agreed for areas across the UK, but they can take 12 months to find a premises and get up and running.\n\nBanks have pointed to the large reduction in branch use - a trend accelerated by the Covid pandemic - and the popularity of managing money via smartphones, as good reason for diluting their branch network.\n\nBut Age UK said its survey suggested those who were most likely to feel uncomfortable using online banking were aged over 85, female, on a low income, or more disadvantaged than their counterparts.\n\nAmong those who were uncomfortable, the key concerns about online banking were fraud and scams, a lack of trust in online banking services, and a lack of computer skills.\n\nThe survey size becomes relatively small when broken down, but Age UK said that 34% of those with an annual income of less than £17,500 mainly banked face-to-face, compared to 15% of those with an income of £30,000 to £49,999 a year.\n\nSeparate figures show that, since the start of 2020, more branches have closed in poorer parts of the UK than in better-off areas.\n\nIn its report called \"You can't bank on it anymore\", Age UK said it was vital that physical banking spaces were protected. It said the last bank in town should remain open until a hub is ready to open.\n\nCaroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said: \"We need to face up to the fact that huge numbers of older people, the oldest old, especially, are not banking online. Even older people who do bank online often want the ability to talk to a bank employee in the flesh about some kind of transaction.\n\n\"A lack of face-to-face banking will only serve to further exclude the millions of people on a low income who have no or limited access to the internet.\"\n\nJohn Howells, chief executive of cash machine and cash access network Link, said: \"It is vital to protect face-to-face banking services for the millions of consumers who rely on cash.\n\n\"The proposed national network of shared banking hubs being provided by the banking industry are proving a popular and easy to use way to do that.\"", "There is \"no drama\" over whether the public swear allegiance to the King during his Coronation, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.\n\nGuests watching the service will be invited to join \"a chorus of millions\" to swear allegiance in the service led by Justin Welby.\n\nThe \"homage of the people\", revealed on Saturday by Lambeth Palace, is a new addition to the ancient ceremony.\n\nBut campaign group Republic called it \"nonsense\" and \"offensive\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC News, the archbishop reiterated the oath was \"an invitation; it's not a command\".\n\nThe King held an audience with the Archbishop of Canterbury ahead of Saturday's Coronation\n\n\"In every Anglican service, every Christian service, it is normal for congregations to participate,\" he said.\n\n\"It's an invitation - so if you want to join in at this point, by all means do so.\n\n\"If you don't want to, that's fine. There's no drama to it.\"\n\nAsked about some newspaper reports suggesting he had gone \"rogue\", the archbishop insisted the service had been a \"huge, collaborative [with Buckingham Palace and the Cabinet Office] and very lovely process\".\n\nThe full details of the Westminster Abbey service were published by Lambeth Palace over the weekend, including that the theme of the service will be \"called to serve\".\n\nThe public will be given an active role in the ceremony for the first time as they are invited to swear allegiance to the King in a \"great cry around the nation and around the world\".\n\nThis \"homage of the people\" will replace the traditional \"homage of peers\" - where hereditary peers swear allegiance to the new monarch.\n\nWhile reading out the oath, the archbishop will call upon \"all persons of goodwill in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of the other realms and the territories to make their homage, in heart and voice, to their undoubted King, defender of all\".\n\nThe order of service will read: \"All who so desire, in the abbey, and elsewhere, say together:\n\n\"I swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.\"\n\nThe oath will be followed by the sound of a fanfare.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury will then proclaim: \"God Save The King\", and those willing will be asked to respond: \"God Save King Charles. Long live King Charles. May the King live forever.\"\n\nGraham Smith, spokesman for Republic which campaigns for replacing the monarchy with an elected head of state, said: \"In a democracy it is the head of state who should be swearing allegiance to the people, not the other way around.\n\n\"This kind of nonsense should have died with Elizabeth I, not outlived Elizabeth II.\"", "Anti-monarchy groups are being told they have the right to protest but not to disrupt others\n\nAnti-monarchy groups will be allowed to protest at the King's Coronation, security minister Tom Tugendhat told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nHis comments came after one group planning a demonstration on the Coronation route was warned of new laws banning \"serious disruption\".\n\nRepublic, which campaigns to abolish the monarchy, accused the Home Office of sending an intimidatory message.\n\nIt comes as the Met details security measures in place this weekend.\n\nThe operation around the Coronation will be one of the largest in the history of the Metropolitan Police, with protests and any threats to crowds to be closely monitored.\n\nThe Public Order Act came into effect on Wednesday and days beforehand, officials from the Home Office's Police Powers Unit wrote two letters to Republic to list how it had tightened laws on the right to protest.\n\nRepublic is co-ordinating demonstrations across the UK and has held talks with the Met over a protest in London's Trafalgar Square, as the King's procession passes.\n\nIt says police chiefs have accepted its demonstration is lawful and peaceful.\n\nThe group hopes up to 1,700 supporters will gather around the statue of Charles I, who was beheaded in 1649, and hold yellow placards declaring \"Not My King\".\n\nA Home Office letter sent on 28 April does not mention the protest, but the unnamed official tells Republic: \"I would be grateful if you could publicise and forward this letter to your members who are likely to be affected by these legislative changes.\"\n\nGraham Smith, the organisation's chief, described that letter as \"intimidatory\".\n\nHe said there had been two constructive face-to-face meetings with Scotland Yard's public order commander, who had been entirely satisfied that the plan was legal and peaceful.\n\nMr Smith said: \"We have gone through our plans - where we are going to be, what placards we have, and that we have no intention of doing anything disruptive. The police have repeatedly said they have no concerns about our plans and we can turn up and do what we are planning.\n\n\"The tone and the anonymity [of the 28 April letter] feels like a passive-aggressive attempt to put us off. I don't know why the Home Office has sent this, given it's the police's job to police. The lawyers were perplexed why it was sent.\"\n\nDowning Street has said the \"right to protest is fundamental\", with Rishi Sunak's spokesperson saying the prime minister \"would hope that everyone would come together and recognise this is a moment of national unity\".\n\nDefending the Home Office letters, Mr Tugendhat told the BBC that anti-monarchy groups have the \"liberty that anybody in the United Kingdom has to protest, what they don't have the liberty to do is to disrupt others\".\n\nHe added that the complexity of the security operation for the Coronation was heightened by the presence of foreign leaders.\n\n\"It's perfectly possible that we're dealing with protest groups that have nothing to do with the UK, but are seeking to protest against a foreign leader who's visiting, or seeking to make a complaint about something that's happening hundreds or thousands of miles away,\" he said.\n\nMr Tugendhat refused to discuss what actions could be punished at the Coronation \"for fear of encouraging people to find loopholes\", but said they were introduced in response to protests in the UK becoming \"disruptive\" and \"intrusive\".\n\nOfficers are being drafted in from forces elsewhere in the country to bolster policing numbers\n\nThe Met said more than 11,500 police will be on duty in London on Saturday - including 9,000 on the procession route between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey - and almost 30,000 involved in total in the lead-up and Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nFirearms officers will be ready to respond to any incidents, alongside marine support on the Thames, the dogs unit and Special Constabulary officers.\n\nAround 1,000 officers are being drafted in from forces elsewhere in the country to bolster numbers.\n\nThe Met said in a statement that its \"tolerance for any disruption\" would be low, and that it will \"deal robustly with anyone intent on undermining this celebration\".\n\nPrecautions are likely to be on a similar scale to the security operation surrounding the Queen's funeral, which saw armed officers stationed on top of buildings monitoring the crowds.\n\nCentral London is already being scoured and areas where explosive devices could be hidden, such as under manhole covers or inside lamp-posts, will be repeatedly checked.\n\nThe Met will use live facial recognition cameras which scan faces and search for matches against a watch list - in this case, police say, people whose presence would \"raise public protection concerns\" including those wanted for arrest or have outstanding warrants.\n\nCivil liberties campaigners have deep concerns about the technology - accusing it of being inaccurate and of little policing benefit. Madeleine Stone of Big Brother Watch said \"thousands of innocent people attending this historic event must not be treated like suspects in a line-up.\"\n\nThe 2023 Public Order Act is the government's second major piece of legislation changing protest laws in under two years.\n\nIn 2022 MPs voted to place greater restrictions on public processions if they are too noisy.\n\nThe new act goes further:\n\nThe Home Office describes the laws as \"sensible and proportionate measures\" in response to actions by groups such Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain that have caused \"serious disruption\".\n\nJust Stop Oil called the bill \"the latest in a string of increasingly repressive laws, enabling police to make any protest illegal before it has even happened\".\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "Moscow says it downed two drones that were targeting the Kremlin last night, accusing Ukraine of attempting to kill President Vladimir Putin.\n\nOne video circulating on Russian social media appears to show an object flying and exploding above the dome of the Senate Palace. Another shows a cloud of smoke rising over the Kremlin. These have not been verified by the BBC.", "A forensic and pathology review has been ordered in the case of a Fife man who died from a stab wound to the chest.\n\nColin Marr, 23, died from a single blow from a kitchen knife in 2007 after a row with his fiancée Candice Bonar.\n\nHis family have long challenged the original police conclusion that it was suicide. Ms Bonar has always maintained her innocence.\n\nThe first phase of a police review of the case started in 2021 and has now ended, the Crown Office has revealed.\n\nScotland's prosecution service has said that it and Police Scotland are now \"instructing reviews of the forensic and pathology aspects of Colin's case\".\n\nThe forensic and pathology aspects of the original investigation into Colin's death have been challenged by independent experts.\n\nLeading pathologist Dr Nat Cary has previously said it was \"both possible and plausible\" that Colin's injury was \"inflicted by a third party\", and questioned previous police reports on the location of the stab wound.\n\nIn a recent letter to the Marr family, Dr Cary said the death \"is and always was a homicide until satisfactorily proven otherwise\".\n\nHe added: \"To achieve penetration would have required severe force. Removal may also have required significant force because of a pinching effect when bone is penetrated.\n\n\"The pathological findings are not typical of self-infliction in that there are no tentative wounds.\"\n\nColin, pictured here as a teenager and as a baby with mum Margaret, grew up in Fife\n\nA statement from the Marr family said they \"clearly welcome\" the latest update from the Crown Office.\n\nIt added: \"It is two years past since we presented police with evidence from Dr Nat Cary that clearly states the location of the wound, and thus the significance of the wound, in terms of Colin's death being a homicide.\n\n\"Not only does it raise significant questions, it also gives Colin a chance of getting justice.\"\n\nBoth the then Fife Police and the Crown Office previously produced reports that were critical of the original investigation into Colin's death and issued apologies to his family.\n\nColin's stepdad Stuart Graham handed over a cache of material about the case to Police Scotland in 2021.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Geddes - who led the cold case review of the Renee and Andrew MacRae murders - has been in charge of re-examining Colin's case.\n\nColin's fiancée Ms Bonar has been interviewed three times by the police and voluntarily appeared in person at the 2011 fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into his death.\n\nAt the inquiry Sheriff Alastair Dunlop said he could not decide if the death was suicide or homicide.\n\nSpeaking after the FAI, Ms Bonar said: \"My name is cleared. I have always been honest and declared my innocence throughout this heart-breaking nightmare.\n\n\"What Colin did, he did to himself and that's the truth.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"We appreciate the importance of this work to the family and they will be informed of significant developments.\n\n\"Once further inquiries are complete, all the evidence will be reviewed by a prosecutor who has had no previous involvement in the case.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Deborah appears in her final radio interview with her friend Tony Livesey\n\nThe emotional final on-air conversation between Dame Deborah James and BBC presenter Tony Livesey has been voted moment of the year at the UK radio industry's annual awards.\n\nThe You, Me and the Big C podcaster, who also set up the Bowelbabe cancer research fund, died last year aged 40.\n\nShe made a touching last appearance alongside Livesey on BBC Radio 5 Live last May, shortly before her death.\n\nIt was named the Radio Times Moment of the Year at the Aria Awards on Tuesday.\n\nIn the interview, Livesey was heard refusing to say goodbye, while thanking Dame Deborah and offering \"a big warm hug\".\n\nShe responded by thanking him back for his support, as well as listeners for \"coming on this crazy journey with us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tony Livesey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLivesey, who was on hand to pick up the award, told the Radio Times last month that ending the call was one of the hardest things he has ever had to do.\n\n\"I couldn't put the phone down as I knew it would be the last time I would speak to her,\" he said. \"We were like young kids on a date - 'you put it down', 'no you put it down.'\n\n\"In the end she put the phone down. And that was the last time I ever spoke to her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Remembering Dame Deborah James: 'One of those special people'\n\nDame Deborah launched the podcast with fellow cancer patients Lauren Mahon and Rachael Bland, to explore life with and myths about the disease. It won the Arias' impact award on Tuesday evening at London's Theatre Royal.\n\nAnother of the night's winners also focused on life, death, love and loss. US comedian Rob Delaney's A Heart That Works, a memoir about his young son Henry who died of a brain tumour, took the award for best audiobook or reading.\n\nRob Delaney's book and audiobook tackle the topic of his son's death\n\nOther winners included comedian Romesh Ranganathan - for his BBC podcast For the Love of Hip Hop - as well as BBC radio DJs Craig Charles and Tony Blackburn.\n\nBlackburn won the pioneer award shortly before being discharged from London's Wellington hospital, where he had been for three weeks with a chest infection.\n\n\"After my treatment and a rest I look forward to getting back at Radio 2 and BBC local radio to doing what I love doing,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tony Blackburn This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nElsewhere at the awards, run by the Radio Academy, 1Xtra's Nadia Jae picked up the prize for best music breakfast show. 5 Live Breakfast won best speech breakfast show and TalkSport's Adrian Durham was named best speech presenter.\n\nRadio 4 won UK station of the year, and In Dark Corners - its investigation into historical sexual abuse at Scottish schools - was named best factual series.", "George Michael won a fan poll with more than one million votes\n\nKate Bush and George Michael are among the artists who will be inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at this year's ceremony, it has been announced.\n\nThe stars will be joined on the roll of honour by country legend Willie Nelson and singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow.\n\nArtists are eligible to enter the hall 25 years after their first single, and rap innovator Missy Elliott makes the cut in her first year of eligibility.\n\nBush had been nominated three times before - in 2018, 2021 and 2022.\n\nWhile she has not released new music since 2011, she has seen a resurgence in popularity thanks to the use of Running Up That Hill in hit drama Stranger Things.\n\nKate Bush could make a rare public appearance if she accepts the honour in person\n\nThe song went viral on TikTok after the Netflix show premiered last year, ultimately going on to top the charts in the UK, 38 years after it was first released.\n\nIf the star travels to New York to accept her induction, it would mark her first public appearance since 2014. Most musicians who enter the Rock Hall attend and perform at the ceremony, although some have declined.\n\nBush's Hall of Fame nomination prompted some controversy, after one of the voters admitted they were not acquainted with her songs. Bush's career in the US was never as mainstream as the UK.\n\nSpeaking anonymously to Vulture about the 2023 nominees, the voter said: \"I've got to admit that I'm not too familiar with her music, so I don't know if I would vote for her. I want to make sure I know the catalogue.\"\n\nTheir comment sparked an angry response from fellow singer Courtney Love, who tweeted: \"Bro! The rest of us have been LIVING KATE BUSH since 1977!\"\n\n\"Too much power in the hands of IDIOTS,\" she added.\n\nCourtney Love was incensed that Kate Bush had not been inducted to the Hall of Fame on her previous three attempts\n\nIn a later column for the Guardian, Love argued that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which was established in 1983, was guilty of marginalising female artists.\n\nThe musician noted that only nine of the 31 people on the nominations committee are women, and claimed that 90% of the voters are male.\n\nOf the 13 artists being inducted this year, four are women - with soul legend Chaka Khan receiving the musical excellence award, which recognises artists \"whose originality and influence creating music have had a dramatic impact on music\".\n\nNominees who didn't make the cut this year included Cyndi Lauper, the White Stripes, Joy Division/New Order and A Tribe Called Quest.\n\nGeorge Michael won a fan vote, which was counted alongside official ballots in deciding this year's inductees. The former Wham! frontman picked up 1.04 million votes, putting him just ahead of Lauper, who received 928,000 votes and Warren Zevon, on 634,000.\n\nMichael's induction comes on the 40th anniversary of Wham's debut album, Fantastic. The milestone is also being marked by a Netflix documentary and a new greatest hits collection.\n\nMissy Elliott is considered one of the most important rappers of all time, who changed the landscape of hip-hop with her eccentric beats and innovative rhymes.\n\nHer hits include Supa Dupa Fly, Get Ur Freak On and Lose Control - and she has produced and written songs for others including Aaliyah, Destiny's Child and Ciara.\n\nShe was back in the UK charts last month with a guest verse on the song Fly Girl by British girl group Flo. The track itself is inspired by, and samples, Elliott's 2002 track Work It.\n\nMissy Elliott's futuristic, alien beats changed the sound of rap, pop and R&B in the 90s and 2000s\n\nSheryl Crow started out as a backing singer for Michael Jackson, before breaking out as a solo artist with the classic album Tuesday Night Music Club, a record that grew out of late-night jam sessions and brought blues and country back into mainstream pop.\n\nOther inductees this year include LA firebrands Rage Against The Machine and R&B group The Spinners (known as the Detroit Spinners in the UK) whose hits include Could It Be I'm Falling In Love and The Rubberband Man - which became a hit again in 2018 after being featured in the Marvel film Avengers: Infinity War.\n\nSir Elton John, who was inducted in 1994, will be joined in the Hall of Fame by his lyricist Bernie Tapuin; while DJ Kool Herc will be honoured on the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.\n\nThe musician, whose real name is Clive Campbell, is considered the originator of the genre, thanks to a back-to-school party he threw in New York in 1973.\n\nThere, he pioneered the technique of playing two copies of the same song at once, alternating between turntables to extend the instrumental portions of funk and soul records, which became the foundation stone of hip-hop.\n\nAnd Willie Nelson will be recognised in his 90th birthday year for a stellar career that spans seven decades.\n\nThe country legend started out as a songwriter in the 1960s, penning hits like Patsy Cline's Crazy and Ray Price's Night Life. He later became a leading voice of the outlaw country movement, achieving commercial success with the albums Red Headed Stranger and Stardust.\n\nThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony will be held at the Barclays Center in New York in November.", "British number one Emma Raducanu will miss the French Open and Wimbledon while she recovers from hand and ankle surgery \"for the next few months\".\n\nShe posted a photo of herself in hospital with her right hand bandaged after a \"minor procedure\", saying she was having one on the left too.\n\nRaducanu, 20, has been hampered by a series of injuries since her stunning 2021 US Open victory.\n\n\"It pains me to say I will miss the summer events,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I tried to downplay the issues so I thank all my fans who continued to support me when you did not know the facts,\" Raducanu wrote in a social media post.\n\n\"It is is safe to say the last 10 months have been difficult as I dealt with a recurring injury on a bone of both hands.\n\n\"I tried my best to manage the pain and play through it for most of this year and end of last year by reducing practice load dramatically, missing weeks of training as well as cutting last season short to try to heal it. Unfortunately it is not enough.\"\n\nThe hand problems - involving a bone very close to the wrists - brought an early end to her season in 2022 and have since flared up at various points this year, including last week when she withdrew from the Madrid Open just hours before she was scheduled to play her first-round match.\n\nShe is set to drop out of the top 100 in the world rankings next week and is likely to be replaced by Jodie Burrage as British number one in the coming weeks.\n\nShe will miss the French Open, which starts later this month, as well as the grass-court season including Wimbledon.\n\n\"I'm disappointed to share that I will be out for the next few months and while I am at it I will have another minor procedure that is due on my ankle,\" said Raducanu, who rolled her left ankle playing on a slick indoor court in her first event of the year in Auckland.\n\n\"Looking forward to seeing you all back out there.\"\n\nWhile the hope is that she will be back on the training court at the end of the summer, it means that her participation remains doubtful for the US Open, which gets under way at the end of August.\n\nRaducanu's management team say Wednesday's procedure on her right, racquet-playing hand was straightforward and there should be no concerns about her long-term recovery.\n\nShe is likely to have the operation on her left ankle before the procedure on her left hand. The second hand operation is expected to take place in the next two weeks, to ensure she always has one hand free for everyday tasks.\n\nHow Raducanu has struggled with injuries since US Open win\n\nAfter her incredible run to the US Open title in September 2021, where she became the first qualifier to win and also did so without dropping a set, Raducanu's bid to build on that success has been repeatedly derailed by a series of injuries, niggles and illness.\n\nThey have stopped her making deeper runs at tournaments, with the Briton failing to go beyond the second round at any of the Grand Slams since her New York triumph and she has also not won any more titles on the tour.\n\nHer withdrawal from the Madrid event last week came the day after a tense news conference, where she used just 58 words to answer 16 questions, several of which were about her fitness.\n\n'A break might be what Raducanu needs' - analysis\n\nAn attempt to manage Emma Raducanu's injury did not work, but there was no blame in trying. Tennis players do not make a decision to have surgery lightly - especially on hands and wrists.\n\nMissing Wimbledon - in particular - will hurt, but better to sacrifice one grass court season if it increases your chance of playing a further 10.\n\nRaducanu has been able to play just nine matches this year. It has been a tale of frustration with the exception of Indian Wells in March, where she beat two top-20 players en route to the fourth round.\n\nHer withdrawal from the ongoing Madrid Open means Raducanu will drop out of the world's top 100 next week. By the end of the US Open, she will probably find herself barely inside the top 200.\n\nBut that really doesn't matter, especially at the age of 20.\n\nRaducanu will only be able to \"protect\" her current ranking if she is absent for at least six months.\n\nSo, assuming she returns before late October, Raducanu will have to resume her career on the ITF World Tennis Tour - unless she accepts the wildcards which are sure to be on offer because of her stunning 2021 US Open triumph.\n\nWhether she should take them is another matter. Raducanu will need matches, and lots of them, and they are much more likely to be provided at a lower level.\n\nA break from tennis may also be just what Raducanu needs.\n\nShe often looks drawn, and the pleasure she used to derive from the sport seems to have disappeared.\n\nThe pressure to perform by fans and sponsors alike must be draining, especially when life on court is far from a bed of roses.\n\nThose expectations should be reduced when Raducanu does return. Maybe now she will have the chance to work her way up the rankings in a more conventional way, rather than jumping, as she did in New York in 2021, from 150 to 23 in the space of two heady weeks.", "Michael Allen, 32 was named as the man who died at the scene\n\nA man has been charged with murder after the fatal stabbing of a \"much-loved son\" near a Cornwall nightclub.\n\nMichael Allen, 32, died at the scene in Bodmin on Sunday, and seven other people were stabbed.\n\nJake Hill, 24, of Jubilee Terrace, Bodmin, is charged with murder, three counts of attempted murder and two counts of Section 18 causing grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nHe will appear at Truro Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said officers were called at 03:15 BST on Sunday to Victoria Square in Castle Canyke Road following reports of a person with a knife and multiple people having suspected stab wounds.\n\nSeven people were taken to hospital - one is still recovering after surgery, while the other six have been discharged.\n\nMr Allen's family described him as a \"much-loved son, brother, grandson and uncle, who loved his dogs\".\n\nThe family wished to \"respectfully request privacy at this time\", their statement added.\n\nAnyone with any information is asked to report it to Devon and Cornwall Police on the Major Incident Public Reporting site, under Operation Limbas.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on... the Russian social media videos appearing to show Kremlin drone attack\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied his country carried out an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin, which Russia says was an attempt on President Vladimir Putin's life.\n\n\"We don't attack Putin or Moscow. We fight on our territory. We are defending our villages and cities,\" he said, speaking on a visit to Finland.\n\nThe Russian president's office said defences downed two drones overnight.\n\nIt threatened to retaliate when and where it considered necessary.\n\nUnverified footage circulating online shows smoke rising over the Kremlin - a large government complex in central Moscow - early on Wednesday. A second video shows a small explosion above the site's Senate building, while two men appear to clamber up the dome.\n\nThe Russian presidency said Ukraine had attempted a strike on Mr Putin's residence in the Kremlin and described it as \"a planned terrorist act and an assassination attempt on the president\".\n\nOfficials said two drones targeting the complex had been disabled using electronic radar assets, adding that President Putin had not been in the complex at the time of the alleged attack.\n\nBut Ukraine has said the Russian accusations are merely a pretext for massive attacks on its territory and the US says it is treating the Russian claims with a lot of caution.\n\nMr Putin appears to be one of the most closely-guarded leaders in the world. At Putin events in Moscow attended by BBC journalists, extremely tight security has been in place, including extensive checks and long convoys of vehicles with airspace closed and traffic halted.\n\nHowever if what the Kremlin is saying is true, it will raise questions about how well protected the president really is.\n\nThere will also be scrutiny over the effectiveness of Russian air defences. In recent months, anti-aircraft systems have been spotted on Moscow rooftops in the vicinity of key buildings.\n\nThey have been placed there because the Kremlin is concerned that Ukraine, or those sympathetic to Ukraine, may attempt to carry out aerial attacks on high-value targets.\n\nWhatever actually happened on Wednesday morning, the question now is how Russia will respond. Some officials have already called for tough action. Russian generals have warned many times of harsh responses to any strikes on Russian territory.\n\nBut it is unclear whether Russia has the capacity to carry out meaningful retaliatory strikes, or whether this incident will lead to any significant escalation on the battlefield inside Ukraine.\n\nA Ukrainian presidential adviser told the BBC the incident indicated Russia could be \"preparing a large-scale terrorist provocation\" in Ukraine.\n\nMykhailo Podolyak said attacking Moscow made no sense for Ukraine but would help Russia justify its own attacks on civilian targets.\n\nOn Wednesday Russian strikes on Ukraine's southern Kherson region killed 21 people. Mr Zelensky said the shelling had hit \"a railway station and a crossing, a house, a hardware store, a grocery supermarket and a gas station\". The victims included supermarket customers and employees of an energy company who were performing repairs, officials said.\n\nMr Podolyak added that any drones flying over locations in Russia were down to \"guerrilla activities of local resistance forces\".\n\n\"Something is happening in RF [Russian Federation], but definitely without Ukraine's drones over the Kremlin,\" Mr Podolyak said.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he could not validate Russia's accusation that Ukraine had tried to kill Mr Putin, but said he would take anything the Russian presidency said with a \"very large shaker of salt\".\n\nMick Mulroy, a former US deputy assistant secretary of defence and CIA officer, told the BBC that if reports of the incident were accurate, it was \"unlikely\" to be an assassination attempt as Ukraine tracks President Putin's movements closely and he was not in Moscow at the time.\n\n\"This may have been to show the Russian people that they can be hit anywhere and that the war they started in Ukraine may eventually come home to Russia, even the capital,\" he said.\n\nAlternatively, if the reports were not accurate, \"Russia may be fabricating this to use as a pretext to target President Zelensky - something they have tried to in the past\", Mr Mulroy said.\n\nRussia also noted the alleged drone incident had come shortly before Russia's 9 May Victory Day parade in Moscow, which foreign dignitaries were expected to attend.\n\nThe parade will go ahead as planned, Russian officials said.\n\nMoscow's mayor on Wednesday announced a ban on unauthorised drone flights over the city.\n\nSeveral Russian cities had already announced they would scale back this year's Victory Day celebrations.\n\nRussian authorities have cited security reasons and attacks from pro-Ukrainian forces for the changes. Explosions and fires have occurred in Russia in recent weeks.", "British nationals waiting to board an RAF aircraft in Sudan\n\nThe final UK rescue flights are expected to take off from Sudan on Wednesday, the government has said.\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly said British nationals still wanting to leave the country should go to the Coral Hotel in Port Sudan by 10:00 local time (09:00 BST).\n\nHe added that there would be \"no further British evacuation flights\" from the city.\n\nSome 2,341 people have so far been airlifted to safety on 28 UK flights.\n\nIt was previously thought the evacuation had ended on Monday when planes left Sudan for Cyprus.\n\nThe UK government has described its evacuation as \"the longest and largest operation of any Western nation\".\n\nThose rescued during the airlift include Britons, their dependents, Sudanese NHS staff and other eligible nationalities.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Downing Street said 1,195 British nationals had been airlifted out so far.\n\nLast week, a negotiated, short-term ceasefire allowed UK evacuation flights to take off from an airstrip near Khartoum, while the fragile ceasefire held.\n\nOn Monday evening, two additional evacuation flights left Port Sudan carrying mainly British nationals.\n\nThe most recent two flights brought 144 people to safety.\n\nSpeaking earlier in the House of Commons, Africa Minister Andrew Mitchell told MPs the evacuation had \"been extremely successful\".\n\nHe said the UK was maintaining a diplomatic presence in Port Sudan, as well as at Sudan's borders with Egypt and Ethiopia.\n\nAnd the HMS Lancaster ship is off the coast to support Britons.\n\nEfforts are now focused on Port Sudan, \"helping British nationals there who are seeking to leave\", Mr Mitchell said.\n\nHe went on: \"Foreign Office staff who remain are helping British nationals to leave the country, signposting options for departure.\n\n\"British nationals in Port Sudan who require support should visit our team without delay.\"\n\nHe said ending the violence \"remains essential\", and said that \"aid operations are now at a standstill\".\n\nPreviously, BBC Newsnight had reported that 24 NHS doctors had been unable to board evacuation flights to the UK.\n\nMPs were told that the latest figures showed 22 of them had now been evacuated out of the country.\n\nA Sudanese paediatrician whose family's passports were locked in the British embassy in Khartoum has now been evacuated.\n\nElham Babikir, who had been offered a job at Telford NHS Trust and granted a visa, was in the final stages of moving to the UK when the fighting broke out. Along with her husband and three young children, she was consequently stranded in Sudan.\n\nAfter fleeing to the countryside, she eventually travelled to Port Sudan to seek assistance from the British authorities based there. In the last 24 hours she was granted a place on an evacuation flight after an intervention from the NHS.\n\nShe said: \"The officials there were so nice to us… The NHS helped with our evacuation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Baby meets father for first time after evacuation from Sudan to UK\n\nSpeaking earlier on Tuesday to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Cleverly said the focus was shifting to providing humanitarian aid, though he warned that relief efforts were likely to be impeded by continuing conflict.\n\nFighting in the country is in its third week, with thousands of people fleeing since the conflict broke out.\n\nFighting erupted last month between the Sudanese military and paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as they wrestled for control of the country - with the capital Khartoum at the centre of the heaviest fighting.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have fled the country since fighting broke out on 15 April, the United Nations has said, with a further 334,000 people displaced within Sudan.\n\nOfficials are warning of an \"all-out catastrophe\" if fighting does not end.\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC has announced the launch of an emergency radio service to be broadcast into Sudan.\n\nThe pop-up radio service, to be broadcast twice daily for three months on the BBC World Service, will provide \"crucial\" news and information for people based in the war-torn African nation.\n\nIt will include eyewitness accounts and news on diplomatic efforts, the BBC said, and help counter disinformation.", "Members of the UK's armed forces have paraded through the streets of central London during the night in a full dress rehearsal for the King's coronation.\n\nThe procession will feature more than 6,000 men and women from the UK and Commonwealth countries.\n\nDressed in military attire, military personnel practised their positions in rows on horseback and on foot in preparation for Saturday's event, accompanying the Gold State Coach on its journey from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey.\n\nAll photographs are subject to copyright.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA teenager who killed eight fellow students and a security guard in a school in Serbia planned the attack for weeks and had a \"kill list\", according to police.\n\nThe 13-year-old was arrested following Wednesday's attack at the Vladislav Ribnikar primary school in Belgrade.\n\nThe boy's father and mother have also been arrested.\n\nOf those killed, seven of the victims were girls at the school, but the motive for the attack is still unclear.\n\nAnother six pupils and a teacher were injured in the shooting, four more boys and two girls.\n\nA boy who was shot in the neck and chest is said to have suffered the worst injuries, while a girl is in critical condition with a head injury.\n\nOfficers in helmets and bulletproof vests cordoned off the area around the school, located in the central Vracar neighbourhood, shortly after 08:40 (06:40 GMT).\n\nThe suspect is alleged to have used his father's guns, both of which had legal permits. He is also said to have gone to a shooting range more than once with his father before the killings.\n\nIn a televised address to the country, President Aleksandar Vucic described the attack as \"the most difficult day in the modern history of our country\".\n\nHe said the suspect would be sent to a psychiatric clinic. Under current Serbian law, he cannot be held criminally responsible as he is under 14.\n\nMr Vucic has suggested that the age of criminal liability may be lowered to 12 in the wake of the killings.\n\nHe has also proposed several other reforms, including an audit on firearms licences and a tightening of the rules around who can access shooting ranges.\n\nPolice say the suspect planned the attack a month in advance and that he had carried a \"priority list\" of children to target and which classrooms he would go into first.\n\nFour of those wounded, three boys and another girl, were stable and conscious on Wednesday.\n\nA teacher injured in the attack was also reported to have undergone surgery and the health minister said on Tuesday her life was at risk.\n\nMost of the victims were born in 2009 - meaning they were either 13 or 14 at the time of the incident.\n\nA national three-day mourning period starting on Friday has been announced.\n\nTributes have been laid for the victims of Wednesday's shooting outside the school in central Belgrade\n\nThe sounds of crying parents could be heard on the streets around the school hours after the shooting.\n\nMilan Milosevic, the father of one of the pupils at the school, said his daughter was in the class where the gun was fired and managed to escape.\n\n\"[The boy] first shot the teacher and then he started shooting randomly,\" Mr Milosevic told broadcaster N1.\n\n\"I saw the security guard lying under the table. I saw two girls with blood on their shirts. They say he [the shooter] was quiet and a good pupil. He recently joined their class.\"\n\n\"I saw kids running out from the school, screaming. Parents came, they were in panic. Later I heard three shots,\" one student told the Serbian state broadcaster RTS.\n\nMr Vucic said the suspect had become friendly with the guard, who was described by one parent as \"a man who loved kids\".\n\nMass shootings are comparatively rare in Serbia, which has very strict gun laws, but gun ownership in the country is among the highest in Europe.\n\nThe western Balkans are awash with illegal weapons following wars and unrest in the 1990s. In 2019, it was estimated that there are 39.1 firearms per 100 people in Serbia - the third highest in the world, behind the US and Montenegro.\n\nIn the deadliest shooting since then, Ljubisa Bogdanovic killed 14 people in the central village of Velika Ivanca in 2013, and Nikola Radosavljevic killed nine and wounded five in the eastern village of Jabukovac in July 2007.", "A pregnant cow had to be rescued after falling down an embankment near Kilmuir on the Isle of Skye.\n\nFirefighters from Skye, Kyle of Lochalsh and Inverness along with vets went to the aid of the animal and its unborn calf.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service sent three fire appliances and a heavy rescue unit to the scene at Bornisketaig.\n\nAnimal rescue techniques developed by experts at University of Glasgow and vets were used to save the cow.\n\nStation commander Nick Nethercott said: \"The rescue took several hours and the animal was handed into the care of the farmer.\n\n\"I am pleased to say that the cow is at home in her barn and recovering well with her calf who made its arrival over the weekend.\"\n\nThe rescue was carried out last Thursday.", "King Charles III was the Prince of Wales for 64 years, longer than any of his predecessors\n\nA distinctly Welsh thread will weave through the King's coronation ceremony on Saturday at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe presence of the royal harpist and Sir Bryn Terfel, along with the Welsh words that will be sung in Westminster Abbey, reflect the commitment Charles showed to promoting Welsh culture during his 64 years as Prince of Wales.\n\nBut how much did Charles influence Welsh life, and what did Wales do to the man who would be king?\n\nCharles at Cardiff Castle during his first visit to Wales as King\n\nThere is little doubt in the mind of Dame Shân Legge-Bourke about the affection Charles had for Wales.\n\nShe remembered hosting the young Prince of Wales at her home on the Glanusk Estate near Crickhowell, Powys, where he went to \"retreat\" while studying for a term at Aberystwyth University in 1969.\n\n\"It was a good place for him,\" Dame Shân recalled. \"He loved fishing, and so he could come here and completely switch off on his own, with nobody else around. Rod in hand, and catch fish.\"\n\nThe solitude was rare for a young, shy prince.\n\n\"Nobody knew he was here. And in those days we didn't have any paparazzi. Not to the extent that we do now. Nobody had a clue when he was coming, or when he left.\"\n\nCharles and Camilla celebrating Welsh culture with the First Minister Mark Drakeford at their home in Carmarthenshire\n\nIn the years since Dame Shân regularly met Charles during his visits as Prince of Wales, where she would witness his ability to charm and engage the people he met on the showground at the Royal Welsh Show.\n\n\"He would spot a badge on a lapel - supporting a rare breed, or bees - and literally stop as everyone is walking, and have a lovely conversation with them.\"\n\nIt showed the depth of his connection, Dame Shân argued, and that he was more than a figurehead on hand to cut a ribbon.\n\n\"I think it's what people have become aware of over the years, since he was a young man at Aberystwyth,\" she said.\n\nPrince Charles learning Welsh at an Aberystwyth University language laboratory in 1969\n\nWhen King Charles is crowned he will be the first monarch since Elizabeth I to be able to speak Welsh.\n\nHis Welsh crash course taken at Aberystwyth has allowed him to deliver speeches and greet friends in Welsh.\n\nHe also used it on several visits to the Senedd, where the former Presiding Officer Lord Elis-Thomas felt the monarchy had been essential in giving credibility to the young institution.\n\n\"Not only the credibility, but they were crucial, I believe, in it receiving a huge majority of constitutional support in Wales and beyond,\" he said.\n\nThe royal family was \"crucial\" to devolution says former Senedd Presiding Officer Lord Elis-Thomas\n\n\"In the making of early devolution, the contribution of the head of state, and the royal family, was crucial,\" Lord Elis-Thomas added.\n\nHe believes the Prince of Wales, a title now passed on to his son William, should be treated as more than a figurehead in Welsh life.\n\n\"I think it means that there is a continuity of the role of what I see, in my interpretation of the constitution, as a sort of devolved head of state for Wales.\n\n\"That's what I never thought could happen. But I thought it was always important to try to promote it as an idea.\"\n\nThere were protests during King Charles's visit to Cardiff Castle after his accession to the throne\n\nBy his own account, Lord Elis-Thomas has been on quite a journey in his attitude to monarchy and his relationship with the King.\n\nOther Welsh nationalists and republicans had been less enamoured with the presence of the Prince of Wales.\n\nBut the former Plaid Cymru politician Helen Mary Jones said she took a pragmatic approach.\n\n\"I completely understand my colleagues who took another route, and took a much more absolutist position,\" she said.\n\nWelsh republican Helen Mary Jones said she chose to work with King Charles when he was Prince of Wales\n\nCiting the respect that many in her constituency had for the monarchy, she said she chose to engage with the Prince of Wales and respect the royal openings of the Senedd.\n\n\"My republicanism is part of my politics, but it's not perhaps as central to my politics as it is to some other people. And there are so many institutions that you don't necessarily approve of. But if you need to work with them to get things done, then you do,\" she added.\n\nPart of Ms Jones's pragmatism came after witnessing the impact the prince's charities, such as the Prince's Trust and Business in the Community, could have on specific projects and individuals.\n\nKing Charles and Camilla at Llwynywermod the royal estate near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire\n\nCharles's friends say the decision to buy Llwynywermod, his home in Carmarthenshire, allowed him to forge closer ties with Wales and to host meetings to entertain and engage people with Welsh affairs.\n\nHis Welsh activity will reduce now that he is King, and his friend Justin Albert believes Charles will miss his time in Wales.\n\n\"I think he will miss, greatly, being Prince of Wales,\" Mr Albert said.\n\nJustin Albert said the King will miss being Prince of Wales\n\n\"I think he grew into the job from a very young age, and became an exemplar of the role. But whether he's the Prince of Wales, a royal or a monarch or anything, it doesn't matter.\n\n\"He actually was someone who loved Wales. And that's what we need in Wales, we need people who genuinely love us.\"\n\nFor all of his efforts to deepen his connection with Wales, it has been a delicate relationship to manage.\n\nThe protests against his accession to the throne in Cardiff may have been small compared with the large crowd who welcomed him as King, but they were bigger than any opposition he had faced in Wales and represented the establishment of a louder anti-monarchy movement here.\n\nThe republican sentiment found a voice as he took the throne, and there will be further protests around his coronation.\n\nProtesters gathered outside Cardiff Castle when Charles was being proclaimed as the King\n\nHis friends point to Treorchy in July 2022 as a counterpoint to public opposition to Charles.\n\nA couple of thousand people lined the high street in the Rhondda town to welcome Charles on what would become his last official Welsh tour as Prince of Wales.\n\nThe landlord of The Lion pub, Adrian Emmett, felt the support for the couple was representative of the mood at the time.\n\n\"It doesn't matter what your opinion was of the Royal Family, on the day the whole community came out,\" Mr Emmett recalled.\n\n\"We have all got memories from when we were younger when the Queen visited. So we are really thankful that we could give that memory to the younger generation as well.\"\n\nKing Charles at The Lion pub in Treorchy during his last Welsh tour at Prince of Wales in July 2022\n\nDuring his visit to the town the future King visited independent shops and spoke to some of the crowds who had lined the street.\n\n\"There was a massive buzz, not just then but for months afterwards,\" Mr Emmett said. \"People still come into the pub and ask where was he stood, which pint did he pull.\"\n\nAnd how did he rate the King's skill behind the bar?\n\n\"It wasn't the best pint! My customers would've complained about that, there was a bit of a head on it,\" Mr Emmett laughed.\n\nKing and Country: How Wales Made a Monarch will be broadcast at 16:00 BST on Saturday 6 May on BBC Radio Wales.", "President Putin carrying a photograph of his father during last year's Victory Day celebrations\n\nSeveral Russian cities have announced they will scale back this year's Victory Day celebrations.\n\nRussian authorities have cited security reasons and attacks from pro-Ukrainian forces for the changes.\n\nExplosions and fires have occurred in Russia in recent weeks.\n\nBut some have argued that the reduced events show the Kremlin is nervous about celebrations turning into shows of dissent against its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nGreat pomp and shows of military might are the usual hallmarks of Victory Day, which marks the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany on 9 May 1945.\n\nOne of the day's most recognisable events is the Immortal Regiment procession, which sees people across the country marching holding photographs of their relatives who fought in World War Two.\n\nLast year, President Vladimir Putin led the procession across Red Square in Moscow while holding a photograph of his father in uniform.\n\nThis year, however, the Immortal Regiment \"will be held in other formats for security reasons\", lawmaker and organiser Yelena Tsunayeva told journalists last month.\n\nAccording to a news release on the Immortal Regiment of Russia's website, Ms Tsunayeva suggested that those wishing to commemorate their relatives should instead place photos of war veterans in car windows, transfer their image to items of clothing, or change their social media avatars.\n\nSome commentators have said that an in-person Immortal Regiment procession could end up highlighting the number of Russian losses in Ukraine.\n\nDmitry Kolezev, a journalist and editor of a liberal news website, now living in exile, said that had the procession not been cancelled, people would have \"almost certainly come to the Immortal Regiment with portraits of those who died in Ukraine, and the number of recent photographs may turn out to be depressingly large\".\n\nMr Kolezev also said that the authorities might be concerned that a large gathering of people could snowball into a show of dissent. \"History knows of examples when loyal events turned into protests,\" he said on Telegram.\n\nViktor Muchnik, the former editor-in-chief of a Siberian TV network, who has also left the country, said the Russian state was \"maniacally suspicious\" and was less concerned about a \"hypothetical terrorist attack\" than it was about damage to its image.\n\nHe said that the Kremlin might fear that the procession will show \"too many portraits of those who died not 80 years ago, but over the past year\".\n\n\"This will give an idea of the hidden extent of the disaster,\" Mr Muchnik said in an interview.\n\nMeanwhile, the world-famous parade of military equipment on Moscow's Red Square, which is traditionally observed by President Putin, will be strictly closed off to the public.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia's security services were working to ensure the safety of the parade against \"terrorist attacks\".\n\n\"We are of course aware that the Kyiv regime, which is behind a number of such attacks, terrorist acts, plans to continue its campaign. All our special services are doing everything possible to ensure security,\" he said.\n\nTwo separate fires at fuel storage facilities have broken out in the last few days in southern Russia and in Russian-occupied Crimea, including one on Wednesday morning in the Krasnodar region near a bridge leading to the occupied Crimean Peninsula.\n\nThis week, two separate explosions in the Russian border region of Bryansk derailed freight trains, while power lines were destroyed by a suspected explosive device in Leningrad Region.\n\nAlthough none of these attacks have been claimed by Ukraine, Kyiv's military has said that undermining Russia's logistics formed part of preparations for its long-expected counter-offensive.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nAmerican sprinter Tori Bowie, a three-time Olympic medallist and former 100m world champion, has died aged 32.\n\nBowie won 4x100m relay gold at the Rio 2016 Olympics, plus 100m silver and 200m bronze.\n\nThe following year, she won the World Championships 100m in London, as well as relay gold.\n\nUSA Track and Field said Bowie's \"impact on the sport is immeasurable\", adding she will be \"greatly missed\".\n\nIn a post on Instagram , World Athletics said it was \"deeply saddened\" by her death.\n\nA statement from Team USA, the country's Olympic and Paralympic fraternity, added: \"She was an admired friend, team-mate, and a great representative of Team USA.\"\n\nIn an individual tribute, current 100m world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce said: \"My heart breaks for Tori Bowie's family. A great competitor and source of light.\n\n\"Your energy and smile will always be with me. Rest in peace.\"\n\nTwo-time men's world 200m champion and US record holder Noah Lyles said: \"This breaks my heart to hear and I will keep the family in my prayers.\"\n\nBowie converted from long jump in 2014 and had an immediate impact on the track, becoming the fastest woman in the world that year.\n\nShe is the only American woman to have won an Olympic or world 100m title since Carmelita Jeter in 2011.\n\nIcon Management, her agent, said: \"We're devastated to share the very sad news that Tori Bowie has passed away.\n\n\"We've lost a client, dear friend, daughter and sister. Tori was a champion…a beacon of light that shined so bright!\n\n\"We're truly heartbroken and our prayers are with the family and friends.\"", "The remains of an Australian man who vanished while fishing with friends have been found inside a crocodile.\n\nKevin Darmody, 65, was last seen at Kennedy's Bend - a well-known saltwater crocodile habitat in a remote part of northern Queensland - on Saturday.\n\nAfter a two-day search of the area, police euthanised two large crocodiles and found human body parts.\n\nPolice said it was a \"tragic ending\" for Mr Darmody. A formal identification process will be carried out.\n\nMr Darmody was an experienced fisherman and a well-known member of the community in Cape York.\n\nThe two crocodiles, which measured 4.1m (13.4 ft) and 2.8m (9.2 ft) in length, were shot dead on Monday about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) from where he was last seen.\n\nHuman remains were found inside only one of the reptiles, but wildlife officers believe both were involved in the incident.\n\nThe fishermen with Mr Darmody at the time did not see the attack, but reported hearing him yell, followed by a loud splash.\n\n\"I raced down… but there was no sign of him, just his thongs [flip-flops] on the bank and nothing else,\" his friend John Peiti told the Cape York Weekly.\n\nCrocodiles are common in Australia's tropical north, but attacks are rare. Mr Darmody's death is just the 13th fatal attack in Queensland since record-keeping began in 1985.\n\nA fisherman was killed by a crocodile in similar circumstances on Queensland's Hinchinbrook Island in 2021, and there were also fatal attacks in the state's far north in 2017 and 2016.\n\nSince a ban on hunting in 1974, Queensland's crocodile population has rebounded from a low of some 5,000 animals to around 30,000 today.\n\nA 2019 report suggested an average of 1.7 adult crocs living in each kilometre of river surveyed.\n\nUnder Queensland's management programme, \"problem crocodiles\" are removed from areas where they threaten public safety and, in rare instances, euthanised.\n\nThose numbers are dwarfed by Australia's Northern Territory (NT), which is home to the world's largest wild crocodile population of some 100,000 reptiles.\n\nDespite publicity campaigns to be \"crocwise\" around rivers, there was an average of 1-2 deaths from crocodile attacks in the Territory each year from 2005, but none have occurred since 2018.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Danish reporters film armed men on guard as they approach the Admiral Vladimirsky\n\nRussia has a programme to sabotage wind farms and communication cables in the North Sea, according to new allegations.\n\nThe details come from a joint investigation by public broadcasters in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.\n\nIt says Russia has a fleet of vessels disguised as fishing trawlers and research vessels in the North Sea.\n\nThey carry underwater surveillance equipment and are mapping key sites for possible sabotage.\n\nThe BBC understands that UK officials are aware of Russian vessels moving around UK waters as part of the programme.\n\nThe first of a series of reports is due to be broadcast on Wednesday by DR in Denmark, NRK in Norway, SVT in Sweden and Yle in Finland.\n\nThe report focuses on a Russian vessel called the Admiral Vladimirsky\n\nA Danish counter-intelligence officer says the sabotage plans are being prepared in case of a full conflict with the West while the head of Norwegian intelligence told the broadcasters the programme was considered highly important for Russia and controlled directly from Moscow.\n\nThe broadcasters say they have analysed intercepted Russian communications which indicate so-called ghost ships sailing in Nordic waters which have turned off the transmitters so as not to reveal their locations.\n\nThe report focuses on a Russian vessel called the Admiral Vladimirsky. Officially, this is an Expeditionary Oceanographic Ship, or underwater research vessel. But the report alleges that it is in fact a Russian spy ship.\n\nThe documentary uses an anonymous former UK Royal Navy expert to track the movements of the vessel in the vicinity of seven wind farms off the coast of the UK and the Netherlands on one mission.\n\nIt says the vessel slows down when it approaches areas where there are wind farms and loiters in the area. It says it sailed for a month with its transmitter turned off.\n\nWhen a reporter approached the ship on a small boat, he was confronted by a masked individual carrying what appeared to be a military assault rifle.\n\nThe same ship was reportedly sighted off the Scottish coast last year. It was spotted entering the Moray Firth on 10 November and seen about 30 nautical miles east of Lossiemouth, home to the RAF's Maritime Patrol Aircraft fleet before heading slowly west.\n\nThe BBC understands that UK officials are aware of Russian intent to conduct what is known as undersea mapping, including using boats that move around in UK waters.\n\nIf there are specific threats against the UK these would be investigated, but sources declined to say what activity might have been looked at so far.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by H I Sutton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn February, Dutch intelligence issued an unusual official warning about activity that could indicate preparation for disruption or sabotage of marine infrastructure. The head of the country's military intelligence said a Russian ship had been detected near a wind farm in the North Sea and was mapping out sites.\n\n\"We saw in recent months Russian actors tried to uncover how the energy system works in the North Sea. It is the first time we have seen this,\" General Jan Swillens said.\n\nReconnaissance of sensitive sites is not unusual and Western countries will likely be carrying out similar activity against Russia. The intention is likely to have a series of options available should a conflict escalate.\n\nOne option might be to damage communications or take down countries' power systems to cause chaos.\n\nSo far the evidence of actual sabotage rather than just intelligence gathering for the possibility is more limited.\n\nOn Wednesday, Russian officials dismissed the claims in the documentary as baseless, AFP news agency reported.\n\nThe filmmakers approached Russian ambassadors in four Nordic countries for comment - but only Norway's responded.\n\nTeimuraz Ramishvili told them that Norwegian authorities had made a habit of accusing Russia of espionage, hacker attacks and other undercover operations without providing any evidence.\n\nHe insisted that Russian vessels were following Norwegian rules and had the right to sail in Norwegian waters.\n\nThe report raises the possibility that such vessels were linked to an incident south of Svalbard last year when an underwater data cable was cut.\n\nThe cable served the world largest commercial ground station for satellite communications. Norwegian police have said they believe \"human activity\" was behind the sabotage but have not officially accused anyone.\n\nOn 13 April this year, Norway expelled 15 Russian officials, accusing them of spying. It was the latest in a wave of expulsions across Europe since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIn October last year police declared a major incident in the Shetland Islands after a cable was cut.\n\nThe incident severely hampered communications with the mainland and was blamed at the time as having been probably caused by \"fishing vessels\". Cables are regularly cut by accident and so far the BBC understands this is not thought to have been the result of hostile activity.\n\nThere had been one clear and significant act of sabotage and that was the destruction last September of parts of the Nord Stream pipeline designed to carry gas from Russia to Europe.\n\nAt the time, many accused Russia of being responsible but since then other reports have suggested other possibilities, including pro-Ukrainian actors, and investigations are ongoing.\n\nRussian military intelligence, the GRU, has also been linked to both sabotage and poisonings. A GRU team linked to the poisoning of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2018 with Novichok nerve agent was also linked to the blowing up of an arms depot in a Czech forest.", "An investigation has been launched after claims of \"bullying and a toxic culture\" at publicly-funded Welsh-language channel S4C.\n\nThe independent external investigation comes after the claims were made by a union representing staff.\n\nA letter written by the Bectu union described a \"a culture of fear\" within the organisation.\n\nS4C said it has decided to appoint a law firm to undertake an independent investigation into concerns raised.\n\nThe broadcaster has been based in Carmarthen since moving from Cardiff in 2014.\n\nEstablished in 1982, at the same time Channel 4 was launched, S4C has been an integral part of Welsh media for the past 40 years.\n\nAmong its successes are SuperTed, Sam Tan (translated to Fireman Sam) and long-running soap Pobol y Cwm.\n\nMore recently, hit dramas such as Y Gwyll (Hinterland), Un Bore Mercher (Keeping Faith) and Dal y Mellt (Rough Cut) have registered success in the English language too.\n\nThis investigation will come as a big shock to a TV channel which claims it contributed £141.1m to the Welsh economy in 2019-20.\n\nBectu's negotiation secretary in Wales, Carwyn Donovan, wrote a letter to independent members of the channel's executive board which described \"staff regularly being brought to tears\" and \"too scared to share their experiences\".\n\nMr Donovan said in his letter that the meeting was \"the most shocking\" in his career as a trade union representative, noting \"four staff members broke down in tears\" while \"giving their accounts of the situation\".\n\nS4C chairman Rhodri Williams announced the board had decided to appoint legal firm Capital Law to undertake the investigation.\n\nRhodri Williams says he is \"comfortable\" that the channel has responded in the \"appropriate way\" to the allegations\n\nHe said the letter \"obviously didn't make for comfortable reading,\" and that \"a number of points raised, if proved to be true, would give us serious concerns.\"\n\n\"They are not the type of things anyone responsible for any organisation would like to read, be that a private or a public organisation,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked whether the board had been slow to react to concerns raised by some members of staff, Mr Williams denied it, and said he was \"comfortable\" the board's independent members had responded \"in the proper manner and with the requisite speed\".\n\nHe urged staff to come forward to share any concerns they may have and said he would \"keep an open mind\" as to allowing contributions from any former employees who had recently left S4C.\n\nIf allegations of bullying were proved, he said he would be willing to take \"necessary steps\".\n\nAccording to the letter, S4C chief executive Siân Doyle said that \"the term bullying is shared too easily\"\n\nThe union letter was shared via an anonymous email with the BBC-produced news programme Newyddion S4C.\n\nIt noted that staff have shared experiences with union representatives of \"being ignored, belittled, undermined, or patronised by members of the management team\".\n\nIt also gave examples of management team members acting inappropriately and disrespectfully towards other staff, and when they raised legitimate questions, they received aggressive and confrontational behaviour from management team members.\n\nThe letter also detailed that the situation had been fragile for some time, with the union aware of complaints since last November.\n\nIn a meeting with the chief executive Sian Doyle, the union official said she recognised \"things had been difficult, and that managers were at fault for the way people felt\", but according to the letter, she also said \"the term 'bullying' is thrown about too easily\".\n\nBectu said it was reassured by the prompt and unequivocal response it has received from the S4C Unitary Board - made up of non-executive members who do not work for the channel, and executive members on the S4C management team - regarding its members' complaints.\n\n\"We are pleased they have agreed to appoint an independent investigator, whom we look forward to working with,\" it said.\n\n\"As a union we are committed to stamping out bullying and harassment wherever it occurs and we are here to support.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative culture spokesman Tom Giffard said the allegations were \"deeply concerning\", and for the \"wider impact on the reputation of our Welsh language broadcaster\".\n\nHe welcomed the appointment of the legal firm to investigate, adding: \"It is essential that staff at all levels come forward at this time to share their experiences and that S4C engages fully with the investigation\".", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City striker Erling Haaland has broken the record for most goals in a Premier League season.\n\nThe Norwegian scored his 35th league goal of the campaign against West Ham to move past Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole's previous best of 34.\n\nHaaland had already set a record for a 38-game season, beating Mohamed Salah's 32 goals for Liverpool in 2017-18.\n\n\"It's a special night and a special moment. I'm really happy and proud,\" Haaland told Sky Sports.\n\nThe 22-year-old has another five games to add to his tally.\n\n\"It feels amazing and I'm really happy and I'm also happy for the three points,\" he told BBC Match of the Day. \"In the end that's what matters and I'm happy.\n\n\"Yeah, it's going well and now it's time to focus on game by game. I've said this for a long time and that's what the team is doing. The team is so good and I'm happy.\"\n\nHaaland's 35th top-flight goal of the season came via a deft finish in the second half of a 3-0 win against the Hammers that sent City back to the top of the league.\n\nHe was given a guard of honour by his team-mates, boss Pep Guardiola and the club's backroom staff after the final whistle at Etihad Stadium.\n\n\"I've not seen it before either,\" Haaland added. \"It was a nice feeling scoring that goal, it always is.\n\n\"It was painful when everyone hit me on the back in the guard of honour.\"\n• None Haaland quiz - how many record-breaking moments do you remember?\n\nCole's 34 goals for Newcastle in 1993-94 were matched by Shearer as he fired Blackburn to the title the following year but there were 22 teams in the top flight in both seasons, giving them an extra four matches to play - Shearer started all 42 in his record season, while Cole missed two in his.\n\nHaaland, in his debut season in English football, has set the new marker in just his 31st game of the year.\n\nHis 35 goals are also the most by a player in a single campaign in the English top division since Ron Davies scored 37 for Southampton in 1966-67. Dixie Dean holds the record with 60 in 39 games for Everton in 1927-28.\n\n'Greatest striker the Premier League has ever seen' - reaction\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking to BBC Sport: \"Incredible. He's just 22 - and still has five games left. How many games I made the substitution after a hat-trick in 60 minutes, maybe he'd have scored more. But maybe he'd have got injured. He's special. Congratulations to him.\n\n\"We expected him to score goals but to break Cole and Shearer records ... I'm pretty sure what he wants is to win the Premier League.\"\n\nMore from Guardiola, speaking to Sky Sports: \"It's unbelievable. How many important goals he's scored to win games, we are so satisfied.\n\n\"He's a unique person and he's so special. He deserved the guard of honour because it's an incredible milestone. Another day he might break his own record. He's scored a lot of goals!\"\n\nShearer, writing on Twitter: \"Couldn't have wanted it to go to a nicer guy. It's only taken 28 years!!!! He's the best.\"\n\nFormer Manchester City defender Micah Richards on Sky Sports: \"Honestly, Erling Haaland is absolutely incredible. Astonishing scenes from a top, top individual.\n\n\"This is his debut season - to do what's he has done is absolutely breathtaking.\"\n\nManchester City defender Nathan Ake, speaking to Sky Sports: \"It's crazy. The way he came in and does this every day. He deserves everything he gets, he works so hard and he's a top player.\"\n\nFormer Everton striker Kevin Campbell on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"I think there are things he can improve. He has the thing that every striker needs: he can finish.\n\n\"He is the missing piece to what Pep Guardiola is trying to do. He wants the Champions League. They haven't had the person up top that was going to take those chances. They have him now.\"\n\nBBC commentator Vicki Sparks on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"He is quite simply, for this season, the greatest striker the Premier League has ever seen. Fifty-one goals in a season in all competitions and you just wonder what records he will go on and break, now he sets his sights on that held by Dixie Dean for Everton, who is the only player to have scored more goals in a single season as a top-flight player in England.\n\n\"The numbers, quite simply, are extraordinary.\"\n\nFormer Republic of Ireland striker Clinton Morrison on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Erling Haaland deserves it. His first season in the Premier League, breaking all kinds of records. In the second half he was the big difference.\"\n\nFormer England midfielder Karen Carney on Sky Sports: \"It's quite unbelievable and Erling Haaland is so humble, he almost can't believe it. He was quite shy going through that tunnel of team-mates at the end.\n\n\"It's an unbelievable achievement and what a player. His movement is just different class.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Triple-glazed windows, highly insulated walls and an airtight construction mean very little energy is lost from the building\n\nA \"groundbreaking\" energy-efficient school will use pupils' heat to keep its classrooms warm.\n\nYsgol Gymraeg y Trallwng, in Welshpool, Powys, which welcomes its first children on Tuesday, is the first hybrid \"passivhaus\" building in the UK.\n\nThat is a German term used to describe buildings that have the absolute highest standards of energy efficiency.\n\nIan Pilcher, of Powys council, said the warmth generated by the pupils is informally known as \"kiddywatts\".\n\n\"We use the heat that the people in the building generate and because it's so thermally insulated we don't lose a lot of that,\" said Mr Pilcher, the council's senior project manager.\n\nA ventilation unit moves this warm air around the building, \"so we don't have big boiler rooms anymore. There is no gas central heating in this building.\"\n\nYsgol Gymraeg y Trallwng will be kept warm by the heat given off by pupils, which has been labelled \"kiddyWatts\"\n\nThe Welsh language school is a hybrid project because its hall and classrooms are in a new building which has been joined to the old Maesydre school, which was designed in the 19th century.\n\nInitial plans were to demolish the old building and rebuild, but after it was awarded Grade II listed status in 2018, a complete redesign of the project was needed to incorporate the old building.\n\nThe school has triple-glazed windows, highly insulated walls and an airtight construction, meaning that very little energy is lost.\n\nAir source heat pumps also provide background heat and solar panels on the building's roof generate the electricity.\n\nIan Pilcher said the aim of the project is to \"maximise the heat in the building and retain it\"\n\nHeadteacher Angharad Davies said: \"I cannot believe that we're here at last - I don't know how to explain it, it's completely out of this world.\"\n\n\"We've had a few hurdles along the way, but the wait has been worth it.\"\n\nThe journey to opening a purpose-built home has been a long one since it was established 2017.\n\nA report to Powys council in 2021 said that the expected cost of the project had increased, due to the redesign and collapse of a previous construction firm, from £6.7m to £9.1m.\n\nThe increase was agreed by the Welsh government, which is co-funding the project with Powys council.\n\nThe school retains so much heat the plan to cool it down is to open windows during the night, said Mr Pilcher\n\nCouncil cabinet member Pete Roberts said: \"The estimated final costs of the project are still to be finalised but the project is not expected to be over budget.\n\n\"Ysgol Gymraeg y Trallwng is the council's flagship Welsh-medium school in north east Powys and our ambition is to ensure that the school is full in a few years' time.\"\n\nThere are 89 children currently in the school in its current location, with space for 150 in the new building.\n\nChair of governors Lindsey Phillips said although the process had been \"frustrating at times\", the \"groundbreaking\" new facility was an exciting prospect.\n\n\"This symbolises the commitment of the local authority to Welsh education in the area,\" she added.\n\n\"98% of our children come from English speaking homes, so only 2% of our children have any Welsh at home, but it's teaching children bilingual skills.\n\n\"I think around the world it's well recognised that bilingualism is really beneficial for children.\"", "Partygate investigator Sue Gray was offered a job as the Labour leader's chief of staff in March this year\n\nFormer civil servant Sue Gray has chosen not to be interviewed as part of a Cabinet Office inquiry into talks with Labour about a senior party role, a minister has said.\n\nMs Gray quit the civil service after being offered a job as Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff.\n\nA government appointments committee is investigating whether she breached civil service rules over the move.\n\nEarlier, Sir Keir said he was confident Ms Gray had not broken any rules.\n\nMs Gray has held some of the most senior roles in the civil service and is best known for leading an investigation into the Partygate scandal, which contributed to Boris Johnson's downfall as prime minister last year.\n\nShe ended her decades-long career with the civil service in March, as Labour announced the party had offered her one of its most senior jobs ahead of the next general election.\n\nThe Conservative government said the situation was \"unprecedented\" and ordered an internal investigation into the circumstances of her resignation.\n\nOn Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden issued a written statement to the House of Commons containing an update into the circumstances leading to Ms Gray's resignation.\n\nIn the statement, Mr Dowden said: \"Ms Gray was given the opportunity to make representations as part of this process but chose not to do so.\"\n\nMr Dowden added: \"I am unable at this stage to provide further information relating to the departure of Ms Gray whilst we consider next steps.\"\n\nThe internal investigation by the Cabinet Office is separate to an inquiry by the independent Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), which will provide the final judgement on Ms Gray's departure.\n\nAcoba is to recommend how long Ms Gray should wait before being allowed to take up the job with Labour.\n\nThe BBC has been told that Ms Gray's focus is on Acoba and she has \"fully cooperated\" with them and \"given them all the details requested\".\n\nDave Penman, leader of the FDA union, which represents civil servants, told Times Radio he understood why Ms Gray was prioritising Acoba rather than the Cabinet Office's internal investigation.\n\n\"Acoba is really the real deal when it comes to this and who's going to make a decision,\" Mr Penman said. \"And it really should be, because it isn't doing it for political ends.\"\n\nUnder the civil service code, officials of Ms Gray's seniority must wait a minimum of three months before taking up outside employment.\n\nSenior civil servants, as well as ministers, are expected to check with Acoba about any employment they wish to take within two years of leaving government.\n\nAcoba provides advice and can recommend a delay of up to two years in starting a new job, but it has no power to block appointments.\n\nHowever, Labour has said the party and Ms Gray will abide by its recommendations.\n\nA long delay could hamper attempts to have Ms Gray in place well before the next general election, which is widely expected next year, to help Labour prepare for government if it wins power.\n\nEarlier, Sir Keir accused the government of using the issue to try and deflect from the local election campaign, saying it should be focusing on the cost-of-living crisis instead.\n\n\"[The public are] not sitting at their breakfast talking about Sue Gray, they're talking about their bills,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMs Gray was thrust into the limelight after leading a government investigation into allegations of parties being held in Downing Street during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe has held a number of senior positions, including head of the government's propriety and ethics team, since joining the civil service in the 1970s.\n\nMs Gray resigned from the post of second permanent secretary in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in March, after it emerged she had been offered a job with Labour.\n\nLabour has insisted it did not approach Ms Gray until after her Partygate report was published.\n\nBut Mr Johnson and his allies have seized on Labour's job offer to claim Ms Gray's investigation when he was in power was an attempt to smear him.\n\nHer report was critical of the senior political and civil service leadership, saying they \"must bear responsibility\" for the culture at No 10 during Covid lockdowns.", "Pregnant women and new mums are missing out on vital mental health services, while the NHS is not on track to meet key targets, a new report reveals.\n\nThe Maternal Mental Health Alliance found a wide disparity in care for new and expectant mums across the country.\n\nLuciana Berger, chair of the charity, said progress was at risk of stalling, with money not always being spent.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was increasing investment and improving care.\n\nAlmost one in five women experience a mental health condition during pregnancy or the first year of their child's life, according to experts.\n\nIn 2016, the UK government pledged a revolution in mental health services, including almost £300m to provide specialist care for expectant or new mothers in England.\n\nBut new figures from the MMHA, shared with BBC Newsnight, reveal that large gaps in care remain.\n\nAnd while there is some form of specialist provision across most of the UK and there has been increased investment everywhere, there is a significant disparity between nations.\n\nAccording to the report, Northern Ireland fares worst. Two of its five health and social care boards have no specialist multi-disciplinary team to help mums dealing with perinatal mental health difficulties. There is also no mother and baby unit for mums who need inpatient mental health care after birth.\n\nIn Wales, none of the health boards met UK-wide quality standards devised by the Royal College of Psychiatrists for what services should deliver for pregnant women and those who have just given birth.\n\nIn Scotland, only 14% of health boards met these standards.\n\nAnd in England - the nation with the most comprehensive care - the NHS does not appear to be on track to meet the goals it set for this year. Only around half of trusts are so far providing care from pre-conception to two years after birth, or offering partners support.\n\n'I didn't want to be in the same room as my daughter'\n\nWhen Eleanor was pregnant with her first child, she made sure she discussed her previous experience of depression with her doctor.\n\nBut around a fortnight after her daughter was born, Eleanor began to have intrusive thoughts - these could be \"violent thoughts of purposefully harming\" her baby.\n\n\"My mood started to change and I started to feel quite low,\" Eleanor told Newsnight. \"I was sleeping a lot and in hindsight, it wasn't just to catch up on sleep, it was to avoid the feelings I was feeling - and I didn't want to be in the same room as my daughter.\"\n\nStanding at the top of a hill with her daughter in a pushchair, she thought about letting go. \"I wasn't convinced I wasn't going to do it,\" she says now. Eleanor started asking others to push her daughter instead and sought help from a mental health midwife.\n\nBut the consequences of not getting support can be fatal.\n\nWhile the numbers of women who take their own lives when they are pregnant or in the first year after giving birth are small - the risk of the worst outcome appears to be rising.\n\nIn 2020, ten women took their own lives while pregnant or shortly after giving birth - the same number of women as the previous three years combined.\n\nExperts say the trend is statistically significant. Indeed, researchers were so worried that they brought forward the most recent audit of maternal deaths to report it.\n\n\"We're at this time seeing an increase in the number of women taking their lives during the pregnancy periods and shortly after birth,\" Ms Berger added. \"This really is a matter of life or death.\"\n\nThe issue does not appear to be a lack of funding, with all nations setting aside more money for this area of health care. Rather, that money is not always being spent.\n\nFigures from the MMHA show that almost three quarters of mental health trusts in England forecast an underspend for 2022. Across the UK, more than £15m allocated to improve maternal mental health in 2022 was not spent.\n\nThe problem mentioned most often is recruitment - either teams are not given enough certainty in the funding to hire, or staff are just not available.\n\nA spokesperson for Northern Ireland's Department of Health said its five trusts had appointed staff to community perinatal mental health teams, and all were accepting referrals. Work is under way to identify a location for a mother and baby unit, it added.\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said it had invested in specialist perinatal mental health services and there were dedicated teams within every health board in Wales.\n\nA spokesperson for the Scottish government said staffing across perinatal mental health services had increased significantly and that it was committed to improving services.\n\nEleanor says she now has a \"brilliant\" relationship with her daughter. She still struggles at times with elements of her postnatal depression, but says the help she received has been invaluable. Getting that help quickly is vital too, she says.\n\n\"Because it's not just about the patient who is struggling - it's about the vulnerable human being that they've just brought into the world.\"", "The new season of MasterChef Australia premieres a week after the death of one of its hosts, Jock Zonfrillo\n\nMasterChef Australia will air its new season on Sunday, six days after the sudden death of one of its hosts, award-winning chef Jock Zonfrillo.\n\nThe 7 May premiere has the \"full support\" of the 46-year-old Scotsman's family, broadcaster Network 10 said.\n\nA tribute show will air one hour before the MasterChef Australia season begins.\n\nZonfrillo was found dead in Melbourne on Monday - the new show was to have aired that night. Police are not treating his death as suspicious.\n\nHe is survived by his wife Lauren Fried and four children.\n\nGlasgow-born Zonfrillo took great pride in mentoring contestants in the high-pressure competition and in the process, he inspired a nation of home cooks, Network 10 said on Wednesday.\n\n\"It is with Jock in our hearts that we cherish this season and remember the charismatic and big-hearted judge and chef who we knew and loved,\" the network said.\n\nThe show was swiftly postponed when news of the chef's death broke.\n\n\"I know my heart will break but I'm looking forward to watching Jock's final season. I want to see him mentoring the home cooks and giving some advice to them and watching them grow as pro cooks. That is how I want to remember him,\" one Twitter user said in reply to Network 10's announcement.\n\n\"This must have been a really emotionally tough decision for Jock's family. I think I'll need a box of tissues for this one,\" another Twitter user replied.\n\nZonfrillo started hosting MasterChef Australia in 2019, after years of establishing himself in the country's kitchens.\n\nHe had likened moving to Australia in 2000 to turning a new leaf after battling heroin addiction in his teenage years that made him broke and homeless for a time. He opened up about these struggles in his 2021 memoir, Last Shot.\n\nHe opened several restaurants in Australia, the most successful of which was Adelaide's award-winning Restaurant Orana, which opened in 2013.\n\nHowever, Orana closed in 2020 and Zonfrillo ended the year with millions of dollars in debt.", "Flames could be seen coming from the roof of the building\n\nFirefighters have been tackling a blaze at a landmark building in Dumfries.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) confirmed six engines were sent to the former Benedictine Convent on Corbelly Hill at 19:25 on Tuesday.\n\nOne eyewitness captured the moment the spire collapsed as the blaze tore through the abandoned building.\n\nSFRS said that three engines remained at the scene on Wednesday morning as work continued to put out the fire. A number of nearby streets were closed.\n\nThere have been no reports of any casualties in the incident.\n\nResidents were advised to shut their windows due to the smoke billowing out from the building at the peak of the \"well-developed\" fire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment the former convent's spire collapses\n\nPolice Scotland said Maxwell Street, Rosemount Street, Laurieknowe, Church Street, Mill Road and Corberry Avenue had been closed due to the incident.\n\nIt is the second time the now-abandoned building has been ablaze, following a major fire in August last year.\n\nThe building - which dates back to 1884 - has been empty for some time and has been a target for vandals.\n\nThe cause of the latest blaze has yet to be established.\n\nSeveral streets around the building were closed off by the emergency services", "A group of primary school children has suffered traumatic, \"life-changing\" injuries after a horrific bus crash in Melbourne, Australia.\n\nThe bus was carrying 45 students when police say it was hit by a truck from behind and rolled on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nSome 18 children - aged 5 to 11 - were rushed to hospital, many for emergency surgery. One remains in intensive care.\n\nThe truck driver has been charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury.\n\nAustralia has a below-average road safety record compared to other advanced economies. It ranks 20th of out of 36 OECD countries for road fatalities.\n\nPolice said the bus had only just left Exford Primary School, on the western fringes of Melbourne, when the collision occurred.\n\nChildren were trapped inside the bus before bystanders - including the truck driver and many of their teachers, who had rushed to the scene - helped emergency responders to free them from the wreckage.\n\nSurgeons worked into the early hours of the morning to treat those children seriously hurt. Their injuries included crushed limbs - forcing amputations - as well as head injuries, spinal injuries and serious cuts.\n\nSeven children remain at the hospital in serious conditions, including one in intensive care, the Royal Children's Hospital said.\n\n\"It is just distressing, knowing what our kids have been through and I can just imagine their fear,\" principal Lisa Campo told media on Wednesday.\n\nThe 52-year-old bus driver was also taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.\n\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese was among those who thanked first responders and sent well-wishes to the families involved.\n\n\"Any accident is just horrific, the fact that it involves school students just breaks your heart,\" he said.\n\nSuperintendent Michael Cruse said the scene of the crash was extremely confronting for all who were there.\n\n\"Some of the injuries are life changing [and] this incident was avoidable,\" he said.\n\nThe 49-year-old truck driver - who suffered minor injuries - has since been charged with four counts of dangerous driving.\n\nInvestigations are ongoing, but Supt Cruse said \"inattention\" would be a key focus, and more charges are likely to be laid.", "One of the world's biggest carmakers has warned it may have to close UK factories if the government does not renegotiate the Brexit deal.\n\nStellantis, which owns Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, had committed to making electric cars in the UK, but says that is under threat.\n\nIt warned it could face tariffs of 10% on exports to the EU due to rules on where parts are sourced from.\n\nIn response to the comments, Rishi Sunak said he believed in Brexit.\n\n\"I voted for Brexit, I believe in Brexit,\" the prime minister told reporters while travelling to the G7 Summit of world leaders in Japan.\n\nMr Sunak cited what he called \"Brexit benefits\" he introduced as chancellor and reforms to retained EU law which he said would save business a billion pounds a year.\n\nHe did not directly address concerns made by Stellantis, but a spokesperson said the government was \"determined\" UK car making would remain competitive.\n\nIt is the first time a car firm has openly called for a renegotiation of the terms of the Brexit trade deal, and the BBC understands all major manufacturers in the UK have raised similar concerns with government.\n\nStellantis warned that if the cost of electric vehicle manufacturing in the UK \"becomes uncompetitive and unsustainable, operations will close\".\n\nThe car giant called on ministers to come to an agreement with the EU to maintain the status quo until 2027, with a review of arrangements for manufacturing parts in Serbia and Morocco.\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer said the country needed \"a better Brexit deal\" to ensure firms such as Vauxhall could continue operating in the UK.\n\nSources said Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch had a \"constructive\" virtual meeting with Stellantis on Wednesday, with them \"cautiously optimistic\" after conversations with the EU which recognised a deal was in both parties' interest.\n\nJust two years ago, Stellantis, which is the world's fourth biggest car maker, said the future of its Ellesmere Port and Luton plants was secure.\n\nBut the firm told a House of Commons inquiry the current trade rules posed a \"threat to our export business and sustainability of our UK manufacturing operations\".\n\nFrom next year, 45% of the value of an electric car should originate in the UK or EU to qualify for trade without tariffs. This will rise to 65% in 2027.\n\nStellantis said it was \"now unable to meet these rules of origin\" due to the recent surge in raw material and energy costs.\n\nIf the government cannot get an agreement to keep the current rules until 2027, exports of its UK-made cars \"would be subject to 10% tariffs\" from next year, it said.\n\nThis would make the UK an uncompetitive place to manufacture cars compared with Japan and South Korea, it added.\n\n\"To reinforce the sustainability of our manufacturing plants in the UK, the UK must consider its trading arrangements with Europe,\" Stellantis said.\n\nA government spokesperson said ministers will take \"decisive action\" to ensure future investment in the industry but Labour said car makers had been let down by a \"government in chaos\".\n\nTrading rules around electric cars were one of the very last issues settled in the Brexit negotiations in 2020.\n\nBut Stellantis warned the current rules meant manufacturers could relocate abroad, pointing to BMW's decision to make its new electric Mini in Germany and Honda's closure of its plant in Swindon.\n\nAlong with trade barriers, a core problem remains the lack of electric car battery plants in the UK, when compared with the US, China and EU which are pouring subsidies into electric car making.\n\nFormer Nissan executive and battery start-up businessman Andy Palmer said the UK was \"running out of time\" to develop its own battery manufacturing industry.\n\nEarlier this week, French President Emmanuel Macron hosted Tesla's Elon Musk, who hinted he might invest in a battery plant - or gigafactory - in France.\n\nMeanwhile, the Spanish government is currently trying to woo the UK's biggest car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, into building a gigafactory in Spain.\n\nWith the rules due to tighten again in 2027 experts believe UK exporters will find it impossible to sell cars overseas tariff free unless they can source batteries domestically.", "Ansreen Bukhari gave evidence at Leicester Crown Court for a second day\n\nA woman accused of killing her young lover said she did not see him die in a crash, a court heard.\n\nAnsreen Bukhari, 46, her TikTok influencer daughter Mahek and six others deny killing Saqib Hussain and his friend Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21.\n\nThe men's car was rammed off the A46 in Leicestershire on 11 February 2022 to keep secret an affair between Ansreen and Mr Hussain, the prosecution says.\n\nGiving evidence, she told the jury she had her \"head down\" during the chase.\n\nLeicester Crown Court previously heard Mr Hussain, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, had been threatening to send explicit videos and images of his lover to her husband after she broke off their three-year affair.\n\nThe court has also heard Mrs Bukhari and Mahek, 24, plotted with six others, driving from their home in Stoke-on-Trent to Leicester and arranging to meet Mr Hussain in a Tesco car park under false pretences.\n\nHashim Ijazuddin (left) and Saqib Hussain died at the scene of the crash\n\nThe prosecution alleges the group, in an Audi TT and a Seat Leon, were attempting to retrieve Mr Hussain's phone to stop the publication of sexually explicit images and videos of Ansreen.\n\nOpening the trial, prosecutor Collingwood Thompson KC said a Skoda Fabia containing Mr Hussain and Mr Ijazuddin arrived in the Hamilton Tesco car park but left shortly after arriving.\n\nThe Audi TT and the Seat Leon then went after the Skoda, the court heard.\n\nGiving evidence for a second day, Mrs Bukhari said she intended to \"just speak\" to Mr Hussain and had \"no intention\" to harm him.\n\nCo-accused Mohammed Patel told police that he held up his phone to Rekan Karwan, the Audi driver, so he could speak to Raees Jamal, the Seat driver.\n\nMr Patel alleges Mr Jamal said to Mr Karwan that he \"might have to ram him\", to which the Audi driver responded: \"Ram him.\"\n\nMrs Bukhari, who was in the Audi's passenger seat, said the word \"ram\" was not said in the car.\n\nOn the chase and the crash itself, she said: \"At that point, I just had my head down. I was stressed; I was upset.\"\n\nShe also denied knowledge of how the Seat Leon sustained damage.\n\nMrs Bukhari's social media influencer daughter, Mahek (right), is also on trial accused of murder\n\nThe mother-of-two told the court the Skoda Fabia was \"swerving\" while driving on the A46.\n\n\"I was thinking in my mind was that [the Skoda] lost control,\" she said.\n\nHer barrister Patrick Upward KC asked about footage seen previously by the jury of the defendants walking around Leicester after they parked in Sutton Place.\n\nMrs Bukhari said there was no attempt to come up with what the prosecution say was a \"cover story\".\n\nShe told the court: \"I was just too upset, I was quite traumatised, I was just shocked.\n\nMrs Bukhari also told the jury she had an affair with a second man and was \"so ashamed and embarrassed\".\n\nProsecutor Collingwood Thompson KC began his cross-examination of Ansreen Bukhari on Wednesday\n\nUnder cross-examination by Mr Thompson, Mrs Bukhari admitted lying under oath at a previous trial by saying she had been faithful to her husband, apart from her affair with Mr Hussain.\n\nShe said she did this to \"try and save her marriage\".\n\nMr Thompson asked her about her motive in meeting up with Mr Hussain in Leicester, asking if she had been travelling at recorded speeds of 100 mph (161 km/h) in the Audi TT to \"set a trap\".\n\nShe denied this was the case.\n\n\"Wasn't one of the objectives of this to get Saqib's phone?\" Mr Thompson said.\n\n\"Was the intention to beat him up to stop him sending the pictures to your husband?\"\n\nMrs Bukhari said: \"I just wanted to talk to him; no harm, nothing. There was no plan - the plan was to speak to him.\"\n\nFront, from left: Ansreen Bukhari, Mahek Bukhari, Rekan Karwan, Raees Jamal with back, from left: Ameer Jamal, Sanaf Gulammustafa, Natasha Akhtar and Mohammed Patel\n\nAll eight deny two counts of murder and alternative charges of two counts of manslaughter.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lucy Letby has denied murdering and attempting to murder babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nNurse Lucy Letby has told a court she did not only cry when talking about herself during her evidence but also when talking about some of the infants she has been accused of attacking.\n\nThe 33-year-old is accused of murdering seven babies and the attempted murders of 10 others between 2015 and 2016.\n\nAsked under cross-examination why she had not cried while speaking about the children, she said: \"I have cried when talking about some of those babies.\"\n\nProsecutor Nick Johnson KC began his examination of Ms Letby at Manchester Crown Court after she had earlier been questioned by her defence barrister Ben Myers KC about the deaths of two triplet brothers on successive days.\n\nMr Johnson asked the nurse if there was \"any reason that you cry when you talk about yourself but you don't cry when talking about these dead and seriously injured children?\"\n\n\"I have cried when talking about some of those babies,\" she replied.\n\nLucy Letby told the court medical notes found at her home were not taken \"intentionally\"\n\nHe then accused Ms Letby of suggesting consultant Dr Ravi Jayaram had \"deliberately misled\" the jury when he gave evidence.\n\nDr Jayaram previously told the jury he saw Ms Letby standing by the incubator of one of the babies she is accused of attacking, known to the court as Child K, as the baby's blood oxygen levels plummeted.\n\nHe said no alarms were sounding and the nurse was \"doing nothing\".\n\nMs Letby told the court she was feeding another baby in another nursery at that time and did not \"recall any conversation with Dr Jayaram that night.\"\n\nMr Johnson put it to her that she was suggesting Dr Jayaram was \"making it up\", to which she replied: \"I don't think I said yesterday he was making it up.\"\n\nThe prosecutor then turned to the medical handover notes found at her home, which the court has heard were discovered in police searches.\n\nThe nurse said the notes were not taken \"intentionally\" and had still been \"held in confidence\".\n\nMr Johnson questioned that, stating the notes had been \"in a bin bag in your garage\".\n\n\"Do you obey the rules when it suits you?\" he said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 12% of physiotherapy positions are currently vacant in Northern Ireland\n\nTraining places at Ulster University for degree courses in physiotherapy and other health specialities are to be cut, BBC News NI understands.\n\nThe Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in NI said it was expecting training places to be reduced after a budget briefing from the Department of Health.\n\nThe society expressed extreme concern, saying more than 12% of physiotherapy positions are currently vacant.\n\nThe Department of Health said the move is part of its attempts to save money.\n\nIn a statement, the department said it was making decisions on spending reductions with \"great regret\".\n\nIt added that it is in the impossible position of \"having to fulfil conflicting responsibilities\".\n\nThe department said it was \"living within the budget, acting in the public interest and safeguarding services\".\n\nCivil servants have been tasked with running Stormont departments and managing public services in the absence of a devolved government, but they must stick to the budget published last month by Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris.\n\nThe Department of Health received the biggest allocation, but its budget of £7.25bn was similar to the amount it got last year.\n\nThat has been viewed as a difficult settlement because of the high rate of inflation and outstanding pay disputes involving nurses and other health workers.\n\nThe Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in Northern Ireland said: \"The current political hiatus has created an intolerable situation for public services here and will add to the significant pressures already facing the health and social care system.\"\n\nIt added that although it did not yet have exact figures, it was \"extremely concerned\" by the anticipated cuts to number of physiotherapy undergraduate training places at Ulster University (UU).\n\nThe number of nursing training places is to be cut from September\n\n\"The health and social care service in Northern Ireland already has record numbers of workforce vacancies,\" the society said.\n\n\"Last year saw approximately 900 applications for roughly 100 training places for the physiotherapy course in [UU] Magee.\"\n\nOn Monday, the BBC revealed that the number of nursing training places is to be cut in September from 1,325 to 1,025.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing's Northern Ireland director, Rita Devlin, described the move as an \"act of destruction\".\n\nThe department said it recognised the importance of staffing and was committed to 1,025 new nursing places.\n\nThis was the level in place before the New Decade, New Approach deal, which included provision for an extra 300 nurse training places each year to address staff shortages and concerns over safety.\n\nBut Ms Devlin said the news of cuts had left members \"bewildered\" with almost 3,000 vacant nursing posts in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is unimaginable that the Department of Health has been put in the position of having to cut the number of student nursing places for 2023-2024 because of the political and financial crisis in Northern Ireland,\" she explained.", "All cars parked in the Duke Street car park appeared to have been ticketed\n\nA commuter said she was stunned after returning to her vehicle to discover a car park full of vehicles had been ticketed following a council mistake.\n\nThe vehicles were parked at the Duke Street car park in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, on Monday.\n\nIt is understood Buckinghamshire Council put up a small sign stating it was closed for \"relining\".\n\nThe council has now said the tickets should not have been issued and it would cancel the enforcement notices.\n\nHeleen Jalvingh, who lives in the town, said she had arrived at the car park at 07:00 BST and paid for her car park ticket via an app.\n\nShe said she parked next to a row of other cars already parked there and looked at the \"big car park signs out of a habit, but no notices to be seen\".\n\nThe 48-year-old said she was later shown a picture on Facebook of a sign, about the size of an A4 sheet of paper, \"somewhere on the car park\".\n\n\"But I have not seen this and the rest of the car park apparently didn't either, as we all returned to High Wycombe to find a yellow plastic envelope stuck on our windscreen,\" she said.\n\n\"This was obviously extremely disappointing, as we had done our duty by paying for the car park.\"\n\nThe Duke Street facility is one of several car parks near High Wycombe railway station\n\nShe said app-users should have been informed either via the app itself or with clearer signage at the entrance of the car park \"as people do not necessarily go to the pay machines\".\n\n\"To basically see all the cars with a fine does make me think that this has been a matter of poor communication by the council as apparently nobody realised that we were not allowed to park here,\" she added.\n\nMs Jalvingh said she had appealed the £70 fine, but Buckinghamshire Council said it would cancel all of them.\n\nSteven Broadbent, the council's cabinet member for transport, said: \"We want to apologise to the people who parked at Railway Place and Duke Street car parks in High Wycombe this week and who received parking tickets during a closure of the car park.\n\n\"Whilst we do enforce parking across the county these tickets should not have been issued and we will be reversing the parking tickets to everyone who received them.\n\n\"Only a small number of parking bays should have been closed to install the brand new EV charging bays rather than the whole car park and we did not give our customers enough notice of this action.\n\n\"We are sorry for any inconvenience and upset caused. Anyone who has been ticketed should take no further action as the notices will be cancelled, and anyone who has already paid the PCN charge will be refunded.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The search warrant was granted a week after Mr Yousaf succeeded Nicola Sturgeon as SNP leader\n\nScotland's first minister has said there was nothing unusual in the timing of a warrant to search his predecessor's home.\n\nIt emerged on Tuesday that police asked for permission to search Nicola Sturgeon's house and the SNP HQ during the party's leadership contest.\n\nThe request was not granted until two weeks later - after the contest ended.\n\nHumza Yousaf said he did not believe the Crown Office took decisions \"based on election contests or politics\".\n\nThere have been suggestions that the delay avoided any damage to his campaign to succeed Ms Sturgeon as first minister and SNP leader.\n\nMr Yousaf, who was the preferred choice of the SNP hierarchy, narrowly defeated Kate Forbes when the leadership result was announced on 27 March.\n\nThe application for a search warrant had been submitted on 20 March before being granted on 3 April.\n\nBoth Mr Yousaf and the Crown Office have denied that the two-week gap was for political reasons.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the first minister was asked whether it was normal for a search warrant to take two weeks to be approved.\n\nHe replied: \"I suppose that would be a question for the Crown, not questions for government or ministers or the first minister.\n\n\"I don't believe there will be any particular reason out of the ordinary that it would take that time.\"\n\nMr Yousaf, who has previously served as the justice secretary, added: \"We would never dream of interfering, neither in a live police investigation, but certainly not in a search warrant.\n\n\"I'm the first minister. I don't sign off on search warrants, I don't get involved in operational decisions for Police Scotland.\"\n\nThe first minister also said said the government would \"never dream\" of interfering.\n\n15 February - Nicola Sturgeon announces she is to stand down as first minister and SNP leader\n\n18 March - Ms Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell quits as SNP chief executive in a row over misleading party membership figures being given to the press\n\n20 March - Police submit a draft warrant to the Crown Office seeking permission to search Ms Sturgeon and Mr Murrell's home and the SNP headquarters in Edinburgh\n\n3 April - The finalised search warrant is sent to a sheriff and is granted\n\n5 April - Police raid the home of Ms Sturgeon and Mr Murrell and the party HQ and remove several boxes of evidence. Mr Murrell is arrested and later released without charge.\n\nSee a full timeline of the two-year police investigation here.\n\nSources close to the inquiry have denied that there was an undue delay in granting the warrant, which is reported to have included a long list of items the police wanted to seize as part of their ongoing investigation into the SNP's finances.\n\nBBC Scotland understands that prosecutors discussed the draft search warrant with police officers after it was submitted, with a sheriff signing it off on the same day it was finalised.\n\nOpposition parties have highlighted what they believe is a potential conflict of interest in the role of Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC, who heads the Crown Office but is also a Scottish government minister and sits in its cabinet meetings.\n\nMs Bain did not respond when asked by Sky News on Tuesday whether the search warrant had been deliberately delayed until after Ms Sturgeon left office.\n\nPolice spent two days searching the home of Ms Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said prosecutors always acted independently of political pressure or interference.\n\nHe also said any case involving a politician was carried out without the involvement of the Lord Advocate or her deputy the Solicitor General.\n\nDetails of the two-week gap between detectives submitting a request for a search warrant to the Crown Office and it being sent to a sheriff for approval were released by Police Scotland in response to a freedom of information request and were first reported by the Scottish Sun.\n\nOfficers raided the Glasgow home of Ms Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell on 5 April, two days after the warrant was granted.\n\nThe government denies there is a conflict of interest in the role of Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain\n\nMr Murrell, who had recently quit as the SNP's chief executive, was arrested before later being released without charge while further investigations were carried out.\n\nThe SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh was also searched on 5 April and a luxury motorhome that sells for about £110,000 was seized from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline.\n\nColin Beattie, who was the party's treasurer at the time, was arrested on 18 April before also being released without charge while further inquiries were carried out. He subsequently quit as treasurer.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have called for a Scottish Parliament committee to be created to investigate events around the police inquiry into the SNP's finances.\n\nIt said the committee would be similar to the one that examined the handling of complaints against former first minister Alex Salmond.\n\nConservative chief whip Alexander Burnett said: \"The Lord Advocate is hamstrung by her conflict of interest on this matter due to her dual role.\n\n\"She is in an impossible position as both the head of the Crown Office and chief legal adviser to the SNP-Green government.\n\n\"That only reaffirms the need for an inquiry into these delays when answers are simply not going to be forthcoming from senior Scottish government figures.\"\n\nPolice launched their Operation Branchform investigation almost two years ago after receiving complaints about how a total of £666,953 donated to the SNP by activists was used.\n\nThe party pledged to spend the funds on a future independence referendum. Questions were raised after its accounts showed it had just under £97,000 in the bank at the end of 2019, and total net assets of about £272,000.\n\nLast year it emerged Mr Murrell gave a loan of more than £100,000 to the SNP to help it out with a \"cash flow\" issue after the last election.\n\nThe party had repaid about half of the loan by October of that year. It still owes money to its former chief executive, but has not said how much.", "We learned a few new things from today’s evidence.\n\nGraham Smith, the CEO of Republic said his group had brought 600 placards in their van, which explains why they needed trolleys and the straps.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Matt Twist described the straps as “heavy duty material straps with combination locks on.”\n\nSo it is possible to imagine why an officer, primed to look out for “lock-on” devices, would think the straps, still in their packaging, might look suspicious. But Smith said he bought them on Amazon, and they were yellow to match the branding of his group.\n\nTwist insisted that the arrests were lawful as his officers had “reasonable grounds” to suspect the offence of “going equipped for locking on”.\n\nBut in the end that will be for the courts to decide - if Republic decides to sue the police for wrongful arrest.\n\nIt will be for the politicians and the police to work out how to use the new law of “going equipped for locking on” without innocent people spending hours in police cells for carrying things like bike locks without any intention of using them for locking on in a disruptive protest.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City delivered a relentless performance laced with outstanding quality to overpower holders Real Madrid and reach the Champions League final against Inter Milan in Istanbul.\n\nCity have lost two previous semi-finals to Real but they made no mistake here at a joyous Etihad Stadium to now stand one step away from claiming the trophy that has always stayed tantalisingly out of reach for Pep Guardiola's team.\n\nAnd their display in a magical first half, in particular, will live long in the memory as the masters of this tournament were left bewildered by City's brilliance.\n\nIt maintained a seemingly unstoppable march towards a treble of Champions League, Premier League - which can be won with victory at home to Chelsea on Sunday - and the FA Cup, where they play Manchester United in the final at Wembley.\n\nReal keeper Thibaut Courtois performed heroics to save two Erling Haaland headers early in the first half but he was powerless to stop Bernardo Silva's close-range finish after 23 minutes, the Portugal midfielder scoring a looping header for the second eight minutes before half-time.\n\nCity faced the occasional threats from Real after the break, Ederson saving well from David Alaba and Karim Benzema, but they were no match and when Manuel Akanji's header deflected in off Eder Militao 14 minutes from time the celebrations started.\n\nSubstitute Julian Alvarez then wrapped up the dominant win with a late strike after latching onto a brilliant Phil Foden pass.\n\nCity will play Inter on 10 June as they look to win the Champions League for the first time.\n\nCity have put themselves in a magnificent position to become only the second English club to win the Treble first claimed by Manchester United in 1999.\n\nCity look to have finally broken Arsenal in the Premier League title race and will be overwhelming favourites to beat Inter Milan, although the desire to keep this feat for themselves will provide fuel and inspiration for United in the FA Cup final at Wembley.\n\nGuardiola's side have somehow found ways to miss out on the Champions League in the past but the addition of Haaland's sheer menace as well as more defensive steel makes it difficult to see how they will not find a way past surprise finalists Inter.\n\nCity made a Real side full of experience and quality look several classes beneath them in a first half that will be among the finest this stadium has seen, the dazzling interplay, fierce intensity and pace giving them a two-goal advantage that would have been far more but for the excellence of Courtois.\n\nThis night had a special atmosphere even before kick-off and victory will taste even sweeter after the pain of last season's loss at the same stage, when City were almost in the final only to concede two stoppage-time goals and eventually go out.\n\nThe Champions League has inflicted various levels of anguish on City despite their domestic dominance but if they perform anything like this in Istanbul it is hard to see an efficient but unspectacular Inter side having enough to trouble them.\n\nEnd of an era for Real?\n\nReal should never be written off with their history of success but there was an end-of-an-era feel about the manner of this defeat.\n\nThe side who put Liverpool and Chelsea out of the Champions League with the minimum of fuss looked its age here as City ran the holders ragged.\n\nLuka Modric was taken off and replaced by Antonio Rudiger just after the hour, the 37-year-old's future at the Bernabeu uncertain, while even Karim Benzema, 35, was unable to pose his usual threat.\n\nReal will refuse to stand still and the way they were outclassed here may only speed up the rate of change, with England's teenage sensation Jude Bellingham looking set to arrive to supplement the next generation midfielders alongside Federico Valverde, Eduardo Camavinga and Aurelien Tchouameni.\n\nWhether the great Carlo Ancelotti remains in charge will also be a point of debate with change often in the air if Real go a season without winning either La Liga or the Champions League.\n\nWhatever the outcome, the Italian manager keeps his place in history as the only coach to win this tournament four times.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 4, Real Madrid 0. Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Phil Foden with a through ball.\n• None Jack Grealish (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Dani Ceballos (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez.\n• None Attempt saved. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A warm-hearted Aussie rom-com about a flawed, funny couple getting it all utterly wrong\n• None Who killed Michaela McAreavey on her honeymoon? The tragic murder of an Irish sporting icon's daughter reinvestigated", "Ataf Nabhan was told he had five minutes to evacuate his house - before a missile blew it apart\n\nKamal Nabhan was screaming as he thrust the phone into his cousin's hands, unable to believe what the anonymous caller was telling him.\n\nThe men had just got ready to go to afternoon prayers in Jabalia refugee camp. But the routine patterns of life were about to give way to violent destruction, wrought from above with a warning call.\n\nKamal's cousin Ataf reached out to his relative.\n\n\"I took the phone from him and talked to the person on the line,\" says Ataf. \"He said he was from Israeli intelligence, and you have five minutes to evacuate the house.\"\n\nThey began to rush back, telling the Israeli caller he must be mistaken because the building \"was full\" of disabled people. \"[The intelligence officer] said: 'No, immediately evacuate the house,'\" says Ataf.\n\nIt was day five of the fiercest Israeli air strikes on Gaza in nine months. The campaign of so-called targeted assassinations killed at least six leading figures in Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian territory's second most powerful militant organisation.\n\nBut the attacks also killed 10 civilians on the first night alone - including wives and children of some of the men targeted as they slept. The group retaliated with waves of rocket attacks on Israeli cities, forcing tens of thousands to take cover in bomb shelters.\n\nIsrael said it was acting after repeated rounds of rocket fire by Islamic Jihad, which in turn said it had fired because of police raids against Palestinians at al-Aqsa mosque in occupied east Jerusalem, and the recent death in Israeli jail of hunger striker Khader Adnan.\n\nLast week's fighting killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza and two people in Israel - an Israeli and a Palestinian. It left more than 1,200 Palestinians displaced, according to the UN.\n\nAt the Nabhan family's building, Israel delivered on its warning. A single missile blew the block apart.\n\nThe blast blew the Nabhan family's home apart\n\nJust before a ceasefire deal was agreed late on Saturday, Israel destroyed several other residential blocks in similar circumstances - giving warnings to evacuate residents before bombing the buildings. These strikes that bring down whole apartment blocks are a well-worn tactic in its attacks on Gaza.\n\nIsrael says the buildings it hit were used as \"command and control centres\" by Islamic Jihad to direct rocket launches. It said its warning calls were meant to prevent harm to uninvolved civilians.\n\nLocal sources believe a militant lived in the building but not that it was an operational centre. Human rights groups condemn such attacks destroying entire residential blocks as a violation of international law. Another resident who received a warning call was filmed pleading with Israeli forces to limit any attack \"to the apartment of the guilty\".\n\nThe building in Jabalia has collapsed into its own foundations. An entire staircase that provided the escape route for several families lies horizontally, jutting into a smashed wall section. The remains of the roof are a few metres above the earth, providing the only shade for the former residents. Neighbours managed to get everyone out - nearly 50 people from eight families.\n\nThere were five people in the building with disabilities including muscular dystrophy, say support groups. Some had wheelchairs, specially modified beds and medicines destroyed in the air strike, they add.\n\nJamal al-Rozzi, executive director of the Gaza-based Society for Rehabilitation, who came to help the families, says his group will provide aid including food and medical devices.\n\n\"I feel angry and I feel pain because this should not happen, at least not for the civilians, especially not disabled people,\" he says.\n\nAlso sheltering among the rubble is another of Kamal Nabhan's relatives. Rahma Nabhan and her husband Yasser are sitting under a fractured roof slab, passing their baby daughter Jori to each other to soothe her cries.\n\nRahma Nabhan and her family are now sleeping outside their destroyed home\n\n\"My sisters-in-law are disabled - they were not able even to cover their heads [when they were rescued], their wheelchairs were buried under the house,\" says Rahma.\n\n\"Everyone saw the disabled people fleeing. They were asking: 'Why did the house have to be destroyed? Have these disabled people fired rockets?' We have nothing to do with what's going on,\" she says.\n\nRahma walks me around the remnants, still clutching Jori as we navigate the rubble.\n\nHer flat was on the top floor. Now there are only cardboard signs the residents have hoisted over the concrete remains, showing the names of each former inhabitant.\n\n\"We are not going anywhere, we will stay in the sun, sleep in the sun, we are not leaving the house,\" says Rahma.\n\n\"We call on the international organisations and [Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas] to stand with us and rebuild this house because we have no place to go,\" she says.\n\nThe ceasefire reached on Saturday night, mediated by Egypt, has largely held. But tensions remain extremely high, after months of spiralling violence in the occupied West Bank which has spilt over into Gaza on three major occasions since an all-out war between Israel and Hamas in May 2021.\n\nLast week's attacks have left Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu politically emboldened. They could easily have ignited a far bigger confrontation - in fact they still could despite the truce. But he has used the fighting to burnish his reputation for security in the face of unprecedented domestic unrest and growing pressure from religious-ultranationalist extremists in his coalition.\n\nDespite its losses, Islamic Jihad has used the escalation to promote its appeal as the current face of armed resistance against Israel while Hamas - the dominant militant group in Gaza - stayed on the sidelines in terms of military action.\n\nIt publicly backed the rocket fire as part of a \"unified\" position by Palestinian factions but effectively restrained itself, thereby limiting the round of fighting. It also has to keep services running for Gaza's population under a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade. A larger war could swing popular opinion further against it.\n\nSince 2021, the Israeli government has given permits to thousands of workers to cross into Israel, boosting Gaza's economy and bolstering tax revenues for Hamas. However, the group has warned against annual plans for an ultranationalist Israeli flag march through Muslim areas of occupied east Jerusalem on Thursday, keeping tensions boiling.\n\nBoth Hamas and Islamic Jihad are listed by Israel and the West as terrorist organisations.\n\nHowever, many Palestinians here feel abandoned by an international community that still talks about a political future for the region - a two-state solution - which is outright rejected by both Israel's nationalist government and the Palestinian armed groups.\n\nAt the Nabhans' house, neighbours and other Gaza-based charities arrive for a gathering in solidarity with the residents. It comes on the same day Palestinians mark the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, when 700,000 people fled or were forced from their homes in the conflicts surrounding Israel's creation.\n\nThe homeless residents hold up signs saying \"Protect us\" and \"We call for help\".\n\nAtaf Nabhan, who took the warning call from the Israeli intelligence officer, gestures to the rubble and tells me his plea is simple.\n\n\"This family needs a shelter,\" he says. \"We just ask the human rights organisations - take care of this family.\"", "Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu greets former Prime Minister Liz Truss upon her arrival\n\nFormer prime minister Liz Truss has made a personal plea for Rishi Sunak to brand China as a \"threat\" to UK security during a visit to Taiwan.\n\nThe ex-prime minister challenged Mr Sunak to deliver on pledges he made last summer to clamp down on China.\n\nMs Truss made the speech in Taipei City on Wednesday, making her the first former prime minister to visit Taiwan since Margaret Thatcher.\n\nIt added that the visit \"will do nothing but harm to the UK\".\n\nIn the speech, Ms Truss urged the West not to work with China, warning that totalitarian regimes \"don't tell the truth\".\n\nShe drew comparisons between the tensions between China and Taiwan, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nFormer British Prime Minister Liz Truss is in Taiwan for five days to meet with a number of high-ranking officials\n\nDuring the Conservative party leadership contest, Ms Truss pledged to take a firm stance against the Chinese government, and wanted to declare China under Communist Party rule a \"threat\" to national security.\n\nBut after her short-lived time in No 10, her plans were never realised.\n\nHer successor Rishi Sunak, also declared China as \"the biggest-long term threat to Britain\", and promised to close all 30 of Beijing's Confucius Institutes in the UK.\n\nConfucius Institutes, which teach Chinese language and culture, came under fire after critics and charities accused the centres of being used by the Chinese government to spread propaganda under the guise of teaching, interfere with free speech on campuses, and even spy on students.\n\nWhile Mr Sunak has not closed the institutes, the UK government is expected to promise that it will stop funding Mandarin teaching at the centres.\n\nIn her speech, Ms Truss said Mr Sunak was \"right\" to make those pledges. \"We need to see those policies enacted urgently,\" she added.\n\nThe prime minister updated the UK's integrated review on foreign and defence policy in March to describe China as representing an \"epoch-defining and systemic challenge\".\n\nIn her speech, Ms Truss said the review needed to be amended to \"state clearly that China is a threat\".\n\nShe called on the UK government to support Taiwan joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade agreement - and for it to block China from joining.\n\nThe former prime minister also called for the development of \"an economic Nato\", which \"supports freedom and proper free enterprise\".\n\nShe suggested countries including the G7 nations, members of the EU, South Korea and Australia could join this kind of group.\n\nMs Truss said: \"We cannot rely now on the UN security council, which was recently chaired by Putin's Russia.\n\n\"We cannot rely on the World Trade Organisation to make sure fair trade rules are in place. That's why we need other alternatives to get things done.\"\n\nMs Truss made the speech at the invitation of the Prospect Foundation, a think tank. It forms part of the former UK leader's five-day visit to the country.\n\nLast week, senior Conservative MP Alicia Kearns accused former Prime Minister Liz Truss of \"Instagram diplomacy\" over her planned visit to Taiwan.\n\nMs Kearns, who chairs the Commons Foreign Affairs committee, told the Guardian the trip was \"performative, not substantive\".\n\nBut Ms Truss accused her Tory colleague of \"misusing\" her position \"to engage in petty political attacks\", and said her visit aimed to show \"solidarity\" with Taiwan.\n\nTaiwan and China split in 1949 following a civil war that ended with the Communist Party in control of the mainland. China views Taiwan as Chinese territory.", "The murder of seven-year-old Nikki Allan in 1992 remained unsolved for decades\n\nA police force has apologised to the family of a girl murdered in 1992 and a man falsely accused of killing her.\n\nOn Friday, David Boyd, 55, was found guilty of beating seven-year-old Nikki Allan with a brick and stabbing her in a disused building in Sunderland.\n\nNorthumbria Police initially prosecuted Nikki's neighbour George Heron but he was cleared of murder in 1993.\n\nThe force said it was \"sorry for the mistakes\" it had made before Boyd was eventually brought to justice.\n\nMr Heron was 24 and lived near Nikki's family at the Wear Garth flats in Hendon when she vanished on the night of 7 October.\n\nHer heavily bloodstained body was later found dumped in the basement of the disused Old Exchange building, about 300 yards from her home.\n\nIn a trial in 1993, the judge said Mr Heron had been subjected to \"oppressive\" questioning and had denied any involvement in the murder 120 times during three days of interviews before appearing to make a confession.\n\nAfter the trial collapsed, Northumbria Police stated it was not looking for anyone else in connection with Nikki's murder.\n\nNikki's family lived in the same block of flats as her killer David Boyd and falsely accused George Heron\n\nPolice re-opened the investigation in 2017 and advances in DNA testing revealed a link to Boyd, from Stockton.\n\nIn 1992 he was 25 and lived just three doors away from Nikki's grandparents in Wear Garth. His then girlfriend was Nikki's babysitter.\n\nPolice did speak with Boyd at the time but regarded him as merely a \"helpful neighbour\". He was never treated as a suspect because detectives were intent on connecting Mr Heron to the crime.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable of Northumbria Police Alastair Simpson has now written to Mr Heron, who was understood to have had his face slashed while on remand in the 1990s, then had to move away from Sunderland - despite being cleared - and was taken in by a religious order.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Simpson said he would like to \"apologise for the mistakes made in the investigation\" and he hoped Boyd's conviction would \"finally bring some closure\" and allow Mr Heron to \"move on with life\".\n\nDavid Boyd will be sentenced for murdering Nikki Allan next week\n\nACC Simpson also offered his apologises to Nikki's mother, Sharon Henderson, who campaigned for more than 30 years to get justice for her daughter.\n\n\"I am truly sorry for mistakes that were made in the 1992 investigation and I am sorry for the length of time it has taken to get justice for the family,\" he said.\n\n\"I cannot imagine the impact on them over the course of the last 30 years.\"\n\nAfter the conclusion of the trial, Ms Henderson spoke of the \"injustice\" that \"this evil man slipped through the net to murder Nikki when he was on their [police] files in the first place\".\n\nWhen asked how she had found the strength to keep fighting, she said: \"Because Nikki's my daughter and I love her.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Lisa Theaker, who led the re-investigation, said detectives were certain Boyd did not have an accomplice\n\nDet Ch Supt Lisa Theaker, who led the re-investigation, said police were certain Boyd has acted alone.\n\nThe team of detectives, which she continued to manage despite moving to Cleveland Police, had looked at more than 1,000 potential suspects.\n\nMs Theaker paid tribute to members of the public who had co-operated with the inquiry: \"The community in Sunderland have massively helped and they have played their part.\"\n\nShe said now Boyd had been convicted officers would be able to share information with Ms Henderson to reassure her family that no-one else was involved.\n\nBoyd is due to be sentenced on Tuesday.\n\nNikki's mother Sharon Henderson campaigned for 30 years to find her daughter's killer\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNew Zealand police have launched a homicide inquiry into a fire at an emergency housing hostel in Wellington, where at least six people were killed.\n\nOfficials said up to 20 people were still missing and they were treating the blaze as an act of arson.\n\nThe fire had broken out at the four-storey Loafers Lodge hostel early Tuesday - forcing residents to the rooftop and some to jump from windows.\n\nDue to the damage, police have not yet been able to confirm the death toll.\n\nHowever, they warned that number could rise on Wednesday, as a team of investigators was sent into the building after an assessment of the building's integrity.\n\n\"Officers will be working to locate and recover those who have lost their lives tragically in this fire,\" Acting Wellington District Commander Dion Bennett told reporters on Wednesday.\n\n\"We know there are many people waiting for news of family and friends including residents who escaped the fire and who are keenly waiting for news of their fellow tenants.\"\n\nMore than 90 people had been accounted for. But authorities have not yet disclosed the identities of the dead or those missing - some of whom might be unaccounted for due to other reasons, they said.\n\nThe incident on the outskirts of Wellington's city centre has shocked New Zealand. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins called it \"an absolute tragedy\" and said it raised a wider discussion about the nation's housing crisis.\n\nThe 92-room hostel was known to house residents from vulnerable and marginalised communities - including those on welfare and disability pensions- as well as workers from the city's main hospital.\n\nResidents said the blaze had begun shortly after midnight local time, (12:30 GMT Monday). Some had crawled through smoke to safety, while others were rescued from the roof by firefighters.\n\nOne resident, Tala Sili, said he had jumped from his window to escape the fire which had started on the third floor.\n\n\"I was on the top floor and I couldn't go through the hallway because there was just too much smoke so I jumped out the window,\" he told national broadcaster RNZ.\n\n\"It smelt like poison,\" he said.\n\nOn Wednesday, police were given the all clear to send in a reconnaissance search team for the first time, after the building's rooftop collapse.\n\n\"This scene examination will be an extensive and methodical process, and we expect it to take some time - likely several days,\" Mr Bennett said.\n\nLoafers Lodge Hostel had been designated by New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development in 2011 as an emergency accommodation provider.\n\nThe government said on Tuesday that contract had ended. However the hostel is still part of a wider but informal network of temporary lodging.\n\nHomelessness charities in the city have confirmed that some of their previous clients had found lodging there.\n\nNew Zealand is in the midst of a housing crisis brought on sky-high private property prices and rents and a shortage of state housing.\n\nOfficial figures show that as of February more than 3,300 households live in emergency housing.", "The car was found on top of the metal cylinder\n\nA stolen car has been found stuck on top of a metal drum at a roundabout in the south of Scotland.\n\nThe black Honda Civic was discovered at 05:10 at Scott's Street roundabout in Annan. Police Scotland said it had been stolen from a property in the town.\n\nThe force said the vehicle had been removed and investigations were ongoing to establish the full circumstances.\n\nSgt Brian Dickson said: \"Anyone with any information about this theft is urged to contact police.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are particularly keen to hear from anyone with dash-cam or CCTV footage which may show the car being transported or abandoned.\"", "Flexible working is the norm for many since the pandemic\n\nThe \"default\" location for workers should be in the office unless there is a good reason to work from home, the Chancellor has suggested.\n\nJeremy Hunt said while working remotely had produced \"exciting opportunities\", he was worried about \"the loss of creativity\" when it is permanent.\n\n\"The default will be you work in the office unless there's a good reason not to be in the office,\" he said.\n\nFlexible working has become the norm for many workers since the pandemic.\n\nBut there has been a split across different sectors since lockdown restrictions have been eased.\n\nSome firms told their staff they needed to return to the workplace, while others opted for so-called \"hybrid\" working patterns, where employees could come in to offices on certain days and work remotely on others.\n\nOther businesses allowed workers to do their jobs from home on a permanent basis.\n\nThe most recent official figures suggest the majority of people - 63.9% - never work from home, while 21.4% work from the office and remotely. Just 7.8% of workers were based at home permanently, the survey found.\n\nSpeaking at the British Chambers of Commerce conference in London, the chancellor said it was \"something for businesses to find their own way through\", but added he believed the default for many would be to work from offices.\n\n\"I worry about the loss of creativity when people are permanently working from home and not having those water cooler moments, where they bounce ideas off each other,\" he added. \"I think that's why businesses are saying they want people back unless there's a reason.\"\n\nMr Hunt admitted that there were \"some very exciting opportunities created\" by workers being able to use programmes like Zoom and Microsoft Teams to conduct meetings remotely.\n\nHe suggested that it helped parents with childcare and it also helped people with mobility issues.\n\nAndrew Mawson, founder of Advanced Workplace Associates, which supports flexible working, said the chancellor was focussing \"on the wrong issue\" by suggesting workers should return to offices.\n\n\"If we want to get more people back in the workforce we need to design work to fit the way people live, the technology they use, and the opportunities for flexible working,\" he said.\n\n\"There may be ways that working together in a physical space can add value, but not for every task and not every day.\"\n\nMeanwhile, consultancy firm Deloitte said a survey it conducted found more than three-quarters of UK Gen Zs (77%) and millennials (71%) would consider looking for a new job if their employer asked them to go into their workplace full-time.\n\nKate Sweeney, partner and human capital lead at Deloitte, said that younger workers \"expect to be able to flex their work to accommodate their personal life\".\n\n\"Employers who recognise this desire for choice and support this are more likely to attract, retain and motivate the best talent from these two generations,\" she added.\n\nThe Recruitment and Employment Confederation said there were 1.1m job postings in April that included \"flexible\", \"hybrid\" or \"remote\" working.\n\nThe chancellor's comments came after the boss the BCC warned UK business needed a \"fresh relationship\" with the government\n\nShevaun Haviland, director-general of the major business lobby group, said it was a \"pivotal moment for the voice of British business\" with an election looming in 18 months' time.\n\nOpening the BCC's annual conference Ms Haviland said companies had been hit by \"eye-watering\" energy bills, rising interest rates and a \"cripplingly tight labour market\".\n\nThrough its regional branches, the British Chambers of Commerce claims to represent tens of thousands of UK businesses employing almost six million people. It hosts networking events, shares best practice and lobbies government for pro-business policies.\n\nShould the office be the default location for workers? Get in touch:\n\nIts warning that British business needs a new relationship with government comes after contact between ministers and the country's largest lobby group, the CBI, was suspended following allegations of sexual misconduct at the organisation, which has since lost members.\n\nFollowing Ms Haviland's speech, Mr Hunt defended his handling of the economy, and said there was \"nothing automatic\" about controlling inflation, which is the rate prices rise at.\n\nHe said independent forecasters believed the government was on track to meet its pledge to halve the annual rate of inflation this year. It is currently at 10.1%.\n\nHowever, some economists have previously said that inflation is due to fall naturally as energy and commodity prices ease, rather than due to specific government policies.\n\nSpeaking at the conference, Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, said there were \"good reasons to expect inflation to fall sharply over the coming months\", starting with figures for April which are due to be released next week.\n\nBut he said the UK was experiencing \"second-round\" effects of inflation, highlighting that price setting by companies and wage rises were fuelling inflation in part.\n\n\"And as headline inflation falls, these second-round effects are unlikely to go away as quickly as they appeared,\" he said.\n\nThe Bank is responsible for setting interest rates and keeping inflation at around 2%.\n\nLast week, the Bank warned soaring food costs would mean prices will remain higher for longer, as it raised interest rates for the 12th time in a row. to 4.5% in the battle to slow inflation.\n\nBy raising rates, the Bank expects people to have less money to spend and buy fewer things, which should help stop prices rising as quickly.\n\nHowever, it also makes it harder for firms to borrow money and expand.", "The Grammy-nominated artist topped the UK album chart in 2021 with his second LP, Tyron\n\nUK rapper Slowthai's name has been removed from the official line-up poster for this year's Glastonbury Festival, as well Reading and Leeds, after he was charged with rape.\n\nThe 28-year-old, real name Tyron Frampton, appeared in court via video on Tuesday, charged with two counts of raping a woman in September 2021.\n\nThe rapper has posted online to say he \"categorically denies the charges\".\n\nHe is expected to appear before Oxford Crown Court on 15 June.\n\nWriting on Instagram, Slowthai said: \"Regarding the allegations being reported about me. I categorically deny the charges. I am innocent and I am confident my name will be cleared.\n\n\"Until then, I will apply my energy to ensure this is concluded swiftly and justly.\"\n\nHe added: \"I ask that my supporters don't comment on this situation and respect the process and privacy of my family during this time.\"\n\nSlowthai appeared before Oxford Magistrates' Court via video link from his home in Northampton on Tuesday, speaking only to confirm his name, date of birth and address.\n\nThe Grammy-nominated rapper had originally been named to perform at Worthy Farm sometime between 21-25 June, but that now appears to be in doubt.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glastonbury Festival This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe was also set to appear on the Main Stage West at Reading on 26 August, before playing the festival's Yorkshire leg the next day.\n\nNeither Glastonbury nor Reading and Leeds has yet commented on his name being erased from their line-ups.\n\nHe was nominated for the prestigious Mercury prize in 2019\n\nThe Northampton-born star arrived on to the scene with his politically-driven 2019 debut album, Nothing Great About Britain, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize.\n\nAt the awards ceremony, its creator caused the biggest stir of the night by holding aloft a dummy of the then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson's severed head while performing Doorman - a track about wealth disparity in modern Britain.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he explained the song, like the rest of his album, aimed to give a voice to \"the people from small communities that have been forgotten about\".\n\n\"It's time to let people in,\" he said. \"Everyone, the lower class, the middle class, and even the ones in the upper who feel their life is hard.\"\n\nSlowthai was nominated for best dance recording at the Grammy Awards in 2021, for My High - a collaboration with Disclosure and Aminé. The same year, his second album, Tyron, topped the UK chart.\n\nHaving previously featured on a Gorillaz track, Slowthai has been booked to open for Damon Albarn's other band Blur at Wembley Stadium in July.", "That brings our coverage of today's Prime Minister's Questions to a close.\n\nIt was Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden's first PMQs, standing in for Rishi Sunak. He faced a grilling from Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner - and certainly there were plenty of barbs exchanged in both directions.\n\nRayner welcomed \"yet another deputy PM\" and said the Tories were \"preparing for opposition\" - while Dowden referred to Rayner and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer as the \"Phil and Holly of British politics\"- referring to reports of a rift between Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby of ITV's This Morning.\n\nThere were also meaty clashes on topics including hospital waiting lists and child poverty - with Rayner accusing the Conservatives of \"lurching from crisis to crisis\" while Dowden said the government was making \"good progress\" on reducing the lists and that he was proud of his party's record on tackling poverty.\n\nWant to read more? Our report on PMQs is here.\n\nToday's coverage was written by Aoife Walsh, Malu Cursino, Jack Burgess, Richard Morris, Alys Davies, Gem O'Reilly and Emaan Warraich.\n\nIt was edited by Owen Amos, Heather Sharp and Alex Therrien.", "Ivan Toney banned: Brentford striker suspended for eight months over betting Last updated on .From the section Brentford\n\nIvan Toney last played for Brentford against Liverpool at Anfield on 6 May Brentford striker Ivan Toney has been banned from football for eight months after he accepted breaking Football Association betting rules. Toney has also been charged £50,000 and warned about his future conduct for 232 breaches of the FA's betting rules. His suspension starts immediately, but the 27-year-old can return to training with Brentford four months before it ends on 17 September. He will not be allowed to play again until 17 January, 2024. Posting on his Instagram story, Toney said he was \"naturally disappointed\" at the verdict, and would make no further comment until the the independent Regulatory Commission publishes its written reasons. \"I make no further comment at this point other than to thank my family and friends, Brentford FC and our fans for their continued support, through what has been a very difficult time. \"I now focus on returning to play the game I love next season.\" In a statement, the FA said: \"His [Toney] sanctions were subsequently imposed by an independent Regulatory Commission following a personal hearing. \"The independent Regulatory Commission's written reasons for these sanctions will be published in due course, and the FA will wait to review them before commenting further.\" The breaches Toney has been found guilty of took place between 25 February 2017 and 23 January 2021, during which time Toney represented Scunthorpe United, Wigan Athletic, Peterborough United and Brentford. Toney has scored 20 goals in 33 Premier League appearances this season, helping Brentford into ninth place in the table. He will miss Brentford's trip to Tottenham on Saturday and the final day of the season at home to league leaders Manchester City on 28 May. Brentford say they note the FA's decision and are awaiting the publication of the written reasons before \"considering our next steps\". Toney won his first England cap as a late substitute in the 2-0 Euro 2024 qualifying win over Ukraine in March, having received his first call-up to Gareth Southgate's squad last September. England defender Kieran Trippier was banned for 10 weeks by the FA in December 2020 for giving out information for others to bet on his transfer from Tottenham to Atletico Madrid. In 2017, Joey Barton - then a Burnley player - was banned for 18 months, reduced to 13 on appeal, after admitting placing 1,260 football-related bets over a 10-year period. This is a major blow for Toney, whose career for both club and country is now uncertain, and for Brentford, who are now denied the services of one of the country's best strikers until well into next season. Any plans to sell him this summer may also have been jeopardised. Any assessment of the punishment he has received must wait until the FA reveals more details about the reasons for its decision, the precise nature of Toney's gambling, and why he acted the way he did for so long and so many times. Some will say the FA had little choice but to hand out such a sanction, and point out that Toney should have known the rules and stuck to them. But others will point to football's close relationship with the gambling industry, especially in the form of advertising and shirt sponsorship, and ask if the sport's authorities should shoulder some responsibility too. After all, Toney's club Brentford are among many clubs sponsored by a betting company and he played for several clubs in the EFL - a league also sponsored by a betting company. He is far from the first player to fall foul of the rules. Kieran Trippier has shown it is possible to bounce back after serving such a suspension, but there will be calls for Toney to be supported, as well as punished. The FA will face questions over the time this process has taken and the fact Toney will serve so much of his suspension during the summer. Some would also have preferred his suspension to have started after the end of the season. Tottenham and Manchester City now stand to benefit from Toney not being available in Brentford's final matches. Many fear the influence of the links between football and the gambling industry on fans too, with concerns it normalises betting, especially among young supporters. The Premier League recently announced a voluntary ban on shirt sponsorship by betting companies, but expect renewed scrutiny on the game's ties to gambling and the need for greater education of players in the wake of this latest controversy.\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n• None Our coverage of Brentford is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Brentford - go straight to all the best content", "The government has banned the issuing of licences for animal testing of chemicals used as ingredients in cosmetics products.\n\nThe government had allowed animal testing for makeup ingredients to resume despite a 25-year ban.\n\nA recent court ruling said the government changed a policy on animal testing to align with EU chemical rules.\n\nBut Home Secretary Suella Braverman said no new licences will be granted.\n\nA ban on animal testing for makeup ingredients was introduced in 1998 and is still in place, but the government said it changed policy to match rules in the European Union (EU).\n\nIn 2020, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), an EU agency which oversees chemical regulation, ruled that companies needed to test some ingredients used in cosmetics on animals to ensure they were safe for workers manufacturing the ingredients.\n\nEarlier this month, it emerged that since 2019, the government had been issuing licences for animal testing of cosmetic ingredients in line with EU chemical rules, which it retained despite leaving the EU in 2020.\n\nThe news of continued testing on animals outraged some cosmetic brands and animal rights groups, which said the government had effectively lifted the ban.\n\nIn a written statement to Parliament, Ms Braverman said: \"The government recognises the public concern around the testing on animals of chemicals used as ingredients in cosmetics, and the new opportunities available to us to depart from the EU testing regime.\n\n\"I can confirm, therefore, that from today no new licences will be granted for animal testing of chemicals that are exclusively intended to be used as ingredients in cosmetics products.\n\n\"The government is also engaging with the relevant companies to urgently determine a way forward on these legacy licences.\"\n\nMs Braverman said the EU chemical rules explained \"why it has been possible that a chemical used in cosmetics production may be required to be tested on animals\".\n\n\"This has been reflected in the issuing of a small number of time-limited licences between 2019 and 2022.\"\n\nMs Braverman said the government was reviewing how the ban on animal testing would work in practice over the longer term.\n\nDr Penny Hawkins, head of the RSPCA's animals in science department, said the public were strongly against the use of animals to test cosmetics.\n\nShe cited RSPCA research, which shows that 76% of UK adults are very concerned about the use of animals in scientific research and testing.\n\n\"The outrage following the UK government's decision to quietly follow European Union chemical testing rules really reinforces just how important this issue is to the public and we are pleased that outcry has been listened to,\" Dr Hawkins said.\n\nThe Cosmetic Toiletry and Perfumery Association (CTPA) said the makeup industry \"do not want any animal testing\".\n\nDr Emma Meredith, director general of CTPA, said key industry stakeholders had met with the home secretary to discuss the government's action, adding \"we support the clarity and reassurance that this new ban will provide to the public\".", "We are now back in court, but Lucy Letby is in the dock, rather than being in the witness box. The jury has just come back in.\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Goss, apologises to them for the delay. He tells them that for reasons with which they should not concern themselves, we are not going to continue with the hearing for the rest of today.\n\nHe tells the jury that they will not be needed back at court until it's next scheduled to sit on Wednesday next week.\n\nHe reminds them not to research the case themselves, away from the evidence they hear at court.\n\nThat is the end of proceedings for today. The trial will continue next Wednesday.", "The prime minister has refused to explicitly commit to a Conservative promise to get net migration levels below where they were four years ago.\n\nThe Tory manifesto before the general election in 2019 promised that \"overall numbers will come down\".\n\nNet migration - the number of people moving to the UK minus the number who leave - was 226,000 in the year to March 2019.\n\nIn the year to June 2022, net migration hit an all-time high of 504,000.\n\nThe latest number, for the year to December 2022, will be published next week - and is widely expected to be higher still.\n\nSpeaking to reporters en route to the G7 Summit in Japan, Rishi Sunak said: \"I've inherited some numbers, I want to bring the numbers down.\"\n\nAs the numbers climb, he is maintaining a desire that they fall, but not explicitly below the level they were at when the initial promise was made.\n\n\"When it comes to legal migration, the key thing for people to know is we're in control of why people are here, the circumstances and the terms on which they are here, making sure they contribute, to public services like the NHS for example,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"Those are all now part of our migration system and they weren't before,\" he added, in reference to Brexit - which means immigration policy is now decided solely at Westminster.\n\nThere is some evidence that the importance attached to cutting immigration has fallen for some people since the UK left the European Union, suggesting control over it, as well as how much of it there is, does really matter to some.\n\nAs I have written about here, there is quite a discussion going on within government about how to respond to next week's new net migration figure.\n\nMr Sunak is travelling to Japan for the G7 summit in Hiroshima\n\nI am told the prime minister has not yet looked at it in detail. But he is likely to in the coming days, ahead of a government announcement which is expected to include a restriction on the dependents some foreign students can bring with them when they come to the UK to study.\n\nStrikingly, when pressed on his instincts on legal migration, the prime minister repeatedly changed the subject to talk about illegal immigration instead - small boat crossings.\n\n\"I do think most people's number one priority when it comes to migration is illegal migration, that is crystal clear to me,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"That's why one of my five priorities is to stop the boats, that's why recently we have moved to a Covid-style committee structure where I am meeting twice a week with ministers to drive the implementation of the new bill,\" he added, referring to the Illegal Migration Bill.\n\nHe also pointed out what he believes is a significant breakthrough in helping to limit the number of small boats crossing the Channel.\n\nConservative peer Lord Jackson has warned the PM against dropping a 2019 manifesto pledge to reduce migration levels.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Politics Live, he said a rise in net migration could lead to people giving up on the Tory party. \"I do think that if you seem to not take seriously this issue, there's a problem,\" he said.\n\nAt a meeting of the Council of Europe in Iceland on Tuesday, the European Union agreed to begin conversations about the UK having a cooperation agreement with Frontex, the European Border and Coastguard Agency.\n\nThere has been no such agreement since Brexit.\n\nSuch an agreement, Mr Sunak said, was \"of practical value to us in stopping illegal migration - sharing intelligence, operational cooperation will make a difference to our ability to stop the boats.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA hearing into the Metropolitan Police's treatment of protesters on Coronation day was briefly interrupted by Just Stop Oil activists.\n\nThe Home Affairs Committee's hearing was paused about 25 minutes into proceedings on Wednesday morning.\n\nVoices could be heard in the chamber, followed by people groaning and asking for security to intervene, before the video feed cut out.\n\nSeparately, eight Just Stop Oil members were arrested at Parliament Square.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said they were detained after conditions to move out of the road in central London were not complied with.\n\nChief Constable Chris Noble, protest lead at the National Police Chiefs' Council, and Met Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist were answering questions from MPs during the committee session.\n\nBehind them was a small group of activists wearing white T-shirts with Just Stop Oil written on them.\n\nBefore the group was removed, Dr Kush Naker, 33, a doctor of infectious diseases from London, said \"our democracy is under threat\" as he started to read a prepared statement.\n\nThe protest group said 28 people had been marching to Parliament as the hearing took place to call on the government to stop licensing new oil and gas projects \"which they know will contribute to the deaths of millions.\"\n\nA Just Stop Oil spokesperson said removing the protesters from the committee room was \"a continuation of the silencing of legitimate dissent we saw at the Coronation\".\n\n\"This is clearly politically motivated and represents a massive overreach by the police.\n\n\"No evidence has been provided and now those wrongfully arrested are being prevented from giving evidence to the very committee that has been organised to assess the policing during the Coronation,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nAfter the protesters were removed and the hearing resumed, MP Tim Loughton said: \"To be clear, they were Just Stop Oil protesters who tried to undermine the activities of this committee with our witnesses today.\"\n\nCommittee chairwoman, Labour MP Dame Diana Johnson, said it was important that Parliament is open to members of the public, but \"we also take very seriously that we should not be disrupted from our job of scrutinising, particularly what happened in this case\".\n\nShe went on to thank security and police officers who acted quickly so the session could continue.\n\nBefore the hearing was interrupted, Mr Twist defended the policing of the Coronation, which saw 64 people arrested in London under the Public Order Act 2023.Those arrested included six people from the anti-monarchy group Republic, as well as three Night Stars volunteers for Westminster City Council.", "A fan filmed Taylor Swift as she stopped singing during her hit song Bad Blood to stop a security guard from ejecting a woman from her Philadelphia concert,.\n\nPrimary school teacher Kelly Kelly was at the show on the weekend, dancing in front row seats with her sister and friends. She told the Good Morning America show, broadcast on ABC, that a security guard, \"Just kept telling me to stop, he kept telling me to calm down and, like, not to dance...and I guess she noticed.\"\n\n\"She yelled at him to leave me alone, and that I wasn't doing anything wrong.\"\n\nKelly also revealed she received free tickets to see the show in Philadelphia again.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police was not under political pressure to stop anti-monarchy protesters at the Coronation, a senior Met officer has told MPs.\n\nMatt Twist, assistant commissioner, told the Home Affairs Select Committee that police had intel about disruption.\n\nThe force has been criticised for arresting six members of anti-monarchy group Republic and three women's safety volunteers.\n\nRepublic said it had \"no intention\" of causing disruption by protesting.\n\nMr Twist told MPs that the force had received intelligence there was going to be a \"concerted attempt to disrupt the Coronation procession\" on 6 May.\n\nHe added they had been so concerned they alerted Home Secretary Suella Braverman and London Mayor Sadiq Khan the night before the celebrations began.\n\nPolice were given extra powers shortly before the Coronation under a controversial new law, the Public Order Act 2023.\n\nThis resulted in protesters, including the chief executive of Republic, Graham Smith, being held in police custody for almost 16 hours, then bailed. They were later told that no further action would be taken against them.\n\nThe three women's safety volunteers who were arrested were also released without charge. Westminster City Council has said it asked for an apology from the police to the Night Star volunteers, who hand out rape alarms.\n\nMr Twist was asked by committee chairwoman Diana Johnson whether he felt any political pressure to make arrests during the Coronation.\n\nHe responded he only \"felt pressure to deliver a safe and secure operation, but that was because of the fact that it was a once-in-a-lifetime event for so many people\".\n\nHe added it was the biggest protection operation the Met has run, with 312 protected people that they had to get in and out of the Abbey in about 90 minutes.\n\n\"So the stakes were enormously high, so I absolutely felt pressure to deliver a safe and secure operation. But that wasn't political pressure,\" Mr Twist said.\n\nThe hearing was briefly interrupted by Just Stop Oil activists who were sat behind Mr Twist wearing white t-shirts with the name of their group written in large letters.\n\nVoices could be heard in the chamber along with people groaning and asking for security to intervene, while eight Just Stop Oil members were also arrested in Parliament Square.\n\nWhen the hearing resumed following the brief interruption, Mr Twist told the committee that police believed the threat to the Coronation was real.\n\nHe added they had had short notice between the act getting Royal Assent and the police being informed. However, he believed officers knew what they had to do on the day.\n\nAnti-monarchy protester Matt Turnbull told the committee police officers were interested in some luggage straps that Republic were using to hold their placards together.\n\nMr Smith added his group had brought 600 placards in their van, which explains why they needed trolleys and the straps.\n\nMr Twist said arrests were made after officers found 12 heavy duty straps with combination locks in sealed plastic bags.\n\nTim Loughton, Conservative MP for East Worthing and Shoreham, asked Mr Twist if he had seen luggage straps with combination locks used to lock on protest signs.\n\nSuzie Melvin described being arrested during the Coronation weekend\n\nHe said he hadn't, but that didn't mean it didn't happen.\n\nSuzie Melvin, who volunteers for the Night Stars safety scheme and was arrested during the Coronation weekend, also spoke to MPs.\n\nShe described how the team were wearing hi-vis jackets \"with the Metropolitan Police logo\" due to their partnership with the force, and backpacks in the early hours of the Saturday morning on the Coronation weekend.\n\nAs they approached Soho Square in central London, officers looked through their bags and they were arrested and taken into police custody, despite them showing emails and leaflets from Westminster City Council and the Night Stars website, she said.\n\nMs Melvin stated the arresting police officer told her they were \"specifically looking\" for people from her organisation. She believed it could have been linked to volunteers carrying rape alarms, part of an \"anti-spiking kit\" they hand out to people enjoying a night out.\n\nThe Met previously said it had \"received intelligence\" people \"were planning to use rape alarms to disrupt the procession\".\n\nMs Melvin was released the day after the Coronation.\n\nThis led committee chairwoman Dame Diana Johnson to reply: \"I am speechless.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a complaint has also been lodged by royal fanAlice Chambers, 36, who was held in custody for 13 hoursafter she was mistaken for a Just Stop Oil protester while waiting in the Mall to see the King. The Metropolitan Police have said it regrets she was not able to watch the Coronation. She was released with no further action.\n\nA total of 64 arrests were made during the policing operation for the Coronation, the Met said.\n\nThe police said 52 of those were related to concerns people were going to disrupt the event.", "Building work is yet to start for 33 of the government's 40 promised new hospitals in England, the BBC has found.\n\nMost are still waiting to hear what their final budget will be for the projects with a 2030 deadline. Only two are finished and open.\n\nMinisters aimed to have six ready for 2025 - but none of this group has full planning permission or funding yet.\n\nThe government insists it remains committed to meeting the targets.\n\n\"We are developing a new national approach to constructing hospitals so they can be built more rapidly, ensure value for money, and we continue to work closely with all trusts on their plans,\" an official said.\n\nHealth leaders say they need urgent clarity.\n\nThe BBC looked at the issue last year and since then there has been little progress.\n\nWhen the pledge was announced, in 2019, there was some controversy about exactly what counts as a \"new hospital\".\n\nNHS guidance says it can range from an entirely new building on a new site to a major refurbishment or alteration.\n\nBy October 2020, the commitment was confirmed, with an initial budget of £3.7bn.\n\nOf the 40 hospitals on the list, eight were projects already planned.\n\nBBC News contacted them all, asking for a progress report:\n\nInvestment seems to be a factor:\n\nOne of the six due to be completed in 2025 is Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, near London.\n\nSome parts of St Helier's site look more like a derelict building than a functioning NHS hospital.\n\nA makeshift wooden roof at the back is held down with sandbags.\n\nOne of the three intensive-care units has a problem with ventilation, so it can be used only as a storeroom.\n\nStaff are using a bucket to catch the drips from the leak in the ceiling\n\nIn another, staff are working around a leak.\n\nIn winter, it is not unusual for entire corridors to flood.\n\nWhen we met Chief Medical Officer Ruth Charlton outside a condemned ward, she told us: \"It's not safe to enter - the foundations are crumbling and windows are falling out.\"\n\nShe cannot see a new build happening by 2025. Her \"optimistic\" estimate is 2027. Ms Charlton would not be drawn on a realistic guess but was blunt about how sad and frustrated she felt.\n\n\"I'm frustrated on behalf of our patients, their families or staff that they can't receive healthcare in the sort of facility that I would want my family to receive healthcare in,\" she told us.\n\nAs we talk, we can hear the sound of a maintenance crew drilling.\n\nThe trust says its backlog maintenance - to bring buildings and equipment up to standard - will cost £130m.\n\nAcross the NHS in England, backlog-maintenance costs have more than doubled, from £4.7bn in 2011-12 to £10.2bn in 2021-22.\n\nIn other words, it has become twice as expensive just to keep the doors open.\n\nHealth think tank the Nuffield Trust chief executive Nigel Edwards says the government started with a \"big and slightly vague promise - and it was never clear there was enough money available to do anything like the scale of construction that they wanted to\". And ministers hitting their 2030 target is \"extremely unlikely\".\n\n\"They've underestimated how long it takes to change the way they design, build, and plan hospitals,\" he says.\n\n\"It's a great ambition - but I think a bit of realism is now starting to sink in.\"\n\nIn 2019, Boris Johnson assured voters he could build the 40 new hospitals but only \"because we're running a strong economy\".\n\nThe government has never explicitly allocated a budget for this project - but it has undoubtedly become more expensive.\n\nInflation means prices have gone up sharply, especially in construction.\n\nInstitute for Financial Studies senior research economist Ben Zaranko says: \"Either the government sticks to that pledge and accepts it will need to spend more on hospital building or it decides it scales back the number and scope of hospitals.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We remain committed to delivering all 40 new hospitals by 2030 as part of the biggest hospital-building programme in a generation.\"\n\nThe logic here is the New Hospital Programme is developing a new national approach to building these hospitals across England - and a standard approach should mean more a rapid process.\n\nBut there is another - potentially dangerous - complication. Several hospitals across England are at risk of collapse, with roofs propped up with scaffolding and posts, because they were built using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) - a lightweight concrete with bubbles inside like \"a chocolate Aero bar\".\n\nThe NHS has identified 34 NHS buildings in England containing RAAC planks - and it is believed about five need to be dealt with urgently.\n\nBut only a small number of the hospitals with planned new builds are thought to be affected by RAAC, so it would make sense to expect new RAAC hospitals to be added to the list soon.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We remain committed to delivering all 40 new hospitals by 2030 as part of the biggest hospital-building programme in a generation.\"\n\n\"We are developing a new national approach to constructing hospitals so they can be built more rapidly, ensure value for money, and we continue to work closely with all trusts on their plans.\"\n\nSir Julian Hartley, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents trusts, wants clarity, ideally in the next few weeks.\n\n\"We are at a pivotal moment, a key point, where we cannot leave for much longer the scale of deterioration,\" he says.\n\n'We need to know that if we delay too much longer, the scale of the problems in other hospitals and facilities will get to a critical level.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he added there was an \"absolutely dire need for decisions to be made about making progress... and tackling in the longer term the ageing infrastructure\" of hospitals.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The debt ceiling explained - in under 90 seconds\n\nPresident Joe Biden and Republican leaders have expressed cautious optimism that a deal to raise the US debt ceiling is within reach, following emergency talks at the White House.\n\nBut House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters the two sides are still far apart.\n\nThe standoff has forced Mr Biden to cut short a foreign trip.\n\nWithout a deal, the US could enter a calamitous default on its $31.4tr (£25tr) debt as soon as 1 June.\n\nA failure by the US government to meet its debt obligations could trigger global financial chaos.\n\nThe Democratic president said Tuesday's hour-long Oval Office meeting was \"good, productive\", sounding upbeat about the prospects of an agreement.\n\nMr McCarthy said afterwards he believed a deal was possible by the end of this week.\n\nAsked about the risk of the US falling off a fiscal cliff, the California congressman told BBC News: \"The great thing about that question is we've already taken default off the table.\"\n\nHe also told reporters a Biden-appointed representative would negotiate directly with his staff, which he said was a sign that \"the structure of how we negotiate has improved\".\n\nA number of senior Democrats were at the talks, including Vice-President Kamala Harris, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.\n\nIn exchange for support for raising the debt ceiling, Republican leaders are demanding budget cuts. They also want tougher work requirements on government aid recipients.\n\nCiting sources familiar with the talks, the Associated Press news agency reports that this idea was \"resoundingly\" rejected by House Democrats at another meeting earlier on Tuesday.\n\nMr Biden has repeatedly said that a potential debt default and budgetary issues should be separate.\n\nThe president is due to fly to the G7 summit in Japan on Wednesday. He was then expected to head to Papua New Guinea and Australia for further meetings.\n\nBut he will now return after the 19-21 May summit ends in Hiroshima to \"ensure that Congress takes action\" to avert a default, the White House said in a statement.\n\nThe so-called Quad meeting in Sydney has now been cancelled, and the leaders will attempt to meet on the sidelines of the G7, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.\n\nReaching the debt ceiling would mean the US government is unable to borrow any more money.\n\nThis means the government would no longer be able to pay the salaries of federal and military employees. Social Security cheques - payments that millions of pensioners in the US rely on - would stop.\n\nEvery so often the US Congress votes to raise or suspend the ceiling so it can borrow more.\n\nA default - which would be a first in US history - could shatter trust in America's political ability to pay its bills.\n\nExperts have warned it could also see the US spiral into recession and trigger a rise in unemployment.\n\nTreasury Secretary Janet Yellen said at an event on Tuesday that \"a US default would generate an economic and financial catastrophe\".\n\nMeanwhile, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said: \"There's countries like Russia and China that would love nothing more than for us to default.\"\n\nA deal to avoid this scenario has so far proven elusive. In April, Republicans proposed an agreement that would suspend the debt limit by $1.5tn or until 31 March, whichever comes first.\n\nIn exchange, they would maintain spending at key government agencies at 2022 levels for the next financial year and limit spending growth to 1% annually over the next 10 years.\n\nThey argued this would lead to $4.8tn in savings.\n\nThe proposal, however, would scupper several of Mr Biden's legislative priorities, including student loan forgiveness.\n\nThe last time the US was approaching a default, back in 2011, lawmakers struck a deal hours before the deadline.\n\nThat standoff led to a downgrade in the US credit rating, sent the stock market plummeting and increased the government's borrowing costs.\n\n\"Nobody should use default as a hostage,\" Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said at the US Capitol on Tuesday. \"The consequences would be devastating for America.\"\n\nThe US debt ceiling has been raised, extended or revised 78 times since 1960.", "Samantha Lee denies breaching the force's standards in her investigation of Wayne Couzens\n\nA former Met PC accused of failing to properly investigate Wayne Couzens after he was accused of flashing thought the case had been given to another officer, a hearing was told.\n\nCouzens killed Sarah Everard in south-west London days after exposing himself to staff at a branch of McDonalds.\n\nSamantha Lee is accused of failing to make \"the correct investigative inquiries\" into the incidents and lying about her work on the case.\n\nA disciplinary hearing has heard that Ms Lee attended the restaurant in Swanley to interview the manager on 3 March, hours before Ms Everard was kidnapped and murdered by Couzens in Clapham.\n\nShe said afterwards she believed there was no CCTV footage of the incidents as the restaurant's footage had been deleted.\n\nShe previously told the hearing the meeting was her last appointment of the day before having some time off to rest.\n\nWayne Couzens was already serving life for murdering Sarah Everard when he was sentenced for indecent exposure\n\nOn Wednesday, the hearing heard her written response made to claims she had breached standards, dated from June 2021.\n\nIn it she said Ch Supt Shepherd had called her during her days off and informed her she was still on the case, which \"shocked\" her.\n\n\"I could not believe that the crime report would be still shown to me, believing that it would have been transferred to MiST (My investigation Support Team),\" she wrote.\n\nShe added that \"had I known, or been aware, that it had not been transferred, I would have transferred it or spoken to a supervisor about it getting transferred\".\n\nCh Supt Shepherd previously told the hearing he had not called her.\n\nThe hearing also heard that in an interview in November 2021 she said she had been \"quite confident\" she had done \"what was needed\" to have the case referred, and that it should have been cleared with a supervisor.\n\n\"After you complete an appointment, supervisors should then check your report and it should be passed onto MiST,\" she said.\n\nSarah Everard was murdered by Couzens soon after the indecent exposure incidents\n\nMs Lee is accused of breaching the force's standards on duties and responsibilities as well as honesty and integrity.\n\nIf she is found to have committed gross misconduct, she could be banned from serving in the force again.\n\nIn March this year, Couzens was sentenced to 19 months in prison after admitting indecent exposure.\n\nHe was already serving life behind bars for Ms Everard's kidnap and murder.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sam Altman testified before a US Senate Committee about the potential of artificial intelligence - and its risks\n\nThe creator of advanced chatbot ChatGPT has called on US lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence (AI).\n\nSam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, testified before a US Senate committee on Tuesday about the possibilities - and pitfalls - of the new technology.\n\nIn a matter of months, several AI models have entered the market.\n\nMr Altman said a new agency should be formed to license AI companies.\n\nChatGPT and other similar programmes can create incredibly human-like answers to questions - but can also be wildly inaccurate.\n\nMr Altman, 38, has become a spokesman of sorts for the burgeoning industry. He has not shied away from addressing the ethical questions that AI raises, and has pushed for more regulation.\n\nHe said that AI could be as big as \"the printing press\" but acknowledged its potential dangers.\n\n\"I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong...we want to be vocal about that,\" Mr Altman said. \"We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening.\"\n\nHe also admitted the impact that AI could have on the economy, including the likelihood that AI technology could replace some jobs, leading to layoffs in certain fields.\n\n\"There will be an impact on jobs. We try to be very clear about that,\" he said, adding that the government will \"need to figure out how we want to mitigate that\".\n\nMr Altman added, however, that he is \"very optimistic about how great the jobs of the future will be\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Senator Richard Blumenthal uses ChatGPT to write his statement\n\nHowever, some senators argued new laws were needed to make it easier for people to sue OpenAI.\n\nMr Altman told legislators he was worried about the potential impact on democracy, and how AI could be used to send targeted misinformation during elections - a prospect he said is among his \"areas of greatest concerns\".\n\n\"We're going to face an election next year,\" he said. \"And these models are getting better.\"\n\nHe gave several suggestions for how a new agency in the US could regulate the industry - including \"a combination of licensing and testing requirements\" for AI companies, which he said could be used to regulate the \"development and release of AI models above a threshold of capabilities\".\n\nHe also said firms like OpenAI should be independently audited.\n\nRepublican Senator Josh Hawley said the technology could be revolutionary, but also compared the new tech to the invention of the \"atomic bomb\".\n\nDemocrat Senator Richard Blumenthal observed that an AI-dominated future \"is not necessarily the future that we want\".\n\n\"We need to maximize the good over the bad. Congress has a choice now. We had the same choice when we faced social media. We failed to seize that moment,\" he warned.\n\nWhat was clear from the testimony is that there is bi-partisan support for a new body to regulate the industry.\n\nHowever, the technology is moving so fast that legislators also wondered whether such an agency would be capable of keeping up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Two poultry workers in England have tested positive for bird flu, although there are no signs of human-to-human transmission, the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) has said.\n\nBoth people were known to have recently worked on an infected poultry farm and have since tested negative.\n\nNeither worker experienced symptoms of avian influenza, with both cases found during screening.\n\nThe risk to the general population remains very low, the UKHSA added.\n\nThe UKHSA is running a programme of testing workers who have come into contact with infected birds, but is also running asymptomatic testing.\n\nThe first person who tested positive is thought to have inhaled the virus.\n\nThe second person is thought to be a more complicated case and it is unclear whether they have suffered a genuine infection or whether they too inhaled the virus while at work.\n\nThe UKHSA says precautionary contact tracing has been undertaken for this second individual.\n\nChief Medical Advisor at the UKHSA Professor Susan Hopkins said that globally there is \"no evidence of spread of this strain from person to person, but we know that viruses evolve all the time and we remain vigilant for any evidence of changing risk to the population.\"\n\n\"It remains critical that people avoid touching sick or dead birds, and that they follow the DEFRA advice about reporting,\" she added.\n\nProfessor James Wood, head of veterinary medicine at the University of Cambridge, said the finding should lead to \"greater attention\" on asymptomatic infection and sampling.\n\nHe said it was important to sequence the virus in the two workers and infected birds in order to see if there were any mutations of concern, adding that resampling the workers could indicate whether they had developed an immune response.\n\nThere are various different types of avian flu that have circulated in the past - the latest one infecting birds is H5.\n\nAlthough none of these strains easily infect people, and they are not usually spread from person to person, small numbers of people have been infected around the world, leading to a small number of deaths.\n\nThere have been very few cases of bird flu transmission to people recorded in the UK. The virus is not that well suited to humans and does not spread as easily as it does between birds.\n\nIt usually requires very close contact with an infected bird, which is why experts say the risk to humans is currently considered very low.\n\nThese latest cases do not change that assessment. There is no suggestion that the virus has changed to become more infectious to us or spread from person to person.\n\nA \"mandatory housing order\" for England and Wales was lifted on 18 April, meaning poultry and captive birds could be kept outside again.\n\nThe measures were introduced during the world's biggest ever bird flu outbreak.\n\nGovernment guidance on the signs of bird flu and how to report it can be found here.", "Louise (left) and Jillu Nash were found dead at their home in Great Waldingfield\n\nA man has been jailed for a minimum of 40 years for murdering his wife and daughter, after finding out his wife planned to leave him.\n\nPeter Nash, 47, asphyxiated Jillu Nash, 43, and stabbed his daughter Louise, 12, at their home in Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, in September.\n\nNash denied murder but was found guilty by a jury at Ipswich Crown Court.\n\nMrs Nash's mother described him as a \"living human monster\" in a statement at sentencing.\n\nThe judge said Nash seemed to \"feel no remorse\" and he had a \"distorted view on the law\"\n\nHis trial heard that Mark Leamey, whom Mrs Nash was having a relationship with, became worried when he could not contact her late on 7 September and on the morning of 8 September.\n\nEmergency services found the two bodies when they were called to the family home and discovered that Nash had stabbed himself in the chest multiple times.\n\nLouise had autism and was non-verbal.\n\nThe court heard Nash tried to take his own life following the killings\n\nProsecutor David Josse KC said Nash \"calmly and chillingly\" admitted the killings and tried to justify it as punishment for his wife's infidelity, and that his daughter was his \"property\".\n\nRepresenting himself, Nash claimed the legal system did not apply to him and he compared courts to casinos where \"the house always wins\".\n\nMr Josse said there was no evidence the defendant was suffering from a psychiatric illness.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Insp Craig Powell said it had been \"a truly horrific case\" to investigate\n\nThe jury gave unanimous guilty verdicts following the trial.\n\nHe was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 40 years on both counts, to be served concurrently.\n\nAt sentencing on Wednesday, Mr Justice Edward Murray said the defendant seemed to \"feel no remorse\" and \"attempted to justify these murders with relation to a deeply flawed set of beliefs about the law that you've got from internet searches\".\n\nMrs Nash's family members wept in the court's public gallery, while Nash used his walking frame to head down to the cells.\n\nMark Leamey, who was in a relationship with Mrs Nash, said all his \"dreams are gone\"\n\nIn victim impact statements, Mr Leamey said he \"thought I would spend the rest of my life with her\" and that \"all my dreams are gone\".\n\nMrs Nash's mother, Dhruti Shah, said in her statement that Nash was a \"living human monster\".\n\n\"She always did the best by her beautiful daughter Lou,\" she added.\n\nNicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Everyone who met Jillu described her as kind, caring and full of life. \"She had plans for herself and her daughter which were cruelly cut short by an act of horrific violence by her husband.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "South Africa's education minister said the disappointing results were a result of school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic\n\nEight out of 10 South African school children struggle to read by the age of ten, an international study has found.\n\nSouth Africa ranked last out of 57 countries assessed in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, which tested the reading ability of 400,000 students globally in 2021.\n\nIlliteracy among South African children rose from from 78% in 2016 to 81%.\n\nThe country's education minister blamed the results on school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nDescribing the results as \"disappointingly low\", Angie Motshekga also said the country's education system was faced with significant historical challenges, including poverty, inequality and inadequate infrastructure.\n\nIn many primary schools \"reading instruction often focuses solely on oral performance, neglecting reading comprehension and making sense of written words\", she added.\n\nThe study showed that 81% of South African children could not read for comprehension in any of the country's 11 official languages.\n\nAlongside Morocco and Egypt, South Africa was one of only three African countries which participated in the assessments to monitor trends in literacy and reading comprehension of nine- and 10-year-olds.\n\nBased on tests taken every five years at the end of the school year, the new study places countries in a global education league table.\n\nSingapore secured top spot in the rankings with an average score of 587, while South Africa ranked last on 288 points - below second-last Egypt's average of 378. The scores are benchmarked against an international average of 500.\n\nThe study also showed that overall, girls were ahead of boys in their reading achievement in nearly all of the assessed countries, but the gender gap has narrowed in the most recent testing round.\n\nSouth Africa's struggles with its education system are longstanding, with significant inequality between black and white students a consequence of the segregation of children under apartheid.\n\nEducation is one the single biggest budget expenses for the government, which can lead to disappointment over poor performance in studies like this.\n\nA lack of suitable reading materials and inadequate infrastructure in schools, often things like toilets, have contributed to the crisis.", "The city of Faenza, where the AlphaTauri F1 team has a factory, was among the affected areas\n\nNine people have been killed and several are missing after heavy rains caused flooding in Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region, officials say.\n\nAbout 10,000 people have been evacuated, and some had to be rescued from roofs by helicopter.\n\nThe authorities say 14 rivers have broken their banks, flooding 23 towns. The mayor of Ravenna says his city is now \"unrecognisable\".\n\nThe Emilia-Romagna F1 Grand Prix this weekend has now been cancelled.\n\nDiscussions on Wednesday between local authorities and organisers of the race at Imola concluded that the event could not go ahead.\n\nFurther rain is expected in the region over the coming days.\n\n\"It's probably been the worst night in the history of Romagna,\" Ravenna Mayor Michele de Pascale told Italy's RAI public broadcaster. \"Ravenna is unrecognisable for the damage it has suffered.\"\n\nThe mayor of nearby Forli, Gian Luca Zattini, said his city was \"on its knees, devastated and in pain\", AFP news agency reported.\n\nIn the city of Cesena, residents climbed on the rooftops and waited to be rescued by helicopter or boat.\n\nIn Castel Bolognese, the mayor said the situation was \"catastrophic\", the BBC's Sofia Bettiza in Italy reports. Thousands of people living in single-floor homes needed to be rescued, the mayor added.\n\nThere is currently no electricity in the town, our correspondent adds. People are sheltering in gyms and schools across Emilia-Romagna.\n\nConfirming nine people had died in the flooding on Wednesday, Regional President Stefano Bonaccini said there had been hundreds of landslides leading to roads in the region being cut off.\n\nIn an earlier Facebook post, he urged residents not go near the rivers and advised people who live in nearby them to move to higher floors.\n\nItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni chaired a crisis meeting with civil protection officials and later thanked rescuers who had risked their own lives to help the victims.\n\nTeams of volunteers have arrived to assist local emergency services on the ground in the Emilia-Romagna region.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn some areas it has not been possible to gauge the rainfall, because the amount exceeded what their instruments could record.\n\nNorthern Italy has gone from severe drought to flooding rain, with the latest deluge caused by Storm Minerva, BBC Weather Presenter Chris Fawkes said.\n\n\"This area was also hit with torrential rain at the start of the month leading to flooding, and this will have left saturated soils, less able to soak up this latest round of heavy rain,\" he added.\n\n\"It's in stark contrast to the state of emergency declared by the Italian authorities last year due to ongoing severe drought. Further thundery downpours are expected for Italy over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the flooding in Italy? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The rapper slowthai was nominated for the prestigious Mercury prize in 2019\n\nGrammy-nominated rapper Slowthai has appeared in court after being accused of raping a woman.\n\nThe 28-year-old singer was charged under his real name, Tyron Kaymone Frampton.\n\nHe appeared before Oxford Magistrates' Court via video link from his home in Northampton on Tuesday.\n\nThe rapper has been charged with two counts of raping a woman in September 2021.\n\nMr Frampton, who was nominated for the best dance recording at 2021's Grammy Awards, is expected to appear before Oxford Crown Court on 15 June.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "A journalist previously convicted for phone hacking has told a court executives at Mirror Group Newspapers were aware of \"the widespread organised crime and involved in its cover-up\".\n\nGraham Johnson told a civil trial into alleged phone hacking of Prince Harry and others how an editor asked him to bug actress Denise Welch's hotel room.\n\nHe also described buying police reports on footballer Wayne Rooney.\n\nMGN deny senior bosses knew about the practices and failed to stop them.\n\nIt is alleged that journalists from the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People obtained private and confidential information about people's lives through a variety of unlawful means between 1991 and 2011 - including accessing voicemail messages on their phones.\n\nMr Johnson, who worked as investigations editor for the Sunday Mirror between 1999 and 2005, told the High Court on the trial's sixth day that he became disillusioned at the phone hacking and bugging he was asked to do by editors.\n\nHe claimed he was told by his paper's deputy editor Mark Thomas to plant a bug while working on a story in 2001 about Denise Welch, the ex-Coronation Street actress and Loose Women panellist.\n\n\"I knew that bugging a room was a serious criminal offence and that's why I walked off the job. It's in a different league of criminality,\" he said.\n\nIn a written statement, he also claimed he was instructed by Mr Thomas, with the knowledge of then editor Tina Weaver, to \"intercept the voicemails\" of Ms Welch \"because of a tip that she was in a relationship with an alleged underworld figure\".\n\nThe journalist has accused a series of private investigators and photographers of using illegal bugging, phone hacking and blagging on the instructions of MGN editors and journalists.\n\nMr Johnson said in a written statement he was also involved in \"buying sensitive police intelligence reports on targets such as Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney\", while he said he was told of a \"well-organised phone hacking conspiracy\" at the Sunday Mirror, which saw the footballers Ronaldo and Rio Ferdinand targeted.\n\nMr Johnson pleaded guilty to phone hacking in 2014 after deciding to admit to his wrong-doing while working as a journalist. He then wrote a book about his career and began investigating unlawful information gathering by newspapers.\n\nThe court heard how Graham Johnson was asked to bug Denise Welch's hotel room\n\nDuring cross-examination, Andrew Green KC, representing MGN, questioned Mr Johnson about a series of payments he later made to obtain evidence about wrong-doing by newspapers.\n\nThe court heard he signed a £16,000 contract with a private investigator Christine Hart, who specialised in obtaining the medical records of well-known people. She was in \"dire financial straits\", according to her witness statement.\n\nThe contract was for her to provide invoices proving newspapers paid for her services. But it was torn up and the money was never paid. However, some of the invoices were handed over by Ms Hart, the court was told.\n\nMr Johnson was challenged by Mr Green that \"paying people who are vulnerable or in financial need to provide documents showing unlawful activity\" could create \"a real danger the material you receive will be unreliable.\"\n\nMr Johnson responded: \"You can also find independent corroborative sources to stand up what these invoices are about. The reliability of the invoices is not related to the payments.\"\n\nWhen asked by Mr Green KC if he was coming before the court as an objective and independent witness.\n\nHe replied: \"I think the answer is no. I'm not objective and independent in as much as I think it's wrong for there to be organised crime at your newspaper and other newspapers.\n\n\"I write stories about it and I'm very happy to help victims of organised crime at Mirror Group.\"\n\nMirror Group Newspapers has admitted printing stories based on phone hacking and \"blagging\".\n\nThe current case is to decide how widespread unlawful activity was, and whether senior executives knew. The company says they did not and therefore could not have taken action to stop it.\n\nIf MGN loses the case, its parent company Reach PLC could face millions of pounds in damages claims from hundreds of alleged victims.\n\nPrince Harry is expected to give evidence at the trial in June. He is among four people whose claims are being heard in the trial as \"representative\" cases of the types of allegations facing the publisher. They will also help the court set the level of damages MGN should pay if the claimants win.\n\nOthers involved are Coronation Street actors Nikki Sanderson and Michael Turner, known by his stage name Michael Le Vell, and comedian Paul Whitehouse's ex-wife Fiona Wightman.", "Sam Lowe said she was currently being evicted and had seen many families lose their homes in court\n\nA woman fighting eviction says the renting crisis must be addressed as she is seeing a \"production line\" of families losing their homes.\n\nSam Lowe, from Oldbury in the West Midlands, said her landlord had started eviction proceedings against her a month after her mother died last year.\n\nShe was part of a rally at Downing Street on Tuesday calling for more security for tenants.\n\nA government spokesperson said it was committed to a fairer deal for renters.\n\nMs Lowe said she had managed to get her family's eviction - due in March - adjourned at Dudley Magistrates' Court and now had until the start of June to find a new home.\n\nBut while at court, she said she had seen many families going through the same thing.\n\n\"When I went to court a couple of weeks ago, it's like a production line - every 10 minutes it's another family being evicted,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a horrible, horrible thing to see, there's just 10 people in a room within an hour all losing their homes.\"\n\nShe lives with her brother and sister in the home they shared with their mother for eight years.\n\nIf they are evicted and have not found a new home, the family faced being split up in temporary accommodation, she said, which was \"terrifying\" after becoming more united in grief over the loss of their mother.\n\nAbout 300 private renters handed in a petition to Downing Street on Tuesday calling for more security for tenants\n\nShe said they were struggling to find new accommodation as landlords were demanding such high rents or deposits.\n\nMs Lowe, a volunteer with Acorn Birmingham, a community-based social justice union, was one of 300 private renters who protested in Westminster on Tuesday urging the government to improve legislation for renters.\n\nOrganised by the the Renters Reform Coalition, the campaigners said they wanted the abolition of no-fault evictions under the Renters Reform Bill, previously promised by the government.\n\nMs Lowe said legislation was too much on the side of landlords, leaving tenants \"powerless\". She described her situation as \"life-wrecking\".\n\nShe said she had returned to the UK from abroad to help care for her sick mother and their landlord had known about her mother's illness, but had begun eviction proceedings without warning or consulting them.\n\nThe family are on a waiting list for social housing but have only moved up a few places since November because of demand, she said.\n\n\"You feel powerless,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a completely life-wrecking experience. You can't make plans, you're constantly looking for a place to live and to learn the law and trying to make sure they're treating you legally.\"\n\nAverage monthly rents had risen in their area from £850 to more than £1,200 since they had been looking for a new home, she said, and she and her siblings would therefore have to move \"really far away from our family and our support network if we did get a private rented house\".\n\n\"It's leaving us completely stuck,\" she said.\n\n\"There needs to be something in place for landlords to give a good reason why they are going to evict people, because with the rental market as it is, people can't just get somewhere to move into.\"\n\nThe government says a Renters Reform Bill will be brought forward in this Parliament\n\nShe said they had struggled to find support as many organisations were overwhelmed with people in a similar situation.\n\n\"There's no support, there's no safety net, everything is lined up in favour of landlords and you just have to accept it.\n\n\"But that's an impossible thing to do when there's nowhere to go and when the most basic thing that we need, which is a roof over our heads, becomes something that's unattainable,\" she added.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said: \"We will bring forward a Renters Reform Bill in this Parliament, abolishing no-fault evictions so that all tenants have greater security in their homes and are empowered to challenge poor conditions and unreasonable rent rises.\n\n\"We are also introducing a Decent Homes Standard for the private rented sector for the first time ever, which will make sure privately rented homes are safe and decent.\"\n\nFamilies were also receiving \"significant support\" over this year and next, worth on average £3,500 per household, as well as uprated benefits and a 10% rise in the state pension in April, the statement added.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Over the years, Prince Harry has not shied away from making his views about the paparazzi known.\n\nIn the Netflix documentary, Harry & Meghan, the Duke of Sussex compared the photographers following his family to the \"hunter versus the prey\".\n\n\"To see another woman in my life, who I love, go through this feeding frenzy - that's hard,\" he said.\n\nThe second episode of the series begins with a moment where the couple's driver informs them that they are being followed by a \"pap on a motorcycle.\"\n\nThe duchess appears visibly shaken during the encounter and repeatedly checks behind her.\n\nAlthough the scene has been criticised by some for overdramatising the pursuit, it underscores how Prince Harry says his relationship with photographers changed after his mother's death.\n\nIn the BBC documentary Diana, 7 Days, Prince Harry compares the paparazzi to a \"pack of dogs\" stalking his mother, Diana, the Princess of Wales.\n\n\"Every single time she went out there'd be a pack of people waiting for her,\" he said, adding that the photographers would often \"harass\" or even spit at the Princess of Wales \"to get a photograph of her lashing out.\"\n\nIn a statement released after the crash, a spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess said the couple understands they are public figures, but \"it should never come at the cost of anyone's safety.\"", "Sir Keir Starmer has said Labour would give English councils more powers to build on green belt land to boost housing.\n\nThe Labour leader told the BBC he was prepared to take \"tough decisions\" and \"back the builders, not the blockers\".\n\nHowever, he said construction would only take place where it does not \"affect the beauty of our countryside\".\n\nHe also pledged to restore local housing targets, which are being watered down after calls from Tory MPs.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Breakfast, Sir Keir gave an example of homes being built on a playing field rather than a car park because the car park was technically within the green belt.\n\n\"We would make those tough choices and say to local areas, notwithstanding that it's greenbelt, if it's a car park or similar land which doesn't affect the beauty of our countryside… then we'll change the planning rules, we'll give you the powers to do that,\" he said.\n\nUnder current planning rules in England, new buildings can only be constructed on green belt land in exceptional circumstances.\n\nCPRE, the countryside charity, said \"small scale developments of genuinely affordable homes\" were needed by rural communities.\n\nHowever, the charity's director of campaigns and policy Tom Fyans said brownfield should be used first, adding that \"targeting the countryside for a building bonanza of executive homes most people can't afford would be wrong, counterproductive and deeply unpopular\".\n\nIn a speech to the British Chambers of Commerce, Sir Keir argued the current planning system and blocks to building were holding back growth and leaving the economy \"stuck in second gear\".\n\n\"A generation and its hopes, an entire future - blocked by those, who more often than not, enjoy the secure homes and jobs that they're denying to others,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"The evidence could not be clearer, there are 38 countries in the OECD, and we are the second worst when it comes to the effectiveness of our planning system.\"\n\nSir Keir said Labour would take a \"new approach to governing\" driven by five clear missions, including the highest sustained growth in the G7.\n\nTaking questions after the speech, the Labour leader accused the government of killing the dream of home ownership by watering down local housing targets.\n\nThe 2019 Conservative manifesto promised to build 300,000 homes a year in England by the mid-2020s.\n\nBut in December, the government said councils would get more flexibility over meeting centrally-set housing need targets.\n\nRecently, Housing Secretary Michael Gove said that the UK's housing model was broken and more homes were \"desperately\" needed.\n\nIn the foreword to a collection of essays on housing published by the Conservative think tank Bright Blue and the housing charity Shelter, he said the need for change was \"undeniable\" and the government was \"determined to build the new homes our country so urgently needs\".\n\n\"That the current housing model - from supply to standards and the mortgage market - is broken, we can all agree,\" he said.\n\nConservative MPs critical of the government's targets had argued they undermined powers of local councils to decide where building takes place.\n\nBut others have raised concerns the changes will lead to fewer homes being built.\n\nSome Labour MPs have also opposed developments in their own areas.", "Police Scotland's clean-shaven policy cannot start on 29 May as originally planned, the BBC understands.\n\nThe force wants frontline officers and staff to shave off beards so they can wear specially-fitted FFP3 facemasks.\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation (SPF) told the BBC it had been inundated with complaints and a consultation on the policy will now continue into June.\n\nPolice Scotland has committed to undertaking a full consultation ahead of implementation.\n\nThe BBC asked Police Scotland to confirm the delay but the force said it would not comment on dates.\n\nPolice Scotland announced the plan in April in a message posted on its internal website by Assistant Chief Constable Alan Speirs.\n\nHe said staff associations would be consulted ahead of the policy's planned introduction at the end of May.\n\nBut the SPF, which represents police officers, said the consultation would continue into June.\n\nThe clean-shaven policy is to allow officers to wear protective masks\n\nFour male officers from road policing are taking legal action against Police Scotland on the grounds of discrimination and disability.\n\nThe BBC understands the men were ordered to shave last year before the force-wide policy was proposed. They were marked as non-deployable as a result of not shaving.\n\nAmanda Buchanan, a legal director at Levy and McRae Solicitors, is representing them.\n\nShe said protecting employees was a very important and legitimate aim but questioned the proportionality of the policy.\n\nMs Buchanan said there might be other options that allowed respect for the officers' right to express their identity and their personal choice to have a beard.\n\n\"I think it's similar to saying for a female, perhaps why wouldn't you have short hair, just cut your hair,\" she said.\n\n\"It's how you choose to express your own identity, your personality and it's very important and it's part of your human rights.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said it was unable to comment on ongoing legal matters.\n\nThe new clean-shaven policy will have exemptions for officers and staff who cannot shave for religious, cultural, disability or medical reasons.\n\nPolice Scotland said it was seeking to introduce an alternative type of respiratory protection for those people\n\nAsh Toner-Maxwell said it was clear the proposed policy was causing concern for many LGBTI officers\n\nThe Scottish LGBTI Police Association's general secretary Ash Toner-Maxwell said it was clear the proposed policy was causing many of its members significant concern.\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"Officers and staff are not required under equality law to disclose a disability, religious or cultural view.\n\n\"We are concerned officers and staff may feel pressured into disclosing a protected characteristic by keeping their facial hair and electing to wear the proposed 'alternative' face mask.\n\n\"This is of particular concern when considering our transgender colleagues. The policy may impact a trans man's mental health whose facial hair is a significant part of their transition.\"\n\nShe said for some members, a beard or facial hair is an important part of how they express themselves and that some gay, bisexual and transgender men sport facial hair or beards.\"\n\nIn a statement, ACC Speirs said the safety of officers was a priority and FFP3 masks - which are face-fitted and require users to be clean shaven - offered the most appropriate and effective respiratory protection.\n\nHe said the risk from coronavirus had lowered but there were wider risks such as fires, road accidents and chemical incidents which require protective equipment to be worn.\n\nThe assistant chief constable said he understood the frustrations among those affected on the frontline but the policy was absolutely necessary to protect officers and staff from serious health risks.\n\nHe said: \"We are listening to a wide range of views on this matter and will undertake full consultation with all relevant staff associations ahead of implementation.\n\n\"A full human rights impact assessment is also being carried out as part of this process.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anthony Beard supplied passports to murderers and drug traffickers - he was secretly filmed printing photos for the scam\n\nFraudsters who supplied falsified passports to some of the UK's most wanted criminals have been jailed.\n\nAnthony Beard obtained real passports in other people's names then added the photographs of criminals, including two fugitive murderers.\n\nHe was jailed for six years and eight months after pleading guilty. Chris McCormack, who was his link with crime gangs, was jailed for eight years.\n\nJudge Nicholas Ainley said they had helped \"wicked, violent criminals\".\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said Beard's customers made \"an awful lot of money out of organised criminality\".\n\nA third member of the gang, Alan Thompson, was sentenced to three years.\n\nAnthony Beard, 61, a minor fraudster from Sydenham, in South London, first devised a way of obtaining genuine passports for criminals to use, two decades ago.\n\nHe would find vulnerable people in rehab centres and veterans' shelters, many of whom had drug or alcohol problems, and persuade them to lend him their identity in exchange for very little money.\n\nHe would then apply to renew the vulnerable person's expired passport, but the photo he submitted would be a recent picture of a wanted criminal in need of a new identity.\n\nBy using the passport renewal process, he avoided the need for an in-person interview - required for new passport applicants - something that would be impossible for a criminal hiding out in another country.\n\nBeard countersigned the passport photos himself. Later, he involved other people - whose occupations included \"licensees\" and \"psychiatrists\" - to supposedly confirm that the passport photos were true likenesses.\n\nBeard was caught after an extensive surveillance operation by the National Crime Agency\n\nThe NCA said Beard might have supplied as many as 108 fraudulently-obtained genuine passports (FOGs) over a 20-year period, charging as much as £15,000 - £20,000 for each one. The person whose passport was being used was paid as little as £100.\n\nAfter he had been running the scam for some years, Beard met Chris McCormack, 67, also known as Christopher Zietek, a long-time gangster who split his time between South London, Ireland and Spain.\n\nIn the 1990s, McCormack had been linked to a notorious North London gang, known as the Adams Family, the A-team, or the Clerkenwell Crime Syndicate. He once stood trial for torturing a man who owed the Adams family money, in a horrific attack reminiscent of the movie Reservoir Dogs. By the end of the assault, only skin held the man's nose and left ear to his face.\n\nDespite having the victim's blood on his jacket, McCormack was acquitted of attempted murder by a jury.\n\nChris McCormack - aka Christopher Zietek - was allegedly an enforcer for a major crime gang in the 1990s\n\nBecause of his criminal credentials, McCormack was trusted by gangsters who were on the run and became a kind of broker. He acted as the liaison between Beard, in South London, and serious criminals in Spain and Dubai who needed passports to travel undetected.\n\nIt was through McCormack that Beard ended up supplying passports to some of the UK's most wanted criminals.\n\nBeard and McCormack obtained passports for at least five suspected members of the Glasgow-based Gillespie gang, thought to be one of the wealthiest organised crime groups in Scotland.\n\nOne Gillespie gang member, Jordan Owens, fled to Portugal after shooting Jamie Lee dead in Glasgow, in 2017. He was returned to Scotland and convicted of murder, in 2022.\n\nA fraudulent passport issued to Jordan Owens, who was on the run for nearly three years, in the name of Lee Bowler\n\nAnother, Christopher Hughes, murdered Martin Kok in the Netherlands, in 2016. He was eventually captured in Italy in 2020, and also convicted in 2022.\n\nThe NCA thinks Beard and McCormack also provided passports to several suspected drug traffickers in the gang.\n\nAnother leading criminal to whom Beard supplied a passport was Irish cartel boss Christy Kinahan Snr. The US government has offered a $5m reward for information leading to Kinahan's arrest.\n\nOfficers think Beard also obtained passports for Liverpool drug trafficker Michael Moogan, firearms trafficker Richard Burdett, and Jamie Acourt, one of the original suspects in the Stephen Lawrence murder. Acourt never actually received the passport obtained for him. He was arrested in Spain in 2018 and subsequently convicted of drug-dealing.\n\nAlan Thompson was convicted of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, money laundering and two counts of conspiracy to make a false instrument\n\nCraig Turner, NCA deputy director, said he supplied people \"at the top end of serious organised crime\", adding: \"They'd made an awful lot of money out of organised criminality, both in the UK and internationally.\"\n\nThe NCA's investigation - known as Operation Strey - began in 2017 and would become of the agency's most significant inquiries, involving extensive surveillance.\n\nUndercover officers filmed Beard meeting vulnerable people who were supplying him with passports for renewal, and with gang members and co-conspirators. They recorded McCormack in his home discussing passport applications with Beard and with his customers.\n\nThe NCA says it worked closely with His Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO), Police Scotland and Dutch police. Officers obtained recordings of Beard's phone calls to HMPO, in which he can be heard enquiring about passport applications under different names. They also found paper passport applications with his fingerprints on them.\n\nBeard pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and conspiracy to supply fraudulent documents on 3 January, prior to the trial at Reading Crown Court. As a result his sentence was reduced by the judge.\n\nMcCormack, and his co-conspirator Alan Thompson, 72, were both convicted by a jury.\n\nPassing sentence, Judge Ainley described the scam as \"a highly professional, skilled operation\". He said: \"It was to enable very wicked, sophisticated, violent criminals to escape justice by providing them with documents that because they were genuine would deceive the authorities to enable them to escape.\"\n\nThe judge added that Zietek was \"clearly the organiser\", providing a link to serious criminals, while Beard was \"the leg man\" and Thompson had a lesser role.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The superstar is kicking off the UK leg of her Renaissance tour in Cardiff\n\nAbout 60,000 Beyoncé fans descended on Cardiff to see the superstar kick off the UK leg of her world tour.\n\nPeople travelled from across the globe to see the singer on stage at the Principality Stadium.\n\nThey came from as far as the United States, Lebanon and Australia and had started queuing 12 hours before the show started on Wednesday.\n\nOne said she was so in awe of her idol she admitted she would be grateful \"if she sweated on me\".\n\nPeople travelled from across the globe to see the singer on stage at the Principality Stadium\n\nGeorge Crocker, 15, who came from Avoca Beach, New South Wales, Australia, said: \"I'm so thankful that this opportunity has come, that I finally get to see her.\n\n\"She is a goddess, she's my mother. She is my absolute queen... she's just everything in a person. Everything about her is just perfect.\"\n\nGeorge Crocker, 15, travelled from Avoca Beach in Australia with his mum for the concert\n\nA fan since the age of four, he has travelled with his mum Penny, and added: \"I'm just going to bawl my eyes out the whole time, I just know that for a fact.\"\n\nThe Renaissance World Tour is 41-year-old Beyoncé's first solo tour in seven years.\n\nGiovani Tana, 20, arrived in the Welsh capital on Saturday, after flying to London from Beirut, Lebanon, and catching a train.\n\nGiovani Tana landed in London from Beirut and travelled to Cardiff by train\n\n\"It's my first time in the UK ever, so it's a great excuse to come,\" he said.\n\n\"I think London is fully sold out and I thought I would explore a different city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. These fans are Crazy in Love for Queen Bey\n\n\"Her work is incredible. No-one puts on a show like she does.\n\n\"I respect her work and what she's doing for the queer community is truly incredible.\n\n\"For her to be on that stage representing a lot of different people is inspirational.\"\n\nSisters Emma and Stephanie Dalton travelled from Dublin for the show\n\nSisters Emma and Stephanie Dalton travelled from Dublin for the show and were in the queue early on Wednesday.\n\nEmma, 28, said: \"We're just super excited, so the earlier the better. The early bird catches the worm.\n\n\"We've seen her many times before, like six or seven. All in Dublin, so this is the first time we're travelling. Once you go and see her once, twice, you can't miss her. I'll go anywhere, anywhere she goes, to see her.\n\n\"I'm already devastated that it's going to be over. But we're also going to Germany. I've been seeing stuff online and the whole tour is incredible but I love the new album, every song.\"\n\nMother and daughter Sheila and Skye from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have travelled about 3,500 miles for the show\n\nMeanwhile, Skye and mum Sheila from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have travelled about 3,500 miles for Club Renaissance [VIP] tickets in Cardiff.\n\n\"We're Beyoncé superfans,\" said Skye. \"I'm going to be close up and I'd love if she looked at me, if she winked at me, if she sweated on me. Literally anything, I would be grateful for.\"\n\nFashion designer Nuno Breu says attending the show is a \"dream come true\"\n\nFashion designer Nuno Breu from Portugal travelled from his London home for the show, and said it is a \"dream come true\".\n\n\"I came around midnight and we spent all night here,\" he said. \"She's really inspired me. She's a powerful woman.\"\n\nSome fans started queueing outside the Principality Stadium from 19:00 on Tuesday evening - 21 hours before the doors opened\n\nCharles Prevos, 24 and Sam Tabahriti, 26, from London saw the tour's opening show in Stockholm last week, but were keen to catch the Cardiff date as it is where they last saw Beyonce in 2018.\n\n\"Because we know the show, I would say I am looking forward to seeing Break My Soul mashup with Vogue by Madonna. That was the highlight of last week, and I just want to see it again,\" said Charles.\n\nSam added: \"You've got to admire her craftsmanship and just how amazing she is at performing. It's not just the singing, it's the way she puts a show together.\n\n\"We want to be right at the end of the runway, so when she comes in she walks right towards us.\"\n\nCharles Prevos and Sam Tabahriti say nobody puts on a show like Beyoncé\n\nBrandon Katamara, 20, from Cardiff, runs a Beyoncé fan account with more than 450,000 followers and joined the queue at 06:30.\n\n\"She's the greatest of all time. Her work ethic is everything,\" he said.\n\nBrandon Katamara from Cardiff runs a Beyoncé fan account with more than 450,000 followers\n\n\"I literally can't put into words how much she has helped me through music and everything. She inspires me to keep going, and follow my dreams.\"\n\nLowri said: \"I love her. If I could, I'd be praying down to her. I'm most looking forward to hearing Heated live, we love that one.\"\n\nFriends Lowri and Meg say Beyoncé is an \"icon\"\n\nIt got busier and busier in the queues as Wednesday progressed\n\nBars and restaurants in the city centre blasted out Beyoncé hits ahead of the big night.\n\nRevolution de Cuba completely overhauled its venue in Beyoncé-themed decorations, and events manager Megan Harrington said: \"It's been crazy, people ringing all morning trying to book.\"\n\nRevolution de Cuba has set up Beyoncé-themed decorations including balloons and cardboard cut-outs\n\nThe show follows appearances in Stockholm, Sweden, and Brussels, Belgium, in a tour that will end in the United States in September.\n\nBeyoncé returned to the stage in the first of 56 shows for the tour at Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden\n\nThe tour setlist includes 40 hits spanning Beyoncé's career as well as singles from the album Renaissance released in 2022, including Break My Soul and Cuff It.\n\nOver the next three weeks the singer will also play in Edinburgh, Sunderland and London.\n\nSouth Wales Police also used facial recognition in the city to help with policing.\n\nBeyoncé will be performing songs from her seventh studio album Renaissance\n\nTrains are expected to be very busy after the event and a queuing system will be in place at Cardiff Central station.\n\nGreat Western Railway are running extra services to Swansea, Newport, Bristol and Swindon afterwards.\n\nBeyoncé and Jay-Z performed together in the On The Run and On the Run II tours\n\nPassengers are being advised to check the GWR website before travelling as industrial action is likely to cause \"some short-notice changes and cancellations\", the operator said.\n\nOver-running South Wales Metro engineering works also mean there will be no trains north of Pontypridd on the core valley lines of Treherbert, Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare.", "The new building will cost £110m which has been provided by NHS England\n\nPlans for a new building at the Countess of Chester Hospital are expected to be signed off.\n\nIt will house the Women and Children's Service as the current site is made from a material which has been deemed at risk of collapse and needs to be removed.\n\nNHS England has provided £110m for the construction of the new building.\n\nThe plans will be discussed at a meeting of Cheshire West and Chester Council on 7 February.\n\nThe current Women and Children's Service is inside a 1970s building constructed out of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, which has been identified as risk of sudden collapse and needs to be removed by 2030.\n\nThe proposals include the construction of a three-storey building and a temporary car park on a lawned area.\n\nThis is to compensate for the loss of parking during construction, and the lawned area would be replaced once the new building is finished.\n\nThe parish council has objected amid concerns about the car park.\n\nIt said it would cause \"significant harm\" to the setting of the Grade II-listed 1829 hospital.\n\nPlanning officers at the council said there was a \"high level of less than substantial harm\" but the public benefits of the scheme outweigh it.\n\nThey added it should be noted the car park would be temporary.\n\nOverall, they said the \"very substantial benefits\" outweigh any concerns and recommended the scheme be granted planning permission, subject to certain conditions.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lucy Letby is accused of murdering and attempting to murder babies on a neo-natal ward\n\nMurder-accused nurse Lucy Letby has told her trial how she found the deaths of two triplet brothers on successive days a \"harrowing\" experience.\n\nThe 33-year-old is accused of killing the boys after returning to work at the Countess of Chester Hospital following a trip to Ibiza in June 2016.\n\nShe said: \"It's devastating. You want to save every baby in your care. You're not supposed to watch a baby die.\"\n\nMs Letby denies murdering seven babies and the attempted murders of 10 others.\n\nManchester Crown Court has previously heard that one of the boys, referred to as Child O, was stable up until 23 June, when he suffered a \"remarkable deterioration\" and was moved to another nursery, where he stabilised.\n\nHe later suffered a further fatal collapse.\n\nA post-mortem examination found unclotted blood in his body from a liver injury, which led a coroner to conclude his death was due to natural causes.\n\nHowever, an independent pathologist, who later reviewed the case, said the boy had suffered an \"impact injury\" akin to a road traffic collision, while medical experts for the prosecution said he died due to a combination of that injury and air being injected into his bloodstream.\n\nMs Letby was asked by her defence barrister Ben Myers KC if she had introduced air into Child O's system or caused him any harm.\n\nShe replied: \"No, never.\"\n\nLucy Letby was giving evidence for a fifth day\n\nMr Myers asked the nurse what the atmosphere was like when a baby died on the unit, she said: \"It's completely flat. There is a complete change in atmosphere.\n\n\"To me personally, it's devastating. You want to save every baby in your care.\n\nMr Myers noted the accused had been on holiday in the week prior to Child O's death. He asked her if she was planning \"anything dramatic and terrible\" upon her return, to which she said \"no\".\n\nLess than 24 hours after Child O's death, his brother, Child P, died in similar circumstances.\n\nThe jury has heard that at 09:50 BST on 24 June 2016, Child P collapsed and required breathing support.\n\nHe collapsed several more times that day, before being pronounced dead at 16:00.\n\nA medical expert for the prosecution said the collapses were consistent with an \"additional amount of air being given to this baby\".\n\nAsked for her recollections of 24 June, Ms Letby said there was an \"increasing sense of anxiety on the unit\" as Child P was not responding to treatment.\n\nShe said there was a \"huge sense of relief\" when a specialist team arrived from Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, to assist with his treatment.\n\nShe added: \"We were all very anxious, particularly in view of what had happened to [Child O] the day before.\n\n\"There didn't seem to be any clear plan from doctors, we very much wanted the transport team to come and offer their expertise.\"\n\nLucy Letby denies all of the charges against her\n\nThe nurse said the requirements of Child P were \"beyond our level of care\".\n\nDespite the presence of the specialist team, Child P collapsed and died.\n\nAsked to give a sense of the mood in the hospital at that time, Ms Letby said: \"Everybody was shocked, devastated.\n\n\"I was really upset, to have that two days in a row. To imagine what those parents had gone through, it was harrowing.\n\n\"You don't forget something like that.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: BBC talks to taxi driver who drove Harry and Meghan\n\nA New York City cab driver who drove the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for about 10 minutes on Tuesday night as they tried to shake off photographers has said the couple were clearly nervous during the short journey.\n\nSukhcharn Singh, who goes by the name Sonny, told the BBC he picked them up at a local police precinct in Midtown Manhattan.\n\nHarry and Meghan's spokesperson has said in a statement that the couple endured a \"relentless pursuit\" that lasted for more than two hours.\n\nBut Mr Singh, who witnessed one part of the drama, did not characterise his drive as a dangerous chase by paparazzi.\n\nDressed in a navy blue shirt and speaking to reporters outside his family's home in Queens, Mr Singh described the headline-making drive.\n\n\"I was on 67th Street and then the security guard hailed me. Next thing you know, Prince Harry and his wife were hopping into my cab,\" he said.\n\n\"We got blocked by a garbage truck, and all of a sudden paparazzi came and started taking pictures.\" Harry and Meghan were about to share their destination when the security guard made the call to return to the police precinct.\n\n\"They looked nervous, I think they were being chased the whole day or something,\" Mr Singh said. \"They were pretty nervous, but the security guard, he was on it.\"\n\nIn a statement, Harry and Meghan's spokesperson said they had experienced a \"near-catastrophic car chase\" on Tuesday. New York police confirmed an incident and said numerous photographers \"made their transport challenging\" - but that there were no reported collisions or injuries.\n\nOne of the paparazzi drivers reportedly involved in the car chase has said it was \"very tense\" trying to keep up with their vehicle.\n\nSpeaking anonymously to ITV's Good Morning Britain on Thursday, the driver said: \"They did a lot of blocking and there was a lot of different types of manoeuvres to stop what was happening.\"\n\nHe added: \"If it was dangerous and catastrophic, it was more than likely based on the person that was driving.\"\n\nPhoto agency Backgrid USA said it received photos of the event from photographers, \"three of whom were in cars and one of whom was riding a bicycle\".\n\nThe agency said it took Prince Harry's allegations seriously and would be conducting its own investigation, but that according to the photographers, \"there were no near-collisions or near-crashes during this incident\".\n\n\"It is important to note that these photographers have a professional responsibility to cover newsworthy events and personalities, including public figures such as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle,\" the agency added.\n\nThe couple were in New York attending an awards ceremony - the Ms Foundation Women of Vision Awards - along with Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen they were chased after leaving, the spokesperson said, they tried to take shelter from the paparazzi by going to a Manhattan police station - which is where Mr Singh picked them up.\n\nFor at least the few minutes they were in Mr Singh's car, he did not believe they were in danger.\n\n\"I don't think that's true, I think that's all exaggerated and stuff like that. Don't read too much into that,\" Mr Singh said of the statement. He later added \"that must have happened before\" they got in his taxi.\n\n\"New York City's the safest place to be,\" he continued. \"There's police stations, cops on every corner, there's no reason to be afraid in New York.\"\n\nThe paparazzi were not being aggressive during his drive, he said.\n\n\"They were behind us. I mean, they stayed on top of us, that was pretty much it, it was nothing more. They kept their distance.\"\n\nMr Singh described Harry and Meghan as \"nice people\".\n\n\"At the end of the trip, they say, 'Oh nice meeting you',\" and asked his name, Mr Singh recalled. As his passengers disembarked, the security guard paid and tipped him for the ride.\n\n\"It was great. Ten-minute drive, $50,\" he said. \"What can you ask for? You can't beat that!\"\n\nWas Mr Singh dazzled by his famous passengers? Not particularly.\n\n\"I have also picked up Keith Richards in my cab as well,\" Mr Singh said. \"I pick up celebrities all the time. I didn't think much of it when they got in, either.\"\n\nAfter speaking to reporters for a few minutes, Mr Singh got back in his yellow cab and drove off to Midtown, for another long day of ferrying passengers.", "New York City Mayor Eric Adams comments on the car chase involving Prince Harry and Megan Markle with the paparazzi. Adams said he will get briefed on the incident later today.", "The home of Ms Sturgeon and Mr Murrell was searched for two days at the start of March\n\nPolice had to wait two weeks before they were given permission to raid the home of Nicola Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell, it has emerged.\n\nThe Crown Office was told on 20 March that Police Scotland wanted a search warrant.\n\nIt was not until 3 April - a week after the SNP leadership contest ended - that the application for a warrant was approved by a sheriff.\n\nOfficers searched the home of the former first minister two days later.\n\nDetails were released by Police Scotland in response to a Freedom of Information Request (FOI) by the Scottish Conservatives that was first reported by the Scottish Sun.\n\nSources close to the inquiry have denied that there was an undue delay.\n\nBut opposition parties said the revelation would \"raise eyebrows\" and questioned the role of Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC, who heads the Crown Office but is also a Scottish government minister.\n\nMs Bain did not answer when she was asked by Sky News whether the warrant had been deliberately delayed.\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"In all matters, Scotland's prosecutors act independently of political pressure or interference.\"It is standard that any case regarding politicians is dealt with by prosecutors without the involvement of the Lord Advocate or Solicitor General.\"\n\nBBC Scotland understands that a draft search warrant was submitted by the police which the fiscal then discussed with officers before its contents were finalised.\n\nThe warrant, which is reported to have included a long list of items the police wanted to seize, was then signed by a sheriff on the same day it was finished.\n\nMr Murrell, who had quit as the SNP's chief executive on 18 March, was arrested when officers investigating the party's finances arrived at the Glasgow home he shares with Ms Sturgeon early on the morning of 5 April.\n\nSeveral boxes of evidence were removed from the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh\n\nPolice spent two days searching the house, with several boxes of evidence being removed. Mr Murrell was released without charge pending further investigations.\n\nThe SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh was also searched on 5 April and a luxury motorhome that sells for about £110,000 was seized from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline.\n\nColin Beattie, who was the party's treasurer at the time, was arrested on 18 April before also being released without charge while further inquiries were carried out. He subsequently quit as treasurer.\n\nThe contest to succeed Ms Sturgeon as SNP leader and Scotland's first minister had ended on 27 March when Humza Yousaf, who was the party hierarchy's preferred candidate, narrowly defeated Kate Forbes.\n\nNewspaper reports earlier this year claimed that some people within Police Scotland were frustrated by the direction they were being given by the Crown Office on the SNP investigation.\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Russell Findlay told BBC Scotland: \"There has been this continual sense of something not feeling quite right and of some frustration being expressed not by journalists, not by politicians, but by police officers and this latest revelation perhaps only feeds into that sense.\n\n\"From what I understand the Crown Office is suggesting this was perfectly regular and routine, but the entire investigation is so sensitive and is subject to a huge amount of speculation and the more transparency there is around it the better.\"\n\nMr Findlay said the case also raised \"fundamental questions\" about the role of the Lord Advocate, who heads the independent prosecution service while also sitting as a minister in Scottish government cabinet meetings.\n\nHe added: \"It doesn't feel appropriate. And that separation needs to happen.\"\n\nJackie Baillie, the deputy leader of Scottish Labour, said the two-week delay was a \"very interesting revelation that will lead to raised eyebrows across Scotland\".\n\nShe added: \"While I accept that the Lord Advocate may not have had a direct influence on the timing, this story underlines why we need to have a serious discussion about separating the role of the Lord Advocate to ensure that no perception of conflict of interest can ever occur.\"\n\nAlba MP Kenny MacAskill, who served as justice secretary in the SNP government led by Alex Salmond, called for a judge-led inquiry into the Crown Office's role in the granting of the warrant to search Ms Sturgeon's house and the SNP HQ.\n\nHe said this would \"reassure the public that the decisions taken by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service have not been influenced by political considerations\".\n\nPrivately, prosecutors and police are deeply frustrated by the latest headlines and vehemently deny that the SNP's leadership contest played any part in the timing of the searches.\n\nSome legal figures describe the two-week process to secure search warrants as unusually long.\n\nA senior lawyer who has worked with the Crown Office in the past said: \"It all depends on why it took two weeks. If it was for operational reasons, there's nothing wrong with that.\n\n\"If it was for further inquiries, there's nothing wrong with that. If it was for political reasons, to delay things, there's a lot wrong with that.\"\n\nOne source close to the inquiry said: \"The concept that there was a delay is misplaced. The decision was taken by a procurator fiscal with no political affiliation.\"\n\nGiven the apparent complexity of the investigation and the fact that the stakes are so high, it would be astonishing if prosecutors were not taking their time and the greatest of care.\n\nInevitably, in something like this, it's a case of \"damned if they do, damned if they don't\".\n\nPolice launched their Operation Branchform investigation almost two years ago after receiving complaints about how a total of £666,953 donated to the SNP by activists was used.\n\nThe party pledged to spend the funds on a future independence referendum. Questions were raised after its accounts showed it had just under £97,000 in the bank at the end of 2019, and total net assets of about £272,000.\n\nLast year it emerged Mr Murrell gave a loan of more than £100,000 to the SNP to help it out with a \"cash flow\" issue after the last election.\n\nThe party had repaid about half of the money by October of that year. It still owes money to its former chief executive, but has not said how much.\n\nMs Sturgeon has previously said the police investigation played no part in her decision to announce on 15 February that she was standing down as SNP leader and first minister.\n\nShe also said the first she knew that the police wanted to search her home and arrest her husband was when detectives arrived on her doorstep.\n\nShe added: \"There are many questions that I would want to be able to answer and in the fullness of time I hope I will answer, but it would be wrong and inappropriate for me to go into any detail of what the police are currently investigating.\"", "Scotland's councils are facing a £700m funding gap as they prepare to set their budgets for the coming year.\n\nIndividual local authorities have shortfalls ranging from around £7m in the Scottish Borders to £120m at Glasgow City Council, according to research by the BBC.\n\nCouncils have been appealing to the Scottish government for more cash but ministers have said they have been given a fair settlement in challenging circumstances.\n\nWithout additional national funding, councils are considering major cuts to local jobs and services and increases in council tax to balance their books.\n\nThe BBC asked all 32 local authorities for more details of the options under consideration. All but Angus and Dumfries & Galloway replied.\n\nCouncils are large employers and cutting staff numbers - or \"headcount\" in the jargon - could significantly reduce costs.\n\nWestern Isles council - Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar - may not replace the only traffic warden on the islands who retired last year.\n\nWhile that may not be the most unpopular job cut, according to a leaked document from the council body, Cosla, it could be one of more than 7,000 in the next three years.\n\nThat figure included the anticipated loss of around 1,750 teachers with proposals for extensive job cuts in Glasgow making headlines.\n\nThe Scottish government has now stepped in to stop cuts to teaching posts.\n\nCosla has warned of significant cuts to services which support children and families\n\nThe SNP has a manifesto to increase teacher numbers and big cuts to the workforce could worsen relations with unions whose members are already striking over pay.\n\nIn a letter to council leaders, seen by the BBC, the education secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville has made clear she will claw back cash from local authorities that don't maintain teacher and pupil support staff numbers at current levels.\n\nCosla's leadership has said this \"means significant cuts will have to be made in other areas that support children, young people, families and our communities\".\n\nCaroline Haddock wants Midlothian Council to keep St Matthew's RC primary in Rosewell open\n\nMidlothian Council is considering the closure of St Matthew's RC primary school in Rosewell and potential cuts to music tuition.\n\nCaroline Haddock, who has two children at the school, said she was \"absolutely devastated\" at the possibility it could shut, arguing that it does not make sense because new housing is to be developed in the village.\n\n\"We've got capacity, we've got room - where are they going to put the children?\" she said. The council has stressed that no final decision has been taken.\n\nIn Clackmannanshire, councillors are considering reducing home to school transport and the amount of money spent on the delivery of less popular secondary school subjects.\n\nIn North Ayrshire, the Arran outdoor education centre could be shut to save cash.\n\nBeyond education, leisure services face cuts in many areas with Inverclyde Council looking at the closure of Greenock sports centre and Port Glasgow swimming pool.\n\nPamela Atkinson faces a 20 minute bus trip for a swim if her local pool closes\n\nLocal swimmer Gary Anderson said he would be \"very upset\" if the Port Glasgow facility shut and another pool user, Pamela Atkinson said it helped keep her fit and healthy.\n\nInverclyde Council is still considering a range of cost-saving options.\n\nThe library in West Calder is one of several that could be shut under savings plans being considered by West Lothian Council.\n\nIn West Dunbartonshire, the council is thinking about reducing the opening hours of its recycling centres.\n\nMany charities are worried about the loss of grant funding from local authorities with concerns being raised from Argyll and Bute to North Lanarkshire and Edinburgh.\n\nEast Renfrewshire Council is considering increasing the charge for picking up garden waste\n\nIntroducing or increasing charges for some services can help boost council funds.\n\nAberdeen City Council is putting up most parking charges, while West Dunbartonshire thinks it could generate an extra £325,000 through parking enforcement.\n\nIn East Ayrshire, they are looking at a 4% increase in the rent charged for temporary accommodation.\n\nMoray Council is proposing a 10% increase in the cost of burying the dead, with charges for the interment of local adults to rise from £949 to £1,044.\n\nIn East Renfrewshire, there is already a £40 charge, on top of council tax, for households that want garden waste removed. This could go up to £60.\n\nCouncil tax only generates about 13% of local government funding. Most of their cash comes from the Scottish government.\n\nThat means small council tax increases don't generate huge amounts of extra money compared to what councils say they need.\n\nBig increases are unlikely to be considered widely acceptable when many households are already struggling with cost of living pressures.\n\nAberdeenshire Council agreed to a 4% increase in council tax on Thursday, a decision which will see Band D bills go up by more than £50 a year.\n\nTypically, councils seem to be looking at increases of 3-5%.\n\nIn future, councils may have broader tax powers at their disposal including a local visitor levy, which is sometimes dubbed the \"tourist tax\".\n\nEast Renfrewshire Council trainee Aiden Haddock has been getting the number plate ready for sale\n\nSelling off buildings and other things councils own and consider they no longer need is another way they can raise money.\n\nEast Renfrewshire Council has decided to sell its distinctive civic number plate HS 0 to the highest bidder, with experts estimating it could be worth £150-250,000.\n\nFalkirk Council has agreed in principle to offload up to 133 properties that it describes as ageing and in need of repair.\n\nIt is willing to transfer these buildings to community organisations, rather than sell them, to save on maintenance costs.\n\nWhere asset transfers are not possible these buildings could be closed over the next few years.\n\nThere's particular concern about the future of Grangemouth stadium which describes itself as \"one of the premier training facilities in Scotland\".\n\nThe athlete Eilish McColgan, who first ran for Scotland at the venue, has said: \"It must be saved because it is so important for track and field in Scotland.\"\n\nFalkirk Council have carried out a consultation on their proposals to inform their decision making.\n\nThere are some other options available to councils.\n\nSome may choose to draw on their financial reserves - money typically kept aside for emergencies and other unforeseen challenges.\n\nOthers are planning to spread the cost of paying back PPP/PFI debts, for things like school buildings, over a longer period of time.\n\nSouth Ayrshire started \"reprofiling\" its debts in December 2022, Fife is looking to do the same and East Dunbartonshire said it was continuing to \"explore financial flexibilities\".\n\nCouncils have faced a long term squeeze on their finances and argue that they are underfunded by the Scottish government.\n\nMinisters accept that councils are under pressure but point out that they are receiving a cash uplift of more than half a billion pounds in 2023/24.\n\nCosla says most of that cash is ring-fenced for particular national priorities and gives councils little flexibility.\n\nIndependent analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that when new and expanding responsibilities are taken into account \"grant funding for Scottish councils is set to fall by 0.8% in real terms this April\".\n\n\"Even if Scottish councils were to increase their council tax rates by 5% in April, their overall funding would still fall by about 0.3% in real terms,\" the institute said.\n\nAll Scotland's councils are obliged to set their budgets for 2023/24 in the coming weeks with many of them making their decisions on either 23 February or 1 March.", "More than 30m tonnes of grain have left Ukraine under the deal\n\nAn agreement allowing Ukraine to export millions of tonnes of grain through the Black Sea despite the ongoing conflict with Russia has been extended.\n\nThe two-month extension, negotiated by the United Nations and Turkey, was announced a day before the previous deal was due to expire.\n\nThere had been concerns that Russia could pull out of the pact.\n\nIt was first agreed last July following fears of global food shortages as a result of the war in Ukraine.\n\nThe agreement has been renewed several times since then, despite Russia's criticism of Western sanctions against its agricultural sector.\n\nUkraine is one of the world's top producers of grain, but its access to ports in the Black Sea was initially blocked by Russian warships following the invasion in February last year.\n\nOn Wednesday Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said : \"With the efforts of our country, the support of our Russian friends, the contribution of our Ukrainian friends, it was decided to extend the Black Sea grain deal for two more months.\"\n\nMore than 30m tonnes of grain have left Ukraine under the deal - mostly going to the world's poorest countries.\n\nMoscow wants Russian producers to be able to export more food and fertiliser to the rest of the world, but says sanctions are preventing them.\n\nVassily Nebenzia, Russia's ambassador to the UN, told reporters on Wednesday: \"We still do not lose hope that the problems that we are raising will be sorted out. The sooner the better.\"\n\nRussia briefly withdrew from the deal in November last year, accusing Ukraine of attacking its fleet in the Crimea - but it re-joined a few days later.\n• None What was the Ukraine grain deal?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gregor Hunter Coleman got the chance to perform for award-winning rapper Post Malone\n\nA Glasgow-based singer was left stunned after US rapper Post Malone made a donation towards his house deposit.\n\nGregor Hunter Coleman was singing at Wunderbar in Glasgow when the award-winning artist came in following a gig.\n\nThe pair spent the evening singing and chatting before the rapper gifted Mr Coleman money towards a deposit which he has been saving for.\n\nPost Malone was in the city performing at the Hydro as part of his Twelve Carat tour.\n\nMr Coleman was performing his regular set at the city centre venue when someone told him the American rapper was coming in.\n\nMr Coleman said speaking to Post Malone was \"just like chatting to one of your pals\"\n\nAs he finished his set, the singer was invited over to meet the award-winning artist, who told him he'd \"smashed it\".\n\nMr Coleman told BBC Scotland: \"He said, do you want a drink? I was like, listen, I'm saving for a house so I'm not drinking just now. Which was daft, my mates were, like, why did you turn down a drink from Post Malone?\"\n\nThe rapper, who is known for songs such as Rockstar and Sunflower, said he respected Mr Coleman's decision and instead invited him to sing at his concert's official afterparty.\n\n\"He started saying, how much will you charge? I said nothing, it's Post Malone, this is the chance of a lifetime.\n\n\"He got talking to me and he offered to help me out with my house deposit.\"\n\nMr Coleman described the encounter as \"bizarre\".\n\nThe singer did not reveal how much the star donated, but did say: \"There were things going around saying he'd bought me a house. Obviously this has helped towards me now having a deposit.\"\n\nGregor has been gigging in Glasgow for a decade\n\nPost Malone also passed on his number to the Glaswegian singer, offering to listen to some of his original work.\n\nMr Coleman is now focused on sending his work on to the American, while he \"still remembers having the conversation\".\n\nHe added: \"There's a pressure now that I need to get good songs done, I need to get something happening with it rather than just being, like, I met Post Malone and back to the pub.\n\n\"Hopefully he's still interested and he still wants to hear them and he likes them. If not then it's back to the drawing board.\"\n\nMore on The Nine, BBC Scotland channel, Tuesday 16 March at 21:00 GMT and afterwards on BBC iPlayer.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nThe Emilia Romagna Grand Prix has been called off this weekend because of major flooding in the region.\n\nDiscussions on Wednesday between local authorities and organisers of the race at Imola in Italy concluded that the event could not proceed safely.\n\nAt least eight people have died and 5,000 people have had to be evacuated following widespread flooding across the Emilia Romagna region.\n\nF1 said calling off the race was \"the right and responsible thing to do\".\n\nF1 will look at options for rescheduling the race but it is considered unlikely to make a return because of the crowded schedule.\n\n\"It is such a tragedy to see what has happened to Imola and Emilia Romagna, the town and region that I grew up in,\" F1 president and chief executive officer Stefano Domenicali said\n\nThe decision comes after a red weather warning was issued for the region on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nRed Bull's Alpha Tauri team, who are based in nearby Faenza, said in a statement they were \"very concerned about events unfolding over the past hours in the whole Emilia Romagna area, with flooding and heavy rain causing considerable damage\".\n\nThe Ferrari factory in Maranello is just over 50 miles north-west of Imola and also in the affected region.\n\nFerrari team principle Frederic Vasseur said in a statement: \"Emilia Romagna is our homeland and it's heartbreaking to see what people are going through at the moment.\"\n\nThe track was evacuated on Tuesday as a result of the risk of flooding from the Santerno river, which runs next to the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari.\n\nF1 personnel were forbidden from entering the circuit on Wednesday as heavy rain had continued overnight and into the morning.\n\nThe Emilia Romagna GP had been scheduled to be the sixth race of the season and was the first of three events on consecutive weekends, followed by Monaco and Spain.\n\nThere had been plans for a record 23-race calendar in 2023 but the cancellation of Imola means that the schedule will be reduced to 22, the same as last year.\n\nBritain's Lewis Hamilton said he hoped everyone in the region was able to \"stay safe and look out for each other\".\n\n\"Thoughts are with those affected by this tragedy and the amazing emergency services working on the ground,\" Hamilton said on Instagram.\n\nWorld champion and Red Bull driver Max Verstappen said he supported the decision to call off the race, adding: \"Our thoughts are with all those affected by the severe rainfall and flooding in the greater Emilia Romagna region. We wish you all strength to ensure your safety throughout this period.\"\n\nFIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem said: \"My thoughts and those of the entire FIA family are with those affected by the terrible situation in the Emilia Romagna region. The safety of everyone involved and recovery efforts are the top priority at this time.\"\n\nMercedes' George Russell said: \"Sorry for the fans that this weekend's race has been cancelled but the safety of everyone involved always has to come first.\"\n\n'Worst night in the history of Romagna'\n\nOfficials say some areas of Emilia Romagna have received half of their average annual rainfall in just 36 hours.\n\nThis has caused rivers to burst their banks, submerging thousands of acres of farmland under water and flooding towns, with 5,000 people having to be evacuated and some rescued from roofs by helicopter.\n\n\"It's probably been the worst night in the history of Romagna,\" the Mayor of Ravenna, Michele de Pascale, told RAI public radio.\n\n\"Ravenna is unrecognisable for the damage it has suffered.\"\n\nFurther rain is expected in the region over the coming days with river levels still rising.\n\nIn some areas, it has not been possible to gauge the rainfall because the amount exceeded what their instruments could record.\n\nIt is the second time this month that Emilia Romagna has experienced severe weather, with at least two people dying during storms at the beginning of May.", "Nintendo has announced its latest game in the Zelda series has sold more than 10 million copies in just three days.\n\nThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom had become the fastest-selling Zelda game so far, it said.\n\nFor comparison, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - the highest-rated game on gaming-aggregator Metacritic - sold 7.4 million copies over its entire run.\n\nTears of the Kingdom was released as a Nintendo Switch exclusive on Friday.\n\nAnd it has already sold more copies than any other Zelda game except Breath of the Wild, to which it is a sequel.\n\nBreath of the Wild, released on both Switch and Wii U in 2017, sold almost 30 million units, according to Statista.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nintendo of America This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Nintendo of America\n\nMeanwhile, 2022 Game Awards prize-winner Elden Ring had sold an estimated 20.5 million units as of March 2023. But the fantasy game, made by the developers of successful role-playing series Dark Souls, was released on many consoles, spanning the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and even PC.\n\nTears of the Kingdom has also become 2023's biggest physical video-game launch in the UK, according to GamesIndustry.biz, selling 50% more physical copies than Hogwarts Legacy.\n\nPiers Harding-Rolls, of Ampere Analysis, told BBC News: \"The huge opening sales of the latest Zelda places it amongst the biggest paid-for games ever released.\n\n\"With estimated gross sales of well over $600m [£480m], this title is comparable to some of the best-ever launches but falls a little short of the very biggest.\n\n\"For example, Grand Theft Auto V delivered over $1bn in sales in its three-day launch window.\n\n\"Zelda has always been a beloved franchise for Nintendo fans but the success of the Switch console and the reinvention of the franchise into an open-world experience has transformed its appeal.\"", "Mould and a broken toilet were just some of the problems Chiara said she and her family faced in their rented home over the past two years.\n\nBut when the teacher complained to her landlord, she said they responded with a no-fault eviction notice.\n\nIt comes as a survey found tenants in England who complain to landlords were more than twice as likely to get an eviction notice than those who do not.\n\nIt has renewed calls to scrap no-fault evictions, known as Section 21 notices.\n\nThe government pledged to ban the use of Section 21 orders in England last June, but since then the number of households threatened with homelessness because of such notices has increased by 34%.\n\nShelter, a major housing charity, said that scrapping no-fault evictions was more urgent than ever, especially with the number of homes available to rent in the UK dropping by a third over the past 18 months.\n\nChiara told the BBC that she, her husband Ben and their three-year-old daughter Maggie had \"lived with disrepair for two years\" in a flat in Leyton, London.\n\n\"We had moths in the carpet, the cellar was flooded, we had no bath, the toilet broke so we had no toilet,\" she said.\n\nWith mould and damp also causing problems, Chiara complained about the state of the flat to her landlord.\n\n\"They responded with a Section 21, giving us two months' notice to vacate the property,\" she said.\n\n\"We were kicked out because we complained.\"\n\nChiara, who is a teacher in Walthamstow, said that after they got the notice in January, the family experienced a frantic search to find a new home, finally moving into a new place two weeks ago.\n\nShe said while searching they discovered that rents had surged.\n\nChiara said it made it \"pretty much impossible\" for them to find another two-bed flat with a garden, so now the family has moved into a one-bed.\n\nAccording to a YouGov survey of just over 2000 private renting adults in England commissioned by charity Shelter, tenants facing issues with properties who then complained about disrepair to their landlord were more than twice as likely to be handed an eviction notice than those who had not.\n\nThe research found that 76% of private renters in England have experienced disrepair in the last year, and a quarter of renters have not asked for repairs to be carried out due to fear of eviction.\n\n\"We just need to get rid of Section 21,\" said Polly Neate, Shelter's chief executive.\n\nShe added there needed to be a \"situation where landlords can evict people for legitimate reasons, and can't evict them just because they complain about the poor condition of their home\".\n\nDavid and Samira from Richmond in North Yorkshire have had a similar experience to Chiara and her family.\n\nThe couple were issued with a no-fault eviction just before Christmas after complaining about damp.\n\nSamira was six months' pregnant at the time.\n\nDavid said the eviction was \"really unfair\" and caused a lot of stress for the parents-to-be.\n\n\"Looking at the options we had as tenants there was very little we could do. It was just really baffling, really confusing, it doesn't seem like a fair process,\" David added, after being outbid or rejected for more than 30 properties they had viewed.\n\n\"Soul destroying is the term I'd use for it, it was just rejection after rejection after rejection.\"\n\nDavid and Samira managed to find a new home just in time for the arrival of their daughter Aila last week.\n\nThe government is due to introduce a Renters' Reform Bill before the summer, which it has said will redress the balance in the market and provide more security for tenants.\n\nHousing rules are different in each of the devolved nations, and Scotland and Wales have already banned no fault evictions.", "The search for the diver had begun on Tuesday evening\n\nA major search for a diver reported missing in the Pentland Firth has been called off.\n\nThe alarm was raised at around 18:00 on Tuesday, south east of Swona in the Orkney Islands.\n\nThe air and sea search continued through the night.\n\nHM Coastguard, who were co-ordinating the operation, said the search was called off on Wednesday afternoon after the man could not be found.\n\nThe operation involved three Coastguard helicopters from Sumburgh, Stornoway and Inverness, a Coastguard plane from Humberside, and Coastguard rescue teams from St Margaret's Hope, Kirkwall, Dunoon and Scrabster.\n\nFour RNLI lifeboats were also sent to help from Longhope, Wick, Thurso, and Stromness, and private vessels also assisted.\n\nHM Coastguard said: \"The search for an adult diver missing in the Pentland Firth has sadly been called off this afternoon after a comprehensive search was unable to locate him.\n\n\"HM Coastguard co-ordinated the operation for about 22 hours following the alarm being raised.\"", "A Scottish singer-songwriter has described the moment he was invited by Post Malone to perform a private concert at a bar in Glasgow.\n\nGregor Hunter Coleman was playing at Wunderbar in the city centre when he met the US rapper.\n\nAfter being offered a drink by the star, Coleman politely declined, saying he was saving money to buy his first home.\n\nPost Malone later offered to help pay for a deposit towards the house in return for the performance.\n\nColeman described the \"bizarre\" encounter as the \"chance of a lifetime\".", "The school suspended Mary Walton for three days, her lawyer Natalie Hull said\n\nA US high school is facing criticism after it suspended a student for recording her teacher using a racial slur in class.\n\nMary Walton, 15, filmed her teacher saying the n-word repeatedly on 9 May at Glendale High School in Springfield, Missouri.\n\nHer family has since retained a lawyer and asked the school to apologise.\n\nSchool officials said they believe the student was disciplined appropriately. The teacher who used the slur has quit.\n\nAs well as an apology, the young student and her mother, Kate Welborn, have asked the school to strike the suspension off her academic record, her lawyer Natalie Hull told the BBC.\n\nThe attorney argued that the suspension sends the wrong message to students.\n\n\"If you take a video of a teacher doing something wrong, then you yourself could also get in trouble,\" Ms Hull said.\n\nThe lawyer said that at the time of the incident students had been discussing the racial slur.\n\nThe unnamed teacher interjected, Ms Hull said, and used the word multiple times.\n\nMs Walton's video captured him saying the slur, as students asked him to stop.\n\n\"I'm not calling anyone a [slur],\" the teacher can be heard saying. \"I can say the word.\"\n\nMs Hull said the student shared the video with her mother and friend, after which it was posted widely on social media without her knowledge.\n\nThe school suspended Ms Walton on 12 May for three days - the maximum amount for her infraction under the school's guidelines, Ms Hull said.\n\nIn a statement shared with the BBC, the school's principal, Josh Groves, denounced the teacher's actions and said he was no longer employed at Glendale High.\n\nMr Groves added that the school was confident it had acted appropriately in response to the incident.\n\n\"Student discipline is confidential, per federal law, and Springfield Public Schools cannot disclose specifics related to actions taken,\" he said. \"The student handbook is clear, however, on consequences for inappropriate use of electronic devices.\"\n\nMs Walton's mother told the BBC she would like the school to amend its policy and to educate staff and students on how to respond should a similar incident involving a teacher happen again.\n\n\"The policy was either misapplied or it revealed that there is a problem with the policy and that there is no whistleblower provision,\" she said.\n\nMs Walton's actions have been defended by the head of the Radio Television News Association, who wrote in a letter to school officials that he had \"serious concerns\" about her suspension.\n\n\"She should be congratulated, not punished,\" Dan Shelley wrote in the letter, according to the Washington Post, adding that while the student was not a journalist, she had captured a \"clearly newsworthy event\" as reporters do.\n\nMs Walton is having a hard time after the incident, according to her mother.\n\n\"She would just like things to go back to normal so she can finish off the school year,\" Ms Welborn said.", "Troubled online estate agent Purplebricks has agreed a deal to sell its business and assets to rival Strike, for the token sum of £1.\n\nPurplebricks' aim was to create a lower-cost, more flexible estate agent by charging house sellers a flat rate.\n\nBut the UK firm, which was once valued at more than $1bn (£800m), put itself up for sale in February.\n\nIt said the deal will lead to job losses, and that its boss will step down after the sale.\n\nThe announcement sent its shares tumbling by around 40%.\n\nOver the past 18 months there have been a number of management reshuffles at the company, a restructure, and one of its shareholders called for the removal of its chairman, Paul Pindar.\n\nThe company revealed in February that it expected to lose between £15-£20m this year.\n\nIt said last week that it was in exclusive talks with Strike.\n\nThe sale price of £1 is down to the company burning through cash, the BBC understands.\n\nThe firm is spending £3m per month on costs including staff, hosting and marketing.\n\nPurplebricks has been making staff redundant over the past 12 months, and sales have taken a hit.\n\nBut out of more than 750 employees, the BBC understands the firm will try to keep many on.\n\nIts chief executive Helena Marston is set to resign after the sale completes, and a number of directors will also step down.\n\nMr Pindar said: \"I am disappointed with the financial value outcome, both as a 5% shareholder myself and for shareholders who have supported the company under my and the board's stewardship.\n\n\"However, there was no other proposal or offer which provided a better return for shareholders, with the same certainty of funding and speed of delivery necessary to provide the stability the company needs.\"\n\nThe firm said the deal would transfer its £33m liabilities to its new owner.\n\nPurplebricks was founded in 2012 by brothers Michael and Kenny Bruce, who grew up on a council estate in Larne, County Antrim.\n\nThe company had early success, but it has seen its share price fall 98% over the past five years.\n\nIn 2017 its shares suffered after a BBC Watchdog investigation into allegations that it had made misleading claims to customers.\n\nA year later, stockbrokers Jefferies said selling with Purplebricks was a \"£1,000 coin toss\".\n\nUnlike traditional estate agents, its customers had to pay the fee regardless of whether the property sold, Jefferies said.\n\nStrike is backed by the Carphone Warehouse and TalkTalk founder Sir Charles Dunstone - who is a partner at Strike's joint major shareholder Freston Ventures.\n\nSir Charles said the deal was \"a positive outcome for anyone looking to sell their home\".\n• None Struggling Purplebricks puts itself up for sale", "The number of adults struggling to pay their bills and debts has soared to nearly 11 million, new figures show.\n\nSome 3.1 million more people faced difficulties in January than they did in May last year, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said.\n\nIt found that 11% of adults had missed a bill or loan payment in at least three of the previous six months.\n\nThe FCA encouraged people to ask for help as household budgets were squeezed by the rising cost of living.\n\n\"Our research highlights the real impact the rising cost of living is having on people's ability to keep up with their bills, although we are pleased to see that people have been accessing help and advice,\" said Sheldon Mills, its executive director of consumers and competition.\n\n\"We've told lenders that they should provide support tailored to your needs,\" he added.\n\nEnergy, food and fuel prices have jumped in the last 18 months, putting pressure on personal finances.\n\nPrices for most things have been rising and inflation, the rate at which prices go up, is at 10.1%, meaning goods are more than 10% more expensive on average than they were a year ago.\n\nResearchers found that 29% of adults with a mortgage and 34% of renters had seen their payments increase in the six months to January this year.\n\nThe team also saw signs that some people had reduced or cancelled their insurance policies as a way of easing the pressure on their budgets.\n\nThe FCA said it had repeatedly reminded firms of the importance of supporting their customers and working with them to solve problems with payments and bills.\n\nBut Helen Undy, chief executive of the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, said the regulator needed to do more by cracking down on \"aggressive\" debt collection practices and limiting the number of times lenders could contact people who had missed a payment.\n\n\"Those actions would go a long way in mitigating the mental health impacts of the crisis, and could even save lives,\" she said.\n\nThe FCA said its survey suggested around half of UK adults (about 28.4 million people) felt more anxious or stressed due to the rising cost of living in January than they did six months earlier.\n\nThe body said it had reminded 3,500 lenders of how they should support borrowers in financial difficulty and added it had told 32 lenders to \"make changes to the way they treat customers\".\n\nThe FCA said this work had led to £29 million in compensation being secured for over 80,000 customers.\n\nUK Finance, the trade association for the UK banking and finance industry, said lenders were contacting customers and would \"always work with them to find the right solution for their particular needs and circumstances\".\n\nIt urged people worried about their finances to contact their lender, and said discussing options would not affect a person's credit rating.\n\nThe FCA released its latest figures after gathering more than 5,000 responses as part of a UK-wide survey of people aged 18 and over.", "The first full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, which lies 3,800m (12,500ft) down in the Atlantic, has been created using deep-sea mapping.\n\nRead more: Scans of Titanic reveal wreck as never seen before", "Steven Harnett, 25, and Katie Higton, 27, died after being attacked at a house in West Yorkshire\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a man and woman found dead at a house in Huddersfield.\n\nSteven Harnett, 25, and Katie Higton, 27, were found fatally injured at an address in Harpe Inge, Dalton, on Monday.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said the pair had injuries \"believed to have been inflicted by a bladed weapon\".\n\nMarcus Osbourne, 34, was charged with two counts of murder and appeared before Leeds magistrates on Wednesday.\n\nHe was also charged with assaulting and detaining a second woman against her will in the property on the night Mr Harnett and Ms Higton died.\n\nDuring a short hearing at Leeds Magistrates' Court, Mr Osbourne spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address.\n\nHe was not asked to enter a plea.\n\nMr Osbourne was remanded in custody to appear at Leeds Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said its investigation was continuing.\n\nThe force has also referred the case to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) due to the contact officers had with both the victims and Mr Osbourne prior to their deaths.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Double stabbing victims were in contact with police", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Conservatives are preparing to leave office, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner has told MPs, as she accused the government of failing on the NHS and child poverty.\n\nMs Rayner faced Deputy PM Oliver Dowden at PMQs while Rishi Sunak is away.\n\nShe said the Tories were on a \"conveyor belt of crisis\" and more focused on a right-wing conference than governing.\n\nBut Mr Dowden defended the government's record and said the \"British people will never trust the Labour Party\".\n\nIn a Prime Minister's Questions littered with banter and party-political attacks, Mr Dowden filled in for Mr Sunak while he attends a G7 summit in Japan.\n\nHe suggested there was friction between Ms Rayner and Labour's leader, Sir Keir Starmer, saying they were \"at each other's throats\" behind the scenes.\n\n\"Mr Speaker, they're the Phil and Holly of British politics,\" Mr Dowden said, comparing them to the hosts of ITV's This Morning programme, whose relationship has reportedly come under strain.\n\nIn Ms Rayner's opening question, she reminded the deputy prime minister that he had resigned as Conservative Party chairman last year following by-election losses.\n\nNow, following the loss of more than 1,000 Tory councillors in this month's local elections, Ms Rayner asked, \"who does he think is responsible now?\"\n\nMr Dowden did not answer the question directly; instead, he said he had expected to face the Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Ed Davey, who he called \"the Labour leader's choice for the next deputy prime minister if they win the election\".\n\nIn recent weeks, the Conservatives have been accusing Labour of plotting a coalition with the Lib Dems and other parties ahead of the next general election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deputy prime minister defends the government's record over crime and employment at PMQs.\n\nHitting back, Ms Rayner said it was \"absolutely amazing that while the Labour Party is preparing to govern with a Labour majority, his party is starting to prepare for opposition\".\n\nShe referenced several speeches by Tory MPs and cabinet ministers at the National Conservatism Conference, an event organised by a right-wing think tank from the United States.\n\nThe conference has brought conservative thinkers, politicians and journalists to Westminster and has heard speeches from senior Tories, including Home Secretary Suella Braverman and former Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg.\n\nMs Rayner described the conference as a \"tribute act\" to former US President, Donald Trump.\n\nThe Labour MP used several of her questions to draw attention to child poverty and NHS waiting lists, including the record backlog of people waiting for hospital treatment in England.\n\nMs Rayner claimed the Conservatives had \"taken a wrecking ball to measures by the last Labour government to eradicate child poverty\".\n\nBut in reply, Mr Dowden - an MP since 2015, who ran Mr Sunak's Tory leadership campaign last summer - said \"this comprehensive school boy is not going to take any lectures from the party opposite about the lives of working people\".\n\nThe deputy prime minister claimed his party had had \"taken one million working age people out of poverty altogether\", having increased the national living wage.\n\nBrining her questions to a close, the Labour deputy leader: \"And while his colleagues spout nonsense at this carnival of conspiracies, I want to know: when will his party stop blaming everybody else and realise that the problem is them?\"\n\nMr Dowden said he would proudly defend the government's record on crime, employment and the national living wage.\n\n\"And what's their record - four general election defeats, 30 promises already broken, and one leader who let antisemitism run wild,\" Mr Dowden said, referring to former Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\n\"That is why the British people will never trust the Labour party,\" Mr Dowden said.\n\nMeanwhile in Westminster, the National Conservatism Conference continued as MPs gathered in the House of Commons for PMQs.\n\nThe conference has seen some former cabinet ministers criticising Mr Sunak's government on a number of issues.\n\nDavid Frost, the former Brexit minister, told the conference the Conservatives will not win the next general election as the party of \"the self-satisfied and entitled\".\n\nHe said the conference had been \"brilliant\" and seemed to have sent \"our opponents\" into \"paroxysms of rage, to a quite ludicrous extent\".\n\nLord Frost said \"our opponents are completely out of touch\", adding: \"They are completely deranged by perfectly normal and widely supported ideas, and that is a very good thing to have demonstrated to the British people.\"\n\nOther speakers at the conference included Tory MP Danny Kruger, who said marriages between men and women were \"the only possible basis for a safe and successful society\".\n\nLGBT+ Conservatives said they \"wholeheartedly\" disagreed with Mr Kruger's opinion.", "Landlords would be banned from evicting tenants with no justification as part of a long-promised overhaul of the private rental sector in England.\n\nA new law tabled in Parliament would abolish no-fault evictions and end bans on tenants claiming benefits.\n\nThe bill would also make it easier for landlords to repossess properties from anti-social tenants.\n\nHousing campaigners said the bill was a \"huge opportunity\" but warned it risked creating loopholes for eviction.\n\nUnder the new law, tenants would be given the legal right to request to keep a pet in their home, which the landlord cannot unreasonably refuse.\n\nThe law would also make it illegal for a landlord to refuse tenancies to families with children, or those in receipt of benefits.\n\nThe Conservatives promised \"a better deal for renters\" - including a ban on no-fault evictions - in its manifesto ahead of the general election in 2019.\n\nA key piece of housing legislation, known as Section 21, allows landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason.\n\nAfter receiving a Section 21 notice, tenants have just two months before their landlord can apply for a court order to evict them.\n\nUnder the reforms, landlords will only be able to evict tenants in certain circumstances, including when they wish to sell the property or when they or a close family member want to move in, after six months.\n\nHowever, after a three-month period they will be free to put the property back on the rental market.\n\nHousing charity Shelter is calling for these time periods to increase, and for the notice period for evictions to increase from two months to four months.\n\nIt also pointed out that under the current proposals, renters who receive a possession notice will no longer have the right to immediate help from their council to avoid homelessness.\n\nThe bill also makes it easier for landlords to repossess their properties in cases of anti-social behaviour or where the tenant repeatedly fails to pay rent.\n\nLast year, research by Shelter, a housing charity, said nearly 230,000 private renters had been served with a no-fault eviction notice since April 2019.\n\nAmong those to be issued with such a notice was Sam Robinson and his family, partner Amy Herbert, and daughters Phoebe, 10, and Amelia, four.\n\nSam Robinson and his family were issued with a Section 21 notice\n\nThe family rented a property in Greater Manchester for about five years.\n\nThey never missed a rental payment, and were happy with the property, until problems with mould and a leaking roof became progressively worse.\n\nMr Robinson said he reported the issue, and a few days after the property was inspected by the landlord, they were issued a Section 21 notice.\n\n\"I was heartbroken, I didn't know what to say to my partner,\" Mr Robinson said. \"We'd made a family home there. We were there for the long term.\"\n\nNow the family are paying more rent after moving to another property near Manchester earlier this year.\n\nHave you found it difficult to rent a property because you have children or pets? Have you been issued a Section 21 notice? Are you a landlord with views on this story?\n\nMorenike Jotham, who lives in the London suburb of Streatham, has also had bad experiences.\n\nMs Jotham said when she tried to enter negotiations with her previous landlord about a proposed rent increase last year, they responded by issuing a Section 21 notice.\n\nShe had tried to challenge the proposed rent increase, from £550 to £700 a month, because of the state of the house. She claimed there were boiler issues, faulty pipes and a mouse infestation.\n\nShe shared the flat with five other people for two years, including during an intense cold snap in February 2021 when, according to Ms Jotham, the boiler was not functioning.\n\n\"We all had blankets wrapped around us,\" Ms Jotham said. \"We were all staying in the living room to preserve heat. It was really, really difficult.\"\n\nMs Jotham, a paralegal, eventually moved out of the flat in September 2022 and into a different rented house in the same area.\n\nHousing campaigners have long called for tenants to be given the right to safe, secure and affordable homes, free from arbitrary evictions and escalating rent increases.\n\nBut other campaigners, as well as some Conservative MPs, have warned the bill could force more landlords to leave the market and reduce the supply of rental properties.\n\nTory MP Craig Mackinlay, who is also a landlord, said the bill could have \"unintended consequences\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme that landlords had already been hit by extra regulations and higher interest rates and many could choose to sell up as a result of the legislation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What can you do about rent increases? Watch the BBC's Lora Jones tell you, in a minute.\n\nSiobhan Donnachie, spokeswoman for the London Renters Union, said there was nothing in the bill banning \"the huge and unfair rent increases our members are facing\".\n\nShe said: \"A 20% rent hike is simply a no-fault eviction under a different name.\"\n\nThe bill will allow tenants to challenge above-market rate rent increases through a tribunal but landlords will still be able to raise rents annually to market prices.\n\nHousing Secretary Michael Gove said the bill would make sure renters are \"protected from the very small minority of rogue landlords who use the threat of no-fault eviction to silence tenants who want to complain about poor conditions\".\n\nHe told BBC Newsbeat he hoped the bill would become law by the end of the year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Gove says it is important to honour a 2019 manifesto pledge to stop landlords evicting tenants without justification\n\nMr Gove said the bill was also \"a good deal for landlords\", who would be able to quickly evict tenants who are anti-social or persistently fail to pay their rent.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party broadly supported the government's plans but that they could have been carried out more quickly.\n\nLabour has promised to introduce a four-month notice period for landlords, a national register of landlords, and the right to make alterations to rented properties.\n\nLandlords have expressed concerns about some of the reforms promised in the bill.\n\nBen Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, said landlords needed to be confident \"they will be able to repossess their properties as quickly as possible\".\n\n\"Without this assurance, the bill will only exacerbate the rental housing supply crisis many tenants now face,\" Mr Beadle said.\n\nHe said he welcomed a pledge, also in the bill, to ensure landlords can recover properties from anti-social tenants and those failing to pay rent.\n\nBut he added \"more detail is needed if the bill is going to work as intended\".\n\nThe government said the bill will legislate to:\n\nPriced out, pushed out - the young renters fighting for their rights and facing homelessness. Dealing with impossible decisions, what can they do, and where do they end up?", "The poster was edited to hide the statue's naked crotch area\n\nA poster for an Italian restaurant with Michelangelo's naked statue of David has been barred from Glasgow subway.\n\nThe firm that manages the advertising space requested for the poster to be edited to hide the statue's nudity.\n\nDRG Group, which owns Glasgow's Barolo restaurant, said it was \"surprised\" by the response to the advert - which shows the Renaissance sculpture eating a slice of pizza.\n\nIt created a new version of the poster that hides the statue's crotch area.\n\nNadine Carmichael, head of sales and marketing, said: \"We had artwork in place and discussed if we could cover the crotch with a flag.\n\n\"We got stickers made and the feedback was that they weren't actually big enough.\n\n\"Our next port of call was to show Michelangelo from the waist up. We got there in the end.\"\n\nA new version of the poster has appeared on Glasgow's subway network\n\nDRG said it wanted to use classic Italian art to showcase the restaurant on the public transport network, with the Mona Lisa also discussed as a possible candidate.\n\nMichelangelo's 5.17m (17ft) statue is one of the most famous pieces of Renaissance art.\n\nCompleted between 1501 and 1504, it depicts a naked David, the Biblical figure who kills the giant Goliath.\n\nGlobal, which manages the advertising space, has been approached for comment.", "Ivan Holtvenko holds his old Azovstal ID card as he talks\n\nOne year after the Ukrainian city of Mariupol fell to Russian control, its displaced steel workers find themselves both comforted and unsettled by ghosts of their former lives.\n\nIvan Holtvenko clutches his ID card from his old job in the southern port city as he chats to me in his new workplace, a steelworks in central Ukraine.\n\n\"I hid the pass [when I fled], and now I'm saving it, hoping that one day I'll need it again,\" he says.\n\nIvan is among dozens of workers from Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks who have begun a new life in Kamianske, 270km [168 miles] away, after surviving the final battle for Mariupol, one of the most defining moments of the war.\n\nFor weeks, Ukrainian fighters holed up in the tunnels and bunkers of the steelworks, making a last stand against the Russian forces. They were eventually forced to leave, but Azovstal became a symbol of resistance against the invasion.\n\nAzovstal - with its maze of underground tunnels - was attacked for weeks in early 2022\n\nIvan has no idea if, or when, Ukraine will retake Mariupol. But he yearns for his old life.\n\nWhen former Azovstal workers bump into each other in the shelters, hallways, offices and factory floor of their new workplace, they connect over their lost lives. Some have nicknamed themselves the \"Mariupol diaspora\".\n\n\"When you meet someone from Mariupol you get that feeling inside,\" repairs engineer Oleksandr Shabanov says, smiling.\n\nManagers at the new steel factory say there are about 120 former Azovstal staff there, as well as more from another Mariupol plant.\n\nWorkers reminisce about summers spent at the beach, fishing trips and the sea views in their industrial home city. Two say they were in the process of building holiday homes together when Russia invaded.\n\nThey talk of Facebook groups that have now gone quiet. Some of their former colleagues have moved to other parts of Ukraine or abroad. Others have been killed. Many more are missing.\n\n\"We don't know what's happened to him,\" a group of Mariupol workers say as they talk about one former colleague and friend.\n\nOf the 10,500 staff at Azovstal, managers say fewer than half are accounted for.\n\nThe Mariupol workers remember a time when they weren't scared of war, joking that people there have a reputation for being tough.\n\nFighting first broke out in the city in 2014, and the government briefly lost control after clashes with pro-Russian militants and protesters. But the workers say they never thought it would fall, as it did last year following a lengthy siege.\n\nMariupol was in a strategic location for the Russian invasion, linking as it does Crimea and Donbas, and the brutal battle for its control lasted more than 80 days.\n\nIts theatre, which was sheltering hundreds of civilians, was bombed, its maternity hospital badly damaged in a Russian strike.\n\nIvan said nothing had prepared them for this.\n\n\"We thought it was going to be a crisis we could live through, just as we did in 2014,\" he tells me.\n\nAs is the case with other members of the Mariupol diaspora, Ivan's home was destroyed during the siege. The building and everything inside it is now just a memory - family photos, clothes, furniture.\n\n\"Everything got burnt,\" he says.\n\nBut while Ivan and other colleagues draw strength from their community, for others it only exacerbates their trauma.\n\n\"How can anything comfort me?\" says engineer Ihor Khadzhava.\n\n\"There is nothing good about ending up here… and nowhere to go back to. There's no plant, no work, nowhere to live, just hate.\"\n\nResidents who have remained in Mariupol say Moscow has brought in labourers from across Russia and Central Asia to rebuild the city, but not as it was - streets have had their Soviet names restored, new buildings have appeared and many of those damaged in the siege have gone. Russian flags have been erected as well as pro-Russia billboards and posters.\n\nThe Russian rouble is now the only currency accepted in shops there, and re-opened schools in the city are teaching a Russian-language curriculum. Residents are under pressure to get Russian passports.\n\nIhor is now resigned to accepting whatever fate might bring. When sirens ring out at the factory to warn of a possible Russian attack, he keeps working.\n\nHe hasn't used a shelter since the two months he spent underground in the bunker at Azovstal last year.\n\nIhor Khadzhava and his daughter in the Azovstal shelter\n\n\"What's the use?\" the 39-year-old says blankly.\n\nFor the former Azovstal workers who do use the shelters, there are memories even underground.\n\nOleksandr takes a photo on his phone and sends it to his wife Yuliia.\n\n\"No kidding. It really looks the same,\" she replies.\n\nBeing in the near-identical bunker can be traumatic, Oleksandr says.\n\n\"The point of the shelter is not to feel frightened. When you go down it's the safest place… but in the back of my mind there is this fear,\" he says.\n\nIn Mariupol, an estimated 90% of residential buildings were damaged or destroyed during the siege by the Russian forces, and about 350,000 of the population of almost half a million were forced to leave.\n\nBack then, Oleksandr and Yuliia had sought shelter in Azovstal's Soviet-era bunkers after fleeing their ninth-floor apartment - a shell had hit a neighbouring building, spraying shrapnel through their window.\n\nThe couple grabbed food, clothing, identification documents, their cat Mason and a 2kg bag of pet food, before running to Azovstal as shells landed around them.\n\nIn the shelter, they slept on wooden pallets and divided up tasks to stay busy - guarding the exits, cooking meals, cleaning.\n\nWhen supplies were running low, Yuliia would draw the children pictures of their favourite foods so they could pretend to eat them. They dreamed of burgers and sausages.\n\nOleksandr and Yuliia remember Ihor's daughter making a \"squeaky noise like a siren\" when she came to stroke Mason, while another child, whose own pets had been left at home, sang to him each night: \"Mason, Mason, you're a king of cats\".\n\nThere were other pets in the shelter - a pug would sometimes run around frantically as missiles landed overhead.\n\nThe shelter's occupants had no idea how long they would be there. Sometimes they wondered if they would ever see daylight again.\n\nKamianske is in a much safer location than Mariupol - further inland and on the west side of the Dnipro River, which acts as a natural buffer.\n\nBut workers say that Russia's siege of Mariupol, and the important role the Azovstal bunker played in keeping some of them safe, has taught them the importance of being prepared.\n\nIn the shelter at the Kamianske steelworks, Oleksandr, Ivan and others wait behind thick metal doors to be given the all-clear to resurface. Smaller side rooms contain toilets, an examination bed and medical equipment, stacks of water bottles, jars and tins of food, phones and computers, and a generator.\n\n\"We understand that it's not only about sheltering, but also about having things that are most needed in those situations,\" Ivan explains.\n\n\"Is there a place to sit? What if there are wounded in the group? Is everything OK with the electricity? What about internet connection? Warm clothes? Food?\"\n\nBut no amount of preparation can completely allay their fears.\n\n\"Of course, we can joke and say 'we are from Mariupol, nothing scares us', but actually every time you hear the sirens you get very uncomfortable and really want it to end,\" Ivan says.\n\nBecause of course, the last time the Mariupol workers saw their home city, it was under attack.\n\nSome people remained in the city because they were unable to leave, due to illness or old age, while others welcomed Russia's presence.\n\nBut the workers we spoke to in Kamianske said they would not consider returning to the city while it remains under Russian occupation.\n\n\"No matter how much the Russians try to hide it under construction, those are still ruins,\" Ihor's wife Karyna says of her home city.\n\nWith no sea to look out to, Oleksandr and Yuliia now take regular trips to the Dnipro River, hoping it will instil feelings of calm. But, they say, it's not the same.\n\nFor now the Mariupol diaspora, like many displaced Ukrainians, are trying to adapt to a life in limbo. To life as a community without a home.", "Sting has sold more than 100 million albums across his 45-year career\n\nSting says musicians face \"a battle\" to defend their work against the rise of songs written by artificial intelligence.\n\n\"The building blocks of music belong to us, to human beings,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"That's going to be a battle we all have to fight in the next couple of years: Defending our human capital against AI.\"\n\nHis comments come after a number of songs have used artificial intelligence to \"clone\" famous artists' vocals.\n\nIn February, DJ David Guetta used the technology to add Eminem's \"voice\" for one of his tracks while a faked duet between Drake and The Weeknd went viral in April.\n\nThe latter was pulled from streaming services after a copyright complaint from Universal Music Group (UMG), which is also the label that releases Sting's music.\n\n\"It's similar to the way I watch a movie with CGI. It doesn't impress me at all,\" Sting said.\n\n\"I get immediately bored when I see a computer-generated image. I imagine I will feel the same way about AI making music.\n\n\"Maybe for electronic dance music, it works. But for songs, you know, expressing emotions, I don't think I will be moved by it.\"\n\nSting spoke with the BBC for 30 minutes about a range of subjects including his approach to songwriting\n\nThe recording industry has quickly mobilised against artificial intelligence, launching a group called the \"Human Artistry Campaign\", and warning that AI companies are violating copyright by training their software on commercially-released music.\n\nWhether AI-written music can be copyrighted is still under debate. Under English copyright law, for example, works generated by AI, can theoretically be protected.\n\nHowever, the US Copyright Office recently ruled that AI art, including music, can't be copyrighted as it is \"not the product of human authorship\".\n\nNot everyone is against the technology. Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant recently suggested AI could help musicians overcome writers' block.\n\n\"There's a song that we wrote a chorus for in 2003 and we never finished because I couldn't think of anything for the verses,\" he told the Radio Times.\n\n\"But now with AI you could give it the bits you've written, press the button and have it fill in the blanks. You might then rewrite it, but it could nonetheless be a tool.\"\n\n\"The tools are useful, but we have to be driving them,\" he said. \"I don't think we can allow the machines to just take over. We have to be wary.\"\n\nThe musician was speaking ahead of the UK's prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting awards on Thursday, where he will be given the organisation's highest honour.\n\nOnly 23 other people have become an Ivor Academy Fellow with British legends Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Elton John and Annie Lennox among the other honourees.\n\n\"It sounds like something out of the Lord Of The Rings, doesn't it? A Fellowship,\" the star joked. \"But it's very meaningful to me, to win a songwriting prize, because that's what I put on my passport: I'm a songwriter.\"\n\nThe North East-born musician began his career as a member of The Police, before breaking away as a solo artist in 1984.\n\n\"I wanted to start again,\" he said of his decision to break up the band at the height of their fame. \"When you're in a band, it has to have a recognisable sound. So, as a songwriter, I was trapped.\n\n\"There was some risk involved,\" in going solo, he added, \"but I wasn't risking my life or anything. I don't think in music you can have a success without risk.\"\n\nAcross his career, the musician has sold more than 100 million albums, and charted global hits like Message In A Bottle, Every Breath You Take, Fields Of Gold, Englishman In New York and Shape Of My Heart.\n\nBut he said that the first time he made the top 40, with The Police's Roxanne, remained a career highlight.\n\n\"I was in my kitchen, on a plank on top of a ladder, painting the ceiling and I had Radio One on. I suddenly recognised the song and I literally fell off the off the ladder.\n\n\"Nothing will ever beat that first time you hear yourself on the radio. After that, it's just diminishing returns.\"\n\nSting sold his entire back catalogue to UMG last year for a reported nine-figure sum, following in the footsteps of artists like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Shakira and Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks.\n\nHe said he'd handed over control because he trusted his record label and wanted to protect his musical legacy - especially after artists like Prince and Jimi Hendrix had endured messy, posthumous battles over their estate.\n\n\"That can be a mess. So I think it's better to take control of it now.\"\n\nBut the musician added, \"I still think of them as my songs.\"\n\n\"In the same way that a painter who sells his paintings to collectors still thinks of the paintings as being his own, so these are still my songs.\n\n\"I just got paid in advance. It's as simple as that. That's how I rationalise it.\"", "Deportation flights to Albania from the UK have increased following a joint co-operation agreement in December 2022\n\nAlbanian authorities have confirmed that most of its citizens forcibly sent back home from the UK this year were convicted of crimes there. The BBC has spoken to those men sent home, and learnt that some prisoners were offered £1,500 to leave - and some plan to come back.\n\nEach week, a small crowd gathers at the razor-wire fence tucked around the back of Albania's Tirana airport.\n\nThe narrow runway beyond it, pinched between jagged black mountains and the high grey walls of the border police unit, is where UK deportation flights land - closely watched by the families waiting at the fence.\n\nIt takes hours for the deportees to appear, trickling slowly through the gate to be met with hugs, shy smiles and tears.\n\nDeportation flights to Albania have increased since the country signed a joint co-operation agreement with the UK last December, to \"deter and disrupt illegal migration\".\n\nThe UK government's Home Office says more than 1,000 people have been returned since then: around half of them voluntary, the rest a combination of failed asylum seekers and foreign offenders.\n\nThe BBC spoke to dozens of people on several of these deportation flights last month, and found that most came from UK prisons.\n\nSome had been offered money in return for agreeing to deportation, and were released from prison before serving their minimum sentence, under an existing scheme used for foreign offenders.\n\nAlbanian police confirmed that a majority of those forcibly returned this year were convicted of crimes in the UK.\n\nOne cheerful 30-year-old man said he had been serving a six-year sentence for drug offences, and was released for deportation after serving just two of them - a year before he would have been eligible for parole.\n\nHe asked us to hide his identity, so we're calling him Mark.\n\nThe man who we're calling Mark asked the BBC not to identify him\n\n\"The immigration officer came to see us,\" he said. \"They ask if you want to go back [to Albania] or stay in UK. They explained that if you go back, they take one year off from your sentence.\"\n\nMark was also offered £1,500 in financial support to return home, under a separate programme called the Facilitated Return Scheme (FRS).\n\nA UK government document clearly states that the scheme is \"a financial incentive\" offered to foreign prisoners \"on the proviso that they co-operate with deportation and waive their right to appeal against it\".\n\nOther prisoners we spoke to on the deportation flights last month had been given the same amount.\n\nMark was deported under the UK's Early Release Scheme (ERS), used for foreign prisoners of all nationalities.\n\nERS does not require the consent of prisoners, but several Albanian deportees we spoke to, including Mark, said their deportation and sentence reduction were presented as voluntary.\n\n\"It was my choice to come back,\" Mark told me. \"Nobody forced me. They offered it to me. They said, 'You decide if you want to go or want to stay'.\"\n\nWe asked the Home Office to confirm how many Albanians had been deported under the ERS since the start of last year, and how many had received financial incentives to co-operate, but it said it did not publish these statistics.\n\nA spokesperson said in a statement: \"The UK and Albanian governments work together to take every opportunity to intercept the work of people smugglers and speed up the removal of Albanians with no legal right to be in the UK.\"\n\nIn March, Edi Rama (right) became the first Albanian prime minister to visit 10 Downing Street\n\nLast year, the government's Nationality and Borders Act extended the early release period allowed under the ERS from nine months to a year. One of the aims of that change, according to a Home Office brief, was to increase the number of removals.\n\nThe same Act also abolished the expiry date for unserved sentences, meaning that prisoners who return to the UK illegally will have to serve the rest of their sentence, no matter how much time has passed - increasing the deterrent for people like Mark.\n\n\"I'm not going back there again,\" he said. \"I'm not going to prison. Now I'm going to look for work, I'm going to be a good guy.\"\n\nBut several of those on the deportation flights last month said they were planning to return to the UK within weeks or even days, despite what many described as a new hard-line approach by police there.\n\n\"They're rounding up Albanians now,\" one man said. \"It's very difficult for Albanians to stay in the UK because police stop you in the road. They don't want us now.\"\n\nHe said he had been sent back to Albania after police stopped the car he was in and found he was undocumented.\n\nHe is still planning to return.\n\nAnother man said he had already been back and forth to the UK three times. \"It's not a problem for me,\" he said. \"I'll go back whenever I want.\"\n\nFor many of those we spoke to, it was economic opportunities that drew them to the UK.\n\nNot for Azem, though - a slight man in his late twenties, who seemed lost inside his clothes.\n\nAzem - not his real name - talks to the BBC's Lucy Williamson on a disused railway track\n\nAzem - not his real name - told us his story on condition of anonymity. He also insisted we meet somewhere remote, where he wouldn't be overheard.\n\nOn a disused railway track over a pretty river sunk into the rolling landscape outside Tirana, Azem talked, his hands trembling.\n\nHe showed me documents detailing his removal from the UK, and the rejection of his asylum claim. He told immigration officials he had fled Albania after gang members put a gun to his head and threatened to kill him for his political activities.\n\nHe was returned back to Albania against his wishes last month.\n\n\"I'm afraid because the same situation can happen again,\" he said. \"I've stayed quiet, I don't smile, I'm stressed and my body shakes all the time, I don't sleep much.\"\n\nA UK psychologist's report, filed just before Azem's deportation, raised concerns that he may have experienced psychological torture in Albania.\n\nA Home Office response said his experiences had already been considered in his asylum application, and that the decision was unchanged.\n\nAzem told me he wouldn't hesitate to return to the UK illegally if he was threatened again, despite being blacklisted from entering the UK and EU countries. Albanians have free movement to countries like France and Belgium, which offer an easy springboard across the Channel.\n\nAlbanian police have recently stepped up checks at the country's border crossings, to catch blacklisted deportees trying to slip across.\n\nThe increased co-operation between the UK and Albania has coincided with a sharp drop in the number of Albanians arriving in small boats; just 29 were detected in the first few months of this year.\n\nMuch of that drop is likely to be seasonal and with the winter weather now easing, both governments are facing the first real test of their approach to tackling irregular migration.\n\nAlbania's Interior Minister Bledar Çuçi said those who return are \"free citizens\"\n\nI asked Albania's Interior Minister Bledar Çuçi what his country was doing to prevent the recent deportees simply returning to the UK.\n\n\"It's not possible to put a chip in everyone to follow where they go,\" he said. \"If there are people with criminal records, especially in trafficking, then police will be on alert. But in general, the people who return are free citizens in Albania.\"\n\nBut alongside work on illegal migration, he said, the two governments needed to work on legal routes for Albanian citizens to reach the UK.\n\n\"I have suggested to my colleague, [UK Home Secretary] Suella Braverman, that we should also create the immediate legalisation of all Albanians who work in [the UK] at an honest job, and who have no criminal record,\" Mr Çuçi added.\n\nBoth Albania and British governments recognise the economic pull of the UK.\n\nIn the tiny northern-Albanian town of Krumë, 60% of the population has already gone. The first man I meet on the street there speaks English effortlessly, with a London accent.\n\nLocal politicians say more of the town's voters now live in east London than here at home.\n\nEven those who remain here go to a café called \"Britain\" for their morning coffee; its entrance adorned with a full-sized London phone box.\n\nThe tiny northern Albanian town of Krumë features a café called Britain, with a red phone box outside\n\nThe UK is putting more than £8m into training projects and businesses in Kukës - the region where Krumë lies - through an organisation that aims to change what it calls the \"cultural norm\" of illegal migration to the UK.\n\nThe Albanian government is also investing in infrastructure here, including a new airport. But locals have so far seen few tangible benefits.\n\nWe meet local mayoral candidate Miftar Dauti at a campaign rally for young people - his arrival greeted by an enthusiastic crowd of young supporters, and a deafening sound system playing a song called Democracy.\n\n\"What's the system where people don't dare to say what they think?\" the lyrics scream. \"Where journalists don't dare to say what's happening? Where the law only applies to you? Democracy, democracy, democracy!\"\n\nA strange choice for an election campaign, perhaps.\n\nMr Dauti is promising to stop the town's young people leaving for the UK. But even here amongst his own young supporters in the village hall, that promise is struggling to land.\n\n\"I want to be back in the UK,\" a lively, baby-faced supporter called Valda told me, as he watched the candidate leave. \"This place isn't for me. I've been in the UK for two years and I want to be back there.\"\n\nAt a local park in Kukës town centre, grandparents watch young children play football beneath the snow-capped mountains, while single-sex groups of teenagers wander along the paths.\n\nLocals say some children here say they want to be migrants when they leave school.\n\nIn one version of Albania's future, British tourists might flock here, transfixed by this region's stunning landscape.\n\nBut as so many young people here will tell you, futures don't happen in Kukes. They happen in the UK.", "The £2 cap on bus fares in England has been extended again until the end of October, the government has announced.\n\nThe cap, which applies to more than 130 bus operators outside of London, will then rise in November to £2.50 for 12 months, before prices are reviewed.\n\nThe current limit on fares has now been extended twice after warnings hundreds of services could be cut without it.\n\nIts aim is to ease the cost of living pressures on passengers but also to encourage people to use buses.\n\nBus operators have still not seen the same number of passengers return to using services as before the Covid pandemic, with levels recovering to around 85 to 90%, according to the Department for Transport.\n\nThe Confederation of Passenger Transport, which is the trade association for the UK's bus and coach sector, welcomed the extra funding for the scheme and said it would help operators and councils to \"promote and grow services with greater confidence\".\n\nBut Graham Vidler, chief executive of the body, warned the funding and cap extension would \"not save every service in every part of the country\".\n\nThe trade association has repeatedly claimed that up to 15% of services could be scrapped without further funding for the sector. It has said if the government is \"really serious\" about levelling up, then ministers need to \"back our buses for the long term\".\n\nTravel is one of the main costs to come out of household budgets, which have been squeezed in recent months by the rise in fuel, food and energy prices.\n\nPrices for all goods are rising and inflation, which is the rate at which prices go up, is at 10.1%, meaning items are more than 10% more expensive than they were a year ago on average.\n\nNorman Baker, of the Campaign for Better Transport, urged the government to advertise the bus fare cap to attract people who do not usually use buses in order to grow passenger numbers.\n\n\"The huge success of the scheme proves that by making public transport more affordable, more people will use it and revenue can be increased,\" he added.\n\nSome of the longest routes which the cap applies to include:\n\nSome people have gone viral on social media after travelling up and down the UK using £2 bus tickets.\n\nExtending the current cap until the end of October and then subsiding fares at £2.50 until November 2024 will cost £200m, the government said.\n\nAs well as releasing cash to keep the cap in place, the Department for Transport said it would provide £300m to councils and operators until 2025 to protect routes that passengers rely on for work, education and medical appointments, and to improve infrastructure.\n\nAre you a user of buses and will benefit from this cap being extended?\n\nThe government said continuing to cap fares would particularly benefit people on lower incomes who it said take three times as many bus trips than those on higher incomes.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper said the reason for extending the scheme was due to bus travel being \"the most popular form of public transport\", with millions of people relying on them.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak added: \"By extending the £2 fare cap, we're making sure bus travel remains accessible and affordable for everyone, while helping to ease cost of living pressures.\"\n\nThe government said to help support the bus industry, it has provided more than £2bn in funding to recover from the pandemic.\n\nIn 2021, ministers published a National Bus Strategy, involving hundreds of miles of new bus lanes and price caps on tickets which would make buses cheaper and easier to use.\n\nBut the Transport committee of MPs, whose job is to scrutinise the Department for Transport, said in a report released in March that while many of the strategy's ideas \"were on the right track\", progress in implementing them had \"sometimes been too slow, and in some cases, too piecemeal\".\n\nIt said without further rounds of funding for councils and bus companies, the plans would \"barely scratch the surface\".", "Prosecutors allege Ms Mayo put her foot on her baby's head before stuffing cotton wool down his throat\n\nA teenage mother accused of murdering her newborn son had been in denial about her pregnancy, a court was told.\n\nParis Mayo allegedly killed her son Stanley in 2019, hours after birth by forcing cotton wool down his throat.\n\nA court heard she told a doctor she did not think she was pregnant but informed the boy she wrongly believed was the father.\n\nMiss Mayo, who lived in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, and was 15 at the time, denies murder.\n\nThe teenager concealed both her pregnancy and the delivery of Stanley, which she did alone and unaided, at her family home on 23 March, the court heard.\n\nThe baby's body was discovered in a blood-stained black plastic bin liner at the front doorstep by Mayo's mother - who dialled 999.\n\nMs Mayo and the child were taken to Hereford County Hospital where her remarks were heard and recorded by former West Midlands Police Det Con David Thomas the following day.\n\nParis Mayo alleged told a doctor she \"didn't know she was pregnant\"\n\nRecounting the conversation between consultant paediatrician Dr Tom Dawson and Ms Mayo, Mr Thomas told the trial she said: \"Didn't know what family would think.\n\n\"Didn't know what to do, but wanted to hide it from mum. Put it in a bag.\"\n\nMr Thomas was asked about a final entry he had made in his notebook about the conversation, which read: \"Sounds like she thought she might be pregnant, but was in denial.\"\n\nHe then told jurors he later separately \"clarified\" those points with Dr Dawson, without Ms Mayo being present.\n\n\"Dr Dawson believed that Paris had been in denial during her pregnancy,\" Mr Thomas said.\n\n\"Which is why it is not clear whether she knew about it - or not.\"\n\nMr Thomas also recounted notes he made of an earlier conversation that Ms Mayo had in her ward bed, when her half-sister asked: \"Why didn't you tell mum?\"\n\n\"She's got a lot going on with Dad,\" Ms Mayo, who now lives in Ruardean, Gloucestershire, is said to have replied.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard the defendant's father, Patrick Mayo, had serious health problems and was having home dialysis assisted by Ms Mayo's mother on the night of the birth.\n\nHe died 10 days after the incident took place.\n\nMr Thomas also recorded Ms Mayo's half-sister asking: \"If it had been moving, would you have got mum?\"\n\nMs Mayo was \"recorded as nodding\", and reported as saying \"it came out with the thing (umbilical cord) around its neck and I was waiting for it to make a noise\".\n\nIn further remarks made by Ms Mayo, to the doctor, Mr Thomas had written: \"Had baby downstairs, didn't know, it just came out.\n\n\"It came out and banged head.\n\n\"Removed (umbilical) cord from neck to see if it would start breathing.\n\n\"Baby made no noise, waiting for him to make a noise, but it didn't. Was pressing his heart to see if it would help.\n\n\"Didn't know what to do. I was reeling. Oozing from mouth, cotton wool in mouth to stop.\"\n\nShe reportedly added: \"In back room by kitchen, couldn't feel pulse when unwrapped cord,\n\n\"Crying after and (I) went to bed,\" she added.\n\nMs Mayo was said to have told the doctors she had suffered \"light periods\" in the run-up to the birth, remarking \"all my clothes still fitted\".\n\nShe was reported to have then said that she had told a boy she wrongly thought was the father that she could have been pregnant, but he was not interested and so she decided to deal with it herself.\n\nStanley is alleged to have suffered a fractured skull, possibly caused by Ms Mayo's foot on his head, before she later stuffed five pieces of cotton wool into his mouth - two of which were found deep in the throat.\n\nThe trial, expected to last six weeks, continues.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Council services such as street cleaning have faced budget pressures in recent years\n\nThe public should be \"very worried\" about the scale of the financial challenges facing councils, a spending watchdog has warned.\n\nThe Accounts Commission said local authorities must radically change how they operate in order to maintain and improve the services they offer.\n\nAuditors said budget constraints and cost pressures are putting councils' finances under \"severe strain\".\n\nAdult social care and housing are among areas of concern.\n\nThese areas, along with environmental services and culture and leisure, are where a new Accounts Commission report concludes service performance was \"at risk or declining\".\n\nA \"new deal\" between the Scottish government and the country's 32 councils, which is aimed at allowing more long-term planning and could allow new local taxes, is \"long overdue\", the report adds.\n\nCouncil services across Scotland have been impacted by financial pressures in the last year.\n\nIn Aberdeen, campaigners have been fighting the closure of libraries and a swimming pool, while in West Lothian a number of leisure centres are earmarked for closure.\n\nTim McKay, acting chairman of the Accounts Commission, was asked on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland how worried people should be about the state of local authorities.\n\nHe told the programme: \"I think we should be very worried because the funding statement is being reduced in real terms.\n\n\"As you know, the cost of living is going up dramatically so there is just going to be much less money available for councils to deliver those services.\"\n\nTim McKay, acting chairman of the Accounts Commission, said the current financial climate would affect those who are already at \"crisis point\"\n\nMr McKay said councils often made incremental savings when they drafted an annual budget but did not take a \"more radical step\" and introduce long-term changes.\n\nHe added: \"To some extend they are not encouraged to do that because they only get one-year settlements, typically, from the Scottish government.\n\n\"So that's why this new deal is so important.\n\n\"It won't necessarily put more money on the table but at least it will allow them to get a settlement over three, five years, whatever to allow them to plan ahead better.\"\n\nMr McKay would not be drawn on whether Scotland had too many councils and said that was a matter for politicians.\n\nBut he said local authorities needed to have \"open and honest conversations\" with their communities and staff about how they will operate in the future.\n\nEarlier he warned failure to address the funding problem would have a negative impact on services and potentially result in \"deeper cuts\".\n\nMonifieth is one of two Angus recycling centres to close\n\nRecycling centres in Monifieth and Kirriemuir closed recently, saving Angus Council an estimated £100,000 per year.\n\nIt means locals will now have to take waste to centres in Carnoustie or Dundee, six and five miles away respectively.\n\nMonifieth resident Emily Hendry, 64, said: \"It's going to affect the community, a lot of the older generation stay here and they don't have cars.\n\n\"We pay a lot of council tax, so we're entitled to get a lot of things done.\"\n\nEmily Hendry said closing the Monifieth recycling centre would affect older residents\n\nSteven Ludlan, 72, said: \"I've now got to go to Dundee, which makes me spend more money on fuel.\"\n\nHe said he had some sympathy for councils, but would \"just like to see them spend money wisely.\"\n\nHe said: \"Some councils can budget wisely and other councils just seem to do things ad hoc, as it were.\n\n\"A lot more can be done, but obviously different places need different things.\"\n\nMonifieth resident Steven Ludlan said he wanted councils to spend their money wisely\n\nThe Audit Scotland report highlights how 23% of council budgets were ringfenced or directed for national policy initiatives in 2021/22 - up from 18% in the previous year.\n\nThis type of funding supports the delivery of key Scottish government policies but \"it prevents councils from making decisions about how funds can be used at a local level, to meet local need\", the report adds.\n\nAnalysis by Audit Scotland shows spending on children's services and adult social care has been protected and increased because of Scottish government policy directives over the last decade.\n\nHowever, the remaining \"unprotected\" services have borne a \"disproportionate level of spending reductions\", according to auditors.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it will review all ring-fenced funding as part of the delayed \"new deal\" for local government.\n\nThe Audit Scotland report calls for councils to be more transparent with the public about scale of demand, the extent of backlogs and the need to ration access to services.\n\nIt also calls for a more collaborative approach between public bodies.\n\nShona Morrison, president of council umbrella body Cosla, said this was demonstrated during the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"The report also recognises the huge challenges councils face due to budget constraints, increased cost pressures and demand, and increases in directed and ringfenced funding.\n\n\"As we have all seen, increasingly difficult choices are required about spending priorities and service provision, given reducing budgets coupled with growing demographic and workforce pressures.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said urgent action was needed to avoid cuts to local services that would have a \"devastating impact on our most deprived communities and the most vulnerable people living in them\".\n\nThe party called on the first minister to \"come good on his promise of a New Deal for local government as soon as possible\".\n\nScottish Labour said the report \"lays bare the scale of the crisis facing local government after years of cuts and centralisation by the SNP and the Greens\" and said the government should stop \"robbing funding from communities\".\n\nLocal government minister Joe FitzPatrick said: \"We recognise that the work of both local and national government is vital in delivering sustainable public services our communities rely upon.\n\n\"That is why the Scottish government is committed to working with Cosla to agree a 'new deal' for local government that promotes empowerment and provides greater flexibility over local funding with clear accountability for delivery of shared priorities and outcomes.\"", "Nicolas Sarkozy attended the appeals hearing but declined to comment\n\nFormer French President Nicolas Sarkozy has lost his appeal against a prison sentence for corruption.\n\nHowever, the Paris appeals court ruled that he could serve his time at home wearing a tag instead of going to jail.\n\nIn 2021 Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in prison - including two suspended - for trying to influence a judge in a separate case.\n\nThe 68-year-old was the first former French president to get a custodial sentence.\n\nFollowing Wednesday's ruling, Sarkozy's lawyer said she would launch a new challenge with the Court of Cassation, one of France's highest authorities.\n\n\"Nicolas Sarkozy is innocent,\" lawyer Jacqueline Laffont said. \"We will take this all the way.\"\n\nThe former president has been convicted of attempting to obtain information from a senior judge in 2014 - after he had left office.\n\nThe case centred on phone conversations between Sarkozy and his lawyer at the time that were taped by police. Prosecutors convinced the court that Sarkozy offered the judge a prestigious job in Monaco in return for information about investigations into his 2007 campaign.\n\nThe judge and lawyer in question were also sentenced to three years in jail, two of them suspended.\n\nIt is one of several corruption cases involving Sarkozy, who denies any wrongdoing.\n\nEarlier this month, prosecutors requested that he should face trial over allegations that the Libyan government illegally contributed to his 2007 presidential bid. But in France, investigating magistrates have the last word over whether a case should go to trial.\n\nSarkozy's legal travails have put an end to his political career, but he retains lingering influence on the right.\n\nHis Republican party is in disarray and for many he remains a historic point of reference. Those who see him as the victim of a judicial establishment biased towards the left will stick by him regardless.\n\nNicolas Sarkozy served one five-year term as president, until 2012. He adopted tough anti-immigration policies and sought to reform France's economy during a presidency overshadowed by the global financial crisis.\n\nCritics nicknamed him \"bling-bling\", seeing his leadership style as too brash, celebrity-driven and hyperactive for a role steeped in tradition and grandeur.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stefan Jackiw's bow broke but he carried on as if nothing happened\n\nA violinist who travelled from New York to perform in Dorset wowed the audience after he managed to continue his performance despite his £24,000 bow breaking unexpectedly.\n\nStefan Jackiw was performing in Poole with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) on 10 May when it happened.\n\nHe was surprised as he says violin strings usually break, but bows do not.\n\nThe broken bow was immediately swapped for a different one and Mr Jackiw carried on as if nothing happened.\n\nHe said he would remember his performance of the UK premiere of Glière's violin concerto at the Lighthouse \"for the rest of his life\".\n\n\"At first I didn't quite understand what happened because this is something I had never experienced before,\" he said.\n\nThe bow was made by Francois Nicolas Voirin in Paris in the 19th Century and had been used by Mr Jackiw, 38, for 20 years and thousands of concerts.\n\nAfter a speedy bow swap with violinist and orchestra leader Amyn Merchant, the show — under the baton of the BSO's chief conductor Kirill Karabits — went on.\n\nWhen asked how it felt to play with a different bow, Mr Jackiw said: \"It's like if you suddenly put on someone else's shoes and then go for a run. They are still shoes but they don't fit you quite the way they used to and they feel very foreign.\n\n\"But I got through it and I believe this unexpected episode kind of gave the whole performance some sort of joyful spontaneity.\"\n\nDougie Scarfe, the chief executive of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, said it was \"an incredible thing to see\".\n\n\"For something really dramatic to happen and without saying a word to collect and carry on and to perform extraordinarily well under any circumstances was really special,\" Mr Scarfe added.\n\nIt is not known why the bow broke but it is being mended and will soon be returned to Mr Jackiw.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Detectives are watching 400,000 hours of footage in an attempt to find clues in the John Caldwell case, says Eamonn Corrigan\n\nAn estimated 400,000 hours of CCTV footage has been seized for analysis in the hunt for those involved in the shooting of a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) detective.\n\nThe investigation into who shot Det Ch Insp John Caldwell is one of Northern Ireland's biggest in recent times.\n\nHe was attacked in February by two gunmen as he coached youth football while off-duty in Omagh, County Tyrone.\n\nThe 48-year-old's young son was at his side when he was ambushed.\n\nThe CCTV footage has been obtained from 750 cameras located between Belfast and Omagh.\n\nPolice believe dissident republican group the New IRA may have acted with an organised crime gang to carry out the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell is in regular contact with the team investigating his shooting and there is an \"added determination\" to catch those responsible because he is a colleague.\n\nDet Ch Supt Eamonn Corrigan, who is leading the attempted murder inquiry, said: \"We are lucky John didn't die.\n\n\"He is making a good recovery but it is going to be a long road.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Corrigan said the wounded officer, who was discharged from hospital in April, has given investigators his account of the shooting.\n\nHe added the investigation had made \"significant progress\", but gave no further details.\n\nIt is an overwhelming amount of footage that has been seized - 16,000 days viewing if one person was to watch it from beginning to end.\n\nClearly the police have seized a lot more material than they may ultimately need because they want to have it before it is wiped or deleted.\n\nThe scale of the task is huge. What we can't really quantify is the scale of progress and whether or not they have had a significant breakthrough.\n\nI left the CCTV viewing suite with the overriding impression that this is a resource hungry investigation.\n\nIt is clearly going to take a long time to build a case or indeed cases given the number of people the PSNI believe were involved.\n\nTo date, 15 people have been arrested and there have been 40 searches of premises and land.\n\nMore than 340 witnesses have been interviewed so far.\n\nTwo Ford Fiesta cars used in the attack had been bought about 70 miles away, in Glengormley and Ballyclare, County Antrim, weeks prior to be used in the shooting.\n\nThey were found burned out following the attack.\n\nAttempting to trace their movements has meant obtaining footage from hundreds of cameras spread over a large area.\n\nThis car near a farmyard on the Racolpa Road outside Omagh is thought to have been used by the gunmen and was later burnt out\n\nDetectives are poring over the material in several viewing rooms within a Belfast police base.\n\n\"All the detectives working on the case know the importance of CCTV and the fact that a 15 or 20-second piece of footage could be crucial in building a case,\" said Det Ch Supt Corrigan.\n\n\"An attack of this nature is carried out by multiple people who are organised.\n\n\"We are looking for movements of people and vehicles over time. It is time consuming and a lot of patience is required,\" he added.\n\nThe New IRA has admitted responsibility for the attack, but police believe a crime gang may have aided it.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell has run investigations into both paramilitary groups and organised crime gangs.\n\n\"Whether these people are members of a terrorist organisation or an organised crime organisation, this has been an attack on a serving police officer at the behest of the New IRA,\" Det Ch Supt Corrigan said.\n\n\"How they carry out their operations and support them logistically is not for me to decide.\n\n\"I will follow the evidence and bring people who are responsible before the courts.\"", "The decision to press ahead with the construction of a second ferry at Ferguson shipyard is \"not a blank cheque\", a minister has said.\n\nEconomy Secretary Neil Gray said the Port Glasgow yard would have been put \"in jeopardy\" had the ferry, known as Hull 802, been built elsewhere.\n\nA review found that finishing the ship does not represent value for money.\n\nOpposition MSPs have described the Scottish government contract as an \"utter fiasco\".\n\nTwo ferries were ordered in 2015 when the yard was owned by Jim McColl, a pro-independence businessman who rescued it from administration a year earlier.\n\nThe build ran into trouble and the ships are now more than £200m overbudget and six years late.\n\nMr McColl and the government-owned ferry procurement agency CMAL blame each other for the problems.\n\nFerguson shipyard was nationalised in 2019. The first ship, Glen Sannox, is due to be delivered to operator CalMac in the autumn.\n\nThe second ferry. the as-yet unnamed Hull 802, is expected in summer 2024.\n\nNeil Gray said Clyde shipbuilding would have ceased to exist if Ferguson had not been nationalised\n\nMr Gray told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland that the controversy had been a \"really difficult episode\" for the Scottish government.\n\nHe said: \"The situation would have been made much worse had I taken a different decision yesterday not to proceed with 802 and have re-procured it elsewhere.\n\n\"That would have put the yard in jeopardy.\n\n\"Arguably more importantly than that, it would have put at risk our commitment to our island communities who need these vessels to serve them.\"\n\nMr Gray said commercial shipbuilding on the Clyde would have ceased to exist if the yard had not been nationalised, but acknowledged that the ferry delays had caused \"undeniable anger\".\n\nThe minister said he wanted to see a \"commercially successful Fergusons\" but said issues such as spiralling inflation were having an impact.\n\n\"I made that explicit to the chief executive yesterday that we must ensure that we protect the costs as far as possible,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"It's absolutely not a blank cheque.\"\n\nNeil Gray said the value of completing Hull 802 could not be viewed in \"narrow\" monetary terms\n\nOn Tuesday Mr Gray told MSPs that completing the vessel was the fastest way of delivering more capacity to Scotland's west coast ferry fleet - which has been beset with relatability issues.\n\nHe said that while the value for money review concluded it could be cheaper to procure a new ferry elsewhere, it would lead to significant delays, as it could not be deployed before May 2027.\n\nScottish Labour's transport spokesman Alex Rowley MSP told the BBC that the government's decision was the \"best route\" to get the ferries completed.\n\nBut he added island communities had been badly let down and called for lessons to be learned.\n\n\"Had the workforce been listened to we might not have been in this mess,\" he said.\n\nWillie Rennie of the Scottish Liberal Democrats said the ferry deal was an \"utter fiasco\" but said Mr Gray didn't have a choice but to press ahead.\n\nHe added: \"I am deeply worried that we are writing a blank cheque, but I'm afraid this is the position that the SNP government have got us in.\"\n\nScottish Conservative Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston said Mr Gray's statement was \"pretty humiliating\".\n\nMr Halcro Johnston said: \"The Scottish government have had years to get this right and they have failed again and again.\"\n\nAt Westminster, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack also entered the row and said the Scottish government had let island communities down.\n\nMr Jack told MPs: \"Ministers should always spend tax payers money efficiently, even if it means losing face.\"\n\nThe repeated delays to Glen Sannox and Hull 802 have had a major impact on the resilience of the ageing CalMac fleet, which has been hit by frequent breakdowns and soaring maintenance costs.\n\nLast year a BBC Scotland documentary - The Great Ferries Scandal - presented evidence that the procurement process may have been rigged in favour of Ferguson Marine.\n\nThe investigation also questioned the quality of the design presented by Ferguson, even though it was given top marks by CMAL's evaluators. CMAL has denied any impropriety.\n\nMeanwhile, CalMac said customers have experienced \"intermittent issues\" logging into a new online ticketing platform on its launch day.\n\nIt said it was working to resolve the problems as soon as possible.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Warning: Contains flashing images throughout. (Video not available outside the UK)\n\nPrince Harry, Meghan and her mother were involved in a \"near catastrophic car chase\" involving paparazzi, a spokesperson for the couple claimed.\n\nThe incident happened after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended an awards ceremony in New York on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement, their spokesperson said the \"relentless pursuit\" lasted for more than two hours and resulted in \"multiple near collisions\".\n\nThe New York Police Department (NYPD) said there were no arrests or injuries.\n\nBBC News has not been able to independently verify all the details. But accounts and information developed throughout the day on Wednesday.\n\nThe NYPD confirmed an incident took place involving Harry and Meghan and said numerous photographers \"made their transport challenging\".\n\nNo injuries or arrests were reported, the police said. Buckingham Palace has not yet commented.\n\nEntertainment picture agency Backgrid issued a statement saying it was investigating the conduct of several freelance photographers, but that their initial account of events differed to that of the Sussexes.\n\n\"The photographers have reported feeling that the couple was not in immediate danger at any point,\" it said.\n\nIt followed claims the chase involved half a dozen cars, with reckless driving including going through red lights, driving on the pavement, carrying out blocking moves, and reversing down a one-way street - as well as taking photographs while driving.\n\nBBC News understands Harry and Meghan were staying at a friend's home, and did not return directly to avoid compromising their security.\n\nThe couple and Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, tried to take shelter from the paparazzi by going to a Manhattan police station.\n\nThere was then a plan to use a New York taxi, with a yellow cab flagged down and Harry, Meghan, Ms Ragland and a security officer getting inside.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Harry and Meghan were filmed arriving at the event before the alleged car chase\n\nBut the vehicle and its occupants were spotted by photographers and they reverted to their own security vehicles.\n\nCab driver Sukhcharn Singh, who goes by the name Sonny, told BBC News he picked up the four passengers on 67th Street between Lexington Avenue and 3rd Avenue.\n\n\"A security guard hailed me, next thing you know Prince Harry and his wife were hopping into my cab,\" he said.\n\n\"As we went a block, we got blocked by a garbage truck and all of a sudden paparazzi came and started taking pictures. They were just about to give me the location of where they were going to go, but then they told me to circle back to the precinct.\"\n\nHe said they were \"nice people\" who \"looked nervous\".\n\nHe thought claims of a \"near catastrophic chase\" might have been exaggerated, saying that he did not think the paparazzi were being \"aggressive\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: BBC talks to taxi driver who drove Harry and Meghan\n\n\"New York is the safest place to be - there's police stations, cops on every corner,\" he said.\n\n\"[The paparazzi] were behind us... they kept their distance.\"\n\nThe passengers paid $50 (£40) for the short journey, he added. Mr Singh's account relates to just 10 minutes of what the Sussexes' spokesperson described as an ordeal lasting more than two hours.\n\nThe driver's assessment stands in contrast to that of Chris Sanchez, a member of the couple's security detail, who told CNN the scene was \"very chaotic\" and that photographers at one point blocked the limousine carrying Harry and Meghan.\n\n\"The public were in jeopardy at several points,\" he said. \"It could have been fatal.\"\n\nThe couple use private security while in the US - but Harry is engaged in a legal battle in London over the use of Metropolitan Police protection while he and his family are in the UK.\n\nMeghan appeared alongside her husband and mother to accept an award at the event in New York City\n\nThe award ceremony they attended - the Ms Foundation Women of Vision Awards - was Harry and Meghan's first public appearance together since the King Charles' Coronation earlier this month.\n\nMeghan accepted an award at the event alongside LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter.\n\nNew York City Mayor Eric Adams told reporters that two police officers \"could have been injured\" and that it \"would be horrific to lose an innocent bystander during a chase like this\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan's statement had never claimed there was a high-speed chase. It spoke of a \"relentless pursuit\" for more than two hours.\n\nDuncan Larcombe, the author of the book Prince Harry: the Inside Story, told BBC News it appeared \"something has gone extremely wrong\" with Harry and Meghan's security in the US.\n\n\"This will come as a huge surprise for people who used to look after Harry in the UK,\" he said. \"There are huge questions to be asked about whether the paparazzi can still operate in this way.\"\n\nPrince Harry's mother, Princess Diana, was killed in a 1997 car crash in Paris while being chased by photographers.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC for the documentary Diana, 7 Days, Prince Harry referred to the paparazzi as \"a pack of dogs\" who constantly hounded his mother.\n\n\"Every single time she went out there'd be a pack of people waiting for her,\" he said. \"I mean a pack of dogs, followed her, chased her, harassed her, called her names, spat at her, trying to get a reaction, to get that photograph of her lashing out.\"\n\nPhotos taken last night show Prince Harry and Meghan leaving the Ziegfeld Theatre in Manhattan\n\nPrince Harry is currently involved in multiple legal disputes with the British tabloid press, including allegations of phone hacking and the unlawful gathering of information.\n\nEarlier this week, a lawyer for the prince told a London court that he should be allowed to challenge a government decision that denied him the ability to pay for police protection while in the country.\n\nThe pair stepped down from royal duties and moved to the US in 2020 - a move they said was partly due to harassment from UK tabloids.\n\nPrince Harry has described his battle to change the media as his \"life's work\". Next month he will appear in a London court to give evidence in a phone-hacking case.\n\nWith reporting by Kayla Epstein in New York City", "MPs have urged the government to treat retail investment in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin as a form of gambling.\n\nTheir value could change dramatically and consumers risked losing their entire investment, characteristics closely resembling gambling, the Treasury Select Committee found.\n\nIt also criticised abandoned plans for the Royal Mint to create a non-fungible token (NFT).\n\nThe Treasury told BBC News it did not support using gambling regulation.\n\nThe risks posed by crypto were \"typical of those that exist in traditional financial services and it's financial services regulation - rather than gambling regulation - that has the track record in mitigating them\", a Treasury official told BBC News.\n\nTrade association CryptoUK strongly rejectedthe committee's findings, saying MPs' observations about cryptocurrency were \"unhelpful, false, fundamentally flawed and unsubstantiated\".\n\nThe committee said \"unbacked\" crypto assets - typically cryptocurrencies with no fixed value - exposed \"consumers to the potential for substantial gains or losses, while serving no useful social purpose\".\n\n\"These characteristics more closely resemble gambling than a financial service,\" the MPs added.\n\nGambling helpline charity GamCare told the BBC that, in the past two years, it had heard from more than 300 people who said they were struggling with investing in cryptocurrency and other forms of online financial markets.\n\nResearch cited by MPs found 40% of new Bitcoin users were men under 35, commonly identified as the most risk-seeking segment of the population.\n\nCastle Craig, a rehab clinic specialising in treating people with addictions, put us in touch with a young man who had lost heavily on crypto.\n\nThe former gambling addict told BBC News that, although he had given up gambling, he had turned to crypto.\n\n\"In my head, I just thought this isn't gambling it's just an investment, but clearly it wasn't,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had lost about £150,000 investing in crypto, including money he had borrowed, and that checking his phone to see how the market had moved had become an obsession. \"There was no break at all, I was just I was on my phone constantly watching it and just couldn't sleep,\" he recalled.\n\nHe said he supported the approach of the committee. \"Crypto stuff is gambling,\" he said. \"You can lose everything you've got.\"\n\nFormer sports minister and gambling campaigner Conservative MP Tracey Crouch welcomed the report.\n\n\"At the moment, crypto feels like a Wild West town with no sheriff,\" she said.\n\n\"However, I'm sure, if properly resourced, the Gambling Commission could bring some order into this complex, risky and often confusing area that has unwittingly sucked in consumers by marketing to them via sports such as football, giving a pretence to fans and others that they are safe and protected.\"\n\nCrypto sponsorship has been widespread among football clubs, but those in the Premier League recently agreed to end gambling sponsorship on the front of their shirts from the start of the 2026 season. This was a voluntary move and not required by regulation.\n\nThe report gives little detail on what gambling regulation applied to crypto might mean. MP Harriett Baldwin, chairwoman of the committee, said the report recommended \"that the sort of speculative luring of people into buying particular cryptocurrencies\" was treated like gambling.\n\nShe said the committee had heard a lot of evidence of how \"football clubs are using this as a way of taking money off their loyal supporters\".\n\nIn February, the government asked people to comment on proposals for the financial regulation of crypto assets.\n\nBut the committee said the government plans to regulate cryptocurrencies as financial services would create a false impression they were as secure as traditional investments - a \"halo effect... that leads consumers to believe that this activity is safer than it is or protected when it is not\".\n\nThe committee's report noted surveys suggesting about one in 10 people in the UK hold crypto assets, most investing in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.\n\nThe most mentioned reason for holding crypto assets was they were a \"fun investment\".\n\nDo you invest in cryptocurrency? Please share your experiences.\n\nCryptocurrencies are just one type of asset. More generally, MPs said, while they supported innovation, the potential benefits from crypto asset technologies remained uncertain.\n\n\"In the meantime, the risks posed by crypto assets to consumers and the environment are real and present.\"\n\nThe government has been excited by the potential of crypto. While chancellor, Rishi Sunak announced his ambition to make the UK a global hub for the technology.\n\nThe Treasury believes crypto offers opportunities, but said it was \"robustly regulating the market, addressing the most pressing risks first in a way that promotes innovation\".\n\nCryptoUK's Ian Taylor said the finance industry was embracing crypto: \"Professional investment managers see Bitcoin and other crypto assets as a new alternative investment class - not as a form of gambling - and institutional adoption of unbacked crypto assets has increased significantly.\"\n\nRecognising the potential risks and rewards, the committee recommended a balanced approach, but suggested government avoid spending public resources on projects without a clear beneficial use.\n\n\"The government's recent foray into seeking (and subsequently abandoning) the production of a Royal Mint non-fungible token is a case in point,\" the MPs wrote.\n\n\"It is not the government's role to promote particular technological innovations for their own sake\".\n\nNFTs are \"one-of-a-kind\" digital assets that can be bought and sold like any other piece of property - they are often associated with digital images.\n\nThe committee will examine central bank digital currencies in a separate report.", "Police have had more than 200 tip-offs about unidentified women murdered in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.\n\nIt comes a week after the three countries launched a campaign with global policing agency Interpol to find the names of 22 women, whose bodies were discovered between 1976 and 2019.\n\nIt is the first time Interpol has gone public with a list seeking information about unidentified bodies.\n\nPolice said the women \"deserve to get their names back\".\n\n\"The information we are receiving now gives us hope for several cases. Every tip can make a difference for the next of kin of the victims,\" said Dutch police official Martin de Wit.\n\nPolice said they were following up on 122 potentially useful tip-offs for the cases in Germany, 55 in Belgium and 51 in the Netherlands.\n\nInformation they have received so far includes possible names of victims, and potential leads about clothing and jewellery the women were wearing.\n\nThe so-called black notices released as part of the Operation Identify Me campaign are normally only circulated internally among Interpol's network of police forces throughout the world.\n\nThey include details about the women, photographs of possible identifying items, and, in some cases, new facial reconstructions and information about the cases.\n\nIn a statement, police said they were analysing the information they had received so far, and that their first priority would be informing the family if any of the victims' identities were discovered.\n\nAs the women are believed to have been murdered, they added that any identification would lead to criminal investigations.\n\nMost of the victims in the 22 cases were aged between 15 and 30. Without knowing their names or who killed them, police say it is difficult to establish the exact circumstances of their deaths.\n\nThe campaign was initiated by Dutch police, who were struggling to identify a woman whose body was discovered in a wheelie bin floating in a river on the outskirts of Amsterdam in 1999.\n\nOther cases include a woman with a distinctive tattoo of a black flower with green leaves and \"R'NICK\" written underneath who was found lying against a grate in a river in Belgium in 1992, and a woman's body found wrapped in a carpet and bound with string at a sailing club in Germany in 2002.\n\nDr Susan Hitchin, coordinator of Interpol's DNA unit, said the policing agency was continuing to call on the public to come forward with any information that could \"help investigators connect the dots\".", "Asante King's bracelet with gold ornaments and glass beads was taken by the British in the 19th Century, and is at the British Museum\n\nThe ruler of Ghana's Asante people is pressing the British Museum to return gold items in its collection.\n\nThe Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, who attended the Coronation of King Charles, later met the museum director Dr Hartwig Fischer for discussions.\n\nThe British Museum's collection includes works taken from the Asante palace in Kumasi during the war with the British of 1874.\n\nThe museum told us it is \"exploring the possibility of lending items\" to Ghana.\n\nThe British Museum has been under increasing pressure in recent years to return items in its collection to their countries of origin.\n\nThe demands by Greece for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures, often still known as the Elgin Marbles, are the most high profile example in this contested debate. They were removed by the diplomat and soldier Lord Elgin in the 19th century and later bought by the British government and placed in the British Museum.\n\nRestitution issues more commonly apply to countries which experienced colonial conflict.\n\nEthiopia wants the British Museum to return ceremonial crosses, weapons, jewellery, sacred altar tablets and other items taken from Maqdala in the north of the country during British military action in 1868.\n\nThe Nigerian Government has also formally asked the museum to return 900 Benin Bronzes.\n\nThese beautiful bronze and brass sculptures were created by specialist guilds working for the royal court of the Oba, or King, in Benin City from the 16th century onwards. Many were forcibly removed when the British captured the city in 1897.\n\nThe Parthenon Sculptures were removed from Greece and put on display in London's British Museum in the 19th Century\n\nGhana's government made a formal request in 1974 from the then Asantahene, requesting the return of regalia and other items taken by British forces in 1874, 1896 and 1900. Since then, the British Museum says it has worked to establish a positive and ongoing collaboration with the Asantehene and Ghana's Manhyia Palace Museum, which chronicles Asante culture.\n\nIn recent times Ghana's government has set up a Restitution Committee to look at the return of items taken from the Asante palace which are now in collections around the world.\n\nNana Oforiatta Ayim, who sits on that Committee, told the BBC: \"These objects are largely sacred ones and their return is about more than just restitution. It is also about reparation and repair, for the places they were taken from, but also those who did the taking.\"\n\nShe added that they are looking for a new relationship \"not based on exploitation or oppression, but on equity and mutual respect\".\n\nLast Thursday's discussions at the British Museum are the first ever meeting between the Asantehene and the museum director, Dr Fischer.\n\nBenin Bronzes were taken from the ancient city in Nigeria by the British army\n\nOtumfuo Osei Tutu II requested a loan of items of regalia belonging to his forbears, acknowledging the successful ongoing collaboration with the British Museum.\n\nThere are more than 200 Asante gold objects and other regalia within the British Museum collection which were taken by British troops during the Anglo-Asante wars.\n\nBack in the 19th century, the Asante state was one of few African states that offered serious resistance to European colonisers.\n\nA spokeswoman for the British Museum told the BBC: \"Our Director and Deputy Director were pleased to welcome His Royal Majesty Osei Tutu II to the Museum during his visit to the UK for the Coronation of King Charles III\".\n\nShe added that the museum \"is exploring the possibility of lending items from the collection to mark the 150th anniversary of the end of the third Anglo-Asante war, as well as to support celebrations for the Asantehene's Silver Jubilee next year\".\n\nThe Asantehene visited London last week and met with King Charles before his coronation\n\nThe British Museum has not received a formal return request from Ghana since 1974.\n\nIt loans more than 5,000 objects to institutions around the world every year in its efforts to share its collection globally.\n\nFor some Ghanaians however, loans can never be a long term solution.\n\nOforiatta Ayim, who is also a special adviser to Ghana's Culture Minister, said: \"Loans can be a first step in that they can open up dialogue in the kind of institutions and structures that are slow to change. At the end of the day, objects like the ones taken in 1874 were taken under horrifically violent circumstances… There needs to be honesty, accountability and action\".\n\nThis Asante gold neck torc was taken by the British in the 19th Century, and is at the British Museum\n\nShe added: the objects' homes are \"undeniably the places they were taken from\" though could be lent back to British institutions in future.\n\nLondon's Horniman Museum returned 72 items in its collection to Nigerian ownership last year.\n\nAt the time, Nick Merriman, the Horniman Museum director, told the BBC there was a \"moral argument\" to return them. He said \"we're seeing a tipping point around not just restitution and repatriation, but museums acknowledging their colonial history\".\n\nBut some of the UK's most renowned institutions, including the British Museum, are prevented by law from making a decision of this kind. The British Museum Act of 1963 bans the museum from the \"disposal of objects\" except in very specific circumstances.\n\nIt is however free to loan items, if it believes the items won't be damaged", "Companies linked to Roman Abramovich, Said Gutseriev and Oleg Deripaska have yet to comply with the new law\n\nThe UK has so far failed to impose fines worth as much as £1bn on foreign companies breaking a landmark transparency law, BBC analysis reveals.\n\nSince January, overseas firms that own UK property can be fined up to £2,500 a day unless they declare their owners.\n\nThousands are still to do so, including firms which have been linked to oligarchs such as Roman Abramovich, but no fines have yet been issued.\n\nThe government said it was \"building cases\" against unregistered companies.\n\nThe register was introduced as part of the Economic Crime Act in February 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ministers said it would reveal who ultimately owned UK property and also stop foreign criminals using UK property to launder money.\n\n​​Although the majority of companies have submitted their details, about 5,000 firms with property in England and Wales have not, more than three months after the 31 January deadline. The government suggests the figure is likely to be lower, as some companies may no longer exist and several hundred have already transferred their property. ​​\n\n​​But even if there were just 4,000 firms that are not complying with the law, the total value in fines would add up to £10m per day if the maximum daily financial penalty was imposed on every company that has not supplied its information.\n\n​​Over the entire period since the deadline, more than 100 days, this would add up to around £1bn.\n\nSome foreign companies may not be aware of the new law yet, while others could be struggling to identify and verify all their beneficial owners, according to John Barnett from the Chartered Institute of Taxation.\n\nBut there may be others that have no intention of complying.\n\nThey could be \"burying their head in the sand\" or making a deliberate decision to \"take the risk of… fines, confiscation of the property\", Mr Barnett told the BBC.\n\nAlthough no financial penalties have been issued, a spokesperson for the Department for Business and Trade said it was building cases against companies who have failed to register by the deadline and working with law enforcement to \"prioritise action against the most egregious offenders\".\n\nThe spokesperson said the UK was the first country in the world to take \"this tough new approach to tackle money laundering through property\", adding: \"Fines are just one tool in our arsenal to crack down on non-compliance, and non-compliant companies are already unable to buy or sell unregistered land, cutting off the flow of money.\"\n\nBut, as the government itself has acknowledged, it's a complicated business establishing which properties are owned by oligarchs with links to Vladmir Putin.\n\nWhen the Foreign Office announced further sanctions last month against those who knowingly assisted sanctioned Russians - including Mr Abramovich - to hide their assets, it said oligarchs had \"scrambled to shield their wealth\" with the help of financial fixers, offshore trusts, shell companies and family members.\n\nThis west London property was reported to belong to Roman Abramovich\n\nA 15-bedroom west London mansion widely reported as Roman Abramovich's home - planning applications for the property were made in the Abramovich name - was purchased for £90m in 2011 by Cyprus-based firm A. Corp Trustee. The company appears to be among those breaching the law by failing to provide details to the register.\n\nA few miles away is a multimillion-pound City of London block that the Pandora Papers document leak revealed was owned by businessman Said Gutseriev - who was sanctioned in 2022 - via an offshore company that also does not appear to have submitted its ownership details to the corporate registry Companies House.\n\nNeither Mr Gutseriev nor Mr Abramovich responded to the BBC's requests for comment.\n\nAlso apparently violating the law by not filing to the register are firms with property linked to energy and metals tycoon Oleg Deripaska, who was named in a UK court hearing as the beneficial owner of a Grade II-listed art deco mansion in Surrey and a large home in London's Belgrave Square.\n\nWhen last year the Belgrave Square house was occupied by demonstrators supporting housing for Ukrainian refugees, a spokesman for the billionaire said the property belonged to family members rather than the oligarch himself.\n\nAsked whether companies he was linked to were violating the new transparency law, a spokesperson for the oligarch told the BBC \"none of these properties are owned by Mr Deripaska\".\n\nA BBC and Transparency International investigation in February found that despite the new transparency laws, the owners of about 50,000 UK properties held by foreign companies remained hidden from public view.\n\nThis included companies that either ignored the law altogether or filed information in such a way that it remained impossible for the public to find out who ultimately owned and benefited from them.\n\nHelena Wood, head of the UK Economic Crime Programme at the Royal United Services Institute think tank, said: \"Although the new register is to be welcomed as a deterrent for the future, its ability to retrofit an existing system based on 30 years of turning a blind eye was always going to be limited.\"", "The bow of the Titanic is still instantly recognisable even after so long underwater\n\nThe world's most famous shipwreck has been revealed as never seen before.\n\nThe first full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, which lies 3,800m (12,500ft) down in the Atlantic, has been created using deep-sea mapping.\n\nIt provides a unique 3D view of the entire ship, enabling it to be seen as if the water has been drained away.\n\nThe hope is that this will shed new light on exactly what happened to the liner, which sank in 1912.\n\nMore than 1,500 people died when the ship struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.\n\n\"There are still questions, basic questions, that need to be answered about the ship,\" Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst, told BBC News.\n\nHe said the model was \"one of the first major steps to driving the Titanic story towards evidence-based research - and not speculation.\"\n\nThe bow of the Titanic is still instantly recognisable even after so long underwater\n\nThe Titanic has been extensively explored since the wreck was discovered in 1985. But it's so huge that in the gloom of the deep, cameras can only ever show us tantalizing snapshots of the decaying ship - never the whole thing.\n\nThe new scan captures the wreck in its entirety, revealing a complete view of the Titanic. It lies in two parts, with the bow and the stern separated by about 800m (2,600ft). A huge debris field surrounds the broken vessel.\n\nThe scan was carried out in summer 2022 by Magellan Ltd, a deep-sea mapping company, and Atlantic Productions, who are making a documentary about the project.\n\nSubmersibles, remotely controlled by a team on board a specialist ship, spent more than 200 hours surveying the length and breadth of the wreck.\n\nThey took more than 700,000 images from every angle, creating an exact 3D reconstruction.\n\nThe scan is made up from 700,000 images captured by submersibles\n\nThe large hole to the right of the boat deck opens over where the grand staircase once stood\n\nMagellan's Gerhard Seiffert, who led the planning for the expedition, said it was the largest underwater scanning project he'd ever undertaken.\n\n\"The depth of it, almost 4,000m, represents a challenge, and you have currents at the site, too - and we're not allowed to touch anything so as not to damage the wreck,\" he explained.\n\n\"And the other challenge is that you have to map every square centimetre - even uninteresting parts, like on the debris field you have to map mud, but you need this to fill in between all these interesting objects.\"\n\nThe scan shows both the scale of the ship, as well as some minute details, such as the serial number on one of the propellers.\n\nThe stern, which has separated from the bow, is a chaotic tangle of steel\n\nThe stern corkscrewed into the seabed as it plunged into the depths\n\nThe bow, now covered in stalactites of rust, is still instantly recognisable even 100 years after the ship was lost. Sitting on top is the boat deck, where a gaping hole provides a glimpse into a void where the grand staircase once stood.\n\nThe stern though, is a chaotic mess of metal. This part of the ship collapsed as it corkscrewed into the sea floor.\n\nIn the surrounding debris field, items are scattered, including ornate metalwork from the ship, statues and unopened champagne bottles. There are also personal possessions, including dozens of shoes resting on the sediment.\n\nExtraordinary detail can be seen of the ship\n\nThe serial number on a propeller can be made out\n\nParks Stephenson, who has studied the Titanic for many years, said he was \"blown away\" when he first saw the scans.\n\n\"It allows you to see the wreck as you can never see it from a submersible, and you can see the wreck in its entirety, you can see it in context and perspective. And what it's showing you now is the true state of the wreck.\"\n\nHe said that studying the scans could offer new insight into what happened to the Titanic on that fateful night of 1912.\n\n\"We really don't understand the character of the collision with the iceberg. We don't even know if she hit it along the starboard side, as is shown in all the movies - she might have grounded on the iceberg,\" he explained.\n\nStudying the stern, he added, could reveal the mechanics of how the ship struck the sea floor.\n\nThe hope is that the scan could reveal more about what happened on the night the Titanic was lost\n\nThe sea is taking its toll on the wreck, microbes are eating away at it and parts are disintegrating. Historians are well aware that time is running out to fully understand the maritime disaster.\n\nBut the scan now freezes the wreck in time, and will allow experts to pore over every tiny detail. The hope is the Titanic may yet give up its secrets.\n\nDo you know anyone involved with the Titanic submersible? Have you been or worked on a similar expedition? Share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rosco the Chihuahua had to be taken in by an animal shelter after his owner could not find a pet-friendly rental\n\nAnimal shelters have hailed a proposed law that would allow tenants to keep pets in rental properties as a \"game changer\".\n\nIt would give tenants the legal right to request a pet in their home, which landlords cannot unreasonably refuse.\n\nThe change is a part of a wide-range of proposed rental reforms including the abolition of no-fault evictions.\n\nBut one landlord's association wants more information on the circumstances in which landlords can refuse pets.\n\nHousing campaigners have described the Renters (Reform) Bill as a \"huge opportunity\" to improve the lives of the 11 million renters in England.\n\nAnd for single mother Charity Micheal, the law change would make it easier to find a place to live.\n\n\"My daughter and I have viewed over 50 properties, made offers and were constantly rejected either due to the landlord or the leasehold not wanting pets,\" said Ms Micheal, who works for the NHS.\n\nShe told the BBC most landlords will refuse her applications \"once they know I am a single mother with only one income or that I am a dog mum\".\n\n\"This had been very stressful for me as I have lived in my current area for almost two years and have had to move home three times and this will be the fourth.\"\n\nStudent nurse Kayleigh Berry, in Great Yarmouth, has experienced a similar challenge. She has been looking for a property for about four months, and so far, has had just 10 viewings. None of her three applications have been successful.\n\nShe said when prospective landlords hear about her pets - three cats and a dog - they become less inclined to proceed with the application process.\n\n\"Pets are the main thing. We can't even get viewings half the time. We either don't hear back or it's a no,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThe Battersea Dogs & Cats Home in south London said the reforms will significantly reduce the number of pets taken in by shelters.\n\n\"Not only will this bill bring us one step closer to significantly reducing the number of dogs and cats we see being needlessly separated from their owners, it will also open up the many joys of pet ownership to millions of renters in the future,\" said Michael Webb, head of policy and public affairs.\n\nThey said two elderly Chihuahuas, Harvey and Rosco, were taken in after their former owner's landlord sold the property, and the owner was unable to find a pet-friendly rental.\n\nOn their website, the charity Dogs Trust say the main reason for pets being handed over is \"change in owners' circumstances, such as being unable to live in a rented property with a pet.\"\n\nIts chief executive Owen Sharp described the reforms as a \"potential game changer\".\n\n\"We're receiving hundreds of calls each week from desperate owners forced to rehome their dogs due to a lack of pet friendly accommodation,\" he said.\n\n\"The measures announced today as part of the Renters (Reform) Bill will mean that many more dogs can stay living with their loving families.\"\n\nThe National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) said the bill could also allow landlords to request their tenants take out insurance to cover any potential damage caused by the pets.\n\n\"We welcome the government's plans...which will enable landlords to ask pet owners to have the required insurance to cover such damage,\" its policy director Chris Norris, Policy Director said.\n\nHe also asked the government provide more information on what constitutes unreasonable grounds to withhold consent.\n\n\"It still remains unclear as to the exact grounds on which landlords can refuse to let to tenants with a pet, so the government must provide greater clarity on this point,\" he said.\n\nMr Norris encouraged a mutual agreement on having pets in rental properties between landlords and tenants.", "Prof Kathleen Stock is due to speak at the Oxford Union on 30 May\n\nUniversities must remain places where \"contentious views can be openly discussed\", University of Oxford academics have warned.\n\nIt comes amid a row over the invitation of gender-critical academic Kathleen Stock to take part in a debate.\n\nThere had been speculation a decision by the university's student union to split with the Oxford Union debating society was due to the invitation.\n\nBut the Oxford University Student Union said the decision was unrelated.\n\nThe letter, signed by 44 academics, and published in the Telegraph, stated the signatories represented left and right viewpoints.\n\nIt said the group \"wholeheartedly condemn\" the students' union split with the 200-year-old Oxford Union debating society.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, one of the signatories Dr Michael Biggs, associate professor of sociology at University of Oxford, said he had signed the letter because he is a \"strong believer in academic freedom of speech\".\n\nHe said it was \"under threat\" as there was \"an emerging body of students who have learnt that anybody who has a view that is not their own is hateful and bigoted, and doesn't deserve any opportunity to speak\".\n\nResponding to the letter, Prof Stock said she was \"very pleased to see there are still those at Oxford University who understand the value of upholding academic freedom, and are prepared to demonstrate this important value in public\".\n\n\"I hope their example will inspire others to do similar,\" she added.\n\nIn a statement, education minister Claire Coutinho said student debaters \"shouldn't be punished for encouraging the free exchange of ideas\".\n\nShe said the new Freedom of Speech Act \"will make sure that universities promote free speech\" and people who have their \"free speech rights unlawfully restricted on campus can seek redress\".\n\nProf Stock left her job with the University of Sussex in 2021 after protests against her from students following the publication of a book where she questioned the idea that gender identity is more socially significant than biological sex.\n\nAfter plans for her invite were unveiled last month, the Oxford University LGBTQ+ Society said it was \"dismayed\", and accused the debating union of \"disregarding the welfare of its LGBTQ+ members under the guise of free speech\".\n\nResponding to the letter on Wednesday, the society said it stood by its statement, and said it was an \"insult\" for Oxford Union to give Prof Stock a platform.\n\nOxford Union has said attendees will have an \"opportunity to respectfully engage and challenge\" Prof Stock's views at the event on 30 May, as well as being able to ask questions anonymously.\n\nIt said there would be \"additional welfare resources available on the evening\", due to the sensitive nature of the event.\n\nThe Oxford Union intentionally resembles the House of Commons\n\nThe letter by academics characterised Prof Stock's views as being the belief that \"biological sex in humans is real and socially salient\" and said they are views which until recently \"would have been so commonplace as to hardly merit asserting\".\n\n\"There is no plausible and attractive ideal of academic freedom, or of free speech more generally, which would condemn their expression as outside the bounds of permissible discourse,\" it says.\n\nIt added the move by the student's union is aimed at damaging the Oxford Union debating society's business model, by banning it from freshers' fairs, which it said is an important source for recruitment of members.\n\nThe Oxford Union is a private members club that University of Oxford students and others pay to join. It is independent of the university and the student union.\n\nIt said the move is a \"a profound failure to live up to\" ideals of \"free inquiry and the disinterested pursuit of the truth by means of reasoned argument\".\n\nIn its response, the Oxford University Student Union said national press coverage \"erroneously\" conflated the opposition to Prof Stock and the decision to split with the Oxford Union.\n\nIt said the debate prior to the decision made no mention of Prof Stock or any other speaker, and was due to \"long-standing concerns\" about \"alleged bullying, sexual harassment, discrimination, and data privacy breaches\".\n\nIt added: \"[The student's union] will defend the right of people to freedom of expression, and will defend the right of people to have controversial and unpopular ideas debated as part of an integral part of university life\".\n\nThere has been ongoing tension in UK universities over freedom of speech on the issue of transgender rights.\n\nLast month, a second attempted screening of a controversial film about gender-critical issues was cancelled due to protest at the University of Edinburgh.\n\nThe Oxford Union is celebrating its bicentennial year in 2023, and has a history of welcoming some of the world's most high-profile figures.\n\nIts debating chamber has previously heard from a host of American presidents, and figures like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.\n\nIt has also drawn controversy, having extended invites to the likes of far-right activist Tommy Robinson and French far-right former politician Marion Marechal-Le Pen.\n\nTheir appearances were marked by protests.\n\nUpdate 5 June: This article originally described the free speech letter as having been signed by 44 academics, and this was amended with a note of correction on 27 May to say it was signed by academics and staff. On review, our original wording was correct and we have amended the article again to make clear that all of the signatories are academics.", "Concerns are growing about Chinese influence on academic campuses around the world\n\nRishi Sunak has backtracked on a pledge to shut down 30 Chinese state-sponsored Confucius Institutes across the UK.\n\nThe prime minister pledged to close the cultural schools, which are accused of spreading propaganda and spying on students, during his bid to become Conservative leader last year.\n\nOn Wednesday, the government announced it would be \"disproportionate\" to ban the institutes.\n\nConfucius Institutes, which teach Chinese language and culture, came under fire after critics and charities accused the centres of being used by the Chinese government to spread propaganda and interfere with free speech on campuses.\n\nSir Iain, the former Conservative party leader, said the schools were \"nothing to do with language\".\n\n\"They are there to spy on particularly on Chinese students and particularly Hong Kong students,\" he said.\n\nThe retreat, first reported by TalkTV, has been criticised by some Tory backbenchers, with former prime minister Liz Truss urging him to deliver on the language he used during last summer's contest.\n\nIn his unsuccessful leadership campaign, Mr Sunak had promised to close all 30 of the institutes in Britain, declaring China \"the biggest-long term threat to Britain\".\n\nBut since becoming prime minister he adopted less hard-line language. In March, the updated UK integrated review on foreign and defence policy described China as representing an \"epoch-defining and systemic challenge\" rather than a \"threat\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rishi Sunak This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Truss called on her successor to return to branding China as a \"threat\" to UK security during a visit to Taiwan.\n\nMs Truss made a speech in Taipei City on Wednesday, making her the first former prime minister to visit Taiwan since Margaret Thatcher.\n\nIn it she said Mr Sunak's approach to China was \"right\" during his leadership, and the UK \"needs to see those policies enacted urgently\".\n\nShe called on the UK government to support Taiwan joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade agreement - and for it to block China from joining.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"We recognise concerns about overseas interference in our higher education sector, including through Confucius Institutes, and regularly assess the risks facing academia.\n\n\"We are taking action to remove any government funding from Confucius Institutes in the UK, but currently judge that it would be disproportionate to ban them.\n\n\"Like any international body operating in the UK, Confucius Institutes need to operate transparently and within the law, and with a full commitment to our values of openness and freedom of expression.\"\n\nMr Sunak said he had not \"seen the details\" of Ms Truss's speech, but said the UK's approach to Taiwan is \"long-standing and it hasn't changed\".\n\nHe said: \"We do not believe in any change in the status quo by force or coercion. And we will continue to work with our allies in making sure that that's what happens.\"\n\nThe UK, like most other countries, does not recognise Taiwan, nor maintain formal diplomatic relations with the island. The UK does support Taiwan's participation in international organisations as an observer.\n\nThe government's official position is the dispute between Taiwan and China should be resolved \"through dialogue, in line with the views of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Humans are a bit boring - it will be like, goodbye!\" That's the personal prediction - that artificial intelligence (AI) will supplant humans in many roles - from one of the most important people you've probably never heard of.\n\nEmad Mostaque is the British founder of the tech firm, Stability AI. It popularised Stable Diffusion, a tool that uses AI to make images from simple text instructions by analysing images found online.\n\nAI enables a computer to think or act more like a human. It includes what's called machine learning, when computers can learn what to do without being giving exact instructions by a human sitting at a keyboard tapping in commands. Last month, there was a dramatic warning from 1,000 experts to press pause on its development, warning of potential risks, and saying the race to develop AI systems is out of control.\n\nIn an interview we'll show in full on Sunday, tech founder Mostaque questions what will happen \"if we have agents more capable than us that we cannot control, that are going across the internet… and they achieve a level of automation; what does that mean?\n\n\"The worst case scenario is that it proliferates and basically it controls humanity.\"\n\nThat sounds terrifying, but he is not alone in pointing out the risk, that if we create computers smarter than ourselves we just can't be sure what will happen next.\n\nMostaque believes governments could soon be shocked into taking action by an event that makes the risks suddenly real. He points to the moment Tom Hanks contracted Covid-19 and millions sat up and paid attention.\n\nWhen a moment like that arrives, governments will conclude \"we need policy now\", the 40-year-old says.\n\nThere's been a spike in concern for example after a Republican attack advert on Jo Biden was created using fake computer generated images.\n\nWhen there's a risk to information that voters can trust, that's something governments have to respond to, says Mostaque.\n\nDespite his concerns, Mostaque says that the potential benefits of AI for almost every part of our lives could be huge. Yet he concedes that the effect on jobs could be painful, at least at the start.\n\nMostaque says he believes AI \"will be a bigger economic impact than the pandemic\", adding that \"it's up to us to decide which direction\" this all goes in.\n\nAI could lead to 300m job losses according to one prediction.\n\nSome jobs will undoubtedly disappear, the bank Goldman Sachs suggested an almost incomprehensible 300m roles could be lost or diminished by the advancing technology.\n\nWhile no one wants to be replaced by a robot, Mostaque's hope is that better jobs could be created because \"productivity increases will balance out\" and humans can concentrate on the things that make us human, and let machines do more of the rest. He agrees with the UK's former chief scientific advisor, Sir Patrick Vallance, that the advance of AI and its impacts could prove even bigger than the industrial revolution.\n\nMostaque is an unassuming mathematician, the founder of a company he only started in 2020 that has already been valued at $1bn, and with more cash flooding in, including from Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher, is likely to be soon worth very much more. Some speculation has put the value as high $4bn.\n\nUnlike some of his competitors he is determined his technology will remain open source - in other words anyone can look at the code, share it, and use it. In his view, that's what should give the public a level of confidence in what's going on.\n\n\"I think there shouldn't have to be a need for trust,\" he says.\n\n\"If you build open models and you do it in the open, you should be criticised if you do things wrong and hopefully lauded if you do some things right.\"\n\nBut his business also raises profound questions about ownership, and what's real. There's legal action underway against them by the photo agency Getty Images which claims the rights to the images it sells have been infringed.\n\nIn response, Mostaque says: \"What if you have a robot that's walking around and looking at things, do you have to close its eyes if it sees anything?\"\n\nThat's hardly likely to be the end of that conversation.\n\nThe entrepreneur is convinced that the scale of what's coming is enormous. He reckons that in 10 years time, his company and fellow AI leaders, ChatGPT and DeepMind, will even be bigger than Google and Facebook. Predictions about technology are as tricky as predictions about politics - educated guesses that could turn out to be totally wrong. But what is clear is that a public conversation about the risks and realities of AI is now underway. We might be on the cusp of sweeping changes too big for any one company, country or politician to manage.\n\nThe first steam train puffed along the tracks in Darlington more than 50 years after the steam engine was patented by James Watt. This time we're unlikely to have anything like as long to get used to these new ideas, and it's unlikely to be boring!\n\nYou can watch much more of our conversation with Emad Mostaque on tomorrow's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg live on BBC One or here on iPlayer.", "One of Sudan's most prominent singers, Shaden Gardood, has been killed in crossfire in the Sudanese city of Omdurman.\n\nGardood died amid clashes between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Friday.\n\nThe 37-year-old's death came only one day after the warring parties signed a deal to alleviate civilian suffering.\n\nFighting erupted in Sudan in April over a vicious power struggle within the country's military leadership.\n\nGardood lived in the al-Hashmab neighbourhood, where RSF presence has increased in recent days.\n\nHer niece, Heraa Hassan Mohammed, confirmed her death on Facebook and said: \"She was like a mother and a beloved to me, we were just chatting, may God give her mercy.\"\n\nShe then wrote the Islamic phrase used when a person dies: \"inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un\".\n\nIn a video which circulated on social media, Gardood said she was trying to hide from the shelling and asked her son to close the windows.\n\nShe could be heard saying: \"Go away from the doors and the windows… in the name of Allah, we are going to die ready wearing our full clothes... you should wear this, we will die in a better shape.\"\n\nGardood regularly made live videos on Facebook talking about the clashes and shelling in her neighbourhood, and she wrote intensively against the war.\n\nIn one of her last posts on Facebook, she said: \"We have been trapped in our houses for 25 days… we are hungry and living in an enormous fear, but are full of ethics and values,\" referring to looting across Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.\n\nGardood lived near the national television and radio building, which has been a battlefield from the first day of the war.\n\nThe RSF was guarding the building and they came under constant shelling by fighter jets, with on-the-ground clashes between the two forces.\n\nOne resident living in the same neighbourhood as Gardood said: \"Last night, the clashes were violent and intense, which lasted for long hours with fighter jets hovering over all night last night.\n\n\"But what I observed is that the clashes were a bit less immediately after Shaden was injured, then we continued to hear the sound from afar.\"\n\nThe resident said that Gardood later died of her wounds.\n\nGardood is survived by her 15-year-old son, Hamoudy, and her mother and sister.\n\nThe fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF has been taking place in Khartoum for almost four weeks.\n\nThe conflict erupted in mid-April, when the RSF refused to be integrated into Sudan's army under a planned transition to civilian rule.\n\nMore than 600 civilians have died and more than 4,000 injured, closing down about 80% of the hospitals with severe food, water and electricity shortages.\n\nGardood was originally from South Kordofan state, a war zone area since 2011, before she resided in Khartoum with her family.\n\nShe sang for peace and security in her region and promoted the culture of her marginalised community, al-Bagara, in South Kordofan, playing the role of Hakama - traditional poets in western Sudan who encourage men to go for fighting - for peace.\n\nAs well as being a singer, Gardood was a researcher in the al-Bagara Melodies and presented papers on the legacy of the Hakamas in the past and present.\n\nA number of public figures were killed in Khartoum in the past few weeks, among them Sudan's first professional actress, Asia Abdelmajid, who died in crossfire at the age of 80.\n\nFormer footballer Fozi el-Mardi, 72, was also killed only a few days after the death of his daughter who was killed in a crossfire in Omdurman.\n\nFour days after the start of the war, constant ceasefires were announced under the request of regional powers, but none were upheld.\n\nThe clashes have not stopped as the fighter jets continue hovering over the entire city.", "Volodymyr Zelensky met Rishi Sunak during a trip to Downing Street in February\n\nRishi Sunak is \"disappointed\" Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has not been allowed to address this year's Eurovision, his spokesman says.\n\nThe organisers, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), say it would breach its political impartiality.\n\nBut Downing Street said it would be \"fitting\" for Mr Zelensky to speak given Russia's invasion of his country.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is also calling for the Ukrainian leader to be allowed to make a speech.\n\nUkraine was meant to be hosting this year's Eurovision after winning it last year, but it is taking place in Liverpool instead after Russia's invasion.\n\nIt has been reported that Mr Zelensky wanted to make a video appearance at the contest's final on Saturday, to an expected global audience of 160 million.\n\nBut in a statement on Thursday, the EBU said it had turned down a request from the Ukrainian president to address the event, despite his \"laudable intentions\".\n\n\"The Eurovision Song Contest is an international entertainment show, and governed by strict rules and principles,\" it added.\n\n\"As part of these, one of the cornerstones of the contest is the non-political nature of the event. This principle prohibits the possibility of making political or similar statements as part of the contest.\"\n\nBBC Director General Tim Davie told the BBC's Eurovisioncast he understood the EBU's decision and that throughout its history, Eurovision \"has not been a platform for political statement\".\n\nBut he stressed the BBC was hosting on behalf of Ukraine and that it is \"a celebration across Europe for freedom, for democracy\".\n\nThe EBU said that a Ukrainian design agency had been involved in designing artwork for the event, and 11 Ukrainian artists, including last year's winners Kalush Orchestra, would be performing.\n\nHowever, Mr Sunak's spokesman questioned the decision not to have Mr Zelensky speak, saying: \"The values and freedoms that President Zelensky and the people of Ukraine are fighting for are not political, they're fundamental.\"\n\nHis spokesman argued that Eurovision \"themselves recognised that last year\" by banning Russian artists from participating.\n\nHowever, he added that the prime minister had no plans to intervene and ask broadcasters to change their mind.\n\nUkraine's ambassador to the UK, Vadym Prystaiko, said the final of the contest would have been a \"great moment\" for Mr Zelensky to address a huge audience.\n\nBut speaking to PA Media, he added: \"We understand all the internal politics and the unbiased sort of approach to all this, that's why we don't have to push too much.\"\n\nUkraine will be represented at this year's contest by Nigerian-Ukrainian pop duo TVORCHI\n\nIn statement, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"It's vital that we all continue to keep the plight of the Ukrainian people front of mind as they stand up to Russian aggression on behalf of us all.\n\n\"Eurovision is an expression of international unity and freedom, and President Zelensky should be able to address it as a great defender of both.\"\n\nThe EBU initially said it would allow Russia to participate in the 2022 final, following its invasion of Ukraine two months before it was due to be held in Italy.\n\nBut it then changed course within 24 hours, saying that allowing Russia to take part would \"bring the competition into disrepute\".\n\nUA:PBC, Ukraine's public broadcaster, as well as those from Iceland, Finland, Norway and the Netherlands, had called for Russia to be banned.\n\nBoris Johnson, who was British prime minister during Russia's invasion and oversaw the UK's initial response, said \"it would have been right to hear\" from him during the final on Saturday.\n\nFormed in 1950, the EBU has 68 broadcasting organisations as members, including the BBC - which is hosting this week's finals and semi-finals.\n\nEurovision was conceived in the 1950s as a way of promoting post-war unity between European states. As a result, politics has always been kept at arm's length.\n\nIt's a policy that's never been easy or comfortable to enforce. In 2005, Lebanon was due to make its debut when it refused to air Israel's entry. As a result, it received a three-year ban from the contest, and never took part.\n\nGeorgia also fell foul of the rules in 2009, when they submitted a song called \"We Don't Wanna Put In\".\n\nThe lyrics were a thinly-veiled critique of Russia's Vladimir Putin, following the previous year's Russo-Georgian war. When the country refused to amend the song, they were suspended.\n\nThe commitment to neutrality is so strong that, last year, organisers agonised over what to do about Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAlthough Russia was eventually banned, Eurovision's executive supervisor Martin Osterdahl said it had been a hard decision to make.\n\n\"It was, and it still is,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nBut, he added: \"How Europe feels very much affects the contest. When we say we are not political, what we always should stand up for are the basic and ultimate values of democracy.\"\n\nCritics of the decision to decline President Zelensky will say the contest has already made a political move by banning Russia. And their argument isn't without merit.\n\nBut the EBU would counter that supporting a war-torn country is very different to allowing the leader of that country to make a call to arms.", "Miyo Aoetsu says her speciality is a \"fusion of Japanese and Western baking\"\n\nA green loaf of bread flavoured with matcha, white chocolate and fruit has been crowned the best loaf in Britain.\n\nThe bread, called Brioche Japonaise, was baked in Derbyshire by a woman who started baking as a hobby.\n\nMiyo Aoetsu now runs Kuma-San Bakehouse professionally from her home in Matlock, supplying local businesses and baking loaves for customers to collect.\n\nHer award-winning loaf was inspired by her Japanese heritage and also her time living in France.\n\n\"In my country it's quite common to use matcha for sweets, cakes, cookies and things like that,\" she said.\n\n\"There's the bitterness of the matcha and the sweetness of the chocolate and white fruit, so the balance of the taste is quite exciting.\"\n\nThe Brioche Japonaise was highly praised by judges\n\nThe bread won top spot in the Britain's Best Loaf competition, run by trade magazine British Baker, and also won the Innovation category.\n\nCraft Bakers Association president Neil Woods said: \"In all the years I've been judging, I haven't seen anything like this before.\"\n\nThe loaf was praised by the judges for its \"outstanding use of ingredients, wonderful texture, and decadent white chocolate inclusions\", which they said remained \"almost gooey to deliver a wonderful eating experience\".\n\nMiyo now bakes her bread professionally from her home in Matlock, after starting as a hobby\n\nMiyo first moved to the UK to study at the University of Manchester, where she met her husband.\n\nThe couple later lived in Luxembourg and France, where Miyo got a taste for French bread. She then started baking her own bread after moving back to England.\n\n\"I missed French bread a lot because it was very different from the bread here,\" she said.\n\n\"I started making my own bread as a hobby. However, when I baked for friends and family they really, really loved it, and they encouraged me to be a professional baker.\"\n\nShe said she was \"very excited\" to win awards for her Brioche Japonaise because it reflected her Japanese culture and identity.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Justin Tkatchenko was one of the Papua New Guinea delegates who went to London for King Charles III's coronation\n\nPapua New Guinea's foreign minister has quit after a controversy over spending on the country's official delegation at King Charles III's coronation.\n\nJustin Tkatchenko travelled with his daughter Savannah, who posted a TikTok showing her first-class plane journey and shopping spree in Singapore.\n\nOn Wednesday, he branded her critics \"primitive animals\".\n\nMr Tkatchenko's comments sparked protests in the capital Port Moresby on Friday outside Parliament House.\n\nPapua New Guinea is a Commonwealth nation in the Pacific which has King Charles as its head of state.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Mr Tkatchenko said he \"stood aside\" after consulting with Prime Minister James Marape.\n\nHe added that he wanted to ensure recent events did not interfere with upcoming official visits by US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.\n\n\"I also want to ensure the truth of this matter is cleared and the misinformation and lies are corrected,\" he said.\n\nMr Tkatchenko and his daughter were criticised for travelling with at least 10 officials to see the coronation of King Charles, at a cost of almost $900,000, according to local newspaper Post-Courier.\n\nGovernment spokesman Bill Toraso confirmed to the Reuters news agency 10 of its staff had travelled to London, alongside 10 guests.\n\nIn the since-deleted video, Savannah filmed her visit to luxury fashion stores in Singapore and her meal in the \"stunning\" first-class lounge on her way to London.\n\nThis prompted anger in Papua New Guinea, where some argued that public money would have been better spent on basic services.\n\nMr Tkatchenko blasted his daughter's critics in an interview with Australia's ABC.\n\n\"She's absolutely traumatised by these primitive animals,\" he said. \"I call them primitive animals because they are.\"\n\n\"Jealousy is a curse. And, you know, these people clearly show that they have got nothing to do in their lives other than to put down people that want to do something good for their country.\"\n\nHe later apologised about his comments, which he said had been \"taken the completely wrong way\".\n\nHe added they were targeted only at individuals who had made \"disgusting and vile comments\" about his daughter, including \"sexual and violent\" threats.\n\nPrime Minister James Marape asked Papua New Guineans to accept Mr Tkatchenko's apology, saying in a statement he too had been offended by the remarks.\n\nMr Tkatchenko's resignation comes ahead of Mr Modi's two-day visit to Papua New Guinea starting on 21 May, which will coincide with Mr Biden's trip the following day.\n\nThe White House has confirmed President Biden will stopover in Port Moresby after travelling from the G7 Leaders' Summit in Japan.", "About half a million people are being evacuated to safer areas in south-eastern Bangladesh, ahead of a cyclone that could be extremely dangerous.\n\nMocha is predicted to make landfall at midday, with 170kph (106mph) winds and storm surges of up to 3.6m (12ft).\n\nThere are concerns the cyclone could hit the world's largest refugee camp, Cox's Bazar, where close to a million people live in makeshift homes.\n\nRains are already falling on the camp and red warning flags have been raised.\n\nCyclone Mocha could be the most powerful storm seen in Bangladesh in nearly two decades.\n\nAs the weather system heads towards the Bangladesh-Myanmar coast, nearby airports have been shut, fishermen have been told to suspend their work and 1,500 shelters have been set up, as people from vulnerable areas are moved to safety.\n\n\"We are ready to face any hazards... we don't want to lose a single life,\" Vibhushan Kanti Das, additional deputy commissioner at Cox's Bazar, told the BBC.\n\nPeople are packing in to cyclone shelters as the storm approaches\n\nThroughout the day, families have been arriving at designated cyclone shelters. Hundreds have been packing into classrooms at a school in Cox's Bazar.\n\nSome brought plastic bags filled with a few of their possessions. Others arrived with their livestock, chickens and cattle.\n\nJannat, 17, took a space on a classroom desk, along with her two-month-old baby. She brought a few clothes with her in a bag, but nothing else. Her husband was still at their coastal home, making sure things were safely secure before joining her.\n\nShe said she was scared about this cyclone, after her home was damaged in Cyclone Sitrang last year too.\n\n\"I am worried about what comes next,' Jannat told the BBC. \"I'm scared my home will be submerged again.\"\n\nClose to a million Rohingya refugees who have fled neighbouring Myanmar (also known as Burma) remain at risk, living in flimsy bamboo shelters with tarpaulin covers. The UN says it is doing what it can to protect these areas.\n\nBangladesh's government does not allow refugees to leave their camps, so many say they are frightened and unsure of what will happen if their shelters are hit by the storm.\n\nMohammad Rafique (centre) says all he and his family can do is pray\n\nMohammad Rafique, 40, and his family live in one of the small bamboo shelters built for refugees.\n\nSuch shelters with tarpaulin roofing are unlikely to provide much protection from strong winds and heavy rains.\n\nAll we can do is pray to God to save us, Mohammad says. \"We have nowhere to go for safety, and no-one to turn to.\"\n\nHe adds: \"We have faced many difficulties before and our homes have been destroyed in the past. We hope it won't happen this time.\"\n\nForecasters expect the cyclone to bring a deluge of rain, which can trigger landslides - a serious danger for those who reside in hillside camps, where landslips are a regular phenomenon.\n\nMD Shamsul Douza, from the Bangladeshi government office which oversees the refugees and the camps, told the BBC that they were working with NGOs to ensure the camps were as prepared as possible for the cyclone.\n\nBut he said moving refugees out of the camps was not an easy task.\n\n\"Moving a million refugees is very difficult, the implementation of the movement is difficult. We have to be practical,\" the official said.\n\n\"Our plan is to save lives. We are also focused on the days after. There may be heavy rains leading to flash floods and landslides, which would also pose a risk.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe impact of climate change on the frequency of storms is still unclear, but we know that increased sea surface temperatures warm the air above and make more energy available to drive hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons.\n\nAs a result, they are likely to be more intense with more extreme rainfall.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.", "Concerns over exploding airbags have long plagued the motor industry\n\nA company that supplies airbag parts to about one-quarter of US vehicles has rejected a request to recall its defective product.\n\nThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said ARC Automotive's airbag inflators had ruptured and caused injury on several occasions due to a safety defect.\n\nIt urged the parts maker to immediately withdraw 67 million of its inflators.\n\nARC replied that the agency's findings did not support a large-scale recall.\n\nConcerns over airbag inflators that explode and hurl shrapnel at passengers have long plagued the motor industry.\n\nARC's products are used by several top car makers, including BMW, General Motors, Hyundai and Kia.\n\nGM on Friday agreed to recall almost one million vehicles. The driver of a GM-made SUV sustained facial injuries from a ruptured airbag this March.\n\nThat incident is one of nine, dating back to 2009, that was cited by the NHTSA in a letter to the parts supplier that presented the findings of an eight-year investigation.\n\n\"An airbag inflator that ruptures when deploying in a vehicle is plainly defective,\" wrote Stephen Ridella, director of the NHTSA office of defects investigation.\n\nRecommending an immediate recall for safety reasons, he warned the defect had created \"an unreasonable risk of death and injury\" to front-seat passengers.\n\nThe company wrote back on Thursday that it \"strongly disagrees\" with the NHTSA's findings.\n\n\"ARC takes any potential issue with its products very seriously,\" said Steve Gold, ARC's vice-president of product integrity.\n\nBut, he said, investigators had failed to identify any \"systemic or prevalent defect\" in the inflators, instead relying on incidents that resulted from \"random \"one-off\" manufacturing anomalies\" that have already been addressed.\n\nThe stand-off is likely to tee up a legal battle if the two parties cannot reach an agreement.\n\nThe spat is reminiscent of the years-long recall of more than 100 million defective inflators sold by Takata Corporation.\n\nThe sprawling recall was the largest in the history of the US motor industry and ultimately led the Japanese parts maker to file for bankruptcy.", "The government has defended tests for Year 6 pupils across England, after some parents and teachers said a paper in this week's Sats was too difficult.\n\nOne head teacher said the English reading test included some \"GCSE-level\" questions. Some pupils were left in tears and did not finish the paper.\n\nIt has fuelled a debate among teachers and parents about the purpose of Sats.\n\nA Department for Education (DfE) spokesperson told BBC News the tests were \"designed to be challenging\".\n\nThe government had previously said it worked to ensure that \"all tests are appropriate\".\n\nBut asked for further comment on the English reading paper, the DfE added that Sats had to be tough \"in order to measure attainment across the ability range, including stretching the most able children\".\n\nThe government has advised that details of the content of the test paper should not be published until all Year 6 pupils have had the chance to take it.\n\nSats are tests taken by pupils in Year 2 and Year 6 to assess their reading, writing and maths skills - and to test schools' performances.\n\nSarah Hewitt-Clarkson, head teacher at Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham, said it was \"heartbreaking\" to see her pupils struggling to get through the reading paper.\n\nMrs Hewitt-Clarkson, who has two teenage daughters who have taken their GCSEs in the past few years, said: \"I'm not a secondary English teacher, but... some of those questions were definitely of that level. It's just unfair.\"\n\nMrs Hewitt-Clarkson hopes the Standards and Testing Agency - which is part of the DfE - might consider lowering the pass mark this year, in response to how difficult some students found it.\n\n\"For children to fail - or not achieve the standardised score - where we know in class they have been performing at an age-related expected level, or above, it just shows all the flaws of a system that depends almost entirely on one test,\" she said.\n\nThe government says it converts children's raw test scores into \"scaled scores\" so that tests can be compared, even if the difficulty varies.\n\nSarah Hewitt-Clarkson hopes this year's pass mark will be lowered\n\nHeather, from Ipswich, said her son found this week's Sats process \"absolutely fine\".\n\n\"Our school puts very little pressure on our children for the Sats,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"It's been quite a positive experience.\"\n\nBut Davina Bhanabhai, a writer from Leeds, said her daughter was \"really flustered\" by the English reading paper on Wednesday.\n\n\"Children came out feeling distraught, anxious and stressed. These three emotions are not what we want to bring our children up to experience,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"The teachers are stressed because that's the only measure they have that they can show that they're doing their job,\" she added. \"[The children] want to do well, so naturally that stress is going to be passed down [to them].\"\n\nTwo education unions, the National Education Union (NEU) and NAHT, have raised concerns about the paper.\n\nNEU joint general secretary, Mary Bousted, added there were \"better ways of assessing pupils\" than through Sats.\n\nSteve Chalke, founder of Oasis UK, a trust which runs schools across England, said the test had left \"many kids in tears, stressed and anxious\".\n\nHe said texts chosen in the reading test were \"inappropriate in that they were elitist\", and covered experiences that were \"completely outside the cultural context of children that live in poverty\".\n\n\"The texts were boring, they weren't fun, and education should be about fun as much as anything else,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.\n\nIsabel Nisbet, who was the chief executive of the exams watchdog Ofqual between 2007 and 2011, said a fair test is one \"learners can relate to, and the content is something that is meaningful to them\".\n\nShe said the tests will be marked consistently, and she is \"quite confident\" the way the marks are reported \"will take account of how difficult the test was\".\n\nShe told the Today programme: \"The problem is other types of unfairness… and in particular there is a kind of unfairness if people's legitimate expectations are not met.\n\n\"For example if they have practised particular types of text, or particular types of reading, and then the test comes along and suddenly they find it's not what they were brought to expect, and that's an upsetting thing.\"\n\nStandard Assessment Tests, or Sats, are tests that children take in Year 6, at the end of Key Stage 2. They are national curriculum assessments in English grammar, punctuation and spelling, English reading and maths.\n\nThe government's Standards and Testing Agency says the purposes of Sats tests are to:\n\nChildren also sit Sats in Year 2, at the end of Key Stage 1.\n\nLast year, 59% of Year 6 pupils met the expected levels in reading, writing and maths - down from 65% in 2019.\n\nThe national curriculum tests were cancelled in 2020 and 2021, during the pandemic.", "Palestinian Islamic Jihad confirmed a ceasefire had been agreed, while Israel said quiet would be met with quiet\n\nThere are hopes a ceasefire will take hold to end five days of fighting between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) militants in Gaza.\n\nIt got off to a shaky start, as both sides kept firing for two hours after the truce started on Saturday evening.\n\nAt least 33 Palestinians have been killed since Tuesday in Gaza, where Israel says it has struck PIJ targets.\n\nPalestinian rocket fire into Israel has killed two people, one Israeli and one Palestinian working in the country.\n\nThe mediation efforts were led by Egypt, which urged both sides to adhere to the ceasefire agreement.\n\nWashington welcomed the announcement of the ceasefire, and said US officials had worked with regional partners to achieve the resolution.\n\nBarrages of Palestinian rockets set off warning sirens in southern Israel, close to Gaza, and the suburbs of the city of Tel Aviv just before the truce was due to come into effect at 22:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nMinutes after it supposedly started, militants launched more rockets at southern Israeli communities and the Israeli military carried out air strikes on what it said were two PIJ rocket launchers in Gaza.\n\nFurther rocket fire at around 23:00 drew another round of air strikes.\n\nMore than 1,200 rockets and mortars have been fired from Gaza towards Israel\n\nDespite the fighting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office issued a statement confirming that a ceasefire had been agreed and thanked Egypt for its \"intensive efforts\" to secure one.\n\nIt also said Israel had made clear that its acceptance meant \"quiet will be met with quiet, and that if Israel is attacked or threatened, it will continue to do everything that it needs to in order to defend itself\".\n\nPIJ also confirmed the ceasefire, with a spokesman telling Reuters news agency: \"We will abide by it as long as the occupation [Israel] abides by it.\"\n\nAccording to a text from Egyptian intelligence seen by the BBC, Palestinian militants and Israel have agreed to stop actions targeting civilians and other individuals.\n\nThe BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem says this form of wording appears to cover both the recent intense rocket fire from Gaza and Israel's controversial policy of targeted killings of militant leaders.\n\nIsrael began its military operation in Gaza before dawn on Tuesday, killing three leaders of PIJ in their homes as well as at least 10 civilians, including relatives and neighbours of the men.\n\nPIJ fighters then fired barrages of rockets at southern and central Israel, which they said were intended to avenge the dead.\n\nAt least 1,234 rockets and mortars have been fired from Gaza in total, with 976 crossing into Israeli territory, according to the Israeli military. Most have been intercepted or have landed in open areas, but some have hit homes and other buildings.\n\nOne woman was killed when a rocket hit an apartment building in the central city of Rehovot on Thursday, while a worker from Gaza was killed when he was hit by rocket shrapnel at a building site in the southern Sdot Negev region.\n\nThe military says 221 of the rockets have fallen short inside Gaza and that they have killed four people there, including three children. Islamic Jihad denies the allegation.\n\nIsrael has carried out air strikes on 371 PIJ targets across Gaza, killing three more leaders and destroying what it said were the group's rocket launch sites and command centres.\n\nAbout half of the 33 people killed in Gaza were civilians, including seven children and four women, according to local health officials.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Strikes should be not be targeting Eurovision, says Mark Harper\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper has accused the RMT transport union of \"cynically targeting the Eurovision song contest\" by calling strikes on the day of the final.\n\nRMT members are due to strike on 13 May after the union rejected the latest pay deal from train operators.\n\nThe RMT said the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents the train operators, had \"torpedoed\" pay talks.\n\nBut Mr Harper said a \"fair and reasonable pay offer\" had been made.\n\nIn an interview on the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Harper urged the RMT - the UK's largest specialist transport union - to put the pay offer to its members and let them decide.\n\nMr Harper said, rather than doing this, the RMT had \"called strikes which are cynically targeting the Eurovision song contest\".\n\n\"The reason that's so appalling is because that's not our song contest,\" Mr Harper said. \"We're hosting it for Ukraine.\"\n\nMr Harper said the RMT should be standing \"in solidarity\" with Ukrainian rail workers targeted by Russian President Vladimir Putin in war-torn Ukraine.\n\nThe BBC asked the RMT if it wished to comment but the union said it had nothing to add beyond its previous statements.\n\nThe RMT union said it would launch action across 14 train operators for 24 hours on Saturday 13 May - the day Liverpool hosts the Eurovision final on behalf of Ukraine.\n\nMembers will be walking out from 00:01 to 23:59 BST on 13 May.\n\nThe union's executive and the train operators had been discussing a new pay offer aimed at ending a long-running dispute.\n\nThe RDG's proposals involved one year's pay rise of 5% that was dependent on the union agreeing to go into a \"dispute resolution process\" and accepting the general principle of changes to working practices.\n\nEarlier this week, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said the RDG had \"reneged on their original proposals and torpedoed these negotiations\".\n\nTrain operators said they had been \"blindsided\" by the strike, and denied union claims they had changed their offer.\n\nSteve Montgomery, chair of the RDG Group, said the union was \"negotiating in bad faith, again denying their members a say on a fair pay deal, needlessly disrupting the lives of millions of our passengers, and undermining the viability of an industry critical to Britain's economy\".\n\nThe RMT's decision to take industrial action followed the announcement of strikes by Aslef, a union that represents train drivers.\n\nAslef has strikes on 12 and 31 May, and on 3 June, the day of the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium in London. The strikes will run from 00:01 to 23:59 each day.\n\nThe union rejected a fresh offer from 16 train firms, including a 4% pay rise for two years in a row and changes to conditions.\n\nMick Whelan, Aslef's general secretary, said the offer was \"risible\" and \"clearly not designed to be accepted as inflation is still running north of 10%\".\n\nThe only people responsible for the ongoing strikes in this country \"are the government and the employers\", he told the BBC.\n\nOn the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Harper was asked whether the government was prepared to let rail strikes disrupt the industry until Christmas.\n\nHe did not answer the question directly, but said: \"In the end, the people who work in those industries have got to make a judgement about whether they accept the pay offer.\"\n\n\"All that the rail unions are going to do is drive people away from it,\" he said. \"Take the two biggest events they're trying to disrupt, Eurovision and the FA Cup Final.\"\n\nMr Harper predicted the bus and coach sector would \"step up\" on the days of planned rail strikes in May and June.\n\nHow will you be affected by the rail strikes? haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Azhaar Sholgami is trying to bury her grandmother.\n\nThe elderly woman has been dead for days, no-one knows how many. She died alone, trapped in her house in Khartoum by the brutal battle between Sudan's two warring generals.\n\nAzhaar had been watching from New York, desperately trying to save her. Now, she is desperately trying to recover her body.\n\nShe's not alone. Intense fighting has made it dangerous to gather the dead in parts of Sudan's capital.\n\nThe humanitarian agreement reached by the two sides in Jeddah on Friday specifically commits to helping aid workers collect, register and bury those killed in the fighting.\n\n\"We keep on seeing dead bodies on the street, and hospitals that are out of service,\" says Patrick Youssef, the Africa Regional Director for the International Committee of the Red Cross. \"I hope the new declaration of humanitarian principles can truly allow for humanitarian corridors.\"\n\nSo far it hasn't, because the parties have yet to secure a truce to turn their promises on paper into reality.\n\nAzhaar's grandparents, Abdalla Sholgami and Alaweya Reshwan, got stuck in the heat of the fighting. They lived in Baladiya street in Khartoum, next to the military headquarters and the British embassy. It became a battlefield for the two warring parties - Sudan's army, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).\n\nAzhaar's 85-year-old grandfather Abdalla Sholgami was a British citizen. He was shot three times in Khartoum\n\nMr Sholgami, a British citizen, was shot three times, leaving his disabled wife alone at home. He somehow survived, and his family are now trying to evacuate him from Sudan.\n\nBut there was no word about his wife and Azhaar's grandmother, Alaweya. Weeks of Azhaar's frantic phone calls to the British embassy failed to get help.\n\nHer grandparents couldn't make their way to the airfield for the evacuation of British citizens, so they were left stuck in Khartoum.\n\nThree days ago she got a call from the Turkish embassy, also located next to the house, saying her grandmother was dead.\n\nAzhaar didn't want to believe it.\n\n\"I called back again and said, 'Maybe she's in a coma, did you check her pulse? Did you check her body, see if her heart is beating?' And then he tells me that her body's been decaying,\" she says.\n\n\"It's quite painful to think that she was alone, with no electricity in the midst of the heat - it's really hot in Sudan right now - waking up to bomb sounds.\"\n\nAnother woman we spoke to had an uncle, Ahmad, who lived in a nearby neighbourhood. She didn't want us to reveal her name because she fears she might be targeted, but told us this story.\n\nAhmad's family was gathering at the home of a relative so they could evacuate together. He realised he'd forgotten his paperwork, so he returned to his home in the Riyadh neighbourhood and never came back.\n\nSix days later his brother got a call from someone trying to identify a body lying in front of Ahmad's house.\n\nThe person said Ahmad had found RSF fighters in his home. The situation escalated, they killed him, looted the place, and left.\n\nNeighbours wrapped Ahmad in plastic bags until aid workers were able to arrive. They wanted to bury him right there because there's no garden, but the family refused to have him laid to rest virtually in the street. So his body still lies there, encased in the plastic.\n\nAzhaar is still trying to arrange for someone to pick up her grandmother's remains. An organisation that tried on the day the Jeddah Declaration was announced had to turn back because they got caught in a gunfight.\n\n\"I was very close to my grandmother,\" she says. \"And in our last conversation before I left for New York she said, I'm scared you're going to leave me alone.\"\n\n\"I laughed at her. I said, I'll never leave you alone, no matter what, I'll always be there… I feel I let her down.\"", "President Erdogan has spearheaded numerous major infrastructure projects as part of a programme to modernise Turkey\n\nFrom humble beginnings, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has grown into a political giant, leading Turkey for 20 years and reshaping his country more than any leader since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the revered father of the modern republic.\n\nDespite being buffeted by a series of crises, he still came out on top in the first round of the 2023 presidential race and is tipped to maintain his grip on power.\n\nHe was in his most vulnerable position for years, his opponents convinced they could defeat him.\n\nAnd for a pugnacious leader who built a proud record on modernising and developing Turkey, he appeared slow to react to the loss of more than 50,000 lives in double earthquakes in February.\n\nAfter he survived a coup attempt in 2016, he turned his presidency into an ever more powerful executive role, and cracked down on his opponents and dissent.\n\nFirst as prime minister from 2003 and then as directly elected president since 2014, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has flexed Turkey's muscles as a regional power, championed Islamist causes and been quick to outmanoeuvre political opposition.\n\nAlthough he is the head of a Nato country, he has positioned himself as a broker in Russia's war in Ukraine and kept Sweden waiting in its bid to join the Western defensive alliance. His muscular diplomacy has riled allies in Europe and beyond.\n\nHe has polarised his country but President Erdogan is a proven election winner. His supporters call him reis - \"chief\".\n\nAccusing his opponents of treating Turkey's electorate with contempt and failing to win them over he declared: \"As 85 million, we will protect our ballot, our will and our future.\"\n\nBorn in February 1954, Recep Tayyip Erdogan grew up the son of a coastguard, on Turkey's Black Sea coast. When he was 13, his father decided to move to Istanbul, hoping to give his five children a better upbringing.\n\nThe young Erdogan sold lemonade and sesame buns to earn extra cash. He attended an Islamic school before obtaining a degree in management from Istanbul's Marmara University - and playing professional football.\n\nErdogan supporters like his tough language and defence of traditional Muslim values\n\nIn the 1970s and 80s, he was active in Islamist circles, joining Necmettin Erbakan's pro-Islamic Welfare Party. As the party grew in popularity in the 1990s, Mr Erdogan was elected as its candidate for mayor of Istanbul in 1994 and ran the city for the next four years.\n\nBut his term came to an end when he was convicted of inciting racial hatred for publicly reading a nationalist poem that included the lines: \"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers.\"\n\nAfter serving four months in jail, he returned to politics. But his party had been banned for violating the strict secular principles of the modern Turkish state.\n\nIn August 2001, he founded an new, Islamist-rooted party with ally Abdullah Gul. In 2002, the AKP won a majority in parliamentary elections, and the following year Mr Erdogan was appointed prime minister. He remains chairman of the AKP or Justice and Development Party to this day.\n\nFrom 2003, he spent three terms as prime minister, presiding over a period of steady economic growth and winning praise internationally as a reformer. The middle class expanded and millions were taken out of poverty, as Mr Erdogan prioritised giant infrastructure projects to modernise Turkey.\n\nBut critics warned he was becoming increasingly autocratic.\n\nBy 2013, protesters took to the streets, partly because of his government's plans to transform a much-loved park in the centre of Istanbul, but also in a challenge to more authoritarian rule. The prime minister condemned the protesters as \"capulcu\" (riff-raff), and neighbourhoods would clang pots and pans at nine o'clock every night in a spirit of defiance. Allegations of corruption ensnared the sons of three cabinet allies.\n\nThe Gezi Park protests marked a turning point in his rule. To his detractors, he was acting more like a sultan from the Ottoman Empire than a democrat.\n\nMr Erdogan also fell out with a US-based Islamic scholar called Fethullah Gulen, whose social and cultural movement had helped him to victory in three consecutive elections and had been active in removing the military from politics. It was a feud that would have dramatic repercussions for Turkish society.\n\nAfter a decade of his rule, Mr Erdogan's party also moved to lift a ban on women wearing headscarves in public services that was introduced after a military coup in 1980. The ban was eventually lifted for women in the police, military and judiciary.\n\nCritics complained he had chipped away at the pillars of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's secular republic. While religious himself, Mr Erdogan always denied wanting to impose Islamic values, insisting he supported the rights of Turks to express their religion more openly.\n\nMr Erdogan's wife Emine often appeared in public in a headscarf\n\nHowever, he has repeatedly supported criminalising adultery. And as a father of four, he has said \"no Muslim family\" should consider birth control or family planning. \"We will multiply our descendants,\" he said in May 2016.\n\nHe has extolled motherhood, condemned feminists and said men and women cannot be treated equally.\n\nMr Erdogan has long championed Islamist causes - and was known to give the four-finger salute of Egypt's repressed Muslim Brotherhood.\n\nIn July 2020, he oversaw the conversion of Istanbul's historic Hagia Sophia into a mosque, angering many Christians. Built 1,500 years ago as a cathedral, it was made into a mosque by the Ottoman Turks, but Ataturk had turned it into a museum - a symbol of the new secular state.\n\nIt was no accident that the president chose to address supporters at evening prayers within hours of the 2023 vote getting under way.\n\nBarred from running again for prime minister, in 2014 he stood for the largely ceremonial role of president in unprecedented direct elections. He had big plans for reforming the post, creating a new constitution that would benefit all Turks and place their country among the world's top 10 economies.\n\nBut early in his presidency, he faced two jolts to his power. His party lost its majority in parliament for several months in a 2015 vote, and then months later, in 2016, Turkey witnessed its first violent attempted coup for decades.\n\nRebel soldiers came close to capturing the president, holidaying at a coastal resort, but he was airlifted to safety. In the early hours of 16 July, he emerged triumphant at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, to the cheers of supporters. Almost 300 civilians were killed as they blocked the advance of the coup plotters.\n\nThe president appeared on national TV and rallied supporters in Istanbul, declaring he was the \"chief commander\". But the strain was clear when he sobbed openly while giving a speech at the funeral of a close friend, shot with his son by mutinous soldiers.\n\nThe plot was blamed on the Gulen movement and led to some 150,000 public servants being sacked and more than 50,000 people being detained, including soldiers, journalists, lawyers, police officers, academics and Kurdish politicians.\n\nThis crackdown on critics caused alarm abroad, contributing to frosty relations with the EU: Turkey's bid to join the union has not progressed for years. Arguments over an influx of migrants into Greece exacerbated the ill-feeling.\n\nBut from his gleaming, 1,000-room Ak Saray palace overlooking Ankara, President Erdogan's position appeared more secure than ever.\n\nControversy has surrounded Mr Erdogan's costly and sprawling presidential palace in Ankara\n\nHe narrowly won a 2017 referendum granting him sweeping presidential powers, including the right to impose a state of emergency and appoint top public officials as well as intervene in the legal system.\n\nA year later, he secured outright victory in the first round of a presidential poll.\n\nHis core vote lies in small Anatolian towns and rural, conservative areas. In 2019, his party lost in the three biggest cities - Istanbul; the capital, Ankara; and Izmir.\n\nLosing the Istanbul mayorship narrowly to Ekrem Imamoglu of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) was a bitter blow to Mr Erdogan, who was the city's mayor in the 1990s. He never accepted the result.\n\nMr Imamoglu was ahead of the president in the opinion polls before he was barred from running in the May elections. The president and his allies were accused of using the courts to disqualify the popular mayor from the vote.\n\nTurkey's third biggest party, the pro-Kurdish HDP, also feared being banned from the parliamentary vote because of alleged links to Kurdish militants, but instead it decided to stand under a different banner.\n\nLike previous Turkish leaders, President Erdogan has cracked down hard on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).\n\nAlthough Turkey has taken in more than 3.5 million refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war, Ankara has also launched operations against Kurdish militias across the borders, alienating Kurds in Turkey.\n\nMr Erdogan has long held close ties with Russia's Vladimir Putin and has sought a pivotal role as a mediator in the conflict in Ukraine.\n\nDespite being the leader of a Nato state, he bought a Russian anti-missile defence system and chose Russia to build Turkey's first nuclear reactor.\n\nAhead of the 2023 election, he sought to bolster his credentials with nationalist and conservative voters by accusing the West of moving against him.\n\n\"My nation will foil this plot,\" he asserted, describing it as a kind of breaking point.\n\nHe rounded off his 2023 presidential campaign with a visit to the mausoleum of Adnan Menderes, Turkey's first democratically-elected prime minister who was executed in 1961 after a military coup.\n\nHis message: \"The era of coups and juntas is over.\"", "Last updated on .From the section National League\n\nNotts County had missed out on automatic promotion by just four points to title winners Wrexham Notts County twice battled back from a goal down before beating Chesterfield on penalties in an astonishing National League promotion final at Wembley to reclaim their status as 'world's oldest football league club'. Substitute goalkeeper Archie Mair, brought on to replace Sam Slocombe in the 120th minute, crucially saved spot-kicks from Darren Oldaker and Jeff King before Cedwyn Scott sealed a dramatic 4-3 shootout triumph. Victory for the 161-year-old Magpies, who were founder members of the Football League in 1888, ended their four-year non-league exile while defeat consigned Chesterfield to a sixth season in the National League. Ruben Rodrigues had bounced a volley off the turf and over goalkeeper Ross Fitzsimons to level at 2-2 in the second half of extra time to ensure the showdown would be decided from the spot. Armando Dobra's curled finish had restored Chesterfield's lead in the first period of 15 additional minutes after an enthralling game ended 1-1 at the end of normal time. A calamitous start from Notts goalkeeper Slocombe - which had the Magpies defending a rare indirect free-kick inside the box after just two minutes - cost them dearly as his challenge on Andrew Dallas allowed the striker to put Chesterfield ahead from the spot. The Spireites had Notts scrambling to stay in touch at the break as the side that won a club-record 32 league games during the regular season struggled to muster a meaningful response. Sam Austin sent a shot over the bar from the edge of the area and Connell Rawlinson wastefully steered a header wide for a much-improved Notts after the break. Liam Mandeville squandered a late chance to seal victory moments before experienced Notts midfielder John Bostock caught Fitzsimons out with a set-piece that skipped in at the near post. Dobra edged the Derbyshire club back ahead three minutes after the restart and, after Macaulay Langstaff and Rawlinson went close to again restoring parity, it was Rodrigues who sent the final to a shootout.\n• None Relive the National League promotion final as it happened After four years and three failed play-off attempts - including defeat by Harrogate in a 2020 promotion final played behind closed doors at Wembley during the Covid-19 pandemic - Notts finally secured their English Football League (EFL) return at the end of a record-breaking season. Luke Williams' side were pipped for automatic promotion and the title by Hollywood-funded Wrexham, who topped the table with an all-time high 111 points. The 107 points the Magpies collected to finish second would have got them straight up as champions in every other season before this one. The club-record wins total and 117 goals in a campaign - which included a record 25-game unbeaten league run between September and February - would have counted for nothing if they had lost at the national stadium. Chesterfield finished one spot below Notts in the table, but the gap between the two was 23 points. They were the only side, other than Wrexham and Notts, to have a spell at the top of the table after the first month of the season - and they pushed Notts to their limits at Wembley in an incredible energy-sapping game. Chesterfield were presented with a bizarre chance almost immediately after kick-off when County conceded an indirect free-kick in the penalty area. Notts set their entire side up a yard in front of the goalline to block King's effort from the left of the penalty spot, but the uncertain start by the Magpies quickly got worse. Slocombe raced out to try shut Dallas down on the edge of the area, but caught the Spireites forward as he tried to lift the ball beyond the keeper. Dallas collected himself and went straight down the middle to beat Slocombe from the spot to put Chesterfield ahead after five chaotic minutes. Nervy Notts struggled to match frenetic Chesterfield for much of the first half, but Austin had a chance to level from close range in the 17th minute when he stretched to meet a lofted cross from Aaron Nemane. Dallas continued to torment Notts' backline down the left, calling Slocombe into action as the forward attempted pull a dangerous ball back across goal. It was not until the 37th minute that Notts managed to register a shot on goal with Nemane sending an effort directly into Fitzsimons' hands. Austin and Rawlinson were off target in search of a second-half equaliser, only for Bostock to deliver with a clever free-kick after a Slocombe error at the other end almost gifted Chesterfield the win in normal time. Dobra had Chesterfield ahead again in extra time and while Langstaff went close to adding to his National League record 42 goals and Rawlinson also flashed a chance wide, it was Rodrigues who salvaged Notts' hopes. On-loan keeper Mair, in just his fifth game for Notts, played an instrumental role off the bench with his penalty saves and, after Bostock made a mess of his spot-kick to seal it, Scott kept his cool to secure victory.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Chesterfield 2(2), Notts County 2(3). John Bostock (Notts County) hits the woodwork with a.\n• None Penalty saved! Jeff King (Chesterfield) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, saved.\n• None Penalty saved! Darren Oldaker (Chesterfield) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, saved.\n• None Jeff King (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Examine the seven men who attempted to kill Queen Victoria\n• None Where were the Tudors from? Find out about the origins of the most famous ruling dynasty in British history", "Five days into the worst fighting in months between Israel and militant groups in Gaza, concern is mounting about the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory.\n\nIt is estimated that more than 200 patients, mostly with cancer, are unable to leave for urgently needed treatment. They include children.\n\nIsrael controls two crossings with Gaza - used for people and goods - which have been closed since the start of its military operation on Tuesday.\n\nOperators of the sole power plant in the impoverished strip - which relies on Israeli fuel imports - say it will be forced to close in three days.\n\nA spokesman told the BBC this would \"lead to an exacerbation of the humanitarian problems\". The plant supplies about half of the electricity in the territory, where some 2.3 million Palestinians live.\n\nDina el-Dhani, a Palestinian cancer patient in Gaza City, says she missed her scheduled treatment in Jerusalem\n\nA British surgeon who is among an estimated 140 humanitarian workers currently stranded in Gaza says cancer patients are facing potentially life-threatening delays.\n\nProf Nick Maynard, a consultant surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals, arrived in Gaza City last week as part of an aid programme teaching advanced cancer surgery to Palestinian doctors.\n\n\"The doctors I work with here have got multiple examples of people who are in desperate need of cancer treatment,\" Prof Maynard told the BBC.\n\n\"These treatments are undoubtedly being delayed and potentially leading to deaths because of the delays now,\" he added.\n\nProf Maynard said he was one of about a dozen non-resident British nationals stuck in Gaza.\n\nZiyad al-Za'noun, 70, has cancer of the spinal cord and is treated every week at Istishari Hospital in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.\n\n\"I have been suffering from cancer for three years and there is no treatment for it here in Gaza,\" he said.\n\n\"On Tuesday, I was scheduled to go for a chemotherapy session in Ramallah, but we were surprised by the closure of Erez crossing.\n\n\"My health condition is getting worse, and I am using painkillers to overcome the pain, and my psychological condition is also deteriorating,\" Ziyad al-Za'noun added.\n\nIsrael tightened its blockade of Gaza in 2007 after it was taken over by the Islamist militant group Hamas, citing security concerns.\n\nHamas does not recognise Israel's right to exist and is designated as a terrorist group by Israel and many other countries.\n\nGaza's hospitals face severe shortages of medical equipment and medicines largely due to the blockade, but also because of internal Palestinian political divisions.\n\nMany cancer patients need to leave for medical treatment; they have to apply for Israeli permits to exit via the Erez crossing. Most of those who get these are transferred to Augusta Victoria Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem.\n\nMore than 90 patients - six of them children with cancer - were due to arrive there in the past week but could not travel, according to Dr Fadi al-Atrash, the hospital's chief executive.\n\n\"There is always a need to refer patients primarily to Augusta Victoria and even other hospitals in the West Bank,\" Dr Fadi said.\n\n\"It's because of the lack of services in Gaza, lack of drugs, human resources and appropriate infrastructure.\"\n\nWhen the current hostilities end, patients and relatives accompanying them will have to apply for new Israeli permits to leave Gaza.\n\n\"When the checkpoints are open, there will be another process for permits. More time will be taken to arrange their exit from Gaza to the hospital and that will add to the delay in their treatment that they have suffered from in the past week,\" Dr Fadi said.\n\nAlready Gaza's power plant is reducing the amount of electricity it generates, to try to save its fuel reserves. If it shuts down, this will have an impact on many different services.\n\n\"Preventing the entry of fuel shipments threatens it with a complete stop and will prevent the Gaza Electricity Distribution Company from supplying vital facilities such as hospitals, waste pumps and treatment plants, potable water wells and desalination plants,\" said Muhammad Thabet, a spokesman for the company.\n\nNormally, some 300 lorryloads of goods enter Gaza each day through the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing with Israel.\n\nIn past conflicts, there would have been serious food shortages after several days of closure. However, recently Egypt has eased its tight restrictions on the Palestinian territory, which means food and other goods are continuing to enter.\n\nFor now, supermarkets still have stocks of basic items - but many shelves are empty, prompting shoppers to form long queues as they start stockpiling.\n\nIsrael's military-run authority that controls entry into Gaza said its crossings had been under the constant threat of rocket fire and remained shut this week.\n\nThe Israeli defence ministry said on Saturday that Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) militants had fired dozens of mortars at Erez and Kerem Shalom since Tuesday.\n\nIt also posted what it said was security camera footage showing a blast caused by a mortar fired at Erez.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by משרד הביטחון This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut the first day of Israel's airstrikes witnessed no Palestinian fire and there have also been several lulls in the fighting.\n\nWhile Egypt is continuing to try to mediate a ceasefire, the intense barrages of Palestinian rockets and Israeli air strikes and shelling have brought normal life to a halt for millions of ordinary people.\n\nIn Israel, some 1.5 million people have been told to stay close to or in a bomb shelter. Schools and many businesses in the south of the country are closed.\n\nIn Ashkelon, one self-employed resident said she had had no income in the past week and nor had her husband, a shop owner whose store has been closed.\n\nIsraeli air defence systems have not been able to intercept all of the hundreds of rockets fired. One woman has been killed and several people have been injured. A number of buildings have been damaged.\n\nIn Gaza, some 33 people have been killed - about half of them civilians - including women and children. Houses and apartments have been destroyed or damaged.\n\nOn Friday, the UN said 417 people from about 73 families had been internally displaced.\n\nThe UN has raised concerns about how the fighting is worsening the humanitarian situation in Gaza - where more than half the population lives in poverty.", "The King and his son and grandson were pictured on Coronation day in Buckingham Palace\n\nThe latest official Coronation photograph released by Buckingham Palace sends a strong message about the monarchy's next generations.\n\nKing Charles III is shown with his son Prince William and grandson Prince George, bringing together the King with those next in the line of succession.\n\nThe picture, taken in the palace Throne Room, is part of a set of official photographs taken by Hugo Burnand.\n\nThe King is seen wearing the Imperial State Crown and coronation robes.\n\nIn these formal portraits, he is pictured carrying the regalia from the Coronation - an orb and sceptre - while sitting in a throne made for the Coronation of Edward VII.\n\nIt is an image full of lavish symbolism and regal colours of gold, red and purple.\n\nA second newly released photograph shows King Charles and Queen Camilla with their pages of honour and ladies in attendance.\n\nIt shows some of the members of the Queen's family who had roles in last Saturday's Coronation, including her sister Annabel Elliot, her grandsons Freddy Parker Bowles and Gus and Louis Lopes, as well as her great-nephew Arthur Elliot.\n\nIn a modern development, the Prince and Princess of Wales have released a YouTube video giving some candid shots of their preparations for the Coronation.\n\nThe short clip includes shots of Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis as they get ready to leave home for their grandfather's big day.\n\nThe photo of the Royal Family includes the Queen's sister and grandsons\n\nThe first set of official Coronation photos showed the King and Queen, but also focused on the \"working royals\", highlighting those who will be at the centre of royal duties during the King's reign.\n\nThere are expected to be more official photographs released as part of a Cabinet Office initiative to provide public buildings with a photographic portrait of the King.\n\nAnti-monarchy campaigners have complained about the budget of £8m for the project, calling it a \"shameful waste\", with no details released so far of how the funds might be spent.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "Former Labour MP Paul Clark was sentenced to two years and four months in prison\n\nA former Labour MP who shared child abuse material has been jailed.\n\nPaul Clark, who represented Gillingham in Kent for 13 years, was caught with more than 1,400 images on five electronic devices.\n\nDuring his career, Clark worked as a parliamentary private secretary to deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and education secretary Ed Balls.\n\nAt Maidstone Crown Court, the 66-year-old was sentenced to two years and four months in prison.\n\nFollowing his arrest in May 2021, Clark's devices were seized for analysis and officers recovered more than 1,400 indecent images of children.\n\nHe was subsequently charged with three counts of making indecent images of children and six counts of distributing indecent images of children between April 2013 and May 2021.\n\nThe court heard that when Clark was arrested, he initially made no comment, but later told officers, \"I know why you're here\", and \"I kept telling myself to stop\".\n\nThe former politician's defence barrister, Ronnie Manek KC, said Clark was \"a man full of remorse and regret\".\n\nThe court heard there was no evidence that any of the offending took place while Clark was in office.\n\nCatrin Attwell from the Crown Prosecution Service's organised child sexual abuse unit said the examination of Clark's electronic devices revealed imagery of children as young as three.\n\n\"The electronic devices also revealed chatlogs in which Clark discussed his sexual desires, distributed indecent images of children to others for their sexual gratification and used social media to identify and talk to users under the age of 18,\" she said.\n\nClark has also been issued with a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and must sign the sex offenders register.\n\nDanielle Pownall, National Crime Agency (NCA) operations manager, said: \"Behind a significant number of images in Clark's possession was a vulnerable child being abused, just to satisfy paedophiles.\n\n\"He helped fuel the sickening trade in this material by downloading the images and sending them on to other offenders. In doing so, he also re-victimised every child.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adam Price says he no longer had the support of his party\n\nAdam Price has quit as Plaid Cymru leader after a report found misogyny, harassment and bullying in the party.\n\nNorth Wales Senedd member Llyr Gruffydd will take over as interim leader, with a new leader in place in the summer, the party has said.\n\nIt follows months of difficulties including allegations of a sexual assault made against a senior staff member, and a toxic working culture.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Mr Price said he no longer had the \"united support\" of his colleagues.\n\nHe said he wanted to resign in the wake of the report's findings, but was initially persuaded not to quit.\n\n\"You have my personal assurance that I will continue to serve my country, my constituents and our party with determination and enthusiasm,\" he said in a letter to party chairman, Marc Jones.\n\nOn Thursday Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford said discussions on his co-operation agreement with Plaid will take place \"in light of recent developments\"\n\nHe thanked Mr Price \"for the constructive way the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru have worked together\".\n\nThe resignation announcement was made following a meeting of the party's ruling body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), late on Wednesday night.\n\nOne source from the meeting said some members raised the possibility of Adam Price remaining in post.\n\nBut it was considered untenable given the seriousness of the findings of the review.\n\nPlaid's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said Mr Price was not asked to resign in the wake of the \"toxic culture\" report because \"stability\" was needed to implement its recommendations.\n\nInterim Plaid Cymru leader Llyr Gruffydd has been in the Senedd since 2011\n\nSpeaking on the Today programme, Liz Saville Roberts said: \"Effective leadership is about balancing conflicting demands.\n\n\"What we felt strongly was that we needed a collegiate approach within the party because it (the report) cuts across all aspects of the party and it requires a change of culture\".\n\n\"In order to do that we would need stability\".\n\nShe also told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that Mr Price had to go because he had become a \"distraction\".\n\nShe ruled herself out of a leadership contest, saying any new leader would have to be an elected member in the Senedd.\n\n\"I'm an MP in Westminster so that's done and dusted,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adam Price apologised last week but said the damning report points to a \"collective failure\" across the party\n\nMr Gruffydd's appointment as interim leader was agreed at a meeting of the party's Senedd members on Thursday and will need to be rubber-stamped by Plaid Cymru's National Council on Saturday.\n\nHe will not stand in the forthcoming leadership contest\n\nMr Gruffydd said he was \"grateful to the Plaid Cymru Senedd group\" for the nomination and thanked Mr Price for his \"vision, commitment, and dedication\".\n\nPlaid Cymru is the third largest party in the Welsh Parliament, with 12 Members of the Senedd and three MPs in Westminster.\n\nThe pro-independence party is in a co-operation agreement with the Welsh Labour government, which means they help them govern.\n\nMr Price was elected party leader in 2018, when he ousted Leanne Wood.\n\nWelsh Conservative leader, Andrew RT Davies, said: \"I have no doubt Adam Price's departure is a moment of personal sadness for him.\n\n\"Following the recent report into the culture within their party, it became clear Plaid Cymru politicians no longer had confidence in his leadership, so his departure became inevitable.\"\n\nFor the converted, the die-hard believers, it wasn't meant to be like this.\n\nAdam Price was touted by many in Plaid Cymru as a \"once in a generation\" politician who could overcome the party's many electoral barriers.\n\nWhen he challenged his predecessor for the leadership in 2018, he said only he could \"create the momentum\" Plaid needed to become Wales' main party of government and install him as first minister.\n\nAnd yet, there was no great advance at the following Senedd election - Plaid remains in third place behind the Welsh Conservatives.\n\nSupporters will say it was an election like no other, one focused almost entirely on the public's broadly favourable opinion of the Welsh Labour government's handling of the pandemic.\n\nIt is clear, though, that some of the sheen had faded and in terms of public support, the party remains no further forward under Adam Price's leadership.\n\nAs it nears its 100th birthday celebrations, Plaid Cymru will seek its 11th leader with many of the perennial questions about its purpose, its lack of reach beyond the heartlands and its relationship with Welsh Labour likely to be raised.\n\nBut it is the drip, drip of negative stories over the last year, culminating in a damning report that found a toxic culture within the party that meant Adam Price's position was no longer tenable.\n\nAddressing those major issues will be his successor's primary focus.\n\nSince last year Plaid Cymru has been dogged by claims of a toxic culture in the party, and it emerged last November that an allegation of sexual assault had been made against a senior member of staff.\n\nSeparately, a serious allegation was also made about the conduct of a Member of the Senedd, Rhys ab Owen, who is now suspended from the Senedd group pending an investigation.\n\nThe party asked Nerys Evans, a lobbyist and former Plaid assembly member, to hold a review last December.\n\nHer working group's report said Plaid needed to \"detoxify a culture of harassment, bullying and misogyny\".\n\nIt said too many instances of bad behaviour were tolerated, and said an anonymous survey of staff and elected members highlighted examples \"of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination\".\n\nMr Price admitted the document left Plaid Cymru \"harmed and tarnished\". He apologised, but refused to quit.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Mr Price said: \"On receiving the report, I informed you that I felt morally bound to step down as leader of the party in recognition of our collective failure.\"\n\n\"You counselled against my resignation as you felt it would make it more difficult to achieve progress in implementing the recommendations.\"\n\nHe said he was \"persuaded by the argument that my stepping down would be an abdication of responsibility\".\n\nBut he added: \"It is now clear I no longer have the united support of my colleagues that would be necessary to follow this course to fruition.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"I want to thank Adam Price for the constructive way the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru have worked together to develop and implement the co-operation agreement. These shared priorities are making a real difference to people across Wales.\n\n\"The co-operation agreement is an agreement between the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru - not between individuals. There will be discussions about the agreement in light of recent developments.\"", "Portugal's parliament has voted to allow medically assisted dying in certain limited circumstances.\n\nMedical professionals will be allowed to help people die if they are in extreme suffering as a result of an incurable disease or severe injury and they are unable to end their own lives.\n\nThe vote overturned a series of vetoes exercised by the country's conservative President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.\n\nDeputies overwhelmingly voted in favour of the law.\n\nAlmost all members of the governing Socialist Party (PS) backed the legislation, as did three smaller left-of-centre parties and the Liberal Initiative (IL). Several members of the largest opposition party, the centre-right Social Democrats (PSD), also supported the bill.\n\nIsabel Moreira, the Socialist Party politician who steered the bill through parliament, hailed the vote as a realisation of freedoms aspired to in Portugal's 1974 Revolution, which ushered in democracy.\n\nOverturning a presidential veto, she said, was \"something normal\" in a democratic state - not least after a public debate on the subject that has lasted for over three years.\n\nMost PSD members voted against the bill, as did the far-right Chega party, the third largest in parliament, and the Communist Party (PCP).\n\nThe Chega leader André Ventura, who like the PSD leadership had demanded a referendum on the subject of euthanasia, told parliament during the debate that he did not believe that the law would ever come into force.\n\nEven if it does, he argued, \"there will not be a single doctor in Portugal\" prepared to act on its provisions, and any future right-leaning parliament would move to repeal it.\n\nPresident de Sousa - who in vetoing the bill in April acknowledged that he saw no legal anomalies in it, unlike previous versions that he sent to the Constitutional Court - is obliged to sign it into law within eight days of receiving it, once it is published in the official gazette.\n\nBut the reform can be derailed in the meantime, or at least delayed, if one in 10 members of parliament formally ask the Constitutional Court to review the legislation.\n\nSeveral PSD members of parliament have already declared their intention to do so.\n\nEuthanasia is fully legal in three European countries: Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. But assisted death and passive euthanasia - of various types - are legal in many more European countries.", "Tvorchi held up a sign displaying the name of their hometown while participating in the Eurovision Song Contest\n\nThe hometown of Ukraine's Eurovision act was hit by Russian missiles moments before the band took to the stage in Liverpool, officials say.\n\nThe head of Ternopil regional state administration, Volodymyr Trush, confirmed two people had been injured.\n\nUkraine's foreign ministry accused Russia of attacking Kyiv and Ternopil regions before and during Tvorchi's Eurovision performance.\n\nTen minutes before taking to the stage at the Liverpool Arena, Tvorchi posted on Instagram citing reports of Ternopil in western Ukraine being attacked.\n\nAfter performing, they added: \"Ternopil is the name of our hometown, which was bombed by Russia while we sang on the Eurovision stage about our steel hearts, indomitability and will.\n\n\"This is a message for all cities of Ukraine that are shelled every day. Kharkiv, Dnipro, Khmelnytsky, Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Uman, Sumy, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Kherson and all others.\n\n\"Europe, unite against evil for the sake of peace!\"\n\nTvorchi posted on Instagram saying Russia was bombing their native city of Ternopil\n\nTvorchi, made up of producer Andrii Hutsuliak and Nigeria-born vocalist Jeffery Kenny, hoped to defend the Eurovision title after Kalush Orchestra won last year in Turin.\n\nThey performed \"Heart of Steel\" - a song about troops who led an ultimately unsuccessful resistance against Russian forces at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.\n\nLiverpool is hosting the contest on behalf of Ukraine due to the ongoing conflict.\n\nAt the end of their performance, Tvorchi held their fists in the air as acts from other nations were also seen waving the blue and yellow flag of Ukraine.\n\nTvorchi are made up of producer Andrii Hutsuliak and Nigeria-raised vocalist Jeffery Kenny\n\nThe UK's ambassador to Ukraine Dame Melinda Simmons described Tvorchi's Eurovision performance as \"poignant\".\n\nWriting on Twitter, she added: \"Reminder that the reason why Ukraine could not host this event is because Russia continues to invade and the people of Ukraine live in continuing danger.\"\n\nThough Swedish act Loreen took the Eurovision crown after a nail-biting finish, there was praise for Tvorchi from Ternopil's mayor who thanked the band for supporting the city during their performance.\n\nPosting on Facebook in Ukrainian, Mayor Nadal wrote: \"It was at this time that our city was attacked by Russian missiles.\n\n\"Thank you, because your speech has become a symbol of not only the unity of the country, but of the whole world.\"\n\nHe told the BBC the fire at the warehouse in Ternopil had been brought under control.\n\n\"Firefighters worked all night and continue to work,\" he said, adding that the two people who were wounded suffered minor injuries and were in hospital.\n\nRussia has not yet made any official comment.\n\nEarlier in the day, President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Pope Francis at the Vatican and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome.\n\nHe has since flown to Germany, arriving in Berlin just before 01:00 local time.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Catherine, Princess of Wales, appear in surprise Eurovision cameo\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales, made a surprise appearance playing the piano during the opening performance of Eurovision.\n\nShe played an instrumental piece, created by Joe Price and Kojo Samuel, recorded in Windsor Castle's Crimson Drawing Room earlier this month.\n\nShe wore a blue Jenny Packham dress and earrings belonging to the late queen.\n\nThe 10-second clip appeared in a performance by last year's winners Kalush Orchestra.\n\nThat performance also included contributions from Lord Lloyd-Webber, Sam Ryder, Ms Banks, Ballet Black, Bolt Strings and Joss Stone.\n\nThe opening Eurovision film showed Kalush Orchestra performing their winning entry Stefania, from the Maidan Nezalezhnosti metro station in Kyiv.\n\nSweden's Loreen won the competition for the second time with her pop anthem Tattoo.\n\nThe UK's entrant, Mae Muller, failed to replicate the success of Sam Ryder last year and finished in 25th place, out of 26.\n\nSweden's victory means it will host next year's event, which will mark the 50th anniversary of Abba's historic victory with Waterloo in 1974.\n\nThe instrumental piece was recorded in the Crimson Drawing Room of Windsor Castle\n\nThe princess, who has grade three piano and grade five theory, previously accompanied pop star Tom Walker on piano while he sang his previously unheard Christmas song For Those Who Can't Be Here during a 2021 carol service she hosted at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe service, which was broadcast on ITV on Christmas Eve that year, paid tribute to the work of \"inspirational\" people who served their communities during the pandemic.", "Adam Price took over as party leader in autumn 2018\n\nAdam Price said Plaid Cymru's \"time has come\" when he took over as leader five years ago.\n\nHis victory was not unexpected - with his imposing presence and strong oratory skills, Mr Price had long been regarded as a future leader.\n\nBut he departs after a report heavily criticised the workplace culture that existed in his party, alleging harassment, bullying and misogyny.\n\nA miner's son from the Amman Valley, Adam Price's politics were shaped by the long miners' strike of the mid-1980s.\n\nHe became an MP in 2001, representing Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, and made his mark in Westminster by leading an unsuccessful attempt to impeach the then prime minister, Tony Blair, over claims that Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.\n\nMr Price stood down as an MP in 2010 before going to study at the prestigious Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the US.\n\nIn 2016 he returned to frontline politics - this time in Cardiff Bay, still representing his home constituency.\n\nOne campaign leaflet that year famously described him as an \"X-factor politician\" and the \"mab darogan\" (the son of prophecy) - a figure from Welsh mythology who it is said will redeem Wales in its hour of need.\n\nAdam Price and other party leaders meeting the Prince of Wales at the Senedd last year\n\nTwo years later he ousted Leanne Wood and became the first openly gay leader of a Welsh political party.\n\nMr Price described the decision to challenge one of his \"oldest friends in politics\" as \"the most difficult thing I've had to wrestle with in my political life\".\n\nMs Wood would later tell the BBC that the move led to the collapse of their friendship.\n\nIn a departure from his predecessor's approach, Mr Price put the notoriously tricky subject of independence at the heart of his political plan, pledging to hold a referendum on the issue by 2030.\n\nBut at the snap general election of December 2019 the party found itself squeezed out of the Brexit-dominated debate, and though Plaid held on to its four seats in Westminster, its share of the vote fell back and it came a disappointing third in its main target seat of Ynys Môn.\n\nLabour First Minister Mark Drakeford and Adam Price signed a co-operation deal in late 2021\n\nAnd so to the 2021 Senedd election, where independence would be front and centre of the party's campaign.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Price said that he would count anything less than becoming first minister as a \"failure\", and he ruled out working with the Conservatives and joining a coalition with Labour as a junior partner.\n\nBut the party slipped back into third place, losing its grip on the Rhondda seat held by Ms Wood, as it struggled to compete with the favourable response towards the Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford's leadership during the pandemic.\n\nMonths later, and with Mr Drakeford having fallen just short of a majority in the Senedd, Mr Price formed a co-operation agreement with the Welsh Labour government.\n\nThis was to be a new kind of deal, and one which would allow Plaid Cymru to push through some of its key policies, including Senedd expansion, the extension of free school meals, and free childcare for two year-olds.\n\nAnd that's why in the run-up to last May's Welsh local elections Mr Price - by now a father of two young children - was able to claim his party was \"making a difference\", and had \"snatched a moral victory from the mawing jaws of defeat\".\n\nBy the end of the year the party was engulfed by claims of a toxic culture within Plaid and criticism of the leadership's handling of the situation.\n\nThat culminated in a report by Nerys Evans which said the party had tolerated \"too many instances of bad behaviour\".\n\nMr Price initially insisted he would remain in post, arguing that quitting would be \"abdicating\" his responsibility.\n\nHowever a week on Mr Price has announced that he will step down and so it will be up to his successor to address the issues raised by the report and set a course for the party into the general election.", "Saturday's talks between Pope Francis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky lasted about 40 minutes, the Vatican said\n\nPope Francis has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky he is constantly praying for peace after the two met privately at the Vatican.\n\nThe pontiff also stressed on the urgent need to help \"the most fragile people, innocent victims\" of the full-scale invasion launched by Russia last year.\n\nMr Zelensky earlier met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni who assured him of Rome's support for united Ukraine.\n\nMore than 1,000 police are deployed and a no-fly zone over Rome is in place.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, the Holy See said Pope Francis and President Zelensky \"discussed the humanitarian and political situation in Ukraine caused by the ongoing war\" during a meeting that lasted about 40 minutes.\n\nThe Argentine pontiff and President Zelensky \"both agreed on the need to continue humanitarian efforts to support the population\".\n\nThe statement added: \"The Pope has assured his constant prayer and continuous invocation to the Lord for peace - since last February\" - when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion.\n\nPope Francis has often said that the Vatican stands ready to act as a mediator in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.\n\nEarlier this month, he stated that the Vatican was working on a peace plan to end the war, saying that the mission was \"not yet public. When it is public, I will talk about it.\"\n\nBut the relationship between Ukraine and the Vatican has sometimes been uneasy.\n\nA few months after the war in Ukraine began, the Pope said in an interview that Moscow's invasion was \"perhaps somehow provoked\".\n\nAnd last August, Ukraine's ambassador to the Vatican took the unusual step of criticising the Pope after the pontiff referred to Darya Dugina, the daughter of a Russian ultra-nationalist figure, who was killed by a car bomb, as an \"innocent\" victim of war.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, President Zelensky had talks with his counterpart Sergio President Mattarella and then met Ms Meloni for a working lunch.\n\nSilvio Berlusconi, leader of the conservative Forza Italia party, is an old friend of President Putin. They went on trips together and exchanged birthday gifts.\n\nMatteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister, has frequently voiced pro-Russian sentiments and criticised military assistance to Ukraine. President Zelensky is not expected to meet either Mr Salvini or Mr Berlusconi during his trip.\n\nAt the news conference that followed the meeting between Mr Zelensky and Ms Meloni, the Ukrainian leader invited \"all the Italian political leaders and representatives of civil society\" to visit Ukraine.\n\nHe said they would be able \"to see what a single person was capable of doing to us, what Putin was capable of, and you will understand why we are fighting this evil\".\n\nMs Meloni stressed that the war would only end when Russia stopped its \"brutal and unjust aggression\" and withdrew from all Ukrainian territory.\n\nShe also pledged Italy's support for Ukraine for \"as long as is necessary\".\n\nMeanwhile, the German government unveiled its biggest military aid package for Ukraine yet, worth €2.7bn (£2.4bn). Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Zelensky, said the aid indicated that Russia was \"bound to lose and sit on the bench of historical shame\".\n\nEarlier this week, German media reported that President Zelensky was planning to visit Germany following his trip to Italy, although this has not yet been confirmed.", "A Ukrainian soldier firing an anti-tank grenade launcher at a front line near Bakhmut (pictured on 3 May)\n\nUkraine says it has recaptured ground in Bakhmut, a rare advance after months of grinding Russian gains in the eastern city.\n\nKyiv said its forces advanced 2km (1.2 miles) in a week. Russia said its troops had regrouped in one area.\n\nThe claims signal a momentum shift in Bakhmut - but more widely, there is no clear evidence of a Ukrainian counter-offensive.\n\nHowever, two explosions were reported on Friday in Russian-occupied Luhansk.\n\nImages posted on social media, verified by the BBC, show a big plume of black smoke rising from the city, which lies about 90km (55.9 miles) behind the front line in eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe blasts come a day after the UK said it had supplied Ukraine with long range Storm Shadow cruise missiles.\n\nKremlin-appointed officials said six children in Luhansk were injured in a missile attack alongside Russian parliamentarian Viktor Vodolatsky. The authorities there have blamed the attack on Kyiv.\n\nLuhansk is beyond the reach of the Himars rockets Ukraine has previously relied on for deep strikes against Russian targets.\n\nBut Russian-appointed officials in the region said they thought Ukrainian-made missiles were responsible, hitting administrative buildings of two defunct enterprises.\n\nEarlier Russia's defence ministry said Russian troops in one Bakhmut area had changed their position for strategic reasons.\n\nIt said units of the southern group of Russian forces had taken up a better defensive position in the Maloilinivka area, something which took into consideration \"the favourable conditions of the Berkhivka reservoir\".\n\nHowever the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin said what the Ministry of Defence was talking about \"is unfortunately called 'fleeing' and not a 'regrouping'\".\n\nAs the intense, bloody battle has worn on, Bakhmut has become symbolically important - though many experts question its tactical value.\n\nIn a post on Telegram, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar claimed Russia suffered significant troop losses as Ukraine gained 2km without losing any positions.\n\nMeanwhile Russian military bloggers reported Ukrainian advances or troop movements in several areas.\n\nThe Institute for the Study of War also said Ukrainian forces had probably made gains of 2km in Bakhmut.\n\nThe BBC has verified video of soldiers with Ukrainian-identifying markings posing in front of a gate and a tank in the distance, also with Ukrainian markings.\n\nThe video, published on 11 May, has been located to an area around Bakhmut industrial college, until recently held by Wagner troops.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says his army needs more equipment ahead of counter-offensive\n\nAway from Bakhmut, the exiled mayor of Melitopol reported a large explosion on Friday morning in the centre of the south-eastern city, which has been occupied by Russia since the start of the war.\n\nIt was not known what caused the blast, but the Ukrainian air force made 14 strikes on Russian forces and military equipment on Thursday, Ukraine's armed forces said.\n\nAlongside the air strikes, Ukraine said it destroyed nine Russian drones and carried out successful attacks on dozens of military targets - including artillery units, an ammunition warehouse and air defence equipment.\n\nAfter months of stalemate, a Ukrainian counter-offensive - helped by newly-arrived Western weapons - has been openly discussed. But Ukraine's president said on Thursday it was too early to start the attack.\n\n\"With [what we already have] we can go forward and, I think, be successful,\" President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview.\n\n\"But we'd lose a lot of people. I think that's unacceptable. So we need to wait. We still need a bit more time.\"\n\nDespite President Zelensky's words, pro-Kremlin Russian war correspondent Sasha Kots claimed the counter-offensive had begun.\n\nUkrainian tanks were on the Kharkiv ring road heading towards the border with Russia, he said, quoting \"trusted\" sources. His claims could not be independently verified.\n\n\"There are low loaders in the columns carrying Western [tank] models among others,\" Kots added.\n\n\"In other words,\" he said, \"Kiev [Kyiv] has decided to aggravate the situation along the northern front in parallel with the start of offensive actions on the flanks of Artyomovsk [the Russian name for Bakhmut].\"\n\nAnother Russian war correspondent, Alexander Simonov, wrote on Telegram that Ukrainian forces had broken through near the village of Bohdanivka, close to Bakhmut, taking \"several square kilometres\" of ground.\n\nUkrainian military analyst Oleksandr Musivenko said Kyiv recognised that the anticipated counter-offensive might not necessarily defeat Russia \"in all occupied areas\".\n\nHe told Ukrainian NV radio there was every possibility the war could continue into next year. \"It all depends on how the battles develop. We can't guarantee how the counteroffensive will develop,\" he said.\n\nAn unnamed senior US military official told CNN that Ukrainian forces were preparing for a major counter-offensive by striking targets such as weapons depots, command centres and armour and artillery systems..\n\nUkraine's spring 2022 advances in the southern and north-eastern parts of the country were also preceded by air attacks to \"shape\" the battlefield.\n\nDaniele Palumbo and Richard Irvine-Brown contributed to this article\n\nFrank Gardner weighs up the possible outcomes for the war, as Ukraine prepares a counter-offensive against Russian forces.", "The village of Brienz and its church at the foot of a mountainside rockfall\n\nResidents of a tiny Swiss village have all been evacuated because of the risk of an imminent rockslide.\n\nBrienz's fewer than 100 villagers were given just 48 hours to pack what they could and abandon their homes.\n\nEven the dairy cows were loaded up for departure after geologists warned a rockfall was imminent.\n\nTwo million cubic metres of rock is coming loose from the mountain above, and a rockslide could obliterate the village.\n\nThe development has raised questions about the safety of some mountain communities, as global warming changes the alpine environment.\n\nThe rock has been shifting since the Ice Age, but scientists say the pace has accelerated\n\nBrienz, in the eastern canton of Graubünden, is now empty.\n\nThe village has been judged a geological risk for some time and is built on land that is subsiding down towards the valley, causing the church spire to lean and large cracks to appear in buildings.\n\nSome rocks have already fallen down the mountainside\n\nAs the minutes ticked towards the deadline to leave, even Brienz's dairy cows were being taken to safety.\n\nThe residents, some young, some old, families, farmers and professional couples, had two days to abandon their homes.\n\nThey were asked earlier this week to evacuate the village by Friday evening.\n\nRenato Liesch, a resident of Brienz, is photographed beneath a village sign before he drives away from his home\n\nThe mountainside on Friday when all villagers were asked to abandon their homes\n\nSwitzerland's Alpine regions are especially sensitive to global warming - as the permafrost high in the mountains begins to thaw, the rock becomes more unstable.\n\nThis particular mountain has always been unstable, but recently the rock has been shifting faster and faster.\n\nDays of heavy rain could bring two million cubic metres of loosened rock crashing down the mountainside onto the village, scientists warned.\n\nNow the villagers must wait, in temporary accommodation, for the rock to fall - and hope it misses their homes.\n\nA road block sits in front of the village Brienz", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe standout stars of this year's Eurovision Song Contest do not just include the competitors - one of the hosts has become a fan favourite as well.\n\nHannah Waddingham has been a leading lady on stage for more than two decades and found wider fame thanks to TV shows Game of Thrones, Ted Lasso and Sex Education.\n\nShe can now add \"Eurovision icon\" to her CV.\n\nHannah Waddingham (right) with fellow co-hosts Alesha Dixon and Julia Sanina\n\nThe English actress is co-hosting the contest's finals with British presenter Alesha Dixon and Ukrainian singer Julia Sanina and the BBC's Graham Norton.\n\nWhile they have all been excellent so far, Waddingham in particular has earned rave reviews, and her appearances have capped her elevation to A-list status.\n\nViewers have responded to her unbridled energy and overflowing sense of fun, plus the effortless composure and assured stage presence that come from years in the West End and on Broadway.\n\nHer enthusiastic facial expressions, exuberant style, impromptu dance moves and language skills also have the crowd eating out of the palm of her hand.\n\nKing Charles met the hosts and commentators at the Eurovision arena last month\n\nAt a press conference on Friday, one reporter informed her she had been dubbed \"mother\" on social media. \"Can I just ask if that's a good thing?\" she responded.\n\nIt is - being a term particularly used in the gay community to refer to iconic women.\n\nWaddingham only hosted her first awards ceremony last month - the Olivier Awards - when she was particularly praised for comforting an emotional winner.\n\n\"It was my first ever presenting gig, [with] this subtle little one being my second,\" she said.\n\n\"As with the Oliviers - the winners and the losers, everyone [at Eurovision] makes the effort of their lives. All of us, all of them on stage, everyone backstage, we're all just trying to put on a beautiful, massive, joyous show, and be unified by music.\n\n\"So it's very much our job to be there for the ups and the downs for the winners and the losers, and that's why I wanted to get involved.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Sounds This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWaddingham and grand final co-host Graham Norton, pictured in 2009, have been friends for years\n\nWaddingham is from London and spent her childhood in theatres watching her mother, a singer with the English National Opera.\n\nBy her 20s, she was in leading roles in the West End herself. Waddingham now has three Olivier nominations to her name - for Monty Python show Spamalot, Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music and Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate.\n\nAfter some TV roles, including in ITV comedy Benidorm, she was cast as Septa Unella, better known as the Shame Nun in Game of Thrones, joining in season five.\n\nIt was \"horrifically difficult\" to be taken seriously enough to make the leap from stage to screen - and she had to go to the US to make a real breakthrough, she has said.\n\nShe went down well when she hosted the Olivier Awards in London in April\n\n\"You see the same faces constantly, I think, on British television. And that was my frustration,\" she told Kate Thornton's White Wine Question Time podcast in 2021.\n\n\"I had to jump over to the other side of the pond in order to get recognised. And I don't think that's right, personally.\"\n\nBut with a baby on the way, she no longer wanted to be on stage six nights a week. She started filming Game of Thrones just eight weeks after giving birth.\n\nWaddingham with Lady Gaga at the 2022 Critics Choice Awards\n\nThat led to shows like Superman prequel Krypton. But while filming that, her daughter, three at the time, became seriously ill with Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP), which affects the blood vessels. It was \"all a bit touch and go\", Waddingham said.\n\nAfter being unable to immediately get home to be with her, so told her agents she no longer wanted acting jobs that would require her to travel.\n\n\"I am first and foremost a mum, and more importantly, a single mum,\" she said. While her daughter was recovering a month later, she stood in her garden one night and \"thanked the Universe\" for making her better.\n\nThe cast of Ted Lasso visited the White House in Washington, DC in March\n\nWhile she was at it, she asked the Universe for another job that would allow her to be near her daughter and keep them afloat financially.\n\n\"And also, can I be so cheeky as to say, could it be something that shows everything that I can do, and things that I don't feel like I've been able to do yet? And is there any way it could just be around the corner?\" she asked.\n\n\"And I'm not joking, within two months the audition came in for Ted Lasso, that shoots 40 minutes away from my house.\"\n\nWaddingham won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series for Ted Lasso in 2021\n\nThe Universe came through. Waddingham won the role in the Apple TV+ comedy as Richmond FC owner Rebecca Welton, who hires hapless US coach Ted because she wants the team to fail to spite her former husband.\n\nIt became a hit, and Waddingham won an Emmy, a Critics' Choice Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.\n\nGlobal fame has come relatively late. \"You don't think your career is going to rev up during your 40s,\" she told the Plot Twist podcast last year. \"Being a mother, you think it's going to slow down a bit.\"\n\nThere's not much chance of that. She recently appeared in Hocus Pocus 2 and ITV's Tom Jones, and will be in forthcoming films The Fall Guy, Garfield and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two.\n\nShe celebrated her Screen Actors Guild Awards win via a video link last year\n\nIf she hadn't made it as an actress, she would have liked to work as an interpreter, she has said. \"I love languages.\"\n\nShe speaks Italian and French - as she demonstrated in the Eurovision semi-finals.\n\n\"I was just keen to show the hands across the water and try giving languages another go,\" she told reporters on Friday.\n\n\"It's that fine line of wanting to be respectful to a language and include it, but not screw it up. So I hope I'm doing OK.\"\n\nAll the build-up, insights and analysis is explored on the BBC's Eurovisioncast.\n\nEurovisioncast is available on BBC Sounds, or search wherever you get your podcasts from.", "Helen Holland was critically injured in a crash with a police motorcycle escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh on Wednesday\n\nA woman who was critically injured in a crash with a police motorcycle escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh is in a coma in hospital, her family say.\n\nHelen Holland, 81, was hit at the junction of West Cromwell Road and Warwick Road in Earl's Court, west London, at 15:20 BST on Wednesday.\n\nHer family said they were \"shocked and sickened\" at her injuries.\n\nThe police watchdog said their investigation was in its early stages and evidence was being gathered.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said Ms Holland was in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nMs Holland, from Birchanger, Essex, had been in London visiting her older sister on Wednesday, her family told the BBC.\n\nHer son and daughter-in-law Martin and Lisa-Marie Holland said they were \"shocked and sickened at her extensive injuries\".\n\n\"She is being well cared for by the NHS who we must thank deeply for their help in keeping her alive,\" they added.\n\nSophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, was \"grateful for the swift response of emergency services\", a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesperson said on Thursday the duchess was \"grateful for the swift response of emergency services and will keep abreast of developments\".\n\n\"Further comment at this time would not be appropriate while the incident is being investigated,\" they added.\n\nBuckingham Palace previously said the duchess's \"heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with the injured lady and her family\".\n\nThe Directorate of Professional Standards has been notified about the crash.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At 19, Loonkiito had a longer life than most wild lions\n\nA wild male lion believed to be one of the world's oldest has died after being speared by herders, authorities in Kenya have said.\n\nLoonkiito, who was 19, died in Olkelunyiet village on Wednesday night after preying on livestock.\n\nConservation group Lion Guardians said he was \"the oldest male lion in our ecosystem and possibly in Africa\". Most lions live to around 13 in the wild.\n\nAlmost all lions live in Africa with a small population in India, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.\n\nKenya Wildlife Service (KWS) spokesperson Paul Jinaro told the BBC the lion was old and frail and wandered into the village from the park in search of food.\n\nMr Jinaro could not confirm if he was the oldest lion in the country but noted he was \"very old\".\n\nThe Maasai-operated Lion Guardians group works to conserve the lion population in Amboseli National Park, and said the end of a drought was \"habitually marked by an uptick in human-lion conflict\" as \"wild prey recover and become more difficult to hunt\".\n\n\"In desperation, lions often turn to take livestock,\" it said.\n\nIt added the killing of Loonkiito was a \"tough situation for both sides, the people and the lion\", and eulogised him as \"a symbol of resilience and coexistence\".\n\nPaula Kahumbu, a wildlife conservationist and chief executive officer of WildlifeDirect, said she was pained by the killing of the lion and called for measures to protect wildlife in the country.\n\n\"This is the breaking point for human-wildlife conflict and we need to do more as a country to preserve lions, which are facing extinction,\" Ms Kahumbu told the BBC.\n\nThe average lifespan of a lion is about 13 years in the wild, although they can live much longer in captivity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. North Wales Police said the incident is being \"fully investigated\"\n\nA police officer who was filmed seemingly punching a man nine times while restraining him has been suspended by North Wales Police.\n\nThe incident occurred during the arrest of a man, 34, in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, north-west Wales, on Wednesday.\n\nIn the footage, a male officer was seen with his arm around the man's neck and appeared to punch him in the face.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had launched an independent investigation.\n\nNorth Wales Police said on Thursday the matter was being \"fully investigated\".\n\nThe man who was being arrested has been released on bail, the force said.\n\nThe video appeared to show the suspect being taken to the ground by a male and female officer after a brief altercation.\n\nSeparate footage showed the man being led to a police vehicle with a swollen and bruised face.", "A teenage Islamic State convert who has admitted plotting attacks on British police and soldiers has had his sentencing delayed after reports he has threatened to behead a prison imam.\n\nThe judge at the Old Bailey has adjourned the sentencing of 19-year-old Matthew King from Wickford in Essex.\n\nHe was put under surveillance after his mother raised concerns that videos he was watching promoted hatred.\n\nJudge Mark Lucraft KC said she had \"done exactly the right thing\".\n\nKing pleaded guilty in January to the preparation of terrorist attacks between 22 December 2021 and 17 May 2022.\n\nAt Friday's sentencing hearing in London, the prosecution outlined the case and the defence began its mitigation, however the judge adjourned the hearing for two weeks for further inquiries to be made at the prison where King is being held.\n\nThe court heard that intelligence reports from the jail suggested King had said he would \"behead the imam\".\n\nKing's barrister Hossein Zahir KC said this was \"a throwaway remark by an angry young man being stuck in his cell\" and asked for further inquiries.\n\nEarlier, the prosecuting barrister Paul Jarvis told the court King had dabbled in drugs since early secondary school, was expelled and left education at 16 with no qualifications.\n\nHe said King converted to Islam in 2020 and, at first, his behaviour improved, but in 2021 he began criticising his sisters' clothing as immodest and attended mosques wearing combat clothing.\n\nHe was put under surveillance after his mother reported him to the government's anti-extremism agency Prevent, because she feared some of the videos he was watching promoted hatred.\n\nSeveral of the mosques he attended also warned him about his behaviour, and one decided he was no longer welcome, Mr Jarvis told the court.\n\nIn 2022, in the weeks before his arrest, King began carrying out reconnaissance in east London, including on police officers patrolling outside Stratford railway station, as well as at Stratford police station itself and the local magistrates' court.\n\nMr Jarvis told the court that one of the videos found on his phone featured footage near the police station, overlaid with a soundtrack including the words: \"Coldly kill them with hate and rage. Plan your perfect killing spree.\"\n\nOn 17 May 2022, a CCTV camera captured him filming after dark outside a 7 Rifles Army barracks in east London.\n\nHe was arrested at his home the following day and his phone examined.\n\nOfficers found Snapchat messages King sent to a girl who was still in the sixth form, known in court as Miss A, in which he said he wanted to travel to Syria to become a martyr.\n\nThey exchanged messages about how they would like to mutilate members of the British and American armed forces.\n\nMiss A wrote to him: \"We can't let them die quick tho. Slow painful death akhi... I'll guide you through it. Or bring him or her home.\"\n\nThe prosecution said King had said he was \"training for Jihad\" and just wanted \"to kill people\".\n\nMr Jarvis told the court that on 17 May 2022, the day before King's arrest, the girl messaged him to say she wanted to concentrate on her exams.\n\nKing replied to say he would \"be worshipping Allah\" and he might soon be \"on the news\".\n\nThe sentencing has been adjourned until 26 May.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Harry is one of four people taking action against the newspaper publisher\n\nPrince Harry and other celebrity claimants are a \"long way off\" proving Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) unlawfully gathered information on them, the publisher has told a court.\n\nHarry is among high-profile figures accusing MGN of various illicit practices including phone hacking.\n\nAndrew Green KC, representing MGN, said the evidence was \"slim\" in some areas and \"utterly non-existent\" in others.\n\nHe spoke on day three of a highly anticipated hearing at the High Court.\n\nMGN, which publishes the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People newspapers, vehemently denies the allegations.\n\nDuring Friday's proceedings, Mr Green said the claims had been made with \"no basis\" and \"a sense of outrage\".\n\n\"The evidence in this case is slim in relation to one of the claimants and utterly non-existent for the other three,\" he told the court.\n\nHe also took aim at the newspaper articles that had been submitted as evidence, saying they offered a \"breathtaking level of triviality\".\n\nSome 207 stories, published between 1991 and 2011, make up the bulk of the case's evidence. More than 60% of them are about Harry, Duke of Sussex.\n\nAs well as intercepting voicemails, the claimants have accused the publisher of using private investigators to illegally gather details about them to write stories.\n\nDavid Sherborne, the lawyer representing the claimants, told the court that the board knew about the hacking and covered it up.\n\nIn response, MGN said the claimants were \"smearing\" executives, adding that there had been \"extreme allegations of dishonesty\".\n\nHarry is among four people whose claims are being heard in the trial as \"representative\" cases of the types of allegations facing the publisher. They will also help the court set the level of damages MGN should pay if the claimants win.\n\nOthers involved are Coronation Street actors Nikki Sanderson and Michael Turner, known by his stage name Michael Le Vell, and comedian Paul Whitehouse's ex-wife Fiona Wightman.\n\nMichael Le Vell was pictured arriving at court on the first day of the trial\n\nThe publisher's lawyer argued that Ms Sanderson and Ms Wightman have run out of time to sue for damages, because these types of claims should be brought within six years of the alleged victim knowing what happened.\n\nThe Mirror Group's lawyer said phone hacking has been talked about for at least 20 years, with the publisher publicly apologising for its part in the high-profile scandal in 2014.\n\nTherefore, he argued, any potential victims should have known long ago to get a case started.\n\nBut Mr Sherborne said the claimants would not have suspected they too were victims because MGN covered up their wrongdoings so well and for so long.\n\nMr Green compared this current case to the one in 2015, where MGN conceded that unlawful techniques were used to obtain private information, and was ordered to pay £1.25m in damages.\n\nBut he said this case is different, because back then, there was \"direct evidence\" from Dan Evans, a former Sunday Mirror journalist.\n\nMr Evans \"has not said he hacked any of (the claimants)\" this time around, Mr Green said.\n\nDepending on the outcome of this case, the court could then consider cases from a range of celebrities including former Girls Aloud singer Cheryl and former Arsenal and England footballer Ian Wright.\n\nDuring Thursday's hearing, Mr Sherborne told the court that one of the most \"serious and troubling\" features of the case included \"the systemic and widespread use of PIs (private investigators) by MGN journalists to unlawfully obtain private information\" of various individuals.\n\nHe referred the court to key senior MGN figures who he claimed \"authorised\" the unlawful obtaining of information.\n\nHe said this included former editors Piers Morgan, Neil Wallis, Tina Weaver, Mark Thomas, Richard Wallace and Bridget Rowe, and alleged that managing editors and senior executives also knew.\n\n\"Mr Morgan was right at the heart of this in many ways,\" Mr Sherborne told the court.\n\nMr Morgan, who edited the Mirror from 1995 until 2004, has repeatedly denied any knowledge of unlawful information gathering happening under his watch - in particular phone hacking.\n\nThe trial, which is expected to run for seven weeks, will continue on Monday, when Mr Evans will testify.", "Civil servants advised the home secretary to abandon plans to house asylum seekers at a former RAF base in Lincolnshire, it has emerged.\n\nIn an email from February, seen by the BBC, a senior Home Office official advised Suella Braverman to stop work on the site at RAF Scampton.\n\nThe official noted \"significant challenges to progress\" on the site.\n\nThe Home Office said internal departmental discussions were a routine part of its decision-making.\n\nIt comes after West Lindsey District Council, where the base is located, lost its High Court bid for an injunction to stop work on the site.\n\nThe internal email was part of evidence referred to during a court hearing on Thursday.\n\nRAF Scampton is one of a number of military sites the Home Office wants to convert into large-scale asylum accommodation to house asylum seekers waiting for their claims to be assessed.\n\nWhen it announced the plans to convert it in March, the department said it wanted to reduce the cost of housing people in hotels, currently running at around £6m a day.\n\nThe Home Office says up to 2,000 asylum seekers could be housed at RAF Scampton, a base famous for being the former home of the Red Arrows and the World War Two Dambusters squadron.\n\nThe council had recently secured £300m from a developer to regenerate RAF Scampton into a site to be used for tourism, aviation, education and research.\n\nIn court, the council's lawyers said the Home Office's decision to turn the base into migrant accommodation would \"kill off\" the plan, calling this \"perverse\".\n\nThe email, dated 8 February from a senior official in the Resettlement, Asylum Support and Integration Directorate - does not go into detail about the objections but does make reference to the impact of the asylum proposal on redevelopment plans.\n\nIt recommends that the home secretary \"agree to stop work on proposals for RAF Scampton\", and \"immediately notify the local authorities that the Home Office are no longer developing proposals for the site.\"\n\nIn court, Home Office lawyers insisted the regeneration project had been explicitly taken into account by the home secretary.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the department said the military sites would provide \"cheaper and more suitable accommodation for those arriving in small boats\".\n\n\"Not only are these sites more affordable for taxpayers, they are also more manageable for communities, due to healthcare and catering facilities on site, 24/7 security and the purpose built, safe and secure accommodation they provide,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nWest Lindsey District Council is still going ahead with a broader legal challenge to the government's decision to use RAF Scampton.\n\nBraintree District Council in Essex is also involved in similar legal action over plans to turn Wethersfield Airfield into accommodation for asylum seekers.", "Priti Patel blamed the Tory leadership for the party's recent local election losses\n\nFormer home secretary Priti Patel has blamed the Conservative Party's leadership for heavy local election losses in a speech.\n\nMs Patel said she was sorry that it was \"errors and mistakes sometimes of us in Westminster and our actions that have cost our party dearly\".\n\nShe was among several high-profile Tory MPs who spoke to the Conservative Democratic Organisation, a new grassroots pro-Boris Johnson group.\n\nThe Tory Party said it had no comment.\n\nShe told the group's conference in Bournemouth: \"Some parts of Westminster and our colleagues have done a better job of damaging our party than the opposition, the left-wing campaign groups, the civil service, which we all struggle with day in day out and even I'm afraid, some of those in the media that want to distort and make life difficult for us\".\n\nThe Conservative MP for Witham suggested that if government leaders spent more time with the party's grassroots they would be more in touch with their values.\n\nHighlighting heavy Tory losses in the recent local elections in England and the \"serious repercussions\" of that for the party, the former cabinet minister said that \"for the first time in 20 years... we are no longer the largest party in local government\".\n\nThe Conservatives lost control of 48 councils and lost more than 1,000 councillors in May's English local elections.\n\nMany in the party were angry at the scale of the losses, which were worse than predicted, with some blaming Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nThere are three things that unite the new Conservative Democratic Organisation - a belief that the Tory party has become too centralised, a strong feeling that many current policies aren't \"Conservative\" enough and a lingering resentment about the toppling of Boris Johnson by MPs and the later appointment of Rishi Sunak without a vote of party members.\n\nThe problem for this group is that the first two issues aren't likely to be addressed to their satisfaction without the third - a change of leader. But given recent events that's something few want to talk openly about - Jacob Rees-Mogg said it would be an \"absurd\" thing to do. And that suggests that many are now starting to look beyond the next election.\n\nBut other senior Tories are unimpressed. Writing in the Times, former armed forces minister Tobias Ellwood hit out at what he called a \"right-wing caucus\" within the party, focused on tax cuts, \"Europe-bashing\" and culture wars. Those MPs, he said, were \"disloyal\" and \"reckless\", and failed to recognise that a Conservative victory at the next general election is still possible.\n\nMs Patel was a close ally of Mr Johnson and served as home secretary during his premiership.\n\nShe paid tribute to him in her speech as the \"man that got Brexit done\" and as the person who delivered on the \"people's priority\".\n\nIn a video message played at conference, Mr Johnson thanked delegates for \"continuing to campaign for freedom and democracy\".\n\nThe Conservative Democratic Organisation conference in Bournemouth was attended by other high-profile supporters of Mr Johnson including Mr Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries.\n\nIn the speech, Ms Patel criticised MPs who removed Mr Johnson from power.\n\nShe said Westminster colleagues had \"turned their back on the membership and effectively broken that golden thread in terms of the democracy from the bottom of the party right up to the top\".\n\nShe also criticised recent budgets for diverging from what she called Conservative values.\n\nShe warned that if the party does not change it would risk losing more votes.\n\nReacting to Ms Patel's comments, the Liberal Democrats said the Tories had \"decided to rekindle their infighting\" and the party was marked by \"constant chaos\".", "The city is buzzing with life, music and many, many sequins\n\nFor seven months Liverpool has waited for this day, beating six other cities shortlisted for the honour of hosting Eurovision on behalf of war-torn Ukraine.\n\nAll eyes are now firmly on the city.\n\nThe place is \"abuzz\" according to the city region mayor, while Claire McColgan of Culture Liverpool said the scouse capital was \"full of love, compassion and joy\".\n\nEvents have been taking place for weeks, with fans flocking to the Pier Head fan area from Europe and beyond, with all ticketed events sold out in record time.\n\nWith 150 million viewers tuning in worldwide, Liverpool is front and centre on a truly global stage.\n\nAmong the many fans is Remi, from French website Eurovision Quotidien, who said the atmosphere in Liverpool was \"amazing\".\n\n\"Eurovision is in the railway station, in the street, the shops, the library, the book shops, the universities, even the schools are involved.\n\n\"[It's] everywhere. I think it is incredible,\" he said. \"It is the capital of Eurovision, it is a true Eurovision city.\"\n\nEurovision super fans are in Liverpool for Europe's biggest party\n\nOksana Skybinska, head of the Ukraine delegation at Eurovision, said seeing the Ukrainian colours of yellow and blue across the city was \"comforting\".\n\n\"It feels really precious that the city really wants to make this Eurovision of Ukrainian spirit,\" she said.\n\nThe UK is hosting the international song contest on behalf of last year's winners Ukraine and Ms Skybinska said from the beginning of the bidding process it was clear Liverpool was the best choice.\n\nFans have turned up to Liverpool city centre in their droves\n\n\"It was quite obvious that Liverpool would make it in the best possible way because of the openness of the city and the people.\"\n\nShe said the city had been \"ready to embrace other nations and other people\", adding, \"it is a beautiful combination of Liverpool and Ukraine\".\n\nThe heart of Eurovision has become a popular photo spot\n\nLiverpool is absolutely buzzing! Full of life, music and many, many sequins!\n\nYou can't pass a shop front for disco balls and window art, with businesses creating limited edition menus and cocktails.\n\nAnd everywhere you look, there are people with smiles on their faces, draped in flags and costumes, humming the chorus to one of the Eurovision ear worms.\n\nEven the weather has been better than forecasts predicted, with the sun shining on the city.\n\nScousers working in town are able to pop out on their lunch breaks and soak up the atmosphere, sampling traditional Ukrainian food, while pausing at a passing pop up act, like Sam Ryder at the Albert Dock - or Sophie Ellis-Bexter playing a kitchen disco in John Lewis.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio Merseyside This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe council's two week EuroFestival has meant that you don't need golden tickets to the arena shows, with 24 cultural events and commissions taking place around the city - and nine days worth of free concerts in the EuroVillage.\n\nIt's meant thousands of kids have been able to watch The English National Opera performing classics on the city's iconic waterfront and school children across the region have been taught to say 'hello' in Ukrainian.\n\nLiverpool is brimming with pride and joy - the legacy of which will last a lifetime.\n\nMel Giedroyc, one of the commentators, said the buzz in the area was \"extraordinary\".\n\n\"I was in the arena for the second semi-final and I thought the arena was going to lift off at one point... the atmosphere is just phenomenal.\"\n\nMel Giedroyc said the atmosphere in the city has been \"phenomenal\"\n\nBut speaking to BBC Breakfast, she spoke of the \"balance of coverage\", adding: \"It's very, very poignant.\n\n\"I think you feel that kind of poignancy wherever you are in Liverpool... we need to honour them, and we need to give them a good show.\"\n\nBoth Liverpool City Council and Liverpool City Region (LCR), have contributed £2m towards the cost of the contest and have been delighted by how people have embraced it.\n\nLCR Mayor Steve Rotheram told BBC Radio Merseyside: \"The whole place is abuzz... it reminds me of what happened in 2008 and the buzz with the European Capital of Culture.\n\n\"But the excitement... I was stopped on the street yesterday by the president of the superfans of Eurovision who said he'd been to 10 [Eurovisions] and he had never experienced anything like he is experiencing in Liverpool at the moment.\"\n\nDirector of Culture Liverpool at Liverpool City Council Claire McColgan CBE said the people of Liverpool had \"come out and wrapped their arms around Ukraine\".\n\n\"I believe culture is a part of everyday life and it matters to this city,\" she said.\n\n\"People in Liverpool get that, its the most incredible city creatively.\"\n\nMs McColgan reflected on how the city had grown in confidence since the Capital of Culture events.\n\n\"I can feel the difference in the city, we are confident now,\" she said. \"It feels like a whole generation in this city now expects this,\" she said, \"we go big or go home\".\n\n\"It's been an incredible six months in the life of this city.\n\n\"And Liverpool and Eurovision go together really well, especially in these circumstances. It is a great party and celebration but is also full of love, compassion and joy.\n\n\"I'm so proud of the city, I'm so proud to live here. We did it Liverpool!\"\n\nWatching the contest on home soil has been described as a \"once-in-a-lifetime opportunity\"\n\nEurovision researcher and commentator Prof Brian Singleton, from Trinity College, Dublin, has been to 13 Eurovision Song Contests and said the city has \"embraced\" the event.\n\n\"It's just everywhere,\" he said. \"You can't escape it and I just love that.\"\n\nHe said the contest was becoming more mainstream in recent years and was being taken more seriously with artists gaining fame \"despite what the results are\".\n\n\"You don't have to win it now to be really successful,\" he said. \"It's the biggest TV show in the world\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "As Loreen sings in her Eurovision-winning song Tattoo \"it's time to say goodbye\".\n\nAnd it's farewell from us here after a non-stop few hours of live coverage from this year's Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nLightning struck twice for the Swedish singer, as she claimed the crown for the second time in 11 years. While she was the favourite, the votes came down to the wire after Finnish rapper Käärijä and his verdant sleeves brought the house down and came a very respectable second.\n\nYellow and blue were the colours of the night, not just because of the winner but because of Ukraine. The UK hosted the competition on Ukraine’s behalf, and last year's winners Kalush Orchestra kicked off the show in style.\n\nIt was a bad night at the office for the UK's Mae Muller, who came second last. It's a long way from Sam Ryder's second place last year, but it's that unpredictability that keeps Eurovision fans coming back for more every year.\n\nThe celebrations are in full flow in Liverpool but it's goodnight from me and my colleagues Jasmine Taylor-Coleman, Aoife Walsh and Antoinette Radford in London.\n\nThanks to our team reporting from the contest all week, and to you for following along. Is it too soon to say, \"Hello, this is Sweden calling?!\"", "Tricia (left) and Cathie have been friends since they were 13-year-old schoolgirls in mid Wales\n\nFrom Thelma and Louise in the movies to the Absolutely Fabulous Patsy and Eddie, female friendships have been charming audiences for decades.\n\nBut there's a new couple of bosom buddies who have captured the hearts of many - Cathie and Tricia from BBC 1's Race Across the World.\n\nCathie Rowe, 50, and Tricia Sail, 49, who have been best friends since they were 13, spent 51 days travelling 9,942 miles (16,000km) from west to east Canada.\n\nWith a budget of just £2,498.13, and no access to phones or flights, things could have become tense - but they say there was barely a cross word.\n\nCathie says she and her best friend Tricia have a \"wonderful friendship\"\n\n\"Our friendship is very difficult to describe to other people,\" Cathie told Breakfast on BBC One.\n\n\"It is very natural to us, we don't really think anything of it but other people tell us how special it is and how unique it is.\n\n\"It is a wonderful, wonderful friendship and we can be completely ourselves with each other without worrying what the other one thinks.\"\n\nThe pair, who met at school in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, spent much of their time in Canada holding hands.\n\nCathie (left) and Tricia have been friends since they were 13\n\n\"Cathie was literally my guide,\" explained Tricia, who now lives in Exeter, Devon.\n\nTricia has a degenerative eye condition and was keen to take on the challenge while she still could.\n\nAt the time of filming she had about 10% sight in each eye, which has since deteriorated further.\n\n\"I will lose my sight completely,\" she said. \"I wanted to do it to prove to myself and to other people that have sight loss that you can still live, you can still do all these things.\n\n\"Doing this journey with Cathie was just incredible because I know when we grow old disgracefully she's going to be able to say to me 'you remember the Rocky Mountains, it looks a bit like that'.\"\n\nCathie says the pair did not have a cross word during the challenge\n\nCathie, who now lives in Bridgend, said she was incredibly proud of her friend.\n\n\"She showed enormous strength, fantastic determination and she didn't let anything hold her back,\" she said.\n\n\"She quite often jumped in with both feet and I had to reel her in a bit - she was just incredible and I'm hugely, hugely proud of her and to be her best friend.\"\n\nThe pair met when they were teenagers\n\nDespite the gruelling challenge and being far away from family, friends and home, Cathie insists they did not argue.\n\nBut there must have been things that annoyed them about one another?\n\nTricia's most annoying habit is reacting without thinking, said Cathie.\n\n\"It could be anything and she would just jump in there straight away without thinking about it and sometimes I'd be like 'well you do it then'\".\n\nThe gruelling challenge saw the pair spend 51 days travelling thousands of miles from west to east Canada\n\n\"She has to think about things for a long time before she does anything,\" said Tricia.\n\nTricia (right) has a degenerative eye condition and will eventually completely lose her sight\n\nSince then they have been inundated with interview requests and seen their followers on social media rocket.\n\nTricia believes the interest in them is down to their relationship.\n\n\"I think it's that myself and Cathie have got such a good friendship, such a good relationship and we're not frightened of anything, I think that's why people have got behind us,\" she said.\n\nThe pair are already planning another trip together, this time walking the Great Wall of China\n\nLooking back on the incredible adventure, Cathie has nothing but gratitude.\n\n\"It was incredible, quite surreal, [there's] disbelief but also tinged with sadness that it has actually come to an end,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\n\"It was this incredible time, some of it indescribable and then turning the book over and finding that we'd won, I don't think either of us had any words, we just kind of screamed and blubbed at each other for the next 10 minutes.\"\n\nSince returning home they have walked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu along with Cathie's husband, and are hoping to trek the Great Wall of China together in October.\n\nAsked what she would say to someone considering going on a big adventure with their best friend, Cathie said: \"Definitely - do it.\"\n\nThe third series of Race Across the World is available on BBC iPlayer.", "HMS Glasgow was floated on the Clyde for the first time in December\n\nAn inquiry has been launched into \"intentional damage\" of a Royal Navy warship at a Scottish shipyard.\n\nDefence contractor BAE Systems said repairs were being assessed after about 60 cables were cut on HMS Glasgow.\n\nThe Type 26 frigate is currently being fitted out at BAE's yard at Scotstoun on the River Clyde in Glasgow.\n\nIt is the first of eight Type 26 vessels being built. A BAE spokesperson said work had been temporarily paused for an investigation.\n\nThe military news website UK Defence Journal, which reported the incident, suggested that it may have been sabotage by a contractor in a payment dispute.\n\nBut BAE Systems did not confirm any motive for the damage.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We uncovered a limited number of cables on HMS Glasgow earlier in the week, which appear to have been damaged intentionally.\n\n\"We immediately launched an internal investigation, alongside our suppliers, and temporarily paused work on the ship to inspect every area of the vessel and ensure our high standards and quality controls are met.\"\n\nThe firm said work had now resumed and an assessment was in progress \"to scope the repairs needed\".\n\nA total of eight Type 26 frigates are to be built in Glasgow by BAE Systems\n\nIt is understood that about 23,000 cables will be installed on the frigate - including data cables for communication and electrical cables to power the ship's systems.\n\nThe incident comes after HMS Glasgow made its first trip in December.\n\nThe frigate was moved down the River Clyde on a specialist barge and lowered into Loch Long.\n\nIt was then towed back to the yard at Scotstoun for fitting out.\n\nThe next two Type 26 ships, HMS Cardiff and the HMS Belfast, are already under construction by BAE Systems on the Clyde.\n\nIn November, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced BAE Systems has been awarded a £4.2bn contract to build five more Type 26 frigates, on top of the three already under construction.\n\nIn total, Scottish shipyards have orders to build 13 Royal Navy frigates.\n\nEight Type 26s are being constructed by BAE Systems on the Clyde, while five Type 31 vessels are being built by Babcock at Rosyth in Fife.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSweden's Loreen was always the one to beat, and her team knew it too.\n\nShe had something none of the other contestants competing on Saturday's Eurovision grand final had - the experience of winning it before.\n\nThe 39-year-old from Stockholm took the title with her banger Euphoria in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 2012. Now, with Tattoo, and 583 points, she becomes the first woman to win it twice.\n\nIt's an experience she said was \"overwhelming\" as she accepted the glass microphone and took to the stage in Liverpool to repeat her winning performance.\n\nIn November 2022, at a gig in Amsterdam where lots of previous Eurovision contestants were performing, Loreen closed the show.\n\nRumours were circulating she was going to try to enter Eurovision again. And there is no barrier to competing more than once in this contest.\n\nBackstage after the show in her dressing room I cheekily asked if they were true? \"Darling,\" was all she said.\n\nA few weeks later it was confirmed Loreen would be participating in Melodifestivalen - the TV selection show to pick Sweden's participant for the song contest in Stockholm.\n\nIt runs for six weeks and has become a must-watch event for Eurovision fans around the world - with viewing parties in different cities.\n\nThe crowd at Melodifestivalen is packed to the arena rafters in Stockholm\n\nAfter one such party at the Swedish church in north London in early March, fans piled into the upstairs of a pub around the corner and Eurovision hits were played.\n\nTattoo, Loreen's Melodifestivalen entry came on, and people put down drinks to dance to it hard. Bear in mind, it hadn't even won the Swedish selection by then.\n\nBut she is royalty in Eurovision world and fans were excited that she was trying again.\n\nWhen the final rolled around on 11 March in Stockholm, and the BBC's Eurovisioncast went to interview her, she picked up the conversation again with: \"Darling...\".\n\n\"I didn't think I'd do it ever again,\" she said. \"But then they sent me the song and I could just feel it was a good song, and then they popped the question.\n\nIt took her team, which included the same songwriter and producers of Euphoria, around four weeks to change her mind and convince her to go for the double gold in Liverpool.\n\nSweden and Finland picked their acts on the same night - the last two countries to confirm their participants in this year's contest.\n\nNow Loreen was in the mix, the other contestants were excited.\n\nThe UK's Mae Muller continuously refers to her as a \"queen\", while other Eurovision artists openly said that she had it in the bag.\n\nMeanwhile, Tattoo continued to notch up tens of millions of streams.\n\nPre-party events took place across Europe in the run-up to Liverpool and fans travelled to places like Madrid and London to see her perform her two Eurovision songs live.\n\nOutside the venue in London, many fans had Swedish flags and said they were there specifically for Loreen.\n\nIt's hard to encapsulate her cultural significance in the competition's history but she generated a whole new generation of fans of the song contest after 2012 - including myself.\n\n\"I love this community,\" Loreen said, as she posed for selfies. \"I hope people feel how much I love them and care\".\n\nOnce rehearsals began in Liverpool and a full arena of 6,000 people packed into the venue for preview shows this week, it was fascinating to hear the crowd's silence when she sang.\n\nThe audience was transfixed by her and nobody wanted to miss a moment.\n\nShe created a performance that looked visually stunning on-screen, captivating the 160 million watching at home with pyrotechnics, smoke machines, incredible staging and, most-importantly, stand-out vocals.\n\nSweden's 2023 win puts it on par with Ireland as having the most victories in the competition with seven.\n\nNext year, the competition will head to Scandinavia - some 50 years since Abba won in 1974 with Waterloo, catapulting them to international stardom.\n\nMy prediction for next year's slogan for Eurovision could also be a personal message from me to this year's contestants: \"Thank you for the music.\"\n\nAll the build-up, insights and analysis is explored each week on a BBC podcast called Eurovisioncast.\n\nEurovisioncast is available on BBC Sounds, or search wherever you get your podcasts from.", "Fans from across the globe were treated to a Eurovision Song Contest feast in Liverpool.\n\nThe winners of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, Kalush Orchestra performed on stage at the start of the final.\n\nUK entry Mae Muller took part in the flag parade as the proceedings began, and Marco Mengoni carried the Pride flag as well as the Italian one.\n\nAlesha Dixon, Julia Sanina, Hannah Waddingham and Graham Norton were all on stage for the start.\n\nMimicat representing Portugal, Teya and Salena for Austria, Loreen from Sweden and Andrew Lambrou for Cyprus were among the first performers.\n\nCzechia entrant Vesna's braids drew attention, as did the performance of Finland's Kaarija.\n\nUkraine, last years winners, were represented by TVORCHI. Let 3 from Croatia had a controversial performance.\n\nThe UK's Mae Muller was the final act.\n\nDuncan Laurence and other past Eurovision acts joined the presenters on stage after the performances.\n\nLoreen hears that she has won after a tense voting count.\n\nIn the Eurovision Village, crowds sang their hearts out as they watched all the musical drama on a big screen.\n\nHMS Mersey was illuminated in the colours of Ukraine.\n\nIrish duo Jedward were among the acts who entertained fans in the Village zone earlier in the day.", "Elon Musk has named a new chief executive of Twitter, just over six months after his controversial takeover of the social media company.\n\nThe billionaire said Linda Yaccarino, the former head of advertising at NBCUniversal, would oversee business operations at the site, which has been struggling to make money.\n\nHe said she would start in six weeks.\n\nMr Musk will remain involved as executive chairman and chief technology officer.\n\n\"Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app,\" he wrote on Twitter, confirming the decision a day after he had stoked speculation by writing that he had found a new boss without revealing their identity.\n\nMr Musk - who bought the social media platform last year for $44bn - had been under pressure to find someone else to lead the company and refocus his attention on his other businesses, which include electric carmaker Tesla and rocket firm SpaceX.\n\nWith fewer than 10% of Fortune 500 tech companies headed by women, Ms Yaccarino will become that rare example of a woman at the top of a major tech firm, after rising steadily through the ranks of some of America's biggest media companies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Yaccarino was raised in an Italian-American family. After graduating from Penn State, she worked at Turner Entertainment for 15 years before joining NBCUniversal, where she oversaw roughly 2,000 people, and was involved with the launch of its streaming service.\n\nHer work has been marked by close collaborations with big brands, finding opportunities for product placement and convincing them to advertise alongside television shows - even ones with a reputation for edgy content, such as Sex and the City when it first launched.\n\nShe has also built relationships in new media with the likes of Apple News, Snapchat and YouTube.\n\nA 2005 profile in an industry publication portrayed her as a busy, married mother-of-two children, then aged 13 and 9.\n\n\"I have absolutely no hobbies,\" she said at the time.\n\nBusiness Insider's Claire Atkinson has followed Ms Yaccarino's career for two decades and said her background in advertising could help Twitter, which has seen its ad sales drop sharply since Mr Musk's takeover.\n\n\"If Twitter are looking to monetise better than they have been, then that would be the place to start and Linda would be the ideal person to make that happen,\" the chief media correspondent said.\n\n\"She's the kind of person that I can imagine Elon Musk needs,\" Ms Atkinson added. \"She won't be rolled over.\"\n\nIndeed, her negotiating style within the industry earned her the nickname the \"velvet hammer\", according to the Wall Street Journal in 2012.\n\nMs Yaccarino will face the challenge of running a business that has struggled to be profitable, while facing intense scrutiny over how Twitter handles the spread of misinformation and manages hate speech.\n\nWhen Mr Musk first started discussing his plans for Twitter last year, he said he wanted to reduce the platform's reliance on advertising and make changes to the way it moderated content.\n\nHe also said he wanted to expand the site's functions to include payments, encrypted messaging and phone calls, turning it into something he called X.\n\nBut Mr Musk courted controversy when he fired thousands of staff upon his takeover, including people who had been tasked with dealing with abusive posts.\n\nHe also overhauled the way the service authenticates accounts, charging for blue ticks in a move critics said would facilitate the spread of misinformation.\n\nSome of the changes raised concerns among advertisers, worried about risks to their brands, who subsequently halted spending on the site.\n\nMr Musk has acknowledged \"massive\" declines in revenue, though he told the BBC last month that companies were returning.\n\nAt an advertising conference last month Ms Yaccarino interviewed Mr Musk and pressed him on what he was doing to reassure firms that their brands would not be exposed to risk.\n\n\"The people in this room are your accelerated path to profitability,\" she said. \"But there's a decent bit of sceptics in the room.\"\n\nThere has also been some instant scepticism at Ms Yaccarino's appointment on social media, where many were looking for clues to her politics, which reportedly lean conservative.\n\nHer work for the World Economic Forum, an organisation viewed negatively as \"globalist\" by those on the right, has not been well-received in some quarters along with her role in a coronavirus vaccination campaign featuring Pope Francis.\n\nOthers on the left have questioned her political involvement in a White House sports, fitness and nutrition council under former President Donald Trump.\n\nMr Musk, who has also put women in senior positions at SpaceX and Tesla, is known to be a notoriously unpredictable and demanding boss.\n\nEven the announcement unfolded in an unusual manner, after media reports sparked by Mr Musk's post that identified Ms Yaccarino appeared to catch her bosses at NBCUniversal off guard.\n\nAs of mid-Friday in the US, Ms Yaccarino had still not commented publicly on the move.\n\nIndustry watchers will be curious to see how the relationship develops between the New Yorker and the until now hands-on Mr Musk.\n\nMs Atkinson said the two Twitter executives would be facing \"difficult conversations\" about how to handle moderation, especially with the 2024 presidential election approaching in the US.\n\n\"How long Linda can last under these tricky management situations is anyone's guess,\" Ms Atkinson said.\n• None Elon Musk says he has appointed new Twitter boss", "Elon Musk says that he has found a new chief executive to lead Twitter.\n\nHe announced the news on the social media platform, which he bought last year for $44bn (£35bn).\n\nMr Musk did not name the site's new boss but said \"she\" would start in six weeks, and he would become executive chairman and chief technology officer.\n\nReports said the incoming leader would be Linda Yaccarino, head of advertising sales at media giant NBCUniversal, which later confirmed her departure.\n\nMr Musk has been under pressure to name someone else to lead the company and focus on his other businesses.\n\nLast year, after Twitter users voted for him to step down in an online poll, he said: \"No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive.\"\n\nHowever, although Mr Musk had said he would hand over the reins, it was by no means clear when or even if it would happen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTesla shares rose after the announcement. Mr Musk has previously been accused by shareholders of abandoning Tesla after his takeover of Twitter and damaging the car company's brand.\n\n\"We ultimately view this as a major step forward with Musk finally reading the room that has been around this Twitter nightmare,\" said Dan Ives from investment firm Wedbush Securities.\n\n\"Trying to balance Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX as CEOs [is] an impossible task that needed to change.\"\n\nAccording to the Wall Street Journal and Variety, NBCUniversal's Ms Yaccarino was in talks to become Twitter's chief executive. The speculation surrounding Ms Yaccarino intensified on Friday when NBCUniversal announced she had left the firm.\n\nTwitter did not comment on the reports.\n\nIt is sometimes difficult to know when the billionaire and owner of Twitter is being serious.\n\nLast month, when the BBC asked Mr Musk who was going to succeed him as chief executive of the social media company, he said he had made a dog Twitter's leader.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Elon Musk says his 'dog is the CEO of Twitter'\n\nBut if Mr Musk has indeed appointed a female executive, it would make her one of the few women to reach the top of a major technology company.\n\nWomen accounted for fewer than 10% of chief executives of tech firms included in America's 500 biggest companies last year.\n\nAlthough Mr Musk has talked about paid subscribers to Twitter Blue, it is advertising that brings in the vast majority of revenue at Twitter.\n\nThe new boss will no doubt seek to improve relationships with advertisers, and smooth their fears over content moderation.\n\nMr Musk, a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, has said he took over Twitter to protect free speech. However, advertisers do not want their content next to misinformation or extremist content.\n\nHe purchased Twitter in October only after a lawsuit forced him to go through with the deal. Upon taking charge, Mr Musk controversially fired thousands of staff in a bid to cut costs at the firm, which has struggled to be profitable.\n\nIn March, Mr Musk said those efforts had paid off and the platform's finances were improving.\n\nAnd last month he told the BBC that most of the advertisers that had abandoned Twitter immediately after the acquisition had returned.", "RMT general secretary Mick Lynch (third from right) joins members of his union on Saturday outside Euston station\n\nRail passengers have faced travel disruption on the day of the Eurovision Song Contest final as RMT union members strike again in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper said the strikes were \"cynically targeting\" the final, taking place in Liverpool on Saturday night.\n\nBut the RMT denies planning strikes to coincide with the event in Liverpool.\n\nIt said Saturday was chosen for a strike as it was the last date allowed under employment laws.\n\nThere will be no further strike action until 31 May.\n\nTrain companies warned passengers should be prepared for disruption on the days immediately after the strikes.\n\nTrain drivers who are part of a different union, Aslef, went on strike on Friday, with some parts of England having no trains all day. It also denies planning strikes to impact Eurovision.\n\nMerseyrail, which operates trains around Liverpool, said it was unaffected by Saturday's strikes and would run late night services.\n\nMost train companies travelling to and from Liverpool had a limited service as a result of the strike action, according to National Rail.\n\nSpeaking at a picket line outside London Euston station, Mr Lynch said was the last Saturday of the union's six-month mandate in which it could strike.\n\nHe then told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme: \"We've not targeted Wembley or Liverpool or any of the activities that people get up to\" - a reference to both Eurovision and to the football National League play-off final at Wembley on Saturday afternoon.\n\nHe said the union \"wouldn't target a cup final\", but did not rule out considering strikes taking place on 3 June, when the men's FA Cup final and Scottish Cup final will be held.\n\nFuture strike dates could be announced as early as next week, he said, adding that the union was available to meet with the government and employers at any time to try to agree a deal.\n\nHe has written to the transport secretary calling for an special summit between ministers, train companies and unions to end chaos on the railways.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Transport said RMT members should be allowed to vote on the latest pay offer.\n\n\"Since coming into office, ministers have met with the RMT leadership four times and helped facilitate three fair pay offers from employers,\" it said.\n\n\"It's now time for unions to give their members democratic say on their future.\"\n\nThe following rail operators will be impacted:\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents 14 train companies, said rail users should plan ahead and check services before travel. It warned that with fewer services running there would be \"wide variations\".\n\nRebecca Dane-Alderman was planning to travel from Milton Keynes to Worthing to watch the Eurovision final with her best friend - a tradition they have shared every year, except for during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said most of Friday was spent trying to find alternative routes, but they were unsuccessful, so instead will watch it in separate locations over a video call.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme: \"Most of yesterday I was quite sad and I felt quite devastated by it all.\n\n\"I know there are bigger problems in the world, but it was just something that, like I said is a tradition to us, and we were really looking forward to doing.\"\n\nThe RDG offered rail workers a backdated pay rise of 5% for 2022, with a second year's pay rise was dependent on reforms being negotiated.\n\nMr Harper has called on the RMT to allow its members to have a vote on the offer that the RDG has put forward.\n\nBut Mr Lynch said the RDG had \"torpedoed\" the talks aimed at ending the long-running dispute because agreement would have prohibited further industrial action.\n\nHe told BBC One's Breakfast: \"We haven't got enough people, and our members, and Aslef members, are having to work extended shifts, extra days, six and seven days out of the week, when they're sick and tired of it.\"\n\nResponding in a statement, the RDG said the RMT had \"time and time again... blocked the deal negotiated line by line by its top team from going out to its membership for a vote\".\n\nIt said in a statement it was \"time the union leadership and executive finally agreed on what they want from these negotiations\".\n\nMeanwhile, train drivers with Aslef have rejected a two-year offer which would see members receive a backdated pay rise of 4% for 2022 and a 4% increase this year.\n\nHowever, there has been some resolution between the rail industry and the unions. A revised offer from Network Rail, which owns and operates the UK's railway infrastructure, was accepted by RMT members on 20 March, ending that separate dispute.\n\nAslef drivers will strike again on 31 May and 3 June, affecting services across on the day of the FA Cup final in England and the Scottish Cup final.\n\nHow are you affected by the latest round of rail strikes? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Southampton 0-2 Fulham: Aleksandar Mitrovic scores on return from ban as Saints relegated from Premier League Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nAleksandar Mitrovic reached a career-high top-flight tally of 12 goals with Fulham's second at Southampton Southampton's 11-year stay in the Premier League ended in tame fashion as their relegation was confirmed with defeat at home by Fulham. Aleksandar Mitrovic, making his return from an eight-game ban for pushing referee Chris Kavanagh, sealed Saints' fate with a stooping header after Carlos Vinicius' opener. The hosts could have few complaints about the outcome after producing a muted performance despite knowing they had to win to have any chance of pulling off an unlikely survival mission. They did have a Carlos Alcaraz strike disallowed for a marginal offside just before Vinicius broke the deadlock but the confident Cottagers were comfortably the better side. Willian's first-half volley was cleared off the line by fellow Brazilian Lyanco, who had earlier been fortunate to escape a video assistant referee's penalty check for handball. But Vinicius tucked home after Lyanco's clearance ricocheted to him kindly off Harrison Reed and Mitrovic nodded in his 12th league goal of the season from Harry Wilson's cross. Southampton, lethargic throughout, had no response after falling behind and will be playing Championship football next season for the first time since 2012.\n• None Follow reaction from Southampton v Fulham and the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n• None Go straight to all the best Southampton content Sorry Saints sink into second tier Ruben Selles - 'Southampton will bounce with or without me' Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, a Saints supporter, was among those in attendance on Saturday but the clumps of empty seats before kick-off at St Mary's suggested many fans had already conceded the game was up. Their fears were proven right and those vacant chairs numbered thousands at the final whistle, with some of the few who stayed behind voicing their displeasure at interim boss Ruben Selles and his players. Southampton have collected just three points from the past 33 available, slipping into freefall just as a number of their relegation rivals had begun to produce important and, in some cases, unexpected results. Much of the damage was done long before that run, however - Southampton slipped into the relegation places on 6 November after a 4-1 home loss to Newcastle and have remained there ever since. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was among the Southampton fans in attendance for the game against Fulham They sacked Ralph Hasenhuttl a day after that drubbing but the subsequent ill-fated appointment of Nathan Jones as his successor yielded worse results than the Austrian had overseen. The former Luton boss lost seven of his eight league games in charge - the only glimmer of light a 2-1 win at Frank Lampard's then equally hapless Everton. Jones, quickly on thin ice with supporters following home defeats by Brighton and relegation rivals Nottingham Forest, was dismissed after a 2-1 loss to 10-man fellow strugglers Wolves on 11 February. By that time, Saints had hit rock-bottom, sinking to 20th after the Boxing Day defeat by Brighton and staying rooted to the table virtually ever since. Two wins in Selles' first three games in charge - both 1-0 victories, at Stamford Bridge against misfiring Chelsea and at home to fellow drop candidates Leicester - provided a glimmer of hope. But key losses to West Ham, Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest, as well as letting a 3-1 lead after 88 minutes slip to draw 3-3 at then leaders Arsenal, put paid to any hopes of a great escape. Southampton have spent more than three times as long at the foot of the Premier League in 2022-23 as any other club Southampton's previous absence from the Premier League, after relegation in 2005, lasted seven years and included a two-season dip into League One - both things they will hope to avoid this time. They will almost certainly have to rebound without inspirational skipper James Ward-Prowse, who will have suitors aplenty - although it is a damning indictment on their season and, perhaps, summer recruitment, that it is difficult to pick out too many other obvious saleable assets. Saints could take inspiration from Fulham, twice relegated from the top flight in the past four years but showing signs they can shed that yo-yo tag under Marco Silva. This win lifted last season's Championship title-winners to ninth and all but assured the Cottagers a top-half finish, a deserved reward for the entertaining and attacking brand of football they have produced. While Southampton were enduring a club-record 24th league loss of the season and failing to improve on their all-time low home haul of 10 points, from 54 available so far, Fulham were setting happier milestones. This was their 15th Premier League win of the campaign - a record high for the club, as was a seventh top-flight away victory, and they also equalled their highest goal tally of 52 from 2003-04 and 2004-05.\n• None Attempt saved. Manor Solomon (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bobby De Cordova-Reid.\n• None Harrison Reed (Fulham) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Manor Solomon (Fulham).\n• None Attempt blocked. Roméo Lavia (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Moussa Djenepo.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kamaldeen Sulemana (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was an unhappy onlooker as his football club Southampton suffered relegation.\n\nWith his party coming off heavy losses in the local elections, he may have been hoping for some good news as he took his seat at St Mary's Stadium.\n\nHowever, sitting in the stands in jeans and a grey hoodie, he saw Fulham score twice in the second half to end his club's 11-year Premier League stay.\n\nSouthampton's loss on Saturday puts them eight points adrift of safety with two matches to play, and not even a parliamentary intervention would be able to change their fate now.\n\nBorn and raised in Southampton, Sunak has long spoken of his support of the team.\n\nA biography of Mr Sunak has previously said as a youngster his father Yashvir was a season ticket holder, and one of the prime minister's \"most prized possessions\" was a card he received for his 18th birthday signed by the entire squad.\n\nHowever, during his bid to become prime minister in August last year he came under the intense glare of the football community after saying Southampton's could improve their fortunes by beating Manchester United that coming weekend.\n\nThe team were playing Leicester City, but did have United the following week.\n\nRishi Sunak sat in the VIP area at Saturday's game\n\nHis teams had two goals put past them in the second half to see them fall out of the top flight for the first time in over a decade\n\nSupporting a football team is often seen as a way for political leaders to broaden their appeal, but can prove a tricky business.\n\nDavid Cameron claimed to be a Aston Villa fan, but a blunder in a speech in 2015 saw him claim the top flight's other claret and blue team West Ham - something he later put down to \"brain fade\".\n\nA Newcastle United fan, Sir Tony Blair received ridicule for a number of years due an apparent claim to have seen club legend Jackie Milburn play at St James Park in the 1950s - even though the player had retired when he was five.\n\nIn 2008, the regional newspaper which first reported it clarified it had come from something misheard on the radio.\n\nOne former prime minister was never likely to make this kind of slip-up. Gordon Brown was a staunch fan of Scottish lower league side Raith Rovers and could happily recite to interviewers the full line-up of the first match he saw as a seven-year-old.\n\nAnd possibly to add to Sunak's pain, Southampton's rivals Fulham have their own connection with Downing Street.\n\nAfter the match, Fulham's Twitter account showed a picture of Sunak grimacing in the crowd, along with their own caption \"Sorry, the only Prime Minister we recognise is Hugh Grant\" - a nod to the dancing PM portrayed in 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually.", "Supporters of the main challenger made his trademark heart-shape gesture at the rally\n\nTurkey's all-powerful President Erdogan is in the fight of his life against an opposition that has united against him for Sunday's elections.\n\nHis main rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, appeared before a throng of supporters on Friday, flanked by allies from across the political spectrum who have come together as never before.\n\nAs the rain beat down in Ankara, he vowed to restore \"peace and democracy\".\n\nThe man he wants voters to oust after 20 years - Recep Tayyip Erdogan - said he had kept Turkey standing tall despite many challenges, including the economy with its rampant inflation and February's catastrophic double earthquakes.\n\nBoth issues have dominated this febrile campaign for both the presidency and parliament.\n\nAt 74, the opposition leader is often described as soft-spoken, but he gave a powerful speech to an audience that believes this is their best hope so far of reclaiming power from a president who has dramatically increased his own at the expense of parliament.\n\nOn the eve of the vote Mr Kilicdaroglu visited the mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Ataturk\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu is slightly ahead in the opinion polls and his supporters have dared to dream he might win outright on Sunday, with more than 50% of the vote, rather than face a run-off two weeks later.\n\nHis last campaign event was laying carnations at the Ankara mausoleum of Ataturk, the founder the modern secular state.\n\nHours later, President Erdogan led Saturday evening prayers at Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul, and was filmed by worshippers controversially making a political speech in which he said the Muslim world was closely following developments in Turkey.\n\nIt was controversial because three years ago he was the leader who decided to end the historic site's secular status as a museum.\n\nMr Erdogan ended his election push with Saturday prayers at Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul\n\nAsked on TV on Friday night what he might do if he lost, he said the question was absurd, but that his government had come to power democratically: \"If our nation changes its mind, we will do exactly what democracy requires.\"\n\nFirat, one of five million first-time voters, said he was delighted at conservatives and nationalists appearing on the same platform as the head of the centre-left Republican People's Party (CHP).\n\nHere was nationalist Meral Aksener, the only female leader in the six-strong alliance, and there was Temel Karamollaoglu, who fronts the pro-Islamist Felicity party.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu's party is secular to the core, but he has worked hard to reach out to women who wear the headscarf. The six parties have rallied under the slogan Haydi (Come on!) and a campaign song of the same name.\n\nFirat (R), with his sister and mother at the opposition rally, praised the opposition's unity\n\nTensions are running so high ahead of the vote that he wore a bullet-proof vest on stage in Ankara for his final rally and at another event earlier on.\n\nThe race has become as tense as it is pivotal. One of the four candidates for the presidency, Muharrem Ince, pulled out on Thursday, complaining that he had been targeted on social media with deepfake sex videos that had \"manipulated the electorate\".\n\nWhen the main opposition challenger blamed Russia, the Kremlin denied having anything to do with the videos or seeking to interfere in the vote.\n\nMr Erdogan, who has maintained ties with Vladimir Putin, warned his rival: \"If you attack Putin, I will not be OK with that.\"\n\nThe president was addressing party loyalists in Istanbul, but the night before, he was just outside the capital in a city of half a million people that seemed in full support of his AK Party.\n\nOrange, blue and white party AKP flags fluttered throughout the centre of Sincan, as locals filled the streets in the hope of catching a glimpse of Mr Erdogan.\n\nStreets around the Erdogan rally in Sincan were filled with supporters\n\nSupporters chanted party songs as they waited for the president to show up on stage in a green jacket. One chorus rang out repeatedly: Re-cep Tay-yip Er-do-gaaaan.\n\n\"We built schools, universities and hospitals... we changed the face of our cities. We extracted our own natural gas and oil,\" Mr Erdogan told thousands of cheering supporters.\n\nHis strategy, first as prime minister but then as president, has been to build growth, often through big-ticket construction projects that are visible in many of the big cities, but not so obvious in Sincan.\n\nPresident Erdogan was greeted by a mass of adoring supporters in Sincan\n\nAlthough his party still commands strong support, he relies on the backing of the nationalist MHP and other smaller groups in his People's Alliance.\n\nHis greatest support comes mainly from conservative or nationalist Turks, and he has aimed his rhetoric not just at the West, which he accuses of going against him, but at the LGBT community too.\n\n\"The AK Party does not allow LGBT people into its neighbourhood, and the MHP does not allow them into the People's Alliance, because we believe in the sanctity of a family.\"\n\nThese political alliances have become essential under Turkey's political system, as a party needs 7% of the national vote to get into parliament, or be part of an alliance that does.\n\nWhoever wins the presidency will need to have sufficient support in parliament to back their plans.\n\nOn the campaign trail in Ankara, centre-left candidate Aysun Palali Koktas said that while the economy and the aftermath of the earthquake were the top two issues of the election, the future of Turkey's democracy and people's rights were just as important.\n\n\"When we tweet, we don't want to be frightened, and that's the case especially for young people,\" she said.\n\nBut, AK Party candidate Zehranur Aydemir, 25, believes young voters are very well treated by the government. \"You can see young people at every level in our party.\"\n\nMore than 64 million people are expected vote at home and abroad on Sunday.\n\nTo win outright, a candidate will have to secure more than half the vote.\n\nIf no candidate gets at least 50% plus one vote in the first round, the presidential election will go to a second round on 28 May between the two who received the most votes.\n\nRecep Tayyip Erdogan - the most controversial president in modern Turkish history. What is behind his rise from prison to power - and his ruthless determination to stay at the top?\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK Only)", "David Boyd will be sentenced on 23 May for murdering Nikki Allan\n\nA convicted child abuser has been found guilty of brutally murdering a seven-year-old girl more than 30 years ago.\n\nNikki Allan was repeatedly hit with a brick and stabbed dozens of times before her body was abandoned in a derelict building near her home in Sunderland in October 1992.\n\nDavid Boyd, 55, from Stockton-on-Tees, was convicted at Newcastle Crown Court after a three-week trial.\n\nNikki's mother said the \"evil man\" had \"slipped through the net\" for decades.\n\nHe will be sentenced on 23 May.\n\nBoyd, then aged 25, was a neighbour of Nikki's at the Wear Garth flats in the east end of Sunderland and his partner had been the girl's babysitter.\n\nHowever, he avoided suspicion in the initial Northumbria Police investigation because detectives were focussed on another man - also a neighbour - 24-year-old George Heron.\n\nHe was prosecuted but acquitted at a trial in 1993 after a judge ruled police had used \"oppressive\" tactics when questioning him and said his confession had been obtained under duress.\n\nBoyd was familiar with the abandoned Old Exchange building about 300 yards from where he and Nikki lived, and knew how to get inside through a broken, boarded-up window.\n\nDNA matching his was found on Nikki's clothes and he bore a \"striking resemblance\" to a man seen with Nikki shortly before her death, prosecutors said.\n\nThe trial heard Boyd, of Chesterton Court in Norton, confessed to having sexual fantasies about young girls and was convicted of indecently assaulting a nine-year-old girl in 1999.\n\nHe also had a conviction for indecent exposure in 1997 when he flashed three young girls in a park and one for breaching the peace in 1986 when he grabbed a 10-year-old girl and asked her for a kiss.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProsecutor Richard Wright KC previously told jurors Nikki was lured to the building by someone she knew and the \"irresistible conclusion\" was it was done for a \"sinister purpose\" even though there was no evidence of a sexual assault.\n\nHe said the case against Boyd was \"circumstantial but compelling\" but if he was not the murderer then Nikki must have been killed by a \"phantom\" who had left no evidence behind.\n\nThe jury of 10 women and two men in Boyd's trial reached their verdict after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation.\n\nThe public gallery erupted with raucous cheers and cries of \"thank you\" when the verdict was read out. Police officers had to be summoned into the court to restore order.\n\nBoyd, dressed in a white T-shirt, did not visibly react and was remanded into custody.\n\nNikki Allan was killed in the Old Exchange building in the Hendon area of Sunderland\n\nOutside court, Nikki's mother Sharon Henderson, who campaigned tirelessly to keep her daughter's case in the public consciousness, spoke of the \"injustice\" her family had lived with for three decades.\n\nAddressing the botched police investigation in 1992, she told reporters: \"This evil man slipped through the net to murder Nikki when he was on their files in the first place.\n\n\"Three doors down from Nikki's grandparents [where Boyd had been living]. They should have investigated him straight away.\"\n\nAsked how she had managed to keep fighting for justice, she replied: \"Because Nikki's my daughter and I love her.\"\n\nSpeaking after the verdict, Assistant Chief Constable Brad Howe of Northumbria Police praised Nikki's family's \"patience and strength over the last 30 years\", adding: \"Today is about justice for Nikki and her family.\"\n\n\"David Boyd hid his crime, lying about his involvement and prolonging the family's suffering, knowing all along that he had taken the life of their little girl,\" he said.\n\nHe said the investigation had been one of the \"most complex and comprehensive ever conducted\" by the force.\n\nDet Ch Supt Lisa Theaker, the senior investigating officer in the case, added: \"Nikki would have been 37 now and who knows what her life could have been.\n\n\"But her future was cruelly taken away from her by David Boyd. The pain and suffering that he has caused, and to so many people, is immeasurable.\"\n\nChristopher Atkinson, head of the Complex Casework Unit at Crown Prosecution Service North East, said: \"Despite the unimaginable grief endured by Nikki's family, Boyd continued to pretend that he was not involved in the killing for 30 years.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 1953, millions crowded around their neighbours' television sets to watch the Queen's coronation. Seventy years on, the crowning of King Charles III was a very different kind of spectacle.\n\nBefore dawn, at 04:30 BST, a convoy of three coaches set off from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, carrying royal enthusiasts to London. On board was Sandra Hanna, who was born 10 days after King Charles. Although she and the King had experienced somewhat different upbringings, they had a \"shared history\", she said.\n\nExplaining why she had risen up so early to make the 175-mile (282km) journey, she remarked: \"You can't soak up the atmosphere through a TV screen.\"\n\nComing so soon after the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 - a moment of high emotion for millions who said goodbye - this coronation was always going to have a very different ambience. The wet May weather threatened to dampen the mood.\n\nBut still the crowds came - to central London and also to cities and towns across the UK. People gathered in public spaces where the ceremony was screened live.\n\nDraped in Ukrainian and union flags, David-Jon Davies, 52, watched on a big screen at Liverpool's Eurovision Village. It was a proud moment for the city, he said: \"Although I might see another coronation in my lifetime, I definitely won't see one at the same time we're hosting Eurovision.\"\n\nWhile some of those who turned out around the UK were ardent monarchists, for others it was the sense of occasion that mattered. \"I wouldn't say I'm a royalist but I wouldn't want to have missed this,\" said Karen Greenfield, 54, from Doncaster, who watched in Hull city centre.\n\nMany more settled indoors to watch.\n\nOne of those was Audrey Biggs, from St Hilary, in the Vale of Glamorgan, who celebrated her 100th birthday in a care home. Charles would be the fifth monarch whose reign she would live through. Back in 1953, her family had been one of those who bought a TV to watch the previous coronation.\n\n\"He's a rather sensitive sort of a man,\" she said of the King. \"He'll be anxious to make a good job of it, which he will I'm sure.\"\n\nIn a digital, multi-channel, multi-device era, the 2023 Coronation was never going to be the same kind of occasion as 1953. Some protested against the occasion itself. Others tried their best to ignore the whole thing.\n\nThe street parties and gun salutes were still there, of course. And members of the public found idiosyncratic ways to celebrate the occasion ahead.\n\nIn Milton Keynes, a model railway club spent months building a miniature version of the coronation. \"Yarn-bombers\" around Scotland crafted knitted effigies of King Charles and Queen Camilla and attached them to post boxes. Chocolatier Jennifer Lindsey-Clarke, from Worthing, in West Sussex, sculpted a life-sized bust of the King from more than 17 litres (3.7 gallons) of melted chocolate.\n\nAt the same time, plenty of others switched off - either because they simply weren't interested in the spectacle, or because they considered it an affront to democracy.\n\n\"We won't be taking any notice of it,\" Owen Williams, from Barry, told BBC Radio Wales. \"Instead of a coronation, I'd prefer an election. Instead of Charles, I'd prefer a choice.\"\n\nOther non-monarchists concluded their best option was to throw celebrations of their own. The Dog and Partridge pub, in Sheffield, declared itself an \"anti-Coronation safe space\". The Cube cinema, in Bristol, organised an \"anti-street party\" for critics of the British empire.\n\nPro-republic rallies were held in Cardiff and Edinburgh. A crowd of anti-monarchy protesters gathered in London's Trafalgar Square, where the ceremony was relayed over loudspeakers. Whenever Charles's name was mentioned, demonstrators chanted \"not my King\". There were also regular bursts of \"free Graham Smith\" - the head of campaign group Republic, who was arrested earlier in the day.\n\nBefore the procession started, there was a sense of anticipation in crowds around Buckingham Palace. In her bright red, blue and white wig, Heidi Roberts, from Surrey, said she was looking forward to having something to celebrate: \"I think we're all mourning the Queen, and I think it's a bit of a hangover from that.\"\n\nAs the procession began just after 10:20 BST, onlookers along the route erupted in cheers. This was the pageantry they had come for; that and a glimpse of the King and Queen.\n\nThe carriage reached Westminster Abbey and the ceremony began - broadcast to the world and piped to the crowds outside.\n\nThis time the TV pictures were in colour. And social media would curate it for you. On Twitter, Penny Mordaunt - the Conservative MP and leader of the House of Commons, who brandished the Sword of State as part of its presentation to the King - began trending. So too for a time was the republican slogan #NotMyKing.\n\nIn Majorca, British expats and tourists watched on big screens as they sat in the sunshine in novelty crowns. In New York, Iain Anderson, 43, organised a screening at Tea and Sympathy, a British-themed café and shop.\n\n\"We haven't had the best history after that little war\", he joked, referring to the American Revolution. \"But people still like the history. The theatre of it, the pomp and the circumstance.\"\n\nAt the moment the Archbishop of Canterbury placed the crown on King Charles's head, the sound of popping corks could be heard along The Mall. Soon afterwards, as the carriage returned to Buckingham Palace, there were shouts of \"God Save the King\" and \"hip hip hooray\" from the crowd.\n\nThe appearance of the King and Queen on the palace's balcony - albeit with a scaled-back military flypast due to the weather - was imminent. The barriers were lowered. The crowd rushed to the front.\n\nCheryl Kingbrooks, Joanne Gerrard and her son Ryan were among them. \"We never thought we'd get right to the front,\" Cheryl said afterwards.\n\n\"We were right at the back of The Mall, and then as soon as the gates opened, we just ran down and we didn't realise we'd get that far forward. But we did and it was absolutely amazing,\" Ryan added.\n\nSoon after, the new King and Queen retreated inside. For some it had been a day to immerse themselves in, to be part of, come rain or shine. For others it was something to ignore or even endure. Either way, a new reign had begun.", "Silvio Berlusconi recorded his message from his hospital room following a serious illness\n\nItaly's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has told supporters he's ready to go back to work after a month in hospital.\n\nThe 86-year-old, who is suffering from leukaemia, was rushed into intensive care with a related lung infection but his condition has since stabilised.\n\nThere has been no word on when he might leave hospital.\n\nIn a video address from his room, Mr Berlusconi thanked his Forza Italia party members for their support.\n\n\"I never stopped, not even in the past few weeks,\" he said in the pre-recorded message, in which he appeared smartly dressed in a suit.\n\n\"I worked on the party's new structure and I'm ready to return to work with you and fight alongside you our fights for freedom.\"\n\nParty members clapped enthusiastically at the end of the speech and some could be seen holding back tears.\n\nThe message was filmed on Friday after relatives and doctors stopped the billionaire media tycoon from being discharged out of concern he would try to attend the party's two-day convention in Milan, according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.\n\nHe spent two weeks in intensive care before being moved to a general ward in mid-April.\n\nForza Italia was founded by Mr Berlusconi and he remains its leader after serving four terms as president. The party is a junior member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's coalition government but has been in decline in recent years.\n\nMr Berlusconi's latter years in power were overshadowed by sex and corruption scandals and he remains a divisive figure in Italian politics.\n\nEarlier this year, he was finally cleared of bribing young showgirls to lie about his notoriously raunchy \"bunga bunga\" parties.\n\nMr Berlusconi was elected to Italy's upper house, the Senate, last September but has repeatedly required hospital treatment and is rarely seen in public.\n\nHis recent return to hospital caused concern in Italy and politicians from across the spectrum have wished him well.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Witness describes the moment he saw the gunman\n\nInvestigators are working to establish whether a gunman who killed eight people at a Texas shopping mall had far-right links.\n\nThe 33-year-old attacker was shot dead at the scene by a police officer who was responding to an unrelated call.\n\nFederal agents are now reviewing social media to look into his beliefs, reports CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\n\nDuring the attack, the suspect wore an insignia which has been associated with hate groups.\n\nSix people, including children, were pronounced dead at the scene in the north Dallas suburbs, while two died later in hospital. Three of the injured - ranging in age from 5 to 61 - are still in hospital.\n\nThree members of one family, a young security guard and an engineer from India were among those killed.\n\nThe gunman, named by police as Mauricio Garcia, used an AR-15 style rifle and wore combat tactical gear during the shooting. He carried multiple rounds of ammunition.\n\nWitnesses described scenes of panic and horror when the gunman got out of his car near the Allen Premium Outlets mall and began firing on shoppers.\n\nDuring the attack the killer wore a clothing patch with the letters RWDS, which stands for \"Right Wing Death Squad\". This is a phrase popular among right-wing extremists and white supremacy groups.\n\nMourners have set up a memorial for the shooting victims at the Allen mall\n\nOne line of enquiry is whether he was motivated by these ideals and whether he had links to like-minded people, a law enforcement source told CBS.\n\nA social media page appearing to belong to the gunman also shared extremist views. The profile on a Russian platform reportedly includes posts about mass shootings and white supremacy.\n\nPhotos he apparently posted showed Nazi tattoos on his arm and torso. He also shared images last month of a shop near to where the attack took place.\n\nAccording to the US defence department, the suspect entered the US Army in June 2008 and was \"terminated three months later without completing initial entry training\" due to \"physical or mental conditions\".\n\nThe attacker was reportedly working as a security guard at the time of the shooting and did not have a serious criminal record. Officials have searched his parents' home and a nearby extended-stay motel where he had been recently living.\n\nWarning: You may find descriptions below upsetting\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking to CBS, Steven Spainhouer described how he rushed to the scene after getting a call from his son who reported shooting. He spoke of \"unfathomable carnage\".\n\nHe said at least three victims could not be saved even after he applied CPR. \"The first girl I walked up to was crouched down covering her head in the bushes,\" he recalled. \"So I felt for a pulse, pulled her head to the side, and she had no face.\"\n\nAnother witness, Elaine Penicaro, said she was finishing her shopping trip when she heard \"all this popping\".\n\n\"We just ran into the Converse store. They locked the door. We all hunkered down in the back - and that's where we stayed,\" she said.\n\nAllen is a racially diverse suburb north of Dallas and has an infamous connection with another recent mass shooting.\n\nA man who lived there in 2019 went on a gun rampage at a Walmart in El Paso, killing 23 people, after posting a racist manifesto online. In February he pleaded guilty to hate crime charges.\n\nThe shooting comes days after five people were killed elsewhere in Texas following a dispute with a neighbour. And on Sunday one person was killed and two injured in a shooting on a train in Dallas.\n\nThere have been 201 mass shootings this year according to the Gun Violence Archive which defines such incidents as four people injured or killed.\n\nUPDATE: Since this story was first published, police have disputed some elements of Mr Spainhouer's account, including that he arrived before law enforcement and gave first aid to victims. Mr Spainhouer says he stands by his original description of events.", "People have been paying tribute to the victims since Wednesday\n\nThe aroma of burning wax wafts up the tree-lined slope of Svetozar Markovic Street in Belgrade's central Vracar district. Eventually, the source of the scent comes into view: votive candles, set against a wall of white flowers.\n\nThe illuminated tributes stretch around much of the perimeter of Vladislav Ribnikar Primary School and the neighbouring high school.\n\nOn the barriers in front of the main entrance, there are pictures of the eight children who died in Wednesday's shooting, along with handwritten messages from friends and family.\n\nThree girls sit on the pavement, silently holding each other. A little way down the road, a father talks quietly to his three daughters as they lay flowers. There are scores of people at the scene, with a steady flow of arrivals and departures, but there is no buzz - only a hush.\n\nThe contrast to my last visit to Vladislav Ribnikar could hardly be greater. In 2013, I filmed traditional slava celebrations at the school, a joyous occasion paying tribute to St Sava through song, dance and drama.\n\nNow on the weekend of one of Serbia's biggest celebrations - the slava for St George - the country is in mourning. Not just for those who died on Wednesday, but the victims of another mass shooting near Mladenovac on Thursday.\n\nThere is also a sense of mourning for Serbia as people had understood it. In this country, schools had been safe and gun crime rare. Now, the two mass shootings have rocked Serbians' long-held beliefs about their society.\n\n\"Part of the shock is because no-one believed it could happen here,\" says graphic designer Ana Djordjevic. She has a 14-year-old son, and her niece is a pupil at Vladislav Ribnikar.\n\n\"My son told me he doesn't feel safe in school or on the street anymore, and that he cannot fall asleep. We need to give them time and space to process it and heal - and the teachers too.\"\n\nFor most Serbians, business as usual has been out of the question. \"Belgrade never sleeps\" is usually a proud boast about the city's proclivity for partying. This weekend, the mood is palpably subdued.\n\nWaiter Voja Cekic says the recent mass shootings have made people in Belgrade afraid\n\n\"You can feel the strange atmosphere - people are sitting with no music or laughter. If it wasn't for foreign customers, we would have very little business,\" says Voja Cekic, a waiter at a popular bar and restaurant in Belgrade's Old Town.\n\nVoja then reveals that he has a gun at home - a legally licensed Beretta pistol that his grandfather carried when he fought with the Partisans in World War Two.\n\n\"I keep it as a memento of my grandfather,\" he says. \"Perhaps it could be deactivated, so I could just have it as a souvenir. But many people in Serbia have illegal guns.\"\n\nThe question of whether Serbia has a gun problem has been a hot topic following the shootings. A 2018 survey by the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey suggested that Serbia had the third-highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world, behind only Yemen and the United States.\n\nThe Belgrade Centre for Security Policy's deputy director, Bojan Elek, describes the Survey's figure of 39 guns per 100 residents as \"a wild overestimate\". But he believes the government's proposals for \"disarmament\" in the wake of the shootings will be well-received - initially, at least.\n\n\"People are still shocked and they want the government to do something. But eventually, people who legally own weapons will be angry because they will feel they didn't do anything wrong.\"\n\nSome official reactions to the shootings have caused unease, such as Education Minister Branko Ruzic identifying \"Western values\" as an underlying cause. This seems at odds with Serbia's long-stated ambition to join the European Union.\n\nZvezdana Kovac is the Secretary General of the European Movement in Serbia\n\n\"Accusing Western values was very shocking,\" says Zvezdana Kovac, Secretary General of the European Movement in Serbia, which campaigns for EU membership.\n\n\"If one honestly wants to join the EU, one cannot say such words,\" she says. \"It is unacceptable for a serious government to misuse such an event for political purposes.\"\n\nSerbian President Aleksandar Vucic has responded swiftly to the shootings. As well as proposing a crackdown on weapons, he also suggests ensuring that a police officer is on duty at every school, and the lowering of the age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 12.\n\nBut opposition parties are unimpressed. They will march through Belgrade on Monday, protesting against what they view as an attempt by the government to bring in oppressive measures while people are still stunned by the shootings.\n\n\"We don't need more police in schools,\" says Dobrica Veselinovic from the green-left movement, Ne Davimo Beograd.\n\n\"We need more psychologists, more education and an honest talk with ourselves about our position in the world and our relationship with the past. Without that, we will be stuck - we have 30 years of violent history and wars, which we have not processed.\"\n\nFor the moment, processing the events of the past few days is challenge enough. Serbia today feels a very different place to a week ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Ticket prices for the Tower of London have risen by more than 12%\n\nWith the cost of a day out rising, young people are at risk of missing out on important life experiences this summer, a charity has warned.\n\nGo Beyond, which gives vulnerable youngsters holidays, said children could be left isolated and lacking confidence as a result.\n\nTickets for castles, historic sites, gardens, zoos and theme parks have gone up significantly since last year.\n\nHowever, venues told the BBC they were facing rising costs themselves.\n\nThey say higher energy prices, rising wage bills and VAT increases mean they have to pass on some of those costs to visitors.\n\nAt the Titanic visitor centre in Belfast ticket prices are up from £21.50 to £24.95, a rise of 16%. Tickets for Kew Gardens in London are up more than 10% at £20.50. And Stonehenge costs 9% more than it used to, although different price rises apply to different tickets.\n\nFor parents like Hannah Clarke, a single mother with two children, these higher prices make a big difference.\n\n\"It is a massive issue,\" she said. \"It was my daughter's seventh birthday last week and I could only afford the entry cost of where we went because I had saved up supermarket vouchers.\"\n\n\"The trouble is they are changing that scheme, so the vouchers won't go as far as they used to soon.\n\nHannah uses vouchers to cover the cost of days out\n\nHannah said she is trying to be \"more strategic\" about day trips now, looking for free places to visit, and ones that are closer to her home in Rutland, so she can make lunch before they set out.\n\n\"It isn't just the ticket cost but the price of an ice cream when you get there,\" she added.\n\nMichele Farmer, chief executive of Go Beyond, told the BBC that rising prices could lead to some young people becoming isolated from children their own age, which could have a \"negative impact\" on relationships, wellbeing and self-esteem.\n\n\"It would be easy to take for granted just what a difference having those simple childhood experiences can make to a young person,\" she said.\n\n\"Giving children space away from the worries and pressures they face at home gives them the opportunity to grow in confidence.\n\n\"As this summer approaches millions of families who have never had a holiday, now won't be able to afford even the simplest days out,\" she added.\n\nAccording to a survey by Barclays, 52% of the 2,000 people it questioned think tourist sites are pricier now than they were prior to the current squeeze on family budgets.\n\nTwo-fifths of those say they are less likely to spend money visiting these places as a result. Just under a third say that if they do visit attractions, they are less likely to spend money on extras like food, drink and souvenirs.\n\nThe Tower of London says it is offering more for visitors to see\n\nBBC News contacted 15 of the leading paid-for tourist sites in the UK. Most of those that responded said they had put up prices, some by more than the overall rate of inflation, which is just over 10%.\n\nTitanic Belfast said it had made the decision to raise prices based on comparable products and that the venue regularly opened its doors to local people, who were less likely to be able to visit normally.\n\nTickets for the Tower of London go up from £29.90 to £33.60 this year, a 12.3% increase. Historic Royal Palaces said this rise coincided with an increase in what was available to see at the site, and that it was increasing its free and subsidised access at the same time.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society said it had had to pass on some costs, raising ticket prices for its gardens by an average of 6.4% this year, but it had introduced a £1 entry scheme for those on the lowest incomes, it said. Kew introduced a £1 ticket in January 2022.\n\nThe National Trust said it had raised prices for adult entry to Bodnant Gardens in Wales from £14 to £15, an increase of more than 7%, to cover the rising costs of lighting, heating and conserving the places in its care.\n\nCardiff Council and Brighton Pier were the only attractions to say they had not put up either entry fees or ride wristband prices.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray won his first title in nearly four years by beating Tommy Paul in the final of the ATP Challenger event in Aix-en-Provence.\n\nBriton Murray, 35, came back from a set down against American top seed Paul to win 2-6 6-1 6-2.\n\nIt is the three-time Grand Slam champion's first title since winning in Antwerp in 2019, and his first on clay since 2016 in Rome.\n\nIt is his first title at the second-tier Challenger level since 2005.\n\n\"This last year, 18 months, has been a bit of struggle with my game. But [my team] have been there supporting me and working with me to try and get better,\" said Murray.\n\n\"We keep going from here.\"\n\nFifth seed Murray took a late wildcard entry into the tournament to get more clay-court match time before the French Open, following first-round exits from Monte Carlo and Madrid in April.\n\nAfter a slow start against Paul, in which the world number 17 won the opening four games en route to taking the first set, Scotland's Murray found his level at the start of the second set and reeled off five successive games.\n\nPaul, a semi-finalist at this year's Australian Open, got on the board but Murray levelled the match on his first set point and picked up where he left off in the decider, immediately breaking his opponent's serve.\n\nHe missed out on the opportunity to go 3-0 up by failing to convert two break points, and later saw another go begging before he finally broke 25-year-old Paul again in what turned out to be the penultimate game, before serving out the match.\n\nVictory means Murray will rise to 42 in the world when the rankings are updated on Monday - his highest world ranking since May 2018.\n\nHis win over Paul marks his third victory over a top-20 player this year, after beating Matteo Berrettini in the first of his enthralling battles at the Australian Open in January, and Alexander Zverev in Doha in February.\n\nThe French Open, the second Grand Slam of the year, starts on 28 May with Murray aiming to play in it for only the second time since 2017.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can you answer these game show questions? Test yourself in this fun quiz\n• None Who killed Michaela McAreavey on her honeymoon? The tragic murder of an Irish sporting icon's daughter reinvestigated", "The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby places the St Edward's Crown on King Charles's head, during the coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey.\n\nYou can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "The lucky Briton is one of three winners to take a share of the £138m jackpot.\n\nThe two other winning tickets were bought in Switzerland and France.\n\nThe ticket must first be validated, then the winner can decide whether or not they want to go public.\n\nIf the prize is paid out it, it would mean the winner is now richer than singer Sam Smith, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAndy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said he and his team would now focus on supporting the ticket-holder and \"helping them start to enjoy their truly life-changing win.\"\n\nThis was the first UK EuroMillions jackpot win of 2023, according to Camelot.\n\nThe winning numbers were 3, 8, 18, 34, 49, and Lucky Stars 3 and 7.\n\nLast year's biggest win was £195m by a ticket-holder who wished to remain anonymous.\n\nSix EuroMillions jackpots were won in the UK in 2022, with prizes totalling more than £820m.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Prince of Wales has paid tribute to his \"Pa\" King Charles the day after the Coronation, saying the late Queen Elizabeth II would be \"a proud mother\".\n\nAddressing the crowds at Windsor Castle for the Coronation concert, William said his grandmother was \"up there, fondly keeping an eye on us\".\n\nHe said this weekend was \"so important\" because it was all about service.\n\nHighlighting King Charles' achievements over the last 50 years, William said: \"Pa, we are all so proud of you.\"\n\nAnd the heir to the throne made his own vow to the nation, saying: \"I commit to serve you all. King, country and Commonwealth.\"\n\nKing Charles and Queen Camilla - colour-coordinated in blue, with the Queen in a royal blue jumpsuit - smiled and waved their own flags during the evening.\n\nThe Princess of Wales attended with her and William's oldest children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. Prince Louis, who has just turned five, stayed at home after his busy day at the Coronation on Saturday.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh were seated near the King and Queen, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak behind them. Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and his ex-wife the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, also attended, as did Zara Tindall and her husband Mike.\n\nThe crowd of 20,000 people got their tickets in a public ballot, with many more watching performances from stars including Katy Perry and Take That on BBC One and BBC Radio 2.\n\nThere was a crowd of 20,000 for the Windsor Castle concert\n\nThe King and Queen watched the concert alongside the Prince and Princess of Wales and two of their children\n\nThe BBC said on Monday that the concert was watched by an average of 10.1 million, according to overnight figures.\n\nThe event had a peak audience of 12.3 million, the corporation said.\n\nHost Hugh Bonneville - the Paddington and Downton Abbey actor - addressed the royal guests as the show began and acknowledged the King's love of the arts, joking he was \"the artist formerly known as prince\".\n\nThe concert featured musical acts including maestro Andrea Bocelli and Sir Bryn Terfel collaborating on You'll Never Walk Alone, and Olly Murs, who sang Dance with Me Tonight, while there were also spoken word pieces amidst the music.\n\nCold Feet actor James Nesbitt performed work by poet Daljit Nagra, while fashion designer Stella McCartney spoke about conservation.\n\nThere were video cameos from a range of stars, including British acting legend Joan Collins, former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan, artist Tracey Emin and Welsh singer Tom Jones - all of them recounting little-known facts about the monarch.\n\nAnd Top Gun actor Tom Cruise delivered a video message from his War Bird plane, saying: \"Pilot to pilot. Your Majesty, you can be my wingman any time,\" before saluting and banking off.\n\nThe King seemed to enjoy a skit involving Bonneville and Muppet Show stars Kermit and Miss Piggy, in which Miss Piggy said \"King Charlesy Warlesy\" was expecting them in the royal box.\n\nAt the end of the show, Kermit was seen to have made it to the box, waving a flag in front of Prince Edward but there was no sign of Miss Piggy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Colourful drone display lights up the sky at Coronation concert\n\nThe Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Ballet, Royal College of Art, Royal College of Music and the Royal Opera also took part in the show.\n\nThe royal patronages came together for the first time, with a one-off performance from Romeo and Juliet featuring actor Ncuti Gatwa - the new star of Doctor Who - and Olivier Award nominee Mei Mac.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family were seen dancing and singing along to Lionel Richie's All Night Long - with even the King getting to his feet, as did the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Edward and Sophie, and Zara and Mike Tindall.\n\nWilliam's speech on stage came immediately after Richie's performance - with the prince referring to the US singer-songwriter's hit, saying: \"I won't go on all night long\", which drew a laugh from his father.\n\nThe King and Queen were seen dancing and waving flags during the concert\n\nWilliam was seen pointing something out to his son George\n\nIn his speech, William thanked everyone for making it \"such a special evening\" before turning to the significance of the weekend.\n\n\"As my grandmother said when she was crowned, coronations are a declaration of our hopes for the future,\" he said. \"And I know she's up there, fondly keeping an eye on us. She would be a proud mother.\n\n\"For all that celebrations are magnificent, at the heart of the pageantry is a simple message. Service.\"\n\nHe said that after entering Westminster Abbey for Saturday's service, the first words spoken by his father were his pledge to continue to serve.\n\nThe prince praised the King for warning about damage to the environment \"long before it was an everyday issue\", and for his work with the Prince's Trust, the charity Charles set up which supports young people.\n\n\"Perhaps most importantly of all, my father has always understood that people of all faiths, all backgrounds, and all communities, deserve to be celebrated and supported,\" he said.\n\n\"Pa, we are all so proud of you.\"\n\nThe prince gave his thanks to those who serve \"in the forces, in classrooms, hospital wards and local communities\" before offering his own vow of service.\n\nHe finished by saying \"God save the King\", which was repeated loudly by the crowd before the national anthem was sung.\n\nIt was a tender and heartfelt message from William. There was an element of taking on the baton here too.\n\nAt last year's Platinum Jubilee concert it was Charles who as Prince of Wales gave thanks to his mother. Now it was William as Prince of Wales who gave the vote of thanks, stepping into the role of heir.\n\nLionel Richie's performance seemed to go down especially well with the royals\n\nKaty Perry played a medley of her hits, with Princess Charlotte seen singing along to Roar\n\nThe stage, in Windsor Castle, resembled the union jack with catwalks jutting out from the centre creating multiple levels for the 70-piece orchestra and band.\n\nSinger Paloma Faith sang as landmarks around the UK were lit up in celebration - including Blackpool Tower, Edinburgh Castle and Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.\n\nAnd there was the first multi-location drone show to be staged in the UK, with 1,000 drones in formation: a Welsh dragon, spanning 140m, was seen in Cardiff, while a watering can was seen over the Eden Project in Cornwall.\n\nTake That closed the show with Never Forget - with the choristers of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, singing the song's introduction.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nMage won the 149th Kentucky Derby as America's most celebrated race was overshadowed by the death of seven horses in the build-up.\n\nTwo horses, Chloe's Dream and Freezing Point, died hours before Saturday's race at Churchill Downs in Louisville.\n\nEarlier in the week trainer Saffie Joseph Jr was suspended after two of his horses died.\n\n\"It is with the utmost sadness that we report these tragic fatal injuries,\" race organisers said.\n\n\"Churchill Downs is unwavering in our commitment to the health and wellbeing of equine safety.\"\n\nAs well as Parents Pride and Chasing Artie - both trained by Joseph Jr - Wild on Ice, Take Charge Briana and Code of Kings also died this week.\n\nAnimal rights group Peta said that, given the number of deaths, they had urged Churchill Downs to close the track in order to implement stronger safety protocols.\n\nFavourite Forte was among the horses removed from the race early on Saturday, leaving only 18 runners, the smallest field since 2020.\n\nMage, a 15-1 shot ridden by Venezuelan Javier Castellano and trained by Gustavo Delgado, triumphed ahead of Two Phil's and Angel of Empire, one of the pre-race favourites.\n\nThe Grand National was marred by the deaths of three horses across the three-day event in April.\n\nThe start of that race was delayed by 14 minutes after animal rights activists entered the track, while Hill Sixteen died after falling at the first fence.", "The Conservatives have had a miserable time in England's local elections.\n\nThe problem the Tories have faced is a range of competitive opponents. Labour, the Liberal Democrats and even the Green Party have capitalised on the shrivelling of Tory popularity.\n\nLiberal Democrat smiles were sufficiently broad that party leader Sir Ed Davey was found comparing himself to a Cheshire cat.\n\nThe Lib Dems appear to have finally banished the baggage of their years in coalition government.\n\nPlenty of Lib Dems are proud of their time serving alongside the Tories between 2010 and 2015, but plenty of their voters were horrified by it and they were near obliterated eight years ago.\n\nMemories of it for many seem to have retreated sufficiently far into the rear-view mirror that it is no longer a drag anchor on their prospects.\n\n\"We are the none-of-the-above party again,\" one party source observed.\n\nThis was the Green Party's best ever set of local election results.\n\nFor the first time, they've secured a majority on a council, in Mid-Suffolk.\n\nThe only Conservative comfort blanket on an otherwise cold night for them is the scale of a bounce back Labour has to make to win a general election.\n\nSome have suggested the numbers from this election suggest they would have fallen short of a majority had there been a general election this week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour are continuing to insist these local elections results would have led to a majority Labour government, because of progress they believe they can make in Scotland, plus the geographical distribution of their vote share.\n\nParty strategists reckon, with all the problems the Scottish National Party is facing, they could win 20 seats in Scotland at the next general election. They currently hold one.\n\nAnd Labour say their vote is much more \"efficient\" than it has been.\n\nWhat do they mean by this?\n\nThey point out Labour won the general election in 2005 on 35% of the vote, but lost in 2017 with 40% of the vote, because the party was stacking up voters in places where it was already dominant - such as big cities and university towns.\n\nThey argue this week's results show, for them, a much better distribution of their vote in places they need to beat the Conservatives - including good performances in places that voted to leave the EU and places with smaller proportions of graduates.\n\nThis weekend, the recriminations are under way among Tories.\n\nThose around Prime Minister Rishi Sunak say he has done much to steady the Tory ship and the party would be in a far worse state without him.\n\nLet me invite you to peer into my notebook to see what is scribbled there after my phone rang earlier.\n\nA figure loyal to former Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss telling me: \"Rishi has no option but to own these results.\"\n\nAnd they didn't stop there. You can read more about this here. There is little enthusiasm, though, to move against the prime minister.\n\nBut Mr Sunak's capacity to put a lid on Conservative anger appears weakened. His critics are finding their voices again.\n\nThe biggest truth is a political landscape that appears hyper-competitive and so far from definitive.\n\nFrom today's vantage point, it looks hard for either the Conservatives or Labour to be super confident of winning a majority to call their own at the next general election.\n\nAnd that election could be around 18 months away - and a lot can happen in that time.\n\nLabour see a path to victory. The Conservatives still think, still hope, that path can be blocked.\n\nOh and one final thought.\n\nI suspect the Conservatives and Mr Sunak are mighty glad the small matter of King Charles's Coronation will wipe politics off the news for the next few days.", "Police were called to Priory Road, Dartford at 12:45 BST on Saturday by neighbours who reported hearing gunshots\n\nA woman has been taken to hospital with serious injuries consistent with gunshot wounds after being held hostage at her home in Kent.\n\nPolice were called to Priory Road, Dartford at 12:45 BST on Saturday when neighbours reported hearing gunshots.\n\nWitnesses described how officers cordoned off the road and ordered people to stay inside their homes.\n\nFollowing an hour-long stand-off, neighbours described hearing two rounds of gunshots.\n\nKent Police confirmed a man and a woman had been taken to a London hospital with serious injuries consistent with gunshot wounds.\n\nFollowing an hour-long stand-off, neighbours described hearing two rounds of gunshots\n\n\"Officers, along with a trained police negotiator, attended and attempted to engage with a man inside the address,\" a spokesperson for the force said.\n\n\"Police are treating this as an isolated incident and are not looking for anyone else in connection with it.\"\n\nOfficers remain at the scene and enquiries are ongoing to determine what happened.\n\nWitnesses who lived nearby said the woman had been \"held hostage\" by a man at the back of the property.\n\nWitnesses described how Kent Police officers cordoned off the road and ordered people to stay inside\n\nOne woman, who wished to remain anonymous, described the scene as \"chilling\".\n\n\"I was in the house and my husband and two girls were out - they couldn't get back home,\" she said.\n\n\"I went out and was told 'get back - you must stay indoors'. I went to the garden where I could see more.\"\n\nAbout an hour after police entered the property, she said she heard gunshots before a person was carried out on a stretcher.\n\n\"It was pandemonium\", she added. \"I heard five gunshots - a pause and then another five.\"\n\nOfficers remain at the scene in Dartford\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales, have been meeting crowds celebrating the King's Coronation on the Long Walk in Windsor.\n\nThousands have been taking part in street parties across the UK as part of the Coronation Big Lunch.", "King Charles and Queen Camilla, crowned in a lavish, historic ceremony on Saturday, were \"deeply touched\" by the day's events, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nThe royal couple were \"profoundly grateful\" to all who helped to make it \"such a glorious occasion\" and the \"very many\" who turned out to show their support, the palace said.\n\nMeanwhile, the Prince and Princess of Wales made a surprise trip to Windsor.\n\nCrowds cheered as the couple chatted to people taking part in the Big Lunch.\n\nA day earlier at Westminster Abbey, more than 2,000 guests including world leaders, fellow kings and queens, celebrities and community champions packed the pews to witness the crowning of a king.\n\nOutside, thousands lined the Mall despite the rain to cheer the king as his horse-drawn carriage passed from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLater, the couple, still in their crowns, appeared on the palace balcony to wave to the rain-soaked public, keen to be part of a moment in Britain's history.\n\nMillions around the world watched the Coronation, the first in 70 years.\n\nIn the UK alone, at least 18 million viewers tuned in, provisional figures suggest.\n\nCelebrations are continuing on Sunday with thousands of street parties and lunches ahead of a star-studded concert.\n\nAnyone for tea? Rishi Sunak sits alongside US First Lady Jill Biden at the Downing Street lunch\n\nIn Windsor, the Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Catherine, chatted and shook hands with people picnicking along The Long Walk which leads to Windsor Castle. Many will be gearing up for Sunday night's Coronation Concert.\n\nThe lunchtime crowds shouted \"hip hip hooray\" as the royals sipped a homemade gin cocktail, christened Purple Reign, from union jack paper cups while talking to a group of women in foam crowns.\n\nCatherine, dressed in a pale blue blazer, smiled for a selfie with one woman and crouched down to console a tearful little girl who was overwhelmed by the occasion.\n\nSpeaking to another wellwisher, William revealed that his eldest son Prince George - one of the King's pages of honour at the Coronation - is a fan of classic rock music.\n\nCaroline Mulvihill, from the Rock Choir in Windsor and Maidenhead, said: \"Will was telling us in their household they have a very diverse music taste and George is very much into AC/DC and Led Zeppelin.\"\n\nAnother choir member, Sam Leckenby, said the royal couple had revealed they were \"quite pleased\" Saturday's ceremony had been shortened and was not the traditional five hours long.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh joined a Coronation Big Lunch in Cranleigh, Surrey, while the Princess Royal and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence were at a community street party in Swindon.\n\nThe Duke of York's daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, were attending a lunch in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.\n\nAt Downing Street, the prime minister and his wife hosted their own lunch for community figures, Ukrainian families, youth groups - and US First Lady Jill Biden, who represented President Biden at Saturday's Coronation ceremony.\n\nIn all, some 50,000 Coronation lunches are expected to take place in the UK and across the world.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh mingled with crowds in Cranleigh, Surrey\n\nThe King and Queen said they hoped the events would be \"truly enjoyable\", in a message posted on the Royal Family's official Instagram account.\n\nLater at 20:00 BST, the Coronation Concert takes place at Windsor Castle and will be broadcast live on BBC One and BBC Radio 2.\n\nBig names include Katy Perry and Lionel Richie, who were at Saturday's Coronation, as well as Take That, Olly Murs and Paloma Faith.\n\nThere will also be musical favourites from a world-class orchestra and a joint performance from The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal College of Music and The Royal College of Art.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of street parties and lunches are due to take place on Sunday ahead of a star-studded concert on the second day of events for the Coronation.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will attend community events during the day before seeing Katy Perry and Take That perform at Windsor Castle later.\n\nThe more relaxed nature of Sunday's events come after King Charles and Queen Camilla were crowned on Saturday.\n\nThe couple sent good wishes to those taking part in celebratory lunches.\n\nIn a message posted on the Royal Family's official Instagram account, the King and Queen said they hoped it would be a \"truly enjoyable event for everyone\".\n\nThe post also included a photo of the Coronation quiche, which has been declared the official party food of the event.\n\nStaff prepare for The Big Lunch event on Downing Street\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh will attend a Coronation Big Lunch in Cranleigh, Surrey, while the Princess Royal and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence will join a community street party in Swindon.\n\nThe Duke of York's daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie will also attend a big lunch in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.\n\nMeanwhile at Downing Street, the prime minister and his wife are hosting their own lunch for community figures, Ukrainian families and youth groups.\n\nSome 50,000 Coronation lunches are expected to take place on Sunday in the UK and across the world.\n\nLater at 20:00 BST, the Coronation Concert takes place at Windsor Castle and will be broadcast live on BBC One and BBC Radio 2.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh will attend a big lunch event on Sunday\n\nAs well as performances from big names including Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, Take That, Olly Murs and Paloma Faith, a world-class orchestra will play an array of musical favourites.\n\nThere will also be a joint performance from The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal College of Music and The Royal College of Art.\n\nPeople have already started queuing for the concert, including Olly Murs fans Jess, 24, from Manchester and Rachel, 21, from Essex, who won tickets through a public ballot.\n\nThe pair got up at 04:30 BST to travel to Windsor, finding themselves at the front of the queue on the Long Walk.\n\n\"We've come to see Olly today - he's our King,\" they told BBC Breakfast.\n\nMore than 2,000 people including 90 foreign leaders came to Westminster Abbey in central London on Saturday to see the coronation of the King and Queen.\n\nAs well as overseas dignitaries including President Emmanuel Macron of France and US First Lady Jill Biden, the congregation included celebrities, everyday heroes and family and friends of Charles and Camilla.\n\nThe two-hour service saw the King pledge \"not to be served, but to serve\" before receiving the orb and sceptre which are symbolic of his regal power.\n\nWell-wishers filled The Mall in central London to see the flypast by the Red Arrows\n\nAfter he and Queen Camilla were crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, they returned to Buckingham Palace to take their places on the balcony with other members of the Royal Family for a reduced flypast by British military helicopters and the jets of the RAF Red Arrows aerobatic team.\n\nThe armed forces staged the biggest ceremonial military operation since Queen Elizabeth's II 1953 coronation, with 4,000 servicemen and women from across the world taking part in the procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Then and now: Watch two coronations 70 years apart\n\nThe King's youngest the Duke of Sussex was not among members of the Royal Family on the palace balcony, as the BBC understands he was not invited.\n\nPrince Harry, who travelled alone to London from his home in California - where his wife Meghan stayed with their two young children, sat two rows from his brother Prince William, the Prince of Wales, at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIt is the first time he has been seen publicly with his family since his controversial memoir Spare came out, in which he revealed tensions and disagreements with other members of his family.\n\nHe left the abbey shortly after the end of the service to catch a plane back to the US, where his son Archie was celebrating his fourth birthday.\n\nWill you be going to a street party and/or lunch today? Have you organised a coronation gathering? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nRed Bull's Sergio Perez took pole position for the Miami Grand Prix while team-mate and title rival Max Verstappen will start only ninth.\n\nVerstappen made a mistake on his first run in the final session and when Ferrari's Charles Leclerc crashed there was no time to resume the session.\n\nAston Martin's Fernando Alonso will join Perez on the front row.\n\nFerrari's Carlos Sainz is third, with Kevin Magnussen scoring a sensational fourth for the US-based Haas team.\n\n\"That was a mistake of mine trying to put it to the limit and then having to abort the lap,\" said Verstappen.\n\n\"Then you rely on a bit of luck of course that there is not going to be a red flag. It can happen on a street circuit so I'm a bit upset with myself.\"\n\nElsewhere, Mercedes struggled. Lewis Hamilton was knocked out in the second session and will start down in 13th. He was compromised by the team sending him out late, which affected his ability to prepare his tyres effectively.\n\nGeorge Russell managed to sneak through into the top-10 shootout, where he secured sixth place behind the Alpine of Pierre Gasly.\n\nBoth Verstappen and Leclerc were under pressure going into the final runs after making errors in the early part of the session.\n\nVerstappen had run wide at Turns Six and Seven and Leclerc brushed the wall at Turn 16.\n\nBoth needed to deliver on their final runs but Leclerc wrecked the rest of the session for everyone else when, running early, he lost control through the fast Turn Six and spun on the entry to Turn Seven, backing his Ferrari into the wall.\n\nIt was Leclerc's second crash in two days at the same place after he also lost control a little later in the same sequence of corners in second practice on Friday. He will line up seventh.\n\nThe result is a huge bonus for Perez, who is six points behind Verstappen in a private championship battle between the two drivers for the dominant Red Bull team.\n\nPerez had looked out of sorts for much of the weekend but he nailed an excellent lap on the first runs in the final session to put himself in the prime position going into the final runs.\n\nThe Mexican beat Alonso by 0.361secs as the veteran Spaniard continues his excellent start to the season.\n\nSainz was a further 0.147secs behind in his Ferrari.\n\nBehind Leclerc, Alpine's Esteban Ocon, Verstappen and Alfa Romeo's Valtteri Bottas completed the top 10.\n\nWhat did the top three say?\n\nPerez was cheered loudly by the crowd at Hard Rock Stadium in this city with a large Latino population, who saw three Spanish-speaking drivers in the first three positions, and thanked them during his interview after the session.\n\n\"It has been my worst weekend until qualifying really,\" he said. \"I just couldn't figure out how to [recover] all those tenths I was missing to the Max and the Ferraris.\n\n\"I was just resetting everything and we did a small change into qualifying and everything came alive. We were playing with the tools and everything came together.\n\n\"I was just struggling for balance, confidence, this Tarmac is very sensitive to temperature.\"\n\nAlonso said: \"It was a good qualifying. Final practice was a little bit messy for us. We tried a few set-ups and they did not work but we put the car back in a known place and it came alive.\n\n\"The car was so enjoyable to drive. You go close to the walls in Turns 11 to 16 and you need to have that confidence to go to the limit and I had that confidence and am very pleased.\"\n\nSainz added: \"P3 was where where were targeting to be but we could have been better. It is a big unknown how our car is going to compete in the heat, but if we can push ahead that could bring us to the podium and be a great result.\n\n\"I think the Red Bull is very quick but with everyone else it is going to be a good fight with Fernando, the Mercedes, I think it is going to be an exciting race.\"\n\nMercedes were not the only big-name team struggling. McLaren had a dire session, with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri knocked out early on and lining up 16th and 19th.\n\nThe result underlined the difficult position the team find themselves in at the start of this season and was an illustration of why they are restructuring the team.\n\nThis weekend, it has emerged that they have brought back former IndyCar champion Gil de Ferran, their sporting director from 2018-21, in a consultancy role, to help them identify how they can get themselves back on track.\n\nBritish-born Thai Alex Albon had a good session for Williams, starting 11th. And after an error-strewn weekend in Baku, Alpha Tauri rookie Nyck de Vries out-qualified team-mate Yuki Tsunoda for the first time this season and lines up 15th.\n• None Can you answer these game show questions? Test yourself in this fun quiz\n• None Who killed Michaela McAreavey on her honeymoon? The tragic murder of an Irish sporting icon's daughter reinvestigated", "Yevgeny Prigozhin has issued a series of angry statements at the Russian government in recent months\n\nRussia's Wagner Group boss says Moscow has agreed to his demands for more ammunition, days after he threatened to withdraw his men from Bakhmut.\n\nOn Thursday, Yevgeny Prigozhin attacked his Russian partners in a gruesome, expletive-filled rant, filmed among dozens of Wagner troops' corpses.\n\nThe next day he said Wagner fighters would leave Bakhmut by 10 May.\n\nBut on Sunday Prigozhin said Moscow had agreed to provide the supplies \"needed to continue fighting\" in the city.\n\nPrigozhin's apparent U-turn is not a huge surprise. He is a publicity seeker who has not followed through on previous threats.\n\nRussian troops and fighters from Wagner, a private military company, have been trying to capture Bakhmut for months - despite its questionable strategic value.\n\nWestern officials believe thousands of Russian and Wagner troops have been killed in the fighting, and the eastern Ukrainian city has become a symbolic prize.\n\nYet - although Russian troops and Wagner fighters are on the same side - it is an uneasy alliance.\n\nPrigozhin has regularly criticised Russian officials for what he claims is a lack of front-line support.\n\nIn his new statement, Prigozhin claimed that Gen Sergei Surovikin - who commanded Russia's forces in Ukraine between October and January - had been appointed to liaise between Russia's regular military and Wagner mercenaries.\n\n\"This is the only man with the star of an army general who knows how to fight,\" Prigozhin said. \"No other army general is reasonable.\"\n\nWhile Prigozhin didn't expressly reverse his pledge to withdraw troops from Bakhmut, he said his forces had been given permission to \"act in Bakhmut as we see fit\" - appearing to suggest they will remain.\n\nThe Kremlin has not commented on Prigozhin's latest statement.\n\nWagner has its own set of commanders, objectives and motivations, and Prigozhin is widely believed to hold his own domestic political ambitions.\n\nDefence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov have often been the focus for his anger, amid reports of infighting among different power groups in Vladimir Putin's entourage.\n\nIn his statement on Thursday, Prigozhin raged: \"Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where is the... ammunition?... They came here as volunteers and die for you to fatten yourselves in your mahogany offices.\"\n\nAnd he said Wagner's casualties were \"growing in geometrical progression every day\" because of the lack of ammunition.\n\nAt the time, Ukrainian officials expressed scepticism that Prigozhin truly intended to withdraw his forces from Bakhmut.\n\nDeputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said on Friday that Wagner was actually redeploying mercenaries towards Bakhmut in a bid to capture the city before Tuesday's Victory Day celebrations in Russia.\n\nIn other developments in Ukraine and Russia:", "Police Scotland officers carried out a search of the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh in April\n\nPolice Scotland consulted the National Crime Agency about its investigation into the SNP's finances.\n\nThe BBC understands the national force asked the UK agency to carry out an independent review of its inquiry last year.\n\nThe terms and outcome of this exercise have not been made public.\n\nThe investigation has intensified since then with high profile arrests, searches and the seizure of a motorhome.\n\nPolice sources said it was \"good practice\" in cases of this nature for the inquiry team to ask another force to double check their work.\n\nThis is known as a \"peer review\".\n\nAccording to one senior police source, a peer review is typically \"conducted to check on the status, strategy and direction of an investigation\".\n\nThey added: \"The review checks that the lines of inquiry are correct, that nothing has been missed and that the rationale is proportionate and necessary\".\n\nThe National Crime Agency is based in Westminster, London\n\nThe National Crime Agency specialises in the investigation of serious and organised crime across the UK.\n\nIt is not otherwise involved in the investigation into the SNP's finances and fundraising, known as Operation Branchform.\n\nThat began in July 2021 following complaints about how more than £600,000 of donations for a future independence referendum were used.\n\nThe SNP's former chief executive Peter Murrell and the party's ex-treasurer Colin Beattie were arrested, questioned as suspects and released without charge.\n\nThe former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she would fully cooperate with police if they wanted to speak to her.\n\nMs Sturgeon spoke to journalists in the Scottish Parliament last month\n\nThe Uddingston home she shares with Mr Murrell, who is her husband, was searched for two days last month. She later described the experience as \"traumatic\".\n\nA further search was carried out at SNP headquarters in Edinburgh with officers removing boxes of material from the premises.\n\nPolice also removed a luxury motorhome from the driveway of Mr Murrell's mother's home in Fife.\n\nSome in the SNP have publicly questioned Police Scotland's approach with the Glasgow MSP James Dornan describing it as a \"fiasco\" on social media.\n\nMurray Foote, the party's former communications chief at Holyrood, last week said he was prepared to bet that no charges would be brought.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"As the investigation is ongoing we are unable to comment further\".\n\nThe SNP appointed new auditors this week after the firm Johnston Carmichael quit last September.\n\nThe party's Westminster group risks losing £1.2m in public funding if it cannot submit audited accounts by the end of this month.\n\nThe party as a whole could be fined if it cannot meet a separate deadline to submit accounts to the Electoral Commission in July.\n\nOn Wednesday SNP leader Humza Yousaf said he was optimistic the deadlines would be met but described the timetable as \"challenging\".", "Swap the velvet cloaks, jewels, implausibly well-behaved choirboys and animals for ballot boxes, soggy rosettes, clipboards and leisure centres. We are watching one transfer of power on Saturday. Election results around England this week suggest one of a different kind is well under way.\n\nThe Conservatives got a kicking, Labour made good progress and Ed Davey's tractor got the Lib Dems' wheels turning again (sorry). So what's next?\n\nWhen the gap in the opinion polls between the Tories and Labour had been tightening in recent weeks, some Conservatives had been wondering aloud whether the prospects for them were not as disastrous as they'd feared. Real votes have put a dampener on that.\n\nIt does not seem likely, though, that MPs are going to start howling in pain publicly, or suggesting a change at the top, despite a few noises from predictable quarters. One former minister says they are all \"tired and fed up, but if you put your head above the parapet and moan, you just make it worse\".\n\nThe atmosphere in the party may then seem - outwardly, at least - quite calm. After the last few years, an unhappy peace is a political achievement of sorts, but don't mistake it for satisfaction with the leadership.\n\nThe former minister, not a regular critic of Mr Sunak, says it's one of \"resigned depression\". So what might the PM do to cheer it all up?\n\nExpect relentless focus on - you guessed it - the five promises he made. Perhaps, one source suggests, there may be a reshuffle before the summer to line up the team for a future general election before the party conference in the autumn.\n\nAmid the Coronation celebrations, Rishi Sunak had cause for concern about a different kind of transfer of power\n\nBut it's worth a bet that, before too long, Tory HQ will start using the c-word a lot - coalition. The way the results break down suggest that Labour is well ahead - more of that in a moment - but they can't be certain that they would have enough MPs to control the Commons on their own.\n\nDon't be surprised, then, if the Tories start asking questions about who Labour might work with, to recreate previous campaign conversations about \"coalitions of chaos\".\n\nThe situation is already being used to campaign by the SNP, using the message on social media that \"election experts predict the next general election is likely to see a hung parliament - this means the SNP holding the balance of power, so ensure we kick the Tories out\".\n\nRight now there is no way, repeat, no way that we can be sure what the situation will be at the next general election. But the tussle for Labour over whether they could win on their own is already under way and a Conservative source reckons they'll \"hammer it at every opportunity\".\n\nThe numbers from Thursday's local election in England do suggest that if everyone in the country voted in a general election this week Labour would not have had quite enough backing to get to Number 10 on their own. There was support for the Lib Dems too.\n\nBut Labour is already pushing a different message - the line they pumped out yesterday was to claim they are on track for a majority.\n\nThe last thing Labour leader Keir Starmer's party might want this far away from a general election is to get sucked into a debate about how he could govern and with whom if there were a hung parliament.\n\nSir Keir Starmer's supporters say the results vindicate him, but Labour wants to avoid debate about a hung parliament\n\nThe leader's backers reckon the results this week are instead a vindication of his whole approach, and they need to keep on keeping on - fleshing out their plans, his \"missions\", as the months go by and presenting themselves as hard-working winners.\n\nThe results make it easier to argue down those on the left who have grumbled that he's not radical enough, not bold enough.\n\nThe internal fights aren't over, but the Labour leader has more evidence this week that his plans are bearing fruit, particularly when you look at the parts of the election map that turned red.\n\nLastly, what's next for the Lib Dems, once their celebrations of their results have faded?\n\nWell, opportunity, but also risk. The issues they picked in the campaign worked: When they are \"brazen and bold\", one of their MPs said, they benefited from \"anger with Boris Johnson, and anger with everything\".\n\nThere are 80 Westminster seats where they are in second place to the Conservatives. But experienced, wise heads caution about suddenly thinking they can sweep them all yellow.\n\nThe Lib Dems are still a small party, resources are an issue, and they have a \"history of over-stretching', the MP warns, so expect them to proceed with some caution.\n\nSir Ed Davey toasted Lib Dem success in Windsor and elsewhere, but party sources say it won't go to their heads\n\n\"We won't let this go to our heads,\" another party source explains. There will be celebrations this weekend maybe, and perhaps the party's list of target seats might get a little longer. But it'd be a mistake to imagine that one set of local results completely transforms the landscape for them - or any of the parties.\n\nThe snapshot from Thursday is a valuable confirmation when it comes to our two main parties that Labour is well on its way - unimaginable in the ruins of 2019 - and the Conservatives are in deep, deep trouble.\n\nReal votes, not opinion polls, are the ones that matter most.", "The Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, posted these pictures on Saturday evening of the \"mad\" five-hour queues to leave the evacuated area\n\nRussia has sparked a \"mad panic\" as it evacuates a town near the contested Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, a Ukrainian official says.\n\nRussia has told people to leave 18 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, including Enerhodar near the plant, ahead of Kyiv's anticipated offensive.\n\nThe Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, said there were five-hour waits as thousands of cars left.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newshour programme Rafael Grossi - the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - said the evacuation of residents near the nuclear facility indicated the possibility of heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces around the plant.\n\nAlthough its reactors were not producing electricity they were still loaded with nuclear material, he said.\n\nMr Grossi added that he had had to travel through a minefield when he visited the plant a few weeks ago.\n\nEarlier, the IAEA warned in a statement that situation at the Zaporizhzhia facility was \"becoming increasingly unpredictable and potentially dangerous\".\n\nOperating staff were still at the site but there was \"deep concern about the increasingly tense, stressful, and challenging conditions for personnel and their families\".\n\nIt said IAEA experts at the plant had \"received information that the announced evacuation of residents from the nearby town of Enerhodar - where most plant staff live - has started\".\n\nOn Friday, the Russian-installed regional head Yevgeny Balitsky said that \"in the past few days, the enemy has stepped up shelling of settlements close to the front line\".\n\n\"I have therefore made a decision to evacuate first of all children and parents, elderly people, disabled people and hospital patients,\" he wrote on social media. .\n\nThe IAEA has issued warnings previously about safety at the plant - which Russia captured in the opening days of its invasion last year - after shelling caused temporary power cuts.\n\nIn March the IAEA warned the plant was running on diesel generators to keep vital cooling systems going, after damage to power lines.\n\nSince Russia launched its invasion in February 2022 the number of staff at the plant has declined, the IAEA says, \"but site management has stated that it has remained sufficient for the safe operation of the plant\".\n\nRussian forces occupy much of the Zaporizhzhia region but not the regional capital Zaporizhzhia, which lies just north-east of Enerhodar across the Dnipro reservoir.\n\nOn Sunday, the Ukrainian general staff said civilians were being evacuated to the cities of Berdyansk and Prymorsk, further inside Russian-held territory.\n\nThe exiled mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, wrote on Telegram that shops in the evacuated areas had run out of goods and medicine.\n\nHe also said hospitals were discharging patients into the street amid fears that electricity and water supplies could be suspended if Ukraine attacks the region.\n\nAnd he claimed that two-thirds of evacuation convoys - allegedly made up of civilians - consisted of retreating Russian troops. The BBC cannot verify this claim.\n\n\"The partial evacuation they announced is going too fast, and there is a possibility that they may be preparing for provocations and (for that reason) focusing on civilians,\" Mr Fedorov added.", "Eight people have been killed in the US state of Texas after a car struck a group at a bus stop close to a shelter for the homeless and migrants.\n\nThe incident happened in the city of Brownsville near the Mexican border at about 08:30 local time (14:30 GMT).\n\nAt least five other people have been injured, some of them critically.\n\nThe driver has been arrested and charged. Brownsville police say it is not clear whether the incident was intentional.\n\nPolice are still investigating whether the attack was deliberate or accidental, and whether the driver - who has not yet been publicly identified - was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Brownsville Mayor Trey Mendez said that the driver has \"thus far been uncooperative\" with investigators.\n\nA police department spokesman told the New York Times that police are also looking into reports that the driver shouted anti-migrant remarks.\n\nHe spoke to police officers in both English and Spanish, gave various names and refused to submit to a breathalyser test, the spokesman added.\n\nVideo reportedly taken at the scene appears to show the driver being restrained by police officers and taken to a waiting vehicle. In the video - which cannot be independently verified by the BBC - the driver is shirtless and wearing boots coloured like the flag of Texas.\n\nLocal authorities will hold a news conference at 1130 Est (1530 GMT) on Monday.\n\nThe director of the nearby Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center, Victor Maldonado, told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme that surveillance footage showed an SUV running a red light and approaching the bus stop at speed.\n\nThe vehicle then hit the curb and flew about 200ft (60m) - hitting those in its path.\n\nMr Maldonado said that roughly half an hour before the incident, a group of around 20 people who had been staying at the centre left and walked over to wait at the bus stop. He earlier told the Associated Press that most of the victims were Venezuelan men.\n\nSome had been intending to catch a local bus downtown to link up with other buses heading to different parts of the US, for which they already had tickets.\n\n\"All the staff and myself, we're trying to hold it together,\" Mr Maldonado said tearfully.\n\n\"A lot of the folks that we have here are mums with kids, and single males. Right in front of their eyes, they were witnessing a tragedy.\"\n\nHe added that he had not witnessed any hostility towards migrants in the city but is quoted telling KRGV-TV, a local media outlet, that people had come to the gate since the incident and told the security guard the reason it had happened \"was because of us\".\n\nAccording to US border protection officials, the city of Brownsville has recently seen a sharp increase in illegal migrant arrivals.\n\nMr Maldonado also told local media, quoted by AP, that in the past two months the Ozanam Center, an overnight shelter that can hold up to 250 people, has been handling up to 380 people a day.\n\nOfficials in Brownsville issued a disaster declaration last month, following other Texas border cities that have done the same.\n\nThat's ahead of an anticipated influx of migrants due to the upcoming expiry of a Covid-era policy that allowed the US to automatically expel undocumented migrants.", "Emergency services were called to the Southgate Street area shortly before 03:30 BST on Saturday\n\nA man killed in the centre of Bath has been named by police as 18-year-old Ben Moncrieff, from the city.\n\nEmergency services were called to Southgate Street at around 03:30 BST on Saturday where they found a man critically injured.\n\nHe was confirmed dead at the scene.\n\nA 15-year-old arrested on suspicion of murder remains in police custody, while two others detained by officers have been released without charge.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said while formal identification had yet to take place, Mr Moncrieff's family had been informed and were being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nCh Insp Ronnie Lungu, of the Bath Neighbourhood Team said: \"Our Major Crime Investigation Team is continuing to progress its inquiries into what happened, reviewing a significant amount of CCTV footage and taking statements from witnesses.\n\n\"An extension has been granted this afternoon to allow us to continue to question the individual we have in custody.\"\n\nThe area was sealed off on Saturday\n\nCh Insp Lungu said officers' thoughts were with Mr Moncrieff's family and asked that their privacy was respected.\n\nHe added that extra patrols would be carried out in the area to reassure members of the public.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Mass was cancelled at St Mary's Church in Drumragh on Sunday morning\n\nA motorist has been held at gunpoint by three masked men and forced to drive a suspicious object to a police station in Omagh, County Tyrone.\n\nThe hijacking happened near Fireagh Road, off the Dromore Road at about 22:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nAs a result, Sunday Mass was cancelled at the nearby St Mary's Church, while police searched the grounds.\n\nA security alert around the police station on the Derry Road in Omagh has now ended.\n\nA number of homes were evacuated on Saturday night and cordons put in place.\n\nTechnical officers examined the object. It has now been removed from the scene and will be subject to further investigations to establish its viability.\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Insp Will Brown said it was a \"misguided and senseless\" incident that caused disruption to the local community.\n\nRoads near St Mary's Church were closed by police\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the driver, who was, understandably, badly shaken by the ordeal,\" he added.\n\nFr Eugene Hasson from St Mary's said it \"shouldn't be going on at all\" and was \"very disruptive to people\".\n\nInsp Brown said he was grateful for the public's patience and understanding during ongoing police activity in the Fireagh Road area.\n\nPolice have appealed for witnesses and dash-cam footage from anyone who was in the area at the time.\n\nPolice said the alert caused disruption to the local community", "The then Prince Charles meets fishmonger Pat O'Connell at the English Market in Cork in 2018\n\nAs King Charles III prepares to take to the throne he also takes on another legacy left over by his mother.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's 2011 trip to the Republic of Ireland is often seen as a turning point in Anglo-Irish relations.\n\nWill her son continue those steps in reconciliation and what has his relationship been with the Republic of Ireland?\n\nMarie Coleman, professor of 20th Century history at Queen's University Belfast, said that rather than building on his mother's legacy he is \"continuing his own legacy of building those good relations\".\n\n\"The Queen's visit didn't happen in isolation. The groundwork had been laid by the man who is now King Charles,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II and President Mary McAleese at Áras an Uachtaráin in Phoenix Park, Dublin 2011\n\nBefore the Queen's visit to the Republic of Ireland in 2011, King George V's visit in 1911 was the last by a British monarch.\n\nDuring that century-long gap there were seismic events that strained an already complicated relationship - Irish independence, partition and, in the latter part of the 20th Century, the Troubles.\n\nProf Coleman said \"the ice between the Irish and the British royals\" had been broken by Charles himself when he visited the Republic of Ireland in 1995.\n\nIt was the first official visit by a British Royal Family member since Irish independence.\n\n\"I'm not convinced that enough credit is given to him for that particular visit,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\nIn many ways King Charles III has a had a closer personal relationship with Ireland than his mother did.\n\nAs Prince Charles he has come on private visits as a personal friend of the Duke of Devonshire of Lismore Castle in County Waterford.\n\nHe was also co-patron with Irish President Michael D Higgins of the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool.\n\nThere have been huge changes in Ireland since Charles' great-grandfather King George V visited Maynooth, County Kildare\n\n\"He has one of the closest relationships with Ireland, certainly in the last decade, than any monarch I can think of in recent centuries,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\nSince his 2015 Mullaghmore visit he has been a regular visitor.\n\nAs soon as Covid restrictions were lifted he was back visiting in 2022 - with a trip to Tipperary.\n\n\"I would not be surprised if the Republic of Ireland was high on his agenda for some sort of significant visit early in his reign,\" added Prof Coleman.\n\nThe royals paid a visit to the Rock of Cashel in 2022\n\nAs Prince Charles he made a meaningful trip in 2015, visiting Mullaghmore in County Sligo where his great-uncle was murdered in 1979.\n\nThe IRA detonated a bomb on a fishing boat at Mullaghmore, killing Lord Mountbatten, his 14-year-old grandson, Nicholas Knatchbull, and 15-year-old Paul Maxwell.\n\nThe Dowager Lady Brabourne died the day after the attack.\n\n\"We know that he (Mountbatten) was a formative influence on the prince in his in his early years, so that must have been quite a significant emotional blow to him,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\nThe visit was a significant milestone - the then prince was the first senior member of the Royal Family to visit the scene of the attack.\n\nDuring that visit he also met Gerry Adams, then president of Sinn Féin.\n\nSpeaking at the time, he said: \"At the time I could not imagine how we could come to terms with the anguish of such a deep loss, since for me Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had.\n\nHe said the island of Ireland had \"more than its fair share of turbulence and troubles\" and \"those directly affected don't easily forget the pain\".\n\nThen Prince Charles and his wife Camilla with Timothy Knatchbull whose twin brother died in the bomb which killed Lord Mountbatten\n\n\"So I suppose in some ways, maybe that trip brought him some closure,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\n\"But it is representative of the way in which the Troubles affected not just people on the island of Ireland or people from Britain who are affected, but it it affected the Royal Family and the King himself in a very personal way,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It seemed as if the foundations of all we held dear in life had been torn apart irreparably\" - Prince Charles\n\nThe invite and acceptance list for the Coronation shows signs of how far Anglo-Irish relations have come.\n\nProf Coleman said the attendance of the President of Ireland is significant.\n\n\"The Irish Free State when it was still a dominion refused to go in 1937. The Republic of Ireland was not represented in 1953 so it's quite an important departure for the Republic of Ireland also.\"\n\nEven more significant is the presence of Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill - who has accepted an invitation to attend the coronation.\n\n\"It's even an advance on Sinn Féin's position last September, at the time of the death of the Queen, where they drew a distinction between attending events which marked the passing of the Queen, and not attending events which mark the accession of the new King,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\n\"So it looks like their position has even developed from that,\" she added.\n\nHowever, the academic said that much of the progress made in Anglo-Irish relations has been affected by Brexit.\n\nBrexit - the UK's departure from the EU - saw it leave a union once shared with Ireland.\n\nIt also raised questions of sovereignty, identity and borders.\n\nHas the drawn-out departure and protracted negotiations over the Irish border and trade put extra strain on relations between the two governments?\n\nProf Coleman said the process had \"damaged those good relations which the Queen had done so much to forge particularly during that visit in 2011\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDozens of people have been arrested during the King's Coronation, including the leader of a prominent anti-monarchy group.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police said 52 arrests were made for a range of reasons, and all remain in custody.\n\nThe arrest of anti-monarchy protesters earlier in the day has been labelled \"alarming\" by human rights groups.\n\nThe Met said it \"understands\" public concern, but that officers had acted proportionally under the law.\n\n\"Protest is lawful and it can be disruptive,\" Commander Karen Findlay, leading the day's operation, said - pointing to numerous protests that had been policed without any arrests.\n\nOfficers, she said, have a duty to intervene \"when protest becomes criminal and may cause serious disruption\".\n\n\"This depends on the context. The Coronation is a once in a generation event and that is a key consideration in our assessment.\"\n\nAccusations of heavy-handed enforcement began early on Saturday before the Coronation began, when the chief executive of anti-monarchist campaign group Republic, Graham Smith, was arrested at a protest in Trafalgar Square.\n\nFootage showed protesters in \"Not My King\" t-shirts being detained, including Mr Smith. Republic said they were stopped by police while unloading signs near the procession.\n\nThe Met said \"lock-on devices\" - which protesters can use to secure themselves to things like railings - had been seized. Recent changes to the law, passed this week, make it illegal to prepare to lock-on.\n\nBut Republic said officers had \"misconstrued\" straps meant to secure their signs in place.\n\nPolice said the 52 arrests were made for offences including affray, public order offences, breach of the peace and conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.\n\nA breakdown provided later revealed that 32 - or about 60% - were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.\n\nThe Met did not specify how many arrests were of anti-monarchy protesters, but climate group Just Stop Oil said about 13 protesters were arrested on the Mall in London and five others in Downing Street.\n\nA Just Stop Oil spokeswoman said their plan was \"only to display T-shirts and flags\", adding: \"This is a dystopian nightmare.\"\n\nFellow environmental protesters Animal Rising said a number of their supporters were arrested at a training session \"miles away from the coronation\".\n\n\"The reports of people being arrested for peacefully protesting the coronation are incredibly alarming,\" said Human Rights Watch UK director Yasmine Ahmed.\n\n\"This is something you would expect to see in Moscow, not London.\"\n\nHundreds of protesters gathered in the rain in central London on Saturday, with chants including \"down with the Crown\", \"don't talk to the police\" and \"get a real job\".\n\nOther protests were organised in Cardiff, Glasgow and Edinburgh. No arrests were reported outside London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRepublic posted photos on Twitter of police officers taking details from those who were arrested.\n\n\"So much for the right to peaceful protest,\" the group said, adding the force would not give the reasons for their arrest.\n\nDuring the Coronation ceremony, which was broadcast in Trafalgar Square over loud speakers, hundreds of protesters booed the declarations of \"God Save the King\".\n\nAround 300 people gathered for a protest organised by Republic Cymru in Cardiff City Centre.\n\nIn Scotland, supporters of Scottish independence chanted anti-monarchy slogans on a march in Glasgow city centre, while a separate rally was held by the group Our Republic, which campaigns for an elected head of state.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Farm workers in some areas have had to finish by 10:00 to avoid the heat (file picture)\n\nVietnam has recorded its highest ever temperature, just over 44C (111F) - with experts predicting it would soon be surpassed because of climate change.\n\nThe record was set in the northern province of Thanh Hoa, where officials warned people to stay indoors during the hottest times of the day.\n\nOther countries in the region have also been experiencing extremely hot weather.\n\nMeanwhile Myanmar's media reported that a town in the east had recorded 43.8C, the highest temperature for a decade.\n\nBoth countries experience a hot period before the monsoon season but the intensity of the heat has broken previous records.\n\nIn Hanoi, climate change expert Nguyen Ngoc Huy told AFP that Vietnam's new record was \"worrying\" given the \"context of climate change and global warming\".\n\n\"I believe this record will be repeated many times,\" he said. \"It confirms that extreme climate models are being proven to be true.\"\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nIn Vietnam's central city of Danang, farmer Nguyen Thi Lan told AFP the heat was forcing workers to start earlier than ever and finish by 10:00.\n\nVietnam's previous record temperature of 43.4C was set in central Ha Tinh province four years ago.\n\nFurther west, the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka recorded its highest temperature since the 1960s while Indian authorities said parts of the country were experiencing temperatures that were three or four degrees above normal.\n\nIn April, Spain recorded its hottest-ever temperature for that month, hitting 38.8C at Cordoba airport in the south of the country.\n\nIn March climate scientists said a key global temperature goal was likely to be missed.\n\nGovernments had previously agreed to act to avoid global temperature rises going above 1.5C. But the world has already warmed by 1.1C and now experts say that it is likely to breach 1.5C in the 2030s.\n\nIn its report, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said \"every increment of global warming will intensify multiple and concurrent hazards\".", "The Met arrested three women's safety volunteers in Soho\n\nWestminster City Council officials said they are \"deeply concerned\" by reports women's safety volunteers were arrested hours before the Coronation.\n\nThe Met said at about 02:00 BST on Saturday three people were arrested in Soho on suspicion of conspiracy to commit public nuisance.\n\nAmong items seized were a number of rape alarms, the force said.\n\nThe Met said it \"received intelligence\" people \"were planning to use rape alarms to disrupt the procession\".\n\nTwo women, 37 and 59, and a man, 47, were taken to a south London police station where they were questioned.\n\nThe man was further arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods, the force said.\n\nAll three have been released on bail pending further inquiries.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan said: \"We are aware of and understand there is public concern over these arrests. However, the matter is still under investigation.\n\n\"The intelligence we received led us to be extremely worried about the potential risk to public safety.\"\n\nAicha Less, cabinet member for communities and public protection at Westminster City Council, said: \"We are deeply concerned by reports of our Night Stars volunteers being arrested overnight.\n\n\"This service has been a familiar and welcome sight in the West End for a long time and have extensive training so they can assist the most vulnerable on the streets late at night.\n\n\"We are working with the Metropolitan Police to establish exactly what happened, and in the meantime, we are in touch with our volunteers to ensure they are receiving the support they need.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Sadiq Khan said: \"Whilst an investigation into the incident is still ongoing, the mayor has urgently sought clarity around the circumstances which culminated in the arrest of three Westminster Night Watch volunteers on Friday evening.\n\n\"The Mayor remains in close contact with the Met's senior leadership.\"\n\nNight Stars is a part of the central London council's night safety campaign.\n\nAccording to the council's website, Night Stars volunteers are \"focused on working with the West End's evening and night-time economy businesses to promote women's safety and reduce violence against women and girls\".\n\nIt adds: \"The team will provide wider support to anyone who becomes vulnerable due to intoxication to reduce the risk to their safety or prevent them from becoming victims of crime.\n\n\"The Night Safety volunteers aim to make London's nightlife safer for everyone.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "You can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "This was history in the making - and you had to pinch yourself to think you were seeing it close-up, inside Westminster Abbey.\n\nOver there was the battered but rather beautiful Coronation chair, with a King about to be crowned. It looked almost fragile waiting for its royal occupant.\n\nYou could feel the sense of expectation. It was really happening right here, on an altar full of candlelight, prayers and a glow of gold. The Abbey was like being inside a jewel box.\n\nThe first Coronation in 70 years proved to be a sumptuous, seamless and often surreal ceremony.\n\nBefore 2,300 guests, King Charles and Queen Camilla went through the ancient rituals, with a twist of modern signals about diversity.\n\nBut it was also like a spectacularly lavish wedding, with friends, families and famous faces crowded into every corner of the church, playing with their phones, checking to see who else was there.\n\nAnd where else would international royalty, world leaders and 100 overseas heads of state get an opportunity to meet Ant and Dec?\n\nThe King is crowned in the 700-year-old Coronation chair\n\nThere were glamorous outfits and hats, splashes of military uniforms with epaulettes, plumes and swords, clerical robes and every shade and shape of national dress. The selfies on the way in were going to prove that they'd really been here.\n\nThere were traditional roles with baffling titles such as Bluemantle Pursuivant and Rouge Dragon Pursuivant and a number of men seemed to be entirely dressed in medieval flags.\n\nWalking down the nave when he arrived, the King seemed to be pausing to take it all in.\n\nWhat was he thinking, after all the decades that he'd been waiting for this day? Was he thinking about his mother, his own family, the responsibility?\n\nWhen the Archbishop of Canterbury appeared to give the crown a couple of twists on his head, the King might have been thinking less charitable thoughts.\n\nA guest in the Abbey takes a selfie with Ant and Dec\n\nAnd the only person who could have stolen the King's show was possibly Penny Mordaunt, the lord president of the council, who hovered around the high altar looking like a deity who had escaped from an ancient Greek urn.\n\nBut the King must have been delighted with the music, not least because he'd chosen it himself, like all of this elaborate ceremony. It was like a big work of art and he was its creator.\n\nAt close quarters in the abbey, the orchestra and choir were remarkable, the music welling up like a tidal wave of sound. It was bouncing off the stained glass windows.\n\nThe piece by William Byrd had all the aching melancholy and stillness that you suspect King Charles would really have enjoyed. Handel's Zadok the Priest, full of drama and anticipation, was a real spine-tingler.\n\nThere was also the most eclectic collection of people in the congregation. There were hundreds of charity workers, US First Lady Jill Biden, President Macron and rows of celebrities, such as Joanna Lumley, Maggie Smith, Stephen Fry, and hello, it's Lionel Ritchie.\n\nMany of the guests had been inside the abbey for hours before it started, which meant some of the best-dressed queues ever seen for the toilets. I'd never really thought about the mechanics of such a visit for a peer in floor-length robes and ermine.\n\nIt was a lavish and colourful spectacle in the Abbey\n\nThere had been stories about MPs complaining about a lack of tickets for the Coronation. Part of the problem might be there are now so many ex-PMs to accommodate. Even Liz Truss got a seat.\n\nBoris Johnson arrived looking like his shirt collars were staging their own backbench rebellion.\n\nThe current PM, Rishi Sunak, had a speaking part, delivering the Bible lesson.\n\nFor those hoping to watch any body language between Prince Harry and his brother Prince William, there was nothing to see, as they may as well have been sitting a continent apart.\n\nHarry arrived looking relaxed and chatty, despite this being a huge transatlantic flying visit, and was seated a couple of rows behind Prince William, the Prince of Wales.\n\nPrince Harry was heading back to the US straight after the service\n\nThe older brother, who must have been thinking that one day he'll face his own Coronation, was more engaged in his own role in the ceremony.\n\nThere seemed to be glances exchanged too between the husband and wife at the centre of this event, who were maybe having the big public wedding they didn't have before.\n\nKing Charles now has his Queen Camilla beside him. It took them about half an hour to get to the Abbey in the morning, but their journey to this point has taken them decades.\n\nIt's impossible to go into Westminster Abbey without feeling the weight of history on every side. It seeps from every plaque and statue. Even the clothes had a story. The King was wearing a robe that had been his grandfather's and Catherine was wearing earrings that had been Diana's.\n\nMany guests might have been remembering being here at the late Queen's funeral, which eight months ago went out through the same doors as today's newly-crowned couple.\n\nThe King and Queen left the Abbey in the Gold State Coach\n\nSuch grand occasions, snapshots for the history books, are where the past, present and future overlap.\n\nWith the music soaring and the guests on their feet, the King and Queen left the Abbey to step inside the crown-on-wheels that is the Gold State Coach, with umbrellas up against the rain.\n\nThe carriage pulled away, past a sea of waving camera phones, and another era had begun.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nCeltic clinched their second successive Scottish Premiership title under Ange Postecoglou as Kyogo Furuhashi's 30th goal of the season helped overcome stubborn 10-man Hearts at Tynecastle.\n\nThe visitors were out of sorts and second best until the stroke of half-time when Alex Cochrane's yellow card for a foul on Daizen Maeda was upgraded to red following Video Assistant Referee intervention.\n\nKyogo made the breakthrough and sparked jubilation among the away support with his 50th Celtic goal before substitute Oh Hyeon-gyu steered in a second to ensure the club's 11th title in 12 years.\n\nIt is a 53rd league crown overall for Celtic and they can complete a fifth treble in seven seasons with victory over second-tier Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the Scottish Cup final on 3 June.\n\nWhile fourth-place Hearts were incensed by Cochrane's controversial dismissal, Celtic lapped up the celebrations of a title triumph that comes with four games to spare and has been a formality for weeks if not months.\n• None Seven games which helped Celtic keep Premiership crown\n• None Can you name these 'firsts' from Celtic's season?\n• None All you need to know about Celtic\n\nOn the weekend of the king's coronation, Celtic were unable to deliver a majestic performance but got the job done at a venue where Postecoglou's league tenure began with a 2-1 defeat two years ago. His side have come a long way since then.\n\nHearts had plenty on the line in this one, too - third place guarantees European group-stage football and a £3m bounty - but their impressive first-half display culminated in a hugely controversial turning point.\n\nMaeda latched on to Anthony Ralston's pass over the top and was clipped by Cochrane a few yards outside the corner of the penalty box, with Kye Rowles in the vicinity as he raced back to cover.\n\nNick Walsh initially flashed the yellow card, only to upgrade it to red after being advised by VAR official Willie Collum to take a second look.\n\nHome fans erupted in fury and Celtic almost rubbed salt in their wounds from the resultant free-kick as Carl Starfelt stabbed in, but Ralston was offside in providing the knockdown.\n\nAs derision rained down at the officials, Celtic winger Jota tried to keep the ball in play on the flank and sent Hearts manager Steven Naismith flying. Postecoglou saw the funny side as he jokingly signalled for VAR.\n\nHearts had been the better side before the interval, knocking Celtic off their stride with a high-pressing and aggressive approach. Rowles rattled a skidding shot inches wide, and Lawrence Shankland had an early header tipped over before being flagged offside.\n\nThey failed to test Hart, though, and their task was turned on its head. Celtic emerged after the break looking to make their numerical advantage count, with Reo Hatate looping a volley just over the angle of post and bar.\n\nStill, Celtic had not mustered a shot on target until the 67th minute when Callum McGregor picked out the run of Hatate, who squared for Kyogo to force the ball past Zander Clark for a landmark goal.\n\nKyogo picked up a knock in the process and soon departed. His replacement, Oh, capped the victory by steering the second from fellow sub Aaron Mooy's delivery to make it four domestic trophies out of five so far for Postecoglou.\n\nCeltic's rejigged defence looked ill at ease for much of the first half as Hearts swarmed at them and forced mistakes.\n\nThe red card was the undoubted turning point and while never hitting their own high standards, Celtic wore down a Hearts side who were galvanised by a sense of injustice.\n\nIn reality, the hard work had already been done. Celtic have been imperious this season, with their sole domestic defeat coming against St Mirren in September. In fact, having lost three of his opening six Premiership games as Celtic manager, Postecoglou has lost just one in the league since.\n\nHis side are now just one goal shy of matching the league haul of 106 achieved by Brendan Rodgers' Invincibles in 2016-17. With four games remaining, that landmark will surely tumble. Winning all those matches would also set a new points record, eclipsing the Invincibles' mark of 106 by one.\n\nAs for Hearts, this defeat will sting, primarily because Naismith's side more than matched the visitors before Cochrane's dismissal.\n\nStill, Aberdeen's defeat at Rangers means the Tynecastle men have not lost ground in the fight for third place. Hearts' performance will enhance their belief the five-point gap is not insurmountable, especially with Aberdeen coming to Tynecastle in a fortnight.\n\nWhat they said\n\nCeltic manager Ange Postecoglou: \"I'm just really proud of this group of players and staff. They've maintained an absolutely ridiculous standard this year. They are relentless in their approach.\n\n\"Having success last year, you always worry as a manager - are they going to be as hungry? From the first day, they haven't let up and it's a credit to every single one of them.\"\n\nHearts interim manager Steven Naismth: \"Frustration is the overriding feeling. We put so much into it. Most of the first half was played in the Celtic half. We had the better chances\n\n\"One moment has set us back but we dealt with it well. The game then falls into that first goal category and unfortunately for us it was Celtic who got it.\"\n\nHearts make a Premiership trip to St Mirren on Saturday (15:00 BST) and Celtic face Rangers in the final Old Firm derby of the season at Ibrox a few hours earlier (12:30).\n• None Attempt blocked. Anthony Ralston (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Mooy.\n• None James Hill (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Attempt saved. Sead Haksabanovic (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Anthony Ralston.\n• None Goal! Heart of Midlothian 0, Celtic 2. Oh Hyeon-Gyu (Celtic) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Aaron Mooy.\n• None Attempt blocked. Callum McGregor (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Reo Hatate.\n• None Barrie McKay (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the left wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHeavy Conservative local election losses represent a \"clear rejection\" of Rishi Sunak in his first electoral test as prime minister, Labour has said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer claimed his party was on course to win the next general election, expected next year.\n\nThe Tories lost 48 councils and more than 1,000 councillors across England in Thursday's polls, exceeding their worst predictions.\n\nMany Tories were angry at the scale of the losses, with some blaming Mr Sunak.\n\nLabour says it is now the largest party in local government, surpassing the Tories for the first time since 2002.\n\n\"The British public has sent a clear rejection of a prime minister who never had a mandate to begin with,\" a Labour spokesperson said.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats had what their leader Sir Ed Davey said was their \"best result in decades\", taking control of 12 councils, mostly in Tory heartlands. The party gained 405 new councillors, compared with Labour's 536 gains.\n\nThe Green Party gained 241 seats - their best-ever result in local elections - and gained its first majority on an English council, in Mid-Suffolk, although they were overtaken as the biggest party by Labour in Brighton and Hove.\n\nMr Sunak admitted the results were \"disappointing\", but said he did not detect \"a massive groundswell of movement towards the Labour Party or excitement for its agenda\".\n\nSir Keir claimed the \"fantastic\" results showed his party was well placed to oust the Tories from government in a general election, expected next year.\n\n\"Make no mistake, we are on course for a Labour majority at the next general election,\" he told cheering activists in Medway in Kent, one of the councils his party has wrested from the Tories.\n\nLabour won control of councils in areas that will be crucial battlegrounds in the general election, including Medway, Swindon, Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent, and East Staffordshire.\n\nThe BBC's projected national vote share put Labour on 35%, the Tories on 26% and the Lib Dems on 20%.\n\nLabour's projected nine-point lead represents its largest over the Conservatives on this measure since the party lost power in 2010.\n\nSir John Curtice, the polling expert, said this year's results were \"only a little short of calamitous for the Conservatives\".\n\nBut the BBC's political editor, Chris Mason, said the results suggested it would be hard for either the Conservatives or Labour to be confident of winning a majority at the next general election.\n\nLabour shadow cabinet member Peter Kyle denied the results, which saw the Lib Dems gain nearly as many new councillors as Labour, was an anti-government, rather than a pro-Labour, vote.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the results showed Labour had won back support in \"key places\" and would win an outright majority at the general election, without needing to do deals with other parties.\n\n\"In all of the areas that the Labour Party targeted, that we focused resources, that we really wanted to reconnect to voters, we did so.\"\n\nHe added that Sir Keir Starmer had \"led from the front\" and Labour had run a \"disciplined\" campaign, which showed it was \"moving towards government.\"\n\nIn Swindon, where Labour took control of the borough council for the first time in 20 years, ousted Tory council leader David Renard blamed \"the cost of living and the performance of the government in the last 12 months\" for his party's woes locally.\n\nMr Renard said although the prime minister had \"started to stabilise things\", for voters in Swindon \"what had gone on before that was something that they didn't like\".\n\nDavid Renard, Swindon's former council leader, who lost his own seat\n\nThe Conservative mayor of the Tees Valley, Ben Houchen, who is up for election next year, said the poor Tory performance was a partly a result of \"the turmoil and upheaval of the last 12 months\".\n\nHe said Labour had been \"successful in making this a referendum on the government\", adding \"people don't feel like they can vote for us\".\n\nNigel Churchill, a former Tory councillor who lost his seat on Plymouth Council - another Labour target - said \"I think we can safely say\" the Conservatives will lose the next general election.\n\n\"The general public do not trust them at the moment,\" he said.\n\nBut Education Minister Robert Halfon said this year's local elections were always \"going to be difficult\" for his party.\n\nHe said internal party divisions \"didn't help\", but claimed the losses were down to external factors, such as the cost-of-living crisis and problems in the NHS.\n\n\"Every government during the mid-term, especially a government that has been in power for 13 years, always suffers losses in local elections,\" he said.\n\nOther Tory MPs told the BBC that apathy - Conservative voters staying at home - was also a big problem for the party.\n\nThe seats up for grabs were mostly on district councils, responsible for services including bin collections, parks, public housing and planning applications.\n\nThe rest of the elections were for a mixture of metropolitan and unitary councils - single local authorities that deal with all local services - and for four mayors.\n\nThe elections were the first in England to see voter ID checks at polling stations. Some voters told the BBC they were turned away from polling stations, prompting critics to call for the ID rules to be dropped.", "The fighting has been particularly fierce in the capital, Khartoum\n\nRepresentatives from Sudan's warring armies have arrived in Saudi Arabia for their first face-to-face negotiations.\n\nThe \"pre-negotiation talks\" between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were due to start on Saturday in Jeddah. They are sponsored by the US and Saudi Arabia.\n\nSeveral ceasefires have broken down since the fighting began weeks ago.\n\nBoth sides have said they will discuss a humanitarian truce but not an end to the conflict.\n\nThere has been no word so far about whether the meeting has taken place or who the representatives from both sides are.\n\nSaudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan welcomed the representatives from both parties. He said he hoped the talks would \"lead to the end of the conflict and the return of security and stability to the Republic of Sudan\".\n\nGen Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who leads the RSF, said on Twitter that the group appreciated all efforts to establish a ceasefire and provide the Sudanese people with aid. He also insisted the RSF was committed to \"the transition to a civilian-led government\".\n\nGen Daglo, better known as Hemedti, is engaged in a bitter power struggle with Sudan's army commander, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan - the country's de facto president.\n\nSaturday's talks come amid reports of continuing clashes in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.\n\nHundreds of people have been killed and nearly 450,000 civilians displaced since the fighting began. Of that total, the International Organization for Migration says, more than 115,000 have sought refuge in neighbouring countries.\n\nA joint US-Saudi statement urged \"both parties to take in consideration the interests of the Sudanese nation and its people and actively engage in the talks towards a ceasefire and end to the conflict\".\n\nA spokesman for UN children's agency, James Elder, said the conflict's first 11 days alone had killed an estimated 190 children and wounded 1,700 - and those figures were just from health facilities in Khartoum and Darfur.\n\n\"The reality is likely to be much worse,\" he said.\n\nThe intensity of the fighting has prevented much-needed aid deliveries getting through.\n\nSo far Gen Burhan and Hemedti, who led an Arab militia in the brutal Darfur conflict, have shown little readiness to reach a peace settlement.", "Gary Prado Salmón in 2007 - he wrote a book about the capture of Che Guevara\n\nThe Bolivian general who captured the Cuban revolutionary Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara and became a national hero has died aged 84.\n\nIn 1967 Gary Prado Salmón led a military operation in Bolivia, backed by US secret service agents, that defeated a communist insurrection organised by Che Guevara.\n\nAt the time Bolivia had a right-wing military government.\n\nAn army officer executed Argentina-born Guevara a day after his arrest.\n\nThe Cold War between the US and Soviet Union was at its height and Washington was extremely concerned about communist influence in Latin America, including Che Guevara's activities.\n\nHe had left Cuba after the triumph of the 1959 revolution there, to lead guerrilla movements in other countries. He was a key ally of Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro and became a hero for communists worldwide.\n\nGen Prado's son described his father as \"an extraordinary person\", who left \"a legacy of love, integrity and courage\".\n\nChe Guevara pictured in Cuba in 1965 - he was industry minister at the time\n\nThe Bolivian officer who shot and killed Che Guevara was Mario Terán, who died last year.\n\nAfter ambushing Guevara's guerrilla group Gen Prado was made a national hero for having defended the Bolivian military regime.\n\nHe had led US-trained Bolivian Rangers in a remote jungle region where Che Guevara's group, originally numbering about 120, had declined to just 22.\n\nSince 1981 Gen Prado had been a wheelchair user, after a bullet fired accidentally hit him in the spine. He wrote a book about his 1967 triumph, called How I Captured Che.\n\nAccording to his son, \"for him capturing Che was not the most important thing he did in his life - rather, it was to contribute to making the armed forces a democratic institution that would respect the constitution and laws\".\n\nChe Guevara was executed in the Bolivian village of La Higuera, 830km (516 miles) south of La Paz, and his body was buried in a secret location. In 1997 his remains were discovered, exhumed and returned to Cuba, where he was reburied.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA gunman shot and killed eight people, including children, at a shopping mall north of Dallas on Saturday.\n\nHundreds of people were evacuated from the Allen Premium Outlets mall as eyewitnesses described a man firing indiscriminately at passers-by.\n\nA police officer on an unrelated call killed the gunman after hearing shots. Police have yet to identify him.\n\nPresident Joe Biden on Sunday called once again for Congress to tighten gun controls in the wake of the tragedy.\n\nHe said the attacker, using an AR-15 style assault weapon, gunned down innocents in \"the latest act of gun violence to devastate our nation\".\n\n\"Such an attack is too shocking to be so familiar,\" he added, calling on Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and require universal background checks.\n\nAs of Sunday morning local team, at least three surviving victims were in critical condition, police said.\n\nAllen Fire Chief Jonathan Boyd said seven people - including the gunman - were pronounced dead at the scene and two died later in hospital.\n\nThe victims' ages range from 5 to 51, according to a hospital spokesperson.\n\nA police officer at the mall \"heard gunshots, went to the gunshots, engaged the suspect and neutralised the suspect,\" Allen Police Chief Brian Harvey said.\n\nSome witnesses described the gunman as dressed all in black and wearing combat gear. Footage taken after the gunman's death appeared to show an AR-15 style rifle lying near his body.\n\nTexas Governor Greg Abbott described the shooting as an \"unspeakable tragedy\" and said the state was ready to offer any assistance to local authorities.\n\nUS police have asked members of the public with video captured at the scene to contact the FBI, as they collect evidence.\n\nShoppers were seen leaving the mall, some with arms raised\n\n\"I heard about 10 pops go off, then ten to fifteen more shots - we see this guy dressed all in black, a vest, just shooting at people,\" said one witness, adding \"we just got to the back of the store\".\n\nVideo from the scene showed people running for cover across a car park as a series of shots rang out.\n\nAllen has about 105,000 residents and is 20 miles (32km) north of central Dallas.\n\nPresident Biden on Sunday ordered US flags be flown at half-mast at federal buildings, military posts and American embassies until sunset on Thursday as he made his plea for tighter gun controls.\n\nRepublicans in Congress are unlikely to back such a call, and gun ownership with few restrictions enjoys widespread support in Texas itself.\n\nMost adults aged 21 or over in Texas are allowed to carry a handgun without a licence, unless they have a previous conviction. In addition, there are few restrictions on possession of rifles and shotguns. Republicans control the Texas state legislature.\n\nIn the US so far this year there have been at least 198 mass shootings in which four or more people were killed or wounded, according to the Gun Violence Archive. That is the most at this point in the year since at least 2016.\n\nThe scene at Allen Premium Outlets as police secured the area\n\nOne eyewitness at the mall, Fontayne Payton, told the AP news agency he heard gunshots though his headphones as he shopped at H&M.\n\nWhen people were allowed to leave the mall, he described seeing bodies outside.\n\n\"I pray it wasn't kids, but it looked like kids,\" he said. \"It broke me when I walked out to see that.\"\n\nAllen Mayor Ken Fulk called it \"a tragic day\" for the city. \"Allen is a proud and safe city, which makes today's senseless act of violence even more shocking,\" he said on the city's website.\n\n\"However, I want to commend our police and fire departments for their quick response. Their thorough training not to hesitate to move toward the threat likely saved more lives today.\"\n\nTexas Senator John Cornyn tweeted that he was \"grieving with the Allen community\" and praised the quick response of \"all of those involved in responding to this afternoon's horrific incident\".\n\nEarlier this week police in Texas arrested a man accused of shooting dead five neighbours, including a nine-year-old boy.\n\nFrancisco Oropesa was found hiding in a cupboard after a four-day manhunt.", "Zakhar Prilepin is one of Russia's most celebrated authors and a veteran supporter of ultranationalist politics\n\nA Russian pro-war writer who was seriously injured in a car bombing said he would not be intimidated by the apparent attempt on his life.\n\nZakhar Prilepin, a vehement supporter of Russia's campaign in Ukraine, said he survived because he was driving.\n\nThe bomb was under the passenger seat, and killed his friend Alexander Shubin, he wrote in a Telegram post.\n\nInvestigators claim that a suspect, Alexander Permyakov, has admitted working for Ukraine.\n\nInitial reports suggested that Prilepin had been in the passenger seat and his driver had been killed, but Prilepin said he had been driving himself.\n\nThe explosion broke both his legs, he said - and added that he had dropped off his daughter \"five minutes before\".\n\n\"You will not intimidate anyone,\" he warned those behind the attack. \"Thanks to everyone who prayed, because it should have been impossible to survive such an explosion,\" he added.\n\nThe prize-winning author and veteran of Moscow's bloody wars in Chechnya is one of Russia's most celebrated writers, and before 2014 was a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin.\n\nBut in recent years Prilepin - long known for his involvement in Russian ultranationalist politics - has seemingly reconciled with Mr Putin and become a strident supporter of the Ukraine invasion.\n\nThe 47-year-old has admitted fighting alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and has called for the \"return of Kyiv to Russia\".\n\nLast year a group founded by Prilepin called on officials to \"purge the cultural space\" of all who oppose the conflict.\n\nRussia's Investigative Committee (SK), which handles serious crimes including terrorism, accuses Alexander Permyakov of having detonated a remote-controlled bomb, wrecking Prilepin's Audi.\n\nThe bomb was allegedly planted on the road and detonated remotely\n\nThe SK says he was caught in a neighbouring village. The region is more than 425km (265 miles) east of Moscow.\n\nHe \"admitted doing an assignment for the Ukrainian secret services\", the SK alleges.\n\nThe partisan group Atesh, which is made up of Ukrainians and Crimean Tartars, claimed it was behind the attack on Prilepin.\n\n\"We had a feeling that sooner or later he would be blown up,\" they wrote on Telegram. \"He was not driving alone, but with a surprise on the underside of the car.\"\n\nUkraine's security service (SBU) issued its standard response, declining to comment on the attack or to a Russian foreign ministry allegation that Ukraine - backed by the US government - targeted Prilepin.\n\nThe attack is the latest to target high-profile supporters of President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.\n\nVladlen Tatarsky was killed last month. The blogger had reported from the Ukraine front line and gained notoriety last year after posting a video filmed inside the Kremlin in which he said: \"We will defeat everyone, we will kill everyone, we will rob everyone as necessary. Just as we like it.\"\n\nActivist Darya Trepova, 26, was later arrested and was charged with terrorism following the publication of a video - believed to have been recorded under duress - in which she admitted bringing a statuette to the café that later blew up.\n\nAnd in August 2022, Darya Dugina - the daughter of a close ally of Mr Putin - was killed in a suspected car bombing near Moscow.\n\nIt is thought her father, the Russian ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, who is known as \"Putin's brain\", may have been the intended target of that attack.", "The Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey was attended by royals from around the world, international leaders, famous faces, faith leaders, charity representatives and local heroes.\n\nHere's a look at who was there - and who got the front row seats.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family were front and centre at the ceremony, many in full regalia, like the Prince and Princess of Wales. They were joined by their children Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, sitting on the front row of Westminster Abbey.\n\nCatherine and Charlotte wore similar Alexander McQueen dresses, with Jess Collett x Alexander McQueen headpieces created with silver bullion, crystal and silver thread.\n\nWilliam spoke to his two younger children, Louis and Charlotte, as they arrived at the abbey\n\nPrincess Charlotte held her brother Louis' hand as they prepared to take their seats\n\nMeanwhile, older brother George was taking his position as a page of honour\n\nTheir eldest child Prince George is one of the King's pages of honour and walked behind his grandfather as he entered the abbey, helping with his robes.\n\nPrince Harry flew in from California for the ceremony, but his wife Meghan did not attend\n\nThe Duke of Sussex attended, sitting alongside his cousins Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. His wife Meghan is staying at their California home with their children Lilibet and Archie - who turns four today.\n\nPrince Andrew arrived by car with his daughter, Princess Eugenie\n\nPrincess Beatrice attended with her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, and was seated near her cousin, Prince Harry\n\nZara Tindall, her husband Mike, and her brother Peter Phillips were all smiles ahead of the service\n\nRepresenting the US was First Lady Jill Biden, accompanied by granddaughter Finnegan - the pair were wearing complementary blue and yellow outfits, the colours of the Ukrainian flag.\n\nUS First Lady Jill Biden with her granddaughter\n\nTheir compatriots at the service included singer Katy Perry, who will be performing at the Coronation concert on Sunday.\n\nWearing a lilac skirt suit and an eye-catching flying saucer-style hat, she was accompanied by British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful as she walked to Westminster Abbey.\n\nAdam Hills, host of the Last Leg, took a photograph of himself with Katy Perry\n\nShe was later seen taking a photograph with Australian comedian Adam Hills, host of The Last Leg.\n\nWhile Lionel Richie was seen with London Mayor Sadiq Khan\n\nAlso performing at the concert will be Lionel Richie, who said hello to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan as people took their seats in the Abbey.\n\nRichie was invited because of his links to the Prince's Trust charity, set up by the King in 1976. Presenters Ant and Dec were also there in their role as goodwill ambassadors for the charity, which supports young people.\n\nThey were seen posing for a selfie inside the Abbey. Dame Joanna Lumley, a friend of the King and Queen Camilla, was also happy to strike a pose for a photograph as she waited to enter the building.\n\nAs did Dame Joanna Lumley, a close friend of the King and Camilla\n\nAnd fellow actress Dame Emma Thompson looked excited by the occasion - or maybe it was the distinctly British weather (rain, and lots of it) that was causing her expression.\n\nLaura Lopes, daughter of the queen, and her brother, Tom Parker Bowles, were among the guests\n\nAnd James Middleton and Pippa Matthews, the Princess of Wales' brother and sister, attended alongside their parents\n\nQueen Camilla's children, Laura Lopes and Tom Parker Bowles, were at the service with their children. Their father, Camilla's ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles, was also among the guests.\n\nThe Middleton family - Catherine's parents Carole and Michael, and her siblings James and Pippa - sat a few rows behind the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nMP Penny Mordaunt drew attention - with her bold teal and gold outfit, and carrying a heavy sword for much of the ceremony\n\nConservative MP Penny Mordaunt took a prominent role, in her position as Lord President of the Privy Council - she presented the jewelled sword of offering to the King.\n\nThe sword, made for George IV's coronation, was exchanged for a bag of 100 newly-minted 50p coins bearing the King's profile, as part of an ancient custom.\n\nSinger Nick Cave, who has lived in England for many years, was part of the Australian delegation\n\nFellow singer Joan Armatrading speaking to a guest at the abbey\n\nAustralian singer Nick Cave said beforehand that he would go to the Coronation for \"the stupefying spectacular, the awe inspiring\".\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty, who wore pale blue\n\nBlue was also the colour of choice for Carrie Johnson, attending with former prime minister Boris Johnson\n\nIn total, there were seven former UK prime ministers present, including Sir John Major and Sir Tony Blair\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak was joined by wife Akshata Murty, with former prime ministers also in attendance - including Boris Johnson, accompanied by wife Carrie. Sir John Major, whose wife Norma was absent, was seen chatting to Sir Tony Blair and his wife Cherie.\n\nThere are seven living former UK prime ministers for the first time, and all attended the service.\n\nDame Floella Benjamin - a former children's TV presenter - carried the Sovereign's Sceptre at the service\n\nDame Floella Benjamin took part in the coronation procession on Saturday.\n\nWhile Andrew Lloyd Webber, seen with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer\n\nOther guests from the world of politics include Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, pictured with Andrew Lloyd Webber, who composed a coronation anthem for the King.\n\nPrince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco were among the foreign royals\n\nKing Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium were there\n\nKing Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan arriving at Westminster Abbey\n\nForeign royals in attendance include Prince Albert and Princess Charlene of Monaco, as well as King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan, whose outfits brought a pop of colour to the distinctly grey day.\n\nKing Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, and King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, were seen entering the abbey together, colour coordinated in pink.\n\nForeign leaders present included Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with his wife Sophie, and French President Emmanuel Macron, with his wife Brigitte.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nMartin Odegaard scored his 15th goal of the season Arsenal clawed Manchester City's lead at the Premier League summit back to one point after they came out on top in a thriller against Newcastle United at St James' Park. Mikel Arteta's side, who have played one game more than the champions, responded superbly to the pressure exerted by Manchester City's victory over Leeds United to prevail in an action-packed, edgy encounter littered with chances on Tyneside. Newcastle, attempting to strengthen their push for a place in the Champions League next season, started at lightning pace - Jacob Murphy hitting the post and having a penalty award overturned by VAR. Arsenal, however, showed their strength and it was inspirational captain Martin Odegaard who followed up his double against Chelsea in midweek by drilling his 15th Premier League goal of the season past Newcastle keeper Nick Pope from 25 yards after 14 minutes. What followed was a magnificent game full of opportunities in a frenzied atmosphere, Pope saving crucially from Gabriel Martinelli, Bukayo Saka and Odegaard before half-time. Martinelli also struck the bar after the break. Arsenal keeper Aaron Ramsdale also produced vital stops from Joe Willock and Fabian Schar, with Alexander Isak heading against the post, before The Gunners broke clear to wrap up the three points - Schar turning Martinelli's cross into his own net in the 71st minute. This was a huge examination of all the improvements Arsenal have made this season as they walked into the St James' Park hothouse, with expectations high for Newcastle United as they chase Champions League football. The game began in a wall of sound with Newcastle intent on overpowering Arsenal in a frantic start that had the Gunners in retreat. For all the premature talk of \"chokers\" when Arsenal went four league games without a win, they showed there are new reserves of character and resilience to go with all the natural talent they possess. And no-one exemplifies it more than captain Odegaard, who continued his outstanding season with the crucial first goal, another one of those sweet strikes that have become his trademark. Arsenal's big concern was that they might pay for their failure to take one of several gilt-edged opportunities in the first half, but they were able to close out this crucial win after Schar's own goal. And Arsenal showed they have added another side to the game with their attempts to slow the game down to break up Newcastle's rhythm and momentum. It enraged the home fans and Newcastle manager Eddie Howe's assistant Jason Tindall in particular, but it is a tactic the Magpies have used themselves this season when it has suited them. Arsenal are still second favourites as they pursue their first title since 2003/2004 but they demonstrated again they are determined to take the race all the way.\n• None Go straight to all the best Newcastle content Newcastle still on course Newcastle United's fans could not hide their disappointment at the final whistle as all their efforts to dent Arsenal's title challenge and lift their own Champions League aspirations came to nothing. It removes some of the margin for error as they chase a place in the top four, but the manner in which they ran Arsenal so close and made the margins so fine was an example of their progress this season. Who knows what might have happened had Murphy's shot in the opening minutes gone in instead of bouncing back off the woodwork? But in the end Arsenal had the better chances and claimed the three points. The Toon Army is alive with self-belief and optimism, even cheering their side loudly after the final whistle as manager Howe took his players on a lap around the pitch. Isak showed what a quality acquisition he has been, but there was no joy for key midfield man Bruno Guimaraes who did not have one of his better days. Newcastle stay third, three points ahead of Liverpool in fifth, the good news for Howe and his players being that they remain firmly in control of their own destiny.\n• None Attempt saved. Allan Saint-Maximin (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matt Targett.\n• None Attempt missed. Fabian Schär (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Elliot Anderson following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "The police had to make \"tough choices\" while handling protests during the Coronation, a minister has said, following criticism over arrests.\n\nCulture Secretary Lucy Frazer told BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg the police were right to factor in the scale and global-nature of the event.\n\nMPs, human rights groups and a former chief constable have criticised the police's tactics.\n\nPolice said on Sunday that 64 people were arrested during the Coronation.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police had previously said 52 arrests were made on Saturday. In its latest update, it said four people had been charged, while another person arrested remains in custody for non-payment of fines.\n\nFifty-seven people have been released on bail while two others will face no further police action.\n\nAmong those held on Saturday was the head of the anti-monarchy group Republic, Graham Smith. He was released after 16 hours in custody and said there was \"no longer a right to peaceful protest in the UK\".\n\nOther concerns have been raised over reports three volunteers with a Westminster-based women's safety programme had been arrested while handing out rape alarms.\n\nThe Met said it received intelligence protesters were planning to use rape alarms to disrupt coronation proceedings.\n\nMs Frazer said the right to protest was \"really important\" and people should be heard but there had been a recent change in protesters' tactics.\n\nProtesters have been stopping people going about their day-to-day lives, she said, and there was a need to redress that balance.\n\nOfficers would have made operational decisions on a case-by-case basis, she said, taking into account the scale of the Coronation celebrations.\n\n\"We were on the global stage, there were 200 foreign dignitaries in the UK, in London at an event, millions of people watching and hundreds of thousands of people at the scene,\" she added.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting told the BBC he was reassured the Met were aware of a gap in public confidence over policing and the force was \"explaining and justifying\" why they made some of the arrests.\n\nHe said Labour would \"wait and see\" whether the force got the balance right, adding \"accountability\" over policing decisions was important.\n\nMr Streeting said if they did not get it right, it was important to \"hold your hands up\".\n\nThe King and Queen went past some protesters on their way to Westminster Abbey for the Coronation ceremony\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Karen Findlay defended her officers' response, saying they had a duty to intervene \"when protest becomes criminal and may cause serious disruption\".\n\nShe added the Coronation was a \"once-in-a-generation event\" which was a key consideration in their assessment.\n\nHundreds of protesters gathered in the rain in central London on Saturday, with chants including \"down with the Crown\", \"don't talk to the police\" and \"get a real job\".\n\nBut Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said some of the arrests \"raise questions\" over the Met's actions, adding he has \"sought urgent clarity\" whilst investigations are ongoing.\n\nOther protests were organised in Cardiff, Glasgow and Edinburgh. No arrests were reported outside London.\n\nWhile campaigners insisted their protests were peaceful, the police said they had intelligence that groups were \"determined to disrupt\" the occasion.\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ed Davey said he was not sure about the exact circumstances of the arrest, and called for more detail from the police.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, he criticised the government for \"passing legislation to clamp down on protest that breached British traditions of civil liberties\".\n\nSeveral Labour MPs have also been critical of the Met's response. Senior backbencher Sir Chris Bryant said on Twitter that \"freedom of speech is the silver thread that runs through a parliamentary constitutional monarchy\".\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, Republic chief Mr Smith said the arrests had \"destroyed whatever trust might have existed between peaceful protesters and the Metropolitan police\".\n\n\"What is the point in being open and candid with the police, working with their liaison officers and meeting senior commanders, if all their promises and undertakings turn out to be a lie?\"\n\nMr Smith was arrested early on Saturday - before the Coronation began - at a protest in Trafalgar Square.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met said it had confiscated \"lock-on devices\" which protesters can use to secure themselves to things like railings.\n\nIt has now become illegal to prepare to lock-on following changes to the law passed this week.\n\nBut Matt Turnbull, another member of Republic who was arrested, said the straps were being used to hold the placards and had been \"misconstrued\" as lock-on devices.\n\nA former police chief has said she is \"very disappointed\" by the arrest of protesters and strongly criticised the new powers.\n\nSue Sim, a former chief constable with Northumbria Police and a specialist in public order policing, said she was \"very disappointed\" by the arrest of protesters and called the new powers \"draconian\".\n\n\"I think when you're talking about terrorism, where people's lives are at risk that's a very different thing. But where you are talking about peaceful protest the whole thing for me is, what type of society do we want? We do not want a totalitarian police state,\" she told BBC Radio 4's World This Weekend.\n\nConcerns about the police's approach were also raised by Westminster City Council over reports that volunteers with its Night Star women's safety programme had been detained and questioned after being stopped by officers while handing out rape alarms.\n\nCouncillor Aicha Less said the authority was working with the Met to establish what happened and was in touch with volunteers to make sure they were being supported.\n\nThe Met said it had received intelligence about plans to use rape alarms to disrupt the Coronation procession by scaring military horses, causing \"significant risk to the safety of the public and the riders\".\n\nThe force said three people were arrested in the Soho area of London over suspicion of conspiracy to commit public nuisance.\n\nOne man was also further arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods. All three have since been released.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan said the force were \"aware of and understand there is public concern over these arrests\" and added the matter was still under investigation.", "Dominik Zaum and the annexe (double doors on left) to his house hosting two Ukrainian refugees\n\nHalifax has apologised for rejecting a customer's mortgage application because the home owner is hosting two Ukrainian refugees.\n\nDominik Zaum and his family have had a mother and her young daughter staying with them in an annexe since June 2022.\n\nWhen his mortgage came up for renewal, he applied for one with Halifax.\n\nBut Dominik was refused after Halifax said there was a risk he could rent out the space for commercial gain in the future.\n\n\"We were very surprised by this because we've never rented it out, we're not renting it out now... and we have no intention of renting it out in the future,\" he said.\n\nDominik has what he describes as a small \"granny\" flat attached to his house. It is one self-contained room with a kitchenette and a small bathroom accessed by its own door.\n\nHe is part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme which started just over a year ago to help rehome refugees who fled the country following Russia's invasion in February 2022.\n\nSo far, according to government figures 153,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in the UK and research suggests most of them have stayed.\n\nTo help with the expense of housing refugees, hosts are provided with £350 per month for the first 12 months and £500 for each month after that point.\n\nLike millions of other fixed-rate mortgage holders in the UK, Dominik's loan was coming up for renewal this year so he decided to look around for a new deal.\n\nAnd that's when the trouble - and worry - started.\n\nHalifax sent someone to value Dominik's home.\n\nHe said: \"We spoke directly with the valuer before, when he came and looked at our house.\"\n\nBut Dominik said \"When we contacted the Halifax through our broker they said they could not provide us with a mortgage because we were providing accommodation to a Ukrainian family and therefore there was a significant risk that we would rent out the room commercially in the future.\"\n\nHalifax has since apologised for \"the confusion\" after being contacted by Money Box and has offered Dominik a mortgage deal.\n\nBut Dominik claims the only reason Halifax backed down is because Money Box started to investigate. \"We raised it twice with the Halifax through our mortgage broker and nothing changed,\" he said.\n\n\"It is very unfortunate that it took Money Box to get a response.\"\n\nHalifax said it is \"very sorry for the confusion\" and is very supportive of the Homes for Ukraine scheme and that it wouldn't decline a mortgage application on this basis.\n\n\"Having reviewed the application again, we've now issued an offer and the application will proceed as normal,\" it said.\n\nMillions of Ukrainians have fled the country because of Russia's invasion\n\nHalifax said the valuer did not appreciate the informal nature of the tenancy, and this was reflected in their report where they noted the property was unsuitable for these lending purposes and given a zero valuation.\n\nDominik said that he was worried that Halifax's refusal could have been mirrored by the rest of the lending sector. \"We did not know at the time if other banks might have reacted similarly,\" he said.\n\n\"We have since secured a mortgage with another bank so, fortunately, it has not had any impact on our finances.\"\n\nHe added: \"Had we not been able to secure a new mortgage we would have moved from a fixed-term mortgage to a higher rate and cost us over £9,000 a year.\"\n\nThe government has advised people who are hosting refugees through the Homes for Ukraine scheme to keep any interested parties informed.\n\nAre you part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme and hosting a family, or know someone who is? Have you had any problems like Dominik? Email us your stories to moneybox@bbc.co.uk\n\nYou can hear more on this story on BBC Radio 4's Money Box podcast available shortly after broadcast by clicking here.", "The moment the Archbishop of Canterbury placed St Edward's Crown on the King\n\nThe King's Coronation was watched by an average of 18 million viewers in the UK, overnight figures have shown.\n\nThe ceremony, which saw the King and Queen Camilla crowned, was broadcast simultaneously across a range of channels between 11:00 and 13:00 BST.\n\nViewing peaked at 20.4 million as the King was crowned just after midday, audience measurement group Barb said.\n\nThe figures are smaller than when an average of 26.5 million viewers tuned in for Queen Elizabeth II's funeral.\n\nAn average of 18.8 million people tuned into watch the Coronation across 11 channels and services, including BBC One, Two, ITV and Sky News.\n\nOn BBC One, a peak of 13.4 million viewers tuned in to the broadcast led by Huw Edwards and the channel had an average audience of 11.9 million, the BBC said.\n\nITV said an average of 3.3 million viewers watched the ceremony on ITV1 between 10:45 and 13:00.\n\nSky News had an average of 568,000 viewers during its broadcast of the Coronation service, while GB News had an average of 176,000 and Talk TV had an average of 14,000 viewers.\n\nChannel 4 opted to show film Johnny English Strikes Again instead of the Coronation with an average of 138,000 people preferring to the watch Rowan Atkinson film. Meanwhile, on Channel 5 children were entertained with The Adventures of Paddington Bear and SpongeBob SquarePants.\n\nMillions of people are thought to have watched the Queen's coronation on television in 1953 - but there are no reliable figures, making it difficult to measure against this year's ceremony. Based on surveys carried out by the BBC at the time, it is estimated that more than 20 million adults in the UK watched it.\n\nThe funeral service for the King's ex-wife Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 was seen by 31 million on BBC and ITV - making it the highest TV audience on record.", "Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is urging Congress to act \"as soon as possible\"\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned a failure to raise the US's debt ceiling could have dire consequences.\n\nWithout an agreement to increase what the federal government can borrow, it could run out of money by early June.\n\nAt that point the federal government might not be able to make wage, welfare and other payments.\n\n\"It's Congress's job to do this. If they fail to do it, we will have an economic and financial catastrophe that will be of our own making,\" she said.\n\nIn an interview with ABC News on Sunday Ms Yellen said debt ceiling negotiations should not take place \"with a gun to the head of the American people.\"\n\nBut time is running out for an agreement.\n\nOn Tuesday, President Biden will meet Republican leaders to ask them to agree to raising the current $31.4tn (£25.12tn) limit.\n\nCongress typically ties approval of a higher debt ceiling to stipulations on budget and spending measures.\n\nLast month the House of Representatives passed a bill to raise the ceiling, currently roughly equal to 120% of the country's annual economic output, but included in the bill sweeping spending cuts over the next decade.\n\nPresident Biden wants Congress to agree to raise the debt ceiling, with no conditions. President Biden has said he will not negotiate over the increase and will discuss budget cuts after the issue is resolved.\n\nFailure to find cross-party agreement on the issue could result in a \"constitutional crisis\" Ms Yellen said.\n\nThe Biden administration is considering whether there is scope within the constitution for the president to continue issuing new debt without the approval of Congress, but will this week strive to avoid that scenario.\n\n\"We should not get to the point where we need to consider whether the president can go on issuing debt. This would be a constitutional crisis,\" Ms Yellen told ABC.\n\nThe debt ceiling has been raised, extended or revised 78 times since 1960, often with negotiations going down to the wire.\n\nIn the end, the threat of a default on government payments including debt obligations has always led to compromise. The US has never defaulted, an event that would upend global financial markets and have far-reaching economic impacts.\n\nBut delaying a resolution also had negative consequences, Ms Yellen said in a letter to Congress last week.\n\n\"We have learned from past debt limit impasses that waiting until the last minute to suspend or increase the debt limit can cause serious harm to business and consumer confidence, raise short-term borrowing costs for taxpayers, and negatively impact the credit rating of the United States,\" she wrote.", "The fire caused damage to the Underfall Yard\n\nA 45-year-old man has been arrested after a fire that badly damaged a boat yard in Bristol was deemed \"suspicious\".\n\nThe fire happened at Underfall Yard in the Hotwells area of the city in the early hours of Saturday, with a plume of smoke visible across the city.\n\nSpecialist fire investigators working with Avon and Somerset Police said they are now treating the fire as a \"suspicious incident\".\n\nAvon Fire and Rescue evacuated more than 20 people from their flats close to the boat yard near Cumberland Road when the fire was on-going. They have since returned home.\n\nPhotos inside Underfall Yard show the extent of the damage\n\nFire officers stopped the fire from spreading by moving a burning boat away from others.\n\nUnderfall Yard has been crucial to the operation and maintenance of Bristol's Floating Harbour, which dates back to the early 1800s.\n\nThe yard is home to maritime businesses involved in boatbuilding, marine engineering, metal working and training.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has attended his father's Coronation, sitting two rows from his brother at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe prince had arrived without his wife Meghan, who stayed in the US, and he left immediately afterwards for a return flight from Heathrow.\n\nThe BBC understands he was not invited to appear on the balcony at Buckingham Palace following the ceremony.\n\nIt is the first time he has been seen publicly with his family since his controversial memoir Spare came out.\n\nPrince Harry, who arrived in the UK on Friday, was back in Los Angeles at 19:30 local time on Saturday after taking a British Airways flight, the PA news agency reported.\n\nHe got into a car alone outside the abbey shortly after the Coronation service had finished.\n\nNinety minutes later, on the Buckingham Palace balcony, the King and Queen were joined by other working members of the Royal Family, including the Prince and Princess of Wales, and their children.\n\nPrince Harry's wife, the Duchess of Sussex, remained in Los Angeles with their children, where their son Prince Archie is celebrating his fourth birthday.\n\nA source earlier told the US outlet Page Six that Prince Harry intended to make \"every effort to get back in time for Archie's birthday\".\n\nPrince Harry wore a morning suit and medals at the ceremony and he sat with his cousin Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank in the third row, along with his uncle the Duke of York, Prince Andrew.\n\nTwo rows ahead in the front were the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, as well as the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.\n\nFor the late Queen Elizabeth's funeral last year, Prince Harry was in the second row - directly behind the King - at the abbey.\n\nIt was already known that Prince Harry would attend the ceremony alone and have no formal role as he is not a working member of the Royal Family.\n\nThis was also the case for Prince Andrew.\n\nPrince Harry arrived at Westminster Abbey in a morning suit with medals\n\nHe walked in alongside the Princess Beatrice and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi\n\nRelations between Prince Harry and other members of the family have been strained since his memoir was published.\n\nThe book vividly revealed fall-outs and disagreements with relatives, and he has since spoken of feeling \"different\" from the rest of his family.\n\nThe decision for Meghan to reject the invitation was widely seen as part of these continuing, unresolved family tensions.\n\nAnd last month it was revealed that the King tried to stop Prince Harry taking legal action against newspapers over alleged phone-hacking.\n\nIn a witness statement revealed by court papers, Prince Harry said he was \"summoned to Buckingham Palace\" and told to drop the cases because of the effect on the family.", "King Charles and Queen Camilla have been crowned on a historic day at Westminster Abbey.\n\nHere's the best bits of the day.\n\nYou can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "Syria's readmittance to the Arab League comes ahead of a meeting in Riyadh later this month\n\nSyria is back in the influential Arab League, more than a decade after being thrown out for its brutal repression of pro-democracy protests, which led to the ongoing civil war.\n\nThe move is further evidence of a thaw in relations between Damascus and other Arab governments.\n\nSyria's readmittance comes ahead of a summit in Saudi Arabia later this month that President Bashar al-Assad may now attend.\n\nThe US and UK have criticised the move.\n\nA state department spokesman said Syria did not deserve to be reinstated but that the US supported the Arab League's long-term objective of solving the crisis in Syria.\n\nThe UK's Minister of State Foreign Commonwealth & Development Affairs, Lord Ahmad, said the UK remained \"opposed to engagement with the Assad regime\" and that Mr Assad continued to \"detain, torture and kill innocent Syrians\".\n\nIn a statement, Syria's foreign ministry said it had received the League's decision \"with great attention\" and called for \"greater Arab cooperation and partnership\".\n\nForeign ministers from 13 of the 22-nation group's members were present at the meting in Cairo where the decision to readmit Syria was taken.\n\nThey stressed the need to end Syria's civil war and the resulting refugee and drug smuggling crises.\n\nGrowing poverty and lack of job opportunities saw many turn to the drug trade, the BBC reported last year..\n\nA committee involving Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq will be set up to help Syria achieve those goals.\n\nThe Arab League's secretary general, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said the move was the start of a process to resolve the crisis in Syria, which would be \"gradual\".\n\nHe stressed the decision did not mean a resumption of relationships between Arab states and Syria as it was up to each country to decide this individually.\n\nMore than 300,000 civilians are thought to have been killed and more than 100,000 detained or disappeared during the civil war, according to UN estimates.\n\nRoughly half of the pre-war population of 21 million has been displaced, either within Syria or as refugees abroad.\n\nDisplaced Syrians in the northwest rebel-held area of Idlib have said they are shocked by the Arab League's decision.\n\n\"Instead of Arab leaders helping us and getting us out of those camps where we suffer and live in pain, they whitewashed the criminal and killer's hands from our blood,\" one man told the AFP news agency.\n\nAnother man said the League would pay \"the heaviest price\"\n\nMr Assad began to regain control over the country in 2015, with the help of Russia - forcing its neighbours to think of a future with Mr Assad in place.\n\nArab moves to restore ties accelerated after the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria in February.\n\nEarlier this week, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited Mr Assad - with some analysts suggesting the visit put extra pressure on Arab nations to bring Syria back into the fold.\n\nIt follows visits by foreign ministers from Egypt and Saudi Arabia and the restoration of full diplomatic relations with Tunisia.\n\nSyria's foreign minister has also recently visited several Arab countries as part of a diplomatic push.\n\nThe US and UK are among the Western countries that have recently stated they will not restore relations with President Assad's government.", "Scientists have named a new group of butterflies after the villain Sauron from the Lord of the Rings novels.\n\nExperts hit on the name Saurona because the black rings on the insect's orange wings reminded them of the all-seeing eye described in JRR Tolkien's books.\n\nThe Natural History Museum in London hopes the unusual title will draw attention to the species and help generate more research.\n\nTwo species of butterfly have been added to the newly named Saurona genus.\n\nSaurona triangular and Saurona aurigera are the inaugural members of the group but it's expected many more species will join them.\n\nThe name was picked by Dr Blanca Huertas, curator of the butterflies at the museum, who is part of an international team who described the new genus in a paper published in the scientific journal Systematic Entomology.\n\nA group of 30 scientists from around the world have spent a decade studying the butterfly subtribe Euptychiina.\n\nThe experts analysed more than 400 different species of butterfly, and used advances in DNA to identify the differences between them at a genetic level, as well as by their appearance.\n\nSaurona triangula and Saurona aurigera are not the first creatures to be named after Sauron. The villain's glowing eye has also been referenced in the names of a dung beetle, a frog and a dinosaur.\n\nThe team has also found another butterfly genus, which Dr Huertas has named Argenteria, meaning silver mine, on account of the silver scales on its wings.", "At least 27 people have died in a gold mine fire in Peru, in the worst mining accident in the country in decades.\n\nThe mine company, Yanaquihua, said 175 miners were rescued. It is a small mine in the Arequipa region, in the south.\n\nAn electrical short-circuit is thought to have sparked the fire. Officials said the miners were working about 100m (330ft) below the surface when the blaze broke out.\n\nImages from local media showed flames and smoke erupting from the hillside.\n\nAccording to the Peruvian news website rpp.pe, the fire was fuelled by La Esperanza gold mine's timber tunnel supports, many of them soaked in oil.\n\nYanaquihua said it was carrying out an urgent investigation and \"at this very sad time we are prioritising help for the bereaved and the rescued miners\".\n\nMiners' relatives gathered at the mine entrance after the blaze\n\nIn a statement, the regional government said the closest police station was some 90 minutes away from the remote site, and several hours from the closest city, complicating the emergency response.\n\nPeruvian newspaper La República reports that relatives of the missing miners arrived at the scene on Sunday morning, but were denied access to the site.\n\nPeru is one of the world's largest gold producers, mining more than 100 tonnes a year - or about 4% of the entire world's annual supply.\n\nWhile Saturday's fire is believed to be the worst disaster in years, dozens of deaths a year are not uncommon in the country's mining industry - usually spread over many smaller incidents.", "In contrast to Lucy Frazer, Labour’s Wes Streeting and the Lib Dems' Sir Ed Davey seemed to be competing to see who could be the more bullish.\n\nThey are both of course all too aware that the Conservatives would like to stir up a debate about their performance - and the prospect of a coalition after the next election.\n\nBut given how votes stacked up this week it is a legitimate political question to ponder whether they would work together.\n\nStreeting said that changing the voting system would not be in the Labour manifesto. Traditionally this has been seen as the price to pay to get the backing of the Lib Dems in case of a hung Parliament.\n\nSir Ed Davey confirmed - no surprise - that the change would be in his own manifesto. The Lib Dem leader doesn’t want to talk about the hypothetical situation of another coalition - this time with Labour.\n\nYou‘ll have noticed he is happy to explicitly rule out working with the Tories again. When it comes to Labour, he does not.\n\nWhat Labour hopes is that they will build so much support in the next year that a conversation about coalition will be irrelevant.\n\nMuch will be revealed in the coming months, and it’s of course down you.", "Alberta has declared a state of emergency after wildfires spread across the western Canadian province, driving nearly 25,000 people from their homes.\n\nFaced with more than 100 wildfires, Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith called the situation \"unprecedented\".\n\nResidents of Edson, a town of more than 8,000, were told to leave immediately.\n\nMs Smith said a hot, dry spring had created \"so much kindling\" and some 122,000 hectares (301,000 acres) had burned so far.\n\nMany of the fires are burning out of control, fanned by strong winds.\n\nThe worst-hit areas include Drayton Valley, about 140km (87 miles) west of the provincial capital Edmonton, and Fox Lake, some 550km north of the city, where 20 homes were consumed by fire.\n\nFirefighting helicopters and air tankers have been brought in and the federal government has offered assistance from Ottawa.\n\nEdmonton Expo Centre is accommodating more than 1,000 evacuees and in the town of High Level a curling rink is being turned into a temporary shelter.\n\nAlberta is a major oil-producing region, but so far oil facilities do not appear to be in immediate danger.\n• None Are wildfires happening more often?", "Adam Price has been leader of Plaid Cymru since September 2018\n\nPlaid Cymru politicians held talks six months ago about trying to remove Adam Price as leader, leaked texts seen by BBC Wales said.\n\nMessages from the party's Luke Fletcher said colleagues were discussing whether Mr Price was fit to lead the party over a failure to deal with allegations of bullying and sexual impropriety.\n\nIt comes after a review found a culture of \"harassment, bullying and misogyny\".\n\nThe Senedd group said it shared the party's distress about the findings.\n\nBut it did not respond to questions about whether Mr Price still had the wider party's support.\n\nMr Price has refused to stand aside following Nerys Evans's report, and said he would be \"abdicating\" his responsibility if he quit.\n\nHe apologised to all those who experienced or witnessed unacceptable behaviour and said the party was a product of the society it was trying to change.\n\nThe WhatsApp exchanges between a former party staff member and the Member of the Senedd for South Wales West detail discussions last November over a plan to replace Mr Price.\n\nThe texts suggested Mr Price lost the confidence of several party figures, who were keen to install the Ynys Môn MS, Rhun ap Iorwerth, as leader.\n\nIn one of the messages, Mr Fletcher said he had \"spoken to Rhun\" and \"told him that I'd back him\".\n\nHe went on to say that a meeting had taken place among a number of Plaid Cymru MSs concerning the leadership on 15 November.\n\nThat was about a week after the South Wales Central MS, Rhys ab Owen, was suspended from the party's Senedd group.\n\nHe is under investigation by the Senedd's standards watchdog, over an alleged breach of the code of conduct.\n\nMr Fletcher said that during the meeting there was \"a reluctance to push the button… but I think people can be persuaded\", before adding that \"things are still yet to come out\".\n\nIn response to later messages, he added he was \"sick of everyone pretending everything is OK\" and that Plaid Cymru was \"the definition of hypocrisy\".\n\nMr ap Iorwerth admitted \"major changes\" were needed in messages to the staffer sent around that time.\n\nHe went on to say: \"It is clear to me that we are at a critical juncture for the party.\"\n\nIn later exchanges, Mr Fletcher also references the North Wales MS, Llyr Gruffydd, saying he \"doesn't think there's a way back for Adam\".\n\nFollowing publication of the Plaid Cymru report, a former Welsh Labour cabinet minister called for Plaid Cymru's co-operation deal with the Welsh government to end.\n\nKen Skates MS, a former economy minister, said he did not want to deal \"with bullies, misogynists or anyone who discriminates against others\".\n\nPlaid Cymru is in a co-operation deal with the Welsh government, which sees Labour ministers work with the party on a range of policies including childcare and free school meals.\n\nAsked on the BBC Politics Wales programme if she agreed with Mr Skates, Climate Change Minister Julie James MS said: \"I think it's a matter for Plaid Cymru.\n\n\"They will want to look very carefully at that report and it's a matter for them to put their own house in order.\n\n\"The difficulty with the Welsh system, of course, is that we have to work with someone and, actually, co-operation agreements across the parties in Wales are things that have brought stability to Wales and support from a large number of people.\n\n\"So, it's about more than that, isn't it?\n\n\"But the party clearly needs to look at that report very carefully,\" Ms James added.\n\nIn a statement, the party's Senedd Group said: \"Plaid Cymru Group members have actively established confidential avenues through which staff could raise any concerns they may have about the culture within the party.\n\n\"The Plaid Cymru Senedd group share the wider party's distress upon reading the findings of Nerys Evans's report and echo the calls for the recommendations to be implemented at pace\".\n\nOn ITV's Sharp End previously, Plaid Cymru Senedd group chairman Mr Gruffydd denied claims made in a Wales Online article of a \"toxic atmosphere\" in his party where people are afraid to report allegations.\n\nHe said he did not recognise that there was a wider problem within Plaid Cymru.\n\nMr Fletcher, Mr ap Iorwerth and Mr Gruffydd were also approached for comment.", "A prominent Russian writer and pro-war blogger has had surgery and is now under sedation after a car bomb attack, officials say.\n\nZakhar Prilepin, a vehement supporter of Russia's campaign in Ukraine, was in a car blown up in a village in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region. He suffered fractures and his driver was killed.\n\nInvestigators say they are questioning a suspect named Alexander Permyakov who has admitted operating for Ukraine.\n\nThat has not been confirmed by Kyiv.\n\nNor has Kyiv denied involvement, or responded to a Russian foreign ministry allegation that Ukraine - backed by the US government - targeted Prilepin as an ideological enemy.\n\nRussian reports did not specify Prilepin's injuries. The Investigative Committee (SK), which handles serious crimes including terrorism, accuses Permyakov of having detonated a remote-controlled bomb, wrecking Prilepin's Audi.\n\nThe SK says the suspect was caught in a neighbouring village. The region is more than 425km (265 miles) east of Moscow.\n\nThe suspect \"admitted doing an assignment for the Ukrainian secret services\", the SK alleges.\n\nThe bomb was allegedly planted on the road and detonated remotely\n\nIt comes a month after another pro-Kremlin blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky, died in a bombing at a St Petersburg café.\n\nSaturday's explosion reportedly took place on a remote road some 80km from the town of Bor.\n\nThe partisan group Atesh, which is made up of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars, claimed it was behind the attack on Prilepin.\n\n\"We had a feeling that sooner or later he would be blown up,\" they wrote on Telegram. \"He was not driving alone, but with a surprise on the underside of the car.\"\n\nAs well as being one one of Russia's best-known novelists, Prilepin is known for his involvement with Russian ultra-nationalist politics.\n\nA veteran of Russia's bloody wars in Chechnya in the 1990s, the 47-year-old has admitted fighting alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.\n\nPrilepin rose to literary fame in the 2000s\n\nHe has called for the \"return of Kyiv to Russia\". Last year a group founded by Prilepin called on officials to \"purge the cultural space\" of all who oppose the conflict.\n\nKremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on the alleged bombing until the investigation was complete.\n\nBut Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova sought to blame the attack on the UK and the US.\n\n\"The fact has come true: Washington and Nato fed another international terrorist cell - the Kiev regime,\" she wrote on Telegram. \"We pray for Zakhar.\"\n\nThe attack is the latest to target high-profile supporters of President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.\n\nVladlen Tatarsky was killed last month. The blogger had reported from the Ukraine front line and gained notoriety last year after posting a video filmed inside the Kremlin in which he said: \"We will defeat everyone, we will kill everyone, we will rob everyone as necessary. Just as we like it.\"\n\nActivist Darya Trepova, 26, was later arrested and was charged with terrorism following the publication of a video - believed to have been recorded under duress - in which she admitted bringing a statuette to the café that later blew up.\n\nAnd in August 2022, Darya Dugina - the daughter of a close ally of Mr Putin - was killed in a suspected car bombing near Moscow.\n\nIt is thought her father, the Russian ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, who is known as \"Putin's brain\", may have been the intended target of that attack.\n\nThe BBC's Laurence Peter contributed to this report.", "King Charles' Coronation is the first time the Duke of Sussex has been seen publicly with his family since his controversial memoir Spare came out.\n\nPrince Harry could be seen sitting two rows behind his brother, the Prince of Wales, at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe BBC's Duncan's Kennedy breaks down the prince's brief stint in London and what he did.", "The chief executive of the Post Office, Nick Read, will return part of his £450,000 bonus for last year, after a rebuke from the chairman of the inquiry into the Horizon computer scandal.\n\nIn its financial accounts for last year the Post Office said its executives had met all their obligations to support the inquiry into the system.\n\nBut the inquiry is still taking place.\n\nThey also wrongly said inquiry chairman Sir Wyn Williams had approved bonuses relating to that support.\n\nMr Read apologised for what he described as \"unacceptable errors\".\n\nIn a letter to the inquiry chairman, Mr Read admitted the firm had made an \"incorrect statement\" in its accounts.\n\nThe Horizon inquiry is investigating how hundreds of sub-postmasters became victims of a vast miscarriage of justice.\n\nThey were blamed for discrepancies in their sub-post office's finances and prosecuted, with many receiving prison sentences, criminal records or going bankrupt. The discrepancies were down to the Post Office's glitch-prone IT system, called Horizon.\n\nIn the Post Office's annual accounts for last year published on 1 March, there was a target for executives defined as: \"All required evidence and information supplied on time, with confirmation from Sir Wyn Williams and team that Post Office's performance supported and enabled the Inquiry to finish in line with expectations\".\n\nThe metric was marked as '\"achieved\" although at the time the bonuses were agreed the inquiry was still in its first phase. It is likely to continue until 2024.\n\nAfter a lawyer acting on behalf of Sir Wyn questioned the accounts, the Post Office issued a statement apologising for the \"inappropriate sub-metric related to the Horizon IT Inquiry\".\n\nIn a letter addressed personally to Sir Wyn, Mr Read apologised and said he would return the remuneration associated with that sub-metric.\n\nThe Post Office board is considering whether other members of the leadership should do the same.\n\nThe inquiry has heard moving testimony from dozens of sub-postmasters who were falsely accused of fraud. Hundreds lost their livelihoods, were stigmatised in their communities, and some sent to prison.\n\nDozens of convictions have now been overturned in the courts, but many of those wrongly convicted are still awaiting compensation.\n\nThe next phase of the inquiry due to start next month will look at the action taken against the sub-postmasters, and knowledge of and responsibility for failures in investigation. A later phase will explore governance including whistleblowing over the scandal.\n\nMr Read said in his letter that he regretted the errors made particularly against the background of \"deeply concerning\" evidence presented to the inquiry.\n\nHe added: \"Our clear intent remains to offer full and fair compensation as quickly as possible and we are doing all we can to work with the government to achieve that.\"", "Millions of viewers watched King Charles III crowned in a meticulously-planned ancient ceremony but it was the unexpected moments that got many people talking.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPenny Mordaunt caused a flurry of activity on social media as she played a starring role at the Coronation - holding ceremonial swords for more than an hour.\n\nOn Twitter many pointed out the Conservative MP's strength, even winning praise from her party's political foes.\n\n\"Don't let anyone ever say I never say anything positive about the Tories... I am in awe of @PennyMordaunt arm and shoulder strength,\" former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell tweeted.\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio before the ceremony, she joked she had been preparing by \"doing some press-ups\".\n\nWhile Ms Mordaunt's teal outfit - with a matching cape and headband with feather embroidery - also caught people's attention, with many drawing comparisons with Henry VIII's second wife Anne Boleyn.\n\nOne woman tweeted: \"Penny Mordaunt has absolutely stolen the show at the Abbey today! She is rocking that Anne Boleyn look!\"\n\nThe MP and Leader of the House of Commons said she was honoured to beinvolved in the ceremony through her role as Lord President of the Council - an ancient role.\n\nShe carried the 17th century Sword of State made for Charles II into Westminster Abbey, and exchanged it for the Jewelled Sword of Offering, which she delivered to the archbishop.\n\nShe then carried the Jewelled Sword of Offering, with hilt encrusted with diamonds, rubies and emeralds, for the rest of the service and walked with it in front of the King as he left the abbey.\n\nNotably, she becomes the first woman to carry and present the sword - which symbolises royal power and the King accepting his duty and knightly virtues.\n\nShe tweeted: \"I'm very aware that our armed forces, police officers and others have been marching or standing for hours as part of the ceremony or to keep us all safe.\n\n\"In comparison, my job was rather easier.\"\n\nThere was a tender moment between the Prince and Princess of Wales's children. Prince Louis, five, when he held the hand of his older sister Princess Charlotte as they walked into Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe prince, the youngest of Prince William and Catherine's children, was on his best behaviour, having stolen the show at previous royal events including Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee when he appeared to find the flypast a bit noisy while on the Buckingham Palace balcony.\n\nThis time, the prince nudged his father to point out something in the distance during the flypast and debuted a new, rather exaggerated, wave.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA gospel choir added a rather modern twist to the ancient ceremony.\n\nThe Ascension choir were handpicked and specially brought together for the occasion. Dressed in all white, the group of singers sang beautifully and swayed as they performed specially composed piece Alleluia.\n\nThey proved a hit with Catherine who gave a beaming smile as she listened.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Katy Perry searches for her seat at Coronation\n\nSinger Katy Perry turned heads in a fabulous lilac Vivienne Westwood matching jacket and skirt, and fascinator.\n\nBut the Firework singer caught viewers' eyes for another reason as she had a spot of bother finding for her seat.\n\nShe was seen walking up and down the Abbey searching for it.\n\n\"Katy Perry not finding her seat is so me,\" tweeted one Perry fan.\n\nThe pop star, who happily took selfies with other guests, will be performing at the Coronation Concert in Windsor alongside Lionel Richie on Sunday.\n\nThe King and the Prince of Wales shared a touching moment when Prince William paid homage to his father.\n\nPrince William got down on one knee to pledge his loyalty to the King, before kissing him on the cheek.\n\nThe King was then seen to say a few words to his eldest son.\n\nIn a break with tradition, the prince was the only blood prince to pay homage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the Royal children enjoyed the Coronation\n\nThe prospect of a two-hour church service, full of ceremony and importance, is a daunting prospect for most, let alone if you've just turned five.\n\nBut luckily for Prince Louis, the youngest royal at the Coronation had his sister Princess Charlotte to hold his hand, physically and metaphorically.\n\nTheir older brother Prince George had a formal part to play as one of their grandfather King Charles' pages of honour.\n\nBut Louis and Charlotte ended up taking a starring role too thanks to their antics during the day.\n\nThey arrived with their parents the Prince and Princess of Wales, with Charlotte in a matching Alexander McQueen outfit to her mother, down to a miniature version of Catherine's silver leaf headdress.\n\nLouis, meanwhile, wore a dark blue tunic by Savile Row tailors Dege and Skinner.\n\nPerhaps offering reassurance, or making sure he went the right way, eight-year-old Charlotte held Louis' hand as they processed through the abbey behind their parents.\n\nOnce the Coronation proper started, they took their front row seats alongside their parents. The solemn, religious ceremony elicited a yawn or two from the young prince - and he could also at times be seen pointing things out to Charlotte from their seats near the high altar.\n\nHis age is no doubt why a break was arranged, with viewers noticing Louis had disappeared from his seat, returning in time to sing God Save the King.\n\nHe had not attended the last major royal event, the funeral of his great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II in September, when he was just four, as he was felt to be too young.\n\nThe siblings followed along with the order of service during the Coronation\n\nBut that wasn't enough to stop Louis from yawning during the two-hour event\n\nAfter the King was crowned and the formal part of the day was over, the Wales family met up with Prince George as he completed his duties.\n\nThey took their places in the royal procession to Buckingham Palace, in the first carriage behind the Gold State Coach.\n\nLouis pressed his face close to the glass on one side of the bench, sat opposite his parents, as he waved at the waiting crowds.\n\nLouis gave the crowds a smile and a wave as they made their way to Buckingham Palace\n\nLouis made headlines himself at last summer's Jubilee celebrations when he was seen pulling faces on the Buckingham Palace balcony and appearing to scream when the flypast went overhead.\n\nAnyone hoping for similar scenes after the Coronation would not have been disappointed.\n\nHe drummed his fingers on the balcony railing at one point, and showed his own version of the royal wave.\n\nThe two-handed wave, not dissimilar to the motion of windscreen wipers, was perhaps apt for a rainy day.\n\nThe children were seen pointing at the sky during the flypast before returning inside the palace after their long day.", "Colourful drone displays have taken place across the country as part of the King's Coronation concert.\n\nThe drones formed together to create different animals and moments in nature, as Alexis Ffrench and Zak Abel performed a cover of Don't You Forget About Me by Simple Minds.", "Emma Tregoning describes herself as \"chaotic, hyper and a chatterbox\" as a child\n\n\"It's like someone tuned in the radio.\"\n\nThis is how Emma Tregoning describes her life after starting medication for a condition she did not know she had until she was in her 40s.\n\nEmma, from Gower in Swansea, only discovered she had lived with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - ADHD - all her life after her youngest son was diagnosed with it.\n\nThe paediatric nurse is a founder member of Swansea Women's ADHD Network (Swan), a group of mainly middle-aged and older women, which offers support and guidance to this slowly emerging cohort who are finally being recognised after years of many people thinking ADHD only affected \"naughty boys\".\n\nADHD is a neurological condition where low levels of brain neurotransmitters such as dopamine can make it hard for those with it to concentrate or focus, making them seemingly inattentive (even if in fact they have a thousand things going in inside their head).\n\nThey struggle with time management and organisational tasks, are restless and fidgety in some cases and can have emotional reactions that are more extreme than usual - a less known but equally important symptom.\n\nDuring her son's ADHD testing process, Emma's husband noticed she shared some of the traits and while she agreed, she acted only a few years later under prompting by a friend who had recently been diagnosed.\n\n\"I've always been quite chaotic, I suppose. People have always described me as hyper when I was a child, chatterbox, always on the go, always doing too many things at once, very loud as a child,\" she said.\n\nShe had been diagnosed with auditory dyslexia when she was 16 which she now sees as a flag that other things were going on.\n\n\"I've always struggled listening to people. If someone gives me a bit of information I have to really concentrate and find it quite laborious if somebody is telling me something,\" she said.\n\n\"All these things started to add up, when I learned about executive functioning and some of the other things somebody with ADHD can struggle with.\"\n\nShe contacted her GP last July and by November had had a full assessment by a psychiatrist and got a diagnosis, which she acknowledges happened much faster than for many people.\n\nFar more boys than girls are currently diagnosed with ADHD\n\n\"I started medication straight away. I'm just getting my head around the fact that all those things I don't realise I've struggled with all my life and thought were maybe just me [weren't],\" she said.\n\n\"Sounds ridiculous but I thought maybe I'm just a bit thick, maybe I'm just a bit slow.\"\n\nEmma described hating school because of having to sit still, but she said an ability to hyper-focus - an ADHD trait where one thing holds attention to the exclusion of all else - meant she succeeded in getting enough GCSEs and A-levels to go to university and pursue her ambition of becoming a nurse.\n\nHowever it has had an impact on her working life too. She is known for being great in emergency situations when the hyper-focus and being \"in the moment\" give her the ability to thrive in that environment, but routine tasks and balancing multiple time-sensitive tasks have been a challenge.\n\n\"You might look at me educationally and think, oh well, she's been successful. She hasn't struggled; she's managed to get qualifications.\n\n\"Yes, but when you look at the rest of my life, things have fallen apart.\n\n\"I've suffered from anxiety and have been medicated on and off for the past 15 years,\" she said. The condition had also affected previous relationships which had been difficult and argumentative.\n\nThe medication she takes helped from day one, she says.\n\n\"You know when you've got two radio stations, before we had digital radio, you'd be tuning a radio station and you'd be half way between two.\n\n\"You'd be like oh there's a bit of Classic FM and there's a bit of Galaxy 101. Tuning the two of them.\n\n\"I didn't realise that was what my brain was like until taking the meds and realising somebody had tuned it in and I could hear everything.\"\n\nRhian Bellamy's daughter recognised the signs of ADHD in women after viewing a TikTok video\n\nEmma's friend Rhian Bellamy, a mother of three daughters, had only ever heard of ADHD in connection with \"boys causing trouble in class\".\n\n\"In 2021 my eldest daughter went to university and I think she was literally on TikTok and something popped up on one of the videos talking about ADHD in women and girls,\" she explained.\n\n\"I had this phone call from her and she said, 'I think I've got ADHD and I think you do too'.\"\n\nRhian said everything \"fell into place\" once she started looking into the condition, particularly how it can manifest in women.\n\nFor her daughter, it was the move to university and living with other people that made her realise the way they lived at home was not necessarily the same for everyone.\n\nRhian explained: \"It's the clutter; it's the not finishing tasks; it's the struggling to sit down and do the work which you know you should be doing but you don't know why you're not doing it.\n\n\"Losing things constantly. The time blindness as well, that's always been an issue.\n\n\"The name is very misleading, attention deficit - actually the issue is you've got too much attention for everything around you. The classic is for girls, they say they are daydreaming, but actually what's going on is 100 thoughts per minute in their head thinking about all these other things.\"\n\nShe was diagnosed six months after an initial referral from a GP.\n\n\"Two days later I started medication. I consider myself extremely lucky because I know it's very different all over Wales. I know there's places where they haven't even got it set up, so there's people who have been waiting for years,\" she said.\n\nHer younger daughters have both now been diagnosed with the condition despite the school refusing to refer for testing saying their grades were \"too good\" for them to have it.\n\nAs with Emma, starting medication has made a significant difference to Rhian's daily life.\n\n\"When people without ADHD have a task to do that they consider not very interesting they just do it because… they are getting a bit of a [dopamine] reward for doing it without realising it.\n\n\"Because ours isn't processed in the usual way, we struggle to do the less interesting things. I've found since taking the medication I've achieved so much. I feel more motivated.\"\n\nShe describes the support group as an amazing resource which has complemented the medical treatment. \"Everyone is at different stages and everyone helps each other. You're with people that just get it,\" se said.\n\nRhian wants wider recognition of symptoms in girls, such as daydreaming or being a \"chatterbox\", adding: \"I can forgive people for not having the awareness because I wasn't aware\".\n\nEsther Barrett trained as an ADHD coach once she realised she had the condition\n\nDuring the first lockdown, fellow Swan founder Dr Esther Barrett's son suggested to her a number of times that she might have ADHD, a decade after he was diagnosed.\n\nA learning technology consultant in education and now an ADHD coach, Esther, 55, travelled a lot and was always \"busy, busy, busy - a bit of a giveaway in its own right\", she says.\n\n\"And then during the pandemic, everything went. I was still busy, but I was online busy, and I had more time to think about things.\n\n\"It just dawned on me one day, oh I see. I saw myself in Zoom meetings just moving about, putting lip salve on many times, drinking probably a gallon of water during online calls - just could not keep still and it was very hard to focus as well because it was the same format over and over again,\" she said.\n\n\"I realised he was right.\"\n\nEsther saw a private specialist and when her results came back positive she was \"really chuffed because it did explain my entire life in a way that I would not have otherwise been able to explain,\" she said.\n\n\"I mean doing stupid things, but all the good stuff and all the interests and obsessions but also the mistakes and the bad times.\"\n\nIt was she who brought the other two women together to start Swan initially, after meeting Rhian as a client through her coaching work.\n\nPrevious misconceptions about how ADHD presents in women have led to under-diagnosis, Prof Amanda Kirby says\n\nProf Amanda Kirby, chair of the ADHD Foundation and a former GP, said many women were only coming forward in their 40s, 50s and 60s and gaining a diagnosis because of previous misconceptions and lack of awareness about female-typical symptoms.\n\n\"Often those women have been diagnosed with other conditions earlier in life, so it might be anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance misuse,\" she said.\n\n\"Many of those women have children who are neurodivergent themselves and they go 'oh, they're a bit like me' and then start to recognise that they could potentially have ADHD.\"\n\nOestrogen and the menstrual cycle could cause an alteration in behaviour at different times of the month, and menopause could also be a factor in increasing symptoms as oestrogen levels fell.\n\nTo pick up girls with the condition up at an early age, Prof Kirby said training and awareness in educational and medical professionals were key.\n\n\"That quiet girl may be inattentive, there may be reasons why she's not working optimally. Sometimes what we see is bright, capable girls are taking that home and internalising it.\"\n\nOr as Rhian puts it: \"It's not a super power. It's very hard work.\"", "After the the pomp and ceremony of yesterday's Coronation, tonight's concert has felt more like a moment for the nation to let its hair down and blow off steam.\n\nThe variety of the line-up and the fact that most acts were limited to one song, meant the show remained engaging and kept its momentum throughout.\n\nMoments of tenderness - such as The Piano star Lucy's rendition of Bach - were balanced by storming sets from Lionel Richie and Katy Perry. Even Princess Charlotte was singing along.\n\nWinnie The Pooh, Kermit and Miss Piggy provided comic relief, while Paloma Faith soundtracked perhaps the most memorable moment of the night - lighting up landmarks around the UK.\n\nThe spoken-word interludes nodded towards causes close to King Charles's heart, and Prince William paid a touching tribute to his father and grandmother, who he said was \"up there, fondly keeping an eye on us\".\n\nFinally, Take That - albeit only three-fifths of them - delivered a rousing end to the night. Performing together for the first time since 2019, their songs Greatest Day and Shine were fitting for a national celebration such as this, and their 1995 hit Never Forget was the perfect song to close the evening.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nRodrygo scored twice as Real Madrid won the Copa del Rey for the first time since 2014 after beating Osasuna in the final in Seville.\n\nThe Brazilian was on hand to fire the winner from close range after Toni Kroos' shot deflected into his path.\n\nOsasuna, playing in only their second Copa del Rey final, had threatened an upset when Lucas Torro levelled.\n\nRodrygo handed Real an early lead with the fastest goal in a Spanish cup final for 17 years after 106 seconds.\n\nOsasuna, backed by nearly 25,000 fans inside the Estadio de La Cartuja, had their chances as they chased a first major trophy in their 103-year history.\n\nThey were denied a stoppage-time equaliser when Dani Carvajal produced a last-ditch block to keep out Kike Barja's side-footed effort.\n\nLos Rojillos, which translates as The Little Reds, had more shots on target (5) than Real (3), but Carlo Ancelotti's side were ultimately more clinical in front of goal.\n\nVictory for Real delivers a 20th Copa del Rey title as they now turn their attention to Tuesday's Champions League semi-final first leg against Manchester City.\n\nOsasuna fans had travelled in large numbers and painted the city of Seville red in anticipation of Saturday's final, but it could not have started any worse on the field.\n\nVinicius Jr, who returned to the Real starting XI as Ancelotti made five changes to the side that lost at Real Sociedad, proved to be a constant threat down the left.\n\nThe Brazilian beat his marker and got to the byline before cutting the ball back across the face of goal for Rodrygo to convert for the opening goal.\n\nOsasuna's task nearly became even harder when Karim Benzema forced Sergio Herrera into a smart save, but Jagoba Arrasate's side began to grow into the game and they could have equalised a minute later.\n\nBearing down on goal after shrugging off the challenge of Eder Militao, Abde Ezzalzouli beat Thibaut Courtois but could not guide his chipped effort on target.\n\nThe leveller did come after the break when Torro's controlled finish from outside the area against his former club sent the red half of the stadium into delirium.\n\nSome of the enthusiasm spilled over as play was momentarily halted while stewards had to use a fire extinguisher on a loose pyrotechnic where the Osasuna fans were housed.\n\nBut Madrid always carried a threat and when Vinicius Jr burst through down the left once more and dragged the ball back from the byline, Kroos' effort came off Garcia for Rodrygo to pounce and lift into the net.\n\nWith the La Liga title seemingly heading to Barcelona, Ancelotti's side will enjoy their celebrations before turning their attention to the Champions League.\n\nThe holders will be hoping they can welcome back Luka Modric from a hamstring issue to face City in the first leg at the Bernabeu.", "Thousands of troops have been sent in to Manipur to help stop the violence\n\nAt least 30 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur, officials say.\n\nThe violence began earlier this week after a rally by indigenous communities against moves to grant tribal status to the main ethnic group in the state.\n\nMobs attacked homes, vehicles, churches, and temples. Some reports put the death toll as high as 54.\n\nAround 10,000 people have reportedly been displaced. Thousands of troops have been sent in to maintain order.\n\nA curfew is in place in several districts and internet access has been suspended.\n\nNeighbouring states have begun evacuating their students from Manipur, which is in India's northeast and close to the border with Myanmar.\n\nThe army says it is bringing the situation under control but the Hindu-nationalist BJP-led government in the state has been accused of not doing enough to prevent the violence.\n\nMembers of the Meitei community, who account for at least 50% of the state's population, have been demanding inclusion under the Scheduled Tribe category for years.\n\nIndia reserves government jobs, college admissions and elected seats at all levels of government for communities under this category to rectify historical wrongs that have denied them equal opportunities.\n\nThis status would give the Meiteis access to forest lands and guarantee them a proportion of government jobs and places in educational institutions.\n\nOther tribes are worried that they may lose control over their ancestral forest dwellings.\n\nOn Tuesday, thousands of tribal people from the hill districts of the state participated in a march called by the All Tribal Students Union of Manipur to oppose the demand.\n\nA day later, a similar rally turned violent, sparking unrest in other districts that has since spread. Each side blames the other for the unrest.", "King Charles III has been crowned alongside Queen Camilla in ceremony steeped in splendour and tradition inside Westminster Abbey.\n\nA host of other events have been planned for the rest of the weekend. Here is your guide to what will happen on Sunday and Monday.\n\nNeighbours and communities across the UK are being invited to share food and fun together as part of the Coronation Big Lunch.\n\nFrom 20:00, The Coronation Concert will showcase the country's diverse cultural heritage in music, theatre and dance. Kirsty Young will anchor the live coverage for BBC TV and BBC iPlayer and Clara Amfo and Jordan Banjo will be backstage with the artists.\n\nThe concert will see a world-class orchestra play a host of musical favourites and will also feature, for the first time ever, a joint performance from The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal College of Music and The Royal College of Art.\n\nAs part of the show, ten locations around the UK including Blackpool, Sheffield, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Gateshead, Cornwall and Belfast will be lit up in a live sequence as part of Lighting Up The Nation.\n\nHow to watch: The Coronation Concert will be broadcast live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds. In London it will be shown on the big screen in St. James's Park.\n\nHundreds of parties, picnics and all sort of events have been planned by local councils and members of the public.\n\nOn Bank Holiday Monday, members of the public will be invited to take part in The Big Help Out, aiming to raise awareness of volunteering.\n\nThousands of organisations across the country are encouraging the public to make a difference in their local communities, with plenty of opportunities to get involved.\n\nFor those staying at home, specially-commissioned programming will be available on iPlayer, including Charles R: The Making of a Monarch, Songs of Praise: A Coronation Celebration and Stitching for Britain.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nPubs, clubs and bars across England and Wales will stay open for an extra two hours on Friday and Saturday. This map allows you to search for events in your area. Here are just a few examples of other events that will be happening around the UK:\n\nWhat are your plans for the Coronation? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nSinger Tina Turner, whose soul classics and pop hits like The Best and What's Love Got to Do With It made her a superstar, has died at the age of 83.\n\nTurner had suffered a number of health issues in recent years including cancer, a stroke and kidney failure.\n\nShe rose to fame alongside husband Ike in the 1960s with songs including Proud Mary and River Deep, Mountain High.\n\nShe divorced the abusive Ike in 1978, and went on to find even greater success as a solo artist in the 1980s.\n\nDubbed the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, Tina Turner was famed for her raunchy and energetic stage performances and husky, powerful vocals.\n\nHer death was announced on her official Instagram page.\n\n\"With her music and her boundless passion for life, she enchanted millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of tomorrow,\" the post said.\n\n\"Today we say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us all her greatest work: her music.\"\n\nTurner won eight Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 2021 as a solo artist, having first been inducted alongside Ike Turner in 1991.\n\nUpon her solo induction, the Hall of Fame noted how she had \"expanded the once-limited idea of how a Black woman could conquer a stage and be both a powerhouse and a multidimensional being\".\n\nYounger stars who have felt her influence include Beyoncé, Janet Jackson, Janelle Monae and Rihanna.\n\nTurner's manager of 30 years, Roger Davies, said in a statement that \"Tina was a unique and remarkable force of nature with her strength, incredible energy and immense talent\".\n\n\"From the first day I met her in 1980, she believed in herself completely when few others did at that time... I will miss her deeply,\" he added.\n\nAmerican singer Gloria Gaynor, who also rose to fame in the 1960s, said Turner \"paved the way for so many women in rock music, black and white\".\n\nThere were also tributes from Supermodel Naomi Campbell, Basketball legend Magic Johnson and singers Kelly Rowland, Ciara and Blondie's Debbie Harry.\n\nOn Instagram, The Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger said Turner was \"inspiring, warm, funny and generous\" and helped him when he was young.\n\nSir Elton John, who in his autobiography wrote about the heated arguments the pair had while trying to work together in 1997, said she was one of the world's \"most exciting and electric performers\".\n\nActress Viola Davis praised Turner as \"our first symbol of excellence and unbridled ownership of sexuality!!\"\n\nTurner was also a style icon - here she's performing in New York's Central Park in 1969 wearing a red leather outfit\n\nBorn in Tennessee into a sharecropping family, she first found prominence as one of the backing singers for her husband's band The Kings of Rhythm.\n\nShe soon went to to front the band, and the couple tasted commercial success with Fool in Love and It's Gonna Work Out Fine, which made the US charts in the early 60s.\n\nTheir other hits included 1973's Nutbush City Limits, about the small town where Tina was born. But Ike's physical and emotional abuse was taking its toll.\n\nIt was he who changed her name from her birth name, Anna Mae Bullock, to Tina Turner - a decision he took without her knowledge, one example of his controlling behaviour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tina Turner spoke frankly about domestic abuse with the BBC's Will Gompertz back in 2018\n\nShe recalled the trauma she suffered throughout their relationship in her 2018 memoir, My Love Story, in which she compared sex with the late musician to \"a kind of rape\".\n\n\"He used my nose as a punching bag so many times that I could taste blood running down my throat when I sang,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter escaping her abuser, she went on to rebuild her career and become one of the biggest pop and rock stars of the 80s and 90s, with hits including Let's Stay Together, Steamy Windows, Private Dancer, James Bond theme GoldenEye, I Don't Wanna Fight and It Takes Two, a duet with Rod Stewart.\n\nShe also starred in 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - which featured another of her smashes, We Don't Need Another Hero - and The Who's 1975 rock opera Tommy as the Acid Queen.\n\nShe found happiness with her second husband, German music executive Erwin Bac. They began dating in the mid-80s, and got married in 2013.\n\nThe pair lived in Switzerland, with Turner taking Swiss citizenship. He donated one of his kidneys to her in 2017 after it was discovered she was suffering from kidney failure.\n\nShe also suffered tragedy with the loss of her eldest son Craig to suicide in 2018. His father was Turner's former bandmate, Raymond Hill.\n\nAnother son, Ronnie, whose father was Ike Turner, died in 2022. She also had two adopted sons, Ike Jr and Michael, Ike's children from a previous relationship.\n\nTina's life story spawned a 1993 biopic titled What's Love Got To Do With It, which earned Angela Bassett an Oscar nomination for playing the star; and a hit stage musical - aptly titled Tina: The Musical. She was also the subject of HBO documentary Tina in 2021.\n\nIn an interview with Marie Claire South Africa in 2018, Turner said: \"People think my life has been tough, but I think it's been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happened, it's how you deal with it.\"", "Police officers surround the car after the crash on Thursday\n\nAn 11-year-old boy has been taken to hospital in a critical condition after being hit by a police car.\n\nIt happened on Owen Road in Lancaster just before 20:30 BST as officers were responding to an emergency call.\n\nThe boy, who was crossing the road at the time, was taken to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary before being transferred to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.\n\nThe road is expected to remain closed for some time, Lancashire Police said.\n\nThe young victim was crossing the road at the time of the crash, police say\n\nChief Supt Karen Edwards said an investigation was under way and the force had referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct as a matter of routine.\n\nShe said: \"I appreciate there will be lots of questions about what has happened and why, and I want to reassure you that a full and thorough investigation will be carried out to establish the circumstances.\n\n\"I want to take this opportunity to thank the local community for their understanding and support during what was clearly a hugely distressing incident.\"\n\nThe IOPC said it had been notified of the collision shortly after it occurred and that investigators were gathering information.\n\nThe force of the crash resulted in the collapse of a traffic light\n\nInitial evidence indicated the driver had activated the emergency equipment, lights and sirens, the watchdog added.\n\nIOPC Regional Director Catherine Bates said: \"This is an incredibly tragic incident and my thoughts are with the boy, his family and all those affected.\n\n\"Our investigation will thoroughly examine the circumstances prior to the collision, including whether appropriate policies and procedures were followed.\"\n\nAnyone with any information or who has any CCTV or dashcam footage that may assist the investigation is being asked to call 101 and quote log 1388 of May 25.\n\nWere you in the area yesterday evening? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "UK homeowners and renters are facing a \"huge income shock\" as rising interest rates hit mortgages and monthly costs, the boss of Barclays has warned.\n\nCS Venkatakrishnan, who is known as Venkat, estimates that payments by mortgage holders and tenants will take a chunk of between 28% and 30% out of their income.\n\nHe said that compares to an average 20% in previous years.\n\nThe Bank of England has sharply raised interest rates to curb inflation.\n\nThe Barclays boss said that \"most people will begin to feel the impact of higher rates when their current deal expires by the end of next year\", and predicted \"there is a huge income shock\" on the way.\n\nMr Venkat was speaking to a conference held by the Wall Street Journal.\n\nAround 85% of all mortgages are fixed-rate, according to the Bank of England.\n\nIt said around 1.3 million households are expected to reach the end of their deals this year and face a rise of up to £200 per month, based on current rates.\n\nThe Bank of England has raised interest rates 12 times since December 2021 in an attempt to keep price rises, or inflation, under control.\n\nA typical tracker mortgage customer is now paying about £417 more a month while those on a variable rate have seen their costs rise by £266.\n\nData released on Wednesday shows inflation slowed to 8.7% in the year to April but remains higher than some economists predicted.\n\nIt has prompted expectations of a further increase in borrowing costs when the Bank of England's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets in June.\n\nAndrew Montlake, managing director at mortgage brokers Coreco, said: \"While on the face of it we have seen a fall in inflation back down to single figures, it is not by quite as much as expected.\n\nHe added: \"What is more, the important underlying inflation figure has proved to be stickier than envisaged. This has led to a reaction from the markets as they believe the Bank of England may now continue with their policy of rate rises.\"\n\nSushil Wadhwani, a former member of the MPC who is now on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Economic Advisory Council, said markets have indicated interest rates could peak around 5.5%.\n\nHe said a lot people are on fixed rate mortgages \"and these haven't adjusted yet\".\n\n\"That's an adjustment that's yet to come and it's deeply worrying for all of us,\" he added.\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "It is \"ridiculous\" that vapes are promoted to children, Rishi Sunak has said as he pledged to look at ways of strengthening marketing rules.\n\nSpeaking to ITV's This Morning, the prime minister said he didn't want his daughters \"seduced by these things\".\n\nEarlier this week, a BBC investigation found vapes confiscated from school pupils contained high levels of lead, which could affect brain development.\n\nIt is illegal to sell vapes to under-18s.\n\nNHS figures released last year found that while there was a fall in the number of school children taking drugs and smoking cigarettes, vape usage had risen to 9% among 11 to 15-year-olds in England - up from 6% in 2018.\n\nIn the same period, vaping among 15-year-old girls jumped from 10% to 21%.\n\nA more recent study by Action on Smoking Health found that corner shops were \"the main source of purchase and child awareness of instore promotion had grown significantly in the last year\".\n\nVapes or e-cigarettes are generally considered to be safer than normal cigarettes because they do not contain harmful tobacco.\n\nThe government says vaping is \"an important tool\" to help adults give up smoking and contribute to its target of making smoking obsolete in England by 2030.\n\nHowever, it also says children should not take up vaping and has launched a consultation seeking evidence on how the appearance and promotion of vapes may attract children.\n\nForty countries have banned vapes completely, while others have sought to make them less appealing to young people. Canada, for example, put restrictions on the types of vape flavours that can be sold.\n\nSpeaking to ITV's This Morning programme, Mr Sunak expressed concern about children, who are aged 12 and 10, taking up vaping.\n\n\"I have two young girls - that's why I worry about it.\"\n\nHe pointed to £3m of funding, announced last month, for a squad of trading standards officers to tackle shops illegally selling vapes to children.\n\nHe also said he wanted to look at \"how can we strengthen the rules on how they are marketed, promoted - what do they look like\".\n\nHe added: \"It looks like they are targeted at kids which is ridiculous - I don't want my kids seduced by any of these things.\"\n\nLabour has said it would ban vapes from being branded and advertised to appeal to children if it wins power.\n\nThe party has also promised to work with local councils and the NHS to ensure vapes \"are being used as a stop smoking aide, rather than a new form of smoking\".", "Google has removed a highly controversial game called Slavery Simulator from its app store, after it caused outrage in Brazil.\n\nThe app, which allowed players to \"buy and sell\" black characters, was launched by Magnus Games on 20 April.\n\nThe game was downloaded more than 1,000 times before it was removed on Wednesday, local media reported.\n\nBrazil is a country still coming to terms with its legacy of slavery, which was only abolished in 1888.\n\nIn a description of the game, the developer boasted that users could \"exchange, buy and sell slaves\". It also allowed players to inflict various forms of torture on black characters.\n\nAccording to images of the game, users were offered a choice to either liberate the enslaved characters or \"use slaves for your own enrichment. Prevent the abolition of slavery and accumulate wealth\".\n\nAt the time of its removal, the game had a rating of four out of five stars, with one review reading: \"Great game to pass the time. But I think it lacked more torture options.\"\n\nSocial media users in Brazil expressed fury over the game, and a number of prominent politicians urged officials to hold tech companies to a higher standard.\n\n\"The image illustrating the game has a white man surrounded by black men. It is absurdly violent. Google and the developer must answer for this crime of hatred and racism.\"\n\nAnd Denise Pessoa, a lawmaker with the governing PT political party, wrote on Twitter: \"IT IS ABSURD that a game that spreads cruelty and hate speech against black people is available. Our country was built with the blood of the black population. People were killed, tortured. A 'Slavery Simulator' is no joke.\"\n\nThe office of Brazil's Public Prosecutor said it had opened an investigation into how the game - called Simulador de Escravidão in Portuguese - was allowed to be placed on the Google Play Store, local media reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Brazil's Ministry for Racial equality said it had arranged a meeting with Google to help build \"anti-racist content moderation\" policies. It added that the developers would be held legally responsible.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, a Google spokesperson said that the Play Store does not allow \"apps that promote violence or incite hatred against individuals or groups based on race or ethnic origin, or that depict or promote gratuitous violence or other dangerous activities\".\n\n\"When violations are found, we take appropriate action,\" it added.\n\nMagnus Games did not respond to a BBC request for comment, but in its description of the game the company said it was \"created solely for entertainment purposes. Our studio condemns slavery in any form.\n\n\"All game content is fictional and not tied to specific historical events. All coincidences are accidental.\"\n\nMore than four million enslaved people were taken to Brazil in the course of the country's history. In 1822, 1.5 million of the 3.5 million people living in the country were enslaved.", "Scientist Denise Catacutan working on the experimental antibiotic discovered with the help of artificial intelligence.\n\nScientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover a new antibiotic that can kill a deadly species of superbug.\n\nThe AI helped narrow down thousands of potential chemicals to a handful that could be tested in the laboratory.\n\nThe result was a potent, experimental antibiotic called abaucin, which will need further tests before being used.\n\nThe researchers in Canada and the US say AI has the power to massively accelerate the discovery of new drugs.\n\nIt is the latest example of how the tools of artificial intelligence can be a revolutionary force in science and medicine.\n\nAntibiotics kill bacteria. However, there has been a lack of new drugs for decades and bacteria are becoming harder to treat, as they evolve resistance to the ones we have.\n\nMore than a million people a year are estimated to die from infections that resist treatment with antibiotics.\n\nThe researchers focused on one of the most problematic species of bacteria - Acinetobacter baumannii, which can infect wounds and cause pneumonia.\n\nYou may not have heard of it, but it is one of the three superbugs the World Health Organization has identified as a \"critical\" threat.\n\nIt is often able to shrug off multiple antibiotics and is a problem in hospitals and care homes, where it can survive on surfaces and medical equipment.\n\nDr Jonathan Stokes, from McMaster University, describes the bug as \"public enemy number one\" as it's \"really common\" to find cases where it is \"resistant to nearly every antibiotic\".\n\nTo find a new antibiotic, the researchers first had to train the AI. They took thousands of drugs where the precise chemical structure was known, and manually tested them on Acinetobacter baumannii to see which could slow it down or kill it.\n\nThis information was fed into the AI so it could learn the chemical features of drugs that could attack the problematic bacterium.\n\nThe AI was then unleashed on a list of 6,680 compounds whose effectiveness was unknown. The results - published in Nature Chemical Biology - showed it took the AI an hour and a half to produce a shortlist.\n\nThe researchers tested 240 in the laboratory, and found nine potential antibiotics. One of them was the incredibly potent antibiotic abaucin.\n\nLaboratory experiments showed it could treat infected wounds in mice and was able to kill A. baumannii samples from patients.\n\nHowever, Dr Stokes told me: \"This is when the work starts.\"\n\nThe next step is to perfect the drug in the laboratory and then perform clinical trials. He expects the first AI antibiotics could take until 2030 until they are available to be prescribed.\n\nCuriously, this experimental antibiotic had no effect on other species of bacteria, and works only on A. baumannii.\n\nMany antibiotics kill bacteria indiscriminately. The researchers believe the precision of abaucin will make it harder for drug-resistance to emerge, and could lead to fewer side-effects.\n\nBacteria being grown in the laboratory\n\nIn principle, the AI could screen tens of millions of potential compounds - something that would be impractical to do manually.\n\n\"AI enhances the rate, and in a perfect world decreases the cost, with which we can discover these new classes of antibiotic that we desperately need,\" Dr Stokes told me.\n\nThe researchers tested the principles of AI-aided antibiotic discovery in E. coli in 2020, but have now used that knowledge to focus on the big nasties. They plan to look at Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa next.\n\n\"This finding further supports the premise that AI can significantly accelerate and expand our search for novel antibiotics,\" said Prof James Collins, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n\nHe added: \"I'm excited that this work shows that we can use AI to help combat problematic pathogens such as A. baumannii.\"\n\nProf Dame Sally Davies, the former chief medical officer for England and government envoy on anti-microbial resistance, told Radio 4's The World Tonight: \"We're onto a winner.\"\n\nShe said the idea of using AI was \"a big game-changer, I'm thrilled to see the work he (Dr Stokes) is doing, it will save lives\".", "The NHS buildings which have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete have to be regularly inspected\n\nFive hospitals that are deemed at risk of collapse because of deteriorating concrete infrastructure are to be rebuilt, the government has announced.\n\nThe hospitals - Airedale in West Yorkshire, Queen Elizabeth King's Lynn in Norfolk, Hinchingbrooke in Cambridgeshire, Mid Cheshire Leighton and Surrey's Frimley Park - were all built using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.\n\nThe lightweight concrete was used in roofs, floors and walls between the 1960s and 1980s.\n\nThe material, which has bubbles inside like \"a chocolate Aero bar\", has a limited lifespan and all five are in urgent need of rebuilding.\n\nAt some sites roofs are having to be propped up with scaffolding and posts.\n\nThe sites have been added to the government's New Hospital Programme, which the government says will see 40 new hospitals built by 2030.\n\nThis though includes complete new-builds and sites undergoing major refurbishments and alterations.\n\nA BBC investigation last week found work was yet to start on 33 of them.\n\nThere are many props and temporary supports in place across the Queen Elizabeth Hospital\n\nThe government also announced it would be spending more than £20 billion on the building programme.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"These five hospitals are in pressing need of repair and are being prioritised so patients and staff can benefit from major new hospital buildings, equipped with the latest technology.\"\n\nAnother two hospitals - West Suffolk and James Paget in Norfolk - that have significant amounts of the lightweight concrete were already part of the hospital building programme.\n\nLabour's Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting accused the government of over-promising and under-delivering. \"It is not clear that the government has the money or the time to deliver 40 new hospitals by 2030.\n\n\"After 13 years of neglect, the NHS estate is crumbling. The Conservatives literally didn't fix the roof while the sun was shining and now patient safety is at risk. Their time is up,\" he said.\n\nSir Julian Hartley, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals, welcomed the announcement but said some trusts would be disappointed.\n\nEight schemes will now be completed later than originally planned, and after 2030, so these five new developments can be prioritised.\n\nSir Julian also said more than 90 other trusts had applied for funding but been rejected.\n\n\"The eye-watering cost of trying to patch up creaking infrastructure and out-of-date facilities is mounting, with a multi-billion-pound repairs backlog across the NHS growing at an alarming rate,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emergency general surgery was moved from Daisy Hill in February 2022\n\nA shortage of consultants at Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry means delivering inpatient care in general medicine is at risk.\n\nThe Southern Health Trust said it was working with other trusts in Northern Ireland and the Department of Health \"to help us through this situation\".\n\nIt has also emerged that the hospital's stroke service is being withdrawn from 09:00 BST on 31 May.\n\nThat is because the hospital's one remaining specialist is leaving.\n\nThe trust said recruiting and retaining medical staff has been a major issue in the hospital in recent years.\n\n\"The pressures have now escalated with increasing reliance on medical locum cover and a number of consultant medical staff ending their tenure at the hospital,\" it added.\n\n\"These challenges are putting services at the hospital - such as respiratory and gastrointestinal (GI) inpatient medical provision - at risk.\n\n\"Every avenue is being pursued to protect services.\"\n\nSouthern Trust chief executive Dr Maria O'Kane told BBC's Evening Extra programme that in the last year \"nine consultants have left and six of those left during the last three to six months\".\n\nWith only one such medical consultant remaining, the trust has said it cannot staff rotas to ensure all services are delivered safely.\n\nAccording to sources, senior management told a trust board meeting on Thursday it would take at least six months to stabilise the system, but action needed to be taken in advance of the summer holidays.\n\nMedical consultants diagnose, admit and treat patients who may come into hospital via the emergency department (ED).\n\nTheir specialities include cardiovascular and respiratory disease, as well as gastrointestinal disease.\n\nWithout that expertise, a hospital is unable to function at its full capacity.\n\nIn future, people who become ill, including those who suffer a stroke, may have to travel to Craigavon, Ulster, or Royal Victoria Hospitals, or to a hospital in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt is understood senior staff plan to have talks with Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.\n\nCraigavon Area Hospital, which is about 30 minutes drive from Daisy Hill, is likely to inherit most of the overflow.\n\nThe trust said that as there are \"insufficient substantive stroke consultants at Daisy Hill\", the decision had been taken \"on patient safety grounds to again divert all acute stroke patients to Craigavon Area Hospital\".\n\nThe trust said recruiting and retaining medical staff has been a major issue in the hospital in recent years\n\nIt said this would come into effect from 09:00 on 31 May and that the same measure was taken in February \"due to unforeseen staffing issues\".\n\nCraigavon Area Hospital often reports delays in its own emergency department.\n\nIn February, the Southern Health Trust announced the relocation of emergency general surgery from Daisy Hill to Craigavon.\n\nPreviously the trust had described that move as \"interim\" and due to ongoing recruitment challenges.\n\nIn October, the then health minister, Robin Swann announced that Daisy Hill Hospital was to become an elective overnight stay centre.\n\nAt the time, he said centres were being established as part of a reorganisation of surgery services.\n\nSeveral clinicians and the public voiced concern about the future of the hospital.\n\nThose consultants who have recently left Daisy Hill Hospital have retired, resigned, moved to another hospital in Northern Ireland or moved to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe trust, however, has insisted that general emergency surgery, the emergency department and maternity services were all currently safe.\n\nCraigavon Area Hospital often reports delays in its own emergency department\n\nThe trust has said it plans to increase its acute care at home service.\n\nThat means patients who are normally admitted to hospital will be treated by clinicians at home instead.\n\nDr Tom Black, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) in Northern Ireland, said the announcement that some services are being withdrawn from Daisy Hill Hospital is \"extremely worrying\".\n\n\"Acute medical services at the hospital look increasingly precarious,\" he said.\n\n\"Transformation due to service collapse benefits neither patients nor doctors and destabilises services for patients.\n\n\"There will be a knock-on effect on services in Craigavon Hospital and any further attrition would impact GP services in the area as well, thus putting unacceptable pressure on different parts of the health service.\"\n\nDr Donal Duffin, was a consultant physician at Daisy Hill Hospital for a number of years, and is a member of the Daisy Hill Futures Group.\n\nHe said there had been a \"significant problem\" with the retention of senior staff at the Daisy Hill site and that the hospital was a critical part of the healthcare system in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"At the moment the remaining staff are pulling out all the stops, keeping things going as far as they can, but this is not a sustainable situation without a dramatic intervention by the trust, but I don't think that's enough, I think it has to involve the trust, the Department of Health and the politicians,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nDr Maria O'Kane says the shortage of medical staff is extremely challenging in Northern Ireland\n\nDr O'Kane told the trust's monthly board meeting that the shortage of consultants, difficulties recruiting specialist grade and junior doctors and the \"serious over-reliance\" on locum doctors \"are matters of great concern in meeting the demand for acute inpatient medicine and providing stable medical staffing cover in our medical wards\".\n\n\"This situation is certainly not unique to Daisy Hill Hospital,\" she said.\n\n\"The shortage of medical staff is extremely challenging in Northern Ireland, and indeed further afield.\"\n\nShe added that the trust continued to pursue every viable option to minimise the impact of this situation and stabilise its workforce.\n\nIn April, several hundred people attended a protest in Newry over the planned removal of emergency general surgery at Daisy Hill Hospital\n\nMs O'Kane said a meeting would take place next week involving all trusts to \"seek support to address these challenges\".\n\nShe said it needed to be recognised that medical staffing is \"already stretched across Craigavon Area and other NI hospitals, so any support is likely to be limited\".\n\n\"Our initial focus will be to stabilise staffing for the summer months in anticipation of a more permanent solution,\" she said.\n\n\"Ensuring patient safety and supporting our staff will be absolute priorities.\n\n\"We are very proud of the care provided by our medical staff, who have been working in very difficult circumstances.\"\n\nSeparately, the number of people on hospital waiting lists in Northern Ireland has been described as \"entirely unacceptable\" by the Department of Health's permanent secretary Peter May.\n\nThe latest figures show that in the first quarter this year 401,201 people were waiting for their first outpatient appointment with a consultant.\n\nThat is 27,174 more than at the same time last year.\n\nThe statistics also show that 81% of patients were waiting more than nine weeks for a first consultant-led outpatient appointment.\n\nOne of the department's targets was that by March this year at least 50% of patients should wait no longer than nine weeks for this.\n\nHowever, there has been some progress.\n\nThe number of inpatient and day case admissions waiting more than 13 weeks to be admitted for treatment was down, from 102,164 at the same time last year to 94,305 at the end of March.\n\nThe Northern Ireland director of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), Prof Mark Taylor expressed \"grave concern\" at the figures.\n\n\"The waiting time figures come on the back of a hammer blow to elective recovery this week by the Department of Health after it revealed plans to axe £34m from its waiting lists initiative programme due to huge budget pressures,\" he said.", "The King and Queen met eight-year-olds Camilla Nowawakowska and Charles Murray outside St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh\n\nThe King and Queen met another Charles and Camilla as they concluded their two-day visit to Northern Ireland in counties Armagh and Fermanagh.\n\nThe royal couple greeted primary school children who had been waiting outside St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh.\n\nAmong them was Camilla Nowawakowska, wearing a crepe-paper replica of her own crown.\n\nStanding next to Camilla was Charles Murray, who was sporting a purple paper crown decorated with shiny stickers.\n\nWhen the two children told the Queen their first names, she said: \"Goodness me, isn't that funny.\n\n\"You've got very smart crowns on, they're a little bit lighter than the one I had on.\n\n\"They look pretty cool with all the jewels.\"\n\nCharles was then called over and shook hands with the two children.\n\nThe royal couple, who have since left Northern Ireland, had just met the main Christian denominations at the Anglican St Patrick's Cathedral.\n\nQueen Camilla also met children at Armagh Robinson Library as part of her campaign to encourage reading.\n\nLater, they met local community groups many of whom had taken part in the Coronation Big Help Out.\n\nKing Charles with the Dean of Armagh, the Very Revd Shane Forster, during his visit to St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh\n\nAmong those to give readings at the cathedral service were Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland Rev John McDowell and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland Rev Eamon Martin.\n\nThe other denominations represented at the service were the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church.\n\nAt the library, the Queen viewed Jonathan Swift's own, annotated, copy of his book Gulliver's Travels, during her visit to the library.\n\nChildren from Drelincourt primary school, volunteers from the library and representatives from Dementia NI, all of whom use the library regularly, were among those meeting the Queen.\n\nShe said they were lucky to have access to the historical books in the library.\n\nThe royal couple then made their way to Market Theatre Square to see a celebration of culture.\n\nThe Queen got up close with the legendary characters associated with Armagh\n\nUlster-Scots, Irish, Chinese and South Asian cultures featured their traditional music, song and dance.\n\nThe King and Queen also met characters representing legendary and historical characters associated with Armagh, sampled local delicacies and met artisanal food producers, as well as speaking to the crowds gathered.\n\nAs the couple joined the Lord Mayor of Armagh Paul Greenfield on stage, King Charles addressed the crowd and thanked the community for its hospitality.\n\n\"I did just want to say before we leave that it's been the greatest pleasure to join you here today,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Royal Family This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Royal Family\n\n\"I realise it was 23 years ago since I was last here, and I think opened The Market Place building, which I'm so pleased to see is still going strong and I hope making a huge difference to Armagh.\n\n\"But if I may say so it's been particularly special to meet so many of you today, also a large number of school children whose exams, I suspect, we have totally disrupted.\"\n\nIn the afternoon, the pair made their way to Enniskillen Castle where they met representatives from across the community, voluntary and heritage sectors in Fermanagh in celebration of the Coronation.\n\nAll smiles as the King greets schoolchildren at Enniskillen Castle\n\nThey were entertained by a special joint performance of Irish and Scottish dancers accompanied by traditional musicians.\n\nThe King and Queen were presented with a Coronation Basket made by Belleek Pottery.\n\nAround a thousand people who had gathered outside the castle were rewarded by a royal walkabout with the King and Queen spending time shaking hands and talking to the crowd.\n\nThe King and Queen also went to Lough Erne's waterfront where they met representatives of the RNLI who marked their 200th anniversary.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbba's Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson have ruled out a reunion at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in their native Sweden.\n\nNext year will be the 50th anniversary of the band winning the competition with their song Waterloo.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newsnight, the pair also dismissed the idea that they might compose the host nation's entry.\n\nSince Abba won in 1974, Sweden has gone on to win Eurovision six more times, including this year in Liverpool.\n\nSoon after winning Eurovision, Abba's breakout hit Waterloo became their first UK Number 1 and reached the top of the charts in many other countries\n\nBjorn and Benny - who swore never to tour again and reportedly turned down an offer of $1bn to play 100 shows at the turn of the Millennium - say they do not want to get back together with Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad to perform - even for one night.\n\n\"I don't want to,\" says Andersson, \"and if I don't want to, the others won't. It's the same for all four of us - someone says, 'no' - it's a no.\"\n\n\"We can celebrate 50 years of Abba without us being on stage,\" adds Ulvaeus.\n\nIn an interview to mark the first anniversary of their virtual concert residency, Abba Voyage, which features digital recreations of the four band members. Ulvaeus describes the response of audiences to the London show as \"surpassing every expectation\".\n\n\"That emotional connection was the important thing for us,\" he says. \"We never knew until we started whether that would work.\n\n\"Their intellect is telling them that we're not there - but emotionally they are connected, which is a fantastic thing.\"\n\nUlvaeus believes the groundbreaking technology employed in their show will be used in future to create avatars of deceased artists who cannot give their consent - posing a dilemma for both producers and audiences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We can say 'yes' or 'no' to everything, so the audience knows that we are behind this,\" he says, \"so it would be an ethical question\".\n\nAnd they acknowledge that the technology could also be misused to create 'deep fakes' with the potential to spread disinformation.\n\n\"But it's hardly our fault,\" says Andersson.\n• None 43 yearssince their last concert, in Japan\n\nWhile it was initially reported that the purpose-built Abba Voyage arena would be dismantled and transported around the world following its London run, the songwriters say they are now considering gifting the building - constructed near the Olympic Stadium in Stratford - \"to the community\" in the event they are unable to extend the lease when it expires in four years.\n\nThey are also considering building replicas of the structure in North America and Asia, and would like to take the immersive virtual reality show to Australia.\n\nWhen asked if they would be keen to see a third instalment of the hit Hollywood romantic comedy, Mamma Mia - based around their music and set on an idyllic Greek island - Andersson issues a blow to fans of the musical. Without substantial changes, he says - a new setting and an irresistible script - there will not be another film in the series.\n\n\"That's just wishful thinking,\" he says.\n\nThe duo have known each other since 1966 and say their constant desire to write new material and do new things has kept their relationship fresh.\n\n\"Because we never stood still none of us has stagnated,\" explains Ulvaeus, \"which so often happens in songwriting duos.\"\n\nThey even say that over the course of 57 years, they have never really fallen out.\n\n\"We've had different opinions,\" says Ulvaeus, \"many, many\".\n\n\"But it doesn't matter,\" Andersson says, \"because what we've achieved together, keeps us together\".\n\nWatch the Newsnight interview in full at 22:30 on BBC Two or on BBC iPlayer", "Arthur Torrington, co-founder and director of the Windrush Foundation, came to the UK from Guyana in the 1960s as a teenager.\n\nEarlier, he spoke to the BBC Radio 4's World at One programme about his experience arriving in the UK.\n\nAsked about whether he felt welcomed, Torrington said: \"In a sense yes, and in a sense no.\"\n\n\"There was an atmosphere of unwelcome, and not wanting to welcome anyone coming from the Caribbean\" - but he said that, because he and others knew they were British and had passports, \"we knew that we belonged\".\n\nDuring the same discussion, comedian Sajeela Kershi - who came to the UK in the 1980s from Pakistan - said \"outrageous things were said when we were younger\".\n\n\"It's sad for me to see the same negative connotations around immigrants that we had back in the day,\" she adds.", "And we'll keep you signed in.", "Police officers stand guard near the scene of a standoff after Wednesday's attack\n\nA man has been arrested after four people were killed in a rare shooting and stabbing attack in Japan.\n\nThe alleged assailant stabbed a woman and shot two policemen with a hunting rifle in Nagano prefecture. A fourth death was later confirmed.\n\nPolice have named the suspect as Masanori Aoki, the 31-year-old son of a local politician.\n\nGun violence remains extremely rare in Japan, despite the killing of ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July last year.\n\nShootings of multiple police officers are even rarer, with the last incident taking place more than 30 years ago.\n\nIn Thursday's incident, police received a call at around 16:25 (07:25 GMT) about a man who had chased and then stabbed a woman, according to Japanese news agency Kyodo.\n\nAn eyewitness working in a nearby field told Kyodo that the man's attack on his first victim had been carried out with a blade around 30cm (1ft) long.\n\nHis motive is not clear. When the witness asked the suspect why he had stabbed the woman, he is said to have replied: \"I killed her because I wanted to.\"\n\nMr Aoki - who was reportedly wearing a camouflage uniform, a hat, sunglasses and a mask - then allegedly shot police officers who responded to the emergency.\n\nIt was not immediately clear how the fourth person - described as an elderly woman - had died.\n\nMr Aoki later barricaded himself for nearly 12 hours inside his father's home in a quiet residential area of Nakano city, together with his mother and aunt. His father, Masamichi Aoki, is the speaker of Nakano city's assembly.\n\nFootage from NHK showed police vehicles and ambulances near the home. Police officers wearing body armour and carrying shields formed a 300m (328 yards) exclusion zone around the house.\n\nHours later, the suspect's mother and aunt were seen fleeing from the house, reported Japanese media. The suspect stepped out of the house early on Friday morning and was detained.\n\nLocal media reported that Mr Aoki was a grape farmer who owned a gelato shop in the neighbourhood.\n\nResidents were urged to stay at home via email announcements and on the neighbourhood loudspeaker, while police also went door to door.\n\nLater in the evening, local media aired footage of gunshots being heard just after 20:00 local time (11:00 GMT) on Thursday.\n\nSome residents had to spend the night elsewhere, while the local school was set to close. But after the arrest, people were told they could go about their day.\n\nA man in his 50s told NHK: \"It's sad something like this happened in my neighbourhood. I could not sleep all night.\"\n\nJapanese social media users have expressed shock and alarm at the incident on Twitter, with one calling this an \"unforgiveable crime\".\n\nAnother user questioned if the country needs to be prepared for more attacks like these to happen.\n\nOfficials said the suspect had a firearm permit.\n\nJapan has strict gun ownership rules, and only allows civilians to own hunting rifles and airguns. People have to undergo a strict exam and mental health tests in order to buy a gun in Japan.\n\nThe last incident where multiple police officers were killed took place in 1990, when two officers were shot by gang members in Okinawa prefecture.\n\nAbe was Japan's longest-serving prime minister and his death profoundly shocked a country where handguns are banned and incidents of political violence are almost unheard of.\n\nIn 2014, there were just six incidents of gun deaths in Japan, compared with 33,599 in the US.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA paralysed man has been able to walk simply by thinking about it thanks to electronic brain implants, a medical first he says has changed his life.\n\nThe electronic implants wirelessly transmit his thoughts to his legs and feet via a second implant on his spine.\n\nThe system is still at an experimental stage but a leading UK spinal charity called it \"very encouraging\".\n\n\"I feel like a toddler, learning to walk again,\" Mr Oskam told the BBC. He can also now stand and climb stairs.\n\n\"It has been a long journey, but now I can stand up and have a beer with my friend. It's a pleasure that many people don't realise.\"\n\nSensors on Gert-Jan's head transmit his brain signals from an implant to a computer\n\nThe development, published in the journal Nature, was led by Swiss researchers. Prof Jocelyne Bloch, of Lausanne University, who is the neurosurgeon who carried out the delicate surgery to insert the implants, stressed that the system was still at a basic research stage and was many years away from being available to paralysed patients.\n\nBut she told BBC News that it was the team's aim to get it out of the lab and into the clinic as soon as possible.\n\n\"The important thing for us is not just to have a scientific trial, but eventually to give more access to more people with spinal cord injuries who are used to hearing from doctors that they have to get used to the fact that they will never move again.\"\n\nGert-Jan's intention to move his legs is translated by a computer programme into instructions for his leg muscles\n\nHarvey Sihota is chief executive of the UK charity Spinal Research, which was not involved in the research. He said that although there was a long way to go before the technology would be generally available, he described the development as \"very encouraging\".\n\n\"While there is still much to improve with these technologies this is another exciting step on the roadmap for neurotechnology and its role in restoring function and independence to our spinal cord injury community\".\n\nThe operation to restore Gert-Jan's movement was carried out in July 2021. Prof Bloch cut two circular holes on each side of his skull, 5cm in diameter, above the regions of the brain involved in controlling movement. She then inserted two disc-shaped implants which wirelessly transmit brain signals - Gert-Jan's intentions - to two sensors attached to a helmet on his head.\n\nThe Swiss team developed an algorithm which translates these signals into instructions to move leg and foot muscles via a second implant inserted around Gert-Jan's spinal cord - which Prof Bloch intricately attached to the nerve endings related to walking.\n\nThe researchers found that after a few weeks of training he could stand and walk with the aid of a walker. His movement is slow but smooth, according to Prof Grégoire Courtine of the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (EPFL), who led the project.\n\n\"Seeing him walk so naturally is so moving,\" he said. \"It is a paradigm shift in what was available before\".\n\nThe brain implants build on Prof Courtine's earlier work, when only the spinal implant was used to restore movement. The spinal implant amplified weak signals from the brain to the damaged part of the spinal column and was boosted further by pre-programmed signals from a computer.\n\nBBC News reported how in 2018, David M'Zee became the first patient to be successfully treated with a spinal implant, so much so that he was able to have a baby with his wife, something that had not been possible previously.\n\nAnd last year we reported how as the result of the same technology, Michel Roccati became the first man with a completely severed spine to walk again.\n\nBoth have benefitted tremendously but their walking motion is pre-programmed and looks robotic. They also have to keep their intended movements in step with the computer and have to stop and reset if they get out of sync.\n\nGert-Jan in the black jumper in 2018 when he was unable to walk, with other patients helped by the technology developed by Prof Courtine (standing)\n\nGert-Jan had only the spinal implant before he had the brain implants. He says that he now has much greater control.\n\n\"I felt before that the system was controlling me, but now I am controlling it\".Neither the previous or new systems can be used constantly. They are bulky and still at an experimental stage.\n\nInstead, patients use them for an hour or so for a few times a week as part of their recuperation. The act of walking trains their muscles and has restored a degree of movement when the system is turned off, suggesting that damaged nerves may be regrowing.\n\nThe eventual aim is to miniaturise the technology. Prof Courtine's spin out company Onward Medical, is making improvements to commercialise the technology so it can be used in people's day-to-day lives.\n\n\"It's coming,\" says Prof Courtine,. \"Gert-Jan received the implant 10 years after his accident. Imagine when we apply our brain-spine interface a few weeks after the injury. The potential for recovery is tremendous\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stock image of a container ship passing through the Suez Canal\n\nA ship that was grounded in the Suez Canal, has been been refloated, shipping agent Leth Agencies says.\n\nTugboats had been working to refloat the bulk carrier, named Xin Hai Tong 23, the company said earlier.\n\nThe Suez Canal Authority did not immediately respond to a BBC request for comment.\n\nTwo years ago, the Suez Canal, one of the busiest waterways in the world, was impassable for almost a week after a giant container ship became stuck.\n\n\"The Suez Canal Authority has successfully refloated M/V XIN HAI TONG 23 at 0740hrs,\" Leth said in a tweet.\n\nThe ship, which sails under the Hong Kong flag, had been \"not under command\" near the southern end of the canal, positioned at an angle next to the canal's eastern side, according to the Marine Traffic ship tracker.\n\nThe tracker also showed that there were three Egyptian tugboats surrounding the ship.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Leth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ever Given, one of the largest container ships in the world, blocked the canal for six days in 2021, disrupting global trade.\n\nThe ship, operated by Taiwanese firm Evergreen Marine, caused a backlog of hundreds of vessels trying to use the waterway.\n\nLast year, an oil tanker, which was briefly stranded in the canal after a fault with its rudder, was refloated by tugboats.\n\nIn March of this year, the breakdown of a container ship in the canal caused minor delays.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been arrested after a car crashed into the Downing Street gates.\n\nThe Met Police said he was held on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving, but the incident is not being treated as terror related.\n\nOne witness said he saw officers pointing Tasers at a man, who was held \"face to the floor\" as he was detained.\n\nNo-one was injured in the incident. No 10 has confirmed Rishi Sunak was in Downing Street at the time.\n\nThe area in Whitehall, the main road which runs through the heart of several government offices, was partially evacuated following the incident at 16:20 BST.\n\nThe road has since reopened to traffic and the police cordon has been removed. At 19:45 the car was loaded onto a police recovery vehicle and removed from the scene.\n\nOfficers had been seen searching the vehicle and removing a mobile phone in an evidence bag. A forensics officer was seen inspecting the car, and sniffer dogs were also spotted at the scene.\n\nWitness Simon Parry, 44, said he heard a \"bang\" and saw police pointing Tasers at a man.\n\n\"A lot of police vehicles came very quickly and were very quick to evacuate the area,\" he told PA news agency.\n\nThe man was led away by police following the incident\n\nDescribing the mood on Whitehall in the aftermath of the incident, Mr Parry said: \"We saw people that were in a panic running away and we saw people who were excited.\"\n\nAnother witness, Matthew Torbitt, 32, said he heard a loud bang and was stopped on Whitehall after police locked down the area.\n\nFootage of the incident shows the car, a 2009 silver Kia registered in London, slowing down as it approaches the main entrance to Downing Street.\n\nIt was picked up on a BBC camera driving directly towards the main gates, crossing two lanes from the southbound side of Whitehall and heading in the direction of Downing Street.\n\nThe entrance to the street is staffed around the clock by armed and unarmed police officers but is accessible by road via Whitehall.\n\nThe PM and the chancellor were in Downing Street at the time of the crash. Mr Sunak has since left for a scheduled visit.\n\nReporting from the scene, BBC political correspondent Helen Catt said there appeared to be little damage to the gate and Whitehall was \"pretty much back to normal\", with people going in and out of Downing Street by foot as normal.\n\nConservative MP Tobias Ellwood, who was caught up in the 2017 Westminster terror attack, said the incident was a reminder of the delicate balance between the rights of public access around significant buildings and security measures.\n\nHe told BBC News that Westminster feels safer following the security overhaul which was triggered by the 2017 attack, but said he still has \"huge concerns\"\n\n\"We embrace this idea that we can open up our places of interest, particularly something as iconic as the heart of our democracy, but ultimately there is a duty of care to those who live and work in the Westminster area, not least around No 10,\" he added.\n\nFrank Gardner, the BBC's security correspondent, said police have spent years preparing rapid response measures for potentially dangerous incidents in central London following high-profile attacks around the world.\n\nHe said any security alert near an iconic landmark will inevitably trigger a large response, and pointed out that Downing Street has been a target in the past.\n\nIn 1991, members of the Provisional IRA fired homemade mortar shells at No 10, injuring four people.", "Steve Rodhouse - who has since gone on to work for the National Crime Agency - was a senior figure at the Met\n\nThe officer who led a disastrous Scotland Yard investigation into false VIP sex abuse allegations has a case to answer for gross misconduct, the police watchdog has said.\n\nSteve Rodhouse ran an operation that probed invented claims that MPs and generals abused and murdered children.\n\nHe currently works as deputy head of the National Crime Agency.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) looked at if he used inaccurate or dishonest words in 2016.\n\nWhile working for the Met, he oversaw Operation Midland, which was largely based on claims made by Carl Beech, who was jailed in 2019 for making false allegations.\n\nBeech was sentenced to 18 years in prison for 12 charges of perverting the course of justice, one of fraud, and for several child sexual offences.\n\nHe was only brought to justice after a damning review by retired high court judge Sir Richard Henriques recommended he be investigated by another police force.\n\nBut the BBC revealed two other complainants who made false claims were not referred by the Met for investigation, despite Sir Richard recommending they should be.\n\nIn 2016, then Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse told Sir Richard in a private presentation that he was \"satisfied\" the other two complainants had \"told deliberate lies\".\n\nHowever, when Operation Midland closed months earlier, Scotland Yard issued a public statement to the media which said detectives had \"not found evidence to prove that they were knowingly misled by a complainant\".\n\nCarl Beech was jailed for inventing the elaborate lies which led to the investigation\n\nThe investigation by the IOPC related to the contrast between Mr Rodhouse's private and public positions.\n\nScotland Yard said \"we will seek to respond as fully and comprehensively as possible when we receive the final directions and recommendations from the IOPC\".\n\nThe force added that, in January this year, it arranged for West Midlands Police to consider all relevant material relating to the two complainants and advise on further investigation.\n\nThe IOPC inquiry followed a complaint by former MP Harvey Proctor, who was one of those falsely accused of murder and abuse.\n\nResponding to the update, he said: \"At last a senior police officer of the Metropolitan Police is being held to account for gross misconduct\".\n\nHe added: \"As cracks start to appear in the police cover-up, it now time to hold a full public inquiry into Operation Midland and the Metropolitan Police's conduct.\"\n\nIOPC Director Amanda Rowe said Mr Rodhouse \"may have breached police professional standards of behaviour relating to honesty and integrity regarding comments made to the media about Operation Midland in March 2016 and comments subsequently made to Sir Richard Henriques in August 2016.\"\n\nThe IOPC also found that, by never following Sir Richard's original recommendation, the service provided by the Met was \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe Met had conducted several internal reviews which all said no investigation was needed, but the IOPC found those reviews were \"flawed, did not consider all of the evidence and their rationales were not sound.\"\n\nThe watchdog has recommended the Met apologise to the individuals affected.\n\nBecause Mr Rodhouse left the Met more than 12 months before the IOPC investigation began, the watchdog said it would now enter into a consultation period regarding a disciplinary hearing.\n\nThe National Crime Agency said it would engage with the IOPC \"fully on this matter\".", "The Met Police says the figures were misreported due to a \"data transmission error\"\n\nThe Met has admitted it misreported the number of intimate searches that were carried out on children.\n\nIn 2021, the Met Police carried out 269 \"More Thorough Searches that expose Intimate Parts\" on children. It previously reported the number as 99.\n\nCommissioner Sir Mark Rowley said last month the Met had \"misused\" the power.\n\n\"Each search means another child traumatised by an interaction with the Met,\" Caroline Russell, Green London Assembly Member, said.\n\nShe called for more transparency over the number of searches, where they are being carried out, and whether an appropriate adult is present.\n\nIn July Ms Russell asked for location data for the 2021 searches, and on Monday was told that the figure of 99 searches was \"incorrect\". The Met said the mistake was down to a \"data transmission error\".\n\nThe force said that 57% of searches in 2021 were carried out at police stations, 21% at home addresses, and 21% at other locations.\n\nSpeaking at a City Hall meeting on Monday, Kenny Bowie, a director at the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, said he was \"pretty horrified\" by the data transmission error.\n\nPastor Lorraine Jones, CEO of the Dwayne Simpson Foundation, a Brixton-based organisation that aims to steer young people away from crime, called the misreported figures a \"disgrace\".\n\n\"There are a large number of children suffering from the trauma of such violating intimate contact from a complete stranger which they have to cope with at such a tender age growing up,\" she said.\n\nShe asked what kind of aftercare and compensation was given to such children and questioned how the Met could regain community trust over the issue of intimate searches of minors.\n\nThe issue was recently scrutinised by Dame Rachel de Souza, the children's commissioner for England.\n\nShe found that across the country, there were \"systemic problems with transparency, scrutiny and non-compliance with guidelines when children were being strip-searched under stop-and-search powers\".\n\nThe Met Police has previously said it has made policy changes regarding how intimate searches are conducted under stop and search.\n\nA spokesperson for the force said: \"We have made significant steps in the training of our officers, consulting with our communities and ensuring the correct oversight of stop and search, but we are not complacent, we know there is more to be done, and we will listen and act on what we hear.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "RDK commander Denis Kapustin said the cross-border raid was a success\n\nThe head of the Russian paramilitary group that said it was behind a cross-border raid into Russia from Ukraine has vowed more such incursions.\n\n\"I think you will see us again on that side,\" said Denis Kapustin, who leads the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK).\n\nRussia said it had repelled the raid, killing more than 70 saboteurs. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu promised a \"harsh response\" to any future incursions.\n\nDenis Kapustin is known as a Russian nationalist, and his group openly says it wants a mono-ethnic Russian state.\n\nThe RDK along with the Liberty of Russia Legion (LSR) claimed Monday's raid into Belgorod region.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday to reporters on the Ukrainian side of the border, its leader, whose nom de guerre is White Rex, said: \"We're satisfied with the result [of the raid].\"\n\nHe said his group had managed to seize \"some weapons\", including an armoured personnel carrier, and take prisoners during the operation - before leaving Russian territory after 24 hours.\n\nHe said two RDK fighters were injured, denying claims by the Russian military about heavy casualties inflicted on the saboteurs.\n\nSeparately, the LSR said two of its fighters had been killed and 10 injured.\n\nThe casualty claims by the warring sides have not been independently verified.\n\nAt the news briefing Denis Kapustin denied reports that his fighters were using weapons provided by Western allies to Ukraine to help defend itself against Russia's full-scale invasion launched in February 2022.\n\nRussia describes the RDK and LSR as Ukrainian militants - but Kyiv says they come from two anti-Kremlin paramilitaries.\n\nBoth groups say they want to dismantle Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, and have in the past been described as part of an international legion involved in Ukraine's territorial defence.\n\nMr Kapustin said that Ukraine only provided support to the RDK with medical supplies, petrol and food.\n\nThe RDK came to prominence in March 2023, taking part in a cross-border raid in Russia's Bryansk region which it said involved 45 people.\n\nAsked on Wednesday about reported neo-Nazis in the group's ranks, its leader responded that \"it's all a question of perception\" and went on to describe himself as having \"traditionalist\" and \"patriotic\" views.\n\nIn 2020, a Ukrainian investigative website alleged he had links to neo-Nazi groups and Mr Kapustin has spoken in the past of belonging to a movement of football hooligans.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Mr Shoigu briefed Russian military officials on Moscow's response to the Belgorod raid.\n\nHe said \"more than 70 Ukrainian nationalists\" had been killed and the rest pushed back into Ukraine.\n\n\"We will continue to respond to such actions by Ukrainian militants promptly and extremely harshly,\" the Russian defence minister added.\n\nMoscow says several civilians were injured during the incursion.\n\nRussia released photos of abandoned or damaged Western military vehicles - but some experts say the images are staged\n\nRussia posted pictures of destroyed US vehicles apparently at the scene of the fighting in the Belgorod region - but some Ukrainian military experts and bloggers have suggested they could have been staged.\n\nThe US said it was sceptical that reports of US-supplied weapons being used in the incursion were true and did not \"encourage or enable strikes inside of Russia\".\n\nBut Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the vehicles were evidence of growing Western military involvement in Ukraine.\n\n\"It is no secret for us that more and more equipment is being delivered to Ukraine's armed forces. It is no secret that this equipment is being used against our own military,\" he said.\n\n\"We are drawing the appropriate conclusions.\"\n\nMonday's raid led Moscow to declare a counter-terrorism operation, giving the authorities special powers to clamp down on communications and people's movements. The measures were only lifted the following afternoon.\n\nBelgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said drone attacks on Tuesday night were mostly dealt with by air defences, but some damage was caused to cars, private houses and administrative buildings", "Liam was one of the young people who contributed their views to the report\n\nA radical shake-up of the children's hearings system has been recommended to the Scottish government.\n\nThe proposals, developed with input from young people, include replacing the traditional volunteer model with paid panel members.\n\nSheriff David Mackie, who led the working group, described his report as a \"big moment\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it would carefully consider the proposals and respond later in the year.\n\nChildren's hearings are legal meetings for young people aged under 18 who need help, support or protection.\n\nThey may be asked to attend a hearing if they have been in trouble with the police, or if there are concerns about their welfare.\n\nThey are currently held before a Children's Reporter and three volunteer panel members who decide what action to take.\n\nThe new blueprint puts children at the centre of the whole system, giving them a say in what happens to them. It also removes much of its formality.\n\nIt recommends that a hearing should consist of a salaried and highly-qualified professional chairperson accompanied by two trained and skilled panel members, remunerated at a daily rate.\n\nIt has been published by The Promise Scotland - the body responsible for ensuring the Scottish government's promise to care experienced young people is kept.\n\nAmong those who contributed to the review was 17-year-old Liam, who was involved in children's hearings from the age of five.\n\nHe contributed to the Our Hearings Our Voice project which shaped the report. Speaking on behalf of the Promise oversight board, Liam said it could be an intimidating environment for a child.\n\n\"It can be quite daunting going into a room full of adults, you are the only child there, and sometimes you may not even get to speak,\" he said.\n\n\"It's an adult table and you are just sitting there listening. The whole point of the panel is about the child and sometimes they don't get an input on a decision that is about their future.\"\n\n\"You are at the bottom of the table and everyone's at the top and you are just looking up,\" he added.\n\n\"It's daunting for a small child being surrounded by people who are talking about them as if they are not there.\"\n\nOne of the new, less formal hearing rooms in Greenock\n\nLiam told BBC Scotland he was involved in several ideas which were recommended.\n\nHe explained: \"Moving where the child sits - instead of sitting behind, they sit with the chairperson.\n\n\"And they have the same chairperson each time to build a relationship with the child so they feel more comfortable going to the panel.\n\n\"They will have someone there they can trust and they can build an emotional connection.\"\n\nHe said simple changes also go a long way.\n\nLiam added: \"Even the layout of the waiting rooms - they are more vibrant, they are comfortable. With couches rather than being bland and gloomy. Changing the layout of the rooms has a big impact.\"\n\nHe hopes his input will make things better for future generations.\n\n\"My own experience made me think I need to make change so nobody else needs to go through it. That's the motivation,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to get this right so children can go through the system with what they want and they are being heard. \"\n\nFormer Sheriff David Mackie said the report sets the agenda for change\n\nFormer Sheriff David Mackie, who led the review, said it set the agenda for change.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"We are not messing about. This report represents the voice of the entire children's hearing community through the process of collaborative design that was used to bring it together.\n\n\"There will not be a better review. It's as good as it gets.\"\n\nMr Mackie said he hoped the new system would be a \"truly non-adversarial, inquisitorial process\".\n\nOther key recommendations in the report include:\n\nFi McFarlane, from The Promise Scotland, said: \"There will be challenges in making this vision a reality, but these recommendations align clearly with Scotland's progressive direction on justice issues and drive toward delivering early support for children and families to stop crisis interventions being needed.\n\n\"As we look to the future our priority must be a system that listens to and works for Scotland's children.\"\n\nMinister for Keeping the Promise Natalie Don said the report was clear that \"the system needs to change\".\n\nShe added: \"The Scottish government will now move forward with a programme of transformational change founded on this report.\n\n\"We'll reflect on the legal, financial and workforce implications of these proposals before responding more fully later in the year.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe chief constable of Police Scotland has admitted that the force is institutionally racist and discriminatory.\n\nSir Iain Livingstone said prejudice and bad behaviour within the force was \"rightly of great concern\".\n\nHe also said that acknowledging the issues exist was vital for real change to happen.\n\nA review recently uncovered first-hand accounts of racism, sexism and homophobia by serving officers.\n\nIt also heard about cases where staff had been \"punished\" for raising concerns.\n\nSir Iain's statement is believed to be the first of its kind by a police chief and comes amid ongoing controversy about policing culture in the UK.\n\nBut he stressed that his admission of institutional discrimination did not mean that individual officers and staff were racist or sexist and expressed pride and confidence in their work.\n\nSpeaking at a meeting of the Scottish Police Authority on Thursday morning, Sir Iain said: \"It is the right thing for me to do, as Chief Constable, to clearly state that institutional racism, sexism, misogyny and discrimination exist.\n\n\"Police Scotland is institutionally racist and discriminatory. Publicly acknowledging these institutional issues exist in our organisation is essential to our absolute commitment to championing equality and becoming an anti-racist service,\n\n\"It is also critical to our determination to lead wider change and support wider change in society.\"\n\nSir Iain, who is to retire on 10 August, admitted that people from different backgrounds or with different requirements \"don't always get the service that is their right\" and that this was also true for the force's own officers and staff.\n\nSir William Macpherson's definition of institutional racism, set out in his 1999 report into the killing of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, is the collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin.\n\nIt can include processes, attitudes and behaviour which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping.\n\nSir Iain Livingstone is to retire as chief constable in the summer\n\nSir Iain said the force had already put in place measures including enhanced vetting of its officers and a more rigorous recruitment process to help tackle the issue.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said that, as a person of colour, the admission of institutional racism by the chief constable was \"monumental\" and \"historic\".\n\nMr Yousaf said he had personal experience of racism within the police, having been \"searched over a dozen times as a young boy, whether it was in my car or walking with my friends in the street or in airports\".\n\nPolice Scotland last year launched a four-year strategy called \"Policing Together\" to tackle discrimination in the force and in the community, with a mandatory leadership programme to be rolled out to about 5,000 officers and staff to improve the existing workplace culture.\n\nThe force has faced a number of concerns about that culture in recent years.\n\nSome women who are former officers spoke to the BBC's Newsnight about a \"boys club\" culture at all levels of Police Scotland.\n\nOne of them, former firearms officer Rhona Malone, won almost £1m in compensation from the force after an employment tribunal found she had been victimised when she had raised concerns about sexism.\n\nFormer Police Scotland firearms officer Rhona Malone was victimised after raising concerns about sexism\n\nMs Malone said the chief constable's admission was welcome, and that she hoped it would help officers within the force who are currently challenging Police Scotland on these issues.\n\nHowever she said she was angry that it had taken so long to recognise the problem, and that officers who had raised concerns were still \"getting pushback\".\n\nThe force is also under pressure due to an ongoing public inquiry into the death of Sheku Bayoh, who died after he was restrained by police officers in Kirkcaldy.\n\nThe inquiry is investigating the circumstances of the 31-year-old's death and whether race was a factor.\n\nAdmitting Police Scotland has serious institutional failures is a bold move when you've been in charge of the force for more than half its existence.\n\nThis politically savvy chief constable will say it's the right thing to do and the right time to do it, as he prepares to step down.\n\nSir Iain Livingstone's words will be closely examined at the public inquiry which is investigating whether race was a factor when Sheku Bayoh died in police custody eight years ago. Sir Iain took care to mention Mr Bayoh's family today.\n\nHis statement will be applauded by many in civic Scotland at a time when the force's handling of its investigation into the SNP has attracted criticism from some political quarters.\n\nAs for the reaction from inside the force, Sir Iain's popularity with the rank and file will help them accept this tough message - but Police Scotland's frontline is already under great pressure.\n\nThe force has its lowest number of officers since 2008 because of real terms budget cuts and an independent review has described frontline resources as the greatest challenge to changing its culture.\n\nThe review group said officers have \"little or no space\" to devote to reflection or training.\n\nSir Iain has acknowledged what his counterpart in the Met, Sir Mark Rowley, has refused to do.\n\nHe has said Police Scotland is guilty not just of institutional racism but also institutional discrimination. Has admitted a lot of people have been let down.\n\nSir Iain is adamant this is not a case of warm words from a chief constable who's about to walk out the door.\n\nBut it will be years before we find out whether this landmark moment has been a catalyst for real change.\n\nAn independent review group established by Police Scotland to examine its record on equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights noted the \"widespread view\" that although discriminatory attitudes are still present in the force, there had been a marked shift over the past decade.\n\nThe review also found that efforts to improve Police Scotland's culture are being held back by financial issues and pressure on frontline resources.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the problems in Police Scotland were \"systemic\" and its complaints processes were \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nHe also urged the Scottish government to deliver extra resources for the force and to provide extra protection for whistleblowers who fear punishment if they raise legitimate concerns.\n\nHuman rights lawyer Aamer Anwar, who had his teeth smashed out in a racist attack by police in Glasgow in 1991, said those in policing had refused to accept institutional racism for too long.\n\nMr Anwar, who represents the family of Sheku Bayoh, said Sir Iain's statement was a \"testament to families and all those struggles fought by the victims of racial violence and injustice\".", "Tina Turner, who has died at the age of 83, was widely referred to as the Queen of Rock'n'Roll.\n\nShe rose to fame as the lead singer of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue before her career as a solo performer took off in the 1980s.\n\nShe is best known for hits including The Best, Private Dancer, What's Love Got to Do With It, Typical Male and Let's Stay Together.\n\nTina met Ike Turner at a performance by his band, the Kings of Rhythm, in 1956, and she soon became part of the act (pictured above in 1961).\n\nIn 1960, the pair's A Fool in Love entered the pop charts, and a string of hit singles soon followed. They included It's Gonna Work Out Fine, River Deep, Mountain High, and Proud Mary.\n\nTurner was married to Ike Turner for 16 years but they divorced in 1978. In her 1986 autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story, the star told of the abuse she had suffered at the hands of her first husband throughout their marriage.\n\nShe released her debut solo album, Private Dancer, in 1984. It sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and won three Grammy Awards.\n\nWhat's Love Got To Do With It picked up record of the year, and best female performance. Better Be Good To Me won best female rock vocal performance.\n\nDuring her career, Turner won a total of eight Grammy awards, including the lifetime achievement award in 2018.\n\nTurner collaborated with the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger many times over the years, supporting the band on tour and performing with him at festivals. She said she \"always had a crush on Mick Jagger\".\n\nShe also had a close friendship with David Bowie, who invited her to sing a duet on the title track of his album Tonight. In return, she invited Bowie to perform as a special guest on her Private Dancer tour.\n\nTurner's career spanned five decades. After a farewell tour in 2000, she went back on the road in 2009 aged 69 to celebrate her 50th anniversary in music.\n\nTurner married her long-term partner Erwin Bach in Switzerland in 2013. She suffered a stroke in the early days of their marriage and he later saved her life by donating one of his kidneys to her.\n\nHer life has also been portrayed in West End and Broadway musical, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical. It tells Turner's life story, focusing on how the singer dared to defy the constraints of age, gender and race during her long career.\n\nTurner said of the musical: \"It's really important to me to have the chance to share my full story. This musical is not about my stardom. It is about the journey I took to get there. Each night I want audiences to take away from the theatre that you can turn poison into medicine.\"\n\nAbout retirement, Turner said: \"No-one knew how tired I was of singing and dancing. This is it. I'm going home now.\"", "'It'll take more than this to take the strain off family life'\n\nSpeak to people in Ipswich and they’ll tell you this morning's news is welcome, but many think it will be a long time before they feel any real benefit. Pamela and her husband both work and have had to use a food bank to make ends meet in recent months. She is pleased energy bills might start to fall, but it will take a much more significant drop, or more government support, to take the strain off their family life, she says. When I visited last August, the fear was palpable - energy bills were set to rise and the government hadn't yet outlined its plans to help. When ministers did expand the support available, it did make a difference. People are aware of that, they're also aware of the huge profits that have been made by energy producers. Now the mood has shifted to one of frustration and resignation. The sunny days are a welcome distraction, with many trying to find ways to enjoy the next few months. But that will also be done on a strict budget - the struggle has set in.", "A police patrol in Pas-de-Calais, northern France, on 26 November 2021 - two days after the deadly incident\n\nFrench police have charged five soldiers over the deaths of 27 people who drowned while trying to cross the English Channel on 24 November 2021.\n\nThey are among nine people detained for questioning. They are accused of failing to help the stricken boat, a judicial source said.\n\nSome 15 calls from the boat were ignored, French media reported.\n\nThe disaster is the worst of its kind on record. The migrants were mostly Iraqi Kurds, and aged seven to 46.\n\nNews of the indictment was welcomed by a spokesperson for Utopia 56, an organisation representing the migrants.\n\n\"We can only be delighted that things are progressing from a criminal point of view,\" said Flore Judet.\n\nThe small craft sank shortly after leaving the French coast, leading to the death of all but two of those onboard - comprising men, women and children.\n\nLe Monde newspaper previously reported that passengers had first contacted officials in France's Channel rescue centre at 01:48, saying their boat was deflating and their engine had failed.\n\nThe group reportedly sent their location by WhatsApp 15 minutes later, but authorities failed to answer. Rescue teams eventually responded 10 hours later, after fishermen raised the alarm.\n\nSpeaking at the time of the tragedy, the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the disaster was the biggest single loss of life in the Channel since it had begun collecting data in 2014.\n\nThe UK's then-Prime Minster Boris Johnson said he was \"appalled\" by the incident, adding that his country would leave \"no stone unturned\" to stop human trafficking gangs.\n\nIn November 2022, a 32-year-old man appeared in a London court in connection with the disaster, having been accused of being part of a group which conspired to transport the migrants to the UK.\n\nHarem Ahmed Abwbaker was alleged to have offered money to the families of migrants who drowned to stay silent.\n\nLast June, French police arrested 15 people - mostly from Afghanistan - who are accused of being part of a smuggling ring involved in the deadly incident.\n\nThe UK government has pledged to tackle small boat crossings of the English Channel after record numbers arrived by that route last year.", "The UK is set to win a battle with Spain to host a multi-billion-pound electric car battery plant in Somerset, the BBC understands.\n\nThe boss of Jaguar Land Rover-owner Tata is expected to fly to London next week to finalise the deal.\n\nSome in the car industry have described the plant as the most significant investment in UK automotive since Nissan came to Britain in the 1980s.\n\nTata's chairman is scheduled to meet the prime minister mid-next week.\n\nSources familiar with the matter say that although the deal has yet to be signed, engagement has moved from negotiations to drafting and choreography of how the landmark agreement will be presented.\n\nUp to 9,000 jobs would be created at the Bridgwater site, close to the M5.\n\nThe UK government has acknowledged the urgent need for electric vehicle battery manufacturing in the UK to secure the future of the car industry.\n\nThe country's automotive sector employs up to 800,000 people directly and in the supply chain.\n\nWhen pressed on the subject last week, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt told the BBC to \"watch this space\".\n\nTata was considering another site in Spain and the expected decision to choose Somerset will be presented as a major achievement for the UK government.\n\nThe government has been criticised for lacking a clear industrial strategy and falling behind the US and EU in attracting investment.\n\nLast week, one of the world's biggest carmakers, Stellantis, warned it may have to close UK factories if the government does not renegotiate the Brexit deal. The firm, which owns Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, had committed to making electric cars in the UK but told the BBC this was under threat.\n\nIn the case of Tata's new plant, the UK's expected success has not been easily or cheaply won.\n\nThe government has said that while it does not recognise a figure of £500m in reported subsidies, they concede that it is in the hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nThe gigafactory would be built at the Gravity business park near Bridgwater\n\nThis would take the form of cash grants, energy subsidies and other training and research funding.\n\nIndia's Tata has extensive steel interests in the UK including the Port Talbot plant in South Wales and the government will also offer around £300m to subsidise, upgrade, and decarbonise those operations.\n\nAlong with additional energy discounts, it will bring the total incentive package to Tata close to £800m.\n\nGovernment sources conceded that while the two investments will not be announced at the same time, the two projects are linked.\n\nThe Somerset site's access to power, a skilled UK automotive workforce and the British heritage of Jaguar Land Rover's brands are also cited as helping the UK bid.\n\nAlthough the price tag will be seen as high, the UK is reluctantly involved in an international subsidy war which has been dramatically escalated by the US Inflation Reduction Act - a piece of legislation offering $370bn (£299bn) in sweeteners to companies prepared to locate production and supply chains in the US.\n\nThe EU is preparing its own package in response.\n\nSome industry insiders hope that the Tata battery investment will open the door to further battery investments in the UK, which currently only has one plant in operation next to Nissan's Sunderland factory, and one barely on the drawing board in Northumberland.\n\nBy contrast the EU has 35 plants open, under construction or planned.\n\nNumber 10 said it did not comment on commercially sensitive matters.", "Chris Packham sued three men for libel at the High Court\n\nNaturalist Chris Packham has won his libel claim against a website that alleged he misled people into donating to a tiger rescue charity.\n\nThe presenter sued in the High Court over articles published on the Country Squire Magazine website.\n\nMr Justice Saini ruled in Mr Packham's favour against Mr Wightman and Mr Bean, but dismissed the one against Mr Read.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mr Packham said online abuse and hate crimes were a \"vile part of modern life\".\n\nHe said it \"ruins lives, livelihoods, reputations, it disrupts young peoples' educations, causes incalculable mental health problems and tragically causes people to take their own lives\".\n\n\"As it stands the criminal law is simply not there to protect us from such hate - something that must change.\"\n\nThe Isle of Wight sanctuary is a home for rescued tigers, the court heard\n\nHe thanked his followers for their \"unswerving support and belief in my honest crusade to make the world a better place for wildlife, people and the environment\".\n\nMr Wightman and Mr Bean were ordered to pay £90,000 in damages to the Springwatch host.\n\n\"Mr Packham did not commit any acts of fraud or dishonesty,\" the judge said in his 58-page judgment.\n\n\"Mr Packham did not lie and each of his own statements was made with a genuine belief in its truth.\n\n\"There was no fraud of any type committed by him in making the fundraising statements.\"\n\nDuring the trial Mr Packham said he had been targeted because of his \"deeply held views\" about blood sports.\n\nThe 61-year-old and his partner Charlotte Corney are trustees of Isle of Wight sanctuary the Wildheart Trust.\n\nChris Packham was photographed with his partner Charlotte Corney outside the Royal Courts of Justice during the case\n\nMr Packham was accused of dishonestly raising money at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic while knowing the charity was due to receive a £500,000 benefit from its insurance.\n\nBut Mr Justice Saini said Mr Wightman and Mr Bean did not \"come even close to establishing the substantial truth\".\n\n\"Rather than approaching the task with an investigative mind, these defendants targeted Mr Packham as a person against whom they had an agenda,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"Any investigative journalism quickly gave way… to increasingly hyperbolic and vitriolic smearing of Mr Packham, with further unsubstantiated allegations of dishonesty regarding peat-burning and the trust's insurance gratuitously thrown in.\"\n\nChris Packham (pictured with his fellow Springwatch presenters) says he was targeted because of his \"deeply held views\" about blood sports\n\nGiving evidence during the trial, Mr Packham explained: \"We weren't hopeful that we would be insured against Covid-19 closures.\"\n\nHe said the insurance payments \"ultimately saved the sanctuary in what was a time of dire need\".\n\n\"But to be very clear, if we had not launched the fundraising appeal as rapidly as we did then these payments may have arrived too late to make a difference,\" he said.\n\nHe said the defendants' claims had \"misled, agitated and fuelled a vocal and violent conspiratorial fringe who increasingly post threatening and vile material about me and my family\".\n\nMr Packham denied all the accusations levelled against him by Country Squire Magazine's editor\n\nMr Packham added: \"I do go to walk my dogs in the woods and wonder 'is today the day that a psychopath fuelled by all this hate turns up and kills me?'\n\n\"I genuinely no longer expect to live a long life free from violence and intimidation, because it may only take the one wrong person to read Country Squire Magazine for things to go horribly wrong.\"\n\nDuring the trial Mr Wightman and Mr Bean's lawyer said the articles were true and in the public interest.\n\nMr Read's lawyer described him as a \"mere proof reader\" and not responsible for the articles.\n\nThe judge agreed that Mr Read \"had no editorial or equivalent responsibility for the statements complained of or the decision to publish them\".\n\nBut he said the others had \"used this litigation as a device to introduce offensive material to smear Mr Packham\".\n\nHe added: \"The tone descended into sinister threats and outright vitriol, including offensive references to Mr Packham's neurodiversity, and abuse of (solicitors) Leigh Day.\n\n\"These were not the product of any acts of responsible journalism.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "WARNING: This article discusses a major plot spoiler from the third episode of Succession's fourth season.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSuccession star Brian Cox has said he thought his character Logan Roy was killed off \"too early\" in the latest series of the acclaimed HBO drama.\n\nThe Dundee-born actor praised writer Jesse Armstrong, however, for executing the plot line \"brilliantly\".\n\nThe fourth and final series of the Emmy-winning show saw Cox's media mogul killed off in the third episode.\n\nCox told the BBC's Amol Rajan: \"He [Armstrong] decided to make Logan die, I think ultimately too early.\"\n\n\"I mean, he'd made him die in the third episode,\" Cox continued. \"And it was a great scene. That's why I didn't watch it, because I have no interest in watching. My own death will come soon enough.\n\n\"But I just thought, 'wow', you know, he did it brilliantly. It was a brilliant scene, the whole act.\"\n\nAsked if he considered suggesting to Armstrong that Logan was being killed off too soon, Cox said: \"No, I didn't. There's no point going down that road, especially with somebody like Jesse, because he's already made a plan.\"\n\nLogan Roy's death in the early part of the current season was unexpected, throwing the future of his media and entertainment company Waystar Royco into doubt and creating a new dynamic between his power-hungry children.\n\nCox recalled how the \"internet went crazy\" when his character died after suffering a heart attack on a private jet.\n\nThere had been no warning to Succession's legions of loyal viewers that Roy's death was imminent. It was handled without fanfare, with his children caught off guard and denied a chance to say any kind of emotional goodbye to their father in person.\n\n\"It was an odd feeling,\" Cox said of his character's death. \"I looked on it, wrongly, as a form of rejection. I was fine with it ultimately, but I did feel a little bit rejected. I felt a little bit, 'oh, all the work I've done. And finally I'm going to end up as a New Yorker on a carpet of a plane'.\"\n\nThree of Logan Roy's children - played by Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin - jostle for position in their father's company\n\nPerhaps the most critically-acclaimed TV drama of the past decade, Succession follows Logan Roy and his four children - three of whom are competing to take over from him as the CEO of his hugely successful company.\n\nThose children - played by Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin - are seen constantly jostling for position and attempting to curry favour with their father.\n\nRoy's eldest child (played by Alan Ruck) has ambitions of his own, and this season mounted a campaign to become US president.\n\nThe show's sharp and snappy dialogue - a trademark of Armstrong's - often sees the characters deliver some brutal put-downs to one another.\n\nMany have drawn parallels between the Roy family with the real-life Murdoch family, but Armstrong has maintained the series is fictional and not intended to be a representation of them.\n\nCox's co-star, J Smith-Cameron, who plays Gerri, told the BBC's Americast she felt Succession could have carried on following Logan Roy's death.\n\n\"Those of us who didn't play Roys, we still felt like we're very full storylines... you could have several more seasons about the world of Succession,\" she said. \"But I think from Jesse's point of view, he was trying to literally address the topic of succession in that family.\"\n\nThree of Roy's children battle for his company, while a fourth (played by Alan Ruck, second left) wants to be US president\n\nCox said viewers had told him they were less keen to continue with the show after his character's death.\n\n\"They said, 'no, I'm not going to watch anymore. You've gone, I'm not watching',\" Cox said. \"Which I think is unfortunate and unnecessary because the show is about the succession. So you need to see what's happening in in the wake of his demise. But, you know, I'm not the writer.\"\n\nCox joked that he was surprised to have been entrusted with key information about the plot while they were filming, because, he said: \"I've never been able to keep a secret in my life.\"\n\n\"In fact, I had a very close friend of mine once who wanted to confide in me, and I said, 'don't'. I said, Never confide in me because I will tell everybody.\n\n\"And it was bold of Jesse. And that's where Jesse's great. I mean, he's a genius. There's no question he's a writing genius.\"\n\nSmith-Cameron added: \"We were all sworn to secrecy, and we were all like, 'will there even be a show without Brian Cox?' Because he sort of drives the whole thing and polarises all the characters so much. And yet I feel like it has been really full and really suspenseful.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Daniel Sandford was at the reservoir in Portugal after the police search ended\n\nA fresh search linked to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal has ended.\n\nPortuguese authorities said material recovered during the three-day operation around the Arade reservoir in the Algarve would now be analysed.\n\nThe German police-led operation was looking for evidence to link the British toddler's disappearance to Christian Brueckner, a German national.\n\nHe was made a formal suspect by Portuguese prosecutors in 2022.\n\nGerman prosecutors have named Brueckner as the main suspect in their Madeleine McCann murder investigation. British police do not use that phrase, saying that as far as they are concerned it is still a missing person investigation.\n\nThe search at the Arade reservoir near Silves was part of the German investigation. They asked Portuguese officials for assistance, and the Metropolitan Police said its officers were also in Portugal so they can inform Madeleine's family of any developments.\n\nA statement from Portugal's national police agency said the \"collected material\" from the scene will be delivered to the German authorities for further inspection.\n\nAll the work carried out around the reservoir was on a peninsula jutting out into the Arade dam from its Western shore - 31 miles (50km) from where Madeleine went missing in Praia da Luz 16 years ago.\n\nOfficers were seen using rakes and hoes, strimmers and a small excavator to clear paths through the scrub on a nearby slope - the sound of machinery at work audible in the remote area.\n\nPolice also dug a number of smaller holes, leaving huge piles of soil and broken rock next to the 160 sq ft (14 sq m) excavation area.\n\nThe spit of land has a small car park on it, which is often used as an unofficial campsite.\n\nBrueckner, a 45-year-old German national, is thought to have stayed there often in his Volkswagen T3 camper van.\n\nHe is also known to have visited the picturesque spot around the time Madeleine, who would now be 20, went missing.\n\nWhite tents were set up on the site and sniffer dogs were used. However, no divers were seen going under the water.\n\nGerman authorities have not revealed what triggered the latest search operation but state prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said they were acting on the basis of \"certain tips\".\n\nHe told German public broadcaster NDR: \"We have indications that we could find evidence there. I don't want to say what that is exactly, and I also don't want to say where these indications come from.\n\n\"The only thing that I would clarify is that it doesn't come from the suspect - so we don't have a confession or anything similar now, or an indication from the suspect of where it would make sense to search.\"\n\nMr Wolters is treating Brueckner as the main suspect in Madeleine's case, although he has never been charged over Madeleine's disappearance and has denied any involvement.\n\nMadeleine disappeared from a holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz on 3 May 2007, nine days before her fourth birthday.\n\nHers has become one of the most infamous missing person's cases in modern times, attracting attention in countries across Europe, and in America and Australia.\n\nNews crews from around the world remain stationed around the Arade reservoir, where they are reporting the latest developments.\n\nBrueckner was living near the Praia da Luz resort when the McCann family was on holiday, and he spent time in the area between 2000 and 2017.\n\nHe is currently in prison in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old woman in 2005 in the same area where Madeleine went missing.\n\nPolice were seen searching a peninsula jutting out into the Arade dam from its Western shore", "The Met arrested the three protesters at the event\n\nThree Just Stop Oil activists have been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.\n\nProtesters released orange powder paint in the show gardens at the Royal Hospital Chelsea at about 09:00 BST.\n\nCdr Karen Findlay of the Met Police's major operations team said the gardens had been \"criminally damaged\".\n\nA Royal Horticultural Society spokesperson said: \"The three protesters are all off site now.\"\n\nThe three women targeted a garden, designed by Paul Hervey-Brookes, for wealth manager RBC Brewin Dolphin.\n\nWriting on social media, Mr Hervey-Brookes said his show entry had been \"permanently damaged\".\n\nProtesters released an orange powder paint in the show gardens\n\nAs the protesters scattered the powdered paint on the garden, a woman at the show reacted by showering them with water from a hose.\n\nThe RHS added there had been no disruption to visitors and the show remained open to ticketed guests.\n\n\"The RHS' primary concern is for the safety of its visitors, exhibitors and everyone at the show,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nA Just Stop Oil spokesperson said the protest was part of their fifth week of action in London.\n\nThe environmental protest group is calling for the government to halt all new oil, gas and coal projects.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Molly, who has autism, spent several months in a children's ward\n\nA safety investigation has warned that young people with complex mental health needs are being put at significant risk, by being placed on general children's wards in England.\n\nThe findings come from the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB).\n\nBBC News recently highlighted the plight of a 16-year-old autistic girl, who spent several months in a children's ward.\n\nOther families have since contacted the BBC describing similar situations.\n\nThe majority had faced similar difficulties getting appropriate support.Mental health patients 'at risk' in child wards\n\nThe HSIB - which is a government-funded body - says that paediatric wards are designed to care for patients who only have physical health needs and not for those with mental health needs.\n\nIt describes the situation in 18 hospitals it visited as \"challenging\", and 13 were described as \"not safe\" for children who were suicidal or at risk of harming themselves to be on their paediatric wards.\n\nHospitals say they are seeing an increasing number of children with a combination of autism, learning disabilities and complex social and mental health needs.\n\nNHS England says it has an ongoing transformation programme to improve mental health services for children and young people, including adapting hospital environments for those with \"sensory needs\".\n\nThe HSIB started the investigation after a young patient on a paediatric ward tried to harm themselves and staff.\n\nThe child was waiting for a mental health assessment. They managed to abscond from the ward and on two occasions took a drugs overdose.\n\nTwo weeks ago, the BBC told the story of 16-year-old Molly who has autism, high levels of anxiety and eating problems.\n\nShe spent nearly seven months in a side room on a children's ward at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, because of a shortage of places that could provide her with the support and therapy she needed.\n\nHer family says she found the noisy environment traumatic. Despite having agency mental health nurses watching her 24 hours a day, she ran Mental health patients 'at risk' in child wardsaway from the hospital once and was able to seriously harm herself on a number of occasions. She was also restrained numerous times.\n\nIn April, her behaviour became so distressed that the children's ward closed to other patients for 10 days. She was then moved to a mental health unit, where she is doing better.\n\nHer local health and care system said it was \"very sorry\" it had not been able to support her in a more suitable environment, when \"she was most vulnerable\".\n\nMolly's story prompted other families to get in touch with the BBC.\n\nJulie's child, who has autism, spent a year in a side room of a children's hospital at the age of 15. The teenager, who does not want their name used, also has eating problems.\n\nJulie says that her child was made to feel at fault, even though \"they hadn't asked to be there\". She says: \"They'd been put there waiting for something that wasn't coming, and how can you... make a vulnerable child feel that they're just a difficulty and a brat.\"\n\nJulie's child who has autism spent a year in the side room of a children's ward\n\nJo-Ann's 15-year-old daughter is being assessed for autism and mental health difficulties. She is currently in the burns unit at a children's hospital. She has no physical problems for them to treat, but was moved there from the paediatric ward of another hospital. She was admitted after trying to harm herself nearly three months ago.\n\n\"She is classed as too vulnerable to go onto a mental health unit,\" Jo-Ann said. \"She has fallen into no man's land.\"\n\nShe said the NHS and council-run children's services are trying to put together the support her daughter needs at home.\n\nOne parent also got in touch describing how terrifying it was for children who were physically very poorly, when there was someone being restrained or who was disruptive on the ward.\n\nIt is a mark of HSIB's significant concern about the situation that it decided to publish this interim report, before it has finished its full investigation.\n\nThe report said paediatric wards contained many self-harm risks, including ligature points, and that they were busy, noisy places which were unsuitable for children experiencing a mental health crisis, or with sensory needs, for instance, because they have autism.\n\nIt found that therapeutic help was limited or non-existent and children deteriorated as a result.\n\nMolly's hospital room - her autism meant she found the noise of the ward traumatic\n\nHSIB said on one paediatric ward there were more than 70 security incidents over three months relating to children with high-risk behaviours. Most involved the young person being physically restrained.\n\n\"In just over half of the security incidents reported, the child or young person had been sedated, sometimes requiring multiple attempts (up to seven) for the sedation to become effective,\" it said.\n\nThe report said on occasions nearly all the paediatric nursing teams on different wards could be involved in trying to support patients whose behaviour was high risk.\n\nStaff told the investigators they were concerned about the \"negative psychological impact\" it was having on other patients and their families.\n\nHSIB said it saw \"vulnerable and unwell children and babies next to or near a young person who was trying to harm themselves and/or whose behaviour could be violent and aggressive\".\n\nThe report says there were many incidents where staff were assaulted, and some hospitals, which were struggling to recruit and retain staff, described their workforce as \"collapsing\".\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson said: \"The NHS will be reviewing the concerns raised by HSIB and will consider them as part of ongoing work to improve care for the record number of children and young people with mental health needs that the NHS is treating.\n\n\"In some circumstances it can be appropriate for young people to receive mental health care in acute settings, such as for treatment of physical health needs, and to support staff in doing this safely there is a clear framework to follow and an online training platform, while several areas are piloting services that better integrate mental and physical health care.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Queen Elizabeth II and Ronald Reagan at a San Francisco banquet in 1983\n\nQueen Elizabeth II faced a potential assassination threat during a 1983 visit to the US, newly released FBI documents show.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a cache of files relating to the late Queen's travels to the US, following her death last year.\n\nThey show how the FBI, which helped secure the monarch's safety during her visits, worried about IRA threats.\n\nThe assassination threat was made to a police officer in San Francisco.\n\nAccording to the file, an officer who frequented an Irish pub in San Francisco warned federal agents about a call from a man he had met at the venue.\n\nThe officer said the man told him he was seeking revenge for his daughter who \"had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet\".\n\nThe threat came on 4 February 1983 - about a month ahead of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip's visit to California.\n\n\"He was going to attempt to harm Queen Elizabeth and would do this either by dropping some object off the Golden Gate Bridge onto the Royal Yacht Britannia when it sails underneath, or would attempt to kill Queen Elizabeth when she visited Yosemite National Park,\" the document says.\n\nIn response to the threat, the Secret Service had planned to \"close the walkways on the Golden Gate Bridge as the yacht nears\". It is unclear what measures were taken at Yosemite, but the visit went ahead. No details of arrests were published by the FBI.\n\nThe 102-page cache was uploaded to the Vault, the FBI's information website, on Monday, following a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by US media outlets.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip spoke with National Park rangers during the visit to Yosemite\n\nMany of the late Queen's state visits to the US, including the 1983 visit to the West Coast, came during heightened tensions amid the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 1976, the late Queen was in New York City for America's Bicentennial celebrations.\n\nThe documents reveal how a summons was issued to a pilot for flying a small plane over Battery Park with a sign that read \"England, Get out of Ireland.\"\n\nThe files show how the FBI remained vigilant to what it considered to be the real potential of threats to the late Queen.\n\nHer second cousin Lord Mountbatten was killed in an IRA bombing off the coast of County Sligo, Republic of Ireland, in 1979.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When an American broke protocol, and amused Her Majesty\n\nAhead of a personal visit by the late Queen to Kentucky in 1989, an internal FBI memo read \"the possibility of threats against the British Monarchy is ever-present from the Irish Republican Army (IRA)\".\n\nIt continued that \"Boston and New York are requested to remain alert for any threats against Queen Elizabeth II on the part of IRA members and immediately furnish same to Louisville,\" in Kentucky.\n\nThe late Queen, who owned racehorses, is known to have visited Kentucky several times during her life to enjoy the state's equestrian highlights, including the Kentucky Derby.\n\nOn a state visit in 1991, the late Queen was scheduled to see a Baltimore Orioles baseball game with President George H Bush.\n\nThe FBI warned the Secret Service that \"Irish groups\" were planning protests at the stadium and \"an Irish group had reserved a large block of grandstand tickets\" to the game.\n\nThe bureau told NBC News there might be \"additional records\" that exist besides the ones released this week, but it did not set out a timetable for their publication.", "British Airways (BA) has apologised for cancelling dozens of flights at London Heathrow on Thursday over IT issues.\n\nThe airline said it is fixing \"technical problems\" causing difficulties with online check-in, delaying flights.\n\nForty-three flights, or around 5% of its services, were cancelled as of 17:00 BST, according to aviation data firm Cirium.\n\nAbout 800 flights in total were scheduled to fly from the UK today.\n\nBA has suffered a series of reputation-damaging IT failures in the past couple of years, including an incident in December that saw dozens of long haul flights cancelled in the week before Christmas.\n\nOne person affected by the delays tweeted: \"No one at @british_airways can tell us when our flight will leave. And if it does leave apparently it will leave without luggage.\"\n\nAnother wrote: \"My daughter is stuck in Heathrow after already diverting to Iceland from Canada due to a medical emergency. She has not slept in 24 hours and cannot get on a flight back to Dublin.\"\n\nBA said that a majority of its flights had continued to operate, adding that affected customers had been contacted and offered options, including a refund or rebooking onto an alternative flight with the airline or another carrier.\n\nRory Boland, editor of travel at consumer group Which?, said any traveller whose flight was cancelled would be legally entitled to compensation or rebooking at the earliest possible opportunity.\n\n\"Passengers are often given the runaround on this right, but it is the law, so it's worth being insistent,\" he added.\n\n\"It appears the technical issue in this instance is BA's own doing, so any flight cancellations and delays of more than three hours should also be eligible for compensation.\"\n\nThe issues come as security guards at Heathrow Airport have begun a three-day strike over pay.\n\nThere are roughly 1,400 striking staff based at Terminal 5 and in campus security represented by the Unite union. The airport has said operations will not be affected.\n\nBA has been hit by other IT problems in recent years including a major outage in 2017 that stranded 75,000 passengers over a holiday weekend.\n\nThe incident sparked customer backlash with pledges from the carrier that it would do better in future.\n\nPassengers also faced delays due to an IT issue in February, days after flights had been cancelled due to Storm Eunice.\n\nAt the time, passengers said their experiences with the airline were \"utterly disastrous\" and \"truly woeful\", prompting the airline to issue an apology.\n\nHow was your journey affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None BA sorry after flights departing US delayed", "Four out of every 10 pupils have difficulty accessing free period products in UK schools, research shared with BBC News suggests.\n\nGovernment schemes to reduce stigma and improve access have been running for several years - and many schools say these have benefited pupils.\n\nIt says 97% of secondary schools in England have ordered the free products.\n\nBut some teenagers are still feeling upset, angry and embarrassed about dealing with their period at school.\n\nTilly, 16, realised her period had started in the first few minutes of a crucial GCSE exam last year.\n\n\"I was sat there for two hours, leaking, in my own blood, without anything I could do. I was so uncomfortable I just couldn't concentrate,\" she said.\n\nShe and other pupils had been told tampons and pads would be available in the toilets.\n\nBut when she could not find any, Tilly spent the next two hours panicking and unable to concentrate on her exam paper, as she leaked on to her chair.\n\nAs the other pupils filed out of the exam hall, Tilly waited behind, too upset to leave, then went home early as she could not face staying at school.\n\n\"I broke down to my head of year - and he didn't give me any support,\" she says. \"He told me to be more discreet about it.\"\n\nTilly's school, in Cardiff, said it could not comment on the incident but the accessibility of products in the school had improved in the past year.\n\nNow in Year 11, Tilly runs a Love Your Period campaign with her sister Molly\n\nPeriod-product schemes are in place across the four UK nations.\n\nThe Welsh government wants to achieve \"period dignity\" by 2027, improving access to products and reducing stigma.\n\nEarlier this year, it committed to ensuring free period products were available at every school and college in the country.\n\n\"Guidance issued to schools states period products should be easily accessible in toilets, in a basket or free to use dispenser,\" an official said.\n\nThe Scottish government made history in 2018 by becoming the first in the world to make period products free to school, college and university students.\n\nIn England, the Period Products Scheme has been in place since 2020. And the government says its funding will continue until at least July 2024.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland, Department for Education funding to provide period products in schools has been cut by 40%.\n\nIn some schools and colleges, the Period Products Scheme is working well.\n\nAt Harlow College, in Essex, a tote bag filled with pads and tampons hangs on the back of unisex toilet cubicle doors.\n\nGill Atkinson, from the college's wellbeing and safeguarding team, says access to products has not only removed stigma and shame around periods, it has also helped improve attendance.\n\nThe college has spent its allocated £7,000 on products this year and is hopeful funding will continue.\n\n\"I don't think the college would be able to fund it themselves,\" Gill says.\n\nAs well as providing free tampons and sanitary pads, Gill's team distributes other products, including period underwear, which she says are increasingly popular\n\nStaff at Portland College, in Mansfield, Notts, a residential college for young disabled people, say the Period Products Scheme has helped their students to feel comfortable talking about periods.\n\nSpeech-and-language therapist Amy Smith-Patrick says some pupils need support to use the period products, so it would not be appropriate to leave pads in toilets for students to help themselves to.\n\nOthers are non-verbal, so used to struggle to know how to ask for the products they needed.\n\nNow, students on their period can hand in a slip at reception or in class, in exchange for products - removing communication barriers and embarrassment.\n\nPeriod underwear has been a \"real positive\" for students with autism, Amy adds, as it can be more comfortable for those with sensory-processing difficulties.\n\nIn some situations, it can be hard to cater for everybody's needs.\n\nMinnie, 13, from Sheffield, tells BBC News she feels \"very embarrassed\" she has to go to a staff office on the top floor of school if she needs products - and it would be better to have them in cubicles.\n\nBut the head teacher at Minnie's school, who BBC News has decided not to identify, says if pupils have to ask for products, staff can discreetly keep track of which students might need additional support.\n\nMinnie says the security cameras covering the sink area in school bathrooms also make her feel uncomfortable.\n\nBut the head teacher says these are for pupils' safety.\n\nHarlow College buys in eco-friendly period products, using funds from England's scheme\n\nIrise International chief executive Emily Wilson says while England's scheme is an \"amazing\" policy commitment, \"we've got to get it working in schools, so that when a young person needs a product it's there, available, ideally in the toilets, in a shame-free way\".\n\nEmily Wilson's charity is preparing for a parade in Westminster on Sunday\n\nPHS Group supplies schools with products in England and Wales and works independently of government.\n\nInterim findings from its 2023 Period Equality White Paper suggest students are missing school or college because period products are unavailable or too expensive.\n\nOf the 546 13-18-year-olds surveyed who had missed school because of their period:\n\n\"Our initial results show progress has been made since the pandemic but the cost-of-living crisis is having an effect,\" head of commercial Clare Hughes says.\n\n\"It's clear many learners are relying on free period products they're accessing at school - and for the next year we will work with governments and local authorities to highlight these issues.\"\n\nA Department for Education official said: \"Since the launch of our free period-products scheme, in January 2020, 97% of secondary schools and 92% of post-16 organisations in England have ordered free period products for pupils - and we're encouraging more primary schools to sign up.\n\n\"School leaders and teachers know their pupils best and our guidance provides advice and support on ways to promote the scheme to pupils that avoids embarrassment or stigma.\n\n\"It also encourages schools to involve pupils in deciding which period products are ordered.\"\n\nHave you had difficulty accessing free period products in school? Please share your experiences by emailing HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC News journalist. You can also make contact in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page but cannot see the form, to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or email HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location.", "Giving plants the starring role in your diet is good for heart health, a review of four decades of data shows.\n\nResearchers in Denmark showed vegetarian and vegan diets cut levels of cholesterol and fats in the blood that increase heart attacks.\n\nThe effect - equivalent to about a third that of taking daily drugs - was \"really substantial\", they said.\n\nBut experts said meat and dairy had their own health benefits - and not all meat-free diets were actually healthy.\n\nThe research pulled together the 30 trials since 1982 in which scientists gave volunteers a set diet and tracked its impact on heart health. In total, nearly 2,400 people from around the world were involved.\n\nHigh levels of bad cholesterol lead to fatty deposits building up in blood vessels, which can eventually cause heart attacks or strokes.\n\nThe results, published in the European Heart Journal, showed vegetarian and vegan diets:\n\n\"That corresponds to a third of the effect of a cholesterol-lowering statin [pill] - so that's really substantial,\" Prof Ruth Frikke-Schmidt, who conducted the work, at Rigshospitalet, in Denmark, told BBC News.\n\nThe studies would have needed to have controlled people's diets for years or decades to see how that change in the blood played out.\n\nBut Prof Frikke-Schmidt used data from trials of statins to estimate maintaining such a diet for 15 years could cut the risk of cardiovascular disease by 20%.\n\nThe World Health Organization estimates cardiovascular disease kills nearly 18 million people every year.\n\nDespite the health benefits of following a more plant-based diet, Prof Frikke-Schmidt warned that anyone following such a diet should not come off drugs they have been prescribed because they are at risk of heart disease.\n\nShe chooses to eat a mostly plant-based diet, with some chicken and white fish for \"my health, the environment and because I like it\".\n\nOther diets that incorporate meat, such as the Mediterranean diet, have also been shown to be healthy.\n\nProf Frikke-Schmidt said meat did not have to be excluded but \"the important message is 'plant-based'\", as this was good for both health and the environment.\n\nBut it is worth noting people on the trials were given \"healthy\" vegetarian and vegan meals.\n\nVegetables, fruits, nuts, pulses such as chickpeas and wholegrains are very different to sweets, crisps and sugary drinks despite both being meat-free.\n\n\"Not all plant-based diets are equal,\" Prof Aedin Cassidy, from Queen's University Belfast, said. And diets such as \"those including refined carbohydrates, processed foods high in fat/salt\" would still be unhealthy.\n\nThere have also been questions about the current wave of highly processed vegan foods, which are markedly different to a vegan diet from the 1980s.\n\nQuadram Institute chief scientific officer Prof Martin Warren said: \"Animal-based products such as meat do represent nutrient-dense foods that have other benefits.\n\n\"Similarly, crop-based diets can be low in certain micronutrients - so in general, reducing meat consumption but maintaining a broad and varied diet is good for health.\"", "Prince Charles (top right) and his sister Princess Anne pictured leaving Northern Ireland after their first visit in 1961\n\nKing Charles III was just 12 years old when he arrived in Northern Ireland for his first official visit.\n\nOn 8 August 1961, the young prince and his family sailed into Carrickfergus, County Antrim, on board a \"floating palace\" - the Royal Yacht Britannia.\n\nHe travelled with his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, his late father the Duke of Edinburgh and his then 10-year-old sister, Princess Anne.\n\nIt was to be the first of 39 trips to Northern Ireland as heir to the throne.\n\nHis parents had arrived for a two-day tour, packed full of formal engagements at town halls and locals businesses.\n\nBut while the Queen carried out her official duties, the royal children were largely kept away from the cameras.\n\nInstead, Prince Charles and his little sister had afternoon tea at a County Down estate and enjoyed a picnic on a private island, where a hungry Labrador stole their bodyguard's lunch.\n\nThe 1961 papers were intrigued by the prince's daytrip to a County Down island\n\nTight security measures have been a feature of royal visits since the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, but back in 1961, the Royal Family's schedule could be publicised days in advance.\n\nThe Belfast Telegraph published an almost minute-by-minute guide of the Queen's itinerary, pointing out the best locations to see the monarch's motorcade.\n\nThere was great excitement ahead of what was her first visit for seven years, and only her third tour as reigning monarch.\n\nIn a rain-soaked Carrickfergus, an armada of little boats owned by well-wishers greeted the Royal Family, while hundreds of cheering spectators lined the town's harbour.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II disembarks from the royal barge at Carrickfergus in 1961\n\nThe Queen and the Duke disembarked for a tour of Carrickfergus Castle, but unlike their parents' itinerary, the younger royals' travel plans were not pre-announced.\n\n\"The children's destination had been kept secret at the Queen's wishes, right until the last minute,\" the Belfast Telegraph reported.\n\nPrince Charles and his sister were brought ashore at Belfast and driven to Rademon Estate on the outskirts of Crossgar, County Down.\n\nThe 500-acre estate was then home to the aptly-named King family who were long-standing friends of the Windsors.\n\nJames Osborne King was a prominent estate agent and his wife, the Hon Elizabeth Patricia King (née White), was a childhood friend of Queen Elizabeth.\n\nThe Queen was also godmother to the couple's eldest child, 14-year-old Elizabeth Lavinia Sarah King.\n\nThe late Queen, then known as Princess Elizabeth, attended baby Lavinia King's baptism in Comber, County Down, in 1946\n\nMrs King was descended from the Spencer family, sharing ancestry with Lady Diana Spencer - the future first wife of the young Prince Charles.\n\nShe was a first cousin of Lady Diana's father, the 8th Earl Spencer, but her family link to the Windsors goes back further.\n\nMrs King's mother, Lavinia Emily White (née Spencer), had been a lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Mother while she was the Duchess of York.\n\nAt Rademon, Prince Charles and his sister were joined by their parents for afternoon tea hosted by the Kings.\n\nThe following day, the Queen visited Belfast City Hall and Harland and Wolff shipyard but, reportedly, she did not believe her children would enjoy either event.\n\nSo instead, it was arranged that the prince and princess would go for a picnic on Strangford Lough, accompanied by Mr and Mrs King's three young children.\n\nSir Richard Pim, a retired inspector-general of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, was entrusted with sailing the children to Pawle Island - a small, uninhabited land mass off the lough's western shore.\n\nFew people spotted the heir to the throne tucking into his packed lunch, but in the days that followed, \"scores of holidaymakers\" flocked to the island to explore the royal picnic spot.\n\nPawle Island, pictured here in June 2020, briefly became a tourist attraction after the 1961 royal picnic\n\nTwenty years later, ahead of Prince Charles's wedding to Lady Diana, Sir Richard regaled the Belfast Telegraph with his memories of the Pawle Island picnic.\n\n\"I had brought Bracken, my Labrador, with me and the prince had his detective with him, a big fellow who must have been all of 20 stones,\" Sir Richard recalled.\n\n\"The detective decided he would go and find himself some beer and he went off, leaving his lunch on the stone where he had been sitting.\n\n\"Bracken, as soon as his back was turned, promptly went across and ate it.\"\n\nSir Richard said the young prince found the case of the stolen sandwiches \"very funny\" and the pair laughed about it when they met again in later life.\n\nThe 1961 visit was the King's only childhood trip to Northern Ireland and 18 years passed before he came back for a second tour.\n\nDuring that period, the security situation in Northern Ireland deteriorated markedly.\n\nThe Troubles began in the late 1960s and Prince Charles was 31 years old by the time he returned to Northern Ireland in 1979.\n\nPrince Charles's second visit to Northern Ireland in 1979 had a very different tone to his first\n\nHe arrived three months after the IRA killed 18 soldiers in a bomb attack at Narrow Water, County Down.\n\nThe paramilitary group also killed his own great uncle and beloved mentor, Lord Mountbatten, in a bombing in the Republic of Ireland on the same day.\n\nPrince Charles spent his 1979 visit meeting soldiers at various barracks close to the border, which had been the target of regular IRA attacks.\n\nThe peace process began to take hold in the 1990s and Prince Charles soon became a regular guest of Northern Ireland and an occasional visitor to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nAt a St Patrick's Day dinner four years ago, he revealed his lifetime ambition to visit all 32 counties on the island of Ireland.\n\nIn a speech to guests, he said he had already ticked 15 off the list at that stage.\n\n\"I am quite determined, before I drop dead and finally lose my marbles, that I should get around to the remaining 17,\" he added.", "Net migration is too high, Rishi Sunak has said, after data confirmed levels hit a new record high last year.\n\nImmigration saw the country's overall population increase by 606,000 in 2022, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nMore people from outside the EU arriving on student and work visas, as well as the Ukraine and Hong Kong schemes, all contributed, the ONS said.\n\nThe PM insisted that migration was not out of control.\n\nBut after more than a decade of Conservative-led governments promising to reduce numbers, the figures represent a political challenge for Mr Sunak.\n\nUnder then Conservative prime minister David Cameron, the Tories pledged to get net migration below 100,000, and the party's 2019 manifesto also committed to getting the rate down, without setting a specific target.\n\nNow the ONS has confirmed that in 2022, an estimated 1.2 million people arrived in the UK, while 557,000 left in the same period.\n\nNet migration, the difference between those two figures, stood at 606,000 - an increase of 164,000 on 2021's total.\n\nReacting to the data, the PM told ITV's This Morning: \"Numbers are too high, it's as simple as that. And I want to bring them down.\"\n\nAsked whether immigration was out of control, Mr Sunak replied: \"Well, no, I think the numbers are just too high.\"\n\nThe PM said measures to tighten visa rules for overseas students which were put in place this week were \"significant\" and would bring levels down over time.\n\nIn a bid to drive down net migration, from next year, only those on post-graduate research programmes will be able to bring their families to the UK.\n\nOn Thursday, the ONS said that of the 925,000 non-EU nationals who came to the UK in 2022, almost 40% arrived on student visas - but it added that students \"typically\" don't stay long term, and the majority leave when their courses end.\n\nThe Russell Group, which represents many of the country's top universities, has raised concerns that the plans will impact their ability to attract the \"vital income\" international students inject into the British higher education system.\n\nThe second biggest driver of the 2022 increase was the number of work-related arrivals from outside the EU, which nearly doubled from 137,000 to 235,000 in the space of a year.\n\nNet migration continues to increase despite Brexit: more EU nationals left the UK last year (202,000) than arrived (151,000), the ONS said.\n\nResettlement schemes triggered by what the ONS called \"unprecedented world events\" were the third biggest driver of the increase.\n\nThe number of non-EU nationals who arrived in the UK via humanitarian routes rose from 9% to 19% in 2022.\n\nAmong them were 114,000 Ukrainians, and 52,000 Hong Kong citizens who were offered a special visa scheme created after China imposed a national security law in the former British colony.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said support given to Ukrainians and Hong Kongers had \"unusually affected the figures\".\n\n\"Net migration is more than twice the level ministers were aiming for, and the asylum backlog is at a record high despite Rishi Sunak promising to clear it this year,\" she said.\n\nMs Cooper criticised the government for failing to tackle skills shortages, especially in health and social care, or to get people back into work after the pandemic.\n\nImmigration minister Robert Jenrick said: \"We want British employers to focus… on training British workers to fill these vacancies.\"\n\nHe added that he worried high net migration was placing \"intolerable pressure on public services, on housing supply and on our ability as a country to integrate new arrivals\".\n\n\"What we do want to see is universities focusing on teaching and not on inadvertently creating a backdoor to immigration status here,\" he added.\n\nCould the government's 2010 net migration target of tens of thousands ever be hit?\n\nAs Oxford University's Migration Observatory points out, non-EU migration has significantly risen thanks to the UK welcoming people from Ukraine and Hong Kong, a post-pandemic increase in international students and a jump in visas for skilled workers - particularly in health and care.\n\nWe're expecting Ukraine and Hong Kong arrivals to dry up - and worker entries may stabilise. The departure of international students should increase while many new ones will no longer be able to bring relatives.\n\nFigures could drop by another 70,000 if the government's controversial plan to divert abroad almost all asylum claims works - but that's an \"if\" the height of the white cliffs of Dover.\n\nIf Rishi Sunak delayed the general election until January 2025 - the last possible date - he should be able to show net migration has fallen significantly.\n\nBut it is impossible to say from here that tens of thousands could ever be achievable.\n\nThe ONS pointed out that the latest figures reflect changes made during the pandemic in how official migration figures are calculated.\n\nProjections are now linked more to government data rather than surveys of passengers arriving at British ports, and asylum seeker numbers are now included.\n\nBBC Verify estimates asylum seekers make up about 8% of immigration into the UK from outside the EU.\n\nLast year, 76,000 people applied for asylum in the UK, 23,000 more than the previous year.\n\nThe number doesn't include everybody who arrived in small boats, but the Home Office estimates about 90% of people who arrive that way go on to seek asylum.\n\nOn the backlog of asylum claims, Downing Street said the government was focused on reducing the number of people waiting and measures such as doubling the number of case workers would \"take time to bed in\".\n\nDr Peter Walsh, of Oxford University's Migration Observatory, described the current period as \"very unusual\" and said the UK was a popular destination for foreign students and workers.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast there have been initiatives from the government and universities to recruit more students, particularly from countries like India and Nigeria.\n\n\"They also last year brought around 100,000 partners and children,\" Dr Walsh added.\n\n\"International students pay the high fees which subsidise the education of domestic students.\"", "Hundreds of members of the public, members of the armed forces, representatives of the Caribbean community, friends and neighbours attended\n\nHundreds of people attended the funeral of a World War Two RAF airman at a historic Westminster church, after a campaign for a \"fitting send-off\".\n\nFlt Sgt Peter Brown, originally from Jamaica, was one the last so-called \"pilots of the Caribbean\", a group of Afro-Caribbean volunteer RAF personnel.\n\nHe died in at his home in Maida Vale, north London, in December aged 96.\n\nFlt Sgt Brown's coffin was draped with a Union Flag at St Clement Danes Church, the Central RAF Church.\n\nIt was also adorned with an RAF hat, a spray of flowers and his war medals.\n\nFlt Sgt Brown volunteered to serve for the UK \"in our hour of deepest needed\", according to the RAF reverend who conducted the service\n\nChief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston attended the service, along with hundreds of members of the public, other members of the armed forces, representatives of the Caribbean community, friends and neighbours.\n\nSeveral celebrities were also at the service, including Batman Begins and Outlander actor Colin McFarlane, Top Boy star Michael Ward and Trevor Michael Georges, who plays Ed Bailey in Coronation Street.\n\nMr Brown, who was born in Jamaica in 1926, enlisted in the RAF Volunteer Reserve in September 1943 and became one of the so-called \"Pilots of the Caribbean\", carrying out missions as a radio operator and gunner.\n\nBrooke Alexander, a distant cousin, flew to London from Jamaica for the service, having been tracked down by genealogists investigating Flt Sgt Brown's life story.\n\nA guard of honour was conducted outside St Clement Danes Church, the Central Church of the RAF, in Westminster\n\nMs Alexander said it was \"absolutely wonderful that Westminster, the RAF and everyone decided it was worth the effort to honour him in a way that is befitting\".\n\nFlt Sgt Brown's funeral was originally going to be held at Mortlake Crematorium in south-west London in March.\n\nHundreds of people asked to attend the funeral of Flt Sgt Peter Brown, seen here on his 93rd birthday\n\nHowever, organisers moved it after they were inundated with requests from the public to attend and neighbours campaigned for him to have a big send-off.\n\nThe neighbours told the BBC he rarely talked about his military service and, when he did, it was not in a \"boastful\" way.\n\nOne neighbour, Julian Futter, said he was amazed the funeral had turned into such a big occasion.\n\n\"We were just really keen he had a dignified and respectable send-off. We had no concept it would be at St Clement Danes. We just didn't want him to be buried alone.\"\n\nHe added the airman would be remembered on many levels.\n\n\"We knew him as Peter but, of course, he will be remembered as one of these incredibly brave men who flew a bomber at enormous risk to themselves.\"\n\nA mourner waved the Jamaican flag outside the church\n\nReverend (Group Captain) Ruth Hake, who conducted the funeral, said it was important the service was held in the \"spiritual home of the Royal Air Force\".\n\nBefore the service, she said Flt Sgt Brown had \"committed a huge amount of his life to serving this country\".\n\nHaving left no known relatives, the job of organising Flt Sgt Brown's funeral fell to his local authority, Westminster City Council.\n\nFlt Sgt Brown's coffin was draped with the union flag and carried an RAF hat and his war medals\n\nEarlier this year, to anyone related to the airman to make contact, and later said it had received an \"overwhelming\" response from people interested in the funeral.\n\nFascinated by his story, a team of genealogists from Anglia Research, based in Ipswich, later took on the task of investigating his past and tracing any living family members.\n\nHalf a dozen of his relatives were due to attend the service, the council said.\n\nThe RAF says Flt Peter Sgt Brown is \"an example of the selfless contribution of all Commonwealth personnel\"\n\nFew knew much about about Flt Sgt Peter Brown's military service until after his death.\n\nBorn in Jamaica on 22 August 1926, he was one of 450 young black volunteers from the West Indies, Caribbean, Africa and parts of the UK who joined the RAF in World War Two and flew aircraft such as the Lancaster and Spitfire.\n\nAccording to RAF records, he enlisted in the RAF Volunteer Reserve in September 1943 after travelling to the UK.\n\nHe trained as a wireless operator and air gunner, posted to RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire.\n\nAfter the war ended, he re-enlisted in the RAF, working as a signaller.\n\nLisa Hill, a genealogist who researched Flt Sgt Brown's past, said he had flown five missions in Lancaster bombers before the age of 20.\n\n\"His bravery speaks for itself,\" she said.\n\nShe told the BBC that, having searched Jamaican newspaper archives, she found articles about him returning home to visit his mother.\n\n\"The warmth with which he is remembered both by friends, neighbours, local shop owners and, most significantly, his family is striking,\" she said.\n\nHe was passionate about cricket and, for 30 years until 2016, he was a member of Marylebone Cricket Club.\n\nHis neighbours said they used to hear him cheering at cricket matches in his flat.\n\nFlt Sgt Brown lived alone. But, according to his neighbours, he was well-known in his community, well-supported and he was not lonely.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic rocket plane is back in action after a gap of almost two years.\n\nThe Unity vehicle, with two pilots and four passengers aboard, climbed high over the New Mexico desert to the edge of space - before gliding back down.\n\nIt was billed as the plane's final test outing before entering commercial service in June.", "The seaweed, pebbles and sand make Pwllheli look like an aquatic mammal\n\nThis photo of Pwllheli harbour looks so much like a dolphin you might think it was built on porpoise.\n\nThe aerial snap was taken in Gwynedd by Rhys Jones at the start of the month. He shared it on a Facebook forum called Pwllheli Drone Photos.\n\n\"I've been up several times above the marina but it's the first time I've noticed this,\" said the photographer.\n\n\"It was an amazing discovery. Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it.\"\n\nThere is a pod of about 300 bottlenose dolphins in Cardigan Bay.\n\nPerhaps the harbour wants to join them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe sword carried by Penny Mordaunt at the Coronation has become an unexpected star attraction for visitors to the Tower of London.\n\nA new display is being opened this week in the Jewel House, where the crowns and regalia are kept in the Tower.\n\nBut officials at the historical site say the sword of state has become a new talking point for visitors.\n\nMs Mordaunt later admitted she had taken painkillers to help with holding up the ceremonial sword.\n\nThe impact of the TV attention has turned the sword from being a minor part of the display to something visitors to the Tower want to know much more about.\n\n\"It's not an object we might have seen visitors looking for particularly in the past - but we expect that they definitely will now,\" said Charles Farris, a historian of the monarchy at Historic Royal Palaces.\n\n\"It's wonderful to see the ways in which the recent coronation has given people a new found appreciation of the crown jewels,\" he said, expecting the interest in Ms Mordaunt's sword-wielding to make a visit to the Tower more \"vivid\".\n\nPenny Mordaunt's role became a talking point of the Coronation\n\nThe 17th-Century sword, more than 3ft (1m), was carried by Ms Mordaunt in her capacity as lord president of the Privy Council.\n\nOn social media, her appearance was likened to a character from Star Wars, a figure from Greek myth or wearing a logo with echoes of Poundland's branding.\n\nShe later commended the public for its online creativity and said she had taken a couple of painkillers to get through the demanding role.\n\nThe sword is kept in the Tower of London along with the crown jewels and other royal regalia and jewels.\n\nThis includes the controversial koh-i-noor diamond, whose ownership is disputed and which was not included in the Coronation.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown is part of the display in the Jewel House, at the Tower of London\n\nThe new display at the Tower of London now gives visitors more context for the diamond - calling it a \"symbol of conquest\".\n\nThis is meant to be more open and \"transparent storytelling\", showing how it forcibly changed hands over the centuries.\n\nThe Tower curators say public consultations found a particular interest in what had happened to the original medieval crown jewels.\n\nThese were broken up in the 17th-Century, after the Royalists were defeated in the English Civil War - and the display includes a gold coin from that era that could have been made from the melted-down crowns and regalia.\n\nThe only surviving item, a 12th-Century gold spoon, was also used at the Coronation earlier this month.\n\nThe crowns remain the centrepiece of the collection, with the adapted crown of Queen Mary, worn by Queen Camilla at the Coronation, now going on show.\n\nAnd St Edward's Crown, which was worn by the King and will not be worn again until the next Coronation, can be seen close up.", "Aderrien's mother said she told him to call police because she was concerned by the behaviour of the father of another of her children.\n\nAn 11-year-old boy who was shot by an officer after calling police for help has been released from hospital, his family says.\n\nMississippi police arrived at Aderrien Murry's home on Saturday responding to a domestic disturbance call placed by the boy, then shot him in the chest, according to his mother.\n\nShe said the boy asked her \"what did I do?\" after being shot.\n\nThe officer involved has been placed on leave as the shooting is investigated.\n\nThe Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is conducting a probe into the incident.\n\nThe boy is recovering at home after being released from a local hospital, where he was treated for a collapsed lung, fractured ribs and a lacerated liver.\n\nHis mother, Nakala Murry, has asked for the officer to be fired and charged.\n\nAt a press conference on Monday outside Indianola City Hall, she said the father of another of her children had shown up at their house early on Saturday morning and was acting \"irate\", prompting her to instruct her son to call the police.\n\nWhen the Indianola officer arrived, Ms Murry later told CNN, he \"had his gun drawn at the front door\" and asked everyone inside to exit.\n\nAs her son turned the corner of the hallway, the officer opened fire, striking Aderrien in the chest, she said.\n\n\"His words were: 'Why did he shoot me? What did I do?' and he started crying,\" Ms Murry said. \"This cannot keep happening. This is not OK.\"\n\nShe said she had covered her son's wound with her hand and applied pressure, blood pooling beneath her palm. The officer also assisted her in rendering aid, she said, until medics arrived.\n\nAderrien was rushed to the University of Mississippi Medical Centre, where he was given a chest tube and placed on a ventilator.\n\nMs Murry and her family's lawyer, Carlos Moore, have called on officials to take further action. Mr Moore said the officer has been placed on paid administrative leave.\n\n\"What are you waiting on? Someone to actually die?\" Mr Moore said during the Monday press conference.\n\nAccording to him, the officer allegedly involved had been named the department's \"best officer\".\n\n\"If he's your best, Indianola, you need a clean house from top to bottom,\" he said.\n\nAt a sit-in protest outside City Hall on Thursday, Ms Murry, Mr Moore and about a dozen protesters said they were \"demanding justice\".\n\nAt a rally planned for Saturday, the group will demand the firing of the officer and the release of body-camera footage from the incident.\n\nPolice have so far denied the footage request due to the ongoing investigation, according to Mr Moore.\n\nThe Indianola Police Department told BBC News it is not currently commenting on the case.\n\nOver the weekend, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said it is \"currently assessing this critical incident and gathering evidence\", and will submit its findings to the state attorney general's office.", "Stormont has been without a functioning executive or assembly since last February\n\nStormont parties have said they will need at least £1bn of extra funding to manage budget pressures in a future executive.\n\nThey were speaking after meeting the head of the civil service to discuss the ongoing governance gap.\n\nThere is no functioning executive or assembly because of the DUP's protest against post-Brexit trade arrangements.\n\nThe party needs to \"get off the fence\" and return to government immediately, Sinn Féin's vice-president has said.\n\nMichelle O'Neill was among party leaders who met Jayne Brady to discuss Northern Ireland's budget crisis and lack of government.\n\nHer party is now the largest party in local government and the assembly having made gains in last week's council elections.\n\nThat result showed voters wanted power sharing to resume, said Ms O'Neill, saying suggestion that the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) might return to power-sharing this autumn was \"not an acceptable timeframe\".\n\nIn an earlier letter to the largest parties, Northern Ireland Civil Service boss Jayne Brady said Northern Ireland's budgetary pressures had been compounded by a \"governance gap\".\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill was joined by party colleague and former Finance Minister Conor Murphy at Stormont Castle\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson described Thursday's meeting as productive, adding he was committed to working with other parties in asking for extra finances from Westminster.\n\n\"Our current funding formula for Northern Ireland doesn't work, what we need is a needs-based approach to our budget,\" he said.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said Northern Ireland's funding model needed to be reformed\n\nStephen Farry from Stormont's third-largest party, the cross-community Alliance party, agreed it was a constructive meeting with parties committing themselves to work towards the restoration of Stormont.\n\nHe said a key aspect of that had to be requesting an extra £1bn from the Westminster government to \"stem the bleeding\" and stabilise public finances.\n\nIt's worth bearing in mind that the £1bn figure now being openly floated is a rough ballpark.\n\nThe parties haven't yet actually agreed on any final ask.\n\nBut Stormont sources say it reflects the scale of what is necessary to cover the £800m shortfall this year, plus outstanding pay deals for public sector workers, not to mention the t-word - transformation of services which already seems to be on the long finger.\n\nUltimately it will be up to the Treasury to agree to a collective ask put forward by the parties.\n\nAnd we are told there are likely to be hefty strings attached.\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie said it was a sombre meeting because of the predicament of Northern Ireland's governance and fiscal position, but he welcomed the \"workman-like\" attitude from all parties.\n\nStormont officials believe they will need to find £800m in cuts and revenue-raising measures in the wake of last month's budget announcement which was set by Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris.\n\nThe task fell to Mr Heaton-Harris in the absence of a functioning Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris, who has denied setting a \"punishment budget\", has warned that government departments face difficult decisions \"in order to live within the funding available\".\n\nThe NI secretary said he was in close contact with parties about doing everything possible to lead to the restoration of the executive.\n\nHowever, speaking after meeting with him on Wednesday, Michelle O'Neill said she didn't believe there was any urgency on his part.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris has refused to be drawn on a claim a restored Northern Ireland Executive needs an extra £1.1bn.\n\nHowever, he said he was \"very pleased to hear the parties are talking about the future\".\n\nHe also said Ms O'Neill was \"completely wrong\" to claim he was showing no urgency to get devolved government restored.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Heaton-Harris State met with the joint secretaries of the health trade unions to discuss the Northern Ireland budget for this financial year and the impact on the health service.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris has been accused of having \"no urgency\" on restoring Stormont\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office (NIO) said he also offered clarity on the pay offer that was made to health workers in England and Wales earlier this month.\n\n\"Ultimately this is a matter for the trade unions and the Department of Health in Northern Ireland,\" a NIO spokesperson said.\n\n\"The Secretary of State has no authority to negotiate pay in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Stable and accountable local government is the best way of delivering on the issues that matter most to the people of Northern Ireland, such as the health service.\n\n\"That is why the government's focus remains on restoring the Executive.\"\n\nOn Thursday, it was announced that a shortage of consultants at Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry means delivering inpatient care in general medicine is no longer sustainable.\n\nThe Southern Health Trust said it was working with other trusts in Northern Ireland and the Department of Health \"to help us through this situation\".\n\nIn her letter to Sinn Féin, the DUP, the Alliance Party and the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Ms Brady wrote that only elected ministers can take \"major policy decisions\", some of which are required for departments to make savings in the budget for 2023-24.\n\nCivil service boss Jayne Brady says Stormont's spending trajectory currently exceeds the budget\n\nHer letter warned that \"leaves the accounting officer in the invidious position of having no lawful means to ensure full compliance with the duty to remain within budget limits\".\n\n\"As a result, the spending trajectory currently exceeds the budget, and this will remain the case until and unless ministerial decision-making is restored,\" it added.\n\nMs Brady went on to emphasise that even if an executive was formed and accompanied by an additional financial package from Westminster, it was still \"highly likely\" that the budgetary position will remain very challenging.\n\n\"An incoming executive would be faced with a series of choices, made all the more challenging because they would fall to be taken part way through the financial year,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mary Lou McDonald (left) says many voters are frustrated that Michelle O'Neill has been blocked from becoming first minister\n\nFollowing the council election Michelle O'Neill said the onus was on the British and Irish governments to focus efforts on the immediate restoration of the assembly.\n\nParty leader Mary Lou McDonald said the election result was a \"monumental endorsement\" for Sinn Féin and the party now had a \"huge mandate\".\n\nYou can listen to the BBC's 5 Questions On, where Ireland Correspondent Chris Page explains the significance of the 2023 council election.", "Det Ch Insp John Caldwell has been involved in high-profile investigations into dissident republican attacks\n\nDet Ch Insp John Caldwell, who was shot in Omagh in County Tyrone, is one of the best-known detectives in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nHe has been the senior detective in many high-profile inquiries, including the 2011 murder of his colleague Ronan Kerr by dissident republicans.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell was shot multiple times after coaching young people at football on Wednesday night.\n\nHe was putting balls in the back of his car and was accompanied by his son.\n\nThe off-duty police officer had just finished coaching an under-15s football team from Beragh Swifts FC when the attack happened.\n\nRicky Lyons, chairman of the football club, said Det Ch Insp Caldwell was a good man who had played a central role in the club as a volunteer.\n\n\"He cares for the community, he gives back to the community and if that is in you it is in you,\" he said.\n\n\"No matter how busy life is if that's what you want to do that's what you will do and certainly that's what John has done for us.\"\n\nThe football club organised a walk in support of Det Ch Insp Caldwell on Saturday, following the shooting.\n\nThe route from Beragh Swifts FC to Beragh Red Knights GAA club was short but significant - Constable Kerr was a member of the GAA club when he was murdered in 2011.\n\nStephen Brown who attended the walk and knew the senior detective on a personal and a community level said he had touched many people's lives.\n\nBeragh Red Knights GAA club coach Celine Curran said the attack on Det Ch Insp Caldwell had affected the whole community in Beragh.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell, who has been a police officer for 26 years and who is from County Tyrone, often fronts press conferences in the course of major inquiries.\n\nHe had received a number of threats in the past, BBC News NI understands.\n\nHe was aware his investigations relating to dissident republican attacks - including the killing of Lyra McKee in 2019 - made him a high-profile target.\n\nIn January, he spoke to reporters after the killing of Shane Whitla, a 39-year-old father of four who was shot a number of times in the town of Lurgan in County Armagh.\n\nThree men have since been charged with murdering Mr Whitla.\n\nHe was also the initial lead detective investigating the killing of Natalie McNally in Lurgan.\n\nMs McNally, who was 32, was 15 weeks pregnant and was stabbed a number of times at her home on 18 December.\n\nOne man has been charged with the murder of Ms McNally.\n\nThe shooting happened at a sports complex in Omagh\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell was also involved in investigating the murder of Mark Lovell, 58, who was shot a number of times at close range in his car in Newry in County Down on 1 December.\n\nThere have been several attempts to kill PSNI officers in the past few years - most recently when a patrol vehicle was targeted in a roadside bomb attack in Strabane in November.\n\nThe last officer to be killed in the line of duty was Constable Kerr on 2 April 2011.\n\nIn 2021, on the 10th anniversary of his murder in a booby-trap car bomb in County Tyrone, Det Ch Insp Caldwell issued a fresh appeal for information,\n\n\"Despicably, people living in his own community planned and plotted to kill him simply because he was a police officer bravely going out every day to protect people and make communities safer places to live and work,\" he said.\n\n\"No-one deserves to be murdered because of how they earn their respectable living.\"\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said Det Ch Insp Caldwell was \"a father, husband and colleague, and a valued and active member of his local community\".\n\n\"John is held in the highest esteem within our organisation,\" he added.\n\n\"He is a credit to his family and to the police service.\"", "The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is urging people at risk of mpox to get vaccinated, following a rise in the number of cases.\n\nLatest figures show 10 new infections were diagnosed in London between 30 April and 25 May 2023.\n\nHalf of those were unvaccinated, and in two cases, those infected had only received one dose of the vaccine that can protect against the disease.\n\nThere have been 20 cases recorded overall in the UK this year, so far.\n\nAt its peak last year, mpox - previously known as monkeypox - was infecting 350 people per week, with the majority of cases amongst men who have sex with men.\n\nOf the latest 10 cases, five acquired the infection in the UK, four are thought to have acquired it abroad, and one remains under investigation to find the source of the infection.\n\nHealth experts are calling for those eligible for a vaccine to book an appointment as soon as possible, as the UK's vaccine roll-out programme is currently due to wind down.\n\nAppointments for one dose of the vaccine will end on 16 June, while those waiting for a second dose will have until 23 July to book an appointment.\n\nKaty Sinka, Head of Sexually Transmitted Infections at UKHSA, said: \"Vaccination is key to reducing the severity of symptoms and preventing further transmission. Uptake of first doses has been strong but only around a third of those who have received their first dose have had their second dose so far.\"\n\n\"The programme is coming to an end, so we strongly encourage everyone eligible to please come forward for a vaccination if you haven't yet had one or two doses. Our aim is to eliminate this unpleasant disease from the UK entirely - vaccination and community action have worked very well to significantly reduce case numbers and we can't let our guard down now.\"\n\nIt is caused by the monkeypox virus, a member of the same family of viruses as smallpox, although it is much less severe.\n\nOnce the fever breaks a rash can develop, often beginning on the face, then spreading to other parts of the body, most commonly the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.\n\nAnyone with the virus should abstain from sex while they have symptoms, to help prevent passing it on to others.\n\nSexual Health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) have called for the vaccination programme to be extended.\n\nCeri Smith, Head of Policy at THT said: \"While ten new mpox cases may seem small scale, it's important to react quickly to ensure we don't see another wave. That means ensuring the mpox vaccination programme for gay and bisexual men is extended - the current offer for mpox vaccination is due to be wound down at the end of July.\n\n\"It's important to have both doses for maximum protection. Especially as we approach Pride events and other festivals both here in the UK and in Europe, which was a factor in mpox's spread last summer.\"\n\nThose eligible for the vaccine include gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men who have multiple sexual partners, participate in group sex or attend sex on premises venues such as gay saunas or fetish venues. Staff who work in these premises are also eligible.\n\nYou can check your nearest mpox vaccination clinic on the NHS England website.", "A noodle vendor in Vietnam who parodied one of the country's most powerful ministers has been jailed for five-and-a half years for anti-state propaganda.\n\nBui Tuan Lam became famous when he posted a video in 2021 mimicking the trademark gestures of the high-end London-based restaurateur Salt Bae.\n\nA minister had been previously filmed eating a gold-leaf covered steak in a Salt Bae video, causing a scandal.\n\nThe Vietnamese government is strictly intolerant of dissent.\n\nThe 39-year old's trial and sentencing in a Danang court took just one day. He must serve four years of probation after being released, his lawyer confirmed to the BBC.\n\nIn his video, Bui Tuan Lam spread green onions on his noodle soups in imitation of the Turkish celebrity chef - real name Nusret Gökçe - who often sprinkles salt on steak in a theatrical manner.\n\nDays earlier, footage of Vietnam's Minister of Public Security To Lam eating a $2,000 (£1,600) steak at the chef's restaurant had caused an uproar online.\n\nMany Vietnamese noted the incongruence of a top communist official eating a dish costing more than his monthly salary, and right after he had paid a visit to the grave of Karl Marx in London.\n\nAt the time the police interrogated Bui Tuan Lam and closed his noodle stall, which had become very popular for a few days. He was arrested last September and has been detained since then.\n\n\"Please free my dad for me and our sisters\", say Bui Tuan Lam's wife and children\n\nBui Tuan Lam has been a political activist for nearly 10 years, which cost him his job in Ho Chi Minh City and forced him to sell noodles in Danang, his home city.\n\nWith his passport confiscated, he has been unable to leave Vietnam since 2014. But this is the first time the authorities have prosecuted him.\n\nThe indictment accused him of posting 19 videos on Facebook and 25 on YouTube which \"affected the confidence of the people in the leadership of the state\".\n\nWhile the famous Salt Bae parody was not mentioned, the embarrassment this caused the Vietnamese government is widely presumed to be the reason for his arrest.\n\n\"Even though the charges are about past Facebook posts, no one should be fooled,\" says Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch.\n\n\"The Ministry of Public Security is seeking vengeance against Bui Tuan Lam for daring to mock their steak-eating Minister To Lam. The green onion video that went viral, and delighted people in Vietnam, showed once again the creativity of a democracy movement that the authorities are using brute force and bogus convictions to try to extinguish.\"\n\nA letter from Bui Tuan Lam to his wife that was smuggled out of prison says: \"I will survive in prison no matter how hard it is\"\n\nWhile in prison, Bui Tuan Lam was denied access to a lawyer until two weeks before his trial. His wife Le Thi Thanh Lam was not allowed to attend.\n\nShe told the BBC's Vietnamese service that she and their three daughters have been allowed to see him only once since his arrest, and then for only 10 minutes.\n\n\"We could not say much but my husband sang a song with our daughters before saying goodbye. My husband was the one who told me about the trial, otherwise I would not have known about it.\"\n\nThree days ago, Le Thi Thanh Lam got a call from a stranger who wanted to deliver a letter from her husband. He had written messages to her on scraps of paper and thrown it on the ground in hopes of someone picking them up and delivering them to her.\n\n\"In a letter my husband wrote in January, he said that he would not plead guilty as he believed in what he was fighting for. He encouraged us to be brave and said it would be a miracle if she received those pieces of paper,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"No matter how many years the court will sentence him to, I completely object to it because my husband is not guilty of anything. That he is being imprisoned, for a day, a year or 10 years, is a crime.\"\n\nThere are currently at least 170 people in prison in Vietnam for expressing views unacceptable to the communist party, or doing anything seen as a threat to the party's monopoly on power.\n\nLast month, dissident blogger Duong Van Thai, who was recognised as a refugee by the UN, was abducted in Thailand. It was widely believed to have been carried out by Vietnamese state agents, who were also behind similar abductions in other countries.\n\nClimate activists Nguy Thi Khanh, Dang Dinh Bach, Mai Phan Loi and Bach Hung Duong, who have been campaigning against Vietnam's reliance on coal-fired power, were also convicted of tax evasion and jailed in recent months, a punishment rarely given to other alleged tax evaders.", "Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died in a bike crash on Monday\n\nPolice have confirmed for the first time that officers were following two boys whose deaths just minutes later sparked a riot in Cardiff.\n\nHarvey Evans, 15, and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, died in the Ely area on Monday.\n\nPolice and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael initially said police did not chase the boys but CCTV showed their electric bike was followed by police.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Bacon would not answer questions about it at a press conference on Wednesday.\n\nShe said the South Wales Police officers' van was on Grand Avenue when the fatal crash happened on Snowden Road, about half a mile away.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy Chief Constable Rachel Bacon would not answer questions about CCTV\n\nMs Bacon said only the bike was involved in the fatal crash, but would not comment on why police were spotted following the teenagers on CCTV, citing the ongoing police watchdog investigation.\n\nShe told a press conference: \"I want to be as transparent and open as I can with the communities of Ely so they understand what has happened.\n\n\"I've set out the timeline based on the factual information that we have.\n\n\"But the IOPC are conducting an independent investigation on whether any pursuit has taken place so I can't fully answer your question today.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said it had sent investigators to attend the police post-incident procedures and had obtained initial accounts from key police witnesses.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said he felt \"profound sorrow\" for the two teens, as well as the wider \"utterly decent hardworking\" people of Ely.\n\nHe also said the police had questions to answer and there was \"repair work to be done\" on their relationship with the community.\n\nMs Bacon laid out a timeline of events and said the crash, which killed the two best friends, took place half a mile away from the police vehicle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What the CCTV tells us about teens' final moments\n\nHarvey and Kyrees' deaths sparked a riot which saw cars set alight, fireworks thrown at police and 15 officers injured.\n\nSome residents claimed that the boys were being chased by police when they were killed in the crash.\n\nMr Michael initially said officers had not been chasing the teenagers when they died, but at Wednesday's press conference, Ms Bacon said officers were following the boys.\n\nShe added that she was aware of concerns about the timeline of events, including CCTV footage.\n\nAn upturned car burns amid disorder in the Cardiff district of Ely\n\nShe outlined the timeline from when the boys' bike first travelled towards the police vehicle on Frank Road at 17:59, to the crash which happened about two minutes later.\n\n\"I've been really clear that I've given you factual and accurate information,\" she added when quizzed over whether BBC footage contradicted her timeline of events.\n\n\"The situation yesterday morning was still very unclear. I've explained to you the huge amount of work that has had to be undertaken to get to the point where we are.\n\n\"I would have wanted to speak to our communities sooner and I haven't been able to because we haven't had that level of information.\"\n\nThe police have said that, in the minute or so before the crash took place, they turned into a main road and were half a mile away from the scene of the crash on Snowden Road.\n\nThe only reason why they didn't continue on the road towards where the crash took place is because there are bollards between Stanway Road and Snowden Road.\n\nSo, the police were on the main road and they are correct: They were not behind the boys, they weren't in the area where the crash took place.\n\nBut the only reason they weren't there is because they knew they couldn't follow the boys any further because the road was blocked.\n\nThis is a force under pressure.\n\nSouth Wales Police referred itself to the IOPC and did that after the BBC had put out new footage that showed the police were following the two boys before the crash.\n\nA car with its windows smashed on Snowden Road in Ely\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating the incident - the reason which Ms Bacon said was why she could not comment.\n\nUp to 150 people gathered in Ely after the boys' deaths and rioters threw fireworks at police and set cars alight.\n\nThe aftermath was described as a \"warzone\" by a BBC reporter at the scene.\n\nMany tributes to the two boys have been left in Ely\n\nTributes have since been stamped to lampposts and laid out across the street.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, Harvey's mum said: \"He lived life to the full, he had a big heart and deep down he truly cared.\"\n\nKyrees's family described him as \"a loving, caring, handsome young man\".", "The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group has announced that its forces have started withdrawing from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin has vowed to transfer control of the city to the Russian army by 1 June, but Kyiv says it still controls pockets of the city.\n\nHe said his forces were ready to return if the Russian regular army proved unable to manage the situation.\n\nThe battle for the city has been the longest and bloodiest of the war.\n\nWagner mercenaries have led the fighting there for the Russian side, and Mr Prigozhin this week said that 20,000 of its fighters had died in Bakhmut.\n\n\"We are withdrawing units from Bakhmut today,\" Mr Prigozhin said in a video released on Telegram from the destroyed city.\n\nBBC Verify has geolocated the video to an area near a pharmacy in the east of Bakhmut.\n\nMr Prigozhin - who announced the capture of the city on Saturday - is seen telling his men to leave ammunition for the Russian army. He adds that some Wagner fighters will stay behind to assist Russian troops.\n\n\"The moment when the military are in a tough situation, they will stand up,\" he says, before warning two fighters to not \"bully the military\".\n\nThe Wagner boss has repeatedly targeted top Russian military officials, criticising them publicly for not supporting his troops. Last month, he even threatened to pull his troops out of the city if they were not provided with much-needed ammunition.\n\nDespite Wagner's claims to be handing over Bakhmut, Ukraine has not conceded that the city has fallen.\n\nUkraine's Deputy Defence Minister, Hanna Maliar, said on Thursday that its forces still control part of the Litak district in the southwest of the city.\n\n\"The enemy has replaced Wagner units in the suburbs with regular army troops. Inside the town proper, Wagner forces are still present,\" she posted on Telegram.\n\nAnalysts say Bakhmut is of little strategic value to Moscow, but its capture would be a symbolic victory for Russia after the longest battle of the war in Ukraine so far.\n\nWagner mercenaries have concentrated their efforts on the city for months and their relentless, costly tactic of sending in waves of men seems to have gradually eroded Kyiv's resistance.\n\nMr Prigozhin has emerged as a key player in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine launched in February 2022, in charge of the private army of mercenaries.\n\nHe recruited thousands of convicted criminals from jail for his group - no matter how grave their crimes - as long as they agreed to fight for Wagner in Ukraine.\n\nAround half of the 20,000 Wagner fighters to have died in Bakhmut were convicts, Mr Prigozhin said this week.\n\nEarlier this month, the US said it believed more than 20,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in the battle for Bakhmut and another 80,000 wounded. The BBC is unable to independently verify the figures.\n\nUkraine has not released figures on its casualties in Bakhmut, but has also sustained heavy losses.\n\nThe capture of Bakhmut would bring Russia slightly closer to its goal of controlling the whole of Donetsk region, one of four regions in eastern and southern Ukraine annexed by Russia last September following referendums widely condemned outside Russia as a sham.\n\nHowever, when Russia fought fiercely to claim the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk last summer, Ukraine soon reclaimed swathes of territory elsewhere.\n\nThere were about 70,000 people living in Bakhmut before the invasion, but only a few thousand remain in the devastated city, once best known for its salt and gypsum mines and huge winery.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRon DeSantis's long-awaited entry into the 2024 race for the White House was hit by technical glitches after a Twitter livestream malfunctioned.\n\nIt meant the Florida governor's bid for the Republican presidential nomination got under way 20 minutes late.\n\nHe went on to use the event to champion his conservative credentials, his anti-lockdown stance and education reforms.\n\n\"I am running for president of the United States to lead our great American comeback,\" he said.\n\nThe Florida governor is viewed as former President Donald Trump's chief rival to be their party's candidate in the 2024 general election.\n\nMr DeSantis is a relative newcomer in US politics, having first been elected to the House of Representatives in 2012. Just six years later in 2018 - after a failed bid to become a senator - he was elected governor of Florida.\n\nHe has overseen the enactment of high-profile laws that make it easier to own a gun, restrict sex and gender identity education in schools, and curtail abortion access.\n\nHe has claimed that this \"Florida Blueprint\" can act as a guide for federal policies, one that would move the US in a sharply conservative direction.\n\nHe joins a growing list of contenders seeking to unseat Mr Trump, who leads the Republican field by more than 30 points in national opinion polls.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBy the time Wednesday evening's Twitter talk had begun in earnest, hundreds of thousands of Twitter users had left the platform.\n\nSince Mr Musk took the reins at Twitter in October, he has laid off thousands of employees, including engineers responsible for the site's operations and technical troubleshooting.\n\nMr DeSantis's team worked quickly to spin the technical stumbles, writing on Twitter that the announcement had broken \"the internet with so much excitement\", and posting a link to the campaign website.\n\nHis press secretary Bryan Griffin claimed the online event had raised $1m (£808,000) in an hour.\n\nAt one point, the Twitter event drew more than 600,000 listeners, according to Reuters news agency figures, but by its conclusion, there were fewer than 300,000. The BBC's interview with Elon Musk last month drew more than three million listeners on Twitter Spaces.\n\nOnce under way, Mr DeSantis turned the conversation to his conservative credentials, touting his handling of the Covid-19 crisis in his state - an anti-lockdown approach applauded by many Republicans.\n\nHe defended his reforms of Florida's education system, saying his state \"chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination, law and order over rioting and disorder\".\n\nLater, speaking on Fox News, Mr DeSantis outlined more specific pledges including declaring an emergency at the country's southern border on day one in the White House. He also pledged to fire FBI Director Christopher Wray, a Trump appointee, and slash President Joe Biden's \"anti-American energy policies\".\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Mr DeSantis confirmed he would seek the Republican presidential nomination, registering with the Federal Election Commission before releasing a stylised announcement video.\n\n\"Our border is a disaster, crime infests our cities... and the president flounders,\" he says in the video. \"But decline is a choice, success is attainable, and freedom is worth fighting for.\"\n\nMr Trump and his campaign greeted Mr DeSantis's much anticipated arrival into the 2024 field with a barrage of emails and posts to Truth Social, the former president's social media platform.\n\nSoon after the governor told Mr Musk he would study the US Constitution to \"see what buttons can I push\" to invoke executive authority, Mr Trump released a statement addressing Mr DeSantis directly.\n\n\"'Rob,' My Red Button is bigger, better, stronger, and is working (TRUTH!), yours does not! (per my conversation with Kim Jung Un, of North Korea, soon to become my friend!),\" Mr Trump wrote.\n\nThe latest survey from Morning Consult - published last week, before Mr DeSantis's announcement - has him a distant second behind Mr Trump, with a 38-point margin.\n\nThrough a lengthy primary process beginning early next year, Republican voters will decide which candidate will face President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the November 2024 general election.\n\nAnd Florida's last legislative session cleared a potential \"resign-to-run\" hurdle for Mr DeSantis's candidacy after it passed a bill that ensures he does not have to leave the governor's mansion to run for the presidency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Five things to know about Ron DeSantis\n\nMr DeSantis will also have the benefit of a formidable war chest. At the end of last month, he had $88m (£71m) in a fund left over from his Florida re-election campaign that can be transferred to his White House bid.\n\nHe also reportedly has about $30m controlled by an independent committee that his allies can use to support his campaign.\n\nMr Trump, by contrast, reported a combined $18.8m in fundraising over the first three months of 2023.\n\nMr DeSantis is expected to tap Generra Peck to serve as his campaign manager. Ms Peck, Mr DeSantis's top political adviser, led the daily operations of the governor's 2022 re-election campaign, guiding him to a nearly 20-point victory.\n\nAnd hiring is already under way for DeSantis campaign bases in at least 18 states, according to reporting from the Associated Press and the New York Times.", "In addition to giving them the surprise of a lifetime, Ed Sheeran supplied the music department with free guitars and gave each member of the band a ticket to his sold out concert in Tampa, Florida.", "Quote Message: I think DeSantis has done a stellar job in Florida and has proven to be a great leader as seen during the pandemic. I live in California where Governor Newsom is just the polar opposite. I love DeSantis's educational background - Yale undergrad and Harvard Law, you can't beat that. He is certainly qualified - and has military service, too. I believe Trump should be worried - all my friends now like DeSantis. The only thing that worries me is that DeSantis is moving too conservative regarding abortion rights to get the independent vote. Florida recently went from a 15-week abortion ban to just six weeks - that will lose a lot of independent women voters right there.\n\nI think DeSantis has done a stellar job in Florida and has proven to be a great leader as seen during the pandemic. I live in California where Governor Newsom is just the polar opposite. I love DeSantis's educational background - Yale undergrad and Harvard Law, you can't beat that. He is certainly qualified - and has military service, too. I believe Trump should be worried - all my friends now like DeSantis. The only thing that worries me is that DeSantis is moving too conservative regarding abortion rights to get the independent vote. Florida recently went from a 15-week abortion ban to just six weeks - that will lose a lot of independent women voters right there.", "Chris Heaton-Harris set Northern Ireland departmental budgets in the continued absence of an Executive\n\nThe Police Federation has accused the Northern Ireland secretary of being uncaring about the PSNI's financial problems.\n\nHe declined an invite to its annual conference and two requests for meetings.\n\nIt said his failure to meet was testament to an \"out-of-touch UK government and secretary of state who seemingly couldn't care less\".\n\nThe federation is holding its conference in Limavady.\n\nIt also criticised \"stop-start\" government at Stormont and said collapsing the executive is like \"throwing the toys out of the pram\".\n\nThe event has been taking place at a time when the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) voiced grave concerns about budget pressures which have resulted in fewer officers.\n\nLast month, the Policing Board was told that a £140m black hole meant more savings would have to be found, including a further reduction in officer numbers.\n\nIt currently represents 6,700 officers, the lowest number since the PSNI was formed in 2001.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a functioning government since February 2022, when the DUP walked out of the first minister's role in protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nSinn Féin won the largest number of seats in last year's assembly election, but no new power-sharing executive could be formed due to the DUP's ongoing boycott.\n\nIn a speech at the conference, the chair of the federation, Liam Kelly, was strongly critical of Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris, the man who set Northern Ireland departmental budgets in the continued absence of an Executive.\n\nLiam Kelly said that two requests for meetings to discuss police finances with the Secretary of State were also declined\n\nPolicing is a devolved matter and the PSNI receives the vast majority of its £750m funding from the Department of Justice.\n\nMr Kelly said the federation had received a \"thanks-but-no-thanks\" reply to his invitation.\n\nHe added that two requests for meetings to discuss police finances with Mr Heaton-Harris had also been declined.\n\n\"It is a real pity he is not here because I would have liked him to hear at first hand of disappointments, frustrations and anger,\" Mr Kelly told the conference.\n\nHe said the PSNI was being treated \"shoddily\" compared to forces in England and Wales where officer numbers have risen.\n\nHe went on to claim that the track record of Northern Ireland politicians \"is every bit as disappointing\" and that policing is \"way down\" the list of priorities.\n\nMr Kelly said Stormont \"is not working\".\n\nPointing to the collapse of devolution, he added: \"There has to be a better way of sorting out difficulties over the Northern Ireland Protocol, and before that crises such as RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive scheme), without throwing the toys out of the pram.\n\n\"Selective withdrawals from the Executive can no longer be tolerated.\n\n\"If it means going back to the drawing board to remove vetoes then so be it.\"\n\nIn response a Northern Ireland Office spokesperson said: \"Policing in NI, and police funding, are primarily devolved matters. It is for the devolved administration to determine the allocation of funding to the PSNI from the Northern Ireland Executive (NIE) block grant. The prioritisation of police resourcing is the responsibility of the Department of Justice, working with the wider NIE.\"", "The official House Price Index saw a 1.8% decline compared to the final quarter of 2022 giving an average price of £172,000\n\nHouse prices in Northern Ireland saw their second consecutive quarterly fall in the first quarter of 2023.\n\nThe official House Price Index saw a 1.8% decline compared to the final quarter of 2022 giving an average price of £172,000.\n\nHowever, prices were still 5% higher when compared with the first quarter of 2022.\n\nA weakening housing market had been expected following the continued rise in interest rates.\n\nData from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) had earlier shown a significant drop in the number of houses being sold in NI since the end of last year.\n\nThe biggest quarterly fall was in the Ards and North Down council district with prices down by almost 5%.\n\nOnly Causeway Coast and Glens saw a price increase, up by 0.7%.\n\nHouse prices in Northern Ireland rose steadily throughout the pandemic and its aftermath and are still more than 20% higher than at the start of 2020.\n\nThe market was exceptionally busy in 2021 with more than 30,000 transactions but returned to a more normal level in 2022 with about 25,000 transactions.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK inflation rate fell from 10.1% in March to 8.7%.", "A photo of Turner adorned with flowers on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles Image caption: A photo of Turner adorned with flowers on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles\n\n... Which we're drawing to a close shortly. We've been taking in the reaction to the death in Switzerland of Tina Turner. The multiple Grammy Award-winning star was 83.\n\nFrom the Obamas to Oprah, Beyoncé to Brian Wilson, numerous big names have been celebrating the life of the late soul star. Many quoted one of her top hits back to her, saying she was \"simply the best\".\n\nAs well as saluting her musical achievements, others paid tribute to her escape from an abusive relationship. As Mariah Carey put it, she was a \"survivor and an inspiration to women everywhere\".\n\nYou can find our full writeup of the tributes here. As for where else to head next, why not check out Tina Turner's life in pictures, or dive into her top 10 songs and the stories behind them?\n\nOr revisit her 2018 BBC interview in which she recalled her experiences of domestic abuse.\n\nThis page was the work of Nathan Williams, Alys Davies, Malu Cursino, Helen Bushby, Ian Youngs, Aoife Walsh, Jasmine Andersson, Frances Mao, Derek Cai, Patrick Jackson and me.", "The video of Amarii being thrown out of the venue has been seen millions of times online\n\nA teenager says she thought she was going to die during an altercation with a bouncer.\n\nA viral video shows 14-year-old Amarii being ejected from the teen disco at Sunderland's Rainton Arena.\n\nThe clip, seen millions of times online, shows the doorman with his hands around Amarii's neck - she says she \"couldn't breathe\" at the time.\n\nRainton Arena says it's co-operating with police, and the security company it uses has sacked the staff member.\n\nIn the video, Amarii can be seen being pushed out of the building by a bouncer.\n\nShouts of \"get off her\" and screams come from behind the camera.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newsbeat, Amarii says she got into an argument with door staff when they refused to let her re-enter the venue.\n\nShe says two bouncers came over to calm the situation, until a third \"came out of nowhere\" and \"started screaming and shoving\".\n\nHer mum, Gemma, say things escalated when Amarii got upset at being pushed.\n\nGemma says Amarii \"got a bit mouthy\" but wasn't \"any kind of threat to anybody\", and the reaction was over the top.\n\nAmarii's mum has said she's been struggling to sleep since the incident\n\nAmarii says the experience, and the online reaction to it, has left her struggling to sleep.\n\nShe says she no longer likes being \"in crowded spaces\", adding: \"Things that I found funny just aren't funny any more.\"\n\nGemma says her daughter is now \"frightened to be in the house on her own\".\n\nShe says Amari, who sleeps in a loft bedroom at their home, will often call her in the night.\n\n\"One o'clock in the morning, Two o'clock in the morning, saying 'mam, I still can't get to sleep.\"\n\nAmarii's had lots of support but there's also been some negative reaction to the video online, with some questioning whether Amarii was drunk.\n\n\"The children had to be breathalysed before they went into the event, so how could she have been drunk?\" Gemma says.\n\n\"She wasn't drunk. It's just ridiculous that people are actually trying to find some kind of blame.\n\n\"She's had posts saying she deserved it because of the way that she was dressed, which is just absolutely outrageous.\"\n\nAmarii, pictured with dad Carlos and mum Gemma, have hit back at online trolls\n\nIn response to the online posts, Rainton Arena announced on Facebook that it had referred the case to Northumbria Police.\n\n\"The venue will not accept this type of behaviour towards anyone,\" it wrote.\n\n\"This is not how anyone should be made to feel at any event.\n\n\"Staff and event organisers are all parents, and we are not happy with the actions of the individual.\n\n\"The child's parents have been contacted and shown all CCTV as we will be fully co-operating with the parents and police.\"\n\nNorthumbria Police says it's aware of an alleged assault and its inquiries are ongoing.\n\nThe force says no-one is believed to have been seriously injured, and urges anyone with information to get in touch.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n• None What could a TikTok ban mean for creators?", "Kyrees (left) and Harvey were best friends, their families said\n\nFamilies of two teenagers who died in the electric bike crash which sparked a riot in Cardiff have said the pair were best friends.\n\nHarvey Evans, 15, and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, died on Monday evening in the Ely area of the city and soon after riots broke out, with cars set alight.\n\nHarvey's mum said: \"He lived life to the full, he had a big heart and deep down he truly cared.\"\n\nKyrees's family described him as \"a loving, caring handsome young man\".\n\nIn the minutes before the crash, which happened shortly after 18:00 BST on Monday, CCTV footage appeared to show a police van following two people on a bike.\n\nSouth Wales' Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael has since insisted the two teenagers were not being chased by police when they were killed in the bike crash.\n\nHe denied being misinformed when he claimed on Tuesday morning that no police chase had occurred.\n\nAt a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, South Wales Police's Deputy Chief Constable Rachel Bacon said the force's van was on Grand Avenue at the time of the crash, which happened about a mile away on Snowden Avenue.\n\nThe police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), has announced it will independently investigate the incident.\n\nHarvey (left) and Kyrees died on Monday evening in the Ely area of Cardiff\n\nHarvey's family said he was \"a best friend to Kyrees, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family also\".\n\n\"We ask for peace within the community and request that people leave the investigation to the police so we can get the answers we so desperately need to lay Harvey to rest.\n\n\"As Harvey's mum, I want to remember our son as the fun and loving son that he was and not as the media are portraying him now.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What the CCTV tells us about teens' final moments\n\nThe tribute from Kyrees's family added: \"He was loved so much by his grandparents and aunties and uncles and his many cousins.\n\n\"Him and Harvey, along with Niall, were best friends since they were young and went everywhere together, they both had so many friends and were very well liked doing many things together, having fun and laughs.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police said it was investigating the circumstances leading up to their deaths and the unrest that followed.\n\nCars were set alight and fireworks thrown at police during the rioting that followed the deaths\n\nThat saw cars set alight and fireworks thrown at police as more than 100 people gathered following the crash.\n\nFifteen officers were injured, with 11 needing hospital treatment, the force said.\n\nFlowers have been laid near where the boys died in the crash\n\nAfter the CCTV footage circulated, South Wales Police said it was \"studying\" the video and police vehicle tracking data, adding there were \"no police vehicles on Snowden Road\" at the time of the crash.\n\nThe CCTV footage, which has been analysed by BBC Verify, is time-stamped to 17:59 on Monday on Frank Road.", "The new owner of Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB) US operations, First Citizens, is cutting around 500 roles held by former SVB workers, the BBC understands.\n\nTwo months ago, First Citizens bought the business after SVB's collapse.\n\nThe failure of SVB, along with two other US banks, triggered fears of a more widespread banking crisis, which forced authorities to step in.\n\nSVB's business in the UK was bought in March by London-headquartered banking giant HSBC for a nominal £1 ($1.25).\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC, First Citizens' chief executive Frank Holding highlighted the problems faced by SVB earlier this year and said the cuts will affect: \"select SVB corporate functions and do not include any personnel in client-facing positions.\"\n\n\"The team in India that supports SVB is not impacted by the changes,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC understands that the job cuts amount to around 3% of the company's total workforce.\n\nThe story was first reported by US-based news website Axios.\n\nFirst Citizens is based in Raleigh, in the US state of North Carolina and calls itself America's biggest family-controlled bank. It has been one of the largest buyers of troubled banks in recent years.\n\nUnder the deal, all 17 former SVB branches opened under the First Citizens brand.\n\nIn the UK, HSBC bought SVB's British operations in a deal led by the government and the Bank of England. Earlier this month, HSBC said its profits had got a $1.5bn boost from the takeover.\n\nAlso this month, Greg Becker, the former boss of SVB, apologised during a Congressional testimony, blaming rising interest rates and mounting withdrawals by customers as key causes of the bank's collapse.\n\nInterest rates were cut sharply during the 2008 global financial crisis and again during the Covid pandemic as central banks around the world sought to encourage economic growth.\n\nBut rates have been rising over the past year as central banks try to rein in soaring prices.\n\nThese rate rises have hit the value of investments in which most banks keep some of their customers' money, and contributed to the bank failures in the US.\n\nHis account contrasts with those of regulators who blamed SVB's leadership for its failure to manage interest rate risks or diversify its business.\n\nThe collapse of SVB was followed by the failure of another US lender, Signature Bank and early May, JP Morgan Chase took over First Republic, which had also been under pressure.\n\nMeanwhile in Europe, Swiss officials brokered a rescue deal for troubled banking giant Credit Suisse by its rival UBS, which Swiss prosecutors are investigating.", "A big, stark number. And an ocean of nuance.\n\nNet migration added 606,000 to the UK's population last year, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAn estimated 1.2 million people arrived, while just over half a million left.\n\nBut migration is about so much more than just numbers.\n\nIt is about emotion, communities and public services. It is about promises, people and places.\n\nWho and how many should the country welcome, from where and for how long?\n\nI have been talking to people in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk about it.\n\nThe east of England is highly dependent on immigration - and Great Yarmouth overwhelmingly backed Brexit too.\n\nThe promises of three successive Conservative prime ministers were washed away by reality.\n\n\"Net migration will be in the order of tens of thousands each year, no ifs, no buts,\" claimed David Cameron.\n\nThere were lots of ifs and even more buts - he never got close.\n\n\"We believe sustainable numbers are the tens of thousands,\" repeated Theresa May. She never managed it either.\n\nBoris Johnson learnt the lesson of too specific a promise, and instead said: \"numbers will come down, because we'll be able to control the system,\" as a consequence of Brexit.\n\nHe was right about the last bit, but save for the exceptional period of the pandemic, the numbers have done the opposite - they have rocketed.\n\nIn the Kings Arms in Caister-on-Sea, I chat to members of the local social club, who are having a lunchtime drink.\n\n\"I had a grandmother who came from Estonia when the Russians invaded, so I am a product of that. I do think it is important to take in people in need. But I think we have got to the point where we need to ease off a little,\" says Susie, sitting on a stool at the bar.\n\n\"That fairness seems to have been lost. It seems there is an influx of those who wish to come here to literally sponge off us and not contribute,\" her husband Owen adds.\n\n\"I think we need a certain influx to help us to work in this country. So I don't think you'll ever get it down to zero,\" says Mike.\n\nMike says there will always be a need for some immigration\n\nThe view at the Kings Arms is clear: providing a sanctuary for the desperate is admirable.\n\nBut when politicians talk about their post-Brexit capacity to control immigration, folk here simply don't believe that is actually what they are managing to do.\n\nAnd the nature of immigration is changing too.\n\n\"Since Brexit, free movement has been switched off, so we are seeing less EU nationals moving into the town than we had pre Brexit, says Fiona Costello from the EU Migrant Worker Project at Cambridge University.\n\n\"But what we are seeing is some temporary visa schemes in its place. Different nationalities are now being able to move to the town, because these visa routes are open to EU and non EU communities,\" she adds.\n\nFiona Costello researches the impact of Brexit on migration\n\nPerhaps a mile or so up the hill, Robert is being helped to exercise by Sandhya and Harjeet. They arrived from India two years ago, and now work at the Gresham Care Home.\n\nRobert is paralysed and requires a lot of support.\n\nStanding proudly in the corridor, is the owner and manager here, Vidia Ruhomutally.\n\nShe arrived in the UK from Mauritius decades ago, as homesick as she was ambitious to build a better life.\n\nYears later, she runs a home accommodating around 40 residents. She's a significant employer too, providing jobs for over 70 people - the vast majority of whom she recruits from overseas.\n\nThe process is arduous: online interviews; buying up local property in which to put up her staff; helping them adjust to life in the UK.\n\nShe has found there is nowhere near enough local people willing to do the work.\n\n\"Without India, we wouldn't be here. And without us, the hospital would have bed blocking,\" she says.\n\n\"They wouldn't be able to release patients to me. We wouldn't be able to provide our community a service, if we didn't have the beds.\"\n\nFor years, our leaders at Westminster offered promises on immigration without the full toolkit to deliver them.\n\nThis is no longer the case: after Brexit, all of the levers of control are in their hands.\n\nBut shoving them this way or that comes with trade-offs: societal, economic, political.\n\nRishi Sunak has re-written the Tory promise of 2019 to reduce net migration, which then stood at around a quarter of a million a year.\n\nHe has done so because he won't keep that promise.\n\nInstead, he suggests, his target is the number he inherited, about half a million.\n\nClose observers of the numbers tell me this should be achievable.\n\nCome the general election, he, Keir Starmer and the other Westminster leaders will have to set out their own vision and priorities.\n\nMigration: it's about promises, people and places - and our ongoing conflicted conversation over what to do about it.", "The official Covid inquiry has threatened the government with legal action if it does not release former PM Boris Johnson's unredacted WhatsApp messages and diary entries.\n\nBut the Cabinet Office has argued some of the material is \"unambiguously irrelevant\" to the inquiry.\n\nDowning Street insisted the government was supplying \"all relevant material\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson will no longer work with government lawyers for the inquiry.\n\nAllies of the former prime minister said he had lost confidence in the Cabinet Office after officials referred him to the police over further potential rule breaches during the pandemic.\n\nCrossbench peer Baroness Hallett, the inquiry's chairwoman, has said a failure to hand over the unredacted material, which also includes Mr Johnson's notebooks containing contemporaneous notes, would be a criminal offence.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the issue related to some documents which were \"clearly irrelevant\", such as personal WhatsApp messages.\n\n\"It's our position that the inquiry does not have the power to compel the government to disclose unambiguously irrelevant material, given the precedent that this would set and its potential adverse impact on policy formulation in the future,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Broness Hallett said passages initially assessed by the Cabinet Office to be irrelevant included discussions between the prime minister and his advisers about the enforcement of Covid regulations by the Metropolitan Police during protests following the murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nShe said those redactions had now been removed but \"it was not a promising start\".\n\nThe Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group said it was \"outrageous that the Cabinet Office think they can dictate to the inquiry which of Boris Johnson's WhatsApp messages they can see\".\n\n\"You really do fear the worst about what they're hiding,\" the group added.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner called on the government to release the unredacted documents so \"those responsible can be held to account\".\n\nThe inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic is due to begin hearings next month.\n\nBoth Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were fined for attending a birthday party in Downing Street\n\nThis week, civil servants referred information to two police forces after reviewing Mr Johnson's official diary as part of documents to be submitted to the public inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic.\n\nMr Johnson was said to be \"livid\" that the material was passed to the police and had lost confidence in the objectivity of the leadership at the Cabinet Office - both ministerial and official.\n\nHe will now appoint new lawyers to represent him at the inquiry, which will be funded by the taxpayer.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said officials had been obliged to disclose the documents under civil service rules.\n\nThe Times, which first reported the story, says Mr Johnson has been referred to Thames Valley police because his ministerial diary revealed visits by family and friends to Chequers - the prime minister's country house in Buckinghamshire - during the pandemic.\n\nBut a spokesman for Mr Johnson has dismissed any claims of rule breaches as a \"politically motivated stitch-up\".\n\n\"The events in question were all within the rules either because they were held outdoors or came within another lawful exception,\" the spokesman said.\n\nDowning Street rejected suggestions Mr Johnson was the victim of a stitch-up, stressing that neither ministers nor the PM were involved in the process and they were only made aware after the police had been contacted.\n\nThames Valley Police said it had \"received a report of potential breaches of the Health Protection Regulations between June 2020 and May 2021 at Chequers, Buckinghamshire\".\n\nThe Met Police released a similar statement but said their information related to potential breaches in Downing Street.\n\nBoth forces say they are assessing the information received but it is understood Mr Johnson has had no contact from the police.\n\nMr Sunak's press secretary said the prime minister \"definitely\" did not go to Chequers in contravention of coronavirus rules when he was chancellor during the pandemic.", "More than 100 firefighters from Fire and Rescue New South Wales (FRNSW) were sent to tackle a major blaze in the Surry Hills area of Sydney, Australia.\n\nSome of the the walls of a multi-storey building collapsed, with FRNSW stating that there were concerns the fire could spread to neighbouring buildings.\n\nOfficials said that the inferno had a \"10th alarm\" status, the most severe type of fire.\n\nA firefighter received a minor burn to his arm, but it is not yet known if there were any further injuries or any fatalities.", "This article contains descriptions of domestic violence which some readers may find distressing.\n\nIke and Tina Turner in 1971, seven years before she left him\n\nWhen Tina Turner first spoke out about the violence she endured during her marriage to Ike Turner, it was an act of bravery to expose herself so publicly.\n\n\"I was insanely afraid of that man,\" she told People magazine in 1981, revealing the painful reality behind the hugely successful musical duo.\n\nTina's scorching description of their marriage included being made to watch a live sex show in a brothel on their wedding night, and being beaten with a shoe stretcher while she was pregnant.\n\nShe also spoke about Ike throwing scalding coffee at her, and of being brutalised with a coat hanger. In 1968, she tried to take her own life.\n\n\"I was afraid to put it out [talk about the abuse] because of what I would get from Ike,\" she told journalist Carl Arrington.\n\nIke Turner, who died in 2007, always denied his ex-wife's claims that he abused her, and expressed frustration that he had been demonised in the media.\n\nThe couple performed in Hammersmith, London, in 1975\n\nThe couple met when Tina was just 17, after she saw his group Kings of Rhythm perform, and asked him to hear her sing.\n\nNot surprisingly, he spotted her star quality, making her his lead singer, choosing her stage name and lavishing her with clothes and jewellery.\n\nThey married in 1962, and Tina, who had already experienced the pain of being rejected as a child by her mother, promised Ike she \"wouldn't leave him\" - something she later came to regret.\n\n\"I felt obligated to stay there and I was afraid,\" she told Arrington. \"I didn't want to hurt him, and after he beat me up... I was sitting there all bruised and torn, and all of a sudden I'm feeling sorry for him.\n\nBut by 1978, after a string of hits including River Deep, Mountain High, Tina decided she felt able to leave Ike. She could no longer put up with the \"torture\" of being married to him, and the impact it had on their four sons.\n\n\"I was living a life of death. I didn't exist,\" she said. \"But I survived it. And when I walked out, I walked. And I didn't look back.\"\n\nTina Turner in 1981, the year she revealed the truth about her relationship with ex-husband Ike\n\nTina moved away, and had to rebuild her career, making money by singing in Las Vegas and appearing on various TV shows.\n\nShe decided to tell all in the 1981 interview, to expel some of the ghosts from her past.\n\nIn Daniel Lindsay and TJ Martin's 2021 documentary Tina, the singer said she was so nervous about doing the interview that she asked her psychic if it would ruin her career.\n\n\"She said, 'No, Tina',\" the singer recalled. \"'It's going to do just the opposite. It's going to break everything wide open.'\"\n\nBy 1985, when this picture was taken, Tina Turner was once again enjoying chart success\n\nDr Lenore E Walker, director of the US-based Domestic Violence Institute, which provides support for victims of domestic abuse, thinks Tina's decision to speak out was hugely important.\n\n\"In 1981 we were just learning about the extent of domestic violence in homes,\" she tells the BBC. \"It was often thought to be only poor women without resources who were abused.\n\n\"When Tina Turner spoke out about her life, it brought awareness to the fact that domestic violence was everywhere.\"\n\nShe says Tina helped give credence to other women daring to speak out about abuse.\n\n\"Women were not believed when they spoke out about domestic violence, so when Tina Turner, a well-respected and famous singer, spoke out, it gave other women the courage to do so, also,\" she explains.\n\n\"We needed 'influencers' such as Tina Turner to speak out about domestic violence, so that my work on battered woman syndrome was introduced in the courts, and juries began to believe women acted to protect themselves and their children.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tina Turner spoke frankly about domestic abuse with the BBC's Will Gompertz back in 2018\n\nDr Walker says the weight carried by Tina's words carries through to today.\n\n\"It is still important to hear her voice to understand how difficult it is for a woman to be able to terminate a battering relationship without getting hurt worse or killed,\" she says.\n\n\"The real question is: 'Why don't these men let women go?'\"\n\nBroadcaster and sexual abuse survivor Oprah Winfrey also talks in the documentary of the importance of women speaking out in the 80s.\n\n\"Nobody talked about sexual abuse, physical abuse, domestic abuse - abuse, period. Our generation is the generation that started to break the silence.\"\n\nWhat Tina didn't realise, though, was that her explosive revelations would follow her round as her career took off again, with hits including Let's Stay Together, What's Love Got to Do With It and Private Dancer.\n\nBy 1986, she published an autobiography, I, Tina, co-written with Kurt Loder, to \"get the journalists off my back\".\n\nShe thought if they had all the answers from her book, they would stop asking her endless questions taking her back to such an unhappy period in her life.\n\nTina Turner and Oprah Winfrey, at the 2005 opening of The Color Purple in Broadway\n\nInterviewers repeatedly asked her to relive her memories, with Buzzfeed noting in 2021: \"Tina Turner deserved so much better from the media, and here are 14 moments that prove it.\"\n\nThe article highlighted moments including a 1993 interview with Australia's Nine Network, in which she was played a pre-recorded interview with Ike, who responded to a question about beating her.\n\nHer dignified, calm response said it all: \"I don't want to start an argument with Ike Turner via satellite. I have nothing to say.\"\n\nTina's career continued to grow, and her story carried on being told, and in the 1993 film What's Love Got to Do With It, adapted from the book I, Tina, she was played by Angela Bassett.\n\nBy 2005, Winfrey - a huge Tina Turner fan - recalled meeting a woman who was inspired by the singer to leave an abusive relationship.\n\nWinfrey wrote: \"When Tina Turner's Wildest Dreams tour stopped in Houston back in 1997, I stood (let me tell ya, you seldom sit at a Tina performance) next to a woman whose story I'll never forget.\n\n\"'I came because I was looking for the courage to leave the man who beats me,' she said. 'Tonight I found that courage.'\"\n\nWinfrey has paid tribute to Tina, saying: \"Her life became a clarion call for triumph.\"\n\nThe singer often credited her Buddhist faith, which she found in the 70s, with helping her find the courage to leave Ike Turner. She said chanting helped give her clarity.\n\n\"I started seeing my life - I started really seeing that I had to make a change,\" she said in the documentary.\n\nBy 2018, the singer decided to bring out a new autobiography, My Love Story, where she also talked about finding love with actor and producer Erwin Bach and how she coped with the suicide of her son, Craig.\n\nA jukebox stage show about her life also opened in London that year, and the singer said at the time: \"When I look and see it done so well, I feel proud.\"\n\nIn 2021, Tina was inducted on her own into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, having previously been inducted - with Ike - in 1991.\n\nBassett made the speech to commemorate it, saying: \"What a life Tina has led. Her story has become a film, a documentary, a blockbuster Broadway show, and a best-selling autobiography.\n\n\"What brings us here tonight is Tina's journey to independence. For Tina, hope triumphed over hate. Faith won over fear. And ambition eclipsed adversity.\"\n\nAngela Bassett inducted Tina Turner to the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 2021\n\nIn April, the singer's story went full circle, when Tina - The Tina Turner Musical partnered with Women's Aid for its fifth anniversary, ahead of Women's Aid's 50th anniversary.\n\nFarah Nazeer, chief executive at Women's Aid said: \"It is wonderful to have the story of such a powerful and influential woman supporting our mission.\n\n\"Tina is an inspiration, her story shows the strength of survivors and that there is hope for women experiencing abuse currently - there is both freedom and happiness after abuse.\"\n\nFor information and support about any issues raised in this story, help is available via the BBC Action Line.", "Last Generation activists have been gluing themselves to roads in Berlin\n\nWhen does peaceful protest become a crime? How much disruption can a society handle? Do the rights of peaceful demonstrators outweigh the needs of ambulances, fire engines or commuters?\n\nThose are the questions being fiercely debated in Germany on Thursday morning, after the homes of Last Generation environmental activists were raided by police early Wednesday.\n\nLast Generation's spokeswoman said about 25 police officers carrying guns stormed her bedroom while she was in bed, breaking down the door of her apartment in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg.\n\n\"We don't know what they were looking for,\" said one activist, \"we only have glue and high-vis jackets.\"\n\nBut that is enough to inflame a culture war that has the car parked right at its heart.\n\nThe popular tabloid cliché portrays sausage-eating, car-driving German traditionalists being bossed around by moralistic young vegans.\n\nMainstream Germany is, as ever, more nuanced. But the extremes on both sides appear to be getting more radical.\n\nVideos on social media regularly show angry drivers shouting at and sometimes attacking activists.\n\nIt might seem surprising that the discussion over climate is so fierce in Germany.\n\nAfter all, this is a country with the Green Party in government, with effective recycling, widespread bike use and heavily subsidised public transport. The government not only has ambitious legally binding climate targets, but also, unlike the UK, concrete policies to reach them.\n\nBut Germany is also a country with a powerful auto industry, where the car is often king. Debates over pedestrianising roads turn into tortuous political battles lasting years.\n\nThe recent Berlin regional election was partly fought between a conservative campaign for more rights for drivers and Green demands for better bike paths. The conservatives won.\n\nRows regularly blow up between two of the parties in Germany's three-way governing coalition: the Greens and the liberal pro-car pro-business FDP, which views driving a Porsche without a speed limit on the motorway as a fundamental liberal right.\n\nBoth parties are struggling in the polls, making them even more desperate to fight for their ideological values. Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz's contribution to the debate this week was to describe the actions of Last Generation as \"completely crazy\".\n\nIn the UK, Just Stop Oil has been using similar tactics\n\nThe same issues are being discussed in the UK. But the environmentalists disrupting transport to highlight the climate emergency are part of a different group; Just Stop Oil.\n\nThe tactics of both groups are similar.\n\nLast Generation activists glue themselves to roads or vehicles to block traffic as a way of highlighting climate change.\n\nOver the past month, German activists have focused on Berlin: on Tuesday, at least five separate roads were blocked, as well as the main motorway around the city - twice.\n\nBoth organisations also stage high-profile stunts involving artwork: Just Stop Oil protesters have thrown soup at Van Gogh's Sunflowers, while Last Generation activists threw mashed potatoes at a Monet painting.\n\nBut their concrete demands are different.\n\nJust Stop Oil's targets are big-picture, including an end to fossil fuels and more renewable energy. Last Generation has specific aims which, compared to their radical actions, seem modest and technocratic: a 100 km/h speed limit on motorways; a €9 (£7.80) public transport monthly ticket; a citizens' council to plan how to scrap fossil fuels by 2030.\n\nActivists say they are offering concrete suggestions and want to talk to political leaders. In some German cities, mayors negotiate with Last Generation activists in return for an end to protests.\n\nBut the big difference between the two countries is the legal and political environment.\n\nGermany's 20th-Century experience of Nazi and communist dictatorship means that the right to protest is sacrosanct.\n\nIn the UK, two Just Stop Oil activists were jailed for up to three years for scaling the Dartford Crossing bridge and unfurling a banner, which then led to traffic delays.\n\nThe British government's new Public Order Act gives police more powers to crack down on climate protests, with heavier penalties and actions that would not legally be possible in Germany.\n\nIn Germany, activists who block roads typically receive fines. But in March, for the first time, Last Generation activists were handed a prison sentence which was not suspended.\n\nTwo men received sentences of a few months for repeatedly gluing themselves to roads and blocking traffic. The sentence sparked outrage among civil rights campaigners. Wednesday's police raids have made the debate even more ferocious.\n\nOn Thursday Conservative politicians and many newspaper commentators applauded Wednesday's police raids on activists.\n\nThe Cologne daily, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, called Last Generation's actions \"blackmail\" and said the activists should win people over, rather than punish them for the government's mistakes.\n\nLeft-wing politicians and voters accuse the police of being heavy-handed. They say an organisation with the same aims as the government cannot be called criminal.\n\n\"Why are cannons being used to shoot sparrows?\" asks the Reutlinger General-Anzeiger.\n\nThis week activists have been taking to the streets in protest, saying police actions will simply galvanise support. Critics meanwhile are demanding more powers for the police.\n\nInstead of calming tensions, the raids may make both sides more radical.", "Her stage performances were always energetic\n\nTina Turner's husky contralto and raunchy stage presence made her one of the best-known singers of her generation.\n\nIt was a long and often painful journey from a troubled childhood in rural Tennessee to global stardom.\n\nShe was almost 40 before she broke free from an abusive relationship to establish herself as a solo artist.\n\nBut she went on to record a string of best-selling albums, garner a host of awards, and become one of music's most popular live acts.\n\nTina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on 26 November 1939 in the small rural town of Nutbush, Tennessee. Her father Floyd worked on a local farm.\n\nShe had a disrupted childhood. She and her elder sister Aillene were separated when her parents moved to work in a munitions factory, and the young Anna Mae went to live with strict religious grandparents.\n\nWhen the family were reunited after the war, Anna Mae started singing in a local Baptist church.\n\nHer mother walked out when she was just 11 and, two years later, when her father remarried, Anna and her sister were sent to live with her grandmother in Brownsville, Tennessee.\n\nShe became a cheerleader at her local school, played basketball and enjoyed a hectic social life. On graduating in 1958, she got a job at a hospital in St Louis, Missouri, and set out to become a nurse.\n\nIt was in a nightclub, where she and her sister had gone for the evening, that she first saw Ike Turner perform with his band, The Kings of Rhythm.\n\nIke was already established as a performer and session musician, and his band were one of the biggest attractions on the R&B club circuit.\n\nDuring an interval one night, Anna Mae was offered the microphone - and her performance so impressed him that it led to her being asked to sing with the band.\n\nAt the time, she was in a relationship with the band's saxophonist, Raymond Hill, by whom she had a child, Raymond.\n\nTina Turner finally escaped her first marriage in 1976\n\nShe made her first recording as a backing singer in 1958, but her big chance came two years later on a song called Fool in Love, penned by Turner.\n\nWhen his lead singer, Art Lassiter, failed to show up for the recording, Anna Mae was asked to fill in with the intention that her vocals would later be removed.\n\nBut a DJ who heard the demo was so impressed, he passed it on to a local record label.\n\nIke was encouraged to put his protege in the front of the band and persuaded her to change her name to Tina, a move he later said was designed to prevent former lovers from tracking her down.\n\nFool in Love reached number 27 in the Billboard charts and the follow-up, It's Gonna Work Out Fine, hit the top 20 and won the duo a Grammy.\n\nBy now, she was in a relationship with Ike, who had divorced his fifth wife. The couple finally married in 1962.\n\nThe newly dubbed Ike and Tina Turner Revue went on the road for the best part of three successful years without having the benefit of a hit single to back them up.\n\nTina also made solo appearances on US television in shows like American Bandstand and Shindig.\n\nProducer Phil Spector, impressed by Tina's voice, persuaded her into the studio to record River Deep, Mountain High.\n\nConcerned that Ike, whose controlling tendencies were well known, would try to dominate the recording, Spector paid him to stay away from the studio.\n\nThe record, featuring Spector's famous \"wall of sound\", was credited to Ike and Tina Turner although Tina's was the only voice. It did not initially do well in the US but became a huge hit in the UK.\n\nIt was enough for the Rolling Stones to ask the Revue to back a UK tour, and that led to further European dates and a bigger audience.\n\nWhen the Stones toured the US, the Turners were again asked to support the band, which gained them a performance on the Ed Sullivan Show.\n\nTwo years later, the couple had their biggest American hit single with a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary.\n\nTina Turner as the Acid Queen in Tommy\n\nIn 1973, Tina travelled to London to make a critically acclaimed performance as the Acid Queen in Ken Russell's bombastic film of Pete Townshend's rock opera Tommy.\n\nIn the same year, the duo had their last big hit, Nutbush City Limits - but their personal relationship was on the slide.\n\nBy the mid-70s, Ike was heavily dependent on alcohol and cocaine, and his controlling attitude over his wife's life and career had escalated into physical abuse at home.\n\nHe beat her with a wire coat-hanger shoe stretcher while she was pregnant and burned her with scalding coffee. In July 1976, Tina fled with just a handful of loose change in her purse and spent months hiding with friends while suing Ike for divorce.\n\nTina Turner at home in the 1980s\n\nBacked financially by a friendly record executive, she set out on a series of solo tours that established her as an artist in her own right. She found it difficult at first.\n\n\"A lot of people thought that Tina Turner was history,\" she told German Vogue. \"They only knew Ike and Tina Turner and didn't understand what was going on. So I had to test myself.\"\n\nAfter two albums failed to make the charts, she reinvented herself with a much more gritty sound, which led to gigs with Rod Stewart and another tour with the Rolling Stones\n\nHer 1983 hit Let's Stay Together was the beginning of a career revival. An album, Private Dancer, recorded in London, spawned seven chart hits and launched a major world tour.\n\nShe was back on screen two years later as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and contributed to songs on the film's soundtrack, including the theme song, We Don't Need Another Hero.\n\nIt seemed she could do little wrong as hit followed hit and she played to sell-out tours throughout the 1980s.\n\nSuccess continued through the following decade, including a recording of GoldenEye, the theme song for the first James Bond film to star Pierce Brosnan.\n\nAt the turn of the century, and at the age of 61, she announced she was going into semi-retirement.\n\nTina Turner was hailed as a feminist icon, and, in 2003, attended the Kennedy Center Honours evening where stars such as Oprah Winfrey, Al Green and Beyonce joined President George Bush to pay tribute.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tina Turner spoke frankly about domestic abuse with the BBC's Will Gompertz back in 2018\n\nShe made a comeback in 2008, singing at the Grammy Awards and setting out on tour to celebrate her 50 years as a singer.\n\nDespite the advance of time, her energy seemed undiminished and the voice as strong as ever.\n\nIn 2013, at the age of 73, she became the oldest person ever to feature on the cover of Vogue magazine. \"I will never give in to old age until I'm old,\" she said. \"And I'm not old yet.\"\n\nShe married a record executive, Erwin Bach, after a 27-year relationship, and abandoned her US citizenship to become a citizen of Switzerland.\n\nIn 2020, she released an updated version of What's Love Got to Do with It? It entered the UK top 40, making her the first artist to achieve the feat in seven separate decades.\n\nA year later, Turner sold the rights to her work to BMG Rights management for more than $50m and was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.\n\nBefore she died, Tina Turner found herself the subject of a musical in London's West End that told the story of her incredible life.\n\nShe was once asked what had driven her on through the years of struggle and abuse.\n\n\"I stayed on course from the beginning to the end,\" she said, \"because I believed in something inside of me that told me that it can get better.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four new ferries are due to be delivered as planned\n\nFour new ferries being built in Turkey for Scottish west coast routes are on course to be finished on time and on budget, ferry owner CMAL has said.\n\nAll of the ships are due to be delivered to Scotland by 2025.\n\nMilestones were reached on Wednesday with the keel-laying of the second of two Islay ferries and steel-cutting of the first of two for the Little Minch.\n\nThe work comes against a backdrop of frustration among island communities at the state of west coast services.\n\nThere has also been controversy over the procurement process, delays and costs of two Clyde-built ferries.\n\nThe boats - Glen Sannox and another currently known as Hull 802 - are being constructed by Ferguson Marine.\n\nEarlier this month, the Scottish government said it would continue funding the construction of Hull 802 despite it being cheaper to scrap the project and build a new boat elsewhere.\n\nCMAL, the Scottish government's ferries agency, said island communities should have confidence the four ferries being built at the Cemre shipyard in Turkey would be delivered as planned.\n\nThe Cemre shipyard won a contract to build for CalMac ferries\n\nOne of the two boats being constructed in Turkey for use on Islay routes is expected to be completed next year, while Wednesday saw the keel-laying of the islands' second vessel.\n\nBoth ships will have capacity for up to 450 passengers and 100 cars, or 14 commercial vehicles.\n\nThe steel-cutting of the first of two ferries which will operate on a CalMac's service across the Little Minch between Skye, Uist and Harris also took place the same day.\n\nCMAL chief executive Kevin Hobbs said building the four vessels to the same design had proved hugely important to the project.\n\nHe said: \"What has gone before has been single ships to a single design and that was driven by the fact we have never been afforded the money to do anything more than that.\"\n\nMr Hobbs said a five-year £700m plan from the Scottish government had allowed for the standardisation of its new major vessels, and plan for the replacement of other ferries.\n\nHe said having the same design made it easier to move crews between the boats, and also lower maintenance costs because each vessel did not need different types of spares.\n\nUisdean Robertson starts the process of cutting steel for one of two ferries for the Little Minch\n\nThe sparks flew as Western Isles councillor Uisdean Robertson pressed the button to begin the steel cutting process for the first of two boats which will eventually service the area he represents.\n\nHe turned, smiled, and gave me a thumbs up.\n\nWhile some folk may be sick of hearing about ferries, we as islanders know the impact of repeated cancelled sailings.\n\nBut even in this Turkish shipyard on the outskirts of Istanbul, there is an understanding of how important it is that these boats are delivered on time and on budget.\n\nScotland may be far away, but it is clear that anger there has grown in recent times as breakdowns and a lack of resilience have caused headaches.\n\nThe workers here are busily piecing together pieces of steel which will in time become these all-important links to our island communities, and for many they can't come quick enough.\n\nFour boats will come from this shipyard but more will be required.\n\nWhere they'll be built, and how long that will take, remains to be seen.\n\nCMAL currently owns 12 major vessels, six of which are due to be replaced by the four ferries being built in Turkey and the two being constructed on the Clyde.\n\nMr Hobbs said it he recognised there was frustration over delays to the delivery of the two Ferguson boats.\n\nHe said: \"We want to make sure every vessel we contract to have built is deliver on time and on price.\n\n\"Of course you place a huge amount of faith on a shipyard to deliver what they've promised and this shipyard (Cemre) is doing that, but we've had other examples where that hasn't happened, which is a huge shame.\n\nHe added: \"Fergusons are progressing very, very well now and there was obviously commitment from the Scottish government last week.\"\n\nAll four boats are expected to be delivered on time\n\nThe CMAL chief said future work would continue to go through an open tender process with contracts awarded to yards that could offer a fixed price and deliver on time.\n\nWestern Isles Council - Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - has been among those critical of progress in upgrading the west coast network's aging ferry fleet.\n\nTransport committee chairman Uisdean Robertson said while there was a need to protect jobs at Fergusons, little public attention had been given to jobs lost in the islands due to disruption to ferry services caused by breakdowns and delays to CalMac's maintenance programme.\n\nMr Robertson, who was in Turkey for the steel-cutting ceremony, said he felt positive about the two ferries for the Little Minch.\n\nHe said: \"Vessels built on time will make a big difference to us.\"", "John Caldwell was invited to the garden party hosted by the King and Queen at Hillsborough Castle\n\nDet Ch Insp John Caldwell has attended a garden party in County Down with King Charles and Queen Camilla.\n\nIt is his first public appearance since he was shot in front of his son at a sports complex in Omagh in February.\n\nIt is understood that he had a private meeting with King Charles ahead of the event.\n\nThe Queen spent some time speaking to the police officer during the garden party.\n\nIt is the royal couple's first official visit outside England since the coronation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell, 48, was seriously injured in the attack by two gunmen as he coached a youth football team while off-duty.\n\nPolice believe dissident republican group the New IRA may have acted with an organised crime gang to carry out the attack.\n\nThe King and Queen attended a Garden Party at Hillsborough Castle\n\nThe shooting, which happened in front of school children including Det Ch Insp Caldwell's son, was widely condemned by political representatives across Northern Ireland.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson was also among the guests at the garden party at Hillsborough, the royal residence in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe King and Queen also visited a newly-created Coronation Garden in Newtownabbey, designed by Diarmuid Gavin, during the visit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The King and the Queen cut a crown-shaped cake and were entertained by singing schoolchildren in Newtownabbey", "Celebrities and fans have paid tribute to Tina Turner, the soul star behind hits like The Best and What's Love Got to Do With It, who has died aged 83.\n\nBeyoncé said she was the \"epitome of passion and power\", while Sir Mick Jagger called her a \"wonderful friend\" and \"enormously talented\" performer.\n\nTurner was also praised by Mariah Carey and Oprah Winfrey as a \"survivor\" who overcame years of domestic abuse.\n\nThe Obamas praised her for \"singing her truth through joy and pain\".\n\nThey were joined by current US President Joe Biden, who noted that Turner had started life as a farmer's daughter and hailed her \"once-in-a-generation talent\".\n\nBeyoncé performed with Turner at the 2008 Grammy Awards\n\nThe singer's death was announced on Wednesday by her publicist. No cause was given, but she had suffered a number of health issues in recent years, including a stroke and kidney disease.\n\nKnown as the Queen of Rock and Roll, she was a firebrand on the stage, and one of the most unforgettable vocalists of her generation.\n\nShe embarked on her singing career in the 1950s and found fame with the Ike Turner Revue, before re-emerging as a solo star in the 1980s.\n\nUS singer Gloria Gaynor said Turner \"paved the way for so many women in rock music, black and white\".\n\n\"She did with great dignity and success what very few would even have dared to do in her time and in that genre of music. \"\n\nAnother contemporary, Diana Ross, said she was \"shocked\" and \"saddened\" by Turner's death; while Dionne Warwick remembered her as an \"eternal ball of energy\".\n\nMick Jagger, who often collaborated with Turner, wrote on Twitter: \"I'm so saddened by the passing of my wonderful friend Tina Turner.\n\n\"She was truly an enormously talented performer and singer. She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous. She helped me so much when I was young and I will never forget her.\"\n\nTurner and Jagger performed together at Live Aid in 1985\n\nSir Elton John called Turner a \"total legend on record and on stage\".\n\nHe said: \"We have lost one of the world's most exciting and electric performers... She was untouchable.\"\n\nWelsh star Dame Shirley Bassey recalled how Turner \"really gave it her everything and was a fantastic performer\", and US Government space agency Nasa added: Simply the best. Music legend Tina Turner sparkled across the stage and into millions of hearts as the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll. Her legacy will forever live among the stars.\"\n\nBorn in Tennessee and raised in the church, Turner basically elbowed her way into rock 'n' roll and rose to fame in the 1960s.\n\nWhen Ike Turner refused to give her an audition, she waited for the intermission in his show, grabbed a drummer's microphone and let rip.\n\nShe sang with the band for the rest of the night, and soon got equal billing with Ike - later marrying her co-star.\n\n\"When Ike heard me, he said, 'My God!'\" she told People magazine in 1981. \"He couldn't believe that voice coming out of this frail little body.\"\n\nThey became one of the most watchable, combustible bands on the soul circuit; and many of their hits were covers of other people's material.\n\nFrom Proud Mary to Get Back, via Whole Lotta Love, Turner made the songs her own, bringing an unforgettable rasp and a powerful female perspective to those rock and roll standards.\n\nJohn Fogerty, the former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman who wrote Proud Mary, tweeted: \"So deeply sad to hear about Tina Turner's passing… I loved her version of Proud Mary! It was different and fantastic. I was also so happy because she chose my song and it was her breakthrough record.\"\n\nThe star was left penniless after divorcing Ike Turner in the 1970s, but she went on to achieve even greater success as a solo artist, with hits including What's Love Got To Do With It, Let's Stay Together, The Best Steamy Windows, Private Dancer and James Bond theme GoldenEye.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA number of Wednesday night's tributes referred to her escape from her husband's abuse.\n\nThe charity Women's Aid was among those to quote one of Turner's songs, saying: \"She will always be simply the best.\"\n\nTV presenter Oprah Winfrey cited Turner's \"courage\", adding: \"Her life became a clarion call for triumph.\"\n\nIn an effusive message, singer Mariah Carey called Turner not only an \"incredible performer\" but also a \"survivor and an inspiration to women everywhere\".\n\nTributes are being paid around the world\n\nBeyoncé, another younger star who was influenced by Turner, wrote on her website: \"My beloved queen. I love you endlessly.\n\n\"I am so grateful for your inspiration, and all the ways you have paved the way. You are strength and resilience. You are the epitome of passion and power.\n\n\"We are all so fortunate to have witnessed your kindness and beautiful spirit that will forever remain. Thank you for all you have done.\"\n\nSinger PP Arnold - who performed alongside Turner - told the BBC that the two women's relationship had \"changed my life\" and saved her from an abusive teen marriage.\n\nNumerous other musicians including Janelle Monáe, Dolly Parton, Blondie's Debbie Harry and Sir Tom Jones were quick to hail the late performer's achievements.\n\nShe won eight Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 2021 as a solo artist, having earlier been inducted alongside Ike.\n\nHer glittering career also saw her make film appearances; while the 1993 biopic What's Love Got To Do With It told the story of her own life.\n\nAngela Bassett, who memorably earned an Oscar nomination for playing Turner, said the star had \"showed others who lived in fear what a beautiful future filled with love, compassion, and freedom should look like\".\n\nIn a lengthy statement to Deadline, she added: \"Her final words to me - for me - were 'You never mimicked me. Instead, you reached deep into your soul, found your inner Tina, and showed her to the world.'\n\n\"I shall hold these words close to my heart for the rest of my days. I am honoured to have known Tina Turner.\"\n\nFans left flowers at locations including Turner's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame\n\nFans around the world paid their own respects - with flowers laid on Turner's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, and candles lit outside her home in Küsnacht, near Zurich.\n\nBouquets were left outside London's Aldwych Theatre - the current home of a musical named Tina, about the late singer's life.\n\nThe show's star Kristina Love addressed the news on stage, recalling the time she met Turner, who had made her \"feel comfortable with the mammoth task ahead in playing her\".\n\nWest End theatres announced they would dim their lights for two minutes from 19:00 BST on Thursday in her memory.\n\nThe BBC also heard reactions from members of the public outside Washington DC's National Museum of African American History and Culture.\n\nTurner was the \"epitome of resilience and starting again\", said one woman named Marlene.\n\nErnest Lawrence, a T-shirt seller, said he planned to make a design with Turner on it - explaining that the performer had \"one of the most successful legacies in music in my lifetime\".\n\nHe hailed the late star as a \"great black female\" and a \"positive image for any woman\", having overcome \"hard times\" in her personal life.", "Plans to abolish fixed-term tenancies in England would \"decimate\" the student housing market, landlords have warned.\n\nThe National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) said a lack of certainty properties would be available at the start of the academic year could cause \"chaos\".\n\nBut the National Union of Students said if students were exempt from reforms they would become an \"underclass\".\n\nThe government said it was engaging with students and landlords.\n\nLandlords renting to students typically offer a 12 month fixed-term contract to match the academic year and ensure properties are not left empty outside term-time.\n\nHowever, under the Renters (Reform) Bill, which was introduced to Parliament last week, fixed-term tenancies will be abolished and replaced with rolling tenancies, which means tenants pay rent weekly or monthly with no fixed end date.\n\nThe changes mean tenants will only need to provide two months' notice to leave a property.\n\nThe bill, which applies to England, also scraps so-called \"no-fault evictions\", with landlords only able to evict tenants in certain circumstances, including when they wish to sell the property or when they or a close family member want to move in.\n\nPurpose-Built Student Accommodation, which is built specifically for students, will be exempt from these changes but other student housing will not.\n\nAccording to the Daily Telegraph, the government is looking at making changes to the bill to make it easier for landlords to let out their properties to students on a yearly basis.\n\nThe NRLA said under current proposals, landlords would be reliant on sitting tenants giving notice to leave a property in good time to enable new students to move in.\n\nThe group's policy director, Chris Norris, said the government should add a provision allowing student landlords to end a tenancy in line with the academic year.\n\nSarah Black, who rents four properties in Bath to students, said she was \"extremely worried\" about plans to get rid of fixed-term tenancies.\n\nShe told the BBC the proposals would lead to \"chaos\" as landlords would not be able to guarantee their properties would be available the following academic year.\n\nMs Black said she would normally rent to a group of friends for a 12-month period but under the planned changes if one tenant decided to stay on in the property, this could block another group from moving in.\n\nShe added that if a tenant chose to move out early a room could be empty for several months until the start of the next academic year, leading to a loss of income.\n\nMs Black said that if issues with the bill were not resolved she would consider selling her properties.\n\n\"The more landlords that leave, the more that the supply, which is already very, very tight, is going to go down,\" she said, adding that this would lead to increased prices for students.\n\n\"A lot of landlords won't be able to take the risk. They won't be able to have voids or rooms which are not let halfway through the year.\"\n\nSarah Black currently only rents to students\n\nLabour MP Clive Betts, who chairs the Commons Housing Committee, said if more landlords left the student rental sector this would make existing shortages of student housing worse.\n\nHe argued all student housing should be exempt from the changes to fixed-term tenancies.\n\n\"I think [this issue] will certainly be challenged when it comes into debate in Parliament,\" he added.\n\nThe bill has not yet been debated by MPs and peers, and changes could be introduced before it becomes law.\n\nUniversities UK, which represents the sector, has also raised concerns that abolishing fixed-term tenancies for student housing could undermine the stability of the sector and reduce the amount of accommodation available.\n\nIn Scotland, where fixed-term tenancies were scrapped in 2017, research commissioned by the Scottish government last year found new tenancy rules had contributed to landlords leaving the student rental market and renting to longer-term tenants instead.\n\nHowever, the National Union of Students said exempting students from rental reforms would create an \"underclass of tenants\", who would not benefit from the same safeguards as other renters.\n\nThe union added that under the current system of fixed-term tenancies students were forced to pay for rooms they were not using over the summer months, or if they left their courses early.\n\nDan Wilson Craw, acting director of campaign group Generation Rent, said treating students differently from other renters could encourage \"unscrupulous landlords to target that sector and take advantage of looser rules\".\n\n\"Part of the reason the government is scrapping fixed terms for the private sector is to give tenants a little bit more flexibility if the home that they move into turns out not to be suitable,\" he said.\n\n\"So if you're signed into a tenancy for a property that's falling apart, if you're unable to get your landlord to make the repairs that are needed, then in a lot of cases moving out would be an option.\"\n\nA Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities spokesman said: \"The vast majority of students move out at the end of the academic year and will not be impacted by these reforms.\n\n\"However, we continue to engage with students and landlords on these measures to ensure they are working for both parties.\"", "King Charles and Queen Camilla have made their first official visit outside England since their coronation earlier this month - a two-day trip to Northern Ireland.\n\nIt was the 41st visit by Charles to Northern Ireland, as prince and king.\n\nHere is the story of their visit in pictures.\n\nFirst stop was a visit to a newly-created Coronation Garden in Newtownabbey\n\nThe royal couple got the chance to get a bird's-eye view of Diarmuid Gavin's design\n\nThe King and Queen met local schoolchildren as they toured Hazelbank Park\n\nThere was even time for a slice of cake - and one fit for a king at that\n\nAfter that the couple were off to Hillsborough Castle, County Down\n\nThe couple meet pupils from Belfast's Blythefield Primary School who have taken part in Historic Royal Palaces' competition to design coronation benches\n\nThe King and Queen planted a magnolia tree in the garden of Hillsborough Castle to mark their coronation, as Queen Elizabeth II did in 1953\n\nThey then hosted a garden party with local dignitaries at the royal residence in Northern Ireland\n\nDay two of the visit saw the King and Queen visit Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland\n\nThe King visited St Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral, where he met representatives from a number of dominations\n\nMeanwhile, the Queen met local school children at the Robinson Library\n\nNext stop for the King and Queen was Enniskillen Castle\n\nQueen Camilla talked with children and was presented with flowers at the castle in County Fermanagh\n\nThe King stayed on dry land for a handshake on the bank of River Erne", "The singer speaks frankly about her life in a BBC interview in 2018.", "Admitting Police Scotland has serious institutional failures is a bold move when you've been in charge of the force for more than half its existence.\n\nThis politically savvy chief constable says it's the right thing to do and the right time to do it, as he prepares to step down.\n\nSir Iain Livingstone's words will be closely examined at the public inquiry which is investigating whether race was a factor when Sheku Bayoh died in police custody eight years ago. Sir Iain took care to mention Mr Bayoh's famly today.\n\nHis statement will be applauded by many in civic Scotland at a time when the force's handling of its investigation into the SNP has attracted criticism from some political quarters.\n\nAs for the reaction from inside the force, Sir Iain's popularity with the rank and file will help them accept this tough message but Police Scotland's frontline is already under great pressure.\n\nThe force has its lowest number of officers since 2008 because of real terms budget cuts and an independent review has described frontline resources as the greatest challenge to changing its culture. The review group said officers have “little or no space��� to devote to reflection or training.\n\nSir Iain has acknowledged what his counterpart in the Met, Sir Mark Rowley, has refused to do.\n\nHe's said Police Scotland is guilty not just of institutional racism but also institutional discrimination.\n\nHe’s admitted a lot of people have been let down.\n\nIt will be years before we find out whether this is a catalyst for real change or just fine words from a chief constable who's about to walk out the door.", "Melissa Caddick went missing in 2020 after police agents raided her home\n\nWhen conwoman Melissa Caddick vanished from her luxurious eastern Sydney home in November 2020 - with only her partially decomposed foot found washed up on a beach months later - it set off a frenzy in Australia.\n\nThe case blindsided investors, baffled police, and captured the imagination of a nation.\n\nThe fraudster has inspired a hit podcast, a TV dramatisation, and countless outlandish theories - including that she had been swallowed by a shark or had severed her own foot to throw police off her scent.\n\nA long-running inquest into the case heard of a flawed police investigation, conflicting accounts from her husband, and all the extensive speculation surrounding her fate.\n\nBut a coroner on Thursday ruled that exactly what happened to her would remain a mystery.\n\n\"The conclusion I have reached is that Melissa Caddick is deceased. However... I do not consider the evidence enables a positive finding as to how she died, or when and where this happened,\" Deputy State Coroner Elizabeth Ryan wrote.\n\nFor most, the Melissa Caddick story began with the news that the seemingly successful financial adviser was missing.\n\nBut her life had actually begun to unravel months earlier when Australia's financial watchdog was tipped off that she had been using a friend's financial adviser's licence, having simply pasted in her own name on the document.\n\nRegulators suspect the 49-year-old stole up to $30m (£15.8m; $19.5m) from more than 60 clients, including many of her family and friends, to help fund a lavish lifestyle.\n\nThere were overseas trips on private jets, high-end cars, designer clothes, and expensive jewellery.\n\nHer methods were not \"particularly complicated\", the coroner said.\n\nAs new clients gave her money to invest, she would pay some out as dividends to existing clients before keeping - and spending - the rest.\n\nCoroner Ryan said she was struck by the \"powerful impression of wealth and success\" Caddick made on her clients and would-be investors.\n\n\"Equally significant was the trust they had in her... almost all were either immediate family members, or close personal friends of herself and her family,\" she said.\n\nOne would-be investor recalled: \"I wanted to model myself and our family on successful people, and Melissa appeared to be successful\".\n\nBut everything fell apart on 11 November 2020 when police knocked on her door at dawn.\n\nThe last confirmed sighting of Melissa Caddick was by officers at the raid on her home.\n\nHer husband, Anthony Koletti, told police they believed she had gone for an early run the next morning. Her car and all her personal belongings had been left behind.\n\nBut she was not reported missing by Mr Koletti for more than 30 hours, and only after he had dialled in to a court hearing that she was due to attend and appeared surprised she had not turned up.\n\nPolice initially explored two theories - that Caddick was still alive and had gone into hiding to escape justice, or had taken her own life.\n\nBut the inquest heard how Mr Koletti, a hairdresser and part-time DJ, behaved erratically in the wake of his wife's disappearance, leading police to suspect he could be involved.\n\nMr Koletti has denied any knowledge of his wife's crimes or any involvement in her disappearance, and police say they have uncovered no evidence to dispute that.\n\nAnthony Koletti has denied any knowledge of his wife's crimes\n\nBut an investigator told the coroner's court Mr Koletti \"didn't appear to be overly concerned\" when his wife vanished.\n\nLead Detective Sergeant Michael Kyneur also said Mr Koletti had visited a cliff top area near their home and taken a photograph of a shoe print, an action the policeman described as \"extraordinary\".\n\n\"That's a dog park. It's like saying I found a footprint on Bondi beach.\"\n\nThe inquest also heard that Mr Koletti had sent texts from Caddick's phone pretending to be her, told police he was \"too busy\" to attend an interview, and gave conflicting versions of events.\n\nFor example, he was able to provide a description of what his wife was wearing on the morning she vanished, despite also saying he had not actually seen her, police said.\n\nMr Koletti had also recounted his version of events by releasing a musical concept album containing tracks with titles such as \"Melissa Is Missing\" and \"Above the Law\".\n\nIt was \"regrettable\" that Mr Koletti had not given a \"full and frank\" account of what had happened, Magistrate Ryan said on Thursday.\n\nThe case took a grisly twist in February 2021 with the discovery of a rotting, trainer-clad foot on a remote beach 500km (310 miles) south of Sydney.\n\nExperts matched the body part to Caddick through DNA, but an autopsy couldn't determine if it was separated by force or decomposition.\n\nThe inquest heard a slew of theories to explain how it ended at Bournda Beach, including that a shark ate and later regurgitated body parts.\n\nPolice even considered throwing pig carcasses with running shoes on their trotters into the sea to determine how shark behaviour or ocean currents could have played a role, the inquest heard.\n\nAn orthopaedic surgeon told the inquest it was unlikely Caddick could have severed her own foot, as it would require \"significant force\" to cut through bone, cause major blood loss, and require specialist post-surgical care.\n\nBut scientists put forward a simple explanation at the inquest.\n\nOceanographers said currents could have easily carried the foot that distance, while a pathologist described how human feet can detach from bodies during decomposition.\n\nThe inquest also heard criticism of police handling of the case.\n\nOfficers assigned to the Caddick case stuck too closely to their view that she had voluntarily vanished, some said.\n\nPolice combed the cliffs in Dover Heights for any trace of Ms Caddick\n\nA crime scene examination of the house was not done until 19 days after Caddick disappeared, and a lawyer assisting the coroner questioned why the homicide squad wasn't brought in immediately, if only to rule out foul play.\n\nAnother detective expressed surprise that NSW Police only sought out the corporate watchdog's affidavit on Caddick - which outlined its case against her - some months after her disappearance.\n\nThe inquest was also told that Caddick had a life insurance policy, which included suicide cover, and had made a number of references to ending her life over the years - but police initially devoted limited resources to this line of inquiry.\n\nMagistrate Ryan on Thursday said the uncovering of Caddick's deception may have triggered a \"narcissistic injury\", with the illusion of her wealth and success shattered.\n\n\"The Asic investigation and search warrant very likely caused her a catastrophic level of shame and despair,\" she said.\n\n\"She may well have reached the conclusion that ending her life was the only option.\"\n\nBut the manner of her death will ultimately remain unresolved, she said.\n\nEqually unresolved are the losses of her clients, many of whom saw huge sums of money vanish.\n\n\"I sold my business as I was under the impression my money was safe, and I retired in 2017,\" one victim testified.\n\n\"To rub more salt in the wound she has also stolen my mother's money, wife's, mother-in-law, son, brother and sister… wiping out three generations of my family's savings.\"", "\"I wanted to found a bank that was really good for customers, that was fair,\" says Anne Boden\n\nAnne Boden is stepping down as chief executive of Starling Bank, nine years after founding the company.\n\nThe Welsh businesswoman said it was the right time to step aside as it reported a record pre-tax profit of £195m, a six-fold increase on the previous year.\n\nShe will step down on 30 June, but will stay on the board and still part-own the company.\n\nStarling was one of a few so-called challenger banks which promised to revolutionise the UK sector.\n\nWith no branches, it prides itself on its app and customer service.\n\nMs Boden announced her departure as the bank published its latest profits for 2022-23.\n\nThe bank says it has begun a search across the globe for a new chief executive\n\nRevealing her intention to leave in an exclusive interview with BBC Wales, Ms Boden said: \"It's thrilling. When I look back at how I started Starling, I never thought we would get to this stage.\n\n\"Starling is bigger than just one person, it is bigger than a founder-led organisation. It is a piece of infrastructure that is important to the UK. We provide a real role in society.\"\n\nMs Boden, 63, said it was \"not really appropriate\" for Starling to continue to have a shareholder as its chief executive. She still owns 4.9% of the company and keeps a seat on the board as a non-executive director.\n\nStarling Bank said it has begun a global search for a new chief executive, with chief operating officer John Mountain taking the interim role.\n\nThe departing chief executive says she had become ashamed to be a banker before launching Starling\n\nStarling has grown steadily from its initial base of personal customers, adding business accounts and acquiring a mortgage book, partly due to its purchase of Fleet Mortgages.\n\nMs Boden, decided to pursue her dream of launching a bank after becoming disenchanted with the banking world.\n\n\"People never believed that a 5ft tall Welsh woman in her mid-50s could do something that had never been done before,\" she said.\n\n\"I had become ashamed to be a banker, I was ashamed to be part of that whole regime that had let the country down.\n\n\"I wanted to do something different, I wanted to found a bank that was really good for customers, that was fair. And people never believed I could do it and be profitable.\n\n\"So here we are, we have done it, proof positive.\"\n\nMs Boden said Starling Bank would continue to grow and believes it can take more customers from the older, more established banks.\n\nStarling will eventually list itself on the stock exchange, she said.\n\nThe bank has no branches and uses a mobile app for its services\n\nListing a firm on a stock exchange takes it from being a private to a public company, with investors able to buy and sell shares on specific exchanges. Companies usually list on stock exchanges to gain access to a wider range of investors.\n\n\"It's not going to be this year, but eventually Starling will list,\" she said.\n\n\"It will be at the right time.\"\n\nAs a result of her success with Starling, she has become a role model for women in finance. She chairs a UK government task force that aims to boost the number of women launching fast-growing businesses.\n\n\"When women get the investment, when women get the chance, they can lead great companies and lead those companies to success,\" she said.\n\nAsked for her advice for a woman like her from Bonymaen in Swansea who may want to start a business, she said perseverance was required.\n\n\"However, unless you start, you never know.\"", "Energy bills are set to remain high despite a cut in prices from July, experts have warned.\n\nA typical household will pay £2,074 a year for gas and electricity from July, £426 a year less than currently, after the regulator cut the energy price cap for England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nGovernment help in recent months has limited bills to £2,500.\n\nHowever, prices are not expected to fall much further over the rest of the year, and could edge up in winter.\n\nMoneySavingExpert's Martin Lewis said that later on in 2023 bills would be similar to last winter because, although prices are cheaper, households will not get the same £400 discount from the government they previously received.\n\n\"People will still be paying double what they used to pay before the energy crisis hit,\" he added.\n\nKate Mulvany, from energy analysis firm Cornwall Insight, also said further substantial falls in bills would be unlikely particularly if there was a cold winter across Europe with the UK competing to buy energy with other countries.\n\n\"Our forecasts suggest until the end of this decade, higher and more volatile prices are going to be seen, and that includes the impact they're going to have on domestic bills unfortunately,\" she told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nEarlier this week, Qatar's energy minister warned the \"worst is yet to come\" for gas shortages in Europe, suggesting prices could rise again.\n\nIn an interview with Sky News, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was asked if he would take action to support households if energy bills started to rise again.\n\nHe said the government's actions over the past few months demonstrated that it was \"willing to do what it takes\".\n\n\"We are very aware of the pressures that families are facing, and we want to do what we can to support them\", he said.\n\nThere are hopes that the fall of the price cap below the government's guaranteed level could lead to the return of competition in the market, with people able to shop around for the best deal.\n\nBut Mr Lewis said that he did not expect to see firms publicising new offers immediately, with energy firms instead offering existing customers bespoke offers, with no new deals across the market.\n\nThe boss of energy regulator Ofgem Jonathan Brearley urged people to contact their supplier if they were struggling to pay their bill.\n\n\"In the medium term, we're unlikely to see prices return to the levels we saw before the energy crisis,\" he added.\n\nMichael Houghton is worried he will struggle again with bills this winter\n\nMichael Houghton says the Emmaus charity in Ipswich helped him apply for grants to pay his soaring energy bill last winter.\n\nHe says his gas bill rose to almost £30 per week, forcing him to cut down on food shopping and entertainment.\n\nBut Mr Houghton says that prices remaining high is a concern in the long term. Without more support he worries he will not be able to afford to pay his energy bills if they remain at a similar price this coming winter.\n\nAre you worried about meeting the cost of energy bills? Get in touch:\n\nSince 2019, Ofgem has set a price cap on energy bills. This is the maximum price that suppliers can charge customers per unit of gas and electricity. It applies to households on variable or default tariffs in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nAfter the price cap soared, the government stepped in with the Energy Price Guarantee.\n\nFrom October, a typical household's annual gas and electricity bill has been £2,500, but this will expire at the end of June. A £400 discount on everyone's energy bills, provided by the government during the winter, came to an end in April.\n\nUnder the new cap the electricity unit rate is 30p per kWh, with a standing charge of 53p a day. The gas unit rate is 8p per kWh and the standing charge is 29p a day.\n\nMost households do not use a typical amount of gas and electricity. Bills are based on how much energy a household actually uses, which depends on the number of people, the type of property and its energy efficiency.\n\nThe calculations for a typical household are based on a direct debit customer using 12,000 kWh (kilowatt hours) of gas and 2,900 kWh of electricity a year. A kilowatt hour is a unit of energy used to calculate your bill.\n\nAbout 29 million households will be affected by the change in the cap, but there will be some differences in typical payments from July\n\nDespite the cut to the price cap, charity National Energy Action said that 6.5 million people would still be in fuel poverty. The typical bill from July will still be much higher than in the winter of 2021 when it stood at £1,277 a year. Charity Citizens Advice described that as \"unaffordable for millions of people\".\n\nAnd Simon Francis, coordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, said customers would still be paying roughly the same for their energy as last winter.\n\n\"And after months of inflation and the wider cost of living crisis, people are even less able to afford these high energy bills,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said the cut to the price cap was a \"major milestone\" in the government's goal to halve inflation.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - has been running above 10% for several months, although it fell to 8.7% in April. One of the main factors pushing up the rate was the surge in energy prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow climate change secretary Ed Miliband said energy bills \"remain eye-wateringly high, almost double what they were 18 months ago, and families and businesses across the country will continue to struggle to make ends meet\".\n\nHere are some energy saving ideas from environmental scientist Angela Terry, who set up One Home, a social enterprise that shares green, money-saving tips.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRishi Sunak says legal migration to the UK is \"too high\" but has refused to put a precise figure on acceptable levels of people coming to the UK.\n\nThe prime minister told the BBC he was \"considering a range of options\" to bring down legal migration.\n\nHe has been facing pressure to deliver on a 2019 Conservative manifesto commitment to bring down levels of net migration.\n\nNew figures on net migration to the UK are expected next Thursday.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Chris Mason at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, Mr Sunak refused to be drawn on the specifics of the government's plan on legal migration.\n\nAsked if he would stop some international students bringing dependants with them when they come to study in the UK, Mr Sunak said he wouldn't \"speculate\".\n\n\"What I would say is we're considering a range of options to help tackle numbers of legal migration and to bring those numbers down - and we'll talk more about that in the future,\" he said.\n\nIn their 2019 manifesto, the Conservatives pledged to bring down overall numbers of migrants coming to the UK, at which time net migration levels were at 226,000.\n\nHowever, in the year to June 2022, numbers exceeded 500,000.\n\nThe rise in migration has largely been driven by people coming to the UK from outside the EU - including 170,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war in their country and 76,000 from Hong Kong, arriving under a scheme to resettle people who count as British citizens. Around 270,000 people also came to the UK to study.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics which collects the numbers said the lifting of travel restrictions after the pandemic may have triggered a bump in the number of students, but added it was too early to say if the rise represented a long-term trend.\n\n\"The numbers are too high, and we want to bring them down,\" Mr Sunak said, adding that figures were higher in 2022 due to Ukrainian refugees coming to the UK, something he said the country should be \"proud of\".\n\nPushed on what an \"acceptable level\" would be in terms of legal migration numbers, Mr Sunak said it would \"depend on how the economy's doing at any particular time and the circumstances we're facing\".\n\n\"So I don't want to put a precise number on it,\" he said, adding that tackling illegal migration was his priority.\n\nSpeaking to journalists in London, the prime minister's spokesman reiterated that Mr Sunak would not \"put a number\" on his preferred level of migration, but added that the PM would \"take stock\" after the new migration figures are released.\n\nEarlier this week, Home Secretary Suella Braverman called for lower immigration, and suggested more British people should be trained to do jobs commonly done by overseas workers, such as lorry driving and fruit picking.\n\nBut Mr Sunak has taken a less hard-line approach, and has said more seasonal fruit pickers will be allowed to come to the UK if required.\n\nWhile many in his party want to see the prime minister reducing net migration, some businesses have argued that would damage their industries, particularly at a time of low unemployment.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, CEO of food chain Itsu Julian Metcalfe, said difficulty finding staff was pushing prices up and some restaurants were struggling to open.\n\n\"The cost, particularly for places like Itsu, is going to be very painful for all of us,\" he said and urged the government to introduce a two year working visa.\n\nEarlier this week, the prime minister used his visit to a Council of Europe meeting in Iceland to call for greater cooperation between the UK and EU on illegal migration.\n\nFollowing the summit, Downing Street said the UK and the EU had agreed to work together to tackle cross-border crime and people smuggling.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, Labour Party chair Anneliese Dodds said setting a net migration target was \"not sensible\".\n\nShe said an immigration system that was \"working properly\" could see an increase in people coming into the country to fulfil \"a short-term need for skills\".\n\n\"But in the medium and long-term, a reduction, because we would be training people up in our own country - we've not had that unfortunately under the Conservatives.\"", "Patients are being urged to shop around on the NHS app and website to cut their waiting time for treatment in England.\n\nIT systems have been updated to allow patients to more easily exercise their right to choose where they go for planned care, such as knee operations.\n\nThey will now be able to view up to five providers - filtered by distance, waiting times and quality of care.\n\nBut hospitals warned staffing shortages still needed to be tackled to make the biggest impact on waits.\n\nThe idea of choosing where to go for treatment has been in place since the early 2000s, but few use it.\n\nCurrently only one in 10 exercises their right to choose, with patients reporting they are not always offered a choice of where to go or that it is hard to select different venues.\n\nMinisters believe that by searching the list of different hospitals, patients will be able to reduce their waits - potentially by up to three months, research suggests.\n\nA letter has also been sent to local NHS managers reminding them of the need to offer patients a choice.\n\nMore than 7.3 million people are on the waiting list at the moment - nearly three million more than before the pandemic.\n\nOne in 20 has been waiting more than a year - although the NHS has got close to eliminating waits of more than 18 months.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"Empowering patients to choose where they receive treatment will help cut waiting lists - one of my five key priorities.\"\n\nOffering patients greater choice was one of Labour's flagship health policies, which were announced on Monday.\n\nRachel Power, of the Patients Association, said the move will \"make it easier\" for patients to use their long-established right to choose.\n\nBut making progress will also be dependent on the NHS seeing more patients.\n\nWhile progress has been made on the very longest waits, the number of operations being done is still below pre-pandemic levels. This is because hospitals have struggled to get back to full capacity, mainly because of staffing shortages, more emergency patients and problems discharging patients because of the lack of care in the community.\n\nLabour has also criticised the government for not making more use of the private sector, pointing out there has been capacity for another 300,000 patients to have been seen privately over the last 15 months than has happened.\n\nPrivate hospitals are paid at NHS prices to see patients, under agreements in place with the health service.\n\nMiriam Deakin, of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals, said while the initiative was welcome, improving access to patient choice was \"not a panacea\".\n\nShe said until the staffing shortages were resolved it would be more difficult to make progress.\n\nOne in 10 posts is currently vacant in the NHS.", "COP28 President, is currently head of the country's state oil company Adnoc\n\nThe UK government has defended the United Arab Emirates' appointment of oil executive Sultan al-Jaber as head of this year's UN COP28 climate summit.\n\nIt comes after more than 130 lawmakers from the US and EU wrote to the UN calling for his removal.\n\nThe UN has long been criticised for the involvement of the fossil fuel industry in the COP climate summits.\n\nOn Thursday, Minister for Net Zero Graham Stuart said Jaber was \"an outstanding individual\".\n\nEvery year the host country for the global climate summit, known as COP, nominates a president. As well as organising the event they provide political leadership, heading up critical negotiations on climate action in the run up to, and during, the conference.\n\nThis year the hosts, the UAE, nominated Sultan Ahmed al Jaber, the head of the state oil company, as president of the summit, which starts in Dubai in November.\n\nCampaigners have been growing increasingly vocal against this decision, and this week 133 lawmakers from the EU and US joined the call for his removal.\n\nIn a joint letter addressed to the United Nations, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and US President Joe Biden, the lawmakers expressed their \"profound concern\" that the fossil fuel industry was allowed to exert influence on the talks.\n\nBut Mr Stuart, during a news conference on Thursday, defended the decision of the UAE.\n\nSpeaking at an environmental technology conference, he said: \"I think he is an outstanding individual and we look forward to working with the UAE to ensure COP28 is a success and gets more countries committing to the necessary emissions reductions.\"\n\nMr Stuart also defended Jaber's track record at ADNOC, the UAE state oil company, saying that he was cleaning up their operations and reducing emissions.\n\nAny emissions from the production of oil are dwarfed by the emissions produced when it is used. But the emissions from using oil products like petrol are the responsibility of the country where they are used\n\nThe UAE is one of the 10 largest oil producers in the world. Their state oil company pumped 2.7 million barrels of oil per day in 2021, according to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec).\n\nThe company aims to expand to nearly double output to five million barrels per day by 2027 - a target date brought forward from 2030 two months ago by Jaber.\n\nZeina Khalil Hajj, head of global campaigning for 350.org, one of the groups calling for his removal, said: \"It is the equivalent of appointing the CEO of a cigarette company to oversee a conference on cancer cures.\"\n\nIn ten days countries will come together for the Bonn climate conference - the halfway point to COP28 which is used to reflect on progress in reaching climate targets. There are suggestions that these talks will be used to reflect on the involvement of polluting industries, like oil companies, in the talks.", "File image from February shows members of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) outside the BBC offices\n\nThe BBC has been ordered to the Delhi High Court over a defamation case about its documentary on Narendra Modi.\n\nThe documentary focused on the prime minister's role in anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002, when he was chief minister of the state.\n\nThe Gujarat-based group that filed the suit, Justice on Trial, told Reuters the documentary had defamed India.\n\nThe BBC said it was aware of the proceedings but it was \"inappropriate to comment further at this stage\".\n\nAlthough the documentary, India: The Modi Question, was broadcast on television only in the UK this January, India's government attempted to block people sharing the programme, calling it \"hostile propaganda and anti-India garbage\" with a \"colonial mind-set\".\n\nWeeks after the broadcast, the BBC's Delhi offices were raided by Indian income tax authorities, and in April an investigation was opened into the broadcaster for alleged violations of foreign exchange rules.\n\nThe documentary itself examines Mr Modi's leadership during the Gujarat riots which began the day after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims was set on fire, killing dozens. More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died in the subsequent violence.\n\nIndia's PM has long rejected accusations against him, and has not apologised for the riots. In 2013, a Supreme Court panel also said there was insufficient evidence to prosecute him.\n\nThe BBC has previously said the documentary was \"rigorously researched\" and that \"a wide range of voices, witnesses and experts were approached, and we have featured a range of opinions, including responses from people in the BJP\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSuella Braverman says she is \"confident nothing untoward happened\", but has refused to be drawn over whether she asked civil servants to arrange a one-to-one speed awareness course for her.\n\nThe home secretary was caught speeding in 2022 and, according to reports, asked the civil service for advice on arranging a private course.\n\nThe PM is under pressure to investigate whether she broke the ministerial code.\n\nRishi Sunak has asked his ethics adviser about the case.\n\nHe has also spoken to the home secretary, and Downing Street said he still had confidence in the home secretary.\n\nMrs Braverman is under scrutiny not over the speeding offence itself, but over whether she acted properly in relation to the civil service, by asking officials to assist with a private matter, over a one-to-one speed awareness course.\n\nAfter being caught speeding, Ms Braverman faced getting three points on her licence and a fine, or a course as part of a group.\n\nA government source told the BBC the senior minister had been \"concerned\" about her insurance premiums, and favoured doing a course. She is reported to have asked civil servants about a one-on-one course, citing security concerns about doing one as part of a group. She was told it was not a matter for the civil service.\n\nShe then asked a special adviser to try to arrange a private course.\n\nWhen the speed course provider said there was no option to do this, Mrs Braverman opted to pay the fine and accept the points, because she was \"very busy\" a source told the BBC. By this point she had been reappointed as home secretary in Mr Sunak's government.\n\nThe same government source refused to say whether Mrs Braverman's motivation to do the course in private was to reduce the chances of her being recognised by members of the public.\n\nSpeeding awareness course providers are contracted by individual police forces. According to UK Road Offender Education, the not-for-profit organisation responsible, these contracts make \"no provision for private one-to-one courses\" at the request of the driver.\n\nThe ministerial code requires ministers to ensure \"no conflict arises\" between their public duties and their private interests.\n\nRepeatedly asked in an interview whether she instructed officials to arrange a one-on-one speeding course, Mrs Braverman said: \"Last summer, I was speeding, I regret that, I paid the fine and I took the points.\"\n\nAsked whether she would welcome an investigation into what happened or if she had spoken to the prime minister about it, Ms Braverman said: \"I am focussed on working as the home secretary.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yvette Cooper claims Suella Braverman is \"not answering basic factual questions\" about her 2022 speeding fine\n\nSpeaking to the Westminster Hour on BBC Radio 4, former senior civil servant Sir Philip Rycroft said Mrs Braverman's reported actions appeared to be a \"real lapse of judgement\".\n\n\"Obviously, there's still investigations to be done and so on but the code is very clear. Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises or appears to arise between their public duties and their private interests.\n\n\"Even asking a question of a civil servant as to how she might go on one of these courses puts them in an impossible position.\"\n\nThe ministerial code sets standards of conduct expected of ministers, including that they must uphold the political impartiality of the civil service.\n\nFormer business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg told Radio 4's World at One, he was confident Ms Braverman had not broken any rules.\n\n\"What goes on in private offices is a minister is busy and has many things to do and sometimes will ask for something the civil servants can't do,\" he said.\n\n\"As soon as once they say no, and you accept it, you haven't done anything wrong.\"\n\nIn the Commons, Mr Sunak told MPs he has \"asked for further information\" and will update MPs \"on the appropriate course of action in due course\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said Mr Sunak \"wants to avail himself of all the information before he makes a decision\". The prime minister still has confidence in the home secretary, the spokesman added.\n\nMrs Braverman was in Downing Street on Monday lunchtime, and afterwards headed to the House of Commons for a scheduled question session from MPs on Home Office issues.\n\nDuring the session, Mrs Braverman was repeatedly pressed on whether she had asked civil servants to arrange a private speed awareness course.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: \"If the home secretary can't grip on her own rule-breaking behaviour how can she get a grip on anything else.\"\n\nThe home secretary told MPs she had paid the speeding fine and had not sought to avoid any sanction.\n\nLabour Leader Sir Keir Starmer said the prime minister should order his adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, to investigate whether ministerial rules were broken.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Sir Keir said it looked like \"inappropriate action took place\" from the home secretary that \"needs to be fully investigated\".\n\n\"The usual consequence of breaking the ministerial code is that you'll go,\" he added.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are also calling for an investigation and said Mr Sunak needed to make a statement in Parliament about the claims.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Did you have any questions about the summit?\" Rishi Sunak asks the BBC's Chris Mason\n\nAnswering questions at the G7 summit over the weekend, Mr Sunak apparently did not know anything about the story the until it was first reported in the Sunday Times. and he declined to say whether he would be ordering an investigation.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference, he also declined to say he backed Mrs Braverman - but a Downing Street source later said that \"of course\" he did.\n\nAfter serving as attorney general between February 2020 and September 2022, Mrs Braverman was promoted to home secretary under Liz Truss.\n\nShe resigned on 19 October after sending an official document from a personal email to a backbench MP - describing it as a \"technical infringement of the rules\". But she was reappointed to the same role by Mr Sunak six days later following the collapse of Liz Truss's government.", "Junior doctors in England have announced a new 72-hour walkout in June after the latest round of government pay talks broke down.\n\nThe strike will take place between 07:00 on Wednesday 14 June and 07:00 on Saturday 17 June.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) union, which represents doctors and medical students, said a government offer of a 5% rise was not \"credible\".\n\nMinisters said pay talks could only continue if the strike was called off.\n\nA government spokesperson called the new pay offer \"fair and reasonable\", and said it was \"surprising and deeply disappointing\" that the BMA had declared further strikes \"while constructive talks were ongoing\".\n\nThe BMA said it was willing to continue talks, and was hoping for a \"credible offer\" from the government.\n\nThis will be the third strike by junior doctors since the pay dispute began.\n\nThe BMA said strikes would take place \"throughout summer\" if the government did not change its position, with a minimum of three days of walkouts a month until its mandate expires in August.\n\nThe union has been asking for a 35% increase to make up for 15 years of below-inflation rises.\n\nDr Vivek Trivedi and Dr Robert Laurenson, co-chairs of the BMA Junior Doctors Committee, said the BMA had had three weeks of negotiations with the government but that ministers would not recognise \"the scale of our pay erosion\", which they said was equivalent to a 26% cut over the last 15 years.\n\nThis is the amount pay has fallen once inflation is taken into account, the BMA says.\n\nNHS Providers, a membership organisation for NHS services, said the strikes would cause \"major disruption\" and it was \"vital serious talks take place between the government and unions\" to resolve the dispute.\n\nDeputy chief executive Saffron Cordery said: \"We understand junior doctors feel they've been pushed to this point by factors including below-inflation pay uplifts and severe staffing shortages.\"\n\nLast month, unions representing most - although not all - staff on one key type of NHS contract did agree to the government's latest pay offer of a 5% pay rise and a one-off payment of at least £1,655.\n\nThat did not cover doctors or dentists but did include many paramedics, physios, cleaners and porters - although members of both the nurses' union, the Royal College of Nurses (RCN), and Unite, which represents some ambulance staff, voted against it.\n\nThe government had been in talks with junior doctors in a bid to avert a third round of strike action after previous walkouts in March and April.\n\nThe language from the BMA and the government suggests both sides are a long way from agreement, with union representatives saying ministers will not accept the \"fundamental reality\" of the situation.\n\nAt the same time, their more senior colleagues - consultant doctors - are being balloted separately on industrial action in a vote which runs through until 27 June.\n\nJunior doctors make up around half of all hospital doctors in England and a quarter of all doctors working in GP surgeries. The BMA represents over 46,000 junior doctors in the UK.\n\nIn Scotland, junior doctors have been offered a new 14.5% pay rise over a two-year period after negotiations with the Scottish government.\n\nBMA Scotland said it would now consult its members, who voted in favour of strike action earlier this month, on the offer.\n\nAre you a doctor with a view on the strike? Are you a patient affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Why are doctors demanding the biggest pay rise?", "Water in the Trevi Fountain turned black when climate change activists released \"vegetable charcoal\" into Rome's famous landmark.\n\nProtesters from Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) standing in the water unfurled anti-fossil fuel banners. The group's website says it is campaigning against \"government subsidies of fossil fuel\".\n\nRome's mayor Roberto Gualtieri says the city will have to \"throw away 300,000 litres of water\" to clean-up the tourist attraction, because it uses recirculating water.", "A man who died after being pulled from a river has been named as former BBC Radio Derby presenter Mike Carey.\n\nDerbyshire Police said Mr Carey was rescued from the River Derwent at Darley Abbey Mills on Saturday morning.\n\nThe 87-year-old, who was from the local area, was taken to hospital but died shortly after.\n\nMr Carey hosted a programme called Memorable Melodies for the radio station for almost 20 years before stepping down in 2019.\n\nPolice said officers were investigating how he got into the water.\n\nAnyone who was in the area between 08:30 and 09:20 BST on Saturday has been asked to contact the force.\n\nAs well as being a radio presenter, Mr Carey was an author and worked as a national cricket correspondent.\n\nAftab Gulzar, executive editor at BBC Radio Derby, told the station Mr Carey had an \"incredible life\".\n\nMr Gulzar said: \"Our hearts go out to Mike's family, friends and our audiences who will fondly remember his Memorable Melodies programme which was loved for almost 20 years on Radio Derby.\n\n\"Mike retired in 2019 and leaves us with wonderful memories of his passion for music and incredible stories from a fantastic career.\"\n\nCharles Collins, a sports journalist and broadcaster, said he met Mr Carey when he joined BBC Radio Derby in 2002 and they became \"great mates\".\n\nMr Collins said Mr Carey was a great source of stories \"because he knew everybody in Derbyshire\".\n\n\"When I was covering Derbyshire cricket, I could check any story just by ringing Mike,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derbyshire CCC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire County Cricket Club said it was \"deeply saddened\" by the news of Mr Carey's death.\n\nThe club's heritage officer David Griffin said: \"As teenagers following Derbyshire in the 1970s, Mike Carey was a familiar figure to us all, a popular writer - often accompanied by his pet dog - with forthright views on the game.\"\n\nDarley Abbey Cricket Club has also paid tribute to Mr Carey, described as a \"long-standing supporter\".\n\nThe club said: \"For those that knew him, there will be a fund of stories to tell about both him and his dogs. Rest In Peace Mike.\"\n\nThroughout his career, Mr Carey reported on cricket in Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa covering England's international tours.\n\nMr Carey had several books published about cricket, and wrote about the lives of Derby composer Ronald Binge and singer Denny Dennis.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rail users could lose access to wi-fi on trains in England as part of cost cuts after the government said it was a low priority for passengers.\n\nThe Department for Transport says cost pressures mean it will review whether the current wi-fi service \"delivers the best possible value for money\".\n\nBut one rail expert criticised the move and said trains could lose custom as a result.\n\nMost operators currently offer free wi-fi as standard on their services.\n\nTransport officials cited a report from independent passenger watchdog Transport Focus, which they said showed passengers were more concerned about value for money, reliability and punctuality than access to wi-fi.\n\n\"Our railways are currently not financially sustainable, and it is unfair to continue asking taxpayers to foot the bill, which is why reform of all aspects of the railways is essential,\" the Department for Transport (DfT) said.\n\n\"Passenger surveys consistently show that on-train wi-fi is low on their list of priorities, so it is only right we work with operators to review whether the current service delivers the best possible value for money.\"\n\nOn-train wi-fi equipment installed in 2015 is now in need of replacing and the government said many people on short journeys did not connect to the on-train wi-fi, and used their mobile phone network instead.\n\nHowever, Anthony Smith, chief executive of Transport Focus, said access to wi-fi was something many passengers now expect as standard.\n\n\"Given the post-pandemic need to get more passengers back on the train it would be difficult to justify removing something that makes rail more attractive to customers.\"\n\nChristian Wolmar, whose podcast Calling All Stations first reported the DfT's move, said passengers needed the reliability of a train's wi-fi, especially on longer journeys.\n\n\"People expect to be able to use wi-fi on a train in the same way they would use a toilet,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Wolmar said the equipment would still have to be replaced for staff purposes, so any savings would be a \"relatively trivial amount\".\n\nUltimately, he said the railways would suffer: \"I think the operators will lose customers over this, using a train is a marginal thing anyway for many people.\"\n\nMr Wolmar said train operators had received a letter from the DfT informing them of the decision to pull funding unless they could make a good business case for keeping it.\n\nHe said he expected most services to lose access to wi-fi \"over the next year or two\".\n\nAndy Bagnall, chief executive of Rail Partners, said the focus should be on \"innovating to improve customer experience rather than removing features many passengers value\".\n\n\"The consideration of this proposal is a symptom of the current disjointed management of industry finances where revenue and cost are looked at separately and operators are unable to innovate in response to customer needs,\" he said.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operating companies across Britain, declined to comment.\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A couple have won compensation after a herd of water buffaloes escaped from a farm and wrecked their new swimming pool.\n\nCCTV captured the moment the animals fell through the pool cover and into the water, causing £25,000 of damage.\n\nThe farmer managed to rescue them unharmed after the incident at the home in Wivenhoe, near Colchester, Essex in July.\n\nAn NFU Mutual spokesperson confirmed the claim had been \"settled and paid\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTen people have been taken to hospital after a double-decker bus crashed into a bridge and had its roof torn off.\n\nThe crash happened in Cook Street in Glasgow, near the O2 venue, at 11.35 BST.\n\nThe injured people were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.\n\nA Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: \"A number of additional casualties have been treated at the scene but do not require to be taken to hospital.\"\n\nThe crash happened in Cook Street on the south side of Glasgow\n\nThe roof viewed from behind the bus after the smash\n\nSeveral people were treated at the scene for minor injuries\n\nCh Insp Elaine Tomlinson, of Police Scotland's Greater Glasgow Division, said: \"Around 11.35am on Sunday, 21 May, 2023, we received a report of a bus crashing into a bridge on Cook Street, Glasgow.\n\n\"Emergency services attended and 10 people were taken to various hospitals for treatment.\n\n\"A number of road closures remain in place, with disruption to some rail services.\n\n\"I would like to thank the public for their co-operation and ask they continue to avoid the area while enquires are ongoing.\"\n\nFirst Bus confirmed it was one of its buses which was involved.\n\nA company spokesperson said: \"We are working closely with the emergency services at the scene and our thoughts are with those involved in the incident.\"\n\nNetwork Rail said its engineers would need to carry out an inspection of the bridge before it could be used by trains again.\n\nThe rail infrastructure agency said: \"We're assisting the emergency services, who are responding to a bus trapped beneath a bridge between Glasgow Central and Paisley Gilmour Street.\n\n\"We need to complete a safety inspection of the bridge before trains can use it again. We can only do this once the bus has been removed.\"", "Rishi Sunak is to consult his ethics adviser on Monday to discuss Suella Braverman's handling of a speeding offence.\n\nThe home secretary sought advice about arranging a private speed awareness course via officials and an aide, the BBC has been told.\n\nLabour and the Lib Dems have called on the ethics adviser to investigate whether she breached the rules.\n\nMrs Braverman was caught speeding when she was attorney general last summer, and faced three points on her licence and a fine, or a course as part of a group.\n\nShe is under scrutiny, not over the speeding offence itself, but over whether she acted properly in trying to arrange a one-to-one awareness course.\n\nOn Monday the prime minister will talk to Sir Laurie Magnus, the independent official who opposition parties want to examine the claims, after he returns from the G7 summit in Japan.\n\nMr Sunak earlier declined to say whether he would be ordering an inquiry, when asked about the story at the summit.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference, he also declined to say he backed her - but a Downing Street source later said that \"of course\" he did.\n\n\"I don't know the full details of what has happened, nor have I spoken to the home secretary,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"But I understand she has expressed regret for speeding, accepted the penalty and paid the fine.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Did you have any questions about the summit?\" Rishi Sunak asks the BBC's Chris Mason\n\nShadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the prime minister was \"too weak\" to sack her or launch an inquiry.\n\nAnd the Liberal Democrats say Mr Sunak should make a statement in Parliament on Monday to \"explain this farce\".\n\n\"Rishi Sunak is so weak he can't even make sure his own ministers maintain the very basic level of integrity,\" the party's chief whip Wendy Chamberlain said.\n\nAfter being caught speeding, Mrs Braverman was offered the choice of either a fine and points on her driving licence, or a speed awareness course.\n\nA government source told the BBC the senior minister had been \"concerned\" about her insurance premiums, and favoured doing a course.\n\nShe asked civil servants about arranging a course for just her, citing security concerns about doing one as part of a group, but was told it was not a matter for the civil service.\n\nMrs Braverman then asked a special adviser to try to arrange a one-on-one course.\n\nWhen the course provider told her there was no option to do a private course - and after she was reappointed home secretary in Mr Sunak's government - she opted to pay the fine and accept the points because she was \"very busy\" and did not have the time to do a course, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe same government source refused to say whether Mrs Braverman's motivation to do the course in private was to reduce the chances of her being recognised by members of the public.\n\nThe prime minister apparently did not know anything about what happened until the story broke in the Sunday Times.\n\nThis kind of headline, while he is wrangling world leaders abroad, is a headache at home that he certainly does not need.\n\nHaving promised on day one of his job that he would run a government with the highest levels of transparency and integrity, any slight suggestion that his team's behaviour is less than perfect creates political pain for him.\n\nSpeaking to Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Conservative cabinet member Therese Coffey said she knew no more about it than what she had read in the papers, while Tory MP Jake Berry said there were \"definitely questions to be answered\".\n\nHe said he expects the issue to be discussed in Parliament in the coming days. Mrs Braverman is already due in the Commons on Monday afternoon for Home Office questions.\n\nThe ministerial code sets standards of conduct expected of ministers, including that they must uphold the political impartiality of the civil service.\n\nAfter serving as attorney general between February 2020 and September 2022, Mrs Braverman was promoted to home secretary under Liz Truss.\n\nShe resigned on October 19 after sending an official document from a personal email to a backbench MP - describing it as a \"technical infringement of the rules\". But she was reappointed to the same role by Mr Sunak six days later following the collapse of the Truss government.\n\nA source close to the home secretary said: \"Mrs Braverman accepted three points for a speeding offence which took place last summer.\n\n\"The Cabinet Office was made aware of the situation as requested by Mrs Braverman. She was not and is not disqualified from driving.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"It would not be appropriate to comment on the existence or content of advice between government departments.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From captaining a Royal Navy ship to meeting former US First Lady Michelle Obama\n\nA woman who ticked off a bucket list of ambitions while living with terminal cancer has died, her mother has said.\n\nLaura Nuttall was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in 2018 and was given an initial prognosis of 12 months.\n\nIn 2021, she said after she got her diagnosis, she had chosen \"to do something about it and stay positive\".\n\nPaying tribute to the 23-year-old on Twitter, Nicola Nuttall said Laura had been \"fierce and tenacious to the end\".\n\n\"I'm heartbroken to share the news that we lost our beautiful Laura in the early hours of this morning,\" she said.\n\nShe said it had \"truly\" been the \"honour of my life to be her mum\".\n\n\"We are devastated at the thought of life without our girl,\" she added.\n\n\"She was a force of nature.\"\n\nLaura Nuttall (left) was given an initial prognosis of 12 months\n\nAccepting a BBC Radio Lancashire Make A Difference award in 2021, Laura, who was from Barrowford, said she did not want people just to focus on her cancer, \"because what is the point in that?\"\n\n\"What sort of legacy will I leave if I just focus on myself and not others?\" she said.\n\n\"The day I was diagnosed with brain cancer, I just thought 'I've got two options... I could say all right, that's fine, I'm going to sit here and die or am I going to do something about it and stay positive?' and that is what I chose to do.\"\n\nLaura was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, the most aggressive form of brain cancer, following a routine eye test.\n\nShe was later found to have eight tumours and, in 2018, was given just a year to live.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Nuttall and her mum Nicola made a video diary of their night at Wembley\n\nIn 2021, comedian Peter Kay, who worked with Ms Nuttall's father, Mark, played his first gigs in four years to raise money for her treatment.\n\nIn March, she underwent treatment in Germany, which followed her fourth major operation in October 2022 to remove a tumour.\n\nThe comic took her and her family out to lunch a few weeks later after Ms Nuttall was told the tumour had grown back and the family then brought forward Christmas after being told it had spread further.\n\nMr Nuttall tweeted he was \"heartbroken\" and losing Laura had left \"a huge chasm\".\n\nHe said the family were \"so very proud of her and what she achieved in her short life\".\n\n\"Her flame burned so brightly, unfortunately, not nearly for long enough,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the family would continue \"to support the charities and beliefs which were very dear and important to Laura\".\n\nJack Morris, the chairman of trustees at the Brain Tumour Charity, said they were \"so proud of everything she achieved\" and \"so honoured to have been able to call her a much-adored friend and ambassador\".\n\n\"Since her diagnosis in 2018, Laura was steadfast in her determination to share her story to raise vital awareness of glioblastomas, their devastating impact and the need for greater investment in research,\" he said.\n\nHe said Ms Nuttall had become \"one of our incredible Young Ambassadors in 2019\", a role in which she had \"touched the hearts and minds of so many, reaching out to offer comfort and hope to others going through similar diagnoses\".\n\nHe added that in the face of \"such an impossibly difficult diagnosis at such a young age\", Ms Nuttall had carried herself with \"so much grit and compassion [and] so often with a beaming smile\" and her determination to \"live life to the full never failed to inspire everyone she met\".\n\nMs Nuttall graduated from university in 2022, four years after receiving her terminal diagnosis\n\nThe University of Manchester's Prof Jackie Carter said Ms Nuttall had been \"an incredible and spirited young woman\" who had \"defied all the odds\" to complete her studies.\n\n\"I got to know Laura and her amazing family well during her time here, as my own son has incurable brain cancer,\" she said.\n\n\"I'll never forget her telling me when we were raising money together at Manchester Pride that she wanted people to know who she was as a person, and see her determination, rather than just being seen as someone with cancer.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Nuttall presented BBC North West Tonight's weather as part of her list\n\nMany people have paid tribute to her on social media, including comedian Diane Morgan, who had previously recorded a message of support.\n\nShe said she felt she had got to know Laura through Nicola's posts and she \"was an amazing person\".\n\nThumbs Up for Charlie, a charity which was set up in memory of a five-year-old boy who died of brain cancer, tweeted that Ms Nuttall had been \"an inspirational young woman\" who had \"accomplished so much\" and \"whose legacy will live on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Radio 1 Newsbeat teamed up with Leah Williamson and the FA to get a special message to cancer patient Laura\n\nOn Facebook, her MP Andrew Stephenson said Laura would be \"deeply missed by so many people, including me and my team\".\n\nHe said he felt \"very grateful to have got to know Laura\" when she did work experience at both his Nelson and Westminster offices before she went to university.\n\nHe said she had dedicated herself to raising awareness of brain tumours \"and to achieving as much as she could \"in what time she had\".\n\nThe charity Brain Tumour Research said it was \"deeply saddened\" at the news as \"yet another brave soul lost to this devastating disease\".\n\n\"Along with her family [Laura] did so much to raise awareness of this disease, and our thoughts are with her family at this time.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Chris Adam died in hospital after a motorbike crash on Friday\n\nA man has died in hospital following a motorbike crash at the Knockhill Racing Circuit in Fife.\n\nThe 38-year-old was seriously injured while taking part in an event at the venue near Dunfermline on Friday.\n\nHe has been named locally as Chris Adam, a motorbike enthusiast who ran CA Motorcycles, a dealership registered to an address in Erskine, Renfrewshire.\n\nMr Adam was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy after the crash but he died on Sunday.\n\nHe was taking part in a track day, where members of the public can drive their own vehicles on the racing circuit.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, his brother Blair wrote: \"It's with the heaviest of hearts I'm writing this as my brother, Chris Adam has sadly passed away today after succumbing to his injuries sustained on Friday during his track day at Knockhill. Rest easy brother.\"\n\nInsp James Henry of Police Scotland said they had been made aware of the incident which happened at about 12:10 on Friday.\n\nHe added: \"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the man at this difficult time. A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Knockhill Racing Circuit said it was \"saddened\" to report the tragedy.\n\nShe added: \"No other rider was involved, and immediate medical attention was provided by our paramedics.\n\n\"A full investigation by relevant authorities was completed following this tragic accident.\n\n\"Our deepest condolences are extended to the rider's family and friends at this sad time.\"", "UK and US regulators were told of a state-led drive to \"rig\" interest rates in the 2008 financial crisis, but covered it up, evidence indicates.\n\nDocuments suggest lenders sharply dropped their interest-rate estimates after pressure from central banks.\n\nEvidence was not shown to juries at the time when bankers were jailed for smaller-scale interest-rate \"rigging\".\n\nRegulators said they had followed disclosure rules, declined to comment or in one case rebutted the claims.\n\nSome evidence has previously emerged of Bank of England and UK government involvement in manipulation of interest rates. But the evidence indicating it was part of a broader, international drive not just by the UK but by central banks across the western world to push key interest rates down in October 2008 has never been published before.\n\nThe evidence indicates that in October 2008, central banks including the Bank of England, the Banque de France, the European Central Bank, Banca d'Italia, Banco de Espana and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York intervened on a large scale in the setting of Libor and Euribor.\n\nAt the height of the 2008 financial crisis, when bank lending had almost ground to a halt, central banks around the world urged calm. But my investigation reveals evidence that, behind the scenes, they were pulling levers to restore calm artificially - measures which would later be ruled to be against the law in the UK.\n\nThose measures related to benchmark interest rates called Libor and Euribor, which track how much it costs banks to borrow money from each other. As such they are a big influence on the cost of mortgages and other loans. The more confidence investors had in the borrowing bank, the lower the rate. The higher the rate, the more doubts the market had about the viability of that bank.\n\nIn October 2008 there was an international drive, involving the central banks of the UK, US and eurozone, to get Libor down and restore a sense of calm to the market, at a time when banks lending had almost ground to a halt.\n\nIn November 2010, investigating agencies from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to the UK financial regulator were directly informed of this - but they have since kept it secret from Parliament, Congress and the public.\n\nAndrew Tyrie, who chaired the UK Treasury Committee of MPs when it enquired into Libor in 2012, told the BBC that he believed Parliament \"appears to have been misled\".\n\n\"The evidence that Mr Verity has unearthed strongly suggests that the committee's inquiry into the Libor scandal was not told the whole truth.\n\n\"The public rely on Parliament to get to the truth. This case illustrates why Parliament should bolster its information-gathering powers with more effective sanctions against those who provide less than the full picture. Parliament appears to have been misled and, if that's the case, should not let it rest.\"\n\nI uncovered extracts from the transcript of an interview given by Barclays cash trader Peter Johnson whilst researching a book I have written about the secret history of the interest rate rigging scandal.\n\nThe interview was given on 19 November 2010 to the US Department of Justice, the FBI, other US regulators, and the UK's financial regulator, then called the Financial Services Authority (FSA).\n\nWhile 37 traders and brokers have been prosecuted by the US Department of Justice and the UK's Serious Fraud Office, jurors in nine criminal trials for much smaller-scale interest rate \"rigging\" held in London and New York between 2015 and 2019 were never shown this evidence.\n\nBacked up and supplemented by published data, the suppressed evidence indicates that in October 2008, central banks intervened on a large scale in the setting of Libor and Euribor.\n\nFurther suppressed evidence indicates that the UK government, including 10 Downing Street, was also involved in pressuring banks to \"manipulate\" Libor as defined by the criminal courts - meaning seeking to obtain movements in the benchmark rate while \"disregarding the proper basis for setting Libor\".\n\nNineteen traders have been convicted and nine jailed because of court rulings that outlawed any influence on Libor apart from the interest rates on offer on the money markets at which a bank could borrow and lend cash.\n\nIf they allowed its setting to be influenced by other factors, such as the desire to avoid bad publicity or to help a bank's market trades, they could be jailed for interest rate \"manipulation\".\n\nSpeaking in Parliament, senior Conservative MP David Davis said: \"I'm greatly concerned the Treasury Select Committee may have been misled by state agencies about the knowledge and involvement of the state in setting false rates. It's a big and complex issue with hundreds of pages of evidence.\"\n\nMr Davis said that in the light of the evidence he'd seen there was \"a case to believe that state agencies coerced individuals into perjury that led to false convictions\".\n\nMr Davis added he would ask the Met Police to investigate potential perjury, but also called for the Treasury Select Committee to investigate his concern that Parliament may have been misled.\n\nPeter Johnson was interviewed by the FBI\n\nAmong the evidence suggesting a cover-up, is a recording from 2010 of FBI investigator Mike Kelly interviewing Peter Johnson, who submitted Libor rates on behalf of Barclays bank.\n\nMr Johnson said in October 2008 he was instructed by his bosses to submit artificially low Libor rates, far below the real interest rates on offer in the market - under pressure from the Bank of England and the UK government.\n\nIn the recording, Mr Kelly asked Mr Johnson: \"Did you have any understanding as to why this pressure was being put upon Barclays?\"\n\n\"I'm not sure that it was being put just on Barclays,\" replied Mr Johnson.\n\n\"OK? Who else did you think, was being pressured?\"\n\n\"We understood that the French banks had been told to get their rates down[...]\"\n\n\"What entity was pressuring them?\"\n\n\"We believe it was the Banque du France.\"\n\nThat information - never mentioned by regulators to Parliament nor Congress - is corroborated and supported by the published data on Euribor submissions from the time.\n\nThey show that following a co-ordinated cut in official rates by six central banks on 8 October 2008, there were also record falls in banks' estimates of the cost of borrowing euros by French banks - moves only explicable as having been co-ordinated at a national level.\n\nBecause the vast majority of the other 40 banks whose Euribor submissions were monitored held rates steady, market factors could not explain the record moves.\n\nBetween 8 and 9 October, BNP Paribas cut its Euribor rates by 0.4% in a day - larger than the 0.35% move following the terror attacks of 11 September 2001. In the money markets, Euribor submissions rarely move by more than 0.1% per day.\n\nOver the next three working days unprecedented moves happened at other banks:\n\nOn the weekend of 11-12 October 2008, then UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown flew to Paris for an emergency summit with European leaders, including then European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet, all of whom issued statements calling for the need for \"co-ordinated\" action to tackle the crisis.\n\nFollowing the weekend summit, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena caught up, dropping its rates by an unprecedented 0.4% in a day. Spain too showed similar record drops.\n\nMr Johnson also pointed investigators to a below-market offer in the dollar Libor market in New York made by JPMorgan Chase in late October 2008.\n\nInterviewing him in November 2010, the US regulator confirmed it had seen data that Chase New York had offered to lend at 4.68% - while putting in a Libor estimate of the cost of borrowing dollars that was much lower - at 3.25%.\n\nMr Johnson said he believed the offer to lend at a rate still far below the market, mid-crisis, when other lenders were refusing to lend any cash, was done at the urging of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.\n\n\"Were there rumours surrounding Chase at that time?\" asked Anne Termine, an investigator for US regulator the Commodity Future Trading Commission.\n\n\"That the Fed had asked it to lend money into the market.\"\n\nHowever, the US authorities appear not to have investigated the US central bank's rumoured intervention in their final notices for Barclays. Mr Johnson was asked no further questions and the Department of Justice's final notices fining banks for Libor manipulation made no mention of any US central bank intervention.\n\nNone of this evidence was made public in press notices and statements of fact published by regulators as they prosecuted 37 traders and fined banks $8.8bn for rigging Libor and Euribor. None of the jurors were made aware of it.\n\nThe Treasury said it did not seek to influence individual bank Libor submissions.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority told the BBC it had met its disclosure obligations.\n\nThe Bank of England has previously referred to the allegations as \"unsubstantiated\".\n\nThe FBI and the CFTC declined to comment.\n\nThe European Central Bank (ECB) said they \"strongly rebut\" the assertions which they say, without giving details, \"misrepresent the role of a central bank in implementing monetary policy\". They also said that ECB has always acted in line with its mandate and in full compliance with applicable law\"\n\nItalian bank Intesa Sanpaolo said it had always acted independently and in full compliance with the rate-setting rules.", "Microtransactions have become commonplace in online gaming\n\nA 10-year-old girl spent more than £2,500 on the gaming site Roblox after changing the password on her family's iPad tablet without her mum realising.\n\nGeorgina Munday, from Denbighshire, has warned other parents to \"be vigilant\".\n\nTesco Bank initially refused a refund but reconsidered and apologised after BBC Radio 4's You and Yours took up the case.\n\nRoblox said it had \"a robust policy\" from unauthorised payments and Apple said pre-purchase alerts could be used.\n\nRoblox allows users to create their own games but also offers in-app purchases to upgrade the user's avatar with things like clothes or accessories and offers some pay-to-play games.\n\nGeorgina Munday, 44, who lives in Dyserth, said her daughter, who has autism, had been playing on her tablet for longer recently due to being off school after struggling in mainstream education.\n\nShe initially thought someone had hacked her daughter's account but it soon became clear that the 10-year-old had managed to change the password to allow payments.\n\n\"We'd just seen hundreds of transactions, these payment confirmations, so then the panic set in - oh my gosh, whose card is this on?,\" said Georgina.\n\nHer daughter had managed to spend more than £2,500 on the site but most were small transactions of around £20.\n\nFor about a week, Georgina, who is a nurse, was in back and forth contact with Apple and her bank, Tesco Bank, trying to secure a refund but both refused - she said it was \"a horrendous time\".\n\n\"It was a really stressful time. I am not working at the minute, I am looking after my daughter. The last few months have been quite stressful, so maybe we have had our eye off the ball. I just thought I would have to pay it off in instalments over the next few years.\n\n\"I rang up Tesco Bank and they said, because it was my daughter, they couldn't do anything about it. So I tried Apple again - they just read me their terms and conditions. So that's when I contacted the BBC, You and Yours, consumer programme.\"\n\nWithin a day, Georgina said that Tesco Bank contacted her to say they would refund the full amount.\n\n\"I cried - it was just a relief, a weight off my shoulders.\"\n\nApple said there were ways that accounts could be set up to alert a parent before a child wants to make a purchase.\n\nIt said that parents and guardians should not disclose passwords or enable FaceID and TouchID for their children and Ask to Buy should be set up so that purchases need approval before going through.\n\nScreen time being turned on would also enable parents to stop in-app purchases, it added.\n\nRoblox players build the games, using the developer tools which the platform provides\n\nTesco Bank said: \"We've carried out a further review of this case and have now agreed with Ms Munday that we'll refund her the full amount.\n\n\"We apologise to Ms Munday that this wasn't arranged for her when she first contacted us, and we've therefore also organised an additional payment to her as a gesture of goodwill.\"\n\nGeorgina said she did not feel happy to let her daughter play the game anymore.\n\n\"She knew what she was doing, she changed the password but I don't think she understood the enormity of it.\"\n\nGeorgina said parents should \"be vigilant\" and be aware of what their children were playing.\n\n\"Children are one step ahead of parents these days. We thought this Roblox game was quite innocent, it looks very basic. It's a whole world out there on this Roblox that we knew nothing about.\"\n\nRoblox said: \"Roblox has a robust policy for processing refund requests where there may have been unauthorised payments from a person's account.\n\n\"This process is detailed in our help centre here.\n\n\"Parents also have access to a suite of Parental Controls that can be used to determine how much their children can spend, and set spend notifications to increase visibility over their children's spending on Roblox.\"", "Susan Hart's daughters said she had been showing signs of dementia\n\nA grandmother who went missing on holiday on a Greek island three weeks ago has been found dead in a remote area.\n\nSusan Hart, 74, from Bath, was in Telendos with her husband, Ed, when she disappeared on 30 April.\n\nMrs Hart could not be found after her husband went rock climbing while she planned to read a book.\n\nHer daughter Ruth Landale said she was identified by her stepfather and the family were heartbroken.\n\nMs Landale said they were now waiting for her body to be repatriated to Switzerland where she was living.\n\nA post-mortem examination is expected to be carried out in Greece.\n\nMrs Hart has three daughters who grew up in Bath but now live in Canada, Australia and London with their young families.\n\nMs Landale said her mother had been showing symptoms of dementia over the last few years, but had not yet received a diagnosis.\n\n\"It's been a stressful and distressing time for the whole family,\" she said.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman confirmed staff were providing consular assistance to the family and were in contact with local authorities.\n\nThe BBC has asked police in Greece to comment.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former deputy prime minister Dominic Raab will stand down as an MP at the next election.\n\nHis decision, first reported in The Telegraph, comes a month after he resigned as a minister when a bullying inquiry found he had acted in an \"intimidating\" way towards officials.\n\nThe paper quotes Mr Raab as saying he is concerned about \"the pressure the job has placed on my young family\".\n\nMr Raab and his wife have two sons, aged 10 and eight.\n\nSince becoming an MP in 2010, Mr Raab has served in many ministerial roles.\n\nIn 2018 then-prime minister Theresa May appointed him as Brexit secretary, a job he quit less than six months laterover Theresa May's draft Brexit deal.\n\nBoris Johnson picked him to be his foreign secretary and first secretary of state - the latter role meant he was left in charge of running the country when Mr Johnson was hospitalised with Covid in April 2020.\n\nMr Raab has also been a close ally of Rishi Sunak, supporting him in last summer's Conservative leadership race.\n\nMr Sunak rewarded his loyalty when he became prime minister, making Mr Raab both his justice secretary and deputy prime minister.\n\nMr Raab confirmed to BBC News that he would not seek re-election as the MP for Esher and Walton, which he has represented since 2010 and won with a majority of 2,743 votes in 2019.\n\nIn a letter from Mr Raab to his constituency, seen by the Telegraph, the MP said it had been a \"huge honour to represent the Conservatives since 2010 in this wonderful constituency\".\n\nHis departure from Parliament means the Conservatives will have to find a new candidate for the Surrey constituency.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, who are targeting his seat at the next election, called on him to \"do the decent and honest thing\" and stand down immediately, triggering a by-election to replace him.\n\n\"People in Esher and Walton deserve better than to have a MP found guilty of bullying, who has now thrown in the towel,\" said the party's deputy leader Daisy Cooper.\n\nMr Raab joins a growing number of senior Conservatives deciding not to stand in the next general election, expected in 2024.\n\nFormer ministers including Sajid Javid and George Eustice have also announced their intention to leave the House of Commons.\n\nIn all, 53 MPs from different parties have said they would stand down at the next election.\n\nMr Raab was at the centre of months of speculation when bullying allegations from civil servants led to an inquiry into the MP's conduct.\n\nThe report - conducted by senior lawyer Adam Tolley KC - concluded Mr Raab had engaged in an \"abuse or misuse of power\" as foreign secretary.\n\nThe findings prompted Mr Raab to step down, but in his resignation letter he noted that the inquiry \"dismissed all but two of the claims levelled against me\".\n\nHe also said the inquiry was \"flawed and sets a dangerous precedent\" and would \"encourage spurious complaints against ministers, and have a chilling effect on those driving change on behalf of your government - and ultimately the British people\".\n\nResponding to his decision to quit as an MP, fellow Conservative Angela Richardson tweeted: \"His constituents will miss his dedication. I am happy for his young family though. This job is tough enough on family life as a simple backbencher, let alone being in Cabinet.\"", "A system to allow all schools to move to cashless payments is the latest casualty of cuts to the education budget.\n\nThe Education Authority (EA) said that \"financial pressures\" meant the online payment project was being postponed.\n\nIn a message to schools, it apologised for the \"huge disappointment\" the news would cause.\n\nA school principal told BBC News NI he could \"not believe it is 2023 and this has not been sorted\".\n\nThe Education Authority is required to find about £200m of savings this year.\n\nThe Department of Education (DE) has also cut a number of schemes to save money, while other long-running ones like the pre-school Pathway Fund and Sure Start have not had funding confirmed beyond the end of June.\n\nThat comes after the money for education fell in 2023-24 under the budget delivered by the secretary of state in the absence of Stormont.\n\nSome schools have paid for their own online payments systems to allow things like pupils to pay for school meals or parents to pay money for activities.\n\nHead teacher Kevin Donaghy said many parents of pupils want to pay schools online\n\nOthers still have to rely solely on collecting cash from pupils or parents.\n\nThe Education Authority was developing a system all schools could use, meaning schools no longer had to pay for an online payment service from their own budgets.\n\nBut in a message to principals, it said that it and the Department of Education had \"taken the difficult decision to postpone the online payment project due to financial pressures facing the Northern Ireland education sector at this time\".\n\n\"We recognise this will be a huge disappointment for schools who were looking forward to the implementation of the new solution,\" it continued.\n\nThe communication also recommended that if schools already had a system for online payments they should renew their contracts for that for a year.\n\nThe principal of St Ronan's Primary in Newry, Kevin Donaghy, told BBC News NI that as many parents of pupils shopped and banked online they wanted to pay schools online too.\n\n\"Schools will either have to continue to pay for this themselves from decimated budgets or continue to collect cash,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't believe it is 2023 and this has not been sorted.\"\n\nThe online payment project is part of a £750m EA project to transform information technology in education\n\nThe roll-out of the system to schools was planned to begin this year, but the Education Authority said the timescale was now dependent on funding becoming available.\n\nThe online payment project for schools is just one facet of a £750m project to transform information technology in education in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn their message to heads, the Education Authority said that the wider Education Information Solutions (EdIS) scheme was continuing.\n\nBut members of the EA board have previously been told that the organisation's need to make savings was \"impacting significantly\" on the EdIS project.", "Budget airline Ryanair has reported its first profit since the pandemic as fares and passenger numbers rebounded.\n\nThe carrier's profits hit €1.43bn (£1.24bn) in the year to March, with average fares up by 50% to €41.\n\nHowever, the airline warned its fuel costs were set to jump in the next year due to high oil prices.\n\nRyanair boss Michael O'Leary said current fares were \"significantly\" higher than a year ago, when demand was hit by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAviation expert John Strickland, from JLS Consulting, told the BBC's Today programme that fares could increase even more, with a family of four seeing costs rise by \"another £20 or £30\".\n\nHowever, he said these rises were unlikely to put people off travelling.\n\n\"If you talk about, let's say, a 10% increase or even a 15% or 20% increase, we're only talking about a few pounds, maybe five, six, seven in increased costs,\" he said.\n\n\"While that's not nothing, I don't believe that's going to be a showstopper in terms of demand.\"\n\nRyanair saw passenger numbers rebound by 74% to 168.6 million last year as the demand for travel continued to recover.\n\nThe airline, which is due to operate its biggest ever schedule of flights this summer with 3,000 daily flights, is expecting to take delivery of 300 new Boeing aircraft by 2037.\n\nMr O'Leary said demand to travel this summer is \"robust and peak summer 2023 fares are trending ahead of last year\".\n\nDespite the high fuel costs, he said he was \"cautiously optimistic\" that this would be covered by higher revenues, delivering a \"modest year-on-year profit increase\".\n\nLast week, rival airline EasyJet reported pre-tax losses of £411m for the six months to the end of March this year.\n\nBut its boss Johan Lundgren said the business was entering the summer \"with confidence\" after it flew more than 33 million customers during that period, up 41% compared with the same time last year.\n\nPassengers are also paying more to fly with EasyJet - the average ticket price paid was £61, up 24% on a year earlier.\n\nRecent figures from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) suggest airline ticket prices have only just caught up with the average inflation rate in the OECD, and have risen at a lower rate than increases in jet fuel prices.\n\nIATA said this was \"especially challenging for airlines considering that the cost of jet fuel accounts for 25% to 30% of their operating costs\".\n\nWhile oil prices are falling globally, \"fuel hedging\" - where jet fuel is bought at a fixed price for later delivery - is commonplace within the aviation industry. As a result, airlines may be paying higher fuel prices for longer depending on when they fixed their costs.", "Suella Braverman spoke of a \"problem of enormous scale and of devastating consequences\"\n\nVictims of child sexual abuse will be supported through a government \"redress scheme\", Suella Braverman has announced.\n\nSpeaking in response to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) report, the home secretary said it was a \"landmark day\" for victims.\n\nThe IICSA report called the nature and scale of abuse in England and Wales \"horrific and deeply disturbing\".\n\nThe inquiry began in 2015 and drew on evidence from 7,000 victims.\n\nMs Braverman said she had been \"moved\" by the personal testimonies.\n\n\"This is a real problem of enormous scale and of devastating consequences and today's response to that inquiry report must mark a step change for victims and survivors,\" she said.\n\n\"That's why I'm announcing a new redress scheme to ensure that victims and survivors can secure some finality, some acknowledgement of what they've been through and, hopefully, some closure.\"\n\nThere will be a consultation with victims and the charities representing them to find out who the scheme should support and how.\n\nIt is not yet clear who will receive compensation, how much will be paid or how this will be funded.\n\nThe IICSA previously called for a redress scheme for victims, and recommended that those applying for compensation should have experienced abuse \"where there is a clear connection to state or non-state institutions\".\n\nAsked by shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper for a timetable, Ms Braverman said she did \"not want to give victims and survivors the false impression that implementing these big commitments will happen overnight\".\n\nMs Braverman said the government had accepted the need to act on 19 out of the IICSA report's 20 recommendations.\n\nThese include improving \"the victims' experience of the criminal justice system, the criminal injuries compensation scheme, workforce regulation, access to records, consistent and compatible data and communications on the scale and nature of child sexual abuse\".\n\nIn response, Ms Cooper said Ms Braverman saying the government accepted the need to act on the recommendations was not \"the same as accepting the recommendations\" or the same as setting out what action would be taken.\n\nSpeaking earlier about her plan to make it illegal not to report signs of child sexual abuse for those working with children, Ms Braverman said a \"culture change\" was needed and announced there would be a call for evidence on how best to implement this rule.\n\nThe public consultation will run for 12 weeks from Monday.\n\nMs Cooper said Labour had called for that change a decade ago and criticised the home secretary for setting up a call for evidence, telling the Commons \"the inquiry gathered lots of evidence\".\n\nThe IICSA report recommended this change to the law when its final report was published in October.\n\nChairwoman Prof Alexis Jay said the inquiry had heard \"time and time again how allegations of abuse were ignored, victims were blamed and institutions prioritised their reputations over the protection of children\".\n\nLiberal Democrats' home affairs spokesman Alistair Carmichael welcomed the move when it was first announced by the government last month, but said criminals would \"continue to evade justice\" unless court backlogs were cut and community policing restored.\n\nAnna Edmundson, Head of Policy at the NSPCC, said the proposals from the IICSA were \"welcome\" but \"needed to go further and faster\".\n\nShe said: \"It is disappointing that the Inquiry's clear recommendation that all child victims of sexual abuse should be guaranteed specialist, accredited therapeutic support is absent from the concrete commitments made by the government.\"\n\nThe IICSA was set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, due to concerns about inadequate safeguarding within organisations responsible for child safety.\n\nProf Jay described child sexual abuse as \"an ever-growing problem exacerbated by current and future threat of the internet\".", "International summits are a curious mix of the theatrical, diplomatic and administrative.\n\nThey are a huge undertaking, with massive security.\n\nLittle wonder - a collection of world leaders, in the same place, at the same time, at a long-before advertised event.\n\nAnd so the skies swarm with helicopters and the streets swarm with lanyard-wearing attendees, clutching their all-important accreditation for fear that, without it, even crossing the road might prove impossible.\n\nI spotted two of my colleagues in the travelling British press pack out on a jog the other day, in the driving rain - shorts and T shirts on, yellow G7 lanyards still hanging around their necks.\n\nPity the poor residents of the host city suddenly unable to take their normal route to work or wherever, because of road closures.\n\nThen there is the theatre.\n\nAt the heart of politics are people. Personal relationships matter in politics and diplomacy just as they do in any other walk of life.\n\nAnd politicians, in particular, have audiences back home to address, images to burnish and impressions to leave.\n\nSo there are the theatrical moments, such as Rishi Sunak wearing the red socks - costing £8 we were told - of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp baseball team, whose fans include the host of the summit, the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.\n\nThis might seem trivial, and is a little theatrical - but it also has a value beyond the pictures.\n\nThe relationships international leaders have are so often very brief - one or the other leaves office, and along comes a successor - so acts that help establish and deepen those personal relationships have a real value.\n\nThen, there is the diplomacy.\n\nWinning friends and influencing people? The PM gets a selfie with other world leaders\n\nIn the weeks and months before a summit, diplomats for each country discuss their own outlooks and those of others, to try to find common ground.\n\nThese diplomats are known as \"sherpas\" - they lead the way to the summit��\n\nTalking to those who have done just that for the UK, you get a sense of just how much work this is.\n\nThe subtleties, the nuances, the different emphases of different countries, on a huge range of issues - and changing all the time.\n\nThe political leaders then head to the summit.\n\nIn this instance, the PM had been in Iceland the day before setting off for Japan. He got back to Downing Street from Rekjavik at 2am.\n\nThe flight to Hiroshima, via Almaty in Kazakhstan, set off from Stansted in Essex at 9am.\n\nWe landed in Tokyo at 9am Japanese time the next day, 16 hours later, with a full day ahead.\n\nBy the end of the day we had made it to Hiroshima.\n\nWhen the political leaders come together there is a marathon series of talks, both in big groups, and in one-on-ones known as \"bilaterals\".\n\nAt the end, usually, emerges what is called a communique - the agreed conclusions.\n\nOften broad, often vague, they attempt to take account of every country's position, emphasis and focus on various issues, with the aim being that ongoing discussions can build upon them.\n\nAt this summit the communique came early, the day before the end.\n\nThere wasn't as much wrangling or even chaos that can occasionally happen.\n\nAnd then finally, a round of news conferences - an opening statement from leaders, followed by questions, often on a wide range of topics.\n\nI asked the PM about the big political story of the day - the Mail on Sunday and Sunday Times storyabout the home secretary's actions after being caught speeding last year.\n\nHe was clearly irritated to be immediately confronted by the conduct of one of his ministers after several long days of international diplomacy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Did you have any questions about the summit?\" Rishi Sunak asks the BBC's Chris Mason\n\nLittle wonder: sleep deprivation, jet lag, complex international deliberations - and then here come (entirely unsurprising) questions about a row back home.\n\nThe answer I was given amounted to a holding position: the PM and home secretary hadn't yet spoken about it.\n\nThere was no endorsement of Braverman - but no referral to the Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests either.\n\nIncidentally, we already know Sunak's view on Braverman breaching the ministerial code before he was PM, because he reappointed her as home secretary after she had done just that and resigned.\n\nBut it is striking that Downing Street sources are letting it be known that the PM had no idea until the story broke last night about the home secretary's speeding offence, or her request for help from civil servants with its consequences.\n\nHe was, I'm told, not informed about it by the Cabinet Office or the Home Office.\n\nNo 10 is making it clear that the home secretary hadn't told him, and neither had the Whitehall machine, the civil service.\n\nIt is striking too that this story should come via two newspapers, not one, just days after a speech by Braverman that read rather like a future leadership bid.\n\nThe story also comes ahead of the publication of new net migration statistics on Thursday.\n\nNumbers are expected to reach a record high, a subject about which Braverman has articulated strong views both publicly and privately within government.\n\nIt doesn't appear the government's planned changes to student visas - in particular restrictions on those entitled to bring dependents - will be announced quite yet.\n\nAs for summits, there is a Nato one in Lithuania in the summer, and then the G20 in Delhi in September.\n\nWhat a moment that will be for the PM, and indeed his wife Akshata Murty, were she to choose to accompany her husband once again as she did to Hiroshima.\n\nShe was born and grew up in India. He is of Indian heritage himself.", "Facebook's owner, Meta, has been fined €1.2bn (£1bn) for mishandling people's data when transferring it between Europe and the United States.\n\nIssued by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), it is the largest fine imposed under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation privacy law.\n\nGDPR sets out rules companies must follow to transfer user data outside of the EU.\n\nMeta says it will appeal against the \"unjustified and unnecessary\" ruling.\n\nAt the crux of this decision is the use of standard contractual clauses (SCCs) to move European Union data to the US.\n\nThese legal contracts, prepared by the European Commission, contain safeguards to ensure personal data continues to be protected when transferred outside Europe.\n\nBut there are concerns these data flows still expose Europeans to the US's weaker privacy laws - and US intelligence could access the data.\n\nThis decision does not affect Facebook in the UK. The Information Commissioner's Office told the BBC that the decision \"does not apply in the UK\" but said it had \"noted the decision and will review the details in due course\".\n\nMost large companies have complex webs of data transfers - which can include email addresses, phone numbers and financial information - to overseas recipients, many of which depend on SCCs.\n\nAnd Meta says their broad use makes the fine unfair.\n\nFacebook president Nick Clegg said: \"We are therefore disappointed to have been singled out when using the same legal mechanism as thousands of other companies looking to provide services in Europe.\n\n\"This decision is flawed, unjustified and sets a dangerous precedent for the countless other companies transferring data between the EU and US.\"\n\nBut privacy groups have welcomed that precedent.\n\nCaitlin Fennessy, of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, said: \"The size of this record-breaking fine is matched by the significance of the signal it sends.\n\n\"Today's decision signals that companies have a whole lot of risk on the table.\"\n\nIt could make EU companies demand US partners stored data within Europe - or switch to domestic alternatives, she added.\n\nIn 2013, former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden disclosed American authorities had repeatedly accessed people's information via technology companies such as Facebook and Google.\n\nAnd Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems filed a legal challenge against Facebook for failing to protect his privacy rights, setting off a decade-long battle over the legality of moving EU data to the US.\n\nEurope's highest court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), has repeatedly said Washington has insufficient checks in place to protect Europeans' information.\n\nAnd in 2020, the ECJ, ruled an EU-to-US data transfer agreement invalid.\n\nBut the ECJ left the door open for companies to use SCCs, saying the transfer of data to any other third country was valid as long as it ensured an \"adequate level of data protection\".\n\nIt is that test Meta has been found to have failed.\n\nAsked about the €1.2bn fine, Mr Schrems said he was \"happy to see this decision after 10 years of litigation\" but it could have been much higher.\n\n\"Unless US surveillance laws get fixed, Meta will have to fundamentally restructure its systems,\" he added.\n\nDespite the record-breaking size of the fine, experts have said they think Meta's privacy practices will not change.\n\n\"A billion-euro parking ticket is of no consequence to a company that earns many more billions by parking illegally,\" Johnny Ryan, a senior fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.\n\nThe US recently updated its internal legal protections to give the EU greater assurances American intelligence agencies would follow new rules governing such data access.\n\nIn 2021, Amazon was fined for similarly flouting the EU's privacy standard.\n\nIreland's DPC has also fined WhatsApp, another Meta-owned business, for breaching stringent regulations relating to the transparency of data shared with its other subsidiaries.", "Sly Bailey, former Trinity Mirror chief executive, arrives at the High Court\n\nThe former chief executive of Trinity Mirror has apologised for wrongdoing at the company's newspapers, and said she \"deeply regrets\" what happened.\n\nBut Sly Bailey, who ran the company between 2003 and 2012, said she had \"no knowledge of these activities\".\n\nShe told the High Court \"untrue claims\" were being made about her.\n\nMirror Group Newspapers (MGN) accepts information was gathered unlawfully but says that senior executives did not know.\n\nMs Bailey was being cross-examined by David Sherborne, barrister for the four claimants in the long-awaited trial, including Prince Harry.\n\nMr Sherborne said she had never apologised for illegal activities at her company's newspapers.\n\n\"I'm deeply regretful and I do apologise on behalf of the company. I hope people will understand I had no knowledge of these activities,\" she said.\n\nThe barrister said Ms Bailey had not investigated what had happened, to which she replied: \"I'm not a policeman\".\n\nMr Sherborne then accused her of only regretting \"smears\" on her reputation rather than press intrusion.\n\n\"I have personally had things written that are untrue - I have personally suffered from press intrusion,\" she said.\n\nMr Sherborne asked Ms Bailey about a series of moments during her time at the newspaper when the scale of what was going on was made public.\n\nIn 2006 the Office of the Information Commissioner (ICO) published a report, \"What Price Privacy\" detailing the commercial trade in personal information.\n\nThe report contained a \"league table\" of payments to one investigator, Steve Whittamore, who ran a network of \"suppliers\" who were experts in \"blagging\" - a term for obtaining someone's information without their consent.\n\nThe Daily Mail was top of the table, but MGN ranked second with more than 1,000 commissions, the court heard.\n\n\"Why wasn't an editor held responsible and dismissed? Why didn't you investigate?\" Mr Sherborne asked.\n\nMs Bailey said repeatedly that the paper had \"no further information\" and would not have been able to take further action.\n\nMr Sherborne said Ms Bailey talked \"time and time again\" about \"robust corporate governance\", but that this was a \"concrete example\" of wrongdoing.\n\nThe barrister then produced two large ring-binders of invoices sent to MGN by Mr Whittamore requesting payments for his services - they covered 1,600 transactions involving 120 MGN journalists.\n\n\"I've never seen these invoices before,\" Ms Bailey said, questioning whether some of the payments made were for stories justified in the \"public interest\".\n\nFollowing the ICO report in 2006 she did hold a meeting with executives and editors, the court heard.\n\nAccording to her witness statement, at this meeting she \"reiterated to our editors that Trinity Mirror's policy was not to break the criminal law.\"\n\n\"I believed at the time that we did not break the criminal law, but I nonetheless wanted to take the opportunity to reiterate the policy.\"\n\nThe court heard that due to the perceived lack of evidence, the company adopted the position that it would have a zero-tolerance policy of future wrongdoing, rather than addressing the past.\n\nMs Bailey - who stood down from her role in June 2012 amid falling sales figures - gave a statement to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards, which took place in 2011 and 2012, in which she denied there had been unlawful activities.\n\nIn her latest witness statement to the High Court hearing, she said it had been \"alleged that senior executives misled both the public and the Leveson Inquiry by falsely denying their existence\".\n\n\"If it is intended to allege that I was guilty of any of these things, I categorically deny that. I also categorically deny lying to or misleading the Leveson Inquiry.\"\n\nShe added that she did not get involved in editorial decisions or how editorial teams spent money.\n\nThe Leveson Inquiry looked into standards in the British press\n\n\"If the board had become involved in the nuts and bolts of editorial spend, we would fall into the trap of trying to edit our newspapers. Editors were appointed to edit and make the necessary decisions to do so.\"\n\n\"It was simply not a board matter,\" she said, adding that editors were granted \"an enormous amount of freedom and responsibility\".\n\nShe said she did not remember ever discussing payments, which the claimants estimate totalled more than £9m, to private investigators, made by MGN.\n\nShe said this \"does not strike me even with hindsight as a large sum of money that would have been the subject of discussion at board level\".\n\nWhen a News of the World journalist, Clive Goodman, and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were convicted of phone hacking 2007 she held a meeting with editors, she said.\n\n\"Each editor gave me their confirmation that they were not engaged in criminal conduct.\"\n\nThis position fell apart in 2015 when MGN published an apology for unlawful information gathering.\n\n\"It was unlawful and should never have happened, and fell far below the standards our readers expect and deserve,\" the apology said.", "Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, then aged three\n\nIn the intervening years, a huge, costly police operation has taken place across much of Europe.\n\nMadeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, say all they have ever wanted is to find their daughter.\n\nHere is the story so far.\n\nMadeleine went missing from this apartment block at the Ocean Club. The family's apartment is on the left of the building, as seen here\n\nOn 3 May Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, is on holiday with her family at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, Portugal.\n\nOn 12 May, the McCanns say they \"cannot describe the anguish and despair\" they are feeling.\n\nPortuguese police say they believe Madeleine was abducted but is still alive and in Portugal.\n\nOn 26 May, police issue a description of a man seen on the night of Madeleine's disappearance, possibly carrying a child.\n\nA search took place in the areas around Praia da Luz on the Algarve\n\nIn June, a Portuguese police chief admits vital forensic clues may have been destroyed as the scene was not protected properly.\n\nIn July, British police send sniffer dogs to assist the investigation, and inspections of the McCann's apartment and rental car are conducted.\n\nBy August it is 100 days since Madeleine disappeared. Investigating officers publicly acknowledge she may not be found alive.\n\nOn 6 September, Portuguese police interview Kate McCann as a witness. On 7 September, detectives make the couple \"arguidos\" and days later, the McCanns return to the UK. Prosecutors later say there is no new evidence to justify re-questioning them.\n\nGerry McCann releases a video in November saying he believes his family was watched by \"a predator\" in the days before his daughter's disappearance.\n\nKate and Gerry McCann leave church after a service to mark the first anniversary of their daughter's disappearance\n\nOn 20 January the McCanns release sketches of a suspect, based on a description by a British holidaymaker of a \"creepy man\" seen at the resort.\n\nIn April, Portuguese police fly to the UK to sit in on interviews conducted by Leicestershire Police of the McCanns' friends they had dinner with on the night Madeleine disappeared.\n\nOn 3 May, one year since the disappearance, Mrs McCann urges people to \"pray like mad\" for her little girl.\n\nBy July Portuguese police say they have submitted their final report on the case. Weeks later, authorities shelve their investigation and lift the \"arguido\" status of the McCanns.\n\nAn image was released of how Madeleine might look at six\n\nOn 3 November, new images of how Madeleine might now look are released.\n\nIn March 2010, the McCanns criticise the release of previously unseen Portuguese police files - detailing possible sightings of Madeleine - to British newspapers.\n\nA month later, in April, Gerry McCann says it is \"incredibly frustrating\" that police in Portugal and the UK had not been actively looking for his daughter \"for a very long time\".\n\nIn November, the couple sign a publishing deal to write a book about Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nThe McCanns' book, Madeleine, is released in May.\n\nPrime Minister David Cameron asks the Metropolitan Police to help investigate. A two-year review follows.\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Redwood, the detective leading the UK review of Madeleine's disappearance, tells an April broadcast of the BBC's Panorama his team is \"seeking to bring closure to the case\".\n\nA computer-generated image of what Madeleine might look like aged nine is released, a day before Portuguese authorities say they are not reopening their investigation.\n\nIn May, UK detectives reviewing the case say they have identified \"a number of persons of interest\".\n\nBy July, Scotland Yard announces it has \"new evidence and new witnesses\" in the case and opens a formal investigation.\n\nBy October, Scotland Yard detectives say they have identified 41 potential suspects.\n\nA BBC Crimewatch appeal features e-fit images of a man seen carrying a blond-haired child of three or four in Praia da Luz at about the time Madeleine went missing.\n\nPortuguese police reopen their investigation - to run alongside Scotland Yard's - citing \"new lines of inquiry\".\n\nMet Police officers searched scrubland near where Madeleine vanished in 2014\n\nIn January British detectives fly to Portugal amid claims they are planning to make arrests.\n\nIn June searches in Praia da Luz are carried out, including an area of scrubland situated south-west of the Ocean Club complex. It yields nothing of interest.\n\nA month later, in July, four suspects are quizzed by police but no new developments emerge.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three when she went missing in 2007\n\nIn September 2015 the British government disclose that the investigation has cost more than £10m.\n\nIn April 2017 the four official suspects investigated by police are ruled out of the investigation but senior officers say they are pursuing a \"significant line of inquiry\".\n\nIn June 2019 the UK government says it will fund the Met Police inquiry, which began in 2011, until March 2020.\n\nA year later, in June 2020, police reveal that a 43-year-old German prisoner - named by German media as Christian B - has been identified as a suspect. The McCanns thank police, saying: \"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nGerman investigators have classed it as a murder inquiry and say they are assuming that Madeleine is dead.\n\nThe UK's Metropolitan Police says it has received more than 270 calls and emails since a new appeal for information was launched on Wednesday.\n\nIn April 2022, a German man is declared an official suspect by Portuguese prosecutors investigating the case.\n\nChristian Brueckner, then 45, is made an \"arguido\", although Portuguese authorities do not formally reveal the suspect's name.\n\nThe McCann family mark the 16th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance on 3 May 2022, saying she is \"still very much missed\" and they \"await a breakthrough\".\n\nLater that month, a Portuguese news website reports that an area near a reservoir, about 30 miles (48km) from Praia da Luz, had been being sealed off. Police say they will begin searching the Arade dam on 23 May.\n• None In Pictures: The search for Madeleine McCann", "Timelapse footage shows the Popocatepetl volcano in the Mexican state of Puebla erupting.\n\nIt is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, and has recently experienced an uptick in activity, with local schools in nearby towns forced to close.\n\nLocated about 45 miles (72 km) south east of Mexico City, the volcano's recent rumblings also caused the city's Benito Juarez International Airport to suspend flights for five hours on Saturday.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nMark Cavendish, one of Britain's most successful cyclists, will retire at the end of the season.\n\nIn 2021 he equalled the legendary Eddy Merckx's record of 34 Tour de France stage victories.\n\nDuring a news conference at the Giro d'Italia, Cavendish, 38, said: \"Cycling has been my life for over 25 years.\n\n\"It's taught me so much about life, dedication, loyalty, sacrifice and perseverance - all important things to pass on now as a father.\"\n\nHe added: \"The bike's given me opportunities to see the world, meet incredible people who are involved and not involved in the sport - a lot of whom I call friends.\n\n\"Today it's my son Casper's fifth birthday; it's a rest day and I can spend that with them now. Now it's important to be there for every birthday, every school concert - important I can be there for them.\"\n\nCavendish enjoyed a glittering career as a sprinter, taking victories on the flatter, faster stages of races, particularly in the Grand Tours.\n\nHe has won 161 races since 2005 and two green points jerseys at the Tour.\n\nCavendish's other major achievements include an omnium silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the 2011 Road World Championships rainbow jersey, the 2009 Milano-San Remo 'monument' one-day classic, 16 stage wins in the Giro and three in the Vuelta a Espana.\n\nHe is currently riding for Astana Qazaqstan in the Giro, which ends in Rome on Sunday.\n\nCavendish experienced injury and illness from 2017, hinting at the end of the 2020 season that he could retire.\n\nBut following a return to form the following year he won four more Tour stages and the green jersey in his second spell with the successful Quick Step team, who helped reinvigorate his career.\n\nCavendish and his family were the victims of a violent robbery at their home in 2021.\n\nHe was omitted from Quick Step's Tour squad the following year, after which he signed for Astana Qazaqstan for 2023.\n\nHe will attempt to break the Tour stage win record at this year's race, which begins in Bilbao, Spain, on 1 July.\n\nHe added: \"This is a perfect opportunity to say with absolute joy in my heart that this will be my final season as a professional cyclist.\n\n\"Right now there's no need to talk about my short- and long-term plans - I'll always be a cyclist, that's for sure.\n\n\"But for this final period I'd like to just enjoy doing what's made me happy for the last 25 years, and that's simply to race.\"\n\nEarly in his career, Cavendish competed for the Isle of Man on the track at the Commonwealth Games, winning gold in the men's scratch race in 2006\n\nCavendish, from the Isle of Man, showed promise as a BMX and mountain bike rider, and was then part of the new era of investment in cycling in Britain, which saw British Cycling dominate track cycling at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.\n\nCavendish began his professional career in 2005 in a feeder team for T-Mobile, winning his first Tour stage in 2008 for Team Columbia.\n\nHe was known throughout his career as the 'Manx Missile' on account of his blistering finishing speed during bunch sprints.\n\nAt 5ft 7in, he has a low centre of gravity and can adopt an aerodynamically advantageous position on the bike during powerful bursts of speed.\n\nCavendish dominated sprinting for many years and is considered a big influence on younger riders across the peloton, including new British talents such as Quick Step's Ethan Vernon.\n\nCavendish is known to have a fiery persona on and occasionally off the bike, and during the 2021 Tour he was filmed berating a team mechanic before a stage.\n\nFormer Quick Step coach Tom Steels told BBC Sport last year: \"When he steps out of the team bus you never know if he'll come back in five minutes like a wild bull because something is wrong with the bike.\n\n\"But you can always talk with him and once it's fixed it's over. It's not ever personal, but you never know how he can react.\"\n\nCavendish is immensely popular in the peloton and fiercely defends fellow riders who come in for criticism.\n\nFormer team-mate and 2018 Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas paid tribute, saying: \"[Cavendish] told me at the start of the Giro [about his retirement]. I didn't really believe him and I thought he'd keep going.\n\n\"He is the greatest sprinter of all time really when you see his record. It's been an honour to ride with him and be mates with him for 25 years, that shows how old we both are now. It's incredible.\n\n\"What an incredible career he's had and he's still got to get this record at the Tour and hopefully win a stage here.\"\n\nBritish Cycling performance director Stephen Park said: \"Cav is without doubt the sport's greatest sprinter and will be remembered by fans across the world for his 53 Grand Tour stage wins.\n\n\"What most stands out in Cav as a sportsperson is the overwhelming sense of pride he showed each time he pulled on both the Great Britain cycling team and British national champion's jerseys - a quality we want to instil in every single member of our team.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Naga Munchetty explains she’s been living with menstrual pain for decades.\n\nThe BBC's Naga Munchetty has revealed she has a debilitating womb condition.\n\nNaga lives with a constant pain that can become so acute that she has to scream. A flare-up at the weekend was so bad her husband called an ambulance.\n\nThe presenter told her BBC Radio 5 Live listeners: \"The pain was so terrible I couldn't move, turn over, sit up. I screamed non-stop for 45 minutes.\"\n\nOne in 10 women is thought to have adenomyosis, yet it can often go undiagnosed for years.\n\nNaga has been sharing with her listeners her agonising wait for answers and a treatment.\n\nShe said: \"Right now as I sit here talking to you: I am in pain. Constant, nagging pain.\n\n\"In my uterus. Around my pelvis. Sometimes it runs down my thighs.\n\n\"And I'll have some level of pain for the entire show and for the rest of the day until I go to sleep.\"\n\nOther women have been in touch sharing their experiences.\n\nNaga, 48, says she is resisting the hysterectomy route at the moment.\n\nJen says her pain was not taken seriously for decades\n\nJen Moore, 34 and from Cambridge, had a hysterectomy very recently to treat hers.\n\nNaga recorded an interview with her in the days leading up to the surgery.\n\nJen said: \"I know it's the right decision for me and my body. But it's a massive decision at any age.\"\n\nJen does not have children but says she always thought she would have the option or chance. \"So there is a little bit of emotional rollercoaster going on.\"\n\nShe says the pain of adenomyosis \"feels like I have a bowling ball sat inside my pelvis pushing out on the bones from the inside out trying to break them. It's excruciating... It's relentless.\"\n\nLike Naga, Jen's symptoms began as a teenager when she started her periods.\n\n\"I vividly remember being 11 and on my parents' bedroom floor unable to stand up straight, passing out every month from pain and blood loss.\"\n\nWhen the family sought medical help, Jen was put on the contraceptive pill to \"regulate\" her hormones and sent home with no other investigations or a diagnosis.\n\nJen remained on it until she turned 30, still experiencing monthly bleeds that were \"crazy heavy\" and \"like a horror scene\".\n\n\"Whenever I would go to the doctor to explain it's happening, again, I was just told 'it's normal'. At one point I was told to 'stop making a fuss'.\n\n\"So eventually you just start questioning yourself, don't you? Almost gaslighting yourself.\"\n\nJen persevered with seeking help though and was recently referred to a specialist doctor who diagnosed her condition - adenomyosis, plus another problem called endometriosis.\n\nJen says: \"I'm angry, I'm infuriated, I am devastated. I'm all of these things.\"\n\nShe got tired of people saying \"but you don't look sick\" and turned to her make-up artist friend, Kate, to help show what the condition feels like, by painting bruises and cuts on her abdomen and thighs. She has posted photos on Instagram to raise awareness.\n\nGP Nighat Arif, who specialises in women's health and has written a book about menstruation and menopause, says awareness about the condition among healthcare professionals is improving.\n\nBut she says it can be difficult to \"join the dots\" and make a speedy diagnosis because the symptoms can be mistaken for other things and can vary between women.\n\n\"Even on an ultrasound scan the diagnosis of adenomyosis can be missed or not seen. Many younger women also can get placed on hormonal contraceptive treatments to manage heavy periods and therefore 'mask' the diagnosis,\" she says.\n\nConsultant gynaecologist Liza Ball advised: \"Period issues often get 'normalised', which is frustrating. Ask to see a GP with gynaecology training to discuss treatment options that suit you.\n\n\"Don't suffer in silence and seek help if you think you have adenomyosis.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says it is committed to improving the health of women - it recently launched a 10-year Women's Health Strategy for England - and will be updating health information provided on the NHS website to provide more detail on conditions such as adenomyosis.\n\nJulia Allen from Cardiff was eventually diagnosed with adenomyosis and endometriosis in her mid-forties after decades of suffering.\n\nShe says she was \"back and forth to the doctor\" from the age of 14 due to very heavy and painful periods.\n\n\"I would have to take spare clothes to school and eventually work due to the flooding I experienced. This was mortifying, especially in a time when people didn't talk about these kinds of things,\" she says.\n\n\"Over the years I was told it was irritable bowel syndrome or constipation. I eventually had a scan, where speckling in my uterus showed up. The GP turned to me and said 'I don't know how to treat you' and that was that.\"\n\nJulia says she was never able to conceive, despite repeated rounds of IVF treatment, which she believes may have made her adenomyosis worse.\n\n\"When I eventually had my hysterectomy my consultant came to my room and said 'if I had seen you 20 years earlier, you could've had a baby'. It crushed me. My organs and insides have been ravaged.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Help and support is available via BBC Action Line.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Email your experiences haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City celebrated a third successive Premier League title triumph with victory over Chelsea in a relaxed party atmosphere at Etihad Stadium.\n\nCity were confirmed as champions without even playing after Nottingham Forest's win against Arsenal on Saturday, allowing manager Pep Guardiola to make nine changes from the side that thrashed Real Madrid to reach the Champions League final.\n\nErling Haaland was rested but Julian Alvarez provided the cutting edge in his absence with a clinical finish to put City ahead after 12 minutes, as their jubilant fans basked in warm sunshine waiting for the trophy presentations and celebrations.\n\nChelsea had some of the better chances as the game went on, with City's deputy keeper Stefan Ortega saving from Raheem Sterling when clean through and Conor Gallagher heading against the post.\n\nKalvin Phillips headed against the woodwork for City as they closed out another win in the relentless run that has brought them the title and the chance of a Treble, with the FA Cup final at Wembley and Champions League final in Istanbul to come.\n• None All the reaction to Sunday's games\n• None 'Man City are two games away from immortality'\n\nThe hosts played with the pressure off after the title was secured and manager Guardiola was able to give members of his shadow squad game time on an occasion where most fans were simply waiting for the final whistle to hail their heroes.\n\nGuardiola's selection gave an illustration of the vast resources of talent he has at his disposal with simply a glance at City's substitutes' bench.\n\nHaaland, Kevin de Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan, John Stones, Jack Grealish, Rodri, Bernardo Silva, Ruben Dias and goalkeeper Ederson were not included from the start.\n\nHas there ever been a more talented bench than that one?\n\nThey are all likely to be restored when those two big finals come around but it was a demonstration, if indeed it were needed, of what other teams must overcome if they are to loosen the stranglehold City have domestically and which now gives them the chance of their first Champions League.\n\nGoalscorer Alvarez may have worked in Haaland's shadow for much of the season but what an acquisition he has been and what a season he has had, with the chance to add the Treble to his World Cup win with Argentina.\n\nThe Premier League is Manchester City's once more - now it is on to Wembley and Istanbul.\n\nChelsea must be ready for reset\n\nChelsea may have had some decent chances here and only lost by a single goal to the newly crowned champions, but they carry all the appearance of a team and club that cannot wait for an abject and miserable season to end.\n\nFrank Lampard is seeing out time on the touchline before making his second departure as manager, while Chelsea's players await the arrival of incoming Mauricio Pochettino to discover what the future has in store.\n\nThere is talent within this squad but they, and Chelsea as a club, have lacked direction under the new co-ownership of Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali and now it is time to start getting the big decisions right.\n\nPochettino will enter Stamford Bridge with the bar set low but there are materials to work with, providing he is allowed to do it his way, while his intense attacking style could fashion this into a quality team given time.\n\nFor now, however, Chelsea must complete the formalities of a desperate campaign that sees them currently in 12th place, and deservedly so.\n• None Go straight to the best Chelsea content\n• None Attempt missed. Trevoh Chalobah (Chelsea) header from the left side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Mykhailo Mudryk with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Mykhailo Mudryk (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Carney Chukwuemeka.\n• None Attempt missed. Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Cole Palmer (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by John Stones. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Artie Moore was looked at as \"oddball\" but picked up the distress signals of the Titanic from thousands of miles away\n\nWhen the Titanic hit an iceberg while crossing the Atlantic in 1912, its telegraphers desperately sent out distress calls hoping somebody, somewhere might hear them.\n\nBut among the first to respond was an amateur radio operator some 3,000 miles (4,800km) away in south Wales.\n\nSelf-taught Arthur Moore received the signal at his homemade station in Blackwood, Caerphilly county.\n\nHe rushed to the local police station, but was met with incredulity.\n\nThe first full-size digital scan of the famous shipwreck was recently revealed, enabling it to be seen without water for the first time.\n\nAnd while the radio enthusiast could do nothing to help those on board the Titanic, he went on to pioneer an early form of sonar technology which helped discover its resting place decades later.\n\n\"Artie\", as he was known to locals, had already hit the headlines for his radio equipment a year before the Titanic sank.\n\nIn 1911, he had intercepted the Italian government's declaration of war on Libya - a feat which saw him featured on the front page of British tabloid newspaper the Daily Sketch.\n\nBorn in 1887, Artie and his brother took over the running of a mill from their father and were entrepreneurs and pioneers.\n\nBefore there was electricity in the area, Artie Moore used the waterwheel to charge local farmers' batteries\n\nLyn Pask, chair of Blackwood's history society, said the brothers owned \"some of the earliest motorcars in the Gwent region\", developed machines for local farmers, and gave the area its \"first access to electricity through charging batteries from the generator they'd created, powered by the mill's waterwheel\".\n\nBut Artie's love of engineering had come about through a tragedy, after he lost a leg in an accident at the mill as a youngster.\n\nThis only inspired him to his first invention, a counterbalance on his bicycle which allowed him to ride by pushing down with his one good foot.\n\nHis scale model of a steam locomotive from the lathe at the mill won a magazine competition.\n\nHis prize was a book called Modern Views of Magnetism and Electricity which sparked his interest in radio telegraphy.\n\nAmateur radio enthusiast Billy Crofts, who now lives in London but originally hails from Llantrisant, said that at the time Artie was looked at as something of an oddball.\n\n\"He strung up all these aerials made from thin strands of copper wire from the Gelligroes mill, over the nearby River Sirhowy and slung between trees up the hillside to an old barn,\" Mr Crofts said.\n\nAs a result, he explained, Artie could receive radio messages from further away than anyone had managed or even thought possible before.\n\nMore than 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank in 1912\n\n\"People thought he was off his head, and that believing he could intercept signals through bits of wire was something akin to paranormal psychology.\"\n\nThat was certainly the reaction of the Caerphilly police, when in the early hours of 15 April 1912, Artie pedalled to the station to report the Titanic's SOS calls.\n\n\"Righty-ho,\" they are said to have mocked him. \"We'll take a look. Just you get yourself back to bed now, and don't bother yourself any more.\"\n\nThough Mr Pask said that outside south Wales, Artie was taken very seriously indeed.\n\n\"Soon enough, newspaper reports came through and they corroborated every single detail of what Artie had told the police, even down to the Titanic's use of the recently adopted SOS distress signal,\" he said.\n\n\"In Blackwood it might have been thought of as black magic, but to those who knew and understood, wireless telegraphy was the internet of its day.\"\n\nArtie Moore was also well known for intercepting the Italian government's declaration of war on Libya in September 1911\n\nMr Pask said Artie's \"brilliance\" was soon noticed by some \"highly important people\".\n\nAmong them was Guglielmo Marconi, a radio telegraphy inventor.\n\nHe had originally predicted that radio signals could pass 2,000 miles (3,200km), but Artie had received them over 3,000 miles (4,800km) off.\n\nWithin a year, Marconi had signed up the amateur to his wireless company.\n\nAs Marconi's apprentice, he designed the first communications which could reach between Britain and the Falkland Islands during World War One.\n\nIn World War Two, he pioneered an early form of sonar - a technique that uses sound to navigate, measure distances and communicate with objects in water. This helped to guide Allied ships around German U-boats in the North Atlantic.\n\nArtie Moore began his radio work from a shed in his garden, but soon moved on to bigger things\n\nArtie retired to Jamaica in 1947, but shortly after developed leukaemia and returned to Bristol for treatment, where he died a year later.\n\nIn 1985, 73 years after his amateur radio picked up the passenger liner's calls for help, it was the sonar technology he pioneered that was used in discovering its final resting place on the Atlantic seabed.", "Buckingham Palace has declined a request to return the remains of an Ethiopian prince who came to be buried at Windsor Castle in the 19th Century.\n\nPrince Alemayehu was taken to the UK aged just seven and arrived an orphan after his mother died on the journey.\n\nQueen Victoria then took an interest in him and arranged for his education - and ultimately his burial when he died aged just 18.\n\nBut his family wants his remains to be sent back to Ethiopia.\n\n\"We want his remains back as a family and as Ethiopians because that is not the country he was born in,\" one of the royal descendants Fasil Minas told the BBC.\n\n\"It was not right\" for him to be buried in the UK, he added.\n\nBut in a statement sent to the BBC, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said removing his remains could affect others buried in the catacombs of St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.\n\n\"It is very unlikely that it would be possible to exhume the remains without disturbing the resting place of a substantial number of others in the vicinity,\" the palace said.\n\nThe statement added that the authorities at the chapel were sensitive to the need to honour Prince Alemayehu's memory, but that they also had \"the responsibility to preserve the dignity of the departed\".\n\nIt also said that in the past the Royal Household had \"accommodated requests from Ethiopian delegations to visit\" the chapel.\n\nHow Prince Alemayehu ended up in the UK at such a young age was the result of imperial action and the failure of diplomacy.\n\nIn 1862, in an effort to strengthen his empire, the prince's father Emperor Tewodros II sought an alliance with the UK, but his letters making his case did not get a response from Queen Victoria.\n\nAngered by the silence and taking matters into his own hands, the emperor held some Europeans, among them the British consul, hostage. This precipitated a huge military expedition, involving some 13,000 British and Indian troops, to rescue them.\n\nThe force also included an official from the British Museum.\n\nIn April 1868 they laid siege to Tewodros' mountain fortress at Maqdala in northern Ethiopia, and in a matter of hours overwhelmed the defences.\n\nThe emperor decided he would rather take his own life than be a prisoner of the British, an action that turned him into a heroic figure among his people.\n\nA 19th Century engraver imagined the scene when the soldiers discovered Emperor Tewodros II's body\n\nAfter the battle, the British plundered thousands of cultural and religious artefacts. These included gold crowns, manuscripts, necklaces and dresses.\n\nHistorians say dozens of elephants and hundreds of mules were needed to cart away the treasures, which are today scattered across European museums and libraries, as well as in private collections.\n\nThe British also took away Prince Alemayehu and his mother, Empress Tiruwork Wube.\n\nThe British may have thought this was to keep them safe and prevent them being captured and possibly killed by Tewodros' enemies, who were near Maqdala, according to Andrew Heavens, whose book The Prince and the Plunder recounts Alemayehu's life.\n\nFollowing his arrival in Britain in June 1868, the prince's predicament and his status as an orphan elicited the sympathy of Queen Victoria. The two met at the queen's holiday home on the Isle of Wight, just off England's south coast.\n\nShe agreed to support him financially and put him in the guardianship of Captain Tristram Charles Sawyer Speedy, the man who had accompanied the prince from Ethiopia.\n\nThey first lived together on the Isle of Wight and then Captain Speedy took him to other parts of the world, including India.\n\nBut it was decided that the prince should have a formal education.\n\nHe was sent to the British public school Rugby but he was not happy there. He later moved to the Royal Military College in Sandhurst where he was subjected to bullying.\n\nThe prince had a \"hankering\" to return home, correspondence quoted by Heavens says, but that idea was swiftly quashed.\n\n\"I feel for him as if I knew him. He was dislocated from Ethiopia, from Africa, from the land of black people and remained there as if he had no home,\" Ethiopian royal descendent Abebech Kasa told the BBC.\n\nEventually, Alemayehu ended up being tutored in a private home in Leeds. But he became ill, possibly with pneumonia, and at one point refused treatment thinking he had been poisoned.\n\nAfter a decade in exile the prince died in 1879 at the age of just 18.\n\nHis illness had become the subject of articles in the national press and Queen Victoria wrote in her diary of her sadness at his death.\n\n\"Very grieved and shocked to hear by telegram, that good Alemayehu had passed away this morning. It is too sad! All alone, in a strange country, without a single person or relative, belonging to him,\" she said.\n\n\"His was no happy life, full of difficulties of every kind, and was so sensitive, thinking that people stared at him on account of his colour... Everyone is very sorry.\"\n\nShe then arranged for his burial at Windsor Castle.\n\nThere are several photographs of Prince Alemayehu including this where he is wearing a hat with the name of the ship, HMS Urgent\n\nDemands that the body should return are not new.\n\nIn 2007 the country's then-President Girma Wolde-Giorgis sent a formal request to Queen Elizabeth II for the body to be sent back, but those efforts proved fruitless.\n\n\"We want him back. We don't want him to remain in a foreign country,\" Ms Abebech said.\n\n\"He had a sad life. When I think of him I cry. If they agree to return his remains I would think of it as if he came home alive.\"\n\nShe had hoped that she would get a positive response from newly crowned King Charles III.\n\n\"Restitution is used as a way to bring reconciliation, to recognise what was wrong in the past,\" says Professor Alula Pankhurst, a specialist in British-Ethiopian relations.\n\nHe believes the return of the body would be \"a way for Britain to rethink its past. It's a reflection and coming to terms with an imperial past.\"\n\nWatch more on this story:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Family calls for return of Ethiopian prince's body from UK", "Police are investigating an allegation of sexual assault made against former SNP council leader Jordan Linden.\n\nMr Linden stepped down from North Lanarkshire Council and left the party earlier this year.\n\nThe Sunday Mail reported that five men have made allegations regarding the former leader, with two speaking to detectives.\n\nMr Linden told the newspaper he did not accept the allegations which had been made against him.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"Officers are investigating a report of a sexual assault incident having taken place in 2017. Inquiries are at an early stage and ongoing.\"\n\nMr Linden stepped down as council leader in July last year amid accusations of groping and sexual harassment, leading to the collapse of his party's administration.\n\nThe ex-SNP politician then quit the council in March after fresh claims of misconduct, dating back to 2015.\n\nAt the time, Mr Linden said he refuted the allegations and vowed to \"robustly\" defend himself.\n\nSeveral councillors have since left the SNP's group in North Lanarkshire to sit as independents.\n\nOn Saturday, SNP leader and first minister Humza Yousaf was campaigning in Bellshill ahead of a by-election triggered by Mr Linden's resignation from the council.\n\nHe said the party would investigate how it handled complaints regarding Mr Linden and admitted the SNP's issues in the area \"could have been handled better\".\n\nMr Yousaf added: \"We're absolutely holding our hands up - I, as first minister and leader of the party, say that things of course could have been handled better.\n\n\"That's why we'll do the investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary usually present the ITV daytime show on Friday (stock picture)\n\nAlison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary opened Monday's episode of This Morning with a tribute to Phillip Schofield following his departure from the show.\n\nThe 61-year-old left the ITV programme following reports of a rift between himself and co-host Holly Willoughby.\n\nOpening Monday's show, Hammond described Schofield as \"one of the best live television broadcasters this country has ever had\".\n\nShe added everyone on the show wished him \"all the best for the future\".\n\nIt has not yet been announced who will permanently replace Schofield. Hammond and O'Leary usually present the daytime show on Fridays but stepped in on Monday.\n\n\"We can't start today's show without paying tribute to the man who spent the last two decades sitting on the This Morning sofa, Phillip Schofield,\" Hammond said on Monday.\n\nO'Leary continued: \"So, as a show, everyone on and off screen at ITV and This Morning want to say a huge thank you to Phil for what he's done to make this show such a success over the last 21 years.\"\n\n\"Quite simply, we all know he's one of the best live television broadcasters this country has ever had,\" Hammond continued, \"and we and all the team wish him all the best for the future\".\n\nO'Leary concluded: \"So, Holly is now taking a break over half-term. She will be back in this studio in two weeks, on Monday 5 June.\"\n\nHowever, on Thursday's programme, Willoughby said \"see you Monday\" to viewers - suggesting her absence this week was not planned and her half-term holiday has been brought forward.\n\nSchofield and Willoughby picked up the best daytime prize at the National Television Awards in 2019\n\nFormer This Morning presenter Eamonn Holmes, who was dropped in 2021, was less complimentary about Schofield on his GB News breakfast show on Monday.\n\nDuring the newspaper review, when Holmes' co-host Isabel Webster said Schofield was \"stepping down\", Holmes replied: \"Oh please just stop this. He was sacked. All this nonsense of 'I've decided to step down'. I'm sure you did - 'Here's your P45, now step down'.\"\n\nHe went on to quote Willoughby's statement about Schofield's departure, commenting: \"And she says, 'Oh, the couch will not be the same without him being there'. Well she wanted him not there. So what is she moaning about? They deserve each other, I suppose.\"\n\nHolmes described her statement as \"stabbing in the back\" and said his phone was \"full of people who are glad to see the back of the two of them\".\n\nMeanwhile Piers Morgan, who left ITV's Good Morning Britain in 2021 following an on-air clash with the show's weather presenter, said he had \"sympathy\" with Schofield, who he believes was entitled to a \"better send-off\".\n\n\"Anyone who thinks that daytime telly is full of smiley, nicey, happy clappy people, I think they are beginning to realise it is infested by a pack of savages,\" Morgan told Times Radio.\n\nFormer ITV host Piers Morgan said he felt Schofield was entitled to a better send-off from This Morning\n\n\"There is nothing more ruthless than the way that talent, as we [presenters] so laughably get called in television, get treated when the plug gets pulled.\n\n\"So I have some sympathy with Phillip Schofield, who actually I do think after 20-odd years on This Morning, winning awards every year, doing great... I think whatever has gone on behind the scenes, I think he was entitled to a better send-off.\"\n\nAsked what Schofield might do next, Morgan replied that it \"can be a very nice life after ITV\".\n\nITV has said Schofield will still present the British Soap Awards and another forthcoming peak-time series following his exit from This Morning.\n\nJosie Gibson is among the names who have been mentioned as a possible replacement\n\nAlison Hammond rose to fame as a contestant on Big Brother in 2002 before forging a successful presenting career. As well as hosting This Morning on Fridays, she will take over from Matt Lucas on the next series of The Great British Bake Off.\n\nShe is the presumed frontrunner after viewers praised her recent partnership with Willoughby when Schofield took time off during his brother's child abuse trial. Bosses will have noticed she regularly helps the show go viral - thanks to moments such as her 2017 interview with Harrison Ford or her uncontrollable laughter as Barry Humphries pretended to mix up Schofield and O'Leary.\n\nHammond's Friday co-host Dermot O'Leary is himself a hugely experienced presenter, having for many years hosted what was the top show on British television - The X Factor. In addition to his weekly slot on This Morning, he presents a weekend show on BBC Radio 2.\n\nMore than a decade after he sobbed into Nicole Scherzinger's cushions as an X Factor contestant, Rylan Clark has become one of the UK's most prolific and popular TV presenters. He has been part of the This Morning family since 2013, starting off hosting its \"Hub\" segment before graduating to the sofa.\n\nJosie Gibson also found fame as a Big Brother contestant, winning the series in 2010. In 2019, she joined This Morning as a competition announcer, and later became a regular presenter after once filling in for Willoughby at the last minute when she fell ill.\n\nWhen covering the show during the holidays, Gibson usually presents alongside Vernon Kay. However, he's unlikely to be in the frame given that he's just started his new weekday Radio 2 show, which airs in a similar timeslot.\n\nSchofield announced on Saturday that he had agreed to step down from the show “with immediate effect”.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"Throughout my career in TV - including in the very difficult last few days - I have always done my best to be honourable and kind.\n\n\"I understand that ITV has decided the current situation can't go on, and I want to do what I can to protect the show that I love.\n\n\"So I have agreed to step down from This Morning with immediate effect, in the hope that the show can move forward to a bright future.\"\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, Willoughby said: \"It's been over 13 great years presenting This Morning with Phil, and I want to take this opportunity to thank him for all of his knowledge, his experience and his humour.\"", "Voters have sent a clear signal to restore power sharing at Stormont, said Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) must return to power-sharing government at Stormont, Sinn Féin's vice-president has said as her party clinched a second historic election win in 12 months.\n\nSinn Féin is now the largest in local government as well as the assembly.\n\nIt won a total of 144 seats after Thursday's council election - a rise of 39 on its 2019 showing.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said the result showed voters want Northern Ireland's governing executive back.\n\nThe power-sharing government collapsed last year as part of the DUP protest against post-Brexit trading rules.\n\nThe party has also blocked the functioning of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nThe overall turnout for the election was 54.7%, up from just under 52.7% in 2019.\n\nThe DUP, now the second largest party in local government, won 122 seats, the same as four years ago.\n\nThe cross-community Alliance Party had a positive result, increasing its number of councillors by 14 to 67.\n\nHaving come third in last May's assembly election, the gains mean the party takes up the same position at council level.\n\nThe Alliance Party increased its number of councillors to become the third largest party in local government\n\nHowever, there were net losses for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).\n\nThe leaders of both parties, Doug Beattie and Colum Eastwood, dismissed any suggestion they would leave their positions after the election.\n\nIn Belfast, the leaders of both the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) and the Green Party in Northern Ireland lost their council seats.\n\nMs O'Neill hailed what she called a \"momentous\" result, after her party made breakthroughs across Northern Ireland, including having its first councillors elected in Ballymena and Coleraine.\n\nIt emerged as the largest party in four councils: Mid Ulster; Derry and Strabane; Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon; and Newry, Mourne and Down.\n\nIt will also have overall control of Fermanagh and Omagh, after winning 21 out of 40 seats.\n\n\"These results are a positive endorsement of Sinn Féin's message that workers, families and communities need to be supported, and that the blocking of a new assembly by one party must end,\" she said.\n\n\"This election was an opportunity to send a clear signal.\"\n\nShe said the onus was now on the British and Irish governments to focus efforts on the immediate restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and called for an urgent meeting of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference.\n\nHer party colleague and MP John Finucane told BBC's Sunday Politics that people voted for the party because they want to see \"parties working together\".\n\n\"There should be an acceptance that the people have spoken now twice within the past 12 months, the voice is getting louder.\n\n\"The British and Irish government I think need to pay heed and attention to that voice and need to now take action to prioritise the restoration of our assembly.\"\n\nThe DUP will be the largest grouping in three councils: Lisburn and Castlereagh; Mid and East Antrim; and Ards and North Down.\n\nThe unionist party will also have the largest number of councillors in Antrim and Newtownabbey and Causeway Coast and Glens councils.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson (second from right) joined party colleagues as results were declared in Belfast\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there were lessons to learn from the results, which showed voters were fed up with unionist bickering and infighting.\n\n\"The DUP has had a good election but unionism needs to do better, we need to be winning more seats,\" he said.\n\nDUP assembly member Jonathan Buckley told Sunday Politics that voters had backed the party and that it had stood up \"to get a fair and balanced outcome that can restore devolution\".\n\nHe added that a three-way split in the unionist vote - between the DUP, Ulster Unionists and Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) - was \"dispiriting the unionist electorate\".\n\n\"It's the number one issue on the doors, unionist voters want to see unionist parties working together for the best interests of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nHowever, Ulster Unionist councillor Philip Smyth said he believed there was a pro-union majority in Northern Ireland but that people were not coming out for to vote unionist.\n\n\"The big question for me is how does unionism kick on from here, we need to be able to sell a positive message and we cannot rely on the core vote,\" he told Sunday Politics.\n\n\"We need to target younger voters and non-traditional audiences.\"\n\nAlliance assembly member Eoin Tennyson told the programme it was a \"fantastic election\" for the party but there was disappointment in Derry and Strabane where they lost their only two seats.\n\nMr Tennyson said the party's vote in the area largely held up but it was the Sinn Féin vote that \"changed the dynamics\".\n\nThe party largely failed to make targeted gains west of the Bann, but Mr Tennyson said there were bright spots such as in Enniskillen and Limavady.\n\nMeanwhile, SDLP MP Claire Hanna said it was \"a tough election and we knew it was going to be\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLeader Colum Eastwood has come under pressure, with former party assembly member Richie McPhillips tweeting it was time to step aside, but Ms Hanna said the party was in the process of modernising.\n\nShe said it had adopted a new plan in September but that the party was \"turning around years, possibly decades, of failure to modernise and that requires all hands on deck\".\n\nIn a statement, Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris congratulated those elected and said \"stable and accountable local government is the best way of delivering on the issues\" that matter to people in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Alongside the new councils, it remains my hope to see the assembly and executive return to work, as laid out in the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"I remain in close contact with parties and will continue to do everything I can to facilitate the restoration of the executive.\"\n\nYou can listen to the BBC's 5 Questions On, where Ireland Correspondent Chris Page explains the significance of the 2023 council election.", "Volunteers in Bangladesh warn locals that Cyclone Mocha is on its way. Such measures have helped bring down death tolls from extreme weather events\n\nExtreme weather has caused trillions of dollars of economic damage in the last half century, but the human death toll has fallen dramatically.\n\nThe economic cost of floods, storms and wildfires has accelerated since 1970, according to a World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) report.\n\nBut better early warning systems and disaster management in developing countries mean fewer people are dying.\n\nThey caused 22,608 deaths between 2019 and 2021, fewer than in earlier years.\n\nTwo million people have died in extreme weather-related events since 1970, according to the WMO.\n\nThe cost of damage from these events has increased by a factor of eight since 1970s and now totals $4.3 trillion dollars (£3.5 trillion), the new data from the UN's climate and weather body shows.\n\nLower death tolls have nothing to do with such events becoming less frequent or severe. The number of weather-related disasters has increased five-fold over the same period, according to the WMO.\n\nThe developing countries that have seen improvements in measures to protect human life are home to the populations most vulnerable to such disasters, says the WMO.\n\nIt wants high quality early warnings of impending disasters to reach everyone on the planet by the end of 2027 and it is hoping to accelerate the establishment of these systems during the World Meteorological Conference which begins today in Geneva.\n\nThe WMO reports 11,778 disasters between 1970 and 2021 in its updated Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes.\n\nBangladesh's Shahpori island was one of the areas affected by Cyclone Mocha earlier this month\n\nNine out of ten of the two million deaths those disasters caused were in developing countries.\n\n\"The most vulnerable communities unfortunately bear the brunt of weather, climate and water-related hazards,\" said WMO Secretary-General Prof. Petteri Taalas.\n\nHe used the example of Cyclone Mocha, the tropical storm which hit parts of Myanmar and Bangladesh last week. It caused widespread destruction, impacting some of the poorest communities.\n\nAt least 800,000 people are reported to be in need of emergency food aid and other assistance, but the number of people killed is currently estimated to have been less than 200.\n\nIn the past such a storm would have caused death tolls of tens or even hundreds of thousands of people, said Mr Taalas.\n\n\"Thanks to early warnings and disaster management these catastrophic mortality rates are now thankfully history,\" he said \"Early warnings save lives.\"\n\nThe greatest financial losses were in developed countries, with the United States leading the field. Weather and climate-related disasters cost it an estimated $1.7 trillion (£1.37 trillion), 39% of the global total over the last 51 years.\n\nHowever, the least developed countries and small island states suffered much higher costs in relation to the size of their economies, the WMO said.\n\nAsia accounted for 47% of all reported deaths worldwide - nearly one million - with tropical cyclones being the leading cause.\n\nBangladesh had the highest death toll in Asia since 1970 with 520,758, attributed to 281 disasters.\n\nIn Europe, 166,492 people were killed in 1,784 disasters, accounting for 8% of reported deaths worldwide.\n\nExtreme temperatures were the leading cause of reported deaths and floods were the leading cause of economic losses.", "Violence broke out on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima as riot police wrestled people protesting the meeting of world leaders.\n\nPolice could be seen pinning protesters to the ground on Sunday after a brawl broke out.\n\nThe demonstration was organised by various far-left groups. Those who took part included the extremist group Revolutionary Communist League National Committee, which denounces the G7 summit as a conference of \"imperialism for nuclear war\".\n\nThe G7 comprises the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan – and eight other nations have been invited this year. They're meeting to discuss the war in Ukraine and other foreign policy points - including their relationships with China.", "David Zaslav, the boss of entertainment company Warner Bros Discovery, was giving a speech at a Boston University graduation ceremony when he was interrupted by students shouting \"pay your writers\", in support of the writers strike in the United States.\n\nThe Writers Guild of America has been on strike for three weeks, seeking better pay and contracts for TV and film screenwriters.\n\nDuring the speech, graduates turned their back on Mr Zaslav, and some protesters also gathered with banners outside the campus.", "Scotland voted against independence by 55% to 45% in 2014\n\nUsing the next general election as a \"de facto referendum\" is still an option, the Scottish government's independence minister has said.\n\nJamie Hepburn said \"no option should be taken off the table\" ahead of a special SNP independence convention next month.\n\nMr Hepburn also revealed the Scottish government will resume publishing a series of papers which set out the case for a Yes vote.\n\nOpposition parties have criticised the SNP's renewed focus on independence.\n\nLabour's shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray argued the cost of living crisis should be a bigger priority for SNP ministers.\n\nAppearing on the BBC Scotland Sunday Show, Mr Hepburn said the SNP would use the independence convention event on 24 June to \"discuss what our platform will be in advance of the 2024 general election\".\n\nAsked if the possibility of a de facto referendum approach was still on the table, he said: \"The first minister has said that so long as it's rightly within the parameters of a legal, electoral route then no option should be taken off the table.\n\n\"So that will form part of our discussion.\"\n\nJamie Hepburn said SNP members will discuss the party's independence strategy at a special conference next month\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has said he wants a \"consistent majority for independence\" and will focus on making the case for a Yes vote because he knows pushing for a referendum immediately will be rejected.\n\nBut when Nicola Sturgeon was first minister she said she wanted to use the next UK general election - which must be held by January 2025 at the latest - as a de facto referendum.\n\nThis would involve treating the votes for the SNP at a general election as votes for independence and then looking to open negotiations with the UK government about Scotland's exit from the UK.\n\nHowever, the UK government has previously dismissed the idea, which has also attracted some criticism within the SNP.\n\nHumza Yousaf has pledged to take a positive independence message to people around the country\n\nThe convention in Dundee next month is likely to form part of more activity from the SNP on the issue of a second independence referendum.\n\nMr Hepburn told BBC Scotland that in the coming weeks another paper on the case for independence, produced by a team of Scottish government civil servants, will be published.\n\nThe first paper of this series - called Independence in the Modern World. Wealthier, Happier, Fairer: Why Not Scotland? - made comparisons between Scotland and other European countries and was published in June last year.\n\nSubsequent papers were billed as looking at areas including currency, tax and spend, defence, social security and pensions, and EU membership and trade.\n\nHumza Yousaf has also pledged a \"summer of independence campaign activity\" which would \"take our positive message to every corner of the country\".\n\nWriting in The National, he said the party was working hard to organise regional independence assemblies, something he pledged on the campaign trail for the SNP leadership.\n\nLabour's shadow Scottish secretary Mr Murray said the Scottish government should be \"concentrating on bread and butter issues\".\n\nHe added: \"It's the same old story, over and over again.\n\n\"The Scottish public will not be very amused that during the worst cost of living crisis in history the SNP are reverting to type and talking about independence.\n\n\"Why we have a very expensive £100,00-a-year minister for independence when we need everyone's focus on the cost of living crisis is completely beyond my comprehension.\"\n\nDonald Cameron, Scottish Conservative constitution spokesman, added: \"Jamie Hepburn couldn't have made it more obvious that the SNP have no intention of tackling Scotland's real priorities.\n\n\"They're having yet another conference, just for their members, on how to break up the UK - something Scots decisively rejected.\"\n\nThey want Scottish independence to be achieved by a process which is beyond any legal or moral dispute and in clear accordance with international law.\n\nTheir ideal scenario is a second independence referendum on a straightforward yes-no question.\n\nBut the Supreme Court made it clear that Holyrood does not have the power to hold one without UK government permission.\n\nThere are a number of other options - none of them straightforward.\n\nOne argument is that a future election - perhaps the next general election or Scottish Parliament election- could be turned into a defacto referendum.\n\nIf more than 50% of people voted for the SNP or another pro-independence party, it would be considered by them to be a vote for independence itself. The hope of those who advance that argument would be that this would quickly result in an actual referendum on independence itself.\n\nAnother argument is that SNP MPs could try to \"force\" a future Westminster government which was short of a majority to concede a referendum in return for their support.\n\nBut both Labour and the Conservatives are adamant that will not happen.\n\nThen there is the argument that the best way forward for supporters of independence is simply to keep on trying to increase support for it.\n\nThey would contend that, sooner or later, the point could come when it was clear that independence was consistently supported by a significant majority of Scots so it would be impossible in practice to deny a referendum.\n\nThese ideas, and other strategies, will no doubt be discussed at next month's convention.", "George Logan as Dr Evadne Hinge (right), with Patrick Fyffe as Dame Hilda Bracket\n\nEntertainer George Logan, one part of the the Hinge and Bracket comedy and musical act, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHe played Dr Evadne Hinge in the duo, who were well known in the 1970s and 80s with TV shows on the BBC and a radio programme on BBC Radio 2.\n\nSouth Lanarkshire-born Logan launched his drag routine with Patrick Fyffe to acclaim at the 1974 Edinburgh Festival.\n\nThe pair also performed on two Royal Variety shows and appeared for royalty on more than 15 occasions.\n\nThe characters Hinge and Bracket were elderly women living in a fictional Sussex village, who spent their time reminiscing about their careers in classical music. The pair both sang, with Hinge playing along on the piano.\n\nThey appeared in the series Hinge and Bracket on BBC One from 1978 to 81, and on Dear Ladies, which ran on BBC Two in 1983 and 1984.\n\nLogan (right) and Fyffe pictured in 1974\n\nFyffe, who played Dame Hilda Bracket, died at the age of 60 in 2002.\n\nIn an interview with Bent magazine in 2008, Logan was asked if he and Fyffe felt like pioneers with their drag act.\n\n\"I don't think we did,\" he said. \"We thought we'd come up with a fairly original idea at the time… and were just out to have a bit of fun. I think we were sort of basing our characters on the likes of Joyce Grenfell, Margaret Rutherford… a sort of typical, if strange, rural, old English village life.\"\n\nIn 2015, he wrote about his experiences of growing up as an openly gay man in 1960s Glasgow in his book A Boy Called Audrey.\n\nBroadcaster and writer Gyles Brandreth, who scripted the comedy duo's Dear Ladies series, described Logan on Twitter as \"a very funny, very brilliant man - a wonderful musician & a great entertainer\".\n\nFellow broadcaster and former newsreader Jan Leeming also tweeted her condolences, adding that Logan was \"incredibly funny\".\n\nLogan's death was confirmed by his family on Sunday.", "Josh Freese will join the band on their new tour, which starts on Wednesday\n\nUS rock band the Foo Fighters have unveiled their new drummer following the death of Taylor Hawkins last year.\n\nIn a live stream on Sunday, the band announced that Josh Freese, a longtime friend of singer Dave Grohl, will join them on their forthcoming world tour.\n\nFreese has played for a variety of top acts around the world including Devo, Guns N' Roses, Sting and The Vandals.\n\nThe band previously said they would continue performing after Hawkins died in March 2022 at the age of 50.\n\nFreese's first show with Foo Fighters will take place in New Hampshire on Wednesday, the opening leg of a global tour that will run until the autumn.\n\nIt will be the first time the band have performed live since their two memorial concerts for Hawkins last September.\n\nFreese himself performed with Foo Fighters at those concerts, playing on Hawkins' drums.\n\n\"I was asked what drums I'd like to use,\" he wrote on Instagram at the time. \"Without hesitation I said, 'Taylor's drums need to be up there and I want to play on his exact set-up.'\"\n\nTaylor Hawkins played with Foo Fighters for nearly two decades\n\nOther musicians including Sir Paul McCartney, Queen and Mark Ronson also paid tribute to the late drummer at the concerts.\n\nAt the end of 2022, the band said: \"Without Taylor, we never would have become the band that we were. And without Taylor, we know that we're going to be a different band going forward.\"\n\nNo cause of death for Hawkins has been announced. A toxicology report showed traces of 10 substances in his body, including opioids, marijuana and antidepressants.", "Dr Hill said it was time to \"make sure young people who experience similar events... get the best possible care\"\n\nSome young survivors of the Manchester Arena attack have not received professional support despite wanting it, a research study has found.\n\nHundreds of youngsters were physically or mentally injured in the bombing in May 2017, which killed 22 people.\n\nA study by Lancaster University and the National Emergencies Trust (NET) found support in the aftermath was limited.\n\nThe Home Office said a \"review into the support package provided to victims of terrorism\" was under way.\n\nTwenty-two people died and hundreds were injured when a suicide bomber detonated a homemade device in the foyer of Manchester Arena as crowds left an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nThe university and NET launched an online survey in August 2022, asking children and young people who were caught up in the attack to share their experiences as part of a project to identify what support would be most beneficial to young survivors.\n\nThe organisations said more than 200 people had taken part in the research, all of whom were under 18 at the time of the attack.\n\nThey said about 150 of those who responded had been psychologically injured, but about 60 had not received any professional support, about 25 of whom also stated they had never been offered it.\n\nThey added that while the vast majority of those taking part had felt they needed support in the aftermath, about 140 had received no professional help within the first month and just over 60 remained in the same position after the first year.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed by a suicide bomber after an Ariana Grande concert\n\nThe researchers said some professional help \"offered by teachers, counsellors, GPs and others\" had \"inadvertently introduced more trauma\".\n\nOne respondent said a tutor told her that they \"should take the attack as a positive experience\" which would make them \"a stronger person\", another said when they asked for help, \"they brushed me off and put it down to just teenage hormones\", while a third said a GP \"totally dismissed\" their feelings.\n\nHowever, the study also found examples of \"incredible pastoral care in schools, where individuals went above and beyond to support young survivors' new needs\".\n\nOne respondent said their teacher was there for them when they \"needed to sit out of lessons or talk about what had affected me that day\", while another said meeting other survivors for the first time had helped as they had been \"greeted with open arms into a new, wonderful, kind safe space\".\n\nThe research was led by Dr Cath Hill, who also survived the attack.\n\nShe said the findings showed that the \"simple act of validating young people's views can make a huge difference to their wellbeing\", which was something all those in positions of care \"could be more mindful of should the worst happen again\".\n\n\"Equally, introducing the option of an official survivor status for children's school or college records could prevent them from having to relive their trauma time and again,\" she said.\n\nNET chief executive Mhairi Sharp said there had been \"a glaring gap in knowledge about how UK disasters affect children and young people\" and the research offered \"valuable direction for emergency funders like us\".\n\n\"We can raise awareness with our partners so that there is less onus on future survivors to seek out support [and] also offer funding to those who would like to set up peer support groups,\" she said.\n\nA Home Office representative said there was \"practical and emotional support available to anyone impacted by terrorism, including a 24/7 support line, mental health assessments and referrals, and long-term peer support\".\n\nThey said the government had \"worked to strengthen the support available to victims of terrorism, but we know there is still more to do\".\n\n\"The Home Office Victims of Terrorism Unit is currently conducting an internal review into the support package provided to victims of terrorism, to better address their needs following a terrorist attack,\" they added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Jennifer Lawrence, pictured in late 2022, is the producer on a new documentary called Bread and Roses, which explores the day-to-day lives of three women in Afghanistan\n\n\"You only oppress women,\" the young woman says to the Taliban fighter.\n\n\"I told you not to talk,\" he shouts back, \"I will kill you right here!\"\n\n\"Okay, kill me!\" she replies, raising her voice to match his. \"You closed schools and universities! It's better to kill me!\"\n\nA camera phone has secretly, and shakily, captured this direct confrontation inside a car between the woman and the militant.\n\nShe had just been arrested following a protest and was about to be taken to a holding cell in Kabul.\n\nIt is a scene from the documentary Bread and Roses, which explores the day-to-day lives of three women in the weeks following the takeover.\n\nThe producer is the Oscar-winning actress, Jennifer Lawrence, who is telling the BBC why this moment in the film is so significant to her.\n\n\"My heart was beating so fast watching these women defy the Taliban,\" Lawrence says. \"You don't see this side of the story, women fighting back, in the news every day and it's an important part of our film, and the stories of these women.\"\n\nShe says it is devastating to think about the sudden loss of control Afghan women have endured.\n\n\"They currently have no autonomy within their country. It is so important for them to be given the opportunity to document their own story, in their own way.\"\n\nThe film has been made by Excellent Cadaver, the production company Lawrence set up in 2018 with her friend Justine Ciarrocchi.\n\n\"This documentary was born out of emotion and necessity,\" says Lawrence, who describes feeling helpless and frustrated about what she was seeing on the news.\n\nCiarrocchi says that Lawrence \"had a seismic reaction to the fall of Kabul in 2021 because the circumstances were so dire for women\".\n\n\"And she said, 'We've got to give somebody a platform to tell this story in a meaningful way.'\"\n\nThat somebody was Sahra Mani, a documentary maker who co-founded the independent Kabul production company, Afghan Doc House.\n\n(l-r) Director of Bread and Roses, Sahra Mani, editor Hayedeh Safiyar, Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi.\n\nBoth Lawrence and Ciarrocchi had watched her critically acclaimed documentary A Thousand Girls Like Me, which profiles a 23-year-old Afghan woman who goes on national television to expose sexual abuse by her father, after being ignored by her family and the police.\n\nCiarrocchi tracked down Mani, who said that she had already begun a project, following three women in the country as they tried to establish some kind of autonomy in the months following the Taliban takeover, as girls and women were barred from universities and schools.\n\nMani filmed using covert cameras, and even asked the women to film themselves at safehouses with their friends and families.\n\nAnother sequence captures a secret meeting in a windowless basement, off a side street in Kabul. More than a dozen women sit in rows of desks and chairs, arranged like a makeshift classroom. Steam rises from the drinks in their plastic cups.\n\nThey do not know each other, but all are from different groups who protested after the Taliban retook Afghanistan in August 2021.\n\nOne of the women, a dentist called Zahra, has led the viewer to this secret meeting. When she speaks to the group, she reminisces about wearing high heels and perfume and going to the park with her friends. The women around her smile.\n\nBread and Roses was secretly filmed with the use of multiple covert cameras in the weeks following the fall of Kabul.\n\n\"Women must write their own history,\" Vahideh says passionately to the group, to murmurs of agreement. \"Women are not properly celebrated around the world.\"\n\nMani was well aware of the challenges of filming in such private and dangerous situations.\n\n\"I understand how to deal with difficulties because I am one of them.\n\n\"They are not victims,\" she says, \"they are heroes.\"\n\nBut getting the balance right between keeping the women safe and telling their story was not easy. She tells the BBC that there were several late-night conversations between her, Ciarrocchi and Lawrence during the production process.\n\n\"They were there whenever I faced any issues or problems,\" Mani says. \"When women unite, everything is possible.\"\n\nJennifer Lawrence pictured with director Sahra Mani and producer Justine Ciarrocchi at the Cannes film festival\n\nWith Mani and the other women featured now all out of the country, the producers felt comfortable submitting Bread and Roses for wider distribution, starting at Cannes.\n\nCiarrocchi and Lawrence say their next challenge is to get the film in front of a large audience - not always easy when the story is a snapshot of an ongoing and devastating conflict.\n\n\"There's not an end to this story,\" says Lawrence, \"and you feel pretty much helpless when thinking about how to do anything about it. It's a hard thing to market.\"\n\nAs women executive producers, Ciarrocchi and Lawrence are still in the minority in Hollywood. A 2022 study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film showed that women comprised only 24% of directors, writers and producers in the top-grossing films, a decrease from 2021.\n\n\"I think there's a long, long way to go, but I do feel inspired and positive by the end product when you have more diversity in filmmaking,\" says Lawrence. \"It's what people want. The audiences want it.\"\n\nCiarrocchi adds: \"That's why we take the responsibility of Jen's platform so seriously as a woman who's giving opportunities to other women... to employ women, to tell women's stories, to always employ a diverse body of people.\"\n\n\"That's also because I am a woman,\" replies Lawrence.\n\n\"I'm lucky enough to not have the biased idea that women aren't as good at things!\"", "The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the most prestigious of Britain's many such shows, is under way in London.\n\nThe annual display of cutting-edge floral designs is held in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.\n\nKing Charles and Queen Camilla visited the gardens including The Royal Tribute Garden which featured the late Queen's favourite flowers and the King's plants from his Sandringham Estate.\n\nEarlier in the day, Catherine, Princess of Wales, hosted a children's picnic at a newly created garden at the show.\n\nTen schools from the Royal Horticultural Society's school gardening campaign were invited to bring pupils along, marking the first time in the event's 110-year history that a children's picnic has taken place.\n\nDame Joanna Lumley posed for a photograph at the Horatio charity garden during an early viewing for special guests and the media before the show opens to the general public.\n\nHoratio's Garden by Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg is designed to be an immersive, restorative and accessible haven, to be viewed from a bed or from a wheelchair.\n\nDJ Jo Wiley, Baroness Benjamin and Deborah Meaden also made it along to the early view.\n\nIn an historic first for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Manoj Malde, who designed the vibrant and colourful RHS and Eastern Eye Garden of Unity, married his partner Clive Gillmor in the garden on Monday morning.\n\nA bronze head of King Charles III sculpted by Keziah Burt was installed as part of the garden of 'royal reflection and celebration'.\n\nThe garden was designed by Dave Green to celebrate the recent coronation.\n\nExhibitors have been making last-minute adjustments to their displays before the gates open on Tuesday for the exhibition, which runs until 27 May.\n\nGarden designer Tom Massey undertakes some pruning in the Royal Entomological Society show garden ahead of the opening.\n\nDesigner Jihae Hwang appeared in her Korean-inspired garden - A Letter From a Million Years Past.\n\nTV personality Vicky Pattison slept out at the Chelsea Flower Show for Centrepoint to raise awareness about youth homelessness in the UK.\n\nThe focal point of the Centrepoint Garden by designer Cleve West is a part-demolished house where nature has taken over.\n\n\"The mixed planting, including so-called 'weeds' and a fallen tree, form a thriving, natural and evolving habitat, emphasising the important role a garden plays in making a house a home,\" says the RHS.", "There is nothing suspicious about the misspelling Cobain's name\n\nA guitar smashed by Kurt Cobain, the late frontman of US rock band Nirvana, has sold at auction for nearly $600,000 (£480,000).\n\nThe broken black Fender Stratocaster had been expected to sell for a tenth of that amount at Saturday's auction at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York.\n\nCobain, who took his own life in 1994, was known for his intense performances.\n\nThe guitar was destroyed as Nirvana were working on their break-out album Nevermind in the early 1990s.\n\nIt has been put back together but is no longer playable.\n\nThe instrument is signed by all three band members in a silver marker. It also features an affectionate inscription by Cobain to his friend and musical collaborator Mark Lanegan - who died last year.\n\nCobain, who often misspelt his own name, signed the instrument \"Kurdt Kobain\".\n\nCobain shot to worldwide fame in the early 1990s as Nirvana's creative force\n\nThe grunge pioneer is known to have smashed a number of Fender Stratocasters during his career.\n\n\"The man was angry, and you could feel that on stage. And you would feel that by the way he would treat his instruments,\" Kody Frederick of Julien's Auctions told AFP news agency.\n\nThe Fender Stratocaster went on sale with an estimated price of $60,000-$80,000. Julien's called the closing bid of $596,900 \"astounding\".\n\nAccording to the auction house, Cobain gave the guitar to Lanegan during the North American leg of Nirvana's Nevermind tour in 1992.\n\nThe identity of the buyer is not known. The auctioneers name the previous owner as Tony Palmer.\n\nTwo years ago, the acoustic guitar Cobain used for his legendary MTV Unplugged performance in late 1993 sold for $6m.\n\nJulien's ongoing three-day sale also includes memorabilia from other music legends including Elvis Presley, Freddie Mercury, Janet Jackson, and Dolly Parton. It concludes on Sunday.", "Jack Rigby was only two years old when his father was murdered outside Woolwich Barracks\n\nThe son of murdered soldier Lee Rigby has raised more than £40,000 to help other bereaved forces children and \"in honour\" of his father.\n\nJack Rigby, 12, was two years old when his father was murdered by Islamist extremists outside Woolwich Barracks.\n\nJack, who now lives in Halifax, West Yorkshire, is raising money for the Scotty's Little Soldiers charity.\n\nHe has run a total of 26.2 miles this month to mark the 10th anniversary of his father's death on 22 May 2013.\n\nJack has already beaten his £10,000 target for running in the Scotty's May Marathon, which he said aimed \"to raise £1,000 for every year my dad has been gone\".\n\nThe 12-year-old was supported by the tri-service Scotty's Little Soldiers charity, which helps children and young people aged up to 25 who are grieving the death of a parent who served in the British armed forces.\n\nThe 12-year-old has raised more than £40,000 for the Scotty's Little Soldiers tri-service charity\n\nFusilier Rigby, from Middleton, Greater Manchester, died as a result of multiple cut and stab wounds following the attack in London in 2013.\n\nHe was returning to his barracks in south-east London when he was attacked by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.\n\nThe men - who were Muslim converts - drove at him in a car before continuing to attack him.\n\nAdebolajo was given a whole-life term and Adebowale was jailed for a minimum of 45 years.\n\nIn a video thanking those who had donated to the fundraiser, Jack's mother, Rebecca, 40, said: \"The amount that's been raised so far is absolutely phenomenal.\n\n\"I am immensely proud of Jack for everything he is doing to raise funds and awareness for Scotty's - and to do something positive in Lee's name.\n\n\"May's not an easy time for us and doing this is really helping Jack to get through this difficult period, so thank you.\"\n\nFusilier Lee Rigby was murdered by Islamist extremists on 22 May 2013\n\nWriting on his fundraising page, Jack said: \"My dad Fusilier Lee Rigby was murdered on May 22nd 2013 when I was only two and a half years old.\n\n\"This year marks the 10-year anniversary. It's never easy, but this year feels even harder for some reason.\n\n\"My mom registered me with Scotty's in 2013 and I have been a proud member ever since.\"\n\nHe added that he now wanted to be able to \"give something back\".\n\n\"With your help donating, we can help Scotty's to continue supporting hundreds of bereaved military children just like me,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PRONI: 'It's like a window into the past'\n\nA treasure trove of Northern Ireland's rarest historical records is being showcased as part of a new project.\n\nOne hundred significant documents are being collated by the public records office to mark its centenary year.\n\nIt includes diaries from the Irish famine and handwritten accounts from the Easter Rising.\n\nIt also features minutes of a meeting in the aftermath of the sinking of the Titanic as directors of Harland and Wolff recorded the deaths.\n\nThe Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) is the official place of deposit for historical records in Northern Ireland and is part of the Department for Communities.\n\nThe office also collects a wide range of archives from private sources and currently holds about three and a half million records.\n\nThe Public Records Office of Ireland, which was based in the Four Courts in central Dublin, was destroyed in 1922 by fire in the Irish Civil War, along with countless precious records.\n\nPRONI was then established in Northern Ireland in 1924, just after the partition of Ireland.\n\nIt is now highlighting some of its rarest documents as part of year-long events marking its centenary.\n\nPRONI's acting director David Huddleston said: \"We're highlighting these 100 documents in our centenary year in the hope that it will help the public realise they have access to all this history that they mightn't realise is here.\n\n\"Although we've been collecting for a century, we have documents that go back many hundreds of years, it's like having a window into the past.\"\n\nLynsey Gillespie, PRONI's outreach and engagement officer, said a handwritten account of the 1916 Easter Rising was one of her favourite documents in the centenary collection.\n\nA diary written by a County Down woman during a trip to Dublin in April 1916 is part of the collection\n\nIt is a diary written by Eva Chichester from County Down during a trip to Dublin in April 1916.\n\nMs Gillespie said: \"She's going on a bit of a girls' trip for some shopping, but when she gets down there, what we now know as the Easter Rising kicks off and she's just furious that her plans have been up ended.\n\n\"So it's a really different perspective on this hugely historical event.\"\n\nA Royal Patent from 1622 is part of the collection\n\nOther documents in the collection include a Royal Patent from 1622 appointing James Hamilton as Viscount Clandeboye. It includes a coloured and gilded royal portrait.\n\nA Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association poster from 1968 reading 'A civil rights march will be held in Derry on Saturday, 5th Oct' is also in the collection.\n\nAnd there is a file containing detailed notes of the first formal meeting between NIO officials and a Sinn Féin delegation led by Martin McGuinness in 1994.\n\nThe collection includes a a diary of a County Down farmer recorded between 1818 and 1864\n\nDiaries of farmer James Harshaw from Donaghmore in County Down recorded between 1818 and 1864 also appear in the collection, giving an account of life through a turbulent period, including the potato famine.\n\nThere is a letter from 1885 relating to teenage sisters who emigrated from County Fermanagh to the USA to make a new life, covering everything from romance to religion and politics.\n\nThe full list containing the 100 items will be unveiled at an event in June on the anniversary of the legislation that created the records office.", "China says products made by US memory chip giant Micron Technology are a national security risk.\n\nThe country's cyberspace regulator announced on Sunday that America's biggest maker of memory chips poses \"serious network security risks\".\n\nIt means the firm's products will be banned from key infrastructure projects in the world's second largest economy.\n\nIt is China's first major move against a US chip maker, as tensions increase between Beijing and Washington.\n\nThe announcement is the latest development in a deepening row between the US and China over the technology crucial to economies around the world.\n\nThe long-running dispute has seen Washington impose a series of measures against Beijing's chip making industry and invest billions of dollars to boost America's semiconductor sector.\n\nIn a statement, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said: \"The review found that Micron's products have serious network security risks, which pose significant security risks to China's critical information infrastructure supply chain, affecting China's national security.\"\n\nThe CAC did not give details of the risks it said it had found or in which Micron products it had found them.\n\nA Micron spokesperson confirmed to the BBC that the company had \"received the CAC's notice following its review of Micron products sold in China\".\n\n\"We are evaluating the conclusion and assessing our next steps. We look forward to continuing to engage in discussions with Chinese authorities,\" they added.\n\nIn response, the US government said it would work with allies to address what it called \"distortions of the memory chip market caused by China's actions\".\n\n\"We firmly oppose restrictions that have no basis in fact,\" a US Commerce Department spokesperson said.\n\n\"This action, along with recent raids and targeting of other American firms, is inconsistent with [China's] assertions that it is opening its markets and committed to a transparent regulatory framework.\"\n\nMicron's share price tumbled by 5.3% in pre-market trading in the US.\n\nAnalysts at investment banking group Jefferies said \"the ultimate impact [of the ban] on Micron will be quite limited\" because it does not rely on the Chinese government or telecommunication for most of the sales it generates in the country.\n\nMicron's chip customers in China are mostly concentrated in smartphones and personal computers.\n\nBut CJ Muse, an analyst at Evercore ISI, said there was a risk that Micron customers in China might move away from the firm to its rivals Samsung and SK Hynix, both of which are based in South Korea.\n\n\"The US, meantime, has urged South Korea not to fill any China shortfalls,\" he said.\n\nChina is a key market for Micron and generated around 10% of its full-year sales. In 2022, Micron reported total revenue of $30.7bn (£24.6bn), of which $3.3bn came from mainland China.\n\nIt also has manufacturing facilities in the country.\n\nThe CAC's announcement came a day after a G7 leaders meeting in Japan issued a joint statement which criticised China, including its use of \"economic coercion\".\n\nOn Sunday, US President Joe Biden said G7 nations were looking to \"de-risk and diversify our relationship with China\".\n\n\"That means taking steps to diversify our supply chains,\" he added.\n\nMicron chief executive Sanjay Mehrotra attended the summit in Hiroshima as part of a group of business leaders.\n\nLast week, the company said it would invest around 500bn yen ($3.6bn; £2.9bn) to develop technology in Japan.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo teenage boys died in a crash before a riot broke out in Cardiff which left several police officers injured.\n\nCars were set alight and fireworks thrown at police as 100 to 150 people gathered in Ely on Monday night.\n\nPolice dismissed social media rumours that they were involved in the crash, saying officers arrived at the scene afterwards.\n\nThe link between the crash and the disorder was unclear, South Wales' police and crime commissioner said.\n\n\"It would appear that there were rumours, and those rumours became rife, of a police chase - which wasn't the case,\" Alun Michael said.\n\n\"And I think it illustrates the speed with which rumours can run around with the activity that goes on on social media nowadays - and that events can get out of hand.\"\n\nMr Michael said up to 12 officers had been injured in the disorder.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesperson said what had happened was \"appalling and completely unacceptable\".\n\nFirst Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford said he was \"very concerned\" by the \"upsetting reports\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Taxi driver Ahmad Abdullah was in his living room when he began hearing \"screaming and shouting\"\n\nSouth Wales Police was called to the fatal crash on Snowden Road shortly after 18:00 BST on Monday.\n\nAt around 20:00, police tweeted that they were still at the scene of collision but also working to \"de-escalate ongoing disorder\".\n\nThe force said it received a large number of calls from \"understandably frightened\" residents.\n\nBy 01:10 BST on Tuesday, police said a number of vehicles had been set alight and arrests were being made.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe force said its thoughts were with the families of the two boys who had died as well as those affected by the rioting.\n\nMore arrests would follow, a police spokesperson said.\n\n\"Our focus now is to fully investigate the circumstances of the collision and the appalling scenes that followed\", the spokesperson added.\n\nA car was tipped on its roof and left burnt out at the scene\n\nMr Michael told BBC Radio 4's Today that the crash in which the two teenagers died was \"being investigated in its own right\", but that it appeared to have sparked the disorder.\n\nBut he said that the connection between the two events was \"far from clear\".\n\n\"So obviously there's going to be investigations going on this morning to try and establish what happened\", Mr Michael said.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said it had not been asked to investigate the fatal crash or the riot in Ely.\n\nFloral tributes were left at the scene in Ely, Cardifff\n\nEly is an estate on the western side of Cardiff, roughly five miles (8km) from the city centre.\n\nLocal resident Ahmad Abdullah, 34, said he heard threats from rioters to \"kill\" police officers at the scene.\n\n\"They said that they would not stop until they killed a police officer.\n\n\"Now the people in this community don't feel safe now. We feel it could escalate at any time.\"\n\nYoung people were chasing police officers up the road, throwing stones and missiles at cars, he said.\n\nRiot police attended the scene of disorder in the district of Ely in Cardiff\n\nMr Abdullah, a taxi driver who lives with his wife and three children in the street where the rioting took place, said police officers used fire extinguishers to put out missiles that had been set on fire and thrown at cars.\n\n\"They damaged my taxi, my next door neighbour's car too. They were throwing stones at my front door, bricks too.\n\n\"It was like they were throwing missiles. Like a rocket.\n\n\"I thought to myself, it is the end of the world now,\" he said.\n\nThe vicar of Ely said something has been \"simmering\" in the area for some time.\n\nCanon Jan Gould told BBC Radio 5 Live's Nicky Campbell: \"It is not uncommon in the summer to hear helicopters keeping an eye on things. It is becoming more and more of a problem.\"\n\nShe added: \"My heart bleeds for Ely.\"\n\nTwo police cars were damaged in the disorder, with pictures showing one with its windscreen broken and its wing mirrors hanging off.\n\nA car left vandalised in the Ely district of Cardiff\n\nA member of the public was also attacked because some of those gathered thought they were an undercover police officer, according to one of the senior officers at the scene.\n\nAt least two parked cars were set alight, one of them after being tipped onto its roof.\n\nJane Palmer said she and her family watched from a window as people outside set fire to her car.\n\n\"I'm disabled so now I'm trapped without my car,\" she said.\n\n\"Why are they doing this? It's just silly now.\"\n\nLitter and burnt cars were left on the street in Ely, Cardiff\n\nAs the disorder continued into the early hours of the morning, those gathered moved down nearby Highmead Road as police attempted to disperse them.\n\nPolice, including officers on horseback, were seen outside Ely police station amid suggestions that it could be targeted.\n\nJohn Urquhart, who lives in Ely, witnessed the incident escalate from the start of the evening.\n\nHe said the vast majority of people were in the street because they \"wanted to know what would happen next\", and added that there was \"a very small number of people actually doing any sort of violence.\"\n\nMr Urquhart said he was very \"counter-violence\" and offered first aid to people during the evening.\n\nAnother resident, who did not want to be named, said those behind the violence were \"kids\", and that it had \"crossed a line\" and \"needs to stop\".\n\nAre you in the area? Did you witness the disorder? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "It is understood Jayne Brady has asked the parties to meet her on Thursday to discuss preparations for a future executive\n\nThe head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service has asked political parties entitled to form a government at Stormont to meet her later this week.\n\nIn a letter to the four largest parties, Jayne Brady said budget pressures had been compounded by a \"governance gap\".\n\nThere is no functioning executive or assembly because of the DUP's protest against post-Brexit trade rules.\n\nSinn Féin is now the largest party in the assembly and in local government.\n\nAfter last week's council election, it said voters wanted power-sharing to return.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mary Lou McDonald (left) says many voters are frustrated that Michelle O'Neill has been blocked from becoming first minister\n\nOn Monday, Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy, a former finance minister, told BBC News NI the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) could \"help us all\" by returning to the executive.\n\nA united voice among ministers could help secure a financial package from the UK government, he added, which he said had offered \"the worst possible budget\" to punish people in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has denied this and previously said the budget was to ensure services could continue in the absence of a devolved government.\n\nIn her letter to Sinn Féin, the DUP, the Alliance Party and the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Ms Brady wrote that only elected ministers can take \"major policy decisions\", some of which are required for departments to make savings in the budget for 2023-24.\n\nStormont officials have already said they believe they will need to find £800m in cuts and revenue-raising measures.\n\nMs Brady's letter warned that \"leaves the accounting officer in the invidious position of having no lawful means to ensure full compliance with the duty to remain within budget limits\".\n\n\"As a result, the spending trajectory currently exceeds the budget, and this will remain the case until and unless ministerial decision-making is restored,\" it added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says an Irish border poll is not inevitable after Sinn Féin's victory in the council elections\n\nMs Brady went on to emphasise that even if an executive was formed and accompanied by an additional financial package from Westminster, it was still \"highly likely\" that the budgetary position will remain very challenging.\n\n\"An incoming executive would be faced with a series of choices, made all the more challenging because they would fall to be taken part way through the financial year,\" she added.\n\nIt is understood she has asked the parties to meet her on Thursday to discuss preparations for a future executive.\n\nThis will include looking at recovery and transformation of public services in the context of the 2023/24 budget and outlining priorities for an incoming government.\n\nFollowing the council election, Sinn Féin's vice-president, Michelle O'Neill, said the onus was on the British and Irish governments to focus efforts on the immediate restoration of the assembly.\n\nShe also called for an urgent meeting of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference.\n\nParty leader Mary Lou McDonald said the election result was a \"monumental endorsement\" for Sinn Féin.\n\nMs McDonald added they had \"broken new ground\" with elected representatives in Lisburn, Ballymena and Coleraine for the first time.\n\n\"We now have a huge mandate,\" she continued.\n\n\"We know with that mandate comes a huge responsibility.\"\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said his party's stance had been backed by voters in last week's election.\n\nHe said it \"would be disservice to the people of Northern Ireland\" for the party to return to devolved government while their concerns on post-Brexit trade arrangements remain unresolved.\n\nNow the second largest party in local government, the DUP returned 122 councillors, the same number as the 2019 council poll, which he said was a clear mandate to \"finish the job\".\n\nHowever, Sir Jeffrey acknowledged his party \"need to be winning more seats\".\n\nIn a sense Jayne Brady's letter is a bit of a plea for help because she is a civil servant, she is not political in any way.\n\nHer letter lays bare the scale of the tasks that she and her staff are having to deal with.\n\nShe makes it very clear that unless Stormont comes back, or the secretary of state steps in, then those bigger decisions that are needed to get the budget under control are just not able to happen.\n\nThere's a big problem here if they don't get back in or if somebody doesn't take control of the reins.\n\nOn Thursday, Sinn Féin won 39 more seats than its 2019 council performance, reaching 144 seats across Northern Ireland's councils.\n\nThe cross-community Alliance Party also had a positive result, increasing its number of councillors by 14 to 67.\n\nHaving come third in last May's assembly election, the gains mean the party takes up the same position at council level.\n\nAfter Jayne Brady's letter, Paula Bradshaw, an Alliance Party MLA, said it was unfair to ask civil servants to make major budget decisions.\n\nShe added that while more money for public services was needed, fundamental reform was needed in the delivery of public services.\n\nThe election, however, resulted in net losses for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris denied that he set a budget to \"punish\" people\n\nOn Monday, UUP deputy leader Robbie Butler said Ms Brady's letter was \"absolutely no surprise\" given the state of the budgetary pressures.\n\nReflecting on his party's electoral performance, Mr Butler told Good Morning Ulster there was an \"apathy\" among voters in some unionist areas.\n\n\"It's not on the people, it's on politicians like myself, who have to pony up here and say 'what's the bit that's missing?',\" he said.\n\nFormer UUP leader Tom Elliot called for a cross-party \"think tank\" to boost unionist votes following what he described as a \"massive Sinn Féin surge\".\n\n\"We must make the union front and centre of politics with a recognition that side issues - no matter how important they are to us - are still side issues,\" Mr Elliott told the Belfast Telegraph.\n\nThe SDLP's Matthew O'Toole said it was a \"tough election for us with notable bright spots\".\n\n\"Losing 20 seats is never a good day,\" he said, adding that his party has \"huge potential\".\n\nChris Heaton-Harris said he was in \"close contact\" with parties about doing everything possible to lead to the restoration of the executive.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland business groups have questioned whether the civil service will be able to implement the Windsor Framework on its current timetable.\n\nThe framework governs post-Brexit trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is a revision of the protocol which was agreed by the UK and EU in 2019.\n\nLast week, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said more operational detail would be provided soon.\n\nThe NI Business Brexit Working Group, which represents most business organisations in Northern Ireland, said its member companies are \"concerned about capacity levels within the civil service, UK systems and businesses to implement significant change in such challenging timescales\".\n\n\"Retailers and their suppliers will make every effort to be ready and compliant, but very significant work will be required, including changing processes across the supply chain and adopting new IT systems,\" the group added.\n\nYou can listen to the BBC's 5 Questions On, where Ireland Correspondent Chris Page explains the significance of the 2023 council election.", "A defiant Volodymyr Zelensky has insisted Bakhmut \"is not occupied\" by Russia after a Moscow-backed mercenary group had claimed control.\n\nUkraine's president was speaking during a scene-stealing visit to Hiroshima, Japan, for the G7 summit.\n\nBut Ukrainian military sources told the BBC they still had control of a handful of buildings on the outskirts of the city.\n\nAt a press conference on the final day of the summit, Mr Zelensky refused to provide precise details. But he said the city, where the war's longest and bloodiest battle has raged since August, was \"not occupied\" by Russia \"as of today\".\n\n\"There are no two or three interpretations of those words,\" he added, after earlier confusion about his remarks on the status of the city.\n\nIt was in a video posted on Saturday that Wagner's Mr Prigozhin claimed his fighters - who have led the Russian assault on Bakhmut - were in full control of the city.\n\nMr Zelensky compared Bakhmut to Hiroshima, which was hit by an atomic bomb in World War Two, promising a similar \"reconstruction\" of his country.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, he visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida - whose relatives died when the United States dropped the bomb on the city in 1945.\n\nMr Zelensky laid a wreath for those who were killed in the attack.\n\nOn Sunday, Zelensky and Japanesee PM Fumio Kishida visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park\n\nAfter a meeting with Mr Kishida, he strode into an auditorium at the peace park to speak to reporters.\n\nAs he entered, one journalist shouted from the back of the room: \"Slava Ukraini\" (glory to Ukraine). Mr Zelensky nodded to acknowledge her.\n\nHe drew several parallels between Hiroshima and Ukraine, saying that pictures of the Japanese city in ruins after bombing reminded him of present-day Bakhmut. He vowed there would be a similar \"reconstruction and recovery\" of Ukraine.\n\n\"Now Hiroshima has rebuilt their city, and we dream of rebuilding our cities,\" he said.\n\nThere had earlier been some confusion about the status of Bakhmut, after Mr Zelensky said \"today Bakhmut is only in our hearts\".\n\nHis office later clarified that he had not said that the city had fallen.\n\nBut Russian fighters at least control most of Bakhmut. Wagner mercenaries have concentrated their efforts there for months, and their relentless, costly tactic of sending in waves of men seems to have gradually eroded Kyiv's resistance.\n\nUkrainian forces have resisted calls for a tactical withdrawal to this point, but say that if they did pull out it would be a \"Pyrrhic victory\" for the Russians.\n\nMr Zelensky also alluded to his troops continuing to carry out \"important work\" in the area.\n\nThe commander of Ukraine's ground forces later said Kyiv's forces were making advances on the outskirts of Bakhmut and were getting closer to a \"tactical encirclement\" of the city.\n\nGen Oleksandr Syrskyi added that he had visited troops on the frontline.\n\nThe Institute for the Study of War (ISW) appeared to corroborate Gen Syrskyi's claims, writing in a ground report that \"geolocated footage\" showed a Ukrainian brigade \"striking unspecified Russian forces south of Klishchiivka, 7km south-west of Bakhmut\".\n\nAnalysts say the city is of little strategic value to Moscow, but its capture would be a symbolic victory for Russia after the longest battle of the war in Ukraine so far.\n\nHowever, when Russia fought fiercely to claim the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk last summer, Ukraine soon reclaimed swathes of territory elsewhere.\n\nIt will no doubt be hoping to use a similar strategy for an anticipated counter-offensive this year.\n\nIn a separate piece of analysis, the ISW said Wagner had only been able to continue its sustained attack on Bakhmut City after \"Russian regular forces\" took responsibility for the flanks.\n\nIf Mr Prigozhin, Wagner's leader, sticks to his word and withdraws his forces from Bakhmut in the coming days, \"Russian conventional forces will be even more unlikely to pursue [other] offensive operations,\" the ISW added.\n\nThe war in Ukraine has dominated the three-day summit of G7 leaders in Japan, with Mr Zelensky meeting with several world leaders to lobby for more support.\n\nHis persistence paid off. At the summit, the US announced it would allow its Western allies to supply Ukraine with advanced fighter jets, including American-made F-16s.\n\nHowever, as yet no country has committed to supplying the jets to Ukraine.\n\nAsked by the BBC how confident he was about getting F-16s from his allies, Mr Zelensky said: \"We will be working on that, I'm sure… I cannot tell you how many - this is not a secret, we really don't know.\"\n\nThe BBC also asked him when his delayed spring counter-offensive would begin.\n\n\"Russia will feel when we have a counter-offensive,\" he replied.\n• None Defending the last Ukrainian streets in Bakhmut", "Actor Ray Stevenson, pictured at the premiere of Thor: Ragnarok in Los Angeles in 2017\n\nThe actor Ray Stevenson, who appeared in major TV shows such as Rome, Vikings and Dexter, has died aged 58.\n\nHe was known for roles in the Thor films and the Divergent series, as well as several UK TV shows like Band of Gold, Peak Practice and Murphy's Law.\n\nHis US-based publicist firm, Viewpoint, confirmed his death to the BBC but did not provide any further details.\n\nNo cause of death has been revealed but he was reportedly hospitalised during filming on the Italian island Ischia.\n\nAt the time of his death, he was working on an action movie, Cassino in Ischia.\n\nHis death was announced four days before his 59th birthday.\n\nRay Stevenson, pictured in April, at Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London\n\nStevenson was born in Northern Ireland but moved to England when he was eight years old.\n\nHis father was stationed with the Royal Air Force (RAF) near Lisburn, County Antrim, at the time of his birth in 1964.\n\nHis family relocated to Newcastle upon Tyne and he spent much of his childhood in England.\n\nStevenson was inspired to become an actor after seeing John Malkovich in a play at a West End theatre in London.\n\nHe studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and one of his first TV roles was in the Catherine Cookson drama The Dwelling Place.\n\nHe later appeared in a wide range of British TV shows including Waking the Dead, Dalziel and Pascoe and At Home with the Braithwaites.\n\nRay Stevenson, pictured with Keira Knightley and Ioan Gruffudd at the King Arthur premiere in 2004\n\nIn 2004, he played a knight in the big-budget Hollywood film, King Arthur, which starred Keira Knightley.\n\nMore recently, Stevenson secured roles in successful US-made TV shows and movies, taking the role of Volstagg in the Thor trilogy and Titus Pullo in HBO's historical drama series Rome.\n\nHe will star as Baylan Skoll in the upcoming Disney+ series Star Wars: Ahsoka.\n\nStevenson's co-stars have been paying tribute to the late actor on social media.\n\nEnglish actor James Purefoy, who starred alongside Stevenson in Rome, described him as a \"brilliant, gutsy, larger-than-life actor who filled every part he played right up to the brim\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRosario Dawson - who will appear in the Ashoka series alongside Stevenson - posted on Instagram to say her co-star was a \"giant of a man\" whose death left her \"stunned and reeling\".\n\nMeanwhile director James Gunn, who was involved in the production of the second Thor film, wrote that the late actor had been a \"joy to work with.\"\n\nBear McCreary, the composer who soundtracked the Black Sails TV series, saluted Stevenson's \"mesmerisingly unforgettable\" turn as Blackbeard in the programme.\n\nAnd actor Scott Adkins, who starred alongside Stevenson in Accident Man, sad he was \"shocked and saddened by the tragic news\", adding: \"I will miss you, Big Ray!\"", "The roof viewed from behind the bus after the smash\n\nA child is among the 10 people taken to hospital after a crash where a double-decker bus had its roof torn off.\n\nThe bus hit a bridge in Cook Street, Glasgow, at 11:35 on Sunday. Its normal route had been diverted for a 10k running race in the city centre.\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said that one patient was transported to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.\n\nFive others were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and four went to Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\nA number of other people were also treated by emergency services at the scene in Tradeston, south of the city centre.\n\nA Scottish Ambulance Service Spokesperson said: \"We dispatched 12 resources, as well as the Special Operations Resource Team and the Trauma Team.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFirst Bus confirmed that its No.6 service had been affected by road closures for the Race for Life in Glasgow.\n\nA company spokesperson said: \"We are continuing to work closely with the emergency services and our thoughts remain with those involved.\n\n\"A full investigation into the root cause of the incident is underway.\"\n\nThe incident is the third bus crash involving the railway bridge in the last 30 years.\n\nIn 1994 five were killed when a bus struck the bridge where it crosses West Street, about a mile from the latest incident.\n\nThey were Girl Guides Catherine McKnight and Margaret-Anne Riddick, both aged 10, Laura Cullen, 11, as well as guide leaders Mary McGreskin and Rena Dougall.\n\nIn 2010 a double-decker bus had its roof ripped off when it crashed into the structure in Cook Street.\n\nPolice said the bus was not carrying any passengers at the time and the driver was uninjured.", "Kyriakos Mitsotakis made clear he wanted to govern without the involvement of other parties\n\nGreece's conservative prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has won national elections, hailing his party's big victory as a \"political earthquake\".\n\nHis centre-right New Democracy party were heading for almost 41% of the vote, five seats short of a majority.\n\nHis centre-left rival Alexis Tsipras congratulated him, with his Syriza party set for a poor result of 20%.\n\nMr Mitsotakis said the result showed that Greeks had given his party a mandate for a four-year government.\n\n\"The people wanted the choice of a Greece run by a majority government and by New Democracy without the help of others,\" he said in a victory speech.\n\nHours earlier party supporters in Athens cheered as an exit poll indicated the unexpected scale of New Democracy's victory. As results emerged, it was clear that pre-election polls had underestimated the 20-point margin between the two main parties.\n\nMr Mitsotakis's party won 146 seats, five seats short of the 151 required for a majority. An interior ministry vote map showed all but one of Greece's electoral districts coloured in New Democracy blue.\n\nThe prime minister's remarks were taken as indication that he would not look to share power with another party but go for a second election in late June, when the winning party picks up bonus seats.\n\nGreek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou will offer him a mandate to form a coalition, which he is likely to refuse. She will then pass it to the next two parties, and if that fails she will arrange a caretaker government until new elections.\n\nThe result was an immense setback for Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras, who described his party's performance as \"extremely negative\". He came to power in 2015 campaigning against the austerity of international bailouts, but ultimately agreed to creditors' demands.\n\nThe centre-right has governed Greece for the past four years, and can boast that the country's growth last year was close to 6%.\n\nMr Mitsotakis's pitch to the nation was that only he could be trusted to steer the Greek economy forward and consolidate recent growth. Greeks appear to have responded positively - more than expected.\n\nGiorgos Adamopoulos, 47, voted for New Democracy a few hundred metres from the Acropolis in Athens.\n\nGreece deserved a better form of politics, he told the BBC, but he backed Mr Mitsotakis because he was impressed with his record after four years as prime minister.\n\nI think that he has a plan. In all my years of voting, it was the first time that I saw someone where with 80% of what he said, he did it\n\nFour years ago winning 41% of the vote would have been enough to secure a majority in Greece's 300-seat parliament.\n\nNow it requires more than 45%, because the winning party is no longer entitled to a 50-seat bonus in the first round, making a re-run more likely.\n\nMr Mitsotakis will have his eye on the extra seats he would be entitled to if he won the second election. An outright majority would give him four years in power with a cabinet of his choice.\n\nIf he were to seek coalition talks, then Syriza's socialist rival Pasok would be a potential partner, as one of the election's big winners with 11.5% of the vote.\n\nBut that would prove tricky as Pasok leader Nikos Androulakis was the target of a wiretap scandal last year.\n\nIt led to the resignations of a nephew of Mr Mitsotakis, who was working as the prime minister's chief of staff, and also of the head of Greek intelligence.\n\nMr Androulakis believes the prime minister was aware he was one of the dozens of people targeted with illegal spyware.\n\nMr Mitsotakis comes from one of Greece's most powerful political dynasties.\n\nHis father Konstantinos Mitsotakis was himself prime minister in the early 1990s; his sister Dora Bakoyannis was foreign minister and her son Kostas Bakoyannis is the current mayor of Athens.\n\nIn the end a rail tragedy in February that overshadowed the election campaign played no obvious role in the result.\n\nFifty-seven people died in the disaster, many of them students. Opposition parties highlighted the tragedy as a symptom of a dysfunctional state pared down to the bone after years of economic crisis and under-investment.\n\nGreeks have the right to vote from the age of 17, and an initial analysis of voting by Greek TV suggested that 31.5% of voters aged 17-24 backed ND, almost three points higher than Syriza.\n\nFirst-time voters Chrysanthi and Vaggelis, both 18, voted for Syriza because their generation wanted \"something new, something different\".\n\nI think everyone deserves a second chance. [Tsipras] only had four years\n\nOther than Pasok, the communist KKE party also increased their share of the vote.\n\nBut another casualty was former Syriza finance minister Yannis Varoufakis, whose MeRA25 party failed to qualify for parliament.", "The King toured the show meeting garden designers in his first visit as monarch\n\nThe King and Queen Camilla have visited the Chelsea Flower Show as displays pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe late Queen rarely missed the annual gardening show during her 70-year reign, visiting it more than 50 times.\n\nA life-size topiary of her pony Emma are among royal tributes at the annual horticultural event in London, visited by tens of thousands.\n\nThe Princess of Wales made an appearance after inspiring the idea for the show's first Children's picnic.\n\nThe King also appeared to be on the lookout for plants to fill a patch in his Gloucestershire home Highgrove, after rabbits took a liking to some of his plants.\n\nDesigner Jane Porter, who showed the King some purple flowers which caught his eye, said: \"He was really interested in one of the plants we've got because at Highgrove something's being eaten by rabbits and he wants to replace it.\n\n\"I love that, that's brilliant, he's such a keen gardener. I'm sure he would have his eye out for all sorts of things - he was very knowledgeable about everything in the garden.\"\n\nDuring the visit, the King and the Queen visited A Garden of Royal Reflection and Celebration, which features light pink and white planting and a silver birch to reflect the tastes of the late Queen, as well as blues, purples and pinks to represent the King's preferences.\n\nThe circular garden designed by Dave Green is enclosed by hedging to create a space for contemplation about the monarchy, and is overseen by a bronze bust of the King.\n\nThere the monarch presented the new Elizabeth Medal of Honour which recognises British and international non-horticulturists who have significantly advanced the science, art or practice of horticulture for the benefit of all and the environment.\n\nA topiary in the Great Pavilion depicts Emma, the late Queen's fell pony which made a poignant appearance during her coffin's procession at her funeral.\n\nThe King and Queen handed out awards in the Garden of Royal Reflection and Celebration\n\nSpeaking about the medal, RHS president Keith Weed said: \"The Royal Horticultural Society was exceptionally fortunate to have Her Majesty as our patron throughout her reign.\n\n\"This award celebrates both Her Majesty's glorious reign and the work she did to raise the profile of UK horticulture, both nationally and internationally through her visits to RHS Chelsea Flower Show and wider work.\"\n\nDespite her mobility problems, last year the late Queen attended the Chelsea Flower Show - a highlight of her calendar - in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.\n\nElsewhere on Monday, Catherine sat down with school pupils having a picnic as part of a campaign to get young people gardening, before giving them a tour of the show.\n\nDuring the visit, she revealed her son Prince Louis was \"growing broad beans at school\", before she sketched flowers and plants for the children in lieu of a signature.\n\nThe Princess of Wales met pupils from 10 schools taking part in a campaign to get children gardening\n\nCatherine looked at some of the show gardens with schoolchildren\n\nWhen asked by a pupil what being a Royal Family member was like, she replied: \"You have to work hard, but you know the best thing about it is meeting kiddies like you.\"\n\nIn 2019, the princess co-designed a Chelsea Flower Show garden to encourage the public to get back in touch with nature.\n\nIn another first, the show has hosted its first same-sex wedding.\n\nThe King and Queen met Manoj Malde, who got married to his husband in a traditional Hindu Indian ceremony in a garden he designed - featuring fruit and vegetables celebrating Asian household cooking.\n\nThe King and Queen met Manoj Malde and his husband, the first same-sex couple to get married at the Chelsea Flower Show\n\nThe Queen sitting down on swing joked \"I might stay here\"\n\nAlso for the first time in memory, women garden designers will outnumber men as they make up a reported 58% of designers at the show - which has been held every since 1913 apart from gaps during the World Wars and 2020.\n\nMore than 150,000 people are expected to visit the Chelsea Flower Show when it opens its doors on Tuesday to Saturday.", "That brings our live coverage to a close. We hope you've enjoyed delving deeper into the tools and practices used by BBC Verify to analyse images and data.\n\nThanks for all the interesting questions sent in by readers and many thanks to our BBC Verify colleagues Erwan Rivault, Daniele Palumbo, and Ukrainecast presenter Vitaly Shevchenko, who have talked us through the expertise and technology they use, as well as answering your questions.\n\nOf course it's not just big investigations these tools are used on - as I write this, BBC journalists are using these types of techniques to work out a bit more about the reports we mentioned earlier - that Ukrainian soldiers have crossed into the Russia region of Belgorod.\n• If you want to read more about how BBC Verify identified extensive defences built by Russia in preparation for a Ukrainian counter-attack, click here.\n• If you'd like how and why BBC Verify has been launched, click here.\n• And for the latest updates on Russia's war on Ukraine, click here.\n\nToday's live page was written by Malu Cursino, Gem O'Reilly, Alys Davies and Luke Mintz. It was edited by myself and Emily McGarvey.", "MP Margaret Ferrier has lost her appeal against a proposed 30-day ban from the House of Commons for breaching Covid rules.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP spoke in parliament while awaiting the results of a Covid test in September 2020.\n\nShe then took a train home to Glasgow after learning she had tested positive.\n\nFerrier was elected as an SNP MP but lost the whip following her actions and now sits as an independent.\n\nThe suspension is expected to lead to a by-election in her constituency.\n\nThe Commons' standards committee recommended in March that Ms Ferrier should be suspended.\n\nOn Monday, the independent expert panel upheld the original judgement.\n\nThe proposed ban is now expected to be endorsed by MPs, although no date has yet been set for this to take place.\n\nUnder Commons rules, if an MP is excluded for 10 days or more a so-called ''recall petition'' can take place.\n\nIf it signed by more than 10% of eligible voters in the constituency, the MP is removed from their seat and a by-election called.\n\nMargaret Ferrier campaigns with the then SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon ahead of the 2019 general election\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said: \"With this news, the by-election that the people of Rutherglen and Hamilton West need has moved one step closer.\n\n\"It is simply disgraceful that this community has been left without proper representation due to the actions of Margaret Ferrier.\"\n\nMichael Shanks, a teacher, has been chosen as Scottish Labour's candidate for a by-election.\n\n\"Instead, it looks like she will brazenly continue to take her MP salary until the bitter end,\" he added.\n\n\"Those in her constituency who were making great sacrifices during Covid will understandably be pleased she has lost this appeal against her punishment and will be looking forward to delivering their verdict at the ballot box.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat deputy leader Wendy Chamberlain MP said Ferrier had acted with \"real recklessness\".\n\nShe added: \"Rutherglen and Hamilton West deserve fresh representation and a chance to show the nationalists that they are fed up of being neglected.\"\n\nThe SNP said it had called for a by-election since Ferrier's Covid rule breach first came to light.\n\nA party spokesperson added: \"The SNP is ready to take the fight to the Tories and pro-Brexit Labour Party at that by-election - and we will be putting the cost of living, NHS and independence at the heart of our campaign.\"\n\nThe likely by-election in Rutherglen and Hamilton West will be one of the most keenly watched in Scotland for a generation.\n\nIt will be a key test for both Labour and the SNP.\n\nThe seat is one of Labour's top targets in Scotland. In 2019 Margaret Ferrier, as the SNP candidate, won the seat back from Labour with a majority of just over 5,000.\n\nIf Labour fails to win any by-election - amid both local controversy about Ms Ferrier and the current national difficulties facing the SNP - it would derail the party's hopes of a recovery in Scotland.\n\nIf it cannot regain the kind of constituency where people once joked that Labour votes were weighed rather than counted, then it would seem that talk of a Labour recovery in Scotland is overblown.\n\nSimilarly, if the SNP were to hold on - however narrowly - it would be presented as an endorsement of the new first minister, Humza Yousaf.\n\nBoth Labour and the SNP have been preparing for the possibility of a by-election for several weeks and have been canvassing.\n\nA by-election is still not inevitable - the Commons needs to back Ms Ferrier's suspension and then a sufficient number of signatures will need to be gathered in the constituency.\n\nBut the result of that by-election, if and when it is held, could well have repercussions across Scottish politics.\n\nThe MP was sentenced to 270 hours community service last year at Glasgow Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to a charge of culpable and reckless conduct.\n\nFerrier was one of the MPs who called on the then prime minister Boris Johnson's adviser Dominic Cummings to resign in the wake of the controversy over his visit to the North East of England during lockdown.\n\nAt the time, she said his actions had \"undermined the sacrifices that we have all been making in lockdown to protect each other from coronavirus\" and described his position as \"untenable\".\n\nBut it subsequently emerged that Ferrier had travelled from Glasgow to London with Covid symptoms, and then returned home by train after testing positive.\n\nScotland's then first minister Nicola Sturgeon was quick to condemn her actions as \"dangerous and indefensible\".\n\nMs Sturgeon, who stood down in February, later called \"with a heavy heart\" for Ferrier to resign as an MP.", "A beach resort bristling with fortifications. A major road lined with anti-tank ditches. Satellite analysis by BBC Verify has uncovered some of the extensive defences built by Russia as it prepares for a major Ukrainian counter-attack.\n\nAfter months of stalemate, the expected assault is likely to be a crucial test for Ukraine as it seeks to prove it can achieve significant battlefield gains with the weapons it has received from the West.\n\nBy examining hundreds of satellite images, the BBC has identified some key points in the significant build-up of trenches and other fortifications in southern Ukraine since October.\n\nThese four locations offer an insight into what Russia expects from the counter-offensive, and what defences Ukrainian forces might encounter.\n\nSeized by Russia in 2014, Crimea was formerly known for its beach resorts.\n\nNow, instead of sun loungers and parasols, the coastline stretching for 15 miles (25km) is littered with defence structures installed by Russian troops.\n\nThe image below shows the only open sandy beach on the west coast without natural defences such as cliffs or hills.\n\nFirstly, there are \"dragon's teeth\" along the shore: pyramid-shaped blocks of concrete, designed to block the path of tanks and other military vehicles.\n\nBehind them is a line of trenches, providing cover from incoming attacks. Several bunkers can also be spotted along the trenches.\n\nStacks of wood, digging machines and stores of dragon's teeth along the coast suggest building work was still in progress when the image was taken in March.\n\nSome military experts suggest the defences are likely to be a precaution, rather than a sign that Russia expects to defend a seaborne assault, since Ukraine has little naval capacity.\n\nIntelligence analyst Layla Guest says: \"The fortifications are likely in place to deter any bold Ukrainian operation to attack Crimea via the sea rather than on land.\"\n\nThe beach fortification is just one example of a vast network of trenches, as shown by the black dots in the map below, based on work by open-source analyst Brady Africk.\n\nBBC Verify has been able to identify other key fortification sites by pinpointing individual trench locations from videos on social media.\n\nOnce an exact location was discovered it was then possible to trace an entire trench network using satellite images.\n\nThe small city of Tokmak lies on a key route in the south-east of the country that Ukrainian forces may want to use to cut off Crimea from other Russian-held territories.\n\nThere have been reports that Ukrainian civilians have been moved out in order to turn the city into a military fortress. This would provide soldiers with access to supplies and a base to retreat to.\n\nThe satellite image above shows that a network of trenches in two lines has been dug north of Tokmak - the direction Ukraine would have to attack from.\n\nBehind these trenches is a further ring of fortifications around the city, with three layers of defences that can be seen distinctly in this close-up satellite image.\n\nThe top of the satellite image shows an anti-tank ditch. These are usually at least 2.5m deep and designed to trap any enemy tanks that attempt to cross.\n\nBehind the ditch are several rows of dragon's teeth and another trench network.\n\nBut Ukrainian forces are likely to face further traps.\n\nIt's highly likely that mines have also been hidden between Tokmak's three defence lines, says Mark Cancian from the Center for Strategic and International Studies.\n\n\"Minefields are a standard part of every defence, and the Russians have used them extensively throughout the war.\n\n\"Here they will be large and better concealed, slowing down Ukrainian attacks so that other combat elements, like artillery and infantry, can strike the attacking forces.\"\n\nBBC Verify has also discovered three other towns near Tokmak have been similarly fortified.\n\nA line of anti-tank ditches and trenches now runs alongside a 22-mile (35km) stretch of the E105 main highway, west of Tokmak.\n\nThe E105 is strategically important, connecting Russian-held Melitopol in the south with the northern city of Kharkiv, held by Ukraine. The road also runs through the Zaporizhzhia region, which could be the target of a Ukrainian counter-offensive.\n\nThe side that controls the E105 can easily move troops around the region.\n\nIf Ukrainian forces attempt to use this road, Russia will likely target it with heavy artillery from behind their defences. Russia's position is also in range of another nearby road - the T401 - which could also be targeted.\n\n\"The Russians are worried about the recently built Ukrainian armour units. If these units can get on a main highway, they can move very quickly,\" says Mr Cancian.\n\n\"The Russian defences aim to push them off the roads and therefore slow them down.\"\n\nThe port of Mariupol has a strategic position between the Russian-occupied territories in the east and Crimea in the south. It also became a symbol of resistance to invasion when a hard-core of fighters held out for months as the city was besieged.\n\nGiven Russia expects Ukraine to try to retake it, BBC Verify decided to look at the territory surrounding the city - leading to the discovery of a collection of circular trenches.\n\nLocated near the small village of Rivnopil about 34 miles (55km) north of Mariupol, each circular trench has a mound of soil in the middle, possibly either to protect artillery or to keep guns stable.\n\nMeanwhile, the circular trenches allow soldiers to take cover and to move the artillery so it can aim in any direction.\n\nIt shows that Russia is preparing to defend areas of open ground (without natural protection from hills and rivers) alongside their wider trench network.\n\nBut some analysts note that Ukrainian forces can use similar satellite images and drone surveillance to identify and bypass many of these defences.\n\nAlexander Lord from strategic advisory firm Sibylline Ltd says: \"The Russians will therefore likely attempt to funnel Ukrainian forces down certain routes which are heavily mined and pre-targeted by Russian artillery.\"\n\nSatellite images show obvious defences - but that might all be part of Russia's plan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRead more about BBC Verify: Explaining the 'how' - the launch of BBC Verify", "These children are among thousands of people stuck at Paloich Airport in South Sudan after fleeing Sudan\n\nIt is the airport wait from hell.\n\nPaloich Airport, which usually buzzes with the sound of well-heeled workers serving South Sudan's oil fields, has turned into a camp for thousands of people fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Sudan - now more than a month old.\n\nThere are no toilet facilities, no running water, no kitchens - just crowds of people living around their bags, resting on luggage trolleys, or sleeping under makeshift tents while waiting to catch a flight.\n\nThey have ended up here, four hours from the border with Sudan, in the hope of finding a way out.\n\nBut there are few flights and little information about when people may be able to leave.\n\nAmong these refugees are Eritreans who have been uprooted for a second time after previously arriving in Sudan to escape the situation at home. And these people are stuck in limbo.\n\nAccording to the UN, there were over 136,000 Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers in Sudan before this war.\n\nMost Eritreans do not want to give their names to journalists because they are scared of retribution from the Eritrean authorities.\n\nEritrea is a highly restrictive state that controls almost all aspects of people's lives, and many want to avoid the prospect of compulsory national service.\n\nBut Tesfit Girmay agreed to speak to me. He had arrived in Paloich five days earlier.\n\n\"The kind of life around here, you wouldn't wish it for animals let alone humans,\" he said looking at the tents around him.\n\nAs a single man he recognised that he was luckier than some.\n\n\"Maybe I can stand it. Sleeping outside, eating once a day, maybe I can stand it. But the biggest problem, there are people with children. There are people with four or five children,\" Mr Tesfit told me.\n\nHe fled the deteriorating economy in Eritrea at the end of last year and headed to Sudan, hoping to find work and maybe travel on to another country.\n\nThe kind of life around here, you wouldn't wish it for animals let alone humans\n\nBut in South Sudan, Eritreans find themselves trapped.\n\nOver 700 have arrived in the country.\n\nOther nationals who fled the conflict in Sudan such as Kenyans, Ugandans and Somalis have been repatriated by their governments. But many Eritreans in Paloich said they were terrified to go back home, or see no future there.\n\nMr Tesfit said that Eritreans at the airport were banned from getting onto flights to South Sudan's capital, Juba. At the same time they have refused to go to the designated refugee camps in the country.\n\nA three-hour drive further north, and closer to the border with Sudan, is another temporary camp bursting at the seams.\n\nThe former grounds of the Upper Nile University in Renk, once abandoned, are now repopulated by more than 6,000 people. Even the bushes on the opposite side of the road are being cut down to make space for more arrivals.\n\nThis is where I met another refugee from Eritrea.\n\nShe was sat on the steps of a classroom with her three children and told me that her husband had gone to town to look for food.\n\n\"I couldn't live in my country because I couldn't worship my God the way I liked it. I couldn't live there,\" said the woman, who wanted to remain anonymous.\n\nShe explained that she was an evangelical Christian and had difficulties in Eritrea, where religion is heavily regulated and people from faiths that are not officially sanctioned have been sent to prison.\n\nAfter fleeing Khartoum, she said she had hoped to go to South Sudan's capital but that was proving to be a challenge.\n\n\"No-one can pass through to Juba. The road is closed only to Eritreans. I don't know what's going to happen next.\"\n\nSouth Sudan's acting Minister for Foreign Affairs Deng Dau Deng told the BBC that his office had contacted all foreign embassies including Eritrea's, to ensure their citizens were repatriated.\n\nBut he acknowledged that the situation with Eritreans was complicated by the fact that there are those who do not want to go back home and they do not want to be in touch with their embassy.\n\nMr Deng does not deny claims that some Eritreans who made it to Juba had been forced back to Paloich. As the Eritrean embassy was not going to fly them back to Asmara and there was no refugee camp in Juba for them, then they had to go elsewhere, he said.\n\nFor his part, Eritrea's long-time President Isaias Afwerki told state television that his country would welcome anyone fleeing the conflict in its neighbour.\n\n\"Eritrea has open borders and without fanfare will continue to receive Eritrean and Sudanese civilians as well as others affected by the current conflict and share with them whatever it has,\" the president said.\n\nThere are few facilities to help those stranded at Paloich Airport\n\nHere in South Sudan, the infrastructure is overwhelmed by the 60,000 people who have crossed into the country in just a month.\n\nBack at Paloich Airport I met some South Sudanese desperate to get to other parts of the country.\n\nSandy Manyjeil had been stranded with her five children for two weeks.\n\n\"Yesterday evening they gave us a ticket. You wait at the gate, you show your ticket and after that they will take you or they won't. It depends on your luck,\" she said\n\n\"Sometimes they take your ticket and they take you or they don't. Tomorrow, after tomorrow, no-one knows.\"\n\nSandy Manyjeil and her family are stuck at Paloich Airport having fled Sudan\n\nThe government is operating free flights on cargo planes from Paloich and has transported over 7,000 people. But it is a fraction of those entering.\n\nIts strategy is to get everyone out of Renk and Paloich to areas where they can find food, medicine and try to rebuild their lives.\n\nBut South Sudan has barely any tarmacked roads, few domestic flights and parts of the country still face bouts of violence since the 2013-2018 civil war.\n\nIt is an overwhelming challenge for any country and as the war in its neighbour continues the number of people, both nationals and foreigners, entering South Sudan keeps rising.", "On Monday, thousands of junior doctors in England will start a 72-hour strike. They want a 35% pay rise. Yet doctors are among the highest paid in the public sector. So why do they have the biggest pay claim?\n\nThe origins of the walkout by British Medical Association members - the biggest by doctors in the history of the NHS - can be found in a series of discussions on social media platform Reddit in late 2021.\n\nA collection of junior doctors were expressing their dissatisfaction about pay.\n\nThe numbers chatting online grew quickly and by January 2022 it had led to the formation of the campaign group Doctors Vote, with the aim of restoring pay to the pre-austerity days of 2008.\n\nThe group began spreading its message via social media - and, within months, its supporters had won 26 of the 69 voting seats on the BMA ruling council, and 38 of the 68 on its junior doctor committee.\n\nDr Vivek Trivedi and Dr Rob Laurenson stood for BMA election on a Doctors Vote platform\n\nTwo of those who stood on the Doctors Vote platform - Dr Rob Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi - became co-chairs of the committee.\n\n\"It was simply a group of doctors connecting up the dots,\" Dr Laurenson says. \"We reflect the vast majority of doctors,\" he adds, pointing to the mandate from the wider BMA junior doctor membership - 77% voted and of those, 98% backed strike action.\n\nAmong some of the older BMA heads, though, there is a sense of disquiet at the new guard. One senior doctor who has now stood down from a leadership role says: \"They're undoubtedly much more radical than we have seen before. But they haven't read the room - the pay claim makes them look silly.\"\n\nPublicly, the BMA prefers not to talk about wanting a pay rise. Instead, it uses the term \"pay restoration\" - to reverse cuts of 26% since 2008. This is the amount pay has fallen once inflation is taken into account.\n\nTo rectify a cut of 26% requires a bigger percentage increase because the amount is lower. This is why the BMA is actually after a 35% increase - and it is a rise it is calling for to be paid immediately.\n\nThe argument is more complicated than the ones put forward by most other unions - and because of that it has raised eyebrows.\n\nFirstly, no junior doctor has seen pay cut by 26% in that period. There are five core pay points in the junior doctor contract with each a springboard to the next. It means they move up the pay scale over time until they finish their training.\n\nA junior doctor in 2008 may well be a consultant now, perhaps earning four times in cash terms what they were then.\n\nSecondly, the 26% figure uses the retail price index (RPI) measure of inflation, which the Office for National Statistics says is a poor way to look at rising prices. Using the more favoured consumer price index measure, the cut is 16% - although the BMA defends its use of RPI as it takes into account housing costs.\n\n\"The drop in pay is also affected by the start-year chosen,\" Lucina Rolewicz, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, says. A more recent start date will show a smaller decline, as would going further back in the 2000s.\n\nAnother way of looking at pay is comparing it with wages across the economy by looking at where a job sits in terms of the lowest to highest earners.\n\nThe past decade has not been a boom time for wage growth in many fields, as austerity and the lack of economic growth has held back incomes.\n\nLast year, the independent Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration Body looked at this. It found junior doctors had seen their pay, relative to others, fall slightly during the 2010s, but were still among the highest earners, with doctors fresh out of university immediately finding themselves in the top half of earners, while those at the end of training were just outside the top 10%.\n\nThen, of course, career prospects have to be considered. Consultants earn well more than £100,000 on average, putting them in the top 2%. GP partners earn even more.\n\nA pension of more than £60,000 a year in today's prices also awaits those reaching such positions.\n\nBut while the scale of the pay claim is new, dissatisfaction with working conditions and pay pre-date the rise of the Doctors Vote movement.\n\nStudying medicine at university takes five years, meaning big debts for most. Dr Trivedi says £80,000 of student loans are often topped up by private debt.\n\nOn top of that, doctors have to pay for ongoing exams and professional membership fees. Their junior doctor training can see them having to make several moves across the country and with little control over the hours they work. Their contract means they are required to work a minimum of 40 hours and up to 48 on average - additional payments are made to reflect this.\n\nThis lasts many years - junior doctors can commonly spend close to a decade in training.\n\nIt is clearly hard work. And with services getting increasingly stretched, it is a job that doctors say is leaving them \"demoralised, angry and exhausted\", Dr Trivedi says, adding: \"Patient care is being compromised.\"\n\nBut while medicine is undoubtedly tough, it remains hugely attractive.\n\nJunior doctor posts in the early years are nearly always filled - it is not until doctors begin to specialise later in their training that significant gaps emerge in some specialities such as end-of-life care and sexual health.\n\nLooking at all doctor vacancy rates across the NHS around 6% of posts are unfilled - for nurses it is nearly twice that level.\n\nMany argue there is still a shortage - with not enough training places or funded doctor posts in the NHS in the first place.\n\nBut the fact the problems appear more severe in other NHS roles is a key reason why the government does not seem to be in a hurry to prioritise doctors - formal pay talks to avert strikes have begun with unions representing the rest of the workforce\n\n\"If we have some money to give a pay rise to NHS staff,\" a source close to the negotiations says, \"doctors are not at the front of the queue.\"\n\nUpdate: This article was updated on 18 May 2023 to make it clear doctors can be required to work up to 48 hours and the footnote on the first chart has changed 'overtime' to 'additional hours'.\n\nAre you taking part in the strike action? Has your appointment been cancelled or delayed? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "An armed group has crossed from Ukraine into Russia's Belgorod region and clashes there have injured a number of people, Russian authorities say.\n\nLocal governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said Russian forces were searching for \"saboteurs\" who, he said, had attacked Grayvoronsky district by the border.\n\nVladimir Putin's spokesman said the Russian president had been informed.\n\nUkraine denies responsibility and said Russian citizens from two paramilitary groups were behind the incursion.\n\nMr Gladkov said eight people had been hurt, including two people admitted to hospital after a village was shelled and three people who were hit by shrapnel in the town of Grayvoron.\n\nFighting had also damaged three houses and a local administrative building, and the situation remains \"extremely tense\", he said.\n\nThe governor said a \"counter-terrorist operation\" had been launched in the region, giving special powers to the authorities including on identity checks and communications surveillance.\n\nBBC Verify has been analysing footage from the Belgorod region that emerged on social media on Monday.\n\nSo far, the team has located a video apparently filmed from a drone that features several armoured vehicles near a border checkpoint south of Belgorod. Additionally, BBC Verify has geolocated footage of helicopters operating in the region.\n\nThe footage is recent, but it is hard to say for certain from the videos what the exact sequence of events is.\n\nKyiv said those behind the ongoing incident were from groups called the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC).\n\nThe Liberty of Russia Legion - a Ukraine-based Russian militia which says it is working inside Russia to overthrow President Vladimir Putin - said on Twitter on Monday it had \"completely liberated\" the border town of Kozinka. It said forward units had reached the town of Grayvoron, further east.\n\nHowever Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies that efforts were under way to eliminate the sabotage group, and said its purpose was to draw attention away from the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut - which a Russian mercenary group claims to have taken control of after months of intense and bloody fighting.\n\n\"We perfectly understand the purpose of such sabotage - to divert attention from the Bakhmut direction, to minimise the political effect of the loss of Artyomovsk [Bakhmut] by the Ukrainian side,\" he said.\n\nKyiv says it still controls parts of the city.\n\n\"Behind these attacks are Russian citizens who are fed up with the actions of their terrorist regime\", commented Yurik Sak, an adviser to Ukraine's defence minister.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's World Tonight programme, he welcomed the developments and pointed to what he called a \"growing trend of Russian partisan movements\".\n\nBut he said he could not confirm or deny whether his country was harbouring or supporting the groups involved.\n\nThe latest incident comes ahead of a widely expected counter-offensive by Kyiv against invading Russian forces.\n\nParts of Belgorod and several other Russian regions have come under artillery or drone attack since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year.\n\nRussian officials have blamed the Ukrainian military, although Ukraine has denied responsibility for alleged sabotage attacks on Russian territory.\n\nIn April, Russia accidentally dropped a bomb on the city of Belgorod, which lies 40km (25 miles) north of the border with Ukraine.\n\nMore than 3,000 people were evacuated from their homes after an undetonated explosive was found days later.", "Dan Kaszeta will no longer be speaking at tomorrow's Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference, despite being invited to do so four months ago\n\nA global expert on nerve agents, stood down from speaking at a government-backed conference, says he believes it is because he is outspoken on a range of issues including asylum policy.\n\nDan Kaszeta was disinvited from Tuesday's conference after his social media content was vetted.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said checks on people speaking at government-organised events ensured a balanced discussion.\n\nBut Mr Kaszeta insisted he would have only spoken on his area of expertise.\n\nThat is firmly in the area of chemical, biological and radiological weapons and warfare - a subject in which he has gathered three decades of experience. He also spent 12 years working as an adviser for the White House.\n\nSo when the Ministry of Defence was putting together the guest list for the 25th annual Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference - which in its own words would \"bring together international experts and promoting collaboration to achieve a future free from chemical weapons\" - Mr Kaszeta's services as a keynote speaker were secured back in January.\n\nThe American, who has been based in the UK for the past 13 years, told BBC Two's Newsnight he was \"outraged\" that the government's trawl through his Twitter account - on which he poked fun at Liz Truss, expressed anti-Brexit views and criticised asylum policy - means he can no longer share his knowledge with delegates from the government, industry, academia and armed forces.\n\nHe received an email last month - which has been shown to Newsnight - that told him: \"Rules introduced by the Cabinet Office in 2022 specify that the social media accounts of potential speakers must be vetted before final acceptance to the programme. The vetting is impartial and purely evidence-based.\n\n\"The check on your social media has identified material that criticises government officials and policy. It is for this reason and not because we do not value your technical insight, that I'm afraid that we have no choice and must cancel your invitation to the CWD conference.\"\n\nMr Kaszeta stressed he was never going to speak about policy matters at the event.\n\n\"This is an outrage against free speech. I was going to speak about possible future scenarios around the world in which chemical demilitarisation would be relevant. I think perhaps the most controversial thing I would say was perhaps, gee, we don't really know what's going on in North Korea,\" he said.\n\nThe email is the clearest indication so far of the unpublished guidance from the Cabinet Office on the restrictions on who can be given a prominent platform to speak at government venues and events.\n\nIt was first introduced after political blogger Guido Fawkes highlighted the views of an academic who was due to speak to civil servants at the Home Office during Black History Month in 2021.\n\nA year later, the first known example of the new \"no-platform\" rule being used came when Kate Devlin, a professor at King's College London, an expert on artificial intelligence, was disinvited from speaking at an event about women in tech.\n\nShe told the Independent at the time that she had received an email saying it was because she had \"made a criticism of government policy on social media\".\n\nIn her case, she had previously criticised the government's planned Online Harms Bill, made anti-monarchy comments and retweeted a parody of Liz Truss.\n\nInterviewed at the time, she told Newsnight she had been very clear that her talk would not be touching on any areas she had her own private views on and she found it \"quite alarming\" that she had still been excluded.\n\nMr Kaszeta argued that being a critic of some government policies should not prevent him taking part in an event on a completely unrelated subject.\n\n\"I'm a critic of the government's policy on homelessness and asylum seekers. Why that should have any impact whatsoever on whether or not I can speak to a technical conference in my own area of expertise. That's Stalinist.\"\n\nWhen approached by Newsnight for an explanation, the government said: \"As the public would expect, we conduct due diligence checks and carefully consider all speakers at any government hosted conference to ensure that we can have a balanced and constructive discussion around our policies.\"\n\nOther than Ms Devlin and Mr Kaszeta, whose identity was first revealed by the Times, Newsnight knows of three other professionals who have received similar letters after the Cabinet Office vetted their social media.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nNewcastle secured Champions League football for the first time in 20 years with a goalless draw against relegation-threatened Leicester, whose fate is now out of their hands.\n\nEddie Howe's side failed to break the deadlock in a match they dominated, striking the post three times, but the result was sufficient for the Magpies to make a long-awaited return to Europe's elite competition next season.\n\nNewcastle are four points clear of fifth-placed Liverpool heading into Sunday's final day of the season, while Leicester remain in the relegation zone, two points adrift of safety.\n\nThe hosts had 78% possession during the contest and initially found it difficult to make inroads, but Callum Wilson hooked an effort against the post and saw his follow-up effort headed off the line by Wilfred Ndidi.\n\nThree minutes before half-time the hosts rattled the post again through Miguel Almiron, while in the second half visiting goalkeeper Daniel Iversen acrobatically tipped over Alexander Isak's effort from distance.\n\nBruno Guimaraes also hit the woodwork with a header from almost on the goalline in the second period, but Leicester almost won it in injury time when Nick Pope kept out Timothy Castagne's acrobatic effort.\n\nFoxes boss Dean Smith started England internationals James Maddison and Harvey Barnes on the bench but neither was able to inject any impetus into their dull performance after coming on.\n• None Can you name Newcastle's last Champions League side in our quiz?\n\nIt was the 2002-03 season, under the guidance of legendary manager Sir Bobby Robson, when Newcastle last played in Europe's elite club competition.\n\nHowe's men will be back in the big time following a tremendous first full season in charge in which the ex-Bournemouth boss has upset the established order with a place in the top four, as well as taking them to the Carabao Cup final.\n\nIt has been a remarkable turnaround since Howe took charge 18 months ago, one month after the Saudi Arabian-backed £305m takeover of Newcastle and with the club five points from safety at the foot of the Premier League.\n\nA tremendous atmosphere was generated by the home fans before kick-off, waving their flags and unfurling a huge banner of Howe and the team, and although they were unable to break the deadlock, they left the stadium singing about Champions League football.\n\nWilson, who had scored 11 goals in his past 10 games before this encounter, came inches from adding to his tally, while Almiron and Guimaraes also came mightily close.\n\nThe Brazil midfielder, though, was lucky to still be on the pitch after receiving only a yellow card for a studs-high challenge on the knee of Leicester midfielder Boubakary Soumare.\n\nNewcastle will aim to complete a successful season on a high on Sunday, travelling to face Chelsea hoping to secure third position.\n\nLeicester host West Ham on the last day hoping the Hammers have taken their eye off the ball with their top-flight place secure and a Europa Conference League final to look forward to.\n\nBut they go into that game knowing even a win might not be enough as 17th placed Everton can guarantee their Premier League status with victory over Bournemouth at Goodison Park.\n\nThe result at Newcastle extended Leicester's run to just one win in their past 15 games, earning just seven points during that run, and they are favourites to join Southampton in the second tier.\n\nSupporters will be left wondering how the match may have panned out had key players Maddison and Barnes been given starts instead of being left on the bench.\n\nCastagne's acrobatic effort in the 92nd minute almost secured a shock victory, but their defence did at least manage to keep a first clean sheet in the league since November.\n• None Attempt saved. Timothy Castagne (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Maddison with a cross.\n• None James Maddison (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Substitution, Leicester City. Nampalys Mendy replaces Wilfred Ndidi because of an injury.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City).\n• None Attempt missed. Miguel Almirón (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 May.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nRise and shine: \"I took this photo of my partner Catrina Imray at sunrise from the summit of Beinn a'Chrùlaiste, Glencoe,\" says Daniel Warren. \"An incredible cloud inversion.\"\n\nA touching gesture: \"Two gannets in an archetypal pose,\" says Jacki Gordon at Bass Rock.\n\n\"I had a morning job to do in Kinghorn and managed to grab this beautiful sunrise over the bluebells before I started,\" says John Pow who took this picture.\n\n\"Found this deer on the edge of a rapeseed field in the Carse of Gowrie,\" says Peter Wilkinson of this wonderful photograph.\n\nYvonne Macfarlane took this calming picture at Inverkip just before the weather cleared.\n\n\"An athlete running out the haar into the sunlight on the Kintyre Way Ultra,\" says William Halliday.\n\n\"This squirrel seemed to stop and enjoy the aroma as it approached the peanut feeder on the bird table,\" says Iain MacDiarmid. \"Taken in our back garden at Drumnadrochit.\"\n\nCherry picker: \"I loved how these petals landed amongst the roots of the tree in a street in Perth,\" says Valerie Pegler.\n\nTop dog: Coco trekked up Lochnagar on a glorious day for a majestic view alongside Gillian Thomson and son Andrew.\n\n\"Makes my day when I see a kingfisher, even better when she poses for me,\" says George Kelsey of this superb shot at the Water of Leith in Edinburgh.\n\nWaiting for the weather to clear on Suilven in Sutherland, says Stan Arnaud.\n\nThis lovely swan family action shot is from Katie Paton at Figgate Park in Edinburgh. \"I call this 'look at me mum',\" she says.\n\nPuffin to see here: A contemplative moment captured by Craig Lambert at Isle of May.\n\nMoving moment: \"Taken through the window of our motorhome while traveling on the road home to Perth,\" says Brian Johnston of this shot of Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe.\n\n\"On holiday in Orkney from Lancashire, we went to the Brough of Birsay where I caught this picture of a shag standing watch from a cliff, maybe looking for his dinner,\" says Stephan Devine.\n\nCycle path: \"An image of my gravel bike descent into Glen Feshie,\" says Alan Maclennan. \"This was part of a ride from Aviemore, taking in the new gravel road between Glen Tromie and Glen Feshie.\"\n\nWhale of a time: \"This is a photo I took of the orca bull #34 of the 27s pod (which featured on David Attenborough’s Wild Isles) who gave us a close encounter at St Mary’s Pier in Orkney,\" says Lucy Dobbs.\n\nWell spotted: \"My 12-year-old daughter Edie snapped this photo of a ladybird at our allotment,\" says Aileen Snowden at Newport on Tay.\n\nDouglas Coutts and Margaret-Anne Wilson silhouetted at their wedding, courtesy of Matty Pearce at Lossiemouth East Beach.\n\nThe eyes have it: \"I was up at Troup Head gannet colony,\" says Colin Denholm. \"They do give you a good hard stare if they catch you looking.\"\n\nHigh tea: \"An Exmoor pony grazing beside the Act of Union beech trees that were planted in 1707 on North Berwick Law,\" says Sylvia Beaumont.\n\nQuite a mouthful: Jan Graham spotted this bird ready to feed some newborns at Eden Estuary Centre, Guardbridge, Fife.\n\nPeak viewing: \"This picture is from the summit of Goatfell on Arran, Ailsa Craig in the far distance,\" says Donnie Mathers. \"Six friends, all senior citizens, spent the week walking and socialising. George, pointing out landmarks, first scaled the peak 60 years ago. The six friends live in various parts of the UK ranging from the Highlands to Shropshire.\"\n\n\"This photograph was taken by my daughter Cara, aged 13, in a park in Aberdeen,\" says Andy Freeman. \"She and her friend spent ages waiting for it to settle long enough to allow them to get close. Worth the wait!\"\n\nHat trick: Not the usual traffic cone on the Duke of Wellington statue in Glasgow, spotted by John Dyer.\n\nChain gang: \"A pair of returning swallows taking a well-earned rest,\" says Steven Neish in Dundee.\n\nWoolly jumper: Bryan Wark spotted this lamb admiring the view after scaling a height in Greenock.\n\nRapeseed near St Andrews in an eye-catching image featuring greens, yellows and blues, from John Watson.\n\nLove is in the air: These swans in Victoria Park in Glasgow captured the heart, as seen by Rosie McGeachan.\n\nHouse call: \"Enjoyed an afternoon at Covesea Lighthouse near Lossiemouth,\" says Danny McCafferty.\n\nFirmly planted: Dave Harrower spotted this deer looking settled in an old boat at St Fillans, says daughter Lisa.\n\n\"This tawny owl was enjoying some Spring sunshine in Milton of Campsie,\" says Sarah Thurlbeck.\n\n\"This multi-storey cluster caught my eye on a walk through Craiglockhart woods in Edinburgh,\" says Mike Andrew.\n\nUnpheasant company: \"I took this picture of two pheasants scrapping with each other from the approach road to Muirshiel Country Park,\" says Ken Ramsay.\n\nGarlic spread: \"Wild garlic and bluebells covering the forest floor at Dalkeith Country Park,\" says Huw Rees Lewis.\n\nSwanning around: \"Daisy, aged 11, took this photo whilst walking by Carlingwalk Loch, Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway,\" says Charlotte Taylor. \"It was a lovely sunny evening and her grandma's birthday.\"\n\nWalkies? Millie's thoughts seemed clear at the door in Newburgh, Fife, according to Ben Guthrie.\n\nHello deer: \"A roe deer in amongst the gorse on Perwinnes Moss, Aberdeen,\" says Norval Strachan.\n\nNeigh better feeling: \"I’m so proud of my daughter Millie Boo who won her Riding for the Disabled (RDA) regional qualifier in Glasgow,\" says Steven Smith of this photo with Jake the horse who smiling Millie Boo rode. \"She has cerebral palsy and bilateral hearing loss. She will now attend the RDA National Championships in Gloucester. I think the photo says it all. It captured her feelings.\"\n\nFlower power: \"Bluebells in full bloom at Tornagrain, Inverness-shire,\" says Kirsten Ferguson.\n\nPuppy love: \"My daughter Eva, 16, took this photo of our new puppy, Frank, the miniature dachshund,\" says Stuart Mackinnon in Troon.\n\nIn a spot of bother? \"This cheetah was sleeping as we approached the enclosure and despite our best attempts to be quiet the noise from the gravel path woke him,\" says Mike Tolmie at Five Sisters Zoo in West Calder. \"I think the expression tells you exactly what he thought.\"\n\nOn the right path: \"Managed to capture this beautiful sky on whilst walking the dog at Brodick, Isle of Arran,\" says Fee Proctor.\n\n\"The Milky Way over Arbroath cliffs,\" says Nick MacIvor of this awe-inspiring view.\n\nDriving at night: The scene at Abernethy Golf Club, courtesy of Lucie Bush who too this image of husband David.\n\n\"Walking home after a lovely fish and chip supper in Oban I saw this incredible sunset,\" says Ross Tetlow.\n\nCatching some sun: \"I headed down to Ayr beach in the hope of a decent sunset and managed to capture what looks like a seagull taking the sun in its beak,\" says Claire McIntosh. \"There's always something quite serene whilst watching the sun setting, it brings an inner peace and each sunset is always different to the last, a beauty I hope to never tire of.\"\n\nThe view of this long and winding road persuaded Alex Mackintosh to pull over. \"We had visitors staying and we took them to Gairloch. On the way home we saw this sunset. It was one of those 'we need to stop and take a picture' moments!\"\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Labour would give people greater choice over where they receive hospital treatment, the shadow health secretary has pledged.\n\nWes Streeting said organising waiting lists by region would give patients more freedom and help tackle backlogs.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to commit to delivering the idea across England during a speech on Monday.\n\nThe address is also expected to include new pledges on NHS targets.\n\nIt will be the third in a series of speeches he is making on Labour's five \"missions\" for government if it wins power. These missions are likely to form the backbone of the party's manifesto at the next general election, expected in 2024.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Streeting said organising waiting lists on a regional basis would give patients \"real choice\" over where they are seen.\n\nThe party says this would allow patients to get treatment more quickly if queues are shorter at nearby hospitals.\n\nUnder Labour's plan, it is understood that waiting lists would be shared across integrated care systems - coalitions of several neighbouring NHS trusts that usually cover populations of between 500,000 and 3 million people.\n\nPatients already have some rights to choose where they receive non-urgent care under NHS England's constitution, but the party sees this option as under-used.\n\nIn his BBC interview, Mr Streeting said many patients were unaware about their rights to choice over treatment, or don't \"feel the freedom to exercise that choice\".\n\nHe said that a trial in West Yorkshire, where NHS trusts are sharing waiting lists for conditions affecting blood vessels, showed the approach worked.\n\nThe change would also \"build more capacity in the system\", he added, to help tackle waiting lists that have ballooned since the pandemic.\n\nElsewhere, Mr Streeting said Labour also wanted to see a greater share of NHS spending outside of hospitals to tackle health problems earlier.\n\nHe said that the proportions of spending were \"very different\" in other developed economies that have \"much better outcomes than we have here in the UK\".\n\n\"We under invest in primary care, community services, mental health, diagnostics, and capital, and we've got to shift that focus,\" he added.\n\n\"Lots of hospital trust leaders are already doing this. They recognise that the pressure we see in hospitals is in part driven by the clogged front door to the NHS in primary care and community services as well as delayed discharges in social care.\"\n\nSpeaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, former Tory chairman Sir Jake Berry rubbished Labour's approach, saying the party was aiming to \"do more of what the Conservative government is already doing\".\n\nThe government says it wants to boost community NHS services. It recently announced plans to let high street pharmacies prescribe a greater range of common prescription drugs, including antibiotics, to ease the pressure on GPs.\n\nAnd as part of efforts to cut waiting lists, ministers say new community \"diagnostic centres\" opening this year will allow people to access checks and scans for conditions such as cancer, heart disease or lung disease without travelling to a hospital.\n\nLabour does not want to make multiple expensive promises. But it might be tricky to translate its ambitions into concrete plans that the public believe will make an immediate difference - and getting voters excited about structural changes to the NHS might be a tall order.\n\nMr Streeting also confirmed that a review of social care policy carried out for the party will be published next month.\n\nThe report, by a Labour-affiliated think tank, is expected to inform the party's position on social care ahead of the next election.\n\nHe did not offer details of what will be in the blueprint, but said Labour has previously stressed the need to improve pay in the sector, as well supporting people more in their own homes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFootball legend Graeme Souness plans to swim the English Channel to help people living with a rare skin condition.\n\nThe former Liverpool, Rangers and Scotland player fought back tears as he told the BBC that Epidermolysis bullosa was the \"cruellest disease out there\".\n\nHe was inspired to take on the 16-hour challenge after meeting Isla Grist from the Scottish Highlands.\n\nThe 14-year-old's condition, known as \"butterfly skin\", causes the skin to tear or blister at the slightest touch.\n\nThe 70-year-old former player and manager choked back tears as he described Isla as \"the most unique person I've ever met\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he said: \"She does this to me every time. She's an inspiration to me - even at my age.\"\n\nThe former TV pundit is aiming to raise £1.1m for the Debra charity, which supports Isla and about 5,000 people in the UK who currently live with the genetic condition. There is no cure although mild forms may improve with age.\n\nGraeme Souness says he and Isla have become firm friends over the years he has known her\n\nIsla, from Black Isle, near Inverness, has had her condition since birth and has to be wrapped head to toe in bandages. These are changed three times a week in a procedure that is extremely painful for her.\n\nSouness said he first became aware of the disease about five years ago. He said he had now become \"mates\" with Isla, whose courage was an inspiration to him.\n\n\"This disease... it's the cruellest, nastiest disease. For someone so young to be so brave... and Isla's aware of the impact this has on her mum and dad and she helps them,\" he said, clearly struggling with his emotions.\n\n\"This is a very special young lady you're in the company of, she really is, and I am… she gets me in tears every time I'm in her company.\"\n\nThe teenager's father Andy will swim alongside Souness and four other team members on the 21-mile journey from England to France, scheduled for 18 June.\n\nGraeme Souness has been training with Isla's father Andy for the charity swim\n\nThe pair are raising money for Debra's A Life Free of Pain appeal, which it is hoped will help pay to clinically test drug treatments that could improve the quality of life for people with butterfly skin.\n\nHe said: \"It's hard for Isla, the blisters she's got all over her body and the raw skin. Up to half her body is not covered in skin.\n\n\"It not only affects the external parts of the skin you can see, it affects the internal linings as well and that's blistering and tearing of the skin inside your throat and the like and it's relentless. It just doesn't stop.\"\n\nIsla described how, as well as drug treatment, she uses various techniques to take her mind off the constant pain and discomfort.\n\n\"Watching TV for me - distraction is a big part of my everyday life because it does distract me and I can go into another dimension and…not get away from it but distance sometimes,\" she said.\n\nHer father said the fundraising could be used to find ways of using existing drugs because this might be a quicker route for providing some relief.\n\n\"We are desperately looking to progress research into repurposing drugs and some of the money we'll raise hopefully through the swim is repurposing existing drugs that are licensed to the NHS and seeing if they have therapeutic benefits for EB sufferers,\" he explained.\n\n\"It usually takes many many years and billions of pounds to bring a drug to market. These are already licensed.\"", "The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann will not face German charges for alleged rape and sexual abuse in a separate case.\n\nLast year, a court in the city of Braunschweig charged Christian Brueckner with five sexual offences.\n\nBut it now says it does not have jurisdiction because Brueckner last lived in a different part of Germany.\n\nBrueckner has never been charged over Madeleine's disappearance and has denied any involvement.\n\nIn October 2022, evidence for additional allegations emerged during the McCann investigation.\n\nBraunschweig's chief prosecutor charged Brueckner with five offences alleged to have been carried out between 2000 and 2017 in Portugal, including the rape and the sexual abuse of two children.\n\nThe five charges in full:\n\nAlthough the court in Braunschweig has dropped the case, it is understood Brueckner could still be charged with the same offences in a different court in Germany.\n\nOriginally the case was taken up in Braunschweig because that was the region where he was last officially registered.\n\nBut in reality, before moving to Portugal, he had been living in a caravan in the state of Saxony Anhalt.\n\nIt is expected that prosecutors in other parts of Germany will now decide whether to pursue the charges and stake a claim to jurisdiction.\n\nThree-year-old Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, was on holiday with her family at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, in Portugal's Algarve when she disappeared on 3 May 2007. Her whereabouts remain unknown.\n\nBrueckner has never been charged over her disappearance.\n\nThe convicted sex offender is currently serving a seven-year sentence for rape which he committed in 2005 in Portugal.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three when she went missing in 2007", "Junior doctors in Scotland have been offered a 14.5% pay rise.\n\nThe new offer from the Scottish government, which covers a two-year period, was made after negotiations with BMA Scotland.\n\nThe union will now consult its members, who voted in favour of strike action earlier this month, on the offer.\n\nBMA Scotland stressed it had not agreed the improved deal - but said that it was likely to be the best that the Scottish government would offer.\n\nMinisters said they were proposing a £61.3m investment in junior doctor pay, which they described as the largest in 20 years and the best offer in the UK.\n\nThe government said that if it was accepted, there would be a pay rise of 6.5% in 2023/24 and an additional 3% towards an already agreed 4.5% uplift in 2022/23.\n\nThis amounts to a cumulative increase of 14.5% over two years and matches the recent pay award accepted by nurses and other NHS workers in 2023, it said.\n\nBMA Scotland members had previously voted in favour of staging a 72-hour walkout. The union has been calling for a 23.5% increase above inflation.\n\nMore than 71% of the eligible 5,000 junior doctors in Scotland voted in that ballot, with 97% in favour of industrial action.\n\nScotland's Health Secretary Michael Matheson said he was \"delighted\" to have reached an agreement with the BMA Scotland after weeks of intense negotiations.\n\nHe added: \"We have taken their concerns regarding pay, and the need to modernise pay bargaining more broadly, extremely seriously.\n\n\"It's now up to junior doctors to reflect on this final offer, and I hope they will accept.\"\n\nBMA Scotland said it would put the offer to its members in a consultative vote.\n\nDr Chris Smith, who chairs its Scottish junior doctor committee, stressed that the BMA had not agreed the deal or accepted any offer.\n\n\"However, the offer that has been made is without doubt an improvement on the 4.5% awarded last year, and the improved offer for 22/23 would represent a slowdown in doctors' pay erosion, which had accelerated up to this point after 15 years of real terms decline,\" he said.\n\n\"Our commitment to the long-term aim of righting that historical wrong remains firmly in place and will continue to be a top priority going forwards.\n\n\"We feel this offer reflects the best that the Scottish government will offer after this series of negotiations. This is why it is essential our members decide our next steps.\"\n\nMichael Matheson said he hoped junior doctors would accept the offer\n\nJunior doctors - fully-qualified medics who are not specialty staff doctors, consultants or GPs - make up 44% of the doctors in the NHS in Scotland.\n\nJunior doctors in England walked out for three days in March and four days in April, leading to the cancellation of more than 196,000 hospital appointments last month.\n\nIn January, ambulance staff belonging to three unions - GMB, Unison and Unite - staged a strike in England and Wales in a dispute over pay.\n\nMembers of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) union in England rejected the government's current pay offer and held a 24-hour strike, while a strike ballot opened last week for senior doctors in England amid a continuing dispute over pay.\n\nDespite the action south of the border, Scotland has yet to see any strikes by NHS staff.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: First pictures from the scene of the reservoir search for Madeleine\n\nPolice investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are to carry out searches at a reservoir in Portugal.\n\nA search of the Arade dam will begin on Tuesday, 50km from where the toddler went missing in Praia da Luz in 2007.\n\nChristian Brueckner, 45, was made a formal suspect, or an \"arguido\", by Portuguese prosecutors in 2022.\n\nThe search was requested by German police as the area was visited by Brueckner when Madeleine, then three years old, disappeared.\n\nMadeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, had been on holiday with her family in Portugal's Algarve when she went missing on 3 May 2007.\n\nPortuguese police said in a press statement that it is co-ordinating searches in the Algarve over the next few days, with British officers also present.\n\nHans Christian Wolters, German state prosecutor in Braunschweig, told the BBC a short statement of confirmation would be released by the German authorities on Tuesday morning.\n\nAn area of the reservoir's peninsula just over a mile long was sealed off by police shortly after midday on Monday, Portuguese television network SIC reported.\n\nThe search is expected to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, it said.\n\nPolice have erected blue tents and are closing off roads leading to the man-made dam, while a total of 20 police officers have been assigned to the search.\n\nPolice have cordoned off a stretch of the reservoir and set up blue tents to conduct the search\n\nMr Wolters is treating Brueckner as the main suspect in the McCann case, although he has never been charged over Madeleine's disappearance and has denied any involvement.\n\nThe state prosecutor said a growing amount of evidence had connected Brueckner to the case, including his mobile phone records showing he was in the Praia de Luz area at the time of Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nBrueckner, a German national, is currently in prison in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old woman in 2005 in the same area where Madeleine McCann went missing.\n\nHe was living near the Praia da Luz resort when the McCann family was on holiday, and spent time in the area between 2000 and 2017.\n\nPolice have been seen at the remote reservoir in the Algarve, a site 50km away from where Madeleine disappeared\n\nIt is not the first time the reservoir has been searched as part of the investigation.\n\nIn 2008, Portuguese lawyer Marcos Aragao Correia paid for specialist divers to check the waterway after he claimed to have been tipped off by criminal contacts that Madeleine's body was in the reservoir.\n\nThe most recent search in Portugal in relation to Madeleine's disappearance was in 2014, when British police were given permission to examine scrubland near where she vanished.\n\nEarlier this month, Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, held a vigil to mark the 16th anniversary of her disappearance.\n\nThey also marked their daughter's 20th birthday in May, vowing to \"never give up\" on finding their daughter.\n\n\"Happy birthday Madeleine. Still missing. Still very much missed. Still looking. For as long as it takes,\" they said in a post on the official Facebook page of the Find Madeleine Campaign.\n\n\"We love you and we're waiting for you. We're never going to give up.\"", "Several firefighters have been injured while battling a large fire at the Philippines’ Central Post Office. The blaze was brought under control after seven hours, but not before it gutted the historic neoclassical building.", "Head teacher Ruth Perry took her own life in January\n\nEvery work-related suicide should be investigated by the Health and Safety Executive, experts have said, in the wake of the death of a head teacher following an Ofsted inspection.\n\nThe family of Ruth Perry, who took her own life in January, say the inspection put her under huge mental pressure.\n\nWriting in the British Medical Journal, the experts say there should be change.\n\nOfsted said inspections were carried out professionally and sensitively, in the interests of children.\n\nThe death of Ms Perry, while waiting for the publication of an Ofsted report downgrading Caversham Primary School in Berkshire from Outstanding to Inadequate, has provoked a debate about the impact of inspections.\n\nAn inquest later this year will consider all the factors contributing to her suicide.\n\nThe two eminent experts argue in their opinion piece in the BMJ that health experts need to \"demand action to tackle the burden of mental ill health associated with the way it [Ofsted] operates\".\n\nProf Martin McKee from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Prof Sarah Waters from the University of Leeds say too little is known about other similar deaths and argue teachers face \"immense pressure\" at work, and many have lost confidence in Ofsted's system of inspection.\n\nIn France, suicides are investigated when there is a possible or alleged connection to work, but the article says in the UK there is no certainty about \"how many teachers have killed themselves in circumstances linked to Ofsted inspections\".\n\nHowever, the authors say they are aware of at least eight other such suicides.\n\nThey want these kinds of deaths to be looked into by the Health and Safety Executive, which investigates other kinds of accidents or deaths at work.\n\nA private memorial event for Ruth Perry's family, friends and school community was held on Saturday.\n\nHer sister Julia Waters said since Ruth's death there had been \"countless harrowing accounts shared of the devastating, traumatic impact of Ofsted inspections\".\n\nShe welcomed the call in the BMJ article for action and said it was needed to prevent another \"appalling tragedy\".\n\nPrimary and nursery school teachers were found to be at 42% greater risk of suicide than the national average, in research by the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe study, which looked at suicides by profession between 2011 and 2015, found teaching as a whole had a lower than average risk.\n\nPaul Whiteman, General Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the article was a \"powerful intervention\" and the death of Ruth Perry had led to evidence emerging of others \"left in very dark places\" after inspections.\n\nIn the opinion piece, the academics argue that Ofsted has a duty of care to teachers, and that a failure to uphold it would be negligent, calling for MPs to look at the impact of inspections on the welfare of staff.\n\nThe experts say they \"struggled to find evidence\" that Ofsted had reflected on its own responsibilities.\n\nIn response to the article, Ofsted said: \"Our inspectors are all former or current school leaders themselves, so they understand how it feels to be inspected. We inspect first and foremost in the interests of children, but we aim for all our inspections to be carried out professionally and sensitively, with careful regard to their impact on school staff.\"\n\nOfsted has promised it will look at revisiting schools more quickly where concerns could be addressed easily, and it has reminded head teachers they can draw on the support of colleagues.\n\nA spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said work-related suicide could not be reported to it under existing regulations: \"Our thoughts are with everyone who knew Ruth Perry. A coroner can refer a case to HSE if they consider there is an ongoing risk to others.\"\n\nThe story of Ruth Perry who killed herself after Ofsted downgraded her school.", "The boy fell from the roof at Edinburgh Waverley railway station\n\nA 20-year-old man and 18-year-old woman have been charged after a boy was electrocuted in a fall at Edinburgh Waverley railway station.\n\nThe 16-year-old suffered serious injuries after falling from the roof on to overhead lines, near the entrance on Waverley Bridge.\n\nHe remains in hospital in a stable condition after the incident on 8 May.\n\nBritish Transport Police said the man and woman had been charged with culpable and reckless conduct.\n\nOfficers appealed for witnesses to the incident to contact them.\n\nA report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The tone of the talks at the White House on Monday appeared to be more optimistic\n\nUS President Joe Biden and top Republican Kevin McCarthy have called their latest talks on the debt ceiling productive but no deal has yet been reached.\n\n\"I believe we can get a deal done,\" House Speaker McCarthy told reporters.\n\nWhile acknowledging areas of disagreement, Mr Biden said a default was \"off the table\".\n\nThe debt ceiling is a spending limit set by Congress which determines how much money the government can borrow.\n\nFailure to raise it beyond the current cap of roughly $31.4tn (£25.2tn) by June could result in the US defaulting on its debt.\n\nThat would mean the government could not borrow any more money or pay all of its bills. It would also threaten to wreak havoc on the global economy, affecting prices and mortgage rates in other countries.\n\nRepublicans, led by Mr McCarthy, have been demanding more than $4tn in spending cuts in return for raising the ceiling. Democrats have refused and instead are offering to keep spending flat.\n\nOther sticking points include bolstering work requirements for those on benefits as well as what to do with unspent Covid-19 relief money.\n\nTreasury Secretary Janet Yellen has reiterated that the US will likely default on its debt as early as 1 June if no deal is reached.\n\nThe tone of the talks at the White House appeared to be more optimistic after weeks of divisive partisan discourse. But it is unclear how quickly the two sides can reach a deal.\n\n\"We don't have an agreement yet,\" Mr McCarthy said. \"But I did feel the discussion was productive in areas that we have differences of opinion.''\n\n\"Biden and I will talk everyday until we get this done,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, the House speaker emphasised that a deal needed to be reached this week to give Congress adequate time to meet the 1 June deadline.\n\nHe estimated it would take about 72 hours for the agreement to be written, read and voted on.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The debt ceiling explained - in under 90 seconds\n\nTreasury Secretary Janet Yellen issued a warning letter to Congress on Monday maintaining that the US would likely run out of money to pay its bills as early as 1 June without a debt limit increase.\n\nShe heightened the urgency and called the possibility of a default in early June \"highly likely\".\n\n\"If Congress fails to increase the debt limit, it would cause severe hardship to American families,\" her statement read.\n\nBoth Mr Biden and Mr McCarthy are under pressure from the left and right flanks of their respective parties to hold the line.\n\nWith a one-seat Democratic majority in the Senate and Republicans in narrow control of the House, a deal has so far proven elusive.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Starmer asked by BBC if Labour would give NHS a cash boost\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to cut heart disease, cancer and suicide deaths, in a speech setting out his plans to reform the NHS in England.\n\nHe said tackling the three \"biggest killers\" within a decade would be central to Labour's NHS mission.\n\nSir Keir said Labour's reforms would focus on expanding community care, training more health workers and allowing GP bookings via the NHS app.\n\nThey accused Labour of frustrating plans to reform the NHS.\n\nBut Labour's leader said the Conservatives had brought the NHS \"to its knees\".\n\nLooking ahead to the next general election, expected next year, Sir Keir said the future of the health service was \"on the line\".\n\n\"I don't think the NHS survives five more years of Tory government,\" Sir Keir said, in his speech at an ambulance station in Essex.\n\nLabour has named \"building an NHS fit for the future\" as one of its five national missions, which the party says will form the backbone of its manifesto ahead of the next general election.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir said deaths from heart disease, cancer and suicide were asking \"demanding questions of our healthcare system\", and said a Labour government would aim to reduce deaths from cancer and suicide within five years, and those from heart disease by a quarter over 10 years.\n\nSir Keir - whose wife, Victoria, is an NHS occupational health worker - said Labour's new targets for the health service will be part of a wider package of reforms.\n\nBut health experts believe there needs to be a big increase in NHS funding to achieve what Labour says it wants to, and costings are largely missing from its plan.\n\nThe NHS Confederation says the health service in England is facing a £6-7bn funding gap for 2023/24.\n\nEarlier, when asked how much money Labour would need to reform the NHS, Sir Keir told the BBC his party would fund an increase in health workers by ending certain tax breaks, including the non-dom status.\n\nIn terms of the overall NHS budget, Sir Keir said Labour would set out its funding plans ahead of the next general election. \"But I'm keen to emphasise, it's change and reform, not just money,\" Sir Keir said.\n\nLabour make the point that, with a general election likely to be a year away at least, it cannot commit to spending pledges given the state of public finances.\n\nBut to properly judge Labour's approach - and that of other parties - the electorate will want to know what the plan is on funding the NHS.\n\nThe same goes for social care. While Labour's plan mentions the need for integration between the NHS and social care, there is little detail about reform of the sector, which encompasses both private care homes and council funded support.\n\nIn his speech, the Labour leader called for three \"big shifts\" in approach for the NHS: promoting digital methods, community care and preventative measures.\n\nHe said speeding up the transition to \"a digital NHS\" would put the health service on a path to \"offering shorter waiting times - better treatment, early diagnosis, and meaningful prevention\".\n\nHe said 33 million people downloaded the NHS app during the Covid-19 pandemic, but called that uptake an \"extraordinary opportunity\" that had been wasted.\n\nLabour says it would turn the NHS app into a one-stop shop for booking GP appointments, ordering repeat prescriptions, age-related check-up alerts, and accessing patient records.\n\nTo alleviate pressure on hospitals, Sir Keir said he wanted to shift the focus to social care services closer to communities.\n\nA big part of this plan involves expanding the NHS workforce, including training 700 more nurses a year, 5,000 more health visitors, thousands of mental health staff.\n\nSir Keir's speech came after Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, highlighted the party's aim to give people a greater choice over where they receive hospital treatment.\n\nMore than 5,500 deaths were registered as suicides in England and Wales in 2021, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) - around three quarters of which were men. Women under the age of 24 have seen the largest increase of any group since data started being collected in 1981, an ONS study found in 2022.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir said suicide rates among young people \"should haunt us\", adding: \"Our mission must be and will be: to get it down.\"\n\nThe party also wants existing NHS targets to be met - for example the aim for 85% of cancer patients to start treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral. This has not been achieved since 2015.\n\nSir Keir said his party would aim to meet existing targets on hospital treatment within the first term of a Labour government.\n\nTackling waiting times, more care in the community and greater use of technology are proposals that have been raised by Labour, Conservatives and the Lib Dems over the last decade or so.\n\nHealth Minister Will Quince said: \"It's easy to shout from the sidelines, but the truth is Labour in Wales are currently missing all the targets Sir Keir Starmer has just set out for England.\n\n\"Labour have been running the health service in Wales for 25 years and haven't met these targets. Sir Keir has a record of changing his mind - we can't trust these will be Labour's targets next week let alone in five years' time.\n\n\"This Conservative government has already reduced 18-month waits by 91% from their peak, and two-year waits are virtually eliminated.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReal Madrid forward Vinicius Jr said \"La Liga belongs to racists\" after he was again racially abused by opposition fans during a match.\n\nThe 22-year-old Brazil international was sent off for violent conduct in the 97th minute of the 1-0 La Liga defeat at Valencia after an altercation with Hugo Duro.\n\nEarlier in the game, an incensed Vinicius attempted to bring Valencia fans to the referee's attention.\n\n\"The championship that once belonged to Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Cristiano and Messi today belongs to racists,\" Vinicius wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"It wasn't the first time, nor the second, nor the third. Racism is normal in La Liga. The competition thinks it's normal, the federation does too and the opponents encourage it.\n\n\"A beautiful nation, which welcomed me and which I love, but which agreed to export the image of a racist country to the world. I'm sorry for the Spaniards who don't agree, but today, in Brazil, Spain is known as a country of racists.\n\n\"And unfortunately, for everything that happens each week, I have no defence. I agree. But I am strong and I will go to the end against racists. Even if far from here.\"\n• None Racism allegations in Spanish football - what happens next?\n\nBBC Sport understands two fans who racially abused Vinicius have been identified and are expected to be given permanent stadium bans by Valencia.\n\nVinicius has been the target of racial abuse multiple times this season.\n\nLa Liga said in a statement it would investigate and take \"appropriate legal action\" if a hate crime was identified, calling on people to submit any relevant footage.\n\nWriting on Twitter, La Liga president Javier Tebas said Vinicius twice did not turn up for a meeting to discuss what it \"can do in cases of racism\".\n\n\"Before you criticise and slander La Liga you need to inform yourself properly,\" Tebas said.\n\nVinicius criticised the post for targeting him instead of the \"racists\", saying he wanted La Liga to take \"actions and punishments\".\n\nSunday's game was paused in the 70th minute as Vinicius tried to point out fans in the crowd who he believed were abusing him.\n\nHe was ushered away by team-mates and Valencia players, before being spoken to by referee Ricardo de Burgos and Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti.\n\nVinicius was later sent off for the first time in La Liga for his involvement in a mass altercation between the two sets of players.\n\nAncelotti said: \"What we saw today is unacceptable - an entire stadium chanting racist slurs.\n\n\"I don't want to talk about football today. There is no meaning in talking about football today. I told the referee he should have stopped the match.\n\n\"La Liga has a problem. For me, Vinicius is the most important player in the world. These episodes of racism have to stop the match.\n\n\"It's the entire stadium that is insulting a player with racist chants and the match has to stop. I would say the same if we were winning 3-0. There is no other way.\"\n\nAncelotti said Vinicius' reaction was \"understandable\" in the circumstances.\n\n\"I asked him if he wanted to keep playing, and he stayed in the game,\" Ancelotti said.\n\n\"Vinicius is very sad; he is angry. Something like this can't happen in the world we live in.\"\n\nReal Madrid issued a statement on Monday stating its \"strongest revulsion\" at the racist abuse suffered by Vinicius.\n\nIt added: \"Real Madrid considers that such attacks also constitute a hate crime, for which reason it has filed the corresponding complaint with the State Attorney General's Office, specifically with the Prosecutor's Office against hate crimes and discrimination, so that the facts can be investigated and clear responsibilities.\"\n\n'This is an isolated episode' - Valencia\n\nValencia said they would investigate and \"take the most severe measures\".\n\n\"Valencia CF wishes to publicly condemn any type of insult, attack or disqualification in football,\" a club statement read.\n\n\"Although this is an isolated episode, insults to any player from the rival team have no place in football and do not fit in with the values and identity of Valencia CF.\"\n\nLa Liga said it had been proactive after previous racist abuse against Vinicius, and had filed nine reports in the past two seasons to legal authorities in Spain.\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino said he had \"full solidarity\" with Vinicius and highlighted the world governing body's protocols for events like those at Valencia.\n\n\"Firstly, you stop the match, you announce it. Secondly, the players leave the pitch and the speaker announces that if the attacks continue, the match will be suspended,\" he said.\n\n\"The match restarts, and then, thirdly, if the attacks continue, the match will stop and the three points will go to the opponent. These are the rules that should be implemented in all countries and in all leagues.\n\n\"Clearly, this is easier said than done, but we need to do it and we need to support it through education.\"\n\n'The authorities don't help him' - Ferdinand\n\nFormer England and Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand wrote on Instagram: \"Bro you need protecting.... who is protecting Vinicius Junior in Spain??\n\n\"How many times do we need to see this young man subjected to this? I see pain, I see disgust, I see him needing help... and the authorities don't help him.\n\n\"People need to stand together and demand more from the authorities that run our game.\n\n\"No-one deserves this, yet you are allowing it. There needs to be a unified approach to this otherwise it will be swept under the carpet AGAIN.\"\n\nReal goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois said he heard some \"monkey noises\" after 20 minutes.\n\n\"If Vini wants to keep playing, we keep playing, but if Vini says he's not playing any more, I'm leaving the pitch with him, because we cannot tolerate these things,\" Courtois told Movistar.\n\nBrazilian football federation (CBF) president Ednaldo Rodrigues said: \"How long are we going to experience, in the middle of the 21st century, episodes like the one we just witnessed, once again, in La Liga?\n\n\"How long will humanity remain just a spectator and an accomplice in cruel acts of racism?\"\n\nJuan Castro, a journalist for Marca who was at the game, told BBC World Service: \"Valencia fans abused Vinicius and called him a monkey.\n\n\"We have a problem here in Spanish football and we have to solve it. It's the 10th time that this has happened to Vinicius.\n\n\"Maybe the solution is to suspend the match. Maybe the solution is that Vinicius decides not to be on the field any more. Maybe that will be the solution to make people aware that they cannot behave like this in a football stadium.\"\n\nAnti-racism charity Kick It Out's head of player engagement Troy Townsend said \"the welfare of Vinicius is not being protected and that needs to change\".\n\n\"Vinicius Jr has now been subjected to racism numerous times this season while simply playing football for Real Madrid, and it has clearly taken its toll. How could it not? And yet the response from the Spanish football authorities has been to criticise him,\" he added.\n\n\"Perpetrators of this shocking and continued racism need to be punished and banned by clubs. Clubs need to be held accountable and be sanctioned by La Liga.\n\n\"Spanish authorities need to take further action against this problem. So far, it is not working.\"\n\nThe racist abuse that Vinicius has had to deal with this season\n• September 2022 - Some Atletico Madrid fans sang racist songs toward Vinicius outside their Wanda Metropolitano stadium before Real Madrid played them in September 2022.\n• September 2022 - some pundits in Spain criticise Vinicius' goal celebration, in which he dances by corner flag. by saying \"the happiness of a black Brazilian in Europe\" is behind the criticism.\n• December 2022 - Vinicius appeared to be subjected to racist abuse at Valladolid while he walked past fans after being substituted. La Liga said it has filed charges relating to the racist abuse of Vinicius to the \"relevant judicial, administrative and sporting bodies\".\n• January 2023 - An effigy of the Real Madrid winger was hung from a bridge near the club's training ground before a game against Atletico Madrid in the Copa del Rey. Atletico said the incident was \"repugnant\".\n• February 2023 - the Brazilian during a game against Real.\n• March 2023 - La Liga said \"intolerable racist behaviour was once again observed against Vinicius\" in a game against Barcelona and it had reported the racist insults to the Barcelona Court of Instruction.\n• None Attempt missed. Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt saved. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Toni Kroos with a through ball.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Eray Cömert (Valencia).\n• None Attempt missed. Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Toni Kroos following a corner.\n• None Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid) is shown the red card for violent conduct.\n• None Attempt saved. Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Federico Valverde (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Karim Benzema. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None The rise and fall of the jeweller-turned-criminal: Listen to Gangster: The Story of John Palmer\n• None The story of how the Hollywood icon was let back into the wild", "Family members of those who died in the cult have been mourning\n\nChildren were targeted as the first to be starved to death in the final days of a Christian doomsday cult in Kenya, according to fresh accounts emerging.\n\nPolice investigating an apparent mass suicide have so far exhumed 201 bodies in a forest in the nation's southeast.\n\nA former deputy preacher of the cult told the New York Times that children were killed first, ordered \"to fast in the sun so they would die faster.\"\n\nWomen and men were next to follow the suicide plan, Titus Katana said.\n\nMr Katana - who is helping police with the investigation - also described to the Sunday Times the alleged brutal treatment of the children, saying they were shut in huts for five days without food or water.\n\n\"Then they wrapped them in blankets and buried them, even the ones still breathing,\" he was quoted as saying.\n\nIt is alleged that the cult followers were told they would reach heaven faster if they starved to death.\n\nOfficial autopsies of some of the bodies in the expansive Shakahola farm, near the coastal town of Malindi, found signs of starvation, suffocation and beatings.\n\nMore than 600 people who are reported to be members of the doomsday cult allegedly led by Pastor Paul Mackenzie are still missing.\n\nPastor Mackenzie, who is currently in police custody, said he closed down his Good News International Church four years ago after nearly two decades of operation.\n\nBut the BBC had uncovered hundreds of his sermons still available online, some of which appeared to have been recorded after this date.\n\nIn an interview with Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper a few weeks ago, Pastor Mackenzie also denied he had forced his followers to starve themselves.\n\nBut Pastor Mackenzie preached against education, saying that it was satanic, after receiving a \"revelation from God\", Mr Katana told the New York Times.\n\nExplaining his reasoning for leaving the cult, Mr Katana, who is also assisting in a police investigation against the pastor, said his teachings had become too \"strange\".\n\nPastor Mackenzie also encouraged mothers to avoid seeking medical attention during childbirth and not to vaccinate their children.\n\nMuch of Pastor Mackenzie's preaching relates to the fulfilment of Biblical prophecies about Judgement Day.\n\nThe church's online content also features posts about the end of the world, impending doom and the supposed dangers of science.\n\nAnd there are frequent warnings of an omnipotent satanic force that has supposedly infiltrated the highest echelons of power around the world.", "Chancellor Scholz (right) pledged to support President Zelensky (left) and Ukraine \"for as long as it is necessary\"\n\nUkraine has no plans to hit targets in Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said in Germany, where Kyiv secured a big new defence aid package.\n\n\"We are not attacking Russian territory,\" he said after talks in Berlin with Chancellor Olaf Scholz.\n\n\"We are preparing a counterattack to de-occupy the illegitimately conquered territories,\" Mr Zelensky added.\n\nMr Scholz vowed to back Ukraine \"for as long as it is necessary\", promising €2.7bn (£2.4bn) worth of weapons.\n\nThis includes advanced German Leopard tanks and more anti-aircraft systems to defend Ukraine from almost daily deadly Russian missile and drone attacks.\n\nPresident Zelensky described the new tranche as \"the largest since the beginning of the full-scale aggression\" by Russia in February 2022.\n\nThe war has transformed Germany's attitude towards Ukraine, moving from being a reluctant supplier of military hardware to virtually doubling its contribution overnight, the BBC's Jenny Hill in Berlin says.\n\nRussia accuses Ukraine of repeatedly hitting targets inside Russia, including a reported drone attack on Moscow's Kremlin earlier this month.\n\nUkraine denies the accusations, while also stressing that it has a legitimate right to use force and other means to fully de-occupy its territories currently under Russian control. These include four regions in the south and east, as well as the Crimea peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014.\n\nLater on Sunday, President Zelensky travelled to the western city of Aachen to receive the prestigious Charlemagne Prize awarded this year to him and the Ukrainian people. The honour is given for efforts to foster European unity.\n\n\"Ukraine incarnates everything the European idea is living for: the courage of convictions, the fight for values and freedom, the commitment to peace and unity,\" EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at the award ceremony.\n\nIn other developments on Sunday:\n\nPresident Zelensky flew to Germany from Italy overnight, his plane escorted by two German Air Force fighter jets.\n\nIn Rome, the Ukrainian leader met Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. He also had a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican.\n\nThe Argentine pontiff said he was constantly praying for peace in Ukraine.\n\nThe Pope also stressed the urgent need to help \"the most fragile people, innocent victims\" of the Russian invasion.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Meloni assured Mr Zelensky of Rome's support for united Ukraine.\n\nLater on Sunday, the Ukrainian leader arrived in Paris, where he went to the Élysée Palace for a working dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Humans are a bit boring - it will be like, goodbye!\" That's the personal prediction - that artificial intelligence (AI) will supplant humans in many roles - from one of the most important people you've probably never heard of.\n\nEmad Mostaque is the British founder of the tech firm, Stability AI. It popularised Stable Diffusion, a tool that uses AI to make images from simple text instructions by analysing images found online.\n\nAI enables a computer to think or act more like a human. It includes what's called machine learning, when computers can learn what to do without being giving exact instructions by a human sitting at a keyboard tapping in commands. Last month, there was a dramatic warning from 1,000 experts to press pause on its development, warning of potential risks, and saying the race to develop AI systems is out of control.\n\nIn an interview we'll show in full on Sunday, tech founder Mostaque questions what will happen \"if we have agents more capable than us that we cannot control, that are going across the internet… and they achieve a level of automation; what does that mean?\n\n\"The worst case scenario is that it proliferates and basically it controls humanity.\"\n\nThat sounds terrifying, but he is not alone in pointing out the risk, that if we create computers smarter than ourselves we just can't be sure what will happen next.\n\nMostaque believes governments could soon be shocked into taking action by an event that makes the risks suddenly real. He points to the moment Tom Hanks contracted Covid-19 and millions sat up and paid attention.\n\nWhen a moment like that arrives, governments will conclude \"we need policy now\", the 40-year-old says.\n\nThere's been a spike in concern for example after a Republican attack advert on Jo Biden was created using fake computer generated images.\n\nWhen there's a risk to information that voters can trust, that's something governments have to respond to, says Mostaque.\n\nDespite his concerns, Mostaque says that the potential benefits of AI for almost every part of our lives could be huge. Yet he concedes that the effect on jobs could be painful, at least at the start.\n\nMostaque says he believes AI \"will be a bigger economic impact than the pandemic\", adding that \"it's up to us to decide which direction\" this all goes in.\n\nAI could lead to 300m job losses according to one prediction.\n\nSome jobs will undoubtedly disappear, the bank Goldman Sachs suggested an almost incomprehensible 300m roles could be lost or diminished by the advancing technology.\n\nWhile no one wants to be replaced by a robot, Mostaque's hope is that better jobs could be created because \"productivity increases will balance out\" and humans can concentrate on the things that make us human, and let machines do more of the rest. He agrees with the UK's former chief scientific advisor, Sir Patrick Vallance, that the advance of AI and its impacts could prove even bigger than the industrial revolution.\n\nMostaque is an unassuming mathematician, the founder of a company he only started in 2020 that has already been valued at $1bn, and with more cash flooding in, including from Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher, is likely to be soon worth very much more. Some speculation has put the value as high $4bn.\n\nUnlike some of his competitors he is determined his technology will remain open source - in other words anyone can look at the code, share it, and use it. In his view, that's what should give the public a level of confidence in what's going on.\n\n\"I think there shouldn't have to be a need for trust,\" he says.\n\n\"If you build open models and you do it in the open, you should be criticised if you do things wrong and hopefully lauded if you do some things right.\"\n\nBut his business also raises profound questions about ownership, and what's real. There's legal action underway against them by the photo agency Getty Images which claims the rights to the images it sells have been infringed.\n\nIn response, Mostaque says: \"What if you have a robot that's walking around and looking at things, do you have to close its eyes if it sees anything?\"\n\nThat's hardly likely to be the end of that conversation.\n\nThe entrepreneur is convinced that the scale of what's coming is enormous. He reckons that in 10 years time, his company and fellow AI leaders, ChatGPT and DeepMind, will even be bigger than Google and Facebook. Predictions about technology are as tricky as predictions about politics - educated guesses that could turn out to be totally wrong. But what is clear is that a public conversation about the risks and realities of AI is now underway. We might be on the cusp of sweeping changes too big for any one company, country or politician to manage.\n\nThe first steam train puffed along the tracks in Darlington more than 50 years after the steam engine was patented by James Watt. This time we're unlikely to have anything like as long to get used to these new ideas, and it's unlikely to be boring!\n\nYou can watch much more of our conversation with Emad Mostaque on tomorrow's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg live on BBC One or here on iPlayer.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal's fading title hopes were dealt a devastating blow after losing to Brighton to leave leaders Manchester City one win from a fifth Premier League title in six seasons.\n\nThe Gunners needed to respond after City's 3-0 win over Everton earlier on Sunday left Mikel Arteta's side trailing by four points in the race for the title.\n\nOn a deeply frustrating day for Arsenal, Leandro Trossard hit the bar against his former club while Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka both went close before Julio Enciso's close-range header put Brighton ahead.\n\nSubstitute Deniz Undav doubled the lead after lobbing Aaron Ramsdale in the 86th minute before Pervis Estupinan added to Arsenal's misery with Brighton's third in the 96th minute.\n\nCity will win the Premier League title next Sunday in front of their own fans if they beat Chelsea at home (16:00 BST), even if Arsenal defeat Nottingham Forest at the City Ground on Saturday (17:30).\n\nHowever, City will be confirmed champions without playing on Saturday if the Gunners lose at Forest.\n\nIn a game littered with niggly challenges, Arsenal lost Brazil forward Gabriel Martinelli to injury in the first half after a foul by Brighton's Ecuador midfielder Moises Caicedo, who the Gunners tried to sign in January.\n\nBrighton, who are chasing a place in Europe for the first time, had gone close through Enciso before the 19-year-old Paraguay forward stunned the Emirates with his 51st-minute goal.\n\nThe win lifted the Seagulls above both Aston Villa and Tottenham into sixth on 58 points, four behind fifth-placed Liverpool with one game in hand.\n\nThe maximum number of points Arsenal can score is 87, while City have 85 with matches against Chelsea (home), Brighton (away) and Brentford (away) to come.\n• None Reaction from Arsenal-Brighton, plus how Sunday's Premier League action unfolded\n• None Go straight to all the best Arsenal content\n\nArsenal's players sank to their knees after the full-time whistle, the realisation quickly sinking in that their title dream was all but over after being picked off by Brighton.\n\nThe Gunners deserve enormous credit for the way they have pushed Manchester City in the title race. They were eight points clear of City at the top after 18 games but their pursuit is running out of steam after a highly damaging defeat at the business end of the season.\n\nManchester City's comfortable win at Everton earlier on Sunday opened up a four-point gap at the top but this time Arsenal were unable to respond to the pressure heaped on them by Pep Guardiola's Treble-chasing team.\n\nThere was still almost 40 minutes left when Enciso opened the scoring and Arteta sent on Eddie Nketiah and Emile Smith Rowe to try and salvage a point.\n\nBut the Arsenal boss, who was shown a yellow card by referee Andy Madley, saw his side concede two further goals while the home side failed to score for the first time since 4 February on their way to a comprehensive defeat.\n\n\"We knew the challenge we had, it was very different to the one we had at Newcastle,\" Arteta told Match of the Day, referencing a 2-0 win.\n\n\"I was stood here and very proud of what we did last week but today we have to apologise to our people. We have to move on very quickly and not keep that feeling for a long time.\"\n\nBrighton's incredible season far from over\n\nThis was another statement win in what looks like being a history-defining season for Brighton, who bounced back from a crushing 5-1 home defeat by Everton to produce one of their best performances of the season.\n\nThey were at their clinical best as Arsenal were beaten at the Emirates for only the second time in the league.\n\nRoberto De Zerbi has called on his players to \"write club history\" by qualifying for Europe for the first time.\n\n\"It's not enough to qualify for the Europa League,\" said De Zerbi. \"We have four games and they're all tough games. We have 58 points and that's not enough. We have to win other games and the first game will be in Newcastle [on Thursday].\n\n\"I enjoy working with the players. I am very lucky to be their coach and I am happy they enjoy working with me.\n\n\"That's a great satisfaction for me, but I prefer to speak about everything at the end of the season because we want to achieve something historic for the fans and for the club.\"\n\nTwo wins from the last four games - Newcastle (away), Southampton (home), Manchester City (home), Aston Villa (away) - will be enough to see the Seagulls confirm their place in next season's Europa League.\n\nAgainst Arsenal, Brighton were at their attacking best, registering six chances on target and scoring from half of them.\n\n\"The manager showed us a Michael Jordan video, to show us how he motivated himself for each game,\" goalscorer Undav told Sky Sports.\n\n\"It was the right choice to show us the video and we showed today how mentally strong we are.\"\n\nAs Arsenal's players looked desolate at the final whistle, Brighton's triumphantly marched over to where their travelling fans were gathered to show their appreciation.\n\nThis incredible season for the Seagulls, which has included an FA Cup semi-final and league doubles over Manchester United and Chelsea, is far from over.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 3. Pervis Estupiñán (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Deniz Undav (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Danny Welbeck.\n• None Attempt blocked. Reiss Nelson (Arsenal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thomas Partey.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Levi Colwill tries a through ball, but Pervis Estupiñán is caught offside.\n• None Moisés Caicedo (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Deniz Undav.\n• None Thomas Partey (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 2. Deniz Undav (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pascal Groß.\n• None Attempt saved. Deniz Undav (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Magalhães (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Thomas Partey following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Reiss Nelson (Arsenal) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Eddie Nketiah. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "One of Sudan's most prominent singers, Shaden Gardood, has been killed in crossfire in the Sudanese city of Omdurman.\n\nGardood died amid clashes between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Friday.\n\nThe 37-year-old's death came only one day after the warring parties signed a deal to alleviate civilian suffering.\n\nFighting erupted in Sudan in April over a vicious power struggle within the country's military leadership.\n\nGardood lived in the al-Hashmab neighbourhood, where RSF presence has increased in recent days.\n\nHer niece, Heraa Hassan Mohammed, confirmed her death on Facebook and said: \"She was like a mother and a beloved to me, we were just chatting, may God give her mercy.\"\n\nShe then wrote the Islamic phrase used when a person dies: \"inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un\".\n\nIn a video which circulated on social media, Gardood said she was trying to hide from the shelling and asked her son to close the windows.\n\nShe could be heard saying: \"Go away from the doors and the windows… in the name of Allah, we are going to die ready wearing our full clothes... you should wear this, we will die in a better shape.\"\n\nGardood regularly made live videos on Facebook talking about the clashes and shelling in her neighbourhood, and she wrote intensively against the war.\n\nIn one of her last posts on Facebook, she said: \"We have been trapped in our houses for 25 days… we are hungry and living in an enormous fear, but are full of ethics and values,\" referring to looting across Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.\n\nGardood lived near the national television and radio building, which has been a battlefield from the first day of the war.\n\nThe RSF was guarding the building and they came under constant shelling by fighter jets, with on-the-ground clashes between the two forces.\n\nOne resident living in the same neighbourhood as Gardood said: \"Last night, the clashes were violent and intense, which lasted for long hours with fighter jets hovering over all night last night.\n\n\"But what I observed is that the clashes were a bit less immediately after Shaden was injured, then we continued to hear the sound from afar.\"\n\nThe resident said that Gardood later died of her wounds.\n\nGardood is survived by her 15-year-old son, Hamoudy, and her mother and sister.\n\nThe fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF has been taking place in Khartoum for almost four weeks.\n\nThe conflict erupted in mid-April, when the RSF refused to be integrated into Sudan's army under a planned transition to civilian rule.\n\nMore than 600 civilians have died and more than 4,000 injured, closing down about 80% of the hospitals with severe food, water and electricity shortages.\n\nGardood was originally from South Kordofan state, a war zone area since 2011, before she resided in Khartoum with her family.\n\nShe sang for peace and security in her region and promoted the culture of her marginalised community, al-Bagara, in South Kordofan, playing the role of Hakama - traditional poets in western Sudan who encourage men to go for fighting - for peace.\n\nAs well as being a singer, Gardood was a researcher in the al-Bagara Melodies and presented papers on the legacy of the Hakamas in the past and present.\n\nA number of public figures were killed in Khartoum in the past few weeks, among them Sudan's first professional actress, Asia Abdelmajid, who died in crossfire at the age of 80.\n\nFormer footballer Fozi el-Mardi, 72, was also killed only a few days after the death of his daughter who was killed in a crossfire in Omdurman.\n\nFour days after the start of the war, constant ceasefires were announced under the request of regional powers, but none were upheld.\n\nThe clashes have not stopped as the fighter jets continue hovering over the entire city.", "Miyo Aoetsu says her speciality is a \"fusion of Japanese and Western baking\"\n\nA green loaf of bread flavoured with matcha, white chocolate and fruit has been crowned the best loaf in Britain.\n\nThe bread, called Brioche Japonaise, was baked in Derbyshire by a woman who started baking as a hobby.\n\nMiyo Aoetsu now runs Kuma-San Bakehouse professionally from her home in Matlock, supplying local businesses and baking loaves for customers to collect.\n\nHer award-winning loaf was inspired by her Japanese heritage and also her time living in France.\n\n\"In my country it's quite common to use matcha for sweets, cakes, cookies and things like that,\" she said.\n\n\"There's the bitterness of the matcha and the sweetness of the chocolate and white fruit, so the balance of the taste is quite exciting.\"\n\nThe Brioche Japonaise was highly praised by judges\n\nThe bread won top spot in the Britain's Best Loaf competition, run by trade magazine British Baker, and also won the Innovation category.\n\nCraft Bakers Association president Neil Woods said: \"In all the years I've been judging, I haven't seen anything like this before.\"\n\nThe loaf was praised by the judges for its \"outstanding use of ingredients, wonderful texture, and decadent white chocolate inclusions\", which they said remained \"almost gooey to deliver a wonderful eating experience\".\n\nMiyo now bakes her bread professionally from her home in Matlock, after starting as a hobby\n\nMiyo first moved to the UK to study at the University of Manchester, where she met her husband.\n\nThe couple later lived in Luxembourg and France, where Miyo got a taste for French bread. She then started baking her own bread after moving back to England.\n\n\"I missed French bread a lot because it was very different from the bread here,\" she said.\n\n\"I started making my own bread as a hobby. However, when I baked for friends and family they really, really loved it, and they encouraged me to be a professional baker.\"\n\nShe said she was \"very excited\" to win awards for her Brioche Japonaise because it reflected her Japanese culture and identity.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "It's been a tricky few days for the prime minister – not just because he had to watch his football team, Southampton, be relegated when they lost to Fulham at St Marys yesterday.\n\nBut because some of the Conservatives jitters have been making it into the public realm of late – conferences and get togethers by some Boris Johnson superfans are the most obvious signs of the rumblings of discontent, but they are not the only ones.\n\nNo surprise that Energy Secretary Grant Shapps said this morning that Rishi Sunak was still committed to the five promises he made at the beginning of the year. But it was notable that he admitted it would be difficult for him to keep the promises.\n\nProgress on the now famous five pledges is not stellar:\n• NHS waiting lists are the highest since records began\n• Inflation is not falling as fast as the Bank of England expected\n• Economic growth is measly, although recession has probably been avoided\n• Last week 564 people crossed the Channel in small boats\n\nMr Sunak's credibility is based on keeping those promises. That is far from straightforward.\n\nThe government is also under pressure to put the foot on the accelerator on its plans for energy. Yes, it is true that the UK has made huge strides in renewable energy. But it is also true that there is massive frustration in the industry about how difficult it is now to get things built, as we heard this morning from the boss of Octopus Energy, Greg Jackson.\n\nAs ministers often discover, making promises is easy, sticking to them significantly harder.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the emotional moment Rob Burrow is carried over the line\n\nRugby league legend Kevin Sinfield stopped short of the finish at the inaugural Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon to carry his friend over the line.\n\nThe event named after former Leeds Rhinos star Burrow, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019, saw more than 12,000 people take part.\n\nIt was inspired by Sinfield, who pushed his former team-mate around the course in a specially-adapted wheelchair.\n\nHe then lifted Burrow up and carried him, to the delight of spectators.\n\nAs a crowd cheered them on, Sinfield gave Burrow a kiss after joining thousands of other runners in Leeds' first marathon in 20 years.\n\nSinfield and Burrow at the start of the 2023 Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon\n\nSpectators also lined the 26.2-mile (42.2km) course - which started and ended at Headingley Stadium - to cheer them on.\n\nOne woman told BBC Look North it had been an emotional day, especially seeing the two friends completing the marathon together.\n\nAnother said she was there to support her 76-year-old husband, who was running his first marathon, with two false knees and four stents.\n\nSinfield said the marathon was a celebration of friendship\n\nThe marathon aimed to raise funds for The Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Appeal and the Leeds Hospitals Charity, as well as a host of other causes.\n\n\"The support for the MND community through the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon has been fantastic,\" said Sinfield, who has himself set numerous fundraising running challenges in support of his friend.\n\nAhead of the race, Sinfield thanked all those involved for \"creating something so incredible in Rob's name\".\n\n\"Today is a celebration of friendship,\" he added.\n\nSinfield has raised more than £8m for MND charities after several other ventures, including running seven back-to-back ultra marathons in November.\n\nIn late 2020, Sinfield ran seven marathons in seven days and in 2021 he completed a run of 101 miles in 24 hours.\n\nMore than 12,000 people signed up to take part in the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon\n\nSpeaking before the big day, Burrow said: \"Leeds is such a wonderful city and I am so grateful for all the support the city has shown not just for me and my family, but for the event and the entire MND community.\"\n\nRun For All announced last month The Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon would return in 2024 after an \"overwhelming\" number of people entered this year's race.\n\nJenn Scribbins, from the Motor Neurone Disease Association, said the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon was important to defeat the \"devastating\" disease.\n\n\"Six people are diagnosed every day and unfortunately there is no cure,\" she said.\n\n\"What this event is doing is raising those funds to help us get closer to that cure.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some 132,000 expats - like this woman in Berlin - voted in Germany. Image caption: Some 132,000 expats - like this woman in Berlin - voted in Germany.\n\nAbout a million Turkish expats have voted in the presidential election, with turnout highest amongst those living in Germany, Canada, and the US, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.\n\nThe Supreme Election Council says the increase in votes overseas is part of what has delayed the vote counting.\n\nThe agency says support for Erdogan was high in northern Africa and parts of western Europe, while the Americas and Oceania backed Kilicdaroglu.\n\nThe Supreme Election Council says the increase in votes overseas is part of what has delayed the vote counting.", "About half a million people are being evacuated to safer areas in south-eastern Bangladesh, ahead of a cyclone that could be extremely dangerous.\n\nMocha is predicted to make landfall at midday, with 170kph (106mph) winds and storm surges of up to 3.6m (12ft).\n\nThere are concerns the cyclone could hit the world's largest refugee camp, Cox's Bazar, where close to a million people live in makeshift homes.\n\nRains are already falling on the camp and red warning flags have been raised.\n\nCyclone Mocha could be the most powerful storm seen in Bangladesh in nearly two decades.\n\nAs the weather system heads towards the Bangladesh-Myanmar coast, nearby airports have been shut, fishermen have been told to suspend their work and 1,500 shelters have been set up, as people from vulnerable areas are moved to safety.\n\n\"We are ready to face any hazards... we don't want to lose a single life,\" Vibhushan Kanti Das, additional deputy commissioner at Cox's Bazar, told the BBC.\n\nPeople are packing in to cyclone shelters as the storm approaches\n\nThroughout the day, families have been arriving at designated cyclone shelters. Hundreds have been packing into classrooms at a school in Cox's Bazar.\n\nSome brought plastic bags filled with a few of their possessions. Others arrived with their livestock, chickens and cattle.\n\nJannat, 17, took a space on a classroom desk, along with her two-month-old baby. She brought a few clothes with her in a bag, but nothing else. Her husband was still at their coastal home, making sure things were safely secure before joining her.\n\nShe said she was scared about this cyclone, after her home was damaged in Cyclone Sitrang last year too.\n\n\"I am worried about what comes next,' Jannat told the BBC. \"I'm scared my home will be submerged again.\"\n\nClose to a million Rohingya refugees who have fled neighbouring Myanmar (also known as Burma) remain at risk, living in flimsy bamboo shelters with tarpaulin covers. The UN says it is doing what it can to protect these areas.\n\nBangladesh's government does not allow refugees to leave their camps, so many say they are frightened and unsure of what will happen if their shelters are hit by the storm.\n\nMohammad Rafique (centre) says all he and his family can do is pray\n\nMohammad Rafique, 40, and his family live in one of the small bamboo shelters built for refugees.\n\nSuch shelters with tarpaulin roofing are unlikely to provide much protection from strong winds and heavy rains.\n\nAll we can do is pray to God to save us, Mohammad says. \"We have nowhere to go for safety, and no-one to turn to.\"\n\nHe adds: \"We have faced many difficulties before and our homes have been destroyed in the past. We hope it won't happen this time.\"\n\nForecasters expect the cyclone to bring a deluge of rain, which can trigger landslides - a serious danger for those who reside in hillside camps, where landslips are a regular phenomenon.\n\nMD Shamsul Douza, from the Bangladeshi government office which oversees the refugees and the camps, told the BBC that they were working with NGOs to ensure the camps were as prepared as possible for the cyclone.\n\nBut he said moving refugees out of the camps was not an easy task.\n\n\"Moving a million refugees is very difficult, the implementation of the movement is difficult. We have to be practical,\" the official said.\n\n\"Our plan is to save lives. We are also focused on the days after. There may be heavy rains leading to flash floods and landslides, which would also pose a risk.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe impact of climate change on the frequency of storms is still unclear, but we know that increased sea surface temperatures warm the air above and make more energy available to drive hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons.\n\nAs a result, they are likely to be more intense with more extreme rainfall.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Palestinian Islamic Jihad confirmed a ceasefire had been agreed, while Israel said quiet would be met with quiet\n\nThere are hopes a ceasefire will take hold to end five days of fighting between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) militants in Gaza.\n\nIt got off to a shaky start, as both sides kept firing for two hours after the truce started on Saturday evening.\n\nAt least 33 Palestinians have been killed since Tuesday in Gaza, where Israel says it has struck PIJ targets.\n\nPalestinian rocket fire into Israel has killed two people, one Israeli and one Palestinian working in the country.\n\nThe mediation efforts were led by Egypt, which urged both sides to adhere to the ceasefire agreement.\n\nWashington welcomed the announcement of the ceasefire, and said US officials had worked with regional partners to achieve the resolution.\n\nBarrages of Palestinian rockets set off warning sirens in southern Israel, close to Gaza, and the suburbs of the city of Tel Aviv just before the truce was due to come into effect at 22:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nMinutes after it supposedly started, militants launched more rockets at southern Israeli communities and the Israeli military carried out air strikes on what it said were two PIJ rocket launchers in Gaza.\n\nFurther rocket fire at around 23:00 drew another round of air strikes.\n\nMore than 1,200 rockets and mortars have been fired from Gaza towards Israel\n\nDespite the fighting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office issued a statement confirming that a ceasefire had been agreed and thanked Egypt for its \"intensive efforts\" to secure one.\n\nIt also said Israel had made clear that its acceptance meant \"quiet will be met with quiet, and that if Israel is attacked or threatened, it will continue to do everything that it needs to in order to defend itself\".\n\nPIJ also confirmed the ceasefire, with a spokesman telling Reuters news agency: \"We will abide by it as long as the occupation [Israel] abides by it.\"\n\nAccording to a text from Egyptian intelligence seen by the BBC, Palestinian militants and Israel have agreed to stop actions targeting civilians and other individuals.\n\nThe BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem says this form of wording appears to cover both the recent intense rocket fire from Gaza and Israel's controversial policy of targeted killings of militant leaders.\n\nIsrael began its military operation in Gaza before dawn on Tuesday, killing three leaders of PIJ in their homes as well as at least 10 civilians, including relatives and neighbours of the men.\n\nPIJ fighters then fired barrages of rockets at southern and central Israel, which they said were intended to avenge the dead.\n\nAt least 1,234 rockets and mortars have been fired from Gaza in total, with 976 crossing into Israeli territory, according to the Israeli military. Most have been intercepted or have landed in open areas, but some have hit homes and other buildings.\n\nOne woman was killed when a rocket hit an apartment building in the central city of Rehovot on Thursday, while a worker from Gaza was killed when he was hit by rocket shrapnel at a building site in the southern Sdot Negev region.\n\nThe military says 221 of the rockets have fallen short inside Gaza and that they have killed four people there, including three children. Islamic Jihad denies the allegation.\n\nIsrael has carried out air strikes on 371 PIJ targets across Gaza, killing three more leaders and destroying what it said were the group's rocket launch sites and command centres.\n\nAbout half of the 33 people killed in Gaza were civilians, including seven children and four women, according to local health officials.", "Former circus worker Annie Duplock will turn 100 years old in August\n\nA 99-year-old woman has achieved her lifelong dream of having knives thrown at her during a live circus show.\n\nAnnie Duplock, from Sharnford, Leicestershire, stepped into the ring to brave the blades before a cheering crowd in Coventry on Friday.\n\nThe former circus worker, who celebrates her centenary in three months, was part of the grand finale of the Zippo Circus show.\n\nAfterwards she said she had \"really enjoyed\" the experience.\n\nSupported by a walking aid, Ms Duplock took her place in front of a board as blades were hurled at her by a professional knife thrower.\n\nShe had persuaded her daughter to ask her former boss, circus founder Martin Burton, to let her take part.\n\nMr Burton said: \"Annie worked for me 30 years ago, putting up posters.\n\n\"She was 70 years old then and she is 100 years old this August.\"\n\nHe told the audience his former employee had seen the show the night before and asked to be part of the nerve-shredding spectacle for her 100th birthday treat.\n\nAfter the performance, she said: \"I've always wanted to have knives thrown at me!\n\n\"I'm ready for the next one.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Indian trapeze artist who became a circus legend", "In an emotional message S Club confirmed they would be continuing with their October tour\n\nS Club 7 have confirmed they will be embarking on a planned tour after the death of Paul Cattermole - but without remaining member Hannah Spearritt.\n\nIn a video posted to the group's official Instagram page, the other five members confirmed she would not be taking part in the 19-date tour.\n\nCattermole died last month aged 46 at his home in Dorset, weeks after the 25th anniversary tour was announced.\n\nHe and Spearritt had been in a relationship while in the band.\n\nLast month, she gave an interview to the Sun in which she said she had been unable to stop crying since learning of his death.\n\nThe cause of the star's death has not been confirmed but police said there were \"no suspicious circumstances\".\n\nS Club 7 were one of the biggest pop acts of the late 1990s and early 2000s.\n\nTheir hits included Reach, Don't Stop Movin' and S Club Party. In total, they had 11 UK top 10 singles, including four number ones, and sold more than 10 million albums worldwide. They also won two Brit Awards.\n\nThe tour will take place in October this year, taking in arenas across the UK, plus one date in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIn one other change, the branding on the band's website had been updated with the '7' in the group's logo removed as they have reverted to their previous name of S Club. The band used this version of the name in the mid-2000s when Cattermole initially left the band.\n\nIn the Instagram video, the band sit on a sofa and appear to be clearly emotional.\n\nIt opens with them explaining they had recently been taking time to deal with Paul's death, saying it had been \"a bit of a shock\".\n\nS Club members said Paul Cattermole had been involved in the planning of the October tour\n\nOn the departure of Hannah Spearritt, Jon Lee said she remained a member of the group.\n\n\"She won't be joining us on this tour but we wish her all the best for the future. However, the five of us are really excited and geared up to crack on,\" he said.\n\nHe goes on to say the tour will be a \"tribute\" to Paul, and is being renamed the Good Times Tour, after one of the songs that featured Paul as the lead vocalist.\n\nRachel Stevens said: \"He's always going to be with us. He was such a big part of this tour, so involved in everything that we are planning.\"\n\n\"And we are just going to keep his memory alive and share it with all of you and its going to make it even more special.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sclub7 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBradley McIntosh said Paul was like a \"big brother\" to the group, with Jo O'Meara saying that Paul would light up a room \"with humour and love\" and was \"just a really special person\".\n\nTina Barrett added: \"It's just really sad and really, really hard to process it right now.\"", "Last updated on .From the section National League\n\nNotts County had missed out on automatic promotion by just four points to title winners Wrexham Notts County twice battled back from a goal down before beating Chesterfield on penalties in an astonishing National League promotion final at Wembley to reclaim their status as 'world's oldest football league club'. Substitute goalkeeper Archie Mair, brought on to replace Sam Slocombe in the 120th minute, crucially saved spot-kicks from Darren Oldaker and Jeff King before Cedwyn Scott sealed a dramatic 4-3 shootout triumph. Victory for the 161-year-old Magpies, who were founder members of the Football League in 1888, ended their four-year non-league exile while defeat consigned Chesterfield to a sixth season in the National League. Ruben Rodrigues had bounced a volley off the turf and over goalkeeper Ross Fitzsimons to level at 2-2 in the second half of extra time to ensure the showdown would be decided from the spot. Armando Dobra's curled finish had restored Chesterfield's lead in the first period of 15 additional minutes after an enthralling game ended 1-1 at the end of normal time. A calamitous start from Notts goalkeeper Slocombe - which had the Magpies defending a rare indirect free-kick inside the box after just two minutes - cost them dearly as his challenge on Andrew Dallas allowed the striker to put Chesterfield ahead from the spot. The Spireites had Notts scrambling to stay in touch at the break as the side that won a club-record 32 league games during the regular season struggled to muster a meaningful response. Sam Austin sent a shot over the bar from the edge of the area and Connell Rawlinson wastefully steered a header wide for a much-improved Notts after the break. Liam Mandeville squandered a late chance to seal victory moments before experienced Notts midfielder John Bostock caught Fitzsimons out with a set-piece that skipped in at the near post. Dobra edged the Derbyshire club back ahead three minutes after the restart and, after Macaulay Langstaff and Rawlinson went close to again restoring parity, it was Rodrigues who sent the final to a shootout.\n• None Relive the National League promotion final as it happened After four years and three failed play-off attempts - including defeat by Harrogate in a 2020 promotion final played behind closed doors at Wembley during the Covid-19 pandemic - Notts finally secured their English Football League (EFL) return at the end of a record-breaking season. Luke Williams' side were pipped for automatic promotion and the title by Hollywood-funded Wrexham, who topped the table with an all-time high 111 points. The 107 points the Magpies collected to finish second would have got them straight up as champions in every other season before this one. The club-record wins total and 117 goals in a campaign - which included a record 25-game unbeaten league run between September and February - would have counted for nothing if they had lost at the national stadium. Chesterfield finished one spot below Notts in the table, but the gap between the two was 23 points. They were the only side, other than Wrexham and Notts, to have a spell at the top of the table after the first month of the season - and they pushed Notts to their limits at Wembley in an incredible energy-sapping game. Chesterfield were presented with a bizarre chance almost immediately after kick-off when County conceded an indirect free-kick in the penalty area. Notts set their entire side up a yard in front of the goalline to block King's effort from the left of the penalty spot, but the uncertain start by the Magpies quickly got worse. Slocombe raced out to try shut Dallas down on the edge of the area, but caught the Spireites forward as he tried to lift the ball beyond the keeper. Dallas collected himself and went straight down the middle to beat Slocombe from the spot to put Chesterfield ahead after five chaotic minutes. Nervy Notts struggled to match frenetic Chesterfield for much of the first half, but Austin had a chance to level from close range in the 17th minute when he stretched to meet a lofted cross from Aaron Nemane. Dallas continued to torment Notts' backline down the left, calling Slocombe into action as the forward attempted pull a dangerous ball back across goal. It was not until the 37th minute that Notts managed to register a shot on goal with Nemane sending an effort directly into Fitzsimons' hands. Austin and Rawlinson were off target in search of a second-half equaliser, only for Bostock to deliver with a clever free-kick after a Slocombe error at the other end almost gifted Chesterfield the win in normal time. Dobra had Chesterfield ahead again in extra time and while Langstaff went close to adding to his National League record 42 goals and Rawlinson also flashed a chance wide, it was Rodrigues who salvaged Notts' hopes. On-loan keeper Mair, in just his fifth game for Notts, played an instrumental role off the bench with his penalty saves and, after Bostock made a mess of his spot-kick to seal it, Scott kept his cool to secure victory.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Chesterfield 2(2), Notts County 2(3). John Bostock (Notts County) hits the woodwork with a.\n• None Penalty saved! Jeff King (Chesterfield) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, saved.\n• None Penalty saved! Darren Oldaker (Chesterfield) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, saved.\n• None Jeff King (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Examine the seven men who attempted to kill Queen Victoria\n• None Where were the Tudors from? Find out about the origins of the most famous ruling dynasty in British history", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Gifts and cheers for the man wanting to reform Thailand\n\nThai voters have delivered a stunning verdict in favour of an opposition party that is calling for radical reform of the country's institutions.\n\nEarly results show Move Forward exceeding every prediction to win 151 of the 500 seats in the lower house.\n\nIt's now 10 seats ahead of what was the frontrunner, Pheu Thai, led by ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's daughter.\n\nAnalysts are calling this a political earthquake that represents a significant shift in public opinion.\n\nIt is also a clear repudiation of the two military-aligned parties of the current government, and Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led a coup that ousted an elected government in 2014. The governing coalition won only 15% of the seats.\n\n\"We didn't leave any stones unturned,\" Move Forward's 42-year-old leader Pita Limjaroenrat told the BBC. \"People have had enough in the last decade. Now, it's a new day.\"\n\nPheu Thai, the second-largest party, has said it has agreed to join Move Forward and four smaller opposition parties, giving them a coalition of more than 60% of seats in the new parliament.\n\nHowever, that still isn't enough to outvote the 250-strong unelected senate, which was appointed by Mr Prayuth, and are allowed to join the vote in parliament for the next administration. They are likely to object to Move Forward's progressive agenda, in particular its pledge to amend the controversial lese majeste law.\n\nIn the political negotiations which lie ahead, many Thais fear the military and its backers may yet try to block the winning parties from taking office. A military coup is unlikely, but yet another court ruling to disqualify Move Forward on a technicality, as happened to its predecessor Future Forward in 2020, is possible.\n\nThe other question is how well Move Forward and Pheu Thai, whose relations in the last parliament were sometimes fractious, can work together. Mr Pita, a Harvard University graduate and a skilled parliamentarian, is still untested in the more ruthless art of stitching together and sustaining a coalition.\n\nBut that uncertainty doesn't change the fact that the people of Thailand woke up to a changed political landscape this morning.\n\n\"The majority of votes reflect the need to escape from the 'Prayuth regime', and the yearning for change,\" says Prajak Kongkirati, a political scientist from Thammasat University. \"It shows that people believe in the Move Forward demand for change - many more people than predicted.\"\n\nThai social media has been awash with victory messages from Move Forward supporters, who call themselves \"organic canvassers\", and describe the party's win as a \"wind of change\" and the \"dawn of a new era.\"\n\nMr Pita tweeted that he was \"ready\" to become the country's 30th prime minister. \"We have the same dreams and hopes. And together we believe that our beloved Thailand can be better, and changes are possible if we start working on them today,\" he wrote.\n\n\"This election really tells you that only four years have passed, but the people's thinking has changed a lot, both the establishment and the pro-democracy camps,\" a tweet read, adding that, \"democracy cannot be taken for granted\".\n\nIt would have once been unthinkable that Move Forward, a party calling for wholesale changes to Thailand's bureaucracy, its economy, the role of the military, and even the laws protecting the monarchy, could win more seats and votes than any of its rivals.\n\nSocial media is full of Thais taking \"big steps\" as a show of support for Move Forward\n\nIt's no coincidence that these were the same issues that spurred a months-long student-led protest movement in 2020. Some of Move Forward's candidates had been leaders in the movement. And, like the 2020 protests, young and passionate voters, many of them followers of Move Forward, played a big role in the election result.\n\nThe mood in favour of the young party was hard to miss in the weeks leading up to the election. A new wave of memes exploded on Thai social media - people taking big steps or leaps in an obvious nod to Move Forward's Thai name.\n\nAnd that played out in real life at voting booths on Sunday as people took exaggerated, giant steps to show their support. It was the only way to indicate which way they were leaning because election rules don't allow voters to declare their preferences openly. Others wore bright orange shirts, flip flops and sneakers - the party's chosen colour for campaigning.\n\nMove Forward's candidates had fewer resources than their rivals, and had to rely on social media, and sometimes old technology like bicycles, to get their message across. It helped that their vision seemed much clearer than other parties.\n\nMove Forward ruled out any coalition with parties associated with the 2014 military coup, a position on which its reformist rival Pheu Thai was initially evasive. The party was also fresh and bold, and in the last parliament, was known for taking principled positions.\n\nThe vote is also a rejection of nearly a decade of military-backed rule\n\nIt also benefitted from what appears to be a widespread public appetite for change. Voters under 26 years are not a large bloc in ageing Thailand - they make up just 14% of the 52-million electorate - but they worked hard to persuade older voters to back Move Forward to offer their generation a better future.\n\nThe most immediate question is whether, despite the mandate for change, the two reformist parties are allowed to form a government.\n\nMr Pita was optimistic while addressing the media on Monday. \"With the consensus that came out of the election, it will be quite a hefty price to pay for someone who is thinking of abolishing the election results or forming a minority government... it is quite far-fetched for now,\" he said.\n\n\"And I think the people of Thailand will not allow that to happen.\"", "Strictly judge Motsi Mabuse wore a dress best seen during a strong gust of wind\n\nA string of stars from the small screen walked the red carpet ahead of Sunday's Bafta TV Awards.\n\nThe ceremony, which recognises the best television programmes of 2022, is taking place at London's Royal Festival Hall.\n\nHere are a few of the famous faces who posed for photographs ahead of the event, which is being hosted by comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan.\n\nTV presenter Claudia Winkleman's outfit playfully referred to her hit reality competition series The Traitors\n\nLeft to right: Best leading actor nominees Cillian Murphy, Taron Egerton and winner Ben Whishaw\n\nBillie Piper was nominated for her performance in I Hate Suzie Too\n\nAm I Being Unreasonable? stars Lenny Rush, who won best male comedy performance, and Daisy May Cooper\n\nComedians Rob Beckett (left) and Romesh Ranganathan hosted the ceremony this year\n\nBritish drag artist Danny Beard turned up in a dramatic black and white look\n\nMichelle Visage (left) and Clara Amfo hosted the red carpet coverage ahead of the ceremony\n\nDavid Harewood and Adrian Lester posed together on the red carpet\n\nStrictly Come Dancing host Tess Daly (right) and the show's most recent champion Hamza Yassin\n\n...while actors Martin Freeman and David Tennant added a splash of colour\n\nLeading actress winner Kate Winslet with her daughter Mia Threapleton - who appeared together in I Am Ruth\n\nBad Sisters star Anne-Marie Duff, who won best supporting actress, and Radio 1 DJ Vick Hope\n\nThe Masked Singer presenter Joel Dommett walked the red carpet with his pregnant wife Hannah Cooper\n\nWriter and actress Sharon Horgan, actor Damian Lewis, and musician Jax Jones, who is opening the ceremony\n\nThe Crown's Imelda Staunton and Sherwood's Lesley Manville are nominated for leading and supporting actress respectively\n\nNewsreaders Clive Myrie, Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Huw Edwards, who were recognised in the news coverage categories", "This is the emotional moment Kevin Sinfield carried Rob Burrow over the finish line at the end of the first Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon.\n\nThe former rugby league star was diagnosed with MND in 2019 and has gone on to raise awareness of the condition and millions of pounds, with his friend as his biggest supporter.\n\nBurrow and Sinfield were Leeds Rhinos teammates and both played for England.\n\nRead more about the marathon here.", "Turkish voters are faced with a momentous choice which will affect their country's political and economic future\n\nTurks are at a historic turning point - whether to keep their leader of more than 20 years or change to a more pro-Western path and roll back some of his sweeping presidential powers.\n\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan is favourite to win Sunday's run-off vote, and promises a strong, multilateral Turkey. He says opposition claims of a dictatorship are smear campaigns and pure nonsense.\n\nHis chief rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, backed by a broad opposition, has billed the vote as a referendum on the future direction of Turkey and has sought the support of nationalist voters to increase his chance of victory.\n\nSince 2017, Mr Erdogan has run Turkey with extensive presidential power, from a vast palace in Ankara. As executive president he can declare a state of emergency and can pick or dismiss civil servants.\n\nHe accuses his opponents of being \"pro-LGBT\", while his Islamist-rooted party positions itself as on the side of the family and highlights its success in modernising Turkey.\n\nIf he wins on Sunday, not much will change, says Selim Koru, a member of Turkey's Tepav think tank. His powers are already so broad he won't seek to extend them further, he says.\n\nBut Alp Yenen, lecturer in Turkish studies at Leiden University, believes if Turkey's rampant inflation of more than 43% endures, the president's AK Party could accelerate what has been \"a slow pace of authoritarianism\".\n\nThe man seeking to replace Mr Erdogan wants to scrap the presidential system brought in five years ago and return to a parliament and prime minister in charge. Independent courts and a free press would follow.\n\nPresident Erdogan acquired sweeping executive powers in the aftermath of the botched coup against him in 2016\n\nThe president would become apolitical and the other five parties in the Kilicdaroglu alliance would each have a vice president, along with the two centre-left mayors of Ankara and Istanbul.\n\nBut Mr Erdogan's party and its nationalist and conservative allies have secured a majority in parliament and if the opposition alliance were to win the presidency they might struggle to push through their reforms.\n\nTurkey is part of the West's Nato defensive alliance, but the Erdogan presidency has sought close ties with China and Russia too, buying a Russian S-400 air defence system and inaugurating a Russian-built nuclear plant - Turkey's first - ahead of the election.\n\nHe advocates a multilateral stance, viewing Turkey as \"an island of peace and security\", and offering Ankara as a mediator in the Russian war in Ukraine.\n\nHis opponent and his allies, meanwhile, want to return to the process of joining the European Union and restore Turkey's military ties with the US, while maintaining relations with Russia.\n\nIf Mr Erdogan stays in power then Selim Koru believes he will continue to push Turkey away from the West, without leaving Nato. \"He wants to get Turkey to a point in the medium term or distant future where Nato membership is irrelevant.\"\n\nThis election is being watched very carefully by 3.5 million Syrian refugees who have temporary protection in Turkey, because Kemal Kilicdaroglu wants to send them home fast.\n\nThat's a major worry for Syrians, who came here mainly in the first six years of the war until 2017.\n\nNot least because, after the opposition leader trailed in the first round, he made refugees and irregular migrants the number one issue of his campaign. He needs the vote of almost 2.8 million Turks who supported an ultranationalist candidate in the first round.\n\nHe has accused President Erdogan of bringing 10 million migrants into Turkey, and he is talking about Syrians, but Iranians, Afghans and Pakistanis too.\n\nMore than 80% of Turks want the Syrians to go home, and yet more than 700,000 Syrians are in Turkish schools and 880,000 Syrian babies have been born in Turkey since 2011.\n\n\"I cannot understand how they would leave this life and go back to Syria,\" says Prof Murat Erdogan, who conducts Syrians' Barometer, a regular field study on Syrians in Turkey.\n\nKemal Kilicdaroglu says he will negotiate the Syrians' return with Damascus, but as Syria insists on Turkey leaving its 30km (18-mile) buffer zone over the border, that runs the risk of Syria launching attacks on the zone and sparking a new wave of refugees.\n\nTurkey's government says more than half a million Syrian refugees have returned home, but the opposition wants more to leave\n\nThe opposition leader knows full well an agreement would take up to two years, and he would ask the United Nations to oversee it. But Murat Erdogan believes it could take a decade to implement.\n\nPresident Erdogan has sought to defuse the issue, by promising to speed up the voluntary repatriation of a million Syrians through an agreement with President Bashar al-Assad. The idea of Syrians returning voluntarily seems far-fetched but Turkish state media reported that work on building 5,000 flats in Syria had already begun.\n\nTurkey's Kurds make up as much as a fifth of the 85 million population and they have a big stake in this election.\n\nThe pro-Kurdish party, which attracted almost 9% of the parliamentary vote, publicly backed Kemal Kilicdaroglu for president and sees the vote as a historic moment to get rid of a \"one-man regime\".\n\nPresident Erdogan has accused him of surrendering to the \"blackmail\" and agenda of both the pro-Kurdish party and PKK militants, who are seen by Turkey and the West as terrorists.\n\nBut Kurdish voters are alarmed the opposition challenger has aligned himself with a far-right leader on fighting \"terrorism\", because that usually refers to Kurdish militants.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu has also agreed that Kurdish mayors can be replaced by trustees appointed by Ankara in so-called \"terror\" cases.\n\nThe pro-Kurdish party's co-chair Pervin Buldan has fully backed the opposition leader, but that does not mean all Kurdish voters will follow suit.\n\n\"Getting the nationalist vote is a possibility but there's a risk in losing the Kurdish vote - it's a delicate balance - how do you get them without losing Kurds?\" asks Alp Yenen.\n\nAhead of the first round it was the state of Turkey's economy that was foremost in voters' minds, before the refugee issue came to the fore.\n\nInflation is officially 43.68%, and Turks have had a cost of living crisis far more severe than most. Many will tell you the real inflation rate feels far higher.\n\nThe early Erdogan years were a byword for strong economic growth and enormous construction projects. And Turkey always stuck closely to the terms of its loan agreements with the IMF.\n\nBut in recent years his government has abandoned orthodox economic policy. It gradually eroded the independence of the central bank, sacking three of its governors in quick succession, says Selva Demiralp, professor of economics at Koc University.\n\nInflation soared, as interest rates were kept low - while Turkey's currency the lira depreciated to improve the trade balance and boost exports.\n\nOfficial inflation rates have fallen to 44% but Turks say the real inflation rate in shops and markets feels higher\n\nMr Erdogan still promises high growth, six million new jobs and a big push for tourism, but Prof Demiralp believes his policies will keep inflation as high as 45% for months to come.\n\nIf Kemal Kilicdaroglu and his allies win the presidency and parliament, she believes a return to orthodox economic policies and an independent central bank will lower inflation to 30% by the end of 2023 and it will continue to go down after that.", "Winkleman held off competition from Big Zuu, Sue Perkins and Lee Mack to win best entertainment performance\n\nReality competition series The Traitors and its host Claudia Winkleman were among the big winners at the TV Baftas.\n\nThe show, which sees players \"murder\" each other in a Scottish castle, developed a cult following after it launched in November.\n\nDerry Girls and Bad Sisters won the top TV prizes, while Ben Whishaw and Kate Winslet were among the acting winners.\n\nBut Winkleman's other series Strictly Come Dancing lost out to The Masked Singer for best entertainment show.\n\nThe ceremony, which was hosted by comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, took place on Sunday at London's Royal Festival Hall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nAccepting the prize for best reality series on behalf of The Traitors, Winkleman recalled the meeting she had with commissioners ahead of its launch.\n\n\"I went, 'OK, just to be clear, we're going to Scotland, we've got some cloaks, we're going to use the word murder, I've got a big rollneck and I'm holding a ceremonial pouch, are you OK with that?' And they went 'go for it'.\"\n\nShe took the opportunity to ask her husband from the stage: \"Please, can we have a dog?\"\n\nOther winners included a documentary about Sir Mo Farah which revealed the athlete had been illegally trafficked to the UK as a child.\n\nA special edition of The Repair Shop which featured King Charles was named best daytime programme.\n\nKate Winslet was named best leading actress for her performance in I Am Ruth\n\nPresenter Jay Blades said it was the \"first time\" that a \"six-foot black guy, from Hackney, gold tooth, single parent\" had been presented with an award for daytime TV.\n\nAsked about Richard Osman's suggestion that the daytime category should be expanded to include more programmes, Blades told BBC News: \"If Bafta can do that, it'd be brilliant, but it's above my pay grade!\"\n\nWinslet won best leading actress for her performance in I Am Ruth, about a mother who tries to help her depressed teenage daughter.\n\nThe star, who acted opposite her daughter in the series, said \"small British television dramas can be mighty\" and mental health stories such as this one \"need to be heard\".\n\nShe added: \"If I could break it in half, I would give the other half to my daughter Mia Threapleton, we did this together, kiddo.\"\n\nWinslet held off competition from Sarah Lancashire, who was nominated for her performance in HBO's Julia. The most recent series of her hit police drama Happy Valley was broadcast too late to be eligible this year.\n\nDerry Girls star Siobhan McSweeney was rewarded for her comedy performances, even though she is not one of the five main teenage protagonists of the show\n\nSharon Horgan, whose Apple TV series Bad Sisters won best drama, used part of her acceptance speech to say she stands in \"solidarity\" with the current writers' strike taking place in the US.\n\nDerry Girls was named best scripted comedy programme following its conclusion last year. \"What an amazing end to our Derry Girls journey,\" said its writer Lisa McGee.\n\nShe recalled how the show had been a hard sell in the early days because it \"didn't have runaway hit written all over it, but what we found is in the specific there is always the universal\".\n\nThe show's star Siobhan McSweeney won best female comedy performance for her performance as Sister Michael in Channel 4 comedy Derry Girls.\n\nShe joked: \"As my mother lay dying in Cork, one of the very last things she said to me was, would I not consider retraining as a teacher?\n\n\"If she could see me now getting a Bafta for playing a teacher... joke's on you.\"\n\nBen Whishaw played a junior doctor in the adaptation of Adam Kay's memoir This Is Going To Hurt\n\nJames Bond and Paddington star Whishaw collected best leading actor for his performance as an under-pressure doctor in BBC series This Is Going To Hurt, based on the best-selling memoir.\n\nOn stage, the 42-year-old actor said \"everybody in the show is just mind-blowing\" and \"most of all thank you, Adam Kay, for writing this wonderful role\".\n\nHowever, the medical programme lost out on best mini-series to BBC Three's Mood, one of the night's most surprising winners.\n\nSir Mo Farah won the single documentary prize for The Real Mo Farah, which revealed the Olympic gold medallist had been illegally trafficked to the UK as a child.\n\nDedicating the award to \"children who are being trafficked\", Sir Mo said: \"The kids have no say at all, they are just kids and no child should ever go through what I did, I hope my story shows they aren't alone, we are in it together.\"\n\nThe in memoriam section paid tribute to TV stars who have died in the past year, including talk show host Jerry Springer, Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman, presenter and drag queen Paul O'Grady, Doctor Who actor Bernard Cribbins and Dame Edna Everage star Barry Humphries.\n\nThe Repair Shop host Jay Blades took a picture of the Bafta audience from the stage\n\nThe Masked Singer beat Ant And Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and Strictly Come Dancing to win best entertainment programme.\n\nHost Joel Dommett said he was surprised to win, describing the show as \"so silly and so wonderful... it has brightened up so many families and homes\".\n\nJudge Mo Gilligan added: \"People tried to mock it when it first came out, and now it has won a Bafta. It is great escapism... people at home don't want to watch something depressing.\"\n\nJoe Lycett vs Beckham: Got Your Back At Xmas - which saw the comedian criticise the former footballer for his links with Qatar - won the features category.\n\nThe comedian dedicated his Bafta to the \"people still being oppressed in Qatar\".\n\nLenny Rush, 14, won best male performance in a comedy programme for Am I Being Unreasonable?\n\nLenny Rush, the 14-year-old actor who starred opposite Daisy May Cooper in Am I Being Unreasonable?, said he was \"over the moon\" to win best male performance in a comedy programme.\n\nThe memorable moment award went to Paddington bear having tea with the late Queen during the Platinum Jubilee: Party At The Palace celebrations.\n\nWinkleman also won best entertainment performance, commenting that she did not want to get emotional because her eyeliner would run.\n\nShe also thanked her mother and father and said the award was \"for you\" before joking: \"You can't have it, but you can touch it.\"\n\nLewis Capaldi and Jax Jones performed at the ceremony and followed last month's Bafta TV Craft Awards, which saw This is Going to Hurt and House of the Dragon take home three prizes each.", "Tvorchi held up a sign displaying the name of their hometown while participating in the Eurovision Song Contest\n\nThe hometown of Ukraine's Eurovision act was hit by Russian missiles moments before the band took to the stage in Liverpool, officials say.\n\nThe head of Ternopil regional state administration, Volodymyr Trush, confirmed two people had been injured.\n\nUkraine's foreign ministry accused Russia of attacking Kyiv and Ternopil regions before and during Tvorchi's Eurovision performance.\n\nTen minutes before taking to the stage at the Liverpool Arena, Tvorchi posted on Instagram citing reports of Ternopil in western Ukraine being attacked.\n\nAfter performing, they added: \"Ternopil is the name of our hometown, which was bombed by Russia while we sang on the Eurovision stage about our steel hearts, indomitability and will.\n\n\"This is a message for all cities of Ukraine that are shelled every day. Kharkiv, Dnipro, Khmelnytsky, Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Uman, Sumy, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Kherson and all others.\n\n\"Europe, unite against evil for the sake of peace!\"\n\nTvorchi posted on Instagram saying Russia was bombing their native city of Ternopil\n\nTvorchi, made up of producer Andrii Hutsuliak and Nigeria-born vocalist Jeffery Kenny, hoped to defend the Eurovision title after Kalush Orchestra won last year in Turin.\n\nThey performed \"Heart of Steel\" - a song about troops who led an ultimately unsuccessful resistance against Russian forces at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.\n\nLiverpool is hosting the contest on behalf of Ukraine due to the ongoing conflict.\n\nAt the end of their performance, Tvorchi held their fists in the air as acts from other nations were also seen waving the blue and yellow flag of Ukraine.\n\nTvorchi are made up of producer Andrii Hutsuliak and Nigeria-raised vocalist Jeffery Kenny\n\nThe UK's ambassador to Ukraine Dame Melinda Simmons described Tvorchi's Eurovision performance as \"poignant\".\n\nWriting on Twitter, she added: \"Reminder that the reason why Ukraine could not host this event is because Russia continues to invade and the people of Ukraine live in continuing danger.\"\n\nThough Swedish act Loreen took the Eurovision crown after a nail-biting finish, there was praise for Tvorchi from Ternopil's mayor who thanked the band for supporting the city during their performance.\n\nPosting on Facebook in Ukrainian, Mayor Nadal wrote: \"It was at this time that our city was attacked by Russian missiles.\n\n\"Thank you, because your speech has become a symbol of not only the unity of the country, but of the whole world.\"\n\nHe told the BBC the fire at the warehouse in Ternopil had been brought under control.\n\n\"Firefighters worked all night and continue to work,\" he said, adding that the two people who were wounded suffered minor injuries and were in hospital.\n\nRussia has not yet made any official comment.\n\nEarlier in the day, President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Pope Francis at the Vatican and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome.\n\nHe has since flown to Germany, arriving in Berlin just before 01:00 local time.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Catherine, Princess of Wales, appear in surprise Eurovision cameo\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales, made a surprise appearance playing the piano during the opening performance of Eurovision.\n\nShe played an instrumental piece, created by Joe Price and Kojo Samuel, recorded in Windsor Castle's Crimson Drawing Room earlier this month.\n\nShe wore a blue Jenny Packham dress and earrings belonging to the late queen.\n\nThe 10-second clip appeared in a performance by last year's winners Kalush Orchestra.\n\nThat performance also included contributions from Lord Lloyd-Webber, Sam Ryder, Ms Banks, Ballet Black, Bolt Strings and Joss Stone.\n\nThe opening Eurovision film showed Kalush Orchestra performing their winning entry Stefania, from the Maidan Nezalezhnosti metro station in Kyiv.\n\nSweden's Loreen won the competition for the second time with her pop anthem Tattoo.\n\nThe UK's entrant, Mae Muller, failed to replicate the success of Sam Ryder last year and finished in 25th place, out of 26.\n\nSweden's victory means it will host next year's event, which will mark the 50th anniversary of Abba's historic victory with Waterloo in 1974.\n\nThe instrumental piece was recorded in the Crimson Drawing Room of Windsor Castle\n\nThe princess, who has grade three piano and grade five theory, previously accompanied pop star Tom Walker on piano while he sang his previously unheard Christmas song For Those Who Can't Be Here during a 2021 carol service she hosted at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe service, which was broadcast on ITV on Christmas Eve that year, paid tribute to the work of \"inspirational\" people who served their communities during the pandemic.", "Barrie Evans wants to see patients offered mental health support before an amputation\n\nWhen Barrie Evans had his left leg amputated he felt he had \"nothing to live for\".\n\n\"I couldn't support my family, I couldn't pay my bills, I ended up on suicide watch,\" said Barrie, 60, from Rogerstone, Newport.\n\nHe now runs a support group and is calling for more mental health aid for those who experience limb loss.\n\nThe Welsh government said deciding appropriate rehabilitation services was the responsibility of health boards.\n\nBarrie lost his leg in October 2018. He has type 2 diabetes, which can reduce blood supply to the feet, meaning foot injuries do not heal as well and infections can develop. In serious cases amputations can be needed.\n\nBarrie says walking his wife Trish down the aisle was a big motivation during his rehabilitation\n\nHe had already had a femoral artery bypass - an operation to bypass a blocked portion of an artery - in his left leg after being bitten by a spider when on holiday in Spain.\n\nThen, in 2018, Barrie dropped a scaffold board on his right foot. It became infected and he developed sepsis, and had to have two toes and part of the underside of his foot amputated, as well as another femoral artery bypass.\n\nWhile in hospital his left leg also became infected, resulting in a below-knee amputation.\n\nTwo days after the amputation, he became depressed.\n\n\"They took the bandage off and I looked at it and I thought 'where is my foot? Where's my ankle? Where's my shin?' and that's when it really hit me,\" he said.\n\n\"I felt changed, I felt disgusted with the way I'd led my life which had brought me to this. I went downhill.\"\n\nHe returned home where he had to wait for his wound to heal before he could begin rehabilitation.\n\nSince his amputation, Barrie has taken part in triathlons and plays wheelchair rugby\n\n\"I just had nothing to live for,\" he said.\n\n\"I spent nearly seven months on my own in my living room… I slept in my room, I washed in my room, I had a commode so I went to the toilet in my room.\n\n\"I couldn't be bothered. I just wanted to die. That's when the mental health team got involved.\"\n\nBarrie eventually got the mental health support he needed and now works for charity Limbless Association.\n\nHe said he was determined that no other amputee should go through what he went through.\n\nHe runs a group that meets on the first Thursday of every month at Heath Citizens Community Hall at Heath Park, Cardiff.\n\nKatherine (second from left) lost her leg in 2017, but it was not until 2020 that her mental health faltered\n\nLike Barrie, Katherine Williams, from Baglan, Port Talbot, also hit rock bottom after having her leg amputated.\n\nThe 37-year-old has type 1 diabetes, which can increase someone's risk of fractures.\n\nIn 2016 she thought she had twisted her ankle when putting washing on the line, but after walking on it for a year she discovered it was broken.\n\nShe spent months in a cast and had multiple operations which all failed before her leg was amputated below the knee in August 2017.\n\nKatherine (pictured on her wedding day third from left) has type 1 diabetes which can increase someone's risk of fractures\n\nKatherine said she coped immediately after the operation but during the coronavirus lockdown she hit rock bottom.\n\n\"I hadn't been sleeping properly, I'd been sitting up in a living room on my own most nights crying and I didn't know why,\" she said.\n\nOne night she was putting her young daughter to bed and her alarm went off to say her blood sugar levels were low.\n\n\"I thought, 'I can't be bothered, I'm just going to slip into a coma and die',\" she said.\n\nThankfully her wife also heard the alarm and woke up and forced her to eat.\n\nShe had also stopped caring about things that would previously have been important to her, such as Christmas.\n\nKatherine had her leg amputated below the knee in 2017\n\nEventually she spoke to her GP and realised the trauma of being diagnosed with diabetes at 15 and losing her leg had caught up with her. She was put on antidepressants and directed to mental health support websites.\n\nShe said within two months she was back to her normal self.\n\nReflecting on losing her leg, she said: \"I had really, really good physical help but not once did anyone even ask if I was coping mentally with it… to this day no-one's ever asked.\n\n\"I still haven't had any mental health counselling… no-one's mentioned anything about counselling.\"\n\nShe would like to see mental health support offered to patients before and after an amputation.\n\nBeresford Wille says loneliness can be an issue after an amputation\n\nBeresford Wille, 75, from Monmouth, who attends Barrie's support group, lost his right leg after being taken to hospital with a blood clot in June 2021. He too struggled after his amputation.\n\n\"I was put into a hospital room… where you've got nobody to talk to, nobody holding your hand, you wake up, you feel alone, desolate… but then you think 'well I'm not dead, I'm alive' and being alive is worth living isn't it,\" he said.\n\nHe said having contact with other amputees had been a big support.\n\n\"I think the biggest thing is loneliness… having a phone call every day off somebody would help, just contact really,\" he said.\n\nAnthony Wintle, pictured with his wife Judith, lost his leg in August\n\nAnthony Wintle, 76, from Bedwas in Caerphilly county, attended the group for the first time this month.\n\nHe has type 2 diabetes and lost his leg in August after damaging his toes when he tripped over after going to a rugby match.\n\n\"[The hospital] did look after me before the amputation but afterwards once you've had the leg off and you're alright, that's it, you're just another person in the bed,\" he said.\n\n\"I didn't have psychiatric help in there at all, before or after.\"\n\nAnthony said after returning home from hospital he was stuck in his house for three months because his wheelchair could not get through his door.\n\n\"It was a bit disconcerting to say the least,\" he said.\n\nHe said when he was in crisis there was no-one lined up to speak to.\n\n\"When I was upset, in the night if somebody had come then I could have talked to them. But there was no chance of getting that because by the time you call them up it's a fortnight before they can come, so you've gone past that stage of needing help and you've gone onto something else,\" he said.\n\nDavid Cox says he values meeting other amputees who understand his situation\n\nDavid Cox from Newport, who has type 2 diabetes and has lost both his legs and a hand, likes to come to the group to meet people who understand his situation and share vital information.\n\n\"Things like how you get your driving licence back,\" he said.\n\n\"It's also nice to meet people in the same situation as yourself and have a cup of coffee and a chat.\"\n\nBarrie wants to see a number of things put in place to support new amputees, including to see mental health teams getting involved with a patient before the amputation.\n\n\"I honestly believe that speaking to another amputee, a longer term amputee, would be most beneficial for all pre-elective amputees,\" he said.\n\nHe said support from staff in hospitals and rehabilitation centres was brilliant but it was the gap in between that had been neglected.\n\n\"When you come out of the hospital there is no support anywhere. I looked, I looked for months,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a massive hole between discharge from hospital to entrance into rehab.\"\n\nHe also wants information given to amputees about where to get support before they leave hospital.\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said health boards were responsible for deciding appropriate rehabilitation services, including access to psychological support where needed, and specialist rehabilitation was provided by three specialist centres in Wales.\n\n\"We have increased funding to improving access, quality and range of psychological therapies,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nBarrie's own experience has made him determined to help others.\n\n\"I do not want any person who is about to have or has just had an amputation, or a long term amputee, to go through what I went through,\" he said.\n\n\"Life after limb loss is different but 90-95% of the things you did before you lost your limb you can do afterwards, but you've got to think about it.\"\n\n\"There is life after limb loss.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article you can visit the BBC Action Line pages.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nSam Kerr was Chelsea's matchwinner yet again as they wrapped up a third successive Women's FA Cup title with victory over Manchester United in front of a world-record domestic crowd at Wembley Stadium.\n\nKerr, who has netted six goals in the competition this season, fired in a cross from Pernille Harder and celebrated in front of Chelsea supporters with her trademark backflip.\n\nThe game had been finely poised until Kerr broke the deadlock despite Manchester United, competing in their first major cup final, being on top for most of the first half.\n\nMarc Skinner's side, who have never defeated Chelsea, imposed themselves early on when Leah Galton had a goal ruled out within 23 seconds of kick-off for offside.\n\nUnited had an edge after the chaotic start and came close again when Millie Turner almost stabbed in a loose ball on a free-kick, before Galton sliced Alessia Russo's low cross wide at the near post.\n\nBut Chelsea always carried a threat through Lauren James, who looped a header which was expertly tipped on to the post by goalkeeper Mary Earps.\n\nWith 77,390 watching on at Wembley - a world record for a women's domestic match - Chelsea began to impose their quality after the break.\n\nSubstitute Harder eventually provided the extra quality they needed when she teed up Kerr, ensuring Chelsea became the first side since Arsenal in 2008 to win three Women's FA Cups in a row.\n\nIt is their fifth FA Cup crown overall and the latest in a growing list of phenomenal achievements by Emma Hayes' side - and she will hope to add more in a few weeks' time as Chelsea remain locked in a fierce Women's Super League title race with United.\n• None 'Victory for the grind' - how Chelsea keep on winning\n\nChelsea still the team to beat\n\nChelsea's achievement, winning a third consecutive FA Cup crown, will not come as a surprise given their relentless hunger for silverware - but it's still an immense feat.\n\nThey have been the team to beat for several seasons under Hayes and each year have faced increasingly ambitious opponents.\n\nUnited are the latest to develop and will no doubt challenge again but today, Chelsea showed their superiority in the moments when it mattered.\n\n\"When I watched the kick-off and we didn't execute it well, or the second or third phase, then they scored, I thought 'this is going to be a long game',\" said Hayes.\n\n\"It is so difficult to play again and again. We were just off everything in the first half. I said to the girls at half-time that 'this is the grind'.\n\n\"We have done it before. Yes, Manchester United had the first half but we had the second half.\"\n\nKerr, recently named Football Writer's Player of the Year, has led from the front all season, scoring goals and carrying a weight of responsibility on her shoulders as other senior players struggled through injury.\n\nIt was fitting then that it was Kerr who delivered the match-winning strike - again - linking up with attacking partner Harder, who only returned from a long-term injury this month.\n\nHayes has often described Kerr as the world's best striker and she always turns up on the big stage - netting in six successive cup finals for the Blues, including the extra-time winner over Manchester City in last year's FA Cup.\n\nKnowing Kerr just needs the one chance was in the back of everyone's mind and, when Harder drilled it across the box from the right, the Chelsea supporters behind the goal had already started to celebrate.\n\nUnited will be back again soon\n\nUnited were in unknown territory having reached their first final but they did not show any sign of stage fright.\n\nHaving reformed the women's team only five years ago, their astonishing rise to the top of the WSL table and to the FA Cup final was already an achievement in itself.\n\nAnd this is a squad packed full of winners - including four Lionesses who won Euro 2022 at Wembley a year ago.\n\nThey showed their intent in the first half in particular, being the better side for large periods, but as the game wore on, Chelsea began to take control.\n\nUnited centre-backs Turner and Maya Le Tissier were in fine form, playing out from the back and largely managing Kerr's dangerous runs in behind.\n\nBut United's lack of ruthlessness in key moments proved costly.\n\nTurner and Galton's chances in the first half were squandered, Russo's efforts went straight to goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger and a late scramble in stoppage time was cleared by Chelsea.\n\nIt was a harsh lesson in fine margins but United showed they belong on this stage and they will be back again. They still have a WSL title to compete for and now they have experienced the Wembley arena, they will surely be hungry to return.\n\n\"We started well and, considering Chelsea had been in many finals, we looked like the team that had been in many finals too,\" said Skinner.\n\n\"It's a different type of game in a final and you have to play with more maturity. I thought we played with maturity. We want to be where they were today - so that's what we'll strive for.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Leah Galton (Manchester United Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Aoife Mannion (Manchester United Women) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Katie Zelem with a cross.\n• None Offside, Chelsea Women. Sophie Ingle tries a through ball, but Sam Kerr is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Manchester United Women. Leah Galton tries a through ball, but Lucía García is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Rachel Williams (Manchester United Women) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Alessia Russo with a headed pass.\n• None Rachel Williams (Manchester United Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Ève Périsset (Chelsea Women).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rachel Williams (Manchester United Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alessia Russo. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The airport suffered major disruption in 2018 after drone sightings\n\nOperations at Gatwick Airport were disrupted after a suspected drone was seen close to the airfield.\n\nA spokesman for the airport in West Sussex said operations were suspended temporarily just before13:45 BST but resumed about 50 minutes later.\n\nHe said 12 inbound aircraft were diverted to other airports during the incident but many were expected to return to Gatwick on Sunday.\n\nGatwick was shut for more than a day in December 2018 after drone sightings.\n\nNo-one was ever prosecuted over the incident that caused chaos for travellers, affecting more than 1,000 flights and about 140,000 passengers.\n\nSince then, experts have been working on systems to prevent drones disrupting operations at major airports.\n\nA spokesman for Gatwick said: \"Passenger safety is the airport's absolute priority and - following established procedures - operations at London Gatwick were suspended temporarily at 13:44, while investigations into the sighting of a suspected drone close to the airfield took place.\n\n\"These investigations have now completed and the airfield reopened at 14:35.\"\n\nBritish Airways said the disruption affected one of its flights, which landed at Stansted before refuelling and returning to Gatwick.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: All the times Eurovision's presenters stole the show\n\nThe grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest has concluded in Liverpool, where acts from 26 countries competed to win the crystal microphone.\n\nSweden's Loreen won with her pop anthem Tattoo, but throughout the competition, fans were treated to a visual and musical feast.\n\nFrom a surprise musical appearance by the Princess of Wales to neon green bolero jackets, here's a recap of some of the contest's most memorable moments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFinland Käärijä's began his performance in a wooden crate while wearing an eye-catching neon green bolero jacket.\n\nDelighting the audience with his eccentric techno tune, he was joined by backing dancers in neon pink, who formed what can only be described as a human caterpillar. But the roars of approval continued, both in the press room and the Eurovision village.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAudiences were caught off guard when comedian Mel Giedroyc, of Polish descent, was seen churning butter in a nod to the Polish entry Donatan and Cleo from 2014.\n\nThe BBC Eurovision Twitter account posted: \"Mel Giedroyc as a butter churning Polish milkmaid! Give her an NTA right now!\n\n\"Just when I thought I couldn't love Mel any more.\"\n\nBelgium's entry, Gustaph, hit the high notes in pink parachute pants and a giant white hat, to a backdrop of voguing dancers.\n\nHe called his 90s anthem \"Because Of You\" an \"unabashed love letter to freedom\" and \"an ode to the queer community\".\n\nMany on social media compared him to British singer Boy George.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by tom This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Serbia arrives on stage in alien pod (UK only)\n\nLuke Black's performance was one of the most commented upon on social media, but perhaps not for the right reasons. As Graham Norton remarked, the Serbian singer appeared to start his act from a \"soap dish\".\n\nBut it wasn't just the visuals that failed to impress him. \"There's much better ear worms later in the show\", he said. \"Sadly Serbia isn't one of them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the Princess of Wales appear in surprise Eurovision cameo (UK only)\n\nThe Princess of Wales accompanied Kalush Orchestra to the piano in a surprise appearance. The performance lasted just 10 seconds, but it was more than enough time to wow audiences.\n\nDressed in a midnight blue Jenny Packham dress, she played an instrumental piece, created by Joe Price and Kojo Samuel, recorded in Windsor Castle's Crimson Drawing Room.\n\nSweden's Loreen delivered her party anthem from inside a box, dressed in a sand-coloured leather two-piece with huge fake nails.\n\nShe became the first woman to win Eurovision twice. Her winning pop-hit, \"Euphoria\", which she performed in 2012, has become one of the most profitable songs in the history of Eurovision.", "Alexander Lukashenko (centre) looked visibly tired during last week's Victory Day parade in Moscow, and his right hand was bandaged\n\nThe autocratic politician, 68, usually speaks publicly at the annual National Flag, Emblem and Anthem Day event but his prime minister read a message on his behalf on Sunday.\n\nLast week, Mr Lukashenko left Moscow soon after Victory Day parade, skipping lunch with President Vladimir Putin.\n\nMr Lukashenko looked visibly tired, and his right hand was bandaged.\n\nHe was last seen in public laying flowers in the capital Minsk during Belarus' own Victory Day celebrations on 9 May - a few hours after returning from the Russian capital.\n\nAn opposition Telegram channel reported that Mr Lukashenko visited a presidential medical centre just outside Minsk on Saturday night - but this information has not been independently verified.\n\nMr Lukashenko's office has so far made no comments on the issue.\n\nOften described in the West as Europe's last dictator, Mr Lukashenko has ruled Belarus since 1994, suppressing any dissent.\n\nIn 2020, he was proclaimed as the winner of presidential elections, which were denounced by the opposition as a sham.\n\nThousand of people were later arrested and brutally beaten by riot police and KGB security service agents during mass anti-government protests that rocked the country.\n\nHowever, Mr Lukashenko managed to stay in power, backed by Russia.\n\nLast year, he supported President Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, offering Belarus as a launchpad for Russian troops to cross into Ukraine and allowing Russian war planes to carry out strikes from Belarusian soil.", "Mauricio Pochettino: Chelsea agree deal to appoint ex-Tottenham boss as new manager Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nFormer Argentina defender Pochettino has managed Espanyol, Tottenham and PSG Chelsea have agreed terms to make former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino their new manager. He will join the club in the summer, with Frank Lampard remaining as interim manager until the end of the season. Pochettino, who has also managed Southampton, has been out of work since Paris St-Germain replaced him with Christophe Galtier in summer 2022. The 51-year-old Argentine managed Spurs for five years from 2014 and led them to the 2019 Champions League final.\n• None Balague: Chelsea are in turmoil - why has Pochettino chosen them?\n• None Quiz: Can you name all of the Blues' Premier League managers? Pochettino will be Chelsea's sixth permanent manager in five years, following the sacking of Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter earlier this season. Lampard took interim charge of the Blues at the start of April following Potter's dismissal. Chelsea have had a difficult season, losing to Manchester City in the third round of both the FA Cup and League Cup. They also lost to Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, which ended any viable hopes of them qualifying for Europe next season. They are currently 11th in the Premier League, having won just one of their past 11 games, losing eight of them. Pochettino had been linked with a return to Tottenham after they parted company with Antonio Conte in March. He guided Spurs to the League Cup final in 2015 and a Premier League runners-up spot in 2016-17, with his side missing out on winning both to Chelsea. Following his stint at Tottenham, Pochettino took over from Tuchel at PSG in January 2021. The French club finished second in Ligue 1 at the end of the 2020-21 campaign but did win the Coupe de France and the Trophee des Champions, which were the first trophies of Pochettino's managerial career. Pochettino started his managerial career with Espanyol before his 16-month spell at Southampton. Pochettino wants a team fans can 'fall in love with' - Balague In April, Spanish football expert Guillem Balague told BBC's Football Focus that the Argentine was approached in September as a possible replacement for Tuchel, but turned the club down before they appointed Potter. \"It was a different time where I think Chelsea had made up their mind on Potter, and Pochettino sensed that,\" said Balague. \"Now it feels like the club is ready for him. Before, the fans were missing Tuchel, who won them the Champions League the year before. \"But the fans and the club are wanting him to arrive.\" Balague believes Pochettino wants to produce a team Chelsea fans can \"fall in love with\". \"He wants a team that presses, that is aggressive - he wants players that know they have to fight to get into the starting XI,\" Balague added. \"He is obviously going to have to trim the squad and those players that stay will have to fight for their place and know that nothing is guaranteed.\"\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n• None Our coverage of Chelsea is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Chelsea - go straight to all the best content", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps: \"I accept that they are very difficult and detailed pledges\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak's five key pledges to voters are \"difficult\" but the government is committed to delivering them, Energy Secretary Grant Shapps has said.\n\nIn January, Mr Sunak vowed to halve inflation, grow the economy, reduce national debt, cut NHS waiting lists and stop migrant boats.\n\nMr Shapps on Sunday urged people to wait before judging the PM's promises.\n\nBut Labour said the government's policy agenda lacked ambition.\n\nMr Shapps appeared on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme after Mr Sunak was scolded by critics within his party over the weekend, with senior Conservative MPs venting their anger over heavy losses in May's local elections in England.\n\nMr Shapps downplayed reports of growing Tory unrest over Mr Sunak's leadership - and accepted the prime minister's five pledges were \"difficult and very detailed\".\n\n\"These are not vague numbers... It is difficult,\" he told the programme. \"I thought it was always going to be difficult.\"\n\nThe energy secretary said the prime minister would not change course, insisting \"we are still absolutely committed to delivering those things\".\n\nIt was no surprise that Mr Shapps said Mr Sunak was still committed to the promises - but the admission that it would be difficult for him to stick to them was notable.\n\nProgress on the now famous five pledges is not stellar.\n\nHospitals in England have failed to hit key targets to resolve backlogs in cancer care and routine treatment.\n\nUK inflation remains close to its highest level for 40 years, and according to the Bank of England is not dropping as quickly as predicted.\n\nEconomic growth is measly, although recession has probably been avoided, and last week 564 people crossed the English Channel in small boats.\n\nMr Sunak's credibility is based on keeping those promises, which are far from straightforward.\n\nIn his interview, Mr Shapps called on people to \"wait until the end\" of Parliament to judge the PM's progress on his promises.\n\nOn growth, he said: \"We have avoided the recession that even the experts were predicting.\n\n\"His pledge was to grow the economy, and we're starting to see it grow.\"\n\nOn other pledges, he said the government had put \"huge resources\" into cutting NHS waiting lists and was bringing in legislation that would help stop migrant boats crossing the Channel.\n\nAppearing on the same programme Labour's shadow business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said his party had ambitious policies to meet the country's challenges.\n\n\"We don't see that from the government,\" he said. \"I listen to government ministers, and all I hear is, we're going to do the same, more of what we've done for the last 13 years, and it hasn't worked.\"\n\nIt has been a tricky few days for the prime minister, with former cabinet ministers openly criticising the direction of policy under his leadership.\n\nSpeaking at a conference held by the Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO) on Saturday, former Home Secretary Priti Patel blamed the party's leadership for the loss of more than 1,000 seats in the recent local elections.\n\nMs Patel said she was sorry that it was \"errors and mistakes sometimes of us in Westminster and our actions that have cost our party dearly\".\n\nShe was among several high-profile Tory MPs who spoke to the CDO, a new grassroots group of pro-Boris Johnson Conservatives.\n\nMr Shapps said his party was \"buzzing with ideas\" and that support for Mr Johnson among Conservatives was not a \"shocking revelation\".\n\n\"I don't have to agree with everything that everybody says to welcome the very fundamental fact that we're still the party coming up with new ideas, with a vision for the United Kingdom, and I think that is a good thing,\" he said.\n\nConferences and get-togethers by supporters of Mr Johnson are the most obvious signs of the rumblings of discontent, but they are not the only ones.\n\nEarlier this week, Brexit-backing MPs were angered by a decision to revoke around 600 retained EU laws rather than the 4,000 pledged.\n\nThe government had originally promised a \"sunset\" clause on all EU laws carried over by the end of 2023.\n\nBut Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch said the cut-off point would be replaced with a list of 600 laws the government wants to replace by the end of the year.\n\nTory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, who introduced the bill when he was in government, called the move an \"admission of administrative failure\".\n\nThe Tory fury continued this weekend, as Eurosceptic Conservative MP Sir William Cash called on the government to change course.\n\nDefending his handling of Brexit in an interview with the Mail On Sunday, Mr Sunak said: \"I voted for Brexit, I campaigned for Brexit, I believe in Brexit, and when I was chancellor I started to deliver some benefits of Brexit.\"", "Ferrari will continue to build cars with internal combustion engines into the late 2030s, despite efforts by governments around the world to phase out the technology.\n\nThe boss of the Italian manufacturer said it would be \"arrogant\" to dictate to customers what they can buy.\n\nFor Ferrari, as for many other premium brands, the move towards electric cars presents a steep marketing challenge.\n\nBut the company is due to introduce its first electric supercar in 2025.\n\nTraditionally, the raucous sound of an eight or 12-cylinder internal combustion engine has been a key part of its appeal. But battery-powered cars are much quieter.\n\nNevertheless, Ferrari is planning to launch its first fully electric model in two years' time - a design the company insists will offer a \"unique driving experience\".\n\nThis puts it at odds with rival brand McLaren, whose CEO told an FT automotive summit this week the technology was \"not ready\" for use in supercars, due to the weight of the batteries.\n\nLast year, Ferrari unveiled plans for a three-pronged approach in developing new vehicles, as part of a commitment to becoming carbon neutral by 2030. It said electric cars and hybrids would make up an increasing proportion of its range by the end of the decade.\n\nBut it insisted it would continue to develop internal combustion engines as well, to build on what it called \"an essential part of the company's heritage\".\n\nUntil recently that strategy appeared to have a limited lifespan, with a number of major markets preparing to ban the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines by 2035.\n\nIn March, however, the European Union agreed to provide an exemption from its own ban for cars run exclusively on synthetic \"e-fuels\", produced using renewable energy.\n\nSuch fuels are expected to be expensive, but the loophole means performance car makers will still be able to sell models with engines across one of the world's biggest markets.\n\nIn a BBC interview, Ferarri boss Benedetto Vigna pointed to this decision as a sign that technology was evolving, and denied doing so would undermine the company's environmental credentials.\n\n\"I don't want to be arrogant and impose a choice on our client,\" he said.\n\n\"It is the client who must choose if they want an ICE (internal combustion engine), a hybrid or an electric car.\"\n\nBut in other markets, including the UK, no such loophole for e-fuels yet exists. That raises the possibility of some Ferrari models being available in the EU, but banned elsewhere.\n\n\"We have to cope with the rules of all the countries we operate in,\" said Mr Vigna.\n\n\"The reason we have three kinds of propulsion - ICE, hybrid and electric - is that it allows us to cope with any regulation, all over the world.\"\n• None New cars sold in EU must be zero-emission from 2035", "Lord Sentamu claimed the letter he was sent by the victim was not a disclosure\n\nThe former Archbishop of York has been forced to step down from his Church of England role after a review into how he handled a child sex abuse allegation.\n\nLord Sentamu has already rejected the report's findings which said he failed to act on a claim made by a victim.\n\nHe had been an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Newcastle.\n\nThe Bishop of Newcastle has asked him to step back from active ministry \"until both the findings and his response can be explored further\".\n\nThe Church has apologised to retired vicar Matthew Ineson, who was 16 when he was abused in the 1980s and has waived his legal right to anonymity.\n\nHis abuser, the Reverend Trevor Devamanikkam, killed himself before he was due to appear in court.\n\nIn 2013, Mr Ineson told senior clergy about the abuse, including Lord Sentamu who was then Archbishop of York.\n\nDevamanikkam was charged with six serious sexual offences in May 2017. He was found dead the day before he was due to appear at court in Bradford.\n\nOn Thursday, an independent review commissioned by the National Safeguarding Team of the Church of England found Lord Sentamu should have sought advice when the victim made his disclosure.\n\nOn Saturday, the Diocese of Newcastle released a statement which said in light of the findings the Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley \"required Lord Sentamu... to step back from active ministry until both the findings and his response can be explored further\".\n\nIt added: \"The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, is fully supportive of this decision.\n\n\"The Diocese of Newcastle remains committed to the highest standards of safeguarding which seeks always to place victims and survivors at the heart of this vital work.\"\n\nThe Church of England's lead bishop for safeguarding, Joanne Grenfell, told BBC Radio 4's Sunday programme those within the organisation needed to be answerable to each other.\n\n\"We all have a bigger, moral duty when it comes to a safeguarding matter to really look at it, to refer it, to ask questions, to hold each other to account, to be curious about how things have concluded,\" she said.\n\n\"Because of that moral imperative, I think all of us today with good training would know that we need to act differently.\"\n\nLord Sentamu of Lindisfarne was commissioned as honorary assistant bishop for Newcastle in June 2021, a year after he stood down as archbishop.\n\nHe has been approached for comment.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cyclone Mocha has hit the coasts of Bangladesh and Myanmar, battering the land around the east of the Bay of Bengal.\n\nStorm surges of up to four metres (13ft) could swamp villages in low-lying areas and there are fears for refugee camps in the region.\n\nRead more on this story.", "Crowds greeted President Erdogan and his wife Ermine as they voted in Istanbul\n\nPolls have closed in the most pivotal elections in Turkey's modern history, to decide if Recep Tayyip Erdogan stays president after 20 years in power.\n\nHis main rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, promises to scrap many of the powers acquired by President Erdogan after he survived a failed coup in 2016.\n\nBuoyed by a broad opposition alliance, he has a real chance of winning.\n\nTwo issues have troubled Turkey's 64 million voters more than anything: soaring inflation and two earthquakes.\n\nBut many voters are also looking for change after two decades.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu promises this Nato member state a path back towards a pro-Western, more democratic stance, while President Erdogan's Islamist-rooted government has accused the West of plotting to bring him down.\n\nThe race has become febrile in recent days and voters queued at polling stations even before they opened.\n\nIn Antakya, one of the cities hardest hit by the February earthquakes, more than 100 buses arrived bringing people displaced by the disaster so they could vote. Eleven of the country's provinces have been affected.\n\nTo secure outright victory on Sunday, the winner needs more than 50% of the vote. Otherwise it goes to a run-off in two weeks' time.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu, 74, arrived at a packed polling station at an Ankara school to chants of \"everything will be all right\", while one voter shouted out \"grandpa\", which has become a term of affection for young voters.\n\nSima, who came with her friend Pilay to welcome him, said she was excited at the thought of change after more than 20 years.\n\nI came here to see Kilicdaroglu. Under him things can be different - he hugs everybody\n\nRampant inflation in Turkey is officially almost 44%, but many believe it is far higher.\n\nAt an optician's in Ankara, Burak Onder complained that hardly anyone was buying glasses any more: \"People don't even ask for discounts, they can't afford it.\"\n\nThe opposition presidential candidate was cheered by well-wishers as he arrived to vote\n\nInflation soared as President Erdogan abandoned orthodox economics, cutting interest rates while most other countries raised theirs.\n\nA few doors down the street, shopkeeper Rahime revealed layers of price labels that she stuck on top of each other almost daily because of soaring costs.\n\nRahime's daughter, Sudenur, (R) is one of five million first-time voters in Sunday's election\n\nRahime's 19-year-old daughter Sudenur feels she may be unable fulfil her ambition of studying sport science.\n\nAs a first-time voter, she and five million others like her are expected to make a big difference to the election result.\n\nMany young voters want an end to restrictions on media, tightened dramatically during President Erdogan's rule.\n\nHours before the vote, Twitter announced it had agreed to restrict access to some content in Turkey, prompting angry reaction.\n\nBut Twitter boss Elon Musk replied: \"The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets. Which one do you want?\"\n\nTurks have until 17:00 (14:00 GMT) to vote, although 1.76 million have already cast their ballots abroad in Germany, France and other countries - a record 53% turnout.\n\nFor many survivors forced to leave their homes after the 6 February earthquakes, voting means returning to the home towns where they are registered.\n\nVoting in Antakya took place in portable containers because the polling stations were unsafe\n\nSome of those returning to the south-eastern city of Antakya had come only to cast their votes. A few were using the moment to move back home, loading suitcases and heavy bags on to pick-up trucks.\n\n\"We want our living standards to increase again. We have been through so much,\" one man said after an 18-hour bus journey with his wife and three children.\n\nAll day, there were long queues of voters outside a row of containers converted into temporary polling stations. The school where voting would usually take place and dozens of tower blocks in the neighbourhood have cracked walls and are deserted.\n\nIn Adana, where hundreds of people died in collapsed buildings, there is still palpable anger about the response.\n\n\"I think the earthquake will affect the outcome of the elections seriously, because people feel resentful to the government, if not the state,\" said Ezgi Karaher as she walked with her young daughter in the park.\n\nNot everyone is able to go back. Two women at an Ankara supermarket told the BBC they would miss out on voting because they were having medical treatment following the earthquake.\n\nAnd tensions have increased in the run-up to polling day.\n\nOpposition parties are deploying volunteers to ensure the 192,000 ballot boxes and results are properly scrutinised to avoid the risk of fraud.\n\nOne of the four presidential candidates, Muharrem Ince, pulled out of the race three days ago, citing a smear campaign of \"character assassination\". But it was too late to remove his name from the ballot.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu visited Anitkabir - Ataturk's mausoleum - on the eve of the vote\n\nThe race for the presidency has become so intense and the stakes so high that campaigning went up to the wire.\n\nPresident Erdogan, who is 69, was filmed stretching election rules by addressing worshippers after he led Saturday evening prayers at Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul.\n\nVideo shared on social media showed him telling worshippers the Muslim world was closely following events in Turkey.\n\nHis choice of venue and his decision to give a political speech after campaigning had officially ended was controversial, and highly symbolic to his supporters.\n\nHagia Sophia, originally built as an Orthodox Christian cathedral, was a mosque under the Ottomans. But Ataturk turned it into a museum and it was President Erdogan who defied secular Turkey's founder and made it a mosque once more in 2020.\n\nMr Erdogan ended his election push with Saturday prayers at Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul\n\nUltra-nationalist Sinan Ogan is the only other presidential candidate.\n\nBut Turks are also voting for parliament and its 600 MPs. Although they have lost powers to Mr Erdogan's executive presidency since 2018, control of parliament remains key for passing legislation.\n\nUnder Turkey's proportional voting system, parties form alliances so they can reach the 7% threshold required to enter parliament.\n\nThe president's AK Party, which has Islamist roots, is part of the People's Alliance with the nationalist MHP and two other parties, while Mr Kilicdaroglu's centre-left Republican People's Party is working with the nationalist Good Party and four smaller parties under the Nation Alliance.\n\nThe pro-Kurdish HDP, Turkey's second biggest opposition party, is part of another alliance, but has campaigned under a different name, the Green Left.", "A singing \"Brussels sprout\", Italy's soft play area and a man in a soap dish: just some of the highlights, according to Graham Norton, of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.\n\nSweden's Loreen was crowned the night's winner, watched by an estimated audience of over 150 million viewers worldwide.\n\nHere are some highlights in 90 seconds.\n\nAvailable to UK viewers only", "The Islamic Centre of Al-Fatah in Yogyakarta, Indonesia has around 63 members, all of whom are transgender\n\nThe future of Indonesia's only Islamic community centre for transgender women is in jeopardy after its leader, Shinta Ratri, died in February - and the government says it cannot support it.\n\nThere are 63 trans women who regularly attend the Al-Fatah community centre, which provides a space for them to pray, learn the Quran, learn skills or simply socialise without being judged for who they are.\n\nRini Kaleng is one of them.\n\nAfter waking up each morning, she puts on makeup and her favourite black wig before grabbing a handbag and heading onto the streets of the historic city of Yogyakarta to busk.\n\nShe walks for miles and miles, playing music from her Bluetooth speaker and singing to earn a living. But on Sundays, her journey ends with an afternoon visit to Al-Fatah to study the Quran.\n\n\"It's a safe place where we can pray,\" says Ms Rini, who has been going since 2014.\n\nAs a child, Ms Rini had always felt more comfortable playing with girls instead of boys. She would dress up as a girl, play with kitchen toys and pretend to be a bride with her friends.\n\nAfter coming out as a trans woman, her parents and nine older siblings all accepted her identity. Now, she is recognised by people on the street who see her singing and dancing.\n\n\"You could say I'm a celebrity here,\" she laughs.\n\nRini Kaleng, a member of the centre, is well-known on the streets of Yogyakarta\n\nMs Rini first heard of the Islamic centre for trans women from a friend who also wanted to study religion.\n\nShe discovered a whole community of women like her who shared the same passion.\n\nAt mosques, she would often get odd looks when she went to pray. \"They did not necessarily accept us. So I went to Shinta Ratri's place,\" she says.\n\n\"Many Islamic centres do not accept transgender people,\" says Nur Ayu, the centre's caretaker. \"Here, we are free... free to come as a male or female, whatever we feel most comfortable as.\"\n\nShinta Ratri was one of the founders of the Al-Fatah community centre. A renowned activist and leader of the centre since 2014, Ms Shinta collaborated with many non-profit organizations to further transgender rights in Indonesia.\n\nBut in March, she died at the age of 60 from a heart attack, three days after being admitted to hospital.\n\nThat loss is felt profoundly by the members of the centre.\n\nShinta Ratri was a renowned transgender rights activist in Indonesia, leading the centre from 2014 until her death in February 2023\n\nMs Nur describes Ms Shinta as a guiding light, and the closest thing she had to family. Without her, the centre feels \"empty and desolate\".\n\nMs Shinta's death has put the community centre's future in doubt. The building is owned by the late leader's family - and they have asked Al Fatah to move out.\n\n\"We must be able to go on without Shinta and be independent,\" says Ms Nur.\n\nYS Albuchory, the Islamic centre's secretary, explains they have received some support from community friends and human rights organizations, both locally and globally.\n\nBut acceptance of the trans community in Indonesia's religious establishment is limited.\n\nThe state has not been actively hostile and has allowed its existence, members say, but it does not provide any direct support.\n\nWaryono Abdul Ghafur, director of Islamic centres at Indonesia's Ministry of Religion, says he is aware of the centre's plight.\n\nBut authorities cannot support the centre as it does not count as a legitimate Islamic centre under state regulations, he says.\n\nIn a larger context, the state \"supports all positive activities\", he says in a phone call with BBC News Indonesia. \"People want to pray, why should they be refused?\"\n\nBut the reality is that society \"still rejects the social and religious status of transgender people\", he continues. The Ministry of Religion has never been in direct contact with Al Fatah or facilitated any of its activities.\n\nThe members of Al-Fatah Islamic Centre participate in a joint prayer before breaking fast during Ramadan\n\nRully Mallay, another one of the centre's leaders, says Al Fatah is grateful for \"whatever form of legality that is granted to us\".\n\nShe is positive that one day, the transgender community will be more accepted in a country as diverse as Indonesia. That hope motivates her and her friends to keep the centre running.\n\n\"Islam should be able to provide space for anyone to be able to worship freely according to the ways of the religion,\" Ms Rully insists.\n\n\"I think the protection from the state is quite good. And we are optimistic that in the future the country will appreciate us as part of Bhineka Tunggal Ika [Unity in Diversity, the country's motto].\"\n\nThe challenge now is to find a new venue - and the money to fund it. And it needs to be in a neighbourhood that will accept them.\n\nThe current neighbours in Yogyakarta have been welcoming.\n\nOne of them is Ms Rosidah, a member of the local community who is not a trans woman. She found out about the centre when some of its members asked her for directions. Now, she has been teaching there for over a year.\n\n\"I was busy, but because I was really curious, so I went to visit,\" she says Ms Rosidah.\n\nSubsequently, Shinta Ratri asked if she would teach at the centre regularly as a volunteer. Ms Rosidah agreed after getting her family's blessing.\n\n\"I was a bit afraid of them, but after I came here. After teaching here, I saw that these people are so laid-back, especially Shinta. They were very patient, never angry, just smiling,\" she recalled.\n\nTeguh Ridho is another volunteer who teaches Iqra at the centre, a basic level for reading the holy texts. He was amazed by the students' determination to travel from far and wide.\n\nMs Rosidah (right) teaches two transgender students how to read the Quran\n\n\"Even though we only have an hour to learn Quran, they came from far away.\"\n\nIt took a long time to win the hearts of the people in this neighbourhood.\n\nMs Albuchory recalls an incident in 2016, when an extremist Islamic group stormed their centre and threatened them.\n\n\"They said wherever you move to, we will chase you down unless you repent and go back to being men.\"\n\nIt was Shinta Ratri who fought for the centre to remain open with the assistance of a number of non-profit groups - until finally they received security guarantees from local police.\n\nMs Albuchory says the lives of the trans women attending the centre have become better since joining. They take on moral responsibilities informed by religious teachings, she says.\n\n\"After joining the school and getting to know God again, life becomes a little more organised. And the community becomes a second family,\" she says.\n\nYS Albuchory, the Islamic centre's secretary, oversees all the programs conducted at the centre\n\nThat is why she hopes that the community centre will continue to provide religious classes and guidance for trans women like herself, who wish to bring themselves closer to God.\n\n\"I still need God. I cannot go on without praying. I'm sure other transgender friends have their own reasons.\"\n\nMs Albuchory believes she has a higher purpose: \"As a creation of God, I don't just work and live as a trans woman.\"", "President Erdogan's powers have increased dramatically since he first led Turkey in 2003\n\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in power for more than 20 years and he is favourite to win five more, having narrowly missed out on a first-round victory.\n\nTurkey is a Nato member state of 85 million people, so it matters who is president both to the West and to Turkey's other partners including Russia.\n\nMr Erdogan's opponent in a second-round run-off on 28 May is Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who was backed by six opposition parties and won almost 45% of the vote - some 2.5 million votes less than his rival.\n\nTurkey has become increasingly authoritarian under President Erdogan and this was the opposition's biggest chance yet to defeat him, with Turks struggling with soaring inflation and reeling from twin earthquakes that have left more than 50,000 people dead.\n\nWhoever wins the vote on 28 May will win the presidency.\n\nHis AK Party has been in power since November 2002, and he has ruled Turkey since 2003.\n\nAlthough Turkey's 64 million voters are deeply polarised, the 69-year-old leader has an in-built advantage over his rival.\n\nMr Erdogan's allies control most mainstream media, to the extent that state TV gave the president 32 hours and 42 minutes of air time and his challenger just 32 minutes, at the height of the campaign in April.\n\nMonitors from the international observer group OSCE said there was an unlevel playing field and biased coverage in Turkey's vote, even if voters had genuine political alternatives.\n\nInitially Mr Erdogan was prime minister, but he then became president in 2014, running the country from a vast palace in Ankara. He responded to a failed 2016 coup by dramatically increasing his powers and cracking down on dissent.\n\nLeading Kurdish politicians have been jailed and other opposition figures threatened with a political ban.\n\nBut this election was the opposition's biggest hope of unseating the president yet.\n\nIncreasing numbers of Turks have blamed him for rampant inflation of 44%, and academics say the real rate is far higher than that.\n\nHe and his ruling AK Party were widely criticised for their response to the double earthquakes in February that left millions of Turks homeless in 11 provinces.\n\nAnd yet most of the cities which are considered Erdogan strongholds still gave him 60% of the vote.\n\nHis party is rooted in political Islam, but he has forged an alliance with the ultra-nationalist MHP.\n\nKemal Kilicdaroglu, 74, is an unlikely choice of candidate to unseat the president.\n\nHe is seen as a mild-mannered and bookish opponent and presided over a string of election defeats at the helm of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).\n\nHe polled well in the first round, taking Mr Erdogan to his first run-off, but not as well as the opinion polls had indicated he would.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu secured the backing of six opposition parties, including the nationalist Good party and four smaller groups, which include two former Erdogan allies one of whom co-founded the AK Party.\n\nKemal Kilicdaroglu has agreed that the leaders of his alliance will all share the role of vice president\n\nHe also has the support of Turkey's second-biggest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish HDP, whose co-leader described the elections as \"the most crucial in Turkey's history\".\n\nHis biggest hope of snatching victory from a president buoyant after his first-round lead lies in increasing the support of both nationalist and Kurdish voters. A difficult feat when Turkey's nationalists want the next president to take a tougher line on Kurdish militants.\n\nIn the lead-up to the second round, he made a clear pitch to nationalist voters, banging his fists on the table and vowing to send home 3.5 million Syrian refugees. This was already his policy, but now he has decided to make a big point of it.\n\nKemal Kilicdaroglu's selection was not universally popular as the mayors of Istanbul and Ankara were potentially stronger candidates. Both are party colleagues who took control of Turkey's two biggest cities in 2019 for the CHP for the first time since 1994.\n\nHe is also a member of Turkey's Alevi minority, and when the opposition candidate drew attention to his roots Mr Erdogan accused him of seeking to exploit it.\n\nHis Nation Alliance, also known as the Table of Six, are united in their desire to return Turkey from the presidential system created under Mr Erdogan to one led by parliament.\n\nThe leaders of the other five members of the alliance have agreed to take on the roles of vice-president. But even if they were to win the presidency, the Erdogan alliance won a majority in parliament on 14 May and would make reforms very difficult.\n\nTurnout in the first round was already very high at almost 89% among voters in Turkey.\n\nIf Mr Kilicdaroglu is to make up the 2.5 million votes between him and President Erdogan, he will need to win over voters who backed ultranationalist candidate Sinan Ogan who came third in the first round with 2.8 million votes.\n\nThat task was made even harder when Mr Ogan endorsed the president.\n\nHis demand is for a tougher stance on tackling Kurdish militants and returning Syrian refugees.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu had already adopted a more strident tone on Syrians since the first round, promising to \"send away\" all refugees as soon as he came to power.\n\nReacting to Mr Ogan's decision to back his rival, he said the vote was now a referendum: \"We are coming to save this country from terrorism and refugees.\"\n\nPresident Erdogan said he had made no deals with Mr Ogan: 450,000 refugees had already returned home and the plan was to send back another million, he said.\n\nThe ruling AK Party of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has forged an alliance with the nationalist MHP and together they have secured a majority of 322 seats in the 600-seat parliament, down on five years ago.\n\nParties tend to form alliances because they need a minimum of 7% support to enter parliament.\n\nThe six-party opposition wants to change that but its Nation Alliance only managed 212 seats.\n\nThe pro-Kurdish party ran under the banner of the Green Left to avoid a potential election ban, and came third with 61 seats.\n\nUnder the Erdogan reforms, it is now the president who chooses the government, so there is no prime minister.\n\nUnder Turkey's revamped constitution allowing only two terms as president, Mr Erdogan would have to stand down in 2028 if he won the 28 May run-off. There are currently no plans for a successor.\n\nHe has already served two terms but Turkey's YSK election board ruled that his first term should be seen as starting not in 2014 but in 2018, when the new presidential system began with elections for parliament and president on the same day.\n\nOpposition politicians had earlier asked the YSK to block his candidacy.\n\nUnder an Erdogan presidency, Turkey can expect increased control of state institutions and the media and a greater crackdown on dissent. Inflation is likely to remain high because of his preference for low interest rates.\n\nInternationally, he could continue to resist Sweden's bid to join Nato and will paint himself as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu and his allies want to remove the president's right to veto legislation, cutting the post's ties to political parties and making it electable every seven years.\n\nHe wants to bring inflation down to 10% and send 3.5 million Syrian refugees home. President Erdogan has promised to speed up the voluntary repatriation of a million Syrians.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu also wants kickstart Turkey's decades-long bid to join the European Union and restore \"mutual trust\" with the US, after years of fractious relations during the Erdogan years.", "Priti Patel blamed the Tory leadership for the party's recent local election losses\n\nFormer home secretary Priti Patel has blamed the Conservative Party's leadership for heavy local election losses in a speech.\n\nMs Patel said she was sorry that it was \"errors and mistakes sometimes of us in Westminster and our actions that have cost our party dearly\".\n\nShe was among several high-profile Tory MPs who spoke to the Conservative Democratic Organisation, a new grassroots pro-Boris Johnson group.\n\nThe Tory Party said it had no comment.\n\nShe told the group's conference in Bournemouth: \"Some parts of Westminster and our colleagues have done a better job of damaging our party than the opposition, the left-wing campaign groups, the civil service, which we all struggle with day in day out and even I'm afraid, some of those in the media that want to distort and make life difficult for us\".\n\nThe Conservative MP for Witham suggested that if government leaders spent more time with the party's grassroots they would be more in touch with their values.\n\nHighlighting heavy Tory losses in the recent local elections in England and the \"serious repercussions\" of that for the party, the former cabinet minister said that \"for the first time in 20 years... we are no longer the largest party in local government\".\n\nThe Conservatives lost control of 48 councils and lost more than 1,000 councillors in May's English local elections.\n\nMany in the party were angry at the scale of the losses, which were worse than predicted, with some blaming Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nThere are three things that unite the new Conservative Democratic Organisation - a belief that the Tory party has become too centralised, a strong feeling that many current policies aren't \"Conservative\" enough and a lingering resentment about the toppling of Boris Johnson by MPs and the later appointment of Rishi Sunak without a vote of party members.\n\nThe problem for this group is that the first two issues aren't likely to be addressed to their satisfaction without the third - a change of leader. But given recent events that's something few want to talk openly about - Jacob Rees-Mogg said it would be an \"absurd\" thing to do. And that suggests that many are now starting to look beyond the next election.\n\nBut other senior Tories are unimpressed. Writing in the Times, former armed forces minister Tobias Ellwood hit out at what he called a \"right-wing caucus\" within the party, focused on tax cuts, \"Europe-bashing\" and culture wars. Those MPs, he said, were \"disloyal\" and \"reckless\", and failed to recognise that a Conservative victory at the next general election is still possible.\n\nMs Patel was a close ally of Mr Johnson and served as home secretary during his premiership.\n\nShe paid tribute to him in her speech as the \"man that got Brexit done\" and as the person who delivered on the \"people's priority\".\n\nIn a video message played at conference, Mr Johnson thanked delegates for \"continuing to campaign for freedom and democracy\".\n\nThe Conservative Democratic Organisation conference in Bournemouth was attended by other high-profile supporters of Mr Johnson including Mr Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries.\n\nIn the speech, Ms Patel criticised MPs who removed Mr Johnson from power.\n\nShe said Westminster colleagues had \"turned their back on the membership and effectively broken that golden thread in terms of the democracy from the bottom of the party right up to the top\".\n\nShe also criticised recent budgets for diverging from what she called Conservative values.\n\nShe warned that if the party does not change it would risk losing more votes.\n\nReacting to Ms Patel's comments, the Liberal Democrats said the Tories had \"decided to rekindle their infighting\" and the party was marked by \"constant chaos\".", "As Loreen sings in her Eurovision-winning song Tattoo \"it's time to say goodbye\".\n\nAnd it's farewell from us here after a non-stop few hours of live coverage from this year's Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nLightning struck twice for the Swedish singer, as she claimed the crown for the second time in 11 years. While she was the favourite, the votes came down to the wire after Finnish rapper Käärijä and his verdant sleeves brought the house down and came a very respectable second.\n\nYellow and blue were the colours of the night, not just because of the winner but because of Ukraine. The UK hosted the competition on Ukraine’s behalf, and last year's winners Kalush Orchestra kicked off the show in style.\n\nIt was a bad night at the office for the UK's Mae Muller, who came second last. It's a long way from Sam Ryder's second place last year, but it's that unpredictability that keeps Eurovision fans coming back for more every year.\n\nThe celebrations are in full flow in Liverpool but it's goodnight from me and my colleagues Jasmine Taylor-Coleman, Aoife Walsh and Antoinette Radford in London.\n\nThanks to our team reporting from the contest all week, and to you for following along. Is it too soon to say, \"Hello, this is Sweden calling?!\"", "Victory Day commemorations in Berlin saw many turn out in the German capital with differing views\n\nRussian communities across Europe have been polarised by the Ukraine war - and that threatened to spill over in Berlin this month when they marked the defeat of Nazi Germany.\n\nGiven how much Vladimir Putin uses the Soviet victory over fascism in 1945 to justify Russia's ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there was no avoiding the war here in the German capital.\n\nMany German-based Russians clearly believe the president's reasons for the war, with some views in Berlin virtually indistinguishable from the narratives promoted by Russian state TV - but others are just as vocal in opposing it.\n\nThe commemorations in Berlin started on 8 May, as Germany marked the 78th anniversary of its liberation from fascism, and groups of Russians visited the Soviet war memorial in Treptower Park.\n\nOne, Alexander, who is originally from Russia but has lived in Germany for more than 20 years, said he believed Russian forces were \"defending Donbas, Crimea, Kherson, and Odesa against fascists\" - listing places in south-eastern Ukraine.\n\nAlexander shows personal items decorated with portraits of Putin, he says he believes Russia is fighting fascism in Ukraine\n\n\"They belong to Russia! Russia is taking back what belongs to it,\" added Anna, another Russian living in Germany.\n\nAlexander then showed me a cigarette holder and a tobacco box he had decorated by taping portraits of President Putin to them.\n\nBut the events that matter most to Russian speakers were held the following day, 9 May - marked in Russia as Victory Day.\n\nThey kicked off with the Russian ambassador laying flowers to the imposing statue of a Soviet soldier in Treptower Park. Again, the event mostly attracted supporters of the Kremlin's policies and rhetoric.\n\nOne of them, a young Russian called Yevgenia, told me that \"the collective West, particularly America\" were fanning the flames of neo-Nazism in Ukraine.\n\nYevgenia was sporting the St George's Ribbon - a Kremlin-backed symbol often used by Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. Like many at the rally, she and her friend held aloft a Soviet flag, as Russian flags were banned.\n\nYevgenia (right) wears a St George's Ribbon - a Kremlin-backed symbol used by Russian troops in the Ukraine war\n\nBut not everyone supported such views.\n\nThe monument to the grieving mother at the other end of Treptower Park was the meeting point for those who wanted to honour the victims of fascism without supporting Mr Putin's claims that he is fighting \"fascists\" in Ukraine.\n\nAnd many of the people who gathered there were Russians. One of them, Kirill, told me he fled Russia last October to avoid being drafted into the army and being sent to fight in Ukraine.\n\n\"I do not want to become a murderer for Putin. I do not believe the lies I'm told by TV,\" he said.\n\n\"I was very afraid, but I attended anti-war rallies. I did all I could do,\" Kirill told me, standing alongside a poster about political prisoners in Russia.\n\nKirill, with a poster of political prisoners in Russia, says he left the country to avoid being drafted into the Russian army\n\nKirill fled Russia after being arrested, fined and beaten for attending anti-war rallies in St Petersburg.\n\nAnother young Russian in this corner of Treptower Park, an activist called Alexandra, thought President Putin had turned Victory Day into a propaganda tool. \"It is an absolute sacrilege for us,\" she told me.\n\nHer friend Ekaterina chimed in: \"It is important for me to show that not everyone from Russia supports what is happening in Ukraine or what this day has turned into.\n\n\"The way it is marked now is a one big reason why this war started on 24 February last year.\"\n\nAt another important event held by Russians in Berlin on Victory Day, dozens gathered at the Brandenburg Gate for what is known as the march of the Immortal Regiment.\n\nEven though such marches are encouraged by the Kremlin, the one held in Berlin seemed less overly political than the events in Treptower Park, with dozens of Russians solemnly carrying photographs of their ancestors who fought in World War Two.\n\nA group of anti-war Russians demonstrated against Victory Day being turned into a propaganda tool - but their event was outnumbered by the rally sporting Kremlin-encouraged symbols such as St George's ribbons or Soviet flags.\n\nKristina attends a demonstration with a sign criticising the West's supply of weapons to Ukraine\n\nBut what do Germans think of all this?\n\nI was able to find the whole spectrum of opinions among them. Many came to Treptower Park on 8-9 May to offer thanks for the Soviet army liberating Germany from fascism, and were less concerned with the present.\n\n\"What Putin is doing in Ukraine now doesn't change the fact that [Russia did liberate Germany],\" one of them, Wolfgang, told me.\n\nAnother German demonstrator, Kristina, was against weapons deliveries to what she described as the \"fascist regime\" in Ukraine.\n\nBut a young man, Janek, said it was \"shameful\" that President Putin was using the defeat of Nazism as a foreign policy tool.\n\n\"They say they want to free Ukrainians from the Nazis there - but it's just not true, it's propaganda,\" he said.", "HMS Glasgow was floated on the Clyde for the first time in December\n\nAn inquiry has been launched into \"intentional damage\" of a Royal Navy warship at a Scottish shipyard.\n\nDefence contractor BAE Systems said repairs were being assessed after about 60 cables were cut on HMS Glasgow.\n\nThe Type 26 frigate is currently being fitted out at BAE's yard at Scotstoun on the River Clyde in Glasgow.\n\nIt is the first of eight Type 26 vessels being built. A BAE spokesperson said work had been temporarily paused for an investigation.\n\nThe military news website UK Defence Journal, which reported the incident, suggested that it may have been sabotage by a contractor in a payment dispute.\n\nBut BAE Systems did not confirm any motive for the damage.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We uncovered a limited number of cables on HMS Glasgow earlier in the week, which appear to have been damaged intentionally.\n\n\"We immediately launched an internal investigation, alongside our suppliers, and temporarily paused work on the ship to inspect every area of the vessel and ensure our high standards and quality controls are met.\"\n\nThe firm said work had now resumed and an assessment was in progress \"to scope the repairs needed\".\n\nA total of eight Type 26 frigates are to be built in Glasgow by BAE Systems\n\nIt is understood that about 23,000 cables will be installed on the frigate - including data cables for communication and electrical cables to power the ship's systems.\n\nThe incident comes after HMS Glasgow made its first trip in December.\n\nThe frigate was moved down the River Clyde on a specialist barge and lowered into Loch Long.\n\nIt was then towed back to the yard at Scotstoun for fitting out.\n\nThe next two Type 26 ships, HMS Cardiff and the HMS Belfast, are already under construction by BAE Systems on the Clyde.\n\nIn November, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced BAE Systems has been awarded a £4.2bn contract to build five more Type 26 frigates, on top of the three already under construction.\n\nIn total, Scottish shipyards have orders to build 13 Royal Navy frigates.\n\nEight Type 26s are being constructed by BAE Systems on the Clyde, while five Type 31 vessels are being built by Babcock at Rosyth in Fife.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSweden's Loreen was always the one to beat, and her team knew it too.\n\nShe had something none of the other contestants competing on Saturday's Eurovision grand final had - the experience of winning it before.\n\nThe 39-year-old from Stockholm took the title with her banger Euphoria in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 2012. Now, with Tattoo, and 583 points, she becomes the first woman to win it twice.\n\nIt's an experience she said was \"overwhelming\" as she accepted the glass microphone and took to the stage in Liverpool to repeat her winning performance.\n\nIn November 2022, at a gig in Amsterdam where lots of previous Eurovision contestants were performing, Loreen closed the show.\n\nRumours were circulating she was going to try to enter Eurovision again. And there is no barrier to competing more than once in this contest.\n\nBackstage after the show in her dressing room I cheekily asked if they were true? \"Darling,\" was all she said.\n\nA few weeks later it was confirmed Loreen would be participating in Melodifestivalen - the TV selection show to pick Sweden's participant for the song contest in Stockholm.\n\nIt runs for six weeks and has become a must-watch event for Eurovision fans around the world - with viewing parties in different cities.\n\nThe crowd at Melodifestivalen is packed to the arena rafters in Stockholm\n\nAfter one such party at the Swedish church in north London in early March, fans piled into the upstairs of a pub around the corner and Eurovision hits were played.\n\nTattoo, Loreen's Melodifestivalen entry came on, and people put down drinks to dance to it hard. Bear in mind, it hadn't even won the Swedish selection by then.\n\nBut she is royalty in Eurovision world and fans were excited that she was trying again.\n\nWhen the final rolled around on 11 March in Stockholm, and the BBC's Eurovisioncast went to interview her, she picked up the conversation again with: \"Darling...\".\n\n\"I didn't think I'd do it ever again,\" she said. \"But then they sent me the song and I could just feel it was a good song, and then they popped the question.\n\nIt took her team, which included the same songwriter and producers of Euphoria, around four weeks to change her mind and convince her to go for the double gold in Liverpool.\n\nSweden and Finland picked their acts on the same night - the last two countries to confirm their participants in this year's contest.\n\nNow Loreen was in the mix, the other contestants were excited.\n\nThe UK's Mae Muller continuously refers to her as a \"queen\", while other Eurovision artists openly said that she had it in the bag.\n\nMeanwhile, Tattoo continued to notch up tens of millions of streams.\n\nPre-party events took place across Europe in the run-up to Liverpool and fans travelled to places like Madrid and London to see her perform her two Eurovision songs live.\n\nOutside the venue in London, many fans had Swedish flags and said they were there specifically for Loreen.\n\nIt's hard to encapsulate her cultural significance in the competition's history but she generated a whole new generation of fans of the song contest after 2012 - including myself.\n\n\"I love this community,\" Loreen said, as she posed for selfies. \"I hope people feel how much I love them and care\".\n\nOnce rehearsals began in Liverpool and a full arena of 6,000 people packed into the venue for preview shows this week, it was fascinating to hear the crowd's silence when she sang.\n\nThe audience was transfixed by her and nobody wanted to miss a moment.\n\nShe created a performance that looked visually stunning on-screen, captivating the 160 million watching at home with pyrotechnics, smoke machines, incredible staging and, most-importantly, stand-out vocals.\n\nSweden's 2023 win puts it on par with Ireland as having the most victories in the competition with seven.\n\nNext year, the competition will head to Scandinavia - some 50 years since Abba won in 1974 with Waterloo, catapulting them to international stardom.\n\nMy prediction for next year's slogan for Eurovision could also be a personal message from me to this year's contestants: \"Thank you for the music.\"\n\nAll the build-up, insights and analysis is explored each week on a BBC podcast called Eurovisioncast.\n\nEurovisioncast is available on BBC Sounds, or search wherever you get your podcasts from.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: No final policy on giving votes to EU citizens\n\nLabour is considering extending voting rights to some EU citizens living in the UK if the party wins the next general election.\n\nThe party is working on a package of proposals, including votes for some EU nationals and 16 and 17-year-olds in general elections.\n\nIn 2020, Labour's leader Sir Keir Starmer called for all EU nationals to be given full voting rights in the UK.\n\nBut Labour said no final policy decisions had been made.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said the party's policy on the issue had been the subject of speculation and discussions about this were \"part of our manifesto process\".\n\n\"We do want to strengthen our democracy,\" Mr Reynolds told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme. \"We believe if people make a contribution to this country, if they live here, there's an argument for having them involved in [the democratic] process.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party said Labour's plan to give foreign nationals the vote at parliamentary elections \"is laying the groundwork to drag the UK back into the EU by stealth\".\n\n\"The right to vote in parliamentary elections and choose the next UK government is rightly restricted to British citizens and those with the closest historical links to our country,\" Conservative Party Chairman Greg Hands said.\n\nCurrently, EU nationals who are legally resident in the UK can vote in local and devolved elections but not general elections.\n\nA Labour source said the party was thinking about proposals \"that will enable people who live and contribute long-term to our society to be able to have their say in how the country is governed\".\n\nThe source said Sir Keir believes it is \"fair and right\" to give those people a voice in elections.\n\nBut the source said the details of the proposals have not yet been decided, despite suggestions made in newspaper reports by the Financial Times and the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nThere are an estimated 3.4 million EU nationals with settled status in the UK, and a further 2.7m with pre-settled status.\n\nSettled status allows EU citizen to continue to live, work and study in the UK on an indefinite basis, while pre-settled status is a grant of temporary residence for five years.\n\nThe idea of extending the franchise to more EU nationals in the UK is controversial, with the Conservatives branding such a move \"an attempt to rig the electorate to re-join the EU\".\n\nWhen Sir Keir was running to be Labour leader in 2020, he said the \"government should give all three million EU nationals living in the UK full voting rights in future elections\".\n\n\"We were never just 'tolerating' EU citizens living in this country - they are our neighbours, friends and families,\" Sir Keir wrote in an op-ed for the Guardian. \"To see their status in doubt devastates our sense not just of justice but also of fellowship.\"\n\nExtending the franchise to more EU nationals in the UK is a controversial idea\n\nLabour's 2019 manifesto included a commitment to \"oversee the largest extension of the franchise in generations\" by lowering the voting age to 16 and giving \"full voting rights to all UK residents\".\n\nAs the party looks ahead to the next general election, it is deciding what reforms on voting rights to propose in its manifesto.\n\nThe BBC has been told Labour's package of proposals will include the introduction of votes for 16- and 17-year-olds, in line with Scotland and Wales.\n\nAt the moment, 16 and 17-year-olds are allowed to vote in elections for the Scottish and Welsh devolved parliaments, but cannot vote in general elections.\n\nA commitment to lower the voting age to 16 was included in both Labour's 2015 and 2017 manifestos.\n\nThe Greens and the Liberal Democrats also support lowering the voting age.", "Rory Gallagher was due to lead Derry into Sunday's Ulster Senior Football Championship final against Armagh\n\nThe estranged wife of ex-Derry senior football manager Rory Gallagher has claimed the GAA was aware of domestic abuse allegations \"but did nothing\".\n\nMr Gallagher stepped aside from his role earlier this week, following a post on social media by Nicola Gallagher.\n\nIt detailed serious allegations of domestic abuse over a 24 year period.\n\nMs Gallagher told the Sunday Independent her father emailed Derry management last year with the claims.\n\nThe newspaper said it had seen the email sent by Gerry Rooney on 25 May 2022.\n\nThe family said they did not receive a response to the email.\n\n\"The GAA knew about all of this, 100%, and the county boards of Fermanagh and Derry knew - because we told them,\" Ms Gallagher told the newspaper.\n\n\"There were senior members of the GAA who knew what was going on, there are incidents that took place at GAA events. It was a well known fact.\"\n\nShe went on to say she felt let down by \"all these institutions\", including the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).\n\nDerry GAA said it was seeking clarification on the email Ms Gallagher said her father sent to its management.\n\nBBC News NI has contacted the GAA and Fermanagh GAA in response to her comments in the Sunday Independent.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Gallagher, who previously managed Donegal and Fermanagh, said that allegations against him had been \"investigated and dealt with by the relevant authorities\".\n\nHe said: \"Those closest to our family are well aware of the reasons for the breakdown of our marriage and the continued issues we have faced since that time.\"\n\nHe was due to lead Derry into the Ulster Senior Championship Final on Sunday against Armagh.\n\nOn Friday, he stepped aside from his position.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"This decision is borne out of a desire to protect my children from the ongoing turmoil.\"\n\n\"They will always be my priority,\" he added.\n\nCiaran Meenagh, who took charge as Derry defeated Armagh on penalties, said after the match that it had been a \"challenging week for everybody\" but his main focus was on football.\n\nOn Thursday, Ulster GAA addressed the issue of domestic abuse \"in light of recent events\".\n\nIt said: \"While we cannot comment or make judgement on any specific allegation or allegations, Ulster GAA does not condone any form of domestic violence.\"\n\nIn a brief statement, the Derry GAA county board said: \"Derry GAA condemns all forms of domestic violence.\n\n\"We encourage anyone who had experienced domestic violence to report it to the relevant authorities immediately.\"\n\nRory Gallagher said the allegations had been investigated and dealt with by the relevant authorities\n\nMs Gallagher's interview criticised the PSNI for her treatment at a police station in Enniskillen after she made her initial complaint.\n\n\"I asked for a female officer and I got a male. I was already nervous enough. Then when the PPS rejected by case, I felt hopeless.\"\n\nOn Sunday, the PSNI said it investigated a number of reported incidents and files were submitted to the PPS.\n\nCh Insp Heather Campbell, from the Public Protection Branch (PPB), said police \"takes all allegations of violence and harassment against women seriously and we work alongside partners to help keep all women safe\".\n\nShe added that PPB has specially trained domestic abuse officers \"who strive to protect victims, prosecute offenders and prevent re-offending\".\n\nThe PPS has said it received two investigation files from the PSNI in January and June 2022, and that all available evidence was considered in line with the PPS code for prosecution.\n\nIt added it was determined there was insufficient evidence to provide a reasonable prospect of conviction for any offence in relation to any individual.\n\nThe PPS said the decisions not to prosecute were issued in January and September last year.\n\nA spokesperson said on Sunday: \"The PPS takes cases of domestic violence and abuse extremely seriously, and we are committed to prosecuting all such cases where the evidence allows us to do so, in strict accordance with the PPS Code for Prosecutors.\n\n\"We are aware of comments made by Mrs Gallagher in the media. We will contact Mrs Gallagher to discuss her concerns.\"\n\nIn a lengthy social media post, Nicola Gallagher claimed that domestic abuse occurred before and during her marriage.\n\n\"Blocking it out was easier than admitting what was happening,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter outlining a catalogue of alleged beatings, Ms Gallagher, who is from Belleek, County Fermanagh, concluded: \"Silence nearly killed me.\"\n\nNicola Gallagher told the Sunday Independent her decision to post the allegations on social media was difficult.\n\n\"I sat for ages looking at it on my computer. I kept thinking, 'Will I do it or will I not?' What impact will this have on my children? I had a tightness in my chest, I got really afraid…and then I hit 'post.'\"\n\nAsked about what would have happened had she not posted on social media she said, \"I would be dead, one hundred per cent. I needed to do it - it was my last resort.\"\n\nShe told the newspaper she also felt let down by the Western Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nThe Trust told BBC News NI it would not provide comment on an individual for confidentiality and privacy reasons, but added issues can be raised through its complaints system, the Patients' Advocate Office.\n\nMs Gallagher also alleged some of the incidents had happened in the Republic of Ireland and the gardai (Irish police) were aware.\n\nThe gardai said they would not comment on individual cases.", "The leader of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has called on the health secretary to restart pay negotiations with a proposed rise in double digits.\n\nMost health unions accepted an offer of a 5% rise for 2023-24 and a one-off backdated payment for last year, following a 4% rise for 2022-23.\n\nThe RCN has rejected the deal.\n\nA source from the Department of Health said the pay offer was final, with Energy Secretary Grant Shapps calling the deal on the table \"very generous\".\n\nSpeaking to the Times, union boss Pat Cullen praised her \"courageous\" members and urged ministers to reopen talks, starting with an offer of a double-digit pay rise over the two-year period.\n\nThe RCN had last year called for a rise of 5% above the RPI inflation rate, which peaked above 14% in October, but no UK nation has offered close to that.\n\nIt later called for RCN union members to accept the government deal, but they voted against it by 54% to 46%.\n\nThe nursing union will now ballot for further strike action later this month.\n\nIn her interview, Ms Cullen said: \"Looking back on this pay offer, I may personally have underestimated the members and their sheer determination.\"\n\nShe called on Health Secretary Steve Barclay to reopen negotiations which she said needed to \"start off in double figures\".\n\nMinisters owe it to nurses \"not to push them to have to do another six months of industrial action right up to Christmas\", she added.\n\nAn RCN spokesperson added: \"The negotiations covered two financial years which resulted in a consolidated NHS pay increase of 9%. When our members rejected that, it is clear they expect an offer into double figures.\"\n\nNurses in England went on strike for 24 hours on 1 May - it was the first time RCN members walked out of all areas, including intensive care.\n\nThey also took industrial action on two other occasions earlier this year, on 6 and 7 February and on 18 and 19 January.\n\nMr Shapps told Sky News that it was \"curious\" for Ms Cullen to be asking for a double-digit rise when members had previously been encouraged to accept the smaller offer.\n\nHe said he thought it was a \"great settlement\", adding: \"I thought it's terrific that it had been reached.\n\n\"It's frankly rather confusing now that having encouraged her members to accept that deal, she seems to now be coming back and saying the opposite.\"\n\nAsked if it was an \"absolutely no\" to a double-digit pay rise, he replied: \"You've got to balance that with the rest of the public purse and there's a very generous offer now on table... and I think it would be a great way to get this settled.\"\n\nSpeaking ahead of the annual RCN congress in Brighton, Ms Cullen said she was \"proud\" of RCN members.\n\nShe praised their \"selflessness\" for rejecting the government's pay offer and losing pay on strike days to \"stand up for the NHS\".\n\n\"Nurses believe it's their duty and their responsibility because this government is not listening to them on how to bring it back from the brink and the message to the prime minister is that they are absolutely not going to blink first in these negotiations,\" she added.\n\nEleven health unions backed a deal on 2 May, meaning more than a million NHS staff would receive a 5% pay rise.\n\nThe deal, which includes nurses in England, also entails a one-off payment of at least £1,655. It means all staff will now receive extra pay.\n\nSome unions rejected the offer, including the RCN and Unite, but it was accepted after a majority was reached. Both unions warned they would continue to pursue strike action.\n\nAsked in the paper why nurses warrant a larger increase than other healthcare workers, she said: \"It's not so long ago since the prime minister went on the media and very publicly said nurses are an exception.\"\n\n\"I would totally agree with him... they should be made an exception because they are exceptional people.\"\n\nA government source said the health secretary's door was open for discussions about how to make the NHS a better place to work and it was getting the money into staff pay packets as soon as possible.\n\n\"It is time to move on from industrial actions and work together to deliver for patients,\" added the health department source.\n\nNurses in Wales are set to strike this summer after rejecting the Welsh government's latest pay offer.\n\nAnd in Scotland, union members have accepted an offer worth an average 6.5% for 2023-24.", "Fans from across the globe were treated to a Eurovision Song Contest feast in Liverpool.\n\nThe winners of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, Kalush Orchestra performed on stage at the start of the final.\n\nUK entry Mae Muller took part in the flag parade as the proceedings began, and Marco Mengoni carried the Pride flag as well as the Italian one.\n\nAlesha Dixon, Julia Sanina, Hannah Waddingham and Graham Norton were all on stage for the start.\n\nMimicat representing Portugal, Teya and Salena for Austria, Loreen from Sweden and Andrew Lambrou for Cyprus were among the first performers.\n\nCzechia entrant Vesna's braids drew attention, as did the performance of Finland's Kaarija.\n\nUkraine, last years winners, were represented by TVORCHI. Let 3 from Croatia had a controversial performance.\n\nThe UK's Mae Muller was the final act.\n\nDuncan Laurence and other past Eurovision acts joined the presenters on stage after the performances.\n\nLoreen hears that she has won after a tense voting count.\n\nIn the Eurovision Village, crowds sang their hearts out as they watched all the musical drama on a big screen.\n\nHMS Mersey was illuminated in the colours of Ukraine.\n\nIrish duo Jedward were among the acts who entertained fans in the Village zone earlier in the day.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA powerful cyclone has hit the coastlines of Bangladesh and Myanmar after intensifying into the equivalent of a category-five storm.\n\nCyclone Mocha did not make landfall at the sprawling refugee camp in Cox's Bazar as earlier feared, but still tore apart hundreds of makeshift shelters.\n\nAt least six people have been reported dead in Myanmar.\n\nUp to 90 per cent of the western Rakhine state's capital city Sittwe has been destroyed, residents told the BBC.\n\nThe Burmese military has declared the whole of Rakhine as a natural disaster area.\n\nBy late Sunday, the storm had largely passed. Bangladesh's disaster official Kamrul Hasan said the cyclone caused \"no major damage\", but landslides and floods are still hitting the country. No casualties have been reported in Bangladesh so far.\n\nMyanmar appears to have borne more direct impact, with the storm crashing through houses and cutting power lines in Rakhine state. Myanmar's meteorological department said it pounded through the country at about 209km/h (130 mph).\n\nCamps for displaced Rohingya in the state have also been ripped apart.\n\nLocal media reported that a 14-year-old boy were among those reported dead - he was killed by a falling tree in the state.\n\nElectricity and wireless connections were disrupted across much of Sittwe. Footage online showed roofs being blown off houses, telecom towers brought down, and billboards flying off buildings amid teeming rain across the region.\n\nAuthorities have declared Rakhine state a natural disaster area, while the Myanmar Red Cross Society said it was \"preparing for a major emergency response\".\n\nMyanmar appears to have borne more direct impact from the cyclone\n\nVillagers in Myanmar flee their homes as the storm approaches\n\nAuthorities in Bangladesh had evacuated 750,000 people ahead of the storm.\n\nThe streets of Cox's Bazar emptied as the cyclone intensified - the skies darkened, the winds picked up pace and the rains pounded down.\n\nHundreds of people crammed into a school which had been turned into a temporary cyclone shelter.\n\nMothers with babies, young children, the elderly and the frail packed into any available space in the classrooms, sleeping on desks and sitting under them.\n\nAs many arrived at the shelter in rickshaws and on foot, they brought their livestock - cattle, chickens, goats - as well as mats to sleep on.\n\nThey had come from fishing and coastal villages up to two hours away, making a difficult choice.\n\n\"I didn't want to leave my house,\" said Sumi Akter, who lives on a riverbank.\n\nSumi and others we met here say they have lived through other cyclones in recent years and are resigned to the regular pattern of leaving their homes to the mercy of nature.\n\nStorm surges of up to four metres could swamp villages in low-lying areas. Sumi and others here are fearful their homes may be submerged.\n\n\"I wish the homes we lived in were built more strongly,\" she said.\n\nJannat, aged 17, whom we had met the day before in the same shelter, said she too was terrified of what might happen to her home on the riverbank.\n\nLast year, another cyclone, Sitrang, destroyed her house, forcing her to spend what little money she had on repairing it.\n\n\"How can I live if this keeps happening? I can't afford to rebuild it - we are very poor,\" she said.\n\nNature was also punishing the poor in the world's largest refugee camp nearby.\n\nBangladesh's government does not allow Rohingya refugees to leave the camps, nor to build permanent structures.\n\nAs the cyclone hit, they hunkered down in flimsy bamboo shelters with tarpaulin roofs. Some were moved to community shelters within the camps, which offered little more protection.\n\nAuthorities told the BBC that more than 1,300 shelters were damaged by the wind, as were 16 mosques and learning centres. Trees had fallen in the camps, while two landslides also caused some damage.\n\nThe tarpaulin that covered Mohammed Ayub's shelter was torn off by the winds. Now he and his family of eight are living in the open, in wet and miserable weather.\n\nHaving spent the days before terrified of what Cyclone Mocha could bring, Mohammed was relieved the camps didn't take a direct hit from the storm.\n\nMizanur Rahman, from the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner, said that as far as he was aware, there were no casualties in the camps as a result of the cyclone.\n\nFamilies with young children are crammed into makeshift cyclone refuges\n\nEvacuees at one cyclone shelter told the BBC they were worried about the lack of food\n\nForecasters warned Cyclone Mocha could be the most powerful storm seen in Bangladesh in nearly two decades.\n\nThe Bangladeshi meteorological department office said the maximum sustained wind speed within 75km (45 miles) of the centre of the cyclone was about 195km/h (120mph), with gusts and squalls of 215km/h.\n\nIn preparation for the storm's arrival, nearby airports had been shut, fishermen were ordered to suspend their work and 1,500 shelters set up as people from vulnerable areas were moved to safer spots.\n\nIn 2008, Cyclone Nargis tore through the southern coastal regions of Myanmar, killing almost 140,000 people and severely affecting millions. Most of those who died were killed by a 3.5 metre wall of water that hit the low-lying Irrawaddy Delta.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was an unhappy onlooker as his football club Southampton suffered relegation.\n\nWith his party coming off heavy losses in the local elections, he may have been hoping for some good news as he took his seat at St Mary's Stadium.\n\nHowever, sitting in the stands in jeans and a grey hoodie, he saw Fulham score twice in the second half to end his club's 11-year Premier League stay.\n\nSouthampton's loss on Saturday puts them eight points adrift of safety with two matches to play, and not even a parliamentary intervention would be able to change their fate now.\n\nBorn and raised in Southampton, Sunak has long spoken of his support of the team.\n\nA biography of Mr Sunak has previously said as a youngster his father Yashvir was a season ticket holder, and one of the prime minister's \"most prized possessions\" was a card he received for his 18th birthday signed by the entire squad.\n\nHowever, during his bid to become prime minister in August last year he came under the intense glare of the football community after saying Southampton's could improve their fortunes by beating Manchester United that coming weekend.\n\nThe team were playing Leicester City, but did have United the following week.\n\nRishi Sunak sat in the VIP area at Saturday's game\n\nHis teams had two goals put past them in the second half to see them fall out of the top flight for the first time in over a decade\n\nSupporting a football team is often seen as a way for political leaders to broaden their appeal, but can prove a tricky business.\n\nDavid Cameron claimed to be a Aston Villa fan, but a blunder in a speech in 2015 saw him claim the top flight's other claret and blue team West Ham - something he later put down to \"brain fade\".\n\nA Newcastle United fan, Sir Tony Blair received ridicule for a number of years due an apparent claim to have seen club legend Jackie Milburn play at St James Park in the 1950s - even though the player had retired when he was five.\n\nIn 2008, the regional newspaper which first reported it clarified it had come from something misheard on the radio.\n\nOne former prime minister was never likely to make this kind of slip-up. Gordon Brown was a staunch fan of Scottish lower league side Raith Rovers and could happily recite to interviewers the full line-up of the first match he saw as a seven-year-old.\n\nAnd possibly to add to Sunak's pain, Southampton's rivals Fulham have their own connection with Downing Street.\n\nAfter the match, Fulham's Twitter account showed a picture of Sunak grimacing in the crowd, along with their own caption \"Sorry, the only Prime Minister we recognise is Hugh Grant\" - a nod to the dancing PM portrayed in 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually.", "Police at the scene in Sandalwood Court, Newport, on Sunday\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 44-year-old woman was found dead.\n\nEmergency services were called to an address in Sandalwood Court, Newport at 11:30 BST on Friday, and officers remained there on Sunday.\n\nGwent Police said the woman was confirmed dead at the scene and her family were being supported.\n\nA 25-year-old man from Newport was arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody.\n\nOfficers are not looking for anyone else in connection with the death.\n\nDet Ch Insp Virginia Davies said: \"Officers will be making further inquiries at this time and will remain at the scene as the investigation progresses.\n\nResidents have been asked not to be concerned by police activity in the area\n\n\"It is possible that you may see ongoing police activity in Newport as part of this work, but please do not be alarmed.\n\n\"If you have concerns or information then please do stop and talk with us.\"\n\nPolice encouraged anyone with information to make contact with them.\n\nThe force said it would be making a referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) \"in line with standard procedures\".", "Llyr Gruffydd (pictured centre) and Adam Price (right) took part in the National Council meeting on Saturday\n\nPlaid Cymru's interim leader has said he and others should have acted differently to past concerns raised about its culture of misogyny, sexual harassment and bullying.\n\nLlyr Gruffydd suggested allegations had been raised with him.\n\nBut it was \"not in a way where I felt that there was merit in pursuing them with the vigour and the sensitivity... that maybe should have been the case\".\n\n\"We all could have, we all should have done more,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's why it's hurting.\"\n\nMr Gruffydd is taking over as acting leader until a permanent replacement is found for Adam Price, who has stood down.\n\nIt comes after a highly critical report found a culture of bullying, harassment and misogyny within Plaid Cymru\n\nMr Gruffydd, a North Wales Member of the Senedd (MS), was confirmed in the role at a meeting of the party's national council in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, on Saturday.\n\nHe will officially start in the role on Wednesday.\n\nCandidates have until 16 June to put their names forward to become the new leader.\n\nLlyr Gruffydd's position as interim leader was confirmed on Saturday\n\nAsked if he was aware of the culture described in the report, Mr Gruffydd said: \"Well, we're all shocked, I think, by the report.\n\n\"There are rumours, there are hearsay, and that's true of all workplaces, that's true of wider society.\"\n\nPushed on whether he heard specific allegations from individuals, he replied: \"No, not in a way where I felt that there was merit in pursuing them with the vigour and the sensitivity, maybe, that some of us are reflecting on, that maybe should've been the case at the time.\n\n\"When you default to make a formal complaint, if you're a victim or an alleged victim, you're effectively throwing it back at them, aren't you?\n\n\"You're effectively telling the victim, 'well, you make the complaint.'\n\n\"Now, that isn't the culture, that isn't the spirit, that isn't the supportive environment that we should be creating to help people to come forward when these issues happen,\" he added.\n\nCefin Campbell, Plaid Cymru MS for Mid and West Wales, said previously that \"many of us have been active bystanders\".\n\nMr Gruffydd acknowledged: \"This is the collective responsibility. We all could have, we all should have done more, and that's why it's hurting.\n\n\"But in that hurting we need to take that learning.\"\n\nA highly critical report found a culture of bullying, harassment and misogyny within Plaid Cymru\n\nAlun Ffred Jones, a former Plaid chairman, said those responsible for inappropriate behaviour should leave the party.\n\nMr Jones said anyone involved \"should reflect\" on their position.\n\nThe Prosiect Pawb (Everyone's Project) report said \"too many instances of bad behaviour\" had been tolerated in the party.\n\nAn anonymous survey of staff and elected members highlighted examples \"of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination\".\n\nMr Jones, a former assembly member and Welsh government minister, said anyone who was involved should leave the party.\n\n\"If you are responsible for serious inappropriate behaviour, whatever that may be, and I have no idea what that may be, then you have to reflect on your position,\" he said.\n\nCommenting on suggestions that Plaid is not united, he added: \"You have to remember what the main purpose of the party is and not fight turf wars on what may be other issues or side issues.\"\n\nWelsh government Social Justice Minister Jane Hutt said the Labour group met on Thursday to discuss the party's own procedures, and First Minister Mark Drakeford had written to all members.\n\n\"I came into politics to address these issues so as women in powerful positions in the Senedd, we've got to take this as an opportunity for real change,\" she said.\n\nTom Giffard, Welsh Conservative MS for South Wales West, said: \"The report had a lot of shocking conclusions and allegations and, ultimately, 82 recommendations does suggest that there is a problem here for Plaid Cymru.\n\n\"But it would be complacent for us or any other parties to think that this is a problem that's contained in one party.\n\n\"We've got to look now at our structures and make sure that we've got the structures in place so that people also feel confident to come forward.\n\n\"I think they do but we need to find out whether that view is shared,\" he added.\n\nDr Elin Royles from Aberystwyth University said there were substantial challenges ahead for Plaid.\n\n\"Some of the things that we've heard since the report's been produced suggest some people from the grassroots within the party haven't quite appreciated how fundamental some of those challenges are,\" she said.\n\n\"It does require full-blown culture change within the party to address some of those issues.\"\n\nPolitics Wales was on BBC One Wales at 1000 BST Sunday 14 May and then on BBC iPlayer", "The Scottish government announced plans to build a new Border Control Post (BCP) at Cairnryan in 2021\n\nThere is uncertainty over whether new facilities will be built at Cairnryan Port to check goods coming from the Republic of Ireland and wider EU via Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK is finally due to start implementing post-Brexit controls on EU goods later this year.\n\nIn 2021, the Scottish government announced plans to build a new Border Control Post (BCP) at Cairnryan.\n\nBut a funding dispute with the UK government has stalled work on it.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"Scottish ministers have asked that the full value of border infrastructure be met by the UK government, in line with promises made during the Brexit campaign.\n\n\"We have had no choice but to pause construction of the BCP until these uncertainties are resolved.\"\n\nFrom the end of October food products being exported to Great Britain from the EU will require certification.\n\nPhysical checks of those goods is then due to begin at the end of January next year.\n\nHowever, it is not certain when physical checks on goods from the Republic of Ireland entering Great Britain will begin with the UK government saying a date will be clarified later this year.\n\nThe new checks and controls will not apply to EU goods directly entering Northern Ireland due to the operation of the Northern Ireland Protocol/Windsor Framework.\n\nFood products being exported to Great Britain from the EU will soon require certification\n\nThe Cairnryan BCP is politically sensitive because any controls on goods which originate from the Republic of Ireland must not interfere with the free flow of goods from Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK government has consistently promised that Northern Ireland goods will continue to have \"unfettered access\" to the wider UK market and intends to strengthen that promise in law later this year.\n\nThat \"unfettered access\" includes the commitment that Northern Ireland businesses will not have to provide official declarations of goods which are being moved from Northern Ireland to Great Britain.\n\nThis raises the question of how any officials at Cairnryan will be able to discriminate between goods from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and therefore which loads to inspect.\n\nThe movement of goods from Northern Ireland to Great Britain is based on a legal concept known as \"qualifying NI goods\" which states that any goods that are in free circulation in NI qualify for unfettered access.\n\nGoods which start their journey in the EU do not qualify for unfettered access if they are moved through Northern Ireland into Great Britain for \"an avoidance purpose\".\n\nHowever, in recent weeks, trade experts have suggested that avoidance is already happening and could increase when the new border controls are implemented.\n\nCustoms expert Dr Anna Jerzewska told the House of Lords NI Protocol subcommittee that there is \"anecdotal evidence\" of EU companies registering in Northern Ireland for the purpose of moving goods to Great Britain to avoid formalities and tariffs.\n\n\"We are not talking about large multinationals. We are particularly talking about small companies that are able to operate under the radar to a certain extent, with smaller movements,\" she said.\n\nPeter Summerton, managing director at haulage firm McCulla Ireland, told the committee that controls on Republic of Ireland goods at other British ports like Liverpool and Holyhead would be \"completely pointless\" if Cairnryan was allowed to operate as an effective backdoor.\n\n\"The UK has left a clear legislative gap on how movements from Northern Ireland to GB will be controlled, should there be movement from the EU and rest of the world into Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said the UK government must \"urgently clarify the policy on Northern Ireland to Great Britain trade\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"This will be crucial to understanding the impact on businesses and devolved responsibilities.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"We are committed to creating a seamless, digital border that will improve security and biosecurity while reducing friction for businesses.\n\n\"Whilst responsibility for Border Control Posts is a devolved matter, we are working closely with the Scottish government on the requirements for goods arriving in Cairnryan.\"", "Mae Muller was the last to perform in the Eurovision running order - which is traditionally a tricky spot\n\nMae Muller came into Eurovision riding a wave of positivity.\n\nSam Ryder ended the UK's losing streak in Turin last year by doing the unthinkable - entering a decent song - and the thinking went: Why not do that again?\n\nMae obliged with a slick, sassy pop song that echoed recent chart trends. I Wrote A Song had the disco undercurrents of Dua Lipa, the lyrics were memorable, and it was eminently shareable on TikTok.\n\nThe public seemed to agree. Mae's song picked up tonnes of airplay, and more than eight million streams on Spotify. Bookmakers predicted she would finish in the top 10. Everyone from Ringo Starr to Lana Del Rey offered their support.\n\nIn the run-up to Eurovision, there was negative chatter about Mae's rehearsals. Her vocals were flat, insiders said, and the choreography was wooden.\n\nBut on the night, she brought out the big guns. Mae sang better than she'd done all week. Her dance moves were snappy and confident. The audience at the Liverpool Arena were ecstatic...\n\nAnd then it all went wrong.\n\nEurovision juries gave the song 15 points. The public awarded her nine. She ended the night in 25th place, out of 26.\n\nMae Muller reacts to the UK's low score in the Eurovision green room\n\n\"Undeserved. Very undeserved,\" said Eurovision fan Craig Andrew, who watched the horror unfold at Liverpool's Euroclub.\n\n\"I thought her vocal was flawless. She was so good on the night, but what can you do?\"\n\n\"I think it was much better than that, genuinely,\" agreed fellow fan Gaja Gazdic. \"In this crowd, it was very well received.\"\n\nGaja Gazdic travelled to Liverpool to support Mae in the contest\n\nThe first thing to remember is that no-one votes against you at Eurovision, they vote for the songs they like. And if your vibe is hyper-catchy, female-fronted pop, you were spoiled for choice.\n\nSweden's Loreen won the contest with the supersonic club anthem Tattoo - and Norway's Alessandra was close behind her in the public vote with Queen Of Kings, a thunderous pop anthem that was equal parts Lady Gaga and Nordic folklore.\n\nBoth of them were stronger singers, with stronger songs, than Mae, and they soaked up a lot of her potential votes.\n\nIn retrospect, there's also a peculiar Britishness to I Wrote A Song that might not have translated outside the UK.\n\nIt's a pithy, sarcastic track about taking revenge on an ex-boyfriend - not by trashing their car or burning their house down, but by writing an excoriating song about how rubbish they are.\n\nIn a contest where the top songs all featured sincere, straightforward messages about overcoming adversity and standing up for love, Mae's post-modern, meta-textual lyrics failed to find an audience.\n\nAustria's hotly tipped Who The Hell Is Edgar? took a similar approach and met a similar fate, coming 15th.\n\nComplexity simply isn't your friend when you've only got three minutes to make an impression.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the press room, questions were also raised about the concept underlying Mae's performance. In particular, the liberal use of wide shots and Pop Art video installations meant TV audiences couldn't always appreciate the singer's cheeky charisma.\n\n\"I think it's an excellent song, but the staging wasn't great,\" said Ken Olausson of Sweden's QX magazine.\n\n\"The whole feeling of female power that's in the song when you hear it on the radio, it wasn't on stage.\n\n\"I don't know if they lost her in a lot of props, but the power didn't come through.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Eurovision Song Contest This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nOn social media, TV viewers complained that Mae's vocals had been too low in the mix.\n\n\"You could barely hear her over her music,\" wrote one. \"Something sounded off with the sound production for Mae Muller,\" agreed another.\n\n\"She can obviously sing, but it all sounded quiet.\"\n\n\"The question you have to ask yourself is this: Was the UK performance in your top 10 tonight out of the 26 that took part?\" asks Eurovisioncast's Daniel Rosney.\n\n\"If it was, then great because you would have given Mae Muller some points. But if it only just made your top 10, that's not how you win Eurovision.\"\n\nThe singer's staging was called into question\n\nAfter the results were announced, Mae took to Twitter to share her thoughts.\n\n\"I know I joke a lot, but we really put our all into the last few months,\" she said, \"Not the result we hoped for but so proud of everyone and what we achieved.\n\n\"Congrats to all the countries, I'll never forget this journey and I love you all.\"\n\nYou could feel her pain. She's been a great ambassador for Eurovision; and she kept up the UK's momentum of sending non-terrible songs to the contest. Some of the acts that placed ahead of her were objectively worse.\n\nSo what's next for the UK? Earlier this week, Radio 2's Eurovision commentators Scott Mills and Rylan Clark offered some perspective on the UK's Eurovision journey.\n\n\"It's impossible to repeat what happened last year, because it just doesn't happen,\" said Mills.\n\n\"But what we need to do is show Europe that we care and that we're taking it seriously. Mae is great, and while Europe used to say, 'Hang on a minute, why aren't the UK any good at this?' they're not saying that now.\"\n\nSwedish star Loreen became the first woman ever to win Eurovision twice, with her song Tattoo\n\n\"For reasons I've never been clear on, the host country tends to struggle with points after its success the previous year,\" observes Daniel Rosney.\n\nThat's especially true for Portugal: In 2017, in their 49th appearance at the contest, the country won for the first time, with Salvador Sobral's Amar Pelos Dois. The following year, they finished last.\n\n\"Things like that have always been a bit of an enigma,\" says Ricardo Duarte, who's been covering Eurovision for Portuguese queer website Dezanove.\n\n\"But we persevered. We continued. We did not qualify the year after - but we got 12th place in 2021 and ninth place in 2022.\n\n\"We've had our ups and downs, and so will every other country.\"\n\nAnd that's the message Mae and the team behind the BBC's Eurovision bid will need to bear in mind today. Outside the bubble of the contest, Mae's song has been a hit. She's a ready-made pop star, who just performed to a global TV audience of more than 160 million people.\n\nThis won't be the last we've heard of her.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Archbishop of Canterbury argues against the Illegal Migration Bill, but Lord Howard backs it.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury has attacked the government's migration plans, saying they risked \"great damage\" to the UK's reputation.\n\nJustin Welby said the Illegal Migration Bill would not stop small boat crossings, and it failed in \"our moral responsibility\" towards refugees.\n\nHe was speaking as the bill began what is expected to be a rocky passage through the House of Lords.\n\nBut Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick urged peers to back the legislation.\n\nAdding that the archbishop was \"wrong\" in his criticism, he said: \"There is nothing moral about allowing the pernicious trade of people smugglers to continue.\n\n\"I want to see that stopped, and this bill is the only way to do that,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\nHe added that critics of the bill, including opposition parties, had not suggested \"any viable alternatives\" to stop journeys across the Channel.\n\nThe archbishop's pointed intervention came during a lengthy, highly charged debate about the bill in the Lords on Wednesday.\n\nThe legislation cleared its first parliamentary hurdle in the Lords after a Liberal Democrat bid to block it was rejected by 179 votes to 76.\n\nThe bill, unveiled in March, is a key part of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's plan to \"stop\" small boats crossing the English Channel - which he has made a priority ahead of the next general election.\n\nIt will place a legal duty on the home secretary to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally, to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nThis has prompted outrage from opposition parties and charities, which argue the bill is unworkable and could breach international law.\n\nThe archbishop, one of nearly 90 peers who have put their names down to speak in the debate, told the Lords the bill \"fails utterly\" to take long-term view of the migration challenges around the world.\n\nAlthough he conceded existing international law was in need of updating, he said the bill represented a \"dramatic departure\" from existing conventions and would undermine international co-operation on the issue.\n\nDescribing the bill as a \"short-term fix,\" he said it \"risks great damage to the UK's interests and reputation, at home and abroad\".\n\nHe added it was \"morally unacceptable and politically impractical\" for the UK to let the poorest countries deal with asylum seekers when the UK is cutting its international aid spending.\n\nBaroness Helic, a former adviser to William Hague when he was foreign secretary, described the government's plans to stop small boats as \"a race to the bottom\".\n\nThe baroness, who fled to the UK from war-torn Bosnia at the age of 23, argued the Illegal Migration Bill represented \"an outright ban on asylum\" and questioned its morality.\n\nBut other peers spoke for the bill, including Conservative Lord Forsyth, who said he was \"yet to hear\" a solution to stop boat crossings from critics of the bill.\n\nHe congratulated the archbishop for his \"fantastic job\" at the Coronation on Saturday, but added that while he agreed with him on spiritual matters, they disagreed on the bill.\n\nHe said he agreed it needed further scrutiny, but it was \"not reasonable to criticise the government for trying to deal with this problem\".\n\nThe government made a series of concessions to different sections of the Conservative Party to ease its passage through the Commons last month.\n\nHowever, senior peers have told the BBC they expect significant opposition in the Lords - where the government does not have a majority.\n\nAlthough peers did not vote on amendments during the debate, it was their first chance to have a say on the bill.\n\nLib Dem peer Lord Paddick put forward a rare \"motion to decline\" that would have blocked the bill from continuing in the Lords, forcing the government to reintroduce it from scratch in the Commons.\n\nBut the motion was heavily defeated in the Lords, with peers rejecting it by 179 votes to 76, majority 103.\n\nLord Paddick said: \"This Bill is all pain and no gain. This is a question of principle.\"\n\nLabour peer Lord Coaker said that although his party was against the bill, the Lib Dem motion was not the best way to oppose it.\n\nHe said Labour would do \"all we can\" to change the bill at a later stage, vowing that the party would not be \"cowed\" into accepting the verdict of the Commons.\n\nSeveral peers have already spoken out against changes giving ministers more leeway to ignore attempts by European judges to halt deportations of migrants from the UK.\n\nThe government has also faced strong criticism from senior Tories, including former Prime Minister Theresa May and former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, over the potential impact of the bill on victims of modern slavery.\n\nThe bill would take away temporary protections against removal from the UK that are currently offered to suspected victims of modern slavery or human trafficking while their case is considered.\n\nCritics say this could deter victims from going to the police.\n\nThere has also been concern, including among Conservative MPs, over new powers in the bill to detain children on the suspicion that they are liable for removal.\n\nMinisters have agreed to work with Tory MPs on a time limit for how long unaccompanied children can be detained.\n\nTo get the bill through the Commons, ministers also promised to set out new safe and legal routes for asylum seekers, after pressure from backbenchers.", "Mr Carsi, 40, was an analyst for a Scottish investment management firm\n\nA man from Edinburgh has died and his wife is seriously ill after a suspected carbon monoxide leak at their holiday home in Spain.\n\nJaime Carsi, 40, was found dead on Saturday at a house in Majorca by emergency crews and Mary Somerville, 39, was discovered next to him.\n\nMs Somerville is understood to be in a serious condition in Manacor Hospital.\n\nThe newlywed couple were staying at a rural property in Cala Mesquida in the north-east.\n\nMajorcan newspaper Ultima Hora reported that Mr Carsi and Ms Somerville married two weeks before the incident.\n\nIt said they were due to go on a boat trip on Saturday and the alarm was raised when they failed to show up.\n\nMr Carsi was an analyst for a Scottish investment management firm.\n\nPatti Montella, a friend of the couple, said he was a \"magnificent soul\" in a social media post.\n\nShe wrote: \"Jaime Carsi came into my life and took up residence in my heart, so many years ago, in London.\n\n\"His smile and spirit are pure love.\n\n\"And when he married our precious Edinburgh girl, sweet Mary, it was a match made in heaven.\"\n\nThe couple were involved in the Edinburgh Interfaith Association which aims to bring the city's religious faiths together.\n\nThe association's director Iain Stewart said: \"They were just such a warm, open couple - they would light up the room.\n\n\"Jaime was a joy to be around, he was so open, such a kind person - you just felt better about yourself when you were with Jaime.\"\n\nMs Somerville is a talented harpist, who often plays at events organised by the association.\n\nMr Carsi described himself online as being from Madrid but it is believed he moved to the UK as a child and relocated to Edinburgh from London about six years ago\n\nPolice in Majorca confirmed the incident is under investigation.\n\nA Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office spokesperson said: \"We are supporting the family of a British national who was hospitalised in Mallorca. We are in contact with the local authorities\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Yolande Knell: \"A very frightening day for Israelis and Palestinians\"\n\nIsrael says Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired more than 460 rockets at it, and that its military has hit over 130 militant targets in Gaza, in the heaviest fighting in nine months.\n\nSix people were killed and 45 injured in Gaza, local medics say.\n\nSeveral were hurt rushing to shelters in Israel, where most rockets have been intercepted or fell in open areas.\n\nIt comes a day after 15 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, including three Islamic Jihad leaders.\n\nThe Islamic Jihad (PIJ), which is the second biggest militant group in the territory after Hamas, had sworn to avenge their deaths.\n\nIn a televised address on Wednesday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel's \"campaign is not over\".\n\n\"We have hit Islamic Jihad with the most significant blow it has ever suffered,\" he said, referring to the simultaneous killings of the three PIJ commanders in the early hours of Tuesday.\n\nHours before Mr Netanyahu spoke, Egyptian media reported that Egypt had brokered a ceasefire, but there was no immediate confirmation from the two sides. Soon afterwards, another rocket barrage was fired towards southern Israel and there were further strikes in Gaza.\n\nAn umbrella organisation representing armed factions in Gaza earlier warned that \"if Israel increases its aggression, dark days await it\".\n\nPalestinians said the exchange of fire began on Wednesday morning with several loud explosions in southern Gaza, sending up large plumes of smoke.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said an aircraft targeted PIJ operatives travelling in a vehicle to a concealed rocket launcher in the Khan Younis area.\n\nAbout an hour later, the IDF announced that it had started attacking underground rocket launchers belonging to PIJ across the territory in order to thwart planned attacks.\n\nPalestinian media reported strikes in and around Gaza City, in the southern town of Rafah, and in the northern towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun.\n\nThe Palestinian health ministry in Gaza reported that six people were killed in Israeli strikes.Four of them were members of the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the group said, adding that two died in Khan Younis and the other two in Rafah.A 10-year-old girl was also killed in Gaza City in unclear circumstances.\n\nAs Israeli aircraft struck Gaza, militants began firing barrages of rockets from Gaza and rocket sirens sounded in communities in southern Israel.\n\nLater, rockets were launched towards central Israel, triggering sirens in the Tel Aviv area, 80km (50 miles) from Gaza. In one video filmed in Old Jaffa, explosions could be heard as two rockets appeared to be intercepted overhead.\n\nThe Israeli military said four houses suffered direct hits - two in Sderot, which is only 1km (0.6 miles) from Gaza, and two in Ashkelon, 7km from Gaza. Another hit the roof of a kindergarten in Nirim, on the edge of Gaza to the south, and a yeshiva (religious school) in Netivot, 11km east of Gaza. There were no injuries directly from rocket fire.\n\nThe IDF said one in four rockets fired at it had fallen short and landed inside Gaza. It said Israel's Iron Dome air defence system had intercepted 153 rockets, three had hit urban areas in Israel and the rest landed in open areas.\n\nThe Joint Operations Room of armed groups in Gaza, which includes Islamic Jihad and Hamas, claimed in a statement that they had launched the rockets.\n\n\"The damage to the homes of civilians and faction fighters is a red line, and we will respond strongly to it. Resistance forces are ready for all options,\" it said.\n\nThe Israeli military said it was targeting sites used by Islamic Jihad to launch rockets\n\nThe IDF launched Operation Shield and Arrow in the early hours of Tuesday with several waves of strikes across Gaza that killed 13 Palestinians.\n\nThree were PIJ commanders who the IDF said were involved in recent attacks against Israeli civilians and were planning more. But the other 10 dead were civilians, including four women and four children.\n\nAnother two Palestinians were killed on Tuesday afternoon in a strike that the IDF said targeted militants planning to fire anti-tank missiles.\n\nThe strikes were the deadliest since three days of hostilities between Israel and PIJ last August, in which 49 Palestinians were killed in Gaza.\n\nPIJ has been responsible for many of the rocket attacks on Israel in recent years and is sworn to Israel's destruction.\n\nThere was a serious flare-up last week, as PIJ and other groups fired more than 100 rockets into Israel over two days, following the death in an Israeli prison of a Palestinian hunger striker. The Israeli military carried out air strikes on sites it said were linked to Hamas in response.\n\nTensions also remained high in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, after Israel carried out arrest raids overnight.\n\nTwo Palestinians were killed in the town of Qabatiya by Israeli forces, who said the pair fired at them. The IDF also said a soldier was also seriously wounded during a separate exchange of fire with Palestinian gunmen in Tubas.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScandal-plagued Republican congressman George Santos has pleaded not guilty to more than a dozen federal charges, including fraud and money laundering.\n\nThe 34-year-old is accused of misusing funds, lying to Congress about his income and illegally receiving unemployment benefits.\n\nOutside the New York court, he called the investigation a \"witch hunt\".\n\nSince he first took office in January it has emerged that much of his biography was fabricated.\n\nIf convicted of the top charges, the New York representative could face up to 20 years in prison.\n\nMr Santos was released on a $500,000 (£400,000) bail bond, secured by three individuals whose identities were not released.\n\nOutside the federal court in Long Island on Wednesday afternoon, a defiant Mr Santos said he would not resign, and vowed to \"keep fighting\" for his district.\n\n\"This is the beginning of the ability for me to address and defend myself,\" he said.\n\nHe will be confined to his home state of New York, to Washington DC and places in between. Other travel must be approved in advance.\n\nThe congressman spoke just once during the hearing, telling the judge \"yes ma'am\", according to the Associated Press. He was fingerprinted and had a mugshot taken. His next court appearance is scheduled for 30 June.\n\nThe 20-page, 13-count indictment alleges the Republican participated in three elaborate fraud schemes.\n\nFirst, according to federal prosecutors, Mr Santos defrauded those who gave him money for his House of Representatives campaign, instead using the funds for personal expenses including luxury designer clothing and credit card payments.\n\nSecond, Mr Santos allegedly participated in an unemployment insurance fraud scheme, claiming Covid-19 government assistance despite earning a salary of $120,000 (£95,000) through his employment with a Florida-based investment firm - a firm that was shut down by the federal government in 2021 over allegations it was a Ponzi scheme.\n\nFinally, prosecutors claim the Republican misled the Congress about his finances.\n\nHe faces seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives.\n\nUS Attorney Breon Peace said the indictment \"seeks to hold Santos accountable for various alleged fraudulent schemes and brazen misrepresentations\".\n\n\"Taken together, the allegations in the indictment charge Santos with relying on repeated dishonesty and deception to ascend to the halls of Congress and enrich himself,\" Mr Peace said.\n\nMr Santos has been accused of participating in three elaborate fraud schemes\n\nThe Long Island lawmaker has been embroiled in scandal since he took office in January.\n\nHe has been accused of lying about his college degrees and his work experience; violating campaign finance and conflict of interest laws; falsely claiming his grandparents survived the Holocaust; and creating a fake animal charity that he used to siphon away cash meant for a veteran's dying dog.\n\nCampaign finance forms uncovered by US media show a series of filings of $199.99, exactly one cent below the $200 threshold at which receipts are required, raising questions about how his election funds were being spent.\n\nIn a television interview in February, Mr Santos admitted to being a \"terrible liar\" in an attempt to be accepted by his party. But he insisted the lies were \"not about tricking the people\" and he denied any criminal wrongdoing.\n\nIn February, House Democrats filed a resolution to expel Mr Santos, a mostly symbolic action in the Republican-controlled chamber.\n\nHe has also previously faced calls to resign from within his own party.\n\n\"I can't wait for him to be gone,\" fellow New York House Republican Marc Molinaro said on Wednesday.\n\nSenator Mitt Romney, who confronted Mr Santos at President Joe Biden's State of the Union address in February, said the New York representative should have resigned months ago. \"I think we're seeing that the wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind fine,\" Mr Romney said.\n\nMr Santos recused himself from two House committees over the \"ongoing attention\" earlier this year, but he resisted the growing pressure to step down, announcing in April that he would seek a second term in 2024.\n\nOn Wednesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that Republicans would withhold judgement until the outcome of his case.\n\n\"In America, you're innocent until proven guilty,\" he told reporters after emerging from a weekly meeting with Republican House members.\n\nHe later added he will not support the re-election bid by Mr Santos.", "Why the Santos case is important\n\nGeorge Santos emerged on the Republican political scene out of nowhere and has been in the media spotlight ever since, for a number of strange reasons. He represents some 740,000 people in a district which covers northeastern Queens and northern Long Island in New York. After being elected to Congress in November, he admitted large portions of the biography he had shared with voters were untrue but insisted he would not be deterred from serving his two-year term. In December, it emerged he was facing an investigation launched by Republican Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly as well as growing frustrations from constituents. The 34-year-old has been accused of sexual misconduct by a former member of his staff; of falsely claiming his mother died in the attacks of 11 September 2001; of stealing money he fundraised for a dying dog; lying about his Jewish heritage; and even claiming to have produced the ill-fated Spider-Man musical on Broadway. As Anthony mentioned in the post below, Republicans hold a slim majority in the House of Representatives and whatever happens with Santos could cause political waves.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVladimir Putin has said Russia's future \"rests on\" the soldiers fighting in Ukraine, during his annual speech to mark Victory Day in Moscow.\n\n\"There is nothing more important now than your combat effort,\" he said.\n\nThe military parade, which commemorates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, was scaled back this year for security.\n\nMr Putin also used his speech to justify his invasion of Ukraine, while accusing \"Western globalist elites\" of provoking conflicts.\n\nCivilisation is again \"at a decisive turning point\", he said in Moscow's Red Square to a crowd composed of just officials and veterans, as the event was not open to the public.\n\nAddressing the troops fighting in Ukraine - some of whom were present - Mr Putin said a \"real war\" had been \"unleashed\" against Russia. The reality is that it was Russia that invaded Ukraine.\n\n\"The security of the country rests on you today, the future of our statehood and our people depend on you,\" he told them.\n\nThis was the second Victory Day parade since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nBut a series of explosions and incidents of sabotage across Russia in recent weeks saw the celebrations scaled back because of security concerns.\n\nIn one incident last week, there was an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin. Russia claimed it was an attempt on Mr Putin's life and pointed the finger squarely at Ukraine and the US, but both denied any involvement.\n\nThis year's celebration had 3,000 fewer soldiers and less military hardware on display. The parade was shorter, while there was no military flypast and no modern tanks, which are usually a feature of the parade. On Tuesday, the only tank on display was the T-34 from World War Two.\n\nHowever, for the first time since 2020, a handful of international leaders attended.\n\nAll the Central Asian leaders were there, including Kazakhstan's Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko and Armenia's prime minister were also at Red Square.\n\nThe US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said the late decision of the Central Asian leaders to attend \"likely indicates their reticence to show direct and public support of the war\".\n\nMr Putin's speech followed similar themes to last year, likening the fight with Ukraine's \"criminal regime\" to the defeat of Nazi Germany.\n\nHe took aim at the West, saying \"their goal is nothing else but to see the fall of our country\".\n\nMr Putin said Russia wanted to see a \"peaceful future\", but accused Western elites of sowing the seeds of \"hatred and Russophobia\" and destroying family values.\n\nBut much of his speech was focused on his pride for the actions of Russian \"heroes\" in Ukraine.\n\n\"There is no cause stronger in the world than our love for our armed forces,\" said Mr Putin, who stands accused of war crimes in Ukraine by the International Criminal Court (ICC).\n\n\"To Russia, to our armed forces,\" he concluded, as the Russian national anthem started to play.\n\nAfter Mr Putin's speech, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen held a news conference in Kyiv.\n\nPresident Zelensky said that increased attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks had been part of Russian efforts to \"present something\" to the military and political leadership, having failed to take the eastern city of Bakhmut before Victory Day.\n\n\"They have to show that they destroyed something,\" he said.\n\nMs von der Leyen said \"the invaders have been dragged out of prisons\" to fight on behalf of Russia, which had \"dramatically failed\" in the war.\n\nReacting to Mr Putin's speech, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the EU must not be intimidated by the Russian leader's \"show of force\".\n\n\"Let's stay steadfast in our support for Ukraine - as long as it is necessary,\" he told the European Parliament.\n\nA Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launcher on show during the military parade on Red Square in Moscow", "Boris Johnson has denied he knowingly or deliberately misled Parliament over Partygate\n\nTaxpayers are being billed up to £245,000 to cover the cost of Boris Johnson's Partygate inquiry lawyers.\n\nThe former PM is being investigated by MPs over whether he misled them over lockdown parties in Downing Street.\n\nHe is facing growing calls to cover the legal costs himself, as the bill for his defence team increased this week for a second time.\n\nThe BBC has learned the Treasury did not sign off the decision to use public money to pay the bill.\n\nMinisters and civil servants are expected to follow Treasury guidance when making decisions about spending public money.\n\nThe Treasury's spending rulebook says its consent should always be sought for costs \"which set precedents, are novel, contentious or could cause repercussions elsewhere in the public sector\".\n\nThe BBC asked the Cabinet Office if this would apply to Mr Johnson's legal bills, in a freedom of information (FOI) request. We were told the Treasury was not required to approve all spending decisions.\n\nMr Johnson was flanked by lawyers during a four-hour, televised grilling by MPs on the Commons Privileges Committee in March, when he denied knowingly or deliberately misleading Parliament.\n\nIf the committee finds him in contempt of Parliament, he faces suspension as an MP, which could trigger a by-election in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nMr Johnson's spokesperson said he had \"fully co-operated with this very long process at every stage\" and would consider the committee's findings when they are brought forward.\n\nThe contract to hire Mr Johnson's legal team - led by top barrister Lord Pannick KC - was signed last August, shortly before he was forced to resign as prime minister.\n\nIt was this week extended for the third time, rising in value from £222,000 to £245,000.\n\nOpposition parties say Mr Johnson should pay the legal fees himself given he has earned millions since standing down as prime minister.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Cabinet Office and a source close to Mr Johnson argued there is a long-standing precedent that former ministers are supported with legal representation.\n\nBut former senior civil servants disputed this, telling the BBC that it would not normally apply to parliamentary inquiries, like the one into Mr Johnson.\n\n\"Payment of legal fees to the former prime minister in these circumstances would seem to set a precedent and is certainly contentious, so looks on the face of it to meet the test to require Treasury approval,\" said Alex Thomas, a former top civil servant and director of the Institute for Government think tank.\n\n\"I'm surprised that the payments were made at all - but also that they were signed off in this way.\"\n\nA former permanent secretary also said they were surprised that Treasury approval wasn't sought.\n\n\"I would have regarded this as novel and contentious,\" the former senior civil servant said. \"The whole situation is highly unusual, if not unique.\n\n\"It's just the sort of situation that Treasury cover is needed for.\"\n\nLord Pannick KC was on the legal team hired to defend Mr Johnson during the Partygate inquiry\n\nThe government has cited legal support given to former ministers during public inquiries into the Grenfell Tower fire, the BSE disease outbreak in cattle, and infected blood products as examples of precedents.\n\nBut these were statutory public inquires initiated by the government, rather than political parliamentary inquiries carried out by MPs.\n\nThe last former minister to be investigated by a parliamentary committee for misleading Parliament was former Labour MP and transport secretary Stephen Byers in 2005.\n\nMr Byers was investigated by the standards committee over allegations he misled MPs over the collapse of British railway infrastructure operator Railtrack.\n\nIn 2006, the committee cleared Mr Byers of lying to MPs about Railtrack, but told him to apologise for giving an \"untruthful\" answer.\n\nDuring the four-month inquiry, Mr Byers appeared in front of MPs to give evidence, as Mr Johnson did in March this year.\n\nBut unlike Mr Johnson, Mr Byers did not have any legal representation - taxpayer funded or otherwise - during the parliamentary inquiry, nor was he offered any by the government.\n\nMore recently, Dominic Raab, the former deputy prime minister, paid his own legal fees during a bullying inquiry.\n\nThe latest register of interests for MPs shows Mr Johnson has earned more than £5.5m since he stood down as prime minister last year.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said the arrangement that left taxpayers covering Mr Johnson's \"Partygate defence fund is not only without precedent but without justification\".\n\nShe said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak \"must explain why he failed to put a stop to this brazen scheme and take immediate steps to ensure his disgraced predecessor returns this money to the public purse\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have urged Mr Sunak to ask his ethics adviser to launch an investigation into Mr Johnson's legal costs and \"how this precedent has been set\".\n\n\"Boris Johnson needs to pay back every penny to the public purse immediately,\" said Wendy Chamberlain, the party's chief whip.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO), which scrutinises government spending, has been examining the decision to cover Mr Johnson's legal costs during the inquiry, including whether Treasury approval was sought.\n\nA spokesperson said the spending watchdog had spoken to the Cabinet Office about the contract to hire Mr Johnson's lawyers \"as part of our standard audit procedures\".\n\n\"The NAO will publish its report on the Cabinet Office's 2022-23 accounts when the audit is complete, which we are planning to be this summer,\" a spokesperson said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This is who I'm meant to be'\n\n\"They come every year, they meet their friends and family - maybe they haven't seen some people since this time last year.\"\n\nAs the Balmoral Show 2023 opens its gates, organiser Rhonda Geary is a firm believer that it is about a lot more than farming and food.\n\n\"We've more than 600 trade stands for people to enjoy, a fantastic horticultural area,\" she says.\n\n\"There is something for everybody here.\n\n\"Last year we'd more than 120,000. We hope to hit that again and perhaps exceed it.\"\n\nThe show is a highlight of the agricultural calendar and the potential prize-winning animals will have been prepped and pampered for months in hopes of achieving a rosette.\n\n\"Our livestock entries have exceeded our expectations and we're delighted to have so many here,\" says Rhonda.\n\nRhonda Geary hopes the number of people at the show will be even more than in 2022\n\nThis is the 154th Balmoral Show and the third since it was cancelled in spring 2020 and 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. A smaller event was held in September 2021.\n\nThere are more than 3,000 livestock entries across all classes and a new Makers' Market for crafters and artisan traders.\n\nAmong the seasoned farmers displaying their animals at the show, the farmers of the future are also making their presence known.\n\nNine-year-old Georgia from Keady in County Armagh has been to the showring to display a bull almost as tall as she is.\n\nAlong with her mother, father, brother and six-week-old baby sister, she is competing at Balmoral with the family bull, a Dexter named Arcadius.\n\n\"It's a funny feeling but it feels wonderful,\" said Georgia.\n\nThere are more than 3,000 livestock entries across the show\n\nTo get animals ready for the show does not come cheap.\n\nDavid Connolly has spent almost £30,000 on his blond Charolais bull called Balmyle Sandy in the hope of bringing the animal's desirable traits into his herd.\n\n\"He's doing a daily live weight gain, as we talk about, of 1.7kg (3.75lb) per day,\" David told BBC News NI.\n\n\"So for the bodybuilders out there, if they could put on a kilo and seven every week they'd be happy.\"\n\nOne category missing from the show again this year is poultry because of bird flu restrictions.\n\nA housing order that was in place was lifted too late for arrangements to be made for the classes to be included.\n\nThere will be just one flock from a single breeder on display.\n\n\"It's disappointing for the exhibitors but unfortunately the restrictions on the housing were still in place when our entries opened for this year's Balmoral Show,\" says Rhonda.\n\n\"But we have a fantastic display of poultry - we've more than 100 birds in our poultry marquee.\n\n\"And we've our egg classes and our rabbits and cavies [guinea pigs] all over in that area so still a really busy area and a lovely display.\"\n\nRobert McKibbin is the only poultry farmer displaying at the show\n\nPoultry breeder Robert McKibbin is providing birds for the display and he is looking forward to getting back to some form of showing.\n\n\"There's a social end to the whole thing, there's a lot of friends that we have met over the years and we don't actually see them from show to show,\" he says.\n\n\"You always had a bit of craic with them and now you don't see them at all or very rarely.\n\n\"When you're breeding lovely birds and you think: 'This bird could do very well in a show' but then there is no show, then that bird passes its best and you have to start all over again for the next year and hope for the best.\n\n\"You have to live in hope.\"\n\nThe show is taking place against a backdrop of increasing bovine tuberculosis (bTB) numbers.\n\nRates are at their highest in more than 20 years.\n\nShow organisers are hoping to attract more than 120,000 visitors\n\nFormer Ulster Farmers' Union president Victor Chestnutt said it had become the scourge of every livestock farmer in Northern Ireland.\n\nSix years ago he lost his prize Belgian Blue cattle to the disease.\n\n\"We lost the best genetics in one fell swoop,\" he said.\n\nClougher Wilma and her sister Clougher Wendy went to slaughter, along with another cow.\n\nVictor's main breeds on his north coast farm now are Charolais and Aberdeen Angus.\n\nA Bovine TB strategy was announced in March 2022, including what then-minister Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots called a \"limited\" cull of badgers as a wildlife source of the disease.\n\nA legal challenge to the plan has been launched.\n\nThe Balmoral Show runs from Wednesday 10 May until Saturday 13 May at the Eikon Centre near Lisburn.", "Mr Khan's arrest on corruption charges has sparked protests across Pakistan\n\nUnrest has continued to grip Pakistan after former prime minister Imran Khan pleaded not guilty to corruption following his arrest on Tuesday.\n\nAt least eight people have died nationwide in the protests and 1,400 have been arrested, police say.\n\nThe army has been called in to quell violence and has warned protesters against more attacks on state property.\n\nMr Khan's arrest has dramatically escalated tensions between him and the military at a time of economic crisis.\n\nConviction would disqualify the former international cricket star - and Pakistan's prime minister from 2018 to 2022 - from standing for office, possibly for life. Elections are due later this year.\n\nPakistan's army has heavily influenced the nuclear-armed country for most of its existence and is a crucial behind-the-scenes player.\n\nMany analysts believe Mr Khan's election win in 2018 happened with the help of the military. But since he was ousted from premiership, Mr Khan has become one of the military's most vocal critics.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Khan was indicted on charges that he unlawfully sold state gifts during his premiership, in a case brought by Pakistan's Election Commission. Mr Khan denied any wrongdoing.\n\nA day earlier, dramatic footage showed dozens of security officers forcibly removing the 70-year-old from court - where he was attending to separate graft proceedings - then bundling him into a police vehicle.\n\nMr Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party called his arrest in the capital Islamabad an \"abduction\" and said it would challenge its legality in court.\n\nThe judge has ordered that Mr Khan be remanded in custody for eight days, after which he can seek bail.\n\nThis is just one of over 100 corruption cases registered against Mr Khan since he left office. For months he had avoided arrest, with his supporters at times fighting pitched battles with police to keep him out of custody.\n\nOne of his Mr Khan's lawyers, Sher Afzal Marwat, said his client was in good spirits.\n\nAmid violent protests nationwide, Mr Khan's supporters ransacked the corps commander's residence in Lahore, smashing chandeliers and making away with peacocks, strawberries and golf clubs - among other things - which they said were bought with \"citizen's money\". Scores of vehicles and public installations were set alight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Wednesday, the BBC witnessed clashes between protesters and the police in the middle of one of Islamabad's main motorways. More than 145 policemen have been wounded in these confrontations, the police said.\n\n\"We came to do a peaceful protest, but these police are shelling us,\" one man, who was holding stones and a stick and wearing a surgical mask, told the BBC.\n\n\"Until our death we will continue this protest or until they free Imran. Otherwise we will shut the whole country.\"\n\nMr Khan's supporters overseas have also organised protests in the two days since his arrest.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif warned that violent protests would not be tolerated.\n\n\"The perpetrators who take the law into their own hands will be dealt with an iron hand,\" he said.\n\nPTI supporters had torched vehicles and hurled petrol bombs at Mr Sharif's residence in Lahore in the early hours of Wednesday, local media reported.\n\nImran Khan at his residence in Lahore in March\n\nPakistan's army described Tuesday as a \"dark day\" and warned protesters of \"severe retaliation\" against further attacks on military and state properties.\n\nAmong the protesters arrested were two senior PTI leaders, including its secretary-general Asad Umar.\n\nMr Khan was ousted in a parliamentary no-confidence vote last April, less than four years into his term as prime minister.\n\nIn November 2022, he was shot in the leg while leading a protest march in the eastern city of Wazirabad demanding early elections.\n\nMr Khan had accused a senior intelligence officials of carrying out the attack - which the military has strongly denied.\n\nAdditional reporting by Farhat Javed, Usman Zahid and Malik Mudassir in Islamabad and Kelly Ng in Singapore", "Adam Price says he no longer had the support of his party\n\nAdam Price has quit as Plaid Cymru leader after a report found misogyny, harassment and bullying in the party.\n\nNorth Wales Senedd member Llyr Gruffydd will take over as interim leader, with a new leader in place in the summer, the party has said.\n\nIt follows months of difficulties including allegations of a sexual assault made against a senior staff member, and a toxic working culture.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Mr Price said he no longer had the \"united support\" of his colleagues.\n\nHe said he wanted to resign in the wake of the report's findings, but was initially persuaded not to quit.\n\n\"You have my personal assurance that I will continue to serve my country, my constituents and our party with determination and enthusiasm,\" he said in a letter to party chairman, Marc Jones.\n\nOn Thursday Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford said discussions on his co-operation agreement with Plaid will take place \"in light of recent developments\"\n\nHe thanked Mr Price \"for the constructive way the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru have worked together\".\n\nThe resignation announcement was made following a meeting of the party's ruling body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), late on Wednesday night.\n\nOne source from the meeting said some members raised the possibility of Adam Price remaining in post.\n\nBut it was considered untenable given the seriousness of the findings of the review.\n\nPlaid's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said Mr Price was not asked to resign in the wake of the \"toxic culture\" report because \"stability\" was needed to implement its recommendations.\n\nInterim Plaid Cymru leader Llyr Gruffydd has been in the Senedd since 2011\n\nSpeaking on the Today programme, Liz Saville Roberts said: \"Effective leadership is about balancing conflicting demands.\n\n\"What we felt strongly was that we needed a collegiate approach within the party because it (the report) cuts across all aspects of the party and it requires a change of culture\".\n\n\"In order to do that we would need stability\".\n\nShe also told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that Mr Price had to go because he had become a \"distraction\".\n\nShe ruled herself out of a leadership contest, saying any new leader would have to be an elected member in the Senedd.\n\n\"I'm an MP in Westminster so that's done and dusted,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adam Price apologised last week but said the damning report points to a \"collective failure\" across the party\n\nMr Gruffydd's appointment as interim leader was agreed at a meeting of the party's Senedd members on Thursday and will need to be rubber-stamped by Plaid Cymru's National Council on Saturday.\n\nHe will not stand in the forthcoming leadership contest\n\nMr Gruffydd said he was \"grateful to the Plaid Cymru Senedd group\" for the nomination and thanked Mr Price for his \"vision, commitment, and dedication\".\n\nPlaid Cymru is the third largest party in the Welsh Parliament, with 12 Members of the Senedd and three MPs in Westminster.\n\nThe pro-independence party is in a co-operation agreement with the Welsh Labour government, which means they help them govern.\n\nMr Price was elected party leader in 2018, when he ousted Leanne Wood.\n\nWelsh Conservative leader, Andrew RT Davies, said: \"I have no doubt Adam Price's departure is a moment of personal sadness for him.\n\n\"Following the recent report into the culture within their party, it became clear Plaid Cymru politicians no longer had confidence in his leadership, so his departure became inevitable.\"\n\nFor the converted, the die-hard believers, it wasn't meant to be like this.\n\nAdam Price was touted by many in Plaid Cymru as a \"once in a generation\" politician who could overcome the party's many electoral barriers.\n\nWhen he challenged his predecessor for the leadership in 2018, he said only he could \"create the momentum\" Plaid needed to become Wales' main party of government and install him as first minister.\n\nAnd yet, there was no great advance at the following Senedd election - Plaid remains in third place behind the Welsh Conservatives.\n\nSupporters will say it was an election like no other, one focused almost entirely on the public's broadly favourable opinion of the Welsh Labour government's handling of the pandemic.\n\nIt is clear, though, that some of the sheen had faded and in terms of public support, the party remains no further forward under Adam Price's leadership.\n\nAs it nears its 100th birthday celebrations, Plaid Cymru will seek its 11th leader with many of the perennial questions about its purpose, its lack of reach beyond the heartlands and its relationship with Welsh Labour likely to be raised.\n\nBut it is the drip, drip of negative stories over the last year, culminating in a damning report that found a toxic culture within the party that meant Adam Price's position was no longer tenable.\n\nAddressing those major issues will be his successor's primary focus.\n\nSince last year Plaid Cymru has been dogged by claims of a toxic culture in the party, and it emerged last November that an allegation of sexual assault had been made against a senior member of staff.\n\nSeparately, a serious allegation was also made about the conduct of a Member of the Senedd, Rhys ab Owen, who is now suspended from the Senedd group pending an investigation.\n\nThe party asked Nerys Evans, a lobbyist and former Plaid assembly member, to hold a review last December.\n\nHer working group's report said Plaid needed to \"detoxify a culture of harassment, bullying and misogyny\".\n\nIt said too many instances of bad behaviour were tolerated, and said an anonymous survey of staff and elected members highlighted examples \"of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination\".\n\nMr Price admitted the document left Plaid Cymru \"harmed and tarnished\". He apologised, but refused to quit.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Mr Price said: \"On receiving the report, I informed you that I felt morally bound to step down as leader of the party in recognition of our collective failure.\"\n\n\"You counselled against my resignation as you felt it would make it more difficult to achieve progress in implementing the recommendations.\"\n\nHe said he was \"persuaded by the argument that my stepping down would be an abdication of responsibility\".\n\nBut he added: \"It is now clear I no longer have the united support of my colleagues that would be necessary to follow this course to fruition.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"I want to thank Adam Price for the constructive way the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru have worked together to develop and implement the co-operation agreement. These shared priorities are making a real difference to people across Wales.\n\n\"The co-operation agreement is an agreement between the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru - not between individuals. There will be discussions about the agreement in light of recent developments.\"", "Camelicious Cafe in Queen Camel, Somerset, posted images on social media of its dining area covered in muddy water\n\nFlash flooding in parts of southern England has led to a major incident being declared in Somerset.\n\nDevon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service (DSFRS) deployed resources in the Galhampton, North Cadbury and South Cadbury areas following heavy rain on Tuesday.\n\nSome homes had to be evacuated due to mudslides and further flooding is possible, the Environment Agency said.\n\nPeople are being urged not to attempt to drive through flood water.\n\nSome areas saw more than two weeks' worth of rainfall in the space of just a few hours.\n\nYeovilton in Somerset recorded 35.8mm of rain on Tuesday, compared to the county's usual monthly average for May of 62.5mm.\n\nSomerset Council has set up a rest centre in Marston Magna for people displaced from their homes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The downpour of rain on Tuesday closed roads and led to 18 homes being evacuated\n\nIt was a similar picture in other parts of England, with \"torrential\" rain in Devon causing treacherous driving conditions and damage to homes and businesses.\n\nHertfordshire, Northamptonshire and Essex also saw heavy rain, resulting in blocked roads and delays to rail services.\n\nA spokesman for the Environment Agency said its teams were on the ground checking flood gates and clearing trash screens covering drains and waterways.\n\n\"Showers have been forecast for the next two days but as a precaution we urge residents to sign up for flood warnings and continue to monitor the weather reports,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"There has also been widespread disruption to roads and travel across the area so please check the road situation before setting off on a journey,\" they added.\n\nBut while showers are expected and flood warnings remain in place, all weather warnings for heavy rain have been lifted.\n\nCars and properties in Queen Camel were flooded\n\nMany factors contribute to flooding, but a warming atmosphere caused by climate change makes extreme rainfall more likely.\n\nThe Earth has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began - and temperatures are set to keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nThe village hall in North Cadbury was opened to residents affected on Tuesday night, and about 18 households are thought to have been forced to evacuate.\n\nRosemary, who has lived in Queen Camel for 75 years, said she had just 20 minutes between receiving a flood warning and the water tearing through her house.\n\nShe spent the night sheltering upstairs, as the flood water reached halfway up her walls and was powerful enough to rip up the tarmac outside her home.\n\nIt took out all of her mains sockets, while one of her neighbours lost between 100 and 200 chickens.\n\nRosemary's home in Queen Camel flooded within 20 minutes of receiving a warning\n\nShe fled her house at 19:30 BST with nothing but \"some night stuff\", with the water at thigh height.\n\n\"I had no time to do anything, as I switched off the plugs the water was already in,\" she said.\n\nThe current was too strong to even close her front door.\n\nBernie Peachey waded through thigh-high water to evacuate her property\n\nCamelicious, a cafe in Queen Camel, was among the businesses which were flooded.\n\nThe cafe, which opened in January, is run by special educational needs charity Able2Achieve.\n\nArea manager Caroline Parker told BBC West: \"It's devastation, there's furniture and all the belongings everywhere - the walls are totally soaked, furniture's turned up, stock's been lost.\n\n\"Every business is quite sensitive at the moment, what with the rising costs. Being a charity as well, I'm sure it will devastate us.\"\n\nMs Parker said the community has been \"fantastic\" and asked people to give staff moral support during the clean-up effort.\n\nStaff at Camelicious cafe in Queen Camel were met with scenes of \"devastation\" on Wednesday morning\n\nCouncillor Sarah Dyke, lead member for Environment and Climate Change at Somerset Council, called the flooding \"an extraordinary weather event\".\n\n\"This has really caused some serious damage, not only to properties but to people's lives.\"\n\nShe thanked the emergency services who \"got out and provided a speedy response, knocking on hundreds of doors throughout the night\".\n\nShe said the council was still assessing the situation and \"working hard to identify those people who are affected\".\n\nThe authority has set up a flood hotline for anyone in need of advice or support.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"People are dealing with this in the most incredible way, communities are really coming together,\" added Ms Dyke.\n\nThe council now plans to work with all villages and towns across Somerset to make sure they have a flood resilience emergency plan.\n\n\"These are extreme weather conditions and they're going to become more common due to climate change so we have got to make our communities more resilient,\" said Ms Dyke.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSomerset Council said the majority of roads had re-opened but the A359 at Queen Camel remains closed as water levels are too high for safe assessment.\n\nDSFRS said: \"Please avoid driving through floodwater. If you come into contact with floodwater, please take necessary steps to decontaminate yourself and clothing appropriately.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shops flooded in Harpenden as torrent of water surges down street\n\nIt told people who found themselves in trouble due to floodwater to call 999.\n\nSomerset councillor for Milverton, Gwil Wren, said blocked drainage caused houses and roads to flood in the thunderstorm.\n\nHe said the water had reached 18 inches deep at the height of the flooding.\n\n\"We tried to keep the drains clear but I'm afraid around 15 houses have been fairly seriously flooded. Garden walls have been knocked over.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the flooding? Share your experiences and pictures by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stuart Murray, vice president of the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association, says lawyers have been \"ignored\" by the Scottish government\n\nLawyers across Scotland are expected to join a near \"unanimous\" boycott of a pilot scheme for juryless rape trials.\n\nStuart Murray, vice president of the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association, said at least seven bodies had voted against the government proposals.\n\nLegal professionals have said the scheme, proposed to tackle low conviction rates, could undermine the judicial system.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has defended the plan.\n\nHe pointed to a \"weight of evidence\" that juries are affected by rape myths and misconceptions.\n\nThe pilot was proposed by Scotland's second most senior judge, Lady Dorrian, in a review that informed the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill.\n\nIt would see anyone accused of rape or attempted rape stand trial before a single judge or sheriff, who would decide whether or not they are guilty.\n\nIn the most recent figures, conviction rates for rape and attempted rape were 51%, compared with 91% for all other crimes.\n\nThe change to trials was proposed by senior judge Lady Dorrian\n\nThe Scottish Solicitors Bar Association represents criminal defence solicitors across the country.\n\nMr Murray, who practices in Aberdeen, spoke out against the pilot scheme after the Aberdeen Bar Association confirmed it was joining Glasgow and Edinburgh associations in a boycott.\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that associations in Dundee, Airdrie, Falkirk and Paisley had also joined the backlash.\n\n\"It is spreading, there are now seven or eight that have come out in the last week or so, just of bar associations across the country,\" Mr Murray said.\n\n\"There are more votes within the various bar associations across the country in the next week or so. I've no doubt it will be effectively unanimous across the bar associations.\"\n\nThe lawyer said he hoped the boycott would put an end to the scheme, but said he could not say for certain because the Scottish government was \"so unpredictable\".\n\nHe said lawyers had responded to \"a knee-jerk reaction from the Scottish government - a blatant attempt to increase conviction rates\".\n\n\"There are substantial failings which are highlighted in Lady Dorrian's review of the lack of communication from the Crown, lack of involvement with the police, matters being delayed at an investigative stage, all issues which impact on the conviction rate,\" the lawyer said.\n\n\"The way to deal with this is not to remove a jury of your peers.\"\n\nHe said rape cases are also \"more intimate\" and typically lack evidence such as CCTV footage and extensive witness testimony, leading to lower conviction rates.\n\nMr Murray said the scheme would hamper efforts to diversify the legal system, and countered the Scottish government's point that 80% of trials already took place without a jury.\n\nHe said: \"That's a slightly disingenuous point. Those trials are lower level, consist mainly of minor assaults, shoplifting, cases that are far less serious than cases involving sexual offences.\"\n\nHe echoed concerns about the Scottish review of rape trials lacking relevant evidence, with rules prohibiting researchers speaking to former jurors.\n\n\"There's been almost no investigation or review carried out in relation to the pilot scheme in Scotland,\" Mr Murray said.\n\n\"The Scottish government is going about this in entirely the wrong manner and rather than engaging with the profession, they are ignoring the profession.\"\n\nThe dean of the Faculty of Prosecutors and Solicitors in Dundee confirmed the group had unanimously agreed to boycott the scheme.\n\n\"The crime of rape is a high court matter which has to prosecuted and defended expertly,\" a statement read.\n\n\"It is not in the accused's best interests to be an experimental guinea pig for such a serious matter.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Angela Constance said she was \"determined to proceed in partnership\" with lawyers, adding it was \"quite simply not true\" that the government has ignored the legal profession.\n\nJustice Secretary Angela Constance has rejected claims the government has ignored lawyers\n\nShe told BBC Scotland there is \"overwhelming\" evidence that juries have misconceptions about rape.\n\n\"There is international evidence, 50-plus studies most of which have taken place in the past 20 years, that demonstrates the diversity of juries does not overcome unfair influences,\" the minister said.\n\nShe insisted the legal profession, victims and academics would be consulted as part of the parliamentary process.\n\n\"No part of the system is beyond scrutiny, including court processes,\" she said.\n\nMs Constance added: \"I think we have legitimate grounds to have concerns and we have legitimate grounds to proceed with a pilot.\n\n\"But it is important that we engage with all the voices and that's part of our parliamentary and democratic process.\"\n\nThe proposal for juryless trials have been welcomed by victim support group Rape Crisis Scotland, which has warned too many women are being let down by the justice system and too many rapists are walking free.\n\nChief executive Sandy Brindley said: \"What we all want is a system where we can be confident that the evidence being heard in rape trials is being assessed fairly and objectively, and isn't influenced by false assumptions or attitudes towards women.\n\n\"Everyone has the right to a fair trial but that does not automatically mean a jury trial. A single-judge trial is still a fair trial.\"", "The government has approved the use of longer lorries on British roads, saying it will make businesses more efficient and cut emissions.\n\nThe industry welcome the move, saying it would mean more goods could be transported by fewer vehicles.\n\nOne campaign group warned the larger tail swing, meaning their rear end covers a bigger area when turning could put pedestrians and cyclists at risk.\n\nMinisters said the lorries, which have been trialled since 2011, are safe.\n\nThere are already around 3,000 such lorries in use. They are 18.55m long - which is about 2.05m longer than the standard size.\n\nHowever, from 31 May any business in England, Scotland and Wales will be permitted to use them.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said the vehicles would help businesses be more productive. For example, bakery chain Greggs - which has used the vehicles since 2013 - says it can carry 15% more goods than usual in a longer trailer.\n\nThe move is set to result in £1.4bn of economic benefits and take one standard-size trailer off the road for every 12 trips, the government said.\n\nIt estimates the vehicles will save 70,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere over 11 years.\n\nThe DfT also said the vehicles had been involved in \"around 61% fewer personal injury collisions than conventional lorries\".\n\nHowever, the Campaign for Better Transport said the change was was a \"deeply retrograde step\" which will \"do nothing to tackle carbon emissions or air pollution\".\n\nSpokesman Norman Baker added that the bigger \"tail swing\" of the lorries presented a \"danger to other road users and pedestrians\".\n\nHe added: \"Rather than longer lorries, the government should be working to ensure more freight is moved by rail - an efficient, safe and clean alternative with just one freight train capable of removing up to 129 lorries from our roads.\"\n\nA government-commissioned report published in July 2021 revealed that 58 people were injured in incidents involving longer lorries between 2012 and 2020.\n\nUnder the new rules, operators will be legally required to carry out risk assessments and ensure they take appropriate routes.\n\nThe longer lorries will still have the same 44-tonne weight limit as those using standard trailers.\n\nHowever, a spokesman for the Road Haulage Association urged the government to go further by increasing the permitted weight to 48 tonnes.\n\n\"This will be increasingly important when we roll out zero-emission trucks to compensate for the increased weight from batteries,\" he said.", "In newly released video from his deposition played for jurors in Ms Carroll's civil rape suit against him, former US President Donald Trump appears to mistake E Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples.", "The boss of John Lewis has said the company will always be owned by its staff, \"no ifs, no buts\" as employees backed her in a vote of confidence.\n\nDame Sharon White ruled out selling a stake in the business, but said the board could consider external investment in future if it was needed.\n\nShe previously was understood to be considering a change to its employee-owned structure after over 70 years.\n\nBut the move sparked anger from staff, who currently fully own the retailer.\n\nAs well as each owning a stake in the business, John Lewis and Waitrose staff - referred to by the company as partners - have a say in the way it is run and receive a share in its profits.\n\nOn Wednesday, the partners cast their votes in their usual biannual vote on the company's performance and leadership.\n\nThe votes are symbolic rather than binding.\n\nDame Sharon has been seeking radical ways to boost growth after making a huge loss last year and as it struggles to compete with High Street rivals.\n\nHowever, she told staff she wanted to be \"absolutely categorical, John Lewis would always be employee-owned\".\n\n\"Our model is the very reason I joined the partnership because I believe profoundly in an approach of kinder capitalism in the 21st century,\" she added.\n\n\"It's what makes us special.\"\n\nDame Sharon did admit that \"if at any point the partnership couldn't fund their plans through their own means, the board could consider external investment\", but stressed that it would have to be in line with the partnership's original trust settlement.\n\nShe said it would also need the backing of the council who represent staff.\n\nWednesday's confidence vote was held during the all-day meeting, at the Odney Club, a John Lewis-owned retreat near Maidenhead, Berkshire.\n\nChris Earnshaw, president of the Partnership Council, said the group made up of staff members voted in support of Dame Sharon's leadership.\n\nHowever, he said the council did not support last year's performance, following the full-year losses and no staff bonus.\n\nThe ballot has come at an awkward time for Dame Sharon, who has chaired John Lewis since 2020 and is trying to turn around its fortunes.\n\nThe chain has been struggling to compete with High Street rivals such as Amazon and Primark, while its supermarket chain, Waitrose, has underperformed Tesco and Aldi during the cost of living crisis.\n\nThe partnership posted its first annual loss, of £517m, in 2020 and has since announced a series of store closures. It also plans to cut £900m of costs by January 2026 and job losses are likely.\n\nThe retailer sparked anger in March, when it told its about 74,000 partners they would have to go without a bonus for the second time in three years.\n\nSome 85% of fewer than 1,000 staff surveyed at the time said they were not confident in the company's ability to deliver its strategy.\n\nIn March, brand expert Mary Portas wrote an open letter to the partnership, saying one of the most \"valued, loved, and trusted retail brands\" in the UK had \"let go\" of its soul.\n\nAhead of the vote, GlobalData retail managing director Neil Saunders, a former partner at John Lewis, said there was a sense John Lewis had been a \"bit on the back foot\" and slow to react to changes in the retail markets compared with its rivals, such as Marks and Spencer.", "UKIP has been in electoral freefall since the UK left the European Union\n\nIn 2014, David Cameron was still British prime minister and \"Brexit\" was an obscure word.\n\nIn that year's elections to the European Parliament, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) triggered what its then-leader Nigel Farage called \"an earthquake in British politics\".\n\nUKIP clinched 24 seats and 27% of the popular vote, marking the first time a party other than the Conservatives or Labour had won a UK national election for a century.\n\nThe result gave UKIP the momentum to push for a vote on the UK's membership of the European Union and campaign successfully for leaving.\n\nNow, eight years on, the disruptor of British politics is staring down the barrel of electoral annihilation.\n\nFollowing local elections across England last week, UKIP lost all its remaining district and county councillors.\n\nTo put that into context, the party has gone from almost 500 of those councillors in 2016 - its high watermark - to zero in 2023.\n\n\"It's no exaggeration to talk about a wipeout,\" said Tim Bale, a professor of politics and author of The Conservative Party after Brexit.\n\nAll that remains for UKIP are elected holdouts on parish and town councils, the lowest tier of local government.\n\nThe party's chairman, Ben Walker, said UKIP still has about 30 parish councillors, himself among them, after last week's local elections. \"It certainly wasn't a disaster based on what we thought we'd get from these elections,\" he told the BBC.\n\nEven so, the results overall show how far the party has fallen from the heights of 2014.\n\nThe BBC's results say, in total, UKIP lost 25 seats, which were last up for election in 2019.\n\nMr Walker said only one incumbent UKIP councillor - Steve Hollis in South Staffordshire - contested these elections for the party. He lost, while the party's only other sitting councillor retired.\n\nLittle by little, UKIP councillors have either defected to other parties or quit since 2019.\n\nThe political fortunes of UKIP, originally a single-issue Eurosceptic party, have declined sharply since Mr Farage stood down as its leader in 2016.\n\nBrexit was Mr Farage's crowning glory as leader, but since then, UKIP has been unsure of its place in the British political landscape and burned through six leaders, as it attempts to find a new purpose in a post-Brexit world.\n\nProf Bale said, although UKIP struck a chord with many voters who were hostile to the EU and didn't believe the Conservative government was doing enough to limit immigration, the party was \"ultimately a vehicle for the political ambitions of one man - Nigel Farage\".\n\n\"Once he abandoned them, they were always likely to fade away and die,\" Prof Bale said.\n\nInternal instability and infighting has not helped UKIP's cause, with Mr Farage himself criticising the party's drift towards a far-right, anti-Islam platform under former leader Gerard Batten.\n\n\"The problem we've had is a succession of failed leaders and misdirection,\" Mr Walker said.\n\n\"People look at us and think, well, you've kind of did what you meant to do, didn't you? We're out of Europe, your job's done. That's where we're at. So we're trying to redefine what we are now, which is no easy task.\"\n\nUnder the current leadership of Neil Hamilton, a former Conservative MP, UKIP has been calling itself the \"only truly patriotic political party\" and promoting policies such as ending mass migration and scrapping most foreign aid.\n\nThat's similar territory to Reform UK, which was founded in 2018 as the Brexit Party, and which campaigned to leave the EU without a deal.\n\nAs Reform UK, the party has failed to make a big impression on the electorate recently, winning just six seats in last week's local elections.\n\nThe party, led by Richard Tice, had fielded hundreds of candidates, mainly in areas that had voted heavily to leave the EU in 2016.\n\nMr Walker said pooling resources with Reform UK and other like-minded smaller parties on the right was one route to an electoral revival for UKIP.\n\nBut Dr David Jeffery, a senior lecturer in British Politics at the University of Liverpool, said there appeared to be no way back for populist parties on the right of politics.\n\n\"Even Reform, the party to the right of the Conservatives with the most funding and media attention, without the galvanising issue of EU membership struggles to break past 6% in the polls,\" he said.\n\n\"The party is over for UKIP.\"\n\nMany of those who voted for UKIP in the mid-2010s haven't gone away though. Instead, many of them switched to the Conservatives after former Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to \"get Brexit done\".\n\n\"We are now one of the only Western democracies to not have a successful populist party,\" said Matthew Goodwin, a professor of politics and the author of a book about UKIP's rise.\n\n\"Much of this reflects how the Conservatives repositioned after Brexit to attract Nigel Farage's voters, though whether they can keep this force at bay, with rising immigration and a spiralling cost-of-living crisis, remains to be seen.\"", "A man in a lime green silky top was mistaken for Finland's Eurovision singer by a BBC reporter at the semi-final event on Monday.\n\nA reporter referred to the \"main man himself\", meaning Finnish entrant Kaarija, as she spoke to visitors in Liverpool... but all was not quite as it seemed.\n\nA BBC North West Tonight spokesperson said: “This was a case of Eurovision fever. We hope the real Kaarija will join us on North West Tonight so we can say sorry and wish him well for the Grand Final.”\n\nTo find out more about everything from the iconic songs to how the voting works - take a look at our guide to Eurovision on the BBC News website.", "The Duke of Sussex has blamed alleged illegal intrusion into his private life by journalists for the break-up of his relationship with Chelsy Davy.\n\nIn a witness statement, Prince Harry claimed Ms Davy decided that \"a royal life was not for her\" following repeated acts of harassment.\n\nThe claims emerged in a High Court case against Mirror Group Newspapers brought by several high profile figures.\n\nMGN denies allegations of voicemail interception in the cases.\n\nIt also claimed some of the cases being brought are beyond a legal time limit.\n\nMs Davy and Prince Harry were in an on-off relationship between 2004 and 2010.\n\nIn a summary of his witness statement, the duke's lawyers alleged unlawful activity \"caused great challenges\" in the relationship, and led Ms Davy to decide that \"a Royal life was not for her\".\n\nThis included journalists booking into a hotel in Bazaruto, a small island off the coast of Mozambique, where Harry and Ms Davy had tried to escape to in order to \"enjoy some peace and quiet\", the document reads.\n\nThe lawyers also said that mobile phonecalling data to be used in the trial shows that Ms Davy was targeted for voicemail interception between 2007 and 2009.\n\nThe activities caused him \"huge distress\" and \"presented very real security concerns for not only me but also everyone around me\", he said, adding that they also created \"a huge amount of paranoia\" in future relationships.\n\n\"Every time he was in a relationship, or even a rumoured relationship, that whole person's family, and often their friends, would be 'dragged into the chaos' and find themselves the subject of unlawful activity on the part of MGN,\" lawyers said.\n\nPrince Harry's lawyers allege that his mobile phone number was recorded in a handheld device belonging to \"prolific hacker and head of news at the Sunday Mirror\" Nick Buckley.\n\nThe prince is also expected to allege that he experienced what was, in hindsight, voicemail interception in relation to 30 people with whom he had a close relationship.\n\nHe is expected to give evidence in June - the first time a senior royal will be a witness in court in modern times.\n\nMGN has not admitted to any of the charges, although it said it \"unreservedly apologises\" for a separate instance of unlawful information-gathering against Harry and said that the legal challenge brought by the prince \"warrants compensation\".\n\nThe article that incident referred to - regarding an MGN journalist instructing a private investigator to unlawfully gather information about Harry's activities at the Chinawhite nightclub on one night in February 2004 - is not one of the claims being brought by the prince.\n\nMGN said it would never be repeated.\n\nIn written submissions, MGN's barrister, Andrew Green KC, said the publisher denied that 28 of the 33 articles in Harry's claim involved phone hacking or other unlawful information gathering.\n\nHe said that stories came from a variety of other sources - including other members of the Royal Family.\n\nMr Green added that it was \"not admitted\" that five of the 33 articles contained unlawful information gathering.\n\nOther celebrities have brought claims against MGN, with \"test cases\" - including Prince Harry's - selected to go to trial from the wider group of claimants.\n\nThey include that of former Coronation Street actress Nikki Sanderson, comedian Paul Whitehouse's ex-wife Fiona Wightman and actor Michael Turner - who played Kevin Webster in Coronation Street and goes by his stage name Michael Le Vell. All are expected to give evidence during the six- to seven-week trial.\n\nThe court heard that Ms Sanderson felt like she was \"public property\" and experienced abuse in the street following \"false insinuations\" in articles published by MGN.\n\n\"[She had] people shouting at her in the street calling her a 'whore', 'slag' or 'slut' and even being physically assaulted on numerous occasions,\" barrister David Sherborne said.\n\nMr Turner was accused by fellow cast members of being a \"mole\" amid alleged phone hacking, the court heard.\n\nThe hearing is focusing on what senior executives at MGN knew about alleged phone hacking - including TV host Piers Morgan, who was editor of the Daily Mirror between 1995 and 2004.\n\nMr Sherborne told the court that unlawful information gathering was both habitual and widespread at three papers - the Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People - between 1991 and 2011.\n\nHe described \"a flood of illegality\", adding that \"this flood was being authorised and approved of\" by senior executives.\n\nThe barrister also accused executives of misleading the Leveson inquiry - the inquiry into the practices, culture and ethics of the press - something it denies.\n\nIn written arguments, Mr Sherborne said it was \"inconceivable\" that Mr Morgan and other editors did not know about MGN journalists instructing private investigators to obtain information.\n\n\"The systemic and widespread use of PIs [private investigators] by MGN journalists to unlawfully obtain private information was authorised at senior levels,\" Mr Sherborne, who is also representing the duke, said.\n\nMr Morgan has repeatedly denied any knowledge of phone hacking or illegal activity at the Daily Mirror when he was editor.\n\n\"I've never hacked a phone. I've never told anybody to hack a phone,\" he told the BBC's Amol Rajan in an interview conducted before the trial began.\n\nMGN has previously settled a number of claims against it in relation to stories obtained through unlawful means.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "Adam Price took over as party leader in autumn 2018\n\nAdam Price said Plaid Cymru's \"time has come\" when he took over as leader five years ago.\n\nHis victory was not unexpected - with his imposing presence and strong oratory skills, Mr Price had long been regarded as a future leader.\n\nBut he departs after a report heavily criticised the workplace culture that existed in his party, alleging harassment, bullying and misogyny.\n\nA miner's son from the Amman Valley, Adam Price's politics were shaped by the long miners' strike of the mid-1980s.\n\nHe became an MP in 2001, representing Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, and made his mark in Westminster by leading an unsuccessful attempt to impeach the then prime minister, Tony Blair, over claims that Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.\n\nMr Price stood down as an MP in 2010 before going to study at the prestigious Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the US.\n\nIn 2016 he returned to frontline politics - this time in Cardiff Bay, still representing his home constituency.\n\nOne campaign leaflet that year famously described him as an \"X-factor politician\" and the \"mab darogan\" (the son of prophecy) - a figure from Welsh mythology who it is said will redeem Wales in its hour of need.\n\nAdam Price and other party leaders meeting the Prince of Wales at the Senedd last year\n\nTwo years later he ousted Leanne Wood and became the first openly gay leader of a Welsh political party.\n\nMr Price described the decision to challenge one of his \"oldest friends in politics\" as \"the most difficult thing I've had to wrestle with in my political life\".\n\nMs Wood would later tell the BBC that the move led to the collapse of their friendship.\n\nIn a departure from his predecessor's approach, Mr Price put the notoriously tricky subject of independence at the heart of his political plan, pledging to hold a referendum on the issue by 2030.\n\nBut at the snap general election of December 2019 the party found itself squeezed out of the Brexit-dominated debate, and though Plaid held on to its four seats in Westminster, its share of the vote fell back and it came a disappointing third in its main target seat of Ynys Môn.\n\nLabour First Minister Mark Drakeford and Adam Price signed a co-operation deal in late 2021\n\nAnd so to the 2021 Senedd election, where independence would be front and centre of the party's campaign.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Price said that he would count anything less than becoming first minister as a \"failure\", and he ruled out working with the Conservatives and joining a coalition with Labour as a junior partner.\n\nBut the party slipped back into third place, losing its grip on the Rhondda seat held by Ms Wood, as it struggled to compete with the favourable response towards the Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford's leadership during the pandemic.\n\nMonths later, and with Mr Drakeford having fallen just short of a majority in the Senedd, Mr Price formed a co-operation agreement with the Welsh Labour government.\n\nThis was to be a new kind of deal, and one which would allow Plaid Cymru to push through some of its key policies, including Senedd expansion, the extension of free school meals, and free childcare for two year-olds.\n\nAnd that's why in the run-up to last May's Welsh local elections Mr Price - by now a father of two young children - was able to claim his party was \"making a difference\", and had \"snatched a moral victory from the mawing jaws of defeat\".\n\nBy the end of the year the party was engulfed by claims of a toxic culture within Plaid and criticism of the leadership's handling of the situation.\n\nThat culminated in a report by Nerys Evans which said the party had tolerated \"too many instances of bad behaviour\".\n\nMr Price initially insisted he would remain in post, arguing that quitting would be \"abdicating\" his responsibility.\n\nHowever a week on Mr Price has announced that he will step down and so it will be up to his successor to address the issues raised by the report and set a course for the party into the general election.", "Nante after being found in the remote state park\n\nAn eight-year-old boy lost in the remote woodlands of Michigan survived for two days by eating snow and hiding beneath a log for shelter.\n\nNante Niemi went missing on Saturday while camping with his family in the Porcupine Mountains state park.\n\nHe got lost while walking to gather firewood, sparking a 150-person search effort to rescue him.\n\nOn Monday he was found underneath his log \"in good health\", about two miles from his camp.\n\n\"He had braved the elements by taking shelter under a log where he was ultimately found,\" Michigan State Police said in a statement.\n\nThe boy told police he \"ate clean snow for hydration\".\n\nSoon after the alarm was raised on Saturday, his mother thanked people for their support but implored everyone to \"please stay away it will make it harder to find him\".\n\nState police said the terrain is \"very remote and hilly with a lot of standing water due to the time of the year\". Several roads were impassable due to the amount of snow.\n\nThe team focused on a roughly 40 sq mile (100 sq km) area in the park, eventually finding the boy.\n\nHe has been reunited with his family, police said.\n\nThe boy went missing while camping in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park\n• None Woman survives on wine while lost in Australian bush", "Daniel Morgan was found with an axe in his head outside the Golden Lion pub\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has apologised for not disclosing documents relating to the murder of a private detective which it says were found in a locked cabinet at its headquarters.\n\nDaniel Morgan was found with an axe in his head in the car park of a pub in Sydenham, south-east London, in 1987.\n\nThe Met was institutionally corrupt in its handling of elements of the case, an independent panel found in 2021.\n\nThe latest failure is \"unacceptable and deeply regrettable\", the Met says.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Barbara Gray said: \"We are working to understand what has taken place and any impact. We apologise to the family of Daniel Morgan and to the panel.\"\n\nNobody has been convicted of Daniel Morgan's murder\n\nThirty-seven documents spanning 95 pages that should have been disclosed to the panel led by Baroness O'Loan were found in the locked cabinet at New Scotland Yard in January and an assessment started in February, the Met said.\n\nThe force also admitted a further 23 documents across 71 pages should have been shared with the police watchdog, which in a separate March 2022 report found the Met's approach to tackling corruption within its ranks to be \"fundamentally flawed\" .\n\nA spokesperson for the Mayor of London said: \"This is clearly unacceptable and should never have happened.\"\n\nNo-one has been convicted over father-of-two Mr Morgan's death, with the Metropolitan Police previously admitting corruption hampered the original murder investigation and apologising to his family.\n\nHis family believes the police corruption, and reluctance to confront it, could explain the murder and the failed investigations into the killing.\n\nAlthough Mr Morgan's brother Alastair says he is not surprised by the latest development, he puts it down to \"incompetence [and] error\" rather than malice.\n\nAlastair Morgan has spent 36 years campaigning for justice for his brother\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio London, he said: \"I'm despairing of the police but, again, that's really nothing new for me.\n\n\"It's not like this has shaken me to the core or anything like that - it's just same old, same old.\"\n\nMr Morgan, from Llanfrechfa near Cwmbran in South Wales, died outside the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham on 10 March 1987.\n\nThe police watchdog review last year found then-Met Police chief Dame Cressida Dick may have breached professional standards between 2013-15, when she was an assistant commissioner, by obstructing the work of an inquiry into the case - something she denied.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said Dame Cressida appeared to have \"acted in the genuine belief she had a legitimate policing purpose\", due to concerns about protecting information but \"may have got it wrong\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Morgan's former business partner Jonathan Rees, who was a suspect in the case, has always denied any involvement\n\nSince Mr Morgan's death, there have been five inquiries and an inquest at an estimated cost of more than £40m.\n\nThe 2021 report from the Baroness O'Loan panel said there were several theories regarding possible motives to harm the private investigator, among them:\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Researchers say the new genetic map of humanity is more representatives of variety\n\nScientists have produced an updated map of all human DNA which could help to transform medical research.\n\nThe original human genome, published 20 years ago, is mostly from one person, and does not represent human diversity.\n\nThe latest version - dubbed the pangenome - is made up of data from 47 people from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe.\n\nIt is hoped it will lead to new drugs and treatments that work for a much wider range of people.\n\nAccording to Dr Eric Green, who is director for the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda Maryland, the research, which has been published in the journal Nature, has the potential to transform medical research.\n\n\"This represents a tremendous scientific achievement. A pangenome that better reflects the diversity of the human population will enable scientists to better understand how genetic variation influences health and disease and moves us to a future in which genomic medicine benefits everyone\".\n\nThe genes that make up human DNA are made up of of sequences of chemicals.\n\nThe pangenome consists of 47 separate DNA maps of the people from different ancestries, which can also be combined and compared with new software tools to find important genetic differences.\n\nThe aim is to develop more effective treatments for more people, but genetic scientists are aware that the research has the potential to be misused. Prof Muzlifah Haniffa, of the Sanger Institute in Newcastle, who was not part of the research team, said that the science should not be misinterpreted,\n\n\"Genetic information about diversity should be used responsibly and not to provide evidence of differences in race, which is a social construct. We have to understand what it shows and, importantly, what it doesn't show. We have to make sure that taking information very superficially to establish false racial characteristics does not happen\".\n\nThe human genome was largely completed in 2003. It is a map of the basic chemical building blocks that make up human DNA. Researchers use it to identify genes involved in diseases so as to develop better treatments. It has led to improved cancer therapies and the development of tests to predict the onset of inherited conditions, such as Huntington's disease.\n\nIt took hundreds of machines 13 years to read all the DNA that makes a human\n\nBut the downside is that 70% of the genome came from a single individual: an American man with European and African ancestry. This therefore misses important genetic differences that play an important part in diseases in people from other backgrounds, according to Dr Karen Miga of the university of California in Santa Cruz.\n\n\"Having one map of a single human genome cannot adequately represent all of humanity. This reboot can be the foundation for the scientific community to have more equitable healthcare in the future\".\n\nAlthough the map of the human genome currently used by researchers has a lot of African DNA in it, counterintuitively it is the population that is one of the most lacking, according to Dr Ewan Birney, deputy Director General of the European Molecular Biology Lab near Cambridge.\n\n\"The most important place in the World to get genomes from is sub-Saharan Africa. It is where we started as a species, and it has the greatest genetic diversity. So, one African American genome is not enough to represent that diversity\".\n\nDr Zamin Iqbal, a senior researcher at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute near Cambridge, believes that a more representative genome will lead to better treatments for more people.\n\n\"Expanding the range of populations present in the human reference genome will reduce a long-standing implicit bias in studies of human genetics. Humans are diverse, and it's important that our analytical methods incorporate that.\n\nTwo recent studies in the US and in the UK and Ireland found that children of European ancestry were twice as likely to be diagnosed with genetic tests than those of African ancestry.\n\nDr Alexander Arguello, who is the programme director at at the National Human Genome Research Institute, says the aim of the new project was to change those outcomes.\n\n\"The hope is that once you capture sufficient diversity you will get the same diagnostic results whatever the population\".\n\nThe new pangenome is made up from 47 people, half of whom have ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa, a third from the Americas, 13% from China and 2% from Europe, with representation of indigenous people.\n\nBut this is just the start of an ambitious programme to better represent the diversity of the world's population. The initial aim is to increase the number to 350. After that the scientists leading the largely US programme plan to increase numbers and diversity further by working with organisations from other countries in what they hope will become phase two of the human genome project.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Doctor Who actress and comedian has been announced as the UK's official Eurovision spokesperson\n\nActress Catherine Tate will reveal the UK jury's favourite Eurovision acts during Saturday's grand final.\n\nAs the official UK Eurovision Song Contest spokesperson, she will announce the UK results once the televoting window has closed.\n\n\"It's very exciting to be announcing the iconic 'douze points' at Eurovision,\" the Bafta-winner said.\n\nShe added, jokingly: \"It's just a foot in the door really as next year I hope to be the UK entrant!\"\n\nTate is best known for her much-loved comic creations, including Joanie \"Nan\" Taylor, the foul-mouthed pensioner, and surly schoolgirl Lauren Cooper, both from The Catherine Tate Show.\n\nShe also played the companion Donna Noble in Doctor Who, a role she will reprise this year for the sci-fi show's forthcoming 60th anniversary.\n\nTate returned to one of her most popular characters for The Nan Movie in 2022\n\nShe will deliver the results of the UK's national jury live from the Liverpool Arena once phone lines close for voting on Saturday.\n\nThe BBC confirmed the news on Wednesday, leading to many people sharing jokes and memes on social media suggesting she should perform her duties in character.\n\nThe actress and comedian follows in the footsteps of previous spokespeople such as AJ Odudu, Nigella Lawson and Mel Giedroyc, as well as Richard Osman and Lorraine Kelly.\n\nThe Eurovision final will be broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 20:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nLater this year, Tate will star in a new BBC One comedy series called Queen of Oz.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Night one's most iconic Eurovision performances (UK only)", "The BBC’s Russia editor Steve Rosenberg is in Liverpool for Eurovision, playing a piano party of the contest’s classics, live from Jimmy’s Bar.\n\nAnd he’s taking requests – you can submit your favourite via email at PianoParty@bbc.co.uk\n\nWatch live by clicking the play button at the top of this page.", "People with chronic pain are being given antidepressants with very little scientific proof the medication helps, a major review has found.\n\nIn studies, with nearly 30,000 patients, there was \"moderate\" evidence for only one drug, duloxetine, and just for short-term pain relief.\n\nAnd there was a \"shocking\" lack of long-term data, even though the pills are usually prescribed for many months.\n\nBut patients are advised to stay on medication if it works for them.\n\nThey must not suddenly stop taking tablets without talking it over with a doctor, experts say.\n\nChronic pain, lasting for more than three months, is extremely common - a BBC News survey suggests one out of every four of people in the UK is living with it.\n\nThere can be no obvious cause - or it might be linked to other health conditions, such as arthritis.\n\nExperts say brain systems for mood and pain overlap considerably, which is why it has been suggested antidepressants may help. Hundreds of thousands of patients with chronic pain in the UK are thought to be on them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At the age of 13, Luke woke up in horrific pain - and a decade on, his condition remains undiagnosed\n\nThe Cochrane review, led by scientists from several UK universities, including Southampton and Newcastle, examined 176 trials. But most looked at patients' experience over a couple of months only.\n\nAmong the drugs studied - which included Prozac and a cheap antidepressant called amitriptyline - only one, called duloxetine, showed any evidence for pain relief.\n\nNone of the trials gathered long-term safety and effectiveness data, which the researchers say is shocking and needs remedying to guide patients and doctors.\n\nProf Tamar Pincus said: \"It's really shocking that we don't have any evidence for long-term use of even duloxetine.\n\n\"This is a global public-health concern. Chronic pain is a problem for millions who are prescribed antidepressants without sufficient scientific proof they help, nor an understanding of the long-term impact on health.\n\n\"But it does not mean that people should stop taking prescribed medication without consulting their GP.\"\n\nClinical lead for National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) chronic-pain guidelines Dr Cathy Stannard said: \"This well conducted review adds to the substantial evidence we now have that shows that the use of medicines to treat long-term pain is disappointing.\"\n\nBut it could be difficult to translate results from clinical trials to real life.\n\n\"It's equally important to emphasise the many social and psychological influences on the pain experience,\" Dr Stannard said.\n\n\"Existing services, usually outside healthcare, including support with mobility, debt management, trauma, and social isolation, can be helpful for people living with pain - and identifying what matters most to people and signposting to appropriate local support is a promising way forward.\"\n\nWhen coming off antidepressants, the medication should be slowly reduced over weeks to prevent withdrawal symptoms, says the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump agrees \"stars can do anything to women\" in video deposition\n\nA New York jury has concluded that it is more likely than not that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed E Jean Carroll. The verdict may be a harbinger of political and legal damage to come.\n\nWhile the ruling may not make a dent in Mr Trump's base within the Republican Party, where his supporters view the US legal system with scepticism and have stood by him through all manners of adversity, it could have a lasting sting.\n\nThe response of two Republican senators highlights the risk this moment poses to his 2024 bid to regain the White House.\n\n\"It has a cumulative effect,\" said Senator John Thune of South Dakota. \"People are going to have to decide if they want to deal with all the drama.\"\n\n\"I don't think he can get elected,\" warned John Cornyn of Texas. \"You can't win a general election with just your base.\"\n\nIn the end, Mr Trump may have been his own worst enemy in this case.\n\nCentral to Ms Carroll's lawsuit was the former president's deposition testimony, in which he seemed both demeaning and defensive. He explained away his infamous Access Hollywood tape boasts about grabbing women by their genitals as reflecting a historical truth about the power of celebrities - \"unfortunately or fortunately\".\n\nHe said that both Ms Carroll and another woman who testified that Mr Trump sexually assaulted her were not his type - a description he also applied, voluntarily, to the female attorney conducting the deposition itself.\n\nFor a jury weighing whether Mr Trump was the kind of person capable of sexual assault - or, at least, whether he was more credible than his accuser - it was exactly the wrong attitude to present.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe also mistakenly identified a photograph of Ms Carroll as being of his former wife, Marla Maples, directly undercutting that \"not his type\" assertion.\n\nIn the 2020 presidential election, suburban voters, particularly women, recoiled from Mr Trump's brand of brash politics. The jury's ruling in this case can only push those kinds of voters farther away from him.\n\nThe former president was defiant on his social media platform, calling the verdict a disgrace and insisting he had no idea who \"this woman\" was. Outside court, his lawyer told reporters Mr Trump would appeal.\n\nUp until now, the former president has run a fairly disciplined campaign to regain the White House in 2024. His team has methodically built up grass-roots support in key primary states across the country. His focused attacks on his rival Ron DeSantis appear to be drawing blood. He has managed to turn his New York indictment into a badge of honour among his base.\n\nThe sexual abuse and defamation ruling could give his Republican opponents an avenue for attack, however. If they can rattle him the way Ms Carroll's lawyer did, forcing him off message and into a defensive crouch, it could knock a candidate seemingly in control of his party into committing more unforced errors.\n\nAt the very least, it is another historic first for a former president who already faces one criminal indictment and has possibly others to come.\n\nUp until now, Mr Trump has shrugged off such legal concerns. But the New York jury's decision lands a blow against Mr Trump in a way that mere \"investigations\" do not. A jury of everyday Americans have considered the evidence and found that Mr Trump did wrong.\n\nNone of it bodes well for those other legal headaches, including special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into the former president's involvement in the attack on the US Capitol and his handling of classified documents after he left the White House, as well as Georgia's investigations of Mr Trump's attempt to reverse that state's 2020 presidential election results.\n\nWhile it's unlikely in the extreme that Mr Trump would ever take the stand if those investigations turn into indictments - or will testify in the current New York indictment - prosecutors may look for ways to use the former president's statements or previous testimony against him as effectively as Ms Carroll's lawyer did.", "Actor Stephen Tompkinson denies causing grievous bodily harm to a man he confronted outside his home\n\nStephen Tompkinson's talent made him \"convincing in putting across a story\", jurors in his trial were told as they retired to consider their verdict.\n\nThe 57-year-old actor is accused of punching a man who was drunkenly making noise outside his home in Whitley Bay in the early hours of 30 May 2021.\n\nHe denies causing grievous bodily harm and says he only pushed Karl Poole away in self-defence.\n\nProsecutor Michael Bunch claimed the actor \"snapped\" and \"lashed out\".\n\nIn his closing speech to the jury, Mr Bunch said this caused Mr Poole to fall and hit his head on the pavement, fracturing his skull.\n\nNewcastle Crown Court heard the DCI Banks star came out of his house wearing pyjamas and a dressing gown after seeing Mr Poole and his friend Andrew Hall drinking at the bottom of his driveway at 05:30 BST.\n\nA neighbour watching from her bedroom window told the court she saw Mr Tompkinson slap and punch Mr Poole, but the actor said he could not have done this because he was holding his phone at the time.\n\nMr Tompkinson, who was born in Stockton-on-Tees, had argued his profession made him less likely to assault anyone because it would be \"career suicide\".\n\nMr Bunch asked jurors: \"But when we snap, do we worry about the consequences in that moment?\n\n\"Do we think about anything else other than that which has made us see red?\"\n\nKarl Poole fell and hit his head, fracturing his skull\n\nThe jury might think the actor's \"obvious talent makes him convincing in putting across a story\", the prosecutor told them.\n\n\"He is an expert in playing a part - a man tormented by a pair of drunks. He can deliver a line,\" he said.\n\nMr Bunch reminded jurors Mr Tompkinson had described the men's behaviour as \"disgraceful\" and \"pure self-indulgence by grown men who should be behaving better\".\n\nNicholas Lumley KC, defending, said the actor was \"sought out by producers because of his calmness\".\n\nHe asked jurors: \"Why would he risk throwing away that hard-earned reputation?\"\n\nThe Ballykissangel star said he always wanted to treat members of his potential audience \"with respect\"\n\nJurors heard Mr Poole and Mr Hall had been drinking since midnight and had passed Mr Tompkinson's home in North Tyneside on the walk back from the beach.\n\nThe actor, who was living with his partner and her seven-year-old son, said he had heard \"strange noises\" and went out to challenge the two \"heavily-intoxicated\" men, one of whom was wearing just underpants.\n\nHe called police after seeing the pair repeatedly fall and try to stand up while drinking from a bottle of Jägermeister, the court heard.\n\nThe actor told the court the two men \"took great objection\" to him complaining and had started to move towards him.\n\nHe said he put his hand out to stop Mr Poole coming any further and made contact with his face, but told jurors it \"wasn't enough to knock a sober man off his feet\".\n\nThe jury has been sent out to consider its verdict.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"I've never hacked a phone, I wouldn't even know how\" - Piers Morgan (interview filmed in March)\n\nPiers Morgan says he is not aware of phone hacking taking place while he was editor of the Daily Mirror.\n\nA High Court case against its owners, Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), brought by Prince Harry and several other high-profile figures, began on Wednesday.\n\nLawyers argue that executives at the publisher knew about widespread phone hacking, but failed to act.\n\nSpeaking before the trial, Mr Morgan said: \"I've never hacked a phone. I've never told anybody to hack a phone.\"\n\nThe long-awaited case involves allegations that the publisher of the Mirror illegally gathered information about the Duke of Sussex and a number of other celebrities to generate stories.\n\nIn written arguments put before the court, the barrister representing Prince Harry said it was \"inconceivable\" that Mr Morgan and other editors did not know about MGN journalists instructing private investigators to obtain information.\n\nMr Morgan has always denied any knowledge of phone hacking or illegal activity at the Daily Mirror when he was editor.\n\nHe was editor of the Daily Mirror from 1995 to 2004\n\nHe was interviewed by the BBC's Amol Rajan before the trial began. In it, Mr Morgan said he thought phone hacking - the interception of mobile phone voicemail messages - was completely wrong.\n\nHe added it \"shouldn't have been happening\" and said it was \"lazy journalists being lazy\". He said there was no evidence that he knew anything about it.\n\nAsked in the interview whether it stretched credulity that, as a hands-on editor, he didn't know what was going on, Mr Morgan replied: \"I didn't. So I don't care whether it stretches people's credulity, or not.\"\n\nThe former editor pointed out that although there were civil cases happening, none of the journalists who worked with him at the Daily Mirror have been arrested in connection with phone hacking.\n\nMr Morgan worked at the Daily Mirror for nearly a decade, but he said none of the civil cases had anything to do with him.\n\n\"I've not been called to give evidence, I know nothing about it,\" he told BBC News. Asked if he was worried about Prince Harry's legal action, he said he \"couldn't give a monkey's cuss\".\n\n\"I don't give a damn what actions he wants to take,\" he said.\n\nPiers Morgan told Amol Rajan he wasn't aware of any phone hacking while he was at the Daily Mirror\n\nIn 2015, MGN, which publishes the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, paid out £1.2m in damages to eight phone hacking victims who refused to settle out of court, including Paul Gascoigne and the actor Sadie Frost.\n\nOther cases have been settled out of court so damages to individuals remain unknown.\n\nOn Wednesday, MGN apologised to Prince Harry for one instance of unlawful information gathering in relation to a story which appeared in the Sunday People in 2004, but it denied allegations of voicemail interception in all the cases being examined.\n\nMr Morgan pointed out he only worked for the Daily Mirror and had no responsibility for the Sunday Mirror or Sunday People, or other titles.\n\nA MGN spokesman said: \"Where historical wrongdoing has taken place we have made admissions, take full responsibility and apologise unreservedly, but we will vigorously defend against allegations of wrongdoing where our journalists acted lawfully.\n\n\"MGN is now part of a very different company. We are committed to acting with integrity and our objective in this trial is to allow both the business and our journalists to move forward from events that took place many years ago.\"\n\nMr Morgan presents a show on TalkTV following his controversial exit from ITV's Good Morning Britain. He left in March 2021, after saying he \"didn't believe a word\" the Duchess of Sussex had said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.\n\nMedia figure Piers Morgan answers questions on everything from phone hacking to Meghan Markle.\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK Only) or on BBC Two at 19:00 BST.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin has battled against illness and injury to walk again at the age of 86\n\nTwo years ago doctors told Martin Birkhans he would never walk again after contracting an infection in his spine.\n\nThe 86-year-old had survived a 50:50 chance of dying from sepsis and pneumonia and was also recovering from a broken hip.\n\nBut after working tirelessly with physios, the Edinburgh grandfather can now walk again and is even able to climb stairs.\n\nMartin said his personal best was now 12 laps of the track in the garden of the Cramond Residence nursing home in Edinburgh - a distance of 700 metres.\n\n\"I was in a sad physical state when I arrived here,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The doctors at the hospital had said they could not do any more for me. They said I would never stand and never walk.\n\n\"They said I would be incontinent for life too, it was the most devastating news you could ever cook up, just dreadful. I was given zero hope.\"\n\nMartin Birkhans says he is happy to have his life back\n\nPhysios had helped his late wife, the author Joan Lingard, who had dementia. So when his daughters were choosing a nursing home for him, they picked the one that had a physiotherapy package.\n\nAnd when physio Nicola McIntosh noticed that Martin had slight movement in his body, she decided to get him to a standing position.\n\nMartin had not thought it would be possible - but she was able to get him onto his feet with the help of the hoist and other physios.\n\n\"It was very elementary standing, but I was on my feet. It was crazy. Then we took it from there.\"\n\nOver the months his nerves started to repair and he built up the strength in his muscles.\n\nMartin can now climb up and down stairs\n\n\"One would be behind me with the wheelchair and the other on her knees in front of me managing my feet. When someone does that for you, you had better respond.\n\n\"If they had said jump out of the window I would have done it. I had total faith.\"\n\nAfter a year he was able to walk down the corridor outside his room.\n\nThen he progressed to the lift, then the stairs, the gym and the garden.\n\n\"Up until two weeks ago I had to do these things with someone, but now I can do it myself, I have the run of the place,\" he said.\n\nHe has now been able to go on holiday to his daughter's house in Kingussie. He is no longer incontinent and does not need to take the dozens of pills he was on each day.\n\nMartin Birkhans with his wife Joan and children\n\nThe former architect was born in Latvia, where he lived until he was seven. He then spent two years in refugee camps in Germany until his family left for Canada.\n\n\"I know all about walking along dusty roads dodging bullets,\" said Martin, who moved to Scotland when he was 30.\n\n\"Canada was great. I was an athlete so I was perfect for the outdoor life there.\n\n\"So when I found myself bedbound I wasn't filled with happiness.\n\n\"I lay there thinking I don't believe it, my life had changed so extremely.\"\n\nMartin can now stand unaided while he brushes his teeth, although he needs a walker for support when he moves.\n\nMartin cared for his wife, Joan, for eight years at their house in Edinburgh while she had dementia\n\n\"I was on a fierce programme to learn to stand without support of my hands,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm allowed to walk without people watching me now. I feel emancipated.\n\n\"I can go for lunch with my daughter as I can now get in and out of the car, and I've just been on holiday.\n\n\"I would like to visit my sisters in Toronto so we'll see if I can ever make it on a plane.\"\n\nEileen Crawford, a charge nurse at Cramond Residence, said Martin could not walk when she first met him.\n\n\"He never gave up. I have never seen anyone with determination like this, he needs a medal,\" she said.\n\nMartin can do 12 laps of a track at his nursing home - the equivalent of 700 metres\n\nBenedicte Aarseth, a physio from Balanced Edinburgh, has been treating Martin. She said her colleague Nicola had noticed that he had more movement than was described in the discharge letter from the hospital.\n\n\"She realised he was starting to heal so could be pushed a bit more. A big part of it is how motivated he is.\n\n\"People in rehab normally plateaux but Martin is still continuing to climb and managing to have new achievements.\n\n\"We are not going to stop until he tells us.\"\n\nShe said that he may one day be able to walk with a stick instead of the walker.\n\nMartin uses a cycling machine for 20 minutes every day\n\n\"He is the most successful client I've ever had - his transformation is incredible,\" added Benedicte.\n\n\"For an 86-year-old's quality of life to still be improving is amazing.\n\n\"He could have been in a full body hoist for the rest of his life if someone didn't pick up on the ability he had.\"\n\nMartin said he would continue to work on his walking distance record.\n\n\"I'm in love with trying to improve myself and in love with my physios,\" he added.\n\n\"The value of all carers is underestimated as they make a huge difference to our lives.\"\n• None 'I was told I would never walk again' Video, 00:01:17'I was told I would never walk again'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Harry attended the High Court in March for a separate hearing against a newspaper publisher\n\nThe publisher of the Mirror has apologised to Prince Harry for unlawful information gathering, at the start of a trial over alleged phone hacking.\n\nMirror Group Newspapers (MGN) said it would never be repeated.\n\nLawyers representing Harry told the court he was subjected to the \"most intrusive methods of obtaining personal information\".\n\nHarry is one of several high profile figures bringing claims against MGN.\n\nLawyers argue that executives at the company knew about widespread phone hacking but failed to act.\n\nIn a written submission, MGN - which also publishes the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People - said it \"unreservedly apologises\" for one instance of unlawful information gathering against Harry and said that the legal challenge brought by the prince \"warrants compensation\".\n\nA private investigator was instructed by an MGN journalist at The People to unlawfully gather information about Harry's activities at the Chinawhite nightclub on one night in February 2004, Andrew Green KC said.\n\nHowever, the subsequent article in The People is not one of the claims being brought by the prince, the barrister added.\n\nMGN also denies allegations of voicemail interception in the cases being examined, including Harry's.\n\nThe publisher also claims some of the cases have been brought beyond a legal time limit.\n\nA previous hearing was told Harry's case focuses on 148 articles published between 1996 and 2010.\n\nBarrister David Sherborne, representing the duke, told the court: \"We all remember the images of him walking behind his mother's coffin.\n\n\"From that moment on, as a schoolboy and from his career in the army and as a young adult he was subjected, it was clear, to the most intrusive methods of obtaining his personal information.\"\n\nPrince Harry's former girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, decided that \"a royal life was not for her\" as a result of alleged unlawful information gathering by MGN journalists, the barrister added.\n\nMs Davy and the Duke of Sussex were in an on-off relationship between 2004 and 2010.\n\nReferencing Harry's witness statement in the case, Mr Sherborne said her decision was \"incredibly upsetting\" for the duke at the time.\n\n\"It also caused great challenges in his relationship with his ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy, and made him fear for his and her safety,\" Mr Sherborne said.\n\nHe added: \"Every time he was in a relationship, or even a rumoured relationship, that whole person's family, and often their friends, would be 'dragged into the chaos' and find themselves the subject of unlawful activity on the part of MGN.\n\n\"There was nowhere that was 'off limits' for MGN's newspapers, whose journalists would even manage to book into a hotel in Bazaruto, a small island off the coast of Mozambique, when the Duke of Sussex and Ms Davy tried to escape there and enjoy some peace and quiet.\n\n\"They were never on their own, which 'placed a huge amount of unnecessary stress and strain' on their relationship.\"\n\nPrince Harry is also expected to allege that he experienced what was, in hindsight, voicemail interception in relation to 30 people with whom he had a close relationship.\n\nHe is expected to give evidence in June - the first time a senior royal will be a witness in court in modern times.\n\nThe estate of the late singer George Michael and actor Ricky Tomlinson have also brought claims against MGN, with \"test cases\" - including Harry's - selected to go to trial from the wider group of claimants.\n\nThe other \"representative\" cases set for trial are that of former Coronation Street actress Nikki Sanderson, comedian Paul Whitehouse's ex-wife Fiona Wightman and actor Michael Turner - who played Kevin Webster in Coronation Street and goes by his stage name Michael Le Vell. All are expected to give evidence during the six to seven week trial.\n\nThe court heard that Ms Sanderson felt like she was \"public property\" and experienced abuse in the street following \"false insinuations\" in articles published by MGN.\n\n\"[She had] people shouting at her in the street calling her a 'whore', 'slag' or 'slut' and even being physically assaulted on numerous occasions,\" Mr Sherbourne, who is also representing Ms Sanderson, said.\n\nThe hearing is focusing on what senior executives at the MGN knew about widespread phone hacking - including former editor of the Daily Mirror Piers Morgan.\n\nMr Sherborne told the court that unlawful information gathering was both habitual and widespread at three papers from as early as 1991 to 2011.\n\nHe described \"a flood of illegality\", adding that \"this flood was being authorised and approved of\" by senior executives.\n\nThe barrister also accused executives of misleading the Leveson inquiry - the inquiry into the practices, culture and ethics of the press.\n\nHe added that unlawful information gathering methods were used so frequently they were \"the stock in trade of journalists… an obvious go-to for any story… an invaluable part of the armoury\".\n\n\"With even the editors engaged and authorising these activities, it is no wonder journalists kept using these methods on an industrial scale,\" he said.\n\nIn written arguments, Mr Sherborne said it was \"inconceivable\" that Mr Morgan and other editors did not know about MGN journalists instructing private investigators to obtain information.\n\n\"The systemic and widespread use of PIs [private investigators] by MGN journalists to unlawfully obtain private information was authorised at senior levels,\" Mr Sherborne said.\n\nMr Morgan has denied any knowledge of phone hacking or illegal activity at the Daily Mirror when he was editor.\n\nMGN has previously settled a number of claims against it in relation to stories obtained through unlawful means.\n\nIt was also involved in a 2015 trial, the only to take place during the long-running litigation, which saw claims brought by ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne, actress Sadie Frost, and Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati.\n\nLast month, lawyers for the group said that all the witnesses on their side would give evidence in person, paving the way for Prince Harry to take the stand.\n\nHarry has become an outspoken critic of the tabloid press and has already appeared in court once this year to listen to legal arguments in another case he is involved in.\n\nHe is party to actions linked to alleged phone hacking against two other companies - the publisher of the Daily Mail, and the publisher of the Sun, both of which deny wrongdoing.\n\nHe is bringing a separate libel claim against the Mail's publisher, Associated Newspapers Limited, over an article about his security arrangements with the Home Office.", "Joanna Cherry had been due to take part in an event in August\n\nSNP MP Joanna Cherry is threatening to take legal action against an Edinburgh venue which cancelled a Fringe show in which she was due to appear.\n\nShe says she will take \"whatever legal action is necessary\" unless The Stand admits that it acted unlawfully, issues an apology and reinstates the event.\n\nThe venue had cancelled the show after staff said they were not comfortable with her views on transgender issues.\n\nThe Stand has not yet responded to Ms Cherry's comments.\n\nThe Edinburgh South West MP had been due to take part in a series of In Conversation With... events in August.\n\nMs Cherry is a critic of Scotland's gender recognition reform plans, which make it easier for people to change their legally-recognised sex.\n\nLast week she told BBC Scotland she felt she had been \"cancelled and no-platformed\" because she was a lesbian who holds gender-critical views.\n\nShe said she had been \"greatly heartened\" by the support she had received since the story became public, and had decided to seek legal advice.\n\n\"I am prepared to take whatever legal action is necessary to vindicate my right not to be misrepresented and not to be discriminated against,\" she said.\n\n\"This is not about money. My primary goal is to have the actions of The Stand acknowledged as unlawful and to ensure the event proceeds.\n\n\"I have asked The Stand to apologise to me too. If they don't agree with my reasonable requests, I intend to ask the court to decide on the issue.\"\n\nMs Cherry said the decision to cancel her show was symptomatic of a wider problem in society.\n\n\"I am very concerned that those who hold perfectly legitimate views on a variety of issues, including women like me, are regularly being misrepresented, de-platformed and, in some cases, facing damage to or the loss of our livelihoods,\" she added.\n\n\"This is often accompanied by online abuse and threats.\n\n\"The debate on gender self-identification is a very important one which must be allowed to take place, but I am a woman of many parts who was engaged to talk about my political life in general and I see the cancelling of my one-hour event as the thin end of the wedge.\"\n\nThe Stand said it would not be making any further comment until it had discussed the matter with its solicitors.\n\nIn a statement released last week, the venue said that a number of its key operational staff - including venue management and box office personnel - were unwilling to work on the event.\n\nThe statement said: \"We will ensure that their views are respected.\n\n\"We will not compel our staff to work on this event and so have concluded that the event is unable to proceed on a properly staffed, safe and legally-compliant basis.\n\n\"We advised the show producers, Fair Pley Productions, of this operational issue and they advised Joanna Cherry that it is no longer possible to host the event in our venue.\"\n\nThe Stand - which was co-founded by SNP MP Tommy Sheppard - said it did not endorse the views of any participant in the In Conversation With... series, which is organised by independent producer Fair Pley.\n\nMr Sheppard, who sits on the venue's board and is believed to be one of a number of shareholders, said it would be wrong to characterise it as a dispute between him and Ms Cherry.\n\nThe Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow was ordered to pay almost £100,000 in damages to a controversial evangelical US preacher after axing his event in 2020.\n\nFranklin Graham's appearance at the Hydro was scrapped following pressure from Glasgow City Council, Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie and campaigners over his views on issues such as homosexuality, Islam and Donald Trump.\n\nVenue staff had claimed the move was due to security and protest concerns but a sheriff ruled that Mr Graham had been discriminated against and that the SEC had breached the Equality Act by not letting him perform.\n\nIn his ruling, Sheriff John McCormick said: \"The pursuer's right to engage a speaker at the evangelical event - in furtherance of a religious or philosophical belief - is protected by law\".", "Women, who voted for Donald Trump previously, shared how Tuesday's verdict will affect their 2024 vote\n\nA nine-person New York jury has found Donald Trump liable of sexual abuse and defamation against the writer E Jean Carroll.\n\nThe BBC asked Republican women who have voted for the former president in previous elections for their reaction.\n\nHis strongest supporters echoed Mr Trump's claim that he is the victim of a witch hunt.\n\nOthers said the verdict was further evidence that the party needs to find an alternative in 2024.\n\nMarge will vote for Trump again if he becomes the Republican nominee - but she's worried this verdict will make him vulnerable in the general election.\n\nI do not believe this woman's claim that she was raped by Donald Trump. If something that horrific happens to you it would be a horror you would never forget. The exact date and occurrence would be seared into your mind.\n\nBut I think this trial will affect his chances. Not so much because of the people that voted for him before - I think they'll continue voting for him - but it's the women that are on the fence about him. They'll walk away from this verdict, thinking that he's guilty in their mind.\n\nI worry that there will be people that won't vote for him because they don't like his personality. I feel like he is a compassionate person - and he cares tremendously for the United States. If I had my way, Trump would win for four years, and then [Florida Governor] Ron DeSantis would come in for four years or eight years.\n\nKathleen is grateful for how Donald Trump pushed an anti-abortion agenda - but says many of her friends want to move on from all the drama.\n\nI know that in criminal courts, the level of evidence is pretty high - anybody can take anything to a civil court and sue. As a Christian, you want to first believe everyone's telling the truth. But in this case, you have two people telling two different things. If I had been attacked in the ways that this lady describes, and I'm not doubting her, I would have gone to the cops.\n\nI don't think you're going to change people's minds too much on Donald Trump.\n\nBut I know a lot of people who voted for Trump are hoping Ron DeSantis will be the candidate so we can just put all this behind us.\n\nSheri was a Republican who voted for Trump twice before turning against him over his claims of election fraud in 2020. She is now a registered Independent.\n\nI don't think many people are going to be put off just because of this verdict, unfortunately.\n\nIs it atrocious? Yes. Do I believe he probably did something like this? Yes. I mean, should anyone be a President of the United States with that on their background? No, I don't think they should.\n\nBut when it's those two choices [Trump or Joe Biden], I just don't think it's going to make that much of a difference to people. I think it's right versus left. It's conservative versus liberal.\n\nRight before the election, in 2016, he was saying he can grab women by the crotch, basically. It's not like he hasn't said stuff or done stuff. But these days are strange, strange times. It's embarrassing.\n\nCrystal is standing by the former president, but she worries that this trial will damage his re-election chances.\n\nI am sad to see this verdict today. Trump is denying that he even knows this woman. I do not believe that Donald Trump would ever do anything like this and I am 100% on his side. Trump stated that he will be appealing this.\n\nThis accusation is only meant to hurt his character in his upcoming run for the 2024 election. This is serious.\n\nI feel like it's once again, it's going to hurt him in the election. People will remember he was accused of this and I think that's going to stick - which could affect the Republican primaries [which determine who will be the party's presidential nominee].", "The government has ditched its plan for thousands of EU-era laws to expire automatically at the end of the year.\n\nThe plan - dubbed a post-Brexit bonfire - would see laws that were copied over to the UK after Brexit vanish, unless specifically kept or replaced.\n\nCritics of the bill had voiced concern that it could lead to important legislation falling away by accident.\n\nBut the climbdown is likely to trigger anger from Brexit-backing Conservative MPs and members of the House of Lords.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kemi Badenoch said the cut-off point would be replaced with a list of 600 laws the government wants to replace by the end of the year.\n\nIn a statement, she said the change would be made through an amendment when the Retained EU Law Bill returns to Parliament next week.\n\nTory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, who introduced the bill when he was in government, called the move an \"admission of administrative failure\".\n\nIt showed an \"inability of Whitehall to do the necessary work and an incapability of ministers to push this through their own departments,\" he added.\n\nHe said the move to ditch the deadline represented the triumph of \"the blob\" - a term used by some Tory MPs to describe the Whitehall establishment.\n\nThe UK incorporated thousands of EU laws into UK law to minimise disruption to businesses when the UK officially left the EU in 2020 - with an ongoing audit by civil servants having identified 4,800 so far.\n\nSince September 2021, it has been reviewing this body of legislation to identify opportunities to give British firms an edge over European competitors.\n\nThe Retained EU Law Bill, which began its journey through Parliament during Liz Truss's premiership, would have introduced a 31 December cut-off date for most of these laws to expire, unless ministers replaced or decided to retain them.\n\nHowever opposition parties, trade unions and campaign groups cast doubt on whether the deadline was realistic, given the huge workload in reviewing the legislation.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch acknowledged the deadline had created \"legal uncertainty\" for businesses.\n\nShe said the government had already got rid of, changed or replaced around 1,000 EU-era laws - and was still committed to \"lightening the regulatory burden on businesses\".\n\nBut she added that the \"growing volume\" of EU laws identified during the ongoing audit had started to get in the way of \"meaningful reform\".\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, she added: \"Getting rid of EU law in the UK should be about more than a race to a deadline\".\n\nHowever, Labour called the move a \"humiliating u-turn,\" accusing ministers of trying to \"rescue this sinking ship of a bill\".\n\n\"After wasting months of parliamentary time, the Tories have conceded that this universally unpopular bill will damage the economy,\" said Jenny Chapman, Labour's shadow Cabinet Office minister.\n\nLiberal Democrat peer Lord Fox said the Conservatives had \"dug themselves into a hole\" with the bill, adding: \"While they may have stopped digging, they're still in the hole\".\n\nAsked about Ms Badenoch's article, David Penman, chair of the civil servants' union the FDA, said he read it as a criticism of an \"artificial deadline\" championed by the former business secretary, Mr Rees-Mogg.\n\n\"If you set an artificial deadline, what is a government department going to do? It's going to focus on the things that need to be retained in government,\" Mr Penman told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday. He said this would \"inevitably\" take precedence over focusing on what needs to change.\n\nGovernment is about \"doing things, it's about protecting people, it's about making sure business can work,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on... Brexit and the clash over EU laws\n\nThe bill was passed by MPs in January, but was expected to run into significant opposition when it faces further scrutiny in the House of Lords.\n\nPeers were meant to start debating the bill last month, but the government was reported to have put it on hold until last week's local elections in England were over.\n\nThe government is still expected to face opposition from peers over new powers for ministers to amend or replace EU laws using secondary legislation, a fast-track process that attracts less scrutiny in Parliament.\n\nOpposition MPs, and some Conservatives, say this would rob Parliament of a meaningful say over what is changed.\n\nAround 500 EU laws covering financial services had been exempted from the deadline, as they are due to be repealed by a separate bill making its way through the Commons. The same is expected for EU legislation affecting VAT and customs.\n\nHowever, the footprint of EU-era legislation is particularly large when it comes to environmental regulation.\n\nCampaign groups have warned about a loss of rights and legal protections in areas including water quality, air pollution standards and protections for wildlife.\n\nThe move to get rid of the deadline may be a pragmatic move, but is likely to disappoint MPs on the right of the Conservative Party and leave Prime Minister Rishi Sunak open to the charge he's not delivering the benefits of Brexit he promised.\n\nMr Sunak had promised during his unsuccessful leadership campaign last summer to publish a list of which EU laws would be retained or scrapped within 100 days of taking office.\n\nHowever, he did not keep the pledge after taking office in October after he was chosen to replace Liz Truss as prime minister by Conservative MPs.", "The Hollywood veteran has won two Oscars, for his roles in The Godfather, Part II and Raging Bull\n\nRobert De Niro, the 79-year-old Hollywood star, has confirmed he has become a father for a seventh time.\n\nHe broke the news in an interview with ET Canada about his forthcoming, suitably-titled film About My Father.\n\nWhen asked about being a dad of six, the Oscar-winning US actor replied: \"Seven, actually... I just had a baby.\"\n\nDe Niro, who has six other children from previous relationships with three women, did not reveal the identity of the mother of his seventh.\n\nThe Hollywood veteran won two Oscars for his roles in The Godfather, Part II and Raging Bull.\n\nHe has also played father figures in films like Meet the Parents, a Bronx Tale, Casino and Silver Linings Playbook.\n\nFor his latest feature, he stars alongside Sebastian Maniscalco in a comedy about a man who takes his slightly embarrassing dad on holiday with his fiancée and her wealthy, eccentric family.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Lionsgate Movies This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"I don't think I've ever been a cool father,\" said De Niro, when quizzed further about his own real life experiences of fatherhood. \"I'm OK. My kids disagree with me at times, they're respectful.\n\n\"My daughter is 11 and she gives me grief sometimes and I argue with her and adore her.\"\n\nHe added: \"With my youngest now there will be more to come but that's, you know - that's what it is.\"\n\nThe star, who has been married twice and is also a grandfather, went on to say that he sometimes has to be \"stern about stuff\" with his children but admitted that he'd rather not be.\n\n\"I mean, there's no way around it with kids. I don't like to have to lay down the law and stuff like that. But you just have no choice,\" he said.\n\n\"And any parent, I think, would say the same thing. You always want to do the right thing by the children and give them the benefit of the doubt but sometimes you can't.\"\n\nRecent reports have linked him to Tiffany Chen, who, according to US publication People, is a martial arts instructor, but neither have publicly addressed their relationship.\n\nDe Niro's six other children include two with the actress and singer Diahnne Abbott - a son, and a daughter from her previous relationship whom the actor adopted.\n\nHe also has twin sons with another actress Toukie Smith, and a son and daughter with socialite and philanthropist Grace Hightower.", "A 32-year-old French journalist has been killed while reporting from the war zone in eastern Ukraine.\n\nArman Soldin, who worked for AFP news agency, died on Tuesday after being hit by rocket fire near Chasiv Yar, just west of Bakhmut.\n\nA team of journalists came under attack at about 16:30 (13:30 GMT) while with a group of Ukrainian soldiers.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Soldin's work on the front lines of the war.\n\n\"We share the pain of his loved ones and his colleagues,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nThe chairman of AFP, Fabrice Fries, said the news agency was \"devastated\" and it came as a \"terrible reminder of the risks and dangers faced by journalists every day covering the conflict in Ukraine\".\n\nThe agency's Europe director, Christine Buhagiar, remembered Soldin as \"enthusiastic, energetic and brave\", and said he had been \"totally devoted to his craft\".\n\nMPs across the political spectrum stood in France's National Assembly and paid tribute to Soldin.\n\nHe was part of the first AFP team to go to Ukraine following Russia's invasion in February of last year and had lived there since September.\n\nUkraine's defence ministry offered its \"heartfelt condolences\" to Soldin's family and colleagues saying: \"He dedicated his life to informing the world about the truth. His legacy, as well as his cause, will live on.\"\n\nMoscow said it was saddened to hear of Soldin's death. \"We need to understand the circumstances of the death of this journalist,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.\n\nThe White House also paid tribute, saying the world was \"indebted\" to journalists who had lost their lives \"while shining a light on the horrors of Russia's invasion\".\n\nSoldin, who was born in Bosnia, is the 15th journalist to be killed while reporting on the war in Ukraine since February 2022, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.\n\nAt least two other French journalists have been killed covering the conflict, Pierre Zakrzewski and Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff.\n\nBakhmut has been the epicentre of fighting in eastern Ukraine for several months.", "An autistic girl aged 16 spent nearly seven months in a busy general hospital due to a lack of suitable children's mental health services in England.\n\nHer local health and care system said it was \"very sorry\" for how she was treated \"when she was most vulnerable\".\n\nCampaigners describe the shortage of appropriate support for people with autism as a human rights crisis.\n\nDirectors of council care services are calling for an urgent government review of children's mental health services.\n\nThe teenager, called Molly, spent about 200 days living in a side-room of a children's ward at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth. It is not a mental health unit.\n\nExperts say a general hospital was not the right place for her, but she had nowhere else to go because of a lack of help in the community.\n\nWarning: Molly's story contains details that some people may find upsetting\n\nAgency mental health nurses were brought in because she needed constant, three-to-one observations to keep her safe. Her family says security guards were also often stationed outside her room.\n\nMolly's autism is at the root of the deep anxiety and eating problems that she struggles with.\n\nLike many autistic people, she finds dealing with noise difficult. The clamour of the hospital overloaded her senses and her behaviour sometimes became challenging. She was restrained numerous times.\n\nIn the final 10 days she was at the hospital, her family says the children's ward was closed to other patients because she became so distressed.\n\nA spokesperson for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System (ICS) said it was sorry Molly \"did not receive care in an environment better suited to her needs\", adding: \"Molly's safety has always been our priority.\"\n\nThe National Autistic Society says it is hearing from hundreds of autistic people who cannot get the support they need.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care says it recognises \"the importance of getting people the right care in the right place\".\n\nThis may be one person's experience, but it tells us so much about how the health and care system is failing too many young people who are struggling.\n\nMolly is a bright, engaging teenager, who loves animals and finds the outdoors calming. She was diagnosed as autistic when she was 10 years old. She is also partially sighted.\n\nFor nearly a year, I've been speaking to Molly and her parents. Through the many emails, phone calls, video meetings and visits I've followed the frustrating fight they've faced to try to get Molly the right support.\n\nMolly with her parents Mandy and Richard\n\nWhen I first sat talking to Molly in the kitchen of her family home last August, she had already spent 90 days on the children's ward of the general hospital because there was no support available elsewhere.\n\nShe had initially been taken there because her weight had fallen dangerously low, but described the loud, bright, busy hospital environment as like \"living in hell\".\n\n\"It feels like they're torturing you,\" she said. \"It's almost like the hospital room is like a small box, and you're not allowed to leave it. There are phones going off, alarms, children screaming.\"\n\nThe three-person restraint team that moved in when she became distressed or if she was refusing to eat \"just made things 100 times worse\", she remembered.\n\nIn the past four years, Molly has also spent time on four child and adolescent mental health units. Two of the units have since closed after highly critical inspection reports. Her family believes none of the places provided Molly with the therapy or autism support she needed.\n\nHer father Richard said: \"There is no long-term strategy. No planning really, other than reacting to crises.\"\n\nThe Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICS spokesperson said there had been \"a significant and rapid rise\" in the number of children and young people with complex mental health conditions requiring care and support since the Covid pandemic.\n\nIt says across England, the proportion of children aged five to 16 years identified as having a probable mental disorder increased from 10.8% in 2017 to 16% in 2020. In south-east England the proportion is even higher at 17.4%.\n\nWhen I asked Molly why she wanted to speak to us, she was very clear. She didn't want others to be treated as she had been treated.\n\n\"The system really needs to change,\" she said.\n\nOnce Molly was back at home after being discharged from the last unit, they hoped she would get intensive support in the community to help with her disordered eating and anxiety.\n\nHer family says this proved patchy, with many changes of staff.\n\nLast October, Molly reached another crisis. Her weight dropped again and she was taken back to the Queen Alexandra Hospital. Her parents asked us to delay telling her story, hoping she would be home soon. Nearly seven months later she was still there.\n\nHer family says she was traumatised by the hospital environment, being frequently restrained and largely isolated from other young people.\n\n\"It's a vicious cycle,\" Richard said. \"The more distressed she gets, the more her behaviour becomes challenging and then the more intense support they've got around her, which is more oppressive and more sensory-overloading.\"\n\nDespite the close supervision, she has also harmed herself seriously on several occasions.\n\n\"I think we know something is wrong before we even pick up, if the phone rings at night,\" said her mother, Mandy.\n\nThey are both exhausted and when I asked how they were coping, Mandy said: \"You have to cope, there is no other way.\"\n\nIn March, Molly's parents told me that the teams involved in her care seemed to agree she was stuck.\n\nRichard said past experience had shown that \"off-the-shelf solutions\", including stays in mental health units, were \"very negative for her and completely don't meet her autistic needs\".\n\nAn ICS spokesperson said: \"Everyone involved has done all they can to ensure she receives safe and compassionate care and sought to move Molly to a setting that better meets her needs as quickly as possible. Teams continue to do their very best to help ensure Molly gets the care she needs.\"\n\nThe National Autistic Society says it hears from hundreds of people trapped in a similar cycle.\n\nIt wants the government and NHS to put more money into mental health services that support people at home and to intervene early when there are problems.\n\nThe charity's head of research, Tim Nicholls, says that unless this is done the pattern will repeat itself and \"one of the great human rights crises of our generation\" will continue.\n\nIt is hard to calculate how much Molly's latest stay in the general hospital will have cost, but according to the Nuffield Trust health think-tank, a paediatric NHS hospital bed costs nearly £500 a day. If a child has an eating disorder that rises to about £1,400 a day.\n\nThe NHS hasn't commented on the financial impact of the nearly 200 days Molly has spent at the hospital, but with the costs of employing agency mental health staff included, it could easily have reached a quarter of a million pounds.\n\nWhile the NHS runs most mental health services for children, councils also provide community-based support.\n\nIn a recent survey, 79% of directors who run council children's services in England said there was \"rarely\" or \"never\" appropriate beds available for children with complex needs.\n\nSteve Crocker from the Association of Directors of Children's Services in England said they had seen \"a real increase in the number of children stuck on hospital wards with mental health issues\".\n\nUntil recently he ran children's social care in Hampshire, where Molly lives. While he can't comment on individual cases, he says generally the need for change is urgent and \"we also need to push government for a full review around children's mental health services\".\n\nThe government says its ambition is to halve the number of autistic people and those with a learning disability in mental health hospitals by March 2024. A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson added that this is backed by extra funding and \"our action plan to improve community support and reduce over-reliance on mental health hospitals\".\n\nIn April, Molly's family says she became so distressed the children's ward was closed to other patients. Ten days later she was moved to a mental health unit - even though that has not worked for her in the past. It is meant to be a short-term solution but her family say no other options are currently being discussed.\n\nI last spoke to Molly a couple of days ago. She had had a few trips out with her parents and was desperate to get on with life.\n\nAnd if she can get the right support, her hopes of staying out of hospital and going to college should be possible.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this article you can find details of organisations that can help via the BBC Action Line.\n\nDo you have a similar story? Please email us: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Google has announced it is rolling out generative artificial intelligence (AI) to its core search engine.\n\nThe move comes after Microsoft incorporated GPT-4 into its Bing search engine earlier this year.\n\nSearch Generative Experience - which will be part of Google - will craft responses to open-ended queries, the company said.\n\nHowever, the system will only be available to a limited number of users and is still in \"experimental\" phase.\n\n\"We are reimagining all of our core products, including search,\" said Sundar Pichai, the boss of Google's parent company Alphabet.\n\nAdditionally, the company announced a new feature on Google's Android system will proactively warn users about unknown AirTags, tiny devices developed to track personal items like keys and wallets.\n\nThe technology giant said the \"unknown tracker alerts\" would go live this summer.\n\nThe announcement came after Apple and Google said last week they were working together to address the problem.\n\nLast year two women sued Apple over AirTag stalking.\n\nWomen who have been tracked using the devices told the BBC last year that not enough was being done to prevent misuse.\n\nGoogle made the announcement at its annual developer conference, where leaders of the company touted their latest advancements in artificial intelligence and new hardware offerings, including a $1,799 (£1,425) phone that opens and closes like a book.\n\nThe company said it was removing the waitlist for \"Bard\", its experimental, conversational, chat service, which will be rolled out in English in 180 countries and territories.\n\nIt also said the chatbot would soon be able to respond to prompts with images as well as text.\n\nGoogle has been under pressure to burnish its artificial intelligence offerings, after the runaway success of rival chatbot ChatGPT, which is funded by Microsoft.\n\nA previous attempt to show off its credentials in the field, in February, ended in embarrassment, after it emerged that - in an advert intended to illustrate its capabilities - Bard had answered a question incorrectly.\n\nThe incident wiped $100bn (£82bn) off parent company Alphabet's share value - an indication of how keenly investors are watching how the tech giants' AI ventures play out.\n\nMicrosoft is deploying ChatGPT technology into its search engine Bing, after investing heavily in the company that developed it, OpenAI. Chinese tech giant Baidu also has a chatbot, called Ernie.\n\nChirag Dekate, analyst at Gartner, said Google remained an industry leader and was well poised to benefit in the interest in AI.\n\n\"Google has the tools to dominate the AI battles, the perennial question is - will they?\" he said.", "A New York jury has found that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed a former columnist in a civil trial.\n\nE Jean Carroll sued the ex-US president, alleging he raped her in a Manhattan department store nearly 30 years ago. The jury ordered Mr Trump to pay Ms Carroll $5m (£4m) in damages.\n\nBut the jury found Mr Trump was not liable for raping Ms Carroll in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman.\n\nThe two-week trial in New York federal court featured tense exchanges with lawyers and controversial remarks about women's bodies.\n\nMr Trump did not appear in court to testify and has consistently denied the accusation.\n\nUS District Judge Lewis Kaplan delivered instructions to the nine jurors on Tuesday morning before they retired to consider their verdict.\n\n\"I know you're going to do your duty under your oath to render a just and true verdict,\" he told the six men and three women.\n\nWhile the statute of limitations has long since passed in the case, New York recently enacted a law which allowed decades-old sexual assault claims to be filed as civil lawsuits.\n\nOne of the most pivotal moments of the trial came during Ms Carroll's opening testimony, when she described in graphic detail what she alleges happened in the Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman store in 1996 and the trauma she says she has endured as a result.\n\n\"I'm here because Donald Trump raped me and when I wrote about it, he lied and said it didn't happen,\" she said.\n\nShe then proceeded to walk the court through the day of the alleged assault, explaining how she bumped into Mr Trump and exchanged flirtatious banter with him before things quickly turned violent. She said Mr Trump asked her to come with him into a dressing room, where he closed the door, held her against the wall and raped her.\n\n\"As I'm sitting here today I can still feel it,\" she told the court.\n\nShe added that Mr Trump's denial of the assault had shattered her reputation, costing her her job and romantic relationships. \"I'm here to try to get my life back,\" she said.\n\nDuring several hours of cross-examination over two days, Ms Carroll faced challenging questions about the assault from Mr Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, who attempted to cast doubt on her details of the alleged rape.\n\nDuring a particularly tense exchange, Mr Tacopina repeatedly asked Ms Carroll why she did not shout when the alleged assault occurred.\n\n\"I'm not a screamer,\" she told Mr Tacopina, adding that some women do not come forward about sexual assaults because they are asked why they did not scream.\n\n\"I'm telling you he raped me whether I screamed or not,\" she told Mr Tacopina at one point.\n\nThe Trump lawyer also pressed Ms Carroll on why she did not report the assault at first to the police.\n\nThe former Elle magazine columnist replied that she was a member of the \"silent generation\", saying women her age were taught to keep quiet.\n\nMr Tacopina also questioned Ms Carroll on why she could not recall the specific date of the assault. The writer later conceded that certain parts of her story were \"difficult to conceive of\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuring the trial, Mr Trump did not mount his own defence, calling no witnesses and appearing to defend himself only in a video of his deposition, excerpts of which Ms Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, played for the court. Ms Kaplan is not related to the judge in this case, Lewis Kaplan.\n\nFacing questions from Ms Kaplan, Mr Trump continued to deny the allegations he raped Ms Carroll, calling them a \"big fat hoax\" and repeating previous remarks that Ms Carroll was \"not his type in any way\".\n\nBut at one point, he appeared to confuse Ms Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples, a mistake Ms Carroll's lawyers claimed undermined his argument that the writer was not his type.\n\nIn the video, Mr Trump is shown an old black-and-white photo of him speaking to a man and two women at an event. \"It's Marla,\" he said, before his own lawyer told him the woman he referred to in the photo was indeed Ms Carroll.\n\nIn another excerpt from Mr Trump's video deposition played for the court, Ms Kaplan replayed for Mr Trump a controversial Access Hollywood recording from 2005 featuring a conversation between him and the show's co-host about women.\n\n\"When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything,\" Mr Trump said in the recording, which was leaked to the public just one month before the 2016 presidential election. \"Grab them by the [expletive]. You can do anything,\" he added.\n\nAsked about the clip by Ms Kaplan, the former president seemed to double down on the remarks, claiming: \"Historically, that's true with stars.\"\n\nWhen Ms Kaplan pressed him on his comments about grabbing women \"by the [expletive]\", Mr Trump said: \"Well, I guess if you look over the last million years, that's been largely true - not always true, but largely true, unfortunately or fortunately.\"\n\nIn other tense moments during the questioning, Mr Trump appeared to grow agitated with Ms Kaplan, attacking her appearance, claiming that, like Ms Carroll, \"you wouldn't be a choice of mine either, to be honest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump agrees \"stars can do anything to women\" in video deposition\n\nDuring her second day on the stand under questioning from her own lawyers, Ms Carroll described the backlash she encountered after coming forward with her rape allegation.\n\nAfter Mr Trump released a statement in social media denying the accusation and calling Ms Carroll's first lawsuit against him a \"con job\", Ms Carroll said she faced a \"wave of slime\".\n\nShe said many extrapolated on Mr Trump's remarks that she was \"not his type\", telling her she was \"too ugly to go on living\".\n\nMr Trump's social media comments also sparked a rebuke from the judge in the case, Lewis Kaplan. The former president has called the lawsuit a \"made-up scam\" and claimed Ms Carroll's lawyer was a political operative, remarks Mr Kaplan called \"entirely inappropriate\".", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nInter Milan took a big step towards reaching the Champions League final as they beat their city rivals in a thrilling Milan derby at San Siro.\n\nIn a game that had been anticipated for weeks in Italy and was witnessed at the ground by a vocal and passionate 80,000-strong crowd, Inter made the perfect start when Edin Dzeko volleyed home in the eighth minute.\n\nThe goal silenced the Milan fans - the designated home side for this tie in the stadium the two sides share - as they significantly outnumbered the Inter supporters.\n\nAnd the hosts were stunned further three minutes later when Henrikh Mkhitaryan swept a shot beyond Mike Maignan after being set up by Federico Dimarco.\n\nHakan Calhanoglu hit the woodwork as Inter threatened to get a third, but there was hope for AC Milan when referee Jesus Gil Manzano reversed a decision to award the visitors a penalty, deeming Lautaro Martinez to have dived after consulting the pitchside monitor.\n\nInter dropped their tempo in the second half as they looked to protect their two-goal advantage and it almost presented AC Milan with a lifeline as Sandro Tonali struck the post with a shot from the edge of the box.\n\nBut Inter held firm and are in a strong position to reach the final - where they will face either Manchester City or Real Madrid - when the two sides meet again at San Siro for the second leg on Tuesday, 16 May (20:00 BST).\n• None What is the best Champions League semi-final ever?\n\nInter Milan are three times winners of the European Cup or Champions League, but have not reached the final since they last lifted the trophy 13 years ago.\n\nThis is the furthest they have been in the competition since then and, despite the intimidating atmosphere created by the overwhelming number of AC Milan fans, they were determined to push on.\n\nInter boss Simone Inzaghi opted for the 37-year-old Dzeko to lead the attack, with Romelu Lukaku on the bench, and it didn't take long for that decision to be vindicated as the former Manchester City striker steered home a brilliant finish from a corner.\n\nAC Milan knocked Tottenham and Serie A champions Napoli out of the Champions League on their way to the semi-finals but looked capable of being opened up by Inter with every attack and would have been pleased to reach half time just 2-0 down.\n\nThey were better after the break but did not manage a shot on target until the 81st minute - a deflected Junior Messias effort - and will need to be much, much better if they are to deny Inter a place in the Champions League final.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Roberto Gagliardini (Inter Milan).\n• None Attempt saved. Tommaso Pobega (AC Milan) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sandro Tonali.\n• None Roberto Gagliardini (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Theo Hernández (AC Milan) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Ms Carroll smiled to reporters as she left the courthouse\n\nA jury in a civil case has found former President Donald Trump sexually abused a magazine columnist in a New York department store in the 1990s.\n\nBut Mr Trump was found not liable for raping E Jean Carroll in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman.\n\nThe jury also found Mr Trump liable for defamation for calling the writer's accusations \"a hoax and a lie\".\n\nIt is the first time Mr Trump has been found legally responsible for a sexual assault.\n\nThe Manhattan jury ordered Mr Trump to pay her about $5m (£4m) in damages.\n\nThe jury of six men and three women reached their decision after less than three hours of deliberations on Tuesday.\n\n\"Today, the world finally knows the truth,\" Ms Carroll said in a written statement following the verdict. \"This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed.\"\n\nMr Trump's lawyer said the former president plans to appeal against the decision.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBecause the trial was in civil court rather than criminal, Mr Trump will not be required to register as a sex offender.\n\nThe former president - who has denied Ms Carroll's accusations - did not attend the two-week civil trial in the Manhattan federal court.\n\nMs Carroll, 79, held the hands of both her lawyers as the verdict was read in court and smiled as she was awarded damages by the jury.\n\nMr Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, shook her hand as the trial ended, telling her: \"Congratulations and good luck.\"\n\nRoberta Kaplan, a lawyer for the plaintiff said in a statement: \"This is a victory not only for E Jean Carroll, but for democracy itself, and for all survivors everywhere.\"\n\nAfter the verdict, Mr Trump, 76, posted on his social media platform Truth Social in all capital letters: \"I have absolutely no idea who this woman is.\n\n\"This verdict is a disgrace - a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time!\"\n\nThe standard of proof in civil cases is lower than in criminal cases, meaning that jurors were only required to find that it was more likely than not that Mr Trump assaulted Ms Carroll.\n\nWhile the jury found Mr Trump liable for sexual battery and defamation of Ms Carroll, they did not find Mr Trump liable of raping her. To do so, the jury would have needed to have been convinced that Mr Trump had engaged in non-consensual sexual intercourse with Ms Carroll.\n\nThe trial saw a tense cross-examination between Ms Carroll and Mr Trump's attorneys.\n\nHer legal team called 11 witnesses to corroborate her claims that Mr Trump had assaulted her in the lingerie department of the luxury store in 1995 or 1996.\n\nThey included two women who also say they were sexually assaulted by Mr Trump decades ago. One woman told jurors that Mr Trump groped her during a flight in the 1970s. Another woman said that Mr Trump had forcibly kissed her while she was interviewing him for an article she was writing in 2005.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo long-time friends of Ms Carroll testified that she told them about the encounter shortly after it occurred.\n\nOn the stand, Ms Carroll described in graphic detail what she alleges happened in the store and the trauma she says she has endured as a result.\n\n\"I'm here because Donald Trump raped me and when I wrote about it, he lied and said it didn't happen,\" she told the court.\n\nMr Trump called no witnesses and appeared only in a video of a deposition that was played for jurors in which he denied rape.\n\n\"It's the most ridiculous, disgusting story,\" Mr Trump said in the footage. \"It's just made up.\"\n\nMs Carroll's lawsuit also argued that Mr Trump had defamed her in an October 2022 post on his social media site in which he called her claims a \"complete con job\" and \"a Hoax and a lie\".\n\nHer legal team argued Mr Trump had acted as a \"witness against himself\" during the deposition when he doubled down on comments he made in a 2005 recording.\n\nIn the audio, known as the Access Hollywood tape and leaked in 2016, Mr Trump suggested women let stars \"do anything\" to them, including grabbing their genitals.\n\nThat's what he did to Ms Carroll, her lawyer argued.\n\nIn the recorded video deposition, Mr Trump at one point confused Ms Carroll for his ex-wife, Marla Maples, which Ms Carroll's lawyers argued undermined his claim that she was \"not his type\".\n\nMr Tacopina sought to cast doubt on Ms Carroll's story, which he called \"a work of fiction\".\n\nHe questioned why Ms Carroll could not specify the date of the attack, arguing that it stripped Mr Trump of the chance to provide an alibi.\n\n\"With no date, no month, no year, you can't present an alibi, you can't call witnesses,\" Mr Tacopina said. \"What they want is for you to hate him enough to ignore the facts.\"\n\nMr Tacopina also pressed her on why she did not report a crime to police or scream while it occurred.\n\nThe former Elle magazine columnist was able to bring the civil case against Mr Trump after New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022.\n\nThe law allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state involving claims that would have normally exceeded statute limitations.", "Nina Cresswell said she hopes police will \"learn lessons\" from reinvestigating her case\n\nPolice will reinvestigate after a woman sued by the man she claimed sexually assaulted her won her case.\n\nNina Cresswell, 33, claimed tattoo artist William Hay attacked her in Sunderland in 2010.\n\nMr Hay, from Glasgow, launched a libel case claiming she was lying.\n\nHowever, a High Court judge ruled that on the balance of probabilities Ms Cresswell was attacked. Northumbria Police has now said it will reinvestigate the case.\n\nMs Cresswell welcomed the move after she said she had endured years of being accused of being a liar.\n\nNina Cresswell dancing with friends on a night out, hours before she said she was attacked by William Hay\n\nShe said it was a \"positive move\" and she hoped the Northumbria force would examine how they originally investigated the case and see if any \"lessons could be learned\".\n\n\"I'm nervous about the case being reinvestigated, but I will fully co-operate,\" Ms Cresswell added.\n\nThe libel case was heard by Mrs Justice Williams at the Royal Courts of Justice in February.\n\nMs Cresswell, then a 20-year-old second-year student at Sunderland University, reported the attack to Northumbria Police shortly after it happened in the early hours of 28 May 2010 after she had met Mr Hay, known as Billy, in a nightclub.\n\nShe said detectives told her it would be difficult to prove as she had been drunk and gave conflicting descriptions of the colour of her attacker's beard.\n\nThe police log also referenced other alleged inconsistencies in her account.\n\nNo police action was taken but in 2020, inspired by the #MeToo movement, Ms Cresswell shared her experience online.\n\nThe 33-year-old said had been in \"survival mode\" since the libel action against her began\n\nMrs Justice Williams heard she had published a blog, two Facebook posts, an Instagram post and sent a Facebook message and an email to Mr Hay's girlfriend and business partner.\n\nMr Hay had recalled the two \"almost kissed\" as they left the nightclub, but denied sexual assault.\n\nHe argued the publication of allegations had caused him \"great embarrassment, distress and damage to his reputation\" and was seeking damages.\n\nHowever, the judge found Ms Cresswell's allegation she had been violently sexually assaulted was \"substantially true\".\n\nShe dismissed Mr Hay's denials that the attack took place and ordered him to pay Ms Cresswell's legal costs.\n\nThe Good Law Project, which supported Ms Cresswell, helped raise more than £50,000 for her to fight the case in court.\n\nThe judge also found Ms Cresswell held a \"reasonable belief\" that it was in the public interest to publish the allegation because of the \"deficient and superficial\" approach of the police and her need to safeguard other women from assault by Mr Hay.\n\nIt was the first time a public interest defence under the Defamation Act of 2013 had succeeded when an abuser had sued a victim for libel.\n\nMs Cresswell, who went on to achieve a first in a BA Honours degree in magazine journalism, said that since Mr Hay had started legal proceedings against her in July 2020, she had been in \"survival mode\".\n\nMs Cresswell said she would co-operate fully with the police reinvestigation of her case\n\nShe said she had been running her own copywriting business, but found herself struggling while devoting thousands of hours getting ready for her legal fight.\n\n\"Fighting the case was never about money - I just didn't want to be gagged,\" she said.\n\n\"I was sick of being dismissed as a liar and told that the case wasn't worthy of being investigated because I was drunk.\"\n\nAfter she won her case last month, Ms Cresswell said she had \"no faith\" in the police.\n\nA spokesperson for Northumbria Police said: \"We can confirm we are reopening the investigation into the report of a sexual assault from 2010.\n\n\"It would therefore be inappropriate to comment any further at this stage.\"\n\nMr Hay has been contacted for a response from the BBC.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Santos, a beleaguered Republican member of the US Congress, is facing criminal charges in a federal investigation.\n\nThe New York congressman is under scrutiny in multiple jurisdictions over alleged financial misdeeds, lies about his biography and other complaints.\n\nFederal prosecutors have not yet revealed the exact nature of the charges against him.\n\nHe is expected to appear in federal court as early as Wednesday morning.\n\nThe congressman's office could not be reached for immediate comment on Tuesday.\n\nCBS News previously reported that a federal probe into Mr Santos has focused on finances and financial disclosures.\n\nMultiple sources told CBS he is expected to turn himself in and be arraigned on Wednesday morning at the federal district courthouse in Central Islip, New York.\n\nA freshman lawmaker elected to the US House of Representatives last November, Mr Santos, 34, has been embroiled in scandal since he took office.\n\nHe has faced a series of allegations, including being accused of lying about his college degrees and his work experience; violating campaign finance and conflict of interest laws; falsely claiming his grandparents survived the Holocaust; and creating a fake animal charity he used to siphon away cash meant for a veteran's dying dog.\n\nMr Santos has admitted \"embellishing\" his biography, but denied the more serious claims including theft allegations.\n\nSome of his Republican colleagues have joined calls for him to resign.\n\nBut Mr Santos, who represents a New York district that includes parts of Long Island and Queens, has filed paperwork to run for another two-year term.\n\nHe did step down from serving on two committees in the House of Representatives in February and apologised to fellow Republicans for being a \"distraction\".\n\nIt is likely the still-to-be-revealed charges will renew pressure on Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to take action against Mr Santos.\n\nThe top ranking House Republican has so far resisted calls to do more to punish the lawmaker.\n\nAsked by CNN about Mr Santos, Mr McCarthy said on Tuesday he would \"look at the charges\".\n\nOther Republicans were not as accommodating, with Rep Nicole Malliotakis telling the network she \"would love to see someone new run\" in the district.", "The BBC's Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg is best-known for keeping us up to date with events in Moscow, but he is also a huge Eurovision fan.\n\nHe knows how to play upwards of 300 hits on the piano... from memory.\n\nAt an event in Liverpool he put his skills on show before a live audience.", "A baby has been born using three people's DNA for the first time in the UK, the fertility regulator has confirmed.\n\nMost of their DNA comes from their two parents and around 0.1% from a third, donor woman.\n\nThe pioneering technique is an attempt to prevent children being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases.\n\nFewer than five such babies have been born, but no further details have been released.\n\nMitochondrial diseases are incurable and can be fatal within days or even hours of birth. Some families have lost multiple children and this technique is seen as the only option for them to have a healthy child of their own.\n\nMitochondria are the tiny compartments inside nearly every cell of the body that convert food into useable energy.\n\nDefective mitochondria fail to fuel the body and lead to brain damage, muscle wasting, heart failure and blindness.\n\nThey are passed down only by the mother. So mitochondrial donation treatment is a modified form of IVF that uses mitochondria from a healthy donor egg.\n\nThere are two techniques for performing mitochondrial donation. One takes places after the mother's egg has been fertilised by the father's sperm and the other takes place before fertilisation.\n\nHowever, mitochondria have their own genetic information or DNA which means that technically the resulting children inherit DNA from their parents and a smidge from the donor as well. This is a permanent change that would be passed down through the generations.\n\nThis donor DNA is only relevant for making effective mitochondria, does not affect other traits such as appearance and does not constitute a \"third parent\".\n\nThe technique was pioneered in Newcastle and laws were introduced to allow the creation of such babies in the UK in 2015.\n\nHowever, the UK did not immediately press ahead. The first baby born via this technique was to a Jordanian family having treatment in the US in 2016.\n\nThe Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (the HFEA) is saying \"less than five\" babies have been born as of 20 April 2023. It is not giving precise numbers to prevent the families being identified.\n\nThese limited details have emerged after a Freedom of Information request by the Guardian newspaper.\n\n\"News that a small number of babies with donated mitochondria have now been born in the UK is the next step, in what will probably remain a slow and cautious process of assessing and refining mitochondrial donation,\" said Sarah Norcross, the director of the Progress Educational Trust.\n\nThere has been no word from the teams in Newcastle so it is still uncertain whether the technique was successful.\n\nProf Robin Lovell-Badge, from the Francis Crick Research Institute, said: \"It will be interesting to know how well the mitochondrial replacement therapy technique worked at a practical level, whether the babies are free of mitochondrial disease, and whether there is any risk of them developing problems later in life.\"\n\nThere is technically a risk of \"reversion\" where any defective mitochondria that are carried over could gain in number and still result in disease.\n\nIt had once been estimated that up to 150 such babies could eventually be born each year in the UK.", "The Sunrise Ruby is one of the pieces going under the hammer\n\nJewish groups have condemned the multi-million dollar sale of jewels belonging to a billionaire whose husband made his fortune in Nazi Germany.\n\nHeidi Horten was an Austrian heiress whose German husband, Helmut Horten, had been a Nazi party member.\n\nHe took over Jewish firms as their owners left 1930s Germany.\n\nChristie's auction house is now putting 700 pieces of jewellery, estimated to be worth more than $150 million (£118 million), under the hammer.\n\nThe proceeds will go to charity, including Holocaust research, and Christie's will also make a \"significant contribution\" to good causes.\n\nMrs Horten died last year aged 81, with a fortune of $2.9 billion, according to Forbes.\n\nHer husband, who died in Switzerland in 1987, took over textile company Alsberg after its Jewish owners fled in 1936.\n\nThis was the first of several Jewish businesses he acquired under Nazi rule. His department store Horten AG became one of the biggest in Germany.\n\nA recent report by historians commissioned by the Horten Foundation found he had been a member of the Nazi party before being expelled.\n\nThe pieces going on sale include the 90-carat \"Briolette of India\" diamond necklace by Harry Winston, and the Sunrise Ruby, a diamond ring by Cartier that is worth up to an estimated $20 million.\n\nAlmost 100 pieces will be sold in Geneva on Wednesday and another 150 on Friday, with more sold online later in the year.\n\nBut the auction has caused anger among Jewish groups, with calls for the sale to be halted.\n\nThe Simon Wiesenthal Center, a US-based Jewish human rights group, demanded that Christie's not go ahead with the sale.\n\n\"The Hortens' billions used to build this collection were also the sum of profits from Nazi 'aryanization' of Jewish department stores,\" it wrote in a latter to the auction house.\n\nAryanisation was a term used by the Nazis for taking property from Jews and turning it over to non-Jews, and the exclusion of Jews from business.\n\nDespite proceeds being contributed to charities and Holocaust education, the American Jewish Committee said it was \"not enough\".\n\n\"Instead, the auction should be put on hold until a serious effort is made to determine what portion of this wealth came from Nazi victims,\" it said.\n\nChristie's should then direct the Horten riches \"to the needy and infirm Holocaust survivors who are still among us and the educational programs that tell their stories,\" the group added.\n\nMeanwhile, Yonathan Arfi from the Council of Jewish Institutions in France said: \"Not only did the funds that allowed the purchase of this jewellery come in part from the Ayranisation of Jewish property... this sale is also to finance a foundation [the Hortens' foundation] with the mission to safeguard the name of a former Nazi for posterity.\"\n\nBut Christie's have defended the sale.\n\n\"The foundation and Christie's know that all of the proceeds are going towards charities, the charities are child protection and welfare, medical research and access to the arts,\" its international head of jewellery Rahul Kadakia told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"We believe that in the end, proceeds of the sale is going to do good and this is the reason we decided to take on the project,\" he added.", "Joseph James O'Connor was arrested in Spain in 2021\n\nA British national extradited to the US last month has pleaded guilty in New York to a role in one of the biggest hacks in social media history.\n\nThe July 2020 Twitter hack affected over 130 accounts including those of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.\n\nJoseph James O'Connor, 23, known as PlugwalkJoe, pleaded guilty to hacking charges carrying a total maximum sentence of over 70 years in prison.\n\nThe hacking was part of a large-scale Bitcoin scam.\n\nO'Connor, who was extradited from Spain, hijacked numerous Twitter accounts and sent out tweets asking followers to send Bitcoin to an account, promising to double their money.\n\nO'Connor, from Liverpool, was charged alongside three other men over the scam.\n\nUS teenager Graham Ivan Clark pleaded guilty in 2021. Nima Fazeli of Orlando, Florida, and Mason Sheppard, of Bognor Regis in the UK, were charged with federal crimes.\n\nUS Assistant Attorney-General Kenneth Polite Jr described in a statement O'Connor's actions as \"flagrant and malicious\", saying he had \"harassed, threatened and extorted his victims, causing substantial emotional harm\".\n\nCelebrities including US boxer Floyd Mayweather and the singer Wiz Khalifa also lost control of their accounts\n\n\"Like many criminal actors, O'Connor tried to stay anonymous by using a computer to hide behind stealth accounts and aliases from outside the United States.\n\n\"But this plea shows that our investigators and prosecutors will identify, locate, and bring to justice such criminals to ensure they face the consequences for their crimes.\"\n\nIn 2020, an estimated 350 million Twitter users saw suspicious tweets from official accounts of the platform's biggest users. Thousands fell for a scam, trusting that a crypto giveaway was real.\n\nCyber experts agreed that the consequences of the Twitter hack could have been far worse if O'Connor and other hackers had more sophisticated plans than a get-rich-quick scheme.\n\nDisinformation could have been spread to affect political discourse and markets could have been moved by well-worded fake business announcements, for example.\n\nThe hack showed how fragile Twitter's security was at the time. The attackers telephoned a small number of Twitter employees with a believable tale to convince them to hand over their internal login details - which eventually granted the hackers access to Twitter's powerful administrative tools.\n\nEssentially, the hackers managed to use social engineering tricks more akin to those of conmen than of high-level cyber-criminals to get access to the powerful internal control panel at the site.\n\nMike Bloomberg and Kanye West were among those hacked\n\nIt was, and still is, a hugely embarrassing moment in Twitter's troubled history.\n\nO'Connor's admission has not come as a shock though as there was a wealth of evidence in the public domain thanks to the hackers making some bad mistakes or being too loud in their celebrations in the aftermath of the hack.\n\nO'Connor also pleaded guilty to other hacking crimes including gaining access to a high-profile TikTok account.\n\nHe posted a video to that account where his own voice is recognisable and threatened to release \"sensitive, personal material\" related to the owner of the account to people who joined a Discord group.\n\nThe US justice department said he had also used technology to stalk a minor.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is the Title 42 border policy?\n\nA record number of migrants were recently apprehended at the US-Mexico border in a single day, fuelling fears over what will happen in a few hours when a controversial immigration policy expires.\n\nThe rule, known as Title 42, was first implemented in 2020 and made it easier for the US to expel migrants back to Mexico using the coronavirus pandemic as justification.\n\nBut its looming expiration at 23:59 ET on Thursday (03:59 GMT on Friday) has triggered a rush to reach the border, and cities on both sides are readying for a rise in attempted crossings once it lapses.\n\nPresident Joe Biden acknowledged earlier this week that the border would be \"chaotic for a while\" despite the best efforts of the authorities.\n\nThe potential impact is already clear in the Texas city of El Paso, which is seeing an increase in arrivals ahead of the rule change.\n\nMigrants - many of them confused about the impending change - are sleeping rough in makeshift campsites on the city's streets. Several thousand were camped out earlier this week around a church in the city centre.\n\n\"We've never seen this before,\" Mayor Oscar Leeser said at a border security expo just streets away from the campsite on Wednesday. \"Something has to change. As a community, we can't do this forever.\"\n\nHe warned that across from El Paso alone, an estimated 10,000 migrants were \"lined up at the border, waiting to come in\".\n\nJoe Sanchez, the regional director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, compared the situation to a stampede at a football game - only many times larger.\n\n\"Imagine 60,000 people in one location, and all of a sudden an alert comes on and says there's a bomb in the building. What happens after that? Chaos… It's very hard to control and very hard to manage,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"That's exactly what it's like on the border.\"\n\nFor those migrants - and those already in the US - the future is uncertain.\n\nIn a bid to stop the flow, the Biden administration introduced strict new rules for asylum seekers on Wednesday, which included barring those who cross illegally from applying from asylum for five years.\n\nUS officials have also announced new changes aimed at encouraging migrants to seek legal pathways to the country, as well as strict penalties and swift deportation for those who do not.\n\nMigrants are camped out at a church in El Paso ahead of Title 42 ending\n\nMoreover, about 24,000 law enforcement officers have been stationed along the length of the 2,000 mile (3,218km) border, along with thousands of National Guard troops and active-duty military personnel sent to help Customs and Border Protection (CBP).\n\nThe new measures come at a challenging time for the CBP. In the El Paso sector alone, officers have seen a sharp rise in attempted crossings over the past six months and are carrying out hundreds of detentions every day.\n\nAuthorities in the city have been left to contend both with unprocessed migrants who crossed illegally, and those who have been released from detention to await a court date with an immigration judge. Some migrants in El Paso told the BBC they would have to wait years before they appear in court.\n\nAnd just days before Title 42 expires, officials here have launched an enforcement operation asking migrants to head to the nearest processing facility.\n\nThose who were found to have legitimate asylum claims were given dates to appear before an immigration judge, while others were detained for eventual removal. One woman told the BBC that her court date was in 2025 in Miami, Florida.\n\nMigrants in the area also said that some had run, fearful of deportation, while others had reluctantly presented themselves to CBP officers in the hopes that they would be allowed to stay.\n\n\"It was crazy. They came to tell us early in the morning, when it was still dark,\" said Luis Angel, a 29-year-old Cuban who was paroled into El Paso awaiting his court date. \"Some of my friends are still detained.\"\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that much of the problem stemmed from smugglers who had \"been hard at work spreading false information that the border will be open\" after 11 May.\n\n\"It will not be. They are lying,\" he added. \"We urge migrants once again not to believe the smugglers who are lying to them solely to make a profit. We are building lawful pathways for you to come to the United States.\"\n\nAmong the steps being taken are the opening of regional processing centres aimed at helping migrants apply to come to the US, as well as expanded access to CBP One, an app which migrants can use to schedule asylum appointments.\n\nMigrants run from Border Patrol after crossing into El Paso, Texas\n\nCBP also plans to ramp up efforts to counter misinformation to combat rumours about border policies.\n\nStill, many migrants in El Paso said that they found the rules confusing and had heard conflicting information about what might happen before or after the policy ends.\n\n\"The rules definitely influenced me. I heard that with Title 42 they'd return me to Mexico to try again until I get in,\" said Daniel, a Venezuelan.\n\n\"But now they'll return everyone to their country,\" he said. \"If I go back to Venezuela, who knows, they might torture or imprison me. That's how it is there.\"\n\nWith additional reporting from Angelica Casas and Morgan Gisholt Minard", "Homosalate, a sunscreen ingredient common in concealer and foundations, may need to be tested on animals\n\nThe government has allowed animal testing for makeup ingredients to resume despite a 25-year ban.\n\nIt changed a policy on animal testing to align with EU chemical rules, according to a High Court ruling.\n\nThe High Court said on Friday that the government was acting legally after a case was brought by animal rights activists.\n\nMore than 80 brands have said they are \"dismayed\" by the government's new position.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson told the BBC: \"We are pleased that the High Court has agreed with the Government's position in this case. The government is committed to the protection of animals in science\".\n\nAnimal testing for makeup or its ingredients had been completely banned in the UK since 1998. Animal testing had only been allowed if the benefits gained from the research outweighed any animal suffering, for example for medicines.\n\nBut in 2020 the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), an EU agency which oversees chemical regulation, ruled that companies needed to test some ingredients used in cosmetics on animals to ensure they were safe for workers manufacturing the ingredients.\n\nDuring the case it was revealed that since 2019 the government had been issuing licences for animal testing of cosmetic ingredients in line with EU chemical rules, which it retained despite leaving the EU in 2020.\n\nBut manufacturers still cannot undertake any animal testing to check the safety of the makeup for consumers. This should be done using other methods.\n\nThis could include testing chemicals commonly found in foundations and concealers by forcing rats to inhale or ingest them.\n\nIt is not known how many such licences were issued or to whom.\n\nCruelty Free International (CFI), which brought the case, argued this was illegal and in breach of the animal testing ban for makeup and its ingredients, which has stood since 1998.\n\nMr Justice Linden ruled in favour of the government, saying that the change in policy still met existing laws, although he said it was \"regrettable\" the public had not been informed.\n\nThe change in the government's position has been heavily criticised by major beauty and cosmetic brands, including Unilever, Body Shop and Boots. Most major brands have long campaigned to end animal testing.\n\nCruelty Free International said it was \"outrageous\" that the government had effectively lifted the ban.\n\nChristopher Davis, director of activism and sustainability at the Body Shop said they would \"campaign vigorously\" against the changes.\n\n\"Allowing animal testing for cosmetics would be a devastating blow to the millions of people who have supported campaigns to end this appalling practice,\" he told the BBC after the ruling.\n\nThe ingredients that may be tested on animals include homosalate - a common sunscreen ingredient used already in many foundations and skincare products.\n\nIn low doses homosalate is safe but in higher concentrations the evidence for its impact on the human immune system are inconclusive.\n\nMr Justice Linden said that nothing was stopping the government from introducing an absolute ban on animal testing of makeup products if it desired.\n\nCruelty Free International CEO Michelle Thew said: \"The case shows clearly that [the government] was prioritising the interests of contract-testing companies over those of animals and the wishes of the vast majority of British people who are strongly opposed to cosmetics testing.\"\n\nCFI said it would appeal the decision made by the court and ask the government to reinstate the complete ban in the UK.\n\nEU chemicals rules require some cosmetics ingredients to be tested on animals to protect workers\n\nDr Julia Fentem, head of the safety and environmental assurance centre at Unilever - one of the world's largest cosmetic companies - said tests potentially required under the new policy were \"unnecessary\", and that safety tests could be carried out without animal involvement.\n\nA new chemicals strategy is expected to be published this year outlining the government's position on the use and testing of chemicals in the UK - which may include further guidance to cosmetic companies.\n\nClarification 11 May 2023: This article's headline has been amended to make clear that the story concerns makeup ingredients.", "As we've been reporting, there has been a lot of criticism of the bill from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nBut several peers - mostly from the Conservative benches - have been speaking in support of it.\n\nMichael Forsyth, the Conservative former Scotland secretary, backed the comments of his old cabinet colleague Michael Howard - who spoke earlier in the debate. Lord Forsyth said “something needs to be done - and this is something, which is an alternative to doing nothing\" - which he said was the position of those opposing the bill.\n\nThe author Lord Dobbs said while he finds the bill \"in many ways distasteful” it is the “moral obligation” of politicians to stop small boat crossings. This bill “aims at finding a better means of fighting the modern slavers and people smugglers” to save human lives, the Conservative peer adds.\n\nFormer supreme court judge, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, calls on peers to “harden their hearts” and support the bill in order to “stop the boats” and “limit the overall number” of immigrants coming to the UK.\n\nThe crossbench peer argues that global famine and conflict will only drive-up immigration in the coming years and the UK must “find its own solution” for illegal migration soon.\n\nAnother crossbench peer, the founder of Migration Watch Lord Green of Deddington, backed the Bill, which he says is a small part of the fight against large scale migration. A “real reduction in wider migration is now essential to preserve the country that many of us love”, he says.", "Swedish star Loreen is the bookmaker's favourite to win the contest\n\nSweden's Loreen has sailed through to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest, cementing her position as this year's favourite.\n\nThe star, who previously won in 2012, clasped her hands to cover her eyes as it was announced she had qualified from the first semi-final in Liverpool.\n\nIreland were less fortunate, with the rock band Wild Youth on their way home after failing to attract enough votes.\n\nThe country has now failed to qualify on eight of their last 10 attempts.\n\nThe continuation of that losing streak will cause much soul-searching in the nation that holds the record for the most Eurovision victories of all time - seven in total.\n\nThe last time they qualified was 2018, when Ryan O'Shaughnessy entered with his song Together.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Night one's most iconic Eurovision performances (UK only)\n\nIreland's Eurovision commentator Marty Whelan could not hide his disappointment.\n\n\"Everything was absolutely perfect, they were fantastic,\" he said live on RTÉ One as the news sunk in.\n\n\"There's things I want to say, there's things I want to share. You can probably get it from the tone of my voice, what I'm thinking, that this is... Ugh, this is just such a shame.\n\n\"But the votes didn't come. So we are not qualifying again this year from Liverpool when we had great expectations, as the famous book says.\"\n\nIreland's Wild Youth had been endorsed by Lewis Capaldi and former One Direction star Niall Horan\n\nTuesday's semi-final at the Liverpool Arena saw 15 acts competing for a place in Saturday's grand final. These are the ones who made the cut.\n\nRock bands fared badly in the public vote, with Latvia's Sudden Lights and Malta's The Busker joining Ireland on the chopping block.\n\nThe other artists whose journey ended on Tuesday were Azerbaijani twins TuralTuranX and the Netherlands' Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper.\n\nThe show was hosted by Alesha Dixon, Julia Sanina and Hannah Waddingham\n\nTen more acts will progress to the main competition after Thursday's second semi-final. The \"Big Five\" countries, who contribute the most financially to the competition (France, Germany, Spain, the UK and Italy) qualify automatically, as do last year's winners Ukraine.\n\nLiverpool is hosting the competition on Ukraine's behalf, due to the ongoing Russian invasion of their country.\n\nThe impact of the war was referenced throughout the two-hour show. Songs like Switzerland's Watergun and Croatia's Mama ŠČ! denounced conflict and bloodlust, while the Czech band Vesna sang elements of their song in Ukrainian as a show of solidarity with their near-neighbours.\n\nDuring the interval, Ukrainian star Alyosha performed a mournful version of Duran Duran's Ordinary World, that emphasised the pain of being separated from your loved ones.\n\nThe singer fled to America with her three children when the war began, but her husband, Taras Topolja, frontman of the rock band Antitila, was required to stay at home.\n\nAs she duetted with Liverpudlian X-Factor star Rebecca Ferguson, text messages from families fleeing the country flashed up on giant video screens and the arena was lit up in the Ukrainian national colours of blue and yellow.\n\nSpeaking before the contest, Alyosha dedicated her sobering and beautiful performance to forced migrants around the world.\n\nThe half-time show also saw pop star Rita Ora performing a medley of her hits, including Anywhere and Praising You.\n\nShe was joined on stage by 12-year-old Ukrainian refugee Sofiia, who has now settled in the UK. Ora said the youngster's plight reminded her of her own family's experience of fleeing the Balkan War in the 1990s \"and how I will be forever grateful to the UK for showing us kindness and compassion\".\n\n\"Sofiia opens my performance this evening playing with a ball, representing the loss of childhood for these poor refugees,\" she wrote on Twitter. \"We love you Ukraine, we all perform tonight, for you.\"\n\nThe evening kicked off with a short video featuring famous faces from around Liverpool including Wirral-born TV baker Paul Hollywood, Ukrainian Everton footballer Vitalii Mykolenko and the late Paul O'Grady.\n\nThe video also contained a surprise cameo from the King and Queen, who unveiled the contest's stage last month.\n\nIsrael's Noa Kirel gave one of the night's most athletic performances\n\nThe royal theme continued with the opening act, Norwegian singer Alessandra, whose barnstorming electropop number Queen of Kings featured a costume inspired by Queen Elizabeth I.\n\nAfter that, the audience were treated to ballroom dancers, a Portuguese Moulin Rouge routine, and a re-enactment of a traditional Moldovan wedding ceremony.\n\nCo-host Alesha Dixon even recalled her days in the girl band Mis-Teeq, with a rap about the history of the song contest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Alesha Dixon's Eurovision rap at the first semi-final in Liverpool (UK only)\n\nNoa Kirel - Israel's answer to Beyoncé - received an enthusiastic response for her song Unicorn, and its pneumatic dance routine. And Finland's Käärijä raised the roof with his utterly bonkers thrash techno track Cha Cha Cha.\n\nThe night's most outrageous costumes came courtesy of Croatian shock rockers Let 3, who dressed in leather fetish gear before stripping down to white underwear.\n\nLet 3's song was a thinly-veiled attack on Russia's Vladimir Putin\n\nKäärijä's rock-pop hybrid Cha Cha Cha is seen as the biggest challenger to Loreen\n\nHowever, Loreen was the artist who had the arena in the palm of her hand, with a soaring performance of Tattoo - a song about a love so deep and intense that it becomes engraved on her heart.\n\nPerforming in a nude catsuit between two giant LED screens, she threw down the gauntlet to the rest of the 2023 contestants.\n\nBut over the weekend, the star said she wasn't too concerned about winning.\n\n\"No, I care about creating something that is real,\" she replied. \"So my fear is compromising, my fear is that it's not authentic.\"", "Ukrainian forces are preparing for a counteroffensive near the besieged city of Bakhmut\n\nIn a bunker just outside the city limits of Bakhmut, Ukraine's 77th Brigade direct artillery fire to support their infantry - their last line of defence on the western edge of the city.\n\nUkraine is still clinging to the last few streets here.\n\nBut the live video feed the artillery gunners watch intently, from a drone flying above the city, suggests that even if Russia can finally wrestle control, it would be little more than a pyrrhic victory.\n\nThe prize is now a crumpled, skeletal city - with hardly a building left unscathed, and with its entire population vanished.\n\nThe battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut has been the longest and bloodiest of this war so far. Western officials estimate between 20,000 and 30,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded here, while Ukraine's military has also paid a heavy price - and it still isn't over.\n\nThe plumes of smoke still hang heavy over the besieged city, accompanied by the relentless rumble of artillery fire.\n\nRussia has been trying to capture Bakhmut for months, and it's been a testament - so far - to Ukraine's determination not to give ground. But it's also a reminder that its coming counteroffensive could prove far more challenging.\n\nDrone footage from above Bakhmut shows the devastation caused by the continuing battle for the city\n\nBack in the bunker, Ukraine's 77th Brigade orders another artillery strike on a house. Seconds later a plume of smoke rises from the rubble. Two men emerge from the smoke, stumbling down a street. One appears to be injured.\n\nI ask if they're Wagner soldiers - the Russian paramilitary force which has been leading the assault. \"Yes,\" replies Myroslav, one of the Ukrainian troops staring at the screen.\n\n\"They are fighting quite well, but they don't really care about their people,\" he says.\n\nHe adds that they don't seem to have much artillery support and they just advance in the hope that they'll be \"luckier than the last time\". His comrade, Mykola, interjects: \"They just walk towards us, they must be on drugs.\"\n\nLooking at this shell of a city it's hard to understand why either side has sacrificed so many lives for it.\n\nMykola admits that the defence has also been costly for Ukraine. He says many soldiers have given their lives, and it's hard to fight in the densely packed streets. He says they've been replaced by troops with less experience, but adds: \"They will become the same warriors as those who fought before them.\"\n\nThe whole point of Bakhmut is to keep the enemy there\n\nTo the south of the city, Ukraine's 28th Brigade has been helping prevent Bakhmut from being encircled.\n\nThe Wagner forces they once faced have already been replaced by paratroopers of Russia's VDV, or airborne forces. But they're still locked in daily skirmishes.\n\nDuring a lull in the fighting, Yevhen, a 29-year-old soldier, takes us on a tour of their defensive position in a small wood.\n\nThe arrival of spring has provided them with some leaves for cover, but many of the trees have been stripped by the constant shelling.\n\nUkrainian troops seek cover behind bushes on the outskirts of the city of Bakhmut\n\nAs we run from a trench, across exposed ground pock-marked by shell holes, the Russians open fire with their mortars. \"That was pretty damn close,\" says Yevhen in perfect English as we reach some cover.\n\nAs we move to another position he says: \"Now we're going to fire back.\"\n\nMinutes later his men follow up with a volley of small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). There are no casualties this time. But hours after we leave one of their soldiers is seriously injured.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky has called Bakhmut \"a fortress\" of Ukrainian morale. Yevhen displays that determination not to give up. \"The whole point of Bakhmut is to keep the enemy there,\" he says.\n\nIf Ukraine gave up Bakhmut, he says, they'd only lose more lives later. \"We could retreat to save a few lives, but we would then have to counter-attack and we'd lose even more\".\n\nUkraine's hope is that the fight over Bakhmut has blunted Russia's ability to conduct its own offensive operations, and exhausted its army and supplies.\n\nIn a bunker just outside the city limits, Ukraine's 77th Brigade direct artillery fire to support their infantry\n\nBut Russia has also been preparing to stymie Ukraine's upcoming offensive.\n\nRecent satellite images of the occupied south show it has built hundreds of miles of deep trench lines and dragon's teeth tank traps to slow down any attempted advance. More difficult to punch through than the razor wire and mines we saw in front of these Ukrainian positions.\n\nSouthern Ukraine is where many expect the focus of the Ukrainian offensive to be. Russia has already ordered a partial evacuation near the nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia.\n\nUkraine, too, has been rationing artillery rounds in preparation for an attack that will be spearheaded by newly trained brigades of troops and some of the 1,300 armoured vehicles and 230 tanks supplied by the West. Though we have also witnessed convoys of Western military equipment heading East.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has tried to dampen down expectations - warning against \"overestimating\" the outcome.\n\nI ask Yevhen if he feels that pressure too. He says he knows it won't be easy, but adds: \"We've already changed the whole world's opinion of the Ukrainian army and we still have lots of surprises.\"\n\nBut this time it may prove harder to conceal the element of surprise.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Natasha says there's no amount of time Nicholas Bateman can do in prison that will be enough\n\nA mother whose baby was shaken by his father so violently he suffered brain damage has spoken of her relief that he has finally been jailed.\n\nNatasha, 27, was out of the family home in March 2018 when Nicholas Bateman, 31, assaulted their son.\n\nThe next day, the seven-week-old boy began having seizures and would go on to develop cerebral palsy.\n\nMore than five years later, Bateman was finally jailed last week for causing grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\n\"I always hoped and wished that justice would be served. It went on one year, two years, now we've hit the five-year mark,\" said Natasha, whose surname is not being reported in order to protect her son's identity.\n\n\"I started to think 'is he going to get away with it? Is he going to walk free?'\"\n\nOn 9 March 2018, while Natasha popped to a doctors appointment, Bateman phoned her to say their son had bumped his lip on his shoulder.\n\nBut when she returned home her son was lying limp on the sofa.\n\nAfter a call to emergency services Natasha was told to administer CPR before the boy was taken into hospital.\n\nThe following day he began suffering from seizures and Natasha was told to prepare for the worst as he was put into an induced coma.\n\nAfter medical examinations, doctors found the baby had multiple fractures including a bleed on his brain.\n\nThe injuries caused multiple seizures resulting in brain damage and later a diagnosis of cerebral palsy.\n\nStill, Bateman's only explanation was that his son had banged his lip.\n\nOn the baby boy's final day in hospital, to her shock, both Natasha and Bateman were arrested.\n\nAs she had been the person to call emergency services for help and Bateman was keeping to his story, police placed her as being at the property at the time of the incident.\n\nBut Natasha said their arrests was the moment she knew her son had been intentionally hurt.\n\n\"(My son) came back with multiple fractures and it was indicating shaken baby syndrome. I knew I didn't do it and the only other person that could have done it was Nicholas.\n\n\"In hospital he just seemed like a sad father that wanted his child to get better. But knowing he put him in that situation, he hasn't shown any remorse.\"\n\nNatasha said no sentence would be enough for her ex partner's assault on her son\n\nIt wasn't just authorities who had suspicions about her role in the baby's injuries. The police and ambulance workers who attended the aftermath of the incident had inevitably caught the attention of neighbours.\n\n\"People judged, people were staring thinking 'did she do it, will it come out?',\" she said.\n\n\"They'd judge me and I was like, I didn't need to give them an explanation. The people that knew I didn't do it, thankfully, like my family and friends, knew I couldn't do something like that.\"\n\nNatasha's son was made the subject of family court proceedings, and had to live with his grandparents while authorities worked out who was responsible for his injuries.\n\nNatasha, said: \"Still he (Bateman) didn't admit to nothing at all. He even tried telling people that I was lying about my son being disabled.\"\n\nNicholas Bateman was jailed for more than 10 years for assaulting his son\n\nBut after eight months of proceedings, Bateman was charged by police with causing grievous bodily harm with intent. No further action was taken against Natasha.\n\nThere were years of criminal court delays, in part due to the start of the coronavirus pandemic and Bateman's denials that he had harmed his son.\n\nAfter many court appearances, and just over five years on the from the assault, Bateman eventually pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown Court on 21 March.\n\nHe was sentenced to 10 years and nine months in jail at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on 4 May.\n\nJudge Lucy Crowther told the sentencing hearing that Bateman had likely first gripped the little boy around his face and chest before \"violently\" shaking him and throwing him onto a soft surface.\n\n\"You shook him when he wouldn't stop crying. You were just too frightened to say what you had done,\" the judge said.\n\nNatasha said despite her relief that justice has finally been served, she feels there is \"no amount of time\" that Bateman can serve \"that will be enough for what he's done\".\n\n\"To hear him say (he is guilty) is something we've all wanted to hear. But then to hear him say it five years later is too late. He hasn't had to see what he has done. He's lived a normal life. He's carried on with his life\".\n\nShe said her son cannot talk, walk or stand without assistance. He struggles to eat a normal diet and survives mainly on yoghurts. He also cannot sleep without medication and doesn't have much of a pain threshold.\n\n\"I always look at him and I think 'why?' He was only seven weeks old,\" said Natasha, from Rhondda Cynon Taf in south Wales.\n\n\"I don't know what his future will be. We'll always show him love, he will always be happy. But there will be ways where he will suffer.\n\n\"I don't know if he will be able to go out on his own, or have a family. He's had that taken away from him.\n\n\"I don't want to say it, but I think he will be his mum's boy for the rest of his life and I'll take care of him for the rest of his life.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nKevin de Bruyne's screamer earned Manchester City a Champions League semi-final first-leg draw at Real Madrid to keep their dream of the Treble on track.\n\nCity know any win next Wednesday at home against Madrid will send them to only their second Champions League final, against either Inter Milan or AC Milan.\n\nPep Guardiola's side dominated the early stages at a nervy Bernabeu, with Thibaut Courtois denying De Bruyne, Rodri and Erling Haaland twice.\n\nBut Vinicius Jr scored with Real's only chance of the first half, a 25-yard thunderbolt which flew past Ederson following a brilliant run by Eduardo Camavinga.\n\nJust as Real began to dominate a period of the second half, City found a way back with De Bruyne fizzing a shot from a similar distance into the bottom corner.\n\nAurelien Tchouameni almost gave Real, looking to extend their record tally to 15 European crowns, the lead again with another strike from range but it was well saved by Ederson.\n\nCity are now unbeaten in 21 games in all competitions, a run which includes 17 wins. Seven more victories and they get the Treble (winners of league, FA Cup and Champions League titles).\n• None 'If Haaland doesn't get you, De Bruyne will'\n• None Man City feel 'unstoppable' at home - but are they still favourites?\n\nThe Champions League is the one that has been missing for City and they are arguably the best European team of the current era never to win it.\n\nIt sounds so simple, but they just need to beat Real, who are third in La Liga, at home and then either the team fourth or fifth in Italy's Serie A in the final in Istanbul. Milan face Inter on Wednesday.\n\nNot that Guardiola will let his players get carried away with that scenario.\n\nThey lead the Premier League from Arsenal with four games to go and face Manchester United, the only English team to win the Treble, in the FA Cup final in June.\n\nTalk before the game was of revenge, with Real beating City at this stage last season in a 6-5 aggregate classic.\n\nBut, a year on, City look more grown up and almost unbeatable. This game was edgy and heated but lacked some of the chaos of last season's first leg, which ended 4-3.\n\nGuardiola knows his best team now so the days of throwing a tactical shock, which often did not work, in a game like this seem a thing of the past.\n\nThey played this game as if they were at home, with Real supporters booing their relentless possession. Courtois had four saves to make in the opening 16 minutes alone.\n\nBut then they trailed to Vinicius' goal - with the Brazilian also scoring against City last year.\n\nHowever their heads did not drop, and their three-month unbeaten run continues thanks to De Bruyne.\n\nIlkay Gundogan laid the ball off for De Bruyne, who thrashed a shot past his Belgium team-mate Courtois. Having also netted in 2020, De Bruyne is the first player in Champions League history to score in separate away games against Real in the knockout stages.\n\nCity - who did not make any substitutions - never had a chance to win the game, with that their last shot. Next week they will hope to see 51-goal Haaland get more joy in front of goal.\n\nMadrid's aura in the Champions League is something special. They are not the defending champions - and 14-time winners - by accident.\n\nDomestically they sit 14 points behind champions elect Barcelona, with Atletico Madrid also above them.\n\nBut they have won five Champions League titles in nine years, with two of them coming in seasons they finished third.\n\nCarlo Ancelotti's side came into this game on a good bit of domestic news, having won the Copa del Rey final against Osasuna on Saturday.\n\nBut this is where Real thrive - often against English clubs too. This is the sixth knockout tie in a row in which they have faced an English team - and they have won the other five.\n\nThe first half was a smash and grab to some extent with Vinicius' goal coming from their first real attack. Only Haaland (13 - 12 goals, one assist) has been involved in more Champions League goals than Vinicius this season (12 - seven goals, five assists).\n\nThey grew into the game in the second half, with De Bruyne giving them a taste of their own medicine by scoring after the end of a good spell for Real.\n\nCamavinga, who set up their goal, gave the ball away to Rodri in the build-up, highlighting the pros and cons of playing a central midfielder at left-back.\n\nMadrid boss Ancelotti was booked for his angry reaction to the goal, claiming the ball went out of play in the build-up. His side had chances to win the game with Benzema's header saved by Ederson, before French sub Tchouameni went close.\n• None Attempt saved. Nacho (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Eduardo Camavinga.\n• None Attempt blocked. Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Vinícius Júnior.\n• None Attempt blocked. Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Aurélien Tchouaméni (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Karim Benzema.\n• None Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Toni Kroos. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None What haunting secrets are buried Inside No. 9?:\n• None Which pair will finish first?: A frenetic race across Canada without phones and flights", "A video filmed in Ginza, a shopping district in Tokyo, showed a group of masked individuals robbing a luxury watch shop on Monday.\n\nThey wielded a knife while inside and threatened to kill the shop's sales clerks - smashing a display and fleeing the scene with stolen goods, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported.\n\nPolice say they believe the robbery was committed by three people who fled in a rented van that may have had replacement licence plates. Four arrests have been made in connection with the incident so far.\n\nNo one was hurt.", "Opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu (second from the right) is polling ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\n\nDanger comes in many forms.\n\nFor Turkey's long-time leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it comes in the shape of a former civil servant, given to making heart emojis with his hands.\n\nKemal Kilicdaroglu, backed by a six-party opposition alliance, says if he wins he will bring freedom and democracy to Turkey, whatever it takes.\n\n\"The youth want democracy,\" he told the BBC. \"They don't want the police to come to their doors early in the morning just because they tweeted.\"\n\nHe is the Islamist leader's main rival in elections on 14 May and has a narrow lead in opinion polls. This tight race is expected to go to a second round two weeks later.\n\nCurrently Turks can go to jail for \"insulting the president\". Many have.\n\n\"I am telling young people they can criticise me freely. I will make sure they have this right,\" says the 74-year-old, who leads the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).\n\nSome of Mr Kilicdaroglu's supporters fear for his safety but he says it comes with the territory.\n\n\"Being in politics in Turkey means choosing a life with risks. I will walk my path whatever Erdogan and his allies do. They can't put me off. They can't scare me. I made a promise to this nation.\"\n\nPresident Erdogan, 69, has mocked his rival in the past saying he \"couldn't even herd a sheep\". But he's harder to dismiss now.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu is greeted by chanting supporters on the sea-front at Izmir\n\nArriving for a rally in the port city of Izmir, an opposition stronghold, the opposition candidate is greeted by a sea of flag-waving supporters.\n\nThere are chants of \"Kilicdaroglu is the hope of the people\". Many in the crowd are young. Five million Turks will vote for the first time in this election.\n\nAt 15, Oguz is too young to go to the polls but couldn't stay away from the rally. \"He is a good person, and he sees the future positively. If he becomes president our economy will rise up, and we will rise up.\"\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu told me before the rally he would reorient Turkey, and prioritise relations with the West, not the Kremlin.\n\n\"We want to become a part of the civilized world,\" he said. \"We want free media and complete judicial independence. Erdogan does not think that way. He wants to be more authoritarian. The difference between us and Erdogan is the difference between black and white.\"\n\nBut will Recep Tayyip Erdogan go quietly if he is defeated after 20 years in power, first as prime minister and now all-powerful president?\n\n\"We will retire him, and send him to his corner,\" said Mr Kilicdaroglu. \"He will step back quietly. No one should have any concerns about it.\"\n\nOthers aren't so sure. There are indications that the Turkish leader may be preparing to dispute the result if he loses. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has warned the vote will be \"a coup attempt by the West\".\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu said the combined opposition would be vigilant, trusting neither the president, \"nor his Supreme Election Council nor his judges\".\n\n\"By having more than one observer in all the polling stations, we want to ensure that votes are cast correctly, securely, and the counting is done properly. We have been taking precautions to achieve this, working hard for a year and a half.\"\n\nIn many ways he is the anti-Erdogan. He has recorded campaign videos at his modest kitchen table, tea towels hanging neatly in the background.\n\nShowing he knows his onions, his rival appeared in one video with one in hand, warning prices would keep soaring if Mr Erdogan remained in power. \"Now, one kilogram of onion is 30 liras,\" he said. \"If he stays it will be 100 liras.\"\n\nPresident Erdogan attracted a big audience in Izmir at the weekend, the day before his main rival\n\nThe president's economic policies are widely blamed for rampant inflation here. Whoever wins will inherit a broken economy and a divided nation - there's no magic bullet for either.\n\nOn stage, flanked by other opposition leaders, Mr Kilicdaroglu makes his trademark heart emoji for the crowds. \"Everything will be beautiful,\" he says. \"Believe it.\" And they do.\n\nBut his rally on the waterfront in Izmir came only a day after the president attracted his own large gathering, which was segregated.\n\nMany religious conservatives will stick with him. He speaks their language. And he has shored up his support with pre-election spending including wage increases.\n\nAs polling day draws near there is an undercurrent of tension.\n\nMany conversations are peppered with election talk - and fears - and Turkey faces a stark choice of two competing visions.\n\nA new poll of opinion polls suggests that Mr Kilicdaroglu will win the presidency but that the president's alliance is ahead in the race for parliament.\n\nWith the election on a knife edge, no-one can be sure if the coming weeks will pass peacefully.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How well does the Prince of Wales pull a pint?\n\nThere's no such thing as a quiet pint if you're the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nPrince William and Catherine arrived at the Dog and Duck with crowds jammed into the narrow streets of Soho in the bohemian heart of central London.\n\nTrying his hand at being a barman, Prince William pulled a pint of beer appropriately called \"Kingmaker\".\n\nThe royal couple had travelled to Soho on the Elizabeth Line, named after the prince's grandmother, the late Queen.\n\nThe lunchtime visit to the pub was to support the work of the hospitality industry in the run-up to the Coronation - an explanation not many of us could ever use convincingly.\n\nThe royal visitors called into Soho's Dog and Duck\n\nPrince William tried his hand at pouring a pint of Kingmaker\n\n\"You just get the best conversations in a pub... everyone is relaxed. You never know who you're going to meet,\" said Prince William talking inside the pub.\n\nThat might be a view shared by local drinkers who have heard plenty of tall tales, but who was going to believe them that they'd seen Prince William and Kate popping into the Dog and Duck?\n\nWith the Coronation looming at the weekend, Prince William said his son Prince George was excited about the big day.\n\nOutside Catherine shook hands with people in a growing crowd, although as every one of them was filming it on their phones it was a big decision whether to shake hands or keep recording.\n\nPrince William, in a spirit of modernisation, has been pioneering the era of the tie-less royal, and he arrived at the pub wearing a jacket and open shirt. And so, taking his lead, all of his retinue also seemed to have ditched the neckwear.\n\nThey must have rumbled that the only people wearing ties in the post-Covid world are TV newsreaders, people at funerals and other people on royal visits.\n\nCrowds gathered as Prince William and Catherine went inside the Soho pub\n\nCatherine was keeping up the side with a smart red outfit, which you're quite likely to see on the front pages of newspapers, as she stood behind the bar in a way that would have made Peggy Mitchell proud.\n\nThese visits are a strange version of real life. A helicopter was hovering above, police had set up cordons and in the middle of it a man in a white coat was trying to deliver meat, baffled at what was going on.\n\nThe Dog and Duck has had famous visitors before. Madonna has been spotted here and in the 1940s it was the haunt of author George Orwell - and even his worst nightmares about a surveillance society couldn't have expected the sheer number of camera-phones capturing every moment.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nIt's one of those London pubs full of old-fashioned mirrors and very modern prices, often frequented by Soho media types, which means people have been moaning about their jobs here for generations.\n\nIt's long been part of the great pilgrimage of Soho pubs, such as the French House and the Coach and Horses.\n\nBut the serious part of the visit was to recognise the efforts of people in the hospitality industry who will be working through the Coronation weekend.\n\nThe royal couple caught the Elizabeth Line on their pub outing\n\nPubs, restaurants and hotels are hoping for a coronation boom, with extended licensing hours.\n\nTUC boss Paul Nowak earlier this week issued a reminder that the celebrations for the Coronation will depend on millions of people carrying on working.\n\nThat includes retail, leisure and transport as well as emergency services.\n\nFor some a pub might be seen as part of the emergency services - but for those wanting to enjoy a pint over the weekend, someone else has to be staffing the bar to serve it.\n\nBut on Saturday, Prince William and Catherine will be busy elsewhere in a different kind of service.\n\nSo they got into waiting cars outside Ronnie Scott's jazz bar, with people hanging out of windows filming as they disappeared down Frith Street.", "People working inside polling stations had a legal duty to record how many people they refused to give a ballot paper to and why.\n\nAnyone who left after being told by the greeters outside some polling stations that they needed ID will not have been counted.\n\nSome returning officers have already announced how many people were turned away and how many came back. They are not necessarily announcing the reasons why they were turned away.\n\nThe returning officer in Lincoln said that 57 people were turned away for not having the correct ID, but 25 later returned with some.\n\nThe Electoral Commission, an independent body that oversees elections, is collating all this information. An initial report, to be published in the coming weeks, will include the proportion of people turned away from polling stations.\n\nWhen we get those figures, we will get separate data for polling stations depending on whether there were greeters outside.", "The all-male group was started in 2016 by Gavin McInnes, a co-founder of Vice Magazine who later became a right-wing podcaster. He said he was leaving the group two years later.\n\nThey were keen to portray themselves as a drinking club, but became better known for their street brawls with far-left anti-fascist \"antifa\" on the streets of major American cities.\n\nTheir politics were a mix of traditional, male supremacist and extreme libertarian views.\n\nThey gathered with local actions - and plenty of violence - before shooting to mainstream attention in 2020, when they were the subject of a brief discussion during a presidential debate.\n\nThe group was firmly on the side of Donald Trump, who once told them to \"stand back and stand by\" in an election debate.\n\nDozens of Proud Boys - in addition to the five on trial - were at the Capitol riots on 6 January 2021.\n\nSince then, the group's national leadership has dissolved, although local chapters continue and have largely turned their attention to anti-transgender activism.\n\nPrior to the verdict, McInnes said he believes the group will continue despite its current lack of leadership.\n\n\"It's just set in stone and you can't kill it. There's no top, there's no head.\"\n\nFormer Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, seen here with Joe Biggs (right) in December 2020. Image caption: Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, seen here with Joe Biggs (right) in December 2020.", "Miss Stirling was reunited with her dress at a car boot sale after a couple found it\n\nA bride-to-be has been reunited with her wedding dress after it accidentally ended up in a car boot sale.\n\nLiv Stirling's nan, Bobbie Clutterbuck, bought the dress as a wedding gift, but when she passed away in February the dress was lost in a clear out.\n\nMiss Stirling, from Portsmouth, then launched a social media campaign to track it down.\n\nWithin a day she was reunited with the dress, which had been bought at a car boot sale in Ford, West Sussex.\n\nMiss Stirling said she was \"over the moon\" to have the dress back\n\nShe had been keeping the wedding gown safe at her nan's flat until the big day next year.\n\nBut when her nan passed away, her cousin organised a clear out and said the dress was \"scooped up\" with everything else.\n\n\"I had an absolute breakdown, honestly if you'd seen me at the time with my bridesmaids I looked like a panda, tears streaming, I didn't know what to do.\n\n\"It was a nightmare and it was their idea to put it on Facebook,\" Miss Stirling explained.\n\nMiss Stirling's nan, Bobbie Clutterbuck, bought her the dress as a wedding gift\n\nShe had taken pictures of herself in the dress, which her bridesmaids used to put out a plea on social media, as well as putting calls in to local tips in case it had been disposed of.\n\nMiss Stirling continued: \"I started by saying 'this is going to be a really strange request, but have you come across a wedding dress?'\n\n\"They [tip staff] were really, really lovely and apologetic and said it wasn't the weirdest request they'd had.\"\n\nWith her dress returned, Miss Stirling is excited to continue planning her wedding to Craig\n\nThe Facebook post was shared by more than 14,000 people after Miss Stirling published it on Saturday afternoon.\n\nBy Sunday morning, she had received a message from a couple who believed they had her dress and planned to meet her at a car boot sale in Arundel.\n\n\"I couldn't believe it, just over the moon that somebody so lovely had the dress. They said they believed in fate and bringing it back to its rightful owner and wouldn't take any compensation,\" Miss Stirling said.\n\nShe added: \"I just can't thank everybody enough for being so kind, it's been a lovely thing to see on social media. Nan would be thrilled.\"\n\nMiss Stirling is now busy planning her big day in March next year and said her husband-to-be had been \"incredible\" by staying off social media so he didn't see the dress.\n\nThe wedding dress will be safely stored until the big day next year\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ed Sheeran: I won't have to retire from my day job after all\n\nEd Sheeran did not copy Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On when composing Thinking Out Loud, a US court has ruled.\n\nThe British singer-songwriter had denied stealing elements of the song for his 2014 worldwide hit.\n\nHeirs of Gaye's co-writer argued that Sheeran, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Publishing owed them money for copyright infringement.\n\nSheeran had said he would give up his music career if found guilty at the trial in New York.\n\n\"If that happens, I'm done, I'm stopping,\" he said when asked about the toll the trial at Manhattan federal court was taking on him.\n\nSheeran stood up and hugged his team after jurors ruled that he \"independently\" created his song.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Sheeran said he was \"obviously very happy\" with the ruling.\n\n\"It looks like I'm not going to have to retire from my day job after all,\" he said. \"But at the same time I am absolutely frustrated that baseless claims like this are allowed to go to court at all.\n\n\"If the jury had decided this matter the other way we might as well say goodbye to the creative freedom of songwriters.\"\n\n\"I am not and will never allow myself to be a piggy bank for anyone to shake,\" he added.\n\nA musicologist for Sheeran's defence told the court that the four-chord sequence in question was used in several songs before Gaye's hit came out in 1973.\n\nKathryn Townsend Griffin, the daughter of Gaye's co-writer Ed Townsend, accused Sheeran of copyright infringement. She walked swiftly past reporters smoking what appeared to be a cigarillo, saying only: \"God is good all the time, all the time God is good.\"\n\nKathryn Townsend Griffin, the daughter of composer Ed Townsend, accuses Sheeran of copyright infringement\n\nDuring the civil trial Sheeran sang and played parts of Thinking Out Loud on the guitar.\n\nHe said he wrote the song at home in England with his friend Amy Wadge, and had been inspired by his grandparents and a new romantic relationship he had just begun.\n\nSheeran's lawyer, Ilene Farkas, told the jurors that similarities in the chord progressions and rhythms of the two songs were \"the letters of the alphabet of music.\"\n\n\"These are basic musical building blocks that songwriters now and forever must be free to use, or all of us who love music will be poorer for it,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How similar are Ed Sheeran and Marvin Gaye's songs?\n\nDuring the trial, Keisha Rice, who represented the heirs of Townsend, said her clients were not claiming to own basic musical elements but rather \"the way in which these common elements were uniquely combined.\"\n\n\"Mr Sheeran is counting on you to be very, very overwhelmed by his commercial success,\" she said, urging jurors to use their \"common sense\" to decide whether the songs are similar.\n\nLast year Sheeran won a copyright battle at the High Court in London over his 2017 Shape of You.\n\nSheeran is also facing claims over Thinking Out Loud from a company owned by investment banker David Pullman that holds copyright interests in the Gaye song.\n\nIn 2015 Gaye's heirs won a $5.3m judgment from a lawsuit claiming the Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams song Blurred Lines copied Gaye's Got to Give It Up.", "Four years on from submitting a complaint alleging she had been raped while in the armed forces, \"Jane\" is still awaiting a decision and says it was used as a \"weapon\" against her.\n\nShe told the BBC that colleagues knew things about the confidential process \"they should never have known\".\n\nHer concerns are not unique, according to a report by the ombudsman for armed forces complaints.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence acknowledged \"there is still more work to be done\".\n\nIn her report, ombudsman Mariette Hughes said the complaints system was \"not efficient, effective or fair\" - the seventh year in a row it has been criticised - with the main grievances raised being around career management, bullying or discrimination.\n\nThe BBC is not using Jane's real name. She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"You have no idea who that service complaint is sent to, but it could initially be somebody that sees things within your immediate chain of command.\"\n\nShe also received very limited communication about the next steps of the complaint, while information was lost and correspondence sent to an incorrect home address.\n\n\"I've never ever experienced anything like that in my life,\" she said.\n\nIn its annual report for 2022, the Service Complaints Ombudsman for the Armed Forces said there is a \"persistent view that the system will disadvantage or discriminate\" against personnel who submit complaints.\n\nMs Hughes, who was appointed to the role in January 2021, told the BBC it was important to take into account \"people's situations and emotions\" when tackling complaints.\n\n\"The biggest overarching issue is still that sometimes within the service complaints process we forget that there are people involved,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"We need to be able to show greater flexibility, take account of people's situations and emotions, and just recognise that at the end of the day these are people who have complaints that need resolving.\"\n\nThe ombudsman provides \"independent and impartial oversight\" of the service complaints process.\n\nMs Hughes said it was \"distressing\" that complaints relating to bullying, harassment and discrimination \"take far longer than other complaints to resolve\".\n\n\"Those are the ones where there's a lot of emotion involved, and they can really hang over individuals,\" she said.\n\nA total of 12% of service personnel said they experienced bullying, harassment or discrimination, although just 7% of those raised a written complaint, down from 11% in 2021.\n\nMore than half - 56% - of those who experienced bullying, harassment or discrimination said they did not submit complaints because \"they did not believe anything would be done about it\", while 51% felt that \"complaining would adversely affect their career\".\n\nWhile the report noted an overall increase in confidence in the complaints system, it said overall trust levels were \"worryingly low\".\n\n\"It's really difficult to understand the scale and breadth of the problem until people have more confidence in coming forward,\" Ms Hughes said.\n\n\"If we can't see the issues, we can't fix the issues.\"\n\nOther issues highlighted in the report included the effect of changes to the appeals system, as well as the system not dealing with complaints at the lowest level.\n\nHowever, the report also acknowledged improvements made to the complaints system in 2022, notably that the independence of the process has improved now that those making complaints no longer have to submit them through their chain of command but to a specialised team.\n\nEfficiency also improved, with 66% of complaints being dealt with within the targeted time-frame of 24 weeks, up from 47% in 2021. However, this figure fell short of the 90% target.\n\nThe report found that 935 complaints were \"ruled admissible\", of which 43% were upheld either partially or fully in favour of the complainant.\n\nWomen in the armed forces continue to be overrepresented in the complaints process, making up 21% of complaints, despite comprising only 12% of armed force members.\n\nThe report made five recommendations for improvements, including reviewing case-handling processes and developing a dedicated area on their intranet to provide information about how people can submit complaints.\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesperson said that \"bullying, harassment and discrimination\" are not tolerated in the armed forces, and that it was \"committed to providing a fair, efficient and effective\" complaints system.\n\n\"We acknowledge that there is still more work to be done and are working hard to deliver it,\" the spokesperson said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Meteosat-12 takes a picture of the weather systems below it every 10 minutes\n\nThe first images from Europe's new weather satellite, Meteosat-12, have just been released.\n\nThe spacecraft, which sits 36,000km above the equator, was launched in December and is currently in a testing phase that will last most of this year.\n\nWhen Meteosat-12's data is finally released to meteorological agencies, it's expected to bring about a step-change in forecasting skill.\n\nThis is something called \"nowcasting\" - the ability to say with greater confidence that violent winds, lightning, hail or heavy downpours are about to strike a particular area.\n\nMeteosat-12 should help forecasters identify those places about to experience extreme conditions\n\nPart of this advance will come from the increased resolution of Meteosat-12. For previous generation satellites, a feature in a storm had to be at least 1km across to be detected. The new spacecraft will track features as small as 500m in diameter.\n\n\"We can now see very fine structures,\" said Jochen Grandell from Eumetsat, the intergovernmental agency that manages Europe's weather satellites.\n\n\"You may have heard the term 'overshooting top', for example, which is a part of a thunderstorm's cloud development where you might see very strong updrafts and downdrafts. These are very rapidly changing, and they are very small as well. But they are also very powerful,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: European countries share the cost of running the Meteosat system\n\nEurope has had its own meteorological spacecraft sitting high above the planet since 1977. The new imager is the third iteration in the series.\n\nMeteosat-12 sits in a \"stationary\" position, keeping a permanent eye on Europe, the Middle East and Africa.\n\nIt will return a full picture of the weather systems racing across Earth's surface at a rate of one every 10 minutes, five minutes faster than has been the case up to now. It also views the planet in more wavelengths of light. Sixteen instead of the previously available 12.\n\nThe additional bands of light allow for true colour images. In other words, the pictures are much closer to what the human eye might perceive if looking down from the same vantage point.\n\n\"The first time we received the data, there were huge emotions because we could see the high quality of the sensor,\" recalled Eumetsat colleague Alessandro Burini.\n\n\"The optical quality of the images, of the radiometry, of the navigation - in other words the accuracy of the position of the individual pixels in an image - is really very good.\"\n\nArtwork: The near-4 tonne satellite sits 36,000km above the equator\n\nThe new third-generation system will eventually comprise a trio of spacecraft working in unison.\n\nA second imager will go up in 2026 to acquire more rapid - every 2.5 minutes - pictures of just Europe. Before that, in 2024, a \"sounding\" spacecraft will launch to sample the temperature and humidity down through the atmosphere.\n\nWith replacement satellites already ordered for the first working threesome, Europe is guaranteed coverage well into the 2040s.\n\nThe overall cost is expected to be about €4.3bn (£3.7bn).\n\nIf that sounds like a lot of money (and it is), it pales next to the value society accrues from accurate weather forecasting - in preventing loss of life, infrastructure damage and economic disruption.\n\nRepeated analyses have judged the benefits to be worth tens of billions every year across Europe as a whole.\n\nBBC Weather presenter and meteorologist Simon King was excited to see the new imagery.\n\n\"It's like going from standard definition to 4K,\" he said. \"The increase in resolution is quite remarkable. When you zoom in you can really see the cloud structure. And it's not just cloud, you can see very clearly as well the dust in the atmosphere, which is important for hurricane development for example.\"\n\nNataša Strelec Mahović works at Eumetsat, training people how to use data from space. She's previously worked as a meteorologist in Croatia.\n\n\"Another example I would name as a consequence of higher resolution would be fog detection because we can now see fog even in very narrow valleys,\" she explained. \"And maybe another application I would emphasize is wildfire monitoring, as [Meteosat-12] will not only see much smaller fires better and see the smoke, but the channels on [Meteosat-12] will allow us to see the differences even in fire intensity.\"\n\nTesting of the satellite and ground systems will continue through this year. National forecasting agencies, such as the UK Met Office, Meteo France and DWD (the German Meteorological Service), should be ingesting Meteosat-12 information into their supercomputers on a routine basis early in 2024.", "Voters are electing councillors and mayors across England\n\nVoting for councillors and mayors is continuing across many parts of England, in the biggest round of local elections since 2019.\n\nA total of 230 councils are holding elections, with voters choosing the councillors they want to run services in their local area.\n\nMayors are being elected in Bedford, Leicester, Mansfield and Middlesbrough.\n\nVoting is taking place between 07:00 and 22:00 BST, with the results due on Friday.\n\nFor the first time in England, voters need to show photo ID in polling stations - passports, driving licences and some other forms of ID can be used.\n\nSome voters have taken photos of their dogs outside polling stations, in what has become an election-day tradition in recent years.\n\nThe first results are expected just after midnight on Friday morning, with 65 councils counting votes overnight.\n\nThe rest will begin counting later on Friday morning, and results will continue to come in throughout the day, including for the four mayoral races.\n\nThe final result is expected to be announced around 20:00 BST on Friday, although this could be later depending on factors such as recounts.\n\nElections are not taking place in London, Scotland or Wales.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Opens in a new browser tab More information about these elections Who won in my area? Enter your postcode, or the name of your council area to find out To find your council candidates and polling station\n\nCouncil elections in Northern Ireland have been moved back to Thursday 18 May because of the Coronation of King Charles III on Saturday.\n\nMost of the councils up for election in England are district councils, responsible for services including bin collections, parks, public housing and planning applications.\n\nOther services in these areas such as roads, schools, social and care services are managed by county councils which are elected at a different time.\n\nThe rest of the councils being elected on Thursday are a mixture of metropolitan and unitary ones - single local authorities that deal with all local services.\n\nThe elections mark the first time in England that voters are required to show ID to cast their ballot in person.\n\nPassports, driving licences, and older or disabled people's bus passes are among the documents that will be accepted at polling stations.\n\nThose without the right ID were encouraged to apply for a new free voter certificate, the deadline for which closed last week.\n\nThe BBC, like other broadcasters, is not allowed to report details of campaigning or election issues while polls are open.\n\nOn polling day, the BBC does not report on any of the election campaigns from 00:30 BST until polls close at 22:00 BST on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC, however, is still able to report on other political events and stories which are not directly related to the elections.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Met Gala: Lizzo and Sir James Galway get suited and fluted\n\nUS singer Lizzo has written a gushing tribute to her musical idol - and fellow flautist - Sir James Galway after they duetted at the Met Gala.\n\nThe pair performed for sharply-dressed guests at the prestigious fashion event in New York on Monday night.\n\nFor Lizzo it was an opportunity to play with her hero; for Sir James it was late-night rehearsals, trips to the Vogue offices and keeping big secrets.\n\n\"It was amazing - she is a very good player,\" said Belfast-born Sir James.\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that he \"really enjoyed\" the gig and he praised Lizzo's performance.\n\nNicknamed \"the man with the golden flute\", 83-year-old Sir James is a world-renowned classical musician and has previously claimed to be Lizzo's number-one fan.\n\nThe adoration is clearly mutual.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an Instagram post on Wednesday night Lizzo shared a video of her playing with Sir James and said he had \"changed the trajectory\" of her life.\n\nShe wrote that when she was 11 years old and learning the flute she needed a challenge and found Sir James's 1976 album The Man With The Golden Flute.\n\nShe added: \"Now, years later I had the honour to play beside Sir James Galway, and receive lessons from him and even play his alto flute.\n\n\"I can confidently say I wouldn't be the musician I am today without his influence.\n\n\"Thank you for everything this week. You are truly the King of Flutes and I can't wait to play with you again.\"\n\nThe annual Met Gala is one of the biggest events in the New York celebrity calendar, raising money for the city's Metropolitan Museum of Art.\n\nTickets are rumoured to cost upwards of $50,000 (£40,000) and the 400 or so guests are handpicked by organiser Anna Wintour, Vogue's editor-in-chief.\n\nBig, bold fashion statements are the order of the night and this year the guests were asked to wear outfits in honour of German designer Karl Lagerfeld, who died in 2019.\n\nLizzo, pictured on the red carpet at Monday's Met Gala, is best known for massive pop hits such as Good As Hell, About Damn Time and Juice\n\nLizzo dazzled in a long, black gown donned with strings of pearls and wore matching black leather gloves and Chanel earrings.\n\nThe Grammy-winning singer and classically-trained flute player was chosen as the performer for Monday's event and she and Sir James duetted on The Flight Of The Bumblebee.\n\nSir James and his wife live in Switzerland but were in New York to visit friends and family when they were invited to join Lizzo at the gala.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, he praised Lizzo as a \"great entertainer\".\n\n\"When she gets on the stage she takes full command,\" he said.\n\n\"It was quite funny - they wanted to give us chairs and Lizzo complained so they came up with these two thrones.\n\n\"I was definitely impressed, she was very respectful.\"\n\nHis wife Lady Jeanne Galway said they had been sworn to secrecy ahead of the event but ultimately had a spectacular night.\n\nSir James Galway has sold tens of millions of records in a career spanning six decades\n\n\"When we first met Lizzo at the rehearsal on Saturday at 11pm at night she came and she bowed down to my husband and said what an honour it was,\" she said.\n\n\"She kept saying to me: 'I'm so nervous, I'm so nervous, he's my idol.'\"\n\nLady Galway said the performance was centred around the flute \"and that's why they wanted Sir James\".\n\n\"It started with 18 flautists planted around the hall and they're in incredible costumes.\n\n\"It was the most elegant group and they were so quiet when Sir James and Lizzo were playing.\"\n\nLady Galway, also a famous flautist who regularly duets on tour with her husband, spoke of her amazement at the Met Gala.\n\nLizzo often plays a flute during her live performances\n\n\"We had to sign more forms to secrecy that Sir James was playing,\" she said.\n\n\"And when we got invited Sir James said, typically: 'Ah, I don't think I want to get involved in this. This is going to be very complicated.'\n\n\"But the team is so professional and they brought us down by car to Vogue and they would give him anything he wanted to wear.\n\n\"They refitted my gold dress with pearls and they couldn't have been kinder.\n\n\"[The performance] was spectacular - it was a minute-and-a-half on stage but it was a strong minute-and-a-half.\n\n\"Then they went into the rest of the gala and the afterparty and we went home.\"", "The New York City medical examiner has ruled a subway passenger was killed by a chokehold after a fight with another passenger that was caught on camera.\n\nOfficials say Jordan Neely's death was caused by homicide, from \"compression of neck [chokehold]\".\n\nVideo of the incident shows Mr Neely, 30, struggling as another man grabs him and holds him on the ground.\n\nPolice have questioned and released the 24-year-old US Marine who restrained the passenger.\n\nHomicide means a death caused by another person, but is not necessarily a murder. It is now up to police and prosecutors to determine if charges are warranted.\n\n\"As part of our rigorous ongoing investigation, we will review the Medical Examiner's report, assess all available video and photo footage, identify and interview as many witnesses as possible, and obtain additional medical records,\" a spokesman for Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement following the ruling.\n\n\"This investigation is being handled by senior, experienced prosecutors and we will provide an update when there is additional public information to share,\" he added.\n\nThe incident happened on Monday afternoon on the F-line train in the SoHo section of Manhattan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Wednesday, a rally for Mr Neely was held on the train platform near to where he died.\n\n\"Justice for Jordan Neely,\" the crowd chanted, according to CBS. \"If we don't get it, shut it down.\"\n\nNew York City Mayor Eric Adams urged the public to be patient and allow the investigation to determine all of the facts. \"There are so many unknowns at this time,\" he told CNN.\n\n\"We cannot just blanketly say what a passenger should or shouldn't do in a situation like that,\" he added.\n\nA video captured by a freelance journalist on the train shows the former Marine holding the 30-year-old man - who was said to have been acting erratically - around the neck for two minutes and 55 seconds.\n\nTwo other riders are also seen restraining his arms. All three later let go of the man, who is then seen lying motionless on the floor.\n\nPolice sources told BBC's US news partner CBS that the man who died was throwing rubbish and yelling at passengers. Mr Neely was a Michael Jackson impersonator and was living on the streets, according to US media.\n\nOfficers arrived at the scene at about 14:27 local time (19:27 BST) and found the man unresponsive. He was later taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\n\nJuan Alberto Vazquez, the freelance journalist who filmed the incident, told the New York Times that the deceased man was screaming on the train before he was restrained.\n\n\"'I don't have food, I don't have a drink, I'm fed up,'\" the man screamed, according to Mr Vazquez. \"'I don't mind going to jail and getting life in prison. I'm ready to die.'\"\n\nHe added the passenger was frightening, but had not assaulted anyone. At the time of the incident, Mr Vasquez said he did not believe the man would die.\n\n\"None of us were thinking that,\" he told the New York Times. \"He was moving and he was defending himself.\"\n\nNew York Governor Kathy Hochul called the video \"deeply disturbing, and that causes a lot of fear for people\".\n\nShe said the state would work with the city to determine whether homelessness and access to mental health services \"were a factor here\".", "The top US data privacy regulator has accused Meta, the firm that owns Facebook and Instagram, of not putting proper parental controls in place.\n\nThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) also said Meta should be banned from making money from children's data.\n\n\"The company's recklessness has put young users at risk, and Facebook needs to answer for its failures,\" it said.\n\nMeta hit back, calling the regulator's move a \"political stunt\" and accusing it of overstepping its authority.\n\nThe FTC said an independent investigation had found \"several gaps and weaknesses in Facebook's privacy program\" that posed \"substantial risks to the public\".\n\nUsers aged under 13 were found to be still allowed to engage in chats with contacts not vetted by parents.\n\nThe regulator also said Meta continued to give third-party apps access to private information after promising to cut off access if users failed to use the apps in the previous 90 days.\n\nThe FTC has proposed a series of actions, including:\n\nIn response, Meta's spokesperson, Andy Stone, said the move was a \"political stunt\".\n\nHe said Meta was being singled out \"while allowing Chinese companies, like TikTok, to operate without constraint on American soil\".\n\nHe also accused Lina Khan, who chairs the FTC, of antagonising American business.\n\nThe FTC's case began in 2018, after it was revealed that the personal data of tens of millions of Facebook users had been taken by Cambridge Analytica.\n\nThe regulator has looked to rein in some of the powers wielded by Big Tech. However, companies such as Meta believe they are being unfairly treated.\n\n\"Despite three years of continual engagement with the FTC around our agreement, they provided no opportunity to discuss this new, totally unprecedented theory,\" Mr Stone said.\n\nThe FTC, however, believes that Meta \"has repeatedly violated its privacy promises\" and wants tougher action to protect younger users.\n\nIn statement, which mirrored Mr Stone's remarks, Meta said it had spent \"vast resources building and implementing an industry-leading privacy program\".\n\n\"We will vigorously fight this action and expect to prevail\", it wrote.", "The UN warns that hundreds of thousands of people could flee the conflict\n\nThe UN's top aid official has warned that the \"will to end the fight still was not there\" after speaking to Sudan's rival military leaders.\n\nMartin Griffiths told the BBC that Sudan's descent into violence was now at a dangerous tipping point.\n\nHe called for security guarantees from the warring sides to allow humanitarian aid into the country.\n\nThe UN warns that the fighting could force hundreds of thousands of Sudanese to flee their homes.\n\nIn a BBC interview hours after his visit to Port Sudan, Mr Griffiths spoke bluntly of what he called \"the rigid existential fact that those at war are keen to keep it going\".\n\nDuring his time in Sudan's largest port, now a major evacuation and humanitarian hub, he had separate telephone conversations with Sudan's rival generals.\n\nMr Griffiths, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, called for their clear public commitments to guarantee urgent deliveries of aid.\n\n\"This is about specific protections for the movement of aid workers and goods and supplies - going down roads at certain times, airlifts from being shot down,\" he emphasised when we sat down in the Saudi port city of Jeddah across the Red Sea from Sudan.\n\nEvacuation ships now arrive daily at the port carrying foreigners and Sudanese, mainly with second passports, fleeing Sudan's sudden descent into rampant violence and wanton looting.\n\nDespite efforts at negotiating a ceasefire, Khartoum is still seeing fighting between the warring sides\n\nMr Griffiths described how most of their warehouses storing humanitarian supplies had been looted. Six trucks in an aid convoy heading to the Darfur region were seized en route.\n\nHe asked for face-to-face meetings with both General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who heads Sudan's armed forces, and his former deputy General Hamdan Dagalo, who commands the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF).\n\n\"I think it's obviously urgent, this should be done in the next day or so,\" he told us. \"We're working on it.\"\n\nSince 15 April, when the bombs first dropped and bullets flew in all directions, the rival leaders have agreed successive short ceasefires which have repeatedly been violated, especially in the capital Khartoum and the western region of Darfur, which are now war zones.\n\nMr Griffiths heard the same fine words in his telephone calls where \"they were both, separately, very eloquent in their attachment to humanitarian principles and aspirations on the question of where and when we can meet\".\n\nVisibly shocked and saddened by what he had seen and heard, he spoke of \"tales of traumatic atrocity... that are pretty unparalleled.\"\n\nWestern nations have been evacuating their citizens from the country in recent weeks\n\n\"I think a really, really, deeply concerning aspect is the speed with which it is going viral,\" he added, reaching for words to convey the enormity and intensity of a crisis with profound consequences for the region and the wider world.\n\n\"It has got all the makings of a tragedy of global relevance, and global significance. And that is why this is an opportunity for the international community to show that we care about Africa,\" he underlined with a sweeping perspective of what was at stake in Sudan's crisis.\n\nMore than 100,000 Sudanese have already crossed land borders, or the Red Sea, into Sudan's neighbours, and more than 344,000 are said to be displaced across a country where millions have been pinned down by the carnage and criminality.\n\nThe UN is warning of a possible exodus of 800,000 with others warning that number could be in the millions.\n\nMr Griffiths paid tribute to aid workers still on the ground in Sudan, especially local Sudanese civil society and humanitarian agencies, still determined to press on with their urgent humanitarian mission.\n\n\"Extraordinary people like those I met today, courageous beyond imagination, operate in areas of great uncertainty,\" he said, highlighting what he called the humanitarian axiom to \"stay and deliver\".\n\nThe UN's World Food Programme has already seen seven of its staff killed in recent weeks.\n\nMr Griffiths expressed his shock that even Port Sudan, so far relatively untouched by the fighting, was fragile too.\n\n\"Port Sudan is beginning to jump with masses of displaced people, some of them with no prospect of getting out to third countries.\"\n\nThousands of Syrians, Yemenis, and Sudanese are now trapped in the port city without the kind of passport, and support, to provide them with a way out.\n\nIt's the story of an entire nation struggling to find a way out of this deeply worrying, and rapidly worsening war.\n\nAsked about remarks by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that the UN \"failed to stop this war\" because it didn't see all the warning signs, Mr Griffiths insisted that \"a lot of people didn't see it coming\".\n\n\"That's yesterday,\" he declared in the UN's defence. \"What we're talking about today, is doing something that is consistent with our values… and meets the needs of the Sudanese people.\"", "Kenneth Law has been charged in connection to two deaths in Canada, but police believe there may be more victims\n\nUK police are carrying out checks on addresses where a poisonous substance linked to suicides may have been sent.\n\nIt follows the arrest of a Canadian man accused of \"counselling and aiding suicide\" by distributing the dangerous product worldwide.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) is working with Canadian authorities to identify potential cases of vulnerable people buying the poison in Britain.\n\nThe substance has been linked to deaths in Canada, the US and the UK.\n\nKenneth Law, 57, was arrested in the Toronto area and is accused of sending 1,200 packages to more than 40 countries.\n\nIt is not known if they all contained the toxic substance.\n\nPolice in Canada say they began investigating the case more than a month ago following the sudden death of an adult in the Toronto area.\n\nDuring that investigation they became aware of a second local death allegedly linked to Mr Law, who is accused of operating several companies offering the substance for sale.\n\nMr Law's arrest comes after a recent investigation by the Times alleged he had links to at least four deaths in the UK.\n\nThe NCA has confirmed that it was contacted by the Canadian authorities via Interpol with details of people who may have used Mr Law's website.\n\nIt has asked forces across the country to carry out welfare visits to addresses which may have received parcels, though it is not clear how many are involved.\n\nDeputy Chief Mark Andrews of Peel Police said his team are working with other forces internationally to see if more charges might be laid.\n\n\"We believe there could be more victims\", he said.\n\nMr Law is due to appear in court on 9 May.\n\nSpeaking to Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper last week, Mr Law defended his actions and said that he sold a legal product.\n\n\"What the person does with it? I have no control,\" he told the newspaper.\n\nUnder Canada's criminal code, counselling or aiding a person to die by suicide can result in a 14-year prison sentence.\n\nA recent study linked the poisonous substance to at least 20 deaths in the UK between January 2020 and February 2022.\n\nIt is not known how they obtained the chemical.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on... the Russian social media videos appearing to show Kremlin drone attack\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied his country carried out an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin, which Russia says was an attempt on President Vladimir Putin's life.\n\n\"We don't attack Putin or Moscow. We fight on our territory. We are defending our villages and cities,\" he said, speaking on a visit to Finland.\n\nThe Russian president's office said defences downed two drones overnight.\n\nIt threatened to retaliate when and where it considered necessary.\n\nUnverified footage circulating online shows smoke rising over the Kremlin - a large government complex in central Moscow - early on Wednesday. A second video shows a small explosion above the site's Senate building, while two men appear to clamber up the dome.\n\nThe Russian presidency said Ukraine had attempted a strike on Mr Putin's residence in the Kremlin and described it as \"a planned terrorist act and an assassination attempt on the president\".\n\nOfficials said two drones targeting the complex had been disabled using electronic radar assets, adding that President Putin had not been in the complex at the time of the alleged attack.\n\nBut Ukraine has said the Russian accusations are merely a pretext for massive attacks on its territory and the US says it is treating the Russian claims with a lot of caution.\n\nMr Putin appears to be one of the most closely-guarded leaders in the world. At Putin events in Moscow attended by BBC journalists, extremely tight security has been in place, including extensive checks and long convoys of vehicles with airspace closed and traffic halted.\n\nHowever if what the Kremlin is saying is true, it will raise questions about how well protected the president really is.\n\nThere will also be scrutiny over the effectiveness of Russian air defences. In recent months, anti-aircraft systems have been spotted on Moscow rooftops in the vicinity of key buildings.\n\nThey have been placed there because the Kremlin is concerned that Ukraine, or those sympathetic to Ukraine, may attempt to carry out aerial attacks on high-value targets.\n\nWhatever actually happened on Wednesday morning, the question now is how Russia will respond. Some officials have already called for tough action. Russian generals have warned many times of harsh responses to any strikes on Russian territory.\n\nBut it is unclear whether Russia has the capacity to carry out meaningful retaliatory strikes, or whether this incident will lead to any significant escalation on the battlefield inside Ukraine.\n\nA Ukrainian presidential adviser told the BBC the incident indicated Russia could be \"preparing a large-scale terrorist provocation\" in Ukraine.\n\nMykhailo Podolyak said attacking Moscow made no sense for Ukraine but would help Russia justify its own attacks on civilian targets.\n\nOn Wednesday Russian strikes on Ukraine's southern Kherson region killed 21 people. Mr Zelensky said the shelling had hit \"a railway station and a crossing, a house, a hardware store, a grocery supermarket and a gas station\". The victims included supermarket customers and employees of an energy company who were performing repairs, officials said.\n\nMr Podolyak added that any drones flying over locations in Russia were down to \"guerrilla activities of local resistance forces\".\n\n\"Something is happening in RF [Russian Federation], but definitely without Ukraine's drones over the Kremlin,\" Mr Podolyak said.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he could not validate Russia's accusation that Ukraine had tried to kill Mr Putin, but said he would take anything the Russian presidency said with a \"very large shaker of salt\".\n\nMick Mulroy, a former US deputy assistant secretary of defence and CIA officer, told the BBC that if reports of the incident were accurate, it was \"unlikely\" to be an assassination attempt as Ukraine tracks President Putin's movements closely and he was not in Moscow at the time.\n\n\"This may have been to show the Russian people that they can be hit anywhere and that the war they started in Ukraine may eventually come home to Russia, even the capital,\" he said.\n\nAlternatively, if the reports were not accurate, \"Russia may be fabricating this to use as a pretext to target President Zelensky - something they have tried to in the past\", Mr Mulroy said.\n\nRussia also noted the alleged drone incident had come shortly before Russia's 9 May Victory Day parade in Moscow, which foreign dignitaries were expected to attend.\n\nThe parade will go ahead as planned, Russian officials said.\n\nMoscow's mayor on Wednesday announced a ban on unauthorised drone flights over the city.\n\nSeveral Russian cities had already announced they would scale back this year's Victory Day celebrations.\n\nRussian authorities have cited security reasons and attacks from pro-Ukrainian forces for the changes. Explosions and fires have occurred in Russia in recent weeks.", "The whale was spotted at Loch Fleet National Nature Reserve on Wednesday night\n\nA humpback whale has washed ashore at a nature reserve in the Highlands.\n\nThe juvenile was spotted at Loch Fleet, near Golspie on the east Sutherland coast, on Wednesday night.\n\nHighland Council said the carcass was within a tidal zone and could be washed back out to sea.\n\nNatureScot, which manages Loch Fleet National Nature Reserve, said the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) had been notified.\n\nResponsibility for disposing of the whale would either fall to Highland Council or the Scottish government, depending on its size - and if the carcass can be recovered.\n\nA NatureScot spokeswoman said: \"Sadly, we can confirm that a dead whale has been found on the sand banks at Loch Fleet.\"\n\nHighland Council said the whale was in area of the loch where recovery of the animal would be difficult.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It may be washed out of the loch during the normal tidal flow.\"\n\nSMASS said it hoped samples could be taken from the whale to allow an investigation into the cause of its death.\n\nResponsibility for the dead whale - if it is under 25m (82ft) long - rests with Highland Council. Options for disposal include taking it to a landfill or burying it on the beach.\n\nLarger stranded animals are classed as \"royal fish\" and the Scottish government, on behalf of the Crown, would have \"first claim\" on the carcass.\n\nIf the government did wish to claim it, discussions would be held with Highland Council on its disposal.\n\nLast month, a minke whale washed up on a beach in East Lothian.\n\nAuthorities in East Yorkshire have also been dealing with a 30-tonne fin whale that washed up on a Bridlington beach.", "Jamie Mitchell was sentenced to 22 years in prison for murdering Steven Wilkinson\n\nA man who stabbed his former friend to death has been sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in prison.\n\nJamie Mitchell, 25, was sentenced to life for murdering Steven Wilkinson in Buckley, Flintshire, on 4 October 2022.\n\nDuring the trial at Mold Crown Court, Mitchell, of Lexham Green Close, Buckley, said he began carrying a knife after his house was attacked.\n\nJudge Rhys Rowlands told Mitchell his crime was \"a cowardly attack carried out by a pretty inadequate young man\".\n\n\"Steven Wilkinson's last moments must have been quite terrifying,\" said the judge.\n\n\"You clearly are a very dangerous individual, capable of the most extreme violence against a young man who had done nothing to you.\"\n\nMr Wilkinson was described by his family as having an enthusiasm for life, with laughter following him wherever he went.\n\nHis mother, Lisa Wilkinson, began to read a victim impact statement to the court, before becoming overcome with emotion.\n\nShe said: \"My life has been ruined and it will never be the same again. Not only did I lose my son, I lost my best friend. He filled my life with joy every day.\"\n\nSteven Wilkinson (pictured) was a former friend of Jamie Mitchell\n\nMr Wilkinson's grandmother, Jeanette Wilkinson, also read a statement to the court, saying: \"My brain is tormented by Steven's death… my heart has been shattered into a million pieces.\"\n\nThe court heard Mr Wilkinson was \"pursued, cornered and intentionally stabbed\" by Mitchell.\n\nMichael Jones KC, prosecuting, said during the trial that Mr Mitchell \"purposefully\" left his house with a kitchen knife on the night of 4 October.\n\nHis window had been smashed and he wanted to look for the culprits.\n\nThough Mr Wilkinson had nothing to do with it, he was spotted by Mitchell as he walked home from a night out, who then chased him into a courtyard at sheltered housing in Jubilee Court, and stabbed in the chest.\n\nThe family and friends of Steven Wilkinson wore shirts with his face on after Mitchell was found guilty in April\n\nMr Wilkinson was left with \"catastrophic\" and ultimately fatal injuries, jurors heard.\n\nHe was given first aid by friends who came to look for him, but he later died at Wrexham Maelor hospital.\n\nMitchell's friendship with the victim broke down when he began dating Mr Wilkinson's sister.\n\nCeri Ellis-Jones, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said the case was a \"reminder of how dangerous knives are when taken into public places, and that tragedy can often result\".\n\n\"Steven's life was violently taken from him, and his loss is deeply felt by his family and friends who continue to be in our thoughts.\"\n\nDet Supt Mark Pierce from North Wales Police said the case demonstrated \"if you carry a knife and attack somebody, the court will come down heavily on you\".", "A man who was arrested outside Buckingham Palace on Tuesday has been detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nPolice were called to reports a man had thrown shotgun cartridges into the grounds, and carried out a controlled explosion on a bag.\n\nA 59-year-old was arrested at the scene and was found to be in possession of a knife.\n\nIn a statement, the Metropolitan Police said he will remain on bail while receiving care in hospital.\n\nNo-one was injured in the incident and the Metropolitan Police said it was not being treated as terror-related.\n\nThe King and the Queen Consort were not at Buckingham Palace at the time of the arrest, but the King had hosted Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese there earlier on Tuesday.\n\nThe Palace has not commented in the incident.", "Captive breeding programmes have been recommended as one way to save the Scottish wildcat\n\nThe Scottish wildcat population is on the brink of extinction with most wild-living cats now hybrids, according to new research.\n\nThe five-year project led by NatureScot concluded there are too few wildcats in the country for the population to be viable.\n\nIt said hybridisation - wildcats breeding with feral or domestic cats - was a major threat to the species.\n\nDisease and habitat loss were identified as other risks.\n\nBiodiversity Minister Lorna Slater said the very existence of an iconic and much-loved species was under threat.\n\nThe latest research is the culmination of the Scottish Wildcat Action project - a collaborative effort led by Scotland's nature agency NatureScot, which ran from 2015 to 2020.\n\nIn a series of new reports, the project team has made recommendations on how to try and save the species.\n\nThey include releasing captive-bred wildcats in certain locations, alongside efforts to neuter hybrid and feral cats and improving habitats.\n\nThe project carried out surveys in priority areas - locations where conservation work could be targeted.\n\nIt also ran genetic tests on 529 cat samples, but none scored highly enough to be considered wildcats.\n\nAlmost 118 dead cats, more than half of them killed on roads, were also studied but none proved to be wildcats.\n\nResearchers said they had found no recent evidence of wildcats from public sightings, camera-trap surveys or road-killed cats in the Highlands north of Lairg in Sutherland.\n\nThey also said there was scant evidence of any wildcats in Argyll and the Trossachs.\n\nFunded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the project said it was likely wildcats, wildcat hybrids and domestic cats had mated freely with each other over many generations since the 1960s, creating a situation called a hybrid swarm.\n\nMs Slater said the Scottish government was committed to protecting and restoring Scotland's natural habitat.\n\nShe said: \"Reversing the dramatic losses in nature that we have seen in recent times is one of the defining challenges that our country faces.\"\n\nDr Roo Campbell, NatureScot's mammal adviser said the five-year project was only at the beginning of a journey to restore Scotland's wildcat population.\n\nHe said: \"The ultimate goal must be to establish a population of wildcats that does not need further human intervention to secure its survival.\n\n\"We're hopeful that we can achieve this by working together now to protect and restore this iconic species for generations to come.\"\n\nLast month, a licence was approved for the release in the Cairngorms National Park of Scottish wildcats bred in captivity by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS).\n\nRZSS head of conservation Dr Helen Senn said: \"These reports show that wildcats are truly on the brink of extinction in Britain, and that a significant amount of work still needs to be done to secure a future for the Scottish wildcat population.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City striker Erling Haaland has broken the record for most goals in a Premier League season.\n\nThe Norwegian scored his 35th league goal of the campaign against West Ham to move past Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole's previous best of 34.\n\nHaaland had already set a record for a 38-game season, beating Mohamed Salah's 32 goals for Liverpool in 2017-18.\n\n\"It's a special night and a special moment. I'm really happy and proud,\" Haaland told Sky Sports.\n\nThe 22-year-old has another five games to add to his tally.\n\n\"It feels amazing and I'm really happy and I'm also happy for the three points,\" he told BBC Match of the Day. \"In the end that's what matters and I'm happy.\n\n\"Yeah, it's going well and now it's time to focus on game by game. I've said this for a long time and that's what the team is doing. The team is so good and I'm happy.\"\n\nHaaland's 35th top-flight goal of the season came via a deft finish in the second half of a 3-0 win against the Hammers that sent City back to the top of the league.\n\nHe was given a guard of honour by his team-mates, boss Pep Guardiola and the club's backroom staff after the final whistle at Etihad Stadium.\n\n\"I've not seen it before either,\" Haaland added. \"It was a nice feeling scoring that goal, it always is.\n\n\"It was painful when everyone hit me on the back in the guard of honour.\"\n• None Haaland quiz - how many record-breaking moments do you remember?\n\nCole's 34 goals for Newcastle in 1993-94 were matched by Shearer as he fired Blackburn to the title the following year but there were 22 teams in the top flight in both seasons, giving them an extra four matches to play - Shearer started all 42 in his record season, while Cole missed two in his.\n\nHaaland, in his debut season in English football, has set the new marker in just his 31st game of the year.\n\nHis 35 goals are also the most by a player in a single campaign in the English top division since Ron Davies scored 37 for Southampton in 1966-67. Dixie Dean holds the record with 60 in 39 games for Everton in 1927-28.\n\n'Greatest striker the Premier League has ever seen' - reaction\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking to BBC Sport: \"Incredible. He's just 22 - and still has five games left. How many games I made the substitution after a hat-trick in 60 minutes, maybe he'd have scored more. But maybe he'd have got injured. He's special. Congratulations to him.\n\n\"We expected him to score goals but to break Cole and Shearer records ... I'm pretty sure what he wants is to win the Premier League.\"\n\nMore from Guardiola, speaking to Sky Sports: \"It's unbelievable. How many important goals he's scored to win games, we are so satisfied.\n\n\"He's a unique person and he's so special. He deserved the guard of honour because it's an incredible milestone. Another day he might break his own record. He's scored a lot of goals!\"\n\nShearer, writing on Twitter: \"Couldn't have wanted it to go to a nicer guy. It's only taken 28 years!!!! He's the best.\"\n\nFormer Manchester City defender Micah Richards on Sky Sports: \"Honestly, Erling Haaland is absolutely incredible. Astonishing scenes from a top, top individual.\n\n\"This is his debut season - to do what's he has done is absolutely breathtaking.\"\n\nManchester City defender Nathan Ake, speaking to Sky Sports: \"It's crazy. The way he came in and does this every day. He deserves everything he gets, he works so hard and he's a top player.\"\n\nFormer Everton striker Kevin Campbell on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"I think there are things he can improve. He has the thing that every striker needs: he can finish.\n\n\"He is the missing piece to what Pep Guardiola is trying to do. He wants the Champions League. They haven't had the person up top that was going to take those chances. They have him now.\"\n\nBBC commentator Vicki Sparks on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"He is quite simply, for this season, the greatest striker the Premier League has ever seen. Fifty-one goals in a season in all competitions and you just wonder what records he will go on and break, now he sets his sights on that held by Dixie Dean for Everton, who is the only player to have scored more goals in a single season as a top-flight player in England.\n\n\"The numbers, quite simply, are extraordinary.\"\n\nFormer Republic of Ireland striker Clinton Morrison on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Erling Haaland deserves it. His first season in the Premier League, breaking all kinds of records. In the second half he was the big difference.\"\n\nFormer England midfielder Karen Carney on Sky Sports: \"It's quite unbelievable and Erling Haaland is so humble, he almost can't believe it. He was quite shy going through that tunnel of team-mates at the end.\n\n\"It's an unbelievable achievement and what a player. His movement is just different class.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Richard Branson has said he feared he was going to lose his entire business empire during the pandemic.\n\nThe British businessman said he found a media backlash \"painful\" after the Virgin Group asked the UK government for a loan to save the company.\n\nGiven his personal wealth and home on a Caribbean island, he was criticised for asking for a bailout when airline Virgin Atlantic hit trouble.\n\nSir Richard told the BBC he personally lost around £1.5bn during the pandemic.\n\nThe struggles to save his businesses left him \"a little depressed\" for a couple of months, he said. \"I'd never experienced that before in my life.\"\n\nHe explained: \"We had 50, 60 planes all on the ground, and the health clubs all closed, the hotels all closed. And the worst [case] would have been 60,000 people out on the streets.\"\n\nThe support the company requested was, he said, \"not gifts from government, but underwriting loans so the cost to the airline... was not prohibitive.\"\n\nThe government refused his request for a reported £500m bailout, however. A private rescue deal eventually saw the Virgin Group inject £200m, with an additional £1bn provided by investors and creditors.\n\n\"There was a time when I thought we were going to lose everything,\" Sir Richard said. \"We sold shares in companies that were public and that was one way we managed to find money.\"\n\nSir Richard, pictured with burlesque artist Dita Von Teese in 2010, said people would feel \"uncomfortable\" with such photoshoots today\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Amol Rajan, Sir Richard also discussed his marketing campaigns and publicity stunts of the past - often involving glamorous women, who he sometimes threw over his shoulder.\n\nAsked if those stunts now made him wince, he replied: \"It would make me wince if I felt the women were uncomfortable at all.\n\n\"I don't think that I ever made anybody feel uncomfortable. In those days, it made them smile... But today obviously, I think people would feel uncomfortable with something like that.\n\n\"So it's changed and I fully accept that. And I've changed alongside everybody else.\"\n\nSir Richard Branson travelled to space in 2021 in his Virgin Galactic commercial space plane\n\nIn 2021, Sir Richard achieved a lifelong ambition and reached the edge of space in his Virgin Galactic commercial space plane. \"It was one of those most extraordinary days, every aspect of it\", he said.\n\nHe defended space exploration as a worthwhile investment, when asked whether launching rockets should be a priority for the ultra-rich, or is compatible with tackling climate change - a cause to which he has devoted extensive effort and money.\n\n\"Communication between people is being transformed because of space travel and satellites up there,\" he said. \"Monitoring things like the depredation of rainforests and illegal fishing... [there are] all these kinds of benefits that come from space travel.\"\n\nHowever, his satellite launch rocket company Virgin Orbit filed for bankruptcy in the US last month after failing to secure new investment.\n\nIn recent years, Sir Richard has also campaigned to promote awareness of dyslexia, a term rarely used and even less understood when he dropped out of school at 15. He revealed that, shortly after being sent to boarding school aged seven, he was beaten so badly - \"for being stupid\" - that he bled.\n\n\"It was... pretty horrendous in those days. And yes, as a dyslexic, I thought I must be stupid because they had never heard of [it]. The word dyslexic didn't exist.\"\n\nAs well as dyslexia, Sir Richard thinks he probably has attention deficit disorder, and acknowledged he does get bored easily.\n\nAt the age of 72, the businessman still heads the Virgin Group - but admitted he does have thoughts about succession planning.\n\n\"We have serious discussions as a family about how the company can transform hopefully thousands people's lives in the years to come and hopefully in the centuries to come,\" he said.\n\nThe entrepreneur with a rock star persona, Sir Richard Branson, tells Amol Rajan how he went from 60s hippy to global business icon, reshaping industries and ending up in space.\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK Only) or on BBC2 at 7pm", "Johanita Dogbey's family say she \"always helped anyone\"\n\nThe family of a woman who was stabbed to death by a stranger has described her as \"smart, dedicated and loving\".\n\nJohanita Kossiwa Dogbey was attacked in Brixton, south London, on Monday afternoon.\n\nIn a statement, the 31-year-old's family said: \"We are devastated by the news of the passing of our daughter. She hasn't got one bad bone in her body. She wouldn't hurt a fly.\"\n\nA 33-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder remains in police custody.\n\nEmergency services were called at about 16:00 BST on Monday\n\nInvestigators believe Ms Dogbey was walking along Stockwell Park Walk at about 16:00 BST when she was approached from behind by a man who attacked her.\n\nIt is not thought he was known to her. Police say they have been granted a warrant to further question the suspect.\n\nMs Dogbey did not know her attacker, police believe\n\nThe family statement added: \"Johanita was a smart, dedicated and loving girl who always helped anyone.\n\n\"We can't believe a senseless crime like this has happened as we can't imagine who would do this to her.\n\n\"Our hearts are completely broken and will not understand why someone would take our beautiful girl away from us. She will forever be in our hearts as we will carry on living life as gracefully and beautifully as she did.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A \"very concerning\" rise in the number of people catching measles in the UK has been reported by health officials.\n\nThe virus spreads incredibly easily and a fall in vaccination rates is leaving more children vulnerable to infection.\n\nThere were 54 cases of measles in the whole of last year. However, there have already been 49 in the first four months of 2023.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is encouraging parents to ensure their children's vaccinations are up to date.\n\nThe main symptoms of measles are a fever and a rash. But it can cause more serious complications including meningitis, and an infection can be fatal.\n\nThat is why the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is part of routine childhood immunisations.\n\nVaccination rates had been falling in the UK before the Covid pandemic.\n\nHowever, the disruption caused by Covid has dented vaccination programmes around the world, including in the UK, meaning even more children have missed out.\n\nThe World Health Organization has already warned of a \"perfect storm\" for measles, because the fewer people who receive protection from vaccines, the easier it is for outbreaks to happen.\n\nMeasles jumps from person to person so readily that 95% of people need to be immunised to block its spread. However, the UKHSA said only 85% of five-year-olds in England have received the recommended two doses.\n\nThe increase in UK measles cases is centred on London, but there have been infections elsewhere. Twelve of the cases were caught while abroad, with the rest reflecting spread within the UK.\n\n\"It is very concerning to see cases starting to pick up this year,\" said Dr Vanessa Saliba, from the UKHSA.\n\nShe added: \"We are calling on all parents and guardians to make sure their children are up to date with their two MMR doses. It's never too late to catch up, and you can get the MMR vaccine for free on the NHS whatever your age.\"\n\nThe UKHSA said it was particularly important to get vaccinated before the summer as measles may be more common in other countries, and festivals are a well-known source of measles outbreaks.\n\nMeasles vaccinations were introduced in the UK in 1968. Since then, they are estimated to have prevented 20 million measles cases and 4,500 deaths.\n\nProf Helen Bedford, from the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, said there were many reasons the number of people being vaccinated had fallen.\n\nShe said: \"We haven't seen much measles around for a few years, partly because of the public health measures introduced to prevent Covid - so it may be that people do not see measles as a continuing threat and vaccination has become less important.\n\n\"During the pandemic, some children missed out on their routine vaccines for a variety of reasons and need to catch up [and] there may be some vaccine hesitancy.\"", "Asia Abdelmajid was one of Sudan's first theatre stars\n\nThe death of a well-known actress, killed in cross-fire in the north of Khartoum, has shocked residents of Sudan's capital. But she is just one of many civilians still in the city who are paying with their lives as the fighting continues to rage despite the latest ceasefire.\n\nZeinab Mohammed Salih is a journalist living in Omdurman, next to the Sudanese capital - she describes daily life for people caught up in the conflict.\n\nAsia Abdelmajid, who was born in 1943, was famous for her theatre performances - first coming to prominence in a production of the play Pamseeka 58 years ago.\n\nIt was put on at the national theatre in Omdurman to mark the anniversary of Sudan's first revolution against a coup leader. She was considered a pioneer of the stage - and the country's first professional stage actress, later retiring to become a teacher.\n\nHer family say she was buried within hours of her shooting on Wednesday morning in the grounds of a kindergarten where she had been most recently working. It was too dangerous to take her to a cemetery.\n\nIt is not clear who fired the shot that killed her in the clashes in the northern suburb of Bahri. But paramilitary fighters of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who are ensconced in their bases in residential areas across the city, continue to battle the army, which tends to attack from the air.\n\nThe RSF says the military tried to deploy members of the police's special force unit on Wednesday - but the group alleges it rebuffed their ground offensive.\n\nThe UN's top aid official has warned that the \"will to end the fight still was not there\" after speaking to Sudan's rival military leaders.\n\nWith a military jet flying overhead as I write and WhatsApp messages arriving with more bad news of my friends caught up in the fighting, it feels like neither side is serious about ending their deadly confrontation.\n\n\"I was sitting with my brother in the sitting room when we heard the loud noise of the shell and the dust coming from the kitchen - we thought the whole wall had just collapsed,\" my friend Mohamed el-Fatih, a fellow journalist, told me.\n\nHis apartment in Burri, east of the army's headquarters in central Khartoum, was bombed on Monday night.\n\n\"My neighbours upstairs and downstairs were terrified and screaming, we had to evacuate immediately to another area.\"\n\nHis suburb is completely occupied by the RSF and rockets are often fired from the military headquarters where it is believed Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the army chief, and his aides are staying.\n\nMy friend Hiba el-Rayeh has also just been in contact in great distress after her mother Sohair Abdallah el-Basher, a respected lawyer, and two uncles were killed last Thursday by a shell that came from a bridge over the River Nile directed towards the Presidential Palace. They were living close by.\n\nHer uncles had actually come to help them escape during one of last week's so-called humanitarian ceasefires.\n\nCentral Khartoum has been devastated by almost three weeks of fighting\n\nIn another suburb called Khartoum 2, to the west of the military headquarters, estate agent Omer Belal has decided to stay and guard his home.\n\nThe 46-year-old has sent his family to a safer district while he and a few other men in the neighbourhood seek to protect their properties from the looting and armed robbery that is occurring across the city.\n\nPeople's houses, banks, factories, supermarkets and clothing shops are all being ransacked.\n\nAnother friend, who asked not to be named, spent five days in a restaurant in Khartoum 2 when the battles first broke out on 15 April.\n\nHe managed to escape during the first shaky ceasefire. First he went to the north of the city then decided to go overland to Ethiopia, a trip that took five days.\n\nNow in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, he messaged to say he had seen piles of bodies as he left Khartoum 2.\n\nBasil Omer, a medic and volunteer, described fleeing his flat when it was shelled in al-Manshiya, east of the army headquarters.\n\n\"We spent three days only sleeping on the ground. In the end it was impossible to stay there, I sent my children and their mother to el-Gezira state with my in-laws and I went to stay with my parents in Khartoum North,\" he said.\n\nI live in Omdurman, regarded as one of the safest places in town - though bullets are constantly flying through people's windows.\n\nA couple of days ago my neighbour was hit by a bullet in her leg while she slept following an airstrike, which have been happening about two times every hour. Although there were fewer strikes on Wednesday.\n\nThe Sudanese factions have agreed to a new seven-day truce starting on Thursday, but given that they are currently meant to be observing a humanitarian ceasefire and previous ones have broken down - none of us are holding our breath.\n\nEach day we grow more despondent. Most residents of Khartoum feel abandoned and at a loss that the international community seems unable to exert their influence to bring the generals to heel, given they managed to get them to agree to share power with civilians in 2019 after long-time leader Omar al-Bashir was ousted.", "Four women have spoken to BBC Newsnight about allegations of a \"boys club\" culture at all levels of Police Scotland, the UK's second largest force.\n\nThe women, who include a former assistant chief constable, described a culture of misogyny that failed to properly address their concerns.\n\nThey say other women, still working in the force, are too frightened to come forward.\n\nThree of the women have spoken before about their experiences but have banded together because they feel their stories have been lost and there has been no measurable change in attitudes towards female staff in Police Scotland.\n\nIn May last year, Rhona Malone won almost £1m in compensation from Police Scotland after an employment tribunal found she had been victimised when she had raised concerns about sexism within the force.\n\nMs Malone had been a police officer for eight years when she decided to join the firearms unit in Edinburgh.\n\n\"It was a huge challenge for any police officer, not just for a woman,\" she told Newsnight.\n\nAt first it was great and the training was amazing, she said, but then she started to see some \"horrific behaviour\".\n\nShe says that when she challenged that behaviour, she was wrongly accused of throwing her utility belt with a loaded firearm.\n\nThe final straw was an email in 2018 from her senior officer which said two female firearms officers should not be working together when there were male staff on duty.\n\nIn the email he said \"other than the obvious differences in physical capacity, it makes more sense from a search, balance of testosterone perspective\".\n\nMs Malone said it was not easy for her to put in a grievance.\n\n\"The minute you do that you have a target on your back,\" she said.\n\n\"It was like Russian Roulette. Either put a grievance in and lose my career, or don't put in the grievance, and then I lose my career because I'm getting accused of throwing weapons, which didn't happen.\"\n\nAfter a long, drawn-out process she won her case and received substantial compensation which was mostly swallowed up in legal costs.\n\n\"Ultimately it didn't just take my career, it took my mental health as well,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm really sad about that because I loved my job.\"\n\nFormer Tayside assistant chief constable Angela Wilson said her career was derailed by attempts to change the internal culture\n\nAngela Wilson, the former assistant chief constable of Tayside Police, was one of the officers who openly criticised Police Scotland over Ms Malone's case.\n\nShe said it smacked of misogyny and bullying towards female officers who are trained exactly the same as their male counterparts.\n\nMs Wilson said her own 30-year career was derailed by her attempts to change the internal culture.\n\nThe former assistant chief constable, who took early retirement in 2013, said women who complained internally were shut down and made to look like troublemakers.\n\nShe called for a judge-led inquiry into Police Scotland's sexism and misogyny.\n\nPolice Scotland has just under 17,000 officers, with roughly a third being women.\n\nIt was formed in 2013 when the existing eight regional forces were merged.\n\nAll the women Newsnight spoke to cited the creation of Police Scotland as a major problem.\n\nMs Wilson said: \"The stories I'm hearing from people do seem to be exacerbated now it's one force.\n\n\"You had lots of different chief constables. So in a sense they held each other in check.\"\n\nGeorgina Gallivan has never before spoken publicly about her experience\n\nGeorgina Gallivan has never before spoken publicly about her experience.\n\nShe worked for 20 years in an IT civilian role, first for Central Scotland Police, based in Stirling, and latterly for Police Scotland.\n\nMs Gallivan said she had excellent reviews and appraisals every year up to the point where she complained about a male colleague in 2017.\n\n\"After that, it all kind of became 'she's a problem, she's got mental health issues, she's just causing trouble',\" Ms Gallivan said.\n\nShe said she had found it hard to talk about her experience.\n\nMs Gallivan said one male colleague in particular disliked her.\n\n\"I suppose because I was the only female in the office and he told me that I was hormonal,\" she said.\n\n\"He said to my colleagues I was hormonal and 'women were only on this planet for one thing'.\n\n\"It was humiliating in front of colleagues that you've worked with for such a long time.\"\n\nAt first Ms Gallivan said managers appeared to take her complaint seriously and began disciplinary proceedings. However, she said she was not officially informed of the outcome and ultimately the man returned to the office.\n\nAccording to Ms Gallivan, he continued to be offensive and also engaged in harassing behaviour.\n\nShe said she took a long period of sick leave after a breakdown and then resigned when it became clear the intention was to silence and block her rather than engage with evidence.\n\nKaren Harper said she was bullied by a colleague\n\nKaren Harper was a police officer in Lanarkshire and Dumfries for 22 years but quit in 2017 due to ill health.\n\nIn an employment tribunal she claimed bullying and victimisation but this was not upheld.\n\nShe told Newsnight: \"Taking on an organisation with a power and resources of a national police force is never going to be anything other than life-changing.\n\n\"But it's all for nothing. Because you realise it was a sham. Because what I think now is, I just don't think the truth means anything.\n\n\"The truth means nothing in policing now.\"\n\nIn response to the claims of the four women, Deputy Chief Constable Malcolm Graham said: \"Policing in Scotland is not immune from the sexism and misogyny which persists across society and we are tackling this challenge head-on.\n\n\"The onus is on us to address policy, process and education gaps and challenge bias at every level and wherever it occurs to maintain and build confidence with all communities.\n\n\"Earlier this year the chief constable appointed a dedicated chief officer to provide the sustained leadership required to co-ordinate and drive this essential work as we build a service where everyone feels valued and is able to flourish.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Graham added: \"We are realistic about the challenges ahead, however when we sought the views of officers and staff they made it clear progress is being felt in Police Scotland and any assertion otherwise is without foundation.\n\n\"Our resolute determination and approach to creating a society where women and girls live free from violence, abuse, exploitation and harassment is outlined in our violence against women and girls strategy, published in March.\"\n\nIn relation to Ms Malone, Police Scotland said it had made a public apology to the former firearms officer and in the days after the employment tribunal judgment, the chief constable commissioned the Police Service of Northern Ireland to carry out an independent review of the decision.\n\nA Police Scotland statement said that during a meeting in April 2022, the chief constable listened to Ms Malone's experiences and personally provided an unreserved apology for the poor response when a dedicated officer raised legitimate concerns.\n\nIn relation to Ms Harper's experience, Police Scotland said: \"The employment tribunal found Ms Harper's complaint to Police Scotland was dealt with carefully and diligently even though our response did not uphold her complaint.\n\n\"While the tribunal ruled against the overwhelming majority of Ms Harper's claims, we recognise that a now-retired officer was found to have shared concerns about Ms Harper in retaliation to her raising a grievance against him.\n\n\"We take whistleblowing seriously and have set up an independent advice line to provide confidential, expert advice to any officers and staff who have any concerns.\"\n\nCommenting on Ms Gallivan's case, Police Scotland said: \"A member of police staff raised a number of grievances.\n\n\"The matters were appropriately concluded, the individual no longer works for Police Scotland and we have not received an employment claim.\"", "Evacuees with soldiers boarding an evacuation flight in Sudan\n\nThe final UK evacuation flight has now left Sudan, the government has announced.\n\nIt had said previously the last flight would leave on Wednesday, with British officials who have been working on the evacuation expected to be on board.\n\nAn update by the Foreign Office said the last flight had left Port Sudan and that no more would be running.\n\nThe airlift - which began amid a tentative ceasefire last week - has seen more than 2,300 people rescued.\n\nThose taken to safety included Britons, their dependents, Sudanese NHS staff and other eligible nationalities.\n\nA renewed 72-hour ceasefire was due to end at midnight local time on Wednesday. The Foreign Office had warned that, following the end of the agreement, violence in the country could escalate.\n\nDozens of people were evacuated on flights that left Sudan on Wednesday.\n\nThe country - the third largest in Africa - was plunged into crisis after fighting broke out between rival military factions on 15 April.\n\nHundreds have been killed, according to official figures, but it is feared the actual death toll is much higher, and tens of thousands have already been displaced in a growing humanitarian crisis.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the UK's focus would shift to providing humanitarian aid, though he warned that any continuing conflict was likely to impede relief efforts.\n\n\"We have given aid to Sudan, we are giving support to countries in the region, we will continue to push for an extension of the ceasefire and a permanent end to the conflict because that is the best way to maximise the effectiveness of our humanitarian support,\" he said.\n\nForeign Office advice for British nationals still hoping to leave Sudan is that unscheduled chartered ships will be operating from Port Sudan to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.\n\nIt also states that British Embassy staff remain temporarily available on the Egyptian side of the Egypt-Sudan border to provide support.\n\nThe UK government joined other countries in evacuating citizens from Sudan after the commercial airport was taken out of action by fighting and communication networks went down.\n\nInitial evacuation flights organised by the British military left from an airstrip close to the capital Khartoum, but the operation was moved to the eastern coastal city of Port Sudan, which has been less affected by fighting.\n\nDespite criticism the UK government was slow to start its evacuation, the Foreign Office says it has now overseen \"the longest and largest operation of any Western nation\".\n\nDiplomats were also rescued in an earlier operation involving special forces after fighting broke out around the embassy.\n\nAre you in Sudan? Or have you been airlifted to safety? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The UK is set to review the artificial intelligence (AI) market to make sure its benefits are available for everyone and that no single firm will dominate.\n\nThe investigation by the competition watchdog will look at the software behind chatbots like ChatGPT.\n\nThe industry is facing scrutiny over the pace at which it is developing technology to mimic human behaviour.\n\nAI's rapid take-up has sparked fears of job losses, privacy and the potential to circulate misleading information.\n\nSarah Cardell, chief executive of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), said so-called foundation models such as the software behind ChatGPT had the potential to \"transform the way businesses compete as well as drive substantial economic growth\".\n\nBut she said it was crucial that the potential benefits were \"readily accessible to UK businesses and consumers while people remain protected from issues like false or misleading information\".\n\nThe move comes days after Geoffrey Hinton - a man widely seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence - quit his job, warning about the growing dangers from developments in the field, which enables technology to create images or text that are barely distinguishable from the work of humans.\n\nSir Martin Sorrell, founder of the advertising companies WPP and S4, told the BBC that AI would be an \"industrial revolution\" and \"another major shift in technology , rivalling, maybe even more significant than the iPhone and similar developments\".\n\nThe digital advertising industry is already seeing the impact, he added, with firms using AI to \"hyper personalise\" ads for consumers.\n\n\"Obviously that raises all sorts of issues around regulation as well,\" Sir Martin told the Today programme.\n\nHe added that currently two companies dominate the AI space - Microsoft, which owns ChatGPT, and Google which has launched a rival chatbot called Bard.\n\nSir Martin said the CMA had shown its willingness to stop tech firms having too much power, for example by blocking Microsoft's planned takeover of UK gaming giant Activision Blizzard last week which sparked a furious reaction from the tech giant.\n\nThe US competition watchdog, the Federal Trade Commission, has also called for tougher regulation of AI.\n\n\"The [UK's] regulator is saying bigger is bad,\" Sir Martin said. \"But the cost of developing [AI] technologies is so huge and thereby hangs the dilemma... If you restrict it you will restrict progress.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton tell the BBC of AI dangers as he quits Google\n\nSome have warned that tools such as Bard and ChatGPT - which can write essays, do computer coding and even have conversations in a human-like way - could end up displacing hundreds of millions of jobs.\n\nMr Hinton told the BBC that some of the dangers of AI chatbots were \"quite scary\", and that they could soon overtake the level of information that a human brain holds.\n\n\"Right now, they're not more intelligent than us, as far as I can tell. But I think they soon may be.\"\n\nIn March, key figures in artificial intelligence called for powerful AI systems to halted for at least six months amid concerns about the threats they posed.\n\nTwitter chief Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak were among those to sign an open letter warning of the risks, and say the race to develop AI systems is out of control.\n\nThe CMA said the development of AI had raised several other issues, including safety; security; privacy; intellectual property and copyright; and human rights.\n\nThe watchdog said it would specifically be looking at the impact on competition, with a view to creating a set of \"guiding principles\" to protect consumers as AI develops.\n\nThe heads of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic are due to meet US Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss issues surrounding AI on Thursday.\n\nReuters reported that the invitation to the companies included President Joe Biden's \"expectation that companies like yours must make sure their products are safe before making them available to the public\".", "Kaylea Titford was morbidly obese at the time of her death after being neglected by her parents\n\nThere are 32 reviews in progress about children in Wales who have died or been severely hurt due to abuse or neglect.\n\nAlthough numbers cannot be directly compared with previous years, the most child practice reviews (CPR) published in any year since 2017 is 10.\n\nWales' children's commissioner said safeguarding measures needed to change in order to prevent more deaths.\n\nThe Welsh government said it had \"an ambitious programme to transform children's services\".\n\nRecent headlines have been dominated by tragic and preventable deaths of abused or neglected children.\n\nWhen a child dies or is significantly injured because of abuse or neglect, a CPR is carried out to see what lessons can be learned to prevent similar cases.\n\nThese reviews are commissioned by the six regional safeguarding boards in Wales and then recommendations are made for each organisation that may have had a role in the child's life - such as health, social services and police.\n\nLola James died at the Noah's Ark children's hospital in Cardiff on 21 July, 2020\n\nBBC Wales asked each safeguarding board how many reviews had been published in the past five years.\n\nThe most that has been published in any one year since 2017 is 10, but this year there are 32 ongoing.\n\nWhile we cannot compare directly with previous years - which show published, rather than ongoing, reviews - the current number has been described as \"alarming\".\n\nChildren's Commissioner for Wales Rocio Cifuentes said: \"Every single child who comes to significant harm or died is one child too many. It's devastating, it's tragic and it's not good enough at the moment.\"\n\nShe added the consequences of not improving the systems could be dire and could see \"the same failures and the same mistakes repeated because lessons haven't been learned or recommendations haven't been implemented\".\n\nLogan Mwangi was a \"smiling, cheerful little boy\" who was murdered by his family\n\nMs Cifuentes said she was not sure whether Wales had the \"clear governance and accountability systems\" to enable lessons to be learned from each tragic incident, with many CPRs highlighting recurring and \"very familiar\" messages.\n\n\"It's tragic and it needs to change. We have to have a fundamental look at what's going on and why things aren't progressing more quickly,\" she said.\n\nUntil they have all been published, it is difficult to say why the number of ongoing CPRs is so high and, while the pandemic will play a part, it is not the sole cause.\n\nDr Dewi Evans, a former consultant paediatrician who is an expert witness on child protection cases, said he expected the number of CPRs to increase, with cuts to services having an impact.\n\n\"Local authorities spend a lot of the time firefighting, they spend most of their time chasing after those families where the injuries have already taken place,\" he said.\n\n\"So there is no time or resources to prevent these risks occurring and of course, prevention is better than cure.\"\n\nAngharad Williamson and John Cole's treatment of Logan dehumanised him, a judge said\n\nFive-year-old Logan Mwangi was murdered by his mother, stepfather and a teenager in July 2021.\n\nHis body was dumped in the River Ogmore near his home in Sarn, Bridgend county.\n\nA CPR into his death showed that hospital doctors failed to share with child protection services a list of \"significant\" injuries he suffered 11 months before he was murdered.\n\nDeputy leader of Bridgend council and cabinet member for social services Jane Gebbie said the stress and anxiety for staff following Logan's death was \"horrific\".\n\n\"They worked their best. I know some of my staff were sick and some were off for a significant period of time. It's immense and they feel some responsibility,\" she said.\n\nShe agreed social services across Wales were \"firefighting\", with reliance on agency social workers and problems with pay, terms and conditions, coupled with an increase in referrals.\n\n\"Do we want to keep children safe in Wales? Yes, very definitely. Do we need more resource? Yes, very definitely.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokeswoman said its new processes under the single unified safeguarding review would \"more quickly identify learning, build a greater understanding of what happened during an incident and why and provide a clear action plan to improve services\".\n\nShe added £10m had been recently announced as part of a plan to recruit more social workers.", "In his time as first minister so far, Humza Yousaf has faced a lot of familiar questions.\n\nSome have been on issues which dogged his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon, others on matters he was responsible for in his previous cabinet jobs – either way the topics and responses have been fairly well-worn.\n\nBut Mr Yousaf has been making a deliberate attempt in recent weeks to differentiate his leadership from Ms Sturgeon’s regime.\n\nHe delayed some of her flagship measures – like the National Care Service and the Deposit Return Scheme – and has now set out some ideas of his own in a bid to focus the government’s energies on tackling poverty.\n\nThat could apparently involve some tough choices, which is another way of saying potentially controversial moves.\n\nHe is also wrestling with a fresh SNP rebellion on the topic of Highly Protected Marine Areas, which saw three former ministers break the party whip in a vote yesterday.\n\nSo as Mr Yousaf is settling into the role of first minister, there is a growing crop of new questions for the opposition to pose to him.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV captures the moments before McHugh drove into the group on the pavement\n\nA drink-driver who ploughed into a crowd of pedestrians outside a takeaway, fatally injuring a student, has been convicted of her murder.\n\nRebecca Steer, 22, died in hospital after the crash in Oswestry, Shropshire, in October in which she was dragged under the killer's Volvo.\n\nStephen McHugh, who did not hold a licence, admitted drinking and taking drugs before getting behind the wheel.\n\nMs Steer's family said they would always feel \"robbed\" over her death.\n\n\"We all get to live a life, but through no fault of her own whatsoever, her life was taken from her by a few seconds of someone else's stupidity,\" they said.\n\nMcHugh was also convicted of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nJurors at Stafford Crown Court deliberated for more than eight-and-a-half hours over three days before convicting him by a majority verdict.\n\nMcHugh had previously claimed in court he had been trying to frighten a group of people outside the Grill Out takeaway when he had mounted a footpath.\n\nMs Steer, an undergraduate at Liverpool John Moores University from Llanymynech, Powys, was struck by his vehicle in the early hours of 9 October. Two others were injured.\n\nMs Steer was an undergraduate at Liverpool John Moores University\n\nGiving evidence at his trial, McHugh admitted having almost no driving experience and he had never had a driving lesson.\n\nThe 28-year-old, of Artillery Road, Park Hall, Shropshire, had traded in a manual Volkswagen Passat for an automatic Volvo eight days before he drove his newly acquired car into the crowd, jurors heard.\n\nIn the hours before the crash, McHugh, formerly of Fazakerley, Liverpool, said he had drunk beers, taken cocaine and had also had about 10 double shots of spirits at pubs, a friend's flat and a nightclub.\n\nBut he had denied using his car as a \"weapon\" to deliberately drive into the pedestrians in Willow Street at about 02:45 BST, claiming he had not been angry with them and had reversed to get alongside them to pick up a friend.\n\nOpening the case, prosecutor Kevin Hegarty KC said McHugh had been seen on CCTV stopping in the road and exchanging words with a group of people near the takeaway.\n\nMs Steer had been crossing Willow Street just as McHugh's Volvo had suddenly shot backwards as he reversed, narrowly missing her, he said.\n\nShe managed to get out of the way and on to the pavement on the opposite side of the street.\n\n\"At that moment, Mr McHugh turned the steering wheel in the direction of the people on the pavement and then he drove on to the pavement towards that group of people,\" Mr Hegarty said.\n\n\"The driver's side of the car went on to the kerb, on to the footpath, and he proceeded to drive through the group.\n\n\"We say he used his car as a weapon - he used the power and the weight of the car to strike the group.\"\n\nStephen McHugh admitted in court having almost no driving experience\n\nAs well as hitting Ms Steer, two men were \"knocked aside\" by the car's front wing.\n\nMcHugh admitted assault causing injury to Kyle Roberts, but denied attempting to cause him grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nMr Hegarty said Ms Steer was more towards the front of the car and as it increased its speed and went through the group, she was dragged down underneath it.\n\nMcHugh was heard speaking in an \"aggressive way\" before he reversed and drove into the crowd, the prosecutor said.\n\nHe told jurors: \"You may well think the way he reversed the car, which was at speed and without regard to those around him, gives a clear insight into what he was thinking and what he intended to do.\n\n\"We say that was to strike his target whoever it was. We don't suggest Rebecca Steer was his target - she was in effect a bystander.\"\n\nJurors also heard that before Ms Steer's murder, a man who was searching the boot of a car in Oswestry was attacked by McHugh, in an incident that showed he had previously \"got involved in violence\", Mr Hegarty said.\n\nMcHugh was arrested in Gobowen in Shropshire on 10 October and said he \"didn't mean to hit anyone\".\n\nHe maintained throughout his trial he was not angry nor deliberately struck the crowd.\n\n\"I am not an angry person,\" he said.\n\n\"I didn't really think about it. It was a moment of stupidity.\"\n\nFlowers were laid at the scene after the fatal crash in October last year\n\nMcHugh is due to be sentenced by Mr Justice Andrew Baker on Friday.\n\nIn a statement issued through West Mercia Police, Ms Steer's family thanked everyone who had worked to secure justice for their \"beautiful and amazing\" daughter.\n\n\"Rebecca Adelaide Steer, Becca to us, Becky to everyone else, was a pure joy to have as a daughter/sister and we all feel lucky to have had her in our lives, but we will always feel robbed.\n\n\"So many people have said how they feel so sorry for us, and that is only natural, and we are totally humbled by it, but the person people should be feeling sorry for is not us at all, it's Becca.\n\n\"Her 13-year-old sister Kimberley summed it up perfectly in her letter to Becca at her funeral, she said: 'Becca was doing so well in life, and some stupid idiot stole her away from us'.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Bellamy, said her death was a horrendous attack on an innocent woman enjoying a night out.\n\n\"I pay tribute to the dignified way that they [Rebecca's family] have conducted themselves throughout the trial, displaying venerable strength and resilience in listening to the contemptible and narcissistic behaviour of McHugh, who continually lied throughout the trial in a desperate attempt to escape justice,\" he said.\n\n\"I am grateful that the jury saw through his web of lies and convicted him on the evidence presented to them.\"\n\nHe described the incident as \"incredibly unusual\" for \"a small place like Oswestry, and understandably it shook the town to the core\". He thanked the local community for their support during the investigation.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Driver used car as a weapon to kill, jury hears\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British number one Emma Raducanu will miss the French Open and Wimbledon while she recovers from hand and ankle surgery \"for the next few months\".\n\nShe posted a photo of herself in hospital with her right hand bandaged after a \"minor procedure\", saying she was having one on the left too.\n\nRaducanu, 20, has been hampered by a series of injuries since her stunning 2021 US Open victory.\n\n\"It pains me to say I will miss the summer events,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I tried to downplay the issues so I thank all my fans who continued to support me when you did not know the facts,\" Raducanu wrote in a social media post.\n\n\"It is is safe to say the last 10 months have been difficult as I dealt with a recurring injury on a bone of both hands.\n\n\"I tried my best to manage the pain and play through it for most of this year and end of last year by reducing practice load dramatically, missing weeks of training as well as cutting last season short to try to heal it. Unfortunately it is not enough.\"\n\nThe hand problems - involving a bone very close to the wrists - brought an early end to her season in 2022 and have since flared up at various points this year, including last week when she withdrew from the Madrid Open just hours before she was scheduled to play her first-round match.\n\nShe is set to drop out of the top 100 in the world rankings next week and is likely to be replaced by Jodie Burrage as British number one in the coming weeks.\n\nShe will miss the French Open, which starts later this month, as well as the grass-court season including Wimbledon.\n\n\"I'm disappointed to share that I will be out for the next few months and while I am at it I will have another minor procedure that is due on my ankle,\" said Raducanu, who rolled her left ankle playing on a slick indoor court in her first event of the year in Auckland.\n\n\"Looking forward to seeing you all back out there.\"\n\nWhile the hope is that she will be back on the training court at the end of the summer, it means that her participation remains doubtful for the US Open, which gets under way at the end of August.\n\nRaducanu's management team say Wednesday's procedure on her right, racquet-playing hand was straightforward and there should be no concerns about her long-term recovery.\n\nShe is likely to have the operation on her left ankle before the procedure on her left hand. The second hand operation is expected to take place in the next two weeks, to ensure she always has one hand free for everyday tasks.\n\nHow Raducanu has struggled with injuries since US Open win\n\nAfter her incredible run to the US Open title in September 2021, where she became the first qualifier to win and also did so without dropping a set, Raducanu's bid to build on that success has been repeatedly derailed by a series of injuries, niggles and illness.\n\nThey have stopped her making deeper runs at tournaments, with the Briton failing to go beyond the second round at any of the Grand Slams since her New York triumph and she has also not won any more titles on the tour.\n\nHer withdrawal from the Madrid event last week came the day after a tense news conference, where she used just 58 words to answer 16 questions, several of which were about her fitness.\n\n'A break might be what Raducanu needs' - analysis\n\nAn attempt to manage Emma Raducanu's injury did not work, but there was no blame in trying. Tennis players do not make a decision to have surgery lightly - especially on hands and wrists.\n\nMissing Wimbledon - in particular - will hurt, but better to sacrifice one grass court season if it increases your chance of playing a further 10.\n\nRaducanu has been able to play just nine matches this year. It has been a tale of frustration with the exception of Indian Wells in March, where she beat two top-20 players en route to the fourth round.\n\nHer withdrawal from the ongoing Madrid Open means Raducanu will drop out of the world's top 100 next week. By the end of the US Open, she will probably find herself barely inside the top 200.\n\nBut that really doesn't matter, especially at the age of 20.\n\nRaducanu will only be able to \"protect\" her current ranking if she is absent for at least six months.\n\nSo, assuming she returns before late October, Raducanu will have to resume her career on the ITF World Tennis Tour - unless she accepts the wildcards which are sure to be on offer because of her stunning 2021 US Open triumph.\n\nWhether she should take them is another matter. Raducanu will need matches, and lots of them, and they are much more likely to be provided at a lower level.\n\nA break from tennis may also be just what Raducanu needs.\n\nShe often looks drawn, and the pleasure she used to derive from the sport seems to have disappeared.\n\nThe pressure to perform by fans and sponsors alike must be draining, especially when life on court is far from a bed of roses.\n\nThose expectations should be reduced when Raducanu does return. Maybe now she will have the chance to work her way up the rankings in a more conventional way, rather than jumping, as she did in New York in 2021, from 150 to 23 in the space of two heady weeks.", "Offloading 200 right shoes may not be an easy task\n\nCriminals in Peru appear to have wrong-footed themselves during a robbery at a shoe store.\n\nThree people broke into the shop in the central city of Huancayo and made off with more than 200 trainers - but they were all for the right foot.\n\nThe shop owner estimates that they have a value of more $13,000 (£10,000) - although the thieves may struggle to sell them on.\n\nThe lame attempt at a lucrative robbery was captured by security cameras.\n\nThe footage shows the criminals breaking the padlock on the shop's shutter in the middle of the night and using a tricycle to take boxes of trainers from different brands.\n\nLocal police chief Eduan Díaz told Peruvian media: \"We have gathered evidence at the scene. The unusual thing about this robbery is that shoes from only the right foot have been stolen.\n\n\"With the footage and the fingerprints, we will be able to locate those individuals\".", "Pregnant women and new mums are missing out on vital mental health services, while the NHS is not on track to meet key targets, a new report reveals.\n\nThe Maternal Mental Health Alliance found a wide disparity in care for new and expectant mums across the country.\n\nLuciana Berger, chair of the charity, said progress was at risk of stalling, with money not always being spent.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was increasing investment and improving care.\n\nAlmost one in five women experience a mental health condition during pregnancy or the first year of their child's life, according to experts.\n\nIn 2016, the UK government pledged a revolution in mental health services, including almost £300m to provide specialist care for expectant or new mothers in England.\n\nBut new figures from the MMHA, shared with BBC Newsnight, reveal that large gaps in care remain.\n\nAnd while there is some form of specialist provision across most of the UK and there has been increased investment everywhere, there is a significant disparity between nations.\n\nAccording to the report, Northern Ireland fares worst. Two of its five health and social care boards have no specialist multi-disciplinary team to help mums dealing with perinatal mental health difficulties. There is also no mother and baby unit for mums who need inpatient mental health care after birth.\n\nIn Wales, none of the health boards met UK-wide quality standards devised by the Royal College of Psychiatrists for what services should deliver for pregnant women and those who have just given birth.\n\nIn Scotland, only 14% of health boards met these standards.\n\nAnd in England - the nation with the most comprehensive care - the NHS does not appear to be on track to meet the goals it set for this year. Only around half of trusts are so far providing care from pre-conception to two years after birth, or offering partners support.\n\n'I didn't want to be in the same room as my daughter'\n\nWhen Eleanor was pregnant with her first child, she made sure she discussed her previous experience of depression with her doctor.\n\nBut around a fortnight after her daughter was born, Eleanor began to have intrusive thoughts - these could be \"violent thoughts of purposefully harming\" her baby.\n\n\"My mood started to change and I started to feel quite low,\" Eleanor told Newsnight. \"I was sleeping a lot and in hindsight, it wasn't just to catch up on sleep, it was to avoid the feelings I was feeling - and I didn't want to be in the same room as my daughter.\"\n\nStanding at the top of a hill with her daughter in a pushchair, she thought about letting go. \"I wasn't convinced I wasn't going to do it,\" she says now. Eleanor started asking others to push her daughter instead and sought help from a mental health midwife.\n\nBut the consequences of not getting support can be fatal.\n\nWhile the numbers of women who take their own lives when they are pregnant or in the first year after giving birth are small - the risk of the worst outcome appears to be rising.\n\nIn 2020, ten women took their own lives while pregnant or shortly after giving birth - the same number of women as the previous three years combined.\n\nExperts say the trend is statistically significant. Indeed, researchers were so worried that they brought forward the most recent audit of maternal deaths to report it.\n\n\"We're at this time seeing an increase in the number of women taking their lives during the pregnancy periods and shortly after birth,\" Ms Berger added. \"This really is a matter of life or death.\"\n\nThe issue does not appear to be a lack of funding, with all nations setting aside more money for this area of health care. Rather, that money is not always being spent.\n\nFigures from the MMHA show that almost three quarters of mental health trusts in England forecast an underspend for 2022. Across the UK, more than £15m allocated to improve maternal mental health in 2022 was not spent.\n\nThe problem mentioned most often is recruitment - either teams are not given enough certainty in the funding to hire, or staff are just not available.\n\nA spokesperson for Northern Ireland's Department of Health said its five trusts had appointed staff to community perinatal mental health teams, and all were accepting referrals. Work is under way to identify a location for a mother and baby unit, it added.\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said it had invested in specialist perinatal mental health services and there were dedicated teams within every health board in Wales.\n\nA spokesperson for the Scottish government said staffing across perinatal mental health services had increased significantly and that it was committed to improving services.\n\nEleanor says she now has a \"brilliant\" relationship with her daughter. She still struggles at times with elements of her postnatal depression, but says the help she received has been invaluable. Getting that help quickly is vital too, she says.\n\n\"Because it's not just about the patient who is struggling - it's about the vulnerable human being that they've just brought into the world.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Reaction on the ground as local election results come in\n\nLabour and the Lib Dems are making gains at the expense of the Conservatives across England, as local election results roll in.\n\nLabour won control in Swindon, Plymouth, Medway and Stoke-on-Trent - a former Labour stronghold.\n\nAnd the Lib Dems have won control of five councils from the Conservatives, including Windsor and Maidenhead.\n\nThe elections are the first big test of Rishi Sunak's electoral popularity since he became prime minister.\n\nThe final results are coming in on Friday evening. But so far, the Conservatives have lost control of 40 councils.\n\nEarlier, the prime minister said it was disappointing to lose Conservative councillors, but added his party was making progress in \"key election battlegrounds\" like Peterborough, Sandwell and Bassetlaw.\n\nEducation Minister Robert Halfon said this year's election was always \"going to be difficult\" for his party.\n\nHe said internal Tory Party divisions \"didn't help\" but claimed the losses were down to external factors, such as the cost-of-living crisis and problems in the NHS.\n\n\"Every government during the mid-term, especially a government that has been in power for 13 years, always suffers losses in local elections,\" he said.\n\nBut he added that Mr Sunak had \"restored unity to the party\" and \"restored stability to the country, particularly in the economy\".\n\nSome Tory MPs were clearly worried about the results, with several telling the BBC's chief political correspondent Nick Eardley that apathy - Conservative voters staying at home - was also a big problem.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer travelled to Medway to celebrate his party's victory in the Kent council with local activists.\n\n\"You didn't just get it over the line, you blew the doors off,\" he told the crowd.\n\nHe claimed Labour were \"on course\" to win a majority at the next general election.\n\nLabour has taken control of three councils from the Conservatives including Swindon. The council was a key target for Labour and where the party launched their election campaign.\n\nThe council had not been won by Labour since 1999, and the party now has its sights set on taking the area's two parliamentary seats from the Conservatives.\n\nLiberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey told the BBC he had a \"Cheshire-cat\" grin on his face following what he said had been a \"ground-breaking night\" for his party.\n\nSpeaking in Windsor, where his party took control of the council from the Conservatives, Sir Ed said: \"The Liberal Democrats are the big winners in this year's local elections.\n\n\"I'm so proud that when Katy Perry and Lionel Richie enter Windsor Castle for the coronation concert on Sunday, they'll be going into a ward that's represented by three brand new Liberal Democrat councillors.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have also taken control of Dacorum, which was won by the Conservatives in 2019, and Stratford-on-Avon.\n\nThe Green Party has won outright control of its first council in Mid Suffolk and made record gains across England as a whole.\n\nParty co-leader Carla Denyer said her party were benefitting from \"a deep dislike of the Tories and Starmer's uninspiring Labour\". The Greens have also become the largest party on East Hertfordshire Council.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Middlesbrough, Labour's Chris Cooke became mayor beating the incumbent independent candidate,while Mansfield and Leicester voted for Labour mayors.\n\nElections are not taking place in London, Scotland or Wales. Council elections in Northern Ireland have been moved back to Thursday 18 May because of the Coronation of King Charles III on Saturday.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Opens in a new browser tab More information about these elections Who won in my area? Enter your postcode, or the name of your council area to find out To find your council candidates and polling station\n\nAhead of Thursday's vote, the Conservative Party sought to manage expectations, with party chairman Greg Hands suggesting his party could lose 1,000 council seats.\n\nLabour has enjoyed a significant lead in the opinion polls but has also been downplaying expectations, saying it expected to gain around 400 seats.\n\nMost of the seats up for election were last contested in 2019, a tumultuous time for the two leading parties.\n\nThen, the Conservatives lost a total of 1,330 seats in mostly traditionally Tory-supporting areas. Labour lost 84 seats - just over 4% of its councillors in those areas.\n\nThe main beneficiaries then were the Liberal Democrats and independent candidates.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nIn Thursday's elections, newly-introduced rules meant voters needed to show some form of ID.\n\nThe Electoral Commission, which oversees elections in the UK, said some people had been unable to cast their vote and the impact of new voter ID rules needed to be evaluated.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify the number of voters turned away because of the new rules. But figures for this are expected to emerge in the coming days.\n\nMost of the councils up for election in England are district councils, responsible for services including bin collections, parks, public housing and planning applications.\n\nThe rest of the councils being elected are a mixture of metropolitan and unitary councils - single local authorities that deal with all local services.", "Rail travellers are facing disruption again after RMT members backed further strikes.\n\nIndustrial action across 14 train operating companies could continue until November after 90% of union members who voted backed more strikes.\n\nIt is the third time in a row railway workers have come out in favour of strike action since May last year.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper said he was \"disappointed\" by the RMT's decision.\n\nThe result from the latest ballot was on a turnout of 70% and around 20,000 workers were eligible to take part.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said the vote was a \"de-facto referendum on the dispute\", and called on the employers to get back around the table.\n\n\"This sends a clear message to the employers that the huge anger amongst rail workers is very real and they need to recognise that fact, face reality and make improved proposals,\" Mr Lynch said.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents the 14 train operators, said the outcome was disappointing but not surprising.\n\nThe RMT's separate dispute with Network Rail ended in March, when maintenance and signalling staff accepted a deal.\n\nBut hopes of a breakthrough in the union's standoff with the train companies were dashed last Thursday, when the union rejected the Rail Delivery Group's latest proposals and announced a strike on Saturday 13 May - the date of the Eurovision final in Liverpool.\n\nThe government's response on Thursday night suggests it is not prepared to make any more money available for negotiations.\n\nMr Harper said: \"Train companies put forward a fair and reasonable pay offer which the RMT's executive have refused to consult their members on.\n\n\"The Rail Delivery Group's best and final offer guarantees employees a fair and reasonable pay rise, while delivering the reforms needed to address the long-term challenges facing the industry.\"\n\nThe RDG also said on Thursday night the RMT had not given members a \"single chance to have their say\" on the deal which it said the executive committee had \"rejected out of hand in unflattering terms\".\n\n\"We can only assume the executive committee is fixed on continuing this dispute for its own reasons, despite the damage to an industry still being subsidised...to our passengers' lives and to Britain's reputation for hosting high profile events like Eurovision,\" the RDG added.\n\nLast week, the train driver's union Aslef said its members would strike on 12 and 31 May and 3 June, the day of the FA Cup final.", "Members of the Royal Family have been spotted leaving Westminster Abbey after a rehearsal in advance of the King's Coronation on Saturday.\n\nKing Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, were smiling and looked relaxed as they left a dry run of the big day.\n\nThe Queen Consort was accompanied by her pages for the event\n\nPrince Louis was pictured alongside the Prince of Wales after playing his part\n\nThe Princess Royal met cavalry officers preparing for Saturday, chatting with them during a visit to Wellington Barracks.\n\nPart of the regiment's officers and senior non-commissioned officers posed for a photograph\n\nThe King took part in a Coronation garden party at Buckingham Palace - the first of his reign - and met guests including Dame Doreen Lawrence and singer Lionel Richie.\n\nPeople have already started gathering at the Mall outside Buckingham Palace, with some royal fans like Faith Nicholson camping out in tents to make sure they do not miss out on a prime viewing spot on Saturday.\n\nOfficers have been on patrol along The Mall, part of the historic approach to Buckingham Palace\n\nCelebrations started early for these banqueters in London's Carter Lane\n\nArtist Claire Eason created a 90 ft by 65ft sculpture on Bamburgh Beach in Northumberland\n\nA groundsman put the final touches to a re-laid and pristine lawn at Parliament Square\n\nYeoman warders at the Tower of London admired Coronation benches designed by schoolchildren\n\nAll photographs are subject to copyright.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "A 24-year-old Marine placed Mr Neely in a chokehold on the F-line train in the SoHo section of Manhattan\n\nProtesters are gathering in New York City to call for justice for Jordan Neely, a subway passenger who died on Monday after a man placed him in a chokehold.\n\nVideo of the encounter showed Mr Neely, 30, struggling as another man grabbed him and pinned him on the ground.\n\nNew York City officials have said the death was a homicide.\n\nThey have questioned and released the 24-year-old US Marine who restrained him.\n\nPolice and prosecutors will now decide whether to charge him.\n\nMr Neely was a popular Michael Jackson impersonator who frequently performed in Times Square. He was unhoused and suffering from mental health issues, according to US media.\n\nMr Neely was a \"very talented black man who loves to dance\", his aunt, Carolyn Neely, wrote in a GoFundMe page to raise money for his funeral service.\n\n\"Jordan deserves justice. He was loved,\" Ms Neely told the BBC.\n\nA group of demonstrators gathered in the subway station where Mr Neely died on Wednesday.\n\nOne of the demonstrators, Kyle Ishmael, a 38-year-old who lives in Harlem, said the video of Mr Neely's death \"disgusted\" him.\n\n\"I couldn't believe this was happening on my subway in my city that I grew up in,\" he told BBC's US partner, CBS News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProtesters are expected to gather on Thursday outside the Manhattan District Attorney's office to call for charges to be filed against the 24-year-old, according to local outlet ABC 7.\n\nThe incident took place on Monday afternoon on the F-line train in the SoHo section of Manhattan.\n\nA video taken by a freelance journalist shows the former Marine holding the 30-year-old man around the neck for two minutes and 55 seconds.\n\nWitnesses reportedly said Mr Neely was acting erratically before the man restrained him, yelling that he did not have food or water and would not mind going to jail.\n\nTwo other riders in the video are also seen restraining his arms. Mr Neely lay motionless after all three men let go of him. He was later taken to hospital and pronounced dead.\n\nIn the GoFundMe page, Ms Neely said Jordan Neely struggled after his mother, Christie Neely, was murdered in 2007.\n\nHer body was found stuffed in a travel bag underneath a bridge in the Bronx, and her boyfriend was later convicted of murder, according to local reports.\n\nMr Neely testified in the trial, saying his mother's relationship with the boyfriend had been \"crazy\" and \"a fight every day\", according to local outlet the Jersey Journal.\n\nMr Neely's death sparked an argument between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.\n\nOn Wednesday, the mayor tweeted that \"any loss of life is tragic\", but that there was \"a lot we don't know about what happened here, so I'm going to refrain from commenting further\".\n\nMs Ocasio-Cortez said the statement marked \"a new low: not being able to clearly condemn a public murder because the victim was of a social status some would deem 'too low' to care about\".\n\nNew York's Governor Kathy Hochul has commented on the incident saying it was clear that Mr Neely was not going to cause harm to people on the subway with his behaviour.\n\n\"No one has the right to take the life of another person,\" she told reporters on Thursday.\n\n\"It was a very extreme response,\" she added.", "Murray Foote has spoken out for the first time since resigning as the SNP's head of communications\n\nThe SNP's former spin doctor has said he is willing to bet that the police investigation into the party's finances will not result in any charges.\n\nMurray Foote, who quit in March amid a row over membership figures, speculated the probe could be \"wild goose chase\" and branded it a \"grotesque spectacle\".\n\nThe SNP's former chief executive, Peter Murrell, and ex-treasurer Colin Beattie were arrested as part of the inquiry.\n\nBoth were released without charge pending further investigation.\n\nOfficers also spent two days searching the Glasgow home of Mr Murrell and his wife - former first minister Nicola Sturgeon - and the party's headquarters in Edinburgh.\n\nA forensic tent was erected outside the house and several boxes of items were removed from both properties in the high-profile operation last month.\n\nA luxury motorhome was also seized from outside the Dunfermline home of Mr Murrell's mother.\n\nMr Foote stood down as head of communications for the SNP after the party provided inaccurate membership figures to the media during its leadership election, saying he had passed them on in \"good faith\".\n\nHe had ridiculed newspaper reports, which later turned out to be true, that the party had lost 30,000 members.\n\nThe former Daily Record editor wrote in the newspaper on Thursday that he was prepared to bet £5 on there being no charges after the ongoing Police Scotland investigation into the SNP's finances is concluded.\n\nThe probe, known as Operation Branchform, was launched in July 2021 following complaints about how more than £600,000 of donations for a future independence referendum were used.\n\nMr Foote described the sight of forensic tents outside of the home of the former first minister as \"extraordinary\" and a \"grotesque circus\".\n\nMr Foote described the police search of Ms Sturgeon and Mr Murrell's home as a \"grotesque circus\"\n\nHe added: \"Given the grim spectacle at the house Peter Murrell shares with Nicola Sturgeon and at the party HQ, it's inconceivable the authorities would be so cavalier without slam dunk evidence, right?\"\n\nBut he went on to compare the situation to the Rangers case, where more than £50m in compensation has been paid out after several people involved in the administration and acquisition of the football club were wrongly prosecuted.\n\nMr Foote said: \"The authorities have previous for high-profile inquiries collapsing in scandal. If they have spectacularly misjudged this one too, then the reputational cost will be far more substantial than the cash spent on manpower\".\n\nHe added: \"I'm not saying Branchform is a wild goose chase - but what if it is? Surely it's worth considering.\n\n\"Actually, if we cherish the presumption of innocence, then a no charges outcome must be at least considered. And the fallout would have serious consequences for the investigating authorities.\"\n\nWhile Mr Foote said police had a duty to investigate complaints, he said you would \"struggle to meet two less likely master criminals\" than Mr Beattie and Mr Murrell.\n\nHe wrote: \"Firstly, Peter's loyalty to his wife is unquestionable. First minister Sturgeon and her husband lived under crushingly intense scrutiny.\n\n\"It is inconceivable to me that Peter would so much as consider doing something dodgy lest it rebound and put his wife in jeopardy.\"\n\nThe police investigation of the SNP's finances is, as you might expect, the subject of intense discussion in political circles.\n\nYou can't walk through Holyrood's garden lobby without bumping into someone who wants to gossip, speculate or stroke their chin about it.\n\nBut when speaking out in public, most are pretty careful. That is sensible, given it's an active police case, subject to Contempt of Court rules.\n\nThose rules mean you shouldn't publish anything which could endanger any future court case. But they do not mean you are sworn to total silence.\n\nIt has become an easy get-out for politicians of all stripes to insist that they can't say a single word about anything the police might be looking in to.\n\nAs a former newspaper editor, Murray Foote knows his way around the difficulties and risks in this area better than most.\n\nHe obviously has a certain perspective, having recently worked as a SNP spin doctor - but perhaps his willingness to put his money where his mouth is will encourage more in the political sphere to start speaking their minds.\n\nNicola Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell held the two most senior positions within the SNP\n\nMr Foote forecast a potential surge in SNP membership if the party is cleared of wrongdoing.\n\nHe also attacked the Scottish Conservatives, branding them the \"real party of corruption\" and accusing them of exploiting the situation.\n\nTory MSP Annie Wells said the \"highly speculative\" Daily Record article showed Mr Foote was still happy to spin for the SNP.\n\nShe said his faith in Mr Murrell's character will \"raise a few eyebrows\" given the former chief executive took responsibility for misleading the public over membership figures before resigning.\n\nMr Foote resigned from his role as the SNP's media chief after describing press reports that the party's membership had dropped by 30,000 as \"inaccurate\" and \"drivel\".\n\nThe SNP subsequently confirmed that membership had fallen to from 104,000 to 72,186 since 2021.\n\nMr Foote said he issued agreed party responses to the media which \"created a serious impediment\" to his role.\n\nThe SNP raised £666,953 through referendum-related appeals between 2017 and 2020 with a pledge to spend these funds on the independence campaign.\n\nQuestions were raised after its accounts showed it had just under £97,000 in the bank at the end of 2019, and total net assets of about £272,000.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has rejected calls for Mr Murrell and Ms Sturgeon to be suspended from the party.\n\nHe said Mr Beattie's arrest was \"clearly a very serious matter indeed\" but he had not been suspended from the party as \"people are innocent until proven guilty\".", "Kyiv involvement in alleged Kremlin drone attack would be astonishing - think tank\n\nFollowing on from the White House's denial of involvement in the alleged attack on the Kremlin, Prof Michael Clarke from the London-based Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) has been discussing the likelihood of Ukrainian involvement. \"I would be truly astonished if yesterday’s drone attack on the Kremlin was down to Kyiv,\" he tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme. \"It would be a monumentally stupid thing for them to do and the quickest way for them to lose the war,\" he says. \"If Ukraine is seen to conduct a strategically significant attack inside Russia, then it will lose Western support. And if it loses Western support, it loses the war.\" He says it is possible it is a false flag attack, saying this is an area Russia \"has form\" in. But Clarke says he believes it is more likely to have been carried out by a separate \"freelance\" operative. A false flag is a political or military action carried out with the intention of blaming an opponent for it.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nNapoli won their first Serie A title for 33 years as they drew with Udinese at Dacia Arena to spark jubilant celebrations back in Naples.\n\nThey last won the league in 1990 with a Diego Maradona-inspired side adding to their first title three years earlier.\n\nVictor Osimhen smashed in a 52nd-minute equaliser after Sandi Lovric had given Udinese a shock lead.\n\nAnd Napoli held on to the point they needed to win their third Serie A title with five games to spare.\n\n\"Seeing Neapolitans happy is enough to give you a sense of that joy they are feeling,\" Napoli boss Luciano Spalletti told DAZN.\n\n\"These people will look to this moment when life gets hard, they have every right to celebrate like this.\n\n\"You feel a bit more relaxed knowing that you've given them this moment of happiness.\"\n• None 'Football is everything' - what Scudetto means to Naples\n\nNapoli's previous two titles came in the days of Argentina legend Maradona - who their stadium is now named after - in 1987 and 1990.\n\nFollowing those glory days the club fell into financial decline, relegation and bankruptcy; playing in Serie C as recently as 2006.\n\nThey have won the Coppa Italia three times in the past 11 seasons but it is the Scudetto the Napoli fans craved.\n\nThey now have a new cast of superstars, with Nigeria forward Victor Osimhen scoring 21 goals in 26 league games and Georgia winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia contributing 12 goals and 10 assists.\n\nAt 64 boss Luciano Spalletti, who twice won the Coppa Italia with Roma, becomes the oldest manager to win Serie A.\n\nHis team had the chance to lift the title with six games to spare last weekend but could only draw with local rivals Salernitana.\n\nBut with a 16-point advantage over second-placed Lazio their third Serie A title is now confirmed.\n\nTheir match with Udinese was almost an afterthought. Napoli fans had been partying in Naples all day before filling the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona to watch a stream of the match.\n\nOver 10,000 fans travelled north to see their side in Udine but they were stunned into silence after 13 minutes when Lovric was given acres of space in the box before curling the hosts in front.\n\nNapoli struggled in the first half but got the goal they needed after the restart with Osimhen finding the corner after Kvaratskhelia had forced a good save from Udinese keeper Marco Silvestri.\n\nAnd after equalising, Napoli managed the game superbly, keeping their opponents at arm's length.\n\nOn the full-time whistle Napoli fans raced onto the pitch, starting celebrations in both Udine and Naples.\n\n\"It is an amazing feeling, we have waited so many years for this moment,\" Osimhen told DAZN.\n\n\"To be able to deliver the Scudetto to the Neapolitans is something that we will never forget in a hurry and will continue to live in our hearts for the rest of our lives.\"\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Marco Silvestri (Udinese).\n• None Substitution, Udinese. Festy Ebosele replaces Kingsley Ehizibue because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Kingsley Ehizibue (Udinese).\n• None Substitution, Udinese. Marvin Zeegelaar replaces Destiny Udogie because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Udinese. Rodrigo Becão tries a through ball, but Ilija Nestorovski is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Oil and gas giant Shell has reported a stronger than expected profit of $9.6bn (£7.6bn) for the first three months of the year.\n\nThe figure was higher than the same period last year despite a slide in energy prices.\n\nFossil fuel firms have been reaping record profits due to a surge in oil and gas prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year.\n\nHowever, they have since fallen from the post-invasion peaks.\n\nShell chief executive Wael Sawan said the company had delivered \"strong results and robust operational performance, against a backdrop of ongoing volatility\".\n\nThe company also said it would be returning $4bn to shareholders, by buying back some its shares over the next three months.\n\nDespite the fall in oil prices in recent months, Shell said its profits had been boosted by strong trading in its chemicals and refined products business.\n\nEarlier this week, BP had also reported strong earnings for the first three months of the year - although they were lower than in the same period in 2022.\n\nIn February, Shell reported profits of $39.9bn for 2022, double the previous year's total and the highest in its 115-year history.\n\nWhile the jump in oil and gas prices following the start of the war in Ukraine led to big profits for energy companies, it also fuelled a rise in energy bills for households and businesses.\n\nLast year, the UK government introduced a windfall tax on profits made from extracting UK oil and gas - called the Energy Profits Levy (EPL) - to help fund its scheme to lower gas and electricity bills.\n\nUnder the government's Energy Price Guarantee, energy bills for a typical household have been limited to £2,500 a year, although this level of support is due to stop at the end of June.\n\nHowever, the fall in oil and gas prices on the international markets has raised hopes that bills will fall below this level in July, making the price guarantee redundant.\n\nOil prices have dropped to around $80 a barrel from highs of nearly $128 following the invasion of Ukraine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCarrie Fisher was honoured with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but a family dispute risked overshadowing the occasion.\n\nThe Hollywood tribute to the late Princess Leia actress came on May the Fourth - Star Wars Day.\n\nHowever, a row has erupted between Fisher's daughter and siblings.\n\nHer brother and sisters have criticised Billie Lourd for not inviting them. In response, Lourd accused them of trying to \"capitalise on my mother's death\".\n\nFisher died in 2016 at the age of 60.\n\nFans made a makeshift star on the Walk of Fame after Fisher died\n\nIn 2018, Star Wars actor Mark Hamill led the calls for his co-star to be given her own tile on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.\n\nSpeaking at the walk of fame ceremony on Thursday, Mr Hamill said he would \"never stop missing\" Fisher, whom he referred to as \"our princess\".\n\n\"I'll never stop missing her, but I'm so thankful that we had her as long as we did,\" he said. \"I'm grateful for the laughter, the wisdom, the kindness and even the bratty self indulgent [expletive] my beloved space twin drove me crazy with through the years.\"\n\nIn her own speech, Billie Lourd said that her mother was \"glitter\" that \"covered the world in it, both literally and metaphorically\".\n\n\"She left a mark of her sparkle on everyone she met,\" Ms Lourd added as she sprinkled glitter on the star during the event.\n\nAhead of the event, her brother Todd Fisher said he was not on the guest list to see it be unveiled.\n\nTodd Fisher, pictured with his sister and niece in 2015, said it was \"heartbreaking\" not to be invited\n\nHe told TMZ: \"It's heartbreaking and shocking to me that I was intentionally omitted from attending this important legacy event for my sister, Carrie.\"\n\nHalf-sister Joely Fisher posted a message on behalf of herself and sister Tricia Leigh Fisher saying: \"Strangely we won't be in attendance to celebrate our sister, whom we adored.\n\n\"For some bizarre, misguided reason our niece has chosen not to include us in this epic moment in our sister's career.\n\n\"This is something Carrie would have definitely wanted her siblings to be present for. The fact that her only brother and two sisters were intentionally and deliberately excluded is deeply shocking.\"\n\nShe added that they had \"all been grieving the loss of our favorite human for some years now… we have given Billie the space to do that in her own way\".\n\nJoely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher said the event was \"about celebrating the permanency of Carrie's legacy in this industry\"\n\nThe siblings had been \"nothing but loving and open, consistently\", she said.\n\n\"This isn't about a photo op on Hollywood Blvd,\" she wrote. \"This is about celebrating the permanency of Carrie's legacy in this industry, taking her place with a star on the iconic walk of fame alongside our parents.\"\n\nLourd responded in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter. \"I apologize to anyone reading this for feeling the need to defend myself publicly from these family members,\" she wrote.\n\n\"But unfortunately, because they publicly attacked me, I have to publicly respond. The truth is I did not invite them to this ceremony. They know why.\n\n\"Days after my mom died, her brother and her sister chose to process their grief publicly and capitalize on my mother's death, by doing multiple interviews and selling individual books for a lot of money, with my mom and my grandmother [actress Debbie Reynolds]'s deaths as the subject.\n\n\"I found out they had done this through the press. They never consulted me or considered how this would affect our relationship. The truth of my mom's very complicated relationship with her family is only known by me and those who were actually close to her.\n\n\"Though I recognize they have every right to do whatever they choose, their actions were very hurtful to me at the most difficult time in my life. I chose to and still choose to deal with her loss in a much different way.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Carrie Fisher appeared in Rise of Skywalker", "Vegan sausages are off the menu at Heck after it said consumers were not buying the products\n\nSausage company Heck is reducing its range of meat-free products, citing lack of consumer appetite.\n\nThe Yorkshire-based firm is shelving production of most of its vegan range of sausages and burgers.\n\nCo-founder Jamie Keeble said shoppers were \"not there yet\" when it came to buying its vegan products.\n\nThe company will now make just two plant-based varieties - chipolatas and burgers - down from its original range of 10.\n\nHeck's decision comes against a backdrop of waning interest in meat-free lines at other firms.\n\nBeyond Meat, which makes a plant-based range including burgers, sausages and chicken, suffered a slump in sales last year, blaming obstacles with consumers around taste, perception of health benefits and price.\n\nAnd industry giant Nestle said in March it would stop selling its Garden Gourmet plant-based vegan brand in UK retailers less than two years after it first appeared on shelves.\n\nSupermarket customers have cut back on meat-replacement products generally, according to research firm NielsenIQ, which reported sales fell by £37.3m in the year to September 2022.\n\nHowever, market and consumer data provider Statista suggested the meat-substitute market in the UK would grow annually by 17.53% over the next five years.\n\nHeck said it would continue its production of 90,000 vegan sausages per day.\n\nUK consumers still wanted to replace meat with \"something that reminds them of meat\", Mr Keeble said.\n\n\"I think [demand] will come back around,\" he added. \"We had pulses and grains in the products. It was really nutritional but the public wasn't really there yet.\"\n\nThe Vegan Society said the cost-of-living crisis in the UK was having a \"big impact\" on people's purchasing choices.\n\nHowever, it said falling sales of plant-based substitutes did not reflect a broader rejection of vegan options.\n\n\"Where there has been a drop in sales, it is not due to a decline in interest in veganism but rather a change in people's spending habits,\" the society said.\n\n\"Many people may be replacing both meat and meat-substitutes with more budget-friendly vegan options in a bid to make savings on their weekly shops,\" it added.\n\nLast March a survey for IPSOS found 33% of people questioned said the cost of plant-based products was too high, but almost half (46%) said they were considering reducing their intake of meat in the future.\n\nMost meat-free products tended to be vegan, the Vegan Society told the BBC. However, some use egg as a binding agent, making them suitable for vegetarians but not vegans, it said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Master Deputy Daniel 'Red' Jones grew up birthing cows and was therefore ready for action when a roadside emergency resulted in a new born baby in his hands.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on... the Russian social media videos appearing to show Kremlin drone attack\n\nThe US has denied Russian claims it masterminded an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin on Wednesday aimed at assassinating President Vladimir Putin.\n\nA day after accusing Ukraine of carrying out the alleged attack, Mr Putin's spokesman said it had been done with Washington's support.\n\nUkraine has said it had nothing to do with the alleged attack. Mr Putin was not in the building at the time.\n\nUkraine has accused Moscow of staging the incident in order to escalate the war.\n\nEven though Russian attacks have continued unabated - 21 people were killed on Wednesday in the Kherson region in the south - there is no sign yet of an intensification on Moscow's part.\n\nHowever, on Sunday evening a drone was shot down over the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, not too far from the presidential office. Officials later admitted it had been a Ukrainian drone that had \"lost control\" and been destroyed to avoid \"undesirable consequences\".\n\nAccording to President Putin's spokesman, the attack on the Kremlin - a large government complex in central Moscow - occurred early on Wednesday. Footage on social media showed smoke rising over the complex. A second video showed a small explosion above the site's Senate building, while two men appear to clambered up the dome.\n\nOn Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the US was \"undoubtedly\" behind the alleged attack, without providing evidence.\n\n\"Decisions on such attacks are not made in Kyiv, but in Washington,\" Mr Peskov said.\n\nIn his response, Mr Kirby told US media: \"Peskov is just lying there, pure and simple.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Steve Rosenberg on Russian media's muted response to the Kremlin explosion\n\n\"The United States has nothing to do with it. We don't even know exactly what happened here, but I can assure you the United States had no role in it whatsoever.\"\n\nThe US official said Washington did not encourage or enable Ukraine to strike outside its borders, and did not endorse attacks on individual leaders.\n\nUkraine has said that the alleged attack was a false flag operation by Moscow.\n\nOn the other hand, though, many argue that Russia would have little interest in staging an attack that made the Kremlin look vulnerable.\n\nThe latest Kremlin claims came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague in the Netherlands.\n\nIn a speech afterwards, he called for the creation of a special tribunal to hold Russia's \"crimes of aggression\" to account.\n\nHe said Mr Putin \"deserves to be sentenced for criminal actions in the capital of international law\", the Ukrainian president said.\n\nHe listed alleged war crimes by Russia - including the \"millions\" of strikes in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine and those killed during the occupation of Bucha, near the capital Kyiv, at the onset of the full-scale Russian invasion last year.\n\nThe ICC has issued an arrest warrant for President Putin for alleged war crimes in Ukraine. It says he is responsible for war crimes during the Ukraine war, which includes the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia. But it has no mandate to prosecute the crime of aggression.", "The Scottish government will meet its pledge to provide free school meals for all primary school children, the deputy first minister has said.\n\nShona Robison said the full rollout that had been due to happen last 2022 will include P6 and P7 pupils by 2024.\n\nBut she confirmed a plan for universal free meals in secondary schools would have to be looked at again.\n\nIt comes after the first minister warned \"tough choices\" needed to be made about existing budgets.\n\nHumza Yousaf said on Tuesday that future Scottish government spending plans would be targeted at those most in need.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Shona Robison backed Mr Yousaf's call for targeted spending to be effectively aimed at reducing poverty.\n\nShe said there was \"no question\" that the commitment to free school meals for P6 and P7 pupils would go ahead.\n\nBut she added that \"resources are tight and we need to make difficult decisions\".\n\n\"That is where the issue and question of targeting comes in,\" Ms Robison said.\n\n\"With the resources to roll out free school meals in secondary schools, would it be better targeted to support, for example, breakfast clubs or pre-clubs to make sure that children who are from the poorest families are actually getting three meals a day instead of one at lunchtime.\"\n\nShona Robison has backed the first minister's review of future spending plans\n\nMs Robison said the government could not and would not ignore the fact that many families were struggling to feed their children.\n\n\"We need to make sure that, within the limited resources we have, that money is being spent in the most effective way and that is what we're doing,\" she said.\n\nUniversal free school lunches have been extended to children in P4 and P5 since the SNP retained power in the May 2021 election, saving families an average of £400 a year.\n\nBruce Adamson, the Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland, welcomed the deputy first minister's commitment to free meals for all primary pupils.\n\nBut he said the policy did not go far enough.\n\n\"When we are talking about something as basic as food, we know that a universal approach is effective,\" he said.\n\n\"We know that a targeted approach to free school meals means that some people miss out.\n\n\"Secondary pupils will be shocked that the Scottish government is reconsidering.\"\n\nScottish Labour MSP Paul O'Kane accused Humza Yousaf of \"jettisoning promises\" just weeks into his new job as first minister.\n\nHe said: \"There is hidden hunger in schools.\n\n\"The government have committed to free school meals from primary one to seven and haven't delivered it yet.\"", "The coronation postbox - one of four in the UK - was plastered in pro-Welsh independence stickers\n\nWelsh independence and republican stickers were plastered on a coronation postbox just hours after it was unveiled.\n\nThe Royal Mail postbox in Cardiff is one of four in the UK to be repainted to mark Saturday's coronation.\n\nIt has drawn criticism for its location - outside the Owain Glyndwr pub - named after the last native Welsh person to hold the title Prince of Wales.\n\nThe stickers have since been removed.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, stickers from pro-independence campaign group, CPD Cefn Hengoed Gweriniaeth Cymru (Republic of Wales), covered the words \"Charles\" and \"Coronation\" on the postbox.\n\nDuring the night more stickers appeared on the box, with Yes Cymru, Wrexham Lager and Welsh Football Fans for Independence stickers placed to cover the coronation emblem.\n\nThe stickers, some of which featured expletives, covered parts of the postbox\n\nCardiff will be the centre of Wales' coronation celebrations on the weekend, with one public screening of the ceremony being held at Cardiff Castle and another of the subsequent concert taking place at Roald Dahl Plass.\n\nThe concert will feature opera singer Sir Bryn Terfel performing in Welsh, in addition to an appearance from Sir Tom Jones.\n\nA \"Not My King\" protest will also take place on the city's streets, with people expected to gather by the statue of Aneurin Bevan on Queen Street from 12:30 BST before a march takes place.\n\nIt will be followed by a \"big republican lunch\" in Bute Park - a play on the name of the Big Coronation Lunches that communities have been encouraged to hold to mark the occasion.\n\nGroups have been warned that under new laws to curb protests, which came into force on Wednesday, anyone found disrupting infrastructure such as roads, airports and railways will be dealt with swiftly and could face 12 months behind bars.\n\nThe Senedd's presiding officer Elin Jones has announced that she has turned down an invitation to attend the coronation alongside First Minister Mark Drakeford.\n\nThe Plaid Cymru Member of the Senedd said on Thursday: \"As a republican, I consider it is for others to celebrate a coronation.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Royal harpist Alis Huws from Welshpool plays a snippet from Tros y Garreg which she will perform at the coronation\n\nThe Royal harpist who will play at the King's coronation has described how she can go from working in sheep pens to playing in palaces in the same day.\n\nIn Westminster Abbey, Alis Huws, 28, will join the Coronation Orchestra to play Tros y Garreg (Crossing the Stone) by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins.\n\nShe started to play the harp at 10, with lessons near her home, a farm in the Banw Valley near Welshpool, Powys.\n\nNow she divides her time between rural Wales and London.\n\n\"I had a day last year when I was at home in mid Wales helping with the sheep and lambs from about six in the morning until lunchtime,\" she said.\n\n\"Then I hopped on a train to London straight to St James's Palace, after a shower, and spent the whole evening playing in St. James's Palace.\"\n\nAs the Royal harpist, Alis said she played a \"very special instrument\" - a one-off gold one that was given to the then-Prince of Wales in 2005.\n\nIt is this she will play at the coronation.\n\nAlis plays the harp for schoolchildren, mainly in her home county of Powys\n\n\"Part of my role is to reflect the relationship between Wales and the King,\" she said.\n\n\"Welsh will be spoken at the event, and a Welsh folk song will be sung.\n\n\"I'm a girl from Montgomeryshire through and through, so it's always nice to have that link.\"\n\nShe was taught by the internationally-renowned concert harpist Ieuan Jones at the Royal College of Music, but it was also something constant in her childhood.\n\n\"Growing up in mid Wales it's not that unusual to have a harp at home or in the family,\" Alis added.\n\n\"We had my mother's harp in our house. There are four children in the family so one of us was going to learn to play it.\"\n\nAlis played at the opening of the current term of the Senedd\n\nThe former Ysgol Bro Caereinion pupil said before leaving Powys to attend Cardiff's Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama she was a regular performer on Eisteddfod stages, but not on the harp.\n\n\"You name it, I did it at an Eisteddfod when I was growing up - singing solo and in choirs, folk dancing, recitals the whole lot,\" she said.\n\n\"But when I think of an Eisteddfod I don't think of the harp, because when I started to learn the harp I could already play the piano and the clarinet so performing on the harp came later.\"\n\nNow, 18 years after taking it up, Alis will play the gold harp for King Charles III on Saturday.\n\nShe said: \"I always say 'well I started off because my mum said one of us needs to play the harp, and now it's my job'.\n\n\"It was a different journey from the one many people take who fall in love with an instrument as a child and say 'this is the one, this is for me'.\n\n\"I still laugh at the fact that I'm a professional harpist because at 15 I never thought I would be, but I guess that's the difference good teachers can make and having someone to look up to.\"\n\nAlis was appointed to be the royal harpist by the then prince in 2019, and believes playing in the coronation orchestra will be the \"pinnacle\" of her four years in the role.\n\nShe is the sixth person to take on the duty since it was reinstated in 2000.\n\nGiant oven glove? It is what some schoolchildren thought the harp looked like in its case\n\nBeing the royal harpist is only one part of Alis's life as a professional musician.\n\nShe performs regularly at concerts, weddings and other events and also works on community outreach projects introducing the harp to audiences that may not hear it live otherwise, including in care homes and Powys schools.\n\nFunding allowed her to perform 30 concerts in 30 schools, including a four-day residency at Ysgol Cedewain in Newtown.\n\nAt 6ft (1.83m), Alis said her harp made an impact on the children before she even played it.\n\n\"They're with me going through the journey of unveiling the harp. Because I've got a couple of covers (on the harp), they say 'it looks like a big oven glove', which it does,\" she said.\n\n\"Some of them like to come up and have a go, some like to try and climb on it which is less fun, a little more stressful for me but they love it.\"", "Nablus has seen frequent raids by Israeli forces over the last year\n\nIsraeli forces say they have killed two Palestinian militants accused of shooting dead a British-Israeli woman and her two daughters in the occupied West Bank last month.\n\nA third militant who allegedly aided the pair was also killed during the raid in the city of Nablus.\n\nSeveral Palestinians were also injured in confrontations with the troops.\n\nLucy Dee, 48, and her daughters Rina, 15, and Maia, 20, were killed in an attack in the Jordan Valley on 7 April.\n\nThey were travelling to an event for the Passover holiday when gunmen opened fire at their car near the settlement of Hamra, 16km (10 miles) west of Nablus.\n\nTheir car crashed and the gunmen fired again at close range.\n\nRina and Maia died at the scene, while Lucy died in hospital three days later.\n\nThe family lived in the settlement of Efrat, in the occupied West Bank.\n\nIn Thursday's early morning raid in Nablus, more than 200 Israeli soldiers entered the Old City, using shoulder-mounted anti-tank missiles and stun grenades fired from drones.\n\nResidents said they heard explosions while people were preparing to go to work and children left home for school.\n\nOutside the Old City, troops reportedly fired at Palestinians who were trying to repel the military vehicles by throwing stones at them.\n\nParamedics said four people were taken to hospital, two with bullet wounds to the legs, and that dozens more suffered from tear gas inhalation. The Palestinian health ministry said those affected included pupils in a nearby school.\n\nFawaz Bitar, a paramedic with the Palestinian Red Crescent, told the BBC that crews in clearly marked vests could not reach the site of the damaged building for an hour and a half because Israeli troops targeted them with tear gas and rubber bullets.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said troops targeted an apartment where the \"murderers of Leah [Lucy's Hebrew name], Maia and Rina Dee\" were hiding.\n\nIt identified them as Hassan Qatanani and Moaz Masri and said they were members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.\n\nThe two men were killed in an exchange of fire along with a senior Hamas operative who helped them escape the scene of last month's attack, the IDF added, naming him as Ibrahim Jabr. It also said three assault rifles were found inside the apartment.\n\nThe Palestinian health ministry said three Palestinians had died but that it was not immediately able to identify two of them due to the severity of their injuries.\n\nHamas's military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, later confirmed that Qatanani, Masri and Jabr belonged to the group and that they were behind the attack that killed Lucy Dee and her daughters.\n\nGreen Hamas flags were carried by mourners at the men's funerals, which hundreds of people attended.\n\nLucy (left) died three days after the shooting which killed her daughters Rina (centre) and Maia Dee\n\nRabbi Leo Dee, Lucy's widower, said in a statement that he and their three surviving children were \"comforted to hear that the Israeli security forces have eliminated the Iranian-funded terrorists responsible for Lucy, Maia, and Rina's murders\".\n\n\"This has been done in a way that has not endangered the lives of Israeli soldiers, nor innocent Palestinian civilians,\" he added.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, praised its security forces for showing that attackers would eventually be found and \"pay the price\".\n\n\"Our message to those who harm us, and those who want to harm us, is that whether it takes a day, a week or a month - you can be certain that we will settle accounts with you,\" he said.\n\nPalestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh condemned deadly raid in Nablus and said he held the Israeli government responsible for \"these crimes against Palestinian people\", according to the Wafa news agency.\n\nThe centre of Nablus has become a holdout for the militant group the Lion's Den, and has seen frequent raids by Israeli forces over the last year, killing civilians and militants, as a wave of deadly Palestinian attacks targeting Israelis has continued.\n\nMany Palestinians see the emergent armed groups in Nablus and Jenin as one of only effective forms of resistance to Israel's military occupation, now in its 56th year.\n\nThe Western-backed Palestinian Authority (PA), seen by many ordinary Palestinians as weak and ineffective, has lost security control to the groups in much of the northern West Bank. US-backed attempts to strengthen the PA's grip appear so far to have failed, while human rights groups criticise Israel for repeatedly using excessive force in civilian areas targeting militants.\n\nIn a separate incident on Thursday just to the south of Nablus, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian woman after she allegedly stabbed an Israeli soldier in the town of Hawara. The IDF said the soldier suffered minor injuries.\n\nThe Palestinian health ministry said the woman, whom it named as Iman Odeh, was shot in the chest and died of her injuries after being taken to hospital.\n\nSince the start of this year, more than 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces. Eighteen Israelis, one Ukrainian and one Italian have been killed in attacks by Palestinians.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA teenager who killed eight fellow students and a security guard in a school in Serbia planned the attack for weeks and had a \"kill list\", according to police.\n\nThe 13-year-old was arrested following Wednesday's attack at the Vladislav Ribnikar primary school in Belgrade.\n\nThe boy's father and mother have also been arrested.\n\nOf those killed, seven of the victims were girls at the school, but the motive for the attack is still unclear.\n\nAnother six pupils and a teacher were injured in the shooting, four more boys and two girls.\n\nA boy who was shot in the neck and chest is said to have suffered the worst injuries, while a girl is in critical condition with a head injury.\n\nOfficers in helmets and bulletproof vests cordoned off the area around the school, located in the central Vracar neighbourhood, shortly after 08:40 (06:40 GMT).\n\nThe suspect is alleged to have used his father's guns, both of which had legal permits. He is also said to have gone to a shooting range more than once with his father before the killings.\n\nIn a televised address to the country, President Aleksandar Vucic described the attack as \"the most difficult day in the modern history of our country\".\n\nHe said the suspect would be sent to a psychiatric clinic. Under current Serbian law, he cannot be held criminally responsible as he is under 14.\n\nMr Vucic has suggested that the age of criminal liability may be lowered to 12 in the wake of the killings.\n\nHe has also proposed several other reforms, including an audit on firearms licences and a tightening of the rules around who can access shooting ranges.\n\nPolice say the suspect planned the attack a month in advance and that he had carried a \"priority list\" of children to target and which classrooms he would go into first.\n\nFour of those wounded, three boys and another girl, were stable and conscious on Wednesday.\n\nA teacher injured in the attack was also reported to have undergone surgery and the health minister said on Tuesday her life was at risk.\n\nMost of the victims were born in 2009 - meaning they were either 13 or 14 at the time of the incident.\n\nA national three-day mourning period starting on Friday has been announced.\n\nTributes have been laid for the victims of Wednesday's shooting outside the school in central Belgrade\n\nThe sounds of crying parents could be heard on the streets around the school hours after the shooting.\n\nMilan Milosevic, the father of one of the pupils at the school, said his daughter was in the class where the gun was fired and managed to escape.\n\n\"[The boy] first shot the teacher and then he started shooting randomly,\" Mr Milosevic told broadcaster N1.\n\n\"I saw the security guard lying under the table. I saw two girls with blood on their shirts. They say he [the shooter] was quiet and a good pupil. He recently joined their class.\"\n\n\"I saw kids running out from the school, screaming. Parents came, they were in panic. Later I heard three shots,\" one student told the Serbian state broadcaster RTS.\n\nMr Vucic said the suspect had become friendly with the guard, who was described by one parent as \"a man who loved kids\".\n\nMass shootings are comparatively rare in Serbia, which has very strict gun laws, but gun ownership in the country is among the highest in Europe.\n\nThe western Balkans are awash with illegal weapons following wars and unrest in the 1990s. In 2019, it was estimated that there are 39.1 firearms per 100 people in Serbia - the third highest in the world, behind the US and Montenegro.\n\nIn the deadliest shooting since then, Ljubisa Bogdanovic killed 14 people in the central village of Velika Ivanca in 2013, and Nikola Radosavljevic killed nine and wounded five in the eastern village of Jabukovac in July 2007.", "Discord has announced everyone using the platform will be asked to change their username \"over the coming weeks\".\n\nThe online chat service, which allows people to create and join groups based on their interests, has 150 million monthly active users worldwide.\n\nPreviously, users were identified by a name preceding a hash and four numbers.\n\nThe new system will require people to create a unique username following an \"@\" symbol, bringing it in line with Twitter, Instagram and other platforms.\n\nA Discord representative told BBC News: \"After hearing from many users about the challenges associated with connecting with friends on our platform, we've made changes to our username system to make Discord more accessible and user-friendly for both new and existing users.\n\n\"We value user feedback and are committed to improving the overall Discord experience.\"\n\nThe change has been criticised online, however, with people questioning the reasons for it.\n\nOne person called it a \"huge step backward\", while another compared it to a telephone network changing its customers' phone number to their full name. And popular illustrator Aura said users \"run the risk\" of being impersonated if they failed to secure their username.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aura This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe order in which people will be able to pick their new usernames will be determined by the age of their accounts - oldest first.\n\nThey must be alphanumeric and can include underscores and full stops but, unlike Twitter, no capital letters.\n\nLaunched in 2015, Discord is widely used by people playing games but also to arrange group activities, because users can split conversations into easily searchable \"channels\".\n\nUsers can join groups - or servers - with no limit on members. Massively popular games such as Genshin Impact and Valorant each have more than a million users in their public Discord servers.\n\nBut now the most popular public server is not about gaming at all - the server for Midjourney, an artificial intelligence that can generate images from text, has 15 million members.\n\nAnd Discord has featured in mainstream news coverage, after the platform was used to allegedly leak sensitive information about US allies and the war in Ukraine.", "At last year's Platinum Jubilee there was no place for Prince Harry or Prince Andrew\n\nEven at this late stage there is no confirmation about which members of the Royal Family will be on the famous balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Coronation service.\n\nThis will be one of the most iconic images of the day so nothing will be accidental about how it is staged.\n\nThe lack of certainty about who will appear on this royal stage has been presented as keeping something back for the big day.\n\nOr perhaps it might be a bit of news management to avoid \"Prince Harry banned from balcony\" headlines? Or more dramatically could there be options being kept open for last-minute, surprise changes?\n\nThe balcony has become a key moment for the Royal Family to send a message.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, after the procession gets back from Westminster Abbey, the curtains will be pulled back and a number of invited guests will step out on to the palace balcony, looking out over the gates and at the crowd below.\n\nThere has been an expectation this will be used to highlight the core group of \"working royals\" - those family members who carry out official duties on behalf of the King.\n\nAs well as the King and Queen Consort, that would include close family such as the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh and Princess Royal, along with other working royals such as the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent.\n\nThat approach would make a distinction from \"non-working royals\" - specifically Prince Harry and Prince Andrew, who a year ago were banished from the most recent balcony moment, for the late Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe balcony line-up of the Royal Family in 2019 for Trooping the Colour\n\nNo such announcement has been made for the Coronation, although it has been confirmed that neither Prince Harry nor Prince Andrew will have any formal role in the ceremony in the Abbey.\n\nFor the Platinum Jubilee in 2022 there were 18 people on the balcony, including the late Queen, and her second appearance on the balcony in the closing moments of the weekend became one of the most poignant images.\n\nNumbers had been cut back even further for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012, when only six people were on the balcony, in a show of frugality at a time of economic austerity.\n\nPrince Harry will be attending the Coronation, and he's expected to make a quick turn-around before returning to the US, but there would be no bigger platform than the balcony for sending an image of a family reunited.\n\nThe balcony, like a framed photo in the royal album, could also be a way of emphasising the line of succession, bringing together the King, Prince William and his son Prince George.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II made six balcony appearances after the coronation\n\nAnother possibility might be several appearances with different line-ups, like the family group permutations of wedding photos.\n\nIn 1953 for the late Queen Elizabeth's coronation there were six separate balcony appearances, with some of these including more than 30 family and friends.\n\nSuch a crowd scene would be unlikely to be the message for a modern monarchy wanting to project a smaller, more cost-conscious image.\n\nMonarchs have been stepping out on to the palace balcony since Queen Victoria in 1851, using it as a showcase where royalty and the public can acknowledge each other.\n\nWinston Churchill was one of the few politicians to appear on the balcony, seen here in 1945\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nAlthough it wasn't until the 1930s that the Royal Family began to wave back - and with a leap towards modernity, from the 1980s the balcony became the place where royal weddings were celebrated with a public kiss.\n\nAnd even though there are no fixed rules, the palace balcony has acquired its own rituals. The monarch is almost always at the centre, with others fanning out around them in a courtly pecking order.\n\nTraditionally it's only married partners of the Royal Family who appear, not current girlfriends or boyfriends, suggesting the sense of this being a permanent record.\n\nThis is very much a royal moment, but there have been rare occasions when political figures have appeared.\n\nWartime prime minister Winston Churchill was on the balcony to take the salute of the crowds when victory in Europe was declared in May 1945.\n\nIn 1938 prime minister Neville Chamberlain went on to the balcony after the signing of the ill-fated Munich Agreement with Nazi Germany.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, we'll see who appears beside King Charles and Queen Camilla.\n\nWhat are your plans for the Coronation weekend? Are you volunteering as part of The Big Help Out on Bank Holiday Monday? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Bona Mugabe seen with her husband at the funeral of her father in 2019\n\nDivorce court papers seen by the BBC allege that the daughter of Zimbabwe's ex-President Robert Mugabe owned 25 residential properties, including a Dubai mansion, worth a total of around $80m (£64m).\n\nBona Mugabe filed for divorce from former pilot Simba Mutsahuni Chikore in March.\n\nMr Chikore wants to split their assets, which also include 21 farms, he says.\n\nMs Mugabe has not yet commented on the claims but will be able to do so.\n\nA source close to the Mugabe family told the BBC that the former president had nothing in his name when he died, although he received £10m from the state as part of his pension. The source also questioned whether Bona Mugabe owned all the assets listed by her former partner.\n\nHowever, Zimbabweans have reacted with shock and outrage to the extent of the wealth allegedly accumulated by just one of Mr Mugabe's children.\n\nLuxury vehicles, farming equipment and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash were also mentioned in the divorce papers.\n\nSome of the 21 farms were allegedly acquired by the Mugabe family during the contentious takeover of white-owned farms in the early 2000s, and despite the government's policy of \"one-man one-farm\".\n\nMr Chikore, who is also demanding joint custody of the couple's three children, says the assets were acquired solely and jointly during their marriage, through inheritance and donations from the late president for work carried out on his behalf.\n\nHe adds that the assets he has listed are a drop in the ocean, compared to the wealth Ms Mugabe owns outright.\n\nIn response, George Charamba, who was Mr Mugabe's spokesman and now serves in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office, denied that the couple owned 21 farms.\n\n\"All Agricultural Land belongs to the State, with farmers using it on LEASE BASIS,\" he tweeted.\n\nHe added that no-one should \"build any politics or arguments around so-called 21 farms allegedly owned by Cde Bona and her estranged hubby\".\n\nBona Mugabe pictured with her father, former President Mugabe, during his 91st birth celebrations, and mother, Grace\n\nIt is unclear when the divorce case - being heard by a court in the capital, Harare - will end.\n\nMs Mugabe and Ms Chikore were married at a lavish wedding in 2014 that was attended by several African heads of state - and was broadcast live on state television.\n\nMr Mugabe died in 2019 at the age of 95, reportedly without leaving a will. He is survived by his wife Grace, Bona, two sons and a step-son.\n\nHe was in power in Zimbabwe from the time of independence in 1980 until he was ousted in 2017 by Mr Mnangagwa, his former ally-turned-rival.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Drone shot down over Kyiv leaves trail of fire and smoke in sky\n\nUkraine's air force has shot down one of its own drones which it says had lost control above central Kyiv.\n\nThere were explosions for around 15 to 20 minutes on Thursday evening as air defence attempted to shoot it down in an area near the president's office.\n\nUkraine presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak initially said it was an enemy drone that had been shot down.\n\nBut the air force later admitted it was Ukrainian and had been destroyed to avoid \"undesirable circumstances\".\n\nIn a statement, it said the Bayraktar TB2 UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] had lost control around at 20:00 (17:00 GMT) in the Kyiv region, during a scheduled flight.\n\nIt added that it had taken a decision to shoot it down \"since the uncontrolled presence of UAVs in the sky of the capital could lead to undesirable consequences\".\n\nThere were no casualties or injuries from the falling drone, it said.\n\n\"It's a pity, but this is technology, and such cases happen,\" the statement said. \"It is probably a technical malfunction, the reasons are being established.\"\n\nVideos of efforts to shoot down the drone had been shared widely on social media. Cheers could be heard when the drone was finally taken down.\n\nCity military administration head Serhiy Popko said a fire was brought under control in a building where the drone was brought down in Solomyanskyi district, west of the city centre.\n\nThe incident comes after Russia accused Ukraine of carrying out an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin on Wednesday aimed at assassinating President Vladimir Putin, who was not in the building at the time.\n\nOn Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the US was \"undoubtedly\" behind the alleged attack, without providing evidence.\n\nUkraine has said it had nothing to do with the alleged attack on the Kremlin, and has accused Moscow of staging the incident in order to escalate the war.", "Singer-songwriter Linda Lewis, whose career spanned more than four decades, has died at the age of 72, her family has announced.\n\nThe British musician was known for a five-octave vocal range and provided backing vocals for the likes of David Bowie and Rod Stewart.\n\nShe also enjoyed solo success in the 1970s with songs including Rock-A-Doodle-Doo.\n\nPaying tribute, fellow musician Midge Ure said she had sung \"beautifully\".\n\nAnnouncing the death on social media, her sibling Dee Lewis Clay said her \"beloved beautiful sister\" had passed away peacefully at home and described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nLewis was born Linda Ann Fredericks in West Ham and attended stage school, later gaining non-speaking roles in British film A Taste of Honey in 1961 and, three years later, as a screaming fan in the first Beatles film, A Hard Day's Night.\n\nA self-taught guitarist and keyboard player, she appeared at the first ever Glastonbury Festival in 1970 and had four top-40 hits over the next decade.\n\nRock-A-Doodle-Doo reached number 15 in the UK in 1973, while It's In His Kiss - a disco cover of The Shoop Shoop Song, first recorded by Merry Clayton - reached number six in 1975.\n\nHer work with Bowie included backing vocals on the Aladdin Sane album, while other artists she worked with included Cat Stevens, Joan Armatrading, and Jamiroquai.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Ure said: \"Really sad to hear this. I had a massive crush on Linda Lewis.\n\n\"Not A Little Girl Anymore [the title track from her 1975 album] was a great song and beautifully sung by her.\"\n\nMike Scott, frontman of Scottish band The Waterboys, said he was \"very sorry\" to hear of Lewis's death and that she had been \"fabulous\".\n\nEarlier this year, Lewis appeared on the James Whale Unleashed show on TalkTV and performed an acoustic version of Rock-A-Doodle-Doo.\n\nFollowing her death, Whale said he was \"so sad to hear\" the news and described the rendition as \"brilliant\".", "Actor Stephen Tompkinson denies causing grievous bodily harm to a man he confronted outside his home\n\nThe friend of a man allegedly punched by actor Stephen Tompkinson heard a \"hit of flesh\" and a cracking sound as he fell to the ground, a court heard.\n\nAndrew Hall said he had been walking behind his friend Karl Poole when he saw him and Mr Tompkinson, 57, rowing.\n\nThe actor, who lives in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, denies inflicting grievous bodily harm.\n\nMr Hall told Newcastle Crown Court his friend was snoring which he knew could \"represent a serious head injury\".\n\nThe court previously heard Mr Hall and Mr Poole had been drinking vodka and Jägermeister with Red Bull since midnight before going to the beach with a bottle at about 05:30 BST on 30 May 2021.\n\nThey passed Mr Tompkinson's house in Beech Grove on their way home.\n\nOn Wednesday, jurors were played a recording of the Stockton-born actor calling police to ask for the two drunk men outside his home to be moved on.\n\nMr Hall said he saw his friend and the actor gesturing at each other and tried to calm the situation by saying he was a social worker.\n\n\"Then I heard a hit of flesh and I saw Karl hit the floor,\" he said.\n\n\"He was knocked out and snoring which I know - I'm not a paramedic but I know from training that I have done - I know that it can represent a serious head injury.\"\n\nUnder cross-examination Mr Hall agreed he could not remember parts of what happened - including falling over with Mr Poole when play fighting - because he had been drinking.\n\nHe also described the interaction with Mr Tompkinson on the actor's driveway as a \"blur\".\n\nKarl Poole and his friend Andrew Hall had been drinking before going down to the beach\n\nIt was put to Mr Hall his evidence had \"dramatically changed\" compared to his initial statement to police, in which he said he did not know how his friend ended up on the floor.\n\nMr Tompkinson's defence barrister, Nicholas Lumley KC, said to him: \"You did not hear the sound of the impact that caused him to fall.\"\n\nThe court was shown mobile phone footage of Mr Poole lying in the street in just his underpants with Mr Hall crouched beside him.\n\nMr Lumley KC suggested they were \"extremely drunk that night\" and became aggressive when Mr Tompkinson suggested calling the police.\n\n\"He put his shoulder to you and put his hand out to keep Mr Poole at bay and that's when Mr Poole staggered and fell to the ground,\" he told Mr Hall.\n\nThe court also heard from Mr Tompkinson's neighbour Caroline Davidson who described being woken by \"hysterical laughing\".\n\nLooking out of her window she saw two very drunk men on the ground by a tree, \"wobbling side-to-side\" even though they were sitting down, she said.\n\nShe told the court she was woken a second time by the \"different tone\" of another man - Mr Tompkinson - who she knew lived opposite but had not spoken to.\n\nMrs Davidson said the actor was gesturing for the pair to move away and, at one point, \"pulled his fist back\" but put it down \"more or less straight away\" before walking back towards his house while apparently making a phone call.\n\nThe men got up with some difficulty and \"started to try and walk off\" when the actor came out again and she thought something was said, she told the court.\n\n\"The next thing I knew, the neighbour had stepped forward and he had slapped one of the gentlemen, the one without the top on, with his right hand and then punched him on the head with his left hand,\" she said.\n\nBorn in Stockton-on-Tees, Stephen Tompkinson found fame in the TV show Ballykissangel in 1996\n\nAsked by prosecutor Michael Bunch if there was anything that \"precipitated that action\" or if the men had been aggressive towards the actor, Mrs Davidson said: \"No.\"\n\nShe said she was \"100% sure\" Mr Tompkinson had moved towards the two men and told the court Mr Poole \"stumbled backwards\" and fell.\n\n\"He just went straight back and his head hit the ground. He just, he didn't move,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't even put his hands out to stop himself, he just hit the ground.\"\n\nCrossexamining, Mr Lumley suggested to Mrs Davidson she had seen a \"reaching out, a push to the face\" not a slap.\n\nMr Lumley also said Mr Tompkinson had his phone in his hand throughout the incident after calling the police and \"there is no way he could punch with his left hand and slap with his right\".\n\nJurors have heard the actor told police he pushed Mr Poole away in self-defence after the two had come towards him \"aggressively\".\n\nIn a police statement read out in court, Mr Tompkinson referred to Mr Poole, saying: \"I wanted to stop him, I didn't want to hurt him.\"\n\nThe trial, which is expected to last another two days, continues.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on... the Russian social media videos appearing to show Kremlin drone attack\n\nExplosions have been heard in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, a day after Russia accused Ukraine of carrying out a drone attack on the Kremlin.\n\nAttacks were also reported in Zaporizhzhia and Odesa in the south.\n\nThe air strikes come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to speak at The Hague as part of an unexpected visit to the Netherlands.\n\nHe will also visit the International Criminal Court, which is investigating alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nRussia has accused Ukraine of attempting to assassinate President Vladimir Putin, but Mr Zelensky denied that his country carried out the attack.\n\nOn Wednesday, he said: \"We don't attack Putin or Moscow. We fight on our territory. We are defending our villages and cities.\"\n\nMr Zelensky was speaking in Finland, where he made a surprise visit and met his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto and the leaders of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.\n\nDuring his visit to the Netherlands, Mr Zelensky is expected to meet Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. Dutch media said that the two were likely to discuss Mr Zelensky's demands for more military support - namely long-range weapons and fighter jets.\n\nLast January, Mr Rutte said that supplying fighter jets was not taboo, although such a move would be \"a really big next step\".\n\nFollowing the alleged drone attacks, Russia threatened to retaliate when and where it considered necessary.\n\nOn Wednesday, Russian strikes on Ukraine's southern Kherson region killed 21 people. Officials said that the victims included supermarket customers and employees of an energy company who were performing repairs.\n\nAnd in the early hours of Thursday morning, air raid sirens rang out across many Ukrainian regions. Loud blasts were reported in Kyiv and Odesa.\n\nAt the same time, a drone hit an oil refinery in southern Russia, setting part of it on fire - the latest in a series of explosions, fires and drone attacks that have occurred in Russia in recent weeks.\n\nSome commentators have argued that the alleged drone strike on the Kremlin was internally conducted and purposefully staged by Russia.\n\nThe Institute for the Study of War said it is \"extremely unlikely that two drones could have penetrated multiple layers of air defence and detonated or been shot down just over the heart of the Kremlin in a way that provided spectacular imagery caught nicely on camera\".\n\nIt said that \"Russia likely staged this attack in an attempt to bring the war home to a Russian domestic audience and set conditions for a wider societal mobilisation\".\n\nYurii Ihnat, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, said he thought Russia had staged the attack on the Kremlin to try to \"show some kind of escalation on the part of Ukraine\".\n\nBut other commentators disagreed, saying that Russia would have little interest in making itself look \"weak\" by staging an attack that makes the Kremlin look vulnerable.\n\nIt would also lead to questions about how well-protected Mr Putin is - and about the effectiveness of Russian air defences.", "Xiaotong Huang laundered money for nearly two years\n\nA student who laundered nearly £85,000 for a Chinese crime lord based in Glasgow has been jailed for 18 months.\n\nXiaotong Huang, 28, used the money from a man named as Wai Ma - who went by \"Mr Big\" - to pay her student fees and buy luxury items for about two years.\n\nMa travelled around Scotland in a Mercedes giving bags of money to associates to clean.\n\nHuang denied the charge but was found guilty of money laundering linked with serious organised crime in March.\n\nSums totalling £160,000 were washed through four of her bank accounts\n\nHowever she was convicted of laundering £84,912 in total.\n\nThe court heard an analysis of Huang's accounts showed that between June 2019 and April 2021 she had banked more than £160,400 with Santander, Monzo and Starling banks.\n\nAround £56,000 was deposited in cash.\n\nAt the time she was studying for a masters' in publishing at the University of Stirling.\n\nMore than £32,000 had been transferred abroad and £31,000 had been used to pay the university for tuition fees and accommodation.\n\nOver £37,000 had been used to purchase high value goods from designers and retailers including Gucci, Harrods, and Louis Vuitton.\n\nTens of thousands of pounds, as well as £7,000 worth of expensive wine bought in a single day, were sent to China.\n\nHuang claimed she had got the money from her Chinese fiancé, then living in Germany, whom she said was now dead.\n\nShe also said she had got money from fellow Chinese students at the University of Stirling, whom she said had since returned to China, and from her parents - who did not travel from China to the UK to give evidence in support of her claims.\n\nHuang was studying for a masters in publishing at the University of Stirling\n\nThe court was told that Ma had absconded.\n\nHe was described as the \"main nominal\" in a police investigation into a \"significant\" money laundering racket codenamed Operation Skipper.\n\nPolice watched as Huang got into his Mercedes in a car park near her halls of residence in April 2021.\n\nShe emerged with a brown paper bag which she took to the travel money section of the nearest Post Office.\n\nShe later claimed the bag contained only Chinese dumplings, but she was seen taking a wad of banknotes \"an inch and a half thick\" out of it and depositing £3,500 in one of her accounts.\n\nPolice swooped on Ma's car in Dundee a fortnight later.\n\nHe was in the driver's seat and had three passengers in the car, as well as nearly £50,000 in cash in the boot and rear footwell.\n\nHuang was arrested in her halls of residence in May 2021.\n\nNone of the luxury goods were ever recovered.\n\nSolicitor-advocate Calum Weir, defending, said Huang had been \"naïve and to some extent exploited\".\n\nHe asked for her to be given a non-custodial sentence so she could return to her parents in Beijing, who were described as people \"of more than adequate means\".\n\nBut Sheriff Keith O'Mahony said he was not persuaded there was any appropriate disposal other than custody, noting: \"I do accept she's not at the top of the tree.\"", "Flowers are left on the pavement to remember the children shot dead in class in Belgrade\n\nThere is an awful silence hanging over the steep hill on which Vladislav Ribnikar elementary school sits.\n\nOn Wednesday, a 13-year-old entered the school, armed with two guns and a \"kill list\" - and shot dead eight fellow students and a security guard. Six other children remain in hospital.\n\nThe school is at the heart of this central Belgrade community, where streams of mourners are arriving, bearing flowers and soft toys.\n\nExactly 24 hours after the worst school shooting in Serbian history, pupils from the next-door college stand along the street to stand in silence and remember those killed.\n\n\"I am crushed,\" says final-year school student Alex Oborina, 19, beside some of the handwritten notes left on the pavement.\n\n\"We have failed as a society because this is something that should not happen to a 13-year-old. He should not be grabbing a gun and going into his school and shooting his friends.\"\n\nAlex seems to echo the sentiment everyone here feels.\n\n\"This is probably the worst thing that has ever happened in my life. We need to use this as a stepping stone to rebuild. \"\n\nAlex Oborina believes the children's parents will never have justice for what happened\n\nI ask if the suspect's age of 13 will make it even harder for Serbian society to come to terms with this attack because he is too young to face prosecution.\n\n\"Whatever happened, even if he had been 18 or 19, justice would never have been served for those parents who lost their children.\"\n\nThe boy was arrested by police immediately after the shooting. His father who legally owned both guns was also detained, as was his mother.\n\nHis lawyer, Irina Borovic, says he has been interviewed by doctors and has now been taken to a Belgrade neurology and psychiatry clinic for children and youth.\n\nThe motive for the attack remains unclear.\n\nBut of the victims, seven of the eight who were killed were girls.\n\nFurther down the hill, candle wax oozes down on to the stems of white lilies resting against a thin tree.\n\nAn elderly woman makes the sign of the cross before slowly kneeling down and placing a single flower. Above her, a teddy bear is attached to the fencing of the football pitch, near the empty goal.\n\nDuring the afternoon, a large crowd gathers outside the school. Most are pupils from elsewhere in Belgrade who have come here to pay their respects.\n\nThousands of people, mainly pupils from other Belgrade schools, converged on the school\n\nMother-of-two Sanja Bastic has travelled here with teachers from her own children's school as a sign of solidarity.\n\nShe begins to weep as she explains how her 10-year-old son asked her husband last night what would happen if a shooting happened to them next.\n\n\"My son asked, 'how would you feel if you were having to wait outside the school and I didn't come out?'\n\n\"The kids are sometimes smarter than we are and notice things we don't.\"\n\nSanja believes her country has to look wider than the actions of just one teenager.\n\n\"It's not the kid's fault. It's our fault. This is a combination of things that are happening here. We are a great country with good people and we're welcoming but we have problems here that we need to solve drastically.\"\n\nViolence both online and in real life have to be addressed urgently, she adds.\n\n\"I'm afraid this may be the beginning. We just need to stop it. We have now realised that in our country something like this can happen, and we need to take care of our kids.\"\n\nA teddy bear is a painful reminder that most of the victims of the shooting were children\n\nA short distance from the school, at the Ministry of Education, the woman responsible for preventing violence in classrooms in Serbia tells the BBC that nothing in the suspect's school records showed any sign that he might be capable of such devastating violence.\n\n\"Official information we have about this particular case tell us that nothing suggested something like this will happen,\" says Milja Krivokuca.\n\n\"The most important thing for us to do now is to support everyone, stabilise the situation and then we will go back and look retrospectively to see if something could have been done differently.\"\n\nAt least two unions representing teachers say their members will go on strike tomorrow, demanding better protection for staff and pupils.\n\nPresident Aleksandar Vucic has suggested the age of criminal liability may be lowered from 14 to 12 in the wake of the killings.\n\nMs Krivokuca agrees: \"It is my opinion that it would be desirable to lower the age for criminal responsibility because of one important reason: It is necessary to secure maximum protection [for schools]\".\n\nSerbia should also compare its legislation with neighbours in Europe and further afield, she believes.\n\n\"We might need to see what other countries are doing where legal responsibility starts at 12, and sometimes 10 years old.\"", "The artwork has been unveiled in Orangefield Park in east Belfast\n\n\"For every dark night there's a brighter day.\"\n\nThat's the message a group of young men in east Belfast is hoping inspires and gives comfort to people struggling with their mental health.\n\nThe young men have been meeting as a group every week since the death of one of their friends last year and have now unveiled a public art piece in a local park, in his memory.\n\nAdam Woods was 21 when he died of an accidental drug overdose.\n\nThe artwork is part of a project based in Orangefield Park.\n\nThey hope it will also promote mental health awareness among young people who use the park.\n\nThe initiative has been supported by community groups including East Belfast Alternatives and Communities in Transition as well as Belfast City Council.\n\nAdam Woods was 21 when he died last year\n\nCameron Watson, who is part of the group, believes the opportunity to meet up each week and have a laugh with mates helps young people who may be sad or depressed.\n\n\"It's brilliant because you never know, someone could be sitting in their house and they could be feeling very low, very down,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We do it every Thursday night. Having a chat for an hour, an hour and a half, it could make somebody's week.\"\n\nThe group said the project has been in the works for about one year\n\nDaniel Hodos also paid tribute to his friend at the art's unveiling.\n\n\"Adam's just another one of those unfortunate people to have lost their lives to the mental health crisis we have in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\nAnother of the group's participants, Luke Allison, hopes the project will help older generations have a better understanding about young people in the area and hear their voices.\n\n\"I think there's a bit of a divide with people not understanding us and thinking maybe we're just messers, we're young lads, we're negative, we're anti-social,\" he added.\n\n\"This just shows how much we aren't and how we're going to be the future of this place.\"\n\nThe group hopes the artwork will change perceptions about young people\n\nAdam's mother, Lynda Woods, told BBC News NI she was overwhelmed by the effort that has gone into the project.\n\n\"It's just a testament of what they think of Adam and how much he touched their lives,\" she said.\n\n\"They're just so articulate and so passionate about mental health and helping the community.\"\n\nAdam's family and friends want the inscription on the art piece, \"for every dark night there's a brighter day\", to be an inspiration to other young people who may be struggling with their mental health.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this article you can find help and advice at BBC Action Line.", "The implementation of the Scottish government's flagship legislation on domestic abuse is not good enough, according to a new report.\n\nThe 2018 Domestic Abuse Act created a new offence around non-physical forms of abuse such as coercive control.\n\nA report by the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee said progress on achieving its aims was too slow.\n\nIt called for a group of experts to be set up to make improvements to the way the law was used.\n\nThe Scottish government said it would carefully consider the recommendations.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"As this report highlights, there is still more that needs to be done to improve the justice response to domestic abuse and we will work with justice agencies to consider the recommendations.\"\n\nMSPs applauded domestic abuse survivors in the public gallery after the legislation was passed\n\nWhen the Act came into force in 2019, the then Justice Sectary Humza Yousaf said he was proud Scotland was \"leading the way with this ground-breaking legislation\".\n\nBut giving evidence to the committee, academic Dr Claire Houghton, of Edinburgh University, said the system of reporting and going through trial was still \"unremittingly grim\" for victims of domestic abuse.\n\nThe committee's report said it did not doubt Police Scotland's commitment to tackling domestic abuse but it called for improvements in how officers were trained.\n\nIt said more must be done to ensure police officers were trained to recognise the types of domestic abuse situations covered by the act, particularly those of a non-physical nature.\n\nThe report also highlighted criticism of the current sentencing regime for crimes of domestic abuse and whether more could be done in relation to breaches of non-harassment orders.\n\nIt called on the Scottish government to consider whether current sentencing policy for offences and for breaches was providing adequate protection for victims.\n\nEmma Artis left her partner after years of physical, verbal and financial abuse\n\nEmma Artis said it took years of leaving and returning to her abusive ex-partner before she finally got out.\n\nShe said her experience with the police was very positive but that she would like to see big changes to sentencing.\n\nThe abuse was financial and emotional for a long time. She said he tried to strangle her and took a knife to her throat.\n\n\"The change in the law happened in the April 2019 and I phoned the police in the July,\" she told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"It was the first time I had phoned the police but it was either that or I was facing the end of my life.\n\n\"For four years my ex-partner had been saying it was all about me not supporting him and that I was letting him down.\n\n\"I took the risk that I wouldn't be believed but the police were fantastic.\n\n\"They validated me. I had such a feeling of relief.\"\n\n\"I am so lucky compared to so many other women,\" Emma said.\n\n\"I realise that but I just don't think it's fair that all these crimes he committed are put under domestic abuse.\n\n\"If he had not been my partner he would have got a much harsher sentence. I was strangled and threatened with a knife.\n\n\"Although Scotland is really stepping up, the sentences in domestic abuse cases are just too low. You need to think what message does that send?\"\n\nThe new law came into force in April 2019.\n\nIn the first year only 252 people were prosecuted under the act. In 2020-21 that increased to 420.\n\nProf Michele Burman, one of the experts who gave evidence to the committee, told the BBC: \"There needs to be greater understanding and improved implementation of the legislation.\"\n\nShe said this needed a \"step change\" by the police from approaching domestic abuse as a single incident to more of a course of conduct.\n\nProf Burman said this may mean considering the broader background and the occurrence of different forms of abusive behaviour, including emotional and financial abuse.\n\nShe said police needed to be aware of how abusers may exert coercive and controlling behaviour, which could sometimes be quite subtle and nuanced.\n\nGiving evidence to the committee earlier this year, Det Ch Supt Sam Faulds said there were about 140 to 150 calls to Police Scotland a night about domestic abuse.\n\nShe said it was \"unfair not to recognise that they [the police] do not always get the time to sit down and build enough of a relationship with victims\".\n\nShe said they could not send a specialist officer to 150 calls a night.\n\nIn response to the committee report, Det Ch Supt Faulds said Police Scotland was determined to continually improve its response, especially from the crucial first point of contact.\n\nShe said the delivery of training on domestic abuse matters had been disrupted by the Covid pandemic but they were ensuring it got back on track.\n\nThe training includes identifying the full spectrum of abusive behaviours, including coercion and control, she said.\n\nConservative MSP Pam Gosal, who is proposing a domestic abuse register, said: \"It is clear that current domestic abuse laws brought in by the now first minister when he was justice secretary are simply not robust enough.\n\n\"The SNP's soft-touch justice attitude - including a presumption against short-term sentences - means that these dangerous offenders are free to offend again.\n\n\"The needs of victims are an afterthought for SNP ministers which is why I have brought forward plans for a domestic abuse register - which would operate in a similar way to the sex offenders register - and give far greater protection to domestic abuse victims than they currently enjoy.\"", "The video of the mayor flogging those hanging out at a Lido Beach nightclub has caused a stir\n\nThe mayor of Mogadishu is taking no prisoners when it comes to his recent crackdown on drugs in the Somali capital - literally.\n\nInstead Yusuf Hussein Jimale has taken to the whip - as evidenced by a video in which he is seen lashing a group of young men and women.\n\nThey flinch away as he hits them with a long stick, accused of smoking cannabis, shisha - the sweet-smelling herbal tobacco - and drinking alcohol in a nightclub on the city's famous Lido Beach.\n\nMogadishu, one of the most dangerous cities in the world with daily dangers of attacks by Islamist militants, is now facing increasing problems with organised gangs.\n\nThe authorities believe this is leading to substance abuse - especially among young people - which is why the mayor has set his sights on tackling the problem.\n\nFor months there have been raids on restaurants and entertainment venues.\n\nThis week the mayor, known more widely by his nickname \"Madale\", meaning \"energetic\", banned all traders in the city from selling tobacco and shisha - as well as substances already outlawed in the Muslim country like alcohol.\n\nMadale has defended his stance - and his use of the lash, saying young people need to be disciplined, and a stick is better than a gun.\n\n\"Since they were drunk, some of them tried to fight with us and we whipped them. Morally we cannot allow the behaviours we have witnessed and no-one can tolerate that,\" he said 10 days ago.\n\nSome have been angered by what they deem the mayor's vigilantism - wanting to see evidence of his victims' alleged misdemeanours and demanding due process.\n\n\"The mayor took the law into his own hands instead of leaving it to the relevant agencies. The person who commits a crime should be addressed through the prosecution and the judicial system,\" Muna Hassan, a social affairs activist in Mogadishu, told the BBC.\n\nOthers see nothing wrong in the mayor's use of corporal punishment in a country where smacking children is an accepted form of discipline.\n\nMogadishu resident Mohamed Noor tweeted that he regarded Madale's behaviour akin to that of a parent.\n\nThis kind of discipline was better than harsher methods such as arrest and incarceration, which \"would turn people into life-long criminals\", he posted.\n\nChewing fresh khat - a mild stimulant which is not banned - is a popular pastime for many Somali men\n\nMogadishu municipality spokesman said the main thrust of the anti-drug policy was to revoke the licences of bar and restaurants where drugs were found on the premises.\n\n\"We are committed to prevent anything that goes against our beliefs, culture and the moral standard of our society,\" Salah Deere told the BBC Somali service.\n\nHowever, Manar Ma'lim, whose bar is among those that have been closed, denies these allegations.\n\n\"I don't see it as anti-cultural behaviour but rather a move to destroy my business,\" she told the BBC.\n\nHer belief is that the raid was a ploy to take over her venue, which has been profitable over the last nine years as it is popular with young people. So angry is she about the move that she said in a Facebook post she planned to leave the country.\n\nThe authorities deny anything untoward about the crackdown, saying the mayor's focus is just about flushing out drugs for good.\n\nThough some question why the narcotic leaf khat is not on his agenda, given its massive popularity.\n\nAfter fresh khat shipments arrive in Mogadishu by plane each day, many men go to chew the leaf for hours - it acts as a mild stimulant, making chewers initially talkative and social. It is especially popular with those serving in the security forces.\n\nSome Somalis believe its long-term effects - dramatic mood changes and depression amongst them - are destroying families and would like to see it banned.", "The Kremlin's airspace is supposed to be under heavy guard\n\nA dramatic statement from the Russian presidential administration claimed that Ukraine had used two drones to attack the Kremlin - at the heart of Moscow - overnight.\n\nRussian forces apparently used radar equipment to disable the drones. There were no casualties, and the president was unhurt, it said.\n\nBut the Kremlin did call it \"an assassination attempt\" against Vladimir Putin.\n\nA number of videos then surfaced. They appear to show at least one drone flying towards the Kremlin, followed by an explosion. Another appears to show smoke rising from a Kremlin structure, and a fire. The BBC has been unable to verify that it was a drone and it is unclear what really happened.\n\nBut if what the Kremlin is saying is true, and this was a genuine attempt on the president's life, then it would be a highly embarrassing incident for the Kremlin.\n\nBy all accounts, Mr Putin appears to be one of the most closely-guarded leaders in the world. At his events in Moscow attended by BBC journalists, extremely tight security has been in place, including extensive checks and long convoys of vehicles, with airspace closed and traffic halted.\n\nQuestions will now be asked about how well-protected the Russian leader is - and about the effectiveness of Russian air defences.\n\nIn recent months, anti-aircraft systems have been spotted on Moscow rooftops in the vicinity of key buildings, including the defence ministry. They have been placed there precisely for this reason - because the Kremlin is concerned that Ukraine, or those sympathetic to Ukraine, may attempt to carry out aerial attacks on high-value targets.\n\nIf that's what this incident was, then those measures failed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is the latest in a string of attacks and explosions that have hit Russian territory in recent weeks and months.\n\nThe last few days have seen a spike in such incidents. On Wednesday morning, a fuel depot caught fire in Russia's Krasnodar Region, reportedly caused by a drone attack. Two freight trains were derailed in Bryansk Region, near the border with Ukraine, on Monday and Tuesday, in separate but identical incidents. The local governor said improvised explosive devices were to blame.\n\nOver the weekend, Russia-installed officials in occupied Crimea claimed Ukrainian drones were responsible for an attack on a fuel storage facility.\n\nThe frequency of such attacks is causing nervousness amongst ordinary Russians.\n\nRussian media report that police in Moscow have been inundated with calls from the public reporting drone sightings in the capital.\n\nUkraine has vehemently denied attacking the Kremlin or targeting President Putin. But whether the Russian account of what happened is accurate or not, the question now is whether Moscow will respond - and if so, how.\n\nSome Russian officials have already called for tough action. An assassination attempt against the president, if that's what this was, is an extremely serious matter. Russian generals have warned many times of harsh responses to strikes on Russian territory.\n\nBut does Russia have the capacity to carry out any meaningful retaliatory strikes? It remains to be seen whether this incident will lead to any significant escalation on the battlefield.", "Around England, thousands of voters have been turning out to decide who will represent them locally.\n\nAs is the tradition, the vote has been taking place in a whole range of venues that have been taken over for the day.\n\nHere are some of our favourites.\n\nDemocracy may be at work in the Brocket Arms pub in Ayot St Lawrence, but that doesn't mean the man delivering the kegs gets the day off Image caption: Democracy may be at work in the Brocket Arms pub in Ayot St Lawrence, but that doesn't mean the man delivering the kegs gets the day off\n\nHopefully voters haven't been feeling all at sea as they cast their ballots at this polling station in Poole Image caption: Hopefully voters haven't been feeling all at sea as they cast their ballots at this polling station in Poole\n\nThe political parties are hoping voters will join the dots when they walk into the polling booth at the Bank View Cafe in Sheffield Image caption: The political parties are hoping voters will join the dots when they walk into the polling booth at the Bank View Cafe in Sheffield\n\nThis shipping container in Middlesbrough is one of the nation's smaller polling stations Image caption: This shipping container in Middlesbrough is one of the nation's smaller polling stations\n\nThe Bridlington Priory Church in Yorkshire is among the many religious buildings being redeployed for the day Image caption: The Bridlington Priory Church in Yorkshire is among the many religious buildings being redeployed for the day", "Justice Clarence Thomas has previously described Republican donor Harlan Crow as one of his \"dearest friends\"\n\nA billionaire Republican donor paid private school tuition fees for the grandnephew of US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a new report says.\n\nReal estate magnate Harlan Crow said in response that he often paid tuition fees for pupils \"from personal funds\".\n\nThe revelation is the latest reported by ProPublica, which last month revealed Mr Crow had treated Justice Thomas and his wife to lavish holidays.\n\nA friend of Mr Thomas has defended him and called the report \"malicious\".\n\nThere's been renewed scrutiny of ethics and disclosures at America's top court.\n\nUnder long-standing rules, Supreme Court justices are required to file annual disclosures of gifts.\n\nBBC News has approached Justice Thomas for comment - he did not comment on the report by ProPublica, a non-profit news organisation.\n\nIts latest report cited a bank statement showing Mr Crow paid $6,200 (£4,900) in monthly tuition fees at Hidden Lake Academy, a boarding school in Georgia, for Justice Thomas's grandnephew Mark Martin.\n\nIn a 2007 interview, Justice Thomas has said that he has raised Mr Martin, who is now an adult, like his own son since he was six years old.\n\nMr Martin told ProPublica he did not know Mr Crow paid his tuition fees.\n\nAccording to the report, Justice Thomas did not publicly declare the tuition fees paid for his grandnephew by Mr Crow, though he has declared a similar $5,000 (£3,977) payment from another friend in the past.\n\nMr Crow also paid for Mr Martin's tuition fees at a second school: Randolph-Macon Academy, a day and boarding school in Virginia, which Mr Martin attended before and after his time at Hidden Lake Academy.\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter, Mark Paoletta - a friend of Justice Thomas and former official in Donald Trump's administration - argued Justice Thomas was not required to report the tuition.\n\nAs evidence, he cited a 1978 law that states that judges must disclose gifts given to a \"son, daughter, stepson or stepdaughter\" - suggesting that as a grandnephew, Mr Martin was not subject to the same rule.\n\n\"Harlan Crow's tuition payments made directly to these schools on behalf of Justice Thomas's great nephew did not constitute a reportable gift,\" the statement added. \"Justice Thomas never asked Harlan Crow to pay for his great nephew's tuition.\"\n\nMr Paoletta described the ProPublica report as \"malicious\" and an attempt \"to manufacture a scandal about Justice Thomas\".\n\nIt is unclear how much Mr Crow paid in tuition fees in total. Current annual tuition and boarding school fees at Randolph-Macon Academy are $43,873 a year, according to the school's website.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Crow's office did not address the payments made to cover Mr Martin's tuition fees directly, but said the billionaire has \"long been passionate about the importance of quality education and giving back to those less fortunate\".\n\n\"It's disappointing that those with partisan political interests would try to turn helping at-risk youth with tuition assistance into something nefarious or political,\" the statement said.\n\nLast month, ProPublica revealed Justice Thomas enjoyed lavish gifts from Mr Crow, including trips to luxury vacations on private jets, which he did not publicly disclose.\n\nIn a statement addressing those previous reports, Justice Thomas said he had sought \"guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary\" and was told that \"that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable\".\n\nThe justice described Mr Crow and his wife Kathy Crow as \"among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years\".\n\nIn light of the reports, the Supreme Court has been criticised for a lack of accountability, and Democratic senators have called on the court to investigate Justice Thomas.\n\nOn Tuesday, lawmakers were divided on whether to reform Supreme Court ethics rules at a Senate hearing.\n\nDemocrat Senator Dick Durbin argued that ethical standards for Supreme Court justices are too lax, and that judges and other public officials in lower offices are held to a higher standard.\n\n\"I think it's pretty clear to most objective people this is not the ordinary course of business, nor should it be a standard for those of us in public service,\" Mr Durbin said.\n\nMeanwhile, Republican senators accused Democratic lawmakers of targeting the nation's highest court for political reasons. The Supreme Court currently has a 6-3 conservative majority.\n\nRepublican Senator Lindsay Graham said the latest push for Supreme Court reform was part of \"a concentrated effort by the left to delegitimise the court\".", "Dan Sellwood is chasing letting agents while also writing his university dissertation\n\nReminder alerts, feelings of frustration and inability to save for a mortgage - this is the reality of renting in Wales.\n\nWith rents rising by £200 a month in some areas, estate agents have said supply is not meeting demand.\n\nBangor University student Dan Sellwood said he had an \"awful\" time looking for a house in Cardiff.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"keen to work with private landlords\" going forward.\n\nMr Sellwood, 23, said: \"It's been awful trying to find somewhere to rent. Me and my housemate have been looking individually and together for the past three or four months and it's just been the worst experience.\"\n\nWhile he was writing his university dissertation, he set regular reminders to chase estate agents.\n\n\"Every half an hour I was giving them a call trying to figure out where things were up to and then the blocks of viewings was really stressful,\" he said.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, rent in Wales has risen by 4.4% in the past year, the highest annual percentage change since 2010.\n\nMr Sellwood, who is studying primary school teaching, hoped to find somewhere to rent for £800 a month, but is struggling to find anywhere for less than £900.\n\n\"I get a living wage and that's still not enough to be able to rent a decent house,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not the most expensive place to live, Cardiff, but it's so hard to get into because there's not the money in my pocket and there's not the houses in Cardiff.\"\n\nRenters are struggling to find accommodation available within their budgets\n\nHelene Lewis, a letting agent from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, has seen one landlord raise rent by £200 a month.\n\n\"Over the last couple of weeks a lot of the landlords have decided with the increase in mortgages they need to up their rental income as well,\" she said.\n\n\"Some have gone up a couple of pounds, some have jumped quite a lot.\"\n\nMs Lewis said there simply was not \"enough houses out there for people who want rentals\".\n\nLetting agent Helene Lewis says landlords are raising their prices by as much as £200 a month\n\nIn Scotland, a six-month freeze on rents came to an end in April and was replaced by rent controls.\n\nJulie James, Welsh government minister for climate, told BBC Wales Live that the biggest problem in Wales was people who were looking for a new place to rent.\n\nShe said the Welsh government would be calling for some data surrounding \"rent controls and various other things\", and would particularly look at the effect of the rent freeze in Scotland.\n\nShe added that such a move would lead to some private landlords leaving the market, which was something she wanted to avoid.\n\n\"We don't think it will work. We are very keen to work with private sector landlords to find out what drives that [departure],\" she said.\n\nThe minister added that the Welsh government's target of building 20,000 new social homes in this Senedd term was \"hanging by a thread\" due to inflation and supply chain difficulties.", "A baby was \"thriving\" before suffering brain damage from being shaken Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard\n\nA man who shook his seven-week-old son so violently that he was left brain damaged has been jailed for 10 years and nine months.\n\nThe boy was also diagnosed with cerebral palsy after the attack.\n\nThe man, 31, lost his temper when the baby was crying and shook him so hard he fractured two ribs, a knee and an ankle on 9 March 2018.\n\nHe was found guilty of actual bodily harm and grievous bodily harm with intent at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, the child's mother said the father had put her and her son \"through hell\".\n\nThe court heard the baby had been \"thriving\" before suffering life changing injuries.\n\nNo sentence would \"make good\" those injuries, a judge said, and the man will serve up to two-thirds of his sentence in prison and the remainder on licence.", "Donald Trump's deposition was played for the jury in Manhattan on Thursday\n\nDonald Trump appeared to mistake E Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples in a deposition played for jurors in Ms Carroll's civil rape suit against him.\n\nIn the video, Mr Trump was shown a photo of himself speaking to other people at an event. \"It's Marla,\" he says, before his lawyer corrects him.\n\n\"No, that's Carroll,\" the lawyer says.\n\nMs Carroll, 79, has accused Mr Trump, 76, of attacking her in a New York City department store in the mid-1990s, an allegation Mr Trump has denied.\n\nLawyers for Ms Carroll have argued that Mr Trump's confusion over the photo undermines his claim that Ms Carroll is \"not my type\", a comment he has repeated since she first came forward with the allegation in 2019.\n\nMr Trump has not yet attended the civil trial, now drawing to a close after two weeks of proceedings in Manhattan. Both sides rested their case on Thursday, though Mr Trump's team called no witnesses in his defence.\n\nHe had told reporters he might cut his ongoing golf trip to Ireland short to \"confront\" Ms Carroll in court.\n\n\"I'll be going back early because a woman made a claim that is totally false, it's fake,\" Mr Trump said.\n\nE Jean Carroll said the alleged attack left her unable to have a romantic life\n\nMr Trump's suggestion that he would return to New York comes after his lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, told the judge Mr Trump would not testify in court.\n\nReferring to Mr Trump's comments, the judge said he would give Mr Trump until Sunday afternoon to decide. After that, the judge said, \"that ship has irrevocably sailed\".\n\nThe nine-member jury was shown the video of a combative deposition between the former president and Roberta Kaplan, one of Ms Carroll's lawyers, filmed last October.\n\nMr Trump continued his emphatic denials of Ms Carroll's accusation, that Mr Trump manoeuvred her into a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan and raped her.\n\n\"If it did happen, it would have been reported within minutes,\" Mr Trump said in the deposition, suggesting that others at the \"very busy store\" would have heard an ongoing attack.\n\nJurors in the nearly two-week trial heard days of graphic testimony. Ms Carroll told jurors she was left \"unable to ever have a romantic life again\" after the alleged attack.\n\nMarla Maples was married to Mr Trump from 1993 until 1999\n\nHer account was supported in court by her friend, Lisa Birnbach, who testified this week to receiving a call from Ms Carroll minutes after she says she was raped.\n\nAnd two other women - Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff - were called by Ms Carroll's team and described alleged sexual assaults committed by Mr Trump - claims he has denied.\n\nA former columnist for Elle magazine, Ms Carroll was able to bring the civil case against Mr Trump after New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022.\n\nThe act allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state over claims that would have normally exceeded statute limitations.", "Police officers surround the car after the crash on Thursday\n\nAn 11-year-old boy has been taken to hospital in a critical condition after being hit by a police car.\n\nIt happened on Owen Road in Lancaster just before 20:30 BST as officers were responding to an emergency call.\n\nThe boy, who was crossing the road at the time, was taken to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary before being transferred to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.\n\nThe road is expected to remain closed for some time, Lancashire Police said.\n\nThe young victim was crossing the road at the time of the crash, police say\n\nChief Supt Karen Edwards said an investigation was under way and the force had referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct as a matter of routine.\n\nShe said: \"I appreciate there will be lots of questions about what has happened and why, and I want to reassure you that a full and thorough investigation will be carried out to establish the circumstances.\n\n\"I want to take this opportunity to thank the local community for their understanding and support during what was clearly a hugely distressing incident.\"\n\nThe IOPC said it had been notified of the collision shortly after it occurred and that investigators were gathering information.\n\nThe force of the crash resulted in the collapse of a traffic light\n\nInitial evidence indicated the driver had activated the emergency equipment, lights and sirens, the watchdog added.\n\nIOPC Regional Director Catherine Bates said: \"This is an incredibly tragic incident and my thoughts are with the boy, his family and all those affected.\n\n\"Our investigation will thoroughly examine the circumstances prior to the collision, including whether appropriate policies and procedures were followed.\"\n\nAnyone with any information or who has any CCTV or dashcam footage that may assist the investigation is being asked to call 101 and quote log 1388 of May 25.\n\nWere you in the area yesterday evening? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Police are investigating former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters after he wore what appeared to be a Nazi SS uniform during a concert in Germany.\n\nPerforming in Berlin on 17 May, Waters wore a long black overcoat with a red armband. He also aimed an imitation machine gun into the audience.\n\nGermany bans displaying Nazi symbols - but the country's laws allow exceptions for artistic or educational reasons.\n\nWaters said his performance was clearly to show \"opposition to fascism\".\n\nFollowing the concert at Berlin's Mercedes-Benz Arena, German police spokesman Martin Halweg said: \"We are investigating on suspicion of incitement to public hatred because the clothing worn on stage could be used to glorify or justify Nazi rule, thereby disturbing the public peace.\n\n\"The clothing resembles the clothing of an SS officer,\" he added.\n\nWaters' jacket included a red armband with two black crossed hammers on a white circle, an outfit he has worn at previous shows dating back several years.\n\nThe symbols are similar to those appearing on costumes in the 1982 film, The Wall, based on the Pink Floyd album of the same name and starring fellow musician turned activist Bob Geldof.\n\nIn one scene Geldof plays a rock star hallucinating that he is leading a fascist rally.\n\nPolice authorities have said that once the allegations have been reviewed, the matter will be passed on to the public prosecutor, who will decide how to proceed.\n\nDuring the Berlin performance, the names of several deceased people also appeared on a large screen.\n\nThe names included Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War Two.\n\nIsrael's foreign ministry later criticised the musician on social media.\n\n\"Good morning to everyone but Roger Waters who spent the evening in Berlin (Yes Berlin) desecrating the memory of Anne Frank and the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust,\" it tweeted.\n\nIn a tweet on Friday, Waters wrote: \"The elements of my performance that have been questioned are quite clearly a statement in opposition to fascism, injustice, and bigotry in all its forms... The depiction of an unhinged fascist demagogue has been a feature of my shows since Pink Floyd's The Wall in 1980.\"\n\nWaters has also floated an inflatable pig marked with the Star of David at his concerts.\n\nIn recent weeks, the musician has been travelling to cities around Germany as part of his This Is Not A Drill tour.\n\nHowever the performances have been controversial. Munich and Cologne tried to cancel shows after Jewish organisations such as the Central Council of Jews accused him of antisemitism.\n\nWaters denies the accusations, and in a Facebook post this week he thanked those who had attended his shows in Germany.\n\nHe also paid tribute to the White Rose movement, a resistance group during the Nazi period.\n\n\"The fact that some in power in Germany and some at the behest of the Israeli lobby have attacked me, wrongly accusing me of being an antisemite, and have tried to cancel my shows saddens me,\" Waters said.\n\n\"Walking around Munich yesterday afternoon, I couldn't shake off the feeling that I was in the presence of Big Brother. It leaves a bad taste.\"\n\nWaters is still scheduled to play his final concert in Germany on Sunday evening in Frankfurt. Demonstrations are planned outside the venue, however, after a legal attempt by the city to stop the performance failed.\n\nA British MP has also called for Waters' gig in Manchester in June to be cancelled.\n\nWaters has made several controversial comments in the past.\n\nAfter Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, he penned an open letter to Ukraine's first lady, Olena Zelenska.\n\nIn it, he said, \"extreme nationalists\" in Ukraine \"have set your country on the path to this disastrous war\".\n\nIn February, during a speech to the United Nations he repeated his controversial claim that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was \"provoked\".", "Wholesale UK gas prices have fallen to below 70p a unit\n\nEnergy prices in Northern Ireland may rise again before falling back later this year, the Consumer Council has warned.\n\nThe Utility Regulator may make pricing decisions on two major suppliers as soon as next week.\n\nUnderlying wholesale energy prices of gas and electricity have been falling.\n\nHowever, that will be offset by the withdrawal of the government's energy price guarantee (EPG).\n\nThe EPG required suppliers to apply a discount to the price of each unit of gas or electricity to protect consumers from soaring prices after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIt will expire at the end of June which means that from July consumers will be exposed to market prices.\n\nPeter McClenaghan, director of infrastructure and sustainability at the NI Consumer Council, said that when the regulator approves new tariffs bills \"may not change much or even go up slightly\".\n\nEarlier this week, households in the rest of the UK were told they will see a significant fall in their energy bills from July after the regulator reduced the price cap, which limits how much suppliers can charge households for each unit of energy they use.\n\nNorthern Ireland is a separate market with its own regulator and throughout the energy crisis prices have tended to be lower than in the Great Britain market.\n\n\"We might see for a short period - a few months - prices that are slightly higher than England,\" Mr McClenaghan said.\n\n\"That's unfortunate, but on the whole the Northern Ireland regulatory system has actually been working quite well for consumers.\"\n\nWholesale UK gas prices reached almost £7 a unit (known as a therm) last summer but in recent weeks have fallen back to below 70p a unit.\n• None What does the Budget mean for Northern Ireland?", "Scientist Denise Catacutan working on the experimental antibiotic discovered with the help of artificial intelligence.\n\nScientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover a new antibiotic that can kill a deadly species of superbug.\n\nThe AI helped narrow down thousands of potential chemicals to a handful that could be tested in the laboratory.\n\nThe result was a potent, experimental antibiotic called abaucin, which will need further tests before being used.\n\nThe researchers in Canada and the US say AI has the power to massively accelerate the discovery of new drugs.\n\nIt is the latest example of how the tools of artificial intelligence can be a revolutionary force in science and medicine.\n\nAntibiotics kill bacteria. However, there has been a lack of new drugs for decades and bacteria are becoming harder to treat, as they evolve resistance to the ones we have.\n\nMore than a million people a year are estimated to die from infections that resist treatment with antibiotics.\n\nThe researchers focused on one of the most problematic species of bacteria - Acinetobacter baumannii, which can infect wounds and cause pneumonia.\n\nYou may not have heard of it, but it is one of the three superbugs the World Health Organization has identified as a \"critical\" threat.\n\nIt is often able to shrug off multiple antibiotics and is a problem in hospitals and care homes, where it can survive on surfaces and medical equipment.\n\nDr Jonathan Stokes, from McMaster University, describes the bug as \"public enemy number one\" as it's \"really common\" to find cases where it is \"resistant to nearly every antibiotic\".\n\nTo find a new antibiotic, the researchers first had to train the AI. They took thousands of drugs where the precise chemical structure was known, and manually tested them on Acinetobacter baumannii to see which could slow it down or kill it.\n\nThis information was fed into the AI so it could learn the chemical features of drugs that could attack the problematic bacterium.\n\nThe AI was then unleashed on a list of 6,680 compounds whose effectiveness was unknown. The results - published in Nature Chemical Biology - showed it took the AI an hour and a half to produce a shortlist.\n\nThe researchers tested 240 in the laboratory, and found nine potential antibiotics. One of them was the incredibly potent antibiotic abaucin.\n\nLaboratory experiments showed it could treat infected wounds in mice and was able to kill A. baumannii samples from patients.\n\nHowever, Dr Stokes told me: \"This is when the work starts.\"\n\nThe next step is to perfect the drug in the laboratory and then perform clinical trials. He expects the first AI antibiotics could take until 2030 until they are available to be prescribed.\n\nCuriously, this experimental antibiotic had no effect on other species of bacteria, and works only on A. baumannii.\n\nMany antibiotics kill bacteria indiscriminately. The researchers believe the precision of abaucin will make it harder for drug-resistance to emerge, and could lead to fewer side-effects.\n\nBacteria being grown in the laboratory\n\nIn principle, the AI could screen tens of millions of potential compounds - something that would be impractical to do manually.\n\n\"AI enhances the rate, and in a perfect world decreases the cost, with which we can discover these new classes of antibiotic that we desperately need,\" Dr Stokes told me.\n\nThe researchers tested the principles of AI-aided antibiotic discovery in E. coli in 2020, but have now used that knowledge to focus on the big nasties. They plan to look at Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa next.\n\n\"This finding further supports the premise that AI can significantly accelerate and expand our search for novel antibiotics,\" said Prof James Collins, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n\nHe added: \"I'm excited that this work shows that we can use AI to help combat problematic pathogens such as A. baumannii.\"\n\nProf Dame Sally Davies, the former chief medical officer for England and government envoy on anti-microbial resistance, told Radio 4's The World Tonight: \"We're onto a winner.\"\n\nShe said the idea of using AI was \"a big game-changer, I'm thrilled to see the work he (Dr Stokes) is doing, it will save lives\".", "Emergency general surgery was moved from Daisy Hill in February 2022\n\nA shortage of consultants at Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry means delivering inpatient care in general medicine is at risk.\n\nThe Southern Health Trust said it was working with other trusts in Northern Ireland and the Department of Health \"to help us through this situation\".\n\nIt has also emerged that the hospital's stroke service is being withdrawn from 09:00 BST on 31 May.\n\nThat is because the hospital's one remaining specialist is leaving.\n\nThe trust said recruiting and retaining medical staff has been a major issue in the hospital in recent years.\n\n\"The pressures have now escalated with increasing reliance on medical locum cover and a number of consultant medical staff ending their tenure at the hospital,\" it added.\n\n\"These challenges are putting services at the hospital - such as respiratory and gastrointestinal (GI) inpatient medical provision - at risk.\n\n\"Every avenue is being pursued to protect services.\"\n\nSouthern Trust chief executive Dr Maria O'Kane told BBC's Evening Extra programme that in the last year \"nine consultants have left and six of those left during the last three to six months\".\n\nWith only one such medical consultant remaining, the trust has said it cannot staff rotas to ensure all services are delivered safely.\n\nAccording to sources, senior management told a trust board meeting on Thursday it would take at least six months to stabilise the system, but action needed to be taken in advance of the summer holidays.\n\nMedical consultants diagnose, admit and treat patients who may come into hospital via the emergency department (ED).\n\nTheir specialities include cardiovascular and respiratory disease, as well as gastrointestinal disease.\n\nWithout that expertise, a hospital is unable to function at its full capacity.\n\nIn future, people who become ill, including those who suffer a stroke, may have to travel to Craigavon, Ulster, or Royal Victoria Hospitals, or to a hospital in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt is understood senior staff plan to have talks with Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.\n\nCraigavon Area Hospital, which is about 30 minutes drive from Daisy Hill, is likely to inherit most of the overflow.\n\nThe trust said that as there are \"insufficient substantive stroke consultants at Daisy Hill\", the decision had been taken \"on patient safety grounds to again divert all acute stroke patients to Craigavon Area Hospital\".\n\nThe trust said recruiting and retaining medical staff has been a major issue in the hospital in recent years\n\nIt said this would come into effect from 09:00 on 31 May and that the same measure was taken in February \"due to unforeseen staffing issues\".\n\nCraigavon Area Hospital often reports delays in its own emergency department.\n\nIn February, the Southern Health Trust announced the relocation of emergency general surgery from Daisy Hill to Craigavon.\n\nPreviously the trust had described that move as \"interim\" and due to ongoing recruitment challenges.\n\nIn October, the then health minister, Robin Swann announced that Daisy Hill Hospital was to become an elective overnight stay centre.\n\nAt the time, he said centres were being established as part of a reorganisation of surgery services.\n\nSeveral clinicians and the public voiced concern about the future of the hospital.\n\nThose consultants who have recently left Daisy Hill Hospital have retired, resigned, moved to another hospital in Northern Ireland or moved to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe trust, however, has insisted that general emergency surgery, the emergency department and maternity services were all currently safe.\n\nCraigavon Area Hospital often reports delays in its own emergency department\n\nThe trust has said it plans to increase its acute care at home service.\n\nThat means patients who are normally admitted to hospital will be treated by clinicians at home instead.\n\nDr Tom Black, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) in Northern Ireland, said the announcement that some services are being withdrawn from Daisy Hill Hospital is \"extremely worrying\".\n\n\"Acute medical services at the hospital look increasingly precarious,\" he said.\n\n\"Transformation due to service collapse benefits neither patients nor doctors and destabilises services for patients.\n\n\"There will be a knock-on effect on services in Craigavon Hospital and any further attrition would impact GP services in the area as well, thus putting unacceptable pressure on different parts of the health service.\"\n\nDr Donal Duffin, was a consultant physician at Daisy Hill Hospital for a number of years, and is a member of the Daisy Hill Futures Group.\n\nHe said there had been a \"significant problem\" with the retention of senior staff at the Daisy Hill site and that the hospital was a critical part of the healthcare system in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"At the moment the remaining staff are pulling out all the stops, keeping things going as far as they can, but this is not a sustainable situation without a dramatic intervention by the trust, but I don't think that's enough, I think it has to involve the trust, the Department of Health and the politicians,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nDr Maria O'Kane says the shortage of medical staff is extremely challenging in Northern Ireland\n\nDr O'Kane told the trust's monthly board meeting that the shortage of consultants, difficulties recruiting specialist grade and junior doctors and the \"serious over-reliance\" on locum doctors \"are matters of great concern in meeting the demand for acute inpatient medicine and providing stable medical staffing cover in our medical wards\".\n\n\"This situation is certainly not unique to Daisy Hill Hospital,\" she said.\n\n\"The shortage of medical staff is extremely challenging in Northern Ireland, and indeed further afield.\"\n\nShe added that the trust continued to pursue every viable option to minimise the impact of this situation and stabilise its workforce.\n\nIn April, several hundred people attended a protest in Newry over the planned removal of emergency general surgery at Daisy Hill Hospital\n\nMs O'Kane said a meeting would take place next week involving all trusts to \"seek support to address these challenges\".\n\nShe said it needed to be recognised that medical staffing is \"already stretched across Craigavon Area and other NI hospitals, so any support is likely to be limited\".\n\n\"Our initial focus will be to stabilise staffing for the summer months in anticipation of a more permanent solution,\" she said.\n\n\"Ensuring patient safety and supporting our staff will be absolute priorities.\n\n\"We are very proud of the care provided by our medical staff, who have been working in very difficult circumstances.\"\n\nSeparately, the number of people on hospital waiting lists in Northern Ireland has been described as \"entirely unacceptable\" by the Department of Health's permanent secretary Peter May.\n\nThe latest figures show that in the first quarter this year 401,201 people were waiting for their first outpatient appointment with a consultant.\n\nThat is 27,174 more than at the same time last year.\n\nThe statistics also show that 81% of patients were waiting more than nine weeks for a first consultant-led outpatient appointment.\n\nOne of the department's targets was that by March this year at least 50% of patients should wait no longer than nine weeks for this.\n\nHowever, there has been some progress.\n\nThe number of inpatient and day case admissions waiting more than 13 weeks to be admitted for treatment was down, from 102,164 at the same time last year to 94,305 at the end of March.\n\nThe Northern Ireland director of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), Prof Mark Taylor expressed \"grave concern\" at the figures.\n\n\"The waiting time figures come on the back of a hammer blow to elective recovery this week by the Department of Health after it revealed plans to axe £34m from its waiting lists initiative programme due to huge budget pressures,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The CCTV shows footage of a number of cars used by the gunmen on the day of the attack\n\nEleven people have been arrested in County Tyrone over the attempted murder of senior detective John Caldwell.\n\nPolice have also released new CCTV footage and photographs of vehicles they believe were used in the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell was shot while putting footballs into his car at a sports complex in Omagh on 22 February.\n\nPolice said nine men and two women, aged between 21 and 72, were detained under the Terrorism Act on Friday morning.\n\nDet Ch Supt Eamonn Corrigan said the search and arrest operation in Omagh and Coalisland in County Tyrone marked a \"significant development\" in the investigation.\n\nJohn Caldwell made his first public appearance since the shooting at Hillsborough Castle on Wednesday\n\nThe shooting, which happened in front of school children, was widely condemned by political figures across Northern Ireland and beyond.\n\nOn Friday, police said three vehicles they believed were used by the gunmen were spotted travelling in convoy on the Drumnakilly Road in the direction of Omagh in the hours before the attack.\n\nSeven of those arrested on Friday had been previously detained in relation to the shooting, Mr Corrigan added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in new appeal for information over John Caldwell shooting\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell was discharged from hospital in April and police said he had since given his account of events to investigators.\n\nHe was visited by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during his treatment and on Wednesday met King Charles ahead of his first public appearance since the shooting at Hillsborough Castle.\n\n\"I am delighted that John is on the road to recovery and was able to attend a garden party this week hosted by the King and Queen,\" Det Ch Supt Eamonn Corrigan said.\n\n\"Now we have to make sure we bring those vile individuals who tried to murder him to justice.\n\nOfficers believe the dissident republican group the New IRA may have acted with an organised crime gang to carry out the attack, which left the detective chief inspector with life-changing injuries.\n\nTwenty-one people have been arrested and questioned in total since the beginning of the investigation.\n\nPolice have previously said two Ford Fiesta cars they believe were used in the attack had been bought in Ballyclare and Glengormley in County Antrim in the weeks before the attack.\n\nThey were later found destroyed after the shooting.\n\nDetectives have since identified a third vehicle, a black Mercedes Benz C-Class, which they believed was used as an operational vehicle both before and immediately after the attack.\n\nPolice have identified a third vehicle believed to have been used in the attack\n\nNewly released CCTV footage shows all three vehicles in convoy on the Drumnakilly Road in the direction of Omagh in the hours before the attack.\n\nDetectives have said an estimated 400,000 hours of CCTV footage has been seized for analysis in the hunt for those involved in the shooting.\n\nPolice believe this car, found destroyed on the Racolpa Road near Omagh, had been used in the shooting\n\nHe is one of the best-known detectives in the Police Service of Northern Ireland, often fronting press conferences on major inquiries during his 26-year career.\n\nMr Caldwell investigated the 2011 murder of his colleague Ronan Kerr by dissident republicans.\n\nHe was aware his investigations relating to dissident republican attacks - including the killing of Lyra McKee in 2019 - made him a high-profile target.\n\nIn January, he spoke to reporters after the killing of Shane Whitla, a 39-year-old father of four who was shot a number of times in the town of Lurgan in County Armagh.\n\nHe was also the initial lead detective investigating the killing of Natalie McNally in Lurgan, and he was involved in investigating the murder of Mark Lovell, 58, who was shot a number of times at close range in his car in Newry in County Down on 1 December.\n\nHe had received a number of threats in the past, BBC News NI understands.", "The King and Queen met eight-year-olds Camilla Nowawakowska and Charles Murray outside St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh\n\nThe King and Queen met another Charles and Camilla as they concluded their two-day visit to Northern Ireland in counties Armagh and Fermanagh.\n\nThe royal couple greeted primary school children who had been waiting outside St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh.\n\nAmong them was Camilla Nowawakowska, wearing a crepe-paper replica of her own crown.\n\nStanding next to Camilla was Charles Murray, who was sporting a purple paper crown decorated with shiny stickers.\n\nWhen the two children told the Queen their first names, she said: \"Goodness me, isn't that funny.\n\n\"You've got very smart crowns on, they're a little bit lighter than the one I had on.\n\n\"They look pretty cool with all the jewels.\"\n\nCharles was then called over and shook hands with the two children.\n\nThe royal couple, who have since left Northern Ireland, had just met the main Christian denominations at the Anglican St Patrick's Cathedral.\n\nQueen Camilla also met children at Armagh Robinson Library as part of her campaign to encourage reading.\n\nLater, they met local community groups many of whom had taken part in the Coronation Big Help Out.\n\nKing Charles with the Dean of Armagh, the Very Revd Shane Forster, during his visit to St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh\n\nAmong those to give readings at the cathedral service were Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland Rev John McDowell and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland Rev Eamon Martin.\n\nThe other denominations represented at the service were the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church.\n\nAt the library, the Queen viewed Jonathan Swift's own, annotated, copy of his book Gulliver's Travels, during her visit to the library.\n\nChildren from Drelincourt primary school, volunteers from the library and representatives from Dementia NI, all of whom use the library regularly, were among those meeting the Queen.\n\nShe said they were lucky to have access to the historical books in the library.\n\nThe royal couple then made their way to Market Theatre Square to see a celebration of culture.\n\nThe Queen got up close with the legendary characters associated with Armagh\n\nUlster-Scots, Irish, Chinese and South Asian cultures featured their traditional music, song and dance.\n\nThe King and Queen also met characters representing legendary and historical characters associated with Armagh, sampled local delicacies and met artisanal food producers, as well as speaking to the crowds gathered.\n\nAs the couple joined the Lord Mayor of Armagh Paul Greenfield on stage, King Charles addressed the crowd and thanked the community for its hospitality.\n\n\"I did just want to say before we leave that it's been the greatest pleasure to join you here today,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Royal Family This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Royal Family\n\n\"I realise it was 23 years ago since I was last here, and I think opened The Market Place building, which I'm so pleased to see is still going strong and I hope making a huge difference to Armagh.\n\n\"But if I may say so it's been particularly special to meet so many of you today, also a large number of school children whose exams, I suspect, we have totally disrupted.\"\n\nIn the afternoon, the pair made their way to Enniskillen Castle where they met representatives from across the community, voluntary and heritage sectors in Fermanagh in celebration of the Coronation.\n\nAll smiles as the King greets schoolchildren at Enniskillen Castle\n\nThey were entertained by a special joint performance of Irish and Scottish dancers accompanied by traditional musicians.\n\nThe King and Queen were presented with a Coronation Basket made by Belleek Pottery.\n\nAround a thousand people who had gathered outside the castle were rewarded by a royal walkabout with the King and Queen spending time shaking hands and talking to the crowd.\n\nThe King and Queen also went to Lough Erne's waterfront where they met representatives of the RNLI who marked their 200th anniversary.", "The High Court ruled that some lawsuits had been submitted too late to proceed\n\nHugh Grant is set to take the Sun newspaper on in court over claims it used illegal methods to gather stories about him.\n\nThe actor believes private investigators working for the Sun tapped his phone, bugged his house and car, and burgled his home.\n\nThe Sun's publisher News Group Newspapers (NGN) unsuccessfully argued his action should be blocked because he waited too long to launch it.\n\nNGN denies the claims against it.\n\nA judge was asked to rule on whether Mr Grant's lawsuit should be allowed to proceed because it dates back further than six years, the cut-off point for legal action of this kind in civil courts.\n\nThis time limitation has become a major legal battleground in cases against newspapers, because allegations of wrongdoing often go back 30 years.\n\nPublishers attempt to argue that cases should not go to trial because alleged victims of unlawful newsgathering delayed their legal action.\n\nBut Mr Grant argued he should be allowed to bring the case now because material he and his lawyers will rely on only came to light in recent years.\n\nSome of the evidence against the newspaper was contained in a 2021 witness statement made by private investigator Gavin Burrows.\n\nIt was only when NGN disclosed invoices for their payments to Mr Burrows around the same time that Mr Grant had access to potential evidence which could help him win his case in court.\n\nIn his judgement, Mr Justice Fancourt acknowledged that the 62-year-old actor and privacy campaigner had long believed that private investigators had been paid to look into his affairs.\n\nThe judge said there was a realistic chance Mr Grant would establish at trial that, before seeing the 2021 evidence, \"he could not reasonably have believed with sufficient confidence that he may have been targeted by [private investigators] instructed by the Sun\".\n\nThis judgment does not mean the issue of whether Mr Grant's claim is too late has been decided, but it will now be considered at the trial next year.\n\nIn a statement released through his lawyer, Mr Grant said: \"I am pleased that my case will be allowed to go to trial, which is what I have always wanted - because it is necessary that the truth comes out about the activities of the Sun.\n\n\"As my case makes clear, the allegations go far wider and deeper than voicemail interception.\"\n\nMr Grant's statement in the case claims that for years newspaper published News UK lied about its involvement in phone hacking and illegal information gathering.\n\nHe said the company had a \"vast, long-lasting and deliberate policy strategy plan of false denials and other concealment in relation to the Sun, to prevent me, and others in a similar position, from bringing claims against them\".\n\nThis included, he said, false denials to the Leveson Inquiry into Press Standards, a press complaints body, and in public statements.\n\nWhile the actor was successful in securing his day in court on part of his claim, the court refused Mr Grant permission to sue NGN for allegedly hacking his phone voicemails, as the judge ruled he could have brought a case much earlier.\n\nNGN said it was \"pleased that, following our application, the High Court has ruled that Mr Grant is statute-barred from bringing a phone hacking claim against The Sun.\"\n\n\"NGN strongly denies the various historical allegations of unlawful information gathering contained in what remains of Mr Grant's claim.\"\n\nA similar legal argument centred on the claims of the Duke of Sussex is due to be heard by the High Court in July.", "Police officers stand guard near the scene of a standoff after Wednesday's attack\n\nA man has been arrested after four people were killed in a rare shooting and stabbing attack in Japan.\n\nThe alleged assailant stabbed a woman and shot two policemen with a hunting rifle in Nagano prefecture. A fourth death was later confirmed.\n\nPolice have named the suspect as Masanori Aoki, the 31-year-old son of a local politician.\n\nGun violence remains extremely rare in Japan, despite the killing of ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July last year.\n\nShootings of multiple police officers are even rarer, with the last incident taking place more than 30 years ago.\n\nIn Thursday's incident, police received a call at around 16:25 (07:25 GMT) about a man who had chased and then stabbed a woman, according to Japanese news agency Kyodo.\n\nAn eyewitness working in a nearby field told Kyodo that the man's attack on his first victim had been carried out with a blade around 30cm (1ft) long.\n\nHis motive is not clear. When the witness asked the suspect why he had stabbed the woman, he is said to have replied: \"I killed her because I wanted to.\"\n\nMr Aoki - who was reportedly wearing a camouflage uniform, a hat, sunglasses and a mask - then allegedly shot police officers who responded to the emergency.\n\nIt was not immediately clear how the fourth person - described as an elderly woman - had died.\n\nMr Aoki later barricaded himself for nearly 12 hours inside his father's home in a quiet residential area of Nakano city, together with his mother and aunt. His father, Masamichi Aoki, is the speaker of Nakano city's assembly.\n\nFootage from NHK showed police vehicles and ambulances near the home. Police officers wearing body armour and carrying shields formed a 300m (328 yards) exclusion zone around the house.\n\nHours later, the suspect's mother and aunt were seen fleeing from the house, reported Japanese media. The suspect stepped out of the house early on Friday morning and was detained.\n\nLocal media reported that Mr Aoki was a grape farmer who owned a gelato shop in the neighbourhood.\n\nResidents were urged to stay at home via email announcements and on the neighbourhood loudspeaker, while police also went door to door.\n\nLater in the evening, local media aired footage of gunshots being heard just after 20:00 local time (11:00 GMT) on Thursday.\n\nSome residents had to spend the night elsewhere, while the local school was set to close. But after the arrest, people were told they could go about their day.\n\nA man in his 50s told NHK: \"It's sad something like this happened in my neighbourhood. I could not sleep all night.\"\n\nJapanese social media users have expressed shock and alarm at the incident on Twitter, with one calling this an \"unforgiveable crime\".\n\nAnother user questioned if the country needs to be prepared for more attacks like these to happen.\n\nOfficials said the suspect had a firearm permit.\n\nJapan has strict gun ownership rules, and only allows civilians to own hunting rifles and airguns. People have to undergo a strict exam and mental health tests in order to buy a gun in Japan.\n\nThe last incident where multiple police officers were killed took place in 1990, when two officers were shot by gang members in Okinawa prefecture.\n\nAbe was Japan's longest-serving prime minister and his death profoundly shocked a country where handguns are banned and incidents of political violence are almost unheard of.\n\nIn 2014, there were just six incidents of gun deaths in Japan, compared with 33,599 in the US.", "Then-Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Arif Alvi watch Pakistan's Air Force fighter jets perform during the Pakistan Day parade in 2022\n\nFor many years, Pakistan's military establishment believed that in Imran Khan they had found a saviour for the country. But, writes author and journalist Mohammed Hanif, after only a year out of power he is threatening to become their nemesis - and the military is using all its might to save itself from Khan's wrath.\n\nAs Imran Khan and his party face a country-wide crackdown, Pakistan seems to have come to a standstill.\n\nThe nation is facing crippling inflation and the hottest summer in history, with constant power breakdowns, and yet the whole country is consumed with what Khan will do next, and what our military establishment can do to contain him.\n\nAfter he was removed from power more than a year ago, his supporters said Khan was their \"red line\" and that if he was arrested, the country would burn. After a number of failed attempts, a contingent of paramilitary forces did just that on 9 May.\n\nThe country didn't quite burn, but Khan's supporters took the fight to military cantonments.\n\nThe army's headquarters, General Headquarters (GHQ), probably the most secure place in Pakistan, was breached and people trampled on the signboards with military logos.\n\nA senior general's house in Lahore was ransacked - Khan's supporters videoed themselves while setting his furniture and cars on fire. One protester walked away wearing the general's uniform, another made away with his pet peacock.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt had all the symbols of a revolution, except that it wasn't. Imran Khan was first loved by the army, then shunned by them, now his supporters were settling their scores. It was less of a revolution and more of a lovers' spat.\n\nIt's almost a rite of passage for every prime minister to fall out with the Pakistan army.\n\nThe country's first elected Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was hanged, his daughter Benazir Bhutto was dismissed twice as a prime minister and her assassination, by a teenage suicide bomber, was never fully investigated. Nawaz Sharif was dismissed, jailed, exiled - now again in exile, he rules by proxy via his younger brother Shehbaz, but still can't return to the country.\n\nAfter Imran Khan's arrest his supporters did what no mainstream political force has done before. Instead of taking to the streets in protest, they invaded the cantonment areas and showed the citizens how Pakistani generals live: in huge mansions with swimming pools and acres of lawns where peacocks roam.\n\nA house in cantonment area in Lahore which was set on fire on 9 May\n\nJust before he was picked up, Khan singled out Pakistan Army's chief of staff General Asim Munir as the man trying to crush his political party.\n\nBefore that he had called the former army chief General Bajwa, who was instrumental in bringing and sustaining him in power, a traitor. He also named an ISI general for being responsible for a failed assassination on him. He and his supporters repeatedly called the accused general Dirty Harry in public rallies.\n\nMany Pakistani politicians in the past have named and shamed the army as an institution but Pakistanis are not used to seeing the images of a Corps Commander's house on fire, women protesters rattling the gates of GHQ, and the statues of decorated soldiers being toppled.\n\nThis was exactly what the current government, a coalition of almost all the political parties opposed to Khan, needed to hit back.\n\nThe government has been trying to get out of an impending national election, which according to many opinion polls Khan is likely to win. Now many government politicians are calling for an outright ban on his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) - its name means Movement for Justice.\n\nImran Khan addressing the media from his home in Lahore last week\n\nIn the past, reprisals against politicians who have taken on the army have been swift.\n\nAli Wazir, an elected assembly member who called out the army's sympathies for the Taliban, was in jail for two years and was not even allowed to attend the National Assembly. Thousands of political workers from Balochistan have been forcibly disappeared and no Pakistani court or mainstream political party is interested in their plight.\n\nSo how come Imran Khan, despite facing dozens of charges, is still roaming free?\n\nThe perception is that he has polarised the establishment itself. There are officers and their families within the army who are enamoured by him. There is the judiciary which has been extending his bail. After spending one day in a lock-up, Pakistan's highest judge called him to court, said \"happy to see you\", and put him in a state guest house. The next day another judge released him.\n\nPolice commandos escort former Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan as he arrives at the high court in Islamabad\n\nImran Khan has won over a massive constituency in Pakistan that abhorred politics and politicians before he came along. His message of clean governance and justice has popular appeal - although when Khan was in power corruption actually increased and he put many of his political opponents in jail.\n\nBut his removal from power has emboldened his supporters, many of whom are women and young people who have never voted before and never attended a political rally.\n\nThey are often accused of political naivety, taking an ahistorical view of the current crisis and claiming that what is happening now has never happened in the history of Pakistan. They consider themselves part of a reformist movement that wants to rid the country of all corrupt politicians.\n\nLike Khan, they once loved the army. Now they hold the army responsible for everything.\n\nDespite Khan's repeated attacks on the army leadership, many believe that he doesn't really want to curtail the army's powers, he just wants the generals to love and support him and his party like they did before.\n\nBut in the aftermath of the riots on 9 May, the army high command seems to think that enough is enough. The current army chief has called it a \"black day in the history of Pakistan\".\n\nImran Khan might have ushered in a new kind of populist politics in Pakistan, but the army is using the same playbook to bring him down that it has used against his predecessors.\n\nDozens of corruption cases, mass arrests and a clear message that by attacking the army, it is Khan who has crossed the red line. The army has also tried to win hearts and minds by releasing a song saluting army martyrs - and celebrating a \"respect for martyrs\" day in response to the attacks on military installations on 9 May (critics point out that no soldiers were martyred that day, just a posh mansion ransacked by an angry crowd).\n\nMain roads in the major cities are lined with posters praising the army and pledging eternal loyalty. The army has also brought into play religious parties that had attacked it in the past - they were out on the streets last week, declaring their love for the army.\n\nPeople attend a candlelight vigil in Quetta on \"Pakistan Martyrs Day\" on Thursday\n\nPakistan's army is also looking within its own ranks for Khan sympathisers.\n\nOne woman that law enforcement agencies were pursuing for her alleged involvement in the 9 May riots is the fashion designer turned political activist Khadija Shah - who is also the granddaughter of a former army chief and a third-generation cantonment child.\n\nShe denies committing any crime, but it is clear Khan has mesmerised some of the \"army brats\" to such an extent that they are willing to set their own house on fire. By arresting Shah and putting her behind bars, the army has sent a clear signal to army families to stay away from Khan's politics.\n\nThe army has also tried to dismantle Khan's PTI party through mass arrests and by deciding to hold military trials of workers and leaders who were involved in cantonment attacks.\n\nMany of Khan's senior party leaders are under immense pressure to leave his PTI party. Some have left, claiming that they can't condone Khan's confrontational approach towards the Pakistan army.\n\nHistorically, Pakistan's army has always managed to have its way when confronted with civilians. Imran Khan has asked his workers to choose death over a life of slavery. In this deadlock, it's the ordinary Pakistanis who have suffered - and continue to suffer.\n\nBritish-Pakistani author and journalist Mohammed Hanif is the former head of the BBC's Urdu service, and the author of several plays and novels, including the award-winning A Case of Exploding Mangoes and Our Lady of Alice Bhatti.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been arrested after a car crashed into the Downing Street gates.\n\nThe Met Police said he was held on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving, but the incident is not being treated as terror related.\n\nOne witness said he saw officers pointing Tasers at a man, who was held \"face to the floor\" as he was detained.\n\nNo-one was injured in the incident. No 10 has confirmed Rishi Sunak was in Downing Street at the time.\n\nThe area in Whitehall, the main road which runs through the heart of several government offices, was partially evacuated following the incident at 16:20 BST.\n\nThe road has since reopened to traffic and the police cordon has been removed. At 19:45 the car was loaded onto a police recovery vehicle and removed from the scene.\n\nOfficers had been seen searching the vehicle and removing a mobile phone in an evidence bag. A forensics officer was seen inspecting the car, and sniffer dogs were also spotted at the scene.\n\nWitness Simon Parry, 44, said he heard a \"bang\" and saw police pointing Tasers at a man.\n\n\"A lot of police vehicles came very quickly and were very quick to evacuate the area,\" he told PA news agency.\n\nThe man was led away by police following the incident\n\nDescribing the mood on Whitehall in the aftermath of the incident, Mr Parry said: \"We saw people that were in a panic running away and we saw people who were excited.\"\n\nAnother witness, Matthew Torbitt, 32, said he heard a loud bang and was stopped on Whitehall after police locked down the area.\n\nFootage of the incident shows the car, a 2009 silver Kia registered in London, slowing down as it approaches the main entrance to Downing Street.\n\nIt was picked up on a BBC camera driving directly towards the main gates, crossing two lanes from the southbound side of Whitehall and heading in the direction of Downing Street.\n\nThe entrance to the street is staffed around the clock by armed and unarmed police officers but is accessible by road via Whitehall.\n\nThe PM and the chancellor were in Downing Street at the time of the crash. Mr Sunak has since left for a scheduled visit.\n\nReporting from the scene, BBC political correspondent Helen Catt said there appeared to be little damage to the gate and Whitehall was \"pretty much back to normal\", with people going in and out of Downing Street by foot as normal.\n\nConservative MP Tobias Ellwood, who was caught up in the 2017 Westminster terror attack, said the incident was a reminder of the delicate balance between the rights of public access around significant buildings and security measures.\n\nHe told BBC News that Westminster feels safer following the security overhaul which was triggered by the 2017 attack, but said he still has \"huge concerns\"\n\n\"We embrace this idea that we can open up our places of interest, particularly something as iconic as the heart of our democracy, but ultimately there is a duty of care to those who live and work in the Westminster area, not least around No 10,\" he added.\n\nFrank Gardner, the BBC's security correspondent, said police have spent years preparing rapid response measures for potentially dangerous incidents in central London following high-profile attacks around the world.\n\nHe said any security alert near an iconic landmark will inevitably trigger a large response, and pointed out that Downing Street has been a target in the past.\n\nIn 1991, members of the Provisional IRA fired homemade mortar shells at No 10, injuring four people.", "The Northern Ireland Environment Agency was alerted to a dog's death last Friday\n\nDog owners have been warned of a poisonous algae and toxic plant on the Lough Neagh shoreline in Antrim.\n\nTests were carried out near Rea's Wood following a report that a dog had died after it had been in the water.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Environment Agency was alerted to the pet's death on 19 May.\n\nIt carried out a number of tests over several days to investigate evidence of algal bloom.\n\nAntrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council said a sample taken on Tuesday confirmed small amounts of an algae called Microcystis sp had washed up on the shoreline.\n\nMicrocystis sp is a blue-green algae that can produce toxins which are highly poisonous and often fatal to pets.\n\nThe council said a large amount of the toxic but fairly common plant hemlock water dropwort was also seen growing in the wooded area along Rea's Wood.\n\nIn a safety update posted online, it stated: \"Hemlock water dropwort (poison parsnip) is perhaps the most poisonous indigenous plant in Britain and Ireland.\n\nHemlock water dropwort is toxic to humans and animals if ingested\n\n\"This is a native plant, not an invasive species, and it grows mostly in wet meadows along river courses and adjacent to lakes.\n\n\"It is highly toxic to humans and domesticated animals if ingested - although the roots are more toxic than the above-ground parts.\"\n\nThe council has erected new signs warning the public of the toxic plant and algae, and advising dog owners keep their pets on leads at all times.\n\n\"Dog owners should always be aware of the dangers posed by all poisonous plants and algae growing in the environment, but especially along riverbanks and in wet grassland or edges of lakes,\" the council said.\n\nThe council said dog owners should always be aware of the dangers posed by all poisonous plants and algae growing in the environment\n\nLast year, following the deaths of three dogs in the area, the council and Northern Ireland Environmental Agency carried out investigations.\n\nIt found no evidence that the dogs were poisoned as a result of contact with water in Lough Neagh.\n\nJim Gregg of the Sixmilewater Trust told BBC Newsline \"whatever killed the dogs\" last year was never firmly established.\n\nHe said that as a member of the trust he had been on site after one of the dogs had died and came across what he thought was an algae washed up on the foreshore.\n\nMr Gregg said that if he was a dog owner, he would not be wanting to bring the dog into the area \"at this present time\".\n\n\"Having said that, blue-green algae is naturally occurring throughout the environment, so you can't keep dogs in forever, but there will be certain times of the year I would say it would be prudent to maybe take more care and caution - from May through to September.\"\n• None Poisonous plant washes up on beaches in Cumbria", "The government is being urged to protect people from gas cookers as they pose health and environmental risks.\n\nGas cookers produce emissions which contribute to global warming and have been linked to respiratory problems and cardiovascular disease.\n\nThe charity Global Action Plan is calling on the government to help the UK transition to cleaner alternatives.\n\nThe government offers grants to low income households to improve insulation and upgrade gas or electric boilers.\n\nBut it does not cover the cost of switching from gas to electric cookers.\n\nThe government has been contacted for a comment.\n\nMore than 36 million people in the UK cook with gas appliances and may be exposed to levels of indoor air pollution that would violate UK outdoor air pollution regulations, according to the Collaborative Labelling and Appliance Standards Program (CLASP).\n\nCLASP estimates that indoor air pollution from gas cooking costs the UK around £1.4bn annually in healthcare costs, including lower life expectancy, illnesses, greater healthcare expenditure, and lower productivity.\n\nCooking with gas stoves produces nitrogen oxides which have been linked to respiratory problems and cardiovascular disease.\n\nEvidence suggests that even when gas stoves are off they leak methane, and when on, produce carbon dioxide gas and nitrogen oxides.\n\nA study found that children in homes with gas stoves, rather than electric, were 42% more likely to have asthma.\n\nGas hobs also use fossil fuels which produce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to global warming.\n\nThis is a problem because the UK is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050.\n\nBen Hudson, head of insight and engagement at Global Action Plan, said: \"The onus is on the government to act, as it is unrealistic to expect individuals to foot the bill of swapping to electric cookers, especially in a cost-of-living crisis.\n\n\"Gas cookers are a triple threat: bad for our health, the environment and the economy.\"\n\nGlobal Action Plan, are calling for the UK government to help households switch to cleaner alternatives and protect public health.\n\nThey want to see laws that set limits on pollution from gas cooking appliances and a new energy label that allows people to compare the efficiency and emissions of gas and electric cooking appliances.\n\nThey also want an acceleration of the transition to cleaner electric cooking by coupling incentives for heating and home upgrades with electric cooking appliances.\n\nHarvard Medical School recommends ways you can protect your health if you have a gas stove.\n\nThese include ventilating your kitchen when cooking by opening you windows, using air purifiers and using exhaust fans that move the air to the outdoors.", "Chief executive William McNamara, in one of the new platinum lodges, says the tourism tax could be a \"turn-off\" for visitors to Wales\n\nThe chief executive of a major Welsh visitor attraction has claimed that the proposed tourism tax has the potential to harm holiday businesses.\n\nWilliam McNamara, of Bluestone National Park Resort, spoke after the announcement of a £30m package of investment for the Pembrokeshire site.\n\nHe said he did not want to see visitors \"turned off\" coming to Wales.\n\nThe Welsh government said it could generate new income to improve local services and infrastructure.\n\nBluestone is developing 80 new platinum lodges, a heritage restaurant and an 11 hectare solar farm.\n\nIt employs 800 people and spends £7m annually on a range of suppliers across Wales.\n\nBluestone, near Narberth in Pembrokeshire, attracts 150,000 visitors each year\n\n\"What we don't want to see is a turn-off to Wales because there is a tourism tax here, so it is a very fine line and it's going to be a fine balance,\" said Mr McNamara.\n\nA tourism tax will allow councils to charge people staying in accommodation such as hotels or bed and breakfasts, which will then be spent on upgrading local facilities.\n\nBluestone recently spent £3m transforming the nearby disused Black Pool Mill into a restaurant over two floors.\n\nBlack Pool Mill was originally built in 1813, and has been turned into a restaurant\n\nSarah Davies, head of Black Pool Mill, said: \"There is an emphasis on buying local. We are trying to keep that in season as well. We've also sourced Welsh spirits, Welsh juices to bring it all the way through the experience.\"\n\nAsked if the tourism tax had the potential to be detrimental, Mr McNamara said: \"If people can make a choice to not pay a tourism tax in England or pay it in Wales, there has to be very good reasons why they will pay it, and why they'll pay it happily by coming to Wales.\n\n\"That's got to do with what the tourism tax is used for.\n\n\"I think the big debate must sit around what the tariff is going to be, how it's going to be collected and really importantly, how it's going to be spent.\"\n\nThe original iron cogs and wheels are featured in the Black Pool Mill restaurant\n\nBluestone attracts 150,000 visitors every year, and the business said it hoped the extra investment could bring in a further 50,000 annually.\n\nThe completed platinum lodges will be about 20% more expensive than the existing versions.\n\nMr McNamara said he believed that, despite the cost of living crisis, there was a market for them.\n\n\"They are well booked,\" he said. \"We needed to continue to develop the business and provide our guests, aspirational, with something that's 21st century.\n\n\"They are bigger than anything we've built and sustainably designed and operated. The cost of living crisis has impacted us. We are hopeful that it won't last for long and we are very long-term players here at Bluestone.\"\n\nHe also said that a controversial decision made last year to restrict use of its Blue Lagoon facility to Bluestone residents only, when reopening after Covid, was \"under review\".\n\nThe water attraction was open to the general public before the pandemic.\n\nManchester introduced a tourist tax last year for people making overnight stays in the city\n\nThe Welsh government said the tax \"could make a real difference by generating new revenue to develop and enhance local services and infrastructure.\"\n\n\"Our plans would allow local authorities to decide if they want to introduce a levy, based on the needs of their areas. The levy could make a real difference by generating new revenue to develop and enhance local services and infrastructure,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"Our intention is to foster a sense of shared responsibility between residents and visitors, to protect, and invest in, local areas and encourage a more sustainable approach for tourism.\"\n\nThe owner of competitor Center Parcs recently put its UK and Ireland business on sale for a reported £4-5bn, but Mr McNamara insisted he was not interested in selling Bluestone.\n\n\"I love the industry. I love the people,\" he said. \"We have a family of 800 staff and they are very important to me.\n\n\"Bluestone is not currently for sale but at the same time anything is considered for silly money. The industry leader is for sale for £4-5bn.\n\n\"It'll be very interesting to see what happens to that.\"", "A former Met Police officer found guilty of gross misconduct over her investigation into indecent exposure by Sarah Everard's killer says she has received hundreds of hate messages.\n\nSome messages blamed Samantha Lee for Ms Everard's death, saying she had blood on her hands.\n\nMs Lee told the BBC she has been made a \"scapegoat\" for wider Met failings.\n\nAn inquiry will examine the circumstances leading to the murder, the Met said.\n\nMs Lee's investigation was carried out on 3 March 2021, just hours before Couzens kidnapped Ms Everard in Clapham, south-west London.\n\nMs Lee, who has been barred from serving in the police again, told Newsnight: \"I think I'm seen as this horrendous, awful person that has let an absolutely heinous crime take place. And I'm being looked at as if I'm just as guilty as what Couzens is.\n\n\"But literally, there was nothing that I could have done that would have changed the outcome.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't want any sympathy at all. All I want is people just to understand that there is nothing that I could have done.\"\n\nMs Lee, 29, says it feels \"highly unfair\" that she has been a public focus of the inquiries into the Met's action, adding: \"It's been a case of let's go in at the bottom rather than going up higher at the top.\"\n\nThe Met said that Ms Lee's disciplinary hearing was not about her handling of the investigation of Couzens but about her \"honesty and integrity\" during it.\n\nShe revealed some of the most abusive messages sent to her on social media have been reported to police, including ones \"saying that it should have been me that was kidnapped and murdered\".\n\nMs Lee said she felt she was being \"blamed completely for the horrendous murder of Sarah Everard.\"\n\n\"The only person that should be blamed for that awful, awful, horrendous crime\" should be Wayne Couzens, she added.\n\nCouzens, a former Met Police officer, kidnapped and murdered Sarah Everard soon after exposing himself to staff at a McDonald's branch in Swanley, Kent, on 14 and 27 February 2021.\n\nIn March this year, Couzens was sentenced to 19 months in prison after admitting three counts of indecent exposure.\n\nHe was already serving life behind bars for the kidnap, rape and murder of Ms Everard.\n\nMs Lee, from Bromley, south-east London, left the Met last year.\n\nOn Tuesday this week, a disciplinary panel chairman criticised Ms Lee's \"lamentably poor\" investigation into the incidents; had she still been a serving officer, she would have been dismissed.\n\nThe former officer was found to have failed to make \"the correct investigative inquiries\" when she went to the McDonald's Couzens exposed himself in.\n\nThe restaurant's manager told the hearing he had shown Ms Lee CCTV of Couzens where his number plate was clearly visible, and showed her receipts which recorded the last four digits of his payment card.\n\nMs Lee said he had told her the footage had already been deleted, a claim the hearing was told was a lie to cover up her failure.\n\nAt the time of Ms Lee's investigation into Couzens, police carrying out number plate checks would not have known whether the vehicle owner was an officer.\n\nMs Lee says the Met was also treating indecent exposure as a \"low level\" offence and that is why she was not asked to investigate immediately.\n\nMs Lee admits making mistakes in her probe but still insists she did not lie about not viewing the CCTV footage, suggesting the McDonald's manager had showed the images to another officer, not her.\n\n\"I should have probably asked a lot more questions around the CCTV and done a more thorough investigation,\" she said.\n\n\"I've gone over in my head so many times... if I'd have done that, would the awful events that happened that day have been prevented and [that] just wouldn't happen.\"\n\nShe added the revelation that Couzens was a police officer was \"traumatising for myself, especially because I was linked to the case\".\n\nMs Lee said the police should have sent someone to investigate sooner, \"there was definitely opportunities that were missed, but not by myself. I'd say that's more by the organisation\".\n\nShe also highlighted an indecent exposure incident from 2015 that has been linked to Couzens, that has not been investigated by Kent Police.\n\n\"I definitely feel like it's more of a case of I've been sort of I want to use the term scapegoat, but it's sort of like I've been treated completely unfairly as a woman PC...\n\n\"I'm just someone who's able to be thrown under the bus to go, right?\n\n\"'She's done a terrible job. We've got rid of this officer. Now we can brush this under the table and pretend like it never happened.' And rather than making the genuine changes that I believe would have actually prevented this.\"\n\nSarah Everard was murdered by Couzens soon after the indecent exposure incidents\n\nAsked to comment, the Met referred the BBC to a statement from Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy, issued after the disciplinary hearing concluded.\n\nHe said that the panel found Ms Lee's actions \"fell below the professional standards expected of her. As the panel has made clear, honesty and integrity are fundamental to policing and our relationship with the public.\n\n\"The purpose of the gross misconduct hearing was not to decide whether Wayne Couzens' future offending could have been prevented.\"\n\nHe added: \"Fundamentally, I am sorry that Couzens was not arrested before he went on to murder Sarah Everard and we continue to think of her loved ones.\n\n\"We know that in recent years the Met's response to violence against women and girls has not been good enough. We are working hard with survivors, communities and partners to improve our response and rebuild trust.\"\n\nYou can watch the full interview with Samantha Lee on Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 BST, or catch-up later on iPlayer (UK only)", "Charlotte Green, Abbie Green, Holly Woodman, Lillia Meadows, Freya Iceton, Grace Harison and Molly Gay queuing from early morning at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh\n\nThousands of Harry Styles fans have been queuing in Edinburgh since the early hours in a bid to be at the front of the crowd for his latest concert.\n\nThe singer is in the city to perform his show, Harry Styles: Love On Tour, at Murrayfield Stadium.\n\nThe 28-year-old kicked off the 32-city tour last summer in Glasgow.\n\nFans from all over Europe descended on the Murrayfield site wearing colourful clothes and feathers synonymous with Harry's style.\n\nElla Paterson told BBC Scotland how her mother travelled from Scotland to take her out of her boarding school in London for the concert.\n\nThe 14-year-old said: \"I'm a massive fan and it is one of the most exciting things that's happened to me. I've been counting down the days since I got the tickets eight months and three days ago.\n\n\"I love everything about Harry, his music and him.\n\nLeanne Paterson took her daughter Ella out of her London boarding school for the concert\n\n\"He wore a sequinned jumpsuit at Coachella in LA so that's why I bought a sequinned dress for the concert.\n\nHer mum, Leanne Paterson, 35, from West Lothian, said: \"Her grandparents got the tickets for her Christmas present. She is going to cry when she sees him on stage.\n\n\"Every child should experience a concert if they have a passion for an artist so they can feel the atmosphere.\"\n\nMulti-award winning Styles' British and European live shows were postponed in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe singer kicked off his current tour in Glasgow last summer\n\nDani Powell, 20, from South Shields near Newcastle, said her dad drove her to Edinburgh.\n\nShe said: \"We left at 7am. We left that early because we want to be at the front hopefully.\n\n\"I saw him last year and he by far has the best concerts. They will go down in history because they are so different and they stand out.\n\n\"I'm here with my sister, Taylah, and she is going to pass out when he comes on stage so I'm going to stand behind her.\"\n\nDani Powell, Taylah Powell, Jadzia Mallan and Caris McKee-shell made friends in the queue in Edinburgh\n\nTaylah Powell, 16, said she would cry when she saw Harry.\n\n\"I'm a mega fan, I'm so excited to be here.\"\n\nJadzia Mallam, 17, from Newcastle, said she skipped school to be at the concert.\n\n\"I don't think anyone will be at school today. Our dad drove us here very early this morning. We wanted to be at the front.\n\n\"I have a life-size cardboard cut out of Harry in my house and have been to his concerts in Glasgow and Manchester.\"\n\nCaris McKee-shell, 17, said: \"I also skipped school to be here. I'm beyond excited and it feels like a dream. It just doesn't feel real.\"\n\nAlessia Panier Suffat (L) made friends with Amy Simmons and Aaron Burgess (R) in the queue\n\nAaron Burgess travelled from Dundee where he is in his final year at university as an anatomy student.\n\nThe 22-year-old said: \"We were on the bus at 8am. We want to be at the front because it's a better experience.\n\n\"I love how flamboyant Harry is and how he expresses himself through the clothes he wears. Bright pinks and bows and feathers all form his identity and I gravitate towards it.\n\n\"I'm so excited to be here but not for the wait.\"\n\nAmy Simmons, 21, also a student at Dundee University, said she had worked out which doors to queue at to maximise her chances of reaching the front of the stage.\n\n\"When I go to concerts I talk to the staff as they always know all the doors to stand at and how it works. They want it to run calmly and for everyone to have a good time so they are the key to finding the best place to queue.\"\n\nAlessia Panier Suffat, 21, from Italy, said: \"I'm an anxious person so I wanted to make sure I was here in plenty of time to make sure I would be at the front.\n\n\"I have been a fan for half of my life and have good memories of Harry from my childhood.\n\n\"It's great to be part of something like this, to be part of a big community and to meet like-minded people and to share experiences.\"", "Faced with a rapid rise in food prices, Jen Butler admits she is \"very particular\" about planning family meals.\n\nA weekly dinner plan is written up on a whiteboard. Prices are compared between the local Asda and Aldi. Items in the kitchen cupboards are thrown together in an \"anything can happen day\" meal.\n\nA wide selection of fruit and vegetables are growing in the garden and she even swaps food with the neighbours to save on waste.\n\n\"Financially, we always try to go in the right direction, to beat the previous month,\" says Mrs Butler, a 43-year-old carer.\n\nAt the heart of this preparation is a paper shopping list, amended as required when the family decide on groceries for the week ahead.\n\nList writing is proving popular as the cost of living has soared, helping people to budget and buy what they need rather than what they want. A survey provided exclusively to the BBC by retail data firm Kantar suggested that by the end of last year, 27% of those asked had either started regularly writing, or been making greater use of, shopping lists.\n\nThe habit is nothing new. Ancient Mesopotamians created shopping lists using symbols and characters on clay tablets in 3200-2000BC. The Romans did something similar with wax or ink on tablets of wood. Painter Michelangelo drew each item on his list to help his illiterate servant.\n\nThe modern equivalent is a task - even an artform - that has been celebrated with a recent exhibition at London's Museum of Brands.\n\nRead the list closely for the touching message\n\nIt featured Lucy Ireland Gray's collection of about 200 shopping lists that she found discarded over the course of nearly 20 years in and around Hertfordshire, where she lives.\n\nShe says they show not only people's shopping needs, but also something of their lives. In one, there is a love message hidden partway down the column of groceries. In another, a child enjoys a joke about her mum, at the same time as illustrating the list.\n\nThis child's list is full of pictures and jokes\n\nMuseum director Anna Terry says there are clear indications of shoppers being mindful about where their money goes by grouping items by meal, and conscious of food waste.\n\n\"One of the common reactions from visitors was: 'I must be more organised,'\" she says.\n\n\"Making a list and having plans is better for personal finances and means less goes in the bin. But you can still see certain brand names [on the lists]. Even in tight times, people won't give up on certain things.\"\n\nAs that exhibition ends, so another begins, one that makes the pressure that families face with the rising cost of groceries crystal clear.\n\nA new display features the top-selling grocery brands of last year, as compiled by The Grocer magazine. Nearly all of the suppliers of the 100 brands featured had put up their prices.\n\nThat is reflected in the latest official data. Food prices are rising at their fastest rate in 45 years, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nIntriguingly, the museum itself saw a rise in visitor numbers during the recession of 2008-09, as people paid more attention to what they bought. That was key to a decision during the current financial squeeze to keep its admission prices unchanged.\n\nAnna Terry says the cost of living is a key feature of buying habits\n\nAmong the brands, the top 10 was relatively stable compared with the previous year, but Mrs Terry says there had been a clear impact from rising costs. Innovation among brands had slowed and, although there had been more \"thoughtful buying\" among consumers, there were clear signs that people were still willing to treat those they love.\n\n\"Premium pet food had a good year. It seems we still buy the best for our pets, even when we cut back on ourselves,\" she says.\n\nNostalgic visitors also point out the trend of shrinkflation - when an item may cost the same, but is smaller than before. \"People point and say things were definitely bigger in the past,\" she says.\n\nManufacturing dynamics may have changed, but retailers' tactics are also evolving. Elsewhere in the museum, visitors can recall the popularity of Green Shield Stamps.\n\nUnder this early loyalty scheme, shoppers filled books of stamps to exchange for gifts. Complete eight books and you could claim a new toaster. A Lambretta scooter was yours for 155 full books.\n\nLoyalty schemes have run along the same lines for years since, but recent announcements suggest Tesco with its Clubcard and the Boots Advantage card are shifting their emphasis to on-the-day discounts of own-brand products.\n\nSuch flash offers were around in the 1960s, so perhaps some of the oldest ideas are still the best.\n\nSo, when you write a shopping list today, remember you will be repeating a task that has survived for at least 4,000 years.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA journalist has spoken of his shock after he discovered his \"cursed\" former car was the vehicle that crashed into the Downing Street gates.\n\nJonny McFarlane recognised the silver Kia Ceed when he saw it on the news on Friday.\n\nThe Met Police said the driver was held on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving, following the incident at 16:20 BST on Thursday.\n\nIt is not being treated as terror related.\n\nMr McFarlane, who is head of digital sport at Newsquest Scotland, said he travelled across the UK in the two-litre engine diesel car but joked he never drove it in London.\n\nHe told The Herald newspaper: \"I'd only had it three years and yes, I'd done maybe 60,000 miles, but it was just a constant menace to my bank balance.\"\n\nMr McFarlane revealed he only drew the connection when his partner, Nicola, mentioned the incident to him on Friday.\n\nHe added: \"I had a wee look and thought, 'that car looks awfully familiar…'\n\n\"Nicola said to me: 'Jonny… have you seen the licence plate?'.\n\n\"I looked at it and went: 'wow… it can't be? That car would have never been good to go five years on'.\n\n\"I was looking through the images and you could see it was the same car.\"\n\nMr McFarlane also revealed he left some distinguishing marks on the vehicle, which he bought from a branch of Arnold Clark in Edinburgh.\n\nHe said: \"Honestly my driving is bad, so it was scratched up and I could see in some of the pictures some of the scratches and bangs were still on it.\"\n\nThe journalist later sold it back to the company in Glasgow and admitted he had \"no idea\" what it was doing in London.\n\nReflecting on the fact it had now made headlines around the world, he said: \"You're just a bit taken aback knowing you've spent so much time in this car, I used to sit in that car for hours and hours on end.\n\n\"We never took it to London - I want to make that very clear!\n\n\"You're looking down at your old not-very-trusty motor, it's a bit of a headscratcher.\"\n\nMr McFarlane travelled all over England in the car in his former job as a sales trainer.\n\nHe said: \"I bought it in 2015 but for the next two years it was a nightmare - it was like it was cursed, honestly.\n\n\"It was constantly having issues, £500 here to fix, £600 there, £800 somewhere else.\n\n\"I remember going to the local garage and the guy just said, 'this car is giving you murder. I don't think it's going to last an awful lot longer, you should consider trading it in'.\"\n\nEventually it had an issue which was going to cost another £1,000 to fix so Mr McFarlane decided to trade it in.\n\nHe said: \"I honestly thought that car would last a maximum of a year for whoever Arnold Clark sold it on to.\n\n\"I thought I was selling them an absolute lemon.\"\n\nThe driver was led away by police following the incident\n\nThe Downing Street incident came as many civil servants were leaving work.\n\nThe area in Whitehall, the main road which runs through the heart of several government offices, was partially evacuated following the incident.\n\nA police cordon was initially put in place but was later lifted.\n\nA tow truck then removed the vehicle from the area.\n\nNo-one was injured in the incident. No 10 later confirmed Rishi Sunak was in Downing Street at the time.", "Phillip Schofield says he has agreed to step down from ITV’s This Morning “with immediate effect” after more than 20 years.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"I understand ITV has decided the current situation can't go on.\"\n\nHis departure comes after reports claimed relations between him and co-host Holly Willoughby had come under strain in recent weeks.\n\nWilloughby said: \"The sofa won't feel the same without him.\"\n\nShe will remain as a presenter on the programme, and will be joined by \"members of the This Morning family\", ITV said, while confirming Schofield's Thursday appearance was his last.\n\nSchofield will continue working with the broadcaster, ITV's statement added, saying this included The British Soap Awards in June and a \"brand new peak time series to come\".\n\nOn Instagram, Schofield wrote: \"Throughout my career in TV - including in the very difficult last few days - I have always done my best to be honourable and kind.\n\n\"I understand that ITV has decided the current situation can't go on, and I want to do what I can to protect the show that I love.\n\n\"So I have agreed to step down from This Morning with immediate effect, in the hope that the show can move forward to a bright future.\n\n\"I'd like to thank everyone who has supported me - especially This Morning's amazing viewers - and I'll see you all for the Soap Awards next month.\"\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, Willoughby said: \"It's been over 13 great years presenting This Morning with Phil, and I want to take this opportunity to thank him for all of his knowledge, his experience and his humour.\"\n\nKevin Lygo, ITV's managing director, media and entertainment, called Schofield \"one of the best broadcasters of his generation\" and thanked him for \"two decades worth of absolutely terrific television\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSchofield has been a regular presenter on This Morning since 2002, and Willoughby since 2009. The pair also present ITV's Dancing On Ice together.\n\nAfter reports of a \"cooling\" in the pair's friendship appeared in The Sun earlier this month, Schofield told the newspaper: \"The last few weeks haven't been easy for either of us.\"\n\nBut he said his co-host was his \"rock\", adding: \"She is an incredible support on screen, behind the scenes and on the phone.\"\n\nWilloughby will take an \"early half term holiday\", ITV said, and will return to screens on 5 June.\n\nSchofield recently returned to the show after taking pre-planned leave around his younger brother's sex abuse trial at Exeter Crown Court.\n\nTimothy Schofield was jailed for 12 years on Friday for 11 sexual offences involving a child between 2016 and 2019.\n\nPhillip Schofield first found fame on children's TV in the 1980s on the BBC's Broom Cupboard, and then on Saturday morning show Going Live!\n\nHe starred in West End productions and fronted TV game shows like Talking Telephone Numbers and Schofield's Quest before joining This Morning.\n\nThe programme has won a host of awards, including the prize for best daytime programme at last year's National Television Awards.\n\nWhile their on-screen relationship may have won plaudits and attracted audiences, Schofield and Willoughby were criticised in September last year over claims - which they denied - that they skipped the queue for the Queen's lying-in-state while attending to film a segment.\n\nWilloughby also took time away from the show in April after she contracted shingles.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch UK alert go off (again, or if you missed it)\n\nThe UK's emergency alert system will cost up to £25.3m in its first three years, the government has said.\n\nThe system was tested for the first time last month, with messages sent to millions of smartphones.\n\nIn the future, the alert could be used to issue warnings about dangerous situations, including fires, flooding or terror attacks.\n\nThe government says the system is a \"vital tool to keep the public safe in life-threatening emergencies\".\n\nBut critics have branded the alerts intrusive, and the cost of the system has been the subject of speculation.\n\nOn Thursday, the Conservative peer and Cabinet Office minister, Baroness Neville-Rolfe, revealed more details about the cost of the system.\n\nResponding to a parliamentary question, Baroness Neville-Rolfe said: \"The total cost to date of developing the technical architecture and systems which underpin the emergency alert programme, in addition to the first three years of operational delivery, will be a maximum of £25.3m.\"\n\nThe baroness said those costs included a contract worth up to £5m with Fujitsu, a Japanese IT firm which has been hired to work on the system.\n\nOther costs include contracts totalling £18.6m to mobile network operators, as well as further spending on security testing and legal work.\n\n\"The remaining costs were spent on security testing and legal fees,\" Baroness Neville-Rolfe said.\n\n\"The specific figures are commercially sensitive and can therefore not be released to the public.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked the Cabinet Office for comment.\n\nPeers have said the involvement of Fujitsu, which was at the centre of the Horizon Post Office scandal, could undermine public trust in the alert system.\n\nMore than 700 Post Office managers were convicted when Fujitsu's faulty accounting software made it look like money was missing from their sites.\n\nThe government said Fujitsu had a \"small role\" in the development of the system and insisted there was no link between its work for the Post Office and the alerts.\n\nThe alert included a short message, accompanied by a loud 10-second noise and vibration.\n\nOn the day of the test, 23 April, some smartphone users said they did not receive the alert at all.\n\nThe government said the alert did not reach an estimated 7% of compatible devices in the UK.\n\nAbout 80% of mobile phones in the UK were compatible to receive the alert, according to the Cabinet Office.\n\nThe Cabinet Office has said there are likely to be further public tests of the system in the coming years.\n\nMany countries around the world use emergency-alert systems, including the United States, the Netherlands and Japan.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"The government's main priority is to keep people safe and the emergency alerts system has transformed our ability to warn and inform people who are in immediate danger, making sure an urgent message can be sent to mobile phones in a specific area when there is a risk to life.\"", "Animal Rising said the women took the lambs from Appleton Farm on the Sandringham Estate\n\nLambs stolen from a field on the King's Sandringham Estate are still missing following the release on police bail of three women suspected of stealing them.\n\nActivists Animal Rising said it took three lambs from a field at West Newton in Norfolk on Wednesday, because the animals were due to be slaughtered.\n\nThree women aged in their 20s and 30s were arrested in Slough, Berkshire, on suspicion of theft.\n\nNorfolk Police said the women had been told to answer police bail in July.\n\nAnimal Rising said the women handed themselves into police in Berkshire at 08:00 on Thursday, with banners saying: \"I rescued the King's sheep\" and \"This is how we love animals\".\n\nIt added the lambs were were \"safe\" and now with animal experts.\n\nNorfolk Police said anyone with information on the missing lambs should contact them.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830", "Phillip Schofield left his role on This Morning last week following reports of a rift with Holly Willoughby\n\nPhillip Schofield has quit ITV after admitting he had an affair with a younger male ITV employee and lied to cover it up.\n\nThe ex-This Morning host said the relationship with his junior colleague was \"unwise but not illegal\".\n\nIn a statement to the Daily Mail, Schofield said he \"met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television\".\n\nHe apologised for lying to colleagues, employers, the media and public.\n\nAn ITV spokesperson said they were \"deeply disappointed by the admissions of deceit\" made by Schofield and confirmed it had cut all ties with the host.\n\nIt means the 61-year-old will no longer present the British Soap Awards next month.\n\nHe will also not front a new prime-time series which ITV had said last week they were developing with him.\n\nSchofield left his role at This Morning last week after reports of a rift with co-star Holly Willoughby.\n\nHe said his departure from the show was unrelated to the affair with the colleague, who the BBC is not naming.\n\nThe TV presenter was still married to his wife Stephanie Lowe at the time of the relationship. They separated in 2020, after Schofield came out as gay.\n\nSchofield said he was \"so, very, very sorry\" for being unfaithful to his wife, and for lying to his colleagues, agents, employers, friends, the media and the public.\n\nSchofield said he was \"so, very, very sorry\" for being unfaithful to his wife Stephanie Lowe (pictured in 2017)\n\nThe TV host said he would reflect on his \"very bad judgement in both participating in the relationship and then lying about it\".\n\nAn ITV spokesperson said: \"The relationships we have with those we work with are based on trust.\n\n\"Phillip made assurances to us which he now acknowledges were untrue and we feel badly let down.\"\n\nHis announcement follows significant online speculation over several months about Schofield's personal relationships.\n\nTalent agency YMU has also cut ties with Schofield following his announcement about the affair.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the TV presenter said: \"It is with the most profound regret that after 35 years of being faultlessly managed by YMU I have agreed to step down from their representation with immediate effect.\"\n\nSome former ITV daytime figures, including Eamonn Holmes and Dan Wootton, have suggested the network has questions to answer about how much managers knew about the relationship and what action they took.\n\n\"I am making this statement via the Daily Mail to whom I have already apologised personally for misleading, through my lawyer who I also misled, about a story which they wanted to write about me a few days ago.\n\n\"The first thing I want to say is: I am deeply sorry for having lied to them, and to many others about a relationship that I had with someone working on This Morning. I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague at This Morning.\n\n\"Contrary to speculation, whilst I met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television, it was only after he started to work on the show that it became more than just a friendship. That relationship was unwise, but not illegal. It is now over.\n\n\"When I chose to come out I did so entirely for my own wellbeing. Nobody 'forced' me out. Neither I nor anyone else, to my knowledge, has ever issued an injunction, super or otherwise, about my relationship with this colleague, he was never moved on or sacked by or because of me.\n\n\"In an effort to protect my ex-colleague I haven't been truthful about the relationship. But my recent, unrelated, departure from This Morning fuelled speculation and raised questions which have been impacting him, so for his sake it is important for me to be honest now.\n\n\"I am painfully conscious that I have lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and friends, to my agents, to the media and therefore the public and most importantly of all to my family. I am so very, very sorry, as I am for having been unfaithful to my wife.\n\n\"I have therefore decided to step down from the British Soap Awards, my last public commitment, and am resigning from ITV with immediate effect expressing my immense gratitude to them for all the amazing opportunities that they have given me.\n\n\"I will reflect on my very bad judgement in both participating in the relationship and then lying about it.\n\n\"To protect his privacy, I am not naming this individual and my deepest wish is that both he and his family can now move on with their lives free from further intrusion, and that this statement will enable them to do so.\n\n\"I ask the media now to respect their privacy. They have done nothing wrong, and I ask that their privacy should be respected.\"\n\nSchofield's final appearance on This Morning was on Thursday 18 May. He announced his departure from the ITV daytime show that weekend.\n\nCover presenters Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary paid tribute to Schofield at the start of Monday's programme.\n\nSchofield had presented This Morning show since 2002, with Willoughby joining him as a co-presenter in 2009.\n\nWilloughby is currently on holiday but set to return to the show on Monday 5 June.\n\nEarlier this year, his brother Timothy Schofield was jailed for 12 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing a boy.\n\nSchofield and Willoughby presented ITV's This Morning and Dancing on Ice together before his departure", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo 13-year-old boys have handed themselves in to police after a fire destroyed a seven-storey heritage building in central Sydney.\n\nThe building went up in flames on Thursday afternoon, requiring about 100 firefighters to extinguish the inferno.\n\nPolice believe other teens were involved in the incident and have asked them to come forward.\n\nFifteen people were sleeping rough in the building at the time of the fire and 13 of them have been accounted for.\n\nHowever, at least 70 residents have been displaced from the surrounding buildings, with an exclusion zone expected to stay in place for seven days.\n\nPolice confirmed the teens who handed themselves in were assisting them with their inquiries.\n\nFire and Rescue New South Wales said the fire reached a \"10th\" alarm status on Thursday - the most severe level.\n\nThe building was heritage-listed and formerly home to the Henderson Hat factory. It had sat vacant for many years, but there were plans to redevelop it into a hotel.\n\nAfter it caught fire, a thick column of smoke could be seen across Sydney. Video showed the top level of the building falling on to the nearby street.\n\nFire and Rescue NSW said they were able to contain the fire to prevent damage to nearby residential blocks.\n\nThe organisation also said investigations into the cause of the blaze had been taken over by NSW Police Arson Squad.\n\nThe building is located in inner-city Sydney, across the road from the city's central station.\n\nTransport to and from the central area had to be stopped on Thursday as firefighters worked to extinguish the fire.", "UK ministers are preparing to announce their decision on Scotland's controversial deposit return scheme.\n\nScottish ministers are seeking an exemption from internal market rules to allow the scheme to start next March.\n\nThe BBC understands the UK government is likely to issue a conditional agreement that could permit Scotland to pilot a UK-wide scheme.\n\nScotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf says he does not know if the scheme will still be viable.\n\nUK ministers are expected to require glass to be excluded from the scheme which was a key part of Scottish proposals.\n\nOther conditions are likely to include standardising the deposit charge, bar codes and labelling across the UK.\n\nIt is thought the UK government will also insist on a reciprocal membership system so that businesses that join anywhere in the UK are automatically signed up across the UK.\n\nMr Yousaf said the fact that he was hearing this information through the media was \"yet another demonstration of disrespect\" from the UK government, which he said was \"intent on undermining democracy\".\n\nHe said industry had invested millions of pounds in the belief that glass was going to be included in the scheme.\n\n\"We do not know if the scheme is viable if you remove glass from it,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said he was not going to pre-empt any decisions about the scheme's future because he had not yet heard officially from the UK government.\n\nLorna Slater, the minister in charge of the scheme, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime: \"If it is true that their intentions are to prevent us, to force us to take glass out of the scheme... I'm pretty outraged.\n\n\"It is an affront to democracy in Scotland - this was passed by the Scottish Parliament - and it will be significantly damaging to our environment.\"\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said industry had invested millions of pounds\n\nThe deposit return scheme, aimed at increasing the number of single-use drinks bottles and cans that are recycled, was due to begin in August.\n\nIt will now come into effect in March next year.\n\nUnder the new scheme, 20p will be added to the price of a single-use drinks container, which will be refunded to people who return it to a retailer or hospitality premises that offer single-use products.\n\nConcerns have been raised that because Scotland's scheme would come in before similar initiatives in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, it could create a trade barrier.\n\nThe Internal Market Act was brought in after Brexit in a bid to ensure smooth trade across the different nations of the UK.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Scottish government minister responsible for the deposit return scheme told MSPs she was looking forward to a positive decision from the UK government.\n\nLorna Slater urged Westminster to \"do the right thing\" and allow the scheme to go ahead\n\nAsked if she would compensate businesses if the scheme failed, Lorna Slater said that was a hypothetical question because she remained committed to delivering the scheme next March.\n\nOn Wednesday, the prime minister Rishi Sunak called on the Scottish government to reconsider their plans.\n\nThe UK government is planning to introduce its own deposit return scheme, details of which could be announced as early as today.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Rutherglen on Friday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said that if he was prime minister there would be a willingness to make the scheme work.\n\nHe said the two governments seemed more inclined to find a point of division between them.", "A police patrol in Pas-de-Calais, northern France, on 26 November 2021 - two days after the deadly incident\n\nFrench police have charged five soldiers over the deaths of 27 people who drowned while trying to cross the English Channel on 24 November 2021.\n\nThey are among nine people detained for questioning. They are accused of failing to help the stricken boat, a judicial source said.\n\nSome 15 calls from the boat were ignored, French media reported.\n\nThe disaster is the worst of its kind on record. The migrants were mostly Iraqi Kurds, and aged seven to 46.\n\nNews of the indictment was welcomed by a spokesperson for Utopia 56, an organisation representing the migrants.\n\n\"We can only be delighted that things are progressing from a criminal point of view,\" said Flore Judet.\n\nThe small craft sank shortly after leaving the French coast, leading to the death of all but two of those onboard - comprising men, women and children.\n\nLe Monde newspaper previously reported that passengers had first contacted officials in France's Channel rescue centre at 01:48, saying their boat was deflating and their engine had failed.\n\nThe group reportedly sent their location by WhatsApp 15 minutes later, but authorities failed to answer. Rescue teams eventually responded 10 hours later, after fishermen raised the alarm.\n\nSpeaking at the time of the tragedy, the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the disaster was the biggest single loss of life in the Channel since it had begun collecting data in 2014.\n\nThe UK's then-Prime Minster Boris Johnson said he was \"appalled\" by the incident, adding that his country would leave \"no stone unturned\" to stop human trafficking gangs.\n\nIn November 2022, a 32-year-old man appeared in a London court in connection with the disaster, having been accused of being part of a group which conspired to transport the migrants to the UK.\n\nHarem Ahmed Abwbaker was alleged to have offered money to the families of migrants who drowned to stay silent.\n\nLast June, French police arrested 15 people - mostly from Afghanistan - who are accused of being part of a smuggling ring involved in the deadly incident.\n\nThe UK government has pledged to tackle small boat crossings of the English Channel after record numbers arrived by that route last year.", "We're now ending our live coverage of the sentencing of Stephen Boden and Shannon Marsden, who have been jailed for life after murdering their son Finley Boden on Christmas Day 2020.\n\nTo read more about the sentencing at Derby Crown Court today, click here, and to find out more about the case, click here.\n\nWe know that this case is distressing, so as a reminder, help is available on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nToday's live page was written by Laura Gozzi, Thomas Mackintosh, Jack Burgess, Sam Hancock, Adam Durbin and Aoife Walsh. The page was edited by myself, Jamie Whitehead and Owen Amos.", "Elon Musk's brain-chip firm says it has received approval from the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) to conduct its first tests on humans.\n\nThe Neuralink implant company wants to help restore vision and mobility to people by linking brains to computers.\n\nIt says it does not have immediate plans to start recruiting participants. Mr Musk's previous ambitions to begin tests came to nothing.\n\nThe FDA said it acknowledged Neuralink's announcement.\n\nAn earlier bid by Neuralink to win FDA approval was rejected on safety grounds, according to a report in March by the Reuters news agency that cited multiple current and former employees.\n\nNeuralink hopes to use its microchips to treat conditions such as paralysis and blindness, and to help certain disabled people use computers and mobile technology.\n\nThe chips - which have been tested in monkeys - are designed to interpret signals produced in the brain and relay information to devices via Bluetooth.\n\nExperts have cautioned that Neuralink's brain implants will require extensive testing to overcome technical and ethical challenges if they are to become widely available.\n\nMr Musk has also previously suggested that the proposed technology could help ease concerns about humans being displaced by AI.\n\nAnnouncing Thursday's news on Twitter, Neuralink talked of an \"important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people\".\n\nThe approval was \"the result of incredible work by the Neuralink team in close collaboration with the FDA\", it said.\n\nThe firm promised more information \"soon\" on plans to sign up trial participants.\n\nIts website promises that \"safety, accessibility and reliability\" are all priorities during its engineering process.\n\nThe company - which was co-founded by Mr Musk in 2016 - has repeatedly overestimated the speed at which it can execute its plans.\n\nIts initial aim was to start planting chips in human brains in 2020, in order to honour a pledge made the year before. It later vowed to get started in 2022.\n\nThe business was dealt another setback in December last year, after reportedly coming under investigation for alleged animal welfare violations in its work. It earlier denied similar claims.\n\nIts announcement on FDA approval for human tests follows recent news of a similar breakthrough involving brain implants by Swiss researchers.\n\nA paralysed man from the Netherlands was able to walk simply by thinking about it - thanks to a system of implants which wirelessly transmit his thoughts to his legs and feet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Swiss researchers use brain implant to help paralysed man walk", "Stephen Boden and Shannon Marsden are standing trial at Derby Crown Court\n\nA father accused of murdering his 10-month-old son on Christmas Day said he never \"deliberately\" hurt his child.\n\nStephen Boden and partner Shannon Marsden are accused of killing Finley Boden during the 2020 Covid lockdown, 39 days after he was placed back into their care by social services.\n\nProsecutors previously told the trial Finley was found to have 130 \"appalling\" injuries.\n\nHe admitted he told police in an interview he may have \"rocked\" Finley \"too hard\", which could have accidentally caused the injuries but said this was never an attempt to hurt him.\n\n\"When I used to rock Finley, he used to like it quite fast and strong when we did it but it got to the point where I had to give some kind of explanation as to how it could have happened,\" he said.\n\n\"I felt under pressure to give some type of explanation [to police].\"\n\nMr Boden admitted he continued a sexual relationship with Ms Marsden after being arrested and bailed in late 2020, despite them not being allowed to contact each other under their bail conditions.\n\nAfter being arrested again and remanded in custody in 2022, the pair sent Valentine's Day cards and letters to each other, in which Marsden, 22, said she would love Boden \"forever\" and would \"always be standing by\".\n\nLast month a trial heard she told police Mr Boden had inflicted the fatal injuries on her son.\n\nBoden, of Romford Way in Barrow Hill, Chesterfield, and Marsden, of no fixed address, deny murder, two counts of child cruelty, and two charges of causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn engineering chief at Twitter says he is leaving the company a day after the launch of Ron DeSantis' US presidential campaign on the platform was hit with technical glitches.\n\nFoad Dabiri tweeted: \"After almost four incredible years at Twitter, I decided to leave the nest yesterday.\"\n\nMr DeSantis' entry into the race for the White House was hit by problems as a Twitter livestream malfunctioned.\n\nMore than 80% of the firm's workforce has been cut since Mr Musk bought it.\n\nMr Dabiri did not specify why he had decided to leave Twitter or whether it was related to the problems with the DeSantis event on the platform.\n\nHe did not immediately respond to a BBC request for comment. Twitter did not provide a statement on Mr Dabiri's exit when approached by the BBC.\n\nMr Dabiri, who was the engineering lead for Twitter's Growth organisation, said in a tweet he had \"experienced two distinct eras\" at the company, before and after it was acquired by the multi-billionaire last year.\n\nIn another post, Mr Dabiri said the transition into Twitter's \"2.0\" was \"massive and rapid\".\n\nHe added: \"To say it was challenging at the outset would be an understatement.\"\n\nMr DeSantis' entry into the 2024 race for the White House had been long anticipated\n\nHowever, Mr Dabiri said: \"Working with @elonmusk has been highly educational, and it was enlightening to see how his principles and vision are shaping the future of this company.\"\n\nIssues with a Twitter livestream meant that an event to launch Mr DeSantis' bid for the Republican presidential nomination got under way 20 minutes late.\n\nBy the time Wednesday evening's Twitter talk had begun in earnest, hundreds of thousands of Twitter users had left the platform.\n\nThe Florida governor is viewed as former President Donald Trump's chief rival to be their party's candidate in the 2024 general election.\n\nMr Musk, who also runs car maker Tesla and rocket firm SpaceX, bought Twitter for $44bn (£35.4bn) in October.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC last month, he said that cutting the workforce from just under 8,000 people at the time he bought the firm to about 1,500 had not been easy.\n\nSince Mr Musk took the reins at Twitter, he has laid off thousands of employees, including engineers responsible for the site's operations and technical troubleshooting.\n\nMr DeSantis' team worked quickly to spin the technical stumbles, writing on Twitter that the announcement had broken \"the internet with so much excitement\", and posting a link to the campaign website.\n\nHis press secretary Bryan Griffin claimed the online event had raised $1m in an hour.\n\nAt one point, the Twitter event drew more than 600,000 listeners, according to Reuters news agency figures, but by its conclusion, there were fewer than 300,000.\n\nOnce the livestream began, Mr DeSantis turned the conversation to his conservative credentials and touted his handling of the Covid-19 crisis in his state - an anti-lockdown approach applauded by many Republicans.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Threadgold said officers are \"deeply offended\" over Police Scotland being branded institutionally racist.\n\nPolice in Scotland have said their job will be made \"more difficult\" by the chief constable saying the force is institutionally discriminatory.\n\nSir Iain Livingstone stressed he did not mean individual officers and staff were racist or sexist.\n\nDavid Threadgold of the Scottish Police Federation, which represents officers, said police had been \"deeply offended\".\n\nHe said members of the public would not distinguish between institutional problems and individual officers.\n\nSir Iain made the remarks on Thursday as he delivered a report to the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) board. It was believed to be the first statement of its kind by a police chief.\n\nHe said: \"It is the right thing for me to do, as chief constable, to clearly state that institutional racism, sexism, misogyny and discrimination exist.\n\nIt came after a review uncovered first-hand accounts of racism, sexism and homophobia by serving officers.\n\nThe independent review group urged the force to be alert to \"backlash\" against efforts to improve matters, and particularly to be aware of \"all lives matter\" views.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said that, as a person of colour, the admission of was \"monumental\" and \"historic\", while chair of the Scottish Police Authority board Martyn Evans called it a \"watershed moment\".\n\nHowever Mr Threadgold said the reaction had been \"overwhelmingly negative\" among officers.\n\nSir Iain Livingstone told the Scottish Police Authority board the force is institutionally racist and discriminatory\n\nInitially speaking to the BBC's Newsnight, he said: \"The use of the phrase institutionally racist is one that has deeply offended and upset them and they do not recognise themselves in that way.\n\n\"That nuance in the delivery of the message was missed absolutely and there is real potential that that has damaged the relationship between the chief constable and those who represent the communities in Scotland.\"\n\nSir William Macpherson's definition of institutional racism, set out in his 1999 report into the killing of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, is the collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin.\n\nIt can include processes, attitudes and behaviour which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping.\n\nHowever Mr Threadgold told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland that the vast majority of officers perceived the chief constable was \"labelling them as institutionally racist\".\n\nAs a result, he said he believed the job of police officers had been made more difficult by Sir Iain's comments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said: \"The reason for that is they [the public] will hear him speaking and they will also not make that distinction.\n\n\"So when they [officers] are out patrolling in the streets around Scotland this weekend, members of the public will see them, they will make the link to the fact that the chief constable has said that we as an organisation are institutionally racist and that will make our job more difficult.\"\n\nAsked whether the force's priority should be the individuals who experience racist or sexist behaviour, Mr Threadgold said: \"It should be as equal a priority as everything else.\"\n\nBoth Mr Threadgold and Sir Iain accepted there are examples of officers in the force who are discriminatory.\n\nThe chief constable also told the BBC he \"totally accepted\" how institutional discrimination could be conflated with individuals.\n\nHowever he said: \"This is separate matter, this is about policies, practice, systems that have at times unintended or unforeseen consequences that actually discriminate against certain groups.\n\n\"I think it's important to state it as a fact so that we can make progress and make policing and Scotland a better place.\"\n\nPolice Scotland has faced a number of concerns about its culture in recent years.\n\nSome women who are former officers spoke to the BBC's Newsnight about a \"boys club\" culture at all levels of Police Scotland.\n\nOne of them, former firearms officer Rhona Malone, won almost £1m in compensation from the force after an employment tribunal found she had been victimised when she had raised concerns about sexism.\n\nThe force is also under pressure due to an ongoing public inquiry into the death of Sheku Bayoh, who was restrained by police officers in Kirkcaldy.\n\nThe inquiry is investigating the circumstances of the 31-year-old's death and whether race was a factor.\n\nHuman rights lawyer Aamer Anwar represents Mr Bayoh's family and spoke to the BBC after the inquiry heard evidence from a former officer involved in the restraint who denied making racist remarks.\n\nIn response to Mr Threadgold's comments, he said the federation was \"in denial\" and should be considering the morale of black, Asian and female officers who had faced discrimination.\n\nHe said: \"It's absolute and utter nonsense. On which occasion have they stood up publicly and robustly defended officers who have been the victim of racist discrimination, of racism?\n\n\"When have they defended those female officers who have been subjected to horrific misogyny? Some officers who we are dealing with at the moment have allegations of sexual violence - where is their defence of those officers?\n\n\"They need to change, they need to get on board and if they're not willing to accept those changes then they need to leave the police service.\"\n\nSir Iain has held the position of chief constable for six years and is to retire on 10 August.\n\nMoi Ali, who was formerly on the SPA board but quit amid a row over meetings being held behind closed doors, said it had taken too long for him to raise the issue of institutional racism in the first place.\n\nMoi Ali said her exit from the board had been a \"really horrendous experience\"\n\nShe told Good Morning Scotland: \"MacPherson talked about institutional racism in 1999. I'm just wondering why it took until the next century for the chief constable, within spitting distance of collecting a very handsome police pension, to mention this.\n\n\"I welcome the fact that the statement has been made, but he's about to walk out of the door and leave the problem that he was part of not solving for a decade.\"\n\nLast year Police Scotland launched a four-year strategy called \"Policing Together\" to tackle discrimination in the force and in the community.\n\nIt recently announced a mandatory leadership programme to be rolled out to about 5,000 officers and staff to improve the existing workplace culture.\n\nEarlier this year the force also stepped up its vetting procedures in response to the case of David Carrick, who admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences as a Met police officer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Daniel Sandford was at the reservoir in Portugal after the police search ended\n\nA fresh search linked to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal has ended.\n\nPortuguese authorities said material recovered during the three-day operation around the Arade reservoir in the Algarve would now be analysed.\n\nThe German police-led operation was looking for evidence to link the British toddler's disappearance to Christian Brueckner, a German national.\n\nHe was made a formal suspect by Portuguese prosecutors in 2022.\n\nGerman prosecutors have named Brueckner as the main suspect in their Madeleine McCann murder investigation. British police do not use that phrase, saying that as far as they are concerned it is still a missing person investigation.\n\nThe search at the Arade reservoir near Silves was part of the German investigation. They asked Portuguese officials for assistance, and the Metropolitan Police said its officers were also in Portugal so they can inform Madeleine's family of any developments.\n\nA statement from Portugal's national police agency said the \"collected material\" from the scene will be delivered to the German authorities for further inspection.\n\nAll the work carried out around the reservoir was on a peninsula jutting out into the Arade dam from its Western shore - 31 miles (50km) from where Madeleine went missing in Praia da Luz 16 years ago.\n\nOfficers were seen using rakes and hoes, strimmers and a small excavator to clear paths through the scrub on a nearby slope - the sound of machinery at work audible in the remote area.\n\nPolice also dug a number of smaller holes, leaving huge piles of soil and broken rock next to the 160 sq ft (14 sq m) excavation area.\n\nThe spit of land has a small car park on it, which is often used as an unofficial campsite.\n\nBrueckner, a 45-year-old German national, is thought to have stayed there often in his Volkswagen T3 camper van.\n\nHe is also known to have visited the picturesque spot around the time Madeleine, who would now be 20, went missing.\n\nWhite tents were set up on the site and sniffer dogs were used. However, no divers were seen going under the water.\n\nGerman authorities have not revealed what triggered the latest search operation but state prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said they were acting on the basis of \"certain tips\".\n\nHe told German public broadcaster NDR: \"We have indications that we could find evidence there. I don't want to say what that is exactly, and I also don't want to say where these indications come from.\n\n\"The only thing that I would clarify is that it doesn't come from the suspect - so we don't have a confession or anything similar now, or an indication from the suspect of where it would make sense to search.\"\n\nMr Wolters is treating Brueckner as the main suspect in Madeleine's case, although he has never been charged over Madeleine's disappearance and has denied any involvement.\n\nMadeleine disappeared from a holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz on 3 May 2007, nine days before her fourth birthday.\n\nHers has become one of the most infamous missing person's cases in modern times, attracting attention in countries across Europe, and in America and Australia.\n\nNews crews from around the world remain stationed around the Arade reservoir, where they are reporting the latest developments.\n\nBrueckner was living near the Praia da Luz resort when the McCann family was on holiday, and he spent time in the area between 2000 and 2017.\n\nHe is currently in prison in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old woman in 2005 in the same area where Madeleine went missing.\n\nPolice were seen searching a peninsula jutting out into the Arade dam from its Western shore", "Homes in Northern Ireland, on average, are not retaining heat like other homes in the UK\n\nMost homes in Northern Ireland need to be upgraded to be more energy efficient if 2030 net zero targets are to be met, a report has found.\n\nIt found, on average, the properties do not retain heat as well as those in the rest of the UK and Ireland.\n\nThe Ulster University study is part of a report by the Forum for Better Housing Market NI, a group which looks at issues in the local housing market.\n\nThe forum said \"we need to act now\" to cut emissions from the housing sector.\n\nThe UK has some of the least energy-efficient housing in Europe - largely because much of the housing stock is so old\n\nIn total, the report found that about 60% of homes need to improve their energy efficiency to help Northern Ireland towards reaching its net zero goal.\n\nThe report also indicated that about 50,000 buildings a year must be improved in order to hit the target of a 56% reduction in energy-related carbon emissions from the housing sector in Northern Ireland.\n\nWith the help of research from Ulster University, the forum's report, called New Foundations: The route to low carbon homes, sets out recommendations to support the process of decarbonisation across the housing sector, which currently contributes to 14% of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nAmong the recommendations is that there should be a single policy to cut emissions in the housing sector, which focuses on trying to incentivise developers, construction firms and homeowners to create more energy efficient homes.\n\nOther suggestions include retrofitting existing homes with low carbon heating systems, such as heat pumps, better insulation and a range of \"green\" mortgage products.\n\nAccording to David Little, chair of the Forum for a Better Housing Market NI, Northern Ireland is lagging behind the rest of the UK and Ireland.\n\n\"Homes here record the lowest energy performance scores compared to our neighbours and we are not on track to meet UK net-zero targets,\" he said.\n\nThe research carried out at Ulster University was led by Prof Martin Haran, who highlighted \"a series of failed initiatives allied with a non-sitting Stormont Executive has ensured that Northern Ireland lags behind other UK regions and the Republic of Ireland\".\n\nThe report also points to how other UK nations are tackling the issue, such as in England and Wales, with \"the Heat and Buildings Strategy in 2023, pledging £3.9bn in new funding to decarbonize heat and buildings\".\n\nIn 2021, the Welsh government announced it would build 20,000 low-carbon homes by 2026 while in Scotland new rules were introduced to ensure new houses use renewable or low-carbon heating.\n\nAccording to the report, Northern Ireland's Climate Change Bill in 2022 represented a significant milestone \"in terms of tackling climate change and decarbonisation\", as it puts Northern Ireland on a par with other UK regions by mandating 2030, 2040 and 2050 net zero targets.\n\nThe UK has some of the least energy-efficient housing in Europe - largely because much of the housing stock is so old.\n\nNorthern Ireland homes are among the least efficient in the UK, making them among the least efficient in Europe.\n\nProperties are rated on energy efficiency via an energy performance certificate (EPC), which rates the property from grade A - most efficient - to grade G.\n\nThe government previously set a target to upgrade as many homes to grade C by 2035 \"where practical, cost-effective and affordable\".\n\nHowever, some campaigners have criticised the progress towards this goal.\n\nMany newer homes continue to be built without basic insulation.\n\nIn 2022, the UK climate advisory group, UKCCC, warned the government that: \"We are still building new homes that do not meet minimum standards of efficiency.\"", "Finley Boden was 10 months old when he was murdered on Christmas Day in 2020\n\nThe parents of a 10-month-old boy have been convicted of murdering him - 39 days after he was placed back into their care.\n\nStephen Boden and partner Shannon Marsden killed Finley Boden, who died on Christmas Day in 2020.\n\nFinley was found to have suffered 130 \"appalling\" injuries.\n\nA jury found the pair, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, guilty of murder following a trial at Derby Crown Court on Friday.\n\nThey will be sentenced on 26 May.\n\nStephen Boden and Shannon Marsden were convicted at Derby Crown Court\n\nThe couple were responsible for what the court heard was the \"savage and brutal\" murder of their son after burning and beating him in repeated acts of violence.\n\nFinley's injuries included 57 breaks to his bones, 71 bruises and two burns on his left hand - one \"from a hot, flat surface\", the other probably \"from a cigarette lighter flame\".\n\nHe collapsed after suffering a cardiac arrest at the family's \"cluttered\" and filthy terraced home in Holland Road, Old Whittington - with faeces later found in the bedroom.\n\nParamedics were called there in the early hours of Christmas Day and Finley was taken to hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.\n\nWhen the verdicts were read out, Stephen Boden and Shannon Marsden showed no reaction.\n\nJudge Mrs Justice Amanda Tipples held back tears as she addressed the jury and thanked them for their \"extremely impressive\" conduct throughout the trial.\n\nAs she spoke, at least four jury members were in tears, and all were excused from taking part in jury service again for life, due to the distressing nature of the case.\n\nFinley, pictured on 30 November 2020, less than four weeks before he was killed\n\nChild protection concerns meant Finley was taken from his parents shortly after he was born in February 2020.\n\nBut later that year, he was returned to their care through a court order following an eight-week transition, despite social workers asking for a six-month period.\n\nThe court heard the pair worked together to keep professionals away from Finley to protect each other and to cover up serious violence.\n\nThis included cancelling a health visitor appointment two days before he died and telling social services when they arrived unannounced that Finley may have Covid-19 and refusing to let them in.\n\nA child safeguarding review into the circumstances surrounding Finley's death is currently under way.\n\nA spokeswoman for Derbyshire County Council said it would be \"fully engaged\" with the independent review, adding it would \"not be appropriate\" to comment further until it was complete.\n\nPolice described the conditions Finley was living in as \"filthy\"\n\nThe court heard both Boden, 30, and Marsden, 22, were regular and heavy users of cannabis, who prioritised getting money to spend on the drug over their son's care.\n\nToxicology tests showed cannabis was found in Finley's blood, indicating that he must have inhaled smoke in the 24 hours before his death, the court was told.\n\nThe court was shown text messages sent from the couple's shared mobile phone - with jurors told the author of each message was not always clear.\n\nIn one message to a contact saved as \"Smokey J\" at 12:39 GMT on 23 December 2020, the author said the \"little one\" had \"kept me up all night\".\n\nThe message added: \"I want to bounce him off the walls. Haha.\"\n\nPolice documented the state of the home Finley was living in as part of their investigation\n\nAfter Finley died, Boden was heard telling Marsden at hospital he was going to sell Finley's pushchair \"on eBay\" - but later told police he only said it \"in an effort to lighten the mood\".\n\nProsecutor Mary Prior KC said Boden later told a relative that Finley had been crying, so \"in his words, he 'shook him a little bit'\".\n\nBut she added Marsden, visiting Finley's body in a hospital chapel of rest on 11 January 2021, said: \"His dad's battered him to death. I didn't protect him.\"\n\nBoden had claimed the family dog may have \"jumped on\" his son, inflicting broken ribs, while a tear to the inside of Finley's mouth - likely caused by a dummy being rammed in - was blamed on the child hitting himself with a rattle.\n\nA child safeguarding review into the circumstances surrounding Finley's death is currently under way\n\nDet Insp Stephen Shaw, who led the police investigation, said: \"Finley Boden died in what should have been the safest place in the world for him - his own home.\n\n\"No verdict or jail sentence will bring Finley back, however, we now know the truth of what happened to him, and justice has been delivered.\"\n\nSuch tragedies almost defy comprehension but it may shock people to learn that the most likely age to be murdered in England and Wales is in the very first year of life.\n\nOn average 20 children under one are the victims of homicide each year. Each death results in an official review of what went wrong and then, as anguish over cases builds, a formal inquiry is launched.\n\nThree such inquiries into children's social care in England reported back last year. All three came to similar conclusions - the system needed a radical overhaul.\n\nTwo months ago, the government responded - agreeing that children's social care did need a \"major reset\".\n\nA consultation document was published by the Department for Education in February entitled 'Stable Homes, Built on Love'. It wrote of the need for phased reform, laying foundations, setting the direction for change, bringing forward new legislation subject to parliamentary time.\n\nCritics noted the £200m investment promised over the next two years is just a fifth of the billion pounds the government-commissioned inquiry into child social care in England had recommended. Some professionals lamented the lengthy timescale for reform.\n\nThere is general agreement that what is needed is effective multi-agency support for vulnerable children and their families. Inquiries have been trying to achieve that for decades.\n\nThis awful case adds to the anguish at society's inability to protect its most defenceless citizens.\n\nSir Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCC, added: \"It is deeply harrowing and difficult to comprehend the suffering that Finley experienced leading up to his death, inflicted by the very people who should have been caring for him and protecting him from harm.\n\n\"The death of a child in such brutal circumstances leaves many of us asking questions and we await the child safeguarding practice review to provide answers as soon as possible.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ownership and management of the house - which has its own orchard and a colony of bats in the attic - is shared by the co-operative members\n\nSet in rural Wales with extensive grounds, a stream and its own woodland, Tony Corden's home could have been worth up to £340,000.\n\nBut he recently sold it for £240,000, knowingly taking a huge financial hit.\n\nAware that his house in Machynlleth could become a \"palatial\" second home for the highest bidder, he opted instead to sell it to his lodgers.\n\n\"Quite a few people said I was crazy,\" grinned Mr Corden.\n\nThe 62-year-old retired psychiatric nurse, who now lives in Spain, said: \"I don't think it's always great to go for the biggest penny, there are other things in life than just making as much money as you can.\"\n\nMr Corden bought the house in the early 2000s after living there as a lodger for several years.\n\nTony Corden asks the co-operative members to leave the house for a few days during El Sueño Existe festival\n\nHis original vision was to use it as a hub for musical and cultural events, including a Latin American music festival, El Sueño Existe, which he founded at the house in 2002.\n\nWhen he decided to sell and move abroad, he wanted the creative and progressive spirit of the house to continue, even if it meant he would be worse off.\n\n\"I had a bunch of really nice lodgers who were established there. They were very keen on the idea of it becoming a housing co-operative.\n\n\"So I thought - let's try it and see how far it gets.\"\n\nJoanna Blyden and Ailsa Hughes live in the house as part of the co-operative\n\nOffering Bryn Tyrnol at a knockdown price allowed his former lodgers to form a housing co-operative to buy it.\n\nIt means they share ownership and management of a house they could not afford as individuals.\n\nThe co-operative organisation Cwmpas helped them to create a financial plan and attract investors before agreeing a 40-year mortgage.\n\nAilsa Hughes, a musician and storyteller who was one of the original members of the Tir Cyffredin co-op, said: \"My income is not high and I never expect it to be, because it's not a priority for me either.\n\n\"I want to be doing meaningful work that I feel I should be doing. And I feel very happy that there is a way that I can get secure housing while doing the work that I love.\"\n\nThere was one key condition in Bryn Tyrnol's sale, though.\n\nOutbuildings at Bryn Tyrnol are being converted for two more residents\n\nFor a few days every summer the residents have to agree to leave the house so Mr Corden can continue using it as the hub of El Sueño Existe festival, which counts former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn among its supporters.\n\nJoanna Blyden joined the co-op in 2021 and had to vacate her room for four days for last year's event.\n\n\"I love festivals and I love camping so I got myself a ticket,\" she said.\n\n\"I met the Chilean family who were staying in my room. They were really lovely and thanked us for hosting them.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nUK Athletics has banned transgender women from competing in the female category in its competitions and events in the United Kingdom.\n\nIt comes after World Athletics announced a ban at international level.\n\nUKA said competitions it licenses would be run under the new World Athletics regulations when they come into effect from midnight on 31 March.\n\nIt added it \"appreciates the efforts\" of World Athletics to \"protect the female category\".\n\nThe governing body - which contributed to the formation of World Athletics' policy - said it had received the \"required assurances\" that the sporting exemption in the Equality Act 2010 applies to the Gender Recognition Act 2004, after previous concerns.\n\nThat exemption states sporting organisations can discriminate on grounds of sex in a \"gender-affected activity\" and discriminate on grounds of gender reassignment where necessary to secure \"fair competition\" or \"the safety of competitors\".\n\nUKA said its position is that athletics should \"remain an inclusive sport\" but it is \"fair\" that athletes who have gone through male puberty should be excluded from the female category.\n\nIn developing its transgender eligibility policy, \"consideration will be given\" to changing the current male category to an open category.\n\nUnder previous rules, World Athletics required transgender women to reduce their amount of blood testosterone to a maximum of five nanomoles per litre, and stay under this threshold continuously for a period of 12 months before competing in the female category.\n\nAs part of its transitional arrangements, UKA said any transgender athlete who had already entered a competition having complied with its 2021 policy, which applied the World Athletics rules at the time, will remain eligible to compete in that specific competition but may not accept any prize or have their results counted.\n\nUKA will also apply World Athletics' regulations for athletes with differences in sex development (DSD).\n\nDSD is a group of rare conditions whereby a person's hormones, genes and/or reproductive organs may be a mix of male and female characteristics. Some of those affected prefer the term \"intersex\".\n\nDSD athletes will be required to reduce their blood testosterone level to below 2.5nmol/l, down from five, and must remain under this threshold for two years in order to compete internationally in the female category in any track and field event.\n\nHowever, UKA said it \"remained concerned about the ethics of coercing individuals to undergo pharmacological intervention purely for sporting purposes\".\n• None Enter the world of the social media personality's multi-level marketing scheme and webcam business\n• None Stealing it was only the beginning...:", "Queen Elizabeth II and Ronald Reagan at a San Francisco banquet in 1983\n\nQueen Elizabeth II faced a potential assassination threat during a 1983 visit to the US, newly released FBI documents show.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a cache of files relating to the late Queen's travels to the US, following her death last year.\n\nThey show how the FBI, which helped secure the monarch's safety during her visits, worried about IRA threats.\n\nThe assassination threat was made to a police officer in San Francisco.\n\nAccording to the file, an officer who frequented an Irish pub in San Francisco warned federal agents about a call from a man he had met at the venue.\n\nThe officer said the man told him he was seeking revenge for his daughter who \"had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet\".\n\nThe threat came on 4 February 1983 - about a month ahead of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip's visit to California.\n\n\"He was going to attempt to harm Queen Elizabeth and would do this either by dropping some object off the Golden Gate Bridge onto the Royal Yacht Britannia when it sails underneath, or would attempt to kill Queen Elizabeth when she visited Yosemite National Park,\" the document says.\n\nIn response to the threat, the Secret Service had planned to \"close the walkways on the Golden Gate Bridge as the yacht nears\". It is unclear what measures were taken at Yosemite, but the visit went ahead. No details of arrests were published by the FBI.\n\nThe 102-page cache was uploaded to the Vault, the FBI's information website, on Monday, following a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by US media outlets.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip spoke with National Park rangers during the visit to Yosemite\n\nMany of the late Queen's state visits to the US, including the 1983 visit to the West Coast, came during heightened tensions amid the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 1976, the late Queen was in New York City for America's Bicentennial celebrations.\n\nThe documents reveal how a summons was issued to a pilot for flying a small plane over Battery Park with a sign that read \"England, Get out of Ireland.\"\n\nThe files show how the FBI remained vigilant to what it considered to be the real potential of threats to the late Queen.\n\nHer second cousin Lord Mountbatten was killed in an IRA bombing off the coast of County Sligo, Republic of Ireland, in 1979.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When an American broke protocol, and amused Her Majesty\n\nAhead of a personal visit by the late Queen to Kentucky in 1989, an internal FBI memo read \"the possibility of threats against the British Monarchy is ever-present from the Irish Republican Army (IRA)\".\n\nIt continued that \"Boston and New York are requested to remain alert for any threats against Queen Elizabeth II on the part of IRA members and immediately furnish same to Louisville,\" in Kentucky.\n\nThe late Queen, who owned racehorses, is known to have visited Kentucky several times during her life to enjoy the state's equestrian highlights, including the Kentucky Derby.\n\nOn a state visit in 1991, the late Queen was scheduled to see a Baltimore Orioles baseball game with President George H Bush.\n\nThe FBI warned the Secret Service that \"Irish groups\" were planning protests at the stadium and \"an Irish group had reserved a large block of grandstand tickets\" to the game.\n\nThe bureau told NBC News there might be \"additional records\" that exist besides the ones released this week, but it did not set out a timetable for their publication.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritish Cycling is to ban transgender women from the female category of its competitions following a nine-month review and consultation.\n\nUnder a new participation policy that the governing body said was \"predicated on fairness\", such athletes will compete in an 'open category' with men.\n\nFemale races will be \"for those whose sex was assigned female at birth\".\n\nThe changes will prevent riders such as Emily Bridges potentially being part of the British women's team.\n\nLast year Bridges - the country's highest-profile transgender cyclist - was stopped from competing in her first elite women's race by the UCI, cycling's world federation, despite meeting the rules at the time.\n\nBridges reacted to the announcement with a statement on social media, calling the change a \"violent act\" by a \"failed organisation\" that was \"controlling\" the conversation on transgender inclusion.\n\nShe added that the racing scene was \"dying under its watch\" and that British Cycling was engaged in \"culture wars\".\n\nBritish Cycling's policy had allowed transgender women to take part in elite female events if they met testosterone-based regulations.\n\nBut with the governing body at the heart of the debate over balancing inclusion with fairness, its regulations were suspended amid mounting controversy about Bridges and a review was launched.\n\n\"Research studies indicate that even with the suppression of testosterone, transgender women who transition post-puberty retain a performance advantage,\" said British Cycling.\n\n\"Our aim in creating our policies has always been to advance and promote equality, diversity and inclusion, while at the same time prioritising fairness of competition.\n\n\"We recognise the impact the suspension of our policy has had on trans and non-binary people, and we are sorry for the uncertainty and upset that many have felt during this period.\"\n\nTransgender women will be able to participate in non-competitive recreational and community cycling without restriction.\n\nThe new policies will be implemented by the end of the year.\n\n'You have no right to tell me when I am done' - Bridges response\n\nIn her statement, Bridges was critical of the state of British Cycling and its treatment of transgender riders.\n\n\"Cycling is still one of the whitest, straightest sports out there and you couldn't care less,\" she said. \"I agree there needs to be a nuanced policy discussion and continue to conduct research. This hasn't happened.\n\n\"Research isn't being viewed critically, or any discussion about the relevance of the data to specific sports.\n\n\"I've given my body up to science for the last two years, and this data will be out soon.\n\n\"There is actual, relevant data coming soon and discussions need to be had.\"\n\nBridges claimed discussion of the debate is \"inherently political\" and \"framed by the media who are driven through engagement by hate\", saying she was \"terrified to exist\".\n\nShe claimed British Cycling was \"furthering a genocide against us. Bans from sport is how it starts\".\n\nShe added: \"I know a lot of people will think I'm being dramatic, or overplaying how scary things are at the moment. I don't even know if I want to race my bike any more… but you have no right on telling me when I am done.\"\n\nBritish Cycling is not commenting on Bridges' statement.\n\nHaving been a highly promising competitor in junior men's events, Bridges came out as transgender in 2020, starting hormone therapy as part of her gender dysphoria treatment.\n\nShe then became eligible to compete in elite women's events under British Cycling's transgender regulations, which required riders to have had testosterone levels below five nanomoles per litre for a 12-month period prior to competition.\n\nBut days before the 2022 National Omnium Championships, the UCI said Bridges' participation could only be allowed once her eligibility to race in international competitions was confirmed, dashing her hopes of competing for Wales in the Commonwealth Games.\n\nA group of elite female cyclists called on the UCI to \"rescind\" its rules around transgender participation, claiming female athletes in the UK were \"willing to boycott\" events over their \"concerns about fairness in their sport\".\n\nBridges said she felt \"harassed and demonised\" and had \"little clarity\" on her eligibility. She added that she \"does not have any advantage\" over her competitors, and could prove it with data.\n\nWhile British Cycling suspended its rules, the UCI then toughened its regulations, doubling the qualification period to two years and lowering the required testosterone threshold for transgender women riders to 2.5nmol/L.\n\nBut this month, after Austin Killips became the first transgender woman to win a UCI women's stage race at the Tour of the Gila, the world governing body re-opened consultation on the issue, saying it \"hears the voices of female athletes and their concerns about an equal playing field for competitors\".\n\n\"We acknowledge the paucity of research at this time, but can only look at what's available to use,\" said British Cycling chief executive Jon Dutton.\n\n\"I am confident that we have developed policies that both safeguard the fairness of cycle-sport competition, whilst ensuring all riders have opportunities to participate.\n\n\"We have always been very clear that this is a challenge far greater than one sport. We remain committed to listening to our communities, to monitor changes in the scientific and policy landscape, to ensure that sport is inclusive for all.\"\n\nFiona McAnena from Fair Play For Women told BBC Radio 4's World at One she was \"concerned about all the women and girls who need to know that sport will be fair so I think an open category is a great solution because it doesn't negate anyone's identity…[and] the female category can be protected.\"\n\n\"We're finally reverting to fairness. We are going to see it across all sports.\"\n\nHowever Joanna Harper - a sports scientist who studies the effects of transition on transgender athletes, and who is transgender herself - said she was \"disappointed but not surprised\".\n\n\"I don't think it's necessary\" she told BBC Radio 5Live. \"Trans women have been competing in cycling for many years…and although they have achieved some success in the sport, they are under-represented and are not anywhere near taking over the sport.\"\n\nIn March, UK Athletics also banned transgender women from competing in the female category in its competitions and events. There have been similar moves in swimming,triathlon and both codes of rugby.\n\nA number of studies have suggested transgender women retain cardiovascular and strength advantages compared to female athletes, even after taking testosterone-suppressing hormones.\n\nCritics of transgender athletes' participation in some women's sports argue that gives them a disproportionate advantage over their peers and limits opportunities for their rivals.\n\nHowever, others argue there is not enough detailed research in the area, that the science is not clear, and that with very few elite transgender athletes, sport should be more inclusive, with open categories criticised for being discriminatory.\n\nBritish Cycling said its women-only community programme \"will continue to remain open and inclusive for transgender women and non-binary people\" who can \"continue to participate in a broad range of British Cycling activities in line with their gender identities\".\n• None Will they carve a brighter future down under?\n• None Michael Mosley chews over the surprising benefits of these nutrient powerhouses", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least two people have been killed and more than 30 injured in a Russian missile strike on a medical clinic in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, Ukrainian officials say.\n\nTwo boys aged three and six were also among the wounded, regional head Serhiy Lysak said.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as a \"pure atrocity\".\n\nRussian strikes on Ukraine have intensified in recent weeks ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive.\n\nMr Zelensky posted a video of the damaged clinic that showed firefighters at the scene and smoke billowing from the building.\n\n\"Russian terrorists once again confirm their status of fighters against everything humane and honest,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Mr Lysak said the region came under a \"mass attack...with missiles and drones\" on Thursday night.\n\n\"It was a very difficult night. It was loud,\" he said. \"Dnipro has suffered.\"\n\nAt the scene, fire crews were sawing down trees to get a mounted hose closer to the flames which had engulfed the large, three story building.\n\nMeanwhile, amidst the rubble, rescue teams were searching for two missing people.\n\nUkrainian authorities said they shot down 17 missiles and 31 drones launched from Russia overnight.\n\nSeveral drones and missiles hit targets in Dnipro and the eastern city of Kharkiv, including an oil depot.\n\nUkraine's capital, Kyiv, was also targeted and officials said fragments of intercepted drones fell on the roof of a shopping centre, while a house and several cars were damaged.\n\nIn Russia, a blast damaged a residential and office building in the southern city of Krasnodar on Friday morning.\n\nThe region's governor, Veniamin Kondratyev, said it was caused by two Ukrainian drones: \"There is some damage to buildings, but critical infrastructure was not damaged. And most importantly, there were no casualties.\"\n\nRussia's Belgorod region, which was the scene of an unprecedented incursion from Ukrainian territory earlier this week, was also hit overnight. The village of Kozinka was struck more than 130 times, according to its governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.\n\nMr Gladkov said one woman was injured. He said the Grayvoron district, where the incursion took place, was subject to the worst attacks.", "Four out of every 10 pupils have difficulty accessing free period products in UK schools, research shared with BBC News suggests.\n\nGovernment schemes to reduce stigma and improve access have been running for several years - and many schools say these have benefited pupils.\n\nIt says 97% of secondary schools in England have ordered the free products.\n\nBut some teenagers are still feeling upset, angry and embarrassed about dealing with their period at school.\n\nTilly, 16, realised her period had started in the first few minutes of a crucial GCSE exam last year.\n\n\"I was sat there for two hours, leaking, in my own blood, without anything I could do. I was so uncomfortable I just couldn't concentrate,\" she said.\n\nShe and other pupils had been told tampons and pads would be available in the toilets.\n\nBut when she could not find any, Tilly spent the next two hours panicking and unable to concentrate on her exam paper, as she leaked on to her chair.\n\nAs the other pupils filed out of the exam hall, Tilly waited behind, too upset to leave, then went home early as she could not face staying at school.\n\n\"I broke down to my head of year - and he didn't give me any support,\" she says. \"He told me to be more discreet about it.\"\n\nTilly's school, in Cardiff, said it could not comment on the incident but the accessibility of products in the school had improved in the past year.\n\nNow in Year 11, Tilly runs a Love Your Period campaign with her sister Molly\n\nPeriod-product schemes are in place across the four UK nations.\n\nThe Welsh government wants to achieve \"period dignity\" by 2027, improving access to products and reducing stigma.\n\nEarlier this year, it committed to ensuring free period products were available at every school and college in the country.\n\n\"Guidance issued to schools states period products should be easily accessible in toilets, in a basket or free to use dispenser,\" an official said.\n\nThe Scottish government made history in 2018 by becoming the first in the world to make period products free to school, college and university students.\n\nIn England, the Period Products Scheme has been in place since 2020. And the government says its funding will continue until at least July 2024.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland, Department for Education funding to provide period products in schools has been cut by 40%.\n\nIn some schools and colleges, the Period Products Scheme is working well.\n\nAt Harlow College, in Essex, a tote bag filled with pads and tampons hangs on the back of unisex toilet cubicle doors.\n\nGill Atkinson, from the college's wellbeing and safeguarding team, says access to products has not only removed stigma and shame around periods, it has also helped improve attendance.\n\nThe college has spent its allocated £7,000 on products this year and is hopeful funding will continue.\n\n\"I don't think the college would be able to fund it themselves,\" Gill says.\n\nAs well as providing free tampons and sanitary pads, Gill's team distributes other products, including period underwear, which she says are increasingly popular\n\nStaff at Portland College, in Mansfield, Notts, a residential college for young disabled people, say the Period Products Scheme has helped their students to feel comfortable talking about periods.\n\nSpeech-and-language therapist Amy Smith-Patrick says some pupils need support to use the period products, so it would not be appropriate to leave pads in toilets for students to help themselves to.\n\nOthers are non-verbal, so used to struggle to know how to ask for the products they needed.\n\nNow, students on their period can hand in a slip at reception or in class, in exchange for products - removing communication barriers and embarrassment.\n\nPeriod underwear has been a \"real positive\" for students with autism, Amy adds, as it can be more comfortable for those with sensory-processing difficulties.\n\nIn some situations, it can be hard to cater for everybody's needs.\n\nMinnie, 13, from Sheffield, tells BBC News she feels \"very embarrassed\" she has to go to a staff office on the top floor of school if she needs products - and it would be better to have them in cubicles.\n\nBut the head teacher at Minnie's school, who BBC News has decided not to identify, says if pupils have to ask for products, staff can discreetly keep track of which students might need additional support.\n\nMinnie says the security cameras covering the sink area in school bathrooms also make her feel uncomfortable.\n\nBut the head teacher says these are for pupils' safety.\n\nHarlow College buys in eco-friendly period products, using funds from England's scheme\n\nIrise International chief executive Emily Wilson says while England's scheme is an \"amazing\" policy commitment, \"we've got to get it working in schools, so that when a young person needs a product it's there, available, ideally in the toilets, in a shame-free way\".\n\nEmily Wilson's charity is preparing for a parade in Westminster on Sunday\n\nPHS Group supplies schools with products in England and Wales and works independently of government.\n\nInterim findings from its 2023 Period Equality White Paper suggest students are missing school or college because period products are unavailable or too expensive.\n\nOf the 546 13-18-year-olds surveyed who had missed school because of their period:\n\n\"Our initial results show progress has been made since the pandemic but the cost-of-living crisis is having an effect,\" head of commercial Clare Hughes says.\n\n\"It's clear many learners are relying on free period products they're accessing at school - and for the next year we will work with governments and local authorities to highlight these issues.\"\n\nA Department for Education official said: \"Since the launch of our free period-products scheme, in January 2020, 97% of secondary schools and 92% of post-16 organisations in England have ordered free period products for pupils - and we're encouraging more primary schools to sign up.\n\n\"School leaders and teachers know their pupils best and our guidance provides advice and support on ways to promote the scheme to pupils that avoids embarrassment or stigma.\n\n\"It also encourages schools to involve pupils in deciding which period products are ordered.\"\n\nHave you had difficulty accessing free period products in school? Please share your experiences by emailing HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC News journalist. You can also make contact in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page but cannot see the form, to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or email HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location.", "Brothers Maksym (left) and Ivan (right) signed up to fight for Ukraine together after Russia launched its full-scale invasion\n\nMaksym had been fighting for 200 hours without a break when he was killed by a Russian sniper in the city of Bakhmut.\n\n\"For eight days he did not eat, or sleep,\" his mother Lilia says. \"He couldn't even close his eyes for five minutes because the sniper could shoot.\"\n\nThere's a reason why she now calls Bakhmut \"hell\". It's the city that took the life of one son and left her only other child seriously injured.\n\nHer one scant comfort - that one died saving the life of the other.\n\nMaksym and Ivan volunteered to fight when Russia invaded Ukraine last year. At the time Maksym was 22 years old and Ivan just 18.\n\nIvan, the younger brother who still carries the scars, says they were inseparable. \"He was always with me and I with him. For me, he was the dearest person.\"\n\nIvan shows me videos and photos of them together - in a trench, in a military vehicle, trying to get some rest.\n\nAs time passes, you see two smiling, handsome young men change, gradually appearing wearier as war strips away their innocence.\n\nThe two brothers were inseparable - fighting and resting together at the front\n\nTheir last moments together were spent engaged in brutal house-to-house fighting in Bakhmut. \"It was impossible to sleep there. We were being attacked 24/7,\" Ivan says.\n\nThe brothers' unit was trapped in a windowless room of a building. They'd had to punch through walls to make firing positions. That's when they received an order to pull back.\n\nIvan recalls the moment before he was wounded. \"I remember I was reloading; I came out from behind a wall and there was a flash. I was paralysed and I fell.\"\n\nHe says he then felt the warmth of the blood flowing from his injuries to his face. He didn't think he'd survive. \"I thought I was done; I'll bleed out and that'll be it.\"\n\nBut Maksym came running to his rescue and dragged him back inside a building for cover.\n\n\"He revived me, took out my broken teeth and began to give me first aid,\" says Ivan. That included piercing a hole in Ivan's throat to prevent him from choking.\n\nIvan shares a video of his brother tenderly wiping the blood away soon after the explosion. Another widely shared clip shows Ivan struggling to walk with a gaping wound to his face, but still clutching his Ukrainian flag: a symbol of bravery and resistance in the battle for Bakhmut.\n\nIvan has no doubts that he would have died if it weren't for Maksym's actions. \"My brother didn't let me die. He saved me.\"\n\nIvan (seen here recovering in hospital) had a hole cut in his throat by his brother to help him keep breathing\n\nMaksym urgently called on the radio for help. But the first medics that tried to reach him were all killed in their vehicle when it was struck by a Russian anti-tank missile. It took another nine hours before Ivan could be rescued.\n\nAnd then came Maksym's extraordinary act of self-sacrifice. Rather than travel with his brother to safety, he volunteered to stay in Bakhmut, to lead their unit.\n\nStill fighting there a week later, Maksym was killed by a Russian sniper.\n\nIn Ukraine the funerals of soldiers are now as constant as the sound of artillery on the front line. But they're not all like Maksym's. Alongside his grieving family, the entire town of Tomakivka had come out to pay their respects.\n\nThey knelt as the funeral procession made its way to the cemetery - some clasping flowers or Ukraine's flag. The prayers and sombre music accompanied by tears and sobbing.\n\nSerhii (left) and Lilia were supported by the entire town at their older son's funeral\n\nFor the past year, Maksym and Ivan's parents had been living their sons' battles vicariously. Lilia and Serhii were having sleepless nights too - waiting anxiously to hear from their boys. They'd often receive a short text to reassure them, says Lilia - \"We're good, mum.\"\n\nBut then came the news they'd been dreading.\n\nLilia weeps over Maksym's coffin before it's finally lowered into the ground - accompanied by a volley of gunfire. \"We still can't believe it. My soul is torn,\" Lilia tells me after the funeral. She says her only reason to continue living is for her younger son.\n\nShe tells me Maksym had the chance to leave with Ivan, but he would not abandon their younger, less experienced comrades.\n\n\"He's a hero. He's an angel. He's sunshine. He would never leave his brother even though he knew he would die himself.\"\n\nUkraine won't say how many lives have been lost in this war. But look around the cemetery and you soon realise the entire country is paying an extremely heavy price.\n\nMy brother gave his life for our freedom. Unfortunately, freedom comes with blood\n\nAt this one small graveyard, in this one small town, there are rows and rows of freshly dug graves surrounded by flowers. Maksym's was one of three soldiers' funerals the local priest was conducting that week.\n\nFor Roman, who was once himself a soldier before taking holy orders, it was harder than most. He is a family friend and prayed with Maksym and Ivan's parents for the safe return of their boys, whom he knew.\n\n\"You often have to bury soldiers,\" said Roman. \"But not your friends.\"\n\nAt the funeral, Ivan is still clutching the Ukrainian flag which he carried when wounded - signed by his comrades including his brother. The blood from his own wounds staining the blue and yellow cloth.\n\nI ask him if he now regrets his decision to join the army. He replies: \"We understood that we might not return, but it's an honour to fight for Ukraine. That's why I don't regret it in any way.\n\n\"My brother gave his life for our freedom. Unfortunately, freedom comes with blood.\"", "Harvey Evans, 15, and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, died in a bike crash on Monday\n\nA police watchdog has appealed for witnesses who saw the moments before a fatal crash involving two boys in Ely.\n\nThe crash sparked a riot in the Cardiff suburb on Monday leading to nine arrests and 15 officers being injured.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had already carried out \"extensive\" house-to-house enquiries in the local area.\n\nThe IOPC also said its investigation would be impartial and independent of the South Wales Police force.\n\nThe exact circumstances of the deaths of Kyrees Sullivan,16, and Harvey Evans,15, have not been established.\n\nReports on social media suggested the police were chasing the pair, who were riding together on an electric bike shortly before the collision.\n\nCCTV footage later released showed a police van following the boys minutes before they died on Snowden Road at 18:00 BST.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police confirmed its officers had been following the teenagers prior to their deaths, but refused to answer further questions about it, citing an ongoing IOPC investigation.\n\nA riot broke out in the Cardiff suburb shortly after the boys died in a collision\n\nSo far, CCTV is being gathered and the investigating officers are reviewing initial accounts from the police officers involved.\n\nThey will also investigate:\n\nDirector of the IOPC David Ford said: \"Our investigators have been conducting enquiries and securing evidence in the immediate vicinity of where the events took place, speaking to local residents, distributing leaflets and gathering as much relevant information as possible.\n\n\"I am truly grateful for the co-operation and assistance we have received from people within the local community.\n\n\"We would welcome anyone we haven't yet spoken to yet, who believes they have footage or witnessed anything relevant between 5.35pm and 6.10pm on Monday, to come forward to us.\n\nCars were set on fire on Monday evening\n\n\"We are working hard to establish the exact circumstances of what took place in the period leading up to the collision.\n\n\"I would like to reassure everyone in the community that our work will be thorough, impartial, and independent of the police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two machine guns, two pistols and nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition have been lost by UK armed forces over the past two years.\n\nMeanwhile, two SA80 Cadet PP Rifles were stolen in 2021.\n\nThe figures, first reported by the Daily Mirror, also showed 258 laptops had been lost or stolen from the Ministry of Defence (MoD).\n\nThe MoD said it had \"robust procedures to deter and prevent losses and thefts\".\n\nThe figures, released after a Freedom of Information request, revealed two general-purpose machine guns (GPMGs), one Glock 43X Pistol, one Glock 17 Pistol and one deactivated AK47 Rifle, were lost by the department in 2021 and 2022.\n\nSome 76 computers and 124 USBs were also lost or stolen over the two-year period.\n\nThe MoD said the lost AK47 Rifle and stolen SA80 Cadet PP Rifles were deactivated and could not be reconverted into lethal weapons.\n\nIt said most ammunition was lost accidentally during exercises or operations.\n\nThe department added that all laptops, tablet computers and USBs were encrypted to minimise the impact of any losses.\n\nLabour's shadow defence secretary John Healey said: \"The first duty of any government is to keep people safe, so ministers have serious questions to answer on how these weapons, electronics and ammunition have gone missing from MoD bases, and who's got them now.\n\n\"At a time when external threats are rising, ministers must sort out security inside the MoD to ensure UK equipment doesn't fall into the wrong hands.\"\n\nAn MoD spokeswoman said: \"We take the security of defence assets very seriously and have robust procedures to deter and prevent losses and thefts. In some cases of reported theft, the property is later recovered.\n\n\"If any items are reported lost or missing due to suspected criminal activity, we will take the necessary steps to investigate and prosecute.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nWBC world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury says he wants to fight fellow Briton Anthony Joshua at Wembley in September and has sent him a contract.\n\nFury, 34, has not fought since stopping Derek Chisora in the 10th round at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in December.\n\nA fight with Oleksandr Usyk, the IBF, IBO, WBO and WBA champion, was expected to happen in 2023 but fell through.\n\n\"A few days ago I sent a draft contract to Anthony Joshua for a fight in September at Wembley,\" Fury wrote.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, Briton Fury added: \"It's a fight everyone wants to see, including myself.\n\n\"Come on AJ let's give the world what they want to see. This time I'm not going to make a million videos and keep putting pressure on. The ball is now on your side.\"\n\nA fight between Fury and two-time world champion Joshua, 33, has long been talked about, but never materialised.\n\nFury set a deadline in September, which was not met, and said at the time: \"It's officially over for Joshua. He is now out in the cold with the wolfpack.\n\n\"Forget about it. Always knew you didn't have the minerals to fight the 'Gypsy King'.\"\n\nUnbeaten Fury fought Chisora instead and afterwards faced-off with Usyk, who had been ringside, with a bout between the two lined up for Wembley on 29 April.\n\nHowever, Fury's promoter Frank Warren said in March that fight was off - and he \"did not think\" it would happen in the near future.\n\nUsyk, also unbeaten with 20 wins from 20 fights, had agreed a 70/30 purse split in Fury's favour with terms for a rematch the only outstanding issue.\n\nJoshua has twice lost to the 36-year-old Usyk, but then said Fury could \"redeem himself from the circus\" by agreeing to fight him.\n\n\"There's no better time to get Fury in the ring than now because he needs me to redeem himself from this circus, this let-down,\" said Joshua.\n\n\"He needs me so there's no better time than for him to call my name out and I'm someone that will take on any challenge.\"\n\nFury has 33 wins and one draw from 34 bouts, while Joshua - who beat American Jermaine Franklin on points in London in April - has 25 wins and three defeats in his 28-fight professional career after winning Olympic gold as an amateur in 2012.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The crowd released the blue balloons in memory of the two teen boys\n\nA vigil has taken place in memory of two teenagers who were killed in an e-bike crash in Cardiff.\n\nThe deaths of Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, sparked a riot in the city's Ely suburb but the circumstances behind the accident remain unclear.\n\nAt least 800 people gathered in Snowden Road - the scene of the crash - by early evening on Friday.\n\nBlue balloons were brought as requested by the family.\n\nThe family asked for police not to be present.\n\nKyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died in a bike crash on Monday\n\nBlue and orange flares were set off and hundreds of balloons were released into the sky.\n\nA minute's silence was followed by applause and fireworks were also let off.\n\nBlue flares were set off into the sky at the vigil\n\nA mostly young crowd of people, many wearing blue and white clothing, began to arrive at 17:45 BST on Friday.\n\nBy 19:00 the large crowd started to leave the area.\n\nFollowing the vigil, Harvey Evans's great-uncle, John O'Driscoll, said he accepted Monday's riot was wrong but said it was borne of frustration.\n\nMr O'Driscoll said: \"They were just young boys. Everyone rides bikes and scooters around here.\n\n\"Yes, we find them annoying, but that's just what they do.\n\n\"But as soon as those coppers saw they had no helmets they should've stopped.\"\n\nAt least 800 people gathered to pay tribute to the boys\n\nA male member of Harvey's family, who did not want to be named, said: \"We're all tarred with the same brush here, especially given what happened on Monday.\n\n\"But this is the true Ely. Look how many people have turned out to pay their respects.\n\n\"The only difference between Monday and today is that the police aren't here.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, First Minister Mark Drakeford held a meeting with community representatives in Ely at lunchtime on Friday.\n\nThe Welsh government said the meeting would discuss support for the community.\n\nMr Drakeford, alongside Social Justice Minister Jane Hutt, chaired the meeting between politicians, agencies, and community groups.\n\nA banner, balloons and flowers were attached to a fence in their memory\n\nFifteen officers were injured during the unrest which has led to nine arrests.\n\nIt saw up to 150 people gather. Rioters threw fireworks at police and set cars alight.\n\nThe aftermath was described as a \"warzone\" by a BBC reporter at the scene.\n\nTheir deaths sparked a riot in the Ely suburb of Cardiff\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had already carried out \"extensive\" house-to-house inquiries in Ely.\n\nThe IOPC also said its investigation would be impartial and independent of the South Wales Police force.\n\nReports on social media suggested the police were chasing the pair, who were riding together on an electric bike shortly before the collision.\n\nCCTV footage later released showed a police van following the boys minutes before they died on Snowden Road at 18:00 BST.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Bacon said she wanted to be \"transparent and open\"\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police confirmed its officers had been following the teenagers prior to their deaths, but refused to answer further questions about it, citing an ongoing IOPC investigation.\n\nCCTV is being gathered and the investigating officers are reviewing initial accounts from the police officers involved.", "Video filmed on a phone shows the moment a driver in Spain lost control of their car before getting caught in floodwaters.\n\nIt happened after the driver tried to cross an inundated road in Molina de Segura on the south coast.\n\nThe country has been hit by heavy rains after a prolonged drought.\n\nSpain's state weather agency AEMET had been on track to register the driest spring since records began in 1961.\n\nOther videos of the incident on social media appear to show that the driver was unharmed.", "The seaweed, pebbles and sand make Pwllheli look like an aquatic mammal\n\nThis photo of Pwllheli harbour looks so much like a dolphin you might think it was built on porpoise.\n\nThe aerial snap was taken in Gwynedd by Rhys Jones at the start of the month. He shared it on a Facebook forum called Pwllheli Drone Photos.\n\n\"I've been up several times above the marina but it's the first time I've noticed this,\" said the photographer.\n\n\"It was an amazing discovery. Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it.\"\n\nThere is a pod of about 300 bottlenose dolphins in Cardigan Bay.\n\nPerhaps the harbour wants to join them.", "HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk in Asia in 1941\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has condemned the \"desecration\" of maritime military graves after reports scavengers had targeted two World War Two wrecks.\n\nA vessel, thought to be Chinese, has been seen at the site the British ships were sunk, off the coast of Malaysia.\n\nSome 842 British sailors died when HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were torpedoed by Japanese aircraft.\n\nThe attack on 10 December 1941 is seen as one of the worst disasters in British naval history.\n\nIt took place just three days after the attacks on the US fleet in Pearl Harbour, and two days after Japan invaded South East Asia.\n\nThe Prince of Wales was one of the Royal Navy's most important battleships but it, and the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, had been sent to sea without any aircraft to protect them.\n\nThe ships are resting on the bed of the South China Sea, 60 miles (100km) off the east coast of Malaysia.\n\nA Malaysian diver, Hazz Zain, told the New Straits Times newspaper this week local fishermen had spotted a salvage vessel at the location of the shipwrecks last month and shared photographs with her.\n\nThe \"grab dredger\" seen in pictures supplied to Ms Zain has two large cranes mounted on it and is said to be equipped with metal cutters that can be lowered to the sea floor to shear off and lift sections of steel and aluminium.\n\nMs Zain told the paper she had alerted both the Malaysian authorities and the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur about the activities of the dredger.\n\nA spokesperson for the UK Ministry of Defence in London said: \"We strongly condemn any desecration of any maritime military grave.\"\n\nThey added: \"Where we have evidence of desecration of the wrecks of Royal Navy vessels, we will take appropriate action, including working with regional governments and partners to prevent inappropriate activity at such sites.\"\n\nThe New Straits Times newspaper reported the dredger was the Chinese registered Chuan Hong 68.\n\nIt said the vessel had unloaded items recovered from HMS Prince of Wales, including a cannon and old artillery shells, at a private jetty in Malaysia. Police had seized some of the pieces and were now investigating.\n\nIn 2017 Ms Zain met the then Prince Charles when he visited Malaysia and showed him video and still pictures showing how the wreckage of HMS Prince of Wales had already been damaged by scavengers.\n\nFollowing that the then UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said the UK would work with governments in Malaysia and Indonesia to investigate claims that up to six British warships had been plundered.\n\nThe then Prince Charles visited the Taiping Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery during his 2017 trip to Malaysia\n\nProf Dominic Tweddle, director general of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, this week said: \"We are distressed and concerned at the apparent vandalism for personal profit of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse. They are designated war graves.\"\n\nThe museum said Winston Churchill had, in his memoirs written after the war, recalled the moment he was informed about the sinking of the British ships and the significance of the setback to the allies.\n\n\"In all the war, I never received a more direct shock,\" he said.\n\n\"As I turned over and twisted in bed the full horror of the news sank in upon me.\n\n\"There were no British or American ships in the Indian Ocean or the Pacific except the American survivors of Pearl Harbour, who were hastening back to California. Across this vast expanse of waters, Japan was supreme, and we everywhere were weak and naked.\"", "Harvey's aunt and grandmother described him as cheeky but loveable\n\nThe electric bike ridden by two teenagers before they were killed in a crash was an early 16th birthday present, family members have revealed.\n\nThe aunt of Harvey Evans, 15, said the teen loved e-bikes and scooters and the present had been bought for his birthday next month.\n\nHarvey and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, died on Monday evening in Ely, Cardiff.\n\nThe deaths sparked a riot, with cars set alight and police officers attacked.\n\nAbout 800 family, friends and members of the wider community of Ely attended a vigil and balloon release for the two boys on Friday evening.\n\nKyrees Sullivan, 16, (l) and Harvey Evans, 15, died in a bike crash on Monday\n\nSpeaking for this first time since the crash, Harvey's aunt Hayley Murphy told the BBC after the vigil: \"It still doesn't seem real that we're here for Harvey and Kyrees.\n\n\"We're seeing all these news articles, and then his picture pops up, and you're like, oh yeah, that's my nephew, this has happened to us.\n\n\"This is our family, not someone else's family you see on the telly - it just doesn't seem real, and it just hasn't sunk in yet.\"\n\nHarvey's grandmother, Dawn Rees, said Harvey and Kyrees \"did everything together, they loved each other like brothers\".\n\n\"[Kyrees] was lovely. If I needed milk he went to the shop for me, always asking if I needed anything. A lovely boy.\"\n\nThe friends were killed in a crash while riding the electric bike shortly after 18:00 BST on Monday. Police have said only the bike was involved in the fatal incident.\n\nMs Murphy said that Harvey loved motorbikes and was an experienced rider.\n\n\"His dad used to take him off road biking up the mountains every week since he was three years old.\"\n\nShe also described how angry scenes began to develop in the aftermath of the crash, after a video clip emerged showing police following the boys on the bike.\n\nShe said she was stood with her sister, Harvey's mother, at the police barrier for over two hours while begging officers to let them know if the two boys were alive.\n\n\"We were stood at the barrier and we were begging them, begging them, to tell us if they were alive or dead, and they wouldn't tell us nothing - and then someone ran into the crowd and said 'I've got a video of the police chasing them', and that is what started it.\n\n\"That's what got everyone angry, so I understand because we wasn't getting no answers.\"\n\nMany tributes to the two boys have been left in Ely\n\nSome residents claimed the boys were being chased by officers from South Wales Police, which the force denied.\n\nIt later confirmed it had been following them.\n\nPolice said officers were in a van about half a mile away from the crash on Snowden Road in Ely.\n\nThe force has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over their involvement in the incident.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: CCTV appears to show police following people minutes before crash\n\nNews of the boys' deaths sparked a riot in Ely, an estate on the western side of Cardiff roughly five miles (8km) from the city centre, where more than 100 people threw missiles and fireworks at police and damaged property.\n\nNine people in total have been arrested in connection with the disorder after the police investigation looked at more than 180 pieces of body worn footage. Detectives have said more arrests are expected.\n\nMs Murphy added that she did not have faith or trust in the police.\n\n\"I've got faith and trust in my family and this community that we will continue to fight and get the truth out there and we get justice for these boys.\"", "Finley Boden's injuries included 57 breaks to his bones, 71 bruises and two burns on his left hand\n\nA couple who murdered their 10-month-old son 39 days after he was placed back into their care have been jailed for life.\n\nStephen Boden and partner Shannon Marsden killed Finley Boden, who died on Christmas Day in 2020.\n\nFinley was found to have suffered 130 \"appalling\" injuries.\n\nBoden and Marsden, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, were ordered to serve a minimum of 29 and 27 years respectively at Derby Crown Court on Friday.\n\nSentencing, Judge Amanda Tipples said the pair had subjected their son to \"unimaginable cruelty\".\n\nThere was a single audible gasp from the public gallery, with the defendants hunched in their seats staring forward, as the sentences were passed.\n\nThe court heard the murder was \"savage and prolonged\" with a \"sadistic motivation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nParamedics were called to the couple's \"cluttered\" and filthy terraced home in Holland Road, Old Whittington, in the early hours of Christmas Day after Finley suffered a cardiac arrest.\n\nHe was taken to hospital and later pronounced dead.\n\nFinley's injuries included 57 breaks to his bones, 71 bruises and two burns on his left hand - one \"from a hot, flat surface\", the other probably \"from a cigarette lighter flame\".\n\nThe court heard the fractures to Finley's bones led to him developing infections, including pneumonia and sepsis that ultimately killed him.\n\nStephen Boden and Shannon Marsden were sentenced at Derby Crown Court\n\nToxicology tests showed cannabis was found in Finley's blood, indicating that he must have inhaled smoke in the 24 hours before his death.\n\nThe court heard Boden, 30, and Marsden, 22, who were convicted of murder following a trial, worked together to keep professionals away from Finley to protect each other and cover up serious violence.\n\nThis included cancelling a health visitor appointment two days before he died and telling social services when they arrived unannounced that Finley may have Covid-19 and refusing to let them in.\n\nThe judge said they were \"both persuasive and accomplished liars\" who denied Finley medical care that would have saved his life.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of these issues, you can visit the BBC Action Line.\n\nShe said Finley had 46 rib fractures and 12 other bone fractures, including to his pelvis, both legs and right arm, which were inflicted between 4 and 22 December.\n\nThey required \"considerable force\" to inflict and meant he could not breathe properly, the court heard.\n\nFrom then, Finley's daily experience was \"one of considerable pain, distress and suffering\".\n\n\"He was no longer able to sit up and play with his toys. He was unable to feed himself,\" the judge said.\n\nA child safeguarding review into the circumstances surrounding Finley's death is currently under way\n\nBoden and Marsden, the court heard, used Covid as a \"perfect excuse\" to keep social workers and family from seeing Finley.\n\nThe judge said his multiple injuries could only have been inflicted \"by two people acting together\".\n\nShe added: \"No-one heard Finley cry or scream in pain because you inflicted the injuries on him together, with one of you fracturing his bones and the other keeping him quiet with your hand over his mouth.\"\n\nPolice described the conditions Finley was living in as \"filthy\"\n\nProsecutor Mary Prior KC said Finley's injuries prevented him from eating, causing him to lose significant amounts of weight.\n\nMrs Prior said Finley was made to sleep in bedding stained with blood and vomit.\n\n\"The defendants knew they were causing serious harm [to Finley] and persisted with it - they were indifferent to it,\" she added.\n\nShe read victim impact statements from the defendants' relatives, which said Finley was a \"happy, chuckling baby\" who was \"callously abused\".\n\n\"When Finley died, part of us died as well,\" they said.\n\nMrs Prior said the defendants had \"no ability\" to \"provide any account as to what they did or why they did it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking on the steps of the court following the sentencing, Det Insp Steve Shaw, of Derbyshire Police, said: \"We have seen a mother and father jailed for what is quite simply an incomprehensible crime.\n\n\"They knew that they were responsible for those injuries, and instead of doing the right thing and taking Finley to get urgent medical care, they took him shopping in Chesterfield town centre as though nothing was wrong.\n\n\"Boden and Marsden, from the moment Finley returned to their care, throughout the trial, after conviction and even at sentence, have never taken responsibility for their actions.\"\n\nPolice said the pair took Finley shopping in Chesterfield town centre the day before he died, despite the child requiring urgent medical care\n\nA child safeguarding review into the circumstances around Finley's death is currently under way.\n\nAfter Finley was born on 15 February 2020, social workers had decided to remove him from his parents as the local authority, Derbyshire County Council, believed he was likely to suffer \"significant harm\" at home.\n\nOver the next six months, Boden and Marsden lied to social workers to persuade them they had made positive changes, helped by Covid restrictions that limited physical interactions.\n\nFinley was returned to their care after a family court hearing on 1 October, the papers of which were released after a media application to the High Court.\n\nIn the papers, the local authority said Finley should return gradually through a transition plan over about four months.\n\nA photo of Finley's clean and tidy bedroom, submitted to social workers by Shannon Marsden, before he was returned\n\nA guardian appointed to represent Finley's best interests, Amanda O'Rourke, submitted a report to the hearing, which was held over the phone due to the pandemic.\n\nShe had only been able to see him once, via a WhatsApp video call while he was with his carers.\n\nFinley was a \"smiler\", she wrote in her report, who liked to \"blow raspberry's\" (sic).\n\nShe accepted the squalor, drug use and domestic violence in the parents' past and her report said she agreed in principle with the transition plan, but said it should take place much faster, given the parents had \"clearly made and sustained positive changes\".\n\nMs O'Rourke's report said Finley should go back to their care \"within a six to eight-week period\".\n\nMarsden and Boden were hunched in their seats as their sentences were passed\n\nThe final decision was made by two magistrates assisted by a legal adviser - this is because magistrates are not legal experts.\n\nIn their judgment, they supported the guardian's view that an eight-week transition was a \"reasonable and proportionate\" length of time.\n\nThere is no suggestion that the magistrates made a mistake in law.\n\nA statement from Cafcass - the independent Children and Families Court Advisory Service that employed the guardian - said: \"It is not possible to say whether a longer transition plan would have prevented Finley's death.\"\n\nA Derbyshire County Council spokesperson said: \"We remain fully engaged with the independent Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review - a statutory legal process commissioned by the Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership to look in depth at the role of all agencies following Finley's death.\"\n\nThe council said the review would conclude later in 2023.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Aderrien's mother said she told him to call police because she was concerned by the behaviour of the father of another of her children.\n\nAn 11-year-old boy who was shot by an officer after calling police for help has been released from hospital, his family says.\n\nMississippi police arrived at Aderrien Murry's home on Saturday responding to a domestic disturbance call placed by the boy, then shot him in the chest, according to his mother.\n\nShe said the boy asked her \"what did I do?\" after being shot.\n\nThe officer involved has been placed on leave as the shooting is investigated.\n\nThe Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is conducting a probe into the incident.\n\nThe boy is recovering at home after being released from a local hospital, where he was treated for a collapsed lung, fractured ribs and a lacerated liver.\n\nHis mother, Nakala Murry, has asked for the officer to be fired and charged.\n\nAt a press conference on Monday outside Indianola City Hall, she said the father of another of her children had shown up at their house early on Saturday morning and was acting \"irate\", prompting her to instruct her son to call the police.\n\nWhen the Indianola officer arrived, Ms Murry later told CNN, he \"had his gun drawn at the front door\" and asked everyone inside to exit.\n\nAs her son turned the corner of the hallway, the officer opened fire, striking Aderrien in the chest, she said.\n\n\"His words were: 'Why did he shoot me? What did I do?' and he started crying,\" Ms Murry said. \"This cannot keep happening. This is not OK.\"\n\nShe said she had covered her son's wound with her hand and applied pressure, blood pooling beneath her palm. The officer also assisted her in rendering aid, she said, until medics arrived.\n\nAderrien was rushed to the University of Mississippi Medical Centre, where he was given a chest tube and placed on a ventilator.\n\nMs Murry and her family's lawyer, Carlos Moore, have called on officials to take further action. Mr Moore said the officer has been placed on paid administrative leave.\n\n\"What are you waiting on? Someone to actually die?\" Mr Moore said during the Monday press conference.\n\nAccording to him, the officer allegedly involved had been named the department's \"best officer\".\n\n\"If he's your best, Indianola, you need a clean house from top to bottom,\" he said.\n\nAt a sit-in protest outside City Hall on Thursday, Ms Murry, Mr Moore and about a dozen protesters said they were \"demanding justice\".\n\nAt a rally planned for Saturday, the group will demand the firing of the officer and the release of body-camera footage from the incident.\n\nPolice have so far denied the footage request due to the ongoing investigation, according to Mr Moore.\n\nThe Indianola Police Department told BBC News it is not currently commenting on the case.\n\nOver the weekend, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said it is \"currently assessing this critical incident and gathering evidence\", and will submit its findings to the state attorney general's office.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 19 and 26 May.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\n\"Enjoying a late evening spring walk with my Border Terrier, Chibs in Bellwood,\" says Christie Beverley.\n\nLoreena Price from Mintlaw in Aberdeenshire said: \"This Highland cow calf looked so cute like a cuddly teddy\".\n\nGordon McKenzie from St Fergus in Aberdeenshire captured this striking image of Rattray Head Lighthouse while on an early morning walk.\n\n\"Every May, Clachan Bridge comes alive with the very rare Fairy Foxglove,\" said Colin Mackie who sent in this photo. \"It's one of the few places in the country where it's known to grow. Clachan Bridge links Seil Island to the mainland, spanning Seil Sound, hence its well-used name 'the bridge over the Atlantic'. This year is probably the best show of colour I've ever seen on my favourite bridge.\"\n\nThe sunset looking towards Jura, captured by Aileen Gillies in Ormsary in Argyll.\n\nBluebells in bloom: Kevin Carr spotted these bluebells in full bloom in Kinclaven, Perth.\n\n\"You know summer is approaching when you find large red damselflies resting beside the pond,\" said Paul Fraser from Callander.\n\nRainbow reflections over a gothic-looking Glasgow were snapped by Your pictures of Scotland regular John Dyer.\n\nMore rainbows, this time from Mark Donald who spotted this double delight above Arbroath Harbour.\n\nAnd one more... Barry Manson snapped this photo of his French Bulldog, named Rainbow, enjoying a walk to the Antonine Wall. Her sister looks on eagerly in the background.\n\nA “hazy and grey day at the beach in North Berwick” captured by Jennifer Baff.\n\nLisa Warren captured this lovely image of a young lamb, as the sun went down in Aberdeen.\n\n\"A buzzard goes where a buzzard shouldn't go,\" said Arthur Allan who took this photo of one mingling with some gulls in Dunfermline.\n\n\"This beauty was captured at Laggan Glen in the Cairngorms,\" said Sarah Baldwin. \"We were lucky enough to catch a huge herd of stags at feeding time and this beauty was about to enter the forest.\"\n\nAn accidental photobomb: \"I recently took this when my partner and I stayed over at the Sheraton Hotel in Edinburgh,\" said Ryan Hamilton. \"We saw this seagull, unfazed by us, outside the bedroom window with the backdrop of Edinburgh Castle.\"\n\n\"Despite living down the road from Falkland Palace it's taken me two years to visit,\" said Jo Buxton from Perth.\n\nTony Marsh took this photo of a young deer staring back at him in the East Lothian countryside.\n\nPaddleboarders on the River Don near the Brig o' Balgownie were photographed by Alex Mitchell.\n\nAndy Inglis from Dumbarton took this photo of PS Waverley as it passed Dumbarton Rock. It was a \"beautiful sight to see,\" he said.\n\nLucy in Sutherland was lucky enough to witness this golden sunset on Loch Farr.\n\nLunchtime with the locals: \"After a long, long winter, spring has finally sprung in Aberdeenshire,\" says Kim Lees. Her partner, Will, took this photo.\n\n\"Milo Newman, on a mission to soak his last pair of dry trousers in the sea by Sanna Bay near Sunart,\" says his papa Chris McColgan.\n\n\"The sight and smell of the steam engine pulling the Jacobean train from Fort William to Mallaig was quite something,\" said Bruce Clark from Haddington.\n\nMother and baby time: A goose with her gosling on top of the waterfall in Rouken Glen park, photographed by Alex Mitchell.\n\nHitching a ride: Murdo McMellan took this photo at the River Cart.\n\n\"I cycled out from Glasgow to take the ferry over to Dunoon and go to Benmore Botanic Gardens all to try take a snap of one of these wee guys. I think he spotted me,\" said Neil Montgomery who took this picture.\n\nThe beach huts at Findhorn Bay cheered Catherine Kay. She said: \"Yes, it was a grey sky but there is always colour to make us smile.\"\n\nIan Niven was delighted with this close-up shot. He said: \"Whilst on a visit to Anstruther at the weekend, I took the opportunity to take a boat trip to the Isle of May to try and capture some puffin photos.\"\n\nFlock to the show: \"I spotted these colourfully painted sheep grazing in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh,\" said Janina Dolny. \"The sheep have been individually decorated by local artists and have been touring Scotland before they head off to the Royal Highland Show next month.\"\n\nGuillemots in the Firth of Forth, on a bright and hazy morning from Huw Rees Lewis from Edinburgh. In the horizon is the navy supply ship, RFA Fort Victoria.\n\nJane Shipley took this photo of the Lenticular clouds that were visible from parts of the Highlands on Tuesday night. She took this photo at Nigg Bay.\n\nNosey Stoat: \"I thought the opportunity to photograph this stoat had gone as he disappeared behind a dyke at Glen Sherup, when he popped his head up to take a look at me,\" said Richard Paton who sent in this photo.\n\nColourful artwork on the old pavilion walls at Victoria Park community garden, photographed by Liz McIlrath.\n\nFinlay MacKenzie snapped these photos of a herd of deer coming back in from the water at sunset on the shores of Corran, Loch Hourn.\n\n\"It has a look of 'Where did I leave my car?'\" says Jacki Gordon who took this picture of a meerkat at Heads of Ayr Farm Park.\n\nBlue skies at the Forth Road Bridge photographed by Alastair Nunn.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Stormont has been without a functioning executive or assembly since last February\n\nStormont parties have said they will need at least £1bn of extra funding to manage budget pressures in a future executive.\n\nThey were speaking after meeting the head of the civil service to discuss the ongoing governance gap.\n\nThere is no functioning executive or assembly because of the DUP's protest against post-Brexit trade arrangements.\n\nThe party needs to \"get off the fence\" and return to government immediately, Sinn Féin's vice-president has said.\n\nMichelle O'Neill was among party leaders who met Jayne Brady to discuss Northern Ireland's budget crisis and lack of government.\n\nHer party is now the largest party in local government and the assembly having made gains in last week's council elections.\n\nThat result showed voters wanted power sharing to resume, said Ms O'Neill, saying suggestion that the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) might return to power-sharing this autumn was \"not an acceptable timeframe\".\n\nIn an earlier letter to the largest parties, Northern Ireland Civil Service boss Jayne Brady said Northern Ireland's budgetary pressures had been compounded by a \"governance gap\".\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill was joined by party colleague and former Finance Minister Conor Murphy at Stormont Castle\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson described Thursday's meeting as productive, adding he was committed to working with other parties in asking for extra finances from Westminster.\n\n\"Our current funding formula for Northern Ireland doesn't work, what we need is a needs-based approach to our budget,\" he said.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said Northern Ireland's funding model needed to be reformed\n\nStephen Farry from Stormont's third-largest party, the cross-community Alliance party, agreed it was a constructive meeting with parties committing themselves to work towards the restoration of Stormont.\n\nHe said a key aspect of that had to be requesting an extra £1bn from the Westminster government to \"stem the bleeding\" and stabilise public finances.\n\nIt's worth bearing in mind that the £1bn figure now being openly floated is a rough ballpark.\n\nThe parties haven't yet actually agreed on any final ask.\n\nBut Stormont sources say it reflects the scale of what is necessary to cover the £800m shortfall this year, plus outstanding pay deals for public sector workers, not to mention the t-word - transformation of services which already seems to be on the long finger.\n\nUltimately it will be up to the Treasury to agree to a collective ask put forward by the parties.\n\nAnd we are told there are likely to be hefty strings attached.\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie said it was a sombre meeting because of the predicament of Northern Ireland's governance and fiscal position, but he welcomed the \"workman-like\" attitude from all parties.\n\nStormont officials believe they will need to find £800m in cuts and revenue-raising measures in the wake of last month's budget announcement which was set by Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris.\n\nThe task fell to Mr Heaton-Harris in the absence of a functioning Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris, who has denied setting a \"punishment budget\", has warned that government departments face difficult decisions \"in order to live within the funding available\".\n\nThe NI secretary said he was in close contact with parties about doing everything possible to lead to the restoration of the executive.\n\nHowever, speaking after meeting with him on Wednesday, Michelle O'Neill said she didn't believe there was any urgency on his part.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris has refused to be drawn on a claim a restored Northern Ireland Executive needs an extra £1.1bn.\n\nHowever, he said he was \"very pleased to hear the parties are talking about the future\".\n\nHe also said Ms O'Neill was \"completely wrong\" to claim he was showing no urgency to get devolved government restored.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Heaton-Harris State met with the joint secretaries of the health trade unions to discuss the Northern Ireland budget for this financial year and the impact on the health service.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris has been accused of having \"no urgency\" on restoring Stormont\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office (NIO) said he also offered clarity on the pay offer that was made to health workers in England and Wales earlier this month.\n\n\"Ultimately this is a matter for the trade unions and the Department of Health in Northern Ireland,\" a NIO spokesperson said.\n\n\"The Secretary of State has no authority to negotiate pay in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Stable and accountable local government is the best way of delivering on the issues that matter most to the people of Northern Ireland, such as the health service.\n\n\"That is why the government's focus remains on restoring the Executive.\"\n\nOn Thursday, it was announced that a shortage of consultants at Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry means delivering inpatient care in general medicine is no longer sustainable.\n\nThe Southern Health Trust said it was working with other trusts in Northern Ireland and the Department of Health \"to help us through this situation\".\n\nIn her letter to Sinn Féin, the DUP, the Alliance Party and the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Ms Brady wrote that only elected ministers can take \"major policy decisions\", some of which are required for departments to make savings in the budget for 2023-24.\n\nCivil service boss Jayne Brady says Stormont's spending trajectory currently exceeds the budget\n\nHer letter warned that \"leaves the accounting officer in the invidious position of having no lawful means to ensure full compliance with the duty to remain within budget limits\".\n\n\"As a result, the spending trajectory currently exceeds the budget, and this will remain the case until and unless ministerial decision-making is restored,\" it added.\n\nMs Brady went on to emphasise that even if an executive was formed and accompanied by an additional financial package from Westminster, it was still \"highly likely\" that the budgetary position will remain very challenging.\n\n\"An incoming executive would be faced with a series of choices, made all the more challenging because they would fall to be taken part way through the financial year,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mary Lou McDonald (left) says many voters are frustrated that Michelle O'Neill has been blocked from becoming first minister\n\nFollowing the council election Michelle O'Neill said the onus was on the British and Irish governments to focus efforts on the immediate restoration of the assembly.\n\nParty leader Mary Lou McDonald said the election result was a \"monumental endorsement\" for Sinn Féin and the party now had a \"huge mandate\".\n\nYou can listen to the BBC's 5 Questions On, where Ireland Correspondent Chris Page explains the significance of the 2023 council election.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Daniel Sandford was at the reservoir in Portugal after the police search ended\n\nIt will take several weeks to analyse materials gathered during a new search in the Madeleine McCann investigation, German authorities have told the BBC.\n\nA search of an area 31 miles from the Portuguese resort where the three-year-old disappeared ended on Thursday.\n\nThere had been good reason to scour the Arade reservoir area in the Algarve, a German prosecutor told the BBC.\n\nPolice in Germany believe Christian Brueckner, a 45-year-old German national, killed the toddler.\n\nBrueckner, a convicted sex offender, was made a formal suspect by Portuguese prosecutors in 2022. British police continue to treat the case as a missing person investigation.\n\nHe has never been charged over Madeleine's disappearance and has denied any involvement in her May 2007 disappearance from a holiday complex at Praia da Luz on the Algarve.\n\nBrueckner is serving a prison sentence in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old woman in Praia da Luz, two years before Madeleine went missing.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Braunschweig prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said the German-led investigation is ongoing out of the public eye and has included other searches.\n\nHe said: \"We work continuously on this case but not everything we do is made public. We continuously investigate and interview.\n\n\"There are repeated searches, not all of them are in the eye of the public like this one was. Much of what we're doing you won't notice.\"\n\nDigging equipment and dogs were used to scour a peninsula jutting out into the Arade reservoir from its western shore this week.\n\nThe lake is 31 miles (50km) from where Madeleine went missing while on holiday with her family in Praia da Luz 16 years ago.\n\nBrueckner is thought to have often stayed in the area, which is known to have been used as an unofficial camping spot, in his Volkswagen T3 camper van.\n\nCommenting on the investigation, Mr Wolters said: \"Nothing has changed with regard to our suspect in the last three years. We have found nothing in the last three years that would contradict our suspicion.\n\n\"We haven't found anything which would exonerate him. We've found nothing which would rule him out. We haven't yet disclosed all the evidence against him and we don't want to do that now.\n\n\"Of course, you can rightly assume that within the last three years various pieces of the puzzle were added but it's not the right time for us to publish that.\"\n\nGerman authorities have previously declined to say what triggered the new search but said they were acting on the basis of \"certain tips\".", "The alert level warning has been issued for the area around Loch Maree\n\nScotland's environment agency has issued its first alert level warning of this year about water scarcity.\n\nIt follows very low river flows being recorded around Loch Maree in Wester Ross.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said the availability of water in the area had been affected by warm, dry weather.\n\nIt has urged businesses that use water from streams and rivers to reduce what they take.\n\nHydro-electric schemes, distilleries, farms and golf courses are among the types of businesses that abstract water.\n\nThe dry conditions have also prompted the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service to issue a warning of a very high wildfire risk in large parts of Scotland until Monday.\n\nSepa categorises water scarcity in four levels - early warning, alert, moderate scarcity and significant scarcity.\n\nAreas in southern and central Scotland, and the majority of the north including the Western Isles, are at early warning level.\n\nHead of water and planning, Nathan Critchlow-Watton, said: \"With very little to no rainfall forecast across Scotland in the coming days, we expect ground conditions to continue getting drier and river flows to decrease or remain low.\n\n\"The next few weeks and months are a crucial time of year for water demand and we're urging abstractors to manage water wisely, minimising the need for restrictions to be imposed by Sepa.\"", "Det Ch Insp John Caldwell has been involved in high-profile investigations into dissident republican attacks\n\nDet Ch Insp John Caldwell, who was shot in Omagh in County Tyrone, is one of the best-known detectives in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nHe has been the senior detective in many high-profile inquiries, including the 2011 murder of his colleague Ronan Kerr by dissident republicans.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell was shot multiple times after coaching young people at football on Wednesday night.\n\nHe was putting balls in the back of his car and was accompanied by his son.\n\nThe off-duty police officer had just finished coaching an under-15s football team from Beragh Swifts FC when the attack happened.\n\nRicky Lyons, chairman of the football club, said Det Ch Insp Caldwell was a good man who had played a central role in the club as a volunteer.\n\n\"He cares for the community, he gives back to the community and if that is in you it is in you,\" he said.\n\n\"No matter how busy life is if that's what you want to do that's what you will do and certainly that's what John has done for us.\"\n\nThe football club organised a walk in support of Det Ch Insp Caldwell on Saturday, following the shooting.\n\nThe route from Beragh Swifts FC to Beragh Red Knights GAA club was short but significant - Constable Kerr was a member of the GAA club when he was murdered in 2011.\n\nStephen Brown who attended the walk and knew the senior detective on a personal and a community level said he had touched many people's lives.\n\nBeragh Red Knights GAA club coach Celine Curran said the attack on Det Ch Insp Caldwell had affected the whole community in Beragh.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell, who has been a police officer for 26 years and who is from County Tyrone, often fronts press conferences in the course of major inquiries.\n\nHe had received a number of threats in the past, BBC News NI understands.\n\nHe was aware his investigations relating to dissident republican attacks - including the killing of Lyra McKee in 2019 - made him a high-profile target.\n\nIn January, he spoke to reporters after the killing of Shane Whitla, a 39-year-old father of four who was shot a number of times in the town of Lurgan in County Armagh.\n\nThree men have since been charged with murdering Mr Whitla.\n\nHe was also the initial lead detective investigating the killing of Natalie McNally in Lurgan.\n\nMs McNally, who was 32, was 15 weeks pregnant and was stabbed a number of times at her home on 18 December.\n\nOne man has been charged with the murder of Ms McNally.\n\nThe shooting happened at a sports complex in Omagh\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell was also involved in investigating the murder of Mark Lovell, 58, who was shot a number of times at close range in his car in Newry in County Down on 1 December.\n\nThere have been several attempts to kill PSNI officers in the past few years - most recently when a patrol vehicle was targeted in a roadside bomb attack in Strabane in November.\n\nThe last officer to be killed in the line of duty was Constable Kerr on 2 April 2011.\n\nIn 2021, on the 10th anniversary of his murder in a booby-trap car bomb in County Tyrone, Det Ch Insp Caldwell issued a fresh appeal for information,\n\n\"Despicably, people living in his own community planned and plotted to kill him simply because he was a police officer bravely going out every day to protect people and make communities safer places to live and work,\" he said.\n\n\"No-one deserves to be murdered because of how they earn their respectable living.\"\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said Det Ch Insp Caldwell was \"a father, husband and colleague, and a valued and active member of his local community\".\n\n\"John is held in the highest esteem within our organisation,\" he added.\n\n\"He is a credit to his family and to the police service.\"", "Donald Trump and Boris Johnson have met several times already, including at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nFormer Prime Minister Boris Johnson has met former President Donald Trump to discuss the situation in Ukraine.\n\nThe meeting took place on Thursday, during Mr Johnson's visit to the United States.\n\nThis week Mr Johnson has also met Republican politicians in Texas and Mr Trump's former secretary of state Mike Pompeo to shore up support for Ukraine.\n\nMr Trump has previously described Mr Johnson as a friend but their stances on the Ukraine war differ.\n\nMr Johnson has been a vocal supporter, visiting Ukraine several times and calling for the West to provide more weapons to the country.\n\nMr Trump, on the other hand, has previously refused to commit to sending military aid to Ukraine if he returned to the White House and would not say who he thought should win the war.\n\nThe US has committed $46.65bn of arms and equipment to Ukraine over the past year, making it the largest donor of military aid to the country, followed by the UK, which has committed $7.16bn.\n\nThe pair have met several times before, including on the sidelines of the 2019 G7 summit in France.\n\nWhen Mr Johnson became prime minister, Mr Trump described him as \"a good man\", adding: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"", "Members of the Prospect union previously walked out in March\n\nCivil servants have paused planned strike action after the government offered to engage in \"meaningful talks\" over pay.\n\nMembers of the Prospect union were planning to walk out on 7 June across government departments.\n\nThe FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, has also suspended a ballot for industrial action which was due to start on Tuesday.\n\nUnions are calling for pay to reflect the rising cost of living.\n\nOther workers including rail staff, nurses, junior doctors and teachers have also walked out this year, as wages struggle to keep up with rising prices.\n\nLast month, the government published new plans for an average 4.5% pay increase for civil servants, with an additional 0.5% for lower pay bands.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - dipped slightly from above 10% to 8.7% in April but remains high.\n\nMike Clancy, general secretary of Prospect union, which has more than 32,000 civil service members, said: \"We have agreed to pause our planned strike action in the civil service because the government have communicated their willingness to engage in meaningful talks.\n\n\"Throughout this dispute, we have made clear that our members should not be treated worse than other workers in the public sector and that they deserve a pay deal that recognises the cost-of-living crisis that began last year.\"\n\nHowever, he added that the union would maintain action short of strike, including only carrying out duties listed in employees' contracts and an overtime ban, \"and review that position in light of the talks that are promised\".\n\nFDA general secretary Dave Penman said: \"The decision to ballot for national industrial action over pay was taken by the FDA for the first time in 40 years.\n\n\"It was intended to send a clear message to the government that enough was enough, as they had failed to demonstrate that they valued the civil service equally with the rest of the public sector. The invitation to talks is the first indication that this message has been heard.\"\n\nBut he said if the talks did not deliver for members \"the union stands ready to proceed with the ballot for industrial action that we have prepared for\".\n\nIn April, more than 130,000 civil servants who are members of the PCS union went on strike over pay, pensions and job security. The union is calling for a 10% pay rise.", "The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group has announced that its forces have started withdrawing from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin has vowed to transfer control of the city to the Russian army by 1 June, but Kyiv says it still controls pockets of the city.\n\nHe said his forces were ready to return if the Russian regular army proved unable to manage the situation.\n\nThe battle for the city has been the longest and bloodiest of the war.\n\nWagner mercenaries have led the fighting there for the Russian side, and Mr Prigozhin this week said that 20,000 of its fighters had died in Bakhmut.\n\n\"We are withdrawing units from Bakhmut today,\" Mr Prigozhin said in a video released on Telegram from the destroyed city.\n\nBBC Verify has geolocated the video to an area near a pharmacy in the east of Bakhmut.\n\nMr Prigozhin - who announced the capture of the city on Saturday - is seen telling his men to leave ammunition for the Russian army. He adds that some Wagner fighters will stay behind to assist Russian troops.\n\n\"The moment when the military are in a tough situation, they will stand up,\" he says, before warning two fighters to not \"bully the military\".\n\nThe Wagner boss has repeatedly targeted top Russian military officials, criticising them publicly for not supporting his troops. Last month, he even threatened to pull his troops out of the city if they were not provided with much-needed ammunition.\n\nDespite Wagner's claims to be handing over Bakhmut, Ukraine has not conceded that the city has fallen.\n\nUkraine's Deputy Defence Minister, Hanna Maliar, said on Thursday that its forces still control part of the Litak district in the southwest of the city.\n\n\"The enemy has replaced Wagner units in the suburbs with regular army troops. Inside the town proper, Wagner forces are still present,\" she posted on Telegram.\n\nAnalysts say Bakhmut is of little strategic value to Moscow, but its capture would be a symbolic victory for Russia after the longest battle of the war in Ukraine so far.\n\nWagner mercenaries have concentrated their efforts on the city for months and their relentless, costly tactic of sending in waves of men seems to have gradually eroded Kyiv's resistance.\n\nMr Prigozhin has emerged as a key player in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine launched in February 2022, in charge of the private army of mercenaries.\n\nHe recruited thousands of convicted criminals from jail for his group - no matter how grave their crimes - as long as they agreed to fight for Wagner in Ukraine.\n\nAround half of the 20,000 Wagner fighters to have died in Bakhmut were convicts, Mr Prigozhin said this week.\n\nEarlier this month, the US said it believed more than 20,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in the battle for Bakhmut and another 80,000 wounded. The BBC is unable to independently verify the figures.\n\nUkraine has not released figures on its casualties in Bakhmut, but has also sustained heavy losses.\n\nThe capture of Bakhmut would bring Russia slightly closer to its goal of controlling the whole of Donetsk region, one of four regions in eastern and southern Ukraine annexed by Russia last September following referendums widely condemned outside Russia as a sham.\n\nHowever, when Russia fought fiercely to claim the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk last summer, Ukraine soon reclaimed swathes of territory elsewhere.\n\nThere were about 70,000 people living in Bakhmut before the invasion, but only a few thousand remain in the devastated city, once best known for its salt and gypsum mines and huge winery.", "After health inspectors considered closing a maternity unit over safety fears, the BBC's Michael Buchanan looks at a near-decade of poor care at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\n\"I've been telling you for months. The place is getting worse.\"\n\nThe message in February, which I received from a member of the maternity team, was stark but unsurprising. In a series of texts over the previous few months, the person had been getting increasingly concerned about what was happening at the East Kent trust.\n\nThe leadership is \"totally ineffective\" read one message. \"How long do we have to keep hearing this narrative - we accept bad things happened, we have learned and are putting it right. Nothing changes.\"\n\nFriday's report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is unfortunately just the latest marker in a near-decade of failure to improve maternity care at the trust. The revelation that inspectors considered closing the unit at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford comes nine years after the trust's head of midwifery made a similar recommendation for the same reasons - that it was a danger to women and babies. The failure to act decisively then allowed many poor practices to continue.\n\nAn independent review published last October found that between 2009 and 2020, at least 45 babies may have survived with better care, while 12 other babies and 23 mothers wouldn't have suffered harm if they'd received good maternity care.\n\nPut simply, the trust has repeatedly failed to provide good care - and then failed to act when presented with evidence of poor care.\n\nConsider the extraordinary deaths of two new mothers from herpes at two of the trust's hospitals, just six weeks apart in 2018. The trust told the families there was no connection between the deaths. There were. A BBC investigation three years later found they'd been operated on by the same surgeon, and that the trust had failed to test him for herpes despite being told to do so.\n\nWhen those disclosures led to an inquest being ordered, the trust delayed its start for weeks by making last-minute legal arguments about wanting the coroner to put reporting restrictions on naming the surgeon, arguments it could have made months earlier, as it had been repeatedly discussed at previous hearings.\n\nWhen the inquest took evidence, a consultant microbiologist at the trust, Dr Sam Moses, was reprimanded for allegedly coaching a colleague in how to respond to answers while another clinician was sitting in the witness box.\n\nDr Moses also admitted that he hadn't told one family about the connections between the deaths, despite being in a meeting in which the mother of one of the women who had died asked explicitly about a link. He told the court that \"my role was to assist the trust. I didn't know whose responsibility it was to tell\" about the connection.\n\nAt the heart of the trust's problems, it seems, is a dysfunctional culture that stretches back almost a decade. In 2015, a review of its maternity services by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists found multiple problems, including consultants failing to carry out ward rounds, assess women or attend out-of-hours calls. The report was dismissed as \"a load of rubbish\" by the trust. A Maternity Improvement Plan, overseen by NHS England, was devised. However, by the end of 2019 fewer than a quarter of its action points had been completed.\n\nImproving care is virtually impossible if colleagues don't get along. An Employment Tribunal decision, published in February, concluded that a \"toxic and difficult working environment\" existed at William Harvey Hospital's maternity unit where people were \"shouted and sworn at over differences of professional opinion\".\n\nOlukemi Akinmeji, a black midwife, sued the trust for race discrimination and victimisation after colleagues \"joked\" that they should \"check their bags\" on her last day at the hospital. Ms Akinmeji, who worked at the William Harvey between 2018 and 2020, won her case.\n\nThe tribunal judgement described hearing evidence of a broken working environment and a foul-mouthed registrar that one former colleague described as \"totally unprofessional\". Since Ms Akinmeji left the trust, that doctor has been promoted to consultant, after apparently being told to cut out the swearing.\n\nThree former staff have told the BBC there is a clique of senior midwives at the William Harvey, nicknamed by some as \"the untouchables\". They are described as \"watching each other's backs\", swearing, prone to talking disparagingly about both patients and colleagues. They've been working there for many years and are resistant to new working methods, and often, outsiders.\n\n\"It is the worst trust I've ever worked for,\" says one, \"there is so much unprofessional behaviour\". Another former staff member says,\"midwives often left the end of their shifts in tears, or broke down during a shift. People felt they couldn't speak up - even the managers had their favourites.\"\n\nIn that context, it's little wonder that the CQC found low morale and low levels of staff satisfaction, particularly among maternity staff at the William Harvey. Last year's staff survey, recently published, found that on all nine measures rated - including \"we are safe and healthy\" and \"we are always learning\" - the scores from all maternity staff were significantly lower than elsewhere in the trust. Bear in mind that the trust's overall scores included some of the lowest scores of any trust in England.\n\nIt's not as if East Kent has been left alone to sort its problems out. NHS England has been all over the trust for years, overseeing improvement plans and sending, as it announced in 2020, \"an expert team into the trust to ensure that improvements are made immediately\". Asked why their effort hadn't improved maternity care, NHS England couldn't provide an answer but said they had helped them recruit more nurses and midwives.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the East Kent trust said it accepted it \"was not consistently providing the standards of maternity care women and families should expect.\" But it says that in the past few years, it has \"worked hard to improve services,\" including investing \"to increase the number of midwifes and doctors\" and to improve staff training.\n\nOn the final day of evidence in the inquest into the two deaths from herpes, in a different room in the same building, a pre-inquest review was taking place into the death of a 14-day-old boy in September 2022 at the William Harvey Hospital. Evidence heard at that hearing suggests that with better care, his death may have been avoided. The full inquest later this year will come to a final conclusion.\n\nThe baby's death, the CQC report and its actions at the herpes inquest show that East Kent's problem are deep-rooted and ongoing, and that multiple changes of various directors over many years have led to little discernible improvement.", "Lorraine Barwell had worked at Serco for more than a decade\n\nSecurity contractor Serco has been fined £2.25m for health and safety failings that led to a prisoner kicking one of its custody officers to death.\n\nLorraine Barwell, 54, was killed in the summer of 2015 by Humphrey Burke, now 28, a prisoner she was escorting.\n\nThe day she was attacked, Burke was due to be sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court for arson and attempted robbery.\n\nIn January, he was given an indefinite hospital order for manslaughter by diminished responsibility.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Jeremy Baker also ordered Serco to pay the Health and Safety Executive's costs of £433,596.\n\nSentencing the firm, he said: \"I am satisfied that had it not been for Serco's breach of duty towards its employees, Lorraine Barwell would not have died in the circumstances in which she did.\"\n\nSerco is contracted by the Ministry of Justice to provide security services in courts. Ms Barwell, who had worked for the security firm for more than 10 years, is believed to be the first prison custody officer to be killed on duty, the Ministry of Justice said.\n\nSerco pleaded guilty last April to failing to discharge general health, safety and welfare duties from January 2014 to March 2017.\n\nFollowing the sentencing hearing, Anthony Kirby from Serco said: \"We continuously strive to seek to ensure such an incident can never happen again.\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Ms Barwell's daughter Louise Grennan said her mother was \"wonderful, loving\" and \"supportive\".\n\n\"We spoke about plans to move abroad to live in the sun once mum had retired from work. That has all gone now,\" she said.\n\nThe prosecution alleged that two attacks on custody officers within the January 2014 to March 2017 period - one on Ms Barwell and another on Bernadette Cawley - demonstrated what could happen if the right health and safety steps were not taken.\n\nMs Cawley, who survived the attack on her, was throttled and rammed up against a wall in the dock in an annex court at Woolwich Crown Court in June 2016, but no other custody staff were nearby to help when she pressed the alarm.\n\nOn the day he assaulted Lorraine Barwell, Humphrey Burke had been due to be sentenced for arson and attempted robbery\n\nSerco admitted two limited breaches in relation to the attacks on its staff at Blackfriars and Woolwich, but denied its actions directly led to the the two women being harmed.\n\nThe prosecution alleged there were wider failings in areas including risk assessment, staffing levels, training and monitoring.\n\nIn his sentencing, the senior judge found Serco's level of culpability for the offence was \"high\".\n\nAmong the failings, he said there was \"insufficient\" availability of court custody officers, an issue that had been raised with management \"on numerous occasions\".\n\nMr Justice Baker added there had been an \"obvious and avoidable\" risk posed to Ms Barwell by Burke.\n\nHelen Donnelly from the Health and Safety Executive said: \"Serco drastically failed in their duties to protect both Lorraine Barwell and other staff over a sustained period.\n\n\"Had Serco carried out their legal duties, these incidents could have been prevented.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to act against those who fail to protect their workers.\"\n\nMr Kirby, from Serco, added: \"The safety and wellbeing of colleagues is our highest priority and, as recognised by the court, we have improved our safety processes.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Brentford\n\nBrentford striker Ivan Toney was given a reduced ban from football because of a diagnosed gambling addiction.\n\nToney, 27, was banned for eight months for breaking Football Association betting rules - including betting against his own team.\n\nA psychiatry expert who gave evidence to the FA's regulatory commission diagnosed Toney with a gambling addiction and concluded he needed help.\n\nAs a result, the commission reduced an 11-month sanction by three months.\n\nIn its written reasons explaining its sanction, published on Friday, the commission said Toney had admitted repeatedly lying during his initial interviews with the FA.\n\nIt added he had since ceased gambling on football, though not on other sports, and is \"determined to address his gambling problem with therapy\".\n\nThe FA initially wanted to impose a 15-month ban on Toney because he attempted to conceal his betting, knowing it was against FA rules.\n\nThis included betting through third parties and deleting relevant messages from his mobile phone, it said, then knowingly giving \"clearly false answers\" during his interviews with the FA.\n\nThe commission did not uphold all of the FA's claims.\n\nHis ban was reduced to 11 months given he pleaded guilty to all 232 charges before being further reduced to reflect his diagnosed addiction.\n\nPsychiatrist Dr Philip Hopley twice interviewed Toney before his diagnosis and the commission said his evidence was \"well reasoned and highly persuasive\".\n\nBrentford have said they will \"do everything possible\" to support Toney with his addiction, while the player said he would \"speak soon with no filter\".\n\nBees manager Thomas Frank added: \"Football and gambling's relationship needs a review. We got a massive reminder. Do we do enough to educate our players? The authorities have a massive task to make sure we do this much better.\n\n\"If I can't speak to him, I guess they will have to ban me as well. If I am not allowed to support him there must be something wrong.\"\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association said it offered \"significant practical and confidential support to players\" struggling with addiction to gambling.\n\n\"It is crucial that players are properly supported in taking the steps to seek help, and that processes covering punishments for gambling in football take proper account of the wellbeing of players\", it said in a statement.\n\nWhat were the charges?\n\nToney admitted to 232 breaches of FA betting rules over a period of five seasons between February 2017 and January 2021.\n\nDuring this time, he was a registered player at Newcastle and Peterborough as well as spending time on loan at several other clubs.\n• None 126 bets were in respect of matches in competitions in which Toney's club at that time participated in.\n• None Of those 126, 29 were in respect of the club Toney was playing for at the time.\n• None Of those 29, 16 were on his own team to win 15 different matches. Toney played in 11 of those matches.\n• None Of those 29, the remaining 13 were on Toney's team to lose. Toney did not play in any of those matches.\n• None Of the 126 bets, 15 were placed on Toney to score. They were initiated at a time when it was not public knowledge that he was starting or playing in the relevant fixtures.\n\nThe regulatory commission ruled Toney's case was not one of match-fixing.\n\n\"There is no evidence that Mr Toney did or was even in a position to influence his own team to lose when he placed bets against them winning - he was not in the squad or eligible to play at the time.\"\n\nAs part of his punishment Toney was also fined £50,000 and warned about his future conduct.\n\nHis suspension started immediately, but he can return to training with Brentford four months before it ends on 17 September. He will not be allowed to play again until 17 January 2024.\n\nHe scored 20 goals in 33 Premier League appearances this season and made his England debut as a substitute in the Euro 2024 qualifying win against Ukraine in March, having received his first call-up to Gareth Southgate's squad last September.\n\nSouthgate said it was important to support Toney during his ban, adding it \"won't have any bearing\" on his international prospects when it ends.\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n• None Our coverage of Brentford is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Brentford - go straight to all the best content", "Olivia Perks, 21, was found dead in her room at the Sandhurst military academy\n\nThe Army missed opportunities to prevent the suicide of a \"positive and bubbly\" officer cadet, a coroner has concluded.\n\nOlivia Perks, 21, was found hanged in her room at Sandhurst military academy in Berkshire on 6 February 2019.\n\nSpeaking after the inquest, her mother said it had been a \"horrific, dreadful journey\" discovering the failures in Army welfare support for her daughter.\n\nThe Army said it was \"deeply sorry\" for its \"systemic and individual failings\".\n\nThe inquest at Reading Town Hall was told Ms Perks felt an \"overwhelming sense of embarrassment\" after spending the night in an officer's room five days before her death.\n\nShe had been attending the Falklands Ball and stayed with Colour Sgt Griffith, who was in charge of Ms Perks' day-to-day training and welfare.\n\nBoth denied any sexual activity, with Ms Perks claiming the colour sergeant had invited her in out of concern for her welfare and she had only used the room for sleep.\n\nMs Perks was a cadet at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst\n\nThe next morning, when Ms Perks was seen leaving his room in her ball gown, she was told \"my office now\" by the regimental sergeant major, the inquest heard.\n\nShe then missed a parade and had to walk past colleagues in her outfit from the night before.\n\nA friend told the coroner's court Ms Perks had felt \"under the microscope\" and like she was \"on trial\" as Sandhurst academy leaders questioned her about the incident and rumours about it spread on WhatsApp.\n\nThe coroner said the chain of command missed an opportunity to get Ms Perks seen by a doctor after that night.\n\nThe inquest, which took place over 16 days, heard Ms Perks fell victim to a \"complete breakdown in welfare support\" during her time at the academy.\n\nShe previously attempted to end her life during a visit to the Royal Engineers in Dorset the summer before, but was deemed at \"low risk\" of trying again.\n\nMs Perks was described by her mother as \"the most wonderful, vivacious and captivating girl\"\n\nMs Perks was back on duty two days later and warned she risked losing her place at the academy if she engaged in similar behaviour again.\n\nRecording a conclusion of suicide, coroner Alison McCormick said: \"The risks to Olivia were not managed in accordance with the Army policy for the risk management of vulnerable people.\n\n\"There was a missed opportunity by the chain of command to recognise the risk which the stress of her situation (after the Falklands Ball) posed to Olivia and a medical assessment should have been, but was not, requested.\n\n\"It is not possible to know what the outcome would have been had a medical assessment taken place, but it is possible that measures would have been put in place which could have prevented Olivia's death.\"\n\nThe court heard Ms Perks was interviewed after her first suicide attempt and the reason for the interview was recorded as \"inappropriate behaviour\" with \"the catalyst being excessive alcohol\".\n\nBut counsel to the coroner Bridget Dolan KC said Ms Perks appeared to be being told to sign a letter that makes clear \"deliberate self-harming is inappropriate behaviour\".\n\nMs Perks was in her last term at the prestigious military academy\n\nNone of the chain of command at Sandhurst were shown the report following the interview and only a welfare officer and commander who had left the academy had access to it.\n\nFollowing the inquest, solicitor Ahmed Al-Nahhas from law firm Bolt Burdon Kemp read out a statement on behalf of Ms Perks' mother Louise Townsend.\n\nHe said: \"Hearing the evidence from the court has been so hard - from fellow cadets, to the failures of welfare support.\n\n\"Learning that it could have been avoided with the right help, the fact that she may well have been with us now - I don't know that she was safeguarded adequately and that is so hard to comprehend.\"\n\nMs Perks was selected for officer training in 2018. She was the youngest of 180 cadets and was held in high regard.\n\nShe was in the last term of a 44-week course.\n\nLouise Townsend, Ms Perks' mother, pictured on the left, released a statement through her family's solicitor Ahmed Al-Nahhas\n\nHer mother explained they had reservations about Ms Perks joining as they were not a military family.\n\nShe said: \"She wanted to do this from the age of 14, worked tirelessly towards it - it was her dream. We were absolutely incredibly proud of how hard she'd worked.\n\n\"I remember thinking: 'Well, for 44 weeks you will be saying you'll be tired, you're exhausted, you'll be put through the motions, you may feel you don't want to pursue this - but you will be safe'.\n\n\"So it's been it's been horrific. A dreadful journey that we've been on for the past years, discovering that things weren't as they should have been.\"\n\nThe inquest heard Sandhurst academy had been rated as outstanding by education watchdog Ofsted.\n\nHowever, the coroner was also told it had only one welfare officer for 2,500 people.\n\nLt Col Rupert Whitelegge, who was commander of the academy's Old College at the time, told the inquest this level of support was \"irresponsible\".\n\nColonel Robert Manuel, president of the internal inquiry into Ms Perks' death, told the court he had found a complete breakdown in welfare support at Sandhurst.\n\nMajor General Zac Stenning said he was \"truly sorry for the systemic and individual failings\" at the academy\n\nIn a statement after the inquest, Army spokesman Maj Gen Zac Stenning, said: \"We are deeply sorry for the systemic and individual failings within the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst which led to the tragic death of Olivia Perks.\n\n\"Much more should and could have been done to support her. As an organisation we should have been better.\"\n\nMaj Gen Stenning added the inquest had been \"extremely difficult for all\" and described Ms Perks as \"a young woman full of sparkling promise\".\n\nHe continued: \"We are committed to being better and will consider all of the coroner's findings to ensure we learn any further lessons to provide the best possible leadership and care for our soldiers, officers and trainees.\n\n\"This includes zero tolerance of the utterly unacceptable behaviours exposed by the Service Inquiry and this inquest.\"\n\nMaj Gen Stenning confirmed officer cadets attending Sandhurst \"now experience vastly improved supervisory care on their journey to become future leaders.\n\n\"We owe this to Olivia and our people,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In addition to giving them the surprise of a lifetime, Ed Sheeran supplied the music department with free guitars and gave each member of the band a ticket to his sold out concert in Tampa, Florida.", "Azhaar Sholgami (C) and her family had been trying to get British officials to help her grandparents leave Khartoum\n\nAn 85-year-old British citizen in Sudan was shot and injured by snipers and his wife then died of starvation despite repeated calls for assistance made to the nearby British embassy in Sudan, their family has told BBC News.\n\nAbdalla Sholgami lived with his disabled 80-year-old wife, Alaweya Rishwan, just over the road from the UK's diplomatic mission in Khartoum - an area that saw some of the fiercest fighting at the start of the conflict last month.\n\nBut the London hotel owner was never offered support to travel from their home to the airfield where evacuation flights departed from, even when a British military team was sent to evacuate diplomatic staff from the mission, the family says.\n\nInstead, the elderly couple, who had no food or water, were told to make their own way to the airfield 40km (25 miles) outside Khartoum - which would have meant crossing a warzone.\n\nThe UK foreign office acknowledged to the BBC that the Sholgamis' case was \"extremely sad\" but added that \"our ability to provide consular assistance is severely limited and we cannot provide in-person support within Sudan\".\n\nOnly diplomatic staff and their families were given assistance to reach the evacuation points. All other British citizens were told to make their own way.\n\nThe violence in Khartoum was triggered by a power struggle between former allies - the leaders of the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).\n\nFighting began on 15 April, and the couple's family says that every avenue was used to try and get assistance from soon after that date, including personal phone calls to the embassy.\n\nOn 22 April a family member emailed a British MP in an effort to get the appeals for help answered.\n\nThat night, the embassy was evacuated but Mr Sholgami and his wife were not given any assistance.\n\nA further call from the family to the UK foreign office's Sudan hotline was made some time on the 24 or 25 April. A voice note recording of the conversation heard by the BBC indicates that this was a follow-up inquiry.\n\nOn 3 May, Britain's final evacuation flight took off from Sudan. In an exchange of emails with the ambassador on that day, the family was told to get the couple to the departure point themselves but this was not possible because of the fighting.\n\nAt some point - and it is not clear exactly when - Mr Sholgami, faced with starvation and with no water, left his home and his wife to find help.\n\nAfter escaping his house he was shot three times - in his hand, chest and lower back - by snipers, just a few metres from the UK embassy. With no hospitals functioning where he was, Mr Sholgami was then taken to a family member in another part of Khartoum and survived.\n\nBut it was impossible for any family members to reach his wife in an area that was surrounded by snipers. She was left to fend for herself.\n\nOn 10 May, Alaweya Rishwan was found dead inside the home by an official from the Turkish embassy. Her body remains in the house, unburied.\n\nThere had been no further word from the UK's foreign office until it sent a message this week to the BBC: \"The ongoing military conflict means Sudan remains dangerous… the UK is taking a leading role in the diplomatic efforts to secure peace in Sudan,\" it said.\n\nMr Sholgami's granddaughter, Azhaar, grew up in Khartoum and knows how close the embassy is to their house. She is distraught.\n\n\"I was informed they had 100 troops who came and evacuated their staff. They could not cross the road? I'm still very disappointed in them,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"What happened to my grandparents was a crime against humanity, not only by the RSF, not only by the [Sudanese army], but by the British embassy, because they were the only ones that could have prevented this from happening to my grandparents,\" she said.\n\nMr Sholgami's son, who's a doctor, had to operate on his father's wounds in Khartoum, without anaesthetic.\n\nThat is because only a handful of Khartoum's 88 hospitals remain open after weeks of fighting, according to Sudan's Doctors Union. Hospitals have often been targeted by both sides during the conflict.\n\nMr Sholgami managed to escape to Egypt. He is now on his way back to London for further medical treatment.\n\nIn the UK, you can see more on this on Newsnight on BBC2 from 22:30 on Friday", "Baroness Falkner is the head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission\n\nAn investigation into allegations of bullying and discrimination at Britain's equality watchdog has been paused.\n\nThe claims by staff are made against Baroness Falkner, the head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and other members of its board.\n\nDetails of the allegations were reported by Channel 4 News on Tuesday.\n\nA spokesman for the EHRC said it is now seeking legal advice \"on the impact of leaked confidential information\".\n\n\"We must ensure its integrity and that it is fair to all parties concerned\" he added.\n\nBaroness Falkner previously said she would be co-operating fully and would present a \"detailed rebuttal\" to the investigators working on the case.\n\nShe said she took the allegations \"very seriously and with humility\" and had \"every confidence in being exonerated\".\n\nDetails of the allegations have not been shared by the watchdog, but Channel 4 News reported on Tuesday that some staff had said:\n\nThe role of the EHRC is to provide guidance and enforce the law to protect against discrimination.\n\nEHRC chief executive, Marcial Boo, said on Wednesday that the watchdog would \"continue to protect the rights of everyone in Britain, including those with the protected characteristics of sex and gender reassignment\".\n\nIn April, Baroness Falkner advised the UK government that it was worth considering redefining sex as \"biological sex\" in the Equality Act, which the EHRC said would make offers of single-sex services easier.\n\nCampaign groups and LGBT charities are divided over the intervention.\n\nIn 2022, the watchdog asked the Scottish government to pause its reforms to the gender recognition process because \"more detailed consideration\" was needed.\n\nCampaigners subsequently called for the EHRC's status as an independent group to be revoked.", "This Morning has regularly won best daytime show at the National Television Awards (Schofield and Willoughby pictured in 2020)\n\nIf a casual viewer of This Morning had turned on the show at any point last week, it's unlikely they would have noticed anything was wrong.\n\nPhillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby were presenting as normal, with the usual revolving door of celebrity guests balanced with regular items on cooking and consumer advice.\n\nBut viewers who had been following the tabloid stories about an apparent behind-the-scenes feud between the presenters could tell something was up. There was less eye contact between the pair, less arm-touching, less general camaraderie.\n\nOn Saturday, Schofield announced he would be leaving the show after 20 years - referring directly to the \"very difficult last few days\".\n\nThe show had limped on throughout what we now know was Holly and Phil's last week together, as viewers and media pundits watched with interest to see if the pair could leave any personal drama at the door and still give the appearance of friendship on screen.\n\nHowever, in the end everybody involved knew the headlines surrounding the increasingly strained relationship between the daytime TV's golden couple were becoming too much of a distraction. When you can't convince the viewers at home of your authenticity, the whole show crumbles.\n\nSchofield began presenting This Morning in 2002, with Willoughby joining him as a co-presenter in 2009\n\nIt is worth remembering how great Schofield and Willoughby were together before their relationship went off the rails. Excellent on-screen chemistry and an easy, affectionate relationship is precisely the dynamic needed on mid-morning television.\n\nThey regularly went viral for their propensity to crack up at mishaps or sexual innuendo. One of their most famous corpses, when Gino D'Acampo told Holly \"if my grandmother had wheels, she would've been a bike\", has 12 million views on YouTube alone.\n\nViewers loved it when the pair showed up, apparently still drunk, the morning after the National Television Awards in 2016, having partied most of the night.\n\nFor all the air miles they clocked up, Schofield and Willoughby were involved in scandals only occasionally. In 2012, Schofield was deemed to have gone too far by presenting then-prime minister David Cameron with a list of alleged Conservative paedophiles he had found online.\n\nBut broadly speaking, the duo maintained a healthy relationship for well over a decade - which is no mean feat. They brought in healthy viewing figures, rarely upset the apple cart, and even went on holiday together.\n\nThe wheels began to come off as early as last September with what became known as queue-gate. When Holly and Phil visited Queen Elizabeth II's lying-in-state, their actions were interpreted by many as skipping a queue outside of up to 20 hours.\n\nThe pair had not technically done anything wrong, they were granted press access to visit the late Queen's coffin just as hundreds of other journalists had been that same week.\n\nBut because they were two of the most famous faces to have done it, there was suddenly a target on Willoughby and Schofield's backs. When other stars like David Beckham had dutifully queued outside, it was not a good look.\n\nITV's chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall admitted the whole affair had taken a toll on the duo. Schofield appeared to reference the backlash as he collected the best daytime trophy the National Television Awards several weeks later, telling the crowd: \"This means so much to us every year, especially this year.\"\n\nUnfavourable headlines and gossip continued over the following months. There was much speculation about Phillip's personal relationships since coming out as gay in 2020, and no shortage of unsubstantiated rumours surrounding the split from his wife.\n\nThe pair also present ITV's Dancing On Ice together\n\nBut the relationship between ITV's second most popular presenting pair really appeared to turn sour in the early part of this year.\n\nIn April, Schofield's brother was found guilty of sexually abusing a boy. According to reports, Willoughby was upset that her co-star had not warned her in advance about what Timothy Schofield was accused of or that the trial was coming.\n\nPhillip Schofield had to take time off from presenting This Morning for the duration of the court case, which is always a risk in broadcasting. There's a motto in the media industry to \"never go on holiday\" - in case your cover presenter is more popular than you.\n\nBear in mind that it is rare to see one half of a successful presenting duo without the other. Although both Schofield and Willoughby had hosted other shows without the other, when it came to This Morning they were very much a double act. They took their holidays at the same time, so the show's viewers were used to seeing them either both together, or not at all.\n\nSure enough, the guest presenters who temporarily took Schofield's place were hugely popular with viewers. Alison Hammond in particular worked well with Willoughby, and it was not long before fans were calling for them to host the show together permanently, sparking another flurry of media stories.\n\nThose headlines would have put additional strain on the already fragile relationship between Schofield and Willoughby.\n\nThis Morning was previously presented by husband-and-wife duo Judy Finnigan and Richard Madeley\n\nLast week, Schofield tried to get ahead of the feud story by releasing a statement, in which he admitted the last few weeks \"haven't been easy for either of us\".\n\nThat was only one sentence in a statement which otherwise praised Willoughby to the hilt (\"Holly is my rock, we're the best of friends\", he also said), but it was the only sentence that mattered. It was seized upon.\n\nWilloughby was reportedly \"blindsided\" by the release of his statement, but kept quiet. To this day, she has not acknowledged any fallout on the record, unlike Schofield. However, certain journalists in certain newspapers seemed curiously well informed about her feelings.\n\nThis Morning itself had become the story. Liberated by the coverage, other ITV daytime presenters such as Ruth Langsford began to make jokes and comments about behind-the-scenes feuding. (Langsford previously had her own on-air clashes with Schofield.)\n\nTwitter users noticed Willoughby had recently changed her biog to remove a previous reference to Schofield, who had introduced her to the platform. Meanwhile, stories appeared in the tabloids claiming she had made clear to bosses she would want to stay on the programme if Schofield was to exit.\n\nBy this point, the writing was on the fake digital backdrop of the Thames.\n\nThis Morning was extended by half an hour after The Jeremy Kyle Show was taken off air 2019\n\nIt is telling that Schofield, rather than Willoughby, has been the one to leave. They are, after all, a 50/50 partnership. If a double act has to be broken up, why should Schofield automatically be the one that has to go?\n\nThere are several reasons, but perhaps one of the most significant is their respective ages. Schofield is 61, Willoughby is 42. That is a hugely important factor in the world of broadcasting and talent management.\n\nGiven his older age, it is likely Schofield would be seen as nearer the end of his career, and therefore might be less of a priority for a TV network to hang on to.\n\nWilloughby, on the other hand, is two decades younger, and far more ripe for poaching by other TV networks. She is very well connected in the industry herself, having hosted many non-ITV programmes including the first two seasons of The Voice UK, when it was on BBC One.\n\nHer husband Dan Baldwin is a renowned TV producer, whose company Hungry Bear is behind big hits such as Michael McIntyre's The Wheel. At a time when Willoughby was clearly unhappy at This Morning, keeping her sweet in an attempt to stop her going to a rival broadcaster would have been a high priority for ITV bosses.\n\nHaving said that, ITV would ideally want to keep Schofield too. The broadcaster was at pains to say in their statement on Saturday that he will still host The British Soap Awards in June, as well as a brand new peak-time series on the channel.\n\nBut Willoughby will be seen as the bigger star - a balance of power which has shifted during the time the pair have worked together as she has built up her own brand.\n\nBosses will be hoping a new co-presenter will be able to build an authentic on-screen relationship with Holly\n\nWhen The Jeremy Kyle Show was removed from the ITV airwaves in 2019 following the death of a guest, bosses filled the gap in the schedule by giving an extra half hour to Good Morning Britain, and an extra half hour to This Morning.\n\nSchofield and Willoughby's viewing figures varied between 500,000 and one million based on all kinds of factors - the time of year, that day's content, the weather outside. Many viewers dip in and out, rather than sit down to watch for the full three hours, which means it is hard to make sweeping statements about any rise or fall.\n\nNonetheless, there were some headlines last week about a drop in viewing figures of around 100,000, which many media outlets chalked up to the controversy. In reality, all ITV daytime shows declined last week, including Lorraine and Loose Women, likely an effect of the sunshine.\n\nBut as unfavourable media coverage continued, network chiefs would have been aware that the likely direction of travel for This Morning was downwards, and keen to pre-empt any further drop. The show relies on advertising and sponsorship to keep it afloat.\n\nSchofield's departure appeared to be welcomed on Saturday by other TV stars who reportedly weren't fans of his, including Eamonn Holmes and Amanda Holden.\n\nAll eyes will now be on whoever is hired as Schofield's permanent replacement, to see whether he or she can build a convincing relationship with Willoughby. That is ultimately what will rescue the show.", "John Caldwell was invited to the garden party hosted by the King and Queen at Hillsborough Castle\n\nDet Ch Insp John Caldwell has attended a garden party in County Down with King Charles and Queen Camilla.\n\nIt is his first public appearance since he was shot in front of his son at a sports complex in Omagh in February.\n\nIt is understood that he had a private meeting with King Charles ahead of the event.\n\nThe Queen spent some time speaking to the police officer during the garden party.\n\nIt is the royal couple's first official visit outside England since the coronation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell, 48, was seriously injured in the attack by two gunmen as he coached a youth football team while off-duty.\n\nPolice believe dissident republican group the New IRA may have acted with an organised crime gang to carry out the attack.\n\nThe King and Queen attended a Garden Party at Hillsborough Castle\n\nThe shooting, which happened in front of school children including Det Ch Insp Caldwell's son, was widely condemned by political representatives across Northern Ireland.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson was also among the guests at the garden party at Hillsborough, the royal residence in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe King and Queen also visited a newly-created Coronation Garden in Newtownabbey, designed by Diarmuid Gavin, during the visit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The King and the Queen cut a crown-shaped cake and were entertained by singing schoolchildren in Newtownabbey", "Blade Runner 2099 is a TV series based on the iconic series of films, which began with 1982's Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford\n\nThe filming of the major TV series Blade Runner 2099 in Belfast has been delayed.\n\nBBC News NI understands a strike by Hollywood TV and film writers is one of the factors behind the postponement, with filming unlikely to resume before spring 2024.\n\nThe series, based on the iconic Blade Runner films, is due to be shot at Belfast Harbour Studios.\n\nNorthern Ireland Screen said it was \"extremely disappointed\".\n\nRichard Williams, chief executive, of the industry body had announced details of the series in October 2022 when launching the organisation's four-year strategy until 2026.\n\nOn Friday he said the project had been prepping on the ground in Belfast for many months.\n\n\"The WGA strike has been halting production all over the world and we hope a fair deal is reached soon so crew can get back to work,\" he added.\n\nHe said Northern Ireland Screen would do everything it could to plug that gap in Norther Ireland's production schedule as quickly as possible, \"mindful that many freelance crew and supply chain companies were relying on this project for work in the months ahead.\"\n\nBlade Runner 2099 was commissioned by the streaming giant Amazon with Sir Ridley Scott, who directed the original 1982 Blade Runner film, as executive producer.\n\nA previous sequel to the original film, Blade Runner 2049, starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling was released in 2017.\n\nMore than 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are taking action over pay and a greater share of the profits from streaming services.\n\nIt is not yet known how many crew and staff in Northern Ireland will be affected by the delay of Blade Runner 2099\n\nA number of high-profile TV shows in the USA have been off-air since early May as a result.\n\nBut as the strike continues other series are likely to be pushed back and delayed.\n\nIt is not known how many crew and staff in Northern Ireland will be affected by the delay of Blade Runner 2099.\n\nAnother major film, a live-action version of the animated hit How To Train Your Dragon, is currently in production in Northern Ireland.\n\nChanges to the timescales of major productions are not uncommon in the film and TV industry.\n\nA major expansion to Belfast Harbour Studios is currently being built, including a new virtual production facility called Screen Ulster.", "Jay Fear, who has died aged 45, met Ryan Reynolds in April with his wife Deb, son Sam and daughter Jess\n\nA terminally ill Wrexham fan who met Ryan Reynolds as his final wish has died of cancer at the age of 45.\n\nWrexham co-owner Reynolds said he was \"so grateful\" to have met Jay Fear, from Southampton, before his death.\n\nMr Fear was re-diagnosed with terminal appendix cancer in January after getting the all-clear the year before.\n\nAfter being invited by Reynolds to see Wrexham win promotion to the football league, Mr Fear said the experience was for his family.\n\n\"They are the ones that are going to remember what happened for the rest of their lives,\" he said at the time.\n\nSpeaking about his wife, Deb, his daughter, Jess and son, Sam, Mr Fear added: \"I just hope this is a core memory that they'll never forget.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ryan Reynolds This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Fear, Reynolds said: \"So grateful to have spent time with Jay Fear. He didn't have much of it left and the fact he shared that time so freely with others is something I'll never take for granted and never forget. This man lived.\n\n\"Sending all my love to Deb, Jess and Sam.\n\n\"Thank you for sharing your dad with me. I know how inadequate words must be given your enormous loss. Sending you all your love from my family, Wrexham and beyond.\n\n\"I loved every second I spent with Jay.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jay Fear was given a glove from the film and said his family would remember meeting Ryan Reynolds forever\n\nMr Fear's trip to Wrexham, to watch his team get promoted, was arranged in part by the charity Bucket List Wishes.\n\nWhile at the Racecourse Ground, the Deadpool Star also gave Mr Fear a glove from the movie and arranged for him to visit the set for the third series of the film.\n\nMr Fear's life-long friend, Sarah O'Connell, who was the one who initially reached out to Ryan Reynolds, said she was \"devastated\" by his death.\n\nSarah O'Connell said she was \"heartbroken\" to find out about Mr Fear's diagnosis\n\n\"He was always the kindest, loveliest person. I looked up to him as a kid, and was heartbroken when I heard he'd been diagnosed with terminal cancer,\" she said.\n\n\"He dealt with the entire situation with unwavering courage and was a massive inspiration.\n\n\"My thoughts are with his wife Deb, and kids Sam and Jess. Sending lots of love to his entire family.\"", "Then-Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Arif Alvi watch Pakistan's Air Force fighter jets perform during the Pakistan Day parade in 2022\n\nFor many years, Pakistan's military establishment believed that in Imran Khan they had found a saviour for the country. But, writes author and journalist Mohammed Hanif, after only a year out of power he is threatening to become their nemesis - and the military is using all its might to save itself from Khan's wrath.\n\nAs Imran Khan and his party face a country-wide crackdown, Pakistan seems to have come to a standstill.\n\nThe nation is facing crippling inflation and the hottest summer in history, with constant power breakdowns, and yet the whole country is consumed with what Khan will do next, and what our military establishment can do to contain him.\n\nAfter he was removed from power more than a year ago, his supporters said Khan was their \"red line\" and that if he was arrested, the country would burn. After a number of failed attempts, a contingent of paramilitary forces did just that on 9 May.\n\nThe country didn't quite burn, but Khan's supporters took the fight to military cantonments.\n\nThe army's headquarters, General Headquarters (GHQ), probably the most secure place in Pakistan, was breached and people trampled on the signboards with military logos.\n\nA senior general's house in Lahore was ransacked - Khan's supporters videoed themselves while setting his furniture and cars on fire. One protester walked away wearing the general's uniform, another made away with his pet peacock.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt had all the symbols of a revolution, except that it wasn't. Imran Khan was first loved by the army, then shunned by them, now his supporters were settling their scores. It was less of a revolution and more of a lovers' spat.\n\nIt's almost a rite of passage for every prime minister to fall out with the Pakistan army.\n\nThe country's first elected Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was hanged, his daughter Benazir Bhutto was dismissed twice as a prime minister and her assassination, by a teenage suicide bomber, was never fully investigated. Nawaz Sharif was dismissed, jailed, exiled - now again in exile, he rules by proxy via his younger brother Shehbaz, but still can't return to the country.\n\nAfter Imran Khan's arrest his supporters did what no mainstream political force has done before. Instead of taking to the streets in protest, they invaded the cantonment areas and showed the citizens how Pakistani generals live: in huge mansions with swimming pools and acres of lawns where peacocks roam.\n\nA house in cantonment area in Lahore which was set on fire on 9 May\n\nJust before he was picked up, Khan singled out Pakistan Army's chief of staff General Asim Munir as the man trying to crush his political party.\n\nBefore that he had called the former army chief General Bajwa, who was instrumental in bringing and sustaining him in power, a traitor. He also named an ISI general for being responsible for a failed assassination on him. He and his supporters repeatedly called the accused general Dirty Harry in public rallies.\n\nMany Pakistani politicians in the past have named and shamed the army as an institution but Pakistanis are not used to seeing the images of a Corps Commander's house on fire, women protesters rattling the gates of GHQ, and the statues of decorated soldiers being toppled.\n\nThis was exactly what the current government, a coalition of almost all the political parties opposed to Khan, needed to hit back.\n\nThe government has been trying to get out of an impending national election, which according to many opinion polls Khan is likely to win. Now many government politicians are calling for an outright ban on his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) - its name means Movement for Justice.\n\nImran Khan addressing the media from his home in Lahore last week\n\nIn the past, reprisals against politicians who have taken on the army have been swift.\n\nAli Wazir, an elected assembly member who called out the army's sympathies for the Taliban, was in jail for two years and was not even allowed to attend the National Assembly. Thousands of political workers from Balochistan have been forcibly disappeared and no Pakistani court or mainstream political party is interested in their plight.\n\nSo how come Imran Khan, despite facing dozens of charges, is still roaming free?\n\nThe perception is that he has polarised the establishment itself. There are officers and their families within the army who are enamoured by him. There is the judiciary which has been extending his bail. After spending one day in a lock-up, Pakistan's highest judge called him to court, said \"happy to see you\", and put him in a state guest house. The next day another judge released him.\n\nPolice commandos escort former Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan as he arrives at the high court in Islamabad\n\nImran Khan has won over a massive constituency in Pakistan that abhorred politics and politicians before he came along. His message of clean governance and justice has popular appeal - although when Khan was in power corruption actually increased and he put many of his political opponents in jail.\n\nBut his removal from power has emboldened his supporters, many of whom are women and young people who have never voted before and never attended a political rally.\n\nThey are often accused of political naivety, taking an ahistorical view of the current crisis and claiming that what is happening now has never happened in the history of Pakistan. They consider themselves part of a reformist movement that wants to rid the country of all corrupt politicians.\n\nLike Khan, they once loved the army. Now they hold the army responsible for everything.\n\nDespite Khan's repeated attacks on the army leadership, many believe that he doesn't really want to curtail the army's powers, he just wants the generals to love and support him and his party like they did before.\n\nBut in the aftermath of the riots on 9 May, the army high command seems to think that enough is enough. The current army chief has called it a \"black day in the history of Pakistan\".\n\nImran Khan might have ushered in a new kind of populist politics in Pakistan, but the army is using the same playbook to bring him down that it has used against his predecessors.\n\nDozens of corruption cases, mass arrests and a clear message that by attacking the army, it is Khan who has crossed the red line. The army has also tried to win hearts and minds by releasing a song saluting army martyrs - and celebrating a \"respect for martyrs\" day in response to the attacks on military installations on 9 May (critics point out that no soldiers were martyred that day, just a posh mansion ransacked by an angry crowd).\n\nMain roads in the major cities are lined with posters praising the army and pledging eternal loyalty. The army has also brought into play religious parties that had attacked it in the past - they were out on the streets last week, declaring their love for the army.\n\nPeople attend a candlelight vigil in Quetta on \"Pakistan Martyrs Day\" on Thursday\n\nPakistan's army is also looking within its own ranks for Khan sympathisers.\n\nOne woman that law enforcement agencies were pursuing for her alleged involvement in the 9 May riots is the fashion designer turned political activist Khadija Shah - who is also the granddaughter of a former army chief and a third-generation cantonment child.\n\nShe denies committing any crime, but it is clear Khan has mesmerised some of the \"army brats\" to such an extent that they are willing to set their own house on fire. By arresting Shah and putting her behind bars, the army has sent a clear signal to army families to stay away from Khan's politics.\n\nThe army has also tried to dismantle Khan's PTI party through mass arrests and by deciding to hold military trials of workers and leaders who were involved in cantonment attacks.\n\nMany of Khan's senior party leaders are under immense pressure to leave his PTI party. Some have left, claiming that they can't condone Khan's confrontational approach towards the Pakistan army.\n\nHistorically, Pakistan's army has always managed to have its way when confronted with civilians. Imran Khan has asked his workers to choose death over a life of slavery. In this deadlock, it's the ordinary Pakistanis who have suffered - and continue to suffer.\n\nBritish-Pakistani author and journalist Mohammed Hanif is the former head of the BBC's Urdu service, and the author of several plays and novels, including the award-winning A Case of Exploding Mangoes and Our Lady of Alice Bhatti.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Detectives are watching 400,000 hours of footage in an attempt to find clues in the John Caldwell case, says Eamonn Corrigan\n\nAn estimated 400,000 hours of CCTV footage has been seized for analysis in the hunt for those involved in the shooting of a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) detective.\n\nThe investigation into who shot Det Ch Insp John Caldwell is one of Northern Ireland's biggest in recent times.\n\nHe was attacked in February by two gunmen as he coached youth football while off-duty in Omagh, County Tyrone.\n\nThe 48-year-old's young son was at his side when he was ambushed.\n\nThe CCTV footage has been obtained from 750 cameras located between Belfast and Omagh.\n\nPolice believe dissident republican group the New IRA may have acted with an organised crime gang to carry out the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell is in regular contact with the team investigating his shooting and there is an \"added determination\" to catch those responsible because he is a colleague.\n\nDet Ch Supt Eamonn Corrigan, who is leading the attempted murder inquiry, said: \"We are lucky John didn't die.\n\n\"He is making a good recovery but it is going to be a long road.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Corrigan said the wounded officer, who was discharged from hospital in April, has given investigators his account of the shooting.\n\nHe added the investigation had made \"significant progress\", but gave no further details.\n\nIt is an overwhelming amount of footage that has been seized - 16,000 days viewing if one person was to watch it from beginning to end.\n\nClearly the police have seized a lot more material than they may ultimately need because they want to have it before it is wiped or deleted.\n\nThe scale of the task is huge. What we can't really quantify is the scale of progress and whether or not they have had a significant breakthrough.\n\nI left the CCTV viewing suite with the overriding impression that this is a resource hungry investigation.\n\nIt is clearly going to take a long time to build a case or indeed cases given the number of people the PSNI believe were involved.\n\nTo date, 15 people have been arrested and there have been 40 searches of premises and land.\n\nMore than 340 witnesses have been interviewed so far.\n\nTwo Ford Fiesta cars used in the attack had been bought about 70 miles away, in Glengormley and Ballyclare, County Antrim, weeks prior to be used in the shooting.\n\nThey were found burned out following the attack.\n\nAttempting to trace their movements has meant obtaining footage from hundreds of cameras spread over a large area.\n\nThis car near a farmyard on the Racolpa Road outside Omagh is thought to have been used by the gunmen and was later burnt out\n\nDetectives are poring over the material in several viewing rooms within a Belfast police base.\n\n\"All the detectives working on the case know the importance of CCTV and the fact that a 15 or 20-second piece of footage could be crucial in building a case,\" said Det Ch Supt Corrigan.\n\n\"An attack of this nature is carried out by multiple people who are organised.\n\n\"We are looking for movements of people and vehicles over time. It is time consuming and a lot of patience is required,\" he added.\n\nThe New IRA has admitted responsibility for the attack, but police believe a crime gang may have aided it.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell has run investigations into both paramilitary groups and organised crime gangs.\n\n\"Whether these people are members of a terrorist organisation or an organised crime organisation, this has been an attack on a serving police officer at the behest of the New IRA,\" Det Ch Supt Corrigan said.\n\n\"How they carry out their operations and support them logistically is not for me to decide.\n\n\"I will follow the evidence and bring people who are responsible before the courts.\"", "Claimants stand outside the High Court ahead of a hearing in the Primodos legal action in May\n\nClaims for damages by more than 170 people who say they were affected by hormone-based pregnancy test drugs have been thrown out by a High Court judge.\n\nThe drugs, including Primodos, were given to women to test if they were pregnant from the 1950s to 1970s and alleged to have caused birth defects.\n\nBut the judge ruled there was no new evidence linking the tests with foetal harm and \"no real prospect of success\".\n\nCampaigners say they are \"profoundly disappointed\" with the judgement.\n\nPrimodos was used by more than a million women in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s to detect if they were pregnant, before being removed from the market in 1978.\n\nThere was concern that it may have been responsible for birth defects in newborn babies and also some miscarriages and stillbirths.\n\nThe pregnancy test consisted of two pills that contained synthetic hormones. If a women had a bleed a few days later that meant they were not pregnant.\n\nLegal action had been brought against three drug companies - Bayer Pharma, Schering Health Care, Aventis Pharma - as well as the government in a bid for compensation.\n\nThey argued there was no evidence of a \"causal association\" between the hormone pregnancy tests and the harm suffered by the claimants.\n\nAnd its manufacturer, Schering, now part of Bayer, has always denied a link between the drug and deformities in babies.\n\nIn 2017, a government review said there was not enough evidence to prove a link.\n\nLawyers for the drug companies and the Department of Health and Social Care brought a bid to have the claims struck out at a hearing earlier this month.\n\nIn her ruling to end the claims, Mrs Justice Yip said it was \"not in the interests of the claimants to maintain the litigation in circumstances where there is no viable plan to progress the claims and no real prospect of success\".\n\nShe said the proceedings were \"an abuse of process\" and the only appropriate response was \"to strike out the claims\".\n\nMarie Lyon, chair of the Association for Children Damaged by Hormone Pregnancy Tests, said she was \"profoundly disappointed\" with the judgement.\n\n\"We do not accept the defendants' claim that our evidence did not provide sufficient scientific evidence and look forward to the additional scientific evidence, to support our original argument, which is due to be published shortly,\" she added.\n\nShe said her priority was to reassure families that the battle continued.\n\n\"I will be speaking with our legal advisers to discuss next steps to ensure we are able to expose the evidence of harm caused by these synthetic hormones,\" Ms Lyon said.\n\nAs part of a women's health inquiry, Baroness Julia Cumberledge and her team spent two years speaking to more than 700 women and their families who experienced complications linked to Primodos as well as the epilepsy drug sodium valproate and vaginal mesh.\n\nShe has since said she was frustrated that not enough progress had been made on a list of recommendations in her 2020 report.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A businessman whose company supplied the NHS with millions of apparently unusable surgical gowns earned £47m in dividends last year.\n\nDuring the Covid pandemic, Cambridge-based Chemical Intelligence won £162m of government contracts to provide personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nData obtained by the BBC shows at least a fifth of the equipment supplied was classified as \"not fit for use\".\n\nChemical Intelligence said all the PPE it provided was fit for purpose.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) told the BBC it was in \"a commercial dispute with this supplier\" so could not comment further.\n\nLawyers acting for Robert Gros, the sole owner and chief executive officer of Chemical Intelligence, said \"no complaint has been made to our client for the provision of these items of PPE\".\n\nThey added that there had been an issue with the DHSC being unable to locate the correct documentation for some products.\n\nChemical Intelligence was founded in 2012, and five years later successfully licensed an antimicrobial medical glove.\n\nThe DHSC contract includes of an image of the Chinese-manufactured gowns\n\nAccording to public contract data, it was awarded three contracts from the DHSC in April and May 2020 totalling £162m to ship gowns and face-masks from China.\n\nThe company, then made up of two employees, said it was invited to supply PPE during the pandemic because of its proven track record.\n\nCompanies House records show it went on to make an operating profit of more than £30m in the years ending August 31st in both 2020 and 2021.\n\nSpreadsheets leaked to the Good Law Project and seen by the BBC suggest the DHSC ordered 20.5 million gowns from Chemical Intelligence at a total cost of £160m and spent an extra £1.98m on two million face masks.\n\nFurther data obtained by the BBC showed that in January the department was holding 4.5 million gowns supplied by Chemical Intelligence that had been \"subclassified as not fit for use\".\n\n\"The value of this stock has been written down to £0 in the department's accounts,\" the Freedom of Information Act response added.\n\nMr Gros's lawyers said they did not understand the DHSC classification \"not fit for use\" or \"valued at £0\" and that there were a number of reasons why PPE might be unable to be used.\n\nThey said the company believed all the stock they provided was usable and told the BBC it had successfully provided good quality PPE for more than a decade.\n\nOf the remaining gowns supplied by Chemical Intelligence, the DHSC said in response to an FOIA request in March that 217,000 had been handed to NHS Trusts.\n\nThis means that 1.06% of the 20.5 million gowns provided in 2020 had been used by April this year.\n\nThe DHSC said the gowns had been released for NHS use - there is no suggestion that any are faulty.\n\nIn January 2022, Chemical Intelligence paid £7m in dividends and two months later paid dividends of £40m into a holding company, wholly owned by Robert Gros.\n\nThe company's lawyers said that this was largely reinvested for research and development and that profits were not solely related to the DHSC PPE contracts.\n\nMr Gros, 55, has since acquired office space on Hill Road in Cambridge and purchased a £3.95m house in Cambridgeshire.\n\nJob adverts posted on LinkedIn in November by his chief of staff said a \"high calibre cleaner\" was required at her client's \"large home\" to \"suit the family's high standards\".\n\nResponsibilities included arranging fresh flowers; care of fine furniture and cleaning the inside of vehicles.\n\nHis lawyers say the house was not bought with money from any DHSC contract.\n\nThere is no suggestion Chemical Intelligence Ltd broke any rules or acted improperly in any way.\n\nHowever, questions remain over the DHSC's handling of contracts for PPE and the use of public money to purchase equipment which has still not been released to NHS frontline services.\n\nA House of Commons Committee report published in June said that of the £12bn spent on PPE the department had \"£4bn of PPE in storage that will not be used in the NHS\".\n\nA DHSC spokesman said: \"We acted swiftly to procure PPE at the height of the pandemic, competing in an overheated global market where demand massively outstripped supply.\n\n\"Due diligence was carried out on all companies that were referred to the department and every company was subjected to the same checks.\n\n\"We are in a commercial dispute with this supplier and therefore cannot comment further at this time.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830", "Mizzy was in court on Wednesday over one of his prank videos\n\nA London teenager who walked into a stranger's house to make a TikTok prank video has been arrested, two days after appearing in court.\n\nBacari-Bronze O'Garro, better known as Mizzy, was detained on Friday by a plain clothes officer for allegedly breaching a criminal behaviour order.\n\nOn Wednesday, the 18-year-old admitted breaching a community protection notice over the 15 May trespass in Hackney.\n\nO'Garro's prank videos have seen him become notorious in recent days.\n\nIn the latest arrest, the Metropolitan Police officer can be seen handcuffing the teenager and telling him that he is alleged to have uploaded two videos to social media - an apparent breach of the terms of the behaviour order that was imposed on him on Wednesday.\n\nOn Thursday, O'Garro was interviewed by Talk TV host Piers Morgan, with their disagreeable exchange being shared widely on social media.\n\nMorgan took the teenager to task for his pranks, which have included pestering rail passengers and entering a man's car claiming it was his Uber.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by mizzy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Wednesday, Thames Magistrates' Court heard how O'Garro, who is from Stoke Newington in north-east London, had been issued with a community protection notice last May, with a condition being he must not trespass on private property.\n\nEntering the home without permission to film his TikTok prank breached that condition. The court heard how O'Garro walked into the property, down the stairs, sat on a sofa and said \"is this where the study group is?\"\n\nJudge Charlotte Crangle fined him more than £300 and listed as a condition of the teenager's criminal behaviour order that he must not directly or indirectly post videos on to social media without the documented consent of the people featured in the content.\n\nA spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: \"On Friday May 26, officers arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of breach of a criminal behaviour order.\n\n\"He has been taken into custody. Inquiries are ongoing.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Philippa Chapman described her experience giving birth to son Ambrose as \"horrendous\"\n\nA first-time mother told how she was left in bloody sheets for three days at a maternity unit that was nearly shut down in January over safety concerns.\n\nPhilippa Chapman said staff refused to clean her bed after she had given birth at the William Harvey hospital in Ashford, Kent, in March last year.\n\nShe said the birth was \"horrendous\", and she would not return to the unit as she would fear for her life.\n\nThe trust apologised to Mrs Chapman and for its wider failings.\n\nMrs Chapman recalled her harrowing ordeal after it emerged that health inspectors considered shutting down the William Harvey's maternity unit earlier this year over safety concerns.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission instead called for \"immediate improvements\" following a visit.\n\nThe watchdog's inspection came weeks after a review in October found at least 45 babies might have survived at the two hospitals run by the East Kent Hospitals Trust.\n\nAfter Mrs Chapman went into labour, she asked for an epidural, but was told there were no staff around to help her.\n\nShe said she was told she would need to \"wait until either your life is in danger or his (her son) life is in danger before we can bump you up the queue. It was horrific\".\n\nHer son, Ambrose, was born hours later after an episiotomy. But shortly after his birth, he developed jaundice and both mother and baby had to stay in the William Harvey for five days.\n\nHowever, Mrs Chapman was left in blood-stained sheets for three days, despite asking for clean bedding.\n\n\"I was still in the sheets that they'd done the episiotomy on,\" she said.\n\nThe inspection of East Kent's William Harvey hospital laid bare multiple instances of inadequate practices at the unit, including staff failing to wash their hands after each patient, and life-saving equipment not being in the right place.\n\nDays after the visit, the watchdog raised safety concerns and threatened the trust with enforcement action to ensure patients are protected.\n\nHelen Gittos, whose daughter died in the trust's care in 2014, said \"it's still the case that so much is not right\"\n\nHelen Gittos, whose newborn daughter died in the care of the East Kent Hospitals Trust, said there were \"fundamental\" problems at the trust.\n\nMs Gittos, whose baby Harriet was born at the East Kent trust's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital (QEQM) in 2014 and died eight days later, said: \"When my daughter Harriet was born, the then head of midwifery was so concerned about safety that she thought that the William Harvey in particular should be closed down.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Here we are, almost nine years later, in a similar kind of situation. What has been happening has not worked.\"\n\nAfter it was threatened with closure by the CQC, the trust promised to make immediate improvements to care. The CQC ultimately decided that weekly monitoring of its services would suffice.\n\nThe overall CQC rating for maternity services at both the William Harvey and The QEQM in Margate has dropped from 'requires improvement' to 'inadequate' following the inspection.\n\nDeanna Westwood, the CQC's director of operations south, said the watchdog has now used \"urgent enforcement powers\" to \"require immediate improvements\" at the trust.\n\nTracey Fletcher, East Kent Hospitals trust chief executive, said: \"I am sorry that despite the commitment and hard work of our staff, when they inspected in January, the CQC found that the trust was not consistently providing the standards of maternity care women and families should expect.\"\n\nShe said the trust has since increased doctor staffing in the triage service at William Harvey. The trust also said it has ensured better access to emergency equipment and improved cleaning.\n\nMs Fletcher also said she was \"truly sorry\" for Ms Chapman's experience.\n\n\"I am committed to making the improvements needed to ensure we are consistently providing high standards of care for every family, every time. I am sorry that this was not the case for Philippa,\" she said.\n\nNiall Dickson, chair of the trust, said: \"This is a sobering and highly critical report.\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme: \"We knew that some of this would take time, but this report underlines both how much more we need to do, but also frankly we need to concentrate on the basics.\n\n\"There's a new director of midwifery and her deputy, who have both come from outstanding trusts, and I know their focus is on getting those basics right and getting those basics in place.\"\n\nOctober's independent review, which was chaired by Dr Bill Kirkup CBE, examined an 11-year period from 2009 at the two hospitals.\n\nIt found that of the 202 cases that were examined, up to 45 babies might have survived if they had received better care from the trust.\n\nThe review uncovered a \"clear pattern\" of \"sub-optimal\" care that led to significant harm, and said families were ignored.\n\nMs Gittos said: \"There ought to be a nine-year-old girl with me, getting ready for school, and I wish there were.\"\n\nIt is another awful report from inspectors.\n\nMore condemnation of managers and a reminder that the trust doesn't have enough maternity staff or medical staff with the right qualifications, skills, training and experience.\n\nBut two things concern me.\n\nThis inspection came two months after the publication of Dr Bill Kirkup's report. It begs the question why simple safety changes had not been initiated by senior managers in the weeks following that report.\n\nSecondly, NHS England have had \"maternity improvement advisors\" supporting the trust for the last four years. It's worrying that with a huge amount of support and scrutiny that these problems still exist and don't appear to be improving.\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a second day of disruption for travellers at Heathrow after British Airways cancelled dozens more short-haul flights following Thursday's IT problems.\n\nBA said cancellations were still happening due to the \"knock-on effect of a technical issue\" resulting in staff being in the wrong location.\n\nA total of 175 flights have been axed, affecting more than 20,000 passengers.\n\nIt comes on the busiest day for UK air travel since 2019.\n\nAccording to data firm Cirium, 83 BA flights, or around 8% of its planned Friday services, were cancelled.\n\nThis followed the cancellation of 92 flights on Thursday, out of 860 that were scheduled.\n\nMost of the cancellations are for European and domestic flights, but there have also been delays to other services, while some passengers have been unable to check in online.\n\nMeanwhile, traffic has started building up in Dover as delays are expected on roads and ports over the bank holiday and school half-term break.\n\nOn Thursday, BA apologised for the cancellations, saying it was related to \"technical problems\" causing difficulties with online check-in.\n\nIn a statement on Friday the company said: \"While the vast majority of our flights continue to operate today, we have cancelled some of our short-haul flights from Heathrow due to the knock-on effect of a technical issue that we experienced yesterday.\"\n\nThose affected have been offered the option to rebook an alternative flight or request a refund, BA added.\n\nThe BBC understands that the technical issue has been resolved and should not affect flights on Saturday.\n\nData firm Cirium said Friday was expected to see the most departures from UK airports since before the Covid pandemic, with more than 3,000 flights planned.\n\nThis is partly down to families heading on holiday for the half-term break.\n\nThere has been chaos at Heathrow over the past two days\n\nGavin Lanoe, 43, from Guernsey, was stuck at Heathrow on Thursday afternoon.\n\n\"We were told to go to the flight cancellations desk to get assistance but there were thousands of people there and a few staff, most of the desks were empty,\" he told BBC News.\n\nEventually he said BA staff told them they could not rebook as their systems were still down and instructed passengers to leave, pay for their own hotels and claim back up to £200.\n\nMr Lanoe then booked a ticket on another airline from Gatwick. He said BA told him they would send his luggage to Gatwick but this morning he discovered his bag was still at Heathrow.\n\n\"They've had enough IT failures now and they should be more practiced at dealing with them but they are not,\" he said.\n\nThe issues started as security guards at Heathrow Airport belonging to the Unite union began a three-day strike over pay. The airport has said operations will not be affected.\n\nBA has been hit by other IT problems in recent years including a major breakdown in 2017 that stranded 75,000 passengers over a holiday weekend.\n\nThe incident sparked a customer backlash with pledges from the carrier that it would do better in future.\n\nPassengers also faced delays due to an IT issue in February, days after flights had been cancelled due to Storm Eunice.\n\nDover has been dogged by long tailbacks of vehicles during busy holiday periods\n\nMeanwhile, traffic has started building up at Dover as people embark on cross-Channel ferry trips.\n\nFerry operator DFDS said shortly before 08:30 BST that there was a wait of around an hour at border control for travellers in cars, while coach traffic was \"free-flowing\".\n\nThe Port of Dover tweeted that traffic is \"currently processing well with no wait time for coaches, less than an hour wait for cars\".\n\nDover has been dogged by long tailbacks of vehicles during busy holiday periods. In the lead up to Easter some coach passengers faced 15-hour delays to board ferries to France from the Kent port.\n\nDover's boss said this week it has done \"everything we can\" to prevent travel delays over the upcoming bank holiday and school half-term break.\n\nOn the roads, motoring organisation the RAC said it it expects this to be the busiest late May bank holiday since before the pandemic with around 19 million separate leisure trips by car between Friday and the end of Monday.\n\nElsewhere, Eurotunnel reported its cross-Channel vehicle services were busy, but trains were departing on time.\n\nOn the railway, a fault with the signalling system between East Croydon and Gatwick Airport is expected to cause disruption until around 15:00.\n\nRail passengers are also being warned that services will be \"severely reduced\" because of strikes during the coming week. Members of the drivers' union Aslef will walk out on 31 May and 3 June, while the RMT union has called a strike on 2 June.\n\nHow was your journey affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None BA sorry after flights departing US delayed", "What started with pictures in Edinburgh, took Ross Burns to locations all around the UK including the Finnieston Crane in Glasgow\n\nWhen Ross Burns first took a photo of one of his son's toy cars while on a daily walk he did not think it would turn into an obsession that has seen him complete 1,000 days of taking pictures in different locations.\n\nIt started as a lockdown project in 2020 but he caught the bug and it turned into a three-year project capturing images of his son's Hot Wheels miniature cars in locations from Edinburgh Castle to Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe 43-year-old, from Edinburgh, said he started taking out the toy cars when he went for walks with his six-year-old son Daniel.\n\nHe posted the pictures on his Instagram account and received an encouraging reaction. So he carried on.\n\nWhen restrictions began to ease, he decided to take the cars all around the UK.\n\n\"It's also been a fun hobby for me and Daniel to do together,\" Ross says.\n\n\"He likes copying my photos and creating his own. Seeing him sprawled flat on a pavement to get the perfect angle is pretty funny.\"\n\nRoss, the head of communications at Edinburgh Napier University, says that after a few weeks he set himself the challenge of doing it for a full year and then he would stop.\n\n\"But clearly I was hooked and another 635 days on, I'm still at it,\" he says.\n\n\"The great thing now is that the world has opened up a lot more so it's become a pictorial diary of my life.\"\n\nThe cars have been on a tour around the UK, in locations such as Glasgow, Newcastle, Aberdeenshire and London.\n\nRoss's car tour took him to Buckingham Palace\n\nRoss says he has seen other people doing similar things in other countries, including Dnipro in Ukraine\n\nRoss says: \"It's exciting when I go away for a couple of days and the first thing I pack are the Hot Wheels.\n\n\"London is amazing for locations although the one downside of it no longer being lockdown is places are far busier and getting shots without people in them is a challenge.\"\n\nHe has also appreciated the reaction from the wider community about his posts, saying he has received messages from the USA and Japan.\n\nRoss started the project as a hobby in lockdown\n\nHe is unsure how long he will continue to take the pictures.\n\n\"I said after a year of doing it that I would stop,\" he says.\n\n\"Now I've done 1,000 days straight and seen my pictures progress from very amateur efforts to something more pleasing. I've got a big decision to make.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nAfter the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson entered the debate on transgender women's inclusion in female sport, BBC Sport breaks down some of the key questions.\n\nWhat is the debate about?\n\nThe heart of the debate on whether transgender women athletes should compete in women's sport involves the complex balance of inclusion, sporting fairness and safety.\n\nTrans women have to adhere to a number of rules to compete in specific sports, including in many cases lowering their testosterone levels to a certain amount, for a set period of time, prior to competing.\n\nThere are concerns, however, that athletes retain a biological advantage from going through male puberty that is not addressed by lowering testosterone.\n\nSports - at both elite and non-elite level - have been encouraged to come up with their own policies.\n• None 'Transgender inclusion, fairness and safety often cannot co-exist' says major review\n\nWhy is it being discussed now?\n\nTransgender cyclist Emily Bridges was due to compete in her first women's event last month, but was barred by cycling's world governing body.\n\nBridges, 21, came out as transgender in 2020 and began hormone therapy a year later as part of her gender dysphoria treatment.\n\nShe raced in male events while transitioning, including finishing 43rd out of 45 riders in the elite men's criterium at the Loughborough Cycling Festival in May 2021, while in September she was second to last in the Welsh National Championship road race, a 12km lap behind the winner.\n\nLast month, Bridges won a men's points race at the British Universities Championships in Glasgow - her final men's race.\n\nThen, having met British Cycling's requirements, Bridges was set to compete in the women's National Omnium Championships.\n\nBut three days before she was due to take part in her first women's race, Bridges was ruled ineligible to compete by cycling's world governing body, the UCI. British Cycling later suspended its transgender policy, meaning transgender women could no longer compete at its elite female events while a full review is undertaken \"in the coming weeks\".\n\nLast month, American Lia Thomas became the first known transgender swimmer to win the highest US national college title with victory in the women's 500-yard freestyle - prompting more discussion and debate across sport.\n• None Emily Bridges: UK Sport chief has 'huge empathy' for transgender cyclist and her competitors\n\nWhat are the current rules?\n\nThe rules around transgender women competing in elite sport vary depending on the sport in question.\n\nThey focus on testosterone levels in athletes, with most rules stating that transgender women have to lower and then maintain those levels in their body.\n\nFor example, World Athletics , which governs track and field events, has set five nanomoles of testosterone per litre as its benchmark.\n\nBritish Cycling, before suspending its policy, had ruled that athletes should have below five nanomoles per litre for a 12-month period prior to competition, a level which is maintained from then on.\n\nWorld Rugby has banned trans women from playing at elite level - saying \"safety and fairness cannot presently be assured\" - while the Rugby Football Union's domestic policy in England does allow trans women to play, under certain testosterone-based conditions.\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) first permitted transgender athletes to take part in the Olympics in 2004 - as long as they had undergone \"appropriate surgery\".\n\nThen in 2015 the IOC stated athletes who had transitioned from male to female could compete in women's sport without requiring surgery, as long as they have declared their gender identity is female for at least four years, and kept their testosterone level below 10 nanomoles per litre for at least 12 months.\n\nA revised framework was issued after last year's Tokyo Olympics which said there should be no assumption that a transgender athlete automatically had an unfair advantage in female events.\n\nIt said that the individual sports which come under its umbrella needed to set their own guidelines.\n\nThe updated guidance was criticised by a group of medical experts in January, who said it could undermine integrity in sport.\n\nAccording to NHS data , men's testosterone levels range between 10 and 30 nanomoles per litre dependant on factors including age and time of day.\n\nWomen have lower levels of testosterone, with one NHS Foundation Trust giving a reference range of between 0.7 and 2.8.\n\nWhat does the most recent research say?\n\nThere is limited research into what effect transitioning can have on an athlete - because there are so few transgender athletes, and even fewer in elite sport.\n\nThe NHS states that hormone therapy - such as taking oestrogen to suppress testosterone - is \"limited by factors unique to the individual, such as genetic factors\".\n\nAn 18-month review developed by Sport England, Sport Scotland, Sport Northern Ireland, Sport Wales and UK Sport concluded that \"testosterone suppression is unlikely to guarantee fairness between transgender women and natal females in gender-affected sports\".\n\nThe report also said that there are \"retained differences in strength, stamina and physique between the average woman compared with the average transgender woman or non-binary person registered male at birth\".\n\nTheir guidance applies to transgender inclusion in community sport up to national level - not international, professional or elite sport, and said that 'open' or 'universal' categories may be needed in future to improve transgender inclusion.\n\nIt said existing policies were not fit for purpose, needed a reset and that \"for many sports, the inclusion of transgender people, fairness and safety cannot co-exist in a single competitive model\".\n\nJoanna Harper, a scientist at Loughborough University and a trans athlete herself, has been carrying out two studies on the impact of transitioning on athletes which has not yet been published.\n\nShe said: \"The data that I have seen suggests that there is a substantial performance loss with testosterone suppression.\n\n\"I think that in most sports, probably including cycling, that will be sufficient not to eliminate all the advantages, but to ensure meaningful competition.\"\n\nBridges told Cycling Weekly in March that she had been participating in a study at Loughborough University to track her power data. She said the data showed a 13-16% drop in her power outputs across six-second, one-minute, five-minute and 20-minute durations.\n\nAn earlier study by Harper found that hormone treatment also reduced haemoglobin levels to that of women.\n\nHaemoglobin is found in red blood cells that carry oxygen through the body and to the muscles. The NHS says women usually have a lower red blood cell count than men.\n\n\"All of the transwomen athletes that I have data on have testosterone within the typical female ranges, which are well below any limit set by a sports governing body,\" Harper added.\n\n\"And this is because transwomen don't transition for sport; we transition to be more like other women and the primary therapy to do that is to bring our hormone levels to the same values as other women.\"\n• None Should trans athletes be allowed in sport? - Listen to the full conversation\n\nA 2020 study looked at people who transitioned while serving in the US military.\n\nThe research, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine , found trans women who underwent hormone therapy for one year continued to keep an athletic advantage. One finding was that after two years the gap did close, but trans women ran 12% faster than the other women in the study.\n\nDr Timothy Roberts, a paediatrician and associate professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City who carried out the research, said this was slower than they would have to run in order to be an elite runner.\n\nHe told German broadcaster dw.com : \"To be in the top 10% of female runners, you have to be 29% faster than the average woman. And to be an elite runner, you've got to be 59% faster.\"\n\nSports scientist Professor Ross Tucker told BBC Sport in August how the physiological differences established during puberty can create \"significant performance advantages [between men and women]\".\n\n\"When human males go through puberty… the heart becomes larger, the lungs become larger, the body fat percentage goes down, and the skeleton changes,\" he said.\n\n\"The collection of those things creates significant performance advantages [between men and women]. Those differences are between 10-12% in swimming and cycling.\n\n\"Then you get to sports like weightlifting, which involve upper body muscle strength, where the differences are even bigger. We're talking 30-40%.\"\n\nWhat are the legal provisions and human rights issues?\n\nBridges said in a statement on social media that she simply wished to race competitively again, adding: \"No-one should have to choose between being who they are and participating in the sport that they love.\"\n\nThe Equality Act 2010 legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and wider society.\n\nThere are exceptions within the Act when it comes to sport. Those exceptions can also apply to services such as bathrooms and domestic abuse refuges in certain circumstances.\n\nSection 195 of the Act, which deals with sport, says it is lawful to restrict the participation of transgender people from sporting competitions where physical strength, stamina or physique are important factors in deciding who wins.\n\nHowever, the restriction can only be done to ensure the competition is fair or the other competitors are safe.\n\nEssentially that means it would not be unlawful discrimination to refuse participation to a transgender athlete if the competition organisers can show they would have an unfair competitive advantage.\n\nCycling's world governing body, the UCI, requires riders to have had testosterone levels below five nanomoles per litre for a 12-month period prior to competition.\n\nHowever, those same regulations state that the UCI must establish conditions that \"protect health and safety\" and \"guarantee fair and meaningful competition that displays and rewards the fundamental values and meaning of the sport\".\n\nWhat have the athletes at the centre of these stories said?\n\nA number of transgender women have spoken in detail about the debate and what it means to them to compete in women's events.\n\nBridges is still registered as male on British Cycling's website and raced in men's events until February as she underwent treatment to meet the requirements.\n\n\"After starting hormone therapy I didn't want to race in the male category any more than I had to - obviously, it sucks, getting dropped, racing as a man when you're not one,\" she told Cycling Weekly .\n\n\"It was quickly apparent that that was the wrong category for me.\"\n\nThe 21-year-old said she had received \"little clarity\" on why she was deemed ineligible to compete and described how she had received \"targeted abuse\" on social media.\n\nSwimmer Thomas became the first known transgender swimmer to win the highest US national college title with victory in the women's 500-yard freestyle in March.\n\nThomas swam for the Pennsylvanian men's team for three seasons before starting hormone replacement therapy in spring 2019.\n\nShe told ESPN that it \"means the world to be here\" following her victory at the college event.\n\nNew Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was hesitant to speak to reporters before the Tokyo Olympics last year.\n\nBut she said in 2017 she hoped people would accept her competing in women's events.\n\n\"People believe what they believe when they are shown something that may be new and different to what they know. It's instinctive to be defensive,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not really my job to change what they think, what they feel and what they believe. I just hope they look at the bigger picture, rather than just trusting whatever their gut may have told them.\"\n\nWhat about their competitors and peers?\n\nA number of former and current athletes have spoken about the issue and how it impacts them.\n\nFormer swimmer Sharron Davies has said \"no rules can reverse the advantage of male puberty\" and told the BBC in 2019 that the \"potential benefit\" of a performance gap could not be ignored.\n\nBritish 800m athlete Ellie Baker tweeted about Bridges competing: \"How this has been allowed to happen is just ridiculous. I would refuse to race and hope that the other women would stand with me on this too.\n\n\"This is totally unfair. The advantages a trans women [sic] has had from going through puberty as a boy to a man can never been undone.\"\n\nShe was supported by fellow Great Britain runners Seren Bundy-Davies and Emily Diamond.\n\nBritain's 400m hurdler Jessie Knight also praised Baker for \"speaking out, something most female athletes (including myself) are not brave enough to do\".\n\nBBC Sport understands discussions were taking place among British cyclists about taking action against Bridges' inclusion in the British Omnium Championships prior to her being ruled out, but they feared voicing their opinions would be interpreted as transphobic.\n\nThis stance was largely confirmed in a letter sent to the UCI by a group of elite female cyclists on 6 April.\n\nThe group - including retired Olympians, scientists and researchers - called on cycling's world governing body to \"rescind\" its rules around transgender participation and testosterone levels and implement eligibility criteria for women \"based on female biological characteristics\".\n\nOne of the signatories was Sara Symington, head of Olympic and Paralympic programmes at British Cycling.\n\nFormer marathon runner Paula Radcliffe believes the best place to start is \"more research\" with \"honesty on both sides\".\n\n\"If you have gone through male puberty there is an undeniable advantage and the cases going on at the moment undoubtedly prove that,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"I don't necessarily think there should be an outright ban from the start, but I do think that the current IOC rules, where there should be no presumption of physical advantage, are completely wrong.\"\n\nUS swimmer Erica Sullivan, who competed against Thomas at the college event, said that Thomas deserved \"to be celebrated for her hard-won success\".\n\n\"Like anyone else in this sport, Lia has trained diligently to get to where she is and has followed all of the rules and guidelines put before her,\" Sullivan wrote for Newsweek.\n\n\"As a woman in sports, I can tell you that I know what the real threats to women's sports are: sexual abuse and harassment, unequal pay and resources and a lack of women in leadership.\"\n\nKent cricketer Maxine Blythin also received support on social media from her team-mates after she was criticised on social media.\n\nWhat have sport chiefs said?\n\nBritish Cycling performance director Stephen Park said the inclusion of transgender athletes was the \"single biggest issue for Olympic sport\".\n\nWorld Athletics president Lord Sebastian Coe, speaking in the aftermath of Thomas' victory, said the future of women's sport was \"very fragile\".\n\n\"There is no question to me that testosterone is the key determinant in performance,\" Coe told The Times.\n\n\"Look at the nature of 12 or 13-year-old girls. I remember my daughters would regularly outrun male counterparts in their class but as soon as puberty kicks in that gap opens and it remains. Gender cannot trump biology.\n\n\"I think that the integrity of women's sport if we don't get this right, and actually the future of women's sport, is very fragile.\"\n\nUCI president David Lappartient told BBC Sport he was \"worried\" the inclusion of transgender athletes could affect the fairness of competition in cycling.\n\nHowever, he added that the UCI \"fully recognises the rights of transgender athletes to do sport\".\n\nWorld Rugby, when it banned transgender athletes, said: \"It is known that biological males (whose puberty and development is influenced by androgens/testosterone) are stronger by 25% to 50%, are 30% more powerful, 40% heavier, and about 15% faster than biological females.\n\n\"That combination of mass, strength, power and speed means that in a direct physical contest, ciswomen in all these domains will be at significant risk of injury.\"\n\nMore reading from BBC Sport on this issue\n• None 'Transgender inclusion, fairness and safety often cannot co-exist' says major review\n• None Thomas becomes first known transgender athlete to win NCAA swimming title\n• None Bridges will not race in women's National Omnium event\n• None UCI can ban Bridges even if she meets eligibility criteria\n• None Prime Minister Boris Johnson says transgender women should not compete in women's sport\n• None UK Sport chief has 'huge empathy' for transgender cyclist and her competitors", "\"I wanted to found a bank that was really good for customers, that was fair,\" says Anne Boden\n\nAnne Boden is stepping down as chief executive of Starling Bank, nine years after founding the company.\n\nThe Welsh businesswoman said it was the right time to step aside as it reported a record pre-tax profit of £195m, a six-fold increase on the previous year.\n\nShe will step down on 30 June, but will stay on the board and still part-own the company.\n\nStarling was one of a few so-called challenger banks which promised to revolutionise the UK sector.\n\nWith no branches, it prides itself on its app and customer service.\n\nMs Boden announced her departure as the bank published its latest profits for 2022-23.\n\nThe bank says it has begun a search across the globe for a new chief executive\n\nRevealing her intention to leave in an exclusive interview with BBC Wales, Ms Boden said: \"It's thrilling. When I look back at how I started Starling, I never thought we would get to this stage.\n\n\"Starling is bigger than just one person, it is bigger than a founder-led organisation. It is a piece of infrastructure that is important to the UK. We provide a real role in society.\"\n\nMs Boden, 63, said it was \"not really appropriate\" for Starling to continue to have a shareholder as its chief executive. She still owns 4.9% of the company and keeps a seat on the board as a non-executive director.\n\nStarling Bank said it has begun a global search for a new chief executive, with chief operating officer John Mountain taking the interim role.\n\nThe departing chief executive says she had become ashamed to be a banker before launching Starling\n\nStarling has grown steadily from its initial base of personal customers, adding business accounts and acquiring a mortgage book, partly due to its purchase of Fleet Mortgages.\n\nMs Boden, decided to pursue her dream of launching a bank after becoming disenchanted with the banking world.\n\n\"People never believed that a 5ft tall Welsh woman in her mid-50s could do something that had never been done before,\" she said.\n\n\"I had become ashamed to be a banker, I was ashamed to be part of that whole regime that had let the country down.\n\n\"I wanted to do something different, I wanted to found a bank that was really good for customers, that was fair. And people never believed I could do it and be profitable.\n\n\"So here we are, we have done it, proof positive.\"\n\nMs Boden said Starling Bank would continue to grow and believes it can take more customers from the older, more established banks.\n\nStarling will eventually list itself on the stock exchange, she said.\n\nThe bank has no branches and uses a mobile app for its services\n\nListing a firm on a stock exchange takes it from being a private to a public company, with investors able to buy and sell shares on specific exchanges. Companies usually list on stock exchanges to gain access to a wider range of investors.\n\n\"It's not going to be this year, but eventually Starling will list,\" she said.\n\n\"It will be at the right time.\"\n\nAs a result of her success with Starling, she has become a role model for women in finance. She chairs a UK government task force that aims to boost the number of women launching fast-growing businesses.\n\n\"When women get the investment, when women get the chance, they can lead great companies and lead those companies to success,\" she said.\n\nAsked for her advice for a woman like her from Bonymaen in Swansea who may want to start a business, she said perseverance was required.\n\n\"However, unless you start, you never know.\"", "Finley Boden was 10 months old when he was murdered on Christmas Day in 2020\n\nKey documents which led to a court agreeing to return a 10-month-old boy to his parents, who then murdered him, have been obtained by the BBC.\n\nFinley Boden was killed on Christmas Day 2020, 39 days after he was returned to their care. He had 130 injuries.\n\nThe papers from the family court hearing, conducted by phone during the Covid pandemic, were released after a media application to the High Court.\n\nShannon Marsden and Stephen Boden are due to be sentenced on Friday.\n\nThe documents are significant as they informed the crucial hearing about Finley's future - led by two family magistrates.\n\nThe papers were released to the BBC, the PA Media news agency and the Daily Telegraph after a request following the couple's conviction.\n\nThe submissions help establish what happened between Finley being removed from his parents a few days after his birth on 15 February, to the decision to return him to their full-time care by 23 November.\n\nAfter the boy was born, social workers from Derbyshire County Council had decided to remove him from his parents who were living in Chesterfield. The authority believed he was likely to suffer \"significant harm\" at home - the legal threshold in care cases.\n\nThey said Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden were living in squalor - their home was filthy and smelled of cannabis. They described the terraced house as \"very unclean\" and \"at times hazardous, with faeces on the floor\".\n\nThe social workers also said there was a risk of domestic violence, because in the past police had been called during an argument and Stephen Boden had a previous conviction for domestic violence against an ex-partner. Both parents smoked \"between medium and high\" levels of cannabis.\n\nBut over the next six months, the couple persuaded social workers they had made positive changes - aided by Covid restrictions, which limited physical interactions with others.\n\nDuring the 2020 spring lockdown, social workers were not routinely going into homes. In Finley's case, photos were instead sent by his mother which showed her terraced home looking clean and tidy.\n\nA photo of Finley's clean and tidy bedroom, submitted to social workers by Shannon Marsden, before he was returned\n\nBy the summer, some Covid restrictions had eased and the parents could meet Finley in person again. Some sessions were overseen by social worker Lynn Williams, who assessed them as she tried to help them become better parents.\n\nThe report she submitted to the court for the 1 October hearing is among the documents disclosed to us.\n\nIn it, she noted that on one occasion, when the weather was warm, \"Shannon Marsden ensured Finley was in the shade\". The social worker also noted the mother had held his hand when he was in the pushchair - which she described as \"a natural response from a caring parent\".\n\nShe said Stephen Boden had interacted with his son \"by talking to him and making him smile\".\n\nIn August, Ms Williams said she had visited the couple at home, noting that the fridge was well-stocked and the bathroom clean. On a follow-up visit that same month, she observed the house was still relatively tidy and the parents seemed keen to keep it so.\n\nBut Ms Williams' generally positive report was undermined by drug tests taken by both parents as directed by children's services. Marsden told social workers she had given up cannabis in October 2019, but tests of her hair indicated that was not the case between February and August 2020. Tests found Boden had used cannabis too.\n\nA police photograph of Finley's bedroom after his death showing \"filthy conditions\", including a baby milk bottle covered in mould\n\nIn the papers presented to the court for the 1 October hearing, the local authority said Finley should return gradually to his parents' care through a \"transition plan\" over about four months. It proposed that at first, Finley would stay with his carers and only see his parents during the day - initially for an hour and a half, building up to five hours. Then he would be able to stay on a Saturday night.\n\nThe amount of time he could spend with his parents would then increase further - so that by mid-January 2021 he would be in their full-time care. This gradual process was to ensure his time with his parents could be monitored - to make sure he was safe.\n\nBut Marsden and Boden wanted Finley back more quickly. In his statement submitted to the October hearing, Boden said: \"Shannon and I have worked really hard to make changes.\" Marsden admitted she had been using cannabis but said she had been \"given the incentive to quit completely\".\n\nIn care cases like Finley's, the child's guardian can be one of the most influential voices. They are employed by Cafcass, the independent Children and Families Court Advisory Service, and their role is to represent the child's best interests.\n\nFinley's guardian, Amanda O'Rourke, had only been able to see him once, via a WhatsApp video call, while he was with his carers. He was a \"smiler\", she wrote in her report for the court, who liked to \"blow raspberry's\" (sic).\n\nShe acknowledged the squalor, drug use and domestic violence in the parents' past. Her report said she agreed in principle with a transition plan, but said it should take place much faster, given the parents had \"clearly made and sustained positive changes\".\n\nMs O'Rourke's report to the magistrates said he should go back to their full-time care \"within a six to eight week period,\" half the time requested by the local authority.\n\nA statement from Cafcass said: \"It is not possible to say whether a longer transition plan would have prevented Finley's death. What led to his death was the ability of his parents to deceive everyone involved about their love for him and their desire to care for him.\"\n\nStephen Boden and Shannon Marsden were convicted of murder in April - they will be sentenced on Friday\n\nThe 1 October hearing took place in the period between Covid lockdowns - in England at the time, gatherings were restricted to six people and many courts were working remotely.\n\nIn cases like Finley's, parents would normally be in court but, because of the pandemic, everyone was on the phone. Marsden and Boden did not speak at all.\n\nThe final decision was made by two magistrates, Kathy Gallimore and Susan Burns, assisted by a legal adviser. That is because magistrates are not legal experts.\n\nThe barrister for the local authority argued the Cafcass guardian's plan would send Finley back home \"too soon\". He said Covid had disrupted the baby's regular contact with his parents and this needed to be rebuilt. He also said the parents should be tested for drugs as they had been \"dishonest\" about their cannabis use.\n\nBut the barrister for Finley's Cafcass guardian said it was not in the boy's interests for the \"rehabilitation plan\" to be drawn out for such a long period. She said she was \"neutral\" on the question of drug testing.\n\nThe court's legal adviser said drug testing could be ordered if it was \"necessary, imperative and vital to the running of the case\".\n\nIn their judgement that afternoon, Mrs Burns and Mrs Gallimore supported the Cafcass guardian's view - that an eight-week transition was \"a reasonable and proportionate\" length of time which would protect Finley's welfare. They did not order further drug tests of his parents.\n\nThere is no suggestion that the magistrates made a mistake in law.\n\nAnd later - when the High Court agreed to release these documents - Justice Nathalie Lieven described the family court as having made a \"reasonable decision\".\n\n\"Having read the papers here, I have every sympathy with the decision the magistrates made,\" she said.\n\nA child safeguarding review into the circumstances surrounding Finley's death is currently ongoing\n\nChesterfield MP, Labour's Toby Perkins, is now calling for a further inquiry into Derbyshire's children's services. He also says it is \"deeply significant\" that this case was heard by magistrates.\n\n\"It is legitimate to question that entire process, whether the care required for Finley Boden's safety was preserved by that process,\" he told the BBC.\n\nSince these documents were given to the BBC, Derbyshire County Council has said the author of the independent safeguarding review commissioned by the Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership into Finley's death would consider the information in the paperwork \"to help form the partnership's learning findings and recommendations\".\n\nIt added in a statement: \"We remain fully engaged with the statutory legal review process which looks in depth at the role of all agencies following the death of a child.\"\n\nThe new timetable for Finley's return - decided on 1 October 2020 - meant he would stay overnight with his parents during the first week of transition. But by 23 November, he was living with them full-time.\n\nFour days later, social worker Emiley Hollindale was the last professional to see Finley alive. But, when she visited Boden and Marsden's home, no-one responded to her knocks. Peering through the window she could see Finley alone, asleep on the sofa.\n\nJust over a month later, the little boy was dead, in a once-more squalid house, reeking of cannabis.\n• None Parents murdered baby placed back into their care", "A still from a social media video shows the damage to East Nile hospital after an attack\n\nBoth sides in Sudan's conflict could be carrying out war crimes on medical facilities and staff, according to evidence seen by BBC News Arabic.\n\nHospitals have been hit by airstrikes and artillery fire while patients were still in the building and doctors have also been singled out for attack - all of which are potential war crimes.\n\nOnly a handful of the 88 hospitals in the capital, Khartoum, remain open after weeks of fighting, according to Sudan's Doctors Union.\n\nThe BBC team used satellite data and mapping tools, analysed user-generated content on a huge scale, and spoke to dozens of doctors, to build a picture of how hospitals and clinics are being affected.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) called the attacks \"a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law\" adding that they \"must stop now\".\n\nThe fighting in Sudan began on 15 April and was triggered by a power struggle between former allies - the leaders of the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).\n\nKhartoum's Ibn Sina hospital is one of a number the BBC has identified as having been targeted in an airstrike or by artillery fire when medics were treating civilian patients.\n\nDr Alaa is a surgeon at the hospital and was present when the attack happened on 19 April.\n\n\"There wasn't any warning. Ibn Sina hospital where I worked was hit by three bombs, while a fourth bomb hit the nurses' house which was entirely set on fire,\" he said.\n\nAn image from inside Ibn Sina hospital shows the damage there after an attack\n\nChristian de Vos, an international criminal law expert with NGO Physicians for Human Rights, says this could be classed as a war crime.\n\n\"The duty to warn of any impending airstrike to ensure... that all civilians are able to evacuate a hospital prior to an airstrike - that is very clear under the laws of war,\" he said.\n\nLooking at the images of the attack, forensic weapons expert Chris Cobb-Smith said it could have been caused by artillery fire.\n\nUncertainty over the kind of weapon used means it is hard to be sure which side was responsible, or whether this was a targeted attack.\n\nA still taken from a video appears to show RSF fighters entering Khartoum's Al Saha hospital\n\nAnother medical facility hit was the East Nile hospital - one of the last operating in that part of the capital.\n\nThe BBC has seen evidence of RSF fighters surrounding it with their vehicles and anti-aircraft weapons.\n\nThere have been reports of patients being forcibly evacuated from the building. But we have also spoken to witnesses who say civilians continued to be treated alongside the RSF soldiers.\n\nOn 1 May, a public area next to the East Nile hospital was hit by a Sudanese army airstrike. There was no warning, according to sources the BBC has spoken to.\n\nFive civilians died in that attack.\n\nThere was a further airstrike two weeks later but there has been no independent confirmation of the number of injured.\n\nThe WHO has reported that nine hospitals have been taken over by fighters from one side or the other.\n\n\"The preferential treatment of soldiers over civilians [is] not an appropriate use of a medical facility and it may well constitute a violation of the laws of war,\" Mr De Vos said.\n\nA political advisor to the RSF, Mostafa Mohamed Ibrahim, denied that they were preventing the treatment of civilians. He told the BBC: \"Our forces are just spreading… they are not occupying and don't stop civilians from being treated in these hospitals.\"\n\nThe fighting has made it increasingly difficult for civilian patients to be treated\n\nThe Sudanese army did not provide a response to this investigation's findings.\n\nThere is also evidence of another potential war crime - the targeting of doctors.\n\nThe BBC has seen social media messages threatening doctors by name, even sharing their ID number. The messages accuse them of supporting the RSF and receiving money from abroad.\n\nIn a widely circulated video, Major-General Tarek al-Hadi Kejab from the Sudanese army said: \"The so-called central committee of doctors, should be named the committee of rebels!\"\n\nSudanese doctors' organisations have been monitoring threats which they say are coming from both sides and the BBC has spoken to doctors who have gone into hiding.\n\n\"We know that this is a tactic that is used in wars, for pressure, that is illegal in all international laws. Unfortunately, this has pushed medical staff into a propaganda war - between the RSF and the Sudanese army,\" said Dr Mohamed Eisa from the Sudanese American Physicians Association.\n\nDoctors around the world have been calling for an end to the targeting of their colleagues.\n\nAt a conference in London last week, Sudan's Doctors for Human Rights said medical staff had been killed, ambulances targeted and hospitals forced to close their doors.\n\nDr Ahmed Abbas said: \"We're gathering all the evidence of these transgressions, which are crimes against humanity and war crimes, and this could be presented to international judicial authorities, or national authorities in Sudan.\"", "A hospital trust has apologised to a woman for failing to admit a surgeon had been responsible for a massive haemorrhage that almost killed her after a Caesarean section.\n\nFor seven years, East Kent Hospitals Trust maintained the size of Louise Dempster's baby was to blame.\n\n\"It was just continuous lies,\" the 34-year-old told BBC News.\n\nLouise Dempster gave birth in May 2015 but the surgeon's error only emerged during an inquiry into poor maternity care at East Kent Hospitals Trust which reported this year.\n\nIt was Louise's first pregnancy and had been uneventful, until she developed two potentially dangerous conditions in the days before she was due to give birth.\n\nA scan showed excessive growth of her baby, and that Louise had pre-eclampsia and a liver condition, which put her at risk of bleeding after birth.\n\nShe went into her local hospital, The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in Margate, part of the East Kent Hospitals Trust, to be induced.\n\nIn October, an inquiry by Dr Bill Kirkup found at least 45 babies who died at the Trust's maternity services between 2009 and 2020 could have survived with better treatment.\n\nWhen Louise's labour stalled, she was taken for a Caesarean section and her son was born large and healthy.\n\nLouise was left by staff in the recovery room with her family, but her mother, Linda, noticed she appeared to be losing consciousness: \"I was talking to her and I just saw her drift away and her eyes roll back.\"\n\nThe 61-year-old lifted her daughter's sheets and found \"blood from head to toe\".\n\nLinda is a senior nurse who has worked nationally on quality and infection control. It didn't require her level of expertise to realise her daughter was in serious trouble.\n\n\"I tried to pull the emergency buzzer… but it didn't work,\" she remembers.\n\nLouise says she thought she was dying: \"All I remember is my mum screaming for help. And her stroking my hair and telling me she loved me. I knew that something was wrong\".\n\nLouise was taken back to surgery. After her operation the surgeon told her the bleeding had happened because her uterus hadn't shrunk back to its normal size after birth.\n\nHe inserted an instrument called a Bakri balloon to stop the bleeding - but a few hours later Louise was rushed back to surgery after Linda again spotted she was still losing a lot of blood.\n\nHer original surgeon called in another surgeon, a cancer specialist, to help. Louise needed an extensive blood transfusion, but eventually recovered after several days in hospital.\n\nThe family felt there must have been something wrong with Louise's treatment and set about getting all her documents together and speaking to the clinicians involved.\n\nBut they felt like they hit a brick wall. All the notes confirmed her original surgeon's version of events. The Trust didn't consider what happened to be a serious incident and the investigation stopped.\n\nLouise says she was told she was lucky to have a baby, and she should just \"get on with it\".\n\nBut the psychological impact was significant: \"I think my mental health has probably been affected by it. I also feel like I've never had the opportunity to have another baby, which I really wanted to. I have lots of triggers from that time and lots of flashbacks I have to deal with,\" she says.\n\nIn 2020 Louise and her mother gave evidence to the Kirkup inquiry.\n\nA few weeks before the findings were made public, inquiry chairman, Dr Bill Kirkup, asked to meet them.\n\nHe said he had discovered a document that had not been disclosed to the family, which showed Louise's bleeding had been caused by a surgical error, not by the size of her son as they had been led to believe.\n\nLouise was furious her suspicions about what happened to her had been confirmed.\n\n\"They had so many points, they could have told me what actually happened. And they didn't,\" she says. \"I spent so much time after the birth, visiting professionals trying to find out what happened.\"\n\nThe Kirkup report found evidence of staff \"omitting key details in accounts given to families as well as to official bodies\" and \"the effect... was to cover up the truth.\"\n\nThe Trust says it is determined to improve clinical practice and will review Louise's care.\n\nIts chief executive Tracy Fletcher said: \"We apologise unreservedly to Louise and her family for the mistakes in her care and for failing in our duty to explain what went wrong, which falls far short of the standards and compassion patients should expect and deserve.\"", "Britain's ice cream sellers have got 99 problems - and Cadbury Flakes being \"too crumbly\" is top of the list.\n\nVendors say they've seen quality plummet since production of the chocolate stick switched to Egypt.\n\nParent company Mondelēz International said the issues had been addressed but warned older stock might still be in circulation.\n\nThat doesn't help those paying \"top money\" for a box of shards, said John Taylor, owner of C&M Creamery Ices.\n\n\"You can't give someone a 99 with a broken Flake. It's embarrassing for an ice cream man.\"\n\nLawrence Glauser uses broken Flakes as a topping in a bid to recoup his losses\n\nLawrence Glauser, owner of Lorenzo's Ices in East Yorkshire, described it as a \"big issue\" and has resorted to more creative measures.\n\n\"Often at least a quarter of a box are unusable,\" he said.\n\n\"I now serve trays of ice cream and sprinkle bits of Flake on top. I shouldn't have to do that. I'm fed up of the wastage.\"\n\nMr Glauser said while his first choice remained Cadbury Flake 99, when they are unusable he turns to a German alternative marketed as \"milk chocolate flaked sticks\".\n\n\"Customers don't seem to mind, the German ones are a lot denser and don't seem to fall apart as easily.\"\n\nMr Glauser, left, says \"often at least a quarter of a box are unusable\"\n\nHusband and wife team Martin North and Abby Beech have reported similar issues and some weeks don't bother to stock Flakes at their business, Abbyo's.\n\nWhen they do, he has to explain to disgruntled customers why their topping crumbles.\n\n\"You physically can't get [the Flakes] into the ice cream. As soon as you pick them up they fall apart. It's not good when you're paying £16 a box.\"\n\nMr Taylor, who has been trading for 30 years in Harrogate, believes the quality of the product has deteriorated and \"so many people\" had spoken to him about it.\n\n\"They're crumbly by nature but they should be able to stand up to a bit of moving around.\n\n\"They're charging top money for them, but they arrive as though they have been bounced off a cliff.\n\n\"If you're buying five boxes of Flake for an event and you discover a lot of them are broken your day is ruined.\"\n\nIce cream sellers are complaining about the quality of Cadbury Flake\n\nWholesale boxes typically contain 144 Flake 99s. Katy Alston, who operates a van in Bognor Regis and is also president of The Ice Cream Alliance, said she has had to throw half away in some cases.\n\n\"We've thrown away 70 in a single box before because they've all been broken.\n\n\"For the first time, I won't be using Cadbury Flake this year. It feels a different product.\"\n\nShe said ice cream vendors have a reputation to maintain.\n\n\"If you order a 99, you want a good solid Flake in it.\"\n\nIce cream sellers are struggling to use and sell the \"crumbliest, flakiest milk chocolate\" topping\n\nA spokesperson for Mondelēz International said it cared about its customers and took issues with quality \"very seriously\".\n\n\"Cadbury Flake 99 is a naturally delicate and crumbly product, and we have processes in place within our supply chain to avoid any breakage as much as possible.\n\n\"We are aware that recently some customers have received product which does not meet our usual high standards. This has been addressed following recent improvements to our production processes although some prior stock may remain in circulation.\n\n\"We are in the process of liaising with our customers (wholesalers) to support those potentially impacted. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nThe company said it has been making Flake 99 in Egypt since 2020 and insisted the recipe had not changed.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The lives of up to 45 babies may have been saved had they received better care at two Kent hospitals - in Margate and Ashford - according to a damning independent inquiry. The review of an 11-year period at East Kent Hospitals Trust found a \"clear pattern\" of \"sub-optimal\" care - that led to significant harm and families being ignored. The investigation followed dogged campaigning by one determined bereaved grandfather.\n\nWhen his phone beeped at around 4am, Derek Richford assumed it would be good news.\n\nHis son Tom and wife Sarah had gone into hospital the previous day to have their first child, so an early morning text message was not unexpected.\n\nBut it read: \"Baby is struggling\". Alarmed and anxious, Derek and his wife Nikki sped off towards the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate.\n\nBy the time they arrived, it was clear something had gone very wrong.\n\nOver the next few years, the awful events of those night-time hours in early November 2017 would give Derek a new, unexpected purpose.\n\nThat first week was a blur, with a rollercoaster of emotions. Baby Harry had been born pale and floppy. His mother Sarah, having endured a slow, agonising labour, was eventually rushed to theatre for an emergency Caesarean section - which a locum doctor botched.\n\nTo compound the family's distress, the neonatal team then failed to properly carry out a vital resuscitation procedure on Harry, struggling for 26 minutes to insert a life support tube.\n\n\"We were instantly transported into a bubble we knew nothing of,\" says Derek. \"We visited Harry every day - you couldn't hold him as he had tubes coming out of him and he was attached to monitors, but we put our hands on him.\"\n\nInitially, no-one from the hospital would tell the grandparents what had happened and their son was focused on caring for his wife and son.\n\nDerek says a \"sixth sense\" kicked in. \"I just started photographing all Sarah's medical notes, as I feared they'd change them.\"\n\nThe records were not altered. But Derek's instinct about the honesty and openness of the hospital - and the wider trust - were to prove accurate.\n\nThe family hoped Harry would recover. But it was not to be. After a series of tests, the family were advised the best outcome for Harry was to have his life support system withdrawn.\n\nIn a room full of love and tears, Derek and his wife - alongside Tom, Sarah and her parents - watched as Harry died, on 9 November 2017.\n\nSixty one-year-old Derek had never campaigned for anything in his life. Alongside Nikki, the company director had raised four children - Harry was their third grandchild. His initial approach was to wait for East Kent Hospitals Trust to investigate the death, as it had promised.\n\nOne nagging issue that was to become central to Derek's view of the trust, was the hospital's continual refusal to inform the coroner of Harry's death. The family repeatedly requested it, but the trust said it was unnecessary as it knew the cause, namely the removal of the life support system.\n\nThe hospital also recorded Harry's death as \"expected\" - again because his life support system had been withdrawn. On both points, the family were left confused and increasingly angry.\n\nIn early March 2018, some four months after Harry's death, the family finally received the outcome of the trust's internal investigation - known as the Root Cause Analysis (RCA). With limited medical knowledge, they spent the next few days Googling all the terms they did not understand, all the job titles they had never heard of, to prepare for a meeting with the trust on 14 March.\n\nThe RCA indicated multiple errors had been made in Harry and Sarah's care and treatment, and his death was \"potentially avoidable\".\n\nPrior to the meeting, Derek wrote to the Kent coroner's office outlining in general the circumstances of Harry's case, asking if that was the type they would expect to be notified of. The email response from the coroner's office was clear. It said: \"Based on the facts you have presented, this death should have been reported to the coroner.\"\n\nDespite this, at the meeting with the trust, the lead investigator into Harry's death told the family: \"If we have a clear cause of death by and large we do not involve the coroner.\"\n\nThe family's insistence eventually paid off - five weeks after that meeting, the trust informed the coroner of Harry's death.\n\nWhile his son and daughter-in-law started trying to recover from the trauma of losing Harry, Derek turned his attention to investigating East Kent, one of the largest hospital trusts in England.\n\nBeing one step removed from the loss allowed Derek to have \"the helicopter view\", he says.\n\nThe \"grandfather effect\", as he describes it, was what made it possible to focus his fire on the NHS. Being one step removed from the loss allowed him to have \"the helicopter view\", he says. \"You're not as close to the grief of losing your child. But by the same token, you're grieving your grandchild and also seeing the devastation which has happened to your children, which is just dreadful and ongoing.\"\n\nOne of the key documents Derek uncovered was a report from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), whose experts had been invited into the trust in November 2015 to assess maternity care. It was damning. Among the findings were that some consultants did not carry out ward rounds, review women, attend out-of-hours calls when requested or complete mandatory training.\n\nDerek found that report had led to a Maternity Improvement Plan overseen by NHS England, but the trust's board papers - which he pored over for hours, weeks on end - showed the problems continued into 2016 and 2017.\n\nIn other words, managers and external regulators knew there were problems in the trust, particularly at the QEQM Hospital. He asks: \"Who followed it up, at the trust, at NHS England?\"\n\nThe one agency that did not know about the RCOG report was the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - which inspects health and social care providers. Derek had written to the CQC to inform it of Harry's death and the problems surrounding it.\n\nThe commission's initial response was to thank him, but to say it would be taking no further action as it appeared his grandson's death had been because of the poor skills of one doctor - the locum who carried out the C-section.\n\nBut Derek persisted and changed the CQC's view of the trust. This eventually led, in June 2021, to East Kent being fined more than £700,000 for failing to provide both Harry and Sarah with safe care and treatment.\n\nIn October 2019, three months before Harry's inquest was due to take place, Derek decided he had uncovered deep-seated problems at the trust and only publicity was likely to bring change. He saw my coverage of an inquest into the death of 14-year-old Amy Allan, which found significant failings by Great Ormond Street Hospital, and sent me an email.\n\nThe Richford family in January 2020 - at the end of Harry's inquest which concluded his death had been\"wholly avoidable\"\n\nI spent three months with a colleague looking into the East Kent trust. In January 2020 we reported there were significant problems with its maternity services, including the potentially-avoidable deaths of seven babies.\n\nThe coroner at Harry's inquest later that month concluded his death had been\"wholly avoidable\". The family stood outside the court in front of the cameras, tears gently rolling down cheeks, arms and hands tightly gripped around each other. They had achieved their primary aim - justice for Harry.\n\nWithin three weeks of the inquest concluding - and with more serious concerns emerging - NHS England appointed Dr Bill Kirkup to carry out an independent investigation into maternity care at East Kent.\n\nThe publicity led to other families getting in touch with us - and seeking advice from Derek - telling their own stories of poor outcomes. Because he has become viewed as the chief instigator of the inquiry, people randomly contact Derek and - without warning - launch into detailed and often horrific details of what happened in their own case.\n\nDerek says his coping mechanism has been blogging on the web - writing in general terms about the conversations he has had with families, and offering possible useful advice.\n\n\"Writing it down, getting it out of my head and onto a page, I found really useful,\" he says.\n\n\"It has, at times, been quite lonely. At times you have to walk a tightrope between what is right for other families and what's right for me. More importantly however, is what is right for Tom and Sarah.\"\n\nDespite those tensions, Derek says he does not have any regrets about the past few years - but says he cannot answer for Harry's parents, who might feel differently.\n\n\"When I started investigating what was going on with Harry, it was very much like peeling back an onion. 'Hang on a minute, that can't be right, that doesn't add up.' Ever since I was a small kid, justice has been so important to me.\n\n\"What I found was that, up to that point, no-one had ever joined the dots. And that's so important. I think this had to happen, someone had to do it. There will be families before us that wish they did it. We will be saving a level of families after us.\"\n\nBut it was not just other families who had not joined the dots - lawyers raising repeated individual clinical negligence cases against the trust, charities offering bereavement support, as well as NHS regulators, all failed to see what was happening.\n\nFor a skilled, determined, campaigner like Derek - who has spent so much time pushing forward, lobbying and cajoling - it can sometimes be difficult for him to see how far he has come and how much he has achieved.\n\nThe trust has, after all, offered a fulsome apology for its actions in relation to Harry, admitting in June 2021 it had \"failed\" his parents. While it acknowledged it had more to do, the trust also said at the time that it had more doctors and better training. And it has of course had to expose itself to a team of experts crawling over its maternity services.\n\nIn his garden in rural Kent, I ask Derek if he has had time to reflect on his achievements. He looks away and, for the first time, struggles to answer. His voice breaks, he sniffles slightly. \"I would like to think that we as a family have done Harry proud,\" he says eventually. \"And that I've done Tom and Sarah proud.\"", "Manchester City 4-0 Real Madrid (5-1 agg): Pep Guardiola says win banishes 'pain' of last year Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nPain of last season pushed City to win - Guardiola Manchester City's stunning Champions League semi-final win over Real Madrid banished the \"pain\" of last year's defeat, says manager Pep Guardiola. City produced a relentless performance at Etihad Stadium to beat Real 4-0 - and 5-1 on aggregate. At the same stage last year Real overturned a 4-3 defeat in the first leg with a remarkable late comeback in the second before winning the final. \"When the draw was Madrid, I said, 'yeah, I want it',\" Guardiola said. \"I had the feeling these last days that we had a mix of calm and tension to play these type of games. \"After 10 or 15 minutes, I was feeling all the pain that we had [with] what happened last season. \"It was really tough, losing the way we lost and I think in the moment we had to swallow poison. \"But during one year we showed how special a group of players these are.\" City, who have never won European football's biggest competition, will play Inter Milan in the final in Istanbul on 10 June. Their unbeaten run at home in Europe now stands at 26 games, stretching back to September 2018. Forward Jack Grealish told BT Sport: \"I don't think a lot of teams would do that to Real Madrid, but when we are all together, and especially playing here, we feel unstoppable. \"I don't know what it is, whether it is our fans or the pitch, we just feel unstoppable. Even in the league we feel no-one can beat us. It is unbelievable.\" Manchester City are into the Champions League final for the second time, after they lost to Chelsea in 2021 'Pep text me and said Man City would win' City were utterly dominant from the first minute against Real and only two superb saves by Thibaut Courtois to deny Erling Haaland prevented them from taking the lead earlier than when Bernardo Silva struck in the 23rd minute. From then on, it felt only a question of how much City would win by and Silva made it 2-0 in the 37th minute before second-half strikes by Manuel Akanji and Julian Alvarez wrapped up an emphatic win. BT Sport pundit and former Manchester United captain Rio Ferdinand said: \"Pep text me, 'Believe me, we beat them two years ago; we will beat them again'. That was two or three hours before the game. That is pure confidence. \"It was like they were stamping on their throat, positioning where they wanted them and then bang, goal. \"That man is an absolute genius. They have destroyed, battered, pulverised a giant of European football and have done it at a canter, with ease, with loads in the tank, without even sweating.\" Former Blackburn and Chelsea striker Chris Sutton told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"They displayed real composure, authority and control. \"The Champions League is the one Pep Guardiola and Manchester City want. If they perform anywhere like this in the final, you can only see one winner.\" Is the Treble on? City could win two trophies before the Champions League final. A win at home to Chelsea on Sunday will seal the Premier League title, and they face United - the only Premier League side to win the Treble - in the FA Cup final at Wembley on 3 June. Former Liverpool striker Michael Owen told BT Sport: \"Everybody is playing at the top level. They have a manager who is a genius. I cannot see anything else than them winning all three trophies.\" Ex-Newcastle and City goalkeeper Shay Given said: \"The Treble is getting ever closer. This was the biggest hurdle to get over.\"\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "Damien Green visited Barry in his childhood and swam in sewage\n\nA senior Conservative MP said he swam in sewage when visiting south Wales as a child.\n\nAshford MP Damian Green, 67, said attitudes towards sewage spillages had changed in recent years.\n\nWelsh Water released sewage into rivers, lakes and the sea for almost 600,000 hours last year.\n\nEngland's water companies recently pledged £10bn after apologising for \"not acting quickly enough\".\n\n\"I'm not denying its a big issue but it always has been. I remember as a child in south Wales swimming in sewage.\n\n\"Jackson's Bay in Barry used to be a sewage outlet where we all went and paddled and swam - it was regarded as acceptable,\" Mr Green said on ITV's Peston.\n\nAccording to Natural Resources Wales, Jackson's Bay's water quality dropped from good in 2019 to sufficient in 2020, where it has remained since.\n\nSufficient is one above the worst ranking of poor.\n\nWelsh Water recently said it would spend £840m by 2025, followed by a further £1.4bn between 2024-2030 on work to tackle the problem and protect the environment.\n\nChief executive Peter Perry said last week that he and company chief finance director Mike Davies would not be taking their bonus this year after the firms sewage figures were released.\n\nJackson's Bay's water quality dropped from good to sufficient in 2020\n\nEmma Clancy, chief executive of the Consumer Council for Water (CCW), said this could mark a \"turning point in water companies taking ownership of tackling the challenges facing the sector\".\n\nBut Josh Harries of Surfers Against Sewage, an environmental charity that campaigns to protect the ocean, said it was hard to believe water companies.\n\n\"Why should we trust them? They've overseen decades of mismanagement of our sewerage network with our rivers and seas paying the price.\n\n\"We need more robust regulation and strict enforcement to hold these companies to account.\"\n\nThe majority of sewers in Wales are \"combined sewers\" and carry both sewage and surface water from roofs and drains.\n\nAn overflow during heavy rain can lead to sewerage system becoming overwhelmed.", "A crowd threw stones, sticks, bottles at journalists and chanted racist slogans outside Damascus Gate\n\nThousands of Israeli nationalists have marched into the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, with violence directed at media covering the event.\n\nThe flag parade is part of Israel's Jerusalem Day, marking its capture of the east of the city in the 1967 war.\n\nA group of marchers threw stones, sticks and bottles at Palestinian and foreign journalists at the Damascus Gate entrance.\n\nThey also cheered and chanted racist slogans, including \"Death to Arabs\".\n\nFar-right Israeli cabinet ministers joined the procession. One of them, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, declared: \"Jerusalem is ours for ever.\"\n\nPalestinians along the route in occupied East Jerusalem earlier shuttered homes and shops over fears of abuse.\n\nThe march has increasingly become a show of force for Jewish ultranationalists, while for Palestinians it is seen as a blatant provocation undermining their ties to the city.\n\nRacist, anti-Arab chants are often shouted by nationalist marchers. The event has in the past sparked much wider violence.\n\nIsraeli police vowed to stop law-breaking, but blamed regional \"terrorist elements\" for \"wild incitement\" about the march on social media. They also said it was only \"a small minority on both sides [who] try to agitate\".\n\nIsraeli police intervened when two Palestinians were beaten after a confrontation with marchers\n\nPalestinian Authority leaders called the East Jerusalem events a \"provocative act\", saying far-right cabinet ministers Mr Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich - staunch supporters of the parade - were \"planting seeds of conflict\".\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the event would go ahead as planned.\n\nAlong the route in the Old City, Samir Abu Sbeih pulled down the shutters of his sweet shop, saying that police had advised Palestinian businesses to do so by mid-afternoon.\n\n\"It's not their land to celebrate,\" he said of the march. \"We live under occupation and that's why we have to accept it.\"\n\nKebab restaurant owner Basti, who did not want to give his full name, said the event had become \"worse\" over the years.\n\n\"People, when they dance with the flag, sometimes they try to put the flag in your face, sometimes they spit on your face. And this is not nice.\"\n\nHe said police told him he was not being forced to close, but that if he kept his business open, it would be at his own risk.\n\n\"For me, I just want to be inside. I don't like problems, for both sides,\" he said.\n\nJerusalem Day events have been marked by Israelis for decades, but in recent years, parts of the route have been the focus of spiralling tensions.\n\nIn the late afternoon, tens of thousands of Israelis headed from the west of Jerusalem to the Old City, ending with a so-called flag dance at the Western Wall, the holiest site for Jewish prayer.\n\nBefore that, marchers went their separate ways and thousands of mainly men and teenage boys headed into East Jerusalem.\n\nThey walked through Damascus Gate, which Israeli forces usually clear of Palestinians in advance, and then into the Old City's Muslim Quarter.\n\nPrevious years have seen groups of marchers chant \"death to Arabs\" and \"may your village burn\", while others banged the shutters of Palestinian shops.\n\nOne of the marchers, Pini, who didn't want to give his surname, said he had attended for decades to mark the day \"Jerusalem was reunited and returned to the hands of the Jewish people\".\n\n\"From 1948 to 1967, we were prevented from accessing the Western Wall,\" he said referring to the period that East Jerusalem was under Jordanian control. \"We returned to the Western Wall,\" he added.\n\nAsked about a threatening atmosphere for Palestinians, he said he opposed any harassment. But, echoing highly controversial comments this year from a far-right minister, he added: \"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people; when was Palestine established? Is there a Palestinian king? Is there a Palestinian currency?\"\n\nPalestinian militant group Hamas warned Israel this week that it would reignite conflict, were it to cross \"red lines\" in Jerusalem during the event.\n\nOn flag march day in 2021, the group fired rockets at Jerusalem from the Gaza Strip as a week of boiling tensions exploded into war.\n\nHowever, this year, with another round of conflict between Israel and Gaza militants ending only last weekend, appetite for escalation appeared lower.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment an elderly couple were rescued after being spotted hanging out of their roof skylight\n\nMore than 20 rivers have burst their banks in Italy, leaving 13 people dead and forcing thousands from their homes after six months' rainfall fell in a day and a half.\n\nMore bodies were found on Thursday after almost every river flooded between Bologna and the north-east coast 115km (70 miles) away.\n\nSome 280 landslides have taken place.\n\nThe mayor of Ravenna, a city badly affected by flooding, told the BBC it was the worst disaster in a century.\n\nMichele de Pascale described the damage caused by the floods as catastrophic, costing people in his city and the wider region their homes, possessions and for some, their lives.\n\n\"It was a very bad 48 hours. Water and mud took over our whole village,\" said Roberta Lazzarini, 71.\n\nHer home of Botteghino di Zocca, south of Bologna, was hit by a torrent on Wednesday. Streets, houses and gardens were inundated and Roberta said she was still scared.\n\n\"I've never seen anything like that here. We were stuck and didn't know what to do. I just hope it doesn't happen again.\"\n\nFirefighters helped residents flee their houses, including a 97-year-old woman who had to leave her bedroom in a rubber dinghy.\n\nThe historic centre of Lugo, outside Ravenna was among the cities with the worst flooding\n\n\"Our community is broken,\" said Roberta's daughter, Ines, who runs the local cafe in the central square. \"We felt completely cut out, isolated, some of us were truly terrified.\"\n\n\"We've had floods before, but it has never been this bad as far as I can remember,\" said Lamieri, 74, as he removed mud from his basement, where his son stores products to sell at the souvenir shop he runs in central Bologna.\n\n\"The street turned into river. We lost all of our stuff which was stored down here. We estimate thousands of euros in damage.\"\n\nThis is one of many villages and towns flooded in the province of Emilia-Romagna, not just from rivers, but overflowing canals too.\n\nMore evacuations took place west of Ravenna on Thursday and more bodies were found, including a couple in a flat in the village of Russi, which was flooded hours before.\n\nMany are warning that Italy needs a national plan to respond to the effects of climate change.\n\nCivil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci said tropical conditions had already reached Italy, with 20cm of rain falling in 36 hours, and in some areas up to 50cm.\n\n\"Soils that remain dry for a long time end up becoming cemented, drastically limiting their capacity to absorb water,\" he said.\n\nNo regional dams had been built for 40 years, he said, and a new approach to hydraulic engineering was needed.\n\nThe leader of Italy's opposition Democratic Party told the BBC the whole political system was to blame for the disaster and politicians had not done enough to address challenges posed by climate change.\n\nElly Schlein, who was formerly vice-president of Emilia-Romagna, said successive governments had consistently failed to address Italy's vulnerability to flooding and other extreme water events like droughts.\n\nMany factors contribute to flooding, but a warming atmosphere caused by climate change makes extreme rainfall more likely. Already, the world has warmed about 1.1C since the industrial era began, and temperatures will continue to rise unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nAntonio Francesco Rizzuto, a 55-year-old lawyer who lives by the river with his wife, was forced to leave on Tuesday night and is now living at his daughter's in a nearby village.\n\n\"It was something no-one was expecting in these proportions,\" he said. \"Before we left our house, the water level was getting higher by the minute. When we got back yesterday... our living room was completely submerged. We will have to throw away most of our furniture.\"\n\nStefano Bonaccini, regional president of the Emilia-Romagna region, said the damage costs ran into billions of euros.\n\nOvernight, evacuations were ordered in towns to the west of Ravenna. Residents in Villanova were ordered to seek shelter on upper floors, a day after floodwater cascaded through the historic centre of Lugo.\n\nLugo was flooded again on Thursday, as was Cervi, on the coast.\n\nRescue operations in the small village of Massa Lombarda, about 10 km from Imola\n\nThis weekend's Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola was called off because of the risk of the nearby Santerno river flooding. Many of the areas around the track used for parking and watching the race were deluged on Tuesday.\n\nAs well as the 23 rivers that burst their banks, the Zena stream turned into a raging torrent in Botteghino di Zocca.\n\nLino Lenzi, 80, was standing in what used to be his daughter's garden, which was now overflowing with mud, his grandchildren's toys submerged.\n\n\"I've lived here for 70 years and I've never seen anything like this,\" he said, \"the water is everywhere.\"\n\nLino Lenzi blames authorities for failing to dredge rivers in recent years\n\nThe house has belonged to the family for generations and his daughter had just finished renovating it.\n\nInside his kitchen, the water is is up to our ankles. The day before, it was more than 2m (6.5ft) high.\n\n\"We've had to get rid of the water with everything we've got: buckets, pots and pans.\"\n\nLino complained the local rivers had not been dredged for years.\n\n\"No-one has showed up to help. We've received zero help from the government or local authority,\"\n\nRescue operations have proved difficult because so many roads have been flooded and many towns have gone without electricity.\n\nThe only help Lino had was from a teenage boy who lives near by. \"He walked past and saw that we needed help. He helped us move our furniture.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHave you been affected by the flooding in Italy? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sniffer dogs found a pair of scissors which search teams think suggests the children survived\n\nColombian President Gustavo Petro says that there is no confirmation that four children who went missing after their plane crashed in the jungle more than two weeks ago have been rescued.\n\nSearch teams have found items they think belong to the children in the jungle as well as a makeshift shelter.\n\nThis has led them to believe the children have been wandering alone through the rainforest since the crash.\n\nBut Mr Petro said information about their rescue could not be verified.\n\nThe children - who range in age from between 13 years to 11 months - were on board a small plane along with their mother, a pilot and a co-pilot when it crashed on 1 May.\n\nThe adults all died in the crash.\n\nNews about the alleged rescue of the children was broken by the president himself on Wednesday afternoon local time, when he tweeted that they had been found \"after arduous search efforts\".\n\nBut less than 24 hours later, he deleted the tweet and shortly after wrote: \"I have decided to delete the tweet because the information provided by the ICBF (Colombia's child welfare agency) could not be confirmed. I am sorry about what happened. The armed forced and the indigenous communities will carry on with their tireless search in order to give the country the news it is hoping for.\"\n\nColombia's child welfare agency had earlier said that the president's now-deleted tweet had been based on information it had provided.\n\nIt said in a statement that it had received information \"from the field\" that the children had been found in good health.\n\nIts director, Astrid Cáceres, told Colombian radio on Thursday morning that the information came from \"reliable sources\" and that the people who had contacted them had described the children's appearance, which matched those of the missing children.\n\nHowever, Ms Cáceres said that her agency had not yet been able to see the children and until such moment, the search effort would not be called off.\n\nThe child welfare agency was not alone in saying that it had received information that the four children had been rescued.\n\nA pilot said he had also been told the children had been found by indigenous people deep in the rainforest.\n\nSoldiers taking part in the search, however, said that they themselves had not yet been able to make contact with the children \"due to the difficult meteorological conditions and the difficult terrain\".\n\nThe Cessna 206 light aircraft the children and their mother had been in was flying from Araracuara, deep in the Amazon jungle in southern Colombia, to San José del Guaviare, when it disappeared in the morning of 1 May.\n\nAfter a huge search effort involving more than 100 soldiers, the plane was finally located on Monday, two weeks after it had disappeared.\n\nThe bodies of the pilot, the co-pilot and 33-year-old Magdalena Mucutuy, the mother of the four children, were found at the crash site in Caquetá province.\n\nBut the children were nowhere to be found.\n\nThe plane was found nose down in deep jungle\n\nThe search teams have, however, found clues indicating that the children, who are from the Huitoto indigenous group, survived the crash.\n\nSniffer dogs came across a child's drinking bottle, a pair of scissors, a hair tie and some half-eaten fruit.\n\nThe search teams also found an improvised shelter made from sticks and branches.\n\n\"We think that the children who were aboard the plane are alive. We have found traces at a different location, away from the crash site, and a place where they may have sheltered,\" Colonel Juan José López said on Wednesday.\n\nFearing that the children were wandering ever deeper into the jungle, the military deployed helicopters which played a recorded message from their grandmother in the Huitoto language urging them to stay put.\n\nReports of sightings of the children spread on Wednesday.\n\nAvianline, a local plane operator which owned the crashed plane, released a statement saying that it had received reports that the children had been found.\n\nOne of its pilots who landed in Cachiporro, a community near the crash site, was told that locals there had been contacted by radio from a remote location called Dumar and been told that the children had been found. They would be taken by boat to Cachiporro, he said.\n\nThe company added that it had no way of confirming if the information was correct, but it did point out that the arrival of the children by boat may have been delayed by heavy rains, which have made the river too dangerous to navigate.\n\nIndigenous radio stations also reported on Wednesday that the children had been found by a local, and were being transported by river to Cachiporro.\n\nThe children's father has said that he is not giving up hope. He told Caracol Radio that his sister had once been lost in the forest for a month and managed to return.\n\nIt is thought that the Huitoto people's knowledge of fruits and jungle survival skills will have given the young children a better chance of surviving the ordeal.", "Levi Davis was last seen in Barcelona on 29 October - witnesses say they saw a man in the water of the city's port the next morning\n\nSpanish police have said they are investigating the possibility that missing British rugby player Levi Davis drowned.\n\nLevi was 24 years old when he disappeared in Barcelona shortly after arriving in the city from Ibiza by boat.\n\nHe has not been heard from since the last confirmed sighting on 29 October.\n\nMossos d'Esquadra - Catalan Police - told the BBC its main theory is that Levi fell into the sea.\n\nPolice divers can be seen in the clip entering the waters close to where Levi is thought to have disappeared.\n\nThe force previously confirmed it had received reports from cruise ship staff who said they saw a man in the water on the morning of 30 October.\n\nLevi's mobile phone was last located in the port area that morning, and his passport was found there in November after his disappearance was reported.\n\nDetectives previously said they were trying to establish whether there was any criminal involvement in Levi's disappearance.\n\nIn its latest statement, Mossos d'Esquadra said the new search was trying to find \"any evidence that could confirm the theory of a possible accidental death\".\n\nHowever, it said the case remained open and the latest developments were in response to new information.\n\nA spokesperson said the force was keeping in \"constant\" contact with Levi's family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Levi's mum has shared the last video message from him sent just hours before he disappeared\n\nLevi, who had played rugby for Bath and Worthing, appeared on Celebrity X-Factor in 2019.\n\nHe'd signed a record deal and was due to release his second single last November.\n\nBefore his disappearance, he'd spent about two weeks staying with a friend in Ibiza before heading to Barcelona.\n\nHe was recorded on CCTV outside the Old Irish Pub in the city centre, and sent several voice notes and messages before contact was lost the next morning.\n\nLevi's mum Julie Davis, from Solihull in the West Midlands, has previously criticised the speed of the investigation.\n\nMore recently, she has urged people not to spread conspiracy theories about his disappearance online.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The proportion of 11 to 17-year-olds experimenting with vaping has doubled in less than 10 years\n\nA doubling of children trying vaping within the past decade has prompted calls for tighter regulations.\n\nGeoff Worsley, a father from Abergele, Conwy county, has set up a petition which has more than 100,000 signatures.\n\nHe said he was especially concerned about \"brightly coloured packaging and sweet names attractive to kids\".\n\nYouGov data for Britain suggests experimental vaping among 11 to 17-year-olds rose from 5.6% in 2014 to 11.6% in 2023.\n\nThe petition calls for more regulations for shops selling vape products as Mr Worsley believes just spending money on enforcement \"is not enough\".\n\n\"Vaping is safer and better for smokers than smoking, but it shouldn't be promoted to children,\" he added.\n\n\"Parents like me up and down the country are calling on the government to act to protect our children from vaping as well as smoking.\"\n\nMr Worsley said he started the petition after his own teenage son began vaping.\n\n\"He was getting out of breath running up a couple of flights of stairs after starting to vape,\" he said.\n\nThe worried dad believed trading standards was so busy stopping illegal e-cigarettes it was difficult to make sure shops stuck to rules banning sales to under-18s.\n\n\"Vapes need to be reclassified - and treated as a tobacco product,\" he said.\n\nHe believed like cigarettes, they should be hidden from view.\n\n\"The government are five years behind the ball on this,\" he said.\n\nDuring the YouGov survey, disposable vapes were the top e-cigarette of choice, while purchases of vapes were mostly made from corner shops.\n\nIt is illegal to sell vapes to under-18s, but social media shows teenagers are accessing the products, and discussing flavours such as pink lemonade, strawberry, banana and mango.\n\nSome parents are concerned that bright colours and fruit flavours are marketing vapes to a younger audience\n\nExperts previously warned that a new generation of disposable vapes known as puff bars - which contain nicotine - have flooded the market.\n\nIn 2021, child vapers were least likely to vape disposables (7.7%) but in 2022 they became the most used (52%) and this continued to grow to 69% in 2023.\n\nThe latest survey of 2,656 youngsters was carried out by YouGov in March and April for Action on Smoking and Health (Ash).\n\nIt will be submitted as part of the UK government's call for evidence on measures to reduce the number of children accessing vaping.\n\nNearly three-quarters (73%) of youngsters said their first vape was given to them and in two-thirds of cases it was by a friend.\n\nAn almost identical proportion said they usually bought their vapes, most commonly from a corner shop (26%).\n\nOther places included petrol stations or petrol station shops (9.4%) and online (7.6%).\n\nDeborah Arnott, chief executive of Ash, said: \"We need to stem the tide of child vape experimentation and the government's investment in a crackdown on illegal underage sales of vapes is a vital first step.\n\n\"But enforcement on its own won't do the trick without tougher regulation to address the child-friendly promotion of these cheap and attractive products.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"It's already illegal to sell vapes to children and we are exploring further ways to tackle youth vaping through our newly launched call for evidence, which will look at the appearance and characteristics of vapes, the marketing and promotion of vapes, and the role of social media.\"\n\nE-cigarettes have helped thousands of people stop smoking by removing tobacco from their habit.\n\nBut the vapour inhaled can contain small amounts of chemicals, including nicotine, which could carry risks.\n\nThere is concern young people are taking up vaping because they believe it is risk-free.\n\nUniversity of Nottingham's Professor John Britton, who advised the UK government on a report on ending smoking, said recently: \"It's inconceivable to say that vaping is safe, it is a balance of risks.\n\n\"If you don't use nicotine in any shape or form, it is madness to start vaping.\"\n\nHe anticipated in 40 or 50 years' time, people would develop lung cancer, chronic bronchitis and other serious lung conditions because of vaping.\n\nBut those numbers are likely to be small.\n\nThe UK has some of the strictest vape regulations in the world.\n\nAlmost all marketing is banned, nicotine in the product is limited and only over 18s can legally buy them.", "Ukraine says one of the Russian missiles shot down over the Kyiv region fell in the backyard of a house\n\nUkraine's capital Kyiv has been attacked from the air by Russia for the ninth time this month.\n\nKyiv's authorities said it seemed all incoming missiles had been destroyed, but debris falling from the air caused some damage in two districts.\n\nOne person has been killed and two more wounded in a missile strike on the Black Sea port of Odesa, officials say.\n\nBlasts were also heard in the central-western regions of Vinnytsia, Khmelnytsky and Zhytomyr.\n\nOverall, 29 out of 30 missiles launched by Russia overnight were shot down, Ukraine's Air Force said in a statement.\n\nRussia has significantly increased the frequency of its missile attacks on Ukraine over the past days and weeks, while Ukraine appears to be shooting down more of Russia's missiles.\n\nSo far in May, Russia has carried out four mass launches - two them between 16 and 18 May alone - compared to one each in April and March, and two in February.\n\nThe last time Russia attacked with such intensity was in the period after New Year, when four attacks took place in quick succession between 31 December and 26 January.\n\nThe train derailed near Simferopol on Thursday morning, Russian-appointed officials in Crimea say\n\nIn a separate development, rail traffic was suspended between Simferopol and the city of Sevastopol after a freight train carrying grain derailed. Simferopol is the regional capital of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nVladimir Konstantinov, the Moscow-installed head of the regional parliament, told Russia's state media that the derailment was caused by an explosion. An investigation is now under way.\n\nIn the latest overnight attack on Kyiv, Russia used cruise missiles and reconnaissance drones, the capital's military administration said in a statement.\n\nIt said that \"a series of air attacks on Kyiv, unprecedented in their power, intensity and variety, continues\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Ukraine said it had shot down six Kinzhal hypersonic missiles as part of an \"exceptionally dense\" attack.\n\nSpeaking before the all-clear was given, Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a fire had broken out in a garage in the Darnytsya area of Kyiv, but added no one had been injured.\n\nThe head of Kyiv's civilian military administration said a heavy missile attack had been launched from Russian strategic bombers over the Caspian Sea.\n\nSerhiy Popko said the attack probably included cruise missiles, adding that Russia had deployed reconnaissance drones over Kyiv after unleashing its wave of air strikes.\n\nHe said a second fire had broken out in a non-residential building in Kyiv's eastern Desnyansky district, but did not give an update on if anyone was hurt.\n\nAt least eight people were reportedly killed - including a five-year-old boy near Kherson - and 17 were injured by shelling on Wednesday, as both sides traded accusations of striking civilian areas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two adults and a five-year-old killed after Russian shell falls near playground\n\nSlowly but surely Ukraine is getting ready to launch a huge assault on Russia's invading forces.\n\nWestern officials say Ukraine's army is at \"an increased state of readiness\" ahead of a long-awaited counter-offensive against Russia's invasion.\n\nThe officials said many of Kyiv's military capabilities were now \"coming together\" - including its ability to deploy tanks, fighting vehicles and combat engineers, as well as clearing mines, bridging rivers and striking long-range targets.\n\nThey said Russian troops were in a parlous state but warned that Moscow's defensive lines in Ukraine were \"potentially formidable\" and guarded by \"extensive minefields\".\n\nSo the officials argued the success of any Ukrainian offensive should be measured not just by territorial gains but also by whether it convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin to rethink his strategy.\n\nThe \"cognitive effect on the Kremlin\", they claimed, was more important than Ukrainian forces cleaving through Russian lines all the way to the border.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met with a Chinese diplomat in Kyiv and rejected any peace plan which would involve them giving up territory to Russia.\n\nBut an agreement allowing Ukraine to export millions of tonnes of grain through the Black Sea has been extended for two months, the day before it was due to expire.\n• None 'We thought it'd be a crisis we could live through'", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City delivered a relentless performance laced with outstanding quality to overpower holders Real Madrid and reach the Champions League final against Inter Milan in Istanbul.\n\nCity have lost two previous semi-finals to Real but they made no mistake here at a joyous Etihad Stadium to now stand one step away from claiming the trophy that has always stayed tantalisingly out of reach for Pep Guardiola's team.\n\nAnd their display in a magical first half, in particular, will live long in the memory as the masters of this tournament were left bewildered by City's brilliance.\n\nIt maintained a seemingly unstoppable march towards a treble of Champions League, Premier League - which can be won with victory at home to Chelsea on Sunday - and the FA Cup, where they play Manchester United in the final at Wembley.\n\nReal keeper Thibaut Courtois performed heroics to save two Erling Haaland headers early in the first half but he was powerless to stop Bernardo Silva's close-range finish after 23 minutes, the Portugal midfielder scoring a looping header for the second eight minutes before half-time.\n\nCity faced the occasional threats from Real after the break, Ederson saving well from David Alaba and Karim Benzema, but they were no match and when Manuel Akanji's header deflected in off Eder Militao 14 minutes from time the celebrations started.\n\nSubstitute Julian Alvarez then wrapped up the dominant win with a late strike after latching onto a brilliant Phil Foden pass.\n\nCity will play Inter on 10 June as they look to win the Champions League for the first time.\n\nCity have put themselves in a magnificent position to become only the second English club to win the Treble first claimed by Manchester United in 1999.\n\nCity look to have finally broken Arsenal in the Premier League title race and will be overwhelming favourites to beat Inter Milan, although the desire to keep this feat for themselves will provide fuel and inspiration for United in the FA Cup final at Wembley.\n\nGuardiola's side have somehow found ways to miss out on the Champions League in the past but the addition of Haaland's sheer menace as well as more defensive steel makes it difficult to see how they will not find a way past surprise finalists Inter.\n\nCity made a Real side full of experience and quality look several classes beneath them in a first half that will be among the finest this stadium has seen, the dazzling interplay, fierce intensity and pace giving them a two-goal advantage that would have been far more but for the excellence of Courtois.\n\nThis night had a special atmosphere even before kick-off and victory will taste even sweeter after the pain of last season's loss at the same stage, when City were almost in the final only to concede two stoppage-time goals and eventually go out.\n\nThe Champions League has inflicted various levels of anguish on City despite their domestic dominance but if they perform anything like this in Istanbul it is hard to see an efficient but unspectacular Inter side having enough to trouble them.\n\nEnd of an era for Real?\n\nReal should never be written off with their history of success but there was an end-of-an-era feel about the manner of this defeat.\n\nThe side who put Liverpool and Chelsea out of the Champions League with the minimum of fuss looked its age here as City ran the holders ragged.\n\nLuka Modric was taken off and replaced by Antonio Rudiger just after the hour, the 37-year-old's future at the Bernabeu uncertain, while even Karim Benzema, 35, was unable to pose his usual threat.\n\nReal will refuse to stand still and the way they were outclassed here may only speed up the rate of change, with England's teenage sensation Jude Bellingham looking set to arrive to supplement the next generation midfielders alongside Federico Valverde, Eduardo Camavinga and Aurelien Tchouameni.\n\nWhether the great Carlo Ancelotti remains in charge will also be a point of debate with change often in the air if Real go a season without winning either La Liga or the Champions League.\n\nWhatever the outcome, the Italian manager keeps his place in history as the only coach to win this tournament four times.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 4, Real Madrid 0. Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Phil Foden with a through ball.\n• None Jack Grealish (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Dani Ceballos (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez.\n• None Attempt saved. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A warm-hearted Aussie rom-com about a flawed, funny couple getting it all utterly wrong\n• None Who killed Michaela McAreavey on her honeymoon? The tragic murder of an Irish sporting icon's daughter reinvestigated", "Miss Mayo is accused of fracturing her son's skull before putting him in a bin bag\n\nA teenage mother accused of murdering her newborn son \"cuddled him goodbye, kissed him on the forehead\" then placed him in a bag, jurors have been told.\n\nParis Mayo allegedly killed her son Stanley at her parents' home in Springfield Avenue, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, in March 2019.\n\nShe is accused of fracturing his skull, possibly with her foot, and stuffing pieces of cotton wool into his mouth.\n\nMiss Mayo, who was 15 at the time, denies his murder.\n\nStanley is thought to have lived just over two hours, although Miss Mayo claimed in police interviews played to jurors at Worcester Crown Court on Thursday that he never showed signs of life.\n\nShe allegedly concealed her pregnancy and the birth of her son, which she managed alone at the family home on 23 March, the court has been told.\n\nIn her interviews with police which were read in court on Thursday, Miss Mayo claimed two cotton wool balls that were found in his throat were due to her panicking because Stanley \"had all this blood coming out of his mouth\", and she started \"cleaning it up\".\n\nShe admitted she could have been a bit rough and they could have gone down his throat, but her \"whole finger never went into his mouth\".\n\nThe court heard Miss Mayo, of Ruardean in Gloucestershire, did not want to wake her mother who was asleep upstairs at the time because she did not want her to be ashamed of her.\n\nShe gave birth at about 21:30 GMT in a downstairs sitting room after her parents had gone to bed after suffering cramps for 48 hours beforehand.\n\n\"When I was stood, I got sharp pain, I put my head on my arms and heard something make a noise - you could hear something hit the floor,\" she said.\n\n\"I looked down and I saw him and I just thought 'oh God'.\n\n\"When I saw the baby, he was on the floor, I saw his umbilical cord was around his throat, he wasn't crying, making any noise, he wasn't moving, he wasn't like a normal baby colour.\"\n\nShe said she put her son on a rug, and got water and a towel to clean up then saw Stanley \"had blood coming out of his mouth and I was like 'oh no'\".\n\nShe said she thought the cotton wool would \"absorb\" the blood in his mouth.\n\nWorcester Crown Court heard she gave birth alone in a sitting room at her parents' house\n\n\"I knew I couldn't help him, knew he wasn't going to come alive, so I just wiped all this blood up and left it in there (his mouth)... so it would absorb all the blood\", jurors heard.\n\nShe said she then got a black bag and put him inside, telling police \"I don't know why I just wanted it all to be over with\".\n\n\"I opened it up and put it on the floor, so he wouldn't fall in or hurt himself, I picked him up and I cuddled him goodbye.\n\n\"He still wasn't doing anything.\n\n\"I kissed him on his forehead, gently placed him in there, (and) put the placenta in next to him.\"\n\nShe said she tied the bag, picked it up \"from the bottom where he was\" and put it by the front door \"on purpose\" for her mother to find, before she said she went upstairs to bed.\n\nThe court previously heard she text her brother the next morning to ask him to put the bag \"which was full of sick\" in the bin.\n\nHer mother made the discovery as she picked up the \"unusually heavy\" bag and called emergency services.\n\nThe trial, expected to last six weeks, continues.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly will take a break from Saturday Night Takeaway after the 2024 series, ITV has said.\n\nReaching the \"milestone\" of 20 series seemed like the \"perfect time to pause for a little while and catch our breath,\" the presenting duo said.\n\nThe series previously took a pause in 2009 - returning four years later.\n\nITV's Kevin Lygo said the broadcaster understood why the duo have \"a desire to take a pause\".\n\n\"When you think of Saturday night television you think of Saturday Night Takeaway,\" ITV's director of television said.\n\nThe most recent series of that show launched in February, with ITV1's biggest overnight audience of the year, attracting 6.4 million viewers.\n\nSince its launch in 2002 it has received multiple Bafta and National Television Awards (NTA), including presenting accolades for Ant and Dec.\n\nThey won their first TV presenting prize at the National Television Awards in 2001 alongside boy band Blue\n\nThe pair will continue their exclusive working relationship with ITV, as hosts of popular shows including I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, Britain's Got Talent and Limitless Win.\n\n\"We love making Saturday Night Takeaway, but reaching the milestone of 20 series seemed like the perfect time to pause for a little while and catch our breath,\" Ant said.\n\nDec added: \"We still have a momentous 20th series to look forward to first so we will do our best to go out (for now) with a bang in 2024.\"\n• None Ant and Dec to miss National TV Awards with Covid", "Prince Harry is one of four people taking action against the newspaper publisher\n\nA private investigator who worked for the Daily Mirror's publisher says journalists he dealt with knew \"full well\" he was a practitioner of \"the dark arts\" of unlawful gathering of information.\n\nSteve Whittamore dismissed the newspapers' claims that only a small amount of what he did was illegal.\n\nThe Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) denies senior executives knew about the practices and failed to stop them.\n\nAnother key witness also described the MGN as an \"organised crime group\".\n\nMr Whittamore was giving evidence to the civil trial into breaches of privacy of the Duke of Sussex and other figures.\n\nIt is alleged journalists from the newspapers obtained private and confidential information about people's lives through a variety of unlawful means between 1991 and 2011 - including accessing voicemail messages on their phones.\n\nMr Whittamore said he was in no doubt his newspaper customers were aware the information was obtained through 'blagging'.\n\nIf the information had been available legitimately, he said, the newspapers would not have needed his help.\n\nAt one point, he claimed he used an email address blag2049@hotmail.com to send invoices to his journalist customers, according to his witness statement.\n\nMGN told the court this address had only been used once.\n\nThe company has admitted unlawful methods were used to gather stories, but denies that executives and editors knew.\n\nMr Whittamore was convicted of breaching information laws in 2005 after an investigation during which all his records and payment invoices were seized.\n\nCross-examining him, Andrew Green KC, for the publisher, suggested that some of these records suggested he had also provided legitimate research for journalists.\n\n\"Would you accept the majority of the work you did for MGN was lawful?\"\n\n\"Perhaps you weren't quite as bad as you now wish the court to believe,\" Mr Green said, referring to Mr Whittamore's invoices.\n\n\"Well it wasn't me doing the checks,\" Mr Whittamore responded. His business involved dealing with a network of 'subcontractors' who were experts in blagging confidential information.\n\nHe was asked about one invoice for a \"mobile TP conversion\" under the name of Tom Newton-Dunn, then a young journalist for the Daily Mirror, but later political editor of the Sun, and now a presenter on Times Radio.\n\nHe told the court this meant getting a name and address for a mobile number, information which usually can't be obtained legitimately by journalists.\n\nSteve Whittamore's statement claims he offered to obtain criminal records, benefits records, or bank details.\n\nA key witness in the civil trial also described the publisher of the Daily Mirror as an \"organised crime group\" similar to \"drug gangs and fraud factories\".\n\nGraham Johnson, a journalist convicted of phone hacking, is now helping the claimants bring their case against MGN.\n\nHe said the company had been involved in \"systematic crime\" and a \"cover-up which has gone on for over a decade\".\n\nMGN has admitted unlawful methods were used to gather stories, but denies that executives and editors knew.\n\nMr Johnson said as a journalist for tabloid newspapers he had investigated \"drug gangs in Liverpool, fraud factories in south-east London, street gangs in Birmingham.\"\n\nHe said MGN was \"no different from an organised crime group. This is a true crime story which is constantly evolving.\"\n\nHe was being questioned by Mr Green about his role in obtaining evidence of unlawful information gathering and passing it to the claimants.\n\nMr Johnson said at first he tried to get media organisations including the BBC, ITV and newspapers to report on the methods used by tabloid journalists but they \"didn't want to write the story.\"\n\nSo, he said \"if the claimants asked me for information I also started giving them information. I had no other way of getting that information out there, because no-one would take the story.\"\n\nHe said in effect he was \"letting the court be my newspaper.\"\n\nAn American private investigator Daniel 'Danno' Hanks also gave a statement that he was \"sure that the UK newspapers and their journalists knew what I was doing, not least because they could see the product of what they commissioned\".\n\nMr Hanks told the court he had been convicted of at least 20 criminal offences but had decided to provide evidence of how newspapers used his services to \"right the wrongs before I pass.\"\n\nHe specialised in using US databases to get celebrity information including social security information, voting registration records, phone records and details about vehicles.\n\nGiving an example, he said in his witness statement that he had obtained phone records for a boyfriend of the singer Kylie Minogue.\n\nHe told the High Court he had a higher level of access to databases as a private investigator, but used this to provide information for journalists, which was illegal.\n\n\"I am able to get round the restrictions by simply accessing the database under the false pretence of legitimate PI work,\" he said in his witness statement.\n\nAfter the phone hacking scandal broke in the UK, he said in his statement: \"Many of the tabloid newspapers appeared to be panicking about using anyone who was a private investigator.\"\n\nBut, he said: \"They only wanted to distance themselves on paper.\"\n\nHe was \"encouraged\" to send invoices using the company name \"British American News Service\", rather than his actual names \"Detective Danno\" and \"Backstreet Investigations\".\n\n\"I was never asked to change my product or methods which they knew to be illegal,\" he said.\n\nPrince Harry is expected to give evidence at the trial in June. He is among four people whose claims are being heard in the trial as \"representative\" cases of the types of allegations facing the publisher. They will also help the court set the level of damages MGN should pay if the claimants win.\n\nOthers involved are Coronation Street actors Nikki Sanderson and Michael Turner, known by his stage name Michael Le Vell, and comedian Paul Whitehouse's ex-wife Fiona Wightman.", "The car was found on top of the metal cylinder\n\nA stolen car has been found stuck on top of a metal drum at a roundabout in the south of Scotland.\n\nThe black Honda Civic was discovered at 05:10 at Scott's Street roundabout in Annan. Police Scotland said it had been stolen from a property in the town.\n\nThe force said the vehicle had been removed and investigations were ongoing to establish the full circumstances.\n\nSgt Brian Dickson said: \"Anyone with any information about this theft is urged to contact police.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are particularly keen to hear from anyone with dash-cam or CCTV footage which may show the car being transported or abandoned.\"", "Alfie Steele was found dead in a bath at his home in Droitwich in February 2021\n\nInjuries found on the body of a nine-year-old boy were from an \"adult who had lost control\", a court heard.\n\nAlfie Steele was discovered dead in a bath at his home in Droitwich, Worcestershire, in February 2021.\n\nBruises on Alfie suggested he had been \"manhandled\", their trial at Coventry Crown Court heard on Thursday.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Alfie had suffered 50 injuries including scratches, bruises and cuts all over his body.\n\nCommunity paediatrician Dr Sue Zeitlin told jurors she could not exclude that marks on Alfie's buttocks were from being kicked by an adult.\n\nShe added that the number and location of the injuries on Alfie's body - including his face - suggested they were more than \"classic\" childhood bumps and scratches.\n\nShe told the court: \"Multiple injuries to the face like this are very unusual. You can have one or two injuries from falling off a bike but it is unusual to get 50 injuries from a fall.\"\n\nThe doctor, who has 40 years' experience as a paediatrician and 20 years in child protection, also said it was \"likely\" Alfie had been subjected to physical punishment.\n\nEarlier in the proceedings, the trial heard from two pathologists including paediatric pathologist Dr Roger Malcomson who said several of Alfie's injuries looked \"likely to be inflicted\" rather than accidents, and some indicated blunt force trauma.\n\nHome Office forensic pathologist Dr Matthew Lyall explained some of the injuries were \"not everyday bumps\" and likely from \"incidents you would remember\".\n\nAlfie's mother Carla Scott and Mr Howell, from Birmingham, deny murder along with manslaughter, causing or allowing the death of Alfie, and child cruelty offences against him.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nWest Ham players confronted a group of AZ Alkmaar fans who attacked an area in which their friends and family were watching the teams' Europa Conference League semi-final second leg.\n\nMichail Antonio and Said Benrahma were among those who tried to intervene in the clashes moments after the Premier League team had reached the final.\n\nBBC commentator Alistair Bruce-Ball, who was inside the stadium, said he saw punches being thrown by the AZ fans.\n\n\"These are awful scenes,\" he said.\n\nEuropean football's governing body Uefa will review reports of the incidents before deciding on any action.\n\nBruce-Ball, who was commentating for BBC Radio 5 Live from the AFAS Stadion in the Netherlands, added: \"Some fans clad in dark coats and hoods up came racing down in front of the lower tier of the stand to voice their dissatisfaction, and there is trouble to our right-hand side.\n\n\"The concern here is I think the West Ham family members and friends are in that section. Those are very, very unpleasant scenes.\n\n\"The West Ham players are being held back. I can see in the distance punches being thrown.\"\n\nIt is understood the families of the players were unharmed.\n\nDutch police said they were investigating footage of the incident but no arrests had been made.\n\n\"Our aim was to disperse the crowd and restore order as quickly as possible, in which we succeeded,\" a statement read.\n\n\"Together with AZ, the municipality of Alkmaar and the public prosecution service we will evaluate last night's incidents, which we regret having happened.\n\n\"This kind of behaviour has no place in football.\"\n\n'We were worried about them'\n\nWest Ham manager David Moyes, whose 87-year-old father was reportedly among the crowd, said his players were angered by what had happened in the stadium in Alkmaar, in the north of the country.\n\n\"We'll need to wait for the dust to settle to see what it is but the biggest problem is that is the area where the players have all their families in,\" he said.\n\n\"That is where the problem came, and a lot of players were getting angry because they couldn't get to see if they were OK.\n\n\"What I don't want to do in any way is blight our night. It wasn't West Ham supporters looking for trouble.\n\n\"Was I worried? Yeah, my family were there and I had friends in that section. You're hoping they would try to get themselves away from it.\n\n\"Security wanted to take me inside, but I had to make sure my players weren't involved.\"\n\nHammers goalkeeper Alphonse Areola said: \"When families or friends are coming to the stadium, we don't want to see things like that. They want to enjoy the event and we want to enjoy it with them as well. We were worried about them.\"\n\nMidfielder Pablo Fornals added: \"I was really concerned about how the family of my team-mates and the West Ham family are. Hopefully everyone is OK and the police can do their job and realise who did it.\n\n\"It's not great when you are in that beautiful moment and people who aren't try to use violence against you.\"\n\nUefa has the power to appoint an inspector to investigate what happened if it is deemed to be serious enough.\n\nAZ have yet to make any official comment over the incident but seem certain to be sanctioned.\n\nWest Ham reached their first major European final since 1976 by beating their Dutch opponents 1-0 on the night and 3-1 on aggregate.\n\nDuring last week's first leg at London Stadium, family members of AZ players had been involved in a confrontation with West Ham fans.\n\nAZ boss Pascal Jansen said: \"What happened last week was very unfortunate and then you get the same feeling as what happened tonight.\n\n\"I feel a little bit ashamed it happened in our stadium but you have to control your emotions.\"\n\nPantelis Hatzidiakos was among several AZ players who condemned the violence in post-match interviews.\n\n\"I think it's sad what happened. My family was up there. I have been in contact with them and my girlfriend said they were shaking,\" the Greece defender told Dutch television.\n\n\"I don't even call them supporters. Just stay home if you have such intentions.\n\n\"Such a beautiful evening, such a great atmosphere, I really enjoyed it until the final whistle. What happened after that, I find very sad and a pity.\"\n\nFormer Hammers midfielder Joe Cole, who was part of the BT Sport team covering the match, said what happened was \"absurd\".\n\n\"Grown men attacking the West Ham fans,\" he said. \"Players were trying to get involved to break it up.\n\nWest Ham's elation at reaching their first major final in 43 years is tempered by the knowledge that the venue in Prague which will host the match will not be big enough to hold the number of people who want to see it.\n\nTheir opponents, Fiorentina, are a similar club in the sense they have a big following and little recent success, in their case the Coppa Italia in 2001.\n\nUefa believe the game will be shown in fan parks, which may help. However, with a 20,000 capacity and a 5,000 allocation for each club, there is a sense of nervousness about how this will be managed and whether the security around the game will be up to the job.\n\nWere you at the match last night? Did you witness the incident? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Was one of the world's tallest statues haunted? The story of the World Peace Giant Kannon statue and its impact on local residents\n• None Check out the compelling and emotional real-life stories on BBC iPlayer now", "Ivan Toney banned: Brentford striker suspended for eight months over betting Last updated on .From the section Brentford\n\nIvan Toney last played for Brentford against Liverpool at Anfield on 6 May Brentford striker Ivan Toney has been banned from football for eight months after he accepted breaking Football Association betting rules. Toney has also been charged £50,000 and warned about his future conduct for 232 breaches of the FA's betting rules. His suspension starts immediately, but the 27-year-old can return to training with Brentford four months before it ends on 17 September. He will not be allowed to play again until 17 January, 2024. Posting on his Instagram story, Toney said he was \"naturally disappointed\" at the verdict, and would make no further comment until the the independent Regulatory Commission publishes its written reasons. \"I make no further comment at this point other than to thank my family and friends, Brentford FC and our fans for their continued support, through what has been a very difficult time. \"I now focus on returning to play the game I love next season.\" In a statement, the FA said: \"His [Toney] sanctions were subsequently imposed by an independent Regulatory Commission following a personal hearing. \"The independent Regulatory Commission's written reasons for these sanctions will be published in due course, and the FA will wait to review them before commenting further.\" The breaches Toney has been found guilty of took place between 25 February 2017 and 23 January 2021, during which time Toney represented Scunthorpe United, Wigan Athletic, Peterborough United and Brentford. Toney has scored 20 goals in 33 Premier League appearances this season, helping Brentford into ninth place in the table. He will miss Brentford's trip to Tottenham on Saturday and the final day of the season at home to league leaders Manchester City on 28 May. Brentford say they note the FA's decision and are awaiting the publication of the written reasons before \"considering our next steps\". Toney won his first England cap as a late substitute in the 2-0 Euro 2024 qualifying win over Ukraine in March, having received his first call-up to Gareth Southgate's squad last September. England defender Kieran Trippier was banned for 10 weeks by the FA in December 2020 for giving out information for others to bet on his transfer from Tottenham to Atletico Madrid. In 2017, Joey Barton - then a Burnley player - was banned for 18 months, reduced to 13 on appeal, after admitting placing 1,260 football-related bets over a 10-year period. This is a major blow for Toney, whose career for both club and country is now uncertain, and for Brentford, who are now denied the services of one of the country's best strikers until well into next season. Any plans to sell him this summer may also have been jeopardised. Any assessment of the punishment he has received must wait until the FA reveals more details about the reasons for its decision, the precise nature of Toney's gambling, and why he acted the way he did for so long and so many times. Some will say the FA had little choice but to hand out such a sanction, and point out that Toney should have known the rules and stuck to them. But others will point to football's close relationship with the gambling industry, especially in the form of advertising and shirt sponsorship, and ask if the sport's authorities should shoulder some responsibility too. After all, Toney's club Brentford are among many clubs sponsored by a betting company and he played for several clubs in the EFL - a league also sponsored by a betting company. He is far from the first player to fall foul of the rules. Kieran Trippier has shown it is possible to bounce back after serving such a suspension, but there will be calls for Toney to be supported, as well as punished. The FA will face questions over the time this process has taken and the fact Toney will serve so much of his suspension during the summer. Some would also have preferred his suspension to have started after the end of the season. Tottenham and Manchester City now stand to benefit from Toney not being available in Brentford's final matches. Many fear the influence of the links between football and the gambling industry on fans too, with concerns it normalises betting, especially among young supporters. The Premier League recently announced a voluntary ban on shirt sponsorship by betting companies, but expect renewed scrutiny on the game's ties to gambling and the need for greater education of players in the wake of this latest controversy.\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n• None Our coverage of Brentford is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Brentford - go straight to all the best content", "We are now back in court, but Lucy Letby is in the dock, rather than being in the witness box. The jury has just come back in.\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Goss, apologises to them for the delay. He tells them that for reasons with which they should not concern themselves, we are not going to continue with the hearing for the rest of today.\n\nHe tells the jury that they will not be needed back at court until it's next scheduled to sit on Wednesday next week.\n\nHe reminds them not to research the case themselves, away from the evidence they hear at court.\n\nThat is the end of proceedings for today. The trial will continue next Wednesday.", "The government has banned the issuing of licences for animal testing of chemicals used as ingredients in cosmetics products.\n\nThe government had allowed animal testing for makeup ingredients to resume despite a 25-year ban.\n\nA recent court ruling said the government changed a policy on animal testing to align with EU chemical rules.\n\nBut Home Secretary Suella Braverman said no new licences will be granted.\n\nA ban on animal testing for makeup ingredients was introduced in 1998 and is still in place, but the government said it changed policy to match rules in the European Union (EU).\n\nIn 2020, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), an EU agency which oversees chemical regulation, ruled that companies needed to test some ingredients used in cosmetics on animals to ensure they were safe for workers manufacturing the ingredients.\n\nEarlier this month, it emerged that since 2019, the government had been issuing licences for animal testing of cosmetic ingredients in line with EU chemical rules, which it retained despite leaving the EU in 2020.\n\nThe news of continued testing on animals outraged some cosmetic brands and animal rights groups, which said the government had effectively lifted the ban.\n\nIn a written statement to Parliament, Ms Braverman said: \"The government recognises the public concern around the testing on animals of chemicals used as ingredients in cosmetics, and the new opportunities available to us to depart from the EU testing regime.\n\n\"I can confirm, therefore, that from today no new licences will be granted for animal testing of chemicals that are exclusively intended to be used as ingredients in cosmetics products.\n\n\"The government is also engaging with the relevant companies to urgently determine a way forward on these legacy licences.\"\n\nMs Braverman said the EU chemical rules explained \"why it has been possible that a chemical used in cosmetics production may be required to be tested on animals\".\n\n\"This has been reflected in the issuing of a small number of time-limited licences between 2019 and 2022.\"\n\nMs Braverman said the government was reviewing how the ban on animal testing would work in practice over the longer term.\n\nDr Penny Hawkins, head of the RSPCA's animals in science department, said the public were strongly against the use of animals to test cosmetics.\n\nShe cited RSPCA research, which shows that 76% of UK adults are very concerned about the use of animals in scientific research and testing.\n\n\"The outrage following the UK government's decision to quietly follow European Union chemical testing rules really reinforces just how important this issue is to the public and we are pleased that outcry has been listened to,\" Dr Hawkins said.\n\nThe Cosmetic Toiletry and Perfumery Association (CTPA) said the makeup industry \"do not want any animal testing\".\n\nDr Emma Meredith, director general of CTPA, said key industry stakeholders had met with the home secretary to discuss the government's action, adding \"we support the clarity and reassurance that this new ban will provide to the public\".", "The prime minister has refused to explicitly commit to a Conservative promise to get net migration levels below where they were four years ago.\n\nThe Tory manifesto before the general election in 2019 promised that \"overall numbers will come down\".\n\nNet migration - the number of people moving to the UK minus the number who leave - was 226,000 in the year to March 2019.\n\nIn the year to June 2022, net migration hit an all-time high of 504,000.\n\nThe latest number, for the year to December 2022, will be published next week - and is widely expected to be higher still.\n\nSpeaking to reporters en route to the G7 Summit in Japan, Rishi Sunak said: \"I've inherited some numbers, I want to bring the numbers down.\"\n\nAs the numbers climb, he is maintaining a desire that they fall, but not explicitly below the level they were at when the initial promise was made.\n\n\"When it comes to legal migration, the key thing for people to know is we're in control of why people are here, the circumstances and the terms on which they are here, making sure they contribute, to public services like the NHS for example,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"Those are all now part of our migration system and they weren't before,\" he added, in reference to Brexit - which means immigration policy is now decided solely at Westminster.\n\nThere is some evidence that the importance attached to cutting immigration has fallen for some people since the UK left the European Union, suggesting control over it, as well as how much of it there is, does really matter to some.\n\nAs I have written about here, there is quite a discussion going on within government about how to respond to next week's new net migration figure.\n\nMr Sunak is travelling to Japan for the G7 summit in Hiroshima\n\nI am told the prime minister has not yet looked at it in detail. But he is likely to in the coming days, ahead of a government announcement which is expected to include a restriction on the dependents some foreign students can bring with them when they come to the UK to study.\n\nStrikingly, when pressed on his instincts on legal migration, the prime minister repeatedly changed the subject to talk about illegal immigration instead - small boat crossings.\n\n\"I do think most people's number one priority when it comes to migration is illegal migration, that is crystal clear to me,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"That's why one of my five priorities is to stop the boats, that's why recently we have moved to a Covid-style committee structure where I am meeting twice a week with ministers to drive the implementation of the new bill,\" he added, referring to the Illegal Migration Bill.\n\nHe also pointed out what he believes is a significant breakthrough in helping to limit the number of small boats crossing the Channel.\n\nConservative peer Lord Jackson has warned the PM against dropping a 2019 manifesto pledge to reduce migration levels.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Politics Live, he said a rise in net migration could lead to people giving up on the Tory party. \"I do think that if you seem to not take seriously this issue, there's a problem,\" he said.\n\nAt a meeting of the Council of Europe in Iceland on Tuesday, the European Union agreed to begin conversations about the UK having a cooperation agreement with Frontex, the European Border and Coastguard Agency.\n\nThere has been no such agreement since Brexit.\n\nSuch an agreement, Mr Sunak said, was \"of practical value to us in stopping illegal migration - sharing intelligence, operational cooperation will make a difference to our ability to stop the boats.\"", "Michael Harrison attacked his son but then drove him to a park before calling an ambulance\n\nA man has been jailed for life for the murder of his 11-year-old son.\n\nMikey Harrison was found by emergency services in Thorpes Road, near Shipley Country Park, in Heanor, Derbyshire, on 18 June, and died later that day.\n\nMichael Harrison initially claimed his son had fallen out of a tree, but later pleaded guilty to manslaughter, then admitted murder earlier this year.\n\nAt Derby Crown Court the 41-year-old was given a minimum term of 21 years and six months.\n\nThe court heard Mikey, rather than being hurt in a fall, was in fact injured in an attack four hours before the emergency call was made.\n\nHarrison, of Eaton Terrace in Nottingham, put his son into his van before driving him to the park.\n\nA medical expert said he would likely have survived severe internal bleeding had help been summoned immediately.\n\nHarrison put his son in his van and drove him to Shipley Park as part of a cover story\n\nThe court was told Harrison went \"crazy\" and threw a chair before attacking his son, punching him and banging his head on a table.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mikey had suffered severe lacerations to his liver.\n\nHe had also suffered multiple blunt force injuries to his head, arms, back and legs.\n\nThe prosecution said Harrison had stripped their rented home in Heanor to destroy any evidence.\n\nThe court heard his son was described as a \"sweet and funny\" boy, with an infectious laugh, who loved dancing, singing and teddies.\n\nOffering mitigation, defence barrister Vanessa Marshall KC said Harrison would have to bear the \"awful, tragic, unforgivable\" death of his son for the rest of his life.\n\nJudge Shaun Smith KC said: \"At 18 minutes past one on Saturday June 18 you embarked upon a charade solely intended to protect yourself.\n\n\"That was because you had attacked your 11-year-old son Mikey. You hit and punched him many times. At least one of those blows was so hard it lacerated his liver.\n\n\"Rather than face up to what you had done, you made a call to the ambulance service to report that Mikey had fallen out of a tree.\n\n\"What you did that morning ended the life of a little boy and emptied the lives of many others.\"\n\nHarrison spent most of the two hour hearing leaned forward in his seat staring at the ground and shielding his face from the public gallery.\n\nDet Insp Paul Bullock said: \"Michael Harrison has never given an account for why he killed Mikey but his conduct on the day of the tragic events makes it abundantly clear that his primary interest was his own freedom and not the life of his own son.\n\n\"We now know the truth, that Mikey was killed by Harrison after a brutal assault that left him with the most serious of injuries.\n\n\"Harrison a strong, fully grown man would have been under no illusion that Mikey was anything other than seriously injured.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Raye won best contemporary song for her number one single Escapism\n\nPop star Raye used the Ivor Novello Awards to challenge a room full of record label executives to pay songwriters more fairly.\n\nHer comments came as she accepted the prize for best contemporary song.\n\n\"It would be an insult to suggest that you go to work for free,\" she told the audience. \"And it's an insult that you think songwriters should do the same.\"\n\nHer comments were echoed by Chic's Nile Rodgers who told the BBC that writers' pay hadn't increased for \"75 years\".\n\n\"I mean, come on, if you work at a pizza shop, you're going to get a raise in 75 years,\" he said.\n\nThe issue has become a flashpoint for the music industry, prompting a review of the streaming economy by the British parliament in 2021.\n\nIn their findings, the DCMS Select committee called for a \"complete reset\" of the market, saying that record labels were making \"significant profits\" while writers and performers were \"losing out\".\n\nRaye has been an outspoken critic of the industry after spending nearly a decade in record label penury, unable to release an album without their say-so.\n\nThe 25-year-old split with Polydor in 2021 and went on to score her first ever number one single with Escapism, a song they had refused to release because it was deemed uncommercial.\n\nWritten when she was at her lowest ebb, the song has now earned her an Ivor Novello Award, and she used the opportunity to raise the issue of payment.\n\nShe noted that songwriters aren't entitled to a single penny of an artist's royalties when they write a hit song, while producers regularly get a 4% share.\n\n\"The record industry is making more money than it has in the last 30 years, funded by songs that they aren't paying for,\" she explained to the BBC backstage.\n\n\"So I'm going to be a broken record about this until something changes.\"\n\nThe Ivors, as they're known, are the awards the most musicians want to win, because they recognise achievement in songwriting, rather than pure commercial sales.\n\n\"It's one of the only awards that honours artists for being artists on a deeper level than just how big you are,\" said rapper Kojey Radical, whose single Payback was also nominated for best contemporary song.\n\nThis year's ceremony saw Harry Styles' As It Was named the most-performed song of the year, while black-centric music collective Sault won album of the year for 11.\n\nCharli XCX joked that she felt like \"an outsider with a heavy award\" in her acceptance speech\n\nCharli XCX was given the visionary award, in recognition of the \"massive impact\" her music has had on the industry.\n\nThe star has emerged as one of Britain's most cutting-edge writers, pushing pop's boundaries with an instinct for experimental and provocative production.\n\nIn her acceptance speech, the star, whose hits include Boom Clap, 1999 and Beg For You, said she had pursued a musical career because she felt like an outsider.\n\n\"Now,\" she joked, \"I feel like an outsider with a heavy award.\"\n\nBut backstage, she said the recognition meant a great deal.\n\n\"It's funny, in past interviews I've been like, 'I'm a visionary, I'm the best', and played the part of this braggy character.\n\n\"But actually, to get this statue is something I never thought I would happen.\n\n\"It's cool to be able to get this kind of accolade on my own terms, without having to make too many sacrifices.\"\n\nSting received the Fellowship of the Academy - the organisation's highest honour - in recognition of a songbook that includes indelible hits like Every Breath You Take, Roxanne, If I Ever Lose My Faith In You and Englishman In New York.\n\nSting was accompanied by his wife, Trudi Styler, at the Ivor Novello Awards\n\nBut even after selling 100 million albums, the star said songwriting was still an exercise in surrender.\n\n\"Every time I look at a blank page, I'm filled with a mortal terror. I don't quite know how I write songs, but I do. It's a mystery.\"\n\nHe was accompanied on the red carpet by his wife, Trudie Styler, who was asked to name her favourite Sting song.\n\n\"There's so many but I think Fields Of Gold is one I'm very close to,\" she said.\n\n\"That's because it's about you!\" her husband joked.\n\nMadchester band James were given the Icon Award, recognising a body of work that includes hits like Laid, She's A Star and Sit Down; while the Special International Award celebrated the outstanding career of Blondie's Debbie Harry and Chris Stein.\n\nIndie rockers Wet Leg followed their success at this year's Grammy and Brit Awards by being named songwriters of the year.\n\nJudges praised the duo's self-titled debut album as \"fresh, unapologetic and direct, with surprising melodies that demand attention\".\n\nBest song musically and lyrically went to King by Florence + the Machine, in which Florence Welch discussed the challenge of balancing her career with the desire to start a family, and the unrealistic expectations placed on women.\n\nAnd stockbroker-turned-songwriter Camille Purcell won outstanding song collection, for her work on hits like Little Mix's Black Magic, Clean Bandit's Solo, Mabel's Don't Call Me Up and Headie One's Ain't It Different, amongst dozens of others.\n\nBest video game soundtrack went to industry legend Grant Kirkhope, who has gone from scoring 64-bit games like Goldeneye and Banjo Kazooie to the recent Mario + Rabbids game, Sparks Of Hope, for which he picked up his prize.\n\nHannah Peel won best television Soundtrack for her work on Sky's sci-fi drama The Midwich Cuckoos, while John Powell took home best original film score for Don't Worry Darling.\n\nThe full list of winners and nominees is as follows:\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The government first promised guidance for schools in relation to transgender pupils more than five years ago.\n\nAnd while the Department for Education (DfE) says it will finally publish new guidance for schools in England this term, for many this cannot come soon enough.\n\nFinding a school willing to talk about its transgender policies is almost impossible.\n\nBBC News contacted head teachers across England but almost all were too anxious to be interviewed on camera. They did not want to draw attention to their school - or pupils who identify as trans or non-binary.\n\nIn 2018, the government said it would work with the human-rights watchdog to publish \"comprehensive guidance for schools on how to support trans pupils\". Without it, many schools are making their own decisions, such as whether to introduce gender-neutral toilets or changing rooms - and how they are used.\n\nSome teachers told BBC News they worried whatever they did would \"not only be criticised but publicly vilified\" and, while schools needed clarity, it was a \"no-win\" situation.\n\nOthers said they might have to consult solicitors, amid fears of doing the \"wrong thing\".\n\nHead teacher Kevin Sexton told BBC News many schools wanted better guidance and advice to help make decisions \"in the best interests of the child\".\n\nHis, Chesterfield High School, a mixed-sex comprehensive in Crosby, Merseyside, has developed its own approach.\n\nThe school has more than 1,200 pupils, 10-20 of whom identify as transgender, non-binary or gender fluid.\n\nThere are single-sex and gender-neutral toilets, with floor-to-ceiling lockable cubicles and a supervising member of staff. And private PE changing rooms, used by all the trans pupils, are available to all.\n\nThe school's support for children questioning their gender identity had been developed over the past decade, Mr Sexton said.\n\n\"We've tried to create a school that's tolerant and inclusive,\" he said.\n\n\"We'll work with individual children to actually think about what they want to use and access - and it becomes really manageable.\"\n\nChesterfield High had never faced a challenge from parents - but other head teachers had.\n\nHead teacher Kevin Sexton says everyone should feel safe and happy at school\n\nUsing the survey tool Teacher Tapp, BBC News asked almost 7,000 teachers in England a series of questions about their experience with transgender pupils.\n\nAbout 8% of primary-school teachers said they taught trans or non-binary pupils, compared with 75% in secondary.\n\nAnd just over half said they would not be very or at all confident about the next steps to take if a child wanted to change their name, use different pronouns or change their appearance, hairstyle or clothes - what is known as socially transitioning.\n\nWhen and how schools should involve parents if a child wishes to identify as a gender different to their birth sex - and what to do if a parent disagrees - are among the most controversial matters the guidance is expected to address.\n\nEvery classroom at Chesterfield High School has a pride flag\n\nA report into gender-identity services in England says socially transitioning may have significant psychological effects - and better information is needed about its outcomes.\n\nAnd last year, an NHS England consultation proposed socially transitioning should be considered in certain circumstances only, such as to alleviate or prevent \"clinically significant distress\".\n\nAbout three-quarters of the teachers in the Teacher Tapp survey said their school would support a child who wished to socially transition.\n\nAnd 39% of the secondary teachers who responded said they would support this, regardless of parental consent.\n\n\"Everyone involved in a child's life should work together and investigate why a child may feel a certain way,\" says Tanya Carter, of the Safe Schools Alliance organisation, which is worried about how some schools are managing gender identity.\n\n\"Teachers are not doctors. [Socially transitioning] is something that should only be done with medical oversight. Concerns arise when schools affirm someone as the opposite sex, locking in what may or not may not be a transient phase in that child's life.\"\n\nThe organisation receives several messages every day from both parents and teachers worried about toilets, changing rooms, sports and overnight accommodation on school trips becoming mixed-sex.\n\n\"We get parents who have found out that their children have been socially transitioned behind their backs at schools, because the schools haven't spoken to parents,\" Miss Carter says. \"Schools are keeping secrets from parents.\"\n\nPenni Allen, who runs Chesterfield High's wellbeing unit, says the school takes parents' views into account but that \"doesn't mean that we're not going to continue supporting that child\".\n\nThe school tries to de-escalate any emotions and issues with parents and help the child understand what they are feeling.\n\n\"Some children will come and say they're just exploring,\" Mrs Allen says. \"Others will say they've been feeling this way for quite some time. They might just be at the start of a journey that never goes anywhere.\n\n\"It's not about putting them on a pathway. We don't put your child in a box and put a label on it that says, 'Your child is now trans.'\n\n\"We like to think we've got a good relationship with parents here… and hopefully, we get it right.\"\n\nPenni Allen runs Chesterfield High's wellbeing unit, where pupils can talk to counsellors about difficulties, including around gender identity\n\nBBC News spoke to parents of trans children at other schools in England but, as with teachers, it is difficult to find a view everyone agrees with and will speak about on record.\n\nSome parents told BBC News they did not want any decisions made without their approval and were not happy with their children changing their names or pronouns.\n\nSome felt their children may be struggling with their sexual orientation, rather than gender identity, and needed space and time to explore that before making other decisions, which could potentially lead down a medical pathway such as puberty blockers.\n\nBut others wanted schools to put their child's choices first, regardless of their own involvement, and were supportive of their trans identity and socially transitioning.\n\nThe decisions schools make, or do not make, can have a huge impact on the young people affected.\n\nEllie, 18, was the first pupil to publicly identify as non-binary at their Catholic school, an isolating and frustrating experience.\n\nThe lack of government guidance means teachers \"can't do their jobs properly\", Ellie says. And they were \"learning as they went\" when Ellie wanted help.\n\n\"A lot of them just don't know how to deal with things - or they're worried about saying the wrong thing, especially with it being a faith school,\" Ellie says.\n\n\"It's just really important that teachers and school staff feel like they know what they're talking about when a student comes to them and they're facing a gender-identity issue or a sexuality issue.\"\n\nAnd teachers' worries about the reaction from the media and some parents may be a barrier to schools making changes that support pupils.\n\nEllie, 18, was the first pupil to publicly identify as non-binary at their Catholic school\n\nThe guidance will build upon existing guidelines to protect people from discrimination.\n\nBut in a move signalling just how sensitive the matter is, the Department for Education will publish a draft for consultation before the final guidance is issued, which is rare for non-statutory - advisory, rather than compulsory - guidance.\n\nIt is likely to cover issues such as whether single-sex schools are legally obliged to admit transgender pupils or whether schools should inform parents if their child is questioning their gender.\n\nIt may also offer advice on sleeping arrangements during residential trips and how to manage single-sex sports. But it is not clear whether schools would receive additional funding to help them make any changes.\n\nA Department for Education official said it was \"important that we take the time to get this right\" so the guidance on such \"sensitive matters\" was \"as clear as possible for schools\". The guidance would be \"based upon the overriding principle of the wellbeing and safeguarding of children, and it will consider a range of issues\".\n\nEvery day, Teacher Tapp asks thousands of primary and secondary teachers, in both the state and private sector, questions about their experiences in the classroom.\n\nAccording to the survey for BBC News, 9% say there are adequate support services to which to refer children experiencing unease about their gender identity.\n\nThe Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) says it receives a \"steady stream\" of inquiries from its members.\n\nIn 2022, alongside other teaching unions, it published guidance on balancing transgender pupils' needs with those of others, within the legal framework of the Equality Act.\n\nBut ASCL director of policy Julie McCulloch says without official guidance, schools are working \"in a vacuum\". And it is calling for it to be published and fully consulted on as soon as possible.\n\n\"There are parents and people in the wider school community who understandably have very strong views about this issue,\" Ms McCulloch says. \"So there's also pressure coming on schools from their communities to make sure they get this right.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Email your experiences haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Walt Disney Company has scrapped a plan to invest nearly $1bn (£806m) to build a new corporate campus in Florida, it announced.\n\nThe reversal comes amid an escalating feud between the entertainment giant and the state's Republican-led government headed by Ron DeSantis.\n\nThe plan would have seen about 2,000 employees relocate to a Disney-owned complex at Lake Nona, near Orlando.\n\nThe cancellation was announced in an internal email to employees on Thursday.\n\nThe email, seen by BBC News, said the company's decision was the result of \"considerable changes\" that have taken place since it was first announced.\n\nIn the email, Josh D'Amaro, the head of Disney's theme park division, also referred to \"changing business conditions\".\n\nWhile the email does not mention politics or Mr DeSantis, it has been interpreted as alluding to mounting tensions between Disney and Florida lawmakers.\n\n\"Disney announced the possibility of a Lake Nona campus nearly two years ago. Nothing ever came of the project, and the state was unsure whether it would come to fruition,\" Mr DeSantis' office said in a statement.\n\n\"Given the company's financial straits, falling market cap and declining stock price, it is unsurprising that they would restructure their business operations and cancel unsuccessful ventures.\"\n\nThe internal Disney email noted that the decision to scrap the project comes after \"new leadership\" at the company, referring to the sudden departure in November of ex-CEO Bob Chapek.\n\nThe Lake Nona campus, which had not been built, would have been a new home for employees at the firm's secretive theme park research and development arm, known as Imagineers, who were asked to move from California to Florida.\n\nMr D'Amaro's email said relocation would no longer be required and it would discuss next steps with those he said had already done so.\n\nMany of the jobs that were supposed to relocate to Florida were higher paid, white collar and tech-focused positions.\n\nThe Orlando Business Journal reported the project was valued at about $867m and that the average annual wage for the positions was $120,000.\n\nBob Iger, the former chief executive who made a stunning return to replace his successor, Mr Chapek, has announced sweeping changes to boost the firm's business, which has come under pressure as the traditional movie and television industries decline.\n\nDisney launched a streaming offering, Disney+, in 2019, but it remains loss making.\n\nUnlike other media companies, Disney has been shielded by the popularity of its theme parks, which have kept the firm profitable.\n\nBut the value of its share price has halved since peaking in March 2021, as investors predict a tough road ahead.\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Iger announced a plan to save $5.5bn, involving a sweeping reorganisation of the company's operations and roughly 7,000 job losses.\n\nAmong the cuts, announced separately on Thursday, was the closure of a 100-room Star Wars-themed immersive hotel experience at one of its Florida theme parks.\n\nThe relationship between Disney and Florida - where it employs more than 70,000 staff - began deteriorating last year after Mr DeSantis condemned the company for opposing a state law banning discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in public schools.\n\nIn April, Florida also moved to take control of the Reedy Creek Improvement District - covering the 25,000-acre area known as Walt Disney World - a self-governing zone, with utilities and a fire department.\n\nState lawmakers voted to give Mr DeSantis the power to appoint members to the district's governing board, removing that authority from landowners, of which Disney was by far the biggest.\n\nThe move prompted a lawsuit from Disney, accusing state officials of conducting \"a relentless campaign to weaponise government power against Disney in retaliation for expressing a political viewpoint unpopular with certain state officials\".\n\nDisney's parks in Florida have long been one of its most-popular attractions, bringing in about 50 million visitors each year.\n\nIn a call with investors a week ago, Mr Iger questioned Florida's interest in having Disney grow in the state.\n\n\"Does the state want us to invest more, employ more people and pay more taxes, or not?\" Mr Iger asked.\n\nAubrey Jewett, a politics professor at the University of Central Florida, said he believed Mr DeSantis and his allies \"did not think about the longer-term ramifications of their actions\" when they moved to \"punish Disney for speaking out\".\n\n\"They weren't going to move the Disney World complex someplace else. But as Disney has just shown, that's not the only investment and jobs they were talking about creating in Florida.\"\n\nErin Huntley, the chair of the Republican Party in Orange County, where Disney World is located, said \"it's a different ballgame\" now compared to when Walt Disney first realised the area's potential in the 1960s.\n\n\"People are still wanting to come here, no matter what battles are going on,\" she told the BBC. \"Central Florida is more than just Disney.\"\n\nMr DeSantis is expected to announce a 2024 presidential bid next week. His likely rival, Donald Trump, said in a statement that Mr DeSantis was being \"absolutely destroyed by Disney\" and that his \"political stunt\" of battling them was \"all so unnecessary\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAdditional reporting by Natalie Sherman in New York.\n\nCORRECTION: The headline in the initial versions of this story misstated the value of Disney's investment in billions rather than millions.", "The Italian coast guard has rescued two elderly people by helicopter from their roof after heavy rains caused flooding and landslides in the Emilia-Romagna region. Nine people have been killed and several are missing after 14 rivers broke their banks, flooding 23 towns.", "Heidi Crowter brought the case against the government over its abortion legislation\n\nA woman with Down's syndrome fighting against abortion laws says she is taking her case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).\n\nHeidi Crowter previously challenged legislation allowing foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth.\n\nBut in November 2022 Judges at the Court of Appeal decided the Abortion Act did not interfere with the rights of the living disabled.\n\nThe campaigner had argued that the rules were discriminatory.\n\nMs Crowter, 27, from Coventry, said she was taking her case to the Strasbourg court \"because it is downright discrimination that people with disabilities are treated differently\".\n\n\"In 2023, we live in a society where disabled people are valued equally after birth but not in the womb,\" she said.\n\nUnder legislation in England, Wales and Scotland, there is a 24-week time limit for abortion, unless \"there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped\", which includes Down's syndrome.\n\nIn September 2021, High Court judges found the section of the Abortion Act pertaining to the condition to not be unlawful, adding that it aimed to strike a balance between the rights of the unborn child and of women, in a case brought by Ms Crowter and Maire Lea-Wilson from west London, whose son Aidan has Down's syndrome.\n\nPosting on social media Ms Crowter said her legal team had sought permission to appeal to the ECHR after the UK Supreme Court refused to hear her case.\n\nIf successful, a European Court ruling \"could not only have implications for the United Kingdom, but also set a legal precedent for all 46 countries that are members of the Council of Europe,\" said campaign group Don't Screen Us Out.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland.\n\nComparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible.\n\nIn England and Northern Ireland A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments. For example, those who attend minor injury units are included. In Wales the data include all emergency departments, but does not include patients kept in A&E by doctors under special circumstances, [more details here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67056279). In Scotland the data includes only major A&E departments.\n\nEach nation has different target times and definitions for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them are not possible.", "Bills could rise after water suppliers in England said they were ready to spend £10bn on tackling sewage spills.\n\nThe privately owned companies have apologised for the amount of contaminated water being discharged into rivers and seas, amid mounting public anger over the practice.\n\nSome campaigners have cautiously welcomed the move, but others say firms are shifting the cost on to billpayers.\n\nThe industry paid out £1.4bn to shareholders in 2022.\n\nMusician and environmental campaigner Feargal Sharkey called it a \"half apology\" that was another attempt to extract more money from customers.\n\n\"What I am actually hearing is no apology for the fact we have paid them for a service we haven't got, they are now suggesting we pay them a second time for a service we haven't had,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"We should have an apology for the suggestion they are going to put bills up by £10bn for their incompetence and their greed. This is nothing to celebrate.\"\n\nCompanies are sometimes allowed to spill sewage into open water following heavy rainfall to prevent the system becoming overloaded and backing up into people's homes.\n\nBut campaigners have long said these spills are happening too often. In 2022, raw sewage was dumped into rivers and seas for 1.75 million hours - or 825 times a day on average.\n\nUntreated sewage contains bacteria such as E.coli and viruses like hepatitis, that can be harmful to animals and humans. Swimming in water where untreated sewage is discharged can lead to serious illnesses such as stomach bugs, which may cause diarrhoea and vomiting, as well as respiratory, skin, ear and eye infections.\n\nWildlife including fish and insects can also experience kidney issues and die from sewage pollution.\n\nWater UK, the body which represents England's nine water and sewage companies, apologised on behalf of the industry for not \"acting quickly enough\".\n\nRuth Kelly, the organisation's chair, told BBC News: \"We're sorry about the upset and the anger from the fact that there have been overspills of untreated sewage onto beaches and into rivers over the past few years.\n\n\"We're sorry that we didn't act sooner, but we get it.\"\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nEnvironment Agency chairman Alan Lovell welcomed the companies' apology but said he wanted to \"see action and a clear plan for delivery\".\n\nThe companies said on Thursday they were ready to spend £10bn raised from investors to tackle the problem - but admitted customers could see a \"modest\" bills rise as firms looked to recover the costs over time.\n\nWater regulator Ofwat said on Thursday it would review the commitment to assess what impact it could have on consumers before spending begins.\n\nThere are many ways that water companies can spend the money to reduce sewage spills including:\n\nBut the water companies have come under significant criticism for suggesting bills could be raised to pay for this investment whilst continuing to pay out profits to shareholders.\n\nDowning street has said that water companies should put \"consumers above profits\".\n\nThe prime minister's deputy official spokesman said the apology from water companies was welcome but acknowledged that more needed to be done.\n\n\"And we've been clear throughout that we don't want to see things disproportionately impacting customer bills, especially given we know that there are people up and down the country who are struggling with the cost of living, which is why we provided the help we have in that area.\"\n\nIt is not yet known how much bills could rise with the new investment as Ofwat will not make a decision until the end of 2024 on spending plans.\n\nMarine conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) welcomed \"the long overdue apology\" but said the investment should not be paid for through higher bills.\n\n\"The UK public has already paid for environmental protection from sewage - but we're yet to see it. And whilst the water industry rakes it in, this investment pledged by Water UK must come out of water company profits, not from the bill payer,\" said Izzy Ross, campaigns manager at SAS.\n\nCommons Environmental Audit Committee chair, Conservative MP Philip Dunne, told the BBC he hoped Ofwat would approve the investment plan.\n\nLast year his committee warned the UK's rivers were a \"chemical cocktail\" of raw sewage, microplastics and slurry.\n\n\"The water and sewage sector is in listening mode and has provided a promising plan to tackle poor water quality and take vital steps to improve the country's ageing sewerage infrastructure,\" he said.\n\nJim McMahon MP, Labour's shadow environment secretary, said the government was partially to blame for the situation.\n\n\"Thirteen years of Tory government failure has left a broken system, capped by an appalling track record of inaction. The Conservatives are the problem not the solution,\" he said.\n\nThis sentiment was supported by Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey. \"The one apology missing here is from the environment secretary,\" he said. \"This Conservative government has been pathetic on stopping sewage discharges into rivers.\"\n\nThe Green Party called for water and sewage companies to be brought back into public ownership.\n\nSewage spills can cause algae blooms which starve fish and other organisms of oxygen\n\nWater UK said the companies also committed to cutting spills by up to 35% by 2030 and sharing real time data on how often sewage was being spilled into rivers and seas.\n\nBut this is not a new pledge, as the government announced last month the sharing of data would be a legal requirement for water companies by 2025.\n\nWater UK also said companies would reduce the number of sewage spills by up to 140,000, compared with 2020, when there were more than 400,000 spills.\n\nEnvironmental campaign group Windrush Against Sewage Pollution (Wasp) said that promise was \"meaningless\" unless the volume being spilled is also reduced. Currently, water companies are only required to monitor if a spill is happening but not how much is released.\n\nPeter Hammond, from Wasp, told Radio 4's Today programme: \"All they are promising to do is reduce the number of spills, we still don't know whether they are trickles or tsunamis of sewage going into the river[s]\".\n\nWater and sewage services in the UK are devolved and in Scotland and Northern Ireland are provided by government-run companies, in Wales it is not-for-profit. They have their own action plans to tackle sewage spills which are not included in Water UK's announcement.\n\nHave you been affected by sewage spills? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:", "Lee Kyle says camping for the Edinburgh Festival is 'not as grim as it sounds'\n\nAccommodation shortages in Edinburgh push festival performers further out of the city, a comedian who has booked almost a month on a campsite has said.\n\nLee Kyle, from South Shields, will return to Scotland's capital with his tent for his show at the Festival Fringe in August.\n\nHe will travel into the city every day for his lunch slot at The Pear Tree.\n\nIt was inevitable that many performers would be priced out of the festival, Lee said.\n\nAccommodation costs in August have been creeping up in recent years and are set to get worse after a change to licensing requirements for self-catering properties in Scotland.\n\nThis year short-term lets available in August include one bedroom flats with a monthly rate of £10,000 and a three-bedroom flat for £34,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Four's Today programme, Lee said the cost of camping had gone up this year but was still a difference between £450 and \"many thousands\" for staying indoors.\n\n\"My accommodation is something that I've started over the last few years, partly because something fell through at the last minute but in terms of affordability what I do is I stay in a tent for a month,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not as grim as it sounds,\" Lee said. \"It's not like festival camping. It's a nice place with lots of facilities but it's not how I would choose to spend a month, although arguably I have.\"\n\nHe said pricing poorer people out of the festival as costs soared was \"inevitable\".\n\n\"In years past I may have done the Edinburgh Festival without a second thought and now it's becoming less tenable,\" he said.\n\n\"You may get paid by a venue but on the whole you're more likely to pay a venue and end up owing various people rather than them owing you.\n\n\"It's not necessarily set up to make comedians money.\"\n\nHowever, he said performing at the festival had been \"worth it for me creatively\".\n\n\"It's a cost/benefit analysis in some ways,\" Lee said. \"I've not been one of those acts who's been spotted and fast-tracked to stardom. But that's also not why I went.\"\n\nSome holiday let businesses, who are bringing a Judicial Review against Edinburgh council's implementation of the new laws, said they would have a \"disastrous\" impact on the festivals in coming years, with even less accommodation available for performers and visitors.\n\nA temporary exemption scheme to allow more properties to be rented out during the festival has been described as \"unworkable\".\n\nThe Scottish government said their scheme was developed in response to residents' concerns about the impact of short-term let properties such as Airbnb rentals on their communities.\n\nGavin Webster says it is \"difficult to quantify\" any benefit of going to the festival\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge, who is president of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, announced a new £100,000 fund to help performers put on shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe earlier this year.\n\nBut the price of accommodation will also hit ticket sales if fewer punters stay in the city.\n\nComedian Gavin Webster, who is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, said the cost of putting on a show was increasing and with the price of accommodation it was \"difficult to quantify\" any benefit of going to the festival.\n\n\"It is a good thing to do artistically,\" he said. \"In the long term you do get a lot of jobs out of it and you're taken seriously, but in terms of the cold hard facts accountancy-wise, anyone would look at a comedian going up to Edinburgh and say 'what are you doing, why aren't you just earning money elsewhere rather than spending time paying venues for the privilege of performing for three-and-a-half weeks in Edinburgh and ending up with a big bill.\"\n\nHe will also be staying outside the city centre during the festival.\n\n\"I'm staying in a flat down the bottom end of Leith near Ocean Terminal, and that's costing me a little more than [camping], but not a fortune,\" he said. \"I know of several people that are now going out in the surrounding towns, maybe down in Musselburgh or Portobello.\"\n\nMany Glasgow comedians now just commute daily to the festival rather than decamping to the capital for August, Gavin added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New York truck attack: Who is Sayfullo Saipov?\n\nAn Islamic State supporter behind the deadliest terror attack in New York since 9/11 has been told he will die in prison serving multiple life sentences.\n\nSayfullo Saipov killed eight when he drove a truck at pedestrians and cyclists on a Manhattan street in 2017.\n\nHe was given 10 life sentences - eight of which run consecutively - plus 260 years, and will never be released.\n\nAs he was sentenced, he was told he had \"destroyed so many lives\" - but showed no remorse during the trial.\n\nSaipov was confronted by victims' families and survivors in court, with the judge noting his \"sheer unrepentant nature\" during sentencing on Wednesday.\n\nThe Uzbekistan national, now 35, used a rented truck to attack cyclists and pedestrians at random on downtown Manhattan's West Side on the evening of Halloween 2017.\n\nHe shouted \"God is great\" in Arabic and was shot by police as he emerged from the vehicle. He hoped the atrocity would earn him membership of the group, a previous hearing was told.\n\nHe is expected to be held in Colorado's high-security \"supermax\" prison, where inmates spend up to 23 hours a day in their cells.\n\nMonica Missio, the mother of victim Nicholas Cleves, told the courtroom: \"It disgusts me that he gets to wake up every day while my son does not.\"\n\n\"His barbarism and cruelty fills me with rage,\" she said.\n\nRachel Pharn, who survived the attack, said she could forgive Saipov for the impact on herself, but not for the suffering he had caused to others who had come to hear the sentencing.\n\nShe added: \"When I look around the room, when I think of all the pain you caused, that I cannot forgive. That is between you, them and Allah.\"\n\nFive of those killed were tourists from Argentina, and a 31-year-old woman from Belgium who was visiting the city also died.\n\nTwo Americans, a 32-year-old financial worker and a 23-year-old software engineer, were killed, while 12 others were injured.\n\nUS District Judge Vernon Broderick said Saipov's crimes were notable \"both in terms of the impact it had on the victims and on the sheer unrepentant nature of the defendant\".\n\nAddressing the court before sentencing, Saipov appeared to repeat his praise of the terror group and suggested he was unmoved by the testimony he had heard.\n\nHe was spared the death penalty when a jury did not unanimously agree to impose one at a hearing last week.", "The city of Faenza, where the AlphaTauri F1 team has a factory, was among the affected areas\n\nNine people have been killed and several are missing after heavy rains caused flooding in Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region, officials say.\n\nAbout 10,000 people have been evacuated, and some had to be rescued from roofs by helicopter.\n\nThe authorities say 14 rivers have broken their banks, flooding 23 towns. The mayor of Ravenna says his city is now \"unrecognisable\".\n\nThe Emilia-Romagna F1 Grand Prix this weekend has now been cancelled.\n\nDiscussions on Wednesday between local authorities and organisers of the race at Imola concluded that the event could not go ahead.\n\nFurther rain is expected in the region over the coming days.\n\n\"It's probably been the worst night in the history of Romagna,\" Ravenna Mayor Michele de Pascale told Italy's RAI public broadcaster. \"Ravenna is unrecognisable for the damage it has suffered.\"\n\nThe mayor of nearby Forli, Gian Luca Zattini, said his city was \"on its knees, devastated and in pain\", AFP news agency reported.\n\nIn the city of Cesena, residents climbed on the rooftops and waited to be rescued by helicopter or boat.\n\nIn Castel Bolognese, the mayor said the situation was \"catastrophic\", the BBC's Sofia Bettiza in Italy reports. Thousands of people living in single-floor homes needed to be rescued, the mayor added.\n\nThere is currently no electricity in the town, our correspondent adds. People are sheltering in gyms and schools across Emilia-Romagna.\n\nConfirming nine people had died in the flooding on Wednesday, Regional President Stefano Bonaccini said there had been hundreds of landslides leading to roads in the region being cut off.\n\nIn an earlier Facebook post, he urged residents not go near the rivers and advised people who live in nearby them to move to higher floors.\n\nItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni chaired a crisis meeting with civil protection officials and later thanked rescuers who had risked their own lives to help the victims.\n\nTeams of volunteers have arrived to assist local emergency services on the ground in the Emilia-Romagna region.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn some areas it has not been possible to gauge the rainfall, because the amount exceeded what their instruments could record.\n\nNorthern Italy has gone from severe drought to flooding rain, with the latest deluge caused by Storm Minerva, BBC Weather Presenter Chris Fawkes said.\n\n\"This area was also hit with torrential rain at the start of the month leading to flooding, and this will have left saturated soils, less able to soak up this latest round of heavy rain,\" he added.\n\n\"It's in stark contrast to the state of emergency declared by the Italian authorities last year due to ongoing severe drought. Further thundery downpours are expected for Italy over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the flooding in Italy? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lucy Letby told the court medical notes found at her home were not taken \"intentionally\"\n\nNurse Lucy Letby has accused hospital bosses of a \"conspiracy\" against her to cover up shortcomings on the neo-natal ward where she is accused of murder.\n\nThe 33-year-old is charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.\n\nShe told her trial a \"gang of four\" doctors apportioned \"blame\" on to her \"to cover up failings at the hospital\".\n\nMs Letby denies all charges against her.\n\nProsecutor Nick Johnson KC, in cross examination, asked Ms Letby how she felt towards her former colleagues.\n\nAsked about Dr Stephen Brearey, a consultant who demanded the defendant was taken off the unit in June 2016, Ms Letby said she did not have a problem with him at the time she was working with him.\n\nMr Johnson then directed the jury towards a note, found at Ms Letby's home, which had a profanity written on it.\n\nMs Letby has previously told the court this was written after she was removed from the unit and was directed at Dr Brearey and Dr Ravi Jayaram as they had been \"making comments I was responsible for the deaths of babies\".\n\nMr Johnson went on to ask Ms Letby if she felt there was a \"conspiracy\" against her, she agreed.\n\n\"Who is in the conspiracy group?,\" Mr Johnson asked.\n\nLucy Letby denies murdering and attempting to murder babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nShe named Ravi Jayaram, Stephen Brearey, John Gibbs and another doctor who cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\n\"So the gang of four?,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson asked what the conspiracy between the four was, and she said they had \"apportioned blame onto me\".\n\n\"I believe to cover up things at the hospital,\" she added.\n\nMs Letby was later asked about the death of a baby boy, Child A.\n\nShe told the court that if the cause of death was established as air embolus, then it would have come from the person connecting the fluids, \"which wasn't me\".\n\nMr Johnson also asked Ms Letby about insulin discovered in the blood of two babies in this case.\n\nMs Letby was asked if Child E was poisoned with insulin.\n\n\"Yes I agree that he had insulin,\" she said.\n\nMr Johnson asked: \"Do you believe that somebody gave it to him unlawfully?\"\n\nMs Letby said she did not know \"where the insulin came from\" and denied causing the baby any harm.\n\nShe also agreed that Child L was poisoned with insulin but added: \"I don't know how the insulin got there.\"\n\n\"I don't believe that any member of staff on the unit would make a mistake in giving insulin,\" she said.\n\nEarlier the court heard that a total of 257 nursing shift handover sheets, containing some of the names of her alleged victims, were found during police searches of her home following her arrest in July 2018.\n\nShe agreed with Mr Johnson that taking such sheets out of the hospital was not \"normal practice\" and they should be discarded in confidential waste.\n\n\"What were you thinking as this pile of handover sheets accumulated almost to the size of a phonebook,\" Mr Johnson asked.\n\nThe defendant said she did not know she \"had that many\".\n\nMr Johnson put it to her that she was keeping the notes for her \"little collection\".\n\nShe added: \"I keep a lot of paper, I have a difficulty throwing anything anyway.\"\n\nThe former nurse said she had kept many items over the years, including cards, letters, notes and did not keep the handover sheets \"because of the content\".\n\nMr Johnson responded: \"Are you really asking the jury to accept that pieces of paper with sensitive information about dead children on them were insignificant?\"\n\nMs Letby told the court she did not take medical handover notes home \"intentionally\"\n\nMr Johnson then asked Ms Letby about a blood gas record chart relating to one of the babies in this case, which was also found at her home.\n\nMr Johnson accuses her of \"fishing it out of the confidential waste bin\".\n\nShe responded: \"I never fished anything out of the confidential waste bin.\"\n\nHe said: \"It was for your little collection, wasn't it?\"\n\nMr Johnson went on to speak about a keepsake box in her former home in Chester, and asked her if she knew what was in it when police raided her home.\n\nMr Johnson explained to the jury that a \"pristine\" handover sheet, dated 1 June 2010, was found in the box.\n\nHe said this was Ms Letby's first day as a student nurse on the Countess of Chester neonatal unit.\n\nMr Johnson said the defendant was \"not prepared to tell the truth about these handover sheets\" but she responded saying \"the truth is what I have told you\".\n\nMs Letby was then asked about a sympathy card she sent to the grieving parents of a baby girl, Child I, who she allegedly murdered.\n\nInside, the defendant wrote: \"There are no words to make this time any easier. It was a real privilege to care for [Child I] and get to know you as a family - a family who always put [Child I] first and did everything possible for her.\n\n\"She will always be part of your lives and we will never forget her.\n\n\"Thinking of you today and always. Lots of love Lucy x.\"\n\nAn image of the card and its inside message was recovered by police from Ms Letby's phone and GPS data confirmed that the image was taken on the neonatal unit, the trial heard.\n\nLucy Letby previously said she photographed the card so she could remember the kind words she sent\n\nMr Johnson asked: \"Why did you write the card at home, and then bring it to work and take a photo of it in the place where the baby had died in dreadful circumstances?\"\n\nMs Letby responded: \"The place is insignificant, I take photos of the majority of cards that I send. This was taken to give to the staff who were going to the funeral.\"\n\nMr Johnson asked her if she took the picture to \"give you a bit of a thrill, taking a picture in the place where the child died?\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Montana is set to become the first US state to ban Chinese-owned media giant TikTok from personal devices.\n\nGovernor Greg Gianforte signed the ban into law on Wednesday. It is due to take effect on 1 January.\n\nThe video-sharing platform says the ban \"infringes on the First Amendment rights of the people of Montana\".\n\nTikTok has come under scrutiny from authorities around the world over concerns that data could be passed to the Chinese government.\n\nMr Gianforte, a Republican, told lawmakers that a wider ban would further \"our shared priority to protect Montanans from Chinese Communist Party surveillance.\"\n\nTikTok said in a statement that it was used by \"hundreds of thousands of people\" in Montana.\n\n\"We want to reassure Montanans that they can continue using TikTok to express themselves, earn a living, and find community as we continue working to defend the rights of our users inside and outside of Montana,\" it added.\n\nTikTok is expected to challenge the legislation in the courts.\n\nLast month, lawmakers in Montana passed a bill banning TikTok on personal devices by a vote of 54 to 43.\n\nThe law will make it illegal for app stores to offer TikTok, but does not ban people who already have TikTok from using it.\n\nMontana, which has a population of just over 1m, banned the app on government devices last December.\n\nTikTok says it has 150 million American users. Although the app's user base has expanded in recent years, it is still most popular with teenagers and users in their 20s.\n\nHowever, there are concerns across the US political spectrum that TikTok could be a national security risk.\n\nIn March, a congressional committee grilled TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew about whether the Chinese government could access user data or influence what Americans see on the app.\n\nMr Shou repeatedly said that it would never spy on Americans - despite admitting that employees had used the TikTok accounts of journalists to obtain information about them.\n\nEarlier in March, the US government said ByteDance should sell TikTok or face a possible ban in the country.\n\nThe penalties apply to companies, but not individual users. Firms that break the law face penalties of up to $10,000 (£8,012), which would be enforced by Montana's Department of Justice.\n\nIt means that technology giants like Apple and Google could face fines if they allow TikTok to be downloaded in Montana from their app stores.\n\nTikTok's owner ByteDance has repeatedly denied it is controlled by the Chinese government.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The fight over TikTok explained in 60 seconds", "Parents are scraping out dirty nappies and reusing them, a charity worker said\n\nThe stigma around hygiene poverty is holding people back for getting help, a charity that provides toiletries to 125 foodbanks, schools and refuges in Northern Ireland has said.\n\nThe Hygiene Bank has distributed over 62.6kg of nappies, sanitary items and other products throughout Northern Ireland since 2020.\n\nIts coordinator says some parents are reusing dirty nappies for their babies, in a bid to save money.\n\nHilary Young, from Portglenone, County Antrim, said many people do not want to admit they need help but \"when it comes to basic things particularly it's like a stigma, they feel ashamed they've had to do this\".\n\n\"But more and more people are having to make that step,\" said Ms Young, who stores supplies for the charity in her garage.\n\nMs Young works with the Ballymena unit of the charity but said her work now included areas from Maghera and Magherafelt to Antrim and Ballyclare.\n\n\"We have had reports of if families haven't got nappies to change into a fresh nappy, they scrape the current nappy off, clean as much as they can, and put the nappy back on.\n\n\"It's hard to imagine having to do that, but sadly that's the case. Hard to imagine when you're not in that position, but sadly that's reality.\"\n\nThe charity worker said the need for personal items such as toilet roll and toothpaste is growing, with the charity opening another two bases in Northern Ireland in recent months.\n\n\"Initially we were blinded to the reality of the need out there,\" she continued.\n\n\"It used to be you'd have thought it was a far-off country, not your own country, or your own area. But no - it's very much on our doorsteps, sadly.\"\n\nHilary Young said things are getting worse for families in Northern Ireland\n\nA family of five might only have one toothbrush to share around, and families weren't able to renew these every few months as would be advised, she said.\n\n\"I've been to Africa helping in an orphanage out there, and you expect it out there, but here you wouldn't imagine that to be the case. But sadly it is. And it's getting worse, unfortunately.\n\n\"A lot of the hygiene side of things hasn't been realised as much as it should be because it goes alongside needing food.\n\n\"We all need to eat, we need to wash, we need to do all those basic things, we need to keep warm especially when it's chilly mornings.\n\n\"The hygiene side of things is not talked about but it's very much real.\"\n\nHeather Boyd, the centre manager at the Maghera Cross Community Link, which runs a foodbank that receives donations from The Hygiene Bank, said she worried for schoolchildren who are not being washed for school.\n\n\"If kids are going to school without being washed or clean clothes it causes all sorts of problems for them,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We have seen how important it is to be able to wash.\n\n\"We've had a food bank for around nine years, but people are finding it so much harder.\n\n\"We used to be focused on just feeding people, but now it's so much more, working families are coming to us and steadily a lot of new faces in the last month.\n\n\"Families are grateful for a hygiene bag - those are the items which shouldn't be a treat, a toothbrush, shower gel.\"\n\nAntrim's Baby Bank could open for more than one day a week due to increasing demand, Sharon Caldwell said\n\nSharon Caldwell, the scheme organiser for the Baby Bank in Antrim which distributes essential supplies to families, said referrals had almost doubled in a year.\n\n\"People are not looking for luxuries, they're not looking for all the additional things, they are looking for the things we presume every child should have,\" she said.\n\nMs Caldwell said parents would often go without shampoo or shower gel in order to provide hygienic items for their babies.\n\n\"I wouldn't like to think what would happen if suddenly a place like ours did not exist,\" she said.\n\n\"People have gotten used to knowing that when they face a difficult week, when they are in crisis, if the worst comes to the worst, they know that their baby will have everything that they need.\"\n\nYou can hear Good Morning Ulster's interview with Hilary Young here.", "Robert Woodward (left) and Carl Bernstein (right) spoke to the BBC's Amol Rajan\n\nUS reporter Carl Bernstein has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) is a \"huge force\" which poses challenges for the future of journalism.\n\nBernstein and his colleague Bob Woodward were the reporters at the heart of the Watergate scandal and the fall of President Nixon in 1972.\n\nAI's rapid take-up has sparked fears of job losses, privacy and the potential to circulate misleading information.\n\nBernstein said \"truth is the bottom line for anything in your life.\"\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Amol Rajan, Bernstein and Woodward also reflected on the fall of Nixon, the former presidency of Donald Trump and the state of the US and the world today.\n\nBernstein said: \"We need to know what's real as opposed to what's false. The press is the essential element in a community of being able to attain that.\"\n\nAsked why anyone should become a reporter today, he said to find \"the best obtainable version of the truth\".\n\nRobert Woodward said political hate had become part of the United States\n\nThe Chat GPT programme, which uses AI, has become widely used in the past year and Rajan read them an excerpt that the tool had produced about the two veteran US journalists.\n\nIt briefly summarised who they were and said their work \"had inspired a new generation of journalists and established a new standard for investigative reporting\".\n\nBernstein said he wasn't enamoured by the extract and described it as \"an amalgam of things that have been written about us\".\n\nHe recognised part of it from a brochure used for the conference they had attended. Despite it being the early stages of artificial intelligence, he said: \"AI is a huge force we're going to have to grapple with in this world.\"\n\nCarl Bernstein described AI as a huge force to be grappled with.\n\nDiscussing the limitations of AI, Woodward said: \"I can call the Pentagon and say, 'I'd like to talk to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the top military man', and he's either going to talk or maybe not. AI can't do that.\"\n\nAmol Rajan interviews Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists at the heart of the Watergate scandal, about Nixon, Trump and America today.\n\nTheir Watergate story began with the two reporters carrying out traditional journalism, knocking on doors following a burglary, and ended by exposing the wrongdoing of President Nixon.\n\nThe pair are revered in US journalism for their award-winning reporting, and their book about Watergate was adapted for the big screen in All the President's Men.\n\nThe movie came out in 1976 and starred Robert Redford as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein.\n\nDustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in All the President's Men\n\nBernstein drew a parallel between the dramatic events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon and those around the end of President Trump's time in office.\n\n\"We never thought we would see it with another president. It happened even more so and even more dangerously with Trump,\" he said.\n\nThis year, Rupert Murdoch's Fox News paid out nearly $800m (£643m) over its reporting of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nMurdoch owns many media outlets, including the Times, the Sun and the Wall Street Journal, as well as Fox News.\n\nBernstein and Woodward worked at the Washington Post\n\nAsked whether Rupert Murdoch has been a force for good, Bernstein said: \"Instead of being remembered for his imagination in terms of what he did with the movie business, with changing television shows like South Park, all of this has been overwhelmed by promoting, encouraging and accepting a culture of untruth that has been the hallmark of his journalism\".\n\n\"I think in terms of his legacy, it is going to be evil because he has taken untruth and made it his imprimatur.\"\n\nWoodward has written many books including ones on Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and the CIA. Carl Bernstein, himself an author of five best-selling books, is a regular voice on US news programmes.\n\nAmol Rajan interviews - Watergate to Trump will be broadcast at 19:00 BST on Thursday 18 May on BBC Two.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: BBC talks to taxi driver who drove Harry and Meghan\n\nA New York City cab driver who drove the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for about 10 minutes on Tuesday night as they tried to shake off photographers has said the couple were clearly nervous during the short journey.\n\nSukhcharn Singh, who goes by the name Sonny, told the BBC he picked them up at a local police precinct in Midtown Manhattan.\n\nHarry and Meghan's spokesperson has said in a statement that the couple endured a \"relentless pursuit\" that lasted for more than two hours.\n\nBut Mr Singh, who witnessed one part of the drama, did not characterise his drive as a dangerous chase by paparazzi.\n\nDressed in a navy blue shirt and speaking to reporters outside his family's home in Queens, Mr Singh described the headline-making drive.\n\n\"I was on 67th Street and then the security guard hailed me. Next thing you know, Prince Harry and his wife were hopping into my cab,\" he said.\n\n\"We got blocked by a garbage truck, and all of a sudden paparazzi came and started taking pictures.\" Harry and Meghan were about to share their destination when the security guard made the call to return to the police precinct.\n\n\"They looked nervous, I think they were being chased the whole day or something,\" Mr Singh said. \"They were pretty nervous, but the security guard, he was on it.\"\n\nIn a statement, Harry and Meghan's spokesperson said they had experienced a \"near-catastrophic car chase\" on Tuesday. New York police confirmed an incident and said numerous photographers \"made their transport challenging\" - but that there were no reported collisions or injuries.\n\nOne of the paparazzi drivers reportedly involved in the car chase has said it was \"very tense\" trying to keep up with their vehicle.\n\nSpeaking anonymously to ITV's Good Morning Britain on Thursday, the driver said: \"They did a lot of blocking and there was a lot of different types of manoeuvres to stop what was happening.\"\n\nHe added: \"If it was dangerous and catastrophic, it was more than likely based on the person that was driving.\"\n\nPhoto agency Backgrid USA said it received photos of the event from photographers, \"three of whom were in cars and one of whom was riding a bicycle\".\n\nThe agency said it took Prince Harry's allegations seriously and would be conducting its own investigation, but that according to the photographers, \"there were no near-collisions or near-crashes during this incident\".\n\n\"It is important to note that these photographers have a professional responsibility to cover newsworthy events and personalities, including public figures such as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle,\" the agency added.\n\nThe couple were in New York attending an awards ceremony - the Ms Foundation Women of Vision Awards - along with Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen they were chased after leaving, the spokesperson said, they tried to take shelter from the paparazzi by going to a Manhattan police station - which is where Mr Singh picked them up.\n\nFor at least the few minutes they were in Mr Singh's car, he did not believe they were in danger.\n\n\"I don't think that's true, I think that's all exaggerated and stuff like that. Don't read too much into that,\" Mr Singh said of the statement. He later added \"that must have happened before\" they got in his taxi.\n\n\"New York City's the safest place to be,\" he continued. \"There's police stations, cops on every corner, there's no reason to be afraid in New York.\"\n\nThe paparazzi were not being aggressive during his drive, he said.\n\n\"They were behind us. I mean, they stayed on top of us, that was pretty much it, it was nothing more. They kept their distance.\"\n\nMr Singh described Harry and Meghan as \"nice people\".\n\n\"At the end of the trip, they say, 'Oh nice meeting you',\" and asked his name, Mr Singh recalled. As his passengers disembarked, the security guard paid and tipped him for the ride.\n\n\"It was great. Ten-minute drive, $50,\" he said. \"What can you ask for? You can't beat that!\"\n\nWas Mr Singh dazzled by his famous passengers? Not particularly.\n\n\"I have also picked up Keith Richards in my cab as well,\" Mr Singh said. \"I pick up celebrities all the time. I didn't think much of it when they got in, either.\"\n\nAfter speaking to reporters for a few minutes, Mr Singh got back in his yellow cab and drove off to Midtown, for another long day of ferrying passengers.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nWest Ham United reached their first major European final since 1976 after they overcame AZ Alkmaar in their Europa Conference League semi-final.\n\nHaving won the first leg at London Stadium 2-1, the Hammers were resolute away to their Dutch opponents, reaching the final in Prague on 7 June with a 1-0 second-leg win.\n\nDavid Moyes' side soaked up plenty of pressure at AFAS Stadium until Pablo Fornals scored on the counter-attack in second-half injury time.\n\nThe night, however, was soured by unpleasant scenes off the pitch.\n\nAZ Alkmaar fans attacked an area in which friends and family of the West Ham players were watching the match.\n\nWest Ham will face Fiorentina, who beat Basel in extra time in the other semi-final.\n\nThe Hammers are hoping to lift their first major trophy since they lifted the 1980 FA Cup; they were one of three winners of the 1999 Intertoto Cup.\n• None Hammers news and fan views in one place\n• None West Ham will not talk to other clubs about Rice until season is over\n\nWest Ham's last European final had been in the 1975-76 Cup Winners' Cup when they lost 4-2 to Anderlecht.\n\nThey came agonisingly close to breaking that duck last season, losing 3-1 on aggregate to eventual winners Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League semi-finals.\n\nThis time around they were disciplined, keeping their hosts at arm's length for much of their second leg.\n\nPaqueta clipped the outside of the post in the 26th minute after good work from Michail Antonio, while captain Declan Rice forced a good save from AZ keeper Mat Ryan shortly after the restart.\n\nDefender Nayef Aguerd also dragged an effort wide from close range in the 82nd minute, before Pablo Fornals raced clear in injury time and buried the ball into the bottom corner to seal the tie.\n\nIt means the Hammers have an opportunity to win a first European trophy since they lifted the Cup Winners' Cup in 1965.\n\nIt would cap off a fine turnaround for Moyes' side, who were booed by their own fans on 5 April when they suffered a 5-1 home defeat by Newcastle to leave them just a point clear of the Premier League relegation zone.\n\nThe Hammers are 15th in the table with two games left, and need just a point across their final two league games to mathematically confirm their safety.\n\nEredivisie side AZ were in their first European semi-final since losing to Sporting Lisbon in the last four of the 2004-05 Uefa Cup.\n\nThe 1981 Uefa Cup finalists had enjoyed an impressive European run, beating Lazio in the last 16 and coming from two goals down to beat Anderlecht on penalties in the quarter-finals.\n\nThey threw everything at West Ham in the closing stages - and Hammers defender Thilo Kehrer nearly caught out keeper Alphonse Areola with a risky back-pass.\n\nAnd defender Kurt Zouma was relieved not to have been penalised for a handball in the area, with the video assistant referee deciding not to overturn Slovakian referee Ivan Kruzliak's non-penalty call.\n\nDespite opening the scoring in London last week, AZ slumped to a 3-1 aggregate defeat. They need one more point from their final two league fixtures to secure a top-four finish and qualify for next season's Europa Conference League qualifiers.\n• None Goal! AZ 0, West Ham United 1. Pablo Fornals (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner following a fast break.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Alphonse Aréola (West Ham United).\n• None Attempt missed. Nayef Aguerd (West Ham United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Tomás Soucek.\n• None Attempt missed. Tomás Soucek (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Michail Antonio. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "US prosecutors have charged a man with stealing the famous red slippers worn by Judy Garland's character Dorothy in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.\n\nThe valuable shoes were found in an FBI operation in 2018 - after being taken from a museum in August 2005 - but no arrests were made at the time.\n\nOn Tuesday, federal prosecutors charged Minnesota man Terry Martin, 76, with theft of a major artwork.\n\nThe recovered slippers are one of four pairs in existence.\n\nThe shoes were taken from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, by a thief who had smashed through a window in the building's back door to get inside. No fingerprints were left behind and no alarm went off, according to CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\n\nThey were found in a sting operation launched by the FBI's art crime team. The case is being handled by federal prosecutors in North Dakota and the FBI's Minneapolis Division.\n\nThe red shoes are central to The Wizard of Oz. When Dorothy clicks the heels of the shoes together and says \"there's no place like home\" she is transported back to Kansas.\n\nCharging documents released on Tuesday contained no information about what led to Mr Martin's arrest. On Wednesday, he told a reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune: \"I gotta go on trial. I don't want to talk to you.\"\n\nThe newspaper notes that Mr Martin lives about 12 miles (19km) from the museum, which is located at the childhood home of Judy Garland.\n\nMuseum executive director Janie Heitz said she does not think the suspect was ever an employee of the museum.\n\nThe treasured items of Hollywood memorabilia have been valued at $3.5m (£2.8m), said the US Attorney's Office for the District of North Dakota, adding that they were insured for $1m when they were stolen nearly 18 years ago.\n\nAnother pair of the red sequined slippers are at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC and another pair was acquired in 2012 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.\n\nThe stolen slippers are still in the custody of the FBI.\n\n\"Until the court cases are done, nothing can be done with them,\" the museum wrote on Facebook.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures munchkin village created for film version of Wicked, set in the Land of Oz", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sunak: UK is working with Australia and Japan to ensure the Indo-Pacific region remains \"free and open\"\n\nRishi Sunak has agreed new defence and economic deals with Japan in a visit to Tokyo, ahead of the G7 summit in Hiroshima.\n\nSpeaking on board the JS Izumo aircraft carrier, the PM announced a partnership featuring closer UK-Japanese co-operation between armed forces, cyber-agencies and semiconductor companies.\n\nHe also said Japanese firms would be investing almost £18bn in the UK.\n\nBut Labour said foreign investment had plummeted under the Conservatives.\n\nThe government is emphasising it sees the region providing economic opportunity for the UK post-Brexit UK, as well as working with Japan and Australia to counter the strategic threat from China.\n\nAbout £10bn of the investment is coming from trading and investment business conglomerate Marubeni and is earmarked for offshore wind and green hydrogen projects in Scotland and Wales.\n\nSimilarly, Sumitomo Corporation intends to inject £4bn in offshore wind projects off the Suffolk and Norfolk coastline.\n\nThe government said both the investments would further solidify \"the UK's status as a clean energy pioneer\" and would help the UK achieve its net zero target by 2030.\n\nThe announcement came as Mr Sunak hosted a reception in Tokyo highlighting the strength of the UK and Japan's economic relationship ahead of the UK joining the regional CPTPP trade bloc (the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership).\n\nThe government said Japan was the fifth largest investor in the UK, with trade in goods and services worth £27.7bn last year.\n\nMr Sunak said the new investment was a \"massive vote of confidence in the UK's dynamic economy\" from some of Japan's top firms.\n\n\"The sky's the limit for British and Japanese businesses and entrepreneurs.\"\n\nLabour's shadow international trade secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, pointed to figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility which predicts exports are set to fall by 6.6% this year, equivalent to a £51bn hit to the UK.\n\nResponding to the announcement about Japanese investment, he said the \"devil will be in the detail\".\n\nAside from energy, two of Japan's largest real estate companies, Mitsubishi Estate and Mitsui Fudosan, confirmed £3.5bn for affordable housing, office space and a life-science laboratory in London.\n\nThere is also investment travelling in the opposite direction - from UK businesses into Japan.\n\nOctopus Energy is set to invest £1.5bn in the Asia-Pacific energy market by 2027, to \"speed up the region's transition to a cleaner, smarter energy system\", creating 1,000 jobs in the UK.\n\nUK consultancy Mott MacDonald will help develop an offshore wind farm in western Japan which could power more than 175,000 homes with clean energy, the government added.\n\nSeparately Mr Sunak will commit to a partnership combining British expertise and Japanese materials to boost supply chains for semiconductors.\n\nMr Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty arriving in Hiroshima, following his visit to Tokyo\n\nThe silicon microchips, used to produce supercomputers and AI technology, are hugely important to modern economies and there has been concern about depending on China for their production.\n\nThe UK prime minister also pledged to deploy a naval battle fleet in the Indo-Pacific region by 2025.\n\nAfter agreeing the Hiroshima Accord, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Mr Sunak will attend the G7 summit, where the focus is expected to be on economic security and the conflict in Ukraine.\n\nDuring the gathering, Mr Sunak will hold bilateral talks with France's Emmanuel Macron and India's Narendra Modi.\n\nSpeaking on the plane to Tokyo, Mr Sunak said: \"Prime Minister Kishida and I are closely aligned on the importance of protecting peace and security in the Indo-Pacific and defending our values, including free and fair trade.\n\n\"The Hiroshima Accord will see us step up co-operation between our armed forces, grow our economies together and develop our world-leading science and technology expertise.\"\n\nThe two men had dinner together at Mr Kishida's favourite restaurant on land once owned by his grandfather. Mr Sunak attended the meal wearing socks featuring Mr Kishida's sports club - the Hiroshima Toyo Carp baseball team.\n\nDuring his visit to Hiroshima, Mr Sunak will plant a tree to remember the victims of the atomic bomb, which killed an estimated 140,000 of the city's 350,000 population in 1945.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRafael Nadal will miss the French Open for the first time in 19 years after a hip injury ruled out the record 14-time men's singles champion.\n\nThe 36-year-old Spaniard, who has won 22 major titles, also said he plans to retire after the 2024 season.\n\n\"I didn't make the decision, my body made the decision. To play Roland Garros is impossible,\" he said.\n\n\"Next year will probably be my last year. That is my idea. If I keep going now I won't be able to make it happen.\"\n\nNadal holds the joint record number of men's major triumphs alongside Serbia's Novak Djokovic. He has won 70 other ATP titles and spent 209 weeks at world number one - the sixth longest amount of time in ATP history.\n\nKnown as the 'King of Clay', Nadal has won 112 of his 115 matches at the French Open.\n\nHowever, the Majorcan left-hander has not played since sustaining the hip problem at the Australian Open in January.\n\nNadal has been practising in recent weeks, but was not fit enough to play a tournament in the run-up to Roland Garros.\n\nThe French Open starts in Paris on 28 May and runs until 11 June.\n• None Why Nadal's French Open absence so hard to imagine\n\n\"I was working as much as possible every single day for the past four months and they have been difficult because we were not been able to find the solution to the problems I had in Australia,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm still in the position where I am not able to feel ready to compete at the standards I need to be to play at Roland Garros.\n\n\"I am not the guy who will be at Roland Garros just to try to be there and in a position where I don't like to be.\"\n\nNadal said he needs to stop playing for the foreseeable future in order to make a full recovery and complete a planned farewell season in 2024.\n\nHis participation at this year's Wimbledon is very unlikely. The Championships, which Nadal won in 2008 and 2010, start at the All England Club on 3 July and run until 16 July.\n\n\"I will stop for a while, maybe one month and a half, maybe two months, maybe three months or maybe four months. I don't know. I do not like to predict the future,\" he said.\n\n\"I will do the right thing for my body and personal happiness.\n\n\"My goal and ambition is to try to stop and give myself an opportunity to enjoy the next year.\n\n\"That is my idea but I can't say 100% it will be like this. My idea is to try to enjoy and say goodbye to all the tournaments that have been important for me.\"\n\nNadal injured his hip during a second-round defeat by American Mackenzie MacDonald in Melbourne and initially expected to be sidelined for six to eight weeks.\n\nAn MRI scan two days after the match showed a tear in his left psoas muscle.\n\nLast month, Nadal announced he would not be able to play the Madrid Open because the injury \"still hadn't healed\" and was planning a different course of treatment.\n\nThen he withdrew from this month's Italian Open - another important clay-court tournament before the French Open - saying he had still not been able to train at a high level.\n\nOn Thursday, he announced he will miss Roland Garros for the first time in his career in a news conference at his academy in Majorca.\n\nNadal won the French Open title in his first appearance there in 2005, going on to triumph another 13 times in the following 17 years.\n\nNo player has won as many singles titles at one major tournament as the Spaniard has at Roland Garros.\n\n\"We will really miss seeing Rafael Nadal, whose destiny is closely linked with that of Roland-Garros.\n\n\"I can only imagine the pain and sadness he must be feeling after having to make such a hard decision.\n\n\"We hope to see him at Roland-Garros next year.\"\n\nBy missing the French Open for the first time since 2004, Nadal hopes he might just be in a position to win a 15th title in Paris this time next year.\n\nHe very much wants to be in Melbourne, Indian Wells, Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Wimbledon and New York next year to say goodbye. But you just know he will also very much hope he can win these tournaments for one last time.\n\nIt is, however, not very encouraging to hear him say no solution has yet been found to his hip problem.\n\nAnd when he admitted pain has prevented him from enjoying both practice and competition in recent years, it reminded me of Andy Murray, who took his own break from the sport - and surgery in his case - to improve, above all else, his quality of life.\n\nTennis has been adjusting to the loss of Serena Williams and Roger Federer. And now there will be a Rafael Nadal sized hole in the summer schedule.\n\nBut if it gives us another year, it will be worth the wait.\n• None Kyrgios to miss French Open after injuring foot during alleged theft at his house\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Was one of the world's tallest statues haunted? The story of the World Peace Giant Kannon statue and its impact on local residents\n• None Check out the compelling and emotional real-life stories on BBC iPlayer now", "Kayden Frank was found dead at a flat in Paisley after reports of concern to police\n\nThe death of a four-year-old boy in a flat in Paisley is being treated as murder, police have said.\n\nKayden Frank was found dead at a property in Argyle Street at about 20:00 on Monday, along with the body of a 38-year-old man.\n\nPolice said the man's death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThey said there was no suggestion anyone else was involved and inquiries were ongoing.\n\nA post-mortem examination has taken place and a report has been sent to the procurator fiscal.\n\nDet Ch Insp Christopher Thomson said: \"Our thoughts are with Kayden's family and friends, along with everyone affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"We are providing his family with specialist support at this incredibly difficult time and officers are continuing enquiries to try and get some answers for them.\n\n\"Kayden's family have requested that their privacy is respected at this time.\"\n\nStaff at Kayden's early learning centre said he was always smiling, singing and dancing\n\nKayden attended the Douglas Street Early Learning and Childcare Centre, whose head Pamela McLachlan said: \"We are all devastated at the news of Kayden's death.\n\n\"He was a lovely boy endowed with an amazing sense of humour, always smiling, singing and dancing.\n\n\"He was the best at giving cuddles, with a big loving heart. He also loved jumping in puddles at our Forest Kindergarden and baking scones.\n\n\"Kayden will be sadly missed by his friends and all our staff. Our thoughts go to all his family and friends.\"\n• None Man and boy found dead at flat in Paisley", "Supermarket chain Asda is considering whether to cut the pay of 7,000 staff in the south east of England to bring it in line with its other stores.\n\nStaff at 39 stores outside the M25 have been paid more for decades to offset a higher cost of living closer to London.\n\nA spokesperson said all Asda staff had recently been given a 10% pay rise to help with soaring inflation.\n\nThe GMB union said Asda was set to fire workers who refused to agree to the new conditions.\n\nThe union said the workers were already low-paid, and that planning to reduce pay during a cost-of-living crisis was \"inexcusable\".\n\nThe workers get a so-called \"location supplement\" of 60p per hour, which Asda may scrap, and a night supplement that it wants to reduce, the GMB said.\n\nIt added that those who do not agree to the pay reduction \"could be dismissed if they refuse to sign\" the new contract.\n\nThe consultation is happening at the moment, and Asda plans to bring in the changes in November, the union said.\n\nIt accused Asda-owners the Issa brothers of laying the ground for a \"debt laden merger\" between Asda and EG Group's UK petrol stations - which the brothers also own.\n\n\"These slash and burn tactics, along with food and fuel price increases, will only ramp up if the merger goes ahead,\" said GMB organiser Nadine Houghton.\n\nHowever, an Asda spokesperson said the collective consultation was \"in a small number of stores\" where workers were paid 60p per hour on top of the £11.00 per hour national rate.\n\n\"This supplement is out of line with the wider retail market and has created an anomaly where some Asda colleagues in stores that are close together are paid different rates,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nAsda is discussing a \"compensatory payment\" in return for removing the supplement.\n\n\"These discussions are ongoing and no final decision has been taken,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nAsda has about 140,000 employees in total.", "Choosing a chocolate chip cookie over a chocolate covered cookie could mean you avoid paying tax\n\nDo you prefer your biscuit with the chocolate in it, or on it?\n\nYour answer could cost you an extra 20% on the cost of your favourite treat.\n\nThe reason? Value added tax (VAT), a tax we all pay on many things we buy, and while most food is VAT free, it does get slapped on some snacks - and being wise to its weird ways could save you some money.\n\nThe Treasury said it applied VAT relief on items including food, public transport and property rental.\n\nKemi Nevins ran a café in Cardiff for many years and said getting to grips with VAT rules was a challenge.\n\n\"It's a shopping nightmare, really, and you've got to be a very savvy shopper to know all the little ways of saving money,\" she said.\n\n\"It sounds crazy but you can have crisps made from potato which have standard rate VAT, that's 20% on top, but if you like your corn chips they're zero rated. So it's a no-brainer, get the corn chips.\"\n\nFormer café owner Kemi Nevins said getting to grips with VAT rules was a \"shopping nightmare\"\n\nSo what about biscuits? Well there is no VAT to pay on them unless they are wholly or partially covered in chocolate, in which case there is an extra 20% in tax.\n\nBut, if the chocolate is inside the biscuit, for example a chocolate chip cookie or if it is sandwiched in between two halves of a biscuit, there is no VAT to pay.\n\nClear as mud, or chocolate, right?\n\nHere is a handy guide to some of the deeply confusing rules on the VAT status of some popular snacks.\n\nRemember that sometimes stores will have offers where the products subject to 20% VAT may end up being the cheaper option - so it is always worth checking prices before you buy.\n\nOverall in Wales we pay more VAT than income tax and for hundreds of thousands of people it is the single biggest tax they pay.\n\nGuto Ifan, an economist at the Wales Governance Centre, has been crunching the numbers.\n\nHe said: \"About 46% of adults don't pay income tax which means that inevitably they'll pay more through the VAT system.\"\n\nAs a tax on spending, VAT takes a bigger chunk out of the disposable incomes of the poorest households compared to the richest, though the overall UK tax and benefits system does redistribute money from the richest to the poorest.\n\nBut the debate over whether that system is generous enough to people on low incomes is a constant political debate, especially given the current cost of living pressures.\n\nThe Labour MP for the Cynon Valley, Beth Winter, wants to see changes to the entire tax system and sad VAT was particularly unfair.\n\n\"We live in a very unequal country and this indirect tax clearly impacts the poorest in society much more than the wealthy and it needs changing,\" she said.\n\nMP Beth Winter said the current tax system impacts the poorest in society more\n\nBut Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said VAT reform on its own could not provide extra support for the poorest.\n\n\"If you want additional progressivity in the tax system, which you may well do, the VAT system is not the place to look for it,\" he said.\n\n\"You need to look through wealth taxes, income taxes, capital gains taxes, all those sorts of things. Or indeed through the welfare system, by increasing benefits.\"\n\nThe sheer complexity of VAT, which applies to most of the goods and services we buy, has led to many court cases and often makes it a magnet for ridicule as well criticism.\n\nChoosing a chocolate chip cookie over a chocolate covered one could mean you avoid paying tax\n\nIn one case, more than 20 years ago, Lord Justice Sedley said: \"Beyond the everyday world… lies the world of VAT a kind of fiscal theme park in which factual and legal realities are suspended or inverted.\"\n\nVAT has been with us for 50 years and it is a now major source of income for the UK government raising £143bn in 2021-22.\n\nIn responding to calls for reform, the Treasury said: \"We recognise households should not have to bear all the VAT costs they incur and apply generous VAT reliefs on items like food, public transport and property rental.\"\n\nThey say that means \"45% of economic activity is not subject to VAT\".", "On Wednesday about 60,000 fans descended on Cardiff, with some having travelled there from across the globe\n\nBeyoncé-fever gripped Cardiff on Wednesday where the singer kicked off the UK leg of her world tour.\n\nBut the extravaganza has left some mulling over the damage the event and others like it have on the environment.\n\nBeyoncé's Formation tour in 2016 took seven air freighters and 70 trucks to get her stage set and other gear to the venues across the UK.\n\nAnd that didn't include the backstage staff, musicians, performers - or even Beyoncé herself.\n\nAbout 60 production trucks were outside Cardiff City Stadium ahead of Beyoncé's concert\n\nOn Wednesday about 60,000 fans descended on Cardiff, with some having travelled there from across the globe.\n\nThe superstar herself arrived by private jet at Cardiff Airport just after 15:00 BST and was flown back to London at 23:00.\n\nMeanwhile about 60 production trucks and 18 coaches lined up outside Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nOne onlooker tweeted: \"I worry about my recycling and here are all of #Beyoncé set trucks parked up in Cardiff... For one night! #ClimateEmergency #Carbon\".\n\nEighteen coaches were lined up outside Cardiff City Stadium on Wednesday\n\nMusic business journalist Eamonn Forde said an act like Beyoncé would travel with a sizeable entourage including production staff, a full band, dancers, which represented \"hundreds of people potentially on the roads\".\n\n\"You've got to put on a spectacular show, and that involves a lot stage and a lot of screens... all of the staging will be taken up in lots and lots of articulate lorries,\" he said.\n\n\"And then there's the people having to travel there.\n\n\"Obviously [it] comes with an environmental impact.\"\n\nWith many young people feeling deep anxiety about climate change, does any of this matter to Beyoncé's fans?\n\n\"She will have an audience that is expecting her productions to be as green as possible but then you're also talking about one of the biggest artists in the world, and she can just kind of do whenever she wants in the sense that the demand will be there,\" Eamonn said.\n\n\"Lots of fans will on one hand say 'I hope the show is as environmentally friendly as possible', but they will also perhaps be a bit more flexible when they realise this might be their only chance to see Beyoncé for the next five, 10 or however long years.\n\n\"They might kind of put their ethics and their morals to the side.\"\n\nFor the past 15 years charity Julie's Bicycle has been working to mobilise the industry into taking action on the climate and ecological crisis.\n\nBeyoncé's chart-topping singles include Check on It, Irreplaceable, Single Ladies and Break My Soul\n\n\"We know that we have to get to a fossil fuel free world, and so reimagining touring in that context is one of the hardest challenges that the music industry faces,\" said the charity's music lead Chiara Badiali.\n\nShe wants to see the environment considered at the conception of worldwide tours.\n\n\"Eighty percent of the environmental impacts of anything are locked in at the design stage,\" she said.\n\nThe charity champions many green initiatives such as green riders and carbon calculators.\n\nEamonn said he thinks real change is unlikely to come from the superstars themselves.\n\n\"[Beyoncé's] not going to be answering tweets or making a TikTok video in response to that, because she's quite a private person,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not like people will vote with their wallets and boycott a Beyoncé show. She's too big to have a boycott like that really.\n\n\"Where the real change will happen will be the people who put these productions together guiding artists.\"\n\nChiara said she believes stars hold a lot of power to make change.\n\n\"When high-profile artists speak out and they ask to do things differently, then that does and will change the dial of what the whole industry feels as possible,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sunak at G7: Russia must \"pay a price\" for illegal Ukraine invasion\n\nRishi Sunak has said he wants to ensure \"Russia pays a price\" for the war in Ukraine, after announcing new sanctions targeting Russian exports.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Chris Mason at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, the prime minister said he was leading the way with new sanctions on Russia.\n\nHe said he hoped other countries would follow suit.\n\nRussian diamond imports to the UK are among the items that will be banned by the government.\n\nThe Russian diamond industry was worth $4bn (£3.2bn) in exports in 2021.\n\nRussian-origin copper, aluminium and nickel imports will also be blocked, under legislation to be introduced later this year.\n\n\"We believe in democracy, freedom, the rule of law - and it's right that we stand up for those things,\" Mr Sunak told the BBC.\n\nUK PM Rishi Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, arriving in Tokyo ahead of the G7 summit\n\n\"I'm hopeful and confident that our partner countries will follow as they have done when we've done this previously.\n\n\"That will make the sanctions more effective, ensure that Russia pays a price for its illegal activity.\"\n\nThe UK government said it was also planning to target 86 more people and companies connected to President Vladimir Putin, including people who were \"actively undermining the impact of existing sanctions\".\n\nSince Russia's attack on Ukraine, the UK has targeted more than 1,500 individuals and entities and frozen more than £18bn assets under the sanctions regime.\n\nLast year the UK, US, Canada and Japan banned imports of Russian gold in an effort to hit the country's ability to fund the war in Ukraine.\n\nDowning Street said more than 60% of President Putin's war chest has been \"immobilised\" - worth about £275bn.\n\nBoth the US and the EU have announced similar sanctions on Russia - with US President Joe Biden setting out plans to ban Russian diamonds, seafood and vodka last year.\n\nThe President of the European Council, Charles Michel, says the EU also wants to restrict trade in Russian diamonds to try to further isolate Moscow.\n\nDiamonds extracted from the Yakutia region by Russian mining company Alrosas Dynasty\n\nMr Sunak is in Hiroshima for the G7 summit, which is made up of the UK, Japan, Italy, Canada, France, the US and Germany.\n\nThe prime minister visited the Hiroshima Peace Park, the site where the US dropped the first nuclear bomb, alongside other G7 leaders before the meeting, where the Ukraine war and economic security are likely to be high on the agenda.\n\nRussia has significantly increased the frequency of its missile attacks on Ukraine recently, while Ukraine appears to be shooting down more of Russia's missiles.\n\nAt the meeting, Mr Sunak is expected to warn other world leaders \"against complacency in defending our values and standing up to autocratic regimes\".\n\nOn Sunday, he will meet the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, who is attending the G7 summit as a guest.\n\nMr Modi has remained neutral on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, calling for peaceful dialogue to end the conflict.\n\nMr Sunak told reporters travelling with him in Japan that he had seen \"positive\" steps from India in its stance on the war.\n\nThe prime minister said the sanctions demonstrated the G7 was unified in the face of the threat from Russia.\n\nHe said: \"We are meeting today in Hiroshima, a city that exemplifies both the horrors of war and the dividends of peace.\n\n\"We must redouble our efforts to defend the values of freedom, democracy and tolerance, both in Ukraine and here in the Indo-Pacific.\"", "War widows who were forced to forfeit their pensions will receive a lump sum payment after a long-running campaign.\n\nThe compensation scheme will benefit spouses who lost their government income if they remarried or moved in with a new partner before 2015.\n\nUp to 380 people thought to be affected will receive £87,500, but the government said it is \"not possible\" to restore their pensions in full.\n\nIt has also been confirmed that the sums paid out will be subject to tax.\n\nThe announcement follows years of lobbying by campaign groups and some MPs for the pensions to be reinstated.\n\nIn 2015, pension rules for the spouses of personnel killed as a result of active service were overhauled.\n\nIt meant the bereaved would no longer have to give up the ongoing government income they would otherwise be entitled to if they began a new relationship.\n\nBut the new rule was not backdated, meaning those who had to forfeit their pensions between 1973 and 2015 were not reimbursed.\n\nIn a written statement to the Commons on Wednesday, defence minister Dr Andrew Murrison confirmed the government would stop short of fully restoring the pensions, but announced a one-off payment for those who are eligible.\n\nHe said the Treasury and Ministry of Defence are \"deeply conscious of the sacrifice these bereaved individuals have made\".\n\nMoira Kane, chair of the War Widows Association, told the Telegraph it was \"sad\" the pensions had not been reinstated but that \"some of these ladies are getting quite elderly so I think the majority will be happy to receive a lump sum\".\n\nVeterans' affairs minister Johnny Mercer welcomed the announcement, calling it \"the culmination of a campaign that has gone on for about eight years and we have finally got there\".\n\nIn a video statement on Twitter, he said he had received assurances from the Treasury that a £33 million fund had been made available for the scheme, though this figure has not been confirmed by the department.\n\nIn a House of Lords debate on Thursday, the government confirmed the payments would be taxed when independent crossbencher the Earl of Kinnoull asked if the Treasury is \"going to take away with one hand what it has given with the other\".\n\nTory peer and president of the War Widows Association Baroness Fookes said the scheme \"falls short of the full restitution of a war widows' pension\", but added \"it would be churlish indeed not to welcome most warmly this long overdue and most welcome payment\".\n\nTreasury chief secretary John Glen said: \"The legacy of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for this country endures, and it's only right that we honour that service by doing right by their loved ones.\"\n\nApplications for the scheme are expected to open later this year.", "RMT members are to stage a fresh strike on 2 June in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions.\n\nThe strike will see 20,000 train managers, caterers and station staff all walk off the job.\n\nThere will be three rail strikes within four days with Aslef train drivers walking out on 31 May and 3 June, the day of the FA Cup final.\n\nThe government said the RMT had gone \"out of their way\" to make life difficult for thousands.\n\nThe stoppages are also likely to cause disruption for many during the half term school break.\n\nThe RMT said no new proposals had been put forward by the train companies since the union's last strike action on 13 May.\n\nGeneral secretary Mick Lynch said the government was not allowing the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) to make an improved offer in the national dispute.\n\nIndustry negotiators were \"blindsided\" when the RMT turned down their latest offer in April. There was a war of words over whether the RDG had gone back on its proposals - something it strongly denied.\n\nOn Thursday, the train companies' group said it had continued to stand by its \"fair\" proposal, and said the RMT leadership had chosen to \"to prolong this dispute without ever giving their members a chance to have a say on their own offer\".\n\nAslef's walkouts are now more disruptive than the RMT's, because settling the separate Network Rail dispute in March means signalling staff are no longer involved.\n\nHowever, RMT members have backed strike action potentially into the Autumn.\n\nThe government and industry argue the railway is financially unsustainable, and working practices need to change to enable a pay rise.\n\nUnions argue jobs and conditions are being attacked and the wage increases on the table are far below inflation.\n\n\"Ministers cannot just wish this dispute away,\" the RMT's Mick Lynch said.\n\nOn Thursday the government called again for the union to allow its members to have a vote on what it described as the \"fair and reasonable offer\" tabled by the RDG.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Transport also said: \"It's extremely disappointing that for the second time in a month, RMT has decided to call strikes on the same weekend as Aslef, going out of their way to make travelling by train to the FA Cup final, Epsom Derby and a number of music concerts more difficult for thousands of people.\"\n\nThe 14 train companies affected by the RMT's ongoing strike action are: Chiltern Railways, Cross Country Trains, Greater Anglia, LNER, East Midlands Railway, c2c, Great Western Railway, Northern Trains, South Eastern, South Western Railway, Transpennine Express, Avanti West Coast, West Midlands Trains and GTR (including Gatwick Express)", "A man has admitted abducting a primary school girl while dressed as a woman before sexually assaulting her at his home in the Scottish Borders.\n\nAndrew Miller, who is also known as Amy George, offered to give the girl a lift home in February of this year.\n\nThe 53-year-old instead drove her to his own house, took her into a bedroom and refused to let her leave.\n\nHe then subjected her to a series of sexual assaults over the course of the next 27 hours.\n\nThe High Court in Edinburgh was told the girl was only able to escape from the bedroom after Miller fell asleep on the second night of her ordeal.\n\nShe found his landline, dialled 999 and the police arrived within minutes. Miller - a father of three who lived alone - was still sleeping when he was arrested.\n\nJudge Lord Arthurson told Miller that he had admitted \"abhorrent crimes\" of the utmost \"deviance and depravity\" and which were \"the realisation of every parent's worst nightmare\".\n\nThe court was told that Miller identifies as transgender and is in the process of transitioning to female. He was not known to his victim before he abducted her.\n\nAt the time of his arrest, he was presenting as Amy George but confirmed he wished to be addressed as Andrew Miller using \"he\" pronouns for simplicity.\n\nThe girl later told police she had been unable to get a bus home and so started to walk when she was approached \"by a lady in a car\" who offered to give her a lift.\n\nShe said she had accepted the offer and got into the Jaguar car because she was cold and believed the \"lady\" to be non-threatening.\n\nMiller claimed to have been helping the girl when he was arrested by police\n\nMiller instead took her to his own three-bedroom detached bungalow in a residential street in the village of Gattonside, near Melrose, where he placed his arm around her neck and carried her to the main bedroom, where he repeatedly sexually assaulted her.\n\nMiller, who owned a butcher shop in Melrose which had been closed for several months before the abduction, also watched pornography and fetish videos on television, with the girl describing how she had seen \"weird\" things.\n\nShe repeatedly asked to be taken home but Miller refused, saying that he intended to keep her for a week and that she was his new family.\n\nThe court heard that it was only by \"complete fortune\" that the child was able to escape once Miller fell asleep on a bed next to her.\n\nShe deliberately knocked a glass off a table and then turned on a light to see if he would wake up.\n\nThe girl then managed to escape the bedroom and called 999 from his landline.\n\nThe court was told that the girl's \"fear and distress was palpable\" in the call and her relief at hearing the police arrive at the house was obvious.\n\nOfficers found Miller still sleeping and wearing a bra, silicone breasts, female pants and tights.\n\nThe girl was taken to a nearby hospital to be medically examined.\n\nThe Millers of Melrose butcher shop owned by Miller was boarded up after his arrest\n\nMiller told the police he had stopped to \"help\" the child as she \"looked freezing\", saying it was a \"motherly thing\" and that he was being a Good Samaritan and had \"put her in bed with me to warm up\".\n\nHe pleaded guilty to the charges against him at the High Court via videolink and did not appear in person. He was wearing a maroon Scottish Prison Service sweater and had a short crew cut style haircut.\n\nThe offences included abduction, sexual assault, possession of 242 indecent images of children and intentionally causing a child under the age of 13 to look at a sexual image.\n\nHe will be sentenced on 15 August. The court is considering the imposition of an order for lifelong restriction, which would see Miller held in prison for a set period and only released if the parole board felt it was safe to do so. He also would be monitored for the rest of his life.\n\nDet Ch Insp Bryan Burns said the victim and her family had shown \"incredible courage and strength throughout this ordeal\".\n\nHe added: \"This was a significant investigation and I would like to thank all those involved for their professionalism and commitment during what was an extremely challenging inquiry.\n\n\"Andrew Miller has pled guilty to serious offending and will now face the consequences of his actions\".\n\nMiller is being held in a male prison wing while awaiting sentence in line with new guidelines for trans prisoners who commit sexual offences that were introduced following an outcry over the Isla Bryson case.\n\nBryson was initially placed in a female prison after being convicted of raping two women while she was known as a man called Adam Graham.\n\nEven before he appeared in court, the windows of Andrew Miller's butcher shop in Melrose were boarded up. The feeling was it was only as matter of time before someone put a brick through the window, such was the strength of feeling in the town.\n\nPolice had raided his home the night before and word had spread quickly. He was a prominent figure in the area, increasingly seen more as Amy George, as he was also known.\n\nHis business tended to attract more of the tourists visiting the town, locals generally shopped elsewhere, he was known to be rude and short with customers.\n\nOriginally from Jedburgh, Miller lived across the river Tweed from Melrose in Gattonside.\n\nHe would sometimes be seen drinking in the bars in Melrose, again more recently as Amy, but mostly drinking alone.\n\nWhen he appeared at Selkirk Sheriff Court there was a large crowd of locals and national media outside. When he was led away people shouted and jeered, chasing the prison van down the street.\n\nHis case was being heard at a time of heightened interest in how the judicial system was treating trans prisoners. But he appeared as Andrew Miller and was treated throughout as Andrew Miller.\n\nPeople in Melrose want the boards from his shop taken down, the name above painted over. They just want to forget all about Andrew Miller and Amy George.", "The poster was edited to hide the statue's naked crotch area\n\nA poster for an Italian restaurant with Michelangelo's naked statue of David has been barred from Glasgow subway.\n\nThe firm that manages the advertising space requested for the poster to be edited to hide the statue's nudity.\n\nDRG Group, which owns Glasgow's Barolo restaurant, said it was \"surprised\" by the response to the advert - which shows the Renaissance sculpture eating a slice of pizza.\n\nIt created a new version of the poster that hides the statue's crotch area.\n\nNadine Carmichael, head of sales and marketing, said: \"We had artwork in place and discussed if we could cover the crotch with a flag.\n\n\"We got stickers made and the feedback was that they weren't actually big enough.\n\n\"Our next port of call was to show Michelangelo from the waist up. We got there in the end.\"\n\nA new version of the poster has appeared on Glasgow's subway network\n\nDRG said it wanted to use classic Italian art to showcase the restaurant on the public transport network, with the Mona Lisa also discussed as a possible candidate.\n\nMichelangelo's 5.17m (17ft) statue is one of the most famous pieces of Renaissance art.\n\nCompleted between 1501 and 1504, it depicts a naked David, the Biblical figure who kills the giant Goliath.\n\nGlobal, which manages the advertising space, has been approached for comment.", "Ivan Holtvenko holds his old Azovstal ID card as he talks\n\nOne year after the Ukrainian city of Mariupol fell to Russian control, its displaced steel workers find themselves both comforted and unsettled by ghosts of their former lives.\n\nIvan Holtvenko clutches his ID card from his old job in the southern port city as he chats to me in his new workplace, a steelworks in central Ukraine.\n\n\"I hid the pass [when I fled], and now I'm saving it, hoping that one day I'll need it again,\" he says.\n\nIvan is among dozens of workers from Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks who have begun a new life in Kamianske, 270km [168 miles] away, after surviving the final battle for Mariupol, one of the most defining moments of the war.\n\nFor weeks, Ukrainian fighters holed up in the tunnels and bunkers of the steelworks, making a last stand against the Russian forces. They were eventually forced to leave, but Azovstal became a symbol of resistance against the invasion.\n\nAzovstal - with its maze of underground tunnels - was attacked for weeks in early 2022\n\nIvan has no idea if, or when, Ukraine will retake Mariupol. But he yearns for his old life.\n\nWhen former Azovstal workers bump into each other in the shelters, hallways, offices and factory floor of their new workplace, they connect over their lost lives. Some have nicknamed themselves the \"Mariupol diaspora\".\n\n\"When you meet someone from Mariupol you get that feeling inside,\" repairs engineer Oleksandr Shabanov says, smiling.\n\nManagers at the new steel factory say there are about 120 former Azovstal staff there, as well as more from another Mariupol plant.\n\nWorkers reminisce about summers spent at the beach, fishing trips and the sea views in their industrial home city. Two say they were in the process of building holiday homes together when Russia invaded.\n\nThey talk of Facebook groups that have now gone quiet. Some of their former colleagues have moved to other parts of Ukraine or abroad. Others have been killed. Many more are missing.\n\n\"We don't know what's happened to him,\" a group of Mariupol workers say as they talk about one former colleague and friend.\n\nOf the 10,500 staff at Azovstal, managers say fewer than half are accounted for.\n\nThe Mariupol workers remember a time when they weren't scared of war, joking that people there have a reputation for being tough.\n\nFighting first broke out in the city in 2014, and the government briefly lost control after clashes with pro-Russian militants and protesters. But the workers say they never thought it would fall, as it did last year following a lengthy siege.\n\nMariupol was in a strategic location for the Russian invasion, linking as it does Crimea and Donbas, and the brutal battle for its control lasted more than 80 days.\n\nIts theatre, which was sheltering hundreds of civilians, was bombed, its maternity hospital badly damaged in a Russian strike.\n\nIvan said nothing had prepared them for this.\n\n\"We thought it was going to be a crisis we could live through, just as we did in 2014,\" he tells me.\n\nAs is the case with other members of the Mariupol diaspora, Ivan's home was destroyed during the siege. The building and everything inside it is now just a memory - family photos, clothes, furniture.\n\n\"Everything got burnt,\" he says.\n\nBut while Ivan and other colleagues draw strength from their community, for others it only exacerbates their trauma.\n\n\"How can anything comfort me?\" says engineer Ihor Khadzhava.\n\n\"There is nothing good about ending up here… and nowhere to go back to. There's no plant, no work, nowhere to live, just hate.\"\n\nResidents who have remained in Mariupol say Moscow has brought in labourers from across Russia and Central Asia to rebuild the city, but not as it was - streets have had their Soviet names restored, new buildings have appeared and many of those damaged in the siege have gone. Russian flags have been erected as well as pro-Russia billboards and posters.\n\nThe Russian rouble is now the only currency accepted in shops there, and re-opened schools in the city are teaching a Russian-language curriculum. Residents are under pressure to get Russian passports.\n\nIhor is now resigned to accepting whatever fate might bring. When sirens ring out at the factory to warn of a possible Russian attack, he keeps working.\n\nHe hasn't used a shelter since the two months he spent underground in the bunker at Azovstal last year.\n\nIhor Khadzhava and his daughter in the Azovstal shelter\n\n\"What's the use?\" the 39-year-old says blankly.\n\nFor the former Azovstal workers who do use the shelters, there are memories even underground.\n\nOleksandr takes a photo on his phone and sends it to his wife Yuliia.\n\n\"No kidding. It really looks the same,\" she replies.\n\nBeing in the near-identical bunker can be traumatic, Oleksandr says.\n\n\"The point of the shelter is not to feel frightened. When you go down it's the safest place… but in the back of my mind there is this fear,\" he says.\n\nIn Mariupol, an estimated 90% of residential buildings were damaged or destroyed during the siege by the Russian forces, and about 350,000 of the population of almost half a million were forced to leave.\n\nBack then, Oleksandr and Yuliia had sought shelter in Azovstal's Soviet-era bunkers after fleeing their ninth-floor apartment - a shell had hit a neighbouring building, spraying shrapnel through their window.\n\nThe couple grabbed food, clothing, identification documents, their cat Mason and a 2kg bag of pet food, before running to Azovstal as shells landed around them.\n\nIn the shelter, they slept on wooden pallets and divided up tasks to stay busy - guarding the exits, cooking meals, cleaning.\n\nWhen supplies were running low, Yuliia would draw the children pictures of their favourite foods so they could pretend to eat them. They dreamed of burgers and sausages.\n\nOleksandr and Yuliia remember Ihor's daughter making a \"squeaky noise like a siren\" when she came to stroke Mason, while another child, whose own pets had been left at home, sang to him each night: \"Mason, Mason, you're a king of cats\".\n\nThere were other pets in the shelter - a pug would sometimes run around frantically as missiles landed overhead.\n\nThe shelter's occupants had no idea how long they would be there. Sometimes they wondered if they would ever see daylight again.\n\nKamianske is in a much safer location than Mariupol - further inland and on the west side of the Dnipro River, which acts as a natural buffer.\n\nBut workers say that Russia's siege of Mariupol, and the important role the Azovstal bunker played in keeping some of them safe, has taught them the importance of being prepared.\n\nIn the shelter at the Kamianske steelworks, Oleksandr, Ivan and others wait behind thick metal doors to be given the all-clear to resurface. Smaller side rooms contain toilets, an examination bed and medical equipment, stacks of water bottles, jars and tins of food, phones and computers, and a generator.\n\n\"We understand that it's not only about sheltering, but also about having things that are most needed in those situations,\" Ivan explains.\n\n\"Is there a place to sit? What if there are wounded in the group? Is everything OK with the electricity? What about internet connection? Warm clothes? Food?\"\n\nBut no amount of preparation can completely allay their fears.\n\n\"Of course, we can joke and say 'we are from Mariupol, nothing scares us', but actually every time you hear the sirens you get very uncomfortable and really want it to end,\" Ivan says.\n\nBecause of course, the last time the Mariupol workers saw their home city, it was under attack.\n\nSome people remained in the city because they were unable to leave, due to illness or old age, while others welcomed Russia's presence.\n\nBut the workers we spoke to in Kamianske said they would not consider returning to the city while it remains under Russian occupation.\n\n\"No matter how much the Russians try to hide it under construction, those are still ruins,\" Ihor's wife Karyna says of her home city.\n\nWith no sea to look out to, Oleksandr and Yuliia now take regular trips to the Dnipro River, hoping it will instil feelings of calm. But, they say, it's not the same.\n\nFor now the Mariupol diaspora, like many displaced Ukrainians, are trying to adapt to a life in limbo. To life as a community without a home.", "Sting has sold more than 100 million albums across his 45-year career\n\nSting says musicians face \"a battle\" to defend their work against the rise of songs written by artificial intelligence.\n\n\"The building blocks of music belong to us, to human beings,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"That's going to be a battle we all have to fight in the next couple of years: Defending our human capital against AI.\"\n\nHis comments come after a number of songs have used artificial intelligence to \"clone\" famous artists' vocals.\n\nIn February, DJ David Guetta used the technology to add Eminem's \"voice\" for one of his tracks while a faked duet between Drake and The Weeknd went viral in April.\n\nThe latter was pulled from streaming services after a copyright complaint from Universal Music Group (UMG), which is also the label that releases Sting's music.\n\n\"It's similar to the way I watch a movie with CGI. It doesn't impress me at all,\" Sting said.\n\n\"I get immediately bored when I see a computer-generated image. I imagine I will feel the same way about AI making music.\n\n\"Maybe for electronic dance music, it works. But for songs, you know, expressing emotions, I don't think I will be moved by it.\"\n\nSting spoke with the BBC for 30 minutes about a range of subjects including his approach to songwriting\n\nThe recording industry has quickly mobilised against artificial intelligence, launching a group called the \"Human Artistry Campaign\", and warning that AI companies are violating copyright by training their software on commercially-released music.\n\nWhether AI-written music can be copyrighted is still under debate. Under English copyright law, for example, works generated by AI, can theoretically be protected.\n\nHowever, the US Copyright Office recently ruled that AI art, including music, can't be copyrighted as it is \"not the product of human authorship\".\n\nNot everyone is against the technology. Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant recently suggested AI could help musicians overcome writers' block.\n\n\"There's a song that we wrote a chorus for in 2003 and we never finished because I couldn't think of anything for the verses,\" he told the Radio Times.\n\n\"But now with AI you could give it the bits you've written, press the button and have it fill in the blanks. You might then rewrite it, but it could nonetheless be a tool.\"\n\n\"The tools are useful, but we have to be driving them,\" he said. \"I don't think we can allow the machines to just take over. We have to be wary.\"\n\nThe musician was speaking ahead of the UK's prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting awards on Thursday, where he will be given the organisation's highest honour.\n\nOnly 23 other people have become an Ivor Academy Fellow with British legends Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Elton John and Annie Lennox among the other honourees.\n\n\"It sounds like something out of the Lord Of The Rings, doesn't it? A Fellowship,\" the star joked. \"But it's very meaningful to me, to win a songwriting prize, because that's what I put on my passport: I'm a songwriter.\"\n\nThe North East-born musician began his career as a member of The Police, before breaking away as a solo artist in 1984.\n\n\"I wanted to start again,\" he said of his decision to break up the band at the height of their fame. \"When you're in a band, it has to have a recognisable sound. So, as a songwriter, I was trapped.\n\n\"There was some risk involved,\" in going solo, he added, \"but I wasn't risking my life or anything. I don't think in music you can have a success without risk.\"\n\nAcross his career, the musician has sold more than 100 million albums, and charted global hits like Message In A Bottle, Every Breath You Take, Fields Of Gold, Englishman In New York and Shape Of My Heart.\n\nBut he said that the first time he made the top 40, with The Police's Roxanne, remained a career highlight.\n\n\"I was in my kitchen, on a plank on top of a ladder, painting the ceiling and I had Radio One on. I suddenly recognised the song and I literally fell off the off the ladder.\n\n\"Nothing will ever beat that first time you hear yourself on the radio. After that, it's just diminishing returns.\"\n\nSting sold his entire back catalogue to UMG last year for a reported nine-figure sum, following in the footsteps of artists like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Shakira and Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks.\n\nHe said he'd handed over control because he trusted his record label and wanted to protect his musical legacy - especially after artists like Prince and Jimi Hendrix had endured messy, posthumous battles over their estate.\n\n\"That can be a mess. So I think it's better to take control of it now.\"\n\nBut the musician added, \"I still think of them as my songs.\"\n\n\"In the same way that a painter who sells his paintings to collectors still thinks of the paintings as being his own, so these are still my songs.\n\n\"I just got paid in advance. It's as simple as that. That's how I rationalise it.\"", "The tribunal said Karina Gasparova was finding \"sinister\" motives behind the \"innocuous\" interactions\n\nAn IT worker sued her boss for sexual harassment after believing his use of \"xx\", \"yy\", and \"????\" in an email asking for more information was a coded way of asking for sexual relations.\n\nKarina Gasparova also claimed that when Alexander Goulandris renamed a work file with his initials 'ajg' it was an abbreviation of \"A Jumbo Genital\".\n\nThe employment tribunal at London Central Court said Ms Gasparova's perception of events was \"skewed\".\n\nMs Gasparova was a project manager at the London office of essDOCS, a company that provides \"paperless trade solutions\".\n\nShe took the firm to the tribunal claiming sexual harassment, discrimination and unfair dismissal.\n\nThe tribunal heard she believed her superior, Mr Goulandris, was \"trying to chat her up\" when discussing business on work calls, and claimed he would stare at her.\n\nIt was also claimed that email correspondence from Mr Goulandris insinuated a desire to \"engage in sexual acts\".\n\nPresented as evidence, the email from Mr Goulandris read:\n\n\"Can you please complete the following:\n\nThe solution us currently used by xx Agris companies and yy Barge lines in corn cargoes in south-north flows in the ???? waterways.\n\nAlso, can you remind me of what the balance of the rollout will be and the approx. timing.\n\nMs Gasparova, who represented herself, argued the 'xx' referred to kisses, 'yy' to sexual contact and '????' as a coded way of asking \"when she would be ready\" to engage in sexual acts.\n\nBut the tribunal panel said it was a \"genuine request for information\" and did not imply any sexual nature.\n\nFurther allegations included Mr Goulandris saying \"have a nice evening\", in what Ms Gasparova described as \"an alluring voice\".\n\nAnd she claimed he deliberately touched her hand when reaching for a computer mouse.\n\nThe tribunal said neither incident were sexual in nature and they were also rejected.\n\nMs Gasparova told the panel Mr Goulandris was \"rich and powerful\" and that a \"man in his position would be too clever\" to make any advances obvious.\n\nShe submitted a formal grievance letter in April 2021 against Mr Goulandris, but resigned after it was rejected, the hearing was told.\n\nThe claims from Ms Gasparova were called a \"skewed perception of everyday events\" by the tribunal panel, which also said she \"demonstrated a tendency to make extraordinary allegations without evidence\".\n\nMs Gasparova's claims of sexual harassment, discrimination and unfair dismissal were rejected and she was ordered to pay £5,000 costs to essDOCS.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ukraine War: Two adults and a five-year-old killed after Russian shell falls near playground\n\nAt least eight people have reportedly been killed and 17 injured by shelling in Ukraine, as both sides trade accusations of striking civilian areas.\n\nThree people including a boy of five died and two were injured after Russia shelled a village in Kherson region, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.\n\nThey were killed after a shell struck outside a shop in Zelenivka, he said.\n\nIn occupied Donetsk, Ukrainian shelling left five dead and 15 injured, that city's Russian-backed mayor said.\n\nAlexei Kulemzin accused Ukrainian forces of firing 163 shells and 20 rockets at the city on Wednesday alone, with a 13-year-old child among the injured.\n\nAlongside the claims of civilian deaths, he said shells had hit residential homes and apartment buildings, and had damaged infrastructure. Another Russian-backed official gave the same death toll but said 23 people had been injured.\n\nThe city in the east of Ukraine has been controlled by pro-Russian separatists since 2014 and the wider Donetsk region became one of four illegally annexed by Russia last year.\n\nThe BBC could not independently verify the allegations made by either country.\n\nFollowing the attack on Zelenivka, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the boy who died was called Vsevolod, adding that he would have turned six in July.\n\n\"It was another artillery attack by terrorists, people were just on the street near an ordinary store,\" he said in a video address, calling for the international community to put more pressure on Russia over its shelling of civilian areas.\n\nMr Prokudin said the little boy had been taken to hospital immediately, but he died before arriving there for treatment. A 16-year-old is currently undergoing surgery for his injuries and an adult man was also hurt, he added.\n\nThe accusations of targeting civilians come after Ukraine's capital Kyiv was subjected to heavy Russian missile attack in recent weeks.\n\nWestern officials have said Ukraine's army is at an \"increased state of readiness\" ahead of a long-awaited counter-offensive to reclaim territory occupied by Russia.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Harry and Meghan arrive at event before alleged car chase\n\nA photo agency that took pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex during what the couple said was a dangerous car chase has refused to hand over the images to them.\n\nBackgrid told BBC News it had rejected a legal demand to share the material taken in New York on Tuesday night.\n\nIn a tongue-in-cheek response, the agency's lawyers said Americans had long ago rejected \"royal prerogative\".\n\nThe BBC has asked the couple for comment.\n\nConflicting accounts of what Harry and Meghan's spokesperson described as a \"near catastrophic car chase\" resulting in \"multiple near collisions\" have emerged since the incident was made public on Wednesday.\n\nNew York police said \"numerous photographers\" had made the couple's journey from an awards ceremony on Tuesday evening \"challenging\", but added there had been \"no reported collisions, summonses, injuries, or arrests\".\n\nA taxi driver who briefly drove them suggested their spokesperson's account was \"exaggerated\", while some photographers involved have denied parts of it.\n\nBackgrid, a California-based entertainment picture agency, said on Thursday it had received a letter from the Sussexes' legal team.\n\nIt said the letter, which the BBC has not seen, stated: \"We hereby demand that Backgrid immediately provide us with copies of all photos, videos, and/or films taken last night by the freelance photographers after the couple left their event and over the next several hours.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan attended an awards ceremony on Tuesday\n\nThe agency said it had replied in a letter: \"In America, as I'm sure you know, property belongs to the owner of it: Third parties cannot just demand it be given to them, as perhaps Kings can do.\n\n\"Perhaps you should sit down with your client and advise them that his English rules of royal prerogative to demand that the citizenry hand over their property to the Crown were rejected by this country long ago.\n\n\"We stand by our founding fathers.\"\n\nIn the UK there is no royal prerogative and there has long been tension between the Royal Family and the British media over privacy.\n\nBackgrid said on Wednesday it was investigating the conduct of four freelance photographers involved in taking images of the Sussexes, even as the agency disputed the couple's characterisation of the incident.\n\nThe photographers felt the couple were never in \"immediate danger at any point\", according to the agency.\n\nDuring the pursuit, the car carrying the duke and duchess, her mother and a security guard diverted to a nearby police station twice.\n\nBBC News interviewed a taxi driver, Sukhcharn \"Sonny\" Singh, who was briefly involved in the pursuit. He said his cab was hailed from a police station.\n\nThey only drove a block when his taxi \"got blocked by a garbage truck and all of sudden paparazzi came and started taking pictures\".\n\nMr Singh was then asked to drive them back to the police station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: BBC talks to taxi driver who drove Harry and Meghan\n\nA spokesperson for the duke and duchess said the couple understood they are public figures but that interest \"should never come at the cost of anyone's safety\".\n\nPrince Harry has spoken of his anger at the actions of the paparazzi over the years, comparing the photographers to \"a pack of dogs\" who hounded his mother, in a BBC documentary.\n\nDiana, Princess of Wales, died from injuries she sustained in a car crash after photographers chased the vehicle she was in through the streets of Paris.\n\n\"To see another woman in my life, who I love, go through this feeding frenzy - that's hard,\" he said in the recent Netflix documentary, Harry & Meghan.", "Khayri Mclean died after he was stabbed near North Huddersfield Trust School in September 2022\n\nTwo teenage cousins who stabbed a 15-year-old boy to death as he walked home from school in West Yorkshire have been jailed for life.\n\nJovani Harriott, 17, and Jakele Pusey, 15, murdered Khayri McLean after ambushing him outside North Huddersfield Trust School last year.\n\nKhayri's mother pleaded for an end to violence as her son's killers were sentenced at Leeds Crown Court.\n\nHarriott must service at least 18 years and Pusey a minimum of 16.\n\nKhayri's family and friends, who wore T-shirts emblazoned with his picture in court, clapped as a judge lifted an order which had banned the reporting of his killers' identities.\n\nJovani Harriott, left, and Jakele Pusey saw Khayri Mclean as their enemy, a court heard\n\nIn a statement read out in court, his mother Charlie Mclean described how she rushed to the scene after she heard her son had been injured and watched \"helplessly\" as paramedics fought to save her son's life.\n\nShe said she had been \"living a nightmare\" since her son's death, adding: \"The fear he went through when he realised he had been stabbed and was bleeding to death will stay with me forever.\n\n\"No parent should have to contemplate this, let alone witness it.\n\n\"This violence has to stop, carrying weapons has to stop.\"\n\nThe judge, Mrs Justice Farbey, said the cousins had seen Khayri as their \"enemy\" and may have killed him in \"revenge\" for sharing a video online about a broken window at Harriott's mother's house.\n\nDet Supt Marc Bowes, of West Yorkshire Police, said it \"will be hard for many of us to comprehend\" how a \"low-level dispute\" ended with two boys \"stabbing a fellow student to death at the end of an otherwise ordinary school day\".\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Sandiford KC said Khayri was killed in a \"well-planned\" attack on 21 September.\n\nDressed in black and wearing balaclavas, the defendants waited in an alleyway before ambushing him as he walked along Woodhouse Hill with friends after school.\n\nPusey shouted Khayri's name while \"jumping into the air\" and stabbing him in the heart with a 30cm blade, the court heard. His cousin, who was 16 at the time of the attack, then knifed Khayri in the leg.\n\nKhayri was pulled to his feet by his friends and tried to run away but collapsed. He died later in hospital.\n\nKhayri's mother, Charlie Mclean, and other relatives and friends wore T-shirts showing his picture\n\nHarriott, who was 16 at the time of the attack, was convicted of murder in March while Pusey pleaded guilty to murder at an earlier hearing.\n\nMr Sandiford told the court Pusey had admitted murdering Khayri in a recording covertly obtained while he was in detention.\n\nDuring the conversation, the boy said he felt \"no remorse\" and claimed to have \"slept better\" since the killing, the prosecutor said.\n\nHis lawyer Richard Wright KC, in mitigation, said Pusey - who was in a gang called the Fartown Boys - had been exploited and \"drawn into a life\" in which \"he felt he belonged, was protected and accepted\".\n\nThe court heard the boy had told probation officers he was shot by masked men in a \"gang incident\" when he was 12 and had dealt drugs since he was 13.\n\nA pre-sentence report concluded violence was \"the norm\" for him and \"the life he lived\", Mr Wright said.\n\nKhayri Mclean was killed in an apparent revenge attack, Leeds Crown Court heard\n\nMohammed Nawaz KC, in mitigation for Harriott, said his client had shown \"genuine and real remorse\" for Khayri's death.\n\nSentencing the pair, Mrs Justice Farbey said: \"Because of what you did Khayri has lost many years of his life and his family has lost a son and brother.\"\n\nShe said Harriott, despite not inflicting the fatal wound, played \"full and equal role in planning the attack\" and would be jailed for longer because he did not plead guilty.\n\nKhayri's mother described her son as a \"loving and caring\" boy who loved Manchester United and rugby, was happy in a relationship and had plans to study engineering as he looked forward to a \"bright future\".\n\nShe added: \"All that was taken away by the two boys who attacked him so brutally. Khayri had no chance to run or defend himself and was left helpless.\n\n\"I ask myself what has this achieved? What has my son died for? Nobody has won in this situation. I've lost a child and other parents have lost two sons who have committed this offence.\"\n\nDet Supt Bowes, who led the police investigation into Khayri's murder, said the \"appalling attack\" had \"rightly shocked people across the country\" and \"highlighted the dreadful consequences of knife crime and the culture of carrying such weapons\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC's Fergus Walsh has an eye scan as part of the UK Biobank study\n\nThe world's biggest human imaging project is set to rescan the brains and bodies of 60,000 UK volunteers to find new ways of treating and preventing disease.\n\nBy looking at how bodies age, the study could help predict those more likely to develop dementia or different cancers.\n\nThe study has already led to a genetic test for people born with an increased risk of coronary heart disease.\n\nI was the first volunteer to be scanned nine years ago, and am back for more.\n\nEverything from my brain, to my heart, eyes and bone density will be analysed for a second time.\n\nLike me, all the volunteers are part of UK Biobank, and researchers in more than 90 countries are using the database for health-related studies.\n\nHaving two sets of highly-detailed MRI and bone density images for thousands of people, taken several years apart, could open up huge new possibilities for spotting and preventing illnesses like dementia, cancer and heart disease.\n\nChief scientist Prof Naomi Allen told the BBC: \"Researchers will be able to look at changes in our organs as we get older that will help to develop biomarkers of disease, perhaps many years before a clinical diagnosis and symptoms.\"\n\nThe study could help predict those more likely to develop dementia\n\nThere will also be many other potential insights from the research.\n\nIt could also unearth who will respond best to treatments, and why some people seem to be so much more resilient to certain ailments than others, Prof Paul Matthews, head of UK Dementia Research at Imperial College London and chair of the Imaging Working Group for UK Biobank, told me.\n\nFirst launched in 2006, UK Biobank set out to be the most comprehensive study of the nation's health.\n\nIt enrolled half a million adults - including me - to undergo medical checks, answer health and lifestyle questions and donate genetic samples, to be stored and studied for decades.\n\nAll participants have had their genome - their entire DNA - sequenced.\n\nThe imaging part of the project was started in 2014, and involves detailed scans of the brain, and the rest of the body.\n\nAll the data gathered is anonymised and there is usually no feedback to participants. So what is in it for them, and me?\n\nMarian Keeling, 67, summed it up like this: \"There's a measure of altruism, and it's a bit like being a blood donor, you do it for your fellow man.\"\n\nFellow volunteer Mary Wilson, 81, made a similar point: \"It's going to help future generations and help the health service. The longer you can stay healthy, the better it is.\"\n\nHighly-detailed images of volunteers' organs are stored for analysis\n\nOther biomedical databases exist, but they are either smaller, or have not been going as long as UK Biobank.\n\nIt is already starting to help inform medicine.\n\nMore than 7,000 peer-reviewed papers have been published, nearly a third of those last year alone, showing how its scientific value is increasing over time.\n\nIn 2018, researchers devised a genetic test to detect people born with an increased risk of coronary heart disease by analysing genomic data from UK Biobank.\n\n\"If you combine all your genetic variation across your genome, each variation has a small effect but, taken together, some individuals have quite a large genetic risk of developing heart disease or developing different types of cancers that we simply didn't know beforehand,\" said Prof Allen.\n\nProf Paul Elliott, epidemiologist at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London, said the huge store of volunteers' scans would improve understanding of how our genes and environment affect our risk of disease.\n\n\"It builds on the ability of the NHS to follow people up through their health records, with consent, and is a pre-eminent example of the benefits of publicly-funded research,\" he said.\n\nHe said UK Biobank had become the \"gold standard\" internationally for this type of study.\n\nThe imaging project is funded by the Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation, Dementias Platform UK, Calico and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rash that appeared on Olwen's body after she developed scarlet fever\n\nA mum was told to crush up antibiotics pills for her 10-month-old daughter because of a shortage of medication for children.\n\nCatrin Edwards' baby was diagnosed with scarlet fever caused by strep A in December last year.\n\nBut none of the antibiotics commonly used for children were available after a huge rise demand during the step A surge before Christmas.\n\nPublic Health Wales said usage had returned to more expected levels.\n\nA pharmacist said the long queues he saw for antibiotics were \"fairly grim\", he also added there were concerns about overuse of antibiotics leading to antimicrobial resistance.\n\nThis is when bacterial become resistant to antibiotics and some common procedures like surgery could become too dangerous to undertake in future.\n\nMrs Edwards, from Taff's Well, Rhondda Cynon Taf, became concerned after her baby daughter Olwen developed a rash on her body.\n\nThe 29-year-old said: \"That's all we heard on the news was strep A - that children were dying from it, and that obviously scared me.\n\n\"I didn't know much about it, but when I heard it on the news it was quite scary to think that Olwen had it.\"\n\nMrs Edwards told BBC Wales Live that giving the pills to her daughter four times a day by dissolving them in breast milk or apple juice took a \"long time\" and was \"scary\".\n\n\"I felt like a chemist myself - I had to cut the tablets up, crush it up, and then feed that to her four times a day,\" she said.\n\n\"I had to cut it in half, then cut it again into a quarter then put it into the syringe and then flick it to make the tablet dissolve in the liquid.\n\n\"If you had a little bit less or a little bit more, I wasn't to know if I was giving her the right amount.\"\n\nCatrin Edwards was worried after her daughter Olwen developed a rash\n\nLast winter saw a big increase in respiratory infections in Wales and across the UK, most notably strep A.\n\nThis is believed to be linked to there being more opportunities for infections to spread after three years of Covid restrictions.\n\nGroup A strep bacteria can cause a range of illnesses, including scarlet fever and strep throat.\n\nJonathan Lloyd Jones described the huge demand for antibiotics\n\nJonathan Lloyd Jones runs a pharmacy in Maesteg, Bridgend county, and said he remembered the anxiety caused by the strep A surge in the area and the huge demand for antibiotics.\n\n\"There was definitely a sense of panic amongst many parents. I'm a parent myself, and I think it was difficult seeing those really horrible stories on the on the news,\" he said.\n\n\"People were queuing up the door every morning. It was fairly grim when you're driving up to work with 30 or 40 children and parents waiting.\n\n\"There was a huge amount of antibiotics which were out of stock, and times where we were unable to support people because there just simply wasn't any antibiotics or alternatives, especially for children.\"\n\nSome pharmacists in Wales, including Mr Jones, can prescribe a range of antibiotics without the need for a GP.\n\nHe said they follow the same guidelines and work closely with other health professionals, adding that antimicrobial resistance is \"one of the big public health crises that's facing us\".\n\nBaby Olwen is now doing well after her strep A episode\n\nDr Eleri Davies, head of the Harp programme by Public Health Wales which supports NHS Wales to deal with antibiotic resistance, and said the health system needed to refocus on antibiotics use in light of changes since the pandemic.\n\n\"We have for all Wales prescribing guidance in place which we constantly review and revise,\" she said.\n\n\"In the context of the learning from the pandemic and the increase in remote consultations that we have seen, we are taking that into account and revising our guidance.\"\n\nPHW said antibiotics use has now returned to more expected levels in Wales, and that usage overall has fallen significantly over the past 10 years.", "Polls have now closed in the Northern Ireland council elections, with counting of votes to begin on Friday morning.\n\nVoters cast their ballots to decide who should represent them on Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nA total of 807 candidates are competing for 462 seats.\n\nThe first ballot boxes are expected to be opened at about 08:00 BST on Friday, with counting anticipated to continue into Saturday.\n\nAbout 1.4 million people were eligible to vote in the election, which was originally due to take place on 4 May but was delayed due to the King's Coronation.\n\nIt is only the third election to 11 so-called super councils in Northern Ireland.\n\nGroom Pat Campbell (far right) and part of his wedding party called at the polling station at St Patrick's Primary School in Clonoe, County Tyrone, on the way to his marriage ceremony\n\nIt was also only the second time in 26 years that Northern Ireland held a standalone council election - normally they are run alongside polls for Stormont or Westminster.\n\nVoters used the single transferable vote (STV) system, the same as that used in Northern Ireland Assembly elections.\n\nPeople ranked candidates in numerical preference, marking their ballot 1,2,3 and so on for as many or as few preferences as they want.\n\nCandidates are then elected according to the share of the vote they receive.\n\nTo find out who stood in your area, type your postcode into the bar below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Opens in a new browser tab More information about these elections Is there an election in my area? To provide you with information on local candidates and where to vote the BBC sends your data to the Electoral Commission. Data privacy notice To find your council candidates and polling station\n\nThe number of candidates is slightly down from the 819 people who put their names forward for the previous council elections four years ago.\n• None All you need to know about NI council elections", "The pub closed on 1 May and Mrs Ryley told a local news website \"I've had enough\"\n\nTwo former pub managers have given a voluntary interview to Essex Police after their collection of golly dolls was seized by the force.\n\nFive officers removed the offensive dolls from the White Hart Inn in Grays, which has since shut down, following a hate crime allegation.\n\nEssex Police was waiting for landlord Chris Ryley to return from abroad and it confirmed he and wife Benice Ryley were spoken to on Thursday.\n\nA police spokesperson said: \"Two people, a man and woman, have been interviewed voluntarily as part of our investigation.\n\nThe police seized the dolls from behind the bar on 4 April and the Campaign for Real Ale removed the pub from its Good Beer Guide the following week.\n\nMrs Ryley said at the time she had displayed the collection, donated by her late aunt and customers, for nearly 10 years.\n\nThe building was vandalised with white paint and had its windows damaged on 16 April - prompting a separate police investigation.\n\nMrs Ryley closed the pub on 1 May, citing a boycott by brewing companies and the maintenance firm Innserve.\n\nHeineken and Carlsberg both told the couple to stop serving its lager, with Heineken labelling the collection as an \"abhorrent display\".\n\nAdmiral Taverns, the company that owned the pub building, said it planned to reopen the venue under new management.\n\nThe dolls are thought to date back to the minstrel entertainment shows, when typically white actors painted their faces black and depicted negative stereotypes of black people.\n\nIt became a fictional character that appeared in books by Florence Kate Upton in the late 19th Century.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Up to one million people cancelled their broadband in the last year because of the high cost of living, a survey by Citizens Advice suggests.\n\nThe charity said those struggling could have benefited from cheaper social tariffs or special low-cost packages.\n\nWatchdog Ofcom has warned 4.3 million eligible people are missing the deals.\n\nThe government said it had encouraged social tariff take-up by working with Ofcom and the industry to introduce a range of products to the market.\n\nThese were available in 99% of the UK and started from £10 per month, it added.\n\nA broadband eligibility checker to simplify the process for benefit claimants signing up to social tariffs had been introduced with major providers Sky and Virgin Media already on board, a spokesperson said.\n\nHowever, Ofcom found the take-up of social tariffs remained very low - at about 5% of those eligible - although it had quadrupled since January last year.\n\nCitizens Advice said its survey of 6,000 people suggested those receiving universal credit were six times more likely to have stopped spending on broadband in the last 12 months than non-claimants.\n\nThe charity is concerned the problem could get worse, with people claiming the benefit four times more likely to be behind on broadband bills.\n\nAccording to Ofcom, one in three UK households had an issue affording their communication services and it has called on firms to do more to promote the tariffs.\n\nHowever, Dame Clare Moriarty, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said the watchdog needed to \"hold firms' feet to the fire\" to improve their take-up.\n\n\"People are being priced out of internet access at a worrying rate,\" she said. \"Social tariffs should be the industry's safety net, but firms' current approach to providing and promoting them clearly isn't working.\n\n\"The people losing out as a result are the most likely to disconnect.\"\n\nAre you living without broadband? Share your experiences with us.\n\nOther campaigners agree internet access is now a vital utility essential for day-to-day life.\n\nPeople who cannot afford data can experience problems such as managing benefits, applying for jobs online or benefiting from cheaper online prices which exacerbate their difficult financial situation.\n\nThe government said its job centre staff \"regularly signpost claimants to relevant information on social tariffs, and claimants can access computers for their work search at their local job centre\".\n\nCitizens Advice cited the case of Rob, 63, who since about 2012 had been unable to afford broadband: \"Not having access at home means if I am applying for a job I need to give myself more time because the library is not open all day.\n\n\"I can't just think at 22:00, 'let me go back to that application and finish filling it in'. It also limits me from accessing services like my GP, online help and shopping.\"\n\nThe government points to a number of steps it has taken to help those who find broadband hard to afford.\n\nIn June, following negotiations with the government, leaders from major broadband and mobile operators agreed a set of public commitments to support customers struggling to pay their bills.\n\nBut campaigners the Digital Poverty Alliance echoed the concerns of Citizen Advice and said while social tariff uptake was \"slowly improving\", it was still far below the levels needed to ensure all households were digitally included.\n\n\"For households in severe poverty, even an affordable social tariff may mean that essential connectivity is still out of reach,\" the organisation said.\n• None Millions of families miss out on cheap broadband", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Detectives are watching 400,000 hours of footage in an attempt to find clues in the John Caldwell case, says Eamonn Corrigan\n\nAn estimated 400,000 hours of CCTV footage has been seized for analysis in the hunt for those involved in the shooting of a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) detective.\n\nThe investigation into who shot Det Ch Insp John Caldwell is one of Northern Ireland's biggest in recent times.\n\nHe was attacked in February by two gunmen as he coached youth football while off-duty in Omagh, County Tyrone.\n\nThe 48-year-old's young son was at his side when he was ambushed.\n\nThe CCTV footage has been obtained from 750 cameras located between Belfast and Omagh.\n\nPolice believe dissident republican group the New IRA may have acted with an organised crime gang to carry out the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell is in regular contact with the team investigating his shooting and there is an \"added determination\" to catch those responsible because he is a colleague.\n\nDet Ch Supt Eamonn Corrigan, who is leading the attempted murder inquiry, said: \"We are lucky John didn't die.\n\n\"He is making a good recovery but it is going to be a long road.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Corrigan said the wounded officer, who was discharged from hospital in April, has given investigators his account of the shooting.\n\nHe added the investigation had made \"significant progress\", but gave no further details.\n\nIt is an overwhelming amount of footage that has been seized - 16,000 days viewing if one person was to watch it from beginning to end.\n\nClearly the police have seized a lot more material than they may ultimately need because they want to have it before it is wiped or deleted.\n\nThe scale of the task is huge. What we can't really quantify is the scale of progress and whether or not they have had a significant breakthrough.\n\nI left the CCTV viewing suite with the overriding impression that this is a resource hungry investigation.\n\nIt is clearly going to take a long time to build a case or indeed cases given the number of people the PSNI believe were involved.\n\nTo date, 15 people have been arrested and there have been 40 searches of premises and land.\n\nMore than 340 witnesses have been interviewed so far.\n\nTwo Ford Fiesta cars used in the attack had been bought about 70 miles away, in Glengormley and Ballyclare, County Antrim, weeks prior to be used in the shooting.\n\nThey were found burned out following the attack.\n\nAttempting to trace their movements has meant obtaining footage from hundreds of cameras spread over a large area.\n\nThis car near a farmyard on the Racolpa Road outside Omagh is thought to have been used by the gunmen and was later burnt out\n\nDetectives are poring over the material in several viewing rooms within a Belfast police base.\n\n\"All the detectives working on the case know the importance of CCTV and the fact that a 15 or 20-second piece of footage could be crucial in building a case,\" said Det Ch Supt Corrigan.\n\n\"An attack of this nature is carried out by multiple people who are organised.\n\n\"We are looking for movements of people and vehicles over time. It is time consuming and a lot of patience is required,\" he added.\n\nThe New IRA has admitted responsibility for the attack, but police believe a crime gang may have aided it.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell has run investigations into both paramilitary groups and organised crime gangs.\n\n\"Whether these people are members of a terrorist organisation or an organised crime organisation, this has been an attack on a serving police officer at the behest of the New IRA,\" Det Ch Supt Corrigan said.\n\n\"How they carry out their operations and support them logistically is not for me to decide.\n\n\"I will follow the evidence and bring people who are responsible before the courts.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Warning: Contains flashing images throughout. (Video not available outside the UK)\n\nPrince Harry, Meghan and her mother were involved in a \"near catastrophic car chase\" involving paparazzi, a spokesperson for the couple claimed.\n\nThe incident happened after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended an awards ceremony in New York on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement, their spokesperson said the \"relentless pursuit\" lasted for more than two hours and resulted in \"multiple near collisions\".\n\nThe New York Police Department (NYPD) said there were no arrests or injuries.\n\nBBC News has not been able to independently verify all the details. But accounts and information developed throughout the day on Wednesday.\n\nThe NYPD confirmed an incident took place involving Harry and Meghan and said numerous photographers \"made their transport challenging\".\n\nNo injuries or arrests were reported, the police said. Buckingham Palace has not yet commented.\n\nEntertainment picture agency Backgrid issued a statement saying it was investigating the conduct of several freelance photographers, but that their initial account of events differed to that of the Sussexes.\n\n\"The photographers have reported feeling that the couple was not in immediate danger at any point,\" it said.\n\nIt followed claims the chase involved half a dozen cars, with reckless driving including going through red lights, driving on the pavement, carrying out blocking moves, and reversing down a one-way street - as well as taking photographs while driving.\n\nBBC News understands Harry and Meghan were staying at a friend's home, and did not return directly to avoid compromising their security.\n\nThe couple and Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, tried to take shelter from the paparazzi by going to a Manhattan police station.\n\nThere was then a plan to use a New York taxi, with a yellow cab flagged down and Harry, Meghan, Ms Ragland and a security officer getting inside.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Harry and Meghan were filmed arriving at the event before the alleged car chase\n\nBut the vehicle and its occupants were spotted by photographers and they reverted to their own security vehicles.\n\nCab driver Sukhcharn Singh, who goes by the name Sonny, told BBC News he picked up the four passengers on 67th Street between Lexington Avenue and 3rd Avenue.\n\n\"A security guard hailed me, next thing you know Prince Harry and his wife were hopping into my cab,\" he said.\n\n\"As we went a block, we got blocked by a garbage truck and all of a sudden paparazzi came and started taking pictures. They were just about to give me the location of where they were going to go, but then they told me to circle back to the precinct.\"\n\nHe said they were \"nice people\" who \"looked nervous\".\n\nHe thought claims of a \"near catastrophic chase\" might have been exaggerated, saying that he did not think the paparazzi were being \"aggressive\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: BBC talks to taxi driver who drove Harry and Meghan\n\n\"New York is the safest place to be - there's police stations, cops on every corner,\" he said.\n\n\"[The paparazzi] were behind us... they kept their distance.\"\n\nThe passengers paid $50 (£40) for the short journey, he added. Mr Singh's account relates to just 10 minutes of what the Sussexes' spokesperson described as an ordeal lasting more than two hours.\n\nThe driver's assessment stands in contrast to that of Chris Sanchez, a member of the couple's security detail, who told CNN the scene was \"very chaotic\" and that photographers at one point blocked the limousine carrying Harry and Meghan.\n\n\"The public were in jeopardy at several points,\" he said. \"It could have been fatal.\"\n\nThe couple use private security while in the US - but Harry is engaged in a legal battle in London over the use of Metropolitan Police protection while he and his family are in the UK.\n\nMeghan appeared alongside her husband and mother to accept an award at the event in New York City\n\nThe award ceremony they attended - the Ms Foundation Women of Vision Awards - was Harry and Meghan's first public appearance together since the King Charles' Coronation earlier this month.\n\nMeghan accepted an award at the event alongside LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter.\n\nNew York City Mayor Eric Adams told reporters that two police officers \"could have been injured\" and that it \"would be horrific to lose an innocent bystander during a chase like this\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan's statement had never claimed there was a high-speed chase. It spoke of a \"relentless pursuit\" for more than two hours.\n\nDuncan Larcombe, the author of the book Prince Harry: the Inside Story, told BBC News it appeared \"something has gone extremely wrong\" with Harry and Meghan's security in the US.\n\n\"This will come as a huge surprise for people who used to look after Harry in the UK,\" he said. \"There are huge questions to be asked about whether the paparazzi can still operate in this way.\"\n\nPrince Harry's mother, Princess Diana, was killed in a 1997 car crash in Paris while being chased by photographers.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC for the documentary Diana, 7 Days, Prince Harry referred to the paparazzi as \"a pack of dogs\" who constantly hounded his mother.\n\n\"Every single time she went out there'd be a pack of people waiting for her,\" he said. \"I mean a pack of dogs, followed her, chased her, harassed her, called her names, spat at her, trying to get a reaction, to get that photograph of her lashing out.\"\n\nPhotos taken last night show Prince Harry and Meghan leaving the Ziegfeld Theatre in Manhattan\n\nPrince Harry is currently involved in multiple legal disputes with the British tabloid press, including allegations of phone hacking and the unlawful gathering of information.\n\nEarlier this week, a lawyer for the prince told a London court that he should be allowed to challenge a government decision that denied him the ability to pay for police protection while in the country.\n\nThe pair stepped down from royal duties and moved to the US in 2020 - a move they said was partly due to harassment from UK tabloids.\n\nPrince Harry has described his battle to change the media as his \"life's work\". Next month he will appear in a London court to give evidence in a phone-hacking case.\n\nWith reporting by Kayla Epstein in New York City", "The party goods business started by the Princess of Wales's mother has been sold after falling into administration.\n\nParty Pieces was launched in 1987 when Carole Middleton was looking for inspiration for her daughter Kate's fifth birthday party.\n\nThe business has been bought by entrepreneur James Sinclair for an undisclosed sum.\n\nThe company was initially run from the four-bedroom family home in Bradfield, Berkshire.\n\nBut after running into difficulties the mail order business was put into administration and immediately sold to the Teddy Tastic Bear Company, one of a number of companies owned by Mr Sinclair.\n\nIt is understood the company's 12 employees will be transferred across to the new owner.\n\nThe business started life in 1987 at the Middletons' then family home in Berkshire\n\nThe business sells a wide range of party and birthday paraphernalia from personalised helium balloons, to banners and cakes. \"Our party expertise will help you turn a milestone into a memory\", its website said.\n\nBut administrators Interpath Advisory said trading had been affected significantly by the pandemic and with pressure on cashflow increasing, the directors sought to explore a number of options.\n\n\"Party Pieces is a well-established brand with a proud British heritage, but like many other companies across the retail space had been impacted profoundly by the restrictions on social gatherings,\" Will Wright from Interpath said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnny Depp: I'm not going to let this thing define me\n\nJohnny Depp has said he will not let the high-profile legal battles with his ex-wife Amber Heard define him, and asked people not to judge him over it.\n\nLast year a US jury found that Heard had defamed the Pirates of the Caribbean star in an article in which she called herself a victim of abuse.\n\nIt came after a UK court ruled that an earlier article, which described him as a wife beater, was accurate.\n\nDepp spoke to the BBC as he appeared at the Cannes Film Festival.\n\nHis role as Louis XV in the French language film Jeanne du Barry, which opened the prestigious French film festival, is widely seen as his big comeback.\n\nIt is his first major role since losing his part in the Fantastic Beasts franchise, following a High Court libel trial over a Sun newspaper article which claimed he had assaulted Heard.\n\nHe lost the case, with a judge finding that the newspaper article was \"substantially true\".\n\nInterviewed by Tom Brook of BBC's Talking Movies, Depp said: \"Comeback is a weird thing because... I didn't go anywhere.\n\n\"People may have made sure that I was not looked at favourably - powerful press, powerful media, for whatever reasons.\"\n\nConflicting accounts of Depp and Heard's five-year relationship were heard during the two court cases, with both accusing the other of misbehaviour and violence.\n\nDepp strongly denied his ex-wife's claims that he had subjected her to emotional, physical and sexual abuse.\n\nAfter losing the defamation case in 2022 over an article she wrote for the Washington Post, Heard said she had lost faith in the US justice system.\n\nAquaman star Amber Heard took the stand inthe US defamation case\n\nDepp told the BBC people should look at their own family members before they judge him.\n\n\"I suggest before people start pointing fingers and making judgement on others that they have no idea about, I would say, everybody, take one day off of work, stay at home, start your investigation of everyone in your family,\" he added.\n\n\"Start with your father. Look way back. Dad always been just a wonderful guy, has he? Your uncles, look at your brothers. Look around you first before you start passing judgement on someone that you have no idea what that person has been through, who they are.\"\n\nAt the height of his courtroom battles with his ex-wife, the future of Depp's movie career appeared to be in jeopardy.\n\nBut before the premiere of his latest film at Cannes on Tuesday, he was met by large numbers of fans for whom he signed autographs and took selfies.\n\nJohnny Depp was met by fans at Cannes Film Festival\n\nJeanne du Barry tells the story of a woman - played by director Maïwenn - born into poverty who becomes the French king's final mistress.\n\nThe film received a standing ovation but critics have been more lukewarm in their assessment, with some stating he looked uncomfortable in the role.\n\nHis presence at Cannes and the inclusion of his new film has been criticised by supporters of Heard, leading to the hashtag #CannesYouNot on social media.\n\nHowever festival director Thierry Fremaux has strongly defended his choice to include the film and many have welcomed Depp's return.\n\nAsked about being a controversial figure, Depp said he had been considered controversial throughout his career.\n\n\"I was probably more far more controversial many years ago than anything now,\" he added. \"But things go in whatever direction they go, more than anything all the weirdness has been cleared up, so it's done.\n\n\"I'm certainly not gonna allow this thing to define anything that I've done before, anything that I'm doing now or what I'm going to do - it doesn't exist for me.\"\n\nDepp alongside Jeanne du Barry actor and director Maïwenn at its premiere at Cannes\n\nMaïwenn as the titular Jeanne du Barry with Depp as Louis XV\n\nA jury found that Heard defamed Depp in a Washington Post article, following a six week trial in the US state of Virginia last summer.\n\nJurors awarded him $15m (£12m) in compensation and punitive damages.\n\nThe Aquaman actress settled the defamation suit for $1m (£820,000) but said it was \"not an act of concession\".\n\n\"Even if my US appeal is successful, the best outcome would be a retrial,\" she said. \"I simply cannot go through that.\"", "Counting is continuing in local elections in Northern Ireland, with nearly half of the seats filled\n\nSo far, this has been a good day for Sinn Féin with most seats returned, followed by the DUP and then Alliance.\n\n200 councillors out of 462 have been elected. A total of 807 people are competing for 462 seats in council chambers across Northern Ireland.\n\nA total of 1,305,553 people were eligible to vote, according to the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland.\n\nWith 200 councillors elected, nearly half of the seats were filled by 2100 on Friday\n\nSinn Féin has made breakthroughs with its first councillors elected in Lisburn City and Ballymena. In Foyle, the party appears to have recovered ground lost at the last election. Party vice-president Michelle O'Neill has described it as a very positive day.\n\nThe DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said this election was always about holding ground but said that it was time to stop splitting the Unionist vote.\n\nThe Alliance Party became the third biggest at the NI Assembly election last May and so far it seems on track to replicate that in these council elections. The party has taken its first ever council seats in Ballyclare, Fermanagh and Limavady.\n\nIt will be hoping to increase its share of the vote West of the Bann but, while the party has made gains, it has also had a key loss in Londonderry.\n\nThe SDLP hopes to retain its 59 seats from the 2019 elections, but is under pressure from Sinn Féin.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party is also facing a battle to hold its ground but its leader Doug Beattie said Unionism was likely to take a hit across the board.\n\nIt has not been a good day for the Green Party. Their leader in Northern Ireland, Mal O'Hara, has lost his seat on Belfast City Council. Mr O'Hara became party leader last August after Clare Bailey lost her seat in the Stormont Assembly elections. The deputy leader of the party, Lesley Veronica, has also failed to get elected.", "Carol Williams is facing long waits for both knee and pelvic surgery\n\nAround 30,000 people in Wales are waiting more than two years after being referred for hospital treatment as another key target is missed.\n\nBy March, no patient in most specialties was expected to wait that long as the Welsh NHS attempts to tackle its post-Covid backlog.\n\nBut official figures showed 31,406 patient pathways had missed the target.\n\nAbout 576,000 patients are on waiting lists, a rise of 2,000 after a fall in the previous five months.\n\nWaiting times for hospital treatment this month have been adjusted to make them more comparable with England.\n\nBut they still make grim reading for the longest waits.\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan emphasised that more needs to be done to eliminate the longest waits.\n\n\"The day to day work of the NHS is carried out by highly paid executives in the health boards, it is their job to deliver,\" she told BBC Wales.\n\n\"I will take my share of responsibility, and I do every single day of the week in the Senedd. But I think other people need to understand that they have a responsibility also. And what is clear is that some health boards are performing a lot better than others.\"\n\nThe Welsh NHS Confederation, which represents health boards, said reductions were continuing in the longest waits.\n\n\"Although the situation is far from ideal, this is the lowest in almost two years and shows just how far the NHS has come and the phenomenal efforts of staff,\" it said.\n\nDoug and Carol Williams from Glyncoch near Pontypridd\n\nCarol and Doug Williams from Glyncoch near Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said they have been waiting three years for Carol's treatment after she fell and fractured her knee.\n\nThe couple claim Carol was deemed a \"clinical medical emergency\" and she would need an operation to repair the damage but the appointment for surgery never came.\n\nIn the following months, unsteady on her feet, Carol fell again. This time fracturing a vertebra and her pelvis. This too would need surgery.\n\nBut the 79-year-old is still waiting and relies on a frame and wheelchair to get around and is left largely house-bound.\n\nShe said: \"I feel as if, 'is there going to be an end to it?' I say to the doctor, 'If i could have one day with no pain, I'd cherish it'. But there's nothing.\"\n\nDoug, a Labour councillor, said he was frustrated in trying to find out where his wife stood on the waiting list and it has affected his own mental health.\n\n\"The health board I don't think they appreciate the fact, the impact, one operation has on the family, the relationship. It's tragic\".\n\nOrthopaedic cases make up around a third of all the longest waits.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg - along with Cardiff and Vale - have the fewest two year waits for orthopaedic surgery of health boards in Wales.\n\nBut it said the effect of the pandemic was still being felt and this had led to longer waiting times than it would wish for:\n\n\"We apologise to Mrs Williams, her family, and anyone else in our communities facing increased waiting times for surgery,\" it said.\n\nIt said it would continue to take proactive steps towards decreasing its waiting lists.\n\nAlthough numbers waiting more than two years in Wales have now been going down every month for the past year, they still make up 4.8% of all those on the list.\n\nThere are still 31,406 patient pathways with two-year waits in consultant-led specialisms. This is still way behind England, which has only 559 patients waiting two years or more (0.01% of those waiting this long).\n\nAt its peak in England 14 months ago, there were 24,424 patients waiting more than two years, not as high as it is in Wales now.\n\nThe Welsh government said if a group of seven \"exceptionally challenging\" specialities, including orthopaedics, dermatology, general surgery, ophthalmology and ear, nose and throat were excluded as they are \"difficult to clear\", it leaves 4,300 patients on two-year waiting lists.\n\nThe post-pandemic recovery target was set a year ago, although these specialisms not included in it cover 86% of those waiting two years.\n\nThe number of people waiting for hospital treatment, after referral, rose after falling for five months in a row.\n\nThere were still 734,721 \"patient pathways\" on the list - this is about 576,000 actual patients, when those who are on more than one waiting list are counted.\n\nWhen figures are adjusted - to include just consultant-led specialisms and taking out therapy and diagnostics - to make them easier to compare with England, this shows 653,504 pathways.\n\nThose waiting more than a year for treatment continued to fall - by nearly 11,000 over the month - to 133,218 - the lowest number for two years.\n\nAnother key post-pandemic NHS Wales recovery target - that no-one should wait more than a year for an outpatient appointment - continues to be missed, although numbers have improved for a seventh month in a row.\n\nThere were still 52,925 patients waiting more than a year, a monthly drop of more than 10,000.\n\nAmbulance response times improved on the second-worst figures on record with 53% of immediately life-threatening \"red\" calls attended to within eight minutes in April.\n\nThe average response time to \"red\" calls was seven minutes 36 seconds - 48 seconds quicker than the previous month.\n\nA&E waiting times have improved slightly over the month.\n\nAgainst the four-hour target, 70.2% of people were admitted, transferred or discharged within that timeframe.\n\nMeanwhile, 8,949 people spent 12 hours or more in A&E before being seen - no-one should wait that long under current targets, but this is an improvement on the previous month.\n\nAdjusted for population, more patients waited longer than 12 hours in Betsi Cadwaladr than in any other health board.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine in Wales said: \"We are out of winter but remain in crisis.\"\n\nCancer performance figures improved for a second successive month after we saw the worst month since the new target was introduced.\n\nA total of 55.3% of people started their first treatment in March within 62 days of cancer being first suspected.\n\nThat was as low as 44.5% in Hywel Dda health board.\n\nWhat has been the response?\n\nThe health minister said she had written to health boards to express \"disappointment that they have not hit the target for people waiting over two years for treatment\".\n\nMs Morgan added: \"I want to see more innovation, like at Ysbyty Gwynedd, where more than 90% of breast cancer surgery is performed as day cases, allowing patients to be managed more efficiently and recover more comfortably and sooner at home.\"\n\nWelsh Conservatives health spokesman Russell George said: \"There are now three times as many people waiting two years in Wales than there are people waiting 18 months in England, despite England having 18 times our population.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said it showed a \"deep-rooted inability to get to grips with the gridlock in our NHS\".\n\nBritish Medical Association Cymru chair Dr Iona Collins said the figures were a \"stark reminder of the NHS' failings in Wales\" and said it needed staff and resources.\n\nA question has to be asked about the worth of a target that never included the majority of patients.\n\nFrom the word go \"most specialties\" did not include areas that even before the pandemic faced real challenges.\n\nAny patient sat at home on one of these lists will be desperate for news - desperate not to be forgotten.\n\nToday they learned they are not even being counted as part of the targets.\n\nBut the health minister has set out a new target for health boards - that 99% will be treated by the end of this year.\n\nPerhaps more realistic, yet little comfort to those whose health has declined significantly while waiting.\n\nEnter a postcode to find out what is happening in your area with A&E, ambulances and hospital waiting lists across the UK.\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Samantha Lee denies breaching Met Police standards in her investigation of Wayne Couzens\n\nA former Met Police officer accused of failing to properly investigate Wayne Couzens has said nothing she did could have \"changed the tragic outcome\".\n\nCouzens killed Sarah Everard in south-west London soon after exposing himself to staff at a branch of McDonald's.\n\nSamantha Lee is accused of failing to make \"the correct investigative inquiries\" into two flashing incidents.\n\nShe admitted to a disciplinary hearing making some errors in the investigation but denies gross misconduct.\n\nThe hearing has been told how Ms Lee - who is no longer a police officer but was a PC at the time - attended the fast-food restaurant in Swanley to interview the manager on 3 March, hours before Ms Everard was kidnapped in Clapham and murdered by Couzens.\n\nMs Lee originally claimed after this interview that she believed there was no CCTV footage of the two flashing incidents involving Couzens, as the restaurant's footage had been deleted automatically. It is alleged that this was a lie.\n\nWayne Couzens was already serving life for murdering Sarah Everard when he was sentenced for indecent exposure earlier this year\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Lee said: \"I accept now that there was CCTV and that I should have asked more questions about it.\"\n\nHowever, she told the tribunal there was nothing she could have done that would have stopped Couzens from kidnapping and murdering Ms Everard.\n\n\"I accept that I could have done more around CCTV and evidence-gathering; that was errors on my part and I accept that,\" she said.\n\n\"And as much as I have thought it over and over, I don't believe that anything I could have done would have changed the tragic outcome of what happened later that day.\"\n\nMs Lee is accused of breaching the Met Police's standards regarding duties and responsibilities as well as honesty and integrity.\n\nIf she is found to have committed gross misconduct, she could be banned from serving in the force again.\n\nIn March, Couzens was sentenced to 19 months after admitting indecent exposure. He was already serving a whole-life prison sentence for kidnap and murder.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK is lobbying the EU over a Brexit trade deal deadline that carmakers have warned pose a threat to UK industry.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said the UK was \"engaged in a dialogue\" with the EU about a looming rule change that could affect UK electric car hopes.\n\nCarmakers in Britain and the EU have been asking for the rule change to be pushed back.\n\nStellantis, which owns Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, has said that its UK factories are at risk.\n\nThe company has previously committed to making electric vans in the UK, but now says these plans are under threat.\n\nIt has warned it could face tariffs of 10% on exports to the EU due to rules on where parts are sourced from.\n\nUnder current rules, 40% of the value of an electric vehicle should originate in the UK or EU to qualify for trade without tariffs.\n\nHowever, this percentage will rise to 45% from the beginning of next year, while for battery packs the threshold will be 60%.\n\nFrom 2027, the bar is raised even higher, to 55% for the value of an electric vehicle and 70% for battery packs.\n\nStellantis said it was \"now unable to meet these rules of origin\" due to the recent surge in raw material and energy costs.\n\nEurope's car trade body, the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association, has also asked the EU to extend the deadline, arguing that the supply chain is not ready.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Japan where he is attending a G7 summit, Mr Sunak said the approaching deadline was \"something that car manufacturers across Europe, not just in the UK, have raised as a concern\".\n\n\"And as a result of that we are engaged in a dialogue with the EU about how we might address those concerns when it comes to auto manufacturing more generally,\" he added.\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of UK trade body, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), said he hoped \"some degree of common sense would prevail\".\n\n\"It doesn't need a full renegotiation of the Brexit deal, it just needs an agreement that you won't [implement] some of the rules that were due to change next year,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"It's hard to see how you can make sure that your plant is competitive for the long term if you're facing these additional costs. It undermines the investments either that have been made or potentially will be made.\"\n\nIndustry experts have expressed concern that the UK is running out of time to develop its own battery manufacturing industry, given heavy investment being made in the US, China and the EU.\n\nMr Hawes said the UK had not missed the boat yet, \"but the boat has got its engines fired up, ready to go\".\n\n\"What we've seen over the last few years is these massive investments being made in terms of gigafactories and indeed product allocation. That window isn't shut, but it's closing.\"\n\nRegarding these concerns, Mr Sunak said: \"Nissan have invested a billion pounds in battery manufacturing capability in the North East.\n\n\"I'll be talking to the Nissan CEO and other Japanese business leaders later about investment into the UK.\"\n\nBusiness and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch said on Thursday that the issues raised by the car industry were not to do with Brexit.\n\n\"The issue that the automotive industries are talking about is around rules of origin. This is something that the EU are also worried about because the costs of the components have risen,\" she told the Commons during business and trade questions.\"This isn't to do with Brexit, this is to do with supply chain issues following the pandemic and the war in Russia and Ukraine.\"I actually have had meetings with my EU trade counterpart, we are discussing these things and looking at how we can review them.\"\n\nAhead of Mr Sunak's meeting with business leaders in Japan, the government announced that Japanese firms had committed to invest nearly £18bn in the UK.\n\nThe government said the investment would create jobs, fund offshore wind, other clean-energy projects and affordable housing, with Mr Sunak calling it a \"massive vote of confidence\" in the UK economy.\n\nHowever, Labour said foreign investment in the UK had plummeted under the Conservatives.", "Companies linked to Roman Abramovich, Said Gutseriev and Oleg Deripaska have yet to comply with the new law\n\nThe UK has so far failed to impose fines worth as much as £1bn on foreign companies breaking a landmark transparency law, BBC analysis reveals.\n\nSince January, overseas firms that own UK property can be fined up to £2,500 a day unless they declare their owners.\n\nThousands are still to do so, including firms which have been linked to oligarchs such as Roman Abramovich, but no fines have yet been issued.\n\nThe government said it was \"building cases\" against unregistered companies.\n\nThe register was introduced as part of the Economic Crime Act in February 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ministers said it would reveal who ultimately owned UK property and also stop foreign criminals using UK property to launder money.\n\n​​Although the majority of companies have submitted their details, about 5,000 firms with property in England and Wales have not, more than three months after the 31 January deadline. The government suggests the figure is likely to be lower, as some companies may no longer exist and several hundred have already transferred their property. ​​\n\n​​But even if there were just 4,000 firms that are not complying with the law, the total value in fines would add up to £10m per day if the maximum daily financial penalty was imposed on every company that has not supplied its information.\n\n​​Over the entire period since the deadline, more than 100 days, this would add up to around £1bn.\n\nSome foreign companies may not be aware of the new law yet, while others could be struggling to identify and verify all their beneficial owners, according to John Barnett from the Chartered Institute of Taxation.\n\nBut there may be others that have no intention of complying.\n\nThey could be \"burying their head in the sand\" or making a deliberate decision to \"take the risk of… fines, confiscation of the property\", Mr Barnett told the BBC.\n\nAlthough no financial penalties have been issued, a spokesperson for the Department for Business and Trade said it was building cases against companies who have failed to register by the deadline and working with law enforcement to \"prioritise action against the most egregious offenders\".\n\nThe spokesperson said the UK was the first country in the world to take \"this tough new approach to tackle money laundering through property\", adding: \"Fines are just one tool in our arsenal to crack down on non-compliance, and non-compliant companies are already unable to buy or sell unregistered land, cutting off the flow of money.\"\n\nBut, as the government itself has acknowledged, it's a complicated business establishing which properties are owned by oligarchs with links to Vladmir Putin.\n\nWhen the Foreign Office announced further sanctions last month against those who knowingly assisted sanctioned Russians - including Mr Abramovich - to hide their assets, it said oligarchs had \"scrambled to shield their wealth\" with the help of financial fixers, offshore trusts, shell companies and family members.\n\nThis west London property was reported to belong to Roman Abramovich\n\nA 15-bedroom west London mansion widely reported as Roman Abramovich's home - planning applications for the property were made in the Abramovich name - was purchased for £90m in 2011 by Cyprus-based firm A. Corp Trustee. The company appears to be among those breaching the law by failing to provide details to the register.\n\nA few miles away is a multimillion-pound City of London block that the Pandora Papers document leak revealed was owned by businessman Said Gutseriev - who was sanctioned in 2022 - via an offshore company that also does not appear to have submitted its ownership details to the corporate registry Companies House.\n\nNeither Mr Gutseriev nor Mr Abramovich responded to the BBC's requests for comment.\n\nAlso apparently violating the law by not filing to the register are firms with property linked to energy and metals tycoon Oleg Deripaska, who was named in a UK court hearing as the beneficial owner of a Grade II-listed art deco mansion in Surrey and a large home in London's Belgrave Square.\n\nWhen last year the Belgrave Square house was occupied by demonstrators supporting housing for Ukrainian refugees, a spokesman for the billionaire said the property belonged to family members rather than the oligarch himself.\n\nAsked whether companies he was linked to were violating the new transparency law, a spokesperson for the oligarch told the BBC \"none of these properties are owned by Mr Deripaska\".\n\nA BBC and Transparency International investigation in February found that despite the new transparency laws, the owners of about 50,000 UK properties held by foreign companies remained hidden from public view.\n\nThis included companies that either ignored the law altogether or filed information in such a way that it remained impossible for the public to find out who ultimately owned and benefited from them.\n\nHelena Wood, head of the UK Economic Crime Programme at the Royal United Services Institute think tank, said: \"Although the new register is to be welcomed as a deterrent for the future, its ability to retrofit an existing system based on 30 years of turning a blind eye was always going to be limited.\"", "Queen Elizabeth II's funeral and events during the period of national mourning cost the government an estimated £162m, the Treasury has said.\n\nThe state funeral on 19 September 2022 came 11 days after her death.\n\nDuring that period of national mourning hundreds of thousands of people visited Westminster where she was lying in state.\n\nThe Home Office (£74m) and Department of Culture, Media and Sport (£57m) spent the most.\n\nThe costs incurred by the government departments relate to the Queen's funeral and other events in the run-up, including the monarch's lying-in-state.\n\nJohn Glen, chief secretary to the Treasury, said the government's priority at the time had been to make sure \"these events ran smoothly and with the appropriate level of dignity, while at all times ensuring the safety and security of the public\".\n\nIn a written ministerial statement made to Parliament, Mr Glen said the Treasury had provided additional funding where necessary and the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland governments were \"fully\" refunded for their respective costs.\n\nAfter Queen Elizabeth II died on 8 September 2022 aged 96, the UK started 10 days of national mourning.\n\nThe late Queen's coffin was laid to rest in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh for 24 hours, before the monarch was taken to Westminster Abbey in London where thousands of mourners queued for hours to pay their respects.\n\nPeople lined up in London at all hours of the day, often in chilly temperatures, to pay their respects - including David Beckham.\n\nThe wait time at one stage was estimated to be more than 24 hours; and the queue snaked from Westminster Hall, down along the River Thames and stretched south for almost seven miles (11km).\n\nThe scale of the state funeral and mourning arrangements led to what police described at the time as \"probably the biggest operation we're likely to launch in the UK\".\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's coffin being carried out of Westminster Abbey\n\nWorld leaders and foreign royalty joined the Royal Family for the state funeral at Westminster Abbey.\n\nMembers of the 2,000-strong congregation included the Queen's great-grandchildren, the prime minister at the time Liz Truss and US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill.\n\nThe event was watched by millions of people across the country and around the world.\n\nIt was the first state funeral since Sir Winston Churchill's in 1965 and the biggest ceremonial event since World War Two.\n\nAfter the funeral, the Queen's coffin travelled in a procession to Wellington Arch and then on to its final journey to Windsor Castle and a committal service.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's death was followed by 10 days of national mourning\n\nThe cost was used to facilitate the smooth running of the event and ensure mourners from the UK and across the world could visit and take part safely, Downing Street has said.\n\n\"Of course, a major international event of this scale, we wanted to ensure that we could enable people to pay their respects,\" a No 10 spokesman added.", "S Club 7 star Paul Cattermole died of natural causes, according to a coroner's report.\n\nThe 46-year-old was found dead in his home in Dorset on 6 April, weeks after announcing he was rejoining the pop band.\n\nA spokesperson from Dorset Coroner's Office told the BBC that due to the nature of his death there would be no inquest.\n\nNo further details were given on cause of death by the coroner.\n\nCattermole was due to embark on a UK tour with the band later this year.\n\nIt has since been announced that the 11-date tour will still go ahead, but band member Hannah Spearritt will not be taking part.\n\nSpeaking to The Sun, Spearritt, who was in a relationship with Cattermole for several years, said she couldn't \"stop crying\" since hearing the news.\n\nThe band, pictured with BBC Radio 2 DJ Scott Mills, announced a tour to coincide with their 25th anniversary.\n\nAhead of the tour to celebrate their 25th anniversary, the band has rebranded as S Club.\n\nS Club 7 were one of the UK's biggest pop bands of the late 1990s and early 2000s.\n\nTheir biggest hits were Reach, Don't Stop Movin' and S Club Party, with the band earning 11 UK top 10 singles and four number ones.\n\nThey sold more than 10 million albums worldwide and won two Brit Awards.\n\nCattermole left the group in 2002, swapping pop music for his earlier love of heavy metal.\n\nHe re-joined the group Skua, which he had been previously been involved with as a teenager.\n\nAfter Cattermole's death was announced, S Club posted on Twitter: \"We are truly devastated by the passing of our brother Paul.\n\n\"There are no words to describe the deep sadness and loss we all feel.\n\n\"We were so lucky to have had him in our lives and are thankful for the amazing memories we have.\n\n\"He will be so deeply missed by each and every one of us.\"", "Telecoms giant BT is to shed up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade, mostly in the UK, as it cuts costs.\n\nUp to a fifth of those cuts will come in customer services as staff are replaced by technologies including artificial intelligence.\n\nThe headcount reduction from the current workforce of 130,000 includes staff and contractors.\n\n\"Whenever you get new technologies you can get big changes,\" said chief executive Philip Jansen.\n\nHe said \"generative AI\" tools such as ChatGPT - which can write essays, scripts, poems, and solve computer coding in a human-like way - \"gives us confidence we can go even further\".\n\nMr Jansen said AI would make services faster, better and more seamless, adding that the changes would not mean customers will \"feel like they are dealing with robots\".\n\n\"We are multi-channel, we are online, we have 450 stores and that's not changing at all,\" he said.\n\n\"There are plenty of opportunities for our customers to deal with people at BT, plenty of people to speak to.\"\n\nMr Jansen added that \"new technologies drive new jobs\", although BT has said it will have a\"much smaller workforce\" by the end of the 2020s.\n\nBT, which is the UK's largest broadband and mobile provider, is currently continuing to expand its fibre network as it moves away from copper. The company said that once the work was completed it would not need as many staff to build and maintain its networks.\n\nIn addition, newer, more efficient technology, including artificial intelligence, means fewer people will be needed to serve customers in future, it said.\n\nThe move comes shortly after Vodafone said it would axe a tenth of its staff over the next three years, equating to 11,000 jobs.\n\nMr Jansen said BT would become \"a leaner business with a brighter future\", with the firm planning to get rid of between 40,000 and 55,000 jobs by 2030.\n\nThe firm has about 80,000 employees in the UK, and this is where the bulk of the cuts will come. It has about 20,000 staff abroad.\n\nIt also has 30,000 contractors, mainly abroad. Many of those roles will go.\n\nThe Communications and Workers Union (CWU) said the BT announcement was \"no surprise\".\n\n\"The introduction of new technologies across the company, along with the completion of the fibre infrastructure build replacing the copper network, was always going to result in less labour costs for the company in the coming years,\" a CWU spokesperson said.\n\nBut the union said it wants BT to keep as many of its core employees as possible, with job cuts coming from sub-contractors \"in the first instance\", and through roles not being replaced as people leave the business.\n\nThe BT announcement was made as it reported a 12% drop in profits of £1.7bn for the year to April.\n\nIts shares fell more than 7% after its results fell short of analysts' expectations.\n\nJames Barford, head of telecoms research at Enders Analysis, said the BT job cuts were mostly about fewer people being needed in building networks, whereas the Vodafone cuts were \"more general efficiency savings\".\n\nHe said that in both cases plans were \"already broadly in place, with savings previously described in monetary terms rather than headcount reduction\".\n\nPossibly, the firms are now talking about job cuts \"to help convince sceptical investors that they will actually deliver the promised savings\", Mr Barford added.\n• None BT and unions agree pay rise of up to 16%", "Prof Kathleen Stock is due to speak at the Oxford Union on 30 May\n\nUniversities must remain places where \"contentious views can be openly discussed\", University of Oxford academics have warned.\n\nIt comes amid a row over the invitation of gender-critical academic Kathleen Stock to take part in a debate.\n\nThere had been speculation a decision by the university's student union to split with the Oxford Union debating society was due to the invitation.\n\nBut the Oxford University Student Union said the decision was unrelated.\n\nThe letter, signed by 44 academics, and published in the Telegraph, stated the signatories represented left and right viewpoints.\n\nIt said the group \"wholeheartedly condemn\" the students' union split with the 200-year-old Oxford Union debating society.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, one of the signatories Dr Michael Biggs, associate professor of sociology at University of Oxford, said he had signed the letter because he is a \"strong believer in academic freedom of speech\".\n\nHe said it was \"under threat\" as there was \"an emerging body of students who have learnt that anybody who has a view that is not their own is hateful and bigoted, and doesn't deserve any opportunity to speak\".\n\nResponding to the letter, Prof Stock said she was \"very pleased to see there are still those at Oxford University who understand the value of upholding academic freedom, and are prepared to demonstrate this important value in public\".\n\n\"I hope their example will inspire others to do similar,\" she added.\n\nIn a statement, education minister Claire Coutinho said student debaters \"shouldn't be punished for encouraging the free exchange of ideas\".\n\nShe said the new Freedom of Speech Act \"will make sure that universities promote free speech\" and people who have their \"free speech rights unlawfully restricted on campus can seek redress\".\n\nProf Stock left her job with the University of Sussex in 2021 after protests against her from students following the publication of a book where she questioned the idea that gender identity is more socially significant than biological sex.\n\nAfter plans for her invite were unveiled last month, the Oxford University LGBTQ+ Society said it was \"dismayed\", and accused the debating union of \"disregarding the welfare of its LGBTQ+ members under the guise of free speech\".\n\nResponding to the letter on Wednesday, the society said it stood by its statement, and said it was an \"insult\" for Oxford Union to give Prof Stock a platform.\n\nOxford Union has said attendees will have an \"opportunity to respectfully engage and challenge\" Prof Stock's views at the event on 30 May, as well as being able to ask questions anonymously.\n\nIt said there would be \"additional welfare resources available on the evening\", due to the sensitive nature of the event.\n\nThe Oxford Union intentionally resembles the House of Commons\n\nThe letter by academics characterised Prof Stock's views as being the belief that \"biological sex in humans is real and socially salient\" and said they are views which until recently \"would have been so commonplace as to hardly merit asserting\".\n\n\"There is no plausible and attractive ideal of academic freedom, or of free speech more generally, which would condemn their expression as outside the bounds of permissible discourse,\" it says.\n\nIt added the move by the student's union is aimed at damaging the Oxford Union debating society's business model, by banning it from freshers' fairs, which it said is an important source for recruitment of members.\n\nThe Oxford Union is a private members club that University of Oxford students and others pay to join. It is independent of the university and the student union.\n\nIt said the move is a \"a profound failure to live up to\" ideals of \"free inquiry and the disinterested pursuit of the truth by means of reasoned argument\".\n\nIn its response, the Oxford University Student Union said national press coverage \"erroneously\" conflated the opposition to Prof Stock and the decision to split with the Oxford Union.\n\nIt said the debate prior to the decision made no mention of Prof Stock or any other speaker, and was due to \"long-standing concerns\" about \"alleged bullying, sexual harassment, discrimination, and data privacy breaches\".\n\nIt added: \"[The student's union] will defend the right of people to freedom of expression, and will defend the right of people to have controversial and unpopular ideas debated as part of an integral part of university life\".\n\nThere has been ongoing tension in UK universities over freedom of speech on the issue of transgender rights.\n\nLast month, a second attempted screening of a controversial film about gender-critical issues was cancelled due to protest at the University of Edinburgh.\n\nThe Oxford Union is celebrating its bicentennial year in 2023, and has a history of welcoming some of the world's most high-profile figures.\n\nIts debating chamber has previously heard from a host of American presidents, and figures like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.\n\nIt has also drawn controversy, having extended invites to the likes of far-right activist Tommy Robinson and French far-right former politician Marion Marechal-Le Pen.\n\nTheir appearances were marked by protests.\n\nUpdate 5 June: This article originally described the free speech letter as having been signed by 44 academics, and this was amended with a note of correction on 27 May to say it was signed by academics and staff. On review, our original wording was correct and we have amended the article again to make clear that all of the signatories are academics.", "Mass culls to control animal diseases like bird flu are leaving farmers and vets facing mental health trauma with little support, a new report says.\n\nA cross-party committee of MPs found there was a lack of health services in the countryside offering long-term support to those hit by such crises.\n\nIt called on the government to fund a \"critical mass\" of frontline health workers specialising in rural issues.\n\nThe government said it was committed to providing rural health services.\n\nThe UK Parliament's Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) committee published the findings of its inquiry into rural mental health on Thursday.\n\nThe report said that crises or \"shock\" events such as animal disease outbreaks \"can be very detrimental for the mental health of the farmers and the vets involved\".\n\nThe world is currently suffering its worst avian influenza outbreak, with millions of poultry culled. Meanwhile, last year more than 22,000 cattle were slaughtered in England due to bovine tuberculosis (bTB).\n\nSam Stables, 43, is a Herefordshire farmer who founded mental health charity We are Farming Minds with his wife Emily. He said more needed to be done to support farmers dealing with the impact of disease outbreak.\n\nMr Stables said culling necessitated by a disease outbreak can have \"a horrendous effect on a business, on a whole family\". But he said it was not just farmers affected by culling.\n\n\"If a farm goes down to TB it's the vet who has to break the news. Vets know just how much that is putting a family under - you're dealing with their livelihood. A vet giving out a failed TB test, well, it's devastating,\" he said.\n\nThe Stables have been running the charity since 2020, offering a befriending service and a dedicated 24-hour helpline to farmers, which is staffed by trained volunteers.\n\nThe father of two said he himself had experienced mental health issues brought on by the isolation and pressures of farming. Eleven years ago, when he was \"in a dark place\", he planned to take his own life.\n\nHe said more had to be done to support farmers who, like himself, do not usually talk about their problems.\n\n\"When a farmer says they are suffering mentally or feeling suicidal you know you have to take it seriously - that's a rare event. They are such a proud people,\" he told the BBC.\n\nJames Russell, a farm vet of 21 years who now teaches at Nottingham University's veterinary school, said employers needed to recognise the pressures on young farm vets, and support them.\n\n\"Vets are let into the inner circle of a farming family and that comes with a lot of responsibility, particularly if you are person delivering bad news. Vets take that responsibility very seriously and it weighs heavily,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The message I give my students is 'make sure you interview the practice you are going to' because good practices give support very, very well. Bad practices are leaving people without the support they need.\"\n\nThe committee found there was little in the way of long-term targeted mental health support for those hit by disease outbreaks.\n\nIt said the government should fund and roll out mental health first aid training to create \"a critical mass\" of front-line support workers dealing with farmers and those working and living in rural industries and areas.\n\nCommittee chairperson Sir Robert Goodwill said rural mental health needed to be a \"top priority\".\n\nMPs also said they had \"deep concern\" about how isolation, poor public transport links and a lack of digital connectivity have all contributed to \"poor mental health outcomes\" for all rural communities.\n\nA government spokesperson said: 'We are committed to providing the public services that rural areas deserve.\"\n\n\"We are also providing mental health and wellbeing support through the Future Farming Resilience Fund and working with charities, to ensure farmers can access the support they need.\"", "Official photographs from the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been released.\n\nHugo Burnand, who also took their wedding portrait in 2005, captured the royal couple in their regalia shortly after Saturday's Westminster Abbey ceremony.\n\nGroup shots of senior royals and family members were also taken.\n\nThe striking images were captured in Buckingham Palace's Throne Room and Green Drawing Room.\n\nThe King is pictured wearing the Robe of Estate, the Imperial State Crown and is holding the Sovereign's Orb and Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross.\n\nHe is seated on one of a pair of throne chairs that were especially made for use at the 1902 coronation of King Edward VII.\n\nThose chairs were also used by King Charles and Queen Camilla at Westminster Hall to receive addresses from the Speakers of both Houses of Parliament last year.\n\nThe Queen is pictured in the Green Drawing Room wearing Queen Mary's Crown and Robe of Estate.\n\nKing Charles III and Queen Camilla are pictured here with members of the working Royal Family\n\nIn a statement, the King expressed his and Camilla's \"most sincere and heartfelt thanks\" to all those who helped to make the Coronation weekend \"such a special occasion\".\n\nTo people who joined in the celebrations, the King said: \"To know that we have your support and encouragement, and to witness your kindness expressed in so many different ways, has been the greatest possible Coronation gift.\"\n\nKing Charles added that he and his wife would now rededicate their lives to \"serving the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms and Commonwealth\".\n\nThese photographs are sending an unmistakable message. It's showing King Charles and Queen Camilla in the most formal trappings of royalty, wearing their robes and crowns, showing them taking their place in these historic roles.\n\nIt's the kind of official shot you'd see on the wall of a public building rather than in a family album.\n\nThe picture of Camilla is also making it clear that this is now Queen Camilla, no longer the Queen Consort.\n\nThe choice of who is in the group shot of the Royal Family is also symbolic. It says that the focus is limited to the \"working royals\", that core group who will carry out official duties on behalf of the King. It's not the extended family or any hangers-on, these are the royals we're going to see representing the new reign.", "In 1953, millions crowded around their neighbours' television sets to watch the Queen's coronation. Seventy years on, the crowning of King Charles III was a very different kind of spectacle.\n\nBefore dawn, at 04:30 BST, a convoy of three coaches set off from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, carrying royal enthusiasts to London. On board was Sandra Hanna, who was born 10 days after King Charles. Although she and the King had experienced somewhat different upbringings, they had a \"shared history\", she said.\n\nExplaining why she had risen up so early to make the 175-mile (282km) journey, she remarked: \"You can't soak up the atmosphere through a TV screen.\"\n\nComing so soon after the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 - a moment of high emotion for millions who said goodbye - this coronation was always going to have a very different ambience. The wet May weather threatened to dampen the mood.\n\nBut still the crowds came - to central London and also to cities and towns across the UK. People gathered in public spaces where the ceremony was screened live.\n\nDraped in Ukrainian and union flags, David-Jon Davies, 52, watched on a big screen at Liverpool's Eurovision Village. It was a proud moment for the city, he said: \"Although I might see another coronation in my lifetime, I definitely won't see one at the same time we're hosting Eurovision.\"\n\nWhile some of those who turned out around the UK were ardent monarchists, for others it was the sense of occasion that mattered. \"I wouldn't say I'm a royalist but I wouldn't want to have missed this,\" said Karen Greenfield, 54, from Doncaster, who watched in Hull city centre.\n\nMany more settled indoors to watch.\n\nOne of those was Audrey Biggs, from St Hilary, in the Vale of Glamorgan, who celebrated her 100th birthday in a care home. Charles would be the fifth monarch whose reign she would live through. Back in 1953, her family had been one of those who bought a TV to watch the previous coronation.\n\n\"He's a rather sensitive sort of a man,\" she said of the King. \"He'll be anxious to make a good job of it, which he will I'm sure.\"\n\nIn a digital, multi-channel, multi-device era, the 2023 Coronation was never going to be the same kind of occasion as 1953. Some protested against the occasion itself. Others tried their best to ignore the whole thing.\n\nThe street parties and gun salutes were still there, of course. And members of the public found idiosyncratic ways to celebrate the occasion ahead.\n\nIn Milton Keynes, a model railway club spent months building a miniature version of the coronation. \"Yarn-bombers\" around Scotland crafted knitted effigies of King Charles and Queen Camilla and attached them to post boxes. Chocolatier Jennifer Lindsey-Clarke, from Worthing, in West Sussex, sculpted a life-sized bust of the King from more than 17 litres (3.7 gallons) of melted chocolate.\n\nAt the same time, plenty of others switched off - either because they simply weren't interested in the spectacle, or because they considered it an affront to democracy.\n\n\"We won't be taking any notice of it,\" Owen Williams, from Barry, told BBC Radio Wales. \"Instead of a coronation, I'd prefer an election. Instead of Charles, I'd prefer a choice.\"\n\nOther non-monarchists concluded their best option was to throw celebrations of their own. The Dog and Partridge pub, in Sheffield, declared itself an \"anti-Coronation safe space\". The Cube cinema, in Bristol, organised an \"anti-street party\" for critics of the British empire.\n\nPro-republic rallies were held in Cardiff and Edinburgh. A crowd of anti-monarchy protesters gathered in London's Trafalgar Square, where the ceremony was relayed over loudspeakers. Whenever Charles's name was mentioned, demonstrators chanted \"not my King\". There were also regular bursts of \"free Graham Smith\" - the head of campaign group Republic, who was arrested earlier in the day.\n\nBefore the procession started, there was a sense of anticipation in crowds around Buckingham Palace. In her bright red, blue and white wig, Heidi Roberts, from Surrey, said she was looking forward to having something to celebrate: \"I think we're all mourning the Queen, and I think it's a bit of a hangover from that.\"\n\nAs the procession began just after 10:20 BST, onlookers along the route erupted in cheers. This was the pageantry they had come for; that and a glimpse of the King and Queen.\n\nThe carriage reached Westminster Abbey and the ceremony began - broadcast to the world and piped to the crowds outside.\n\nThis time the TV pictures were in colour. And social media would curate it for you. On Twitter, Penny Mordaunt - the Conservative MP and leader of the House of Commons, who brandished the Sword of State as part of its presentation to the King - began trending. So too for a time was the republican slogan #NotMyKing.\n\nIn Majorca, British expats and tourists watched on big screens as they sat in the sunshine in novelty crowns. In New York, Iain Anderson, 43, organised a screening at Tea and Sympathy, a British-themed café and shop.\n\n\"We haven't had the best history after that little war\", he joked, referring to the American Revolution. \"But people still like the history. The theatre of it, the pomp and the circumstance.\"\n\nAt the moment the Archbishop of Canterbury placed the crown on King Charles's head, the sound of popping corks could be heard along The Mall. Soon afterwards, as the carriage returned to Buckingham Palace, there were shouts of \"God Save the King\" and \"hip hip hooray\" from the crowd.\n\nThe appearance of the King and Queen on the palace's balcony - albeit with a scaled-back military flypast due to the weather - was imminent. The barriers were lowered. The crowd rushed to the front.\n\nCheryl Kingbrooks, Joanne Gerrard and her son Ryan were among them. \"We never thought we'd get right to the front,\" Cheryl said afterwards.\n\n\"We were right at the back of The Mall, and then as soon as the gates opened, we just ran down and we didn't realise we'd get that far forward. But we did and it was absolutely amazing,\" Ryan added.\n\nSoon after, the new King and Queen retreated inside. For some it had been a day to immerse themselves in, to be part of, come rain or shine. For others it was something to ignore or even endure. Either way, a new reign had begun.", "Canadian rock band Sum 41 have announced they are to disband, after one final album and world tour.\n\nThe pop-punk act, best known for tracks like In Too Deep and Fatlip, formed in Ontario in 1996 and went on to release seven albums with various line-ups.\n\nIn a social media post on Monday, they confirmed that their eighth, Heaven and Hell, would be their last.\n\nThey said the band had brought \"some of the best moments of our lives\", but they were now excited about the future.\n\n\"We are forever grateful to our fans both old and new, who have supported us in every way,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"It is hard to articulate the love and respect we have for all of you and we wanted you to hear it from us first.\"\n\nThe group went on to say they would be fulfilling all of their existing tour dates this year, before releasing their last album and then embarking on a final worldwide tour \"to celebrate\".\n\n\"For now, we look forward to seeing all of you [people] on the road and are excited for what the future will bring for each of us,\" they added.\n\n\"Thank you for the last 27 years of Sum 41.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSum 41 - now comprising frontman and only remaining original member Deryck Whibley, alongside Dave Baksh, Jason \"Cone\" McCaslin, Tom Thacker, and Frank Zummo - began life as a NOFX covers band.\n\nThey rose to fame in 2001 with the release of their angsty, debut album All Killer, No Filler, after which they were invited to open MTV's 20th anniversary show in collaboration with fellow rockers Tommy Lee, of Motley Crue-fame, and Judas Priest's Rob Halford.\n\nMixing raucous rock guitars with energetic rap-style vocals, the hard-touring band made it to the top of the pop-punk scene alongside the likes of Green Day and Blink-182.\n\nIn 2014, Whibley thanked fans for their support following his hospital treatment for alcohol abuse.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Witness describes the moment he saw the gunman\n\nInvestigators are working to establish whether a gunman who killed eight people at a Texas shopping mall had far-right links.\n\nThe 33-year-old attacker was shot dead at the scene by a police officer who was responding to an unrelated call.\n\nFederal agents are now reviewing social media to look into his beliefs, reports CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\n\nDuring the attack, the suspect wore an insignia which has been associated with hate groups.\n\nSix people, including children, were pronounced dead at the scene in the north Dallas suburbs, while two died later in hospital. Three of the injured - ranging in age from 5 to 61 - are still in hospital.\n\nThree members of one family, a young security guard and an engineer from India were among those killed.\n\nThe gunman, named by police as Mauricio Garcia, used an AR-15 style rifle and wore combat tactical gear during the shooting. He carried multiple rounds of ammunition.\n\nWitnesses described scenes of panic and horror when the gunman got out of his car near the Allen Premium Outlets mall and began firing on shoppers.\n\nDuring the attack the killer wore a clothing patch with the letters RWDS, which stands for \"Right Wing Death Squad\". This is a phrase popular among right-wing extremists and white supremacy groups.\n\nMourners have set up a memorial for the shooting victims at the Allen mall\n\nOne line of enquiry is whether he was motivated by these ideals and whether he had links to like-minded people, a law enforcement source told CBS.\n\nA social media page appearing to belong to the gunman also shared extremist views. The profile on a Russian platform reportedly includes posts about mass shootings and white supremacy.\n\nPhotos he apparently posted showed Nazi tattoos on his arm and torso. He also shared images last month of a shop near to where the attack took place.\n\nAccording to the US defence department, the suspect entered the US Army in June 2008 and was \"terminated three months later without completing initial entry training\" due to \"physical or mental conditions\".\n\nThe attacker was reportedly working as a security guard at the time of the shooting and did not have a serious criminal record. Officials have searched his parents' home and a nearby extended-stay motel where he had been recently living.\n\nWarning: You may find descriptions below upsetting\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking to CBS, Steven Spainhouer described how he rushed to the scene after getting a call from his son who reported shooting. He spoke of \"unfathomable carnage\".\n\nHe said at least three victims could not be saved even after he applied CPR. \"The first girl I walked up to was crouched down covering her head in the bushes,\" he recalled. \"So I felt for a pulse, pulled her head to the side, and she had no face.\"\n\nAnother witness, Elaine Penicaro, said she was finishing her shopping trip when she heard \"all this popping\".\n\n\"We just ran into the Converse store. They locked the door. We all hunkered down in the back - and that's where we stayed,\" she said.\n\nAllen is a racially diverse suburb north of Dallas and has an infamous connection with another recent mass shooting.\n\nA man who lived there in 2019 went on a gun rampage at a Walmart in El Paso, killing 23 people, after posting a racist manifesto online. In February he pleaded guilty to hate crime charges.\n\nThe shooting comes days after five people were killed elsewhere in Texas following a dispute with a neighbour. And on Sunday one person was killed and two injured in a shooting on a train in Dallas.\n\nThere have been 201 mass shootings this year according to the Gun Violence Archive which defines such incidents as four people injured or killed.\n\nUPDATE: Since this story was first published, police have disputed some elements of Mr Spainhouer's account, including that he arrived before law enforcement and gave first aid to victims. Mr Spainhouer says he stands by his original description of events.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn anti-monarchy protester detained during the Coronation says he believes the police had \"every intention\" of arresting him before the event.\n\nThe chief executive of Republic, Graham Smith, was one of 64 people arrested by the Metropolitan Police in London.\n\nHe said he was held despite being in close conversation with the Met \"for four months\" about the group's plans.\n\nThe Met said it had \"a duty to intervene when protest becomes criminal and may cause serious disruption\".\n\nThe police force said it made 64 arrests on the day of the Coronation, with four people charged so far.\n\nCommander Karen Findlay, who led the Met's policing operation during the Coronation, said on Saturday: \"Earlier this week we said our tolerance for any disruption, whether through protest or otherwise, will be low and that we would deal robustly with anyone intent on undermining the celebration.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak gave his backing to the police, saying they act independently of the government and did what they thought was best.\n\n\"I'm grateful to the police and everyone who played a part in ensuring that this weekend has gone so well, so successfully and so safely,\" he told reporters in Hertfordshire. \"That was an extraordinary effort by so many people and I'm grateful to them for all their hard work.\"\n\nMr Smith told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had been detained for 16 hours after being stopped by officers who suspected him and group members of carrying \"lock on\" devices to tie themselves to inanimate objects.\n\n\"They also said they had intelligence, which is untrue,\" he said. \"If they did have intelligence their intelligence officers are either lying or incompetent because there was never any discussion, thought, email, message, anything that suggested any intent to do anything disruptive.\"\n\nMr Smith added that after months of discussions with the Met, the force had \"repeatedly said, right up until Friday, that they had no concerns about our protest plans, that they were well aware of what we were going to do and they would engage with us and not disrupt us\".\n\n\"So they've repeatedly lied about their intentions, and I believe they had every intention of arresting us prior to doing so.\"\n\nMr Smith also rejected suggestions his arrest along with other protesters was necessary to limit disruption to the Coronation, calling it \"disgraceful\".\n\nHe told the programme: \"That's not an excuse to rob people of their rights. It's not an excuse to arrest people and detain them for 16 hours because some people want to enjoy a party.\n\n\"They stopped us because the law was introduced, rushed in last week, to give them the powers to stop us on any flimsy pretext.\n\n\"That law means we no longer in this country have the right to protest, we only have the freedom to protest contingent on the permission of senior police officers and politicians, and it's my view that those senior police officers were under immense pressure from politicians.\"\n\nThe Met Police said the Republic members were arrested on suspicion of an older offence of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance. It's not clear whether Mr Smith was formally arrested under the new laws.\n\nFour people arrested on the day of the Coronation have been charged so far, including one under the Public Order Act; one with suspicion of causing a religiously aggravated offence; and two for the possession of Class A drugs.\n\nAll four will appear in Westminster Magistrates' Court later this month.\n\nForty-six people have been granted bail, under charges including conspiracy to cause a public nuisance and a breach of the peace.\n\nMet Police Federation chairman Ken Marsh said officers \"police without fear or favour,\" insisting the force had done \"an incredible job\" policing the Coronation.\n\nHe told the Today programme: \"We have to take into consideration everything that at that moment is put in front of us. If individuals intend to cause an incident which will affect others near them or around them... then we take action to deal with it.\n\n\"Protesting can take place in this country, but it's to the level of which you perform that protesting that we have to balance and deal with.\"\n\nConcerns were also raised over reports three volunteers with a Westminster-based women's safety programme had been arrested while handing out rape alarms.\n\nCaroline Russell, Green Party London Assembly member and chair of the Police, Crime Committee at the London Assembly, said it was \"really worrying\" that the arrests had happened.\n\nSpeaking in a personal capacity, she told Today: \"These people were literally wearing hi-vis vests with the Met Police logo on. They were volunteers for a Westminster programme in collaboration with the Met police.\n\n\"Those people volunteering were handing flip-flops to those in high heels, and handing out rape alarms so people could get home safely. It's extraordinary that they got caught up in the Met's safety net.\"\n\nOn Monday, members of the public have taken part in community volunteering events across the UK to mark the final day of the Coronation celebrations.", "Ticket prices for the Tower of London have risen by more than 12%\n\nWith the cost of a day out rising, young people are at risk of missing out on important life experiences this summer, a charity has warned.\n\nGo Beyond, which gives vulnerable youngsters holidays, said children could be left isolated and lacking confidence as a result.\n\nTickets for castles, historic sites, gardens, zoos and theme parks have gone up significantly since last year.\n\nHowever, venues told the BBC they were facing rising costs themselves.\n\nThey say higher energy prices, rising wage bills and VAT increases mean they have to pass on some of those costs to visitors.\n\nAt the Titanic visitor centre in Belfast ticket prices are up from £21.50 to £24.95, a rise of 16%. Tickets for Kew Gardens in London are up more than 10% at £20.50. And Stonehenge costs 9% more than it used to, although different price rises apply to different tickets.\n\nFor parents like Hannah Clarke, a single mother with two children, these higher prices make a big difference.\n\n\"It is a massive issue,\" she said. \"It was my daughter's seventh birthday last week and I could only afford the entry cost of where we went because I had saved up supermarket vouchers.\"\n\n\"The trouble is they are changing that scheme, so the vouchers won't go as far as they used to soon.\n\nHannah uses vouchers to cover the cost of days out\n\nHannah said she is trying to be \"more strategic\" about day trips now, looking for free places to visit, and ones that are closer to her home in Rutland, so she can make lunch before they set out.\n\n\"It isn't just the ticket cost but the price of an ice cream when you get there,\" she added.\n\nMichele Farmer, chief executive of Go Beyond, told the BBC that rising prices could lead to some young people becoming isolated from children their own age, which could have a \"negative impact\" on relationships, wellbeing and self-esteem.\n\n\"It would be easy to take for granted just what a difference having those simple childhood experiences can make to a young person,\" she said.\n\n\"Giving children space away from the worries and pressures they face at home gives them the opportunity to grow in confidence.\n\n\"As this summer approaches millions of families who have never had a holiday, now won't be able to afford even the simplest days out,\" she added.\n\nAccording to a survey by Barclays, 52% of the 2,000 people it questioned think tourist sites are pricier now than they were prior to the current squeeze on family budgets.\n\nTwo-fifths of those say they are less likely to spend money visiting these places as a result. Just under a third say that if they do visit attractions, they are less likely to spend money on extras like food, drink and souvenirs.\n\nThe Tower of London says it is offering more for visitors to see\n\nBBC News contacted 15 of the leading paid-for tourist sites in the UK. Most of those that responded said they had put up prices, some by more than the overall rate of inflation, which is just over 10%.\n\nTitanic Belfast said it had made the decision to raise prices based on comparable products and that the venue regularly opened its doors to local people, who were less likely to be able to visit normally.\n\nTickets for the Tower of London go up from £29.90 to £33.60 this year, a 12.3% increase. Historic Royal Palaces said this rise coincided with an increase in what was available to see at the site, and that it was increasing its free and subsidised access at the same time.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society said it had had to pass on some costs, raising ticket prices for its gardens by an average of 6.4% this year, but it had introduced a £1 entry scheme for those on the lowest incomes, it said. Kew introduced a £1 ticket in January 2022.\n\nThe National Trust said it had raised prices for adult entry to Bodnant Gardens in Wales from £14 to £15, an increase of more than 7%, to cover the rising costs of lighting, heating and conserving the places in its care.\n\nCardiff Council and Brighton Pier were the only attractions to say they had not put up either entry fees or ride wristband prices.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray won his first title in nearly four years by beating Tommy Paul in the final of the ATP Challenger event in Aix-en-Provence.\n\nBriton Murray, 35, came back from a set down against American top seed Paul to win 2-6 6-1 6-2.\n\nIt is the three-time Grand Slam champion's first title since winning in Antwerp in 2019, and his first on clay since 2016 in Rome.\n\nIt is his first title at the second-tier Challenger level since 2005.\n\n\"This last year, 18 months, has been a bit of struggle with my game. But [my team] have been there supporting me and working with me to try and get better,\" said Murray.\n\n\"We keep going from here.\"\n\nFifth seed Murray took a late wildcard entry into the tournament to get more clay-court match time before the French Open, following first-round exits from Monte Carlo and Madrid in April.\n\nAfter a slow start against Paul, in which the world number 17 won the opening four games en route to taking the first set, Scotland's Murray found his level at the start of the second set and reeled off five successive games.\n\nPaul, a semi-finalist at this year's Australian Open, got on the board but Murray levelled the match on his first set point and picked up where he left off in the decider, immediately breaking his opponent's serve.\n\nHe missed out on the opportunity to go 3-0 up by failing to convert two break points, and later saw another go begging before he finally broke 25-year-old Paul again in what turned out to be the penultimate game, before serving out the match.\n\nVictory means Murray will rise to 42 in the world when the rankings are updated on Monday - his highest world ranking since May 2018.\n\nHis win over Paul marks his third victory over a top-20 player this year, after beating Matteo Berrettini in the first of his enthralling battles at the Australian Open in January, and Alexander Zverev in Doha in February.\n\nThe French Open, the second Grand Slam of the year, starts on 28 May with Murray aiming to play in it for only the second time since 2017.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can you answer these game show questions? Test yourself in this fun quiz\n• None Who killed Michaela McAreavey on her honeymoon? The tragic murder of an Irish sporting icon's daughter reinvestigated", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Prince of Wales has paid tribute to his \"Pa\" King Charles the day after the Coronation, saying the late Queen Elizabeth II would be \"a proud mother\".\n\nAddressing the crowds at Windsor Castle for the Coronation concert, William said his grandmother was \"up there, fondly keeping an eye on us\".\n\nHe said this weekend was \"so important\" because it was all about service.\n\nHighlighting King Charles' achievements over the last 50 years, William said: \"Pa, we are all so proud of you.\"\n\nAnd the heir to the throne made his own vow to the nation, saying: \"I commit to serve you all. King, country and Commonwealth.\"\n\nKing Charles and Queen Camilla - colour-coordinated in blue, with the Queen in a royal blue jumpsuit - smiled and waved their own flags during the evening.\n\nThe Princess of Wales attended with her and William's oldest children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. Prince Louis, who has just turned five, stayed at home after his busy day at the Coronation on Saturday.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh were seated near the King and Queen, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak behind them. Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and his ex-wife the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, also attended, as did Zara Tindall and her husband Mike.\n\nThe crowd of 20,000 people got their tickets in a public ballot, with many more watching performances from stars including Katy Perry and Take That on BBC One and BBC Radio 2.\n\nThere was a crowd of 20,000 for the Windsor Castle concert\n\nThe King and Queen watched the concert alongside the Prince and Princess of Wales and two of their children\n\nThe BBC said on Monday that the concert was watched by an average of 10.1 million, according to overnight figures.\n\nThe event had a peak audience of 12.3 million, the corporation said.\n\nHost Hugh Bonneville - the Paddington and Downton Abbey actor - addressed the royal guests as the show began and acknowledged the King's love of the arts, joking he was \"the artist formerly known as prince\".\n\nThe concert featured musical acts including maestro Andrea Bocelli and Sir Bryn Terfel collaborating on You'll Never Walk Alone, and Olly Murs, who sang Dance with Me Tonight, while there were also spoken word pieces amidst the music.\n\nCold Feet actor James Nesbitt performed work by poet Daljit Nagra, while fashion designer Stella McCartney spoke about conservation.\n\nThere were video cameos from a range of stars, including British acting legend Joan Collins, former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan, artist Tracey Emin and Welsh singer Tom Jones - all of them recounting little-known facts about the monarch.\n\nAnd Top Gun actor Tom Cruise delivered a video message from his War Bird plane, saying: \"Pilot to pilot. Your Majesty, you can be my wingman any time,\" before saluting and banking off.\n\nThe King seemed to enjoy a skit involving Bonneville and Muppet Show stars Kermit and Miss Piggy, in which Miss Piggy said \"King Charlesy Warlesy\" was expecting them in the royal box.\n\nAt the end of the show, Kermit was seen to have made it to the box, waving a flag in front of Prince Edward but there was no sign of Miss Piggy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Colourful drone display lights up the sky at Coronation concert\n\nThe Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Ballet, Royal College of Art, Royal College of Music and the Royal Opera also took part in the show.\n\nThe royal patronages came together for the first time, with a one-off performance from Romeo and Juliet featuring actor Ncuti Gatwa - the new star of Doctor Who - and Olivier Award nominee Mei Mac.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family were seen dancing and singing along to Lionel Richie's All Night Long - with even the King getting to his feet, as did the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Edward and Sophie, and Zara and Mike Tindall.\n\nWilliam's speech on stage came immediately after Richie's performance - with the prince referring to the US singer-songwriter's hit, saying: \"I won't go on all night long\", which drew a laugh from his father.\n\nThe King and Queen were seen dancing and waving flags during the concert\n\nWilliam was seen pointing something out to his son George\n\nIn his speech, William thanked everyone for making it \"such a special evening\" before turning to the significance of the weekend.\n\n\"As my grandmother said when she was crowned, coronations are a declaration of our hopes for the future,\" he said. \"And I know she's up there, fondly keeping an eye on us. She would be a proud mother.\n\n\"For all that celebrations are magnificent, at the heart of the pageantry is a simple message. Service.\"\n\nHe said that after entering Westminster Abbey for Saturday's service, the first words spoken by his father were his pledge to continue to serve.\n\nThe prince praised the King for warning about damage to the environment \"long before it was an everyday issue\", and for his work with the Prince's Trust, the charity Charles set up which supports young people.\n\n\"Perhaps most importantly of all, my father has always understood that people of all faiths, all backgrounds, and all communities, deserve to be celebrated and supported,\" he said.\n\n\"Pa, we are all so proud of you.\"\n\nThe prince gave his thanks to those who serve \"in the forces, in classrooms, hospital wards and local communities\" before offering his own vow of service.\n\nHe finished by saying \"God save the King\", which was repeated loudly by the crowd before the national anthem was sung.\n\nIt was a tender and heartfelt message from William. There was an element of taking on the baton here too.\n\nAt last year's Platinum Jubilee concert it was Charles who as Prince of Wales gave thanks to his mother. Now it was William as Prince of Wales who gave the vote of thanks, stepping into the role of heir.\n\nLionel Richie's performance seemed to go down especially well with the royals\n\nKaty Perry played a medley of her hits, with Princess Charlotte seen singing along to Roar\n\nThe stage, in Windsor Castle, resembled the union jack with catwalks jutting out from the centre creating multiple levels for the 70-piece orchestra and band.\n\nSinger Paloma Faith sang as landmarks around the UK were lit up in celebration - including Blackpool Tower, Edinburgh Castle and Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.\n\nAnd there was the first multi-location drone show to be staged in the UK, with 1,000 drones in formation: a Welsh dragon, spanning 140m, was seen in Cardiff, while a watering can was seen over the Eden Project in Cornwall.\n\nTake That closed the show with Never Forget - with the choristers of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, singing the song's introduction.", "A rule requires all the songs to be non-political and yet…\n\nThe international attention that comes with an event the size of Eurovision can lead to controversy.\n\nUkraine has not been alone in recent years in selecting songs which could be seen as aimed at Russia. When the contest was held in Moscow in 2009, Georgia withdrew from the competition after Eurovision organisers asked for changes to some of their lyrics.\n\nTheir song was called We Don’t Wanna Put In, but the chorus sounded an awful lot like \"We don’t want no Putin\". (Russian forces had invaded Georgia the previous year.)\n\nIn 2013, at the end of her performance, Finland’s Krista Siegfrids revealed her song Marry Me was a proposal to another woman by kissing her female backing singer. Not particularly controversial for much of Europe, but perhaps too much for Turkey, which quit Eurovision complaining about some of the competition rules, and for China which edited Siegfrids out of its broadcast.\n\nEurovision’s first openly transgender singer became a Eurovision icon in 1998, winning with the dance-pop anthem Diva. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups in Israel were less than happy about the choice and she received death threats ahead of her performance.\n\nItaly may be the only country to have banned one of its own songs when Gigliola Cinquetti performed Si (meaning \"Yes\") in 1974.\n\nAfter selecting the song, the national broadcaster RAI became worried it might be seen as a message to vote \"Yes\" in upcoming referendum on banning divorce and decided not to show the performace. The song finished second, the Italian public voted \"No\" and divorce remained legal.\n\nFinally, there is the rumour that, after winning two years in a row, Ireland deliberately picked acts it hoped would lose in the mid-90s.\n\nSome fans believe that Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan were chosen in 1994 because their gentle, acoustic song-writing was unfashionable and Ireland would avoid the cost of hosting for a third time. If that was the reason, it backfired spectacularly because they won - and Ireland remains the only country to win Eurovision three times in a row.\n\nAt the start of the grand final, all the finalists walk on to stage accompanied by their national flag. During this year’s parade, listen out for a unique UK-Ukraine flavour as some much-loved former Ukrainian contestants sing their Eurovision entries woven in with British classics.\n\nWatch all of Eurovision on BBC and BBC iPlayer.", "Hanks says he has \"pulled every single one\" of the moments of bad behaviour he describes in his novel\n\nTom Hanks says he has written his first novel as a \"release from the never-ending pressure\" of making movies.\n\nThe two-time Oscar winner is publishing The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, inspired by his own screen career.\n\nThe long grind of shooting a film, he tells the BBC, means you can \"just run out of curiosity for the job\".\n\n\"Sometimes you just have to have some other reason to spark your imagination,\" he explains.\n\nHanks, 66, says he has \"always\" written \"in some form or another\". His collection of short stories, Uncommon Type, was published in 2017 and has sold more than 234,000 copies in the UK.\n\nHe began writing the 448-page novel the following year. \"I wrote in between films, I wrote wherever I was, I wrote on planes, I wrote at home, I wrote on vacation, I wrote in hotel rooms, I wrote on long weekends when I wasn't working,\" he says.\n\n\"It's not fair,\" he concedes, that his debut novel has been published without going through the usual trial of rejections from publishers, while other first-time writers struggle.\n\nBut he is unapologetic and knows the book will ultimately \"live and die based on its own ability to entertain and enlighten an audience\".\n\nCritics' verdicts of The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece have been lukewarm.\n\nIn The Sunday Times, David Sexton described the book as \"Hanks mansplains movie-making\", and said the \"writing is clunky throughout\".\n\nThe Observer's Tim Adams said it \"captures the humdrum of Hollywood but lacks his on-screen ability to breathe life into characters\".\n\nHanks played Elvis Presley's manager Col Tom Parker in a biopic of the singer\n\nHanks is unfazed by reviews. He says his \"day job as a movie star\" means he can \"handle\" any criticism.\n\nThe actor says he has become \"stronger when it comes down to really being torn apart\".\n\nHis novel is about the making of a multi-million dollar superhero action movie, and features a cast of characters including an eccentric director and a self-important and highly obstructive male actor who disrupts and delays filming.\n\nSo it's a surprising admission when the affable voice of Woody in Toy Story confesses: \"I have pulled every single one of those moments of behaviour myself on a set.\n\n\"Not everybody is at their best every single day on a motion picture set,\" he continues.\n\n\"I've had tough days trying to be a professional when my life has been falling apart in more ways than one and the requirement for me that day is to be funny, charming and loving - and it's the last way I feel.\"\n\nHanks prides himself on always being on time, though. \"What cannot occur on a motion picture is that someone cannot monkey around with the timing or the length of the shoot or the budget. That is a cardinal sin in the motion picture business.\n\n\"You will be amazed,\" he adds, \"at how many people know that they can get away with it, and are told they can get away with it, because they are carrying the movie on their shoulders.\"\n\nIndeed, in the book he refers to actors who are \"cry-babies, psychological train wrecks, on-the-wagon alcoholics, off-the-wagon addicts... and more than a couple of feuds between the Talent.\"\n\nThere's mention of sexual harassment too.\n\nWho could he have been inspired by? Needless to say, Hanks just laughs when asked to name names.\n\nWith such bad behaviour in his novel, the actor-writer also believes it is unnecessary to airbrush classic books for modern audiences.\n\nNovels by Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie have been updated, and Hanks's own publisher Penguin Random House has altered the work of Roald Dahl and PG Wodehouse as part of an effort to remove potentially offensive language.\n\n\"I'm of the opinion that we're all grown-ups here. Let's have faith in our own sensibilities as opposed to having somebody decide what we may or may not be offended by,\" insists Hanks.\n\n\"Let me decide what I am offended by and what I'm not offended by. I would be against reading any book from any era that says 'abridged due to modern sensitivities'.\"\n\nFleming's secret agent James Bond gets a mention, and Hanks is unequivocal that Idris Elba should be the next 007.\n\n\"Understand this,\" he says. \"James Bond has a licence to kill. I would issue that licence to Idris Elba just based on the work that I've seen him do.\"\n\nTom Hanks cheered on Aston Villa when they played Arsenal in February\n\nAston Villa, the English Premier League football team Hanks supports, also appear in the novel. But he has no plans to buy the club, after the Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney purchased Wrexham in 2020.\n\n\"I think Wrexham is a little bit different in the economic scale than Aston Villa,\" he laughs. \"That's a little above my pay grade.\"\n\nHe hasn't seen fellow Villa supporter the Prince of Wales at a game, although he has experienced \"the Prince William treatment, which is - don't get stuck in traffic, no matter what the score is.\n\n\"When it was time to leave, there was no nonsense getting out.\"\n\nSo what next? Another novel would be \"nice\", but not for a few years due to a busy filming schedule.\n\nBut the desire to write is always there, he says.\n\n\"It's just the best way to spend ones time outside of being with those that you love and make you laugh.\"", "The Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales, have been meeting crowds celebrating the King's Coronation on the Long Walk in Windsor.\n\nThousands have been taking part in street parties across the UK as part of the Coronation Big Lunch.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Witness describes the moment he saw the gunman\n\nA three-year-old boy and his parents, two elementary school children and a young engineer from India have been named as victims of a shooting attack in Texas on Saturday.\n\nJames Cho died alongside his parents Cho Kyu Song, 37, and Kang Shin Young, 35, according to reports. His six-year-old brother was injured but survived.\n\nThe identifications come as officials probe whether the killer had links to any far-right organisations or beliefs.\n\nEight were killed in the shooting.\n\nA verified GoFundMe page says that the Cho family were at the Allen Premium Outlets mall on Saturday to exchange clothing their six-year-old son had received as a birthday gift a few days before.\n\n\"An afternoon that should have been filled with light, love and celebration unfortunately was cut short by another mass shooting massacre,\" friends of the family wrote on the page.\n\nKorean consulate officials in Texas told the Dallas Morning News newspaper that the Cho family were American citizens of Korean descent and that diplomats are in contact with their family members.\n\nPrimary school pupils Daniela and Sofia Mendoza, who were sisters, were also killed. Their mother, Ida, remains in hospital in critical condition, according to CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\n\nAishwarya Thatikonda, a 27-year-old engineer from India, was also killed during a visit to the mall with a friend, as well as security guard Christian LaCour, 20.\n\nHe was from Dallas, Texas.\n\nSix people were pronounced dead at the scene in the north Dallas suburbs, while two died later in hospital.\n\nThe 33-year-old suspect, Mauricio Garcia, was shot dead by a police officer who was responding to an unrelated call, ending the attack.\n\nInvestigators are now reviewing social media to look into the killer's beliefs, reports CBS.\n\nDuring the attack, the rifle-wielding attacker wore an insignia which has been associated with hate groups, as well as combat tactical gear.\n\nHe was seen on video with a clothing patch with the letters RWDS, which stands for \"Right Wing Death Squad\".\n\nThis is a phrase popular among right-wing extremists and white supremacy groups.\n\nAn account run by the suspect on a Russia-based social network seen by BBC News includes pictures of Nazi swastikas and SS tattoos, other posts glorifying Nazis, and rambling messages about violence.\n\nHe also posted pictures from previous visits to the outlet mall, as recently as mid-April.\n\nAccording to the US defence department, the suspect entered the US Army in June 2008 and was \"terminated three months later without completing initial entry training\" due to \"physical or mental conditions\".\n\nHe was reportedly working as a security guard at the time of the shooting and did not have a serious criminal record. Officials have searched his parents' home and a nearby extended-stay motel where he had been recently living.\n\nThere have been 201 mass shootings this year according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines such incidents as four people injured or killed.\n\nPeople who went to help the victims in the aftermath of the shooting at the expansive outdoor mall have recalled their efforts to save lives.\n\nMeanwhile, graphic videos from the scene spread rapidly and were viewed millions of times on Twitter before the social media site began taking the footage down more than 24 hours after the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Joe Biden ordered flags at the White House to fly at half-staff in honour of the victims of \"the latest act of gun violence to devastate our nation\".\n\nThe Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, told Fox News Sunday his aim was to target the possession of weapons by criminals and deal with a rising mental health crisis, rather than consider wider bans.\n\n\"People want a quick solution,\" he said. \"The long-term solution here is to address the mental health issue.\"\n\nAllen is a racially diverse suburb north of Dallas and has an infamous connection with another recent mass shooting.\n\nA man who lived there in 2019 went on a gun rampage at a Walmart in El Paso, killing 23 people, after posting a racist manifesto online. In February he pleaded guilty to hate crime charges.", "As exam season gets under way, students might be tempted to turn to new artificial intelligence (AI) tools to give them the edge in assessments.\n\nUniversities have been scrabbling to understand what AI applications such as ChatGPT are capable of and introduce guidance on how they can be used - and now, they're being urged to teach students how to use them.\n\nAcademics at the University of Bath have been considering the challenges and opportunities.\n\n\"Our first question was, 'Could this be used by students to answer our assessment questions?'\" James Fern says of ChatGPT - an online tool that can answer questions, including producing essays and emails, in human-like language.\n\nJames has been looking at how robust his department's assessments are\n\n\"Multiple choice questions, for example, it will handle those very well.\n\n\"We definitely were not expecting it to do as well as it did... it was getting close to 100% correct.\"\n\nBut with more complex questions, which require students to think critically and which he says make up the bulk of assessment, it struggles.\n\nOne example, from a final-year assessment, reads: \"Why is it important to understand the timing of exercise in relation to nutrition status in people with [a technical term, according to James] overweight?\"\n\nAnd there are tell-tale signs the answer given by ChatGPT was not written by a student.\n\n\"On first glance, it looks very good - it looks very clearly written, it looks quite professional in its language,\" James says.\n\nBut some of the statements are more like those of a GCSE pupil than a university student.\n\nIt has a habit of repeating the exact phrasing of the question in its introductions and conclusions, \"just written in slightly different ways\".\n\nAnd when citing sources of information, as is standard in academic work, it simply makes them up.\n\n\"They look perfect - they've got the right names of authors, they've got the right names of journals, the titles all sound very sensible - they just don't exist,\" James says.\n\n\"If you're not aware of how large language models work, you would be very easily fooled into thinking that these are genuine references.\"\n\nSince ChatGPT was released to the public, about six months ago, many students have been unsure when they can and cannot use it.\n\n\"I might be tempted to use ChatGPT... but currently, I'm too scared to because you can get caught,\" says one student walking between classes on campus.\n\n\"It's not clear yet what is considered cheating with ChatGPT,\" another says. \"If you copied your whole assignment from ChatGPT that's cheating - but it can be really helpful to guide.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan said in a speech on Monday that AI was \"making a difference in schools and universities already\", and suggested it could help school teachers with lesson plans and marking.\n\nNew advice from Quality Assurance Agency, which reviews standards at UK universities, urges them to equip students with AI skills they can take into the world of work.\n\nIt encourages them to explain to new and returning students, in September, how and when AI should be used - and to adapt courses where appropriate.\n\nMarketing lecturer Kim Watts calls it \"another tool in the toolbox\". And some students in her department have already started using ChatGPT this term, in coursework that asks them to produce a marketing plan.\n\nKim says ChatGPT will help get \"students started on things\"\n\n\"I'm suggesting that students go to ChatGPT, those who maybe don't know where to start... and start playing around with prompts,\" she says.\n\n\"It won't give them the answers - but it can give them ideas.\"\n\nKim demonstrates by asking ChatGPT to produce its own marketing plan.\n\nIt responds with a series of numbered points - everything from the creation of a brand identity to the use of social media.\n\nBut Kim, looking up from her screen, says: \"This will not pass.\n\n\"Submitting something like this is just not detailed enough - it doesn't show us any learning, it doesn't show any critical thinking.\"\n\nNeurodivergent students and those for whom English is not their first language will benefit most from ChatGPT, Kim says.\n\nBut any student choosing to use it will be asked to submit their ChatGPT prompts and answers as an appendix, to make it \"really clear how far they have come\" from the chatbot answers.\n\nAs with most universities, Bath's policy on ChatGPT and other AI tools is still in the works. It is due to be in place from September.\n\nAfter that, a team will meet throughout the year to ensure it keeps up with the rapidly changing technology.\n\nIn the meantime, many staff are once again setting in-person, invigilated summer exams.\n\nDr Chris Bonfield, the head of a team that helps design assessments, says the \"default assumption\" is students should not be using ChatGPT this year. And, if staff decide to allow it, they should clearly set out their expectations.\n\nThe pace at which the technology is evolving poses a challenge for universities - but Bath quickly moved away from conversations about banning it.\n\nChris says the pace at which the technology changes poses a challenge for universities\n\n\"This tool is not going away,\" Chris says.\n\n\"In order to ensure our students are equipped with the skills they need for the future workplace, but also that our degrees remain current, we're going to have to engage.\"\n\nLast week Geoffrey Hinton, widely regarded as the godfather of AI, resigned from Google, saying he regretted his work - and chatbots could soon be more intelligent than humans.\n\nProf Verena Rieser, a computer scientist at Heriot-Watt University who has been working in the AI field for two decades, says her own students are \"using it in very creative ways\" - but chatbots are still in the early stages of development and \"can be used to generate misinformation at [a] scale which is obviously very concerning\" when it comes to education.\n\nPrevious models of ChatGPT were not released because they were deemed \"too dangerous\", she says.\n\nIts developer, OpenAI, says \"like any technology, these tools come with real risks\" and it works \"to ensure safety is built into our system at all levels\".\n\nSince ChatGPT's launch, other companies have focused their efforts on AI. Google, for example, released Bard, which is available to adults only.\n\n\"I would expect that we'll soon see different flavours of ChatGPT by different companies out there and hopefully also safer models which actually mitigate for the possible dangers,\" Verena says.\n\n\"At this moment we don't really know how to stop the models outputting information which is wrong or toxic or hateful - and that's a big problem.\"\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Graham Smith, chief executive of the anti-monarchy campaign group Republic, was arrested on Coronation day and speaks to Radio 4's Today Programme about what happened.", "Protesters hold up placards saying \"not my king\" in Trafalgar Square\n\nMet Police officers have arrested anti-monarchy protesters in central London ahead of the King's Coronation.\n\nThe leader of anti-monarchy group Republic has been arrested and the force said it had detained multiple people in the City of Westminster.\n\nThey are held on suspicion of breaching the peace, conspiracy to cause public nuisance and possessing articles to cause criminal damage, the force said.\n\nRepublic said hundreds of their placards had also been seized.\n\n\"A significant police operation is under way in central London,\" the force said on Twitter.\n\nFootage on social media showed officers using their powers under the new Public Order Act.\n\nChief executive of anti-monarchy group Republic, Graham Smith, was among those apprehended in St Martin's Lane near Trafalgar Square.\n\nPictures showed protesters in yellow \"Not My King\" T-shirts, including Mr Smith, having their details taken.\n\nIn one video an officer said: \"I'm not going to get into a conversation about that, they are under arrest, end of.\"\n\nProtesters from climate protest group Just Stop Oil are apprehended by police officers in the crowd\n\nThe Met confirmed that four people were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance on St Martin's Lane and that lock-on devices were seized.\n\nThe force also said they made a number of breaching-the-peace arrests in the area of Carlton House Terrace and a further three arrests in the Wellington Arch area on suspicion of possessing articles to cause criminal damage.\n\nMatt Turnbull, one of those arrested from Republic, said the straps holding the placards had been \"misconstrued\" as something that could be used for locking on.\n\nNew legislation passed this week means it is illegal to prepare to lock-on to things like street furniture.\n\nJust Stop Oil said that a protester had been arrested in Piccadilly on their way to the Mall.\n\nFootage from the scene also showed about 15 protesters being handcuffed and taken away by a heavy police presence.\n\nOn Wednesday the Met said that it would have an \"extremely low threshold\" for protests during the coronation celebrations, and that demonstrators could expect \"swift action\".\n\nRepublic activist Luke Whiting, 26, said: \"Six Republic members have been arrested... It is unclear why, potentially it is because one of them was carrying a megaphone.\n\n\"It is unclear exactly whether the police are using these new powers and whether they are misusing them to stop protest happening.\"\n\nNon-profit campaign group Human Rights Watch said the coronation arrests were \"something you would expect to see in Moscow not London\".\n\nIts UK director Yasmine Ahmed said in a statement: \"The reports of people being arrested for peacefully protesting the coronation are incredibly alarming.\n\n\"Peaceful protests allow individuals to hold those in power to account.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "King Charles and Queen Camilla, crowned in a lavish, historic ceremony on Saturday, were \"deeply touched\" by the day's events, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nThe royal couple were \"profoundly grateful\" to all who helped to make it \"such a glorious occasion\" and the \"very many\" who turned out to show their support, the palace said.\n\nMeanwhile, the Prince and Princess of Wales made a surprise trip to Windsor.\n\nCrowds cheered as the couple chatted to people taking part in the Big Lunch.\n\nA day earlier at Westminster Abbey, more than 2,000 guests including world leaders, fellow kings and queens, celebrities and community champions packed the pews to witness the crowning of a king.\n\nOutside, thousands lined the Mall despite the rain to cheer the king as his horse-drawn carriage passed from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLater, the couple, still in their crowns, appeared on the palace balcony to wave to the rain-soaked public, keen to be part of a moment in Britain's history.\n\nMillions around the world watched the Coronation, the first in 70 years.\n\nIn the UK alone, at least 18 million viewers tuned in, provisional figures suggest.\n\nCelebrations are continuing on Sunday with thousands of street parties and lunches ahead of a star-studded concert.\n\nAnyone for tea? Rishi Sunak sits alongside US First Lady Jill Biden at the Downing Street lunch\n\nIn Windsor, the Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Catherine, chatted and shook hands with people picnicking along The Long Walk which leads to Windsor Castle. Many will be gearing up for Sunday night's Coronation Concert.\n\nThe lunchtime crowds shouted \"hip hip hooray\" as the royals sipped a homemade gin cocktail, christened Purple Reign, from union jack paper cups while talking to a group of women in foam crowns.\n\nCatherine, dressed in a pale blue blazer, smiled for a selfie with one woman and crouched down to console a tearful little girl who was overwhelmed by the occasion.\n\nSpeaking to another wellwisher, William revealed that his eldest son Prince George - one of the King's pages of honour at the Coronation - is a fan of classic rock music.\n\nCaroline Mulvihill, from the Rock Choir in Windsor and Maidenhead, said: \"Will was telling us in their household they have a very diverse music taste and George is very much into AC/DC and Led Zeppelin.\"\n\nAnother choir member, Sam Leckenby, said the royal couple had revealed they were \"quite pleased\" Saturday's ceremony had been shortened and was not the traditional five hours long.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh joined a Coronation Big Lunch in Cranleigh, Surrey, while the Princess Royal and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence were at a community street party in Swindon.\n\nThe Duke of York's daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, were attending a lunch in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.\n\nAt Downing Street, the prime minister and his wife hosted their own lunch for community figures, Ukrainian families, youth groups - and US First Lady Jill Biden, who represented President Biden at Saturday's Coronation ceremony.\n\nIn all, some 50,000 Coronation lunches are expected to take place in the UK and across the world.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh mingled with crowds in Cranleigh, Surrey\n\nThe King and Queen said they hoped the events would be \"truly enjoyable\", in a message posted on the Royal Family's official Instagram account.\n\nLater at 20:00 BST, the Coronation Concert takes place at Windsor Castle and will be broadcast live on BBC One and BBC Radio 2.\n\nBig names include Katy Perry and Lionel Richie, who were at Saturday's Coronation, as well as Take That, Olly Murs and Paloma Faith.\n\nThere will also be musical favourites from a world-class orchestra and a joint performance from The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal College of Music and The Royal College of Art.", "Nicholas Whitehead says the sign started out as a \"wild conversation\"\n\nIt is the mid Wales landmark that started out as a joke and lasted for 20 years.\n\nNow, it is making a comeback.\n\nUp until last November, there was a billboard for Llandegley International on the A44 in Powys between Rhayader and Kington.\n\nBut drivers who followed the directions to Terminal 1 or 3 ended up not at an airport, not even an airfield, but just a field on the outskirts of the village.\n\nThe sign was taken down last year when the man who spent £25,000 keeping it in place decided he would try to make it an official landmark.\n\nNicholas Whitehead launched a crowdfunding campaign with the slogan \"give us a sign\".\n\nSix months later, a brand-new one has appeared.\n\nThe airport's \"founder\" said he was delighted.\n\n\"When the sign came down we gained thousands of followers on Facebook. There was so much support for getting another, I felt sure the crowd-funder would work,\" he said.\n\nNicholas Whitehead launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund a new sign\n\n\"In a time of austerity, no local authority would want to pay for this, so we tried to raise all the money ourselves. We only needed £1,300 and we raised £2,000.\"\n\nThe extra money will be donated to the Wales Air Ambulance, which Mr Whitehead said he was happy to support given the aviation connection.\n\nMr Whitehead was a journalist and editor for the Brecon and Radnor Express, and a writer on Radio 4's comedy sketch show 'Week Ending'. He also worked on the satirical magazine 'Squib' with Monty Python's Terry Jones.\n\nWith a sense of the absurd and a desire to do \"something completely different\", he created the fictional airport in 2002.\n\n\"It started off as a wild conversation with friends one evening. We thought of renting a sign for something that wasn't really there, possibly a project that didn't exist, and we settled on the airport.\"\n\nHe soon realised the plan was possible.\n\n\"I approached Wrexham Signs, who own the billboard, and expected them to say, 'you can't do that'. But apparently, you can,\" he said.\n\n\"As a journalist, you find that whatever you do, someone, somewhere, is going to get upset about it. But Llandegley International is the exception. People love it.\"\n\nIn the sign's original location near Crossgates, it cost about £1,500 per year to maintain. But thanks to the crowd-funding, a new one has been installed to the east of the village.\n\nThe Richards family offered to put the sign outside their farm near Llandegley, where it can stay permanently.\n\nHolly Richards says the sign has become a \"talking point\" once more\n\nHolly Richards jumped at the chance to help out: \"We were sad to see it go, so at the first chance of having it back we were happy to put it on our land.\n\n\"Since the sign has come back the social media response has been great. It's become a real talking point once more.\"\n\nFencing contractor Fred Morris put up the new sign and described it as a bit of a folly: \"When you tell people where you come from, they ask 'have you seen the sign for the airport?' People play along with the joke.\"\n\nThe sign has become a popular spot for photos and selfies, though people are warned to be careful\n\nMark Lythgoe co-owns a nearby roadside snack van and said it had been great for business.\n\n\"We've had a lot of people asking where the airport is,\" Mr Lythgoe said. \"We're thinking of renaming the van the international departure lounge. It's all a bit of fun.\"\n\nThe airport has taken off on Facebook. Thousands of followers enjoy updates about Llandegley's impressive environmental credentials, and engage in flights of fancy about the \"top secret\" Terminal 2. The latest \"project\" is a 10-minute shuttle service to the Hay Festival.\n\nMr Whitehead now keeps the old sign in his garden in Wembury, Devon.\n\nHe said the airport had helped him to see a more positive side to social media.\n\n\"There's been an outpouring of love. People have said the Llandegley International Facebook page is one of the best things on the internet, because there's no unpleasantness,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked if he thought the airport was real, he said: \"It exists in the same way songs exist. If you set fire to the scrap of paper on which Paul McCartney wrote Yesterday, that wouldn't destroy the song.\n\n\"The song exists as a shared experience; it's indestructible. It's the same with the airport.\"\n\nThe sign was altered in 2019 in memory of long-time fan of the airport, Jill Dibling\n\nWith a permanent sign in place and a big online fanbase, Mr Whitehead said he hoped to gain official recognition for the quirky institution he founded.\n\n\"It's not exactly a national monument - but it is a national treasure. It has become an item of Welsh heritage.\"\n\nFor now, he is happy Llandegley International is on the road again.", "The Met said police \"have a duty to act where necessary before any further injury is caused\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has defended its handling of an incident in which two dogs were shot dead and a man was Tasered.\n\nThe force said it was called just after 17:00 BST on Sunday to reports of a woman being attacked by a dog in Commercial Road, Poplar, east London.\n\nFootage on social media showed a man holding two dogs on nearby Limehouse Cut before he was Tasered and the dogs shot.\n\nThe Met said a man has been arrested.\n\nOne video showed a group of officers holding a catcher pole, riot shield and gun approaching the man and the dogs as he appears to walk away from them.\n\nThe police can be heard trying to persuade the man to surrender the dogs. The situation appears to become increasingly heated before the two dogs were shot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Officers talk with a man holding two dogs before he is Tasered. Warning: This video contains images that some people may find upsetting\n\nIn a statement, a Met spokesperson said: \"Officers attended the location where the aggressive behaviour of two dogs was of considerable concern and posed a significant threat to them.\n\n\"A man was arrested in connection with the incident for having a dog dangerously out of control and assault offences. He has been taken into police custody.\"\n\nThe statement added a Taser was discharged during the incident and both dogs \"were destroyed by police at the scene\" but no-one was taken to hospital.\n\n\"This is never an easy decision for any officer to take, but police have a duty to act where necessary before any further injury is caused,\" the statement continued.\n\nAt the scene, a handwritten paper sign has been placed on a wall to mark the spot where the two dogs were killed, with a bunch of yellow flowers laid underneath.\n\nOne woman told BBC London reporter Matt Graveling they couldn't believe officers resorted to shooting the dogs.\n\n\"I don't think the dogs looked aggressive, they were both wiggling their tails,\" Jen said.\n\nJen said she feels the officers decision to shoot the dogs was a \"choice\"\n\n\"It was crazy - there were people standing out on their balconies, it was five o'clock.\"\n\n\"The way of dealing with this with guns in the middle of the street, with us sitting on our balcony watching this, it just doesn't feel safe.\"\n\nShe said she disagreed with the Met's statement that the dogs posed a threat, saying it was \"a choice they made\" because, at that time, \"the dogs were not aggressive\".\n\nJen's partner Marcel said: \"I was quite distressed, I was screaming at them, I was trying to stop it somehow but I couldn't.\"\n\nMarcel said he's \"not sure it was necessary\" to shoot the dogs\n\nHe added: \"We feel kind of powerless that stuff like this can happen.\n\n\"I guess obviously it's a scary situation being down here, but I'm not sure it was necessary to take something that looked like a gun and shoot the dogs.\"\n\nThe Met's directorate of professional standards reviewed the incident, including all of the available body-worn camera footage, and was \"satisfied that there are no concerns around officer conduct\", the force added.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin has issued a series of angry statements at the Russian government in recent months\n\nRussia's Wagner Group boss says Moscow has agreed to his demands for more ammunition, days after he threatened to withdraw his men from Bakhmut.\n\nOn Thursday, Yevgeny Prigozhin attacked his Russian partners in a gruesome, expletive-filled rant, filmed among dozens of Wagner troops' corpses.\n\nThe next day he said Wagner fighters would leave Bakhmut by 10 May.\n\nBut on Sunday Prigozhin said Moscow had agreed to provide the supplies \"needed to continue fighting\" in the city.\n\nPrigozhin's apparent U-turn is not a huge surprise. He is a publicity seeker who has not followed through on previous threats.\n\nRussian troops and fighters from Wagner, a private military company, have been trying to capture Bakhmut for months - despite its questionable strategic value.\n\nWestern officials believe thousands of Russian and Wagner troops have been killed in the fighting, and the eastern Ukrainian city has become a symbolic prize.\n\nYet - although Russian troops and Wagner fighters are on the same side - it is an uneasy alliance.\n\nPrigozhin has regularly criticised Russian officials for what he claims is a lack of front-line support.\n\nIn his new statement, Prigozhin claimed that Gen Sergei Surovikin - who commanded Russia's forces in Ukraine between October and January - had been appointed to liaise between Russia's regular military and Wagner mercenaries.\n\n\"This is the only man with the star of an army general who knows how to fight,\" Prigozhin said. \"No other army general is reasonable.\"\n\nWhile Prigozhin didn't expressly reverse his pledge to withdraw troops from Bakhmut, he said his forces had been given permission to \"act in Bakhmut as we see fit\" - appearing to suggest they will remain.\n\nThe Kremlin has not commented on Prigozhin's latest statement.\n\nWagner has its own set of commanders, objectives and motivations, and Prigozhin is widely believed to hold his own domestic political ambitions.\n\nDefence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov have often been the focus for his anger, amid reports of infighting among different power groups in Vladimir Putin's entourage.\n\nIn his statement on Thursday, Prigozhin raged: \"Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where is the... ammunition?... They came here as volunteers and die for you to fatten yourselves in your mahogany offices.\"\n\nAnd he said Wagner's casualties were \"growing in geometrical progression every day\" because of the lack of ammunition.\n\nAt the time, Ukrainian officials expressed scepticism that Prigozhin truly intended to withdraw his forces from Bakhmut.\n\nDeputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said on Friday that Wagner was actually redeploying mercenaries towards Bakhmut in a bid to capture the city before Tuesday's Victory Day celebrations in Russia.\n\nIn other developments in Ukraine and Russia:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment Lillian Ip is found after five days\n\nA 48-year-old woman survived five days stranded in the bush in Australia by eating sweets and drinking a single bottle of wine.\n\nLillian Ip set off on what was meant to be a short trip on Sunday, travelling through dense bush in Victoria state.\n\nBut she hit a dead-end after taking a wrong turn, and her vehicle became stuck in the mud.\n\nMs Ip - who doesn't drink - only had a bottle of wine in the car as she was planning to give it as a present.\n\nAfter five nights stranded, she was discovered by emergency services on Friday as they flew overhead as part of a search.\n\n\"The first thing coming in my mind, I was thinking 'water and a cigarette,'\" Ms Ip told 9News Australia. \"Thank god the policewoman had a cigarette.\"\n\n\"I thought I was going to die there. My whole body shut down on Friday,\" she said, adding that she \"was about to give up\".\n\nAs she lost hope of being found alive, she wrote a letter to her family saying she loved them.\n\nMs Ip was found around 60km (37 miles) away from the nearest town and due to health issues she was unable to walk far so stayed with her car, Victoria police said.\n\nShe only had a few snacks and sweets to eat, and no water.\n\n\"The only liquid Lillian, who doesn't drink, had with her was a bottle of wine she had bought as a gift for her mother so that got her through,\" Wodonga Police Station Sergeant Martin Torpey said.\n\n\"She used great common sense to stay with her car and not wander off into bushland, which assisted in police being able to find her.\"\n\nMs Ip was taken to hospital to be treated for dehydration, but has since returned home to Melbourne.\n• None Man found alive after six days in Outback", "Eight people have been killed in the US state of Texas after a car struck a group at a bus stop close to a shelter for the homeless and migrants.\n\nThe incident happened in the city of Brownsville near the Mexican border at about 08:30 local time (14:30 GMT).\n\nAt least five other people have been injured, some of them critically.\n\nThe driver has been arrested and charged. Brownsville police say it is not clear whether the incident was intentional.\n\nPolice are still investigating whether the attack was deliberate or accidental, and whether the driver - who has not yet been publicly identified - was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Brownsville Mayor Trey Mendez said that the driver has \"thus far been uncooperative\" with investigators.\n\nA police department spokesman told the New York Times that police are also looking into reports that the driver shouted anti-migrant remarks.\n\nHe spoke to police officers in both English and Spanish, gave various names and refused to submit to a breathalyser test, the spokesman added.\n\nVideo reportedly taken at the scene appears to show the driver being restrained by police officers and taken to a waiting vehicle. In the video - which cannot be independently verified by the BBC - the driver is shirtless and wearing boots coloured like the flag of Texas.\n\nLocal authorities will hold a news conference at 1130 Est (1530 GMT) on Monday.\n\nThe director of the nearby Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center, Victor Maldonado, told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme that surveillance footage showed an SUV running a red light and approaching the bus stop at speed.\n\nThe vehicle then hit the curb and flew about 200ft (60m) - hitting those in its path.\n\nMr Maldonado said that roughly half an hour before the incident, a group of around 20 people who had been staying at the centre left and walked over to wait at the bus stop. He earlier told the Associated Press that most of the victims were Venezuelan men.\n\nSome had been intending to catch a local bus downtown to link up with other buses heading to different parts of the US, for which they already had tickets.\n\n\"All the staff and myself, we're trying to hold it together,\" Mr Maldonado said tearfully.\n\n\"A lot of the folks that we have here are mums with kids, and single males. Right in front of their eyes, they were witnessing a tragedy.\"\n\nHe added that he had not witnessed any hostility towards migrants in the city but is quoted telling KRGV-TV, a local media outlet, that people had come to the gate since the incident and told the security guard the reason it had happened \"was because of us\".\n\nAccording to US border protection officials, the city of Brownsville has recently seen a sharp increase in illegal migrant arrivals.\n\nMr Maldonado also told local media, quoted by AP, that in the past two months the Ozanam Center, an overnight shelter that can hold up to 250 people, has been handling up to 380 people a day.\n\nOfficials in Brownsville issued a disaster declaration last month, following other Texas border cities that have done the same.\n\nThat's ahead of an anticipated influx of migrants due to the upcoming expiry of a Covid-era policy that allowed the US to automatically expel undocumented migrants.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkraine has accused Russia of attacking the besieged city of Bakhmut with phosphorus munitions.\n\nIn drone footage released by Ukraine's military, Bakhmut can be seen ablaze as what appears to be white phosphorus rains down on the city.\n\nWhite phosphorus weapons are not banned, but their use in civilian areas is considered a war crime.\n\nThey create fast-spreading fires that are very difficult to put out. Russia has been accused of using them before.\n\nRussia has been trying to capture Bakhmut for months, despite its questionable strategic value. Western officials have estimated that thousands of Moscow's troops have died in the assault.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Ukraine's defence ministry said the attack had targeted \"unoccupied areas of Bakhmut with incendiary ammunition\".\n\nIt is unclear when it took place. But the footage shared by Ukraine - seemingly captured by a surveillance drone - showed high-rise buildings engulfed in flames.\n\nOther videos posted to social media showed fires raging on the ground and white clouds illuminating the night sky.\n\nA BBC analysis of the video posted by the defence ministry located the footage to an area just west of Bakhmut city centre and close to a children's hospital. While the analysis confirmed the attack used some kind of incendiary munitions, it could not verify the use of phosphorus.\n\nRussia has been accused of using white phosphorus in Ukraine, including during the siege of Mariupol at the beginning of the war.\n\nMoscow has never publicly admitted to using the substance, and last year Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov insisted \"Russia has never violated international conventions\" after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said it had been used.\n\nWhite phosphorus is a wax-like substance that burns at 800C and ignites on contact with oxygen, creating bright plumes of smoke.\n\nHuman Rights Watch (HRW) has warned the chemical is \"notorious for the severity of the injuries it causes\".\n\nIt is extremely sticky and hard to remove, and can re-ignite when bandages are removed.\n\nRussia has signed the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which bans the use of incendiary weapons - which are designed to catch fire - in civilian areas.\n\nBut HRW says white phosphorus does not fall under the treaty as its primary purpose is to \"create a smokescreen to hide military operations\".\n\nThe chemical has been used \"repeatedly over the past 15 years\", including by US forces against IS fighters in Iraq and Syria, according to HRW.\n\nSome analysts say its use as an incendiary weapon near civilians would still be illegal. While Bakhmut had a pre-war population of 80,000, there are practically no civilians left in the area.\n\nThe attack comes a day after the commander of Russia's Wagner paramilitary group said he would pull his forces out of Bakhmut on 10 May in a row over ammunition supplies.\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin said Wagner's casualties were \"growing in geometrical progression every day\", and blamed the defence ministry for his decision to withdraw.\n\nOn Saturday, Prigozhin said Ramzan Kadyrov - the leader of Russia's semi-autonomous Chechnya region - had agreed to take over Wagner positions in the city and replace their fighters with his own.\n\n\"I am already contacting his representatives in order to start transferring positions immediately, so that at 00:00 on 10 May,\" Prigozhin's press service quoted him as saying.\n\nDespite his claims, Ukrainian officials said Wagner was redeploying mercenaries towards Bakhmut in a bid to capture the city before Tuesday's Victory Day celebrations in Russia.\n\n\"We are now seeing them pulling [fighters] from the entire offensive line where the Wagner fighters were, they are pulling [them] to the Bakhmut direction,\" Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said.\n\nThe fighting comes amid reports that Ukraine is preparing a large-scale counteroffensive. Prigozhin himself has said he believes the attack could come as soon as 15 May.\n\nAn offensive could take place in the Zaporizhzhia region which is about 80% controlled by Russia.\n\nOn Friday, the Russian-installed governor of Zaporizhzhia ordered the evacuation of villages near the front line.\n\nRussia considers the area as its own territory, following self-styled referendums and an illegal annexation last year.", "The then Prince Charles meets fishmonger Pat O'Connell at the English Market in Cork in 2018\n\nAs King Charles III prepares to take to the throne he also takes on another legacy left over by his mother.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's 2011 trip to the Republic of Ireland is often seen as a turning point in Anglo-Irish relations.\n\nWill her son continue those steps in reconciliation and what has his relationship been with the Republic of Ireland?\n\nMarie Coleman, professor of 20th Century history at Queen's University Belfast, said that rather than building on his mother's legacy he is \"continuing his own legacy of building those good relations\".\n\n\"The Queen's visit didn't happen in isolation. The groundwork had been laid by the man who is now King Charles,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II and President Mary McAleese at Áras an Uachtaráin in Phoenix Park, Dublin 2011\n\nBefore the Queen's visit to the Republic of Ireland in 2011, King George V's visit in 1911 was the last by a British monarch.\n\nDuring that century-long gap there were seismic events that strained an already complicated relationship - Irish independence, partition and, in the latter part of the 20th Century, the Troubles.\n\nProf Coleman said \"the ice between the Irish and the British royals\" had been broken by Charles himself when he visited the Republic of Ireland in 1995.\n\nIt was the first official visit by a British Royal Family member since Irish independence.\n\n\"I'm not convinced that enough credit is given to him for that particular visit,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\nIn many ways King Charles III has a had a closer personal relationship with Ireland than his mother did.\n\nAs Prince Charles he has come on private visits as a personal friend of the Duke of Devonshire of Lismore Castle in County Waterford.\n\nHe was also co-patron with Irish President Michael D Higgins of the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool.\n\nThere have been huge changes in Ireland since Charles' great-grandfather King George V visited Maynooth, County Kildare\n\n\"He has one of the closest relationships with Ireland, certainly in the last decade, than any monarch I can think of in recent centuries,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\nSince his 2015 Mullaghmore visit he has been a regular visitor.\n\nAs soon as Covid restrictions were lifted he was back visiting in 2022 - with a trip to Tipperary.\n\n\"I would not be surprised if the Republic of Ireland was high on his agenda for some sort of significant visit early in his reign,\" added Prof Coleman.\n\nThe royals paid a visit to the Rock of Cashel in 2022\n\nAs Prince Charles he made a meaningful trip in 2015, visiting Mullaghmore in County Sligo where his great-uncle was murdered in 1979.\n\nThe IRA detonated a bomb on a fishing boat at Mullaghmore, killing Lord Mountbatten, his 14-year-old grandson, Nicholas Knatchbull, and 15-year-old Paul Maxwell.\n\nThe Dowager Lady Brabourne died the day after the attack.\n\n\"We know that he (Mountbatten) was a formative influence on the prince in his in his early years, so that must have been quite a significant emotional blow to him,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\nThe visit was a significant milestone - the then prince was the first senior member of the Royal Family to visit the scene of the attack.\n\nDuring that visit he also met Gerry Adams, then president of Sinn Féin.\n\nSpeaking at the time, he said: \"At the time I could not imagine how we could come to terms with the anguish of such a deep loss, since for me Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had.\n\nHe said the island of Ireland had \"more than its fair share of turbulence and troubles\" and \"those directly affected don't easily forget the pain\".\n\nThen Prince Charles and his wife Camilla with Timothy Knatchbull whose twin brother died in the bomb which killed Lord Mountbatten\n\n\"So I suppose in some ways, maybe that trip brought him some closure,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\n\"But it is representative of the way in which the Troubles affected not just people on the island of Ireland or people from Britain who are affected, but it it affected the Royal Family and the King himself in a very personal way,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It seemed as if the foundations of all we held dear in life had been torn apart irreparably\" - Prince Charles\n\nThe invite and acceptance list for the Coronation shows signs of how far Anglo-Irish relations have come.\n\nProf Coleman said the attendance of the President of Ireland is significant.\n\n\"The Irish Free State when it was still a dominion refused to go in 1937. The Republic of Ireland was not represented in 1953 so it's quite an important departure for the Republic of Ireland also.\"\n\nEven more significant is the presence of Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill - who has accepted an invitation to attend the coronation.\n\n\"It's even an advance on Sinn Féin's position last September, at the time of the death of the Queen, where they drew a distinction between attending events which marked the passing of the Queen, and not attending events which mark the accession of the new King,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\n\"So it looks like their position has even developed from that,\" she added.\n\nHowever, the academic said that much of the progress made in Anglo-Irish relations has been affected by Brexit.\n\nBrexit - the UK's departure from the EU - saw it leave a union once shared with Ireland.\n\nIt also raised questions of sovereignty, identity and borders.\n\nHas the drawn-out departure and protracted negotiations over the Irish border and trade put extra strain on relations between the two governments?\n\nProf Coleman said the process had \"damaged those good relations which the Queen had done so much to forge particularly during that visit in 2011\".", "The Prince's much-publicised memoir sold 467,183 copies in its first week\n\nThe ghostwriter of Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, has described finding himself at the centre of a media frenzy when the book came out in January.\n\nWriting in the New Yorker magazine, JR Moehringer said he and his family were stalked and harassed by press.\n\nBut he also says the experience made him understand the Prince better.\n\nIn its first week, Spare became the fastest-selling non-fiction book in the UK since records began in 1998.\n\nIn the article, Moehringer describes how a paparazzi photographer tailed him as he drove his son to preschool shortly after the book's publication, leaving him and his wife feeling \"fragile\".\n\nLater the same day, he says a newspaper journalist appeared at his window while he was working.\n\nMoehringer says he and Harry worked on the memoir together for over two years. The writer describes long Zoom chats, messaging constantly and visiting Harry and his wife Meghan at their house in Montecito, California, as well as bonding with Harry over the loss of their mothers.\n\nMoehringer is an experienced celebrity ghostwriter who has written memoirs for retired tennis star Andre Agassi and Nike co-founder Phil Knight. The author says he always insists on a clause in his contract giving him the right to remain anonymous but, ahead of Spare's publication, his name was leaked to the press.\n\nHe then found himself \"squinting into a gigantic searchlight\" of media attention, he says.\n\n\"Every hour, another piece would drop, each one wrong. My fee was wrong, my bio was wrong, even my name,\" he writes.\n\nMoehringer said the experience made him realise he had \"understood nothing\" about how a life in the spotlight had affected Prince Harry - but said the Duke of Sussex was \"all heart\" and supported him throughout.\n\nSome copies of Spare went on sale in Spain several days before the official publication date. Journalists hurried to translate some of the most striking passages from Spanish back into English, leading to what Moehringer says were \"bad translations\" that \"read like bad Borat\".\n\nThe author says a \"frenzied mob\" then ensued in the media when the book was published in English. He says the bad translations didn't stop as \"innocent passages\" were \"hyped into outrages\".\n\nPrince Harry gave several TV interviews about his memoir, which included details of conflict with his father, King Charles III, and his brother, Prince William. Neither Kensington Palace not Buckingham Palace has ever commented on the contents of the book.\n\nLast week, Prince Harry flew to the UK to attend King Charles' Coronation - the first time he was seen publicly with his family since his controversial memoir came out.\n\nHe flew back to Los Angeles immediately after the Coronation service ended.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "There has been a surge in executions in the Islamic Republic, prompting protests inside Iran and abroad\n\nIran has executed two men who were convicted of \"burning the Quran\" and \"insulting the Prophet of Islam\", the country's judiciary says.\n\nYousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli-Zare ran dozens of social media accounts \"dedicated to atheism and desecration of the sanctities\", the judiciary's Mizan news agency reported.\n\nMr Mehdad's lawyer had insisted that he was innocent and his sentence unjust.\n\nThere has been a surge in executions in the Islamic Republic amid continuing anti-government unrest, but those for blasphemy convictions are rare.\n\nMizan said Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli-Zare were hanged at Arak Prison in central Iran on Monday morning.\n\nThe two men were arrested in 2020 and accused of running a Telegram channel called \"Criticism of Superstition and Religion\", according to Iran's Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). They were held in solitary confinement for the first two months and denied access to a lawyer, it said.\n\nIn 2021, the Arak Criminal Court convicted Mr Mehrad and Mr Fazeli-Zare on blasphemy charges and sentenced them to death, HRANA added. They were also given six-year prison sentences for \"running groups to act against national security\".\n\nThe Supreme Court rejected their appeals against the verdicts and upheld their death sentences later that year, Mizan said, adding that both men had \"clearly confessed to their crimes\".\n\nHuman rights group say Iranian courts regularly fall far short of providing fair trials and use false \"confessions\" obtained under torture as evidence.\n\n\"The execution of Yousef and Sadrollah for 'insulting the Prophet' is not only a cruel act by a medieval regime, it is also a serious insult to the freedom of expression,\" said Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of Norway-based group Iran Human Rights.\n\n\"These executions must be a turning point in the relations between the Islamic Republic and countries respecting the freedom of expression,\" he added. \"Lack of a strong reaction by the international community sends a green light to the Islamic Republic and their ideological allies worldwide.\"\n\nOn Saturday, a Swedish-Iranian dual national accused of being behind a deadly attack on a military parade in 2018 was hanged. The European Union condemned \"in the strongest terms\" the execution of Habib Chaab.\n\nIran is second only to China in the number of executions carried out annually.\n\nIt has put to death more than 200 people since the start of this year, according to a tally by Iran Human Rights.\n\nThe group has said the number of executions rose by 75% to 582 last year, as authorities sought to \"spread fear\" among those taking part in the nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini in September.", "Brian Cooper is volunteering for the first time Image caption: Brian Cooper is volunteering for the first time\n\nUp to County Durham now, where a former Age UK customer has turned volunteer for the first time today.\n\nRetired civil servant Brian Cooper, 62, says he was inspired to get involved by the Big Help Out.\n\nHe said: \"I’ve been a customer here and was able to set up my new home with the things they sell.\n\n\"It’s a great volunteering community and I wanted to be a part of that.\n\n\"I’m a people person so will be looking to help out here in the superstore, or in one of the other shops.\"\n\nThe charity has helped about 7,000 people aged over 50 around Durham in the last year.\n\nCakes, biscuits and bunting on display at the Age UK shop in County Durham Image caption: Cakes, biscuits and bunting on display at the Age UK shop in County Durham", "The number of pharmacies in England has fallen by 160 over the last two years, BBC analysis shows.\n\nThere are now 11,026 community chemists, according to data from NHS Business Services Authority - the lowest number since 2015.\n\nRising operational costs, staff shortages and reduced government financial support have been blamed.\n\nThis is despite rising patient demand, and plans for pharmacists to provide more services to ease pressure on GPs.\n\nPharmacists are warning that many more local businesses could close, without help.\n\nOnline services are available, but many rely on a local chemist for advice and to pick up prescriptions.\n\nOn Tuesday, the government will publish a primary care access plan designed to improve and extend availability of consultations by GPs. Ministers have also announced £240m ($303m) for practices to replace old phones with more modern call systems and online tools to make it easier for patients to get in contact.\n\nPart of the primary care plan is expected to include an expanded role for pharmacists, but there are concerns about their feasibility.\n\nMany pharmacists feel they have been taken for granted and expected to offer more services, even though their real-terms funding has fallen. They estimate there has been a 30% cut in government funding over the last seven years, after taking account of inflation.\n\nDr Leyla Hannbeck, chief executive of the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies, said there was a shortfall of £1.1bn in funding for independent pharmacies every year.\n\n\"This has led to many pharmacies severely struggling with cashflow problems,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, adding that because most of their work is NHS-funded, the pharmacies cannot pass on rising costs to customers.\n\n\"On top of that, we've got the workforce challenges that we have been struggling with for so many years,\" she said, warning \"many more\" pharmacies could close this year unless increased support was given.\n\n\"We are urgently needing the government to step in and provide that funding,\" she said.\n\nSanjeev Panesar is concerned about possible cutbacks\n\nSanjeev Panesar owns Pan Pharmacy in Birmingham. The business was set up by his parents, and has just celebrated its 40th anniversary, but he fears services might have to be cut back, and staff numbers may also have to be reviewed.\n\n\"Things are in serious jeopardy. It's our worst year ever, where we've made a loss. We have to make some really tough calls and decisions now,\" he said.\n\nMr Panesar says he would love to support the government by helping the NHS and GP services, but said it is not possible with current financial constraints.\n\nThe workload has grown steadily, with more patients, some frustrated over lack of GP access, coming in for consultations and advice. That comes on top of the core function of dispensing medicines and treatments, while there is increasing demand for home delivery of medication.\n\nJanet Morrison, chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, hopes the new plan will address long-standing problems in the sector.\n\n\"What everyone learnt during the pandemic was one of the two places that will stay open was the pharmacy - lots more people come in for advice and support that we're not paid to provide. What we've been saying to ministers is we're part of the solution because we can provide access.\"\n\nPharmacists in England look to Scotland, where a scheme called Pharmacy First includes a contract between the sector and the Scottish government setting out what services are expected, with payment for every consultation.\n\nThese cover minor ailments and illnesses, some of which might once have been dealt with at GP practices. In England there is a less formal arrangement, with some consultations by pharmacists not remunerated. There is also more prescribing of medicines by pharmacists in Scotland.\n\nGeorge Romanes says the Scottish system is more effective\n\nGeorge Romanes, who owns a chain of local pharmacies in the Scottish borders, believes the new structure works better than the arrangements south of the border.\n\n\"I used to have an English pharmacy but I sold it, and all the outlets we have now are in Scotland. I think the Scottish contract is much more patient-focused,\" he said.\n\n\"The fact you can come in and see a pharmacist there and then as it were, rather than needing an appointment, is very beneficial for patients, they like to get a problem sorted as quick as they can.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said an extra £100m was invested in the sector last September.\n\n\"We are supporting pharmacies to provide a range of clinical services and we are increasing the services pharmacists - who are degree-qualified medical health professionals - can provide to their community, including managing oral contraception,\" they said.\n\nMr Panesar called for political leaders, including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose mother ran a pharmacy, to visit local pharmacies to see first-hand the pressures they face.\n\n\"I'd love him to come and see what we do, how patients feel about what we offer and actually, that this is serious, and that the sector is crumbling, and is going to fall down like a stack of dominoes, if there's not intervention urgently.\"\n\nDo you struggle to get a GP appointment or access to a pharmacy? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Gower Seafood Hut has been moved to an area nearby Southend Park, away from the coastline\n\nBusinesses are having to move while flood defences are installed on Wales' coastline over the next 18 months.\n\nA seafood stall is among those relocating when the work in Mumbles, Swansea, starts this month.\n\nGower Seafood Hut owner Chris Price called the timing \"a concern\" as the cost of living has already meant tough times for businesses.\n\nThe Welsh government-funded project aims to protect business and homes threatened by climate change.\n\nMr Price runs the seasonal seafood pop up between March and September, along with his partner, Sarah.\n\nBut he said sales were down on previous years and is worried that having to move for the installation of flood defences may further affect sales.\n\n\"We don't get footfall of the promenade anymore,\" he said.\n\n\"And with the land train and bike rack also being moved, it's causing concern.\"\n\nMr Price said he recognised that the work was required due to climate change and rising tides, but was disappointed with the timing.\n\n\"Businesses in the Mumbles are so reliant on the summer. Starting the work at the beginning of the season is not ideal.\"\n\nThe work, which is due to end in 2024, will see 0.8 miles (1.3km) of flood defences rebuilt along the coastline.\n\nMarc Bibby plans to stay in his new spot while the work takes place\n\nAnother business, coffee van Bibby's Beans, has also been moved.\n\nOwner Marc Bibby said the move had been \"disrupting\" but he was \"quite confident\" about sales during the summer.\n\n\"There's a lot of engineering going on and we appreciate that.\n\n\"If they don't do it, Mumbles is going to disappear, so we understand.\"\n\nThe Welsh government is set to spend £215m on managing flood risk over three years.\n\nLast year, £71m was spent, which increased to £75m this year.\n\nAbout 250,000 properties are at risk of flooding across Wales. In Mumbles, the defences will protect 120 homes.\n\nNatural Resources Wales operations manager, Ioan Williams, said the investment was a \"step in the right direction\" to protect homes, commercial developments and major road infrastructure.\n\nHe added: \"There's a conversation that we need to have here with governments, with local authorities and with communities around planning policy.\n\n\"Where we build properties, where we build schools, hospitals, other infrastructure to make sure that they are resilient for the future.\"", "A vigil was held for the victims of the shooting on 7 May\n\nAn engineer from India, a young family and two primary school-age sisters are among the eight people who died in a mass shooting at a shopping mall near Dallas, Texas, on Saturday.\n\nSeven people were injured, some with multiple gunshot wounds, and remain in hospital.\n\nThe crime is still being investigated as more information becomes known about the people who died at the Allen Premium Outlets mall.\n\nHere's what we know so far.\n\nAishwarya Thatikonda, an Indian engineer who lived in the Dallas suburb of McKinney, was among those killed, according to a family representative.\n\nShe was less than a week away from celebrating her 28th birthday.\n\nThatikonda was at the Allen mall with a friend when the shooting took place. Her friend was wounded in the shooting.\n\nHer family is now planning to repatriate her remains to India with the help of the Telugu Association of North America.\n\nThatikonda's LinkedIn profile shows that she graduated with an undergraduate degree in civil engineering in India in 2018, before receiving a master's degree in construction management from Eastern Michigan University in the US in 2020.\n\nFor the last two years, she was working for a Dallas-based contracting firm on a US work visa.\n\nTwo parents and their child were killed in the shooting, say officials from the South Korean consulate in Houston, the Dallas Morning News reported.\n\nThe parents were named as Cho Kyu Song, 37 and Kang Shin Young, 35. Officials added that they are American citizens of Korean descent.\n\nTheir son James Cho, 3, was the youngest victim of the attack.\n\nThe six-year-old was injured and has been released from the hospital intensive care unit. He is the only surviving member of the family.\n\nA verified GoFundMe page - now topping $1m (£792,000)-says that they were at the mall to exchange clothing that their six-year-old son had received as a birthday gift only four days prior.\n\n\"An afternoon that should have been filled with light, love and celebration unfortunately was cut short by another mass shooting massacre,\" friends of the family wrote on a fundraiser page.\n\nMr Cho worked as an immigration lawyer at a nearby law firm, according to the New York Times. He was learning to speak Spanish, because he was increasingly representing Spanish-speaking immigrants in court.\n\n\"As an immigrant himself, Kyu has a deep pride, respect, and appreciation for the American Dream,\" says a profile for Mr Cho on the firm's website.\n\nDaniela Mendoza, 11, and her sister Sofia, 8, were killed in the attack, according to officials from their school district.\n\nTheir mother, Ida Mendoza, remains in critical condition in hospital.\n\nThe principal of their primary school, Cheri Cox Elementary School, described the girls as \"rays of sunshine\" in an email sent to the school community on Monday.\n\n\"Words cannot express the sadness we feel as we grieve the loss of our students,\" principal Krista Wilson wrote to parents.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with the Mendoza family, the families of the victims, and all those affected by this senseless tragedy.\"\n\nAnother victims of the attack was Christian LaCour, a 20-year-old security guard.\n\nHis sister, Brianna Smith, told ABC News that he was on-duty at the mall when the shooting took place.\n\nChristian LaCour was reportedly on duty at the mall when the shooting took place\n\n\"He was a really sweet kid,\" Ms Smith told ABC. \"I'm sad he's gone.\"\n\nOn Facebook, LaCour's grandmother, Sandra Montgomery, described him as a \"beautiful soul\" with \"goals for his future\".\n\n\"Please pray for my family,\" she wrote. \"They are very close and I know this is almost unbearable.\"\n\nThe eight victim was identified by Texas authorities on Monday night as Elio Cumana-Rivas.\n\nHe was from Dallas, Texas.", "The vessel capsized due to overcrowding, police say\n\nAt least 22 people have died after a packed tourist boat capsized in India's southern Kerala state.\n\nThe death toll could rise as rescue efforts are under way on Monday and the vessel is pulled from muddy waters.\n\nOvercrowding caused the double-decker boat to capsize, Abdul Nazar, junior superintendent of police of Malappuram district, told Reuters.\n\nThe boat was reportedly carrying about 50 people, or double its capacity, when it overturned on Sunday night.\n\nThe police on Monday registered a case of culpable homicide against the owner of the boat, who is reportedly absconding.\n\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed condolences on Twitter, saying he was \"pained by the loss of lives\".\n\nMany passengers were trapped under the boat and the darkness held back rescue efforts, according to local media. The casualties included women and children on school holiday.\n\nAt least four people who were taken to hospital are in critical condition, said Kerala's sports and fisheries minister, V Abdurahiman.\n\nThe exact number of missing passengers was not immediately clear. Authorities said they were investigating the cause of the accident and are looking into whether the boat had a proper permit.\n\nShameer, a lifeguard involved in the rescue operation, told Mathrubhumi news channel that \"the boat was completely upside down\" when rescuers arrived at the scene. \"I recovered four bodies and none of them had life jackets on.\"\n\nMany of the other passengers were also not wearing life jackets at the time of the incident, survivors told local media.\n\nAmbika, a resident of the nearby Tanur area, told Manorama news channel that when she first saw the boat approach, everyone seemed to be \"cheering happily\".\n\n\"But suddenly the lights went out, the boat sank and the cheers were replaced with screams for help,\" she said.\n\nMs Ambika added that she immediately called the police for help. \"But we could not do anything beyond that because it was getting dark and there was no way to reach the passengers.\"\n\nBoat accidents are not infrequent in India where vessels are often overcrowded, poorly maintained and lack safety equipment.", "This was history in the making - and you had to pinch yourself to think you were seeing it close-up, inside Westminster Abbey.\n\nOver there was the battered but rather beautiful Coronation chair, with a King about to be crowned. It looked almost fragile waiting for its royal occupant.\n\nYou could feel the sense of expectation. It was really happening right here, on an altar full of candlelight, prayers and a glow of gold. The Abbey was like being inside a jewel box.\n\nThe first Coronation in 70 years proved to be a sumptuous, seamless and often surreal ceremony.\n\nBefore 2,300 guests, King Charles and Queen Camilla went through the ancient rituals, with a twist of modern signals about diversity.\n\nBut it was also like a spectacularly lavish wedding, with friends, families and famous faces crowded into every corner of the church, playing with their phones, checking to see who else was there.\n\nAnd where else would international royalty, world leaders and 100 overseas heads of state get an opportunity to meet Ant and Dec?\n\nThe King is crowned in the 700-year-old Coronation chair\n\nThere were glamorous outfits and hats, splashes of military uniforms with epaulettes, plumes and swords, clerical robes and every shade and shape of national dress. The selfies on the way in were going to prove that they'd really been here.\n\nThere were traditional roles with baffling titles such as Bluemantle Pursuivant and Rouge Dragon Pursuivant and a number of men seemed to be entirely dressed in medieval flags.\n\nWalking down the nave when he arrived, the King seemed to be pausing to take it all in.\n\nWhat was he thinking, after all the decades that he'd been waiting for this day? Was he thinking about his mother, his own family, the responsibility?\n\nWhen the Archbishop of Canterbury appeared to give the crown a couple of twists on his head, the King might have been thinking less charitable thoughts.\n\nA guest in the Abbey takes a selfie with Ant and Dec\n\nAnd the only person who could have stolen the King's show was possibly Penny Mordaunt, the lord president of the council, who hovered around the high altar looking like a deity who had escaped from an ancient Greek urn.\n\nBut the King must have been delighted with the music, not least because he'd chosen it himself, like all of this elaborate ceremony. It was like a big work of art and he was its creator.\n\nAt close quarters in the abbey, the orchestra and choir were remarkable, the music welling up like a tidal wave of sound. It was bouncing off the stained glass windows.\n\nThe piece by William Byrd had all the aching melancholy and stillness that you suspect King Charles would really have enjoyed. Handel's Zadok the Priest, full of drama and anticipation, was a real spine-tingler.\n\nThere was also the most eclectic collection of people in the congregation. There were hundreds of charity workers, US First Lady Jill Biden, President Macron and rows of celebrities, such as Joanna Lumley, Maggie Smith, Stephen Fry, and hello, it's Lionel Ritchie.\n\nMany of the guests had been inside the abbey for hours before it started, which meant some of the best-dressed queues ever seen for the toilets. I'd never really thought about the mechanics of such a visit for a peer in floor-length robes and ermine.\n\nIt was a lavish and colourful spectacle in the Abbey\n\nThere had been stories about MPs complaining about a lack of tickets for the Coronation. Part of the problem might be there are now so many ex-PMs to accommodate. Even Liz Truss got a seat.\n\nBoris Johnson arrived looking like his shirt collars were staging their own backbench rebellion.\n\nThe current PM, Rishi Sunak, had a speaking part, delivering the Bible lesson.\n\nFor those hoping to watch any body language between Prince Harry and his brother Prince William, there was nothing to see, as they may as well have been sitting a continent apart.\n\nHarry arrived looking relaxed and chatty, despite this being a huge transatlantic flying visit, and was seated a couple of rows behind Prince William, the Prince of Wales.\n\nPrince Harry was heading back to the US straight after the service\n\nThe older brother, who must have been thinking that one day he'll face his own Coronation, was more engaged in his own role in the ceremony.\n\nThere seemed to be glances exchanged too between the husband and wife at the centre of this event, who were maybe having the big public wedding they didn't have before.\n\nKing Charles now has his Queen Camilla beside him. It took them about half an hour to get to the Abbey in the morning, but their journey to this point has taken them decades.\n\nIt's impossible to go into Westminster Abbey without feeling the weight of history on every side. It seeps from every plaque and statue. Even the clothes had a story. The King was wearing a robe that had been his grandfather's and Catherine was wearing earrings that had been Diana's.\n\nMany guests might have been remembering being here at the late Queen's funeral, which eight months ago went out through the same doors as today's newly-crowned couple.\n\nThe King and Queen left the Abbey in the Gold State Coach\n\nSuch grand occasions, snapshots for the history books, are where the past, present and future overlap.\n\nWith the music soaring and the guests on their feet, the King and Queen left the Abbey to step inside the crown-on-wheels that is the Gold State Coach, with umbrellas up against the rain.\n\nThe carriage pulled away, past a sea of waving camera phones, and another era had begun.", "Mourners pray at a memorial to for the victims of the shooting at a mall in Allen, Texas\n\nGraphic videos from the scene of a mass shooting in Texas spread rapidly and were viewed millions of times on Twitter before the social media site began taking the footage down more than 24 hours after the attack.\n\nOne video showed dead bodies of the victims, including what appeared to be children. Another showed the perpetrator lying dead on the ground.\n\nBoth clips were visible at or near the top of search results in the hours after news broke of the attack north of Dallas.\n\nMany users expressed shock at how easily the footage spread, mostly without content warnings.\n\n\"I'm currently feeling overwhelmed by the horrific videos circulating around Allen, Texas,\" one wrote. \"Twitter's moderation team needs to step up.\"\n\n\"I've also been noticing a lot more shocking and sometimes gory content on Twitter showing up on my feed,\" said Amarnath Amarasingam, an extremism expert at Queen's University in Toronto.\n\nStaff cuts at Twitter, he suggested, meant the company no longer had the expertise to advise on nuanced content removal or when to add warning messages on sensitive and graphic content.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Witness describes the moment he saw the gunman\n\nTwitter's chief executive Elon Musk says he has cut more than 6,000 jobs, around 80% of the workforce.\n\nThe accounts spreading the video clips had a variety of motivations. One viral tweet - viewed at least 3.6 million times according to Twitter's metrics - came from a pro-Trump journalist who wrote \"Something needs to change\".\n\nAnother came from a Democratic Party activist who wrote: \"Seeing a video of slaughtered innocents — including a child — is truly horrifying… But maybe — just maybe — people NEED to see this video, so they'll pressure their elected officials until they TAKE ACTION.\"\n\nHe called for tighter gun control restrictions in a post that was viewed three million times.\n\nThe graphic videos were also used to spread false information and boost the popularity of fringe accounts. In one instance, a post from an account with around 1,000 followers was viewed at least 1.3 million times before it was deleted by its author.\n\nIt falsely claimed that the assailant was a black supremacist who shouted slogans against white people before the shooting. A similar tweet from a parody account got 70,000 views despite only having 100 followers.\n\nIn reality, investigators are looking into whether the killer had neo-Nazi or white supremacist links. The suspect, Mauricio Garcia, aged 33, wore a patch that said \"RWDS\", short for \"Right Wing Death Squad\", a slogan used by many far-right activists.\n\nMisinformation expert Marc Owen Jones, associate professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, says that similar false messages were spread by a number of accounts, including some that had paid for the company's premium \"blue tick\".\n\n\"I don't necessarily think there is something different under Musk with regards to violent content,\" he said, \"but I was also surprised that some of the graphic content lingered after being so heavily retweeted.\" This should be low-hanging fruit for moderators, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwitter is a member of Christchurch Call, an organisation founded by the New Zealand and French governments after the 2019 Christchurch shootings with the aim of preventing terrorist and violent extremist content from spreading online.\n\nThe tech companies signed up to a pledge to review algorithms and other processes \"that may drive users towards and/or amplify\" such content.\n\nThe company no longer has a press team that responds to questions, and neither Mr Musk or the company's communications account responded to a tweet.\n\nLate on Sunday, Twitter moderators approved at least one viral copy of one of the graphic videos, stating in response to a user report that it did not violate the site's policy on sensitive content.\n\nBy Monday, the videos containing the most graphic shots of dead bodies did start disappearing from the platform.\n\nInstead, a new trend was dominating search results for the shooting: edited clips showing a few brief frames of graphic material, with messages urging users to click on links to view the rest. The links led mostly to spam websites.", "Gary Prado Salmón in 2007 - he wrote a book about the capture of Che Guevara\n\nThe Bolivian general who captured the Cuban revolutionary Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara and became a national hero has died aged 84.\n\nIn 1967 Gary Prado Salmón led a military operation in Bolivia, backed by US secret service agents, that defeated a communist insurrection organised by Che Guevara.\n\nAt the time Bolivia had a right-wing military government.\n\nAn army officer executed Argentina-born Guevara a day after his arrest.\n\nThe Cold War between the US and Soviet Union was at its height and Washington was extremely concerned about communist influence in Latin America, including Che Guevara's activities.\n\nHe had left Cuba after the triumph of the 1959 revolution there, to lead guerrilla movements in other countries. He was a key ally of Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro and became a hero for communists worldwide.\n\nGen Prado's son described his father as \"an extraordinary person\", who left \"a legacy of love, integrity and courage\".\n\nChe Guevara pictured in Cuba in 1965 - he was industry minister at the time\n\nThe Bolivian officer who shot and killed Che Guevara was Mario Terán, who died last year.\n\nAfter ambushing Guevara's guerrilla group Gen Prado was made a national hero for having defended the Bolivian military regime.\n\nHe had led US-trained Bolivian Rangers in a remote jungle region where Che Guevara's group, originally numbering about 120, had declined to just 22.\n\nSince 1981 Gen Prado had been a wheelchair user, after a bullet fired accidentally hit him in the spine. He wrote a book about his 1967 triumph, called How I Captured Che.\n\nAccording to his son, \"for him capturing Che was not the most important thing he did in his life - rather, it was to contribute to making the armed forces a democratic institution that would respect the constitution and laws\".\n\nChe Guevara was executed in the Bolivian village of La Higuera, 830km (516 miles) south of La Paz, and his body was buried in a secret location. In 1997 his remains were discovered, exhumed and returned to Cuba, where he was reburied.", "Rachel Crooks, Jessica Leeds and Samantha Holvey at a press conference after accusing Trump of sexual harassment in 2017 Image caption: Rachel Crooks, Jessica Leeds and Samantha Holvey at a press conference after accusing Trump of sexual harassment in 2017\n\nCarroll is not the only woman to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct.\n\nOver two dozen women have come forward with accusations against Trump in recent years.\n\nThe alleged incidents stretched as far back as the 1970s, with accusations that Trump reached up their skirts, touched, or kissed them without their consent.\n\nAs he did with Carroll, Trump has denied all the allegations, and has claimed women who spoke out were lying or politically motivated.\n\nSome of these women told their stories during the 2016 election. Jessica Leeds said that Trump had groped her without consent on an airplane in the 1970s.\n\nLeeds appeared as a witness in Carroll's trial and told the jury that Trump \"was trying to kiss me, trying to pull me towards him. He was grabbing my breasts. It was like he had 40 zillion hands. It was like a tussling match between the two of us.”\n\nRachel Crooks, who spoke to the New York Times, accused Trump of kissing her without permission during a Trump Tower encounter in 2005.\n\nJill Harth sued Trump for sexual harassment in 1997. She said that Trump pushed her against a wall, put his hand up her skirt, and forcibly kissed her.\n\nBut no woman has come close to earning $5m in damages from Trump for their alleged encounters, E Jean Carroll is the first.", "The police had to make \"tough choices\" while handling protests during the Coronation, a minister has said, following criticism over arrests.\n\nCulture Secretary Lucy Frazer told BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg the police were right to factor in the scale and global-nature of the event.\n\nMPs, human rights groups and a former chief constable have criticised the police's tactics.\n\nPolice said on Sunday that 64 people were arrested during the Coronation.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police had previously said 52 arrests were made on Saturday. In its latest update, it said four people had been charged, while another person arrested remains in custody for non-payment of fines.\n\nFifty-seven people have been released on bail while two others will face no further police action.\n\nAmong those held on Saturday was the head of the anti-monarchy group Republic, Graham Smith. He was released after 16 hours in custody and said there was \"no longer a right to peaceful protest in the UK\".\n\nOther concerns have been raised over reports three volunteers with a Westminster-based women's safety programme had been arrested while handing out rape alarms.\n\nThe Met said it received intelligence protesters were planning to use rape alarms to disrupt coronation proceedings.\n\nMs Frazer said the right to protest was \"really important\" and people should be heard but there had been a recent change in protesters' tactics.\n\nProtesters have been stopping people going about their day-to-day lives, she said, and there was a need to redress that balance.\n\nOfficers would have made operational decisions on a case-by-case basis, she said, taking into account the scale of the Coronation celebrations.\n\n\"We were on the global stage, there were 200 foreign dignitaries in the UK, in London at an event, millions of people watching and hundreds of thousands of people at the scene,\" she added.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting told the BBC he was reassured the Met were aware of a gap in public confidence over policing and the force was \"explaining and justifying\" why they made some of the arrests.\n\nHe said Labour would \"wait and see\" whether the force got the balance right, adding \"accountability\" over policing decisions was important.\n\nMr Streeting said if they did not get it right, it was important to \"hold your hands up\".\n\nThe King and Queen went past some protesters on their way to Westminster Abbey for the Coronation ceremony\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Karen Findlay defended her officers' response, saying they had a duty to intervene \"when protest becomes criminal and may cause serious disruption\".\n\nShe added the Coronation was a \"once-in-a-generation event\" which was a key consideration in their assessment.\n\nHundreds of protesters gathered in the rain in central London on Saturday, with chants including \"down with the Crown\", \"don't talk to the police\" and \"get a real job\".\n\nBut Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said some of the arrests \"raise questions\" over the Met's actions, adding he has \"sought urgent clarity\" whilst investigations are ongoing.\n\nOther protests were organised in Cardiff, Glasgow and Edinburgh. No arrests were reported outside London.\n\nWhile campaigners insisted their protests were peaceful, the police said they had intelligence that groups were \"determined to disrupt\" the occasion.\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ed Davey said he was not sure about the exact circumstances of the arrest, and called for more detail from the police.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, he criticised the government for \"passing legislation to clamp down on protest that breached British traditions of civil liberties\".\n\nSeveral Labour MPs have also been critical of the Met's response. Senior backbencher Sir Chris Bryant said on Twitter that \"freedom of speech is the silver thread that runs through a parliamentary constitutional monarchy\".\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, Republic chief Mr Smith said the arrests had \"destroyed whatever trust might have existed between peaceful protesters and the Metropolitan police\".\n\n\"What is the point in being open and candid with the police, working with their liaison officers and meeting senior commanders, if all their promises and undertakings turn out to be a lie?\"\n\nMr Smith was arrested early on Saturday - before the Coronation began - at a protest in Trafalgar Square.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met said it had confiscated \"lock-on devices\" which protesters can use to secure themselves to things like railings.\n\nIt has now become illegal to prepare to lock-on following changes to the law passed this week.\n\nBut Matt Turnbull, another member of Republic who was arrested, said the straps were being used to hold the placards and had been \"misconstrued\" as lock-on devices.\n\nA former police chief has said she is \"very disappointed\" by the arrest of protesters and strongly criticised the new powers.\n\nSue Sim, a former chief constable with Northumbria Police and a specialist in public order policing, said she was \"very disappointed\" by the arrest of protesters and called the new powers \"draconian\".\n\n\"I think when you're talking about terrorism, where people's lives are at risk that's a very different thing. But where you are talking about peaceful protest the whole thing for me is, what type of society do we want? We do not want a totalitarian police state,\" she told BBC Radio 4's World This Weekend.\n\nConcerns about the police's approach were also raised by Westminster City Council over reports that volunteers with its Night Star women's safety programme had been detained and questioned after being stopped by officers while handing out rape alarms.\n\nCouncillor Aicha Less said the authority was working with the Met to establish what happened and was in touch with volunteers to make sure they were being supported.\n\nThe Met said it had received intelligence about plans to use rape alarms to disrupt the Coronation procession by scaring military horses, causing \"significant risk to the safety of the public and the riders\".\n\nThe force said three people were arrested in the Soho area of London over suspicion of conspiracy to commit public nuisance.\n\nOne man was also further arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods. All three have since been released.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan said the force were \"aware of and understand there is public concern over these arrests\" and added the matter was still under investigation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Graham Smith from the Republic campaign group was arrested on Coronation day\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has expressed \"regret\" over the arrests of six anti-monarchy protesters on Coronation day.\n\nRepublic chief executive Graham Smith, who was among the group, said he has now received a personal apology from police officers.\n\nHe said he did not accept the apology and would take legal action after no charges were brought against him.\n\nThe Met also confirmed it had used a controversial new law to detain the group.\n\nMr Smith said a chief inspector and two other officers visited his Reading home on Monday evening to issue the apology.\n\nHe told PA news agency: \"They seemed rather embarrassed to be honest.\n\n\"I said for the record I won't accept the apology. We have a lot of questions to answer and we will be taking action.\"\n\nMr Smith, who is from Bristol, earlier said he wanted a \"full inquiry\" into the \"disgraceful episode\".\n\nThe Met said a review found there was no proof the six protesters, who were detained when their vehicle was stopped near the procession route, were planning to \"lock on\", a protesting tactic which is now banned.\n\nRecent changes to the law, passed last week, make it illegal for protesters to use equipment to secure themselves to things like railings.\n\nThe Met said the group of six were detained after items were found in a vehicle which officers \"had reasonable grounds to believe could be used as lock on devices\".\n\nBut the force said it was \"unable to prove intent to use them to lock on and disrupt the event\".\n\nOne man in the group was also arrested for possession of a knife or pointed article.\n\nThe Met said it was \"not clear at the time\" to the arresting officers that \"at least one of the group stopped had been engaging with police\" about holding a lawful protest prior to the Coronation.\n\n\"We regret that those six people arrested were unable to join the wider group of protesters in Trafalgar Square and elsewhere on the procession route,\" a statement continued.\n\nNow it has said all six people have had their bail cancelled and confirmed no further action will be taken.\n\nMr Smith said earlier on Monday that he had spent months consulting with officers about his group's protest plans, and said in a statement on Twitter that his group would be \"speaking to lawyers about taking legal action\".\n\nHe said he had been held for 16 hours on the morning of the Coronation after being stopped by officers who suspected him and group members of carrying \"lock on\" devices to tie themselves to inanimate objects.\n\n\"They also said they had intelligence, which is untrue,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"If they did have intelligence their intelligence officers are either lying or incompetent because there was never any discussion, thought, email, message, anything that suggested any intent to do anything disruptive.\"\n\nMr Smith added that, after months of discussions with the Met, the force had \"repeatedly said, right up until Friday, that they had no concerns about our protest plans, that they were well aware of what we were going to do and they would engage with us and not disrupt us\".\n\nHe continued: \"So they've repeatedly lied about their intentions, and I believe they had every intention of arresting us prior to doing so.\"\n\nMr Smith also rejected suggestions his arrest, along with other protesters, was necessary to limit disruption to the Coronation.\n\nFormer cabinet minister David Davis was the only Conservative MP to vote against the changes to the Public Order Bill, which criminalised protesters using lock-on measures.\n\nHe said that the legislation should be scrutinised by the Home Affairs Select Committee to ensure it is understood and implemented fairly.\n\nHe told the Today programme: \"There's too many elements of the law that are too crude and too broadly defined.\n\n\"What the government said was that it expects the police to come up with standards of behaviour. That's very woolly. If we're going to do that, we should do it properly, do it centrally, with the same level of democracy in the whole country.\n\n\"No-one wants a day ruined, but the right to put up placards is virtually absolute in British democracy.\"\n\nFormer Greater Manchester police chief Sir Peter Fahy said he gave evidence in parliament expressing his concern that the new law was \"poorly defined and far too broad\".\n\n\"We see the consequences of that, particularly for the poor police officers who have to make sense of legislation that was only passed a few days ago,\" he told the Today programme.\n\n\"This law could affect all sorts of protests in your local community, and this legislation could be used against you, and the police would be under pressure.\n\n\"The government have actually reduced the amount of discretion the police have in getting the balance right.\"\n\nShadow housing minister Lisa Nandy said \"clearly something has gone wrong\" in the handling of Mr Smith's case, and expressed her support for a review into the matter, which has been requested by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.\n\nHowever, she said Labour was not committing to \"wholesale repeal\" of the new law introduced by the Conservatives last week, which has been criticised for clamping down on the rights of peaceful protesters.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"One of the questions we have is 'why was it that this group were clearly in contact with the Met, had informed them about their plans, and yet still ended up arrested up and prevented from protesting?'.\n\n\"If there is a problem with the legislation, of course we'll rectify that in government, but we're not into wholesale repeal of legislation without understanding what the actual problem is first.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, Met Police Federation chairman Ken Marsh said officers \"police without fear or favour,\" insisting the force had done \"an incredible job\" policing the Coronation.\n\nHe told the Today programme: \"We have to take into consideration everything that at that moment is put in front of us. If individuals intend to cause an incident which will affect others near them or around them... then we take action to deal with it.\n\n\"Protesting can take place in this country, but it's to the level of which you perform that protesting that we have to balance and deal with.\"\n\nHundreds of protesters gathered across the UK as the Coronation took place.", "At least 18 people were struck by Mr Alvarez's SUV vehicle, eight of whom have died\n\nThe driver of a car which struck a group of people in Brownsville, Texas, killing eight, has been charged with manslaughter.\n\nPolice have identified the driver as George Alvarez, a 34-year-old Brownsville resident with a lengthy criminal history.\n\nInvestigators have yet to determine whether the incident was intentional or an accident.\n\nTwelve people were also injured in the crash, some of them critically.\n\nIn a news conference on Monday, Brownsville Police Chief Felix Sauceda said that Mr Alvarez ran a red light and lost control of his vehicle, striking 18 people.\n\nThe group was at a bus stop close to a shelter for the homeless and migrants in Brownsville, which is located near the US-Mexico border.\n\nMr Alvarez allegedly attempted to flee the crash site, but was restrained and \"held down\" by people at the scene.\n\nIn addition to eight manslaughter charges, Mr Alvarez is now facing 10 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.\n\nMr Saucedo said that \"several\" of the victims have been confirmed as being Venezuelan nationals. Local authorities have been in touch with Venezuelan authorities to coordinate reunification efforts and assistance for the victims.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Migrants after car attack: 'We fought hard to be here'\n\nAccording to Brownsville police, Mr Alvarez has an extensive criminal history, which has included nine assault charges against family members, public servants and elderly and disabled people, as well as charges for drunk driving, marijuana possession, burglary and evading arrest, among other counts.\n\nHe has so far been uncooperative with police and is being held on $3.6m (£2.85m) bond.\n\nMr Saucedo said that investigators so far \"have nothing to validate\" reports that Mr Alvarez expressed anti-immigrant sentiment before the incident took place.\n\nAuthorities, however, have not ruled out that the attack may have been intentional.\n\nPolice are still waiting on the results of a formal toxicology report to determine whether he was intoxicated or using drugs at the time of the crash.\n\nVideo reportedly taken at the scene appears to show Mr Alvarez being restrained by police officers and taken to a waiting vehicle. In the video - which cannot be independently verified by the BBC - he is shirtless and wearing boots coloured like the flag of Texas.\n\nThe incident came as Brownsville and other border communities are dealing with a significant increase in illegal migrant arrivals ahead of the expiry of Title 42, a Covid-era policy that allowed the US to automatically expel undocumented migrants.\n\nThe influx prompted Brownsville officials to issue a disaster declaration in April.", "Dominik Zaum and the annexe (double doors on left) to his house hosting two Ukrainian refugees\n\nHalifax has apologised for rejecting a customer's mortgage application because the home owner is hosting two Ukrainian refugees.\n\nDominik Zaum and his family have had a mother and her young daughter staying with them in an annexe since June 2022.\n\nWhen his mortgage came up for renewal, he applied for one with Halifax.\n\nBut Dominik was refused after Halifax said there was a risk he could rent out the space for commercial gain in the future.\n\n\"We were very surprised by this because we've never rented it out, we're not renting it out now... and we have no intention of renting it out in the future,\" he said.\n\nDominik has what he describes as a small \"granny\" flat attached to his house. It is one self-contained room with a kitchenette and a small bathroom accessed by its own door.\n\nHe is part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme which started just over a year ago to help rehome refugees who fled the country following Russia's invasion in February 2022.\n\nSo far, according to government figures 153,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in the UK and research suggests most of them have stayed.\n\nTo help with the expense of housing refugees, hosts are provided with £350 per month for the first 12 months and £500 for each month after that point.\n\nLike millions of other fixed-rate mortgage holders in the UK, Dominik's loan was coming up for renewal this year so he decided to look around for a new deal.\n\nAnd that's when the trouble - and worry - started.\n\nHalifax sent someone to value Dominik's home.\n\nHe said: \"We spoke directly with the valuer before, when he came and looked at our house.\"\n\nBut Dominik said \"When we contacted the Halifax through our broker they said they could not provide us with a mortgage because we were providing accommodation to a Ukrainian family and therefore there was a significant risk that we would rent out the room commercially in the future.\"\n\nHalifax has since apologised for \"the confusion\" after being contacted by Money Box and has offered Dominik a mortgage deal.\n\nBut Dominik claims the only reason Halifax backed down is because Money Box started to investigate. \"We raised it twice with the Halifax through our mortgage broker and nothing changed,\" he said.\n\n\"It is very unfortunate that it took Money Box to get a response.\"\n\nHalifax said it is \"very sorry for the confusion\" and is very supportive of the Homes for Ukraine scheme and that it wouldn't decline a mortgage application on this basis.\n\n\"Having reviewed the application again, we've now issued an offer and the application will proceed as normal,\" it said.\n\nMillions of Ukrainians have fled the country because of Russia's invasion\n\nHalifax said the valuer did not appreciate the informal nature of the tenancy, and this was reflected in their report where they noted the property was unsuitable for these lending purposes and given a zero valuation.\n\nDominik said that he was worried that Halifax's refusal could have been mirrored by the rest of the lending sector. \"We did not know at the time if other banks might have reacted similarly,\" he said.\n\n\"We have since secured a mortgage with another bank so, fortunately, it has not had any impact on our finances.\"\n\nHe added: \"Had we not been able to secure a new mortgage we would have moved from a fixed-term mortgage to a higher rate and cost us over £9,000 a year.\"\n\nThe government has advised people who are hosting refugees through the Homes for Ukraine scheme to keep any interested parties informed.\n\nAre you part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme and hosting a family, or know someone who is? Have you had any problems like Dominik? Email us your stories to moneybox@bbc.co.uk\n\nYou can hear more on this story on BBC Radio 4's Money Box podcast available shortly after broadcast by clicking here.", "Joanna Cherry had been due to take part in an event in August\n\nSNP MP Joanna Cherry is threatening to take legal action against an Edinburgh venue which cancelled a Fringe show in which she was due to appear.\n\nShe says she will take \"whatever legal action is necessary\" unless The Stand admits that it acted unlawfully, issues an apology and reinstates the event.\n\nThe venue had cancelled the show after staff said they were not comfortable with her views on transgender issues.\n\nThe Stand has not yet responded to Ms Cherry's comments.\n\nThe Edinburgh South West MP had been due to take part in a series of In Conversation With... events in August.\n\nMs Cherry is a critic of Scotland's gender recognition reform plans, which make it easier for people to change their legally-recognised sex.\n\nLast week she told BBC Scotland she felt she had been \"cancelled and no-platformed\" because she was a lesbian who holds gender-critical views.\n\nShe said she had been \"greatly heartened\" by the support she had received since the story became public, and had decided to seek legal advice.\n\n\"I am prepared to take whatever legal action is necessary to vindicate my right not to be misrepresented and not to be discriminated against,\" she said.\n\n\"This is not about money. My primary goal is to have the actions of The Stand acknowledged as unlawful and to ensure the event proceeds.\n\n\"I have asked The Stand to apologise to me too. If they don't agree with my reasonable requests, I intend to ask the court to decide on the issue.\"\n\nMs Cherry said the decision to cancel her show was symptomatic of a wider problem in society.\n\n\"I am very concerned that those who hold perfectly legitimate views on a variety of issues, including women like me, are regularly being misrepresented, de-platformed and, in some cases, facing damage to or the loss of our livelihoods,\" she added.\n\n\"This is often accompanied by online abuse and threats.\n\n\"The debate on gender self-identification is a very important one which must be allowed to take place, but I am a woman of many parts who was engaged to talk about my political life in general and I see the cancelling of my one-hour event as the thin end of the wedge.\"\n\nThe Stand said it would not be making any further comment until it had discussed the matter with its solicitors.\n\nIn a statement released last week, the venue said that a number of its key operational staff - including venue management and box office personnel - were unwilling to work on the event.\n\nThe statement said: \"We will ensure that their views are respected.\n\n\"We will not compel our staff to work on this event and so have concluded that the event is unable to proceed on a properly staffed, safe and legally-compliant basis.\n\n\"We advised the show producers, Fair Pley Productions, of this operational issue and they advised Joanna Cherry that it is no longer possible to host the event in our venue.\"\n\nThe Stand - which was co-founded by SNP MP Tommy Sheppard - said it did not endorse the views of any participant in the In Conversation With... series, which is organised by independent producer Fair Pley.\n\nMr Sheppard, who sits on the venue's board and is believed to be one of a number of shareholders, said it would be wrong to characterise it as a dispute between him and Ms Cherry.\n\nThe Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow was ordered to pay almost £100,000 in damages to a controversial evangelical US preacher after axing his event in 2020.\n\nFranklin Graham's appearance at the Hydro was scrapped following pressure from Glasgow City Council, Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie and campaigners over his views on issues such as homosexuality, Islam and Donald Trump.\n\nVenue staff had claimed the move was due to security and protest concerns but a sheriff ruled that Mr Graham had been discriminated against and that the SEC had breached the Equality Act by not letting him perform.\n\nIn his ruling, Sheriff John McCormick said: \"The pursuer's right to engage a speaker at the evangelical event - in furtherance of a religious or philosophical belief - is protected by law\".", "Itamar Ben-Gvir accused the EU of \"undiplomatic gagging\" in response to the decision\n\nThe EU has cancelled its diplomatic event for Europe Day in Israel because of the planned participation of the far-right minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.\n\nOrganisers said they did not want \"to offer a platform\" to someone whose views contradicted its values.\n\nAs the Israeli government's designated representative, Mr Ben-Gvir had insisted he would give the customary speech at a ceremony on Tuesday.\n\nIn response to the decision, he accused the EU of \"undiplomatic gagging\".\n\nIt is understood that the Israeli Government Secretariat put forward Mr Ben-Gvir's name according to a rotating list of ministers selected to attend official diplomatic events and that EU ambassadors were caught by surprise.\n\nDespite explicit requests from the EU and its prominent member states to send a minister who was not identified with the extreme right, Mr Ben-Gvir insisted that he would go.\n\nThe national security minister had stated that he would use his speech to call for a united \"struggle against jihad and terrorism\" while also telling EU representatives it was \"inappropriate for EU countries to fund initiatives against IDF [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers and Israeli citizens\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by EU in Israel 🇪🇺🇮🇱 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by EU in Israel 🇪🇺🇮🇱\n\nSeveral EU representatives had threatened not to attend.\n\nThe decision to cancel the diplomatic ceremony was made after a meeting of EU ambassadors to Israel. Israeli media report that only Hungary and Poland, two conservative, pro-Israel countries, dissented.\n\nIn its short statement, the EU delegation to Israel said it would continue to celebrate Europe Day on Tuesday, as it does annually.\n\nIt said that a cultural event for the general public scheduled to take place in Tel Aviv would go ahead \"to celebrate with our friends and partners in Israel the strong and constructive bilateral relationship\".\n\nThe response from Mr Ben-Gvir's office criticised the EU, saying it was \"a shame\" that the international body \"which claims to represent the values of democracy and multiculturalism, practises undiplomatic gagging.\"\n\n\"It is an honour and privilege for me to represent the Israeli government, the heroic IDF soldiers, and the people of Israel in every forum,\" he added.\n\nSince Israel swore in its most hard-line government ever at the end of last year, official representatives of many European countries - which have strong relations with Israel - have refused to meet Mr Ben-Gvir and his fellow ultranationalist, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.\n\nThe controversy around Europe Day has been a source of diplomatic embarrassment.\n\nAdding to the sensitive timing, the EU harshly condemned Israel's demolition on Sunday of an EU-funded elementary school for Palestinian children near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.\n\nThe Israeli military said the structure - in part of the West Bank under full Israeli control - was built illegally and was unsafe, leading to an Israeli court decision to demolish it.\n\nOn its Twitter account, the EU delegation to the Palestinians said it was \"appalled\" by the action, which it said would affect 60 children, and that the demolition was illegal under international law.\n\nPalestinians often justify what Israel deems as illegal building in the West Bank by saying it is virtually impossible to obtain official construction permits.", "A star-studded Coronation concert took place this evening in the grounds of Windsor Castle, after a day of street parties and Big Lunch events around the UK.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family watched from the Royal Box at Windsor Castle, alongside special guests including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Baroness Scotland.\n\nThousands also gathered to watch the spectacle as the sun went down, with performances from Olly Murs, Lionel Ritchie, Katy Perry and Paloma Faith among others.\n\nPrincess Charlotte was seen enjoying the Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog segment, in which the characters spoke with the host Hugh Bonneville.\n\nPeople also watched live screenings around the UK, from nearby Windsor to Blackpool Promenade.\n\nAnd earlier in the day, Londoners were seen blowing bubbles and holding picnics to celebrate the King and Queen.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak hosted the Big Lunch at Downing Street with his family, with US First Lady Jill Biden in attendance.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family also joined in across the country.\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales made a surprise appearance in Windsor, where they greeted crowds and well-wishers.\n\nPrince Edward and Sophie, Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, attended a Big Lunch event in Cranleigh, Surrey, with residents and representatives from the Royal British Legion, the Scouts and the Guides.\n\nPrincess Anne met residents at a street party in Swindon, Wiltshire, and Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie attended an event in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.\n\nAcross the UK, thousands more participated in the Big Lunch; including in Newcastle, Morecambe, Alfriston, London and Doagh, Northern Ireland.", "The stabbing victim has been named by the Met as 16-year-old Renell Charles\n\nA 16-year-old schoolboy who was stabbed to death after leaving his school in north-east London, has been named by police.\n\nRenell Charles, a pupil at Kelmscott School in Walthamstow, was attacked shortly after the end of the day on Friday.\n\nA teenage boy, 16, was arrested on Sunday after attending a police station, the Met said.\n\nThe force added the attack was witnessed by other pupils.\n\nOfficers and the London Air Ambulance were called to Markhouse Road but the teenager died in the street at 16:39 BST.\n\nIn a statement, a Met spokesperson said Mr Charles lived locally and that his family were being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Rogers said: \"We are aware that this brutal attack took place near a school, and was witnessed by many bystanders and young people.\n\n\"My thoughts are with them as they come to terms with seeing such an act of violence unfold and I would ask anyone with footage or images to do the right thing and send them into my team of detectives.\"\n\nRenell Charles was attacked as he left Kelmscott school in Walthamstow on Friday\n\nA post-mortem examination took place on Saturday and found Mr Charles' cause of death to be a stab wound to the chest.\n\nHeadteacher Sam Jones said the attack marked the \"darkest of days\" for the school community.\n\n\"A Kelmscott student was tragically killed in a senseless knife attack,\" he said.\n\n\"Kelmscott is a large and tight-knit family and this loss will be felt for a long time to come. I know we will come together as a community and support one another through this.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is urging Congress to act \"as soon as possible\"\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned a failure to raise the US's debt ceiling could have dire consequences.\n\nWithout an agreement to increase what the federal government can borrow, it could run out of money by early June.\n\nAt that point the federal government might not be able to make wage, welfare and other payments.\n\n\"It's Congress's job to do this. If they fail to do it, we will have an economic and financial catastrophe that will be of our own making,\" she said.\n\nIn an interview with ABC News on Sunday Ms Yellen said debt ceiling negotiations should not take place \"with a gun to the head of the American people.\"\n\nBut time is running out for an agreement.\n\nOn Tuesday, President Biden will meet Republican leaders to ask them to agree to raising the current $31.4tn (£25.12tn) limit.\n\nCongress typically ties approval of a higher debt ceiling to stipulations on budget and spending measures.\n\nLast month the House of Representatives passed a bill to raise the ceiling, currently roughly equal to 120% of the country's annual economic output, but included in the bill sweeping spending cuts over the next decade.\n\nPresident Biden wants Congress to agree to raise the debt ceiling, with no conditions. President Biden has said he will not negotiate over the increase and will discuss budget cuts after the issue is resolved.\n\nFailure to find cross-party agreement on the issue could result in a \"constitutional crisis\" Ms Yellen said.\n\nThe Biden administration is considering whether there is scope within the constitution for the president to continue issuing new debt without the approval of Congress, but will this week strive to avoid that scenario.\n\n\"We should not get to the point where we need to consider whether the president can go on issuing debt. This would be a constitutional crisis,\" Ms Yellen told ABC.\n\nThe debt ceiling has been raised, extended or revised 78 times since 1960, often with negotiations going down to the wire.\n\nIn the end, the threat of a default on government payments including debt obligations has always led to compromise. The US has never defaulted, an event that would upend global financial markets and have far-reaching economic impacts.\n\nBut delaying a resolution also had negative consequences, Ms Yellen said in a letter to Congress last week.\n\n\"We have learned from past debt limit impasses that waiting until the last minute to suspend or increase the debt limit can cause serious harm to business and consumer confidence, raise short-term borrowing costs for taxpayers, and negatively impact the credit rating of the United States,\" she wrote.", "The fire caused damage to the Underfall Yard\n\nA 45-year-old man has been arrested after a fire that badly damaged a boat yard in Bristol was deemed \"suspicious\".\n\nThe fire happened at Underfall Yard in the Hotwells area of the city in the early hours of Saturday, with a plume of smoke visible across the city.\n\nSpecialist fire investigators working with Avon and Somerset Police said they are now treating the fire as a \"suspicious incident\".\n\nAvon Fire and Rescue evacuated more than 20 people from their flats close to the boat yard near Cumberland Road when the fire was on-going. They have since returned home.\n\nPhotos inside Underfall Yard show the extent of the damage\n\nFire officers stopped the fire from spreading by moving a burning boat away from others.\n\nUnderfall Yard has been crucial to the operation and maintenance of Bristol's Floating Harbour, which dates back to the early 1800s.\n\nThe yard is home to maritime businesses involved in boatbuilding, marine engineering, metal working and training.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers were called to a house in Corwen, Denbighshire, on Friday\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder after a woman and three children were injured.\n\nRyan Wyn Jones, 27, from Clawdd Poncen, Denbighshire, was remanded into custody.\n\nA 33-year-old woman remains in a critical condition in hospital following the incident, which police were called to at 02:35 BST on Friday.\n\nOne child is being treated for serious injuries while two others have been discharged.\n\nMr Jones faces three charges of attempted murder and a further charge of possessing a knife.\n\nHe spoke only to confirm his name and personal details at the hearing in Mold. There was no application for bail.\n\nHe will next appear before Mold Crown Court on 9 June.", "Protester Matt Turnbull is one of the people arrested in the build up to the Coronation.\n\nDozens of people have been arrested during the King's Coronation, including the leader of a prominent anti-monarchy group.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police said 52 arrests were made for a range of reasons, and all remain in custody.\n\nThe arrest of anti-monarchy protesters earlier in the day has been labelled \"alarming\" by human rights groups.", "King Charles III and the Royal Family have come together with a vast audience in the grounds of Windsor Castle to watch the Coronation concert.\n\nWatched by an average TV audience of 10.1 million - peaking at 12.3 million - it was was a night that celebrated the arts, from pop star performances, to choirs and orchestras to cartoon characters and a colourful drone display, hosted by actor Hugh Bonneville.\n\nWilliam, the Prince of Wales, also took to the stage to pay tribute to his father and the late Queen Elizabeth II.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople across Wales are being encouraged to use Monday's extra bank holiday to volunteer.\n\nRugby players Leigh Halfpenny and Jamie Roberts joined a litter pick in Newport, while the Archbishop of Wales raised awareness of plastic pollution at a beach clean in Gwynedd.\n\nThe Big Help Out is taking place across the UK to mark the King's Coronation.\n\nIt is one of the official projects aimed at promoting opportunities and encouraging more people to volunteer.\n\n\"I think the Coronation's a big event for the British public and it's a time when we should come together and something like this is a way of doing it,\" said Roberts.\n\nHalfpenny added: \"It's important we look after our communities and that's what the Big Help Out is all about.\"\n\nLeigh Halfpenny hopes his involvement can encourage people to \"get out and help\"\n\nThe Lord Lieutenant of Gwent, Robert Aitken, who has arranged a series of litter picks across the area, said the best gift he could give to the King who \"has everything\" was a letter outlining how many tonnes of litter had been collected.\n\n\"We thought cleaning up the countryside and cleaning up the area would really touch him,\" he said.\n\nIn Presteigne, Powys, more than 20 people came to volunteer at the local Scout hut which was vandalised last September.\n\nPeter Hood, 87, who was helping to clean flag poles, said \"everybody helping each other\" is how the country should always be.\n\nPeter Hood said the country is \"run on charities and volunteers\"\n\n\"The country would come to a standstill if it wasn't for volunteers and charities,\" Mr Hood added.\n\nAlso helping out was nine-year-old Amelia and her mother Mel.\n\nAmelia, a member of the local Cubs group, was helping with weeding and said she was looking forward to painting the Scout hut.\n\nAmelia said: \"I think this is good because it helps the community.\"\n\nDamage caused by a break-in and vandalism at 1st Presteigne Scouts' hut\n\nGroup Scout Leader Ann Dodd said: \"Sadly, in September someone broke into the hut, they dragged everything out on to the meadow nearby, pulled down a lot of our craft equipment.\n\n\"We've got 23 people here today and they're all very busy. The idea is to give the Scout hut a revamp. Mother nature has taken over things a little bit and we need to reclaim it for the youngsters.\"\n\nChair of the Scout group, Fiona Preece, said: \"I feel amazing to see the community coming together. This work will help keep the building for many years to come. It's just amazing.\"\n\nGirlguiding members in Holyhead and elsewhere also planned to volunteer their time\n\nElsewhere, the Archbishop of Wales Andrew John volunteered at a beach clean at Dinas Dinlle, near Caernarfon, Gwynedd.\n\n\"There's a secret volunteers have that not many people know and it's this: When you give freely, you always get more back in return,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile at Holyhead, Anglesey, members of Girlguiding Cymru planned to clear away invasive species at Penrhos Coastal Park.\n\n\"We have lots of parents and volunteers lending a hand too,\" said Louise Marsden, a Girlguiding and Rangers leader in Holyhead.\n\n\"We want to use the day to highlight that we are volunteers and help in the community.\"", "First Minister Humza Yousaf has defended the scheme\n\nHumza Yousaf has defended plans to pilot juryless rape trials after lawyers in Aberdeen joined a boycott.\n\nThey have accused the Scottish government of a \"deeply troubling attack\" on the judicial system.\n\nLawyers in Glasgow and Edinburgh have already said they will refuse to take part in the pilot, which was proposed as part of a new justice reform bill.\n\nThe government has said there is \"overwhelming evidence\" juries are affected by preconceptions about rape.\n\nThe change to trials was proposed by Scotland's second most senior judge, Lady Dorrian, in a review that informed the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill.\n\nJustice Secretary Angela Constance has claimed that low conviction rates for rape and attempted rape are hampered by the \"prevalence of preconceptions\".\n\nIn the most recent figures, conviction rates for rape and attempted rape were 51%, compared with 91% for all other crimes.\n\nAfter the Aberdeen Bar Association confirmed it was joining the boycott, Mr Yousaf said he heard their objections \"loud and clear\".\n\nBut he said he remained \"absolutely committed\" to working with legal professionals on the pilot because convictions for rape are \"far too low\" compared to other offences.\n\nThe first minister said: \"We know through the weight of evidence that exists just how many rape myths, rape misconceptions, stereotypes exist.\n\n\"That's not in the interest of justice.\n\n\"We're talking about a time-limited pilot and I hope that legal professionals that have said they'll boycott will work with us and reconsider that boycott.\"\n\nLawyers in Aberdeen have followed colleagues in Glasgow and Edinburgh in vowing to oppose the scheme\n\nThe SNP leader said more than 80% of trials already took place without a jury.\n\nStatistics for 2019-20 show 16% of criminal cases were heard by a jury, while 84% were less serious, or summary, cases which were dealt with by a justice of the peace or a sheriff.\n\nAberdeen Bar Association vice president Ian Woodward-Nutt told BBC Scotland it was \"very hard to see how this will proceed\" without lawyers agreeing to participate in the pilot.\n\n\"Criminal defence lawyers across Scotland will not allow their clients to become guinea pigs in a scheme where the starting point of the scheme is to engineer verdicts to bring about more convictions,\" Mr Woodward-Nutt said.\n\nHe took issue with proposals for public reviews of decisions made by trial judges taking part in the scheme.\n\nThe lawyer said: \"Never before have decisions at the Scottish criminal courts been subjected to this type of review by the executive.\n\n\"So it's clear and it will be clear to any impartial observer that this proposed pilot amounts to a deeply troubling attack, both on the criminal justice system, but also on the independence of our judiciary.\"\n\nMr Woodward-Nutt argued juryless trials would lead to a loss of safeguards.\n\n\"The Scottish government are proposing an experimental scheme that replaces juries with a specific named trial judge who will, we feel inevitably, be subjected to public scrutiny and thus pressure relative to his or her decision making,\" he said.\n\n\"That cannot be fair, that cannot be appropriate.\"", "Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined their parents helping scouts in Slough as part of the Big Help Out.\n\nThe initiative, to celebrate the King Charles III's Coronation, aims to encourage people to take part in volunteering projects.", "Dr Terrance Drew told the BBC he will take the question of making his country a republic to the people of St Kitts and Nevis\n\nThe Prime Minister of a Caribbean nation has told the BBC his country is \"not totally free\" as long as King Charles III remains head of state.\n\nDr Terrance Drew said that a public consultation on whether St Kitts and Nevis should become a republic would begin during his leadership.\n\nHe also said he would welcome an apology from the monarchy for its historic links to the slave trade.\n\nBuckingham Palace told the BBC the King takes slavery \"profoundly seriously\".\n\nLast month the Palace announced it was co-operating with an independent study into the relationship between the British monarchy and the transatlantic slave trade, when millions of African men, women and children were shipped to the Americas for use as slaves from the 16th to 19th Centuries.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC in the St Kitts and Nevis capital Basseterre, Dr Drew described the research as a positive move.\n\n\"I think that acknowledging that... something wrong was done, acknowledging it and apologising for it, is a step in the right direction,\" he said.\n\nAfter being approached for comment, Buckingham Palace said the King previously pledged to deepen his understanding of slavery's impact. \"That learning process has continued with vigour and determination since His Majesty's Accession,\" it read.\n\nThe statement also added that the monarch \"has long acknowledged the discussion about constitutional arrangements\", and referred to a speech to Commonwealth leaders last year when King Charles III said: \"I want to say clearly, as I have said before, that each member's constitutional arrangement, as republic or monarchy, is purely a matter for each member country to decide.\"\n\nLast year the Dutch government issued a formal apology for its role in the slave trade. Prime Minister Mark Rutte said slavery should be recognised as \"a crime against humanity\".\n\nBrimstone Hill Fortress in St Kitts and Nevis was designed by the British but built by enslaved Africans in the 17th and 18th Centuries\n\nSt Kitts and Nevis were the first Caribbean islands that English colonisers permanently settled. Locals still refer to the dual island federation as the \"mother colony\".\n\nBuilt upon sugar and slavery, it's a legacy that lingers today. And if there is one place that illustrates St Kitts and Nevis' colonial past, it's Brimstone Hill Fortress.\n\nDesigned by the British starting in the 17th Century, it was built and maintained by enslaved Africans.\n\nKing Charles visited Brimstone Hill back in 2019. Local historian Leonard Stapleton also gave the monarch a tour of the island while he was visiting.\n\n\"It was very exciting,\" Leonard told the BBC. \"I still feel proud, having been tasked with that important job.\"\n\nThe historian's respect and affection for the Royal Family are clear. But he's also aware that symbols matter.\n\nWhile he said the Royal Family are \"kind and genuine human beings\" in person, the Crown \"represents the same force that was behind the enslavement of Africans.\"\n\nLeonard Stapleton believes it is time to update some of the language of governance in St Kitts and Nevis.\n\n\"One of the things that kind of irks us as a people is when our leaders are being sworn in, we still hear them swear allegiance to the King or the Queen and their heirs and successors,\" he said. \"We definitely want to move to the point where we can swear allegiance to our own beliefs, our constitution.\"\n\nBut he remains hopeful. \"I do believe that King Charles is going to do something positive about past injustices. I am very confident. As I've said, I've met him.\"\n\nI do believe that King Charles is going to do something positive about past injustices... I've met him\n\nBoth the King and the Prince of Wales have previously expressed personal sadness about slavery.\n\nSpeaking during a trip to Rwanda last year, then-Prince Charles said he could not describe \"the depths of his personal sorrow\" at the suffering caused by the slave trade.\n\nPrime Minister Dr Terrance Drew also spoke to the BBC about the issue of slavery reparations - meaning some form of compensation offered to the descendants of enslaved Africans, which could include formal apologies, cash payments to individuals, or cancellation of national debt for certain countries.\n\n\"We are not just speaking about a monetary contribution, because we are not acting like victims,\" he said.\n\n\"It is about real changes even within the systems that are still affecting people of African descent in negative ways.\"\n\nDuring then-Prince Charles's royal visit to Barbados in 2021, Buckingham Palace said that the issue of reparations was a political matter for individual governments to address.\n\nThere is widespread support throughout the Caribbean for compensation for the descendants of enslaved Africans. A strong indication of that support was highlighted by a ten-point plan proposed by the Caricom Reparations Commission.\n\nCaricom is an inter-governmental organisation of 15 member states including Barbados, Jamaica, the Bahamas and St Kitts and Nevis.\n\nThe main aim of the 10-point plan is to achieve reparatory justice for the descendants of enslaved Africans - including cash payments, development funding, and full, formal apologies. In 2014, it was unanimously approved by Caricom members.\n\nUK cultural influence remains strong in St Kitts and Nevis, decades after independence\n\nAt times demands for reparations have been met with unease. A common point of contention for some is whether descendants of enslaved Africans should be compensated now, given slavery ended almost 200 years ago.\n\nBut those in favour point to the fact that slave owners were compensated, while the enslaved and their descendants were not.\n\nIn 2015 British taxpayers finished paying off the debt which the government incurred to compensate British slave owners after abolition in 1833.\n\nIn recent years, royal tours to Caribbean countries have also intensified the debate around reparations. The day before the then Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived in the Bahamas in March 2022, the National Reparations Committee in the Bahamas released a letter calling for Britain to pay reparations for the slave trade.\n\nNiambi Hall-Campbell Dean is the committee's chair and a psychologist. She also welcomes the news that King Charles is supporting a study into the Royal Family's links to the slave trade.\n\nBut she thinks that \"the information that we all know is enough for the Crown to make a full and formal apology, rather than the statement of regret that we have come to be familiar with.\"\n\n\"In the Bahamas, and the Caribbean, slavery ended, and colonisation came in. We went from being enslaved to [being] British citizens,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"So we had to fill in those gaps, fill in those spaces with the culture of someone that was different from us, and the culture of someone that enslaved us.\"\n\nThe perpetrator requires healing... You can't commit a crime and keep it a secret\n\nFor Niambi, reparations are about justice, saying sorry, but also about donating money - to public health programmes, national debt, and historical research.\n\nHer views are not shared by the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. In April Mr Sunak refused to formally apologise for the UK's historic role in the slave trade, telling the House of Commons, \"trying to unpick our history is not the right way forward\".\n\nBut Niambi believes reparations are important for the descendants of both slave owners and enslaved Africans.\n\n\"The perpetrator requires healing,\" she said. \"You can't commit a crime… and just keep it a secret, and think that secret will not affect how you live your life.\"\n\nEach time Britain's links to the slave trade come back under the spotlight, the debate around reparations intensifies.\n\nBut reaching a general consensus of agreement regarding any next steps appears to be a long way off.", "The classic line-up had not performed together live since 1987\n\nFrankie Goes To Hollywood have played live for the first time in 36 years - but their long-awaited reunion was brief, lasting for just one song.\n\nThe pop band, who were among the biggest stars of the 1980s, buried the hatchet to play for 25,000 people at a concert to mark the Eurovision Song Contest in their home city, Liverpool.\n\nThey decided against playing their three UK number ones - Relax, Two Tribes and The Power of Love. Instead, they opted for Welcome To the Pleasuredome, a number two hit in 1985.\n\nRelax was the second biggest-selling song of the 1980s in the UK, behind Band Aid\n\nWhen its rumbling rhythm and chanted lyrics kicked in, the band succeeded in rolling back the years.\n\nNow with white hair, and wearing a white suit and black gloves, frontman Holly Johnson's voice is still unmistakable.\n\n\"Bless you,\" he said to the crowd at the National Lottery's Big Eurovision Welcome concert. \"Lovely to see you all.\"\n\nThere was no obvious sign of the acrimony that reportedly saw the group fight backstage before their final gig at Wembley Arena in 1987, and has lingered ever since.\n\nHolly Johnson went solo after the band split\n\nJust six weeks ago, when guitarist Brian \"Nasher\" Nash and two members of fellow band The Farm launched their guided tours under the banner Liverpool Music Icons Tours, a reconciliation was not on the cards.\n\nNasher subsequently said he agreed to take part in the reunion so he could spend time in Liverpool with bassist Mark O'Toole and drummer Peter \"Ped\" Gill - with whom he has remained friendly and who no longer live in the city - and so they could \"feel a bit of Scouse love\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Breakfast This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile not one of the trio of chart-topping singles that made Frankie such a phenomenon, Welcome To the Pleasuredome is a great song, and is the title track from their remarkable debut album.\n\nThe performance will be shown on BBC One on Monday\n\nBy the time the tune drew to a close on Sunday, it sounded like the band were just warming up, as were the crowd. The fans were fully expecting them to launch in to Relax or Two Tribes.\n\nBut then the group said a brief goodbye and walked off. There were muted cheers, as disbelieving murmurs rose from the audience instead. Even Atomic Kitten had performed two songs.\n\nIf this performance was a one-off, it was a memorable if fleeting moment.\n\nMaybe one song is as much time as the five band members can bear to share a stage for - but at least they proved that they and their music can still sound compelling and fresh.\n\nAnd if relations have thawed, perhaps the 40th anniversary of that debut album next year could present an opportunity to see more of Frankie Goes To Hollywood.\n\nAtomic Kitten's Natasha Hamilton and Liz McClarnon performed at the concert\n\nAt Sunday's concert, outside Liverpool's St George's Hall, they were on a bill that also included The Lightning Seeds, Jamie Webster, The Real Thing, Ricky Tomlinson and Shirley Ballas.\n\nThe show was \"Eurovision meets Scousevision\", as Lightning Seeds frontman Ian Broudie put it.\n\nSpeaking beforehand, Atomic Kitten's Natasha Hamilton said: \"We're bringing everyone together. Liverpool is just a melting pot of people and cultures and music. And we get to perform to the crowd today and represent the city, which is amazing.\"\n\nJamala performed with members of the United Ukrainian Ballet\n\nAs well as the local heroes, Ukraine's Jamala performed her 2016 Eurovision winning song 1944 with the United Ukrainian Ballet. She later joined British singer Birdy to cover The Beatles' All You Need Is Love, accompanied by the Liverpool Signing Choir.\n\nAnother Eurovision legend, Conchita Wurst, performed 2014 winning song Rise Like A Phoenix against a light display by a fleet of drones.\n\nRuPaul's Drag Race UK winner The Vivienne performed Abba's Eurovision classic Waterloo. \"I'm like the Poundland version of Abba,\" she joked.\n\nThere were also performances from pop stars Alexandra Burke and Zara Larsson.\n\nThe show finished with a drone display above St George's Hall\n\nAt the start of the show, there were concerns for crowd safety when a number of audience members climbed or were helped out of the area in front of the stage because of overcrowding.\n\nShortly after it began, co-host Joel Dommett asked the audience to spread out, telling them: \"We don't want anyone to get hurt.\"\n\nDommett presented the show with AJ Odudu. Highlights will be on BBC One at 18:30 BST on Monday.\n\nThe Eurovision semi-finals will take place in Liverpool on Tuesday and Thursday, with the grand final on Saturday.\n\nAll the build-up, insights and analysis is explored each week on a BBC podcast called Eurovisioncast.\n\nEurovisioncast is available on BBC Sounds, or search wherever you get your podcasts from.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAir raid sirens have sounded across Ukraine after Russia launched a fresh wave of drone and missile strikes.\n\nExplosions were heard overnight in the capital, Kyiv, where the mayor said five people had been injured in the \"biggest\" kamikaze drone attack so far.\n\nOne person was killed in the attack on the southern Odesa region. Ukraine's Red Cross says its warehouse was hit.\n\nIt marks the fourth attack in eight days on Kyiv and comes just 24 hours before Russia celebrates Victory Day.\n\nThe annual holiday commemorates the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during World War Two, a conflict the Kremlin has baselessly tried to draw parallels with since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year.\n\nAfter a lull in Russian attacks on civilian targets in recent months, which saw Kyiv go days without an attack, Moscow has intensified its air raids over the past week ahead of a widely expected Ukrainian counter-offensive.\n\nThe Ukrainian military said the latest Russian raids - which lasted for more than four hours and were launched shortly after midnight - saw Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drones swarm across the country.\n\nKyiv's Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said nearly 60 drones had been launched by Russia, describing it as the \"biggest\" such attack so far.\n\nHe added that all 36 drones had been destroyed over Kyiv, but five people had been injured by falling debris from downed drones.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify these numbers.\n\nEmergency services responded after drone wreckage fell on a runway at Zhuliany international airport - one of the city's two commercial airports - Kyiv's military administration said.\n\nAnd civilians were injured after drone debris hit a residential building in the central Shevchenkivskyi district, the administration added.\n\nElsewhere, in the Black Sea port city of Odesa, a warehouse was set ablaze after eight missiles were fired at targets by Russian bombers, Ukrainian officials said.\n\nIn a statement, Ukraine's Red Cross said its warehouse with humanitarian aid was destroyed and all aid deliveries had to be suspended.\n\nNatalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Southern Command, later said a body of a man - a security guard - was pulled from the wreckage.\n\nIn a daily update, the Ukrainian military's command said there had also been a wave of missile strikes on the Kherson, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions.\n\nAt least eight people - including a child - were injured in two villages in the southern Kherson region, local officials said.\n\nIn Zaporizhzhia, the head of the Russian installed administration, Vladimir Rogov, said Russian forces hit a warehouse and a Ukrainian troop position in the small city of Orikhiv.\n\nOn the eastern front, the Ukrainian commander of forces in the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut said Russian troops had stepped up shelling, in a bid to take the city by Tuesday's celebrations.\n\nRussian troops and fighters from the Wagner Group, a private military company, have been trying to capture Bakhmut for months - despite its questionable strategic value.\n\nOver the weekend, Wagner's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared to U-turn on a threat to withdraw from the city after he was promised fresh ammunition supplies by the defence ministry in Moscow.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that 9 May would from now be celebrated as Europe Day, in line with the European Union. The move - which needs parliamentary approval - is seen as a pointed rebuke to Russia.\n\nMr Zelensky said he had signed a decree that the day would commemorate European unity and the defeat of \"Ruscism\" - a term that is shorthand for \"Russian fascism\".\n\nHe also said that 8 May would now officially be a Day of Remembrance and Victory, as marked in many countries around the world.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will hold talks with Mr Zelensky in Kyiv on Tuesday.\n\nMeanwhile, as Russia is preparing for Tuesday's Victory Day parade on Moscow's Red Square, the Kremlin is yet to reveal what President Vladimir Putin's role will be at the annual event.\n\nLast year, Mr Putin addressed the marching troops and was seen sitting among World War Two veterans in the VIP box.\n\nRussia says the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - all former Soviet republics - are expected at the parade, which has been otherwise snubbed by major world countries, including the UK, the US and France - all wartime allies of the then Soviet Union.\n\nIn a separate development, a court in Berlin banned the carrying of Russian and Soviet flags during rallies at Soviet war memorials in the German capital on 9 May.", "King Charles' Coronation is the first time the Duke of Sussex has been seen publicly with his family since his controversial memoir Spare came out.\n\nPrince Harry could be seen sitting two rows behind his brother, the Prince of Wales, at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe BBC's Duncan's Kennedy breaks down the prince's brief stint in London and what he did.", "The chief executive of the Post Office, Nick Read, will return part of his £450,000 bonus for last year, after a rebuke from the chairman of the inquiry into the Horizon computer scandal.\n\nIn its financial accounts for last year the Post Office said its executives had met all their obligations to support the inquiry into the system.\n\nBut the inquiry is still taking place.\n\nThey also wrongly said inquiry chairman Sir Wyn Williams had approved bonuses relating to that support.\n\nMr Read apologised for what he described as \"unacceptable errors\".\n\nIn a letter to the inquiry chairman, Mr Read admitted the firm had made an \"incorrect statement\" in its accounts.\n\nThe Horizon inquiry is investigating how hundreds of sub-postmasters became victims of a vast miscarriage of justice.\n\nThey were blamed for discrepancies in their sub-post office's finances and prosecuted, with many receiving prison sentences, criminal records or going bankrupt. The discrepancies were down to the Post Office's glitch-prone IT system, called Horizon.\n\nIn the Post Office's annual accounts for last year published on 1 March, there was a target for executives defined as: \"All required evidence and information supplied on time, with confirmation from Sir Wyn Williams and team that Post Office's performance supported and enabled the Inquiry to finish in line with expectations\".\n\nThe metric was marked as '\"achieved\" although at the time the bonuses were agreed the inquiry was still in its first phase. It is likely to continue until 2024.\n\nAfter a lawyer acting on behalf of Sir Wyn questioned the accounts, the Post Office issued a statement apologising for the \"inappropriate sub-metric related to the Horizon IT Inquiry\".\n\nIn a letter addressed personally to Sir Wyn, Mr Read apologised and said he would return the remuneration associated with that sub-metric.\n\nThe Post Office board is considering whether other members of the leadership should do the same.\n\nThe inquiry has heard moving testimony from dozens of sub-postmasters who were falsely accused of fraud. Hundreds lost their livelihoods, were stigmatised in their communities, and some sent to prison.\n\nDozens of convictions have now been overturned in the courts, but many of those wrongly convicted are still awaiting compensation.\n\nThe next phase of the inquiry due to start next month will look at the action taken against the sub-postmasters, and knowledge of and responsibility for failures in investigation. A later phase will explore governance including whistleblowing over the scandal.\n\nMr Read said in his letter that he regretted the errors made particularly against the background of \"deeply concerning\" evidence presented to the inquiry.\n\nHe added: \"Our clear intent remains to offer full and fair compensation as quickly as possible and we are doing all we can to work with the government to achieve that.\"", "President Putin carrying a photograph of his father during last year's Victory Day celebrations\n\nSeveral Russian cities have announced they will scale back this year's Victory Day celebrations.\n\nRussian authorities have cited security reasons and attacks from pro-Ukrainian forces for the changes.\n\nExplosions and fires have occurred in Russia in recent weeks.\n\nBut some have argued that the reduced events show the Kremlin is nervous about celebrations turning into shows of dissent against its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nGreat pomp and shows of military might are the usual hallmarks of Victory Day, which marks the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany on 9 May 1945.\n\nOne of the day's most recognisable events is the Immortal Regiment procession, which sees people across the country marching holding photographs of their relatives who fought in World War Two.\n\nLast year, President Vladimir Putin led the procession across Red Square in Moscow while holding a photograph of his father in uniform.\n\nThis year, however, the Immortal Regiment \"will be held in other formats for security reasons\", lawmaker and organiser Yelena Tsunayeva told journalists last month.\n\nAccording to a news release on the Immortal Regiment of Russia's website, Ms Tsunayeva suggested that those wishing to commemorate their relatives should instead place photos of war veterans in car windows, transfer their image to items of clothing, or change their social media avatars.\n\nSome commentators have said that an in-person Immortal Regiment procession could end up highlighting the number of Russian losses in Ukraine.\n\nDmitry Kolezev, a journalist and editor of a liberal news website, now living in exile, said that had the procession not been cancelled, people would have \"almost certainly come to the Immortal Regiment with portraits of those who died in Ukraine, and the number of recent photographs may turn out to be depressingly large\".\n\nMr Kolezev also said that the authorities might be concerned that a large gathering of people could snowball into a show of dissent. \"History knows of examples when loyal events turned into protests,\" he said on Telegram.\n\nViktor Muchnik, the former editor-in-chief of a Siberian TV network, who has also left the country, said the Russian state was \"maniacally suspicious\" and was less concerned about a \"hypothetical terrorist attack\" than it was about damage to its image.\n\nHe said that the Kremlin might fear that the procession will show \"too many portraits of those who died not 80 years ago, but over the past year\".\n\n\"This will give an idea of the hidden extent of the disaster,\" Mr Muchnik said in an interview.\n\nMeanwhile, the world-famous parade of military equipment on Moscow's Red Square, which is traditionally observed by President Putin, will be strictly closed off to the public.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia's security services were working to ensure the safety of the parade against \"terrorist attacks\".\n\n\"We are of course aware that the Kyiv regime, which is behind a number of such attacks, terrorist acts, plans to continue its campaign. All our special services are doing everything possible to ensure security,\" he said.\n\nTwo separate fires at fuel storage facilities have broken out in the last few days in southern Russia and in Russian-occupied Crimea, including one on Wednesday morning in the Krasnodar region near a bridge leading to the occupied Crimean Peninsula.\n\nThis week, two separate explosions in the Russian border region of Bryansk derailed freight trains, while power lines were destroyed by a suspected explosive device in Leningrad Region.\n\nAlthough none of these attacks have been claimed by Ukraine, Kyiv's military has said that undermining Russia's logistics formed part of preparations for its long-expected counter-offensive.", "A lawyer for a writer accusing Donald Trump of rape in a civil trial urged a jury to hold the ex-president liable for the alleged assault.\n\n\"No one, not even a former president, is above the law,\" lawyer Roberta Kaplan said on Monday.\n\nE Jean Carroll alleges Mr Trump raped her in a New York department store in the mid-1990s, which he denies.\n\nIn closing remarks in New York, Mr Trump's legal team accused Ms Carroll of \"bringing a false claim\".\n\nThe nine-member jury are due to begin deliberations on Tuesday morning in the civil rape and defamation trial against the former president, after they receive instructions from US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is not related to Roberta Kaplan.\n\nThe jury has been hearing arguments over the past two weeks in a Manhattan federal court.\n\nIn their closing statement, Ms Carroll's attorneys focused on previous remarks Mr Trump has made about women.\n\nMs Kaplan pointed to Mr Trump's controversial remarks in a 2005 Access Hollywood tape, which emerged publicly in 2016.\n\nReferring to the comments, she said: \"He kissed [women] without consent, he grabbed them, he did not wait.\"\n\nShe argued the remarks had been a \"playbook\" for how he treated Ms Carroll and other women.\n\nMs Kaplan also said \"self-blame\" had kept Ms Carroll from going to the police for decades.\n\nIn his closing statement, Mr Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina focused on seeking to cast doubt on the details of Ms Carroll's story, which he at one point called \"a work of fiction\".\n\nHe questioned why Ms Carroll could not specify the date of the assault, arguing that stripped Mr Trump of the chance to provide an alibi.\n\nIt was \"not a coincidence\" none of the witnesses Ms Carroll had called could provide an exact date, he argued.\n\nHe also raised questions about the scene of the alleged assault, calling it \"unbelievable\" it could have occurred in a popular department store without any employees to witness it.\n\nMr Tacopina argued the story had been \"ripped from the pages of Law and Order SVU\", referring to a 2012 episode of the popular crime show in which a woman was raped in the lingerie department of a Bergdorf Goodman store.\n\nMs Carroll has acknowledged her alleged assault occurred in the same place as the episode, which was released before she came forward with her allegation in 2019, but she said that was a coincidence.\n\n\"What's the likelihood of that?\" Mr Tacopina asked.\n\nThe former president did not appear at the trial in person but instead was present in a video of an October deposition played for the court.\n\n\"It's the most ridiculous, disgusting story,\" Mr Trump said in the video. \"It's just made up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Carroll, 79, has accused Mr Trump, 76, of attacking her in 1995 or 1996, and then defaming her by denying it happened.\n\nJurors in the trial heard days of graphic testimony. Ms Carroll told jurors she had been left \"unable to ever have a romantic life again\" after the alleged attack.\n\nA former columnist for Elle magazine, Ms Carroll was able to bring the civil case against Mr Trump after New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022.\n\nThe act allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state over claims that would have normally exceeded statute limitations.", "Jennifer Coolidge plays Tanya McQuoid in the satirical dark comedy show, The White Lotus\n\nHollywood stars including Jennifer Coolidge and Pedro Pascal paid tribute to striking writers in their acceptance speeches at the MTV Movie & TV Awards.\n\nA pre-recorded ceremony was broadcast after the live event was cancelled at the last minute amid the first major writers' strike in 15 years.\n\nWriters started the action last week, calling for better pay and working conditions in the streaming era.\n\nThe White Lotus star Coolidge said she stood \"side by side\" with them.\n\nWhile accepting the comedic genius award on Sunday, she said they were \"fighting for the rights of artists everywhere\".\n\n\"You know, almost all great comedy starts with great writers,\" she said in a video message.\n\n\"As a proud member of SAG [Screen Actors Guild], I stand here before you tonight, side by side with my sisters and brothers from the WGA [Writers Guild of America], that are fighting right now, fighting for the rights of artists everywhere.\"\n\nThe WGA had said it had planned to picket the event on Sunday in Santa Monica, California, before the glitzy live show was scrapped in favour of a more muted affair.\n\nShow bosses said they did so in order to \"carefully navigate how best to deliver the fan first awards show we envisioned\".\n\nThe Last of Us star Pascal also acknowledged those \"fighting very hard\" for fair wages, as he accepted his third award of the evening.\n\nThe zombie drama, written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, won best TV show while earlier, Pascal and co-star Bella Ramsey picked up best duo.\n\n\"Craig and Neil can't be here,\" Pascal said. \"We are all standing in solidarity with the WGA that is fighting very hard for fair wages. We thank you, we love you.\"\n\nPedro Pascal plays Joel in the post-apocalyptic TV drama series, The Last of Us\n\nThe writers' strike began last week when more than 11,000 members of the WGA downed tools after talks with major studios broke down.\n\nThe union is seeking higher minimum pay, more writers per show and a greater share of the royalties for shows that can now appear on streaming platforms for many years, as well as assurances around the use of artificial intelligence.\n\nLate night comedy talk shows were the first to go off the air without their writers, and picket lines were formed outside studios and offices belonging to the likes of Disney, Netflix and Paramount.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Sunday, British actor Joseph Quinn also paid tribute to the writers as he collected the prize for best breakthrough performance.\n\nQuinn, who plays Eddie Munson in Stranger Things, said: \"I don't think that people would connect with a character like Eddie or others in the Stranger Things universe without compassionate, intelligent, quality writing.\n\n\"Being a writer is a hard job,\" he added. \"It deserves respect.\n\n\"If we respect each other, we can cultivate a kinder, more inclusive, more collaborative environment for everyone - that'd be nice.\"\n\nOn the night, the event's top prize for best movie went to the slasher film Scream VI, while Tom Cruise was awarded best performance in a movie for Top Gun: Maverick.\n\nDrew Barrymore had been scheduled to present the ceremony before pulling out in a similar show of solidarity.\n\nShe did however appear in several pre-recorded sketches, parodying movies like Barbie and Cocaine Bear, and was also named as the winner of the best host award for The Drew Barrymore Show.", "Colourful drone displays have taken place across the country as part of the King's Coronation concert.\n\nThe drones formed together to create different animals and moments in nature, as Alexis Ffrench and Zak Abel performed a cover of Don't You Forget About Me by Simple Minds.", "King Charles III, seen here with Ralph Gonsalves, is head of state in a number of Caribbean countries\n\nThe Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines has said having a British monarch as head of state is \"an absurdity\" he would like to end in his lifetime.\n\nRalph Gonsalves said he would welcome an apology from the British state and monarchy on past injustices relating to slavery.\n\nHe said he believes King Charles III is open to talking about reparations.\n\nKing Charles is head of state in eight Caribbean countries.\n\nWithin the past year, political leaders in the Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda have all indicated their plans to review their positions as constitutional monarchies.\n\nThe Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, Dr Terrance Drew, told the BBC his country is \"not totally free\" as long as King Charles III remains head of state and that a public consultation on whether the nation should become a republic would begin during his leadership.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC two days after the coronation, Dr Gonsalves said the current constitutional arrangement \"offends people in a psychological way\" and his country wanted a president \"selected by our own constitutional processes\".\n\nIn 2009, St Vincent and the Grenadines held a referendum to decide whether to transition to a republic. Forty-five per cent of voters chose to replace Queen Elizabeth II with a ceremonial president - falling far short of the two-thirds required.\n\nMr Gonsalves has said he would like to try again.\n\n\"I don't know whether it will happen. But I'm hoping so. If it doesn't happen, somebody else will stand on my shoulders and carry forth that work,\" he said.\n\nAccording to a recent poll conducted in the 15 countries where the King is head of state, St Vincent and the Grenadines is among those most opposed to becoming a republic.\n\nThe survey, conducted by UK politician-turned-pollster Lord Ashcroft, suggests that the idea would be rejected by a majority of 63% to 34%.\n\nLord Ashcroft Polls interviewed 22,701 adults across the 15 countries between 6 February and 23 March.\n\nIn a statement, Buckingham Palace said the decision on transitioning to a republic \"is purely a matter for each country to decide\".\n\nMr Gonsalves added he would welcome an apology from both King Charles and the British government on the legacy of slavery.\n\n\"King Charles at least, is clearly interested in having a conversation. And I welcome that. But I don't know whether King Charles is going to do an apology without the British state.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace told the BBC the King takes slavery \"profoundly seriously\".\n\nPrime Minister Ralph Gonsalves was in office the last time St Vincent and the Grenadines voted on having the British monarch as head of state in 2009\n\nBuckingham Palace has said that it is co-operating with an independent study exploring the relationship between the British monarchy and the slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries.\n\nMr Gonsalves said he had contacted David Cameron's government on the issue, but was rejected.\n\n\"Their response was that, 'Look, we're not doing apologies. Let's look forward, let us learn. Let's not look to the past'. There's only one problem with that. The present is the past,\" he said.\n\nMr Gonsalves said the current UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, was also wrong for refusing to apologise for the UK's historic role in the slave trade, adding that going to the International Criminal Court to pursue the issue was also an option.\n\n\"We can continue the political work, we can do diplomatic work, but we can also go to the International Court of Justice, for example,\" he said.\n\n\"But I would prefer if we have the conversation, rather than to have to do that.\"\n\nSpeaking two days after the Coronation, Dr Gonsalves praised the King for his positions on climate change and inter-faith dialogue.\n\n\"I hold his Majesty in great personal regard,\" he said.\n\n\"My conversation is not one of revenge. It is just something which is reasonable and fair.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince Louis has been driving a digger as part of volunteering efforts on the final day of Coronation celebrations.\n\nThe five-year-old, along with brother, Prince George, and sister, Princess Charlotte, helped Scouts in Slough, Berkshire, while the prime minister made food in a village hall.\n\nPeople across the UK are being urged to get involved in local projects such as beach cleaning and flower planting.\n\nIt is part of a drive to encourage a post-pandemic return to volunteering.\n\nTens of thousands of charities have been taking part in the Big Help Out, with a total of 30,000 organisations putting on 55,000 events across the UK.\n\nPrince George also joined his father Prince William in the digger\n\nJoining events on Monday, Prince George and Princess Charlotte worked to improve the 3rd Upton Scouts Hut in Slough, while Prince Louis gave his father, the Prince of Wales, a helping hand driving a digger.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh also took part in a puppy class at the Guide Dogs training centre in Reading, while the Princess Royal and her husband, Sir Tim Laurence, were attending a civic service recognising local volunteers at Gloucester Cathedral.\n\nElsewhere, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak prepared food for the elderly at a Hertfordshire village hall, alongside his wife, Akshata Murthy.\n\nCommenting on the weekend's Coronation events, the prime minister said \"no other country in the world\" could have put on such a \"dazzling spectacle\".\n\nThe prime minister helped out at a community lunch at Mill End Community Centre, Rickmansworth\n\nSunday saw street parties and the Coronation concert at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe King and Queen Camilla - who were not due to join Monday's events - enjoyed performances by stars including Take That and Katy Perry at the concert, with other senior royals and thousands of spectators.\n\nThe King was crowned alongside the Queen at Westminster Abbey on Saturday, in a service watched by millions of people around the world.\n\nBut after the pomp and ceremony of the weekend, Monday has seen a shift of focus to local projects making a difference, and volunteers giving something back.\n\nThe Royal Family have taken part in a Big Help Out, hosted by Scouts in Slough\n\nKrishan Kant Attri, Julie Siddiqi, Venerable Ajahn Amaro and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, prepare food as they join other faith leaders in taking part in the Big Help Out\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, was spotted helping other faith leaders to prepare and serve meals to the homeless at the Passage in Westminster, central London.\n\nAn app and website were set up to allow people to search for volunteering opportunities, which range from helping the elderly to working with environmental charities and supporting animal welfare.\n\nMatt Hyde, co-founder of the Big Help Out and chief executive of the the Scout Association, said it was \"not too late\" for people to sign up for activities in their area.\n\nHe told the BBC's Breakfast programme: \"The whole theme of this weekend has been about service. We're not just spectators in that, we're part of the story.\"\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales and their three children posed with volunteers for pictures\n\nBrendan Cox, the co-founder of the Together Coalition who is also behind the event, said organisations like his \"desperately need\" volunteers.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Over the Covid pandemic, volunteering rates dropped because organisations that normally recruit weren't recruiting, and people got out of the habit.\"\n\nAnd 15-year-old Jay Dzuira - one of the scouts who has organised an activities session for young people in Brent, west London - said he would \"recommend volunteering to anyone\".\n\n\"Being a scout really helped me with my socialising skills. Before I didn't socialise a lot. Now I'm a youth leader and it is a really enjoyable experience.\"\n\nIn Brockham, Surrey, people have spent several months making a crown entirely of recycled materials, which will act as a focal point for a Coronation party this afternoon, the culmination of four days of events.\n\n\"I think it's important to keep history alive and to mark these events when they happen,\" David Challenger, from the parish council, told the BBC. \"It's about bringing the community together, and we've found it's something people really embrace.\"\n\nIn Wales, international rugby players Leigh Halfpenny and Jamie Roberts joined a litter pick in Newport.\n\n\"I think the Coronation's a big event for the British public and it's a time when we should come together, and something like this is a way of doing it,\" said Roberts.\n\nPrincess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie posed for a selfie with a well-wisher while attending a street party on Sunday\n\nA Buckingham Palace official said the King was \"wholly supportive of the Big Help Out initiatives\".\n\nThe Queen is patron of the Royal Voluntary Service charity and has also been patron of the Big Lunch initiative since 2013.\n\nThe royals have been out in force over the weekend as they joined various Coronation events around the country.\n\nBefore Sunday's concert, Prince Edward and the duchess attended a Coronation Big Lunch in Cranleigh, Surrey, while Princess Anne and Sir Tim went to a community street party in Swindon.\n\nThe Duke of York's daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, also attended a big lunch in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.\n\nHow are you involved in the Big Help Out? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Labour have won Plymouth and Stoke-on-Trent and have taken control of Medway Council in the local elections.\n\nMeanwhile, the Conservatives have lost their majorities in Tamworth, Brentwood, Hertsmere and North West Leicestershire, as counting continues in England.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have also gained council seats at the expense of the Conservatives.\n\nThe majority of the local election results will not be confirmed until later on Friday.\n\nRead more on this story.", "A 24-year-old Marine placed Mr Neely in a chokehold on the F-line train in the SoHo section of Manhattan\n\nProtesters are gathering in New York City to call for justice for Jordan Neely, a subway passenger who died on Monday after a man placed him in a chokehold.\n\nVideo of the encounter showed Mr Neely, 30, struggling as another man grabbed him and pinned him on the ground.\n\nNew York City officials have said the death was a homicide.\n\nThey have questioned and released the 24-year-old US Marine who restrained him.\n\nPolice and prosecutors will now decide whether to charge him.\n\nMr Neely was a popular Michael Jackson impersonator who frequently performed in Times Square. He was unhoused and suffering from mental health issues, according to US media.\n\nMr Neely was a \"very talented black man who loves to dance\", his aunt, Carolyn Neely, wrote in a GoFundMe page to raise money for his funeral service.\n\n\"Jordan deserves justice. He was loved,\" Ms Neely told the BBC.\n\nA group of demonstrators gathered in the subway station where Mr Neely died on Wednesday.\n\nOne of the demonstrators, Kyle Ishmael, a 38-year-old who lives in Harlem, said the video of Mr Neely's death \"disgusted\" him.\n\n\"I couldn't believe this was happening on my subway in my city that I grew up in,\" he told BBC's US partner, CBS News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProtesters are expected to gather on Thursday outside the Manhattan District Attorney's office to call for charges to be filed against the 24-year-old, according to local outlet ABC 7.\n\nThe incident took place on Monday afternoon on the F-line train in the SoHo section of Manhattan.\n\nA video taken by a freelance journalist shows the former Marine holding the 30-year-old man around the neck for two minutes and 55 seconds.\n\nWitnesses reportedly said Mr Neely was acting erratically before the man restrained him, yelling that he did not have food or water and would not mind going to jail.\n\nTwo other riders in the video are also seen restraining his arms. Mr Neely lay motionless after all three men let go of him. He was later taken to hospital and pronounced dead.\n\nIn the GoFundMe page, Ms Neely said Jordan Neely struggled after his mother, Christie Neely, was murdered in 2007.\n\nHer body was found stuffed in a travel bag underneath a bridge in the Bronx, and her boyfriend was later convicted of murder, according to local reports.\n\nMr Neely testified in the trial, saying his mother's relationship with the boyfriend had been \"crazy\" and \"a fight every day\", according to local outlet the Jersey Journal.\n\nMr Neely's death sparked an argument between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.\n\nOn Wednesday, the mayor tweeted that \"any loss of life is tragic\", but that there was \"a lot we don't know about what happened here, so I'm going to refrain from commenting further\".\n\nMs Ocasio-Cortez said the statement marked \"a new low: not being able to clearly condemn a public murder because the victim was of a social status some would deem 'too low' to care about\".\n\nNew York's Governor Kathy Hochul has commented on the incident saying it was clear that Mr Neely was not going to cause harm to people on the subway with his behaviour.\n\n\"No one has the right to take the life of another person,\" she told reporters on Thursday.\n\n\"It was a very extreme response,\" she added.", "Student Rebecca Steer had wanted to become a police detective\n\nA drink-driver who deliberately steered into a crowd \"like they were human skittles\" and fatally injured a student has been jailed for her murder.\n\nRebecca Steer, 22, died after she was dragged underneath the Volvo in Oswestry, Shropshire, on 9 October.\n\nStephen McHugh, who had also taken cocaine and did not hold a driving licence, was convicted on Thursday after a trial at Stafford Crown Court.\n\nHe was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years.\n\nThe court heard how McHugh mounted the kerb and ploughed into a group of pedestrians on a pavement outside the Grill Out takeaway.\n\nAs well as hitting bystander Ms Steer, he also struck and injured two men who were \"knocked aside\" by the car's front wing.\n\nStephen McHugh snorted cocaine less than five minutes before driving into the crowd of people\n\nMcHugh, 28, was also convicted of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nPassing sentence, Mr Justice Andrew Baker said McHugh, of Artillery Road, Park Hall, Shropshire, had reacted to verbal abuse directed at his erratic driving by treating pedestrians \"like they were human skittles\".\n\nDescribing the murder of Ms Steer, of Llanymynech, Powys, as an \"outrage\", Mr Justice Andrew Baker said the incident could have been \"much worse\" for the group who had been standing on the footpath.\n\n\"For Becky Steer, as everyone in court knows, it could not have been worse,\" he added.\n\nDuring the trial, McHugh admitted having almost no driving experience and had never had a driving lesson.\n\nHe had also admitted drinking and taking drugs before he got behind the wheel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV captures the moments before McHugh drove into the group on the pavement\n\nJurors heard how the 28-year-old, formerly of Fazakerley, Liverpool, had driven on the footpath less than five minutes after snorting cocaine.\n\nHe had previously claimed in court he had been trying to frighten a group of people outside the takeaway in Willow Street, but had denied using his car as a \"weapon\" to deliberately drive into pedestrians.\n\nJurors deliberated for more than eight-and-a-half hours over three days, before convicting him of murder by a majority verdict.\n\nThe court had heard how Ms Steer, who wanted to become a police detective, was in her final year of a criminal justice course at Liverpool John Moores University.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Ms Steer's mother described her daughter as the \"most loving, talented and kind-hearted person who you could have wished to know\".\n\nThe \"talented and kind-hearted\" 22-year-old was in her final year at Liverpool John Moores University\n\nMr Justice Andrew Baker added: \"In her mother's words she was 'flying' through her course and had great ambitions and a future full of potential.\"\n\nHe told McHugh, who made a thumbs-up gesture towards the jury as he was led away after sentencing: \"The fact that it was illegal for you to be driving at all, even if stone-cold sober, makes it even more of an outrage.\n\n\"You arrived behind the wheel driving too fast and too close to the pavement - unfit to be driving anywhere.\"\n\nThe judge also ordered the destruction of McHugh's automatic Volvo, which he had acquired after trading in a manual Volkswagen Passat, eight days before the incident.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe King would find the idea of people paying homage to him during his Coronation \"abhorrent\", the broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby believes.\n\nFor the first time, the public are being given an active role in the ceremony as they are invited to swear allegiance to the King.\n\nBut Dimbleby, a close friend of the King, told BBC R4's Today programme he has \"never wanted to be revered\".\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury has previously said the oath is voluntary.\n\nJustin Welby said earlier this week there was \"no drama\" about whether the public swear allegiance to the monarch, reiterating that this was \"an invitation; it's not a command\".\n\nThe \"homage of the people\" is a new addition to the ancient ceremony which is being led by the archbishop.\n\nIt was revealed, along with other details of the service, in a liturgy published by Lambeth Palace last weekend. Lambeth Palace said the liturgy had been produced \"in close consultation\" with the King and the government.\n\nKing Charles pictured at a special lunch at Buckingham Palace, the day before his Coronation.\n\nA spokesperson for Lambeth Palace said it hoped people would say the homage out loud and there would be a \"sense of a great cry around the nation and around the world of support for the King\".\n\nCampaign group Republic called the idea \"nonsense\" and \"offensive\".\n\nDimbleby, who is attending the Coronation on Saturday, said he feels there may have been a miscommunication because it is \"so different from the king that I know\".\n\nAsked what the King thinks of the idea, he told the Today programme that he did not know \"for certain\", but added: \"I can think of nothing that he would find more abhorrent.\n\n\"He's never wanted to be revered. He's never wanted, so far as I know, to have anyone pay homage to him except in mock terms as a joke.\n\n\"He wants, I think, to feel that people will share in the event.\"\n\nDimbleby said it seemed to him to be an initiative by the archbishop \"who thought it would be a good thing to give everyone a chance to pay that homage\".\n\nHe said: \"I think it was well intentioned and rather ill-advised, because its effect, of course, is to allow everyone to say, well, I'm not going to pay homage.\"\n\nHe added that it is \"so different from the King that I know to ask for homage or to expect homage\".\n\nIt is unclear who came up with the idea, but it is \"pretty inconceivable\" that Buckingham Palace was not aware of the homage element or the entire order of service before it was announced, the BBC's Religion Editor Aleem Maqbool told the Today programme.\n\nEarlier this week, the archbishop said it was fine if people did not want to join in the voluntary oath.\n\nAsked about some newspaper reports suggesting he had gone \"rogue\", he insisted the service had been a \"huge, collaborative [with Buckingham Palace and the Cabinet Office] and very lovely process\".\n\n\"There's no individual who can claim the credit for this service,\" he added.\n\nWhile reading out the oath, the archbishop will call upon \"all persons of goodwill in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of the other realms and the territories to make their homage, in heart and voice, to their undoubted King, defender of all\".\n\nThe order of service will read: \"All who so desire, in the abbey, and elsewhere, say together:\n\n\"I swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.\"\n\nWith less than 24 hours until the Coronation gets under way, the King and Camilla, the Queen Consort, were seen arriving at Westminster Abbey for a final rehearsal.\n\nKing Charles waved from the car window as he arrived.\n\nThe royal couple have recorded an announcement reminding train passengers to \"mind the gap\" - which will be played at every railway station across the UK and all London Underground stations between Friday and Monday.\n\nKing Charles tells passengers: \"My wife and I wish you and your families a wonderful coronation weekend.\"\n\nCamilla then says: \"Wherever you are travelling, we hope you have a safe and pleasant journey.\"\n\nHe was later pictured looking happy and relaxed at a lunch for realm prime ministers and governors general at Buckingham Palace.\n\nSaturday's historic occasion will include a procession, ceremony involving regalia - symbols of royalty such as the crown, orb and sceptres - and another procession back to Buckingham Palace, where there will be a balcony appearance from the monarch and a fly-past.\n\nMore than 400,000 people will receive a medal recognising their contribution to the Coronation.\n\nMade of nickel silver, it has the royal cypher on one side and images of the King and Queen Consort on the other.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - read more here.", "Johanita Kossiwa Dogbey was attacked on Monday afternoon in Brixton\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman in south London, as well as offences connected to other alleged stabbing attacks.\n\nJohanita Kossiwa Dogbey, 31, was killed on Stockwell Park Walk in Brixton on Monday afternoon.\n\nMohamed Nur is accused of her murder and possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nMr Nur, 33, is also accused of another count of possession of an offensive weapon and causing grievous bodily harm to three people, last Saturday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said two women and a man suffered slash injuries in Town Hall Parade, Brixton Road and Acre Lane in Brixton during a one-hour period.\n\nMs Dogbey was treated by paramedics but pronounced dead at the scene\n\nEarlier on Friday, Mr Nur, of Bond Way in Vauxhall, appeared at Croydon Magistrates' Court where he was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey next week.\n\nMs Dogbey's family has described her as a \"smart, dedicated and loving\" woman who \"hasn't got one bad bone in her body\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Junior doctors in Scotland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a three-day strike amid a pay dispute with the Scottish government.\n\nIn a ballot of BMA Scotland members 97% voted for 72-hour walkout over calls for a 23.5% increase above inflation.\n\nIt follows a strikes by junior doctors in England, who walked out for three days in March and four days in April.\n\nHealth Secretary Michael Matheson said he was \"disappointed\" but that further talks on pay were taking place.\n\nThe ballot, which was open for more than five weeks, closed at noon.\n\nMore than 71% of the eligible 5,000 junior doctors voted, with 97% in favour of industrial action. A strike would impact planned operations, clinics and GP appointments.\n\nJunior doctors - fully-qualified medics who are not specialty staff doctors, consultants or GPs - make up 44% of the doctors in the NHS in Scotland.\n\nThe union said previous pay awards for junior doctors in Scotland had delivered real-terms pay cuts of 23.5% since 2008.\n\nIt added that, with rises in inflation, this year's 4.5% uplift was \"again being outstripped and the position on pay erosion will be worse by the end of the year\".\n\nThe BMA has asked for a 23.5% increase on top of inflation, arguing that it is needed to make up for 15 years of \"pay erosion\".\n\nThe union said it would begin preparations for a 72-hour walkout if the Scottish government did not put forward a credible offer. Dates for the strike have not been confirmed.\n\nCommittee chairman Dr Chris Smith said some junior doctors in Scotland were earning a basic salary that equated to about £14 an hour.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme 44% of junior doctors in the BMA were \"actively considering leaving the NHS\".\n\n\"That's just because of the low pay driving people away, which means there are gaps in the rotas, which means the work becomes harder, which drives people into burnout - it's just a self-perpetuating cycle,\" he said.\n\n\"What we need to do now is put a stop to that, and to do that we need a good pay offer from the Scottish government.\"\n\nDr Smith said the historic strike would be \"vital\" to protect the NHS.\n\n\"This ballot result shows, beyond doubt, that junior doctors in Scotland have had enough,\" he said, adding that the pay erosion since 2008 was \"simply unacceptable\".\n\n\"We have made, and continue to make, progress with Scottish government in formal negotiations on pay, but there is still some work to do before there is an offer that we believe could be credibly put to members.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Michael Matheson said negotiations were under way\n\nThe Scottish government previously said the BMA demands were \"simply unaffordable\" unless cuts were made to the NHS and other public services.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf will be under pressure to avert the strike having often pointed out during the SNP leadership campaign his record as health secretary on avoiding NHS strikes in Scotland.\n\nHealth Secretary Michael Matheson said he was \"disappointed\" by the result of the ballot.\n\n\"I will continue to do all I can to avert industrial action in NHS Scotland,\" he said. \"Negotiations to agree a pay uplift are already under way.\n\n\"As these negotiations are held in confidence, it would be inappropriate to offer any further details at this time.\"\n\nJunior doctors had already been awarded a 4.5% pay uplift recommended by the independent Doctors' and Dentists' Pay Review Body, the Scottish government said.\n\nIt wrote to the body earlier in the year asking for a \"separate and specific\" recommendation for junior doctor pay.\n\nDr Tiffany Li, from BMA's Scottish junior doctors committee, told BBC Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live the drop in pay in real terms over the past 15 years was the \"equivalent of working three months of the year for free\".\n\n\"What we're simply asking the Scottish government to do is help us to reverse that pay cut and actually bring it back to cost neutral level,\" she said.\n\nDr Li said many doctors were leaving the NHS to work abroad where pay and conditions were better.\n\n\"Patient care is the centre of what we strike for,\" she said.\n\n\"On a daily basis we are seeing that patients are not getting the care that they need. We're seeing surgeries being cancelled because of a lack of staff an outpatient clinics being cancelled, again because of a lack of doctors.\"\n\nStrikes would cause disruption to patient care but in a \"safe, controlled environment\", she added.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane said it was clear that junior doctors were \"at the end of their tether\".\n\n\"Patients will naturally be alarmed at the impact strike action will have on already unacceptable waiting times,\" he said.\n\nJackie Baillie, Scottish Labour health spokesperson, said: \"This result has not come out of the blue - it is the product of years of SNP failure to support junior doctors and reward them for their work.\"\n\nOther NHS Scotland staff previously agreed to pay settlements without their threatened strike action, with nurses, midwives and allied health professionals accepting a 6.5% increase from April on top of a 7.5% pay rise imposed for 2022/23.\n\nJunior doctors in England, who are asking for a 35% pay rise, staged strikes between 13 and 15 March and 11 and 15 April.\n\nUK Health Secretary Steve Barclay described their pay claim as unaffordable, but earlier this week a government spokesman said discussions with the BMA were \"constructive\" and both parties would meet again in the coming days.", "Rain Newton-Smith took over as the CBI's new director-general last month\n\nThe CBI has hired a team of ethics advisors to help overhaul its operations, following allegations of serious sexual misconduct by staff.\n\nThe business lobby group's new head Rain Newton-Smith told members on Friday it had taken on the consultancy firm Principia Advisory.\n\nThe CBI is trying to claw back its reputation following the allegations, which include rape.\n\nBut it has already suffered an exodus of members.\n\nPrincipia Advisory bills itself as a \"leading advisor on organisational ethics\".\n\nIts website suggests that ethical crises should be dealt with using a \"whole systems' approach\" involving accountability by identifying individuals responsible, followed by \"deeper changes\".\n\nThe allegations at the CBI include claims of harassment and sexual assault including two allegations of rape, one at a summer party held by the group in 2019, another at one of its overseas offices.\n\nThe City of London Police is currently investigating the rape allegations.\n\nThe CBI has suspended day-to-day operations pending an extraordinary general meeting scheduled for 6 June, at which it is expected to outline a new strategy.\n\nWhen the first allegations of harassment and sexual assault emerged in early April, the lobby group asked the law firm Fox Williams to investigate.\n\nIn response to Fox Williams' report, the CBI admitted it had hired \"culturally toxic\" staff and had failed to fire people who sexually harassed female colleagues. That had led a \"very small minority\" of staff to believe they could get away with harassment or violence against women, the group said.\n\nAn earlier report by the law firm led to the dismissal of Ms Newton-Smith's predecessor, Tony Danker. He was the subject of separate complaints of workplace misconduct, for which he has apologised.\n\nThe CBI said Ms Newton-Smith had spoken to more than 250 members and former members in an effort to shore up support.\n\nBut some of its most high profile members have deserted the organisation, including John Lewis and BMW. Others such as Tesco and Sainsbury's have suspended their engagement.\n\nThe government has also suspended any activity with the lobby group, with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt saying there was \"no point\" engaging with the CBI when its own members had deserted it.", "Lola is now attending a mainstream primary after her local council changed its mind over help\n\nA fight or battle, that is how some parents describe getting extra support for their children in school, despite reforms meant to make it easier.\n\nOne mother, Ros, said she was \"flabbergasted\" when she was told her profoundly deaf four-year-old would not get an Individual Development Plan.\n\nThis is a key document to help a child with additional learning needs (ALN).\n\nThe aims of ALN reforms have been welcomed but there are concerns over budget and workloads.\n\nA timeframe for introducing changes has been extended until 2025 by the Welsh government.\n\nLola received cochlear implants, which allows deaf people to process sounds and speech, when she was one after failing new-born hearing screening tests.\n\nRos said she had done \"phenomenally well\" in nursery and Lola would go to a mainstream primary school in September, but it was only after she questioned a decision not to give Lola an IDP that her local council changed its mind.\n\n\"This is a profoundly deaf child that relies 100% on implants and technology to be able to access any sound whatsoever.\n\n\"I would have thought it would have been an absolute no-brainer that she would have an IDP,\" Ros said.\n\n\"We've struggled to get her IDP and I had to fight it... but there are going to be other families experiencing this and they need to be aware that they can challenge and absolutely argue against the decisions that are being made and they need to fight for what's right for their children.\"\n\nRos believes Lola should be getting more support\n\nThe National Deaf Children's Society said it was concerned about a \"raising of the bar\" for eligibility for extra support under the new system.\n\nWelsh government figures showed there were 74,661 pupils with ALN in schools (15.8% of all pupils) as of February 2022, down from 92,668 (19.5%) in April 2021.\n\nMinisters have said they are keeping the data under review but inconsistent reporting in the past could be one reason for the figures.\n\nJo from Swansea said she was \"really concerned and worried\" about the changes which could have an impact on two of her four children.\n\nJo is concerned for two of her four children\n\n\"It's really challenging to get support for any child… to have the constant battles for any level of support is so draining it really affects the whole family,\" she said.\n\nHer eldest and one of her twins both have additional needs and have statements, which are documents outlining support for children with the most complex needs.\n\nThey will be phased out as children with all levels of need will be given Individual Development Plans with the aim of simplifying the system.\n\nJo said she supported aspects of the reforms but said there was still a lot of uncertainty while pupils are moved from the previous special educational needs system.\n\n\"We're getting delays because people are challenging the fact that this has been rolled out too quickly and we've got hiccups, and these children shouldn't be the hiccups.\n\n\"Their lives have been affected enough by Covid that we do not need more problems. Just slow it down.\"\n\nALN reforms in Wales were introduced in 2021\n\nThe Welsh government said learners were at the heart of the new system and their views and those of parents were considered throughout.\n\n\"Parents should not have to battle to get suitable support to meet their child's individual needs,\" a spokesman said.\n\nSince 2021, children have been moved to the new system in groups, but earlier this year, Education Minister Jeremy Miles announced that more time would be given because of feedback from staff.\n\nThe National Education Union said a further delay was needed amid worries about workload and budgets.\n\nExecutive member Elizabeth McLean said staff were \"fully supportive\" of the aims of the reforms but said members had complained of \"drowning in paperwork\", with reports of ALN coordinators going into work ill in order to clear their work.\n\n\"Slowing the process down even further would be actually really beneficial in the long run,\" she added.\n\nStaff at Cwm Glas Primary have come up with their own strategy to look at what needs the children have\n\nThe right of every child to go to their local school, whatever their needs, is at the heart of what they do at Cwm Glas Primary School in Swansea, the headteacher said.\n\nAt the start of this academic year they set up Little Acorns for the younger pupils who would have struggled all day in a mainstream class.\n\nBy getting targeted support in the morning in a different area they are ready to join classmates in the afternoons and play a full part in school life.\n\nHead teacher Neil Craven-Lashley said the school worked closely with the local authority to \"make sure that every penny was being really carefully deployed for additional learning needs\".\n\nThrough Little Acorns they have the \"space and time\" to assess whether a child's learning needs may have been made worse by the pandemic, and decide on longer-term support.\n\nBy offering extra support in the mornings \"these boys and girls can go to Cwm Glas, their local school, be part of a mainstream setting in the afternoons so that they still have those relationships and friendships with their peer group\".", "King Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, will be crowned on Saturday\n\nThe King has recorded an announcement for railway stations across the UK in which he reminds us to \"mind the gap\".\n\nThe recording, made at Highgrove earlier this year by Transport for London (TfL), can also be heard on the London Underground until Monday.\n\n\"My wife and I wish you and your families a wonderful Coronation weekend,\" King Charles says.\n\n\"Wherever you're travelling we hope you have a safe and pleasant journey,\" Camilla, the Queen Consort adds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Did you hear the King's message on the Underground?\n\nRail Delivery Group chief executive Jacqueline Starr said: \"The Coronation is a rare and exciting event and we very much look forward to welcoming passengers with this special message.\n\n\"It's wonderful that Their Majesties are including rail passengers as part of this historic moment.\"\n\nNetwork Rail chief executive Andrew Haines said: \"Our station colleagues are pulling out all the stops to welcome people to London for the Coronation and it's fantastic that they will also be welcomed by King Charles III and Queen Camilla.\"\n\nTransport for London commissioner Andy Lord said: \"We are honoured to support the celebrations with a special station announcement across our network from Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Nursery managers Zoe O'Malley (l) and Tori Pearson said staff have had \"sleepless nights\" since an Ofsted inspection downgraded their school\n\nThe Early Years Alliance charity, which represents nurseries, preschools and childminders, wants a review of the grades given by Ofsted inspectors.\n\nThe charity took a snapshot survey of early years' staff, which revealed many of them found inspections stressful.\n\nOfsted says it knows \"inspections can be challenging\", and wants them to be \"as constructive as possible\".\n\nTeaching unions have called for inspections to be paused after head teacher Ruth Perry took her own life.\n\nNurseries, pre-schools and childminders are inspected against a different set of standards from schools, but also receive one overall grade.\n\nThey are marked as outstanding, good, requires improvement or the lowest grade of inadequate, which can lead to a school's closure if the council decides to withdraw funding.\n\nNursery owner Zoe O'Malley says she and her staff have had \"sleepless nights\" since an Ofsted report in December rated her nursery \"inadequate\".\n\nShe said the inspection was the \"worst day of my life\".\n\nThe report from Ofsted said that safeguarding at Busy Bunnies Day Nursery in High Peak, Derbyshire, was not effective, because \"not all staff were aware of how to keep children safe from radicalisation, female genital mutilation and child exploitation\".\n\nIt also said babies were given \"too much toothpaste\", which it said posed \"a risk\" to their health.\n\nZoe believes a six-hour visit did not give a \"whole view\" of the nursery, and that some of the concerns raised could have been dealt with \"there and then\".\n\n\"Inspections are important,\" she says, but staff found it hard to answer questions on safeguarding \"while minding children\" and one has since left the sector because of the impact on her.\n\nEach family has been asked by the council to consent to their child remaining at the nursery until reinspection between now and June.\n\nOfsted said inspections are \"first and foremost for children and their parents, to provide assurance about how well nurseries and childcare settings are run\".\n\nThe Early Years Alliance's survey, which was sent to just under 14,000 early years' settings in March and April, found:\n\nNeil Leitch, Early Years Alliance chief executive, said the recent debate about Ofsted had focused on schools, but they were also increasingly seen \"as something to dread\" in early years' settings.\n\n\"They are leaving educators stressed, exhausted and questioning their future in the sector,\" he said.\n\nThe National Day Nurseries Association, which also represents providers, fears that the staffing crisis in early years is also having an impact.\n\nIts chief executive Purnima Tanuku says that, while they support inspections, when a nursery closes after a bad judgement, it is damaging to \"stability and continuity of care\" of children.\n\nAbout 96% of early years' providers are judged as good or outstanding, but Ofsted said it does sometimes \"have to take tough decisions when standards drop or children's safety is compromised\".\n\nFormer Ofsted inspector Vanessa Dooley believes training for inspectors needs to be improved\n\nOne former Ofsted inspector called for inspections to be more constructive, which could be done through better training for inspectors.\n\nVanessa Dooley now runs consultancy firm Jigsaw Early Years Consultancy, giving advice to nurseries and preschools.\n\n\"Inspections should give settings their opportunity to shine and say, 'come and see what we're doing', rather than shy away, and cause that anxiety which is huge, absolutely huge,\" she explained.\n\nProf Eva Lloyd, from University of East London, says inspections are important and should be frequent, but Ofsted needs to rethink how it inspects because of changes in early years' settings.\n\n\"Ofsted treats each setting as if it's a free-standing one, whereas it may belong to a chain that runs 300 nurseries, where a lot of the decisions about what goes on are determined well away from the setting.\"\n\nOfsted has called for stronger regulatory powers to allow it to look at how organisations running several nurseries are operating, to make sure the impact on children is positive.", "Ukraine's reigning Eurovision champions Kalush Orchestra have got the party started in this year's host city Liverpool with a performance to open the fan village.\n\nThe band kicked off the official Eurovision build-up on Friday, watched by fans on Liverpool's waterfront.\n\nThe celebrations will continue until the grand final on Saturday, 13 May.\n\nKalush's Tymofii Muzychuk said the band members were sad it was impossible to hold this year's Eurovision in Ukraine.\n\nThe UK his hosting Eurovision 2023 on behalf of Ukraine\n\nThe winning country normally hosts the contest the following year, but organisers decided it was too dangerous to stage the annual extravaganza in Ukraine following Russia's invasion.\n\nInstead, the UK - which came second with Sam Ryder in 2022 - is hosting this year's event on behalf of Ukraine.\n\n\"It's good that it's being staged in the UK,\" Muzychuk continued. \"We see lots of Ukrainian colours, and the main thing is safety.\"\n\nKalush Orchestra will also perform at the Eurovision grand final\n\nThe musician told BBC News he wanted this year's contest to send a message to the world to not forget about Ukraine.\n\n\"The war in Ukraine is continuing,\" he said. \"It's not finished yet and we want to remind people that they shouldn't lose track of it and it should be in the headlines.\"\n\nMany people in the country will be watching the contest, he added. \"They'll be supporting and rooting for Ukraine.\n\n\"Of course we are sad that it's not being staged in Ukraine but I hope that the UK entry wins, then we can swap and hold Eurovision in Ukraine [in 2024].\"\n\nSome Ukrainians living in Liverpool turned out to see Kalush Orchestra\n\nSome fans waved Ukrainian flags as they watched the band, while others wore pink bucket hats - following the trend started by frontman Oleh Psiuk.\n\nKalush Orchestra will also perform at the grand final, opening the show with a performance titled Voices of a New Generation.\n\nAs well as the final and semi-finals, Liverpool is staging many other events around the city, including daily shows at the 15,000-capacity Eurovision Village.\n\nOn Friday, a special supergroup featuring musicians from Merseyside and Ukraine performed after Kalush Orchestra under the banner Welcome to Eurotopia.\n\nThe UK members included Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark singer Andy McCluskey, singers Jane Weaver and Natalie McCool and art-pop group Stealing Sheep, while Helleroid, Krapka;KOMA and Iryna Muha represented Ukraine.\n\nFriday also saw a street parade as part of a a Eurovision-themed cultural festival. The Blue and Yellow Submarine Parade was inspired by the colours of the Ukrainian flag along with the song and film by Liverpool's most famous musical exports, The Beatles.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEntry to the fan village is free except for grand final day, which is ticketed and already sold out.\n\nAll the build-up, insights and analysis is explored each week on a BBC podcast called Eurovisioncast.\n\nEurovisioncast is available on BBC Sounds, or search wherever you get your podcasts from.", "Conservative MP for Cleethorpes Martin Vickers, during the North East Lincolnshire Council Local Elections count in Grimsby.\n\nThe picture is firming up. We're getting more of a sense of what these local elections mean for the national political picture.\n\nThe BBC's projected national share is in; with Labour on 35%, the Conservatives on 26% and the Lib Dems on 20%.\n\nThe most clear conclusion we can draw already is the Conservatives are getting a thumping.\n\nThey have lost some big councils; Medway and East Staffordshire to Labour.\n\nStratford-upon-Avon, Dacorum and Windsor and Maidenhead to the Lib Dems.\n\nThey have lost control of several others; Brentwood, Maidstone, Tamworth and others.\n\nThe Conservatives are on course to lose several hundred seats - potentially over 1,000.\n\nBefore this election, senior Tories had talked about losing 1,000 seats.\n\nBut that was expectation management - four figure losses would be an extremely bad result. Tory MPs admit that privately and are worried.\n\nThe 26% projected national share is only just above the 25% the Conservatives got in 2013.\n\nSpeaking privately, some Conservatives are calling for a rethink of policy - particularly for tax cuts.\n\nOthers are peeved at the party operation and the lack of support they believe they got during the campaign.\n\nThen there's this from a figure close to Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, to my colleague Chris Mason: \"Rishi has no option but to own these results. He has been chancellor or prime minister for virtually all of the last three years and it was he and his supporters who forced Boris and then Liz out of office in order to install him in Downing Street.\"\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nThis isn't the sort of rebellion that we saw last year, that brought down Mr Johnson and Ms Truss. But after a peaceful period in the Tory party, grievances are being aired again.\n\nThis has been a good set of elections for Labour. But how good?\n\nSome Tories are arguing that the bad night for them doesn't translate into an uptick in support for Labour under Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nBut Labour are making gains - in part based on the collapse of the Conservative vote.\n\nStrategists in Labour HQ are particularly pleased they are doing well in the party's key targets; like Stoke, Blackpool, Teesside and Plymouth.\n\nThe party is claiming far and wide that the results it's seen so far put it on course to win the next general election with a majority.\n\nThat is based on an eight point poll lead - and makes assumptions the party will do well in Scotland, Wales and London - none of which are voting today.\n\nBut Labour is very happy with the results so far.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are making gains too - on top of a strong result in 2019 when these seats were last contested.\n\nThe Lib Dems often do better in local than national elections.\n\nBut the party is saying that many Conservative MPs in the south of England will be nervous about their seats. The likes of Michael Gove, Dominic Raab and Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nRemember the Lib Dems don't always do as well in general elections as they do in locals. But they have had a good night.\n\nThe Greens are also seeing some results they are delighted with.\n\nAs well as the headline gains - some quite remarkable stories are emerging.\n\nIn East Hertfordshire - the Greens could be the largest party soon. That's quite something given than in 2019, the Conservatives had 43 seats. They've lost 25 seats and the Greens have won 16 so far.\n\nDifferent parties are benefitting from the fall in the Conservative vote.", "The Coronation of King Charles is being celebrated in a variety of ways across the country this weekend.\n\nIn Leicester, a multi-faith service is taking place at De Montfort University featuring singing and dancing, organised by BBC Radio Leicester. Volunteers have been busy preparing food parcels for attendees today.\n\nPriti Raichura from the Shree Jalaram Hindu Temple has been rehearsing the music, and says: “We just want to sing for the King tomorrow, it’s going to be a lovely get-together with all faith communities”.\n\nShe also says she’s not bothered by the forecast of rain: “We’ll have our umbrellas, we’ll have our anoraks, we’ll have our raincoats. We’re still going out tomorrow, there’s nothing stopping us.”\n\nCatherine Tarbuck-Jones in Ravenstone, Leicestershire is also preparing for a big event. She’s helped to arrange a street party for Sunday with around 100 people expected to attend.\n\nIn her busy kitchen where a group of neighbours are baking scones in preparation for the festivities, she tells me she’s looking forward to “getting everybody together, having a good time, and finishing off with a gin and tonic”.\n\nCatherine Tarbuck-Jones (right) has been preparing baked goods ahead of Sunday's street party with her neighbours Image caption: Catherine Tarbuck-Jones (right) has been preparing baked goods ahead of Sunday's street party with her neighbours", "People working inside polling stations had a legal duty to record how many people they refused to give a ballot paper to and why.\n\nAnyone who left after being told by the greeters outside some polling stations that they needed ID will not have been counted.\n\nSome returning officers have already announced how many people were turned away and how many came back. They are not necessarily announcing the reasons why they were turned away.\n\nThe returning officer in Lincoln said that 57 people were turned away for not having the correct ID, but 25 later returned with some.\n\nThe Electoral Commission, an independent body that oversees elections, is collating all this information. An initial report, to be published in the coming weeks, will include the proportion of people turned away from polling stations.\n\nWhen we get those figures, we will get separate data for polling stations depending on whether there were greeters outside.", "The Conservatives have had a miserable time in England's local elections.\n\nThe problem the Tories have faced is a range of competitive opponents. Labour, the Liberal Democrats and even the Green Party have capitalised on the shrivelling of Tory popularity.\n\nLiberal Democrat smiles were sufficiently broad that party leader Sir Ed Davey was found comparing himself to a Cheshire cat.\n\nThe Lib Dems appear to have finally banished the baggage of their years in coalition government.\n\nPlenty of Lib Dems are proud of their time serving alongside the Tories between 2010 and 2015, but plenty of their voters were horrified by it and they were near obliterated eight years ago.\n\nMemories of it for many seem to have retreated sufficiently far into the rear-view mirror that it is no longer a drag anchor on their prospects.\n\n\"We are the none-of-the-above party again,\" one party source observed.\n\nThis was the Green Party's best ever set of local election results.\n\nFor the first time, they've secured a majority on a council, in Mid-Suffolk.\n\nThe only Conservative comfort blanket on an otherwise cold night for them is the scale of a bounce back Labour has to make to win a general election.\n\nSome have suggested the numbers from this election suggest they would have fallen short of a majority had there been a general election this week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour are continuing to insist these local elections results would have led to a majority Labour government, because of progress they believe they can make in Scotland, plus the geographical distribution of their vote share.\n\nParty strategists reckon, with all the problems the Scottish National Party is facing, they could win 20 seats in Scotland at the next general election. They currently hold one.\n\nAnd Labour say their vote is much more \"efficient\" than it has been.\n\nWhat do they mean by this?\n\nThey point out Labour won the general election in 2005 on 35% of the vote, but lost in 2017 with 40% of the vote, because the party was stacking up voters in places where it was already dominant - such as big cities and university towns.\n\nThey argue this week's results show, for them, a much better distribution of their vote in places they need to beat the Conservatives - including good performances in places that voted to leave the EU and places with smaller proportions of graduates.\n\nThis weekend, the recriminations are under way among Tories.\n\nThose around Prime Minister Rishi Sunak say he has done much to steady the Tory ship and the party would be in a far worse state without him.\n\nLet me invite you to peer into my notebook to see what is scribbled there after my phone rang earlier.\n\nA figure loyal to former Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss telling me: \"Rishi has no option but to own these results.\"\n\nAnd they didn't stop there. You can read more about this here. There is little enthusiasm, though, to move against the prime minister.\n\nBut Mr Sunak's capacity to put a lid on Conservative anger appears weakened. His critics are finding their voices again.\n\nThe biggest truth is a political landscape that appears hyper-competitive and so far from definitive.\n\nFrom today's vantage point, it looks hard for either the Conservatives or Labour to be super confident of winning a majority to call their own at the next general election.\n\nAnd that election could be around 18 months away - and a lot can happen in that time.\n\nLabour see a path to victory. The Conservatives still think, still hope, that path can be blocked.\n\nOh and one final thought.\n\nI suspect the Conservatives and Mr Sunak are mighty glad the small matter of King Charles's Coronation will wipe politics off the news for the next few days.", "The night is old, but the long day ahead of counting is still young.\n\nSo conclusions drawn must be done so with caution; caution because of the volume of results still to come, and caution because it can be crude to instantly transpose local election results to imagine a general election picture.\n\nBut there is often a correlation between performance at local elections and national ones.\n\nIt has, without question so far, been a miserable series of results for the Conservatives.\n\n\"A wake up call\" as one minister put it to us in the middle of the night.\n\n\"This is a party problem, not a prime minister problem,\" a senior party source tells me on the phone.\n\nNote, they are not disputing it is a problem, for them.\n\nThe Tories are pinning the blame on three things: a bleak economic picture, the political chaos of their own making over the last year, and a very long stint in national government.\n\nThey hope that Rishi Sunak isn't the issue here, assuming they would have performed calamitously worse with either Boris Johnson or Liz Truss.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Opens in a new browser tab More information about these elections Who won in my area? Enter your postcode, or the name of your council area to find out To find your council candidates and polling station\n\nLabour reckon these results show they are \"on track to win the next general election\".\n\n\"We are confident Labour will have an equivalent vote share lead of at least eight points which would represent our best result since 1997. If Labour had an 8% lead in a general election we would win a majority government, taking into account anticipated recovery in Scotland,\" a source said.\n\nThey now reckon they could win up to 20 seats in Scotland - an improvement of 19 on their current grand total of one.\n\nBut some analysts are sceptical Labour have such solid grounds for optimism - given the colossal mountain they face to get Keir Starmer into Downing Street and the Tories take comfort from that.\n\n\"Politics is an art not a science,\" one senior figure observed rather archly of those analysts, suggesting read acrosses from local elections to a general election can be overdone.\n\nMake no mistake though: the Tories do take comfort from the scale of a bounce back Labour have to make to win a general election; it provides a comfort blanket on an otherwise cold night for them.\n\nThe broadest sleep deprived smiles this morning belong to Liberal Democrats.\n\nThey reckon they've had a \"ground-breaking\" night, to use the word of their leader Sir Ed Davey.\n\n\"The worst is yet to come for the Conservatives,\" a party source adds, pointing out counting is about to get going in Surrey, Hertfordshire and Sussex where Lib Dems are feeling chipper.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nAnd Labour, for their part, have been claiming for weeks the better results for them would be later today, rather than overnight. And they are still saying that this morning.\n\nThere has been plenty to chew over so far. There is plenty more to come.", "Uber's former chief security officer has avoided jail and been sentenced to three years' probation for covering up a cyber-attack from authorities.\n\nJoseph Sullivan was found guilty of paying hackers $100,000 (£79,000) after they gained access to 57 million records of Uber customers, including names and phone numbers.\n\nHe must also pay a fine of $50,000, and serve 200 hours of community service.\n\nSullivan was also found guilty of obstructing an investigation from the Federal Trade Commission.\n\nAccording to the Wall Street Journal, judge William Orrick said he was showing Sullivan leniency partly because this was the first case of its kind, but also because of his character.\n\n\"If there are more, people should expect to spend time in custody, regardless of anything, and I hope everybody here recognises that,\" he said.\n\nSullivan began his role as Uber's chief security officer in 2015.\n\nIn November 2016, the attackers who targeted Uber emailed Sullivan and told him they had stolen a large amount of data, which they would delete in return for a ransom, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ).\n\nStaff working for Sullivan confirmed data, including records of 57 million Uber users and 600,000 driving licence numbers, had been stolen.\n\nAccording to the DOJ, Sullivan arranged for the hackers to be paid $100,000 in exchange for them signing non-disclosure agreements to not reveal the hack to anyone.\n\nThe hackers were paid in December 2016, disguised as a \"bug bounty\" - a reward used to pay cyber-security researchers who disclose vulnerabilities so they can be fixed.\n\nThe hackers subsequently faced conspiracy charges in 2019 and pleaded guilty.", "Actor Stephen Tompkinson denies causing grievous bodily harm to a man he confronted outside his home\n\nThe friend of a man allegedly punched by actor Stephen Tompkinson heard a \"hit of flesh\" and a cracking sound as he fell to the ground, a court heard.\n\nAndrew Hall said he had been walking behind his friend Karl Poole when he saw him and Mr Tompkinson, 57, rowing.\n\nThe actor, who lives in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, denies inflicting grievous bodily harm.\n\nMr Hall told Newcastle Crown Court his friend was snoring which he knew could \"represent a serious head injury\".\n\nThe court previously heard Mr Hall and Mr Poole had been drinking vodka and Jägermeister with Red Bull since midnight before going to the beach with a bottle at about 05:30 BST on 30 May 2021.\n\nThey passed Mr Tompkinson's house in Beech Grove on their way home.\n\nOn Wednesday, jurors were played a recording of the Stockton-born actor calling police to ask for the two drunk men outside his home to be moved on.\n\nMr Hall said he saw his friend and the actor gesturing at each other and tried to calm the situation by saying he was a social worker.\n\n\"Then I heard a hit of flesh and I saw Karl hit the floor,\" he said.\n\n\"He was knocked out and snoring which I know - I'm not a paramedic but I know from training that I have done - I know that it can represent a serious head injury.\"\n\nUnder cross-examination Mr Hall agreed he could not remember parts of what happened - including falling over with Mr Poole when play fighting - because he had been drinking.\n\nHe also described the interaction with Mr Tompkinson on the actor's driveway as a \"blur\".\n\nKarl Poole and his friend Andrew Hall had been drinking before going down to the beach\n\nIt was put to Mr Hall his evidence had \"dramatically changed\" compared to his initial statement to police, in which he said he did not know how his friend ended up on the floor.\n\nMr Tompkinson's defence barrister, Nicholas Lumley KC, said to him: \"You did not hear the sound of the impact that caused him to fall.\"\n\nThe court was shown mobile phone footage of Mr Poole lying in the street in just his underpants with Mr Hall crouched beside him.\n\nMr Lumley KC suggested they were \"extremely drunk that night\" and became aggressive when Mr Tompkinson suggested calling the police.\n\n\"He put his shoulder to you and put his hand out to keep Mr Poole at bay and that's when Mr Poole staggered and fell to the ground,\" he told Mr Hall.\n\nThe court also heard from Mr Tompkinson's neighbour Caroline Davidson who described being woken by \"hysterical laughing\".\n\nLooking out of her window she saw two very drunk men on the ground by a tree, \"wobbling side-to-side\" even though they were sitting down, she said.\n\nShe told the court she was woken a second time by the \"different tone\" of another man - Mr Tompkinson - who she knew lived opposite but had not spoken to.\n\nMrs Davidson said the actor was gesturing for the pair to move away and, at one point, \"pulled his fist back\" but put it down \"more or less straight away\" before walking back towards his house while apparently making a phone call.\n\nThe men got up with some difficulty and \"started to try and walk off\" when the actor came out again and she thought something was said, she told the court.\n\n\"The next thing I knew, the neighbour had stepped forward and he had slapped one of the gentlemen, the one without the top on, with his right hand and then punched him on the head with his left hand,\" she said.\n\nBorn in Stockton-on-Tees, Stephen Tompkinson found fame in the TV show Ballykissangel in 1996\n\nAsked by prosecutor Michael Bunch if there was anything that \"precipitated that action\" or if the men had been aggressive towards the actor, Mrs Davidson said: \"No.\"\n\nShe said she was \"100% sure\" Mr Tompkinson had moved towards the two men and told the court Mr Poole \"stumbled backwards\" and fell.\n\n\"He just went straight back and his head hit the ground. He just, he didn't move,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't even put his hands out to stop himself, he just hit the ground.\"\n\nCrossexamining, Mr Lumley suggested to Mrs Davidson she had seen a \"reaching out, a push to the face\" not a slap.\n\nMr Lumley also said Mr Tompkinson had his phone in his hand throughout the incident after calling the police and \"there is no way he could punch with his left hand and slap with his right\".\n\nJurors have heard the actor told police he pushed Mr Poole away in self-defence after the two had come towards him \"aggressively\".\n\nIn a police statement read out in court, Mr Tompkinson referred to Mr Poole, saying: \"I wanted to stop him, I didn't want to hurt him.\"\n\nThe trial, which is expected to last another two days, continues.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThe city of Naples was transformed into an epic street party.\n\nRoads were filled with people singing, dancing and hugging one another, while children played football around them. People jumped in fountains in jubilation, while others waved huge Napoli flags as they darted about on their scooters.\n\nThe reason? On Thursday, Napoli became the champions of Italy.\n\nAs soon as the final whistle was blown in their game at Udinese, with Napoli's 1-1 draw enough to clinch the Serie A title, hundreds of people crammed together in piazzas, singing of their joy.\n\n\"We have one dream in our heart. For Naples to become champions again!\" rang round the city, for that dream has now come true.\n\n\"I have been crying. This is a historic moment,\" Edoardo Nappa says.\n\nThe 13-year-old is part of a new generation too young to remember the glory days of Diego Maradona - the legendary maverick who delivered two Serie A titles to the city when he was Napoli captain.\n\n\"To be able to experience this, to live this myself for the first time… it's magical. It's a historic moment for Naples.\"\n\nIt wasn't only locals who were partying; people from all over Italy and countries including France, Spain and the UK travelled to Naples to soak up the spectacle.\n\nNaples lives and breathes football. The whole city has been decorated in readiness for the party: blue and white flags and festoons hang above the narrow streets. Life-size cardboard cutouts have popped up in the city centre. There are cakes, pastries, drinks, ice creams dedicated to the players.\n\n\"It feels like the world has stopped here,\" says Anita Bufi, a university student who travelled from Rome to celebrate the victory.\n\n\"This party is going to go on for at least a month. It's going to last through the summer. It's an amazing feeling: Neapolitans put love in everything they do, including football.\"\n• None 'Football is everything' - what Scudetto means to Naples\n\nThis is a party 33 years in the making. The last time Napoli won the Serie A title was 1990 - when Maradona was captain.\n\nThe Argentine's influence can still be felt in the city. His face is painted on bar windows, bumper stickers and billboards. A giant mural of him towers above a shrine dedicated to him. And above it is a sign that says 'Dios' - the Spanish word for God.\n\nMany have this week been gathering around his shrine to lay flowers and light candles. Some have had tears in their eyes.\n\nFor Neapolitans, football is almost a religious experience.\n\n\"It goes even beyond religion,\" says Bufi. \"What we are doing here is like a ritual. We are praying for Diego Maradona, as if he were a saint. It's crazy and I love it.\"\n\nMaradona, who died in 2020, gave Neapolitans a great sense of belonging.\n\n\"He was a man that was full of vices but at the same time poetic and majestic in what he did best,\" says European football expert Mina Rzouki.\n\n\"And that is very much something that resonates with Neapolitans.\"\n\nAfter Maradona delivered his second title for Napoli more than three decades ago, the team could not sustain the success. They had financial struggles, went bankrupt and were demoted to Serie C - the lowest league of the professional divisions.\n\nThe turning point came in 2004: film producer Aurelio de Laurentiis bought the club.\n\n\"He created a team that is wonderful to watch,\" Rzouki says.\n\n\"He knew he could depend on the unconditional love of an entire city, on a fan base that is so devoted. So under him, Napoli grew.\"\n\nAnd yet, Napoli couldn't replicate the success of 1990 and win the title.\n\n\"The deep pressure of playing in a city that lives football to a degree that is so unimaginable… it can be a lot. It can become suffocating to be in a city that is so devoted to their success,\" says Rzouki.\n\nThis win is about so much more than football. It's a symbol of the inequality between Italy's wealthy north and the poorer south.\n\n\"Young Neapolitans are often forced to emigrate to northern Italy in search of a job and a better life,\" says Napoli Today journalist Massimo Romano.\n\n\"And so for them, winning the league is a form of social revenge against the superpowers of the north.\"\n\n\"To win the league anywhere south of Rome is like winning 10 trophies in Milan or Turin,\" says another fan, Enrico.\n\nNeapolitans still endure hostile taunts from their northern rivals about crime, poverty and even cholera outbreaks.\n\n\"If you were born in Naples, football is part of your blood,\" says Gaetano, who is dressed head-to-toe in football kit. \"Our blood is [Napoli] blue, it's not red.\"\n\nOne of the thousands of Neapolitans who has moved to Milan to find work, he travelled to Naples with his whole family to experience this moment. He wants to share his passion for football with them.\n\n\"It's something that comes from the heart. I've been waiting 33 years for this win. I am full of emotion, of passion, of faith… words cannot explain what I'm feeling.\"\n\nWhen Naples won the league thanks to Maradona, the city had been destroyed by a violent earthquake a few years previously.\n\n\"The city was struggling. Poverty was everywhere,\" says Massimo Romano.\n\n\"The win with Maradona represented a rebirth for Naples after a time of extreme difficulty.\"\n\nBut things are very different now.\n\n\"Naples still has a lot of problems, but it's become a European city with lots of tourists, one that is well known outside of Italy,\" adds Romano.\n\nFor a city that is so devoted to its football team, this is a day that will be cherished for years to come.\n\n\"Today's victory represents the consecration to a success that Naples has been experiencing for several years.\"", "The latest episode of Bluey shown in Australia showed Bluey's father weighing himself in their bathroom\n\nAn episode of a popular children's television programme has been edited amid claims of \"fat-shaming\".\n\nThe latest instalment of Bluey, which was broadcast on ABC in Australia, showed the title character's parents complaining about their weight.\n\nCritics said the show could lead to young viewers developing worries about their own bodies.\n\nAn ABC spokesperson said the episode had been edited and the new version would be distributed globally.\n\nBluey, about a puppy and her family, is shown on ABC, Disney+ and BBC children's channel CBeebies.\n\nThe episode, Exercise, begins with Bluey's father, Bandit, weighing himself while Bluey is in the bath.\n\n\"Oh man ... I just need to do some exercise,\" Bandit says.\n\n\"Tell me about it,\" Bluey's mother, Chilli, replies.\n\nBandit looks at himself in the mirror, holding his sides.\n\n\"Why don't you just do some exercise?\" Bluey asks.\n\nThe edited programme goes on to show Bluey's father exercising in the garden\n\nThat section of the show has now been cut after some parents and health experts raised concerns on social media about body-shaming.\n\nSome said they did not want their children to see adults being dissatisfied with the shape of their bodies, and only using exercise to lose weight.\n\nBut others said it was an over-reaction to an episode that promoted the value of exercise.\n\nA spokesperson for ABC told the BBC: \"The recent episode of Bluey, Exercise, has been republished by the ABC following a decision by the makers of the programme. The new version provides families with the opportunity to manage important conversations in their own way.\n\n\"As the home of Bluey, the ABC supports the decision to re-edit the program and we have updated the episode on our platforms.\n\n\"BBC Studios will use this revised version for global distribution and also support this decision.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe decision was welcomed by Dr Laura Renshaw-Vuillier, a senior lecturer at Bournemouth University and an expert on eating disorders and mental illness.\n\n\"I think it's extremely important that we have discussions around healthy eating and exercise, but more from a health perspective rather than from a fat-shaming perspective,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"I did not see that episode, but I like how Bandit is so playful with his kids, and I think that if they can promote a way of doing exercise for fun rather than to lose weight it's great.\"\n\nDr Elina Telford, a child and adolescent clinical psychologist, said it was not possible to predict how the Bluey episode could affect children.\n\nBut she added: \"It is reasonable to conclude that it is likely to have been unhelpful to at least some children and young people who internalise such messages and use their body weight and shape as a way to measure their own self worth.\n\n\"It is important to add that out relationship to body image, food, exercise and health are highly complex, and simplification of these difficulties maintain unhelpful and often derogating narratives about what it means to be different shapes and sizes.\"\n\nShe added: \"I am pleased that ABC heard the concern of the public and acted accordingly. In my opinion, their response isn't censorship, it's responsible and responsive broadcasting and that at least, is one thing to be celebrated.\"\n\nThe Emmy-award winning Bluey is a huge international success and is broadcast in more than 60 countries including the UK, the US and China.\n\nIt was streamed for more than 20 billion minutes on Disney+ in the US last year, putting it in the country's top 10 streaming programmes for minutes viewed.\n\nBluey was co-commissioned by ABC and BBC Studios - the commercial arm of the BBC - in 2017 and is made by Australian production company Ludo.\n\nThe ABC has broadcast rights in Australia and the BBC has broadcast and commercial rights internationally.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Reaction on the ground as local election results come in\n\nLabour and the Lib Dems are making gains at the expense of the Conservatives across England, as local election results roll in.\n\nLabour won control in Swindon, Plymouth, Medway and Stoke-on-Trent - a former Labour stronghold.\n\nAnd the Lib Dems have won control of five councils from the Conservatives, including Windsor and Maidenhead.\n\nThe elections are the first big test of Rishi Sunak's electoral popularity since he became prime minister.\n\nThe final results are coming in on Friday evening. But so far, the Conservatives have lost control of 40 councils.\n\nEarlier, the prime minister said it was disappointing to lose Conservative councillors, but added his party was making progress in \"key election battlegrounds\" like Peterborough, Sandwell and Bassetlaw.\n\nEducation Minister Robert Halfon said this year's election was always \"going to be difficult\" for his party.\n\nHe said internal Tory Party divisions \"didn't help\" but claimed the losses were down to external factors, such as the cost-of-living crisis and problems in the NHS.\n\n\"Every government during the mid-term, especially a government that has been in power for 13 years, always suffers losses in local elections,\" he said.\n\nBut he added that Mr Sunak had \"restored unity to the party\" and \"restored stability to the country, particularly in the economy\".\n\nSome Tory MPs were clearly worried about the results, with several telling the BBC's chief political correspondent Nick Eardley that apathy - Conservative voters staying at home - was also a big problem.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer travelled to Medway to celebrate his party's victory in the Kent council with local activists.\n\n\"You didn't just get it over the line, you blew the doors off,\" he told the crowd.\n\nHe claimed Labour were \"on course\" to win a majority at the next general election.\n\nLabour has taken control of three councils from the Conservatives including Swindon. The council was a key target for Labour and where the party launched their election campaign.\n\nThe council had not been won by Labour since 1999, and the party now has its sights set on taking the area's two parliamentary seats from the Conservatives.\n\nLiberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey told the BBC he had a \"Cheshire-cat\" grin on his face following what he said had been a \"ground-breaking night\" for his party.\n\nSpeaking in Windsor, where his party took control of the council from the Conservatives, Sir Ed said: \"The Liberal Democrats are the big winners in this year's local elections.\n\n\"I'm so proud that when Katy Perry and Lionel Richie enter Windsor Castle for the coronation concert on Sunday, they'll be going into a ward that's represented by three brand new Liberal Democrat councillors.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have also taken control of Dacorum, which was won by the Conservatives in 2019, and Stratford-on-Avon.\n\nThe Green Party has won outright control of its first council in Mid Suffolk and made record gains across England as a whole.\n\nParty co-leader Carla Denyer said her party were benefitting from \"a deep dislike of the Tories and Starmer's uninspiring Labour\". The Greens have also become the largest party on East Hertfordshire Council.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Middlesbrough, Labour's Chris Cooke became mayor beating the incumbent independent candidate,while Mansfield and Leicester voted for Labour mayors.\n\nElections are not taking place in London, Scotland or Wales. Council elections in Northern Ireland have been moved back to Thursday 18 May because of the Coronation of King Charles III on Saturday.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Opens in a new browser tab More information about these elections Who won in my area? Enter your postcode, or the name of your council area to find out To find your council candidates and polling station\n\nAhead of Thursday's vote, the Conservative Party sought to manage expectations, with party chairman Greg Hands suggesting his party could lose 1,000 council seats.\n\nLabour has enjoyed a significant lead in the opinion polls but has also been downplaying expectations, saying it expected to gain around 400 seats.\n\nMost of the seats up for election were last contested in 2019, a tumultuous time for the two leading parties.\n\nThen, the Conservatives lost a total of 1,330 seats in mostly traditionally Tory-supporting areas. Labour lost 84 seats - just over 4% of its councillors in those areas.\n\nThe main beneficiaries then were the Liberal Democrats and independent candidates.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nIn Thursday's elections, newly-introduced rules meant voters needed to show some form of ID.\n\nThe Electoral Commission, which oversees elections in the UK, said some people had been unable to cast their vote and the impact of new voter ID rules needed to be evaluated.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify the number of voters turned away because of the new rules. But figures for this are expected to emerge in the coming days.\n\nMost of the councils up for election in England are district councils, responsible for services including bin collections, parks, public housing and planning applications.\n\nThe rest of the councils being elected are a mixture of metropolitan and unitary councils - single local authorities that deal with all local services.", "Lucy Letby has denied murdering and attempting to murder babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nNurse Lucy Letby has told a court it was a \"huge unexpected shock\" when a baby boy died shortly after she started her shift on a neonatal unit.\n\nThe newborn twin, known as Child A, died just over 24 hours after his birth at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nGiving evidence for the second day, Ms Letby, 33, said she felt like she had \"walked through the door into this awful situation\" on 8 June 2015.\n\nMs Letby denies murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others.\n\nThe prosecution has alleged the nurse, originally of Hereford, was a \"constant malevolent presence\" at the hospital, killing five boys and two girls, and attempting to murder another five boys and five girls.\n\nDuring the first six months of her trial, the prosecution has claimed that in 2015 and 2016, Ms Letby used various means to target the babies, including injecting them with air and poisoning them with insulin.\n\nUnder questioning from her lawyer Ben Myers KC, Ms Letby said she had received a text message in the morning on 8 June 2015, asking if she could work the overnight shift.\n\nShe told the jury she agreed, adding such requests happened \"frequently\" and she was \"very flexible\" and \"very happy to help where I could\".\n\nLucy Letby wiped away tears as she gave evidence for the first time on Tuesday\n\nThe court heard she was given Child A to care for when she arrived on shift at 19:30 BST and she and fellow nurse Melanie Taylor went on to give the baby intravenous fluids.\n\nOnce the infusion had started, she had a nursing handover with Ms Taylor.\n\nOnce the handover had been completed, Ms Letby said Ms Taylor went to the computer station to start writing her notes while she started doing equipment checks.\n\nThe nurse said she recalled another doctor was also in the room at this time.\n\nShe said she noticed Child A had become \"jittery\" when she started doing her observations and that shortly after, his alarm monitor sounded and he had changed colour and was apnoeic.\n\nShe said she noticed his \"hands and feet were white\" so she started to use a mechanical device specially designed for neonatal resuscitation.\n\nMs Letby said \"very soon after\", an emergency crash call went out to the neonatal team and doctors arrived to assist with the resuscitation.\n\nWhen asked how she was feeling at this time, Ms Letby said it was \"a huge unexpected shock\".\n\n\"It felt like I literally just walked through the door of the shift and this was happening,\" she said.\n\nNeonatal nurse Lucy Letby worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nFollowing Child A's death, the nurse assisted his parents and made a memory box.\n\nShe labelled the baby boy's umbilical venous catheter line and bag and stored them in the neonatal unit's sluice room after the infant's death as she felt it should be checked.\n\nWhen asked again how she felt after the events, she said she was \"stunned\".\n\n\"It was a complete shock for all of us,\" she said.\n\n\"It felt like we'd walked through the door into this awful situation.\n\n\"It was the first time I met [Child A] and his parents… it was a huge shock.\"\n\nLucy Letby, 33, denies all of the charges against her\n\nMs Letby was also asked about Child A's twin sister, Child B, who collapsed 28 hours after her brother's death.\n\nThe court has heard how Ms Letby, along with other medics, went to help after the girl's heart rate suddenly dropped.\n\nA nurse who treated Child B previously told the court she \"looked very like her brother did the night before\".\n\nMs Letby told Mr Myers she did not \"have much recollection\" of what happened with Child B as she was designated other babies on that shift, but she recalled running a blood gas for Child B at about 00:15 on 10 June.\n\nShe said Child B would not have been on her own when this was done and another nurse, who cannot be named, would have asked her to assist as blood samples require two nurses.\n\nAt the time of the collapse, she said Child B's skin looked \"mottled\" and \"dark\" and \"purple\" in colour.\n\nShe said this was different to Child A, who was \"pale and white\".\n\nMs Letby said she went to get a camera, kept on the unit, to take a picture of Child B's skin change, which was standard practice with any sudden changes.\n\nShe said by the time she returned, Child B \"had stabilised and her colour had returned to normal\".\n\nLucy Letby is continuing to give evidence in the witness box at Manchester Crown Court\n\nQuestioning then moved on to Child C, who was allegedly murdered after Ms Letby inserted air into his stomach via a nasogastric tube.\n\nMs Letby said she had \"very little independent memory\" of the baby boy's collapse as she was the designated nurse for two other babies at the time.\n\nShe said she was called by Ms Taylor to assist with Child C, who was apnoeic, and helped take part in resuscitation attempts.\n\nHowever, Sophie Ellis, the designated nurse for Child C, told police she heard the baby's monitor sound after briefly going to the nurses' station.\n\nMs Ellis said when she returned to nursery one, Ms Letby was standing next to the cot and told her: \"He's just dropped his heart rate and saturations.\"\n\nMs Letby told jurors she did not recall saying that or remember when she entered nursery one, but her recollection was that she had been \"called to help\".\n\nThe court heard how another nurse, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also told police that she and Ms Letby were attending to another baby when they were both asked to assist with Child C.\n\nWhen asked how the loss would impact Child C's parents, Ms Letby told the court it was \"unimaginable\".\n\nNotes found at the nurse's home were previously shown to the jury\n\nMs Letby was also questioned about Child D, who the prosecution have claimed the nurse murdered by intravenously administering air into her bloodstream in June 2015.\n\nThe court heard on 21 and 22 June, Child D collapsed several times, and despite resuscitation attempts, she was pronounced dead.\n\nMs Letby was caring for two other babies in nursery one on the night of 21 June.\n\nChild D's mother previously told the jury she had seen Ms Letby in nursery one \"hovering\" with a clipboard at about 19:00.\n\nQuestioned about that, Ms Letby said she would not have been on the unit at that time.\n\nThe court heard door swipe data showed Ms Letby came through the entrance door at 19:26 that evening.\n\nMs Letby told the jury she did not have any memory of being called to assist with Child D at 01:30.\n\nThe nurse allegedly carried out the attacks on the hospital's neonatal unit\n\nThe nurse then broke down in tears as she recalled Child E's fatal collapse in July 2015 and how the baby boy was \"bleeding from his mouth and nose\".\n\nIt has been alleged that she murdered the infant by administering a fatal amount of air into his bloodstream and the court has previously heard he lost about 25% of his blood volume on the night.\n\nThe jury heard that during a police interview, an officer informed Ms Letby of a statement made by Child E's mother, who said she arrived on the unit to find her baby screaming and blood around his mouth at about 21:00.\n\nIn the interview, Ms Letby did not accept Child E was screaming or had blood around his mouth at that time.\n\nThe jury was told blood was later recorded in the medical notes at 22:00.\n\nMs Letby agreed that no other staff members had raised concerns about a bleed prior to 22:00.\n\nShe said she found his death \"very traumatic\", adding: \"I've never seen a baby bleed in that way before.\"\n\nMr Myers asked if she had done anything to make it happen.\n\nThrough tears, she replied: \"No.\"\n\nThe court has previously heard about Ms Letby's alleged attempt to kill Child E's twin brother, referred to as Child F, by intentionally administering insulin in the early hours of 5 August 2015.\n\nJurors heard his heart rate surged and his blood glucose levels dropped dangerously low after he received a new intravenous feed, which included nutrients and sugar.\n\nMs Letby, who was Child F's designated nurse in the days after the alleged attack, said she did not know why Child F had high insulin readings and had only \"wanted him to be well\" as she cared for him.\n\nShe added that she had \"wanted him to be well enough to go home\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Xiaotong Huang laundered money for nearly two years\n\nA student who laundered nearly £85,000 for a Chinese crime lord based in Glasgow has been jailed for 18 months.\n\nXiaotong Huang, 28, used the money from a man named as Wai Ma - who went by \"Mr Big\" - to pay her student fees and buy luxury items for about two years.\n\nMa travelled around Scotland in a Mercedes giving bags of money to associates to clean.\n\nHuang denied the charge but was found guilty of money laundering linked with serious organised crime in March.\n\nSums totalling £160,000 were washed through four of her bank accounts\n\nHowever she was convicted of laundering £84,912 in total.\n\nThe court heard an analysis of Huang's accounts showed that between June 2019 and April 2021 she had banked more than £160,400 with Santander, Monzo and Starling banks.\n\nAround £56,000 was deposited in cash.\n\nAt the time she was studying for a masters' in publishing at the University of Stirling.\n\nMore than £32,000 had been transferred abroad and £31,000 had been used to pay the university for tuition fees and accommodation.\n\nOver £37,000 had been used to purchase high value goods from designers and retailers including Gucci, Harrods, and Louis Vuitton.\n\nTens of thousands of pounds, as well as £7,000 worth of expensive wine bought in a single day, were sent to China.\n\nHuang claimed she had got the money from her Chinese fiancé, then living in Germany, whom she said was now dead.\n\nShe also said she had got money from fellow Chinese students at the University of Stirling, whom she said had since returned to China, and from her parents - who did not travel from China to the UK to give evidence in support of her claims.\n\nHuang was studying for a masters in publishing at the University of Stirling\n\nThe court was told that Ma had absconded.\n\nHe was described as the \"main nominal\" in a police investigation into a \"significant\" money laundering racket codenamed Operation Skipper.\n\nPolice watched as Huang got into his Mercedes in a car park near her halls of residence in April 2021.\n\nShe emerged with a brown paper bag which she took to the travel money section of the nearest Post Office.\n\nShe later claimed the bag contained only Chinese dumplings, but she was seen taking a wad of banknotes \"an inch and a half thick\" out of it and depositing £3,500 in one of her accounts.\n\nPolice swooped on Ma's car in Dundee a fortnight later.\n\nHe was in the driver's seat and had three passengers in the car, as well as nearly £50,000 in cash in the boot and rear footwell.\n\nHuang was arrested in her halls of residence in May 2021.\n\nNone of the luxury goods were ever recovered.\n\nSolicitor-advocate Calum Weir, defending, said Huang had been \"naïve and to some extent exploited\".\n\nHe asked for her to be given a non-custodial sentence so she could return to her parents in Beijing, who were described as people \"of more than adequate means\".\n\nBut Sheriff Keith O'Mahony said he was not persuaded there was any appropriate disposal other than custody, noting: \"I do accept she's not at the top of the tree.\"", "People travelling to Liverpool for next week's Eurovision Song Contest could still find accommodation in the city.\n\nHotels were booked out when the city was announced as the host for the event but, as it gets closer, rooms are becoming available.\n\nOne hospitality industry group suggested people may have been forced to cancel rooms due to train strikes.\n\nThey will cause disruption for those travelling by rail to the contest on the Friday 12 and Saturday 13 May.\n\n\"We don't pick out events in our union,\" he said last weekend.\n\n\"We don't say 'we'll disrupt that event, or we'll disrupt that event', we want to go on strike on Saturdays because it's the busiest day on the railway.\"\n\nKate Nicholls, the chief executive of UK Hospitality which represents more than 740 companies, told BBC News: \"It's a great shame that a rail strike is being held during the event, which can force people to change or cancel plans.\n\n\"I would encourage fans to continue looking for availability if they're planning to stay in Liverpool. It's great to see that so many fans will be in Liverpool for the big event and will be staying in the city.\"\n\nNorway's Alessandra will open the first semi-final on Tuesday with her song Queen of Kings\n\nBBC News has seen availability on hotel booking sites for around £200 a night in many hotels - from Tuesday 8 to Sunday 14 May.\n\nNext week there will be two-semi finals of the competition on Tuesday and Thursday, ahead of the grand final on Saturday.\n\nIt's the first time in 25 years the world's largest music event is being held in the UK, which is hosting it on behalf of last year's winners Ukraine.\n\nThe contest is expected to draw around 100,000 extra visitors to the city over the next 10 days.\n\nIn March Booking.com confirmed to BBC News \"some accommodation partners had been targeted by phishing emails\" which was putting customer's data at risk.\n\nA number of fans of the song contest contacted the BBC's Eurovisioncast podcast outlining their experiences of almost falling for scams relating to accommodation booked for Eurovision.\n\nBooking.com said it had \"actively been supporting our partners, as well as any potentially impacted customers\" and continued \"to make security and data protection a top priority\".\n\nCustomers are advised to speak directly to their hotels if they have concerns.\n\nArtists, including Andrew Lambrou for Cyrpus, have been in rehearsals this week at the Liverpool M&S arena\n\nAbout 6,000 fans will be inside the arena for each of the nine ticketed shows - the three televised ones and six production previews that double up as rehearsals.\n\nOutside of the venue there are a number of free events taking place across Liverpool as part of its two-week cultural festival.\n\nThey include a simultaneous rave between the city and Kyiv, and a fan zone where 15,000 people can watch the contest on big screens.\n\nAll the build-up, insights and analysis is explored each week on a BBC podcast called Eurovisioncast.\n\nEurovisioncast is available on BBC Sounds, or search wherever you get your podcasts from.", "A shire horse raised on a farm in rural Wales will be centre stage during the coronation procession of King Charles III.\n\nEd - now known as Major Apollo - is a ceremonial drum horse raised in Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire.\n\nHe also took part in Queen Elizabeth II's funeral procession.\n\nThe role involves leading 200 other horses on the procession route on the streets of London, carrying the ceremonial kettle drum.\n\nHe was the second horse to be sold by Dyfed Shire Horse Farm to the Household Cavalry in December 2019, following in the hoofprints of Celt, who became a drum horse in 2008.\n\nA third shire horse from the farm, Willa Rose, has also been bought by the Household Cavalry and is being trained as a drum horse.\n\nMajor Apollo stands at more than 17 hands (1.73m or 5ft 6in), weighs nearly 800kg (125 stone) and has been trained to carry a musician and drums during ceremonial events.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, and Ed (now Major Apollo) during a visit to Dyfed Shire Horse Farm in July 2018\n\nMajor Apollo's royal links stretch back to July 2018, when Camilla, the Queen Consort, visited the farm along with the King, who was then Prince of Wales.\n\nShe took the reins as Ed pulled her around the farm on a carriage ride.\n\nHuw Murphy helps run the farm with his family, and he has been to London to watch Major Apollo's preparations for the big day.\n\nHe said: \"They are the highest ranking animals in the British Army. I was down there last week and it is a joy to see how they look after these horses.\n\n\"They care for them with exceptional love. The drum horse leads the procession and leads the Household Cavalry mounted regiment band.\"\n\nMajor Apollo has been in training for the coronation\n\nMajor Apollo will have the kettle drum that dates back to the reign of King Charles II (1660-1685), and Mr Murphy said it would represent \"hundreds of years and the history and the pageantry is unique to this country\".\n\nHaving grown up on the farm around the shire horses, Mr Murphy's mother Enid Cole said it would be a source of great pride to the family.\n\n\"There'll be about 200 horses behind him. The drum horse's role is to lead all the others and it's quite a demanding role.\n\n\"The drums are very heavy and you've got the soldier on as well,\" she said.\n\n\"You've got the noise, they've got to acquaint themselves with that. They rehearse early in the morning before London wakes up. It will be very, very special.\n\n\"Not only is Ed in the procession, but when did we last have a coronation? Most probably, I won't see another coronation.\"\n\nMr Murphy said he was hopeful both Willa Rose and Ed would be ready to bring more pride at the King's birthday parade later this year.\n\n\"We've got two shire horses there, and it appears both will hopefully be on the Trooping the Colour ceremony in June, all being well,\" he said.", "The clean-shaven policy is to allow officers to wear protective masks\n\nPolice Scotland is planning to introduce a new clean-shaven policy for frontline officers, according to correspondence seen by the BBC.\n\nIt means hundreds of officers will have to shave off their beards and moustaches by the end of the month.\n\nFour are understood to be taking legal action in relation to the policy.\n\nPolice Scotland said it was necessary so officers and staff could wear protective FFP3 masks which require users to be clean-shaven.\n\nThe policy, which also covers civilian staff in frontline roles, has been approved by the chief constable and is due to be introduced on 29 May.\n\nDuring the Covid pandemic police officers were fitted with specialist masks designed to protect them from the virus.\n\nA message posted on Police Scotland's internal website from Assistant Chief Constable Alan Speirs said lessons learned from the pandemic identified that FFP3 masks offered the most appropriate and effective respiratory protection to officers and staff.\n\nHe said that while the risk from coronavirus had lowered, wider risks remained to officers and staff attending calls such as fires, road accidents and chemical incidents which required PPE (personal protective equipment) to be worn.\n\nPolice Scotland's new respiratory protective equipment (RPE) policy will mean that where it can be \"reasonably foreseen\" that any officer or member of staff will use an FFP3 mask they should be clean-shaven.\n\nThis includes all local policing frontline officers, roads policing, firearms and public order officers.\n\nACC Speirs said in the message: \"The safety of our people remains a priority and it is clear that a single overarching policy on the use of protective masks is required.\"\n\nThere will be exemptions for religious, cultural, disability or medical reasons. In these circumstances, the force is seeking to introduce an alternative type of respiratory protection.\n\nPolice Scotland has about 17,000 officers and 6,000 staff.\n\nIt is the UK's second biggest force behind the Metropolitan police.\n\nThe Met's policy says \"beards and moustaches are allowed, but they mustn't look unkempt. Keep them trimmed and smart\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file police officers, said it had been inundated with complaints about the policy which it said was causing \"angst\" for many officers.\n\nIt said it was supporting several members who had lodged employment tribunal cases and had sought legal opinion relating to health and safety, discrimination and human rights.\n\nThe federation's general secretary, David Kennedy, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The health and safety executive guidance is that a policy like this should only be utilised as a last resort and there have been relevant questions raised by officers as to why this policy is now being proposed.\"\n\n\"People would be facing misconduct if they didn't shave. Some officers may have to shave twice a day for these masks to work.\"\n\nMr Kennedy said he hoped Police Scotland would reverse the decision, and said there were \"other health and safety issues\" the force should be focusing on.\n\nIn a statement, ACC Speirs said the policy was being introduced to protect those on the frontline and that the FFP3 mask \"offers the most appropriate and effective respiratory protection to officers and staff\".\n\nHe added: \"While the risk from coronavirus has lowered, wider risks remain to those attending calls, such as fires, road accidents and chemical incidents which require PPE to be worn.\n\n\"The exception to this policy covers officers and staff who cannot shave for religious, cultural, disability or medical reasons. In these circumstances, Police Scotland is seeking to introduce an alternative type of respiratory protection.\n\n\"We understand the frustrations among those affected on the frontline, but the use of PPE is absolutely necessary to protect officers and staff from serious health risks.\"\n\nACC Speirs said the force undertake a full consultation ahead of the policy being introduced, and that a full human rights impact assessment was being carried out as part of the process.\n\nThe National Sikh Police Association said it supported the new measures and could understand why Police Scotland wanted to introduce the clean shaven policy.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We welcome the exemptions, including those for our Sikh colleagues. The alternative respirators are an important component of the policy and we trust the investment in the alternative equipment will be sufficient\".", "An artist's impression of a launch from Sutherland Spaceport\n\nConstruction has begun at the site of a planned spaceport in the Highlands.\n\nForres-based rockets manufacturer Orbex has proposed launching up to 12 orbital rockets a year from the facility near Tongue.\n\nA ceremony was held earlier this week to mark the breaking of the first ground at the Sutherland Spaceport site.\n\nNo dates have been provided yet for completion of the complex or when the first launches would take place.\n\nPlanning permission for Sutherland Spaceport, formerly known as Space Hub Sutherland, was secured in 2021.\n\nOrbex has been testing a prototype of its 19m (62ft) Prime rocket at a facility in Kinloss in Moray.\n\nFunding for the project includes a £9m public investment package from Highlands and Islands Enterprise and the Scottish government and more than £2m from the UK Space Agency.\n\nThe Nuclear Decommissioning Authority will contribute £3m as part of its efforts to create job opportunities to replace those at the Dounreay nuclear complex, near Thurso, which is being decommissioned.\n\nOrbex has been carrying out tests on a prototype rocket\n\nCivil engineering giant Jacobs has been contracted for the construction of the spaceport. The company has previously worked with US space agency Nasa.\n\nOrbex chief executive Kristian von Bengtson said: \"With the construction of Sutherland Spaceport underway, this is an important piece of the puzzle that will make the UK a modern space nation.\n\n\"Just as importantly, we're hopefully also setting the tone for how business can be a force for good, creating jobs and opportunities while minimising the impact upon the environment.\"\n\nThe spaceport site is in a large area of peatbog on the Moine Peninsula.\n\nOrbex said soil removed during construction would be used to help restore areas of degraded peatland.\n\nSutherland Spaceport is one of a number being developed in Scotland.\n\nOther projects are being developed on Unst in Shetland and the Western Isles.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPassengers smashed their way out of a Tube train in south London following a fire alert on Friday evening.\n\nThe northbound train was stopped at Clapham Common station at about 17:50 BST when people were seen breaking the train's windows and climbing out.\n\nThere had been no reports of any injuries, according to British Transport Police (BTP).\n\nA spokesperson for Transport for London (TfL) said: \"The fire brigade attended and confirmed there was no fire.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said no one was believed to have been injured during the incident\n\nThe alert at the station was believed to have been due to a mechanical fault involving a ventilation fan on the train, the operator told BBC London.\n\nTFL said an investigation into the incident had been launched, adding: \"We're sorry for the distress caused at Clapham Common.\"\n\nA spokesperson for London Fire Brigade said about 500 people had left the train before crews from Battersea, Tooting and Brixton arrived at the scene.\n\n\"Investigations are ongoing, but the report of smoke is believed to have been caused by the train's brakes,\" they added.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, BTP said: \"The issue is believed to have been caused by brake dust which can often be confused with burning.\"\n\nJamie McConkey, who was on the station platform, said there was a \"strong smell of smoke\" inside the station and people were \"screaming\" to get out of the train.\n\n\"I could hear people banging on the inside of the windows and there were passengers on the platform starting to try to wrench the doors open,\" he told BBC London.\n\n\"It looked pretty scary. I ran over and people were banging on the windows, and some of them were screaming and shouting and trying to force their way through the doors.\n\n\"The doors had just jammed completely. People were trying to wrench them open, including myself.\n\n\"There were arms and legs sort of hanging out and people seemed really, really frightened. Some of them looked white as sheets.\"\n\nThere was a fire alert in Clapham Common tube station on Friday evening, Transport for London said\n\nA passenger who was on the train said: \"We were all stuck inside the Tube with locked doors.\n\n\"We could hear people at the other end of the Tube screaming and banging on the doors and windows to get out of tube carriages.\n\n\"We had no idea what was going on. People on the platform and in the Tube were smashing through the windows to get out. I now realise that's because the Tube carriages were filling with smoke.\"\n\nThere were severe delays on the Northern Line as a result of the incident, TfL said.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nNapoli won their first Serie A title for 33 years as they drew with Udinese at Dacia Arena to spark jubilant celebrations back in Naples.\n\nThey last won the league in 1990 with a Diego Maradona-inspired side adding to their first title three years earlier.\n\nVictor Osimhen smashed in a 52nd-minute equaliser after Sandi Lovric had given Udinese a shock lead.\n\nAnd Napoli held on to the point they needed to win their third Serie A title with five games to spare.\n\n\"Seeing Neapolitans happy is enough to give you a sense of that joy they are feeling,\" Napoli boss Luciano Spalletti told DAZN.\n\n\"These people will look to this moment when life gets hard, they have every right to celebrate like this.\n\n\"You feel a bit more relaxed knowing that you've given them this moment of happiness.\"\n• None 'Football is everything' - what Scudetto means to Naples\n\nNapoli's previous two titles came in the days of Argentina legend Maradona - who their stadium is now named after - in 1987 and 1990.\n\nFollowing those glory days the club fell into financial decline, relegation and bankruptcy; playing in Serie C as recently as 2006.\n\nThey have won the Coppa Italia three times in the past 11 seasons but it is the Scudetto the Napoli fans craved.\n\nThey now have a new cast of superstars, with Nigeria forward Victor Osimhen scoring 21 goals in 26 league games and Georgia winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia contributing 12 goals and 10 assists.\n\nAt 64 boss Luciano Spalletti, who twice won the Coppa Italia with Roma, becomes the oldest manager to win Serie A.\n\nHis team had the chance to lift the title with six games to spare last weekend but could only draw with local rivals Salernitana.\n\nBut with a 16-point advantage over second-placed Lazio their third Serie A title is now confirmed.\n\nTheir match with Udinese was almost an afterthought. Napoli fans had been partying in Naples all day before filling the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona to watch a stream of the match.\n\nOver 10,000 fans travelled north to see their side in Udine but they were stunned into silence after 13 minutes when Lovric was given acres of space in the box before curling the hosts in front.\n\nNapoli struggled in the first half but got the goal they needed after the restart with Osimhen finding the corner after Kvaratskhelia had forced a good save from Udinese keeper Marco Silvestri.\n\nAnd after equalising, Napoli managed the game superbly, keeping their opponents at arm's length.\n\nOn the full-time whistle Napoli fans raced onto the pitch, starting celebrations in both Udine and Naples.\n\n\"It is an amazing feeling, we have waited so many years for this moment,\" Osimhen told DAZN.\n\n\"To be able to deliver the Scudetto to the Neapolitans is something that we will never forget in a hurry and will continue to live in our hearts for the rest of our lives.\"\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Marco Silvestri (Udinese).\n• None Substitution, Udinese. Festy Ebosele replaces Kingsley Ehizibue because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Kingsley Ehizibue (Udinese).\n• None Substitution, Udinese. Marvin Zeegelaar replaces Destiny Udogie because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Udinese. Rodrigo Becão tries a through ball, but Ilija Nestorovski is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 28 April and 5 May.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nAlex Mackintosh stepped back in time to the 1700s this week with a trip to the Highland Folk Museum.\n\nLisa Stewart was at Linlithgow Loch on May Day and thought this black swan was a \"striking\" sight amid the white swans.\n\nAlan MacDonald was struck by a deserted A82 running east away from Glencoe towards Rannoch Moor.\n\nIain Stark took this photo of the daffodils in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh while visiting Scotland.\n\nAndy Smith snapped this woolly wonder while walking locally in Bearsden.\n\nGordon Lobban stopped for a break after a bike ride on the machair in the lee of towering sand dunes on Berneray.\n\nIain Forrest saw this thirsty red squirrel at a farm near Keith.\n\nColin Little discovered an osprey with its catch as it headed up river at Lossiemouth. Its head had turned 180 degrees to look skyward. Colin said he had never seen this before. He said: 'Some think it was shaking water from feathers. I like to think it was on lookout for gulls trying to remove it of its flounder.'\n\nStuart Lilley took this picture of a blue tit with nest-building material in its beak in Inverness.\n\nSarah Thurlbeck came across this tawny owlet braving the elements after having recently 'branched out' from its cosy nest in Milton of Campsie, East Dunbartonshire.\n\nElaine Turner was struck by the alien landscape created by these carnivorous plants in the glasshouse at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens - a planet in Star Wars perhaps?\n\nCharlie Fabb took this beautiful shot of Eilean Donan Castle while on holiday in the Highlands.\n\nDavid May brought a smile with this funny picture of toys on the washing line in the Black Isle.\n\nCharlie Fabb took this atmospheric picture of Edinburgh from Calton Hill.\n\nKim Bennett saw these incredible rain clouds over the Isle of May from St Monans harbour.\n\nOn a trip to Argyll, Derek Brown took this picture and said he was very lucky to spot this old puffer sail along the Crinan Canal near Cairnbaan.\n\nScott Pryde took this shot of the beautifully preserved Arnol Blackhouse on the Isle of Lewis with its peat fire.\n\nCate Kennedy happened to turn and look behind her during a walk and saw this 'amazing cloud formation' in Elie in Fife.\n\nDoug McKay took this picture of Aberdeen harbour taken in the \"blue hour\" just after sunset.\n\nAlex Mackintosh captured this crow eating a piece of meat in Kincraig, Kingussie.\n\nPat Christie liked the bright colours of Pittenweem harbour on a recent visit to the East Neuk of Fife.\n\nThis speedy image was snapped by Tony Marsh at the Tweedlove Festival triple crown racing at Glentress, near Peebles.\n\nJacqueline Robertson enjoyed a visit to the farrier competition at Belwade Farm Stables.\n\nThis wonderful picture of a starling gathering food for its young on the Water of Leith in Edinburgh came from George Kelsey.\n\nMichael Cross took this at the top of the Nevis Range, Fort William. Bikers were setting off from the launching booth on one of the elite mountain biking routes, blanketed by thick morning fog.\n\nBrian Harris was on the other end of this stare at Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill, Edinburgh.\n\nStephen Scott took this picture of Glasgow Royal Infirmary from the neighbouring Necropolis.\n\nAs storm clouds gathered in the distance, Robert Westerman captured this picture of his friend, Elizabeth Semple, stepping out across the sand for her walk across the bay at Dunaverty Beach, Southend, in Kintyre.\n\nJacki Gordon, who sent us this image, said: \"When your feet are too big for your body\", as seems to be the case with this Greylag gosling.\n\nSally Pendreigh took this picture of Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh from Braid Hills.\n\nJulie Izon-Williams took this photo on May Day on the cliffs at Burrowhead, Isle of Whithorn. It shows Irish documentary film-maker, Fergal O' Riordan, about to keep his appointment with the Wicker Man. The 15ft sculpture was handmade by local artist Amanda Sunderland as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations and was burned in the same spot as the original from the film.\n\nMarek Wilkojc took this photograph of his friend, Grant Wilson, at the top of Beinn Dearg Mor, reflecting on his achievement of climbing all the 222 Corbetts - mountains in Scotland between 2,500ft and 3,000ft.\n\nRebecca McLennan said she was exceptionally lucky to see this wild badger at Aigas field centre near Inverness.\n\nLineta Stonkute recorded this view of Tigh-na-sleubhaich which is in a glen on the last stretch of the West Highland Way - Kinlochleven to Fort William.\n\nEmily Wilson took this striking picture of Montrose Beach.\n\nHelen Drummond got to walk through a tunnel of beautiful blossoms on Edinburgh's Meadows.\n\nBrian Colston was taken by the sunset over the Ardgour peninsula and Loch Linnhe.\n\nKathleen Humphris caught this view of the winding river and road of Glencoe from the descent of Beinn a' Chrulaiste.\n\nVictor Tregubov loved the geometry of the Exhibition Centre's pedestrian bridge in Glasgow.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Sir Keir Starmer has visited Chatham after a \"historic\" victory for Labour in the local elections.\n\nThe Conservatives have lost control of Medway Council in Kent for the first time in more than 20 years.\n\nLabour secured 33 seats, which was enough to take control of the council. The Conservatives have 22 and there are four independents.\n\nThe Labour leader said: \"You didn't just get it over the line. You blew the doors off.\"\n\nThe unitary authority was previously held by the Conservatives with a majority of 11.\n\nSir Keir said: \"Make no mistake, we are on course for a Labour majority at the next general election.\n\n\"We've won the trust and confidence of voters and now we can go on and change our country.\"\n\nAll 55 council seats in Medway were up for election, along with four new seats created by boundary changes.\n\nTunbridge Wells remained with no overall majority - the council has seen a trend away from the Conservatives\n\nThe Conservatives held Dartford and Sevenoaks, but across the South East, the so-called \"blue wall\" appeared to be crumbling, with the party losing seats.\n\nIn Canterbury, where sewage has been a big issue, the leader lost his seat to the Liberal Democrats. Another Tory candidate conceded before counting had even begun, but the council remained under no overall control.\n\nIn Folkestone and Hythe, the Greens have made waves after campaigning hard against a controversial development in Hythe. They unseated the authority's Conservative leader and become the largest party.\n\nLabour have taken both Gravesham and Dover. Dover was previously a Conservative-run council. Gravesham was under no overall control.\n\nMeanwhile, the Conservatives have lost control of Maidstone, leaving a hung council. The Tories remain the largest party with 23 seats, while the Liberal Democrats, independents, Labour and the Greens have 11, 10, five and three respectively.\n\nIn Tunbridge Wells, there remains no overall majority, with no parties losing any seats. The council has seen a trend away from the Conservatives after they lost control in 2021.\n\nAshford, which remains under no overall control, saw the Greens gain six seats and the Conservatives lose seven. The Conservatives are the largest party on the council.\n\nIn Thanet, the Conservatives lost eight seats, while Labour gained 10 and took control of the council, which previously had no overall majority.\n\nThe Tories also lost Tonbridge and Malling to no overall control.\n\nSwale remained under no overall control.\n\nMedway Labour leader Vince Maple (right) hailed the win as \"historic\"\n\nMedway Labour leader Vince Maple told BBC Radio Kent the local result was \"historic\" for the area.\n\n\"We've had a result tonight that I don't think we even expected,\" he said.\n\n\"We've never had since the creation of Medway Council a Labour majority council.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Charlotte Wright This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe added that he believed the \"poor financial management\" by the local Conservatives and the economic outlook nationwide was what helped his party win.\n\nOutgoing Conservative leader Alan Jarrett blamed boundary changes and dissatisfaction with the national Conservative Party for the losses.\n\n\"Put those two things together, it's a pretty toxic mix,\" he said.\n\nIn a message to his successor, he added: \"We're not seeing any substance yet. While they may have copied Conservative policies to help them win the election, it's a wolf in sheep's clothing.\n\nLabour activists in Medway were crying tears of joy when the seats were announced that gave them the majority on the council.\n\nThis was the result they had been dreaming of.\n\nNot since the early days of Tony Blair's premiership have they had local authority control here in Medway.\n\nIn the weeks leading up to polling day, they told me this year was their best chance of winning.\n\nThey've been helped by national dissatisfaction with the Tories, a change in some ward boundaries and hard work on the doorstep.\n\nThe question is, does it end here for Labour? Can Labour convert their success tonight into seats at the next general election?\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Opens in a new browser tab More information about these elections Who won in my area? Enter your postcode, or the name of your council area to find out To find your council candidates and polling station\n\nSarah Lieberman, senior politics lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, described the result in Medway as \"a big deal.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's an indication that the voting general public are maybe a little bit jaded after 13 years of Conservative control.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHeavy Conservative local election losses represent a \"clear rejection\" of Rishi Sunak in his first electoral test as prime minister, Labour has said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer claimed his party was on course to win the next general election, expected next year.\n\nThe Tories lost 48 councils and more than 1,000 councillors across England in Thursday's polls, exceeding their worst predictions.\n\nMany Tories were angry at the scale of the losses, with some blaming Mr Sunak.\n\nLabour says it is now the largest party in local government, surpassing the Tories for the first time since 2002.\n\n\"The British public has sent a clear rejection of a prime minister who never had a mandate to begin with,\" a Labour spokesperson said.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats had what their leader Sir Ed Davey said was their \"best result in decades\", taking control of 12 councils, mostly in Tory heartlands. The party gained 405 new councillors, compared with Labour's 536 gains.\n\nThe Green Party gained 241 seats - their best-ever result in local elections - and gained its first majority on an English council, in Mid-Suffolk, although they were overtaken as the biggest party by Labour in Brighton and Hove.\n\nMr Sunak admitted the results were \"disappointing\", but said he did not detect \"a massive groundswell of movement towards the Labour Party or excitement for its agenda\".\n\nSir Keir claimed the \"fantastic\" results showed his party was well placed to oust the Tories from government in a general election, expected next year.\n\n\"Make no mistake, we are on course for a Labour majority at the next general election,\" he told cheering activists in Medway in Kent, one of the councils his party has wrested from the Tories.\n\nLabour won control of councils in areas that will be crucial battlegrounds in the general election, including Medway, Swindon, Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent, and East Staffordshire.\n\nThe BBC's projected national vote share put Labour on 35%, the Tories on 26% and the Lib Dems on 20%.\n\nLabour's projected nine-point lead represents its largest over the Conservatives on this measure since the party lost power in 2010.\n\nSir John Curtice, the polling expert, said this year's results were \"only a little short of calamitous for the Conservatives\".\n\nBut the BBC's political editor, Chris Mason, said the results suggested it would be hard for either the Conservatives or Labour to be confident of winning a majority at the next general election.\n\nLabour shadow cabinet member Peter Kyle denied the results, which saw the Lib Dems gain nearly as many new councillors as Labour, was an anti-government, rather than a pro-Labour, vote.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the results showed Labour had won back support in \"key places\" and would win an outright majority at the general election, without needing to do deals with other parties.\n\n\"In all of the areas that the Labour Party targeted, that we focused resources, that we really wanted to reconnect to voters, we did so.\"\n\nHe added that Sir Keir Starmer had \"led from the front\" and Labour had run a \"disciplined\" campaign, which showed it was \"moving towards government.\"\n\nIn Swindon, where Labour took control of the borough council for the first time in 20 years, ousted Tory council leader David Renard blamed \"the cost of living and the performance of the government in the last 12 months\" for his party's woes locally.\n\nMr Renard said although the prime minister had \"started to stabilise things\", for voters in Swindon \"what had gone on before that was something that they didn't like\".\n\nDavid Renard, Swindon's former council leader, who lost his own seat\n\nThe Conservative mayor of the Tees Valley, Ben Houchen, who is up for election next year, said the poor Tory performance was a partly a result of \"the turmoil and upheaval of the last 12 months\".\n\nHe said Labour had been \"successful in making this a referendum on the government\", adding \"people don't feel like they can vote for us\".\n\nNigel Churchill, a former Tory councillor who lost his seat on Plymouth Council - another Labour target - said \"I think we can safely say\" the Conservatives will lose the next general election.\n\n\"The general public do not trust them at the moment,\" he said.\n\nBut Education Minister Robert Halfon said this year's local elections were always \"going to be difficult\" for his party.\n\nHe said internal party divisions \"didn't help\", but claimed the losses were down to external factors, such as the cost-of-living crisis and problems in the NHS.\n\n\"Every government during the mid-term, especially a government that has been in power for 13 years, always suffers losses in local elections,\" he said.\n\nOther Tory MPs told the BBC that apathy - Conservative voters staying at home - was also a big problem for the party.\n\nThe seats up for grabs were mostly on district councils, responsible for services including bin collections, parks, public housing and planning applications.\n\nThe rest of the elections were for a mixture of metropolitan and unitary councils - single local authorities that deal with all local services - and for four mayors.\n\nThe elections were the first in England to see voter ID checks at polling stations. Some voters told the BBC they were turned away from polling stations, prompting critics to call for the ID rules to be dropped.", "A huge wave of infections hit countries around the world in 2020\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that Covid-19 no longer represents a \"global health emergency\".\n\nThe statement represents a major step towards ending the pandemic and comes three years after it first declared its highest level of alert over the virus.\n\nOfficials said the virus' death rate had dropped from a peak of more than 100,000 people per week in January 2021 to just over 3,500 on 24 April.\n\nThe head of the WHO said at least seven million people died in the pandemic.\n\nBut Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the true figure was \"likely\" closer to 20 million deaths - nearly three times the official estimate - and he warned that the virus remained a significant threat.\n\n\"Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern. I've accepted that advice. It is therefore with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency,\" Dr Tedros said.\n\nHe added that the decision had been considered carefully for some time and made on the basis of careful analysis of data.\n\nBut he warned the removal of the highest level of alert did not mean the danger was over and said the emergency status could be reinstated if the situation changed.\n\n\"The worst thing any country can do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that Covid-19 is nothing to worry about,\" he said.\n\nThe World Health Organization first declared Covid-19 to be a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) in January 2020.\n\nThis signalled the need for coordinated global action to protect people from the new virus.\n\nIt will now be up to individual countries to continue to manage Covid in the way they think best.\n\nVaccines were one of the major turning points in the pandemic. According to the WHO, 13 billion doses have been given, allowing many people to be protected from serious illness and death.\n\nBut in many countries vaccines have not reached most of those in need.\n\nMore than 765 million confirmed Covid infections have been recorded worldwide.\n\nThe US and UK, like many other countries, have already talked about \"living with the virus\" and wound down many of the tests and social mixing rules.\n\nDr Mike Ryan, from the WHO's health emergencies programme, said the emergency may have ended, but the threat is still there.\n\n\"We fully expect that this virus will continue to transmit and this is the history of pandemics,\" he said.\n\n\"It took decades for the final throes of the pandemic virus of 1918 to disappear.\n\n\"In most cases, pandemics truly end when the next pandemic begins.\"", "Banks have warned of a large increase in fraud in 2022, with much of this originating online.\n\nBarclays told the BBC that 77% of scams are now happening on social media, online marketplaces and dating apps.\n\nTSB said a large increase in cases of impersonation, investment and purchase fraud were the main drivers of this.\n\nIt found impersonation scams on WhatsApp had tripled in a year, while fake listings on Facebook Marketplace had doubled.\n\nAnd it said there have been \"huge fraud spikes\" on platforms owned by Meta, such as WhatsApp and Facebook.\n\nA spokesperson for Meta told the BBC it believes fraud is \"an industry-wide issue\".\n\n\"Scammers are using increasingly sophisticated methods to defraud people in a range of ways, including email, SMS and offline,\" they said.\n\n\"We don't want anyone to fall victim to these criminals, which is why our platforms have systems to block scams, financial services advertisers now have to be FCA (Financial Conduct Authority)-authorised and we run consumer awareness campaigns on how to spot fraudulent behaviour.\"\n\nLiz Ziegler, Lloyds Banking Group's fraud prevention director, told the BBC banks are facing an \"epidemic of scams\".\n\n\"With more than 70% of fraud starting with contact through the main tech platforms, these companies must be held responsible for stopping scams at source and putting things right for innocent victims,\" she said.\n\nPreviously, NatWest chief executive Alison Rose told a Treasury Select Committee that three million people in the UK were victims of fraud in 2022.\n\n\"We have seen an 87% increase in fraud,\" she said, adding that NatWest estimated 60% of frauds originated on social media and technology platforms.\n\nMeanwhile, TSB said 60% of purchase fraud cases of which it is aware - where a scammer sells an item they never intend to send to the buyer - happen on Facebook Marketplace, and two-thirds of impersonation fraud cases it sees are happening on WhatsApp,\n\nThe bank says it issued 2,650 refunds covering these cases last year.\n\nPaul Davis, TSB's director of fraud prevention, said he believed social media companies \"must urgently clean up their platforms\" to protect consumers.\n\n\"It's high time that social media and telephone companies took financial liability for the rising levels of fraud taking place on their platforms,\" he said.\n\nAccording to the most recent figures from UK Finance, which represents the banking and finance sector, 56% of the total amount lost to scams was returned to customers in the first half of 2022.\n\nMany banks, including NatWest, Lloyds and Barclays, are signed up to the Contingent Reimbursement Model Code, which aims to reimburse people if they fall victim to an Authorised Push Payment (APP) scam \"and have acted appropriately\".\n\nAn APP scam is where a person is tricked into transferring money into an account operated by a fraudster.\n\nBut TSB says it reimburses people in 97% of all fraud cases it sees, and is campaigning for others to follow suit.\n\nRocio Concha, director of policy and advocacy at consumer group Which?, said the statistics \"expose the worrying scale\" of fraud on social media.\n\n\"The Online Safety Bill has been going through Parliament for more than a year and progress has been much too slow, with people still being scammed every day,\" she said.\n\n\"The government must take a vital step in the fight against fraud by ensuring the bill includes the strongest possible protections for consumers and is passed into law without further delays.\"", "The inaugural Deaf Arts Festival takes place in Belfast before touring across Northern Ireland\n\nAn actress from County Armagh has said she wants to be a role model for deaf and hard-of-hearing people who are interested in the performing arts.\n\nPaula Clarke, who has been acting for more than 20 years, was born deaf and grew up fluent in sign language.\n\n\"I want to show everybody that deaf actors like myself have the skills, the experience and that professional ability to perform well,\" she said.\n\nShe was speaking ahead of a performance at the inaugural Deaf Arts NI Festival.\n\nThe event, at the MAC in Belfast, is unique in that it caters to both deaf and hearing audiences.\n\nTwo productions this weekend will incorporate hearing and deaf actors performing for an inclusive audience, using a mixture of speech, sign language and interpretation.\n\n\"This has never happened,\" said Paula, who is also a sign language interpreter for BBC Newsline. \"It's so important for hearing and deaf actors, and society in general, to work together.\n\n\"This is like my dream come true. I have been waiting for such a long time and now we've done it and I'm so excited, I'm thrilled.\"\n\nPaula Clarke plays a lead role in Expecting at this year's Deaf Arts Festival\n\nPaula said she has been interested in drama from an early age by dressing up, looking in the mirror and \"trying to imagine myself as a different character\".\n\n\"I would try on make-up and I would ask my mum to photograph me... I'm an only child, so that's why I kind of enjoyed playing alone creatively.\"\n\nHer interest in the performing arts extended to college where she joined an acting course, working with hearing actors, something that was \"slow to start\" but has became easier over the years as she worked across multiple productions.\n\n\"I see so much progress that has been made; people are becoming more aware of sign language and the need for inclusivity,\" she said.\n\n\"It's so important in the arts to include people from all different backgrounds, people who are from different communities - that could be with different disabilities, neurodiversity, LGBTQ community - because there are barriers there.\n\n\"We want to invite other people who are involved in other performance companies to come to see that deaf actors can do it, can provide a high quality of performance.\n\n\"I want to be a role model for other deaf people who are interested in performing as well to show that they can do it.\"\n\nCommunication is key, according to Paula, and this goes far beyond verbal speech.\n\nShe said relationships can be built through gesture, eye contact, visual descriptions and note taking.\n\n\"It's actually a line in the play - communication is a feeling - and that's so important because it's impossible to rely on interpreters for communication all the time because interpreters aren't available 24/7.\"\n\nSarah and Stephen said they have jumped \"head first\" into the inaugural Deaf Arts NI festival\n\nDeaf Arts Northern Ireland, which has been launched to coincide with Deaf Awareness Week, was co-founded by Sara Lyle from Cre8 Theatre in Belfast and Stephen Kelly from c21 Theatre Company in Newtownabbey.\n\nThey made the decision to collaborate on the project after applying for specialist funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It's been a massive undertaking and a really big steep learning curve for the both of us,\" said Sarah.\n\nBoth company directors \"jumped head first\" into learning British Sign Language last year and have spent considerable time on research and development ahead of the festival.\n\n\"Incorporating ourselves into that environment has been amazing. We can communicate on a basic level in the rehearsal room and that's key,\" said Stephen.\n\n\"We just put two feet in and went for it, connecting with interpreters from across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I think this a different mode for them but they are generally super excited to see this amount of access going on,\" Sarah added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast year's best picture Oscar win for Coda - which stands for Children of Deaf Adults - was a victory for a low-budget, independent film that has been praised for its representation of a deaf family, and for its casting of deaf actors.\n\n\"Isn't it about time? It should have been happening ages ago,\" said Sarah.\n\nStephen said he was inspired to bring inclusivity to the forefront after seeing the huge impact made by such larger productions.\n\n\"I think that prompted me, certainly,\" he said. \"We're in a position to make an impact through the medium of drama.\"\n\nCre8 actors rehearsing their play Sleeping Beauty ahead of the festival\n\nThe festival has been made possible with additional support from the Halifax Foundation and Belfast City Council's Arts and Heritage Fund.\n\nAfter a weekend run in Belfast both productions will embark on a tour across Northern Ireland.\n\nFurther ahead, c21 Theatre Company has been invited to perform as part of this year's hearing-impaired offerings at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ed Sheeran: I won't have to retire from my day job after all\n\nEd Sheeran did not copy Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On when composing Thinking Out Loud, a US court has ruled.\n\nThe British singer-songwriter had denied stealing elements of the song for his 2014 worldwide hit.\n\nHeirs of Gaye's co-writer argued that Sheeran, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Publishing owed them money for copyright infringement.\n\nSheeran had said he would give up his music career if found guilty at the trial in New York.\n\n\"If that happens, I'm done, I'm stopping,\" he said when asked about the toll the trial at Manhattan federal court was taking on him.\n\nSheeran stood up and hugged his team after jurors ruled that he \"independently\" created his song.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Sheeran said he was \"obviously very happy\" with the ruling.\n\n\"It looks like I'm not going to have to retire from my day job after all,\" he said. \"But at the same time I am absolutely frustrated that baseless claims like this are allowed to go to court at all.\n\n\"If the jury had decided this matter the other way we might as well say goodbye to the creative freedom of songwriters.\"\n\n\"I am not and will never allow myself to be a piggy bank for anyone to shake,\" he added.\n\nA musicologist for Sheeran's defence told the court that the four-chord sequence in question was used in several songs before Gaye's hit came out in 1973.\n\nKathryn Townsend Griffin, the daughter of Gaye's co-writer Ed Townsend, accused Sheeran of copyright infringement. She walked swiftly past reporters smoking what appeared to be a cigarillo, saying only: \"God is good all the time, all the time God is good.\"\n\nKathryn Townsend Griffin, the daughter of composer Ed Townsend, accuses Sheeran of copyright infringement\n\nDuring the civil trial Sheeran sang and played parts of Thinking Out Loud on the guitar.\n\nHe said he wrote the song at home in England with his friend Amy Wadge, and had been inspired by his grandparents and a new romantic relationship he had just begun.\n\nSheeran's lawyer, Ilene Farkas, told the jurors that similarities in the chord progressions and rhythms of the two songs were \"the letters of the alphabet of music.\"\n\n\"These are basic musical building blocks that songwriters now and forever must be free to use, or all of us who love music will be poorer for it,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How similar are Ed Sheeran and Marvin Gaye's songs?\n\nDuring the trial, Keisha Rice, who represented the heirs of Townsend, said her clients were not claiming to own basic musical elements but rather \"the way in which these common elements were uniquely combined.\"\n\n\"Mr Sheeran is counting on you to be very, very overwhelmed by his commercial success,\" she said, urging jurors to use their \"common sense\" to decide whether the songs are similar.\n\nLast year Sheeran won a copyright battle at the High Court in London over his 2017 Shape of You.\n\nSheeran is also facing claims over Thinking Out Loud from a company owned by investment banker David Pullman that holds copyright interests in the Gaye song.\n\nIn 2015 Gaye's heirs won a $5.3m judgment from a lawsuit claiming the Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams song Blurred Lines copied Gaye's Got to Give It Up.", "The late Queen Elizabeth II and her husband the late Duke Of Edinburgh on Coronation day in 1953\n\n\"The entire world was in London for that coronation.\"\n\nThe Queen of Tonga in her open carriage, an incident with Sir Winston Churchill and a new queen - all seen from the eyes of a 14-year-old schoolboy from Greenisland in County Antrim.\n\nOn 2 June 1953, Chris Wilson watched the world go by in a \"kaleidoscope of events\" on the Mall.\n\nHe was surrounded by crowds who had travelled see the crowning of a young Queen Elizabeth II.\n\n\"For weeks before coronation day, families were camping on the footpaths along the processional route,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nChris, who went on to become a headteacher in Limavady, travelled to the coronation from Northern Ireland with his aunt by sea and rail.\n\nChris Wilson with his wife Roberta in Austria\n\nOn the day of the coronation, they hired a pre-war taxi with a soft top which folded back to give an open-top view.\n\n\"We spent at least three hours crawling along with, what was even then, almost gridlocked cars and buses.\"\n\nThe trip was worth it because Chris had a prime seat on the processional route.\n\nHe had a green ticket for stand 47, block three, row G, seat number 20 in the Mall.\n\n\"From my stand looking down The Mall towards Buckingham Palace there stretched on the roadway what appeared to be a black Persian deep-pile carpet,\" he said.\n\nThat carpet turned out to be the bearskin headdress of a guardsman.\n\nA map showing the location of numbered stands along the coronation procession route in 1953\n\nRoving reporters were asking people for their favourite songs.\n\nAccording to Chris, the film of that month was Singing In The Rain and loud speakers carried it all over central London.\n\nA lady who made a great impression and stole the show was Sālote Tupou III of Tonga.\n\n\"She was very tall and regal. Even in the heavy rain she travelled in an open carriage with only a colourful parasol for shelter.\"\n\nQueen Sālote Tupou III of Tonga riding past crowds of people along the Thames Embankment, on her way to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II\n\nIt was there that Chris witnessed what would become a moment in history.\n\n\"As Sir Winston Churchill's carriage was passing its two horses took fright and reared up,\" he said.\n\n\"A number of police officers ran forward to control them with Sir Winston leaning out of the carriage and using quite strong Anglo-Saxon language.\"\n\nHe said Sir Winston \"ordered the police to open a way through the crowd\".\n\nChris Wilson was witness to a moment in history involving Sir Winston Churchill's horses\n\nWhen the procession had passed, Chris and the throngs made their way along The Mall to Buckingham Palace.\n\n\"We stood outside the railings and chanted: 'We want the Queen.'\n\n\"The young queen, her consort, the Duke of Edinburgh, and all the other members of the Royal Family made at least seven balcony calls as RAF aircraft roared overhead in salute to a new Elizabethan era,\" remembers Chris.\n\nWhen Chris went back to Belfast High School, his teacher had told the class that he had actually gone to the coronation to marry Princess Margaret.\n\n\"I knew he had got the story wrong - but I still had quite a story to tell my school friends and my relatives.\"\n\nDavid Scott has been collecting royal memorabilia all his life\n\nDavid Scott, from Rathfriland, County Down, has been collecting royal memorabilia and camping out for royal events since the 1980s, an interest inspired by his late mother.\n\nAt the age of 12, she was selected to represent Drumlough Primary School when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth [the Queen Mother] visited Balmoral near Belfast.\n\nShe went on to build up a collection of royal memorabilia and David has kept up the tradition.\n\nDavid Scott's mother was selected to meet King George VI on a royal visit to Balmoral, Belfast, in 1937\n\nHe was present when Queen Elizabeth II was shot at during the 1981 Trooping of the Colour, as she was mounted on her favourite horse Burmese.\n\n\"Standing outside Clarence House, I remember the ripple effect of the word coming up The Mall,\" he said.\n\nNewspaper headlines from the day of the coronation\n\nHe has subsequently been to London for a number of royal events - he camped out to see Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's wedding in 1986 and Princess Diana's funeral in 1997.\n\n\"That was quite an experience because the other events were happy but this was the first sombre occasion - to witness it all was incredibly historic.\"\n\nHe took his family over to see the wedding of William and Catherine, the current Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\n\"To take your own family to experience that was really special as I was witnessing the next generation, the future monarch's wedding.\n\n\"I collect anything I see that's unique or different - a royal collection isn't worth a lot of money - it's a very affordable thing to do.\n\n\"It's more than a royal collection, it's a connection to my childhood and it's preserving aspects of royal history.\"\n\nDavid Scott inherited his mother's royal collection and has added to it since\n\nOne of David's most treasured items is a recording of the 1953 coronation.\n\n\"The authenticity, the sound of the needle going across the vinyl - it somehow transports you back,\" he said.\n\n\"I sometimes think of how families may have gathered round the wireless to listen to the Coronation and now 70 years later they will be gathered around 60-inch plasmas and it will be colour and wall-to-wall coverage.\n\n\"On Saturday I will be glued to the TV - my generation has only ever known one monarch so this is our opportunity to witness history in the making,\" he added.", "There was panic on a Tube train at Clapham Common station on Friday as passengers smashed windows to escape a smoke-filled carriage.\n\nTransport for London said the London Fire Brigade confirmed there was no fire on board, and that it was investigating the cause.\n\nIn a tweet, British Transport Police said that there were no reported injuries and that the incident was now resolved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCarrie Fisher was honoured with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but a family dispute risked overshadowing the occasion.\n\nThe Hollywood tribute to the late Princess Leia actress came on May the Fourth - Star Wars Day.\n\nHowever, a row has erupted between Fisher's daughter and siblings.\n\nHer brother and sisters have criticised Billie Lourd for not inviting them. In response, Lourd accused them of trying to \"capitalise on my mother's death\".\n\nFisher died in 2016 at the age of 60.\n\nFans made a makeshift star on the Walk of Fame after Fisher died\n\nIn 2018, Star Wars actor Mark Hamill led the calls for his co-star to be given her own tile on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.\n\nSpeaking at the walk of fame ceremony on Thursday, Mr Hamill said he would \"never stop missing\" Fisher, whom he referred to as \"our princess\".\n\n\"I'll never stop missing her, but I'm so thankful that we had her as long as we did,\" he said. \"I'm grateful for the laughter, the wisdom, the kindness and even the bratty self indulgent [expletive] my beloved space twin drove me crazy with through the years.\"\n\nIn her own speech, Billie Lourd said that her mother was \"glitter\" that \"covered the world in it, both literally and metaphorically\".\n\n\"She left a mark of her sparkle on everyone she met,\" Ms Lourd added as she sprinkled glitter on the star during the event.\n\nAhead of the event, her brother Todd Fisher said he was not on the guest list to see it be unveiled.\n\nTodd Fisher, pictured with his sister and niece in 2015, said it was \"heartbreaking\" not to be invited\n\nHe told TMZ: \"It's heartbreaking and shocking to me that I was intentionally omitted from attending this important legacy event for my sister, Carrie.\"\n\nHalf-sister Joely Fisher posted a message on behalf of herself and sister Tricia Leigh Fisher saying: \"Strangely we won't be in attendance to celebrate our sister, whom we adored.\n\n\"For some bizarre, misguided reason our niece has chosen not to include us in this epic moment in our sister's career.\n\n\"This is something Carrie would have definitely wanted her siblings to be present for. The fact that her only brother and two sisters were intentionally and deliberately excluded is deeply shocking.\"\n\nShe added that they had \"all been grieving the loss of our favorite human for some years now… we have given Billie the space to do that in her own way\".\n\nJoely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher said the event was \"about celebrating the permanency of Carrie's legacy in this industry\"\n\nThe siblings had been \"nothing but loving and open, consistently\", she said.\n\n\"This isn't about a photo op on Hollywood Blvd,\" she wrote. \"This is about celebrating the permanency of Carrie's legacy in this industry, taking her place with a star on the iconic walk of fame alongside our parents.\"\n\nLourd responded in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter. \"I apologize to anyone reading this for feeling the need to defend myself publicly from these family members,\" she wrote.\n\n\"But unfortunately, because they publicly attacked me, I have to publicly respond. The truth is I did not invite them to this ceremony. They know why.\n\n\"Days after my mom died, her brother and her sister chose to process their grief publicly and capitalize on my mother's death, by doing multiple interviews and selling individual books for a lot of money, with my mom and my grandmother [actress Debbie Reynolds]'s deaths as the subject.\n\n\"I found out they had done this through the press. They never consulted me or considered how this would affect our relationship. The truth of my mom's very complicated relationship with her family is only known by me and those who were actually close to her.\n\n\"Though I recognize they have every right to do whatever they choose, their actions were very hurtful to me at the most difficult time in my life. I chose to and still choose to deal with her loss in a much different way.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Carrie Fisher appeared in Rise of Skywalker", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ed Davey: 'The Lib Dems are making big gains across the country'\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have been celebrating local council victories in traditionally Tory areas in England.\n\nThey have improved on 2019 - the last time these seats were fought - gaining more than 400, and taking control of 12 councils including Windsor and Maidenhead, and Stratford-on-Avon.\n\nParty leader Sir Ed Davey said he had a \"Cheshire Cat grin\" on his face.\n\nElections expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the Lib Dems had done slightly better than in 2019 and 2022.\n\nBut the party has made strong progress in the Tory \"Blue Wall\" areas it will be targeting at the next general election.\n\nThe BBC has projected that if the whole of Britain had had the chance to vote in Thursday's local elections and had behaved in the same way as those who did vote, the Liberal Democrats would have won 20% of the national vote, with Labour on 35%, the Conservatives on 26%, and other parties on 19%.\n\nIn Windsor and Maidenhead, a 22-year-old Lib Dem defeated the Conservative leader of the council, as the party turned a three-seat Tory majority into a three-seat Lib Dem one.\n\nIn Stratford-on-Avon - where the parliamentary seat is held by Conservative former Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi - the party gained 15 seats, while the Tories lost 14.\n\nThe Lib Dems also took control of Surrey Heath - where Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove is the MP - and overturned Tory majorities in West Berkshire, Dacorum in Hertfordshire, and Horsham in West Sussex.\n\nThe party won control of Guildford in Surrey, Chichester in West Sussex, South Oxfordshire, and three councils in Devon - South Hams, Teignbridge and Mid Devon.\n\nWith almost all results now declared, other Lib Dem highlights included leapfrogging the Tories to become the largest party in West Oxfordshire - which includes ex-Prime Minister David Cameron's former seat of Witney.\n\nThe party also strengthened its grip in Hull, holding off Labour's efforts to regain control of the authority.\n\nOn Friday morning, Sir Ed told supporters near Windsor Castle: \"Voters across the country have sent a clear message in these local elections that even someone as out of touch as Rishi Sunak can't ignore it.\n\n\"I'm so proud that when Katy Perry and Lionel Ritchie enter Windsor Castle for the coronation concert on Sunday, they'll be going into a ward that's represented by three brand new Liberal Democrat councillors.\"\n\nHe also said it had been a \"ground-breaking night\", with his party \"exceeding all expectations\".\n\nSince 2021, the Liberal Democrats have targeted what they call \"blue wall seats\" - traditional Tory strongholds with more affluent, higher educated, anti-Brexit populations.\n\nAlthough it has had some success, notably winning the Buckinghamshire parliamentary constituency of Chesham and Amersham, the party's overall poll ratings have remained at around the 9% mark.\n\nGains in these latest set of local elections may buoy the party's hopes of a strong performance in the next general election, widely expected in 2024.\n\nHowever, Liberal Democrats traditionally perform better in local than in general elections and there is no guarantee that this week's successes will translate into further victories next year.", "Iñaki Ereño became CEO of Bupa in the middle of the pandemic\n\nGovernments and healthcare bodies around the world have not learnt the lessons from Covid-19 and are not ready for another pandemic, according to the boss of private healthcare firm Bupa.\n\n\"We might face [another pandemic] soon,\" Iñaki Ereño said.\n\nHospitals must be ready to treat infected and non-infected people separately, Mr Ereño told the BBC.\n\nIn the UK the unprecedented number of hospital admissions caused by Covid-19 put the NHS under severe strain.\n\n\"The main question is: have we all [around the world] learned a lot, so next time we are ready? My belief is that is not the case,\" Mr Ereño said.\n\nCountries need to consider how to minimise disruption to routine healthcare in any future pandemic, he believes.\n\n\"That is something that cannot happen again. We cannot stop the normal delivery of healthcare to people that need us,\" says Mr Ereño, pointing to pregnant women and cancer patients.\n\n\"The planning was not good, we cannot empty the hospitals and the clinics just for [a disease like] Covid, and allow people who were going through very severe episodes to stay at home.\"\n\nBupa offers private healthcare insurance to 24 million customers globally. It has 82,000 employees and had a turnover of £14bn last year.\n\nIt also runs its own clinics and hospitals, such as the Cromwell Hospital in London.\n\nIn some countries like Spain its hospitals were used for the treatment of Covid patients. More than half of Spanish hospitals are privately run.\n\nMr Ereño believes hospitals need to be ready to be segregated, or alternatively, separate hospitals could be designated for just treating infected people in a future pandemic.\n\nMr Ereño says hospitals must be ready to treat infectious people separately\n\nMaking sure hospitals in the UK are better prepared for a future pandemic is a good idea but may be hard to implement, says Paul Elkington, professor of respiratory medicine at Southampton University.\n\n\"Another pandemic is inevitable,\" he says, \"but since Covid-19 the NHS has been hit by a sequence of challenges including staff striking across the sector, the Ukraine war creating supply chain disruption and high energy costs. With all these day-to-day issues it's very hard for NHS managers to focus on the next pandemic.\"\n\nHe says investment would be needed to modify buildings to have things like \"clean entrances\" for non-infectious people.\n\nWhile private healthcare providers stepped in during the pandemic to help clear non-urgent care waiting lists, this is not ultimately sustainable, says Prof Elkington.\n\nMr Ereño also questioned whether countries had enough personal protective equipment (PPE) in stock.\n\n\"Do we have already all the protective equipment [we need in every country] ready just in case there is another pandemic? My guess is that not in every place. It is not happening as it should be.\n\n\"But we have the protective equipment we need for our people [in Bupa].\"\n\nHospitals around the world had to rush to order in face masks and other PPE back in 2020\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) released a report last year that was critical of PPE preparedness in the NHS prior to the pandemic.\n\nProf David Strain, chair of the BMA board of science, says that more needs to be learned.\n\n\"Large stockpiles alone aren't enough: the PPE we have must be fit for use. The medical workforce is diverse, which means we need PPE for different face and body shapes, varying hair textures, head coverings, and facial hair. This was a failing at the outset of the pandemic and still hasn't been addressed for those NHS staff dealing with Covid today.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We are committed to learning lessons from the pandemic and have already concluded a review of emergency preparedness measures, which includes PPE, that need to be available in the event of a future pandemic.\n\n\"This is already making a difference, helping to ensure our future hospitals can adapt to changing health needs as part of our New Hospital Programme.\"\n\nAn independent public inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic was set up in the UK last year, chaired by Baroness Heather Hallett. Its report will include advice on what lessons can be learned.\n\nYou can follow business reporter Dougal Shaw on Twitter", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says it has been disappointing to lose colleagues in the local elections but adds that only a quarter of the results are in so far.", "Existing patient record systems should be \"fit for purpose\", the audit office report said\n\nThe number of pre-school vaccinations is steadily declining, the Northern Ireland Audit Office report has found.\n\nIt shows that the rate of children getting the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine at two years of age has fallen from just below 96% in 2012-13 to 90% in 2021-22.\n\nThis is well below rates in Scotland and Wales, but above those in England.\n\nIn total, the report shows that 15,000 children have not received all MMR doses in the past seven years.\n\nAlso, 10,200 children have not received all recommended doses of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV).\n\nThe report recommends the Department of Health take steps to ensure existing information systems supporting vaccinations are \"fit for purpose\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Audit Office (NIAO) said information systems are essential for maintaining the integrity of immunisation data and for its \"seamless inclusion\" within an electronic patient-record system.\n\nThese systems were announced for Northern Ireland in late 2020.\n\nHowever, the NIAO study found that vaccination rates in three of five local health trusts were close to or above the World Health Organisation target.\n\nIn the Belfast Health Trust, one in three children have not been fully immunised against PCV since 2015.\n\nIn the same trust over the past seven years, one in seven children have missed the six-in-one vaccine doses which protect against multiple diseases.\n\nDorinnia Carville, the NIAO's comptroller and auditor general, said vaccination against infectious disease remains one of the most \"successful and cost-effective ways to help manage the health of a population\".\n\nShe added: \"However, as many vaccine-preventable diseases require a series of immunisations to be administered to infants and small children at pre-determined intervals, overall effectiveness is heavily reliant on consistently high levels of participation.\"\n\nOther recommendations in the report include providing adequate staffing for GP practices and appropriate clinical training to maintain standards of patient safety.\n\nIt recommended using clear, fact-based and consistent positive messages around vaccinations as an important way to mitigate against uncertainty in the population, and increase rates of coverage.\n\nDr Alan Stout, chair of the British Medical Association (BMA)'s GP committee in Northern Ireland, said the report was important.\n\nHe told BBC Good Morning Ulster that there are pressures in primary care and that \"affects the vaccination process\".\n\nDr Stout said post-pandemic, there have been \"more conversations\" about vaccines, adding: \"There's a hesitancy, whether that is causing a significant decline, I don't know.\"\n\nThe Department of Health said it agreed with the significant findings for public health highlighted in the NIAO report and accepted the recommendations made.\n\n\"We recognise the multiple factors likely contributing to declining uptake in pre-school vaccinations, including service pressures and workforce,\" a statement from the department read.\n\nIt said the Public Health Agency (PHA) had developed an action plan as part of this ongoing work.\n\nThe PHA said the decrease in children getting vaccinated was due to a combination of people forgetting how serious diseases such as measles or polio can be, due to their dramatic reduction because of good vaccine uptake in the past, and disruption to routine vaccination programmes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe agency said it was currently undertaking work to promote the importance of the childhood immunisation programme to parents and in schools.\n\nIt said more targeted interventions with multi-disciplinary teams to improve vaccination uptake among \"harder to reach\" communities were also taking place.", "Garden swimming pools are to be banned from sale in a part of southern France over worsening water shortages.\n\nFrance's Ecological Transition Minister Christophe Béchu said that Pyrénées-Orientales, which borders Spanish Catalonia, will be officially declared at drought \"crisis\" level from 10 May.\n\nBans on car-washing, garden-watering and pool-filling will also kick in from the same date.\n\n\"We need to get out of our culture of abundance,\" said Mr Bechu.\n\nExplaining why authorities had decided to take the step to ban sales of garden pools, he said: \"It is to prevent people from being tempted to do what they are in fact not allowed to do anyway - which is to fill them.\n\n\"The Pyrénées-Orientales is a department that has not known a full day of rain in over a year. When you are in a crisis like this, it is really quite simple: it's drinking water and nothing else.\n\n\"Climate change is here and now. We need to get out of our culture of abundance. We need to show far more restraint in how we use the resources we have.\"\n\nWarning lights have been flashing in France after a dry winter aggravated the already depleted water tables inherited from 2022.\n\nA wet March has provided a welcome partial relief to farmers by moistening soil ahead of planting but underground water levels remain dangerously low, especially around the Mediterranean. Only Brittany and Aquitaine in the south-west are in a relatively safe position.\n\nThe Pyrénées-Orientales will become the fourth district where the drought is officially at \"crisis\" level. More than 40 others - amounting to nearly half the country - are already at \"alert\" or \"vigilance\" levels, presaging even worse shortages than last year.\n\nIn parts of the district, aquifer levels are so low that experts fear saline seepage from the sea, which would make tap water undrinkable. Low aquifer levels also mean a higher concentration of pollutants, which could likewise severely damage water quality.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron last month announced a nationwide water programme, with promises of investment to curb leaks and increase recycling. He also outlined a \"progressive water tariff\" under which consumption above a certain quantity - for example, for swimming pools - would be charged at higher rates.\n\nSome 2,000 villages and towns are at risk of losing their water supply this year, according to Mr Béchu. Last year, 1,000 municipalities had serious problems, of which some 400 had to be provided with bottles or mobile cisterns.\n\n\"The war over water triggered by the fall in stocks is a genuine threat to our national cohesion,\" the minister said.", "Chris Twells was set to represent both Tetbury with Upton and Ordsall\n\nA Liberal Democrat councillor who was set to represent two places - more than 150 miles away from each other - is expected to resign from one.\n\nChris Twells won Tetbury with Upton in Gloucestershire despite already representing Ordsall in north-west England.\n\nFollowing his Cotswold District Council victory, Mr Twells said he would begin the process of resigning from Ordsall.\n\nIt comes after his candidacy sparked controversy in both areas.\n\nCandidates can legally stand in more than one area but they must meet eligibility criteria.\n\nThis includes either living or working in the area in the 12 months before being nominated, or being registered as a local government elector for the area.\n\nChris Twells has won the seat of Tetbury with Upton on Costwold District Council\n\nSpeaking after the count, Mr Twells said he was delighted to have been elected to represent Tetbury with Upton.\n\nHe said: \"I would like to thank everybody who voted for me.\n\n\"I will be taking some time off over the weekend and speaking to the chief executive of Salford City Council to establish what action I need to take to resign as a councillor, to allow for a by-election to be held in my ward.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems, who already had an overall majority on Cotswold District Council after taking control from the Tories in 2019, gained four seats on the council, while the Tories lost five and the Greens gained one.\n\nThe Mayor of Salford, Paul Dennett, had described Mr Twells as a \"paper candidate in the Cotswolds\" and had called for him to \"do the right thing and resign\" from his Ordsall seat.\n\nThe mayor and Salford's Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey previously wrote to ministers urging them to close the \"bizarre\" loophole which allows council candidates to stand for election in multiple areas.\n\nA Lib Dem spokesperson said: \"We are aware a complaint has been made regarding this particular case, which will be considered by the party's independent complaints process.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "With more results in England's local elections still to come, it's already clear the Conservatives are doing worse than they feared.\n\nThe party has lost control of more than a dozen councils, as Labour and the Lib Dems eat into their support in key battlegrounds.\n\nThe recriminations, even infighting, are already under way within the Conservative Party.\n\nEver since results starting dropping overnight, so many Conservatives have been out and about offering their view as to what is to blame.\n\nPlenty loyal to the government have put the boot in, some less gently than others, to Rishi Sunak's predecessors at Number 10, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.\n\nWell, my phone just rang - and have a read of what a figure loyal to Mr Johnson and Ms Truss said to me: \"Rishi has no option but to own these results.\n\n\"He has been chancellor or prime minister for virtually all of the last three years and it was he and his supporters who forced Boris and then Liz out of office in order to install him in Downing Street.\n\n\"The old saying goes that 'it is the economy, stupid' that defines the choice voters have at the ballot box.\n\n\"He [Mr Sunak] was the chancellor who had presided over the stagnation of the British economy and hiked taxes to their highest level in 70 years while failing to seize any of the advantages of leaving the European Union.\n\n\"It is little wonder so many previous Conservative voters failed to back us yesterday.\"\n\nIt is a reminder of how - under the surface - the wounds are still raw in the Tory Party and searching questions are being asked by senior figures about its direction.\n\nBut there is an important caveat to insert here.\n\nEven those deeply disillusioned with Rishi Sunak, even frustrated with what they see as a lack of true Conservative instinct for much of the Conservatives' period in office since 2010, acknowledge there is no appetite to move against the prime minister.\n\nThe Tory Party has had enough of insurrection, civil war and utter chaos for now and there's an acceptance Rishi Sunak will lead the party into the next general election.\n\nBut anger, irritation and a fear of imminent defeat can coagulate in ways individuals often can't control. The prime minister's capacity, so far, to put a lid on the boiling cauldron of Conservative anger may just have weakened after yesterday.\n\nAnd his critics are re-finding their voices.", "More than 400,000 people are to receive a medal in recognition of their contribution to the King's Coronation.\n\nMade of nickel silver, it has the royal cypher on one side and images of the King and Queen Consort on the other.\n\nRecipients include police, ambulance workers, choristers and military personnel working at the Coronation.\n\nIt will also be given to frontline members of the police, fire, emergency services, prison services and armed forces with five years of full service.\n\nAnd living recipients of the George Cross or Victoria Cross will receive the medal.\n\nThe first coronation medal was awarded to mark the accession to the English throne of James I in 1603 and featured a bust of the king in the costume of a Roman emperor.\n\nThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport said the medal is a gift from the nation to commemorate the coronation for the people who will make the service happen.\n\nAll photographs are subject to copyright.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA video of a deposition given by former US president Donald Trump as part of his civil rape trial has been released by the court.\n\nThe roughly 48-minute video shows Mr Trump, 76, mistaking his accuser E Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples in a photo.\n\nIt also shows him repeating his denial of Ms Carroll's allegations by claiming she is \"not my type\".\n\nLawyers for both sides rested their case on Thursday.\n\nMr Trump has not been present in New York for the trial and his lawyers called no witnesses before resting their case.\n\nBut, on a judge's orders, the former president formally provided sworn evidence on camera last October over Ms Carroll's claim that he raped her inside a New York City department store in the mid-1990s.\n\nVideo of the deposition was shown to jurors on Thursday and publicly released for the first time on Friday after a petition by media organisations.\n\nDuring the deposition, Mr Trump is shown the leaked Access Hollywood tape, which was published by the Washington Post during the 2016 presidential campaign.\n\nMr Trump can be seen shifting uncomfortably in his seat as he is heard on the tape saying \"you can do anything\" to women \"when you're a star\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump agrees \"stars can do anything to women\" in video deposition\n\nThe footage also shows him describing Ms Carroll's allegations as \"the most ridiculous, disgusting story. It was just made up\".\n\nWhen he is shown an old photo of him with his first wife Ivana, Ms Carroll and her then-husband John Johnson, Mr Trump misidentifies his accuser with the words \"it's Marla\".\n\nStill looking at the picture, he says \"That's Marla, yeah. That's my wife\" before his lawyer corrects him. Mr Trump then replies that the photo is \"very blurry\".\n\nAt another point in the video, Mr Trump is unable to recall the date of his marriage to Ms Maples, his second wife and mother to his daughter Tiffany.\n\nMs Carroll, a writer and long-time advice columnist, is suing the former president for battery over the original incident, as well as for defamation over his adamant denials of the incident.\n\nIn the deposition, Mr Trump repeated a comment he has made since Ms Carroll first came forward in 2019, saying: \"I say it with as much respect as I can, but she is not my type.\"\n\n\"Physically, she's not my type, and now that I've gotten indirectly to hear things about her, she wouldn't be my type in any way, shape, or form,\" he adds.\n\nHe goes on to tell Ms Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan: \"You would not be my choice either, I hope you're not insulted.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuring their combative exchanges, he calls Ms Kaplan a \"political operative\" and a \"disgrace\".\n\nLawyers for Mr Trump have said he will not testify in person, but the former president told reporters he might cut short a trip to Ireland and the UK to \"confront\" Ms Carroll in court.\n\nIn light of the comments, the judge granted Mr Trump until Sunday afternoon to decide if he will take the stand.", "A man grieves in the village Dubona after the attack\n\nA man has been arrested after eight died and 14 were injured in Serbia's second mass shooting in a week.\n\nThe attack occurred shortly after midnight near a village some 60km (37 miles) south of Belgrade when the shooter opened fire from a moving car.\n\nHe was arrested in the early hours of Friday morning after \"an extensive search\", the interior ministry said.\n\nIt comes after a boy killed nine people at a Belgrade school on Wednesday, Serbia's worst shooting in years.\n\nPresident Aleksander Vucic pledged the \"practical disarmament\" of the country, as he announced a list of new security measures intended to improve gun control on Friday morning.\n\nThe suspect - who has only been identified by his initials UB - was detained near the city of Kragujevac, the interior ministry said.\n\nThe arrest followed an extensive manhunt, which local media reported involved over 600 police officers. He was eventually found hiding at his grandfather's house, Serbian broadcaster RTS reported.\n\nEarly on Friday morning, Serbian media said that special police forces had arrived at the villages of Mladenovac and Dubona, where the latest shooting occurred.\n\nPhotos from the scene showed police officers stopping cars at checkpoints as they tried to find the gunman. A helicopter, drones and multiple police patrols were also used.\n\nReports on local media say the suspect - who the interior ministry said was born in 2002 - started firing at people with an automatic weapon after having an argument with a police officer in a park in Dubona on Thursday evening.\n\nMilan Prokić, a Dubona resident, told Radio Belgrade 1 he heard shots near his house: \"It's sad, regrettable, we locked ourselves in our home so [the shots] wouldn't come to us.\"\n\nThe man is then said to have proceeded to shoot people from a car, killing at least eight people and wounding many more.\n\nAll injured people admitted to hospital were born after the year 2000, RTS reported.\n\nTwo people aged 21 and 23 were operated on, but remain in critical condition.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference after the attack on Friday, Serbia's president said the suspect had been wearing a T-shirt with neo-Nazi symbols, but no further details were given.\n\nPresident Vucic called the shooting \"an attack on us all\" and announced a host of new security measures, including a plan to hire 1,200 new police officers.\n\nHe also announced a ban on new gun permits, tougher penalties for illegal weapons possession and psychological checks of gun owners. He said the new laws would result in the \"practical disarmament\" of Serbia.\n\nOn Wednesday, a thirteen-year-old boy shot dead eight fellow pupils at his school in Belgrade, as well as a security guard. It prompted the Serbian government to propose tighter restrictions of gun ownership.\n\nNBA basketball player Luka Doncic said he would pay for the funerals of all nine people killed in Wednesday's shooting, and for grief counselling for classmates and staff.\n\nMass shootings are extremely rare in Serbia, which has very strict gun laws, but gun ownership in the country is among the highest in Europe.\n\nThe western Balkans are awash with illegal weapons following wars and unrest in the 1990s. In 2019, it was estimated that there are 39.1 firearms per 100 people in Serbia - the third highest in the world, behind the US and Montenegro.\n\nIf you have been affected by the latest shooting in Serbia, you can contact the BBC in confidence by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Former President Donald Trump has said in his deposition that he did not rape E Jean Carroll. He repeatedly denies Ms Carroll's allegations by claiming she is \"not my type\".", "The British public is refusing to let typical bank holiday weather spoil its Coronation plans and is gearing up for street parties and family celebrations.\n\nAround £200m will be spent on food and drink this weekend, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nSupermarket chain Lidl said it had sold enough bunting to line the Coronation procession route 75 times over.\n\nParty products and traditional British fayre are in high demand and brands are offering royal-themed ranges.\n\nOverall the CRR expects consumers to add more than £1.4bn to the UK economy over the long weekend.\n\nTesco said it was on track to sell 675,000 pork pies and 300,000 pots of clotted cream.\n\nSales of quiches, the King's chosen Coronation dish, have leapt across the country - Aldi said it was selling more than 30 every minute and Waitrose said it had seen an increase of 25% in the last week.\n\nScones too are flying off the shelves - at Aldi they are up a massive 150%, Tesco expected to sell 600,000.\n\nDozens of products from pork pies and golden syrup to gin and elderflower cordial have gone purple and gold or tweaked their branding to feature Buckingham Palace, crowns and bunting. Ikea is offering a coronation chicken flavour sauce on its famous meatballs.\n\nTesco's Maheen Piracha said shoppers were in a mood to celebrate: \"Judging by early sales, King Charles' Coronation is set to spark a feel-good factor with plenty of street and house parties.\"\n\nNo street party would be complete without a tipple - Tesco anticipated it would sell 180,000 bottles of Pimms and Asda said beer sales were expected to be 25% higher for the three-day weekend.\n\nSales of flags, bunting and paper plates have also sky rocketed - Asda said sales of Union Jack flags were up 227%, and Coronation cups were up 135%.\n\nAside from food and drink, millions is being spent on Coronation souvenirs and memorabilia. Owners of King Charles spaniels - and other breeds too - may be preparing to dress their pooch for the occasion, courtesy of Gateshead company Franky's Bowtique.\n\nFounder Kerry Whitney said she had been \"running around like a headless chicken\" over the past fortnight to complete more than a thousand orders for crowns, bandanas and bow ties.\n\n\"We're busy at Halloween and Christmas anyway and we didn't know how popular it would be because everyone loved the Queen so much, but it's just snowballed,\" she said.\n\nThe CRR forecast £245.91m would be spent on Coronation coins, tokens and medallions, celebratory teapots, mugs, cups and other crockery.\n\nAsda said its Coronation cushion and King Charles teapot had proven popular and it had sold 3,000 of each respectively. John Lewis said sales of its Coronation spoon were strong.\n\nHalcyon Days holds a royal warrant and makes Coronation plates and souvenirs from its factories in Stoke on Trent and the Midlands.\n\nChief executive Pamela Harper told Radio 5 Live's Wake Up to Money demand had been \"absolutely extraordinary\" in the last few months.\n\n\"The whole royal memorabilia is still very much alive and kicking. We've got the gifting market and our international market in London driven by international tourists, particularly the Americans, coming in droves, coming to buy a piece to take home.\"\n\nThe CRR said spending by additional foreign tourists could be as high as £323m with much of it spent on accommodation, restaurants and shopping in London.\n\nExtended pub opening hours over the bank holiday should provide a boost to the hospitality sector to the tune of £104m according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research.\n\n\"This would boost spending on any given weekend, but the special occasion of the Coronation itself should likely compound this by providing a special spending buzz, not unlike that seen during major events such as the Football World Cup,\" it said.", "Homosalate, a sunscreen ingredient common in concealer and foundations, may need to be tested on animals\n\nThe government has allowed animal testing for makeup ingredients to resume despite a 25-year ban.\n\nIt changed a policy on animal testing to align with EU chemical rules, according to a High Court ruling.\n\nThe High Court said on Friday that the government was acting legally after a case was brought by animal rights activists.\n\nMore than 80 brands have said they are \"dismayed\" by the government's new position.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson told the BBC: \"We are pleased that the High Court has agreed with the Government's position in this case. The government is committed to the protection of animals in science\".\n\nAnimal testing for makeup or its ingredients had been completely banned in the UK since 1998. Animal testing had only been allowed if the benefits gained from the research outweighed any animal suffering, for example for medicines.\n\nBut in 2020 the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), an EU agency which oversees chemical regulation, ruled that companies needed to test some ingredients used in cosmetics on animals to ensure they were safe for workers manufacturing the ingredients.\n\nDuring the case it was revealed that since 2019 the government had been issuing licences for animal testing of cosmetic ingredients in line with EU chemical rules, which it retained despite leaving the EU in 2020.\n\nBut manufacturers still cannot undertake any animal testing to check the safety of the makeup for consumers. This should be done using other methods.\n\nThis could include testing chemicals commonly found in foundations and concealers by forcing rats to inhale or ingest them.\n\nIt is not known how many such licences were issued or to whom.\n\nCruelty Free International (CFI), which brought the case, argued this was illegal and in breach of the animal testing ban for makeup and its ingredients, which has stood since 1998.\n\nMr Justice Linden ruled in favour of the government, saying that the change in policy still met existing laws, although he said it was \"regrettable\" the public had not been informed.\n\nThe change in the government's position has been heavily criticised by major beauty and cosmetic brands, including Unilever, Body Shop and Boots. Most major brands have long campaigned to end animal testing.\n\nCruelty Free International said it was \"outrageous\" that the government had effectively lifted the ban.\n\nChristopher Davis, director of activism and sustainability at the Body Shop said they would \"campaign vigorously\" against the changes.\n\n\"Allowing animal testing for cosmetics would be a devastating blow to the millions of people who have supported campaigns to end this appalling practice,\" he told the BBC after the ruling.\n\nThe ingredients that may be tested on animals include homosalate - a common sunscreen ingredient used already in many foundations and skincare products.\n\nIn low doses homosalate is safe but in higher concentrations the evidence for its impact on the human immune system are inconclusive.\n\nMr Justice Linden said that nothing was stopping the government from introducing an absolute ban on animal testing of makeup products if it desired.\n\nCruelty Free International CEO Michelle Thew said: \"The case shows clearly that [the government] was prioritising the interests of contract-testing companies over those of animals and the wishes of the vast majority of British people who are strongly opposed to cosmetics testing.\"\n\nCFI said it would appeal the decision made by the court and ask the government to reinstate the complete ban in the UK.\n\nEU chemicals rules require some cosmetics ingredients to be tested on animals to protect workers\n\nDr Julia Fentem, head of the safety and environmental assurance centre at Unilever - one of the world's largest cosmetic companies - said tests potentially required under the new policy were \"unnecessary\", and that safety tests could be carried out without animal involvement.\n\nA new chemicals strategy is expected to be published this year outlining the government's position on the use and testing of chemicals in the UK - which may include further guidance to cosmetic companies.\n\nClarification 11 May 2023: This article's headline has been amended to make clear that the story concerns makeup ingredients.", "At last year's Platinum Jubilee there was no place for Prince Harry or Prince Andrew\n\nEven at this late stage there is no confirmation about which members of the Royal Family will be on the famous balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Coronation service.\n\nThis will be one of the most iconic images of the day so nothing will be accidental about how it is staged.\n\nThe lack of certainty about who will appear on this royal stage has been presented as keeping something back for the big day.\n\nOr perhaps it might be a bit of news management to avoid \"Prince Harry banned from balcony\" headlines? Or more dramatically could there be options being kept open for last-minute, surprise changes?\n\nThe balcony has become a key moment for the Royal Family to send a message.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, after the procession gets back from Westminster Abbey, the curtains will be pulled back and a number of invited guests will step out on to the palace balcony, looking out over the gates and at the crowd below.\n\nThere has been an expectation this will be used to highlight the core group of \"working royals\" - those family members who carry out official duties on behalf of the King.\n\nAs well as the King and Queen Consort, that would include close family such as the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh and Princess Royal, along with other working royals such as the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent.\n\nThat approach would make a distinction from \"non-working royals\" - specifically Prince Harry and Prince Andrew, who a year ago were banished from the most recent balcony moment, for the late Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe balcony line-up of the Royal Family in 2019 for Trooping the Colour\n\nNo such announcement has been made for the Coronation, although it has been confirmed that neither Prince Harry nor Prince Andrew will have any formal role in the ceremony in the Abbey.\n\nFor the Platinum Jubilee in 2022 there were 18 people on the balcony, including the late Queen, and her second appearance on the balcony in the closing moments of the weekend became one of the most poignant images.\n\nNumbers had been cut back even further for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012, when only six people were on the balcony, in a show of frugality at a time of economic austerity.\n\nPrince Harry will be attending the Coronation, and he's expected to make a quick turn-around before returning to the US, but there would be no bigger platform than the balcony for sending an image of a family reunited.\n\nThe balcony, like a framed photo in the royal album, could also be a way of emphasising the line of succession, bringing together the King, Prince William and his son Prince George.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II made six balcony appearances after the coronation\n\nAnother possibility might be several appearances with different line-ups, like the family group permutations of wedding photos.\n\nIn 1953 for the late Queen Elizabeth's coronation there were six separate balcony appearances, with some of these including more than 30 family and friends.\n\nSuch a crowd scene would be unlikely to be the message for a modern monarchy wanting to project a smaller, more cost-conscious image.\n\nMonarchs have been stepping out on to the palace balcony since Queen Victoria in 1851, using it as a showcase where royalty and the public can acknowledge each other.\n\nWinston Churchill was one of the few politicians to appear on the balcony, seen here in 1945\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nAlthough it wasn't until the 1930s that the Royal Family began to wave back - and with a leap towards modernity, from the 1980s the balcony became the place where royal weddings were celebrated with a public kiss.\n\nAnd even though there are no fixed rules, the palace balcony has acquired its own rituals. The monarch is almost always at the centre, with others fanning out around them in a courtly pecking order.\n\nTraditionally it's only married partners of the Royal Family who appear, not current girlfriends or boyfriends, suggesting the sense of this being a permanent record.\n\nThis is very much a royal moment, but there have been rare occasions when political figures have appeared.\n\nWartime prime minister Winston Churchill was on the balcony to take the salute of the crowds when victory in Europe was declared in May 1945.\n\nIn 1938 prime minister Neville Chamberlain went on to the balcony after the signing of the ill-fated Munich Agreement with Nazi Germany.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, we'll see who appears beside King Charles and Queen Camilla.\n\nWhat are your plans for the Coronation weekend? Are you volunteering as part of The Big Help Out on Bank Holiday Monday? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Tech bosses were summoned to the White House on Thursday and told they must protect the public from the dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI).\n\nSundar Pichai of Google, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, and OpenAI's Sam Altmann were told they had a \"moral\" duty to safeguard society.\n\nThe White House made it clear that it may regulate the sector further.\n\nRecently launched AI products like ChatGPT and Bard, have captured the public's imagination.\n\nThey offer ordinary users the chance to interact with what is known as \"generative AI\", which can summarise information from multiple sources within seconds, debug computer code, write presentations, and even poetry, that sound plausibly as if they might have been human-generated.\n\nTheir rollout has sparked renewed debate over the role of AI in society, by offering a tangible illustration of the potential risks and rewards of the new technology.\n\nTechnology executives gathered at the White House on Thursday were told it was up to firms to \"ensure the safety and security of their products\" and were warned that the administration was open to new regulations and legislation to cover artificial intelligence.\n\nSam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, told reporters that in terms of regulation, executives were \"surprisingly on the same page on what needs to happen\".\n\nUS Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement following the meeting that the new technology could pose a risk to safety, privacy and civil rights, although it also had the potential to improve lives.\n\nThe private sector had \"an ethical, moral, and legal responsibility to ensure the safety and security of their products\", she said.\n\nThe White House announced a $140m (£111m) investment from the National Science Foundation to launch seven new AI research institutes.\n\nCalls for the dramatic rise in emerging AI to be better regulated have been coming thick and fast, from both politicians and tech leaders.\n\nEarlier this week, the \"godfather\" of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, quit his job at Google - saying he now regretted his work.\n\nHe told the BBC that some of the dangers of AI chatbots were \"quite scary\".\n\nIn March, a letter signed by Elon Musk and Apple founder Steve Wozniak, called for a pause to the rollout of the technology.\n\nAnd on Wednesday, the head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Lina Khan, outlined her views on how and why AI needed to be regulated.\n\nThere are concerns that AI could rapidly replace peoples' jobs, as well as worries that chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard can be inaccurate and lead to the dissemination of misinformation.\n\nThere are also concerns that generative AI could flout copyright law. Voice cloning AI could exacerbate fraud. AI generated videos can spread fake news.\n\nHowever, advocates like Bill Gates have hit back against calls for an AI \"pause\" saying such a move would not \"solve the challenges\" ahead.\n\nMr Gates argues it would be better to focus on how best to use the developments in AI.\n\nAnd others believe there is a danger of over-regulating - which would give a strategic advantage to tech companies in China.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kate greets crowds: 'The kids are excited but a bit nervous'\n\nA smiling King Charles III has thanked well-wishers for their support during a walkabout outside Buckingham Palace ahead of his coronation.\n\nThe King laughed and shook hands with members of the public, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nPeople brought union jacks and pretend crowns, and some sang God Save the King.\n\nThe walkabout on the Mall had a high security presence, with dozens of cars and police on motorbikes.\n\nThousands turned out for the event, and shouts of \"best of luck\" and \"good luck tomorrow\" could be heard. One woman cried: \"Love you Charlie!\"\n\nThe King laughed when asked by a man if he was nervous for tomorrow, and joked to some children: \"No school? You've done very well!\"\n\nAmong the onlookers were royal fans from across the world.\n\nThe King greeted enthusiastic revellers who had gathered near Buckingham Palace\n\nCalling from the side of the Mall, one woman said: \"King Charles, it is so nice to meet you - we came here from America!\"\n\nAnother man remarked: \"I came from Bangkok\", to which the King replied: \"It's nice to meet you.\"\n\nThe walkabout by the Royal Family took place before an evening reception for foreign dignitaries at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe event was hosted by the King, and welcomed royals from countries including Spain, Denmark, Jordan and Monaco, as well as Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska and the Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.\n\nIt was also attended by US First Lady, Jill Biden, and one of her granddaughters.\n\nAs night fell on Friday evening, a number of people were camping out on the Mall to secure a spot for the Coronation on Friday.\n\nAmong those sleeping out were two women holding a sign dubbing the road \"Coronation Street\".\n\nBarbara Crowther, 69, and her friend Pauline, had come dressed in aprons with a union jack print.\n\n\"We weren't going to camp, but there are so many people here - we thought that if we don't camp out, we won't get anywhere near the front,\" said Ms Crowther.\n\n\"We've been to all the weddings, all the funerals.\"\n\nEarlier in the day at the walkabout, Prince William and Catherine posed for photographs with supporters.\n\nSpeaking to a BBC reporter on the Mall, the princess revealed her children were \"a bit nervous\" and \"excited\" and could not wait for the day.\n\nPrince George is set to play a starring role in the coronation and Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis are also expected to attend the historic day.\n\nOne woman called Faby, from London, told PA news agency she had shaken hands with the King and found him charming.\n\n\"It was incredible,\" the 55-year-old said. \"It's not every day you get to shake hands with the King. It was so lovely.\"\n\nTheresa Iredale, who turns 66 on Saturday, the day of the Coronation, wore a plastic crown.\n\nShe said the King thanked her for coming and congratulated her when she told him about her birthday.\n\n\"I was shaking. I saw his hand coming out to mine and I was like, 'I can't believe I'm shaking the King's hand'. A special moment.\"\n\nWell wishers had words of encouragements for the royals ahead of the big day tomorrow\n\n\"It is a moment of celebration; enjoy tomorrow,\" Catherine said to one woman.\n\nShe appeared to take part in a video call at one stage before also speaking on another person's phone then handing it back.\n\nAs well as union jacks, other flags on display included ones representing Germany, Wales, Canada and Australia. Cries of \"Hip, hip, hooray\" also rang out.\n\nThe King and Camilla, the Queen Consort, earlier attended a rehearsal at Westminster Abbey, before hosting a special lunch at Buckingham Palace for leaders of the Commonwealth - the 15 countries where he is monarch.\n\nAttendees included UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and Prime Minister of New Zealand Chris Hipkins.\n\nSaturday's Coronation begins at 11:00 BST (10:00 GMT) in Westminster Abbey, and will be led by the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nAt 13:00, the King and Queen will leave Westminster Abbey in a ceremonial procession back to Buckingham Palace, joined by other members of the Royal Family.\n\nAs part of the Coronation, for the first time the public are being given an active role in the ceremony and will be invited to swear allegiance to the King.\n\nThe \"homage of the people\" is a new addition to the ancient ceremony, which is being led by Justin Welby.\n\nIt was revealed, along with other details of the service, in a liturgy published by Lambeth Palace last weekend. Lambeth Palace said the liturgy had been produced \"in close consultation\" with the King and the government.\n\nCampaign group Republic called the idea \"nonsense\" and \"offensive\".\n\nThe King's close friend and biographer, broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby, earlier said the King would find the idea of people paying homage to him during his Coronation \"abhorrent\".\n\nScheduled as part of the pageantry on Saturday is a fly-past, but it will be dependent on the weather, with a 70% chance of showers at the same time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC weather forecaster Matt Taylor looks at the forecast for the Coronation\n\nRoyal fans who will be in London to celebrate the occasion are advised to bring umbrellas, cagoules and waterproof jackets.\n\nRoyal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Wigston said \"it's 50/50\" as to whether a fly-past scheduled to go over the Mall and Buckingham Palace after 14:15 BST will happen.\n\nIt will consist of more than 60 aircraft from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force - including the Red Arrows - but a final decision will be made just one or two hours before it is due to start.\n\nBBC Weather forecaster Chris Fawkes said cloud was expected to \"quickly thicken\" during the morning with \"outbreaks of rain moving in\".\n\n\"The rain will often tend to be light and drizzly, but a few heavier bursts are possible,\" he said.\n\n\"The weather will slowly become drier through the afternoon, perhaps with some sunny spells to end the day.\"\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "Dozens of children are believed to be imprisoned alongside their mothers at the facility\n\nAt least 400 women are in the second week of a hunger strike in a high-security prison in Iraq's capital Baghdad, the BBC has learned.\n\nThey are in prison for being part of the Islamic State group, after what they say were unfair trials.\n\nThe group is said to include foreign nationals from Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Syria, France, Germany and the US.\n\nIt is thought about 100 children are also being held at the facility.\n\nThe Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, waged a brutal campaign to establish a self-declared caliphate - an Islamic nation - across Syria and Iraq, killing and enslaving thousands across a five-year period.\n\nAfter its fall in 2017, tens of thousands of former members were rounded up. It is alleged many of the men were summarily executed, but thousands of women and children were taken into detention. Some were repatriated to their home nations, but many remain in Syrian and Iraqi jails.\n\nVideos sent to BBC Arabic from inside the Baghdad facility show emaciated women lying motionless on hard stone floors. It is thought the group have not eaten since 24 April.\n\nThe BBC has been told that at the start of the hunger strike, participants were consuming just half a glass of water per day. Some women have now stopped drinking altogether.\n\nYoung children can also be seen in the video footage - many reportedly born inside the facility.\n\nSome of the hunger strikers are now refusing to drink water\n\nThe women's sentences range from 15 years to life imprisonment. Some have been sentenced to death, but no executions have been carried out, the BBC understands.\n\nThe hunger strike is a protest against both their convictions and the conditions they are being held in.\n\nSpeaking on an illegally-held mobile phone, one Russian woman said she would not eat anything until she was released. She said she was given a 15-year sentence after a 10-minute trial, based on a confession she was forced to sign.\n\nThe document was written in Arabic, a language she cannot read, and stated she was arrested in Mosul whilst carrying weapons, both of which she denies.\n\nIt has not been possible to verify most of her claims.\n\nThe women said they had had no contact with their embassies, and diplomatic representatives had not been present at many of their trials.\n\nFemale Islamic State prisoners detained with their children ahead of their trials\n\nThe women we spoke to claimed around 60 adult inmates had died inside Rusafa prison over the last six years, along with up to 30 children. One woman said the last child to die was three years old.\n\nThe facility is located east of Baghdad, and holds women serving sentences for various crimes - not all terror-related. The inmates said they were held 40 to a cell, and were often subjected to beatings and inhumane treatment.\n\nLast April, the Iraqi ministry of justice announced the dismissal of the director of the prison, citing \"leaked audio\" from the facility. The ministry also acknowledged that Rusafa prison was four times over its capacity.\n\nIraq's criminal justice system has long been criticised over allegations that trials are unfair and abuse is widespread.\n\nThe Iraqi government declined to answer the BBC's questions about the hunger strike or conditions in the prison. Previously, it has said it wants to help those who are innocent of any crime to return to their home countries.\n\nAmnesty International, however, has reported that long prison terms and death sentences have been imposed in IS-linked cases \"following convictions based primarily on torture-tainted 'confessions'\".\n\nThe Human Rights Committee of the Iraqi parliament recently urged the authorities to speed up the process of repatriation of IS-linked foreign prisoners.\n\nWhile some women have admitted to willingly joining IS, often participating in their crimes, others claim they were tricked or coerced into joining the group. Some insist they were forced to marry fighters and were threatened with death if they refused.\n\nOne of the most high-profile is Shamima Begum, a British schoolgirl who travelled to Syria in 2015. She is still being held in a detention camp in the north of the country.", "Donald Trump's deposition was played for the jury in Manhattan on Thursday\n\nDonald Trump appeared to mistake E Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples in a deposition played for jurors in Ms Carroll's civil rape suit against him.\n\nIn the video, Mr Trump was shown a photo of himself speaking to other people at an event. \"It's Marla,\" he says, before his lawyer corrects him.\n\n\"No, that's Carroll,\" the lawyer says.\n\nMs Carroll, 79, has accused Mr Trump, 76, of attacking her in a New York City department store in the mid-1990s, an allegation Mr Trump has denied.\n\nLawyers for Ms Carroll have argued that Mr Trump's confusion over the photo undermines his claim that Ms Carroll is \"not my type\", a comment he has repeated since she first came forward with the allegation in 2019.\n\nMr Trump has not yet attended the civil trial, now drawing to a close after two weeks of proceedings in Manhattan. Both sides rested their case on Thursday, though Mr Trump's team called no witnesses in his defence.\n\nHe had told reporters he might cut his ongoing golf trip to Ireland short to \"confront\" Ms Carroll in court.\n\n\"I'll be going back early because a woman made a claim that is totally false, it's fake,\" Mr Trump said.\n\nE Jean Carroll said the alleged attack left her unable to have a romantic life\n\nMr Trump's suggestion that he would return to New York comes after his lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, told the judge Mr Trump would not testify in court.\n\nReferring to Mr Trump's comments, the judge said he would give Mr Trump until Sunday afternoon to decide. After that, the judge said, \"that ship has irrevocably sailed\".\n\nThe nine-member jury was shown the video of a combative deposition between the former president and Roberta Kaplan, one of Ms Carroll's lawyers, filmed last October.\n\nMr Trump continued his emphatic denials of Ms Carroll's accusation, that Mr Trump manoeuvred her into a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan and raped her.\n\n\"If it did happen, it would have been reported within minutes,\" Mr Trump said in the deposition, suggesting that others at the \"very busy store\" would have heard an ongoing attack.\n\nJurors in the nearly two-week trial heard days of graphic testimony. Ms Carroll told jurors she was left \"unable to ever have a romantic life again\" after the alleged attack.\n\nMarla Maples was married to Mr Trump from 1993 until 1999\n\nHer account was supported in court by her friend, Lisa Birnbach, who testified this week to receiving a call from Ms Carroll minutes after she says she was raped.\n\nAnd two other women - Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff - were called by Ms Carroll's team and described alleged sexual assaults committed by Mr Trump - claims he has denied.\n\nA former columnist for Elle magazine, Ms Carroll was able to bring the civil case against Mr Trump after New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022.\n\nThe act allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state over claims that would have normally exceeded statute limitations.", "A lorry driver crossing the Gulana-Lulalu causeway in Kenya was surrounded by sudden flood waters.\n\nThe alarm was raised by worried onlookers, but thankfully the aerial unit of a local wildlife charity were on hand to save the day.\n\nThe Sheldrick Wildlife Trust flew their helicopter over the rushing water and managed to save the driver.", "Mark Lang died from critical injuries after being hit by his own van\n\nA man has appeared in court over the murder of a delivery driver who was hit and dragged under his van.\n\nChristopher El Gifari, from Llanrumney, Cardiff was charged with murder during the hearing on Friday at Cardiff Magistrates' Court.\n\nMark Lang, from Cardiff, died on 15 April after spending more than two weeks in hospital.\n\nThe 54-year-old was left critically injured following the incident on 28 March on North Road, Cardiff.\n\nMr Lang's partner previously described him as \"a good man with a lot of love to give\".\n\nThe defendant was previously charged with attempted murder. After the victim's death he was further arrested and subsequently charged with murder.\n\nMr El Gifari, 31, has been remanded in custody and is due to appear at Cardiff Crown Court on 9 May.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin announcing his intent to withdraw from Bakhmut\n\nThe leader of Russia's Wagner mercenary group says he will withdraw his troops from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on 10 May because of ammunition shortages.\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin's statement came after he posted a video of him walking among his dead fighters' bodies, blaming top Russian defence officials.\n\n\"Tens of thousands\" had been killed and injured there, Prigozhin said.\n\nRussia has been trying to capture the eastern city for months, despite its questionable strategic value.\n\nEarlier this week, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby - citing newly declassified intelligence - said that more than 20,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and another 80,000 wounded in fighting in Ukraine since December. Half of the dead were from the Wagner group.\n\nIn his statement on Friday, Prigozhin, 61, pinned his decision to withdraw from Bakhmut squarely on the defence ministry, using expletives.\n\n\"Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where is the... ammunition?... They came here as volunteers and die for you to fatten yourselves in your mahogany offices.\"\n\nDefence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov have often been the focus for Prigozhin's anger, amid reports of fierce infighting among different power groups in Russian President Vladimir Putin's entourage.\n\nIn the statement, Prigozhin said his Wagner's casualties were \"growing in geometrical progression every day\" because of the lack of ammunition.\n\nBut he stressed that his fighters would stay on their positions until 9 May, when Russia marks Victory Day in World War Two, and would only withdraw from Bakhmut the following day.\n\nIn the video released earlier, Prigozhin - seen standing in front of his men - said he would \"transfer positions in the settlement of Bakhmut to units of the defence ministry and withdraw the remains of Wagner to logistics camps to lick our wounds\".\n\n\"My lads will not suffer useless and unjustified losses in Bakhmut without ammunition,\" he added.\n\nOne of the videos released by Prigozhin on Friday appears to have been filmed about 2km (1.2 miles) from the centre of Bakhmut. The BBC has matched ground features, including bushes and pylons, with satellite imagery of the location.\n\nPrigozhin is a publicity seeker, and his influence has seemingly waned in recent months. He has previously made threats he has not followed through with - subsequently dismissing them as jokes and military humour.\n\nOnly last week he told a Russian pro-war blogger that Wagner fighters in Bakhmut were down to their last days of supplies of bullets, and needed thousands of rounds of ammunition.\n\nThe Kremlin has not commented on Prigozhin's latest statements.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine's military said it was not seeing any decline in the intensity of fighting near Bakhmut.\n\n\"For months, Prigozhin has been trying to make outrageous statements in order to draw attention to himself,\" Serhiy Cherevatyi, a spokesman for Ukraine's Eastern Command, has told BBC Ukrainian.\n\nAnd Ukraine's deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said Russia was desperately trying to seize Bakhmut by 9 May.\n\nPrigozhin has emerged as a key player in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine launched in February 2022, in charge of a private army of mercenaries leading the Russian onslaught.\n\nHe recruited thousands of convicted criminals from jail for his group - no matter how grave their crimes - as long as they agreed to fight for Wagner in Ukraine.\n\nPrigozhin hails from St Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin's home city. The two most likely first met at one of Prigozhin's restaurants in the city. Years later, Prigozhin's catering company Concord was contracted to supply food to the Kremlin, earning him the nickname \"Putin's chef\".\n\nThe battle for Bakhmut has dragged on for months. Wagner troops and regular Russian forces have fought on the same side, against the Ukrainian military.\n\nUkraine decided to defend the city at all costs in an apparent attempt to focus Russian military resources on one place of relatively little significance.\n\nIn February, Prigozhin posted another image of his dead troops and blamed army chiefs for their deaths.\n\nAlthough the military denied deliberately starving his Wagner group of shells, at the time they did respond by increasing supplies to the front line.\n\nUS-based military analyst Rob Lee argues that Wagner's latest complaint of shortages likely reflects Russia's defence ministry rationing ammunition ahead of Ukraine's long anticipated counter-offensive.\n\nThe ministry has to defend the whole front, but Prigozhin's sole concern lies in taking Bakhmut, he wrote on Twitter. If Wagner did manage to take the city Prigozhin could claim the political credit, Mr Lee added.\n\nThe mercenary chief has himself predicted that Ukraine's counter-offensive will begin by 15 May, as tanks and artillery will be able to advance in dry weather, after the last spring rain.\n\nIn a separate move, Prigozhin appears to have hired an army general who was recently dismissed as logistics chief.\n\nCol-Gen Mikhail Mizintsev was dubbed the \"butcher of Mariupol\" for his role in last year's bombardment of Ukraine's southern port city, captured by Russian forces a year ago.\n\nPrigozhin has pointed out that the general had done his best to help supply mercenaries with ammunition and had co-operated with the group's efforts to recruit convicted prisoners to its ranks.\n\nCol-Gen Mizintsev was only put in charge of army logistics last September, shortly after Prigozhin was filmed inside a Russian prison telling inmates they would be freed from jail if they served with his men in Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Passengers flying into the UK faced hours of delays at airports across the country where passport e-gates were not working.\n\nTravellers told of their anger at being stuck in queues at airports including Heathrow, Manchester and Gatwick.\n\nThe Home Office said on Saturday evening that all e-gates were now operating as normal.\n\nThe disruption, which began on Friday night, had been due to an IT issue, a source told the BBC.\n\nAll airports across the country using the technology were affected.\n\nThe e-gate system speeds up passport control by allowing some passengers to scan their own passports. It uses facial recognition to verify identity and captures the traveller's image.\n\nPeople flying into the UK had to have their passports checked manually, with larger airports with e-gates most affected.\n\nMarc Baret had been booked on a flight from Chicago to Manchester via Heathrow, but told BBC News he had changed his plans after he was left waiting for more than two hours at the London airport.\n\nHe said: \"It was absolute chaos at passport control. There were people getting really frustrated and a couple of individuals tried to jump queues, the police had to get engaged and one of the passengers fainted.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother passenger, arriving at Gatwick, said the situation was an \"utter joke\".\n\nStephen, who declined to share his second name, waited for two-and-a-half hours at Bristol airport on Saturday afternoon without any access to water.\n\nHe said: \"It was very hot, there was only one water bottle fill opportunity in the Arrivals hallways, and nothing in the immigration hall itself.\n\n\"I didn't have a water bottle to top up so was very thirsty afterwards.\"\n\nEurostar passengers were also affected, with travellers waiting in lengthy queues at Paris Gare de Nord train station because the e-gates were not working.\n\nStephen S waited at passport control at Bristol Airport for two-and-a-half hours on Saturday afternoon\n\nOne man said he had to wait in the queue at Luton Airport for more than two hours earlier. Craig Pullen also told the BBC it was \"very poor\" that travellers had not been given regular updates on the problem, or told how long it would take to clear passport control.\n\nBobby Lane waited three hours at passport control at Luton Airport in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nHe praised a Bedfordshire police officer who handed out bottles of water to struggling passengers, tweeting that he had \"kept thousands in line with humour and kindness\".\n\nA spokesperson for the airport said the mood among passengers had been \"one of patience and understanding\".\n\nDave Tatlow was one of 300 passengers stuck in a queue at Heathrow Airport early in the morning.\n\nHe said some passengers had overheated in the hot glass building.\n\n\"One poor elderly gentleman in his seventies travelling alone collapsed, and had to be helped by other passengers and staff.\n\n\"After that, bottles of water were distributed.\"\n\nThis weekend was expected to be busy for travellers, with the bank holiday coinciding with the half-term break for many families.\n\nSeparately, travellers leaving the UK from the Port of Dover also faced issues after the French passport system failed earlier on Saturday.\n\nThat issue has now been fixed, but cars and coaches were waiting for about an hour, with about 400 lorries queuing to make the crossing.\n\nPassengers queue for ferries at the Port of Dover in Kent on Saturday\n\nLucy Morton, from the Immigration Services Union, told the BBC that between 60-80% of incoming passengers usually use e-gates, depending on the airport.\n\n\"There's no impact on national security,\" she added, explaining that all arrivals would have been fully checked at manned officer desks.\n\nE-gates can be used by British citizens aged over 12 and those from the EU, as well as people from countries including Australia, Canada, the US, Japan and New Zealand.\n\nBut all entry points retain manned security desks for other passengers and those unable to use e-gates.\n\nOn Thursday and Friday, British Airways was also hit by IT issues, affecting more than 20,000 passengers at Heathrow.\n\nHave your travel plans been affected by the delays? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The BBC Loneliness Experiment found 40% of 16 to 24-year-olds reported feeling lonely often or very often\n\nHave you been dreading feeling lonely over this bank holiday weekend? You're not alone.\n\nThe coronation of King Charles has meant we're now in our third bank holiday this month.\n\nWhile for many an extra day off work is something to celebrate, for others it simply extends a weekend of isolation.\n\nNaomi Lea, 24, knows this feeling only too well.\n\n\"I have felt quite lonely for a long time, I think I probably felt it before I even could have labelled what it was,\" she said.\n\n\"Going through school I felt like I didn't quite fit in... it wasn't that there weren't people around and I didn't have friends, but it's just that belonging wasn't quite there.\"\n\nShe said bank holidays can just exacerbate feelings of loneliness.\n\nNaomi Lea says she has always experienced feelings of loneliness\n\n\"There's this pressure to always be doing stuff. You might be going into work, and everyone's like, 'what you doing this bank holiday weekend?'\" she said.\n\n\"There's been times when I'm seeing stuff on social media, I'm seeing people going out and doing stuff, and I'm like, 'wait, I've got nobody who I can ask to go and do that this weekend' or I'm just stuck in the house.\"\n\nWhile at Cardiff University Naomi decided to open up about how she was feeling and the more she shared her experience the more she realised many others were feeling the same.\n\nShe decided to do something about it and at the height of the pandemic was running three Zoom sessions for people aged 13 to 25 to meet others and take part in activities such as escape rooms, creative writing and games nights.\n\nNaomi stayed on in Cardiff after getting her degree. But lots of her friends returned home, so she found herself feeling cut off again.\n\nThen a year into living in a shared house someone new moved in and they \"just clicked straight away\".\n\nThey now share hobbies together and have introduced each other to their friends.\n\nNaomi says things got better once she started sharing her experience of loneliness with others\n\nNaomi is now director of YL Project Hope, which tackles loneliness and isolation in young people by empowering and providing space for them to meet online.\n\nShe has learnt a lot from her personal experience.\n\n\"When I use my social media now... I try and be as authentic as possible,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't just post the highlights of my life because it's really important that we can see that people's lives aren't perfect and we all go through difficult feelings at different points in our lives.\"\n\nNaomi said sharing how she feels can be a big help, as well as finding activities that she really enjoys and paying less attention to social media.\n\n\"One thing that made a real difference to me was realising I can go out and do things alone if I want to,\" she said.\n\nShe finds going to the theatre to see a musical by herself \"really freeing\".\n\nNaomi is not unusual - the BBC Loneliness Experiment found 40% of 16 to 24-year-olds reported feeling lonely often or very often.\n\nLoneliness can have serious health implications. One study found loneliness can increase your risk of death by 26% and is worse for you than obesity.\n\nPippa Moyle set up an online network for women after experiencing loneliness herself\n\nPippa Moyle also found herself feeling lonely after university.\n\nAfter finishing her degree in Sheffield in 2016 she moved back to Brighton where she had previously lived while at music college.\n\n\"It wasn't really the same, my friends kind of moved on or were perhaps starting families and it just wasn't that same kind of community experience that I'd felt,\" she said.\n\n\"I was walking on the beach one day and I saw a girl looking out to the sea and I just remember this really powerful feeling of 'I wonder if she feels how I feel?' which was just a bit lost really.\n\n\"Even though I was in a job and I'd just met a nice boy I didn't have the friends that I could just chat with, or go to the beach with and all this sort of thing.\"\n\nIn that moment she decided to post on social media asking if anyone wanted to meet for a coffee; to her delight 17 girls turned up.\n\n\"It just completely snowballed,\" she said.\n\nCardiff City Girl has been running for about two years\n\nThe meetings grew and grew and within six months another girl asked if she could replicate it in Edinburgh and another in Berlin.\n\nCity Girl Network was born and now has 110,000 members across the UK.\n\nMembers, usually aged between 23 and 41, join for free and stay connected through Facebook, Instagram and newsletters.\n\n\"It's at that stage where our parents and grandparents had very traditionally kind of settled... but this whole new generation is trying to navigate the world as a woman where perhaps the family dynamics are different,\" said Pippa.\n\nShe said some users reported meeting their best friends through the network and others have set up businesses together.\n\nCardiff City Girl started about two years ago. Chloe Wilcox-Jones, 24, is one of 6,00 members in the Welsh capital and decided to join after moving back home to Cardiff after university.\n\nShe said it allowed herself and other members to \"form real connections and share positivity at a time when the world can sometimes feel overwhelmingly dark and lonely\".\n\n\"[It] really is the epitome of women supporting women,\" she said.\n\nMishail Farooq, 28, who joined the Cardiff network in 2021, has been to the theatre, gigs, the gym, hiked and gone on trips with other members.\n\nShe said: \"I've made wonderful memories with the new people I've met.\"\n\nThe network plans to expand into Newport soon.\n\n\"Bank holidays are some of the greatest but some of the most isolating times as well,\" said Pippa.\n\n\"You are kind of caught in your silence.\"\n\nShe said City Girl Sunday meet-ups were always busy over a bank holiday as some of the network's members might not be able to afford to get home to see family, or they work for part of the weekend.\n\n\"If you're maybe keeping yourself busy on a Saturday when the Sunday comes and then rolls into a Monday, you can kind of end up just being on the sofa,\" she said.\n\nSeven years on, Pippa said that snap decision to reach out to other women on social media turned everything around for her.\n\nShe said: \"It has certainly changed my life.\"", "President Erdogan's last big campaign event reminded voters that he had faced down a coup\n\nThe last hours of Turkey's presidential race have turned increasingly sour as Recep Tayyip Erdogan bids to extend his 20 years in power by five more.\n\nAhead of Sunday's run-off vote, opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu has courted nationalist votes by vowing to expel millions of Syrian refugees.\n\nThe president accused him of hate speech - and said a Kilicdaroglu victory would be a win for terrorists.\n\nThe opposition candidate trailed in the first round by 2.5 million votes.\n\nThe president is favourite, but his rival believes the margin could still be bridged - either by the 2.8 million supporters of an ultranationalist candidate who came third or by the eight million voters who did not turn out in the first round.\n\nBefore their campaigns drew to a close on Saturday evening, Mr Erdogan marked the anniversary of a 1960 coup with a visit to the mausoleum of an executed prime minister.\n\nIt was a reminder to voters that in 2016 he had faced down an attempted coup, and that the government would be safe in his hands.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu sympathised with women hit by the economic crisis as the campaign drew to a close\n\nHis rival met a group of women hit by Turkey's economic crisis, promising that, if elected, he would live modestly, rather than in a presidential palace.\n\nFor many hours this week Mr Kilicdaroglu took audience questions on a YouTube channel called BaBaLa TV. The broadcast has reached 24 million views by the latest count and Turkey has a population of 85 million.\n\nYouth campaigner Mehtep thinks the YouTube marathon could work: \"Being on BaBaLa TV affected lots of young voters who didn't vote first time around.\"\n\nShe's a member of the centre-right, nationalist Good party, which has backed the opposition challenger and has the only female leader in Turkish politics in Meral Aksener.\n\nThe appearance was a smart move for a candidate trying to overcome his rival's inbuilt advantage of controlling about 90% of Turkish media.\n\nInternational monitors say voters may have had a genuine choice, but that Turkey \"did not fulfil the basic principles for holding a democratic election\".\n\nPresident Erdogan has not just amassed sweeping powers in the past six years - he has cracked down on dissent and political opponents have been thrown into jail.\n\nAnticipating an Erdogan victory and further economic instability, the financial markets reacted with the Turkish lira hitting record lows against the dollar on Friday. Demand for foreign currency has surged and the central bank's net foreign currency reserves have slipped into negative territory for the first time since 2002.\n\nThat will be of little concern in the town of Bala, an hour's drive to the south-east of Ankara.\n\nMore than 60% of voters backed President Erdogan there two weeks ago, although all the main parties have offices on the the high street.\n\nAcross the road from the president's party headquarters, doner kebab shop owner Al Ozdemir says he will vote for another five years of Mr Erdogan.\n\nBut another shopkeeper refused to tell the BBC who he supported because he feared losing Erdogan supporters as customers.\n\nFor months Turkey's struggling economy was the number one issue, but as Sunday's run-off has drawn close, the rhetoric has intensified and refugees are at the centre of it.\n\nGone is the unifying 74-year-old opposition leader with his hands cupped into trademark heart-shape. Instead, he is trying to attract voters who backed ultranationalist leader Sinan Ogan two Sundays ago.\n\nAlthough the president won Mr Ogan's backing, the opposition leader secured the support of the anti-immigrant Victory Party, led by Umit Ozdag, whose party won 1.2 million votes.\n\nThe Victory Party leader said this week Mr Kilicdaroglu had agreed to send back \"13 million migrants\" within a year \"in line with international law\".\n\nTurkey is hosting more refugees than any other country, but nowhere near that many.\n\nProf Murat Erdogan (no relation to President Erdogan), who conducts a regular field study called Syrians Barometer, believes the total number of Syrian refugees and irregular migrants from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan is closer to six or seven million.\n\n\"Their discourse is not realistic, physically it's impossible,\" says Prof Erdogan. \"If we talk about [repatriating] voluntarily it's not feasible, and by force it means per day more than 50,000 should be sent back.\"\n\nThe rhetoric is unpleasant but it might make a difference. As many as 85% of Turks want refugees from Syria's civil war to go home, opinion polls suggest.\n\nThis Kilicdaroglu poster in Istanbul reads: \"Syrians will go! Make a decision!\"\n\nBoth sides have nationalist parties to keep onside, says political scientist Nezih Onur Kuru from Koc university, and Mr Kilicdaroglu is tapping into security concerns felt by many voters, especially young ones.\n\n\"He knows the level of perceived threats is too high because of the immigrant crisis and terrorist attacks and wars involving Russia, Syria and Azerbaijan.\"\n\nPresident Erdogan says he is already sending Syrian refugees back and plans to send more. His main partner is the far-right nationalist MHP.\n\nAnd he has gone on the attack too, using a manipulated video at a rally to link his rival to the Kurdish militant PKK, considered a terror group in the West as well as Turkey.\n\nOn Friday he said a Kilicdaroglu victory meant that \"terrorist organisations\" would win.\n\nHis target is the big pro-Kurdish HDP party, which backs Mr Kilicdaroglu and which President Erdogan has repeatedly sought to identify with the PKK militants. The HDP denies any such links.\n\nThe HDP, for now, backs Mr Kilicdaroglu because it wants an end to Turkey's \"one-man regime\". But it has genuine concerns about his alliance with a far-right nationalist.\n\nInitially it was thought that President Erdogan could be defeated because of his disastrous handling of Turkey's economy and his poor response to February's earthquakes.\n\nAnd yet almost half of voters backed him. The question is whether Mr Kilicdaroglu's change of tack will work.\n\n\"I wanted a change, all my customers wanted a change,\" says Songul in her chicken restaurant in Bala.\n\nBut ultimately she says they are all sticking with the president because they do not trust his opposite number: \"I'll vote for Erdogan as there's no alternative.\"", "Police are investigating former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters after he wore what appeared to be a Nazi SS uniform during a concert in Germany.\n\nPerforming in Berlin on 17 May, Waters wore a long black overcoat with a red armband. He also aimed an imitation machine gun into the audience.\n\nGermany bans displaying Nazi symbols - but the country's laws allow exceptions for artistic or educational reasons.\n\nWaters said his performance was clearly to show \"opposition to fascism\".\n\nFollowing the concert at Berlin's Mercedes-Benz Arena, German police spokesman Martin Halweg said: \"We are investigating on suspicion of incitement to public hatred because the clothing worn on stage could be used to glorify or justify Nazi rule, thereby disturbing the public peace.\n\n\"The clothing resembles the clothing of an SS officer,\" he added.\n\nWaters' jacket included a red armband with two black crossed hammers on a white circle, an outfit he has worn at previous shows dating back several years.\n\nThe symbols are similar to those appearing on costumes in the 1982 film, The Wall, based on the Pink Floyd album of the same name and starring fellow musician turned activist Bob Geldof.\n\nIn one scene Geldof plays a rock star hallucinating that he is leading a fascist rally.\n\nPolice authorities have said that once the allegations have been reviewed, the matter will be passed on to the public prosecutor, who will decide how to proceed.\n\nDuring the Berlin performance, the names of several deceased people also appeared on a large screen.\n\nThe names included Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War Two.\n\nIsrael's foreign ministry later criticised the musician on social media.\n\n\"Good morning to everyone but Roger Waters who spent the evening in Berlin (Yes Berlin) desecrating the memory of Anne Frank and the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust,\" it tweeted.\n\nIn a tweet on Friday, Waters wrote: \"The elements of my performance that have been questioned are quite clearly a statement in opposition to fascism, injustice, and bigotry in all its forms... The depiction of an unhinged fascist demagogue has been a feature of my shows since Pink Floyd's The Wall in 1980.\"\n\nWaters has also floated an inflatable pig marked with the Star of David at his concerts.\n\nIn recent weeks, the musician has been travelling to cities around Germany as part of his This Is Not A Drill tour.\n\nHowever the performances have been controversial. Munich and Cologne tried to cancel shows after Jewish organisations such as the Central Council of Jews accused him of antisemitism.\n\nWaters denies the accusations, and in a Facebook post this week he thanked those who had attended his shows in Germany.\n\nHe also paid tribute to the White Rose movement, a resistance group during the Nazi period.\n\n\"The fact that some in power in Germany and some at the behest of the Israeli lobby have attacked me, wrongly accusing me of being an antisemite, and have tried to cancel my shows saddens me,\" Waters said.\n\n\"Walking around Munich yesterday afternoon, I couldn't shake off the feeling that I was in the presence of Big Brother. It leaves a bad taste.\"\n\nWaters is still scheduled to play his final concert in Germany on Sunday evening in Frankfurt. Demonstrations are planned outside the venue, however, after a legal attempt by the city to stop the performance failed.\n\nA British MP has also called for Waters' gig in Manchester in June to be cancelled.\n\nWaters has made several controversial comments in the past.\n\nAfter Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, he penned an open letter to Ukraine's first lady, Olena Zelenska.\n\nIn it, he said, \"extreme nationalists\" in Ukraine \"have set your country on the path to this disastrous war\".\n\nIn February, during a speech to the United Nations he repeated his controversial claim that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was \"provoked\".", "ChatGPT can answer questions using natural, human-like language and mimic other writing styles\n\nA New York lawyer is facing a court hearing of his own after his firm used AI tool ChatGPT for legal research.\n\nA judge said the court was faced with an \"unprecedented circumstance\" after a filing was found to reference example legal cases that did not exist.\n\nThe lawyer who used the tool told the court he was \"unaware that its content could be false\".\n\nChatGPT creates original text on request, but comes with warnings it can \"produce inaccurate information\".\n\nThe original case involved a man suing an airline over an alleged personal injury. His legal team submitted a brief that cited several previous court cases in an attempt to prove, using precedent, why the case should move forward.\n\nBut the airline's lawyers later wrote to the judge to say they could not find several of the cases that were referenced in the brief.\n\n\"Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations,\" Judge Castel wrote in an order demanding the man's legal team explain itself.\n\nOver the course of several filings, it emerged that the research had not been prepared by Peter LoDuca, the lawyer for the plaintiff, but by a colleague of his at the same law firm. Steven A Schwartz, who has been an attorney for more than 30 years, used ChatGPT to look for similar previous cases.\n\nIn his written statement, Mr Schwartz clarified that Mr LoDuca had not been part of the research and had no knowledge of how it had been carried out.\n\nMr Schwartz added that he \"greatly regrets\" relying on the chatbot, which he said he had never used for legal research before and was \"unaware that its content could be false\".\n\nHe has vowed to never use AI to \"supplement\" his legal research in future \"without absolute verification of its authenticity\".\n\nScreenshots attached to the filing appear to show a conversation between Mr Schwarz and ChatGPT.\n\n\"Is varghese a real case,\" reads one message, referencing Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co Ltd, one of the cases that no other lawyer could find.\n\nChatGPT responds that yes, it is - prompting \"S\" to ask: \"What is your source\".\n\nAfter \"double checking\", ChatGPT responds again that the case is real and can be found on legal reference databases such as LexisNexis and Westlaw.\n\nIt says that the other cases it has provided to Mr Schwartz are also real.\n\nBoth lawyers, who work for the firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, have been ordered to explain why they should not be disciplined at an 8 June hearing.\n\nMillions of people have used ChatGPT since it launched in November 2022.\n\nIt can answer questions in natural, human-like language and it can also mimic other writing styles. It uses the internet as it was in 2021 as its database.\n\nThere have been concerns over the potential risks of artificial intelligence (AI), including the potential spread of misinformation and bias.", "Brothers Maksym (left) and Ivan (right) signed up to fight for Ukraine together after Russia launched its full-scale invasion\n\nMaksym had been fighting for 200 hours without a break when he was killed by a Russian sniper in the city of Bakhmut.\n\n\"For eight days he did not eat, or sleep,\" his mother Lilia says. \"He couldn't even close his eyes for five minutes because the sniper could shoot.\"\n\nThere's a reason why she now calls Bakhmut \"hell\". It's the city that took the life of one son and left her only other child seriously injured.\n\nHer one scant comfort - that one died saving the life of the other.\n\nMaksym and Ivan volunteered to fight when Russia invaded Ukraine last year. At the time Maksym was 22 years old and Ivan just 18.\n\nIvan, the younger brother who still carries the scars, says they were inseparable. \"He was always with me and I with him. For me, he was the dearest person.\"\n\nIvan shows me videos and photos of them together - in a trench, in a military vehicle, trying to get some rest.\n\nAs time passes, you see two smiling, handsome young men change, gradually appearing wearier as war strips away their innocence.\n\nThe two brothers were inseparable - fighting and resting together at the front\n\nTheir last moments together were spent engaged in brutal house-to-house fighting in Bakhmut. \"It was impossible to sleep there. We were being attacked 24/7,\" Ivan says.\n\nThe brothers' unit was trapped in a windowless room of a building. They'd had to punch through walls to make firing positions. That's when they received an order to pull back.\n\nIvan recalls the moment before he was wounded. \"I remember I was reloading; I came out from behind a wall and there was a flash. I was paralysed and I fell.\"\n\nHe says he then felt the warmth of the blood flowing from his injuries to his face. He didn't think he'd survive. \"I thought I was done; I'll bleed out and that'll be it.\"\n\nBut Maksym came running to his rescue and dragged him back inside a building for cover.\n\n\"He revived me, took out my broken teeth and began to give me first aid,\" says Ivan. That included piercing a hole in Ivan's throat to prevent him from choking.\n\nIvan shares a video of his brother tenderly wiping the blood away soon after the explosion. Another widely shared clip shows Ivan struggling to walk with a gaping wound to his face, but still clutching his Ukrainian flag: a symbol of bravery and resistance in the battle for Bakhmut.\n\nIvan has no doubts that he would have died if it weren't for Maksym's actions. \"My brother didn't let me die. He saved me.\"\n\nIvan (seen here recovering in hospital) had a hole cut in his throat by his brother to help him keep breathing\n\nMaksym urgently called on the radio for help. But the first medics that tried to reach him were all killed in their vehicle when it was struck by a Russian anti-tank missile. It took another nine hours before Ivan could be rescued.\n\nAnd then came Maksym's extraordinary act of self-sacrifice. Rather than travel with his brother to safety, he volunteered to stay in Bakhmut, to lead their unit.\n\nStill fighting there a week later, Maksym was killed by a Russian sniper.\n\nIn Ukraine the funerals of soldiers are now as constant as the sound of artillery on the front line. But they're not all like Maksym's. Alongside his grieving family, the entire town of Tomakivka had come out to pay their respects.\n\nThey knelt as the funeral procession made its way to the cemetery - some clasping flowers or Ukraine's flag. The prayers and sombre music accompanied by tears and sobbing.\n\nSerhii (left) and Lilia were supported by the entire town at their older son's funeral\n\nFor the past year, Maksym and Ivan's parents had been living their sons' battles vicariously. Lilia and Serhii were having sleepless nights too - waiting anxiously to hear from their boys. They'd often receive a short text to reassure them, says Lilia - \"We're good, mum.\"\n\nBut then came the news they'd been dreading.\n\nLilia weeps over Maksym's coffin before it's finally lowered into the ground - accompanied by a volley of gunfire. \"We still can't believe it. My soul is torn,\" Lilia tells me after the funeral. She says her only reason to continue living is for her younger son.\n\nShe tells me Maksym had the chance to leave with Ivan, but he would not abandon their younger, less experienced comrades.\n\n\"He's a hero. He's an angel. He's sunshine. He would never leave his brother even though he knew he would die himself.\"\n\nUkraine won't say how many lives have been lost in this war. But look around the cemetery and you soon realise the entire country is paying an extremely heavy price.\n\nMy brother gave his life for our freedom. Unfortunately, freedom comes with blood\n\nAt this one small graveyard, in this one small town, there are rows and rows of freshly dug graves surrounded by flowers. Maksym's was one of three soldiers' funerals the local priest was conducting that week.\n\nFor Roman, who was once himself a soldier before taking holy orders, it was harder than most. He is a family friend and prayed with Maksym and Ivan's parents for the safe return of their boys, whom he knew.\n\n\"You often have to bury soldiers,\" said Roman. \"But not your friends.\"\n\nAt the funeral, Ivan is still clutching the Ukrainian flag which he carried when wounded - signed by his comrades including his brother. The blood from his own wounds staining the blue and yellow cloth.\n\nI ask him if he now regrets his decision to join the army. He replies: \"We understood that we might not return, but it's an honour to fight for Ukraine. That's why I don't regret it in any way.\n\n\"My brother gave his life for our freedom. Unfortunately, freedom comes with blood.\"", "An emotional Lewis Capaldi told the Dundee crowd he was living his childhood dream\n\nLewis Capaldi, Jonas Brothers, The 1975, Anne-Marie and Zara Larsson are among the artists who took to the stage in front of tens of thousands of music fans at Radio 1's Big Weekend.\n\nThe three-day festival opened at Dundee's Camperdown Park on Friday - it was due to be held in the city three years ago but was cancelled due to Covid.\n\nHere are some of the best pictures from the weekend:\n\nThe thousands who turned up to watch Lewis Capaldi were treated to multiple confetti showers\n\nBefore his set, Lewis joined Niall Horan on stage in what some have called \"friendship goals\"\n\nNiall had the crowd clapping along to his songs\n\nRaye told Newsbeat her set was all about \"me, in a pink dress, having the time of my life\"\n\nArlo Parks was full of vibes on the Future Sounds stage\n\nThe 1975's Matty Healy captivated the Saturday evening crowd with his outfits and instruments\n\nJared Leto's Thirty Seconds to Mars made it to Sunday's Future Sounds stage, after cancelling Saturday's scheduled performance\n\nFans joined them on stage, with selfie-taker Jack (right) telling Newsbeat it was a surreal experience\n\nBecky Hill provided a sparkling performance with old and new hits\n\nAnne-Marie made the stage her own\n\nAshnikko did things her way at Big Weekend\n\nWet Leg's Rhian Teasdale told Newsbeat \"it was nice\" to be at a festival again\n\nZara Larsson was living her best life on stage\n\nBecoming besties because of The 1975\n\nJonas Brothers opened the Radio 1 Stage on Saturday, calling the fans \"electrifying\"\n\nFlo said seeing people sing along was \"giving them life\"\n\nJess Glynne told Newsbeat she was nervous about performing live after time away from the stage\n\nTom Grennan powered through while his team Coventry City lost their play-off final to Luton Town\n\nKlaudia and Elizabeth added a splash of pink to their outfits and said the Jonas Brothers' performance was \"one of the best things\"\n\n...and then placed a hat on a fan, providing protection from the Dundee sun\n\nChowerman said it felt good to represent the South Asian community as he opened the BBC Introducing stage\n\nFans were keen to capture the best moments from the festival\n\nLF System said \"it's great to come to Scotland and there's nothing like it\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Russian-German relations have worsened since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine\n\nHundreds of Germans working in the education and cultural sectors will be expelled from Russia next month, the German foreign ministry says.\n\nIt confirmed media reports that Russia had decided to cap the number of German employees from the start of June.\n\nThey include teachers at the German school in Moscow and staff at the Goethe Institute cultural association.\n\nThe move follows tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats and increasingly strained relations between Russia and Germany.\n\nLast month, Russia and Germany each declared 40 employees of their respective embassies personae non gratae - or unwelcome - and expelled them.\n\nGerman daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported that the latest move will affect a \"low-to-mid three-digit number\" of employees, including diplomats.\n\n\"In view of this unilateral, unjustified and incomprehensible decision, the Federal Government is now concerned with ensuring a minimum presence of intermediaries in Russia while also maintaining a diplomatic presence,\" the newspaper quoted the German foreign ministry as saying.\n\nIn making a decision on the maximum number of Russians in Germany, the ministry said it would aim at ensuring real balance in practice.\n\nSeveral EU countries have expelled Russian diplomats since the start of the war in Ukraine. More than 40 diplomats suspected of spying were issued expulsion orders from four EU countries in March 2022.\n\nRussia and Germany used to share deep economic and cultural links, which have been strained in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nWithin days, Chancellor Olaf Scholz revolutionised Germany's foreign policy by boosting military spending and committing to send weapons direct to Ukraine.\n\nMr Scholz kept his promise. When, in January, Germany announced it would send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Russia accused it of abandoning its \"historical responsibility to Russia\" arising from Nazi crimes in World War Two.\n\nUndeterred, earlier this month, Mr Scholz vowed to back Ukraine \"for as long as it is necessary\", promising €2.7bn (£2.4bn) worth of weapons.\n\nGermany also worked hard to end its dependency on Russian gas thanks to a frantic buying operation from other countries and the record-time building of its very first import terminal for liquified natural gas (LNG).\n\nWith the expulsion of diplomats and cultural and education employees, the remaining ties between Russia and Germany are set to be put under yet more strain.", "Wholesale UK gas prices have fallen to below 70p a unit\n\nEnergy prices in Northern Ireland may rise again before falling back later this year, the Consumer Council has warned.\n\nThe Utility Regulator may make pricing decisions on two major suppliers as soon as next week.\n\nUnderlying wholesale energy prices of gas and electricity have been falling.\n\nHowever, that will be offset by the withdrawal of the government's energy price guarantee (EPG).\n\nThe EPG required suppliers to apply a discount to the price of each unit of gas or electricity to protect consumers from soaring prices after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIt will expire at the end of June which means that from July consumers will be exposed to market prices.\n\nPeter McClenaghan, director of infrastructure and sustainability at the NI Consumer Council, said that when the regulator approves new tariffs bills \"may not change much or even go up slightly\".\n\nEarlier this week, households in the rest of the UK were told they will see a significant fall in their energy bills from July after the regulator reduced the price cap, which limits how much suppliers can charge households for each unit of energy they use.\n\nNorthern Ireland is a separate market with its own regulator and throughout the energy crisis prices have tended to be lower than in the Great Britain market.\n\n\"We might see for a short period - a few months - prices that are slightly higher than England,\" Mr McClenaghan said.\n\n\"That's unfortunate, but on the whole the Northern Ireland regulatory system has actually been working quite well for consumers.\"\n\nWholesale UK gas prices reached almost £7 a unit (known as a therm) last summer but in recent weeks have fallen back to below 70p a unit.\n• None What does the Budget mean for Northern Ireland?", "An armed group has crossed from Ukraine into Russia's Belgorod region and clashes there have injured a number of people, Russian authorities say.\n\nLocal governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said Russian forces were searching for \"saboteurs\" who, he said, had attacked Grayvoronsky district by the border.\n\nVladimir Putin's spokesman said the Russian president had been informed.\n\nUkraine denies responsibility and said Russian citizens from two paramilitary groups were behind the incursion.\n\nMr Gladkov said eight people had been hurt, including two people admitted to hospital after a village was shelled and three people who were hit by shrapnel in the town of Grayvoron.\n\nFighting had also damaged three houses and a local administrative building, and the situation remains \"extremely tense\", he said.\n\nThe governor said a \"counter-terrorist operation\" had been launched in the region, giving special powers to the authorities including on identity checks and communications surveillance.\n\nBBC Verify has been analysing footage from the Belgorod region that emerged on social media on Monday.\n\nSo far, the team has located a video apparently filmed from a drone that features several armoured vehicles near a border checkpoint south of Belgorod. Additionally, BBC Verify has geolocated footage of helicopters operating in the region.\n\nThe footage is recent, but it is hard to say for certain from the videos what the exact sequence of events is.\n\nKyiv said those behind the ongoing incident were from groups called the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC).\n\nThe Liberty of Russia Legion - a Ukraine-based Russian militia which says it is working inside Russia to overthrow President Vladimir Putin - said on Twitter on Monday it had \"completely liberated\" the border town of Kozinka. It said forward units had reached the town of Grayvoron, further east.\n\nHowever Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies that efforts were under way to eliminate the sabotage group, and said its purpose was to draw attention away from the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut - which a Russian mercenary group claims to have taken control of after months of intense and bloody fighting.\n\n\"We perfectly understand the purpose of such sabotage - to divert attention from the Bakhmut direction, to minimise the political effect of the loss of Artyomovsk [Bakhmut] by the Ukrainian side,\" he said.\n\nKyiv says it still controls parts of the city.\n\n\"Behind these attacks are Russian citizens who are fed up with the actions of their terrorist regime\", commented Yurik Sak, an adviser to Ukraine's defence minister.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's World Tonight programme, he welcomed the developments and pointed to what he called a \"growing trend of Russian partisan movements\".\n\nBut he said he could not confirm or deny whether his country was harbouring or supporting the groups involved.\n\nThe latest incident comes ahead of a widely expected counter-offensive by Kyiv against invading Russian forces.\n\nParts of Belgorod and several other Russian regions have come under artillery or drone attack since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year.\n\nRussian officials have blamed the Ukrainian military, although Ukraine has denied responsibility for alleged sabotage attacks on Russian territory.\n\nIn April, Russia accidentally dropped a bomb on the city of Belgorod, which lies 40km (25 miles) north of the border with Ukraine.\n\nMore than 3,000 people were evacuated from their homes after an undetonated explosive was found days later.", "Harvey Evans's aunt Hayley Murphy says his family are determined to get \"justice\" for him\n\nThe aunt of one of two teenagers killed in an e-bike crash says she believes the police are to blame for their deaths.\n\nHayley Murphy, whose nephew Harvey Evans, 15, died alongside best friend Kyrees Sullivan, 16, said the family were determined to get \"justice\".\n\nSouth Wales Police said officers were following the boys before the crash, which sparked a riot.\n\nThe force said it and the police watchdog are continuing to investigate.\n\nHarvey Evans, 15, and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, died in a bike crash on Monday\n\nCCTV from minutes before the accident in Ely, Cardiff, on Monday evening showed a police van driving at a distance behind the two boys, but the force said its nearest vehicle was half-a-mile away when the bike crashed.\n\n\"They were two children who were chased to their death by South Wales Police,\" Ms Murphy told the BBC after a vigil was held in memory of the two boys on Friday.\n\nMs Murphy, whose sister is Harvey's mother, claimed her nephew had been \"arrested 30 times over the last two years, and there's been not one charge that's stuck\".\n\nShe alleged in one case officers had visited his family home, after a police officer was assaulted, but doorbell video footage showed he was at home at the time.\n\nShe claimed on another occasion when officers believed he had done something wrong, the family were on holiday and \"he wasn't even in the country\".\n\nBalloons were released at a vigil held for them on Friday\n\nShe described Harvey as \"chopsy and cheeky\" but also \"so lovable\".\n\nMs Murphy called him \"a typical teenager… out and about with all his friends and sees the police all the time\".\n\nShe explained how Harvey, a fan of e-bikes and scooters, had told his father he was going to take Kyrees home on his electric bike, which was an early 16th birthday present, after they had had tea together.\n\n\"Harvey had only just had this bike and didn't want to lose it. He turned back and the police gave chase,\" she alleged.\n\nMs Murphy said the riot began after family members were waiting near the crash scene to find out if the boys were still alive as CPR was being carried out.\n\nTributes were attached to a fence in memory of the two boys\n\nHarvey's grandmother, Dawn Rees, said they believed some people involved in the riot had no local connections and \"didn't care what they were doing and rioting for\".\n\nNine people in total have been arrested in connection with the riot - of whom at least five are from the Cardiff area - after the police investigation looked at more than 180 pieces of body worn footage.\n\nDetectives have said more arrests are expected.\n\nMs Murphy said the family had faced an agonising wait to get the police confirmation they feared about the boys' deaths.\n\nShe said: \"They came to the house around four hours after it happened, about four hours in total, and they said 'there have been two fatalities but we cannot confirm who they are'.\n\nTheir deaths sparked a riot in the Ely suburb of Cardiff\n\n\"We knew it was Harvey, but we didn't get told until the family liaison officer came at around two o'clock the following day.\n\n\"How can you treat a family of a young boy like that?\"\n\nThe two women also blamed rioters for delaying emergency services from removing Harvey and Kyrees' bodies from the scene of the crash.\n\n\"Those boys lied on that floor for 10 hours. Ten hours,\" Ms Murphy claimed.\n\nMs Rees said: \"This is what we couldn't cope with because they were lying on the floor.\n\n\"It was all down to the riots. We had no support for 17 hours and it was because of the riots.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What the CCTV tells us about teens' final moments\n\n\"The only thing we can do is stay strong as a family and as a community and just continue fighting because we will get justice,\" said Ms Murphy.\n\nSouth Wales Police said in a statement that it \"cannot comment any further\" due to ongoing investigations by the force and Independent Office for Police Conduct, which is looking at the police's interaction with the teenagers before their deaths.\n\nA spokesman for the Welsh Ambulance Service said their involvement at the scene concluded before 20:00.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The CCTV shows footage of a number of cars used by the gunmen on the day of the attack\n\nEleven people have been arrested in County Tyrone over the attempted murder of senior detective John Caldwell.\n\nPolice have also released new CCTV footage and photographs of vehicles they believe were used in the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell was shot while putting footballs into his car at a sports complex in Omagh on 22 February.\n\nPolice said nine men and two women, aged between 21 and 72, were detained under the Terrorism Act on Friday morning.\n\nDet Ch Supt Eamonn Corrigan said the search and arrest operation in Omagh and Coalisland in County Tyrone marked a \"significant development\" in the investigation.\n\nJohn Caldwell made his first public appearance since the shooting at Hillsborough Castle on Wednesday\n\nThe shooting, which happened in front of school children, was widely condemned by political figures across Northern Ireland and beyond.\n\nOn Friday, police said three vehicles they believed were used by the gunmen were spotted travelling in convoy on the Drumnakilly Road in the direction of Omagh in the hours before the attack.\n\nSeven of those arrested on Friday had been previously detained in relation to the shooting, Mr Corrigan added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in new appeal for information over John Caldwell shooting\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell was discharged from hospital in April and police said he had since given his account of events to investigators.\n\nHe was visited by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during his treatment and on Wednesday met King Charles ahead of his first public appearance since the shooting at Hillsborough Castle.\n\n\"I am delighted that John is on the road to recovery and was able to attend a garden party this week hosted by the King and Queen,\" Det Ch Supt Eamonn Corrigan said.\n\n\"Now we have to make sure we bring those vile individuals who tried to murder him to justice.\n\nOfficers believe the dissident republican group the New IRA may have acted with an organised crime gang to carry out the attack, which left the detective chief inspector with life-changing injuries.\n\nTwenty-one people have been arrested and questioned in total since the beginning of the investigation.\n\nPolice have previously said two Ford Fiesta cars they believe were used in the attack had been bought in Ballyclare and Glengormley in County Antrim in the weeks before the attack.\n\nThey were later found destroyed after the shooting.\n\nDetectives have since identified a third vehicle, a black Mercedes Benz C-Class, which they believed was used as an operational vehicle both before and immediately after the attack.\n\nPolice have identified a third vehicle believed to have been used in the attack\n\nNewly released CCTV footage shows all three vehicles in convoy on the Drumnakilly Road in the direction of Omagh in the hours before the attack.\n\nDetectives have said an estimated 400,000 hours of CCTV footage has been seized for analysis in the hunt for those involved in the shooting.\n\nPolice believe this car, found destroyed on the Racolpa Road near Omagh, had been used in the shooting\n\nHe is one of the best-known detectives in the Police Service of Northern Ireland, often fronting press conferences on major inquiries during his 26-year career.\n\nMr Caldwell investigated the 2011 murder of his colleague Ronan Kerr by dissident republicans.\n\nHe was aware his investigations relating to dissident republican attacks - including the killing of Lyra McKee in 2019 - made him a high-profile target.\n\nIn January, he spoke to reporters after the killing of Shane Whitla, a 39-year-old father of four who was shot a number of times in the town of Lurgan in County Armagh.\n\nHe was also the initial lead detective investigating the killing of Natalie McNally in Lurgan, and he was involved in investigating the murder of Mark Lovell, 58, who was shot a number of times at close range in his car in Newry in County Down on 1 December.\n\nHe had received a number of threats in the past, BBC News NI understands.", "A Powerball ticket must match all six numbers drawn to score the jackpot\n\nThe winner of a record $2bn (£1.6bn) US Powerball lottery draw is being sued by a man claiming the lucky ticket was stolen from him.\n\nEdwin Castro, who lives in California, chose to take last November's jackpot in one lump sum of $997.6m.\n\nBut now Jose Rivera, a fellow Californian, says in a civil complaint that the prize money should be his.\n\nMr Castro has not commented. The California Lottery earlier said it was confident he was the rightful winner.\n\nIn a statement from February, the California Lottery said it always checked prize money claimants and \"has the utmost confidence in its process for doing so\".\n\nMr Rivera's lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court in the city of Alhambra.\n\nHe alleges that he bought the winning ticket on 7 November 2022 - and that it was stolen later that day by a man who was not Mr Castro.\n\nThe complaint does not provide details about how the ticket might have ended up with Mr Castro.\n\nPowerball tickets cost $2 and a winner has two options to claim their winnings. They can choose to receive the full amount in an annuity paid over 29 years - but almost all winners opt for a smaller, upfront cash payment instead.\n\nThe game, which began in 1992, is played in 45 of the 50 US states, the capital city of Washington, DC, and in the US territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.\n\nThe winnings are subject to federal taxes of between 24% and 37%, and, in most cases, state taxes. Only 10 states - including California - do not have state taxes on lottery winnings. In several locations, such as New York City, the winnings are also subject to municipal taxes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been arrested for opening a door of an Asiana Airlines flight as it was landing in South Korea.\n\nAll 194 passengers survived the flight, which landed safely but with its door still open at Daegu International Airport on Friday.\n\nSome passengers fainted while others had breathing problems and were taken to hospital, local media reported.\n\nThe man in his 30s said he was feeling suffocated and wanted to get off quickly, Yonhap news agency reported.\n\nPolice said the man claimed during questioning that he was stressed after losing his job, according to the report.\n\n\"He is mentally struggling right now and losing his footing. We could not investigate him properly due to his state,\" a local police officer told reporters, adding that the man could not be asked any questions as he was not \"in a normal state\".\n\nFlight OZ8124, an Airbus A321-200 jet, had taken off from Jeju Island on Friday about 11:45 local time (03:45 GMT).\n\nAs it was landing about an hour later, a male passenger opened the emergency door while the plane was still 250m from ground.\n\nA passenger's video shared on social media shows the gap in the left hand side of the plane and winds buffeting rows of seated passengers.\n\nFlight attendants had not been able to stop him because the plane was about to land, witnesses recounted to local media.\n\nThey said the man had also tried to jump out of the plane after opening the door.\n\nPassengers have described the panic on board.\n\n\"It was chaos with people close to the door appearing to faint one by one and flight attendants calling out for doctors on board through broadcasting,\" one 44-year-old passenger told Yonhap.\n\n\"I thought the plane was blowing up. I thought I was going to die like this,\" he added.\n\nThe Asiana Airlines plane landed at Daegu with its door open\n\nSeveral school age children had also been on board, on their way to a weekend sporting event.\n\nThe mother of one of the students told Yonhap: \"The children were shaking, crying, and frightened.\"", "Emily Morgan played a key role in the network's coverage of the pandemic\n\nEmily Morgan, the health and science editor for ITV News whose career at the channel spanned more than two decades, has died aged 45.\n\nThe mother-of-two was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and passed away on Friday night surrounded by her family, ITV said.\n\n\"We are devastated at the passing of our remarkable colleague Emily Morgan,\" ITN posted on Twitter.\n\n\"Emily was a hugely talented journalist and a much-loved friend and mentor to so many here. She will be greatly missed.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Emily's family.\"\n\nMs Morgan took \"great pride\" in her work but told colleagues she wished to be remembered \"as a mother, wife, sister, daughter and friend\", ITV said.\n\nITV news editor Andrew Dagnell said: \"Emily was an exceptional journalist, a devoted mother and wife, and a true trailblazer in our field.\n\n\"Her friendship, her professionalism and her enormous contribution to our industry and to the public conversation will not be forgotten.\"\n\nAmong others paying tribute were Health Secretary Steve Barclay, who tweeted: \"Her exemplary reporting throughout the Covid pandemic was a vital public service - helping to keep people safe.\"\n\nChris Ship, royal editor for ITV News, said his colleague and \"dear friend\" had been \"full of humanity\".\n\nBBC Breakfast editor Richard Frediani, who used to work for ITV News, called her a \"first-class journalist\".\n\n\"Emily Morgan will always remain in the hearts of all those lucky enough to have worked with her.\"", "John Caldwell made his first public appearance since the shooting at Hillsborough Castle on Wednesday\n\nSeven men have been charged with the attempted murder of senior Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) detective John Caldwell.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell was shot in front of his young son at a sports complex in Omagh, County Tyrone, on 22 February.\n\nTwo of the men are aged 28, and the five other men are aged 33, 38, 45, 47 and 72.\n\nAll seven men are expected to appear before Dungannon Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThe PSNI say the 38 and 45-year-olds are also charged with membership of a proscribed organisation, namely the IRA.\n\nOfficers have previously stated they believe the dissident republican group the New IRA may have had a role in the attack.\n\nThree of the men, aged 28, 33 and 47, have also been charged with preparation of terrorist acts.\n\nThe seven men were arrested on Friday along with four others - two men and two women.\n\nThose four were released earlier on Saturday by police, pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell, who had just finished coaching youth football when he was shot, sustained life-changing injuries.\n\nThe attack was widely condemned by political figures across Northern Ireland and beyond.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell was visited by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during his treatment.\n\nHe was discharged from hospital in April.\n\nThe detective made his first public appearance since then at Hillsborough Castle on Wednesday where had an audience with the King.", "Turkish voters are faced with a momentous choice which will affect their country's political and economic future\n\nTurks are at a historic turning point - whether to keep their leader of more than 20 years or change to a more pro-Western path and roll back some of his sweeping presidential powers.\n\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan is favourite to win Sunday's run-off vote, and promises a strong, multilateral Turkey. He says opposition claims of a dictatorship are smear campaigns and pure nonsense.\n\nHis chief rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, backed by a broad opposition, has billed the vote as a referendum on the future direction of Turkey and has sought the support of nationalist voters to increase his chance of victory.\n\nSince 2017, Mr Erdogan has run Turkey with extensive presidential power, from a vast palace in Ankara. As executive president he can declare a state of emergency and can pick or dismiss civil servants.\n\nHe accuses his opponents of being \"pro-LGBT\", while his Islamist-rooted party positions itself as on the side of the family and highlights its success in modernising Turkey.\n\nIf he wins on Sunday, not much will change, says Selim Koru, a member of Turkey's Tepav think tank. His powers are already so broad he won't seek to extend them further, he says.\n\nBut Alp Yenen, lecturer in Turkish studies at Leiden University, believes if Turkey's rampant inflation of more than 43% endures, the president's AK Party could accelerate what has been \"a slow pace of authoritarianism\".\n\nThe man seeking to replace Mr Erdogan wants to scrap the presidential system brought in five years ago and return to a parliament and prime minister in charge. Independent courts and a free press would follow.\n\nPresident Erdogan acquired sweeping executive powers in the aftermath of the botched coup against him in 2016\n\nThe president would become apolitical and the other five parties in the Kilicdaroglu alliance would each have a vice president, along with the two centre-left mayors of Ankara and Istanbul.\n\nBut Mr Erdogan's party and its nationalist and conservative allies have secured a majority in parliament and if the opposition alliance were to win the presidency they might struggle to push through their reforms.\n\nTurkey is part of the West's Nato defensive alliance, but the Erdogan presidency has sought close ties with China and Russia too, buying a Russian S-400 air defence system and inaugurating a Russian-built nuclear plant - Turkey's first - ahead of the election.\n\nHe advocates a multilateral stance, viewing Turkey as \"an island of peace and security\", and offering Ankara as a mediator in the Russian war in Ukraine.\n\nHis opponent and his allies, meanwhile, want to return to the process of joining the European Union and restore Turkey's military ties with the US, while maintaining relations with Russia.\n\nIf Mr Erdogan stays in power then Selim Koru believes he will continue to push Turkey away from the West, without leaving Nato. \"He wants to get Turkey to a point in the medium term or distant future where Nato membership is irrelevant.\"\n\nThis election is being watched very carefully by 3.5 million Syrian refugees who have temporary protection in Turkey, because Kemal Kilicdaroglu wants to send them home fast.\n\nThat's a major worry for Syrians, who came here mainly in the first six years of the war until 2017.\n\nNot least because, after the opposition leader trailed in the first round, he made refugees and irregular migrants the number one issue of his campaign. He needs the vote of almost 2.8 million Turks who supported an ultranationalist candidate in the first round.\n\nHe has accused President Erdogan of bringing 10 million migrants into Turkey, and he is talking about Syrians, but Iranians, Afghans and Pakistanis too.\n\nMore than 80% of Turks want the Syrians to go home, and yet more than 700,000 Syrians are in Turkish schools and 880,000 Syrian babies have been born in Turkey since 2011.\n\n\"I cannot understand how they would leave this life and go back to Syria,\" says Prof Murat Erdogan, who conducts Syrians' Barometer, a regular field study on Syrians in Turkey.\n\nKemal Kilicdaroglu says he will negotiate the Syrians' return with Damascus, but as Syria insists on Turkey leaving its 30km (18-mile) buffer zone over the border, that runs the risk of Syria launching attacks on the zone and sparking a new wave of refugees.\n\nTurkey's government says more than half a million Syrian refugees have returned home, but the opposition wants more to leave\n\nThe opposition leader knows full well an agreement would take up to two years, and he would ask the United Nations to oversee it. But Murat Erdogan believes it could take a decade to implement.\n\nPresident Erdogan has sought to defuse the issue, by promising to speed up the voluntary repatriation of a million Syrians through an agreement with President Bashar al-Assad. The idea of Syrians returning voluntarily seems far-fetched but Turkish state media reported that work on building 5,000 flats in Syria had already begun.\n\nTurkey's Kurds make up as much as a fifth of the 85 million population and they have a big stake in this election.\n\nThe pro-Kurdish party, which attracted almost 9% of the parliamentary vote, publicly backed Kemal Kilicdaroglu for president and sees the vote as a historic moment to get rid of a \"one-man regime\".\n\nPresident Erdogan has accused him of surrendering to the \"blackmail\" and agenda of both the pro-Kurdish party and PKK militants, who are seen by Turkey and the West as terrorists.\n\nBut Kurdish voters are alarmed the opposition challenger has aligned himself with a far-right leader on fighting \"terrorism\", because that usually refers to Kurdish militants.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu has also agreed that Kurdish mayors can be replaced by trustees appointed by Ankara in so-called \"terror\" cases.\n\nThe pro-Kurdish party's co-chair Pervin Buldan has fully backed the opposition leader, but that does not mean all Kurdish voters will follow suit.\n\n\"Getting the nationalist vote is a possibility but there's a risk in losing the Kurdish vote - it's a delicate balance - how do you get them without losing Kurds?\" asks Alp Yenen.\n\nAhead of the first round it was the state of Turkey's economy that was foremost in voters' minds, before the refugee issue came to the fore.\n\nInflation is officially 43.68%, and Turks have had a cost of living crisis far more severe than most. Many will tell you the real inflation rate feels far higher.\n\nThe early Erdogan years were a byword for strong economic growth and enormous construction projects. And Turkey always stuck closely to the terms of its loan agreements with the IMF.\n\nBut in recent years his government has abandoned orthodox economic policy. It gradually eroded the independence of the central bank, sacking three of its governors in quick succession, says Selva Demiralp, professor of economics at Koc University.\n\nInflation soared, as interest rates were kept low - while Turkey's currency the lira depreciated to improve the trade balance and boost exports.\n\nOfficial inflation rates have fallen to 44% but Turks say the real inflation rate in shops and markets feels higher\n\nMr Erdogan still promises high growth, six million new jobs and a big push for tourism, but Prof Demiralp believes his policies will keep inflation as high as 45% for months to come.\n\nIf Kemal Kilicdaroglu and his allies win the presidency and parliament, she believes a return to orthodox economic policies and an independent central bank will lower inflation to 30% by the end of 2023 and it will continue to go down after that.", "A beach resort bristling with fortifications. A major road lined with anti-tank ditches. Satellite analysis by BBC Verify has uncovered some of the extensive defences built by Russia as it prepares for a major Ukrainian counter-attack.\n\nAfter months of stalemate, the expected assault is likely to be a crucial test for Ukraine as it seeks to prove it can achieve significant battlefield gains with the weapons it has received from the West.\n\nBy examining hundreds of satellite images, the BBC has identified some key points in the significant build-up of trenches and other fortifications in southern Ukraine since October.\n\nThese four locations offer an insight into what Russia expects from the counter-offensive, and what defences Ukrainian forces might encounter.\n\nSeized by Russia in 2014, Crimea was formerly known for its beach resorts.\n\nNow, instead of sun loungers and parasols, the coastline stretching for 15 miles (25km) is littered with defence structures installed by Russian troops.\n\nThe image below shows the only open sandy beach on the west coast without natural defences such as cliffs or hills.\n\nFirstly, there are \"dragon's teeth\" along the shore: pyramid-shaped blocks of concrete, designed to block the path of tanks and other military vehicles.\n\nBehind them is a line of trenches, providing cover from incoming attacks. Several bunkers can also be spotted along the trenches.\n\nStacks of wood, digging machines and stores of dragon's teeth along the coast suggest building work was still in progress when the image was taken in March.\n\nSome military experts suggest the defences are likely to be a precaution, rather than a sign that Russia expects to defend a seaborne assault, since Ukraine has little naval capacity.\n\nIntelligence analyst Layla Guest says: \"The fortifications are likely in place to deter any bold Ukrainian operation to attack Crimea via the sea rather than on land.\"\n\nThe beach fortification is just one example of a vast network of trenches, as shown by the black dots in the map below, based on work by open-source analyst Brady Africk.\n\nBBC Verify has been able to identify other key fortification sites by pinpointing individual trench locations from videos on social media.\n\nOnce an exact location was discovered it was then possible to trace an entire trench network using satellite images.\n\nThe small city of Tokmak lies on a key route in the south-east of the country that Ukrainian forces may want to use to cut off Crimea from other Russian-held territories.\n\nThere have been reports that Ukrainian civilians have been moved out in order to turn the city into a military fortress. This would provide soldiers with access to supplies and a base to retreat to.\n\nThe satellite image above shows that a network of trenches in two lines has been dug north of Tokmak - the direction Ukraine would have to attack from.\n\nBehind these trenches is a further ring of fortifications around the city, with three layers of defences that can be seen distinctly in this close-up satellite image.\n\nThe top of the satellite image shows an anti-tank ditch. These are usually at least 2.5m deep and designed to trap any enemy tanks that attempt to cross.\n\nBehind the ditch are several rows of dragon's teeth and another trench network.\n\nBut Ukrainian forces are likely to face further traps.\n\nIt's highly likely that mines have also been hidden between Tokmak's three defence lines, says Mark Cancian from the Center for Strategic and International Studies.\n\n\"Minefields are a standard part of every defence, and the Russians have used them extensively throughout the war.\n\n\"Here they will be large and better concealed, slowing down Ukrainian attacks so that other combat elements, like artillery and infantry, can strike the attacking forces.\"\n\nBBC Verify has also discovered three other towns near Tokmak have been similarly fortified.\n\nA line of anti-tank ditches and trenches now runs alongside a 22-mile (35km) stretch of the E105 main highway, west of Tokmak.\n\nThe E105 is strategically important, connecting Russian-held Melitopol in the south with the northern city of Kharkiv, held by Ukraine. The road also runs through the Zaporizhzhia region, which could be the target of a Ukrainian counter-offensive.\n\nThe side that controls the E105 can easily move troops around the region.\n\nIf Ukrainian forces attempt to use this road, Russia will likely target it with heavy artillery from behind their defences. Russia's position is also in range of another nearby road - the T401 - which could also be targeted.\n\n\"The Russians are worried about the recently built Ukrainian armour units. If these units can get on a main highway, they can move very quickly,\" says Mr Cancian.\n\n\"The Russian defences aim to push them off the roads and therefore slow them down.\"\n\nThe port of Mariupol has a strategic position between the Russian-occupied territories in the east and Crimea in the south. It also became a symbol of resistance to invasion when a hard-core of fighters held out for months as the city was besieged.\n\nGiven Russia expects Ukraine to try to retake it, BBC Verify decided to look at the territory surrounding the city - leading to the discovery of a collection of circular trenches.\n\nLocated near the small village of Rivnopil about 34 miles (55km) north of Mariupol, each circular trench has a mound of soil in the middle, possibly either to protect artillery or to keep guns stable.\n\nMeanwhile, the circular trenches allow soldiers to take cover and to move the artillery so it can aim in any direction.\n\nIt shows that Russia is preparing to defend areas of open ground (without natural protection from hills and rivers) alongside their wider trench network.\n\nBut some analysts note that Ukrainian forces can use similar satellite images and drone surveillance to identify and bypass many of these defences.\n\nAlexander Lord from strategic advisory firm Sibylline Ltd says: \"The Russians will therefore likely attempt to funnel Ukrainian forces down certain routes which are heavily mined and pre-targeted by Russian artillery.\"\n\nSatellite images show obvious defences - but that might all be part of Russia's plan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRead more about BBC Verify: Explaining the 'how' - the launch of BBC Verify", "The body of a teenage boy has been found in the River Eden in Carlisle and another teenager is in critical condition, police have said.\n\nA 14-year-old was airlifted to hospital after four teenagers got into difficulty on Friday.\n\nEmergency services had been searching for a 15-year-old boy who was missing.\n\nNo formal identification has been confirmed, but the family have been informed, Cumbria Police said.\n\nTwo other teenagers had to be checked over by medical professionals.\n\nOne was able to swim to safety and another was rescued by a member of the public.\n\nPolice said a body had been located in the River Eden shortly after 13:30 BST.\n\nThe \"extensive search\" was supported by a number of search and rescue teams.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nWBC world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury says he wants to fight fellow Briton Anthony Joshua at Wembley in September and has sent him a contract.\n\nFury, 34, has not fought since stopping Derek Chisora in the 10th round at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in December.\n\nA fight with Oleksandr Usyk, the IBF, IBO, WBO and WBA champion, was expected to happen in 2023 but fell through.\n\n\"A few days ago I sent a draft contract to Anthony Joshua for a fight in September at Wembley,\" Fury wrote.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, Briton Fury added: \"It's a fight everyone wants to see, including myself.\n\n\"Come on AJ let's give the world what they want to see. This time I'm not going to make a million videos and keep putting pressure on. The ball is now on your side.\"\n\nA fight between Fury and two-time world champion Joshua, 33, has long been talked about, but never materialised.\n\nFury set a deadline in September, which was not met, and said at the time: \"It's officially over for Joshua. He is now out in the cold with the wolfpack.\n\n\"Forget about it. Always knew you didn't have the minerals to fight the 'Gypsy King'.\"\n\nUnbeaten Fury fought Chisora instead and afterwards faced-off with Usyk, who had been ringside, with a bout between the two lined up for Wembley on 29 April.\n\nHowever, Fury's promoter Frank Warren said in March that fight was off - and he \"did not think\" it would happen in the near future.\n\nUsyk, also unbeaten with 20 wins from 20 fights, had agreed a 70/30 purse split in Fury's favour with terms for a rematch the only outstanding issue.\n\nJoshua has twice lost to the 36-year-old Usyk, but then said Fury could \"redeem himself from the circus\" by agreeing to fight him.\n\n\"There's no better time to get Fury in the ring than now because he needs me to redeem himself from this circus, this let-down,\" said Joshua.\n\n\"He needs me so there's no better time than for him to call my name out and I'm someone that will take on any challenge.\"\n\nFury has 33 wins and one draw from 34 bouts, while Joshua - who beat American Jermaine Franklin on points in London in April - has 25 wins and three defeats in his 28-fight professional career after winning Olympic gold as an amateur in 2012.", "Two machine guns, two pistols and nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition have been lost by UK armed forces over the past two years.\n\nMeanwhile, two SA80 Cadet PP Rifles were stolen in 2021.\n\nThe figures, first reported by the Daily Mirror, also showed 258 laptops had been lost or stolen from the Ministry of Defence (MoD).\n\nThe MoD said it had \"robust procedures to deter and prevent losses and thefts\".\n\nThe figures, released after a Freedom of Information request, revealed two general-purpose machine guns (GPMGs), one Glock 43X Pistol, one Glock 17 Pistol and one deactivated AK47 Rifle, were lost by the department in 2021 and 2022.\n\nSome 76 computers and 124 USBs were also lost or stolen over the two-year period.\n\nThe MoD said the lost AK47 Rifle and stolen SA80 Cadet PP Rifles were deactivated and could not be reconverted into lethal weapons.\n\nIt said most ammunition was lost accidentally during exercises or operations.\n\nThe department added that all laptops, tablet computers and USBs were encrypted to minimise the impact of any losses.\n\nLabour's shadow defence secretary John Healey said: \"The first duty of any government is to keep people safe, so ministers have serious questions to answer on how these weapons, electronics and ammunition have gone missing from MoD bases, and who's got them now.\n\n\"At a time when external threats are rising, ministers must sort out security inside the MoD to ensure UK equipment doesn't fall into the wrong hands.\"\n\nAn MoD spokeswoman said: \"We take the security of defence assets very seriously and have robust procedures to deter and prevent losses and thefts. In some cases of reported theft, the property is later recovered.\n\n\"If any items are reported lost or missing due to suspected criminal activity, we will take the necessary steps to investigate and prosecute.\"", "Phillip Schofield left his role on This Morning last week following reports of a rift with co-star Holly Willoughby\n\nITV has said it investigated rumours of a relationship between Phillip Schofield and a younger employee in 2020 - but both “repeatedly denied” it.\n\nSchofield quit ITV on Friday after admitting he had had an affair with a younger male colleague at the network and had lied to cover it up.\n\nThe TV presenter said the relationship had been \"unwise, but not illegal\".\n\nSome former ITV daytime figures said the revelations raised questions about how much the network's managers knew.\n\nAn ITV spokesperson said: \"Further to our statement last night, ITV can confirm that when rumours of a relationship between Phillip Schofield and an employee of ITV first began to circulate in early 2020, ITV investigated.\n\n\"Both parties were questioned and both categorically and repeatedly denied the rumours, as did Phillip's then agency YMU.\n\n\"In addition, ITV spoke to a number of people who worked on This Morning and were not provided with, and did not find, any evidence of a relationship beyond hearsay and rumour.\n\n\"Phillip's statement yesterday reveals that he lied to people at ITV, from senior management to fellow presenters, to YMU, to the media and to others over this relationship.\"\n\nFormer ITV daytime presenters including Eamonn Holmes and Dan Wootton have suggested ITV bosses have questions to answer about how much oversight they had on one of their most high-profile broadcasters.\n\nSchofield and Willoughby presented ITV's This Morning and Dancing on Ice together before his departure\n\nSchofield released a statement to the Daily Mail on Friday, saying: \"I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague at This Morning.\"\n\nHe was still married to his wife Stephanie Lowe at the time of the affair. They separated in 2020, after he came out as gay.\n\nSchofield said he was \"so, very, very sorry\" for being unfaithful to his wife, and for lying to his colleagues, agents, employers, friends, the media, the public and his family about the relationship.\n\nHe continued: \"Contrary to speculation, whilst I met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television, it was only after he started to work on the show that it became more than just a friendship.\n\n\"That relationship was unwise, but not illegal. It is now over.\"\n\nHe also said he would \"reflect on my very bad judgement in both participating in the relationship and then lying about it\".\n\nIt follows significant online speculation over several months about Schofield's personal relationships.\n\nThe 61-year-old's exit from ITV means he will no longer present the British Soap Awards next month.\n\nHe will also not front a new prime-time series which the network said last week they were developing with him.\n\nAn earlier statement from ITV said: \"Phillip made assurances to us which he now acknowledges were untrue and we feel badly let down.\"\n\nDermot O'Leary, who presents This Morning on Fridays opposite Alison Hammond, declined to discuss the matter on Saturday.\n\n\"I don't think it's appropriate for me to comment, especially without any knowledge,\" he told reporters outside BBC Radio 2, where he presents a weekend show.\n\nPhillip Schofield was still married to Stephanie Lowe (pictured in 2020) at the time of the relationship\n\nThe latest revelations come just a week after Schofield left his role at This Morning, following reports of a rift with co-star Holly Willoughby.\n\nSchofield had presented This Morning since 2002, with Willoughby joining him as a co-presenter in 2009.\n\nIn his statement on Friday, Schofield said his departure from the show was unrelated to the affair with the colleague, who the BBC is not naming.\n\nHis final appearance on This Morning was on Thursday 18 May, and he announced his departure from the show that weekend.\n\nITV's statement came after presenter Eamonn Holmes (second right) said bosses had questions to answer about oversight\n\nCover presenters Hammond and O'Leary paid tribute to Schofield at the start of Monday's programme.\n\nWilloughby is currently on holiday but is set to return to the show on Monday 5 June.\n\nTalent agency YMU has also cut ties with the presenter following his announcement about the affair.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Schofield said: \"It is with the most profound regret that after 35 years of being faultlessly managed by YMU I have agreed to step down from their representation with immediate effect.\"\n\nIn May, his brother Timothy Schofield was jailed for 12 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing a boy.", "More than 64 million Turks have the right to vote in the run-off\n\nTurks have finished voting in a historic presidential run-off to decide whether or not Recep Tayyip Erdogan should stay in power after 20 years.\n\nHis challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, backed by a broad opposition alliance, called on voters to come out and \"get rid of an authoritarian regime\".\n\nThe president, who is favourite to win, promises a new era uniting the country around a \"Turkish century\".\n\nBut the more pressing issue is rampant inflation and a cost-of-living crisis.\n\nResults were due to emerge on Sunday evening, some after polls closed at 17:00 (14:00 GMT)\n\nOutside a polling station early on Sunday one woman of 80 had set her alarm for 05:00 to be sure of arriving on time.\n\nTurnout in the first round was an impressive 88.8%, and Mr Erdogan's lead was 2.5 million votes. That is why both candidates have their eye on the eight million who did not vote - but could this time.\n\nAhead of the run-off Mr Kilicdaroglu accused his rival of foul play, by blocking his text messages to voters while the president's messages went through. After voting in Ankara he urged Turks to protect the ballot boxes.\n\nOpposition parties are deploying an army of some 400,000 volunteers in a bid to ensure no vote-rigging takes place, both at polling stations and later at the election authority. But among the volunteers, they need lawyers such as Sena to accompany the ballot boxes.\n\nMy parents say we used to trust the results and we didn't need any volunteers. It's bad that we don't trust the state, but the state can only change if people force it to\n\nInternational observers spoke of an uneven playing field after the first round. But there was no suggestion that any irregularities in voting would have changed the result.\n\nAs he voted in Istanbul, President Erdogan said Turkish democracy was going through a second round in a presidential election for the first time and suggested Turks should make use of it.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu promised a very different style of presidency on his final day of campaigning: \"I have no interest in living in palaces. I will live like you, modestly... and solve your problems.\"\n\nKemal Kilicdaroglu voted with his wife Selvi in Ankara\n\nIt was a swipe at Mr Erdogan's enormous palatial complex on the edge of Ankara which he moved to when he switched from prime minister to president in 2014. After surviving a failed coup in 2016 he took on extensive powers, detained tens of thousands of people and took control of the media.\n\nSo it was laden with symbolism when he paid a campaign visit on Saturday to the mausoleum of a prime minister executed by the military after a coup in 1960.\n\n\"The era of coups and juntas is over,\" he declared, linking Turkey's current stability to his own authoritarian rule.\n\nPresident Erdogan and his wife Emine voted at a school in Istanbul\n\nTurkey, however, is deeply polarised, with the president reliant on a support base of religious conservatives and nationalists, while his opposite number's supporters are mainly secular - but many of them are nationalist too.\n\nFor days the two men traded insults. Mr Kilicdaroglu accused the president of cowardice and hiding from a fair election; Mr Erdogan said his rival was on the side of \"terrorists\", referring to Kurdish militants.\n\nBut after days of inflammatory rhetoric about sending millions of Syrian refugees home, the opposition candidate returned to Turkey's number-one issue - the economic crisis, and in particular its effect on poorer households.\n\nA 59-year-old woman and her grandson joined him on stage to explain how her monthly salary of 5,000 lira (£200; $250) was now impossible to live on as her rent had shot up to 4,000 lira (£160; $200).\n\nIt may have been staged, but this is the story across Turkey, with inflation at almost 44% and salaries and state help failing to keep pace.\n\nEconomists say the Erdogan policy of cutting interest rates rather than raising them has only made matters worse.\n\nThe Turkish lira has hit record lows, demand for foreign currency has surged and the central bank's net foreign currency reserves are in negative territory for the first time since 2002.\n\n\"The central bank has no foreign currency to sell,\" says Selva Demiralp, professor of economics at Koc University. \"There are already some sort of capital controls - we all know it's hard to buy dollars. If they continue with low interest rates, as Erdogan has signalled, the only other option is stricter controls.\"\n\nEast of Ankara, gleaming tower blocks have been springing up in Kirikkale. It looks like boom-time for this city, run by the president's party.\n\nBut many people here are struggling.\n\nFatma has run a hairdresser's for 13 years but for the past two, work has dried up, and the cost of rent and hair products has soared.\n\nShe voted for an ultranationalist candidate who came third, and does not trust the two men left in the race.\n\nA few doors up the street, Binnaz is working a sewing machine at a shop for mending clothes.\n\nPeople cannot afford new dresses so she is earning much more, even if her monthly rent has trebled to to 4,000 lira. Despite Turkey's stricken economy, she is putting her faith in the president.\n\nI believe [Erdogan] can fix it because he's been in power for 21 years and he has all the power. It's his last term [in office] so he'll do all he can for us\n\nOutside a supermarket, Emrah Turgut says he is also sticking with Mr Erdogan because he has no faith in the other option, and believes the president's unfounded allegations that the biggest opposition party co-operates with terrorists.\n\nTurkey's second-biggest opposition party, the HDP, denies any link to the militant PKK, but President Erdogan has used their backing for the rival candidate to suggest a link to terrorists.\n\nWhoever wins on Sunday, Turkey's parliament is already firmly in the grip of Mr Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party and its far-right nationalist ally, the MHP.\n\nThe AKP also has the youngest MP, who arrived in parliament on the eve of the presidential vote.\n\nZehranur Aydemir, 24, believes that, if Mr Erdogan wins, then he will lay the foundations for a century in which Turkey will become a global power: \"Now Turkey has a bigger vision it can dream bigger.\"\n\nIt is another grandiose Erdogan project, but Turkey's economy is likely to prove a more pressing task, whoever wins the run-off.", "Then-Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Arif Alvi watch Pakistan's Air Force fighter jets perform during the Pakistan Day parade in 2022\n\nFor many years, Pakistan's military establishment believed that in Imran Khan they had found a saviour for the country. But, writes author and journalist Mohammed Hanif, after only a year out of power he is threatening to become their nemesis - and the military is using all its might to save itself from Khan's wrath.\n\nAs Imran Khan and his party face a country-wide crackdown, Pakistan seems to have come to a standstill.\n\nThe nation is facing crippling inflation and the hottest summer in history, with constant power breakdowns, and yet the whole country is consumed with what Khan will do next, and what our military establishment can do to contain him.\n\nAfter he was removed from power more than a year ago, his supporters said Khan was their \"red line\" and that if he was arrested, the country would burn. After a number of failed attempts, a contingent of paramilitary forces did just that on 9 May.\n\nThe country didn't quite burn, but Khan's supporters took the fight to military cantonments.\n\nThe army's headquarters, General Headquarters (GHQ), probably the most secure place in Pakistan, was breached and people trampled on the signboards with military logos.\n\nA senior general's house in Lahore was ransacked - Khan's supporters videoed themselves while setting his furniture and cars on fire. One protester walked away wearing the general's uniform, another made away with his pet peacock.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt had all the symbols of a revolution, except that it wasn't. Imran Khan was first loved by the army, then shunned by them, now his supporters were settling their scores. It was less of a revolution and more of a lovers' spat.\n\nIt's almost a rite of passage for every prime minister to fall out with the Pakistan army.\n\nThe country's first elected Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was hanged, his daughter Benazir Bhutto was dismissed twice as a prime minister and her assassination, by a teenage suicide bomber, was never fully investigated. Nawaz Sharif was dismissed, jailed, exiled - now again in exile, he rules by proxy via his younger brother Shehbaz, but still can't return to the country.\n\nAfter Imran Khan's arrest his supporters did what no mainstream political force has done before. Instead of taking to the streets in protest, they invaded the cantonment areas and showed the citizens how Pakistani generals live: in huge mansions with swimming pools and acres of lawns where peacocks roam.\n\nA house in cantonment area in Lahore which was set on fire on 9 May\n\nJust before he was picked up, Khan singled out Pakistan Army's chief of staff General Asim Munir as the man trying to crush his political party.\n\nBefore that he had called the former army chief General Bajwa, who was instrumental in bringing and sustaining him in power, a traitor. He also named an ISI general for being responsible for a failed assassination on him. He and his supporters repeatedly called the accused general Dirty Harry in public rallies.\n\nMany Pakistani politicians in the past have named and shamed the army as an institution but Pakistanis are not used to seeing the images of a Corps Commander's house on fire, women protesters rattling the gates of GHQ, and the statues of decorated soldiers being toppled.\n\nThis was exactly what the current government, a coalition of almost all the political parties opposed to Khan, needed to hit back.\n\nThe government has been trying to get out of an impending national election, which according to many opinion polls Khan is likely to win. Now many government politicians are calling for an outright ban on his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) - its name means Movement for Justice.\n\nImran Khan addressing the media from his home in Lahore last week\n\nIn the past, reprisals against politicians who have taken on the army have been swift.\n\nAli Wazir, an elected assembly member who called out the army's sympathies for the Taliban, was in jail for two years and was not even allowed to attend the National Assembly. Thousands of political workers from Balochistan have been forcibly disappeared and no Pakistani court or mainstream political party is interested in their plight.\n\nSo how come Imran Khan, despite facing dozens of charges, is still roaming free?\n\nThe perception is that he has polarised the establishment itself. There are officers and their families within the army who are enamoured by him. There is the judiciary which has been extending his bail. After spending one day in a lock-up, Pakistan's highest judge called him to court, said \"happy to see you\", and put him in a state guest house. The next day another judge released him.\n\nPolice commandos escort former Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan as he arrives at the high court in Islamabad\n\nImran Khan has won over a massive constituency in Pakistan that abhorred politics and politicians before he came along. His message of clean governance and justice has popular appeal - although when Khan was in power corruption actually increased and he put many of his political opponents in jail.\n\nBut his removal from power has emboldened his supporters, many of whom are women and young people who have never voted before and never attended a political rally.\n\nThey are often accused of political naivety, taking an ahistorical view of the current crisis and claiming that what is happening now has never happened in the history of Pakistan. They consider themselves part of a reformist movement that wants to rid the country of all corrupt politicians.\n\nLike Khan, they once loved the army. Now they hold the army responsible for everything.\n\nDespite Khan's repeated attacks on the army leadership, many believe that he doesn't really want to curtail the army's powers, he just wants the generals to love and support him and his party like they did before.\n\nBut in the aftermath of the riots on 9 May, the army high command seems to think that enough is enough. The current army chief has called it a \"black day in the history of Pakistan\".\n\nImran Khan might have ushered in a new kind of populist politics in Pakistan, but the army is using the same playbook to bring him down that it has used against his predecessors.\n\nDozens of corruption cases, mass arrests and a clear message that by attacking the army, it is Khan who has crossed the red line. The army has also tried to win hearts and minds by releasing a song saluting army martyrs - and celebrating a \"respect for martyrs\" day in response to the attacks on military installations on 9 May (critics point out that no soldiers were martyred that day, just a posh mansion ransacked by an angry crowd).\n\nMain roads in the major cities are lined with posters praising the army and pledging eternal loyalty. The army has also brought into play religious parties that had attacked it in the past - they were out on the streets last week, declaring their love for the army.\n\nPeople attend a candlelight vigil in Quetta on \"Pakistan Martyrs Day\" on Thursday\n\nPakistan's army is also looking within its own ranks for Khan sympathisers.\n\nOne woman that law enforcement agencies were pursuing for her alleged involvement in the 9 May riots is the fashion designer turned political activist Khadija Shah - who is also the granddaughter of a former army chief and a third-generation cantonment child.\n\nShe denies committing any crime, but it is clear Khan has mesmerised some of the \"army brats\" to such an extent that they are willing to set their own house on fire. By arresting Shah and putting her behind bars, the army has sent a clear signal to army families to stay away from Khan's politics.\n\nThe army has also tried to dismantle Khan's PTI party through mass arrests and by deciding to hold military trials of workers and leaders who were involved in cantonment attacks.\n\nMany of Khan's senior party leaders are under immense pressure to leave his PTI party. Some have left, claiming that they can't condone Khan's confrontational approach towards the Pakistan army.\n\nHistorically, Pakistan's army has always managed to have its way when confronted with civilians. Imran Khan has asked his workers to choose death over a life of slavery. In this deadlock, it's the ordinary Pakistanis who have suffered - and continue to suffer.\n\nBritish-Pakistani author and journalist Mohammed Hanif is the former head of the BBC's Urdu service, and the author of several plays and novels, including the award-winning A Case of Exploding Mangoes and Our Lady of Alice Bhatti.", "The government would not say how much the publicity drive is expected to cost.\n\nThe Home Office is launching an ad campaign targeting Albanian nationals to deter them from migrating to the UK.\n\nThe adverts, which will run in Albanian on Facebook and Instagram, will warn that people will \"face being detained and removed\" if they make the journey.\n\nThe government said the campaign, starting next week, would \"make clear the perils\" migrants on small boats face.\n\nLabour said the move \"beggars belief\", and the asylum system was \"in chaos\".\n\nAccording to the Home Office, Albania is a \"safe and prosperous country\" and many nationals \"are travelling through multiple countries to make the journey to the UK\" before making \"spurious asylum claims when they arrive\".\n\nThe campaign follows a similar social media drive launched by the government in August last year.\n\nThis is one of the adverts the Home Office has ran targeting people considering entering the UK without permission\n\nImmigration minister Robert Jenrick said the campaign would \"work proactively at the source before people set off on dangerous and unnecessary journeys\".\n\nAlbania was the most common nationality applying for asylum in the UK in the year to March 2023, with 13,714 applications by Albanian citizens.\n\nBetween January and March, 1% of small-boat arrivals were from Albania.\n\nMr Jenrick said: \"We are determined to stop the boats and the campaign, launching in Albania this week, is just one component of the Home Office's work upstream to help dispel myths about illegal travel to the UK, explain the realities and combat the lies peddled by evil people-smugglers who profit from this vile trade.\"\n\nThe government would not say how much the publicity drive is expected to cost.\n\nLast year Albanians demonstrated in central London following comments from the government, calling it 'the language of hatred'\n\nTim Naor Hilton, chief executive of Refugee Action, called the campaign \"pointless\" and said it \"repeats the myth that refugee migration is illegal\".\n\nHe said: \"This is yet another pointless campaign that shows ministers refuse to understand that a small minority of the world's refugees have very powerful reasons to come here.\n\n\"If the Government wanted to smash the smuggling gangs and stop people crossing the Channel in flimsy boats it would create more safe routes for refugees to travel here to claim asylum.\"\n\nChief executive of refugee charity Care4Calais Steve Smith said \"no amount of taxpayer-funded PR spin\" will deter refugees \"from seeking a safe future\".\n\n\"Refugees have experienced some of the worst things imaginable from war and conflict to torture and human rights abuses.\n\n\"The only solution that will put people smugglers out of business, stop small boat crossings and save lives is to offer safe passage to refugees with a viable asylum claim in the UK.\"\n\nShadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: \"It beggars belief that as Channel crossings continue to rise and the asylum system is in chaos, all the Conservatives can come up with to stop the criminal gangs is an ad campaign.\n\n\"At every turn, the Tories so-called solutions fail to meet the scale of the crisis. All they are doing is tinkering at the edges.\"\n\nThe campaign follows the government's Illegal Migration Bill, which aims to send asylum seekers who arrive in Britain via unauthorised routes back home or to a third country such as Rwanda.\n\nMinisters also hope the legislation will cut the daily £5.5m cost of housing migrants who make it to the UK.\n\nThe Bill, currently in the House of Lords, has faced backlash from public figures and campaigners including the Archbishop of Canterbury, who argue that it is both unworkable and \"morally unacceptable\".", "Texas' Republican-run House of Representatives has voted to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, who is accused of bribery and abuse of public trust.\n\nMr Paxton, an ally of former President Donald Trump, is now suspended from office pending a trial in the Senate.\n\nA two-thirds vote in the upper chamber - where Republicans also dominate - is required to permanently expel him.\n\nMr Paxton, aged 60, denies all the accusations against him.\n\nResponding to a 121-23 vote in the House on Saturday, Mr Paxton said in a statement: \"The ugly spectacle in the Texas House today confirmed the outrageous impeachment plot against me was never meant to be fair or just.\n\n\"It was a politically motivated sham from the beginning.\"\n\nThe impeachment vote was on 20 articles, which also include accusations of improperly aiding a wealthy political donor and conducting a sham investigation against whistleblowers.\n\nThe result demonstrates a very public split between Texas Republicans.\n\n\"Attorney General Paxton continuously and blatantly violated laws, rules, policies and procedures,\" House Republican David Spiller said.\n\n\"Today is a very grim and difficult day for this House and for the state of Texas,\" he added.\n\nBut John Smithee, another Texas House Republican, opposed the impeachment, arguing that the attorney general had not been given the chance to properly respond to the allegations against him.\n\n\"It's what I call the hang him now and judge him later policy,\" Mr Smithee said.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Trump - who hopes to win a Republican nomination for the 2024 election - backed Mr Paxton.\n\nShortly before the vote, he wrote \"free Ken Paxton\" in a post on social media.\n\nMr Paxton (left) and Mr Trump greet one another at a rally for Trump in Texas last year\n\nThe House vote makes Mr Paxton the first state official in Texas to be impeached in almost 50 years.\n\nTexas' Republican Governor Greg Abbott has the powers to appoint an interim state attorney general even before the Senate trial is concluded.\n\nMr Paxton is well-known in America for his high-profile litigation campaigns.\n\nIn 2020, he unsuccessfully pressed the US Supreme Court to overturn Mr Trump's defeat to Democratic challenger Joe Biden in the presidential election.\n\nFive years earlier, Mr Paxton called the Supreme Court's decision legalising gay marriage in all 50 states a \"lawless ruling\", vowing to support state workers who refuse to marry couples on religious grounds.\n\nBut he is perhaps best known for spearheading the ongoing fight in the courts to challenge the Biden administration's changes to the immigration system.\n\nMr Paxton has said the measures he is fighting would encourage illegal crossings and burden Texas and other states with additional expenses for law enforcement, health care and education, the New York Times reports.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The crowd released the blue balloons in memory of the two teen boys\n\nA vigil has taken place in memory of two teenagers who were killed in an e-bike crash in Cardiff.\n\nThe deaths of Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, sparked a riot in the city's Ely suburb but the circumstances behind the accident remain unclear.\n\nAt least 800 people gathered in Snowden Road - the scene of the crash - by early evening on Friday.\n\nBlue balloons were brought as requested by the family.\n\nThe family asked for police not to be present.\n\nKyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died in a bike crash on Monday\n\nBlue and orange flares were set off and hundreds of balloons were released into the sky.\n\nA minute's silence was followed by applause and fireworks were also let off.\n\nBlue flares were set off into the sky at the vigil\n\nA mostly young crowd of people, many wearing blue and white clothing, began to arrive at 17:45 BST on Friday.\n\nBy 19:00 the large crowd started to leave the area.\n\nFollowing the vigil, Harvey Evans's great-uncle, John O'Driscoll, said he accepted Monday's riot was wrong but said it was borne of frustration.\n\nMr O'Driscoll said: \"They were just young boys. Everyone rides bikes and scooters around here.\n\n\"Yes, we find them annoying, but that's just what they do.\n\n\"But as soon as those coppers saw they had no helmets they should've stopped.\"\n\nAt least 800 people gathered to pay tribute to the boys\n\nA male member of Harvey's family, who did not want to be named, said: \"We're all tarred with the same brush here, especially given what happened on Monday.\n\n\"But this is the true Ely. Look how many people have turned out to pay their respects.\n\n\"The only difference between Monday and today is that the police aren't here.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, First Minister Mark Drakeford held a meeting with community representatives in Ely at lunchtime on Friday.\n\nThe Welsh government said the meeting would discuss support for the community.\n\nMr Drakeford, alongside Social Justice Minister Jane Hutt, chaired the meeting between politicians, agencies, and community groups.\n\nA banner, balloons and flowers were attached to a fence in their memory\n\nFifteen officers were injured during the unrest which has led to nine arrests.\n\nIt saw up to 150 people gather. Rioters threw fireworks at police and set cars alight.\n\nThe aftermath was described as a \"warzone\" by a BBC reporter at the scene.\n\nTheir deaths sparked a riot in the Ely suburb of Cardiff\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had already carried out \"extensive\" house-to-house inquiries in Ely.\n\nThe IOPC also said its investigation would be impartial and independent of the South Wales Police force.\n\nReports on social media suggested the police were chasing the pair, who were riding together on an electric bike shortly before the collision.\n\nCCTV footage later released showed a police van following the boys minutes before they died on Snowden Road at 18:00 BST.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Bacon said she wanted to be \"transparent and open\"\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police confirmed its officers had been following the teenagers prior to their deaths, but refused to answer further questions about it, citing an ongoing IOPC investigation.\n\nCCTV is being gathered and the investigating officers are reviewing initial accounts from the police officers involved.", "The Post Office has apologised for using racist terms to describe postmasters wrongly investigated as part of the Horizon IT scandal.\n\nAn internal document shows fraud investigators were asked to group suspects based on racial features.\n\nMore than 700 sub-postmasters were prosecuted for false accounting based on information from a flawed system.\n\nThe scandal has been described as \"the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history\".\n\nThe guidance, which was reportedly published between 2008 and 2011, required investigators to give sub-postmasters under suspicion a number, according to their racial background.\n\nThe numbered categories on the document include 'Chinese/Japanese types', 'Dark Skinned European Types' and 'Negroid Types' - an archaic and offensive term from the colonial era of the 1800s that refers to people of African descent.\n\nA Post Office spokesperson described it as a \"historic document\" but said the organisation did not tolerate racism \"in any shape or form\" and condemned the \"abhorrent\" language.\n\n\"We fully support investigations into Post Office's past wrongdoings and believe the Horizon IT Inquiry will help ensure today's Post Office has the confidence of its Postmasters and the communities it supports,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe document was discovered as part of a freedom of information request from a campaigner supporting the more than 700 branch managers who were prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 on theft, fraud and false accounting charges.\n\nAdeep Sethi's parents used to run two Post Office branches, near Romford in Essex, but they fell victim to the Horizon computer system that was installed by the Post Office from 2001 and frequently made errors that made it look like money was going missing.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said his family were \"not surprised\" by the revelation about the use of racist language in the investigation - as it has been becoming a \"drip feed of scandal after scandal\".\n\n\"This was from a Freedom of Information request and not the Post Office coming out and saying 'we've messed up' - it was only because someone dug into it,\" he said.\n\nThe charges were based on information from the recently installed computer system, Horizon, which was later found to have flaws.\n\nHorizon was introduced into the Post Office network from 1999. The system, developed by the Japanese company Fujitsu, was used for tasks such as transactions, accounting and stocktaking.\n\nSub-postmasters complained about bugs in the system after it reported shortfalls, some of which amounted to many thousands of pounds.\n\nSome went to prison following convictions for false accounting and theft, while others were financially ruined.\n\nDozens of convictions have since been overturned and many sub-postmasters are in line for compensation.\n• None Why were hundreds of sub-postmasters prosecuted?", "Video filmed on a phone shows the moment a driver in Spain lost control of their car before getting caught in floodwaters.\n\nIt happened after the driver tried to cross an inundated road in Molina de Segura on the south coast.\n\nThe country has been hit by heavy rains after a prolonged drought.\n\nSpain's state weather agency AEMET had been on track to register the driest spring since records began in 1961.\n\nOther videos of the incident on social media appear to show that the driver was unharmed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister said the UK government was trying to 'undermine devolution'\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has accused the UK government of sabotaging a pilot recycling scheme by excluding glass.\n\nGlass bottles were a key part of Scottish proposals for the deposit return scheme (DRS), due to start in March - ahead of other UK schemes.\n\nThe UK government agreed for the scheme to go ahead in Scotland, but said it wanted to ensure it \"aligned\" with plans in other nations.\n\nThe move casts doubt over whether the Scottish scheme can go ahead.\n\nMr Yousaf told the BBC: \"They're not just trying to scupper the DRS - they're trying to undermine devolution. We've seen it multiple times.\n\n\"Not only is it bad in terms of devolution and self government, it's really poor for the environment. If we don't include glass that's 600 million bottles that won't be moved from our streets, our beaches and our parks.\"\n\nThe drinks industry previously shared concerns about the scheme's readiness\n\nBBC Scotland's political editor Glenn Campbell said one source closely involved in the DRS had put the chances of it going ahead at 50/50.\n\nThe Scottish government is expected to take a couple of weeks to crunch the numbers before making a decision.\n\nThe scheme is aimed at increasing the number of single-use drinks bottles and cans that are recycled.\n\nIt means 20p will be added to the price of a single-use drinks container, which will be refunded to people who return it to a retailer or hospitality premises that offer single-use products.\n\nThe scheme was due to begin in August but was delayed following concerns from the drinks industry.\n\nSome firms feared it would place extra costs and other burdens on them at a time when they are already struggling.\n\nSimilar UK initiatives are expected in 2025 - with proposals in Wales including glass bottles.\n\nBecause Scottish ministers wanted to introduce their scheme sooner, they had to seek an exemption from the Internal Market Act.\n\nThe legislation was brought in after Brexit in a bid to ensure smooth trade across the different nations of the UK.\n\nThere had been concerns that the timing of a Scottish scheme could create a trade barrier.\n\nOn Saturday morning the UK government confirmed it had accepted the Scottish government's request \"on a temporary and limited basis\".\n\nThe exemption from internal market rules lasts from the launch of the Scottish scheme until other planned schemes are in place in the rest of the UK.\n\nScotland's DRS will cover PET plastic, aluminium, and steel cans only.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"Deposit return schemes need to be consistent across the UK and this is the best way to provide a simple and effective system.\n\n\"A system with the same rules for the whole UK will increase recycling collection rates and reduce litter - as well as minimise disruption to the drinks industry and ensure simplicity for consumers.\"\n\nMr Yousaf previously claimed it would be a \"democratic outrage\" for the UK government to agree to the DRS excluding glass.\n\nHowever Scottish Conservative MSP Maurice Golden said the situation was a mess of the Scottish government's own making.\n\nHe said: \"Rather than trying to pick a fight, the SNP and Greens must now accept this help to create a deposit return scheme that actually works for the people of Scotland.\"\n\nLorna Slater had urged Westminster to \"do the right thing\" and allow the scheme to go ahead\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater, who had been driving the introduction of the DRS, said the Scottish Parliament had been \"treated with contempt\".\n\nThe decision to exclude glass meant she would have to look \"very seriously\" at the viability of the Scottish scheme, she said.\n\nMr Yousaf added that millions of pounds had been spent on a scheme that proposed to include glass.\n\nHe said he did not want to go ahead with a scheme that excluded glass, but would look at the various options.\n\nFor it to work effectively, the Scottish deposit return scheme needs an exemption from the rules of the UK internal market act.\n\nThe Scottish government has asked for that and - on the face of it - their request has now been granted by the UK government. So what's the problem?\n\nThere are strings attached. A tangle of conditions including the exclusion of glass that make the Scottish government wonder whether their proposals are still viable.\n\nUK ministers will argue they are acting on a practical basis, to ensure any Scottish scheme aligns with future developments in other parts of the UK.\n\nThere are certainly businesses that welcome their intervention and others that may have an axe to grind against government at some level, having shelled out to prepare for a scheme that would include glass.\n\nTo Scottish ministers this is a power play by the UK government - an outrageous interference in devolved decision making akin to the block on gender reform legislation and resistance to indyref2.\n\nThe British Soft Drinks Association (BSDA) has said the \"only viable option now\" was for a UK-wide initiative to be launched across all four nations in 2025.\n\nDougal Sharp, founder of brewer Innis and Gunn, said uncertainty over the scheme made things \"brutal and impossible to plan\".\n\nBrewer Dougal Sharp said businesses had faced enough uncertainty in recent years\n\nHe said: \"Businesses are already spending a lot of money on this scheme in Scotland. It just feels like another twist and a very shambolic scheme implementation.\n\n\"We've already seen it delayed from August. All of these delays inevitably lead to weakened consumer confidence and particularly business confidence.\n\n\"Businesses cannot plan in this environment. Businesses are struggling to survive and this is absolutely the last thing we need at the moment.\"", "Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield presented This Morning and Dancing On Ice together\n\nHolly Willoughby has said it was \"very hurtful\" to discover her former co-host Phillip Schofield lied to her about his affair with a younger colleague.\n\nOn Friday, Schofield confirmed he had had a relationship with a younger male ITV employee while still married.\n\nIn a statement, Willoughby said: \"When reports of this relationship first surfaced, I asked Phil directly if this was true and was told it was not.\n\n\"It's been very hurtful to now find out that this was a lie.\"\n\nWriting on Instagram, Willoughby added it had \"taken time to process yesterday's news\".\n\nThe pair presented ITV daytime show This Morning together for 14 years until Schofield's exit last week.\n\nSchofield described his affair with a young male ITV employee as \"unwise but not illegal\"\n\nSchofield then quit ITV on Friday after admitting to the affair with the man, which he described as \"unwise, but not illegal\".\n\nSome former ITV daytime figures, such as Eamonn Holmes and Dan Wootton, said the revelations raised questions about how much the network's managers knew about the relationship.\n\nITV responded on Saturday by saying it had investigated rumours of a relationship between Schofield and a younger employee in 2020 - but that both had \"repeatedly denied\" it.\n\nAn ITV spokesman said: \"Further to our statement last night, ITV can confirm that when rumours of a relationship between Phillip Schofield and an employee of ITV first began to circulate in early 2020, ITV investigated.\n\n\"Both parties were questioned and both categorically and repeatedly denied the rumours, as did Phillip's then agency YMU.\n\n\"In addition, ITV spoke to a number of people who worked on This Morning and were not provided with, and did not find, any evidence of a relationship beyond hearsay and rumour.\n\n\"Phillip's statement yesterday reveals that he lied to people at ITV, from senior management to fellow presenters, to [Schofield's agents] YMU, to the media and to others over this relationship.\"\n\nWilloughby says she confronted Schofield after rumours of his affair first surfaced\n\nSchofield confessed to the affair in a statement to the Daily Mail on Friday, saying: \"I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague at This Morning.\"\n\nHe was still married to his wife Stephanie Lowe at the time. They separated in 2020 after he came out as gay.\n\nSchofield said he was \"so, very, very sorry\" for being unfaithful to his wife, and for lying to his colleagues, agents, employers, friends, the media, the public and his family about the relationship.\n\nHe continued: \"Contrary to speculation, whilst I met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television, it was only after he started to work on the show that it became more than just a friendship.\"\n\nHe also said he would \"reflect on my very bad judgement in both participating in the relationship and then lying about it\".\n\nIt followed rumours circulating on social media over several months about Schofield's personal relationships.\n\nSchofield was married to Stephanie Lowe at the time of the affair\n\nThe 61-year-old's exit from ITV means he will no longer present the British Soap Awards next month.\n\nHe will also not front a new prime-time series which the network originally said last week they were developing with him.\n\nDermot O'Leary, who has been covering for Schofield on This Morning since his exit, declined to discuss the matter on Saturday.\n\n\"I don't think it's appropriate for me to comment, especially without any knowledge,\" he told reporters outside BBC Radio 2, where he presents a weekend show.\n\nSchofield left his role at This Morning last week following reports of a rift with co-star Willoughby.\n\nHe had presented the ITV show since 2002, with Willoughby joining him as a co-presenter in 2009.\n\nIn his statement on Friday, Schofield said his departure from This Morning was unrelated to the affair with the colleague, who the BBC is not naming.\n\nHis final appearance on the programme was on Thursday 18 May, before he announced his departure from the show that weekend.\n\nWilloughby said it had \"taken time to process\" the news that Schofield lied about his affair\n\nCover presenters Hammond and O'Leary paid tribute to Schofield at the start of Monday's programme.\n\nWilloughby is currently taking time off from the show but is set to return to presenting duties on Monday 5 June.\n\nTalent agency YMU has also cut ties with Schofield following his announcement about the affair.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Schofield said: \"It is with the most profound regret that after 35 years of being faultlessly managed by YMU I have agreed to step down from their representation with immediate effect.\"\n\nIn May, his brother Timothy Schofield was jailed for 12 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing a boy.", "Different areas of the church were targeted\n\nA historic 17th Century church in South Ayrshire has been defaced with \"mindless\" vandalism.\n\nThe Auld Kirk of Ayr was targeted on Thursday night with explicit graffiti spray-painted on the windows, door and gravestones.\n\nThe Church of Scotland site dates back to 1654 and Scotland's national bard Robert Burns worshipped there for 17 years.\n\nPolice said the damage amounted to thousands of pounds.\n\nReverend David Gemmell said South Ayrshire Council had cleaned the worst of the graffiti off before the church service takes place on Sunday.\n\n\"It's just mindless vandalism,\" he said. \"I've been here for 25 years and this is the first and hopefully last time something like this has happened.\n\n\"It's very disappointing. The church is there to serve the community and it has been for 367 years.\n\n\"What have we ever done to anybody to deserve this?\"\n\nHe said the graffiti on the church door was painted over and the security perspex screen on the windows would need to be replaced.\n\nPolice officers are carrying out inquiries to find those responsible for the damage.\n\nCh Insp Kevin Lammie said: \"This vandalism was obviously a deliberate act.\n\n\"The damage to this sacred building and these historic statues runs into thousands of pounds, not to mention the upset this will cause to the Ayr community.\"\n\nHe urged anyone who may have been in the area around 17:00 on Thursday to get in touch.\n\nIn particular police hope to speak to those who may have dash-cam footage or private CCTV.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harvey's aunt and grandmother described him as cheeky but loveable\n\nThe electric bike ridden by two teenagers before they were killed in a crash was an early 16th birthday present, family members have revealed.\n\nThe aunt of Harvey Evans, 15, said the teen loved e-bikes and scooters and the present had been bought for his birthday next month.\n\nHarvey and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, died on Monday evening in Ely, Cardiff.\n\nThe deaths sparked a riot, with cars set alight and police officers attacked.\n\nAbout 800 family, friends and members of the wider community of Ely attended a vigil and balloon release for the two boys on Friday evening.\n\nKyrees Sullivan, 16, (l) and Harvey Evans, 15, died in a bike crash on Monday\n\nSpeaking for this first time since the crash, Harvey's aunt Hayley Murphy told the BBC after the vigil: \"It still doesn't seem real that we're here for Harvey and Kyrees.\n\n\"We're seeing all these news articles, and then his picture pops up, and you're like, oh yeah, that's my nephew, this has happened to us.\n\n\"This is our family, not someone else's family you see on the telly - it just doesn't seem real, and it just hasn't sunk in yet.\"\n\nHarvey's grandmother, Dawn Rees, said Harvey and Kyrees \"did everything together, they loved each other like brothers\".\n\n\"[Kyrees] was lovely. If I needed milk he went to the shop for me, always asking if I needed anything. A lovely boy.\"\n\nThe friends were killed in a crash while riding the electric bike shortly after 18:00 BST on Monday. Police have said only the bike was involved in the fatal incident.\n\nMs Murphy said that Harvey loved motorbikes and was an experienced rider.\n\n\"His dad used to take him off road biking up the mountains every week since he was three years old.\"\n\nShe also described how angry scenes began to develop in the aftermath of the crash, after a video clip emerged showing police following the boys on the bike.\n\nShe said she was stood with her sister, Harvey's mother, at the police barrier for over two hours while begging officers to let them know if the two boys were alive.\n\n\"We were stood at the barrier and we were begging them, begging them, to tell us if they were alive or dead, and they wouldn't tell us nothing - and then someone ran into the crowd and said 'I've got a video of the police chasing them', and that is what started it.\n\n\"That's what got everyone angry, so I understand because we wasn't getting no answers.\"\n\nMany tributes to the two boys have been left in Ely\n\nSome residents claimed the boys were being chased by officers from South Wales Police, which the force denied.\n\nIt later confirmed it had been following them.\n\nPolice said officers were in a van about half a mile away from the crash on Snowden Road in Ely.\n\nThe force has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over their involvement in the incident.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: CCTV appears to show police following people minutes before crash\n\nNews of the boys' deaths sparked a riot in Ely, an estate on the western side of Cardiff roughly five miles (8km) from the city centre, where more than 100 people threw missiles and fireworks at police and damaged property.\n\nNine people in total have been arrested in connection with the disorder after the police investigation looked at more than 180 pieces of body worn footage. Detectives have said more arrests are expected.\n\nMs Murphy added that she did not have faith or trust in the police.\n\n\"I've got faith and trust in my family and this community that we will continue to fight and get the truth out there and we get justice for these boys.\"", "President Erdogan's powers have increased dramatically since he first led Turkey in 2003\n\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in power for more than 20 years and he is favourite to win five more, having narrowly missed out on a first-round victory.\n\nTurkey is a Nato member state of 85 million people, so it matters who is president both to the West and to Turkey's other partners including Russia.\n\nMr Erdogan's opponent in a second-round run-off on 28 May is Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who was backed by six opposition parties and won almost 45% of the vote - some 2.5 million votes less than his rival.\n\nTurkey has become increasingly authoritarian under President Erdogan and this was the opposition's biggest chance yet to defeat him, with Turks struggling with soaring inflation and reeling from twin earthquakes that have left more than 50,000 people dead.\n\nWhoever wins the vote on 28 May will win the presidency.\n\nHis AK Party has been in power since November 2002, and he has ruled Turkey since 2003.\n\nAlthough Turkey's 64 million voters are deeply polarised, the 69-year-old leader has an in-built advantage over his rival.\n\nMr Erdogan's allies control most mainstream media, to the extent that state TV gave the president 32 hours and 42 minutes of air time and his challenger just 32 minutes, at the height of the campaign in April.\n\nMonitors from the international observer group OSCE said there was an unlevel playing field and biased coverage in Turkey's vote, even if voters had genuine political alternatives.\n\nInitially Mr Erdogan was prime minister, but he then became president in 2014, running the country from a vast palace in Ankara. He responded to a failed 2016 coup by dramatically increasing his powers and cracking down on dissent.\n\nLeading Kurdish politicians have been jailed and other opposition figures threatened with a political ban.\n\nBut this election was the opposition's biggest hope of unseating the president yet.\n\nIncreasing numbers of Turks have blamed him for rampant inflation of 44%, and academics say the real rate is far higher than that.\n\nHe and his ruling AK Party were widely criticised for their response to the double earthquakes in February that left millions of Turks homeless in 11 provinces.\n\nAnd yet most of the cities which are considered Erdogan strongholds still gave him 60% of the vote.\n\nHis party is rooted in political Islam, but he has forged an alliance with the ultra-nationalist MHP.\n\nKemal Kilicdaroglu, 74, is an unlikely choice of candidate to unseat the president.\n\nHe is seen as a mild-mannered and bookish opponent and presided over a string of election defeats at the helm of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).\n\nHe polled well in the first round, taking Mr Erdogan to his first run-off, but not as well as the opinion polls had indicated he would.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu secured the backing of six opposition parties, including the nationalist Good party and four smaller groups, which include two former Erdogan allies one of whom co-founded the AK Party.\n\nKemal Kilicdaroglu has agreed that the leaders of his alliance will all share the role of vice president\n\nHe also has the support of Turkey's second-biggest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish HDP, whose co-leader described the elections as \"the most crucial in Turkey's history\".\n\nHis biggest hope of snatching victory from a president buoyant after his first-round lead lies in increasing the support of both nationalist and Kurdish voters. A difficult feat when Turkey's nationalists want the next president to take a tougher line on Kurdish militants.\n\nIn the lead-up to the second round, he made a clear pitch to nationalist voters, banging his fists on the table and vowing to send home 3.5 million Syrian refugees. This was already his policy, but now he has decided to make a big point of it.\n\nKemal Kilicdaroglu's selection was not universally popular as the mayors of Istanbul and Ankara were potentially stronger candidates. Both are party colleagues who took control of Turkey's two biggest cities in 2019 for the CHP for the first time since 1994.\n\nHe is also a member of Turkey's Alevi minority, and when the opposition candidate drew attention to his roots Mr Erdogan accused him of seeking to exploit it.\n\nHis Nation Alliance, also known as the Table of Six, are united in their desire to return Turkey from the presidential system created under Mr Erdogan to one led by parliament.\n\nThe leaders of the other five members of the alliance have agreed to take on the roles of vice-president. But even if they were to win the presidency, the Erdogan alliance won a majority in parliament on 14 May and would make reforms very difficult.\n\nTurnout in the first round was already very high at almost 89% among voters in Turkey.\n\nIf Mr Kilicdaroglu is to make up the 2.5 million votes between him and President Erdogan, he will need to win over voters who backed ultranationalist candidate Sinan Ogan who came third in the first round with 2.8 million votes.\n\nThat task was made even harder when Mr Ogan endorsed the president.\n\nHis demand is for a tougher stance on tackling Kurdish militants and returning Syrian refugees.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu had already adopted a more strident tone on Syrians since the first round, promising to \"send away\" all refugees as soon as he came to power.\n\nReacting to Mr Ogan's decision to back his rival, he said the vote was now a referendum: \"We are coming to save this country from terrorism and refugees.\"\n\nPresident Erdogan said he had made no deals with Mr Ogan: 450,000 refugees had already returned home and the plan was to send back another million, he said.\n\nThe ruling AK Party of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has forged an alliance with the nationalist MHP and together they have secured a majority of 322 seats in the 600-seat parliament, down on five years ago.\n\nParties tend to form alliances because they need a minimum of 7% support to enter parliament.\n\nThe six-party opposition wants to change that but its Nation Alliance only managed 212 seats.\n\nThe pro-Kurdish party ran under the banner of the Green Left to avoid a potential election ban, and came third with 61 seats.\n\nUnder the Erdogan reforms, it is now the president who chooses the government, so there is no prime minister.\n\nUnder Turkey's revamped constitution allowing only two terms as president, Mr Erdogan would have to stand down in 2028 if he won the 28 May run-off. There are currently no plans for a successor.\n\nHe has already served two terms but Turkey's YSK election board ruled that his first term should be seen as starting not in 2014 but in 2018, when the new presidential system began with elections for parliament and president on the same day.\n\nOpposition politicians had earlier asked the YSK to block his candidacy.\n\nUnder an Erdogan presidency, Turkey can expect increased control of state institutions and the media and a greater crackdown on dissent. Inflation is likely to remain high because of his preference for low interest rates.\n\nInternationally, he could continue to resist Sweden's bid to join Nato and will paint himself as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu and his allies want to remove the president's right to veto legislation, cutting the post's ties to political parties and making it electable every seven years.\n\nHe wants to bring inflation down to 10% and send 3.5 million Syrian refugees home. President Erdogan has promised to speed up the voluntary repatriation of a million Syrians.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu also wants kickstart Turkey's decades-long bid to join the European Union and restore \"mutual trust\" with the US, after years of fractious relations during the Erdogan years.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It would be strange for me to name dates but we are ready for counter-offensive, says Mr Danilov\n\nUkraine is ready to launch its long-expected counter-offensive against Russian forces, one of the country's most senior security officials has told the BBC.\n\nOleksiy Danilov would not name a date but said an assault to retake territory from President Vladimir Putin's occupying forces could begin \"tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a week\".\n\nHe warned that Ukraine's government had \"no right to make a mistake\" on the decision because this was an \"historic opportunity\" that \"we cannot lose\".\n\nAs secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, Mr Danilov is at the heart of President Volodymyr Zelensky's de facto war cabinet.\n\nHis rare interview with the BBC was interrupted by a phone message from President Zelensky summoning him to a meeting to discuss the counter-offensive.\n\nDuring the interview, he also confirmed that some Wagner mercenary forces were withdrawing from the city of Bakhmut, the site of the bloodiest battle of the war so far - but he added they were \"regrouping to another three locations\" and \"it doesn't mean that they will stop fighting with us\".\n\nMr Danilov also said he was \"absolutely calm\" about Russia beginning to deploy nuclear weapons to Belarus, saying: \"To us, it's not some kind of news.\"\n\nUkraine has been planning a counter-offensive for months. But it has wanted as much time as possible to train troops and to receive military equipment from Western allies.\n\nIn the meantime, Russian forces have been preparing their defences.\n\nMuch is at stake because the government in Kyiv needs to show the people of Ukraine - and Western allies - that it can break through Russian lines, end the effective military deadlock and recapture some of its sovereign territory.\n\nMr Danilov said the armed forces would begin the assault when commanders calculated \"we can have the best result at that point of the war\".\n\nAsked if Ukrainian armed forces were ready for the offensive, he replied: \"We are always ready. The same as we were ready to defend our country at any time. And it is not a question of time.\n\n\"We have to understand that that historic opportunity that is given to us - by God - to our country we cannot lose, so we can truly become an independent, big European country.\"\n\nHe added: \"It could happen tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a week.\n\n\"It would be weird if I were to name dates of the start of that or those events. That cannot be done…. We have a very responsible task before our country. And we understand that we have no right to make a mistake.\"\n\nUkrainian troops have spent months training on Western equipment ahead of the expected attack\n\nMr Danilov dismissed suggestions the counter-offensive had already begun, saying that \"demolishing Russian control centres and Russian military equipment\" had been the task of Ukrainian armed forces since 24 February last year - the date Russia launched the invasion.\n\n\"We have no days off during this war,\" he said.\n\nHe defended the decision by Ukraine's army to fight in Bakhmut for so many months, a battle that has cost the lives of many of its soldiers.\n\n\"Bakhmut is our land, our territory, and we must defend it,\" he said. \"If we start leaving every settlement, that could get us to our western border as Putin wanted from the first days of the war.\"\n\nHe said that \"we control only a small part of the city, and we admit to that. But you have to keep in mind that Bakhmut has played a big role in this war.\"\n\nAsked if Wagner mercenaries were leaving, he replied: \"Yes, that is happening. But it doesn't mean that they will stop fighting with us. They are going to concentrate more on other fronts… they are regrouping to other three locations.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 19 and 26 May.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\n\"Enjoying a late evening spring walk with my Border Terrier, Chibs in Bellwood,\" says Christie Beverley.\n\nLoreena Price from Mintlaw in Aberdeenshire said: \"This Highland cow calf looked so cute like a cuddly teddy\".\n\nGordon McKenzie from St Fergus in Aberdeenshire captured this striking image of Rattray Head Lighthouse while on an early morning walk.\n\n\"Every May, Clachan Bridge comes alive with the very rare Fairy Foxglove,\" said Colin Mackie who sent in this photo. \"It's one of the few places in the country where it's known to grow. Clachan Bridge links Seil Island to the mainland, spanning Seil Sound, hence its well-used name 'the bridge over the Atlantic'. This year is probably the best show of colour I've ever seen on my favourite bridge.\"\n\nThe sunset looking towards Jura, captured by Aileen Gillies in Ormsary in Argyll.\n\nBluebells in bloom: Kevin Carr spotted these bluebells in full bloom in Kinclaven, Perth.\n\n\"You know summer is approaching when you find large red damselflies resting beside the pond,\" said Paul Fraser from Callander.\n\nRainbow reflections over a gothic-looking Glasgow were snapped by Your pictures of Scotland regular John Dyer.\n\nMore rainbows, this time from Mark Donald who spotted this double delight above Arbroath Harbour.\n\nAnd one more... Barry Manson snapped this photo of his French Bulldog, named Rainbow, enjoying a walk to the Antonine Wall. Her sister looks on eagerly in the background.\n\nA “hazy and grey day at the beach in North Berwick” captured by Jennifer Baff.\n\nLisa Warren captured this lovely image of a young lamb, as the sun went down in Aberdeen.\n\n\"A buzzard goes where a buzzard shouldn't go,\" said Arthur Allan who took this photo of one mingling with some gulls in Dunfermline.\n\n\"This beauty was captured at Laggan Glen in the Cairngorms,\" said Sarah Baldwin. \"We were lucky enough to catch a huge herd of stags at feeding time and this beauty was about to enter the forest.\"\n\nAn accidental photobomb: \"I recently took this when my partner and I stayed over at the Sheraton Hotel in Edinburgh,\" said Ryan Hamilton. \"We saw this seagull, unfazed by us, outside the bedroom window with the backdrop of Edinburgh Castle.\"\n\n\"Despite living down the road from Falkland Palace it's taken me two years to visit,\" said Jo Buxton from Perth.\n\nTony Marsh took this photo of a young deer staring back at him in the East Lothian countryside.\n\nPaddleboarders on the River Don near the Brig o' Balgownie were photographed by Alex Mitchell.\n\nAndy Inglis from Dumbarton took this photo of PS Waverley as it passed Dumbarton Rock. It was a \"beautiful sight to see,\" he said.\n\nLucy in Sutherland was lucky enough to witness this golden sunset on Loch Farr.\n\nLunchtime with the locals: \"After a long, long winter, spring has finally sprung in Aberdeenshire,\" says Kim Lees. Her partner, Will, took this photo.\n\n\"Milo Newman, on a mission to soak his last pair of dry trousers in the sea by Sanna Bay near Sunart,\" says his papa Chris McColgan.\n\n\"The sight and smell of the steam engine pulling the Jacobean train from Fort William to Mallaig was quite something,\" said Bruce Clark from Haddington.\n\nMother and baby time: A goose with her gosling on top of the waterfall in Rouken Glen park, photographed by Alex Mitchell.\n\nHitching a ride: Murdo McMellan took this photo at the River Cart.\n\n\"I cycled out from Glasgow to take the ferry over to Dunoon and go to Benmore Botanic Gardens all to try take a snap of one of these wee guys. I think he spotted me,\" said Neil Montgomery who took this picture.\n\nThe beach huts at Findhorn Bay cheered Catherine Kay. She said: \"Yes, it was a grey sky but there is always colour to make us smile.\"\n\nIan Niven was delighted with this close-up shot. He said: \"Whilst on a visit to Anstruther at the weekend, I took the opportunity to take a boat trip to the Isle of May to try and capture some puffin photos.\"\n\nFlock to the show: \"I spotted these colourfully painted sheep grazing in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh,\" said Janina Dolny. \"The sheep have been individually decorated by local artists and have been touring Scotland before they head off to the Royal Highland Show next month.\"\n\nGuillemots in the Firth of Forth, on a bright and hazy morning from Huw Rees Lewis from Edinburgh. In the horizon is the navy supply ship, RFA Fort Victoria.\n\nJane Shipley took this photo of the Lenticular clouds that were visible from parts of the Highlands on Tuesday night. She took this photo at Nigg Bay.\n\nNosey Stoat: \"I thought the opportunity to photograph this stoat had gone as he disappeared behind a dyke at Glen Sherup, when he popped his head up to take a look at me,\" said Richard Paton who sent in this photo.\n\nColourful artwork on the old pavilion walls at Victoria Park community garden, photographed by Liz McIlrath.\n\nFinlay MacKenzie snapped these photos of a herd of deer coming back in from the water at sunset on the shores of Corran, Loch Hourn.\n\n\"It has a look of 'Where did I leave my car?'\" says Jacki Gordon who took this picture of a meerkat at Heads of Ayr Farm Park.\n\nBlue skies at the Forth Road Bridge photographed by Alastair Nunn.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "The shadow chancellor is calling for a \"proper windfall\" tax on the profits of energy companies\n\nEnergy firms are making \"war profits\" from the surge in oil and gas prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the shadow chancellor has said.\n\nRachel Reeves has told the BBC that companies should be \"taxed properly\".\n\nLast year, the government introduced a windfall tax on profits made from extracting oil and gas in the UK to help fund a scheme to lower bills.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said the profits are being used to \"ease pressure on families\" in the UK.\n\n\"These funds are being used to hold down people's energy bills and fund one of the most generous cost of living packages in the world- worth £94bn, which is around £3,300 per household this year and last,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe Energy Profits Levy (EPL), introduced in May last year, is set at 35% and together with other taxes takes the rate on oil and gas companies to 75%.\n\nThe levy applies to profits made from extracting UK oil and gas, but not from other activities, such as refining oil and selling petrol and diesel on forecourts.\n\nHowever, David Whitehouse, chief executive of OEUK, the offshore industry body which represents oil and gas companies in the north sea, said: \"This level of tax discourages investment and undermines our companies, our jobs and our communities.\"\n\nThe Labour party has pledged to extend the windfall tax further, but has not indicated by how much.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam for Newscast, Ms Reeves said: \"There needs to be a proper windfall tax on the huge profits the energy giants are making, because while they make huge profits, people are paying huge bills.\n\n\"Those are the windfalls of war, they should be taxed properly, to help people with a cost-of-living crisis,\" she added.\n\n\"They are war profits. The only reason that energy prices rose like that is because of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine. And the energy companies have benefited with higher profits on the back of that, and everybody else has been saddled with higher bills.\n\n\"Those are not profits because of the great ingenuity of the companies... that money should go into helping families with their energy bills and helping businesses who have also seen their bills go up.\"\n\nEarlier this month the energy giant Shell reported profits of £7.6 billion for the first three months of the year. BP posted first quarter profits of £4 billion.\n\nThe vast majority of both companies' profits are earned overseas and are therefore not covered by the UK's windfall tax.\n\nA windfall tax is used to target firms which benefit from something they were not responsible for.\n\nEnergy firm profits have soared recently, initially due to rising demand after Covid restrictions were lifted, and then because Russia's invasion of Ukraine raised energy prices.\n• None How much windfall tax are oil firms paying?", "French murder mystery film Anatomy of a Fall has taken the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival.\n\nDirector Justine Triet won the Palme d'Or for her tense courtroom drama, which tells the story of a writer accused of her husband's murder.\n\nShe becomes the third female director ever to win the prestigious prize, which was first awarded in 1955.\n\nHer thriller stars German actress Sandra Hüller, who also stars in the Cannes runner-up, The Zone of Interest.\n\nAs she accepted the award, Triet slammed the French government over its response to recent pension protests.\n\n\"These protests were... repressed in a shocking way,\" she said in her speech, after being presented with the award by Hollywood star Jane Fonda.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron's reforms of the pension system, which include raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, have caused huge protests in France.\n\nTriet also criticised what she called the government's \"commercialisation of culture\" - leading France's Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak to hit back, saying she was \"gobsmacked\" by the \"unfair\" comments.\n\nThe Grand Prix, the second-highest prize, went to British director Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest, an adaptation of the late Martin Amis's novel of the same name about a family living next to Auschwitz.\n\nMeanwhile, the best actor award went to Japan's Koji Yakusho for his role as a middle-aged Tokyo man who cleans toilets in Wim Wenders' Perfect Days, and Turkey's Merve Dizdar was named best actress for About Dry Grasses.\n\nAnd Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung won best director for Pot-au-Feu, a love story starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel set in a 19th century French chateau.\n\nThe festival was one of the biggest in years for celebrity names on the red carpet - Hollywood legends Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Quentin Tarantino, Isabella Rossellini and Sean Penn all made appearances.\n\nQuentin Tarantino and his wife Daniella Pick pose on the red carpet\n\nHarrison Ford also attended to receive an honorary Palme d'Or ahead of the screening of his new film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.\n\nThe US star, 80, said he was \"deeply moved and humbled\" to be honoured with the award.\n\nThe Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the festival and was introduced in 1955 by the festival's organising committee.\n\nTriet beat 21 other films in competition for the accolade, seeing off tough competition from new films by acclaimed directors including Wes Anderson and Ken Loach.", "Mizzy was in court on Wednesday over one of his prank videos\n\nA London teenager who walked into a stranger's house to make a TikTok prank video has been arrested, two days after appearing in court.\n\nBacari-Bronze O'Garro, better known as Mizzy, was detained on Friday by a plain clothes officer for allegedly breaching a criminal behaviour order.\n\nOn Wednesday, the 18-year-old admitted breaching a community protection notice over the 15 May trespass in Hackney.\n\nO'Garro's prank videos have seen him become notorious in recent days.\n\nIn the latest arrest, the Metropolitan Police officer can be seen handcuffing the teenager and telling him that he is alleged to have uploaded two videos to social media - an apparent breach of the terms of the behaviour order that was imposed on him on Wednesday.\n\nOn Thursday, O'Garro was interviewed by Talk TV host Piers Morgan, with their disagreeable exchange being shared widely on social media.\n\nMorgan took the teenager to task for his pranks, which have included pestering rail passengers and entering a man's car claiming it was his Uber.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by mizzy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Wednesday, Thames Magistrates' Court heard how O'Garro, who is from Stoke Newington in north-east London, had been issued with a community protection notice last May, with a condition being he must not trespass on private property.\n\nEntering the home without permission to film his TikTok prank breached that condition. The court heard how O'Garro walked into the property, down the stairs, sat on a sofa and said \"is this where the study group is?\"\n\nJudge Charlotte Crangle fined him more than £300 and listed as a condition of the teenager's criminal behaviour order that he must not directly or indirectly post videos on to social media without the documented consent of the people featured in the content.\n\nA spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: \"On Friday May 26, officers arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of breach of a criminal behaviour order.\n\n\"He has been taken into custody. Inquiries are ongoing.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former Met Police officer found guilty of gross misconduct over her investigation into indecent exposure by Sarah Everard's killer says she has received hundreds of hate messages.\n\nSome messages blamed Samantha Lee for Ms Everard's death, saying she had blood on her hands.\n\nMs Lee told the BBC she has been made a \"scapegoat\" for wider Met failings.\n\nAn inquiry will examine the circumstances leading to the murder, the Met said.\n\nMs Lee's investigation was carried out on 3 March 2021, just hours before Couzens kidnapped Ms Everard in Clapham, south-west London.\n\nMs Lee, who has been barred from serving in the police again, told Newsnight: \"I think I'm seen as this horrendous, awful person that has let an absolutely heinous crime take place. And I'm being looked at as if I'm just as guilty as what Couzens is.\n\n\"But literally, there was nothing that I could have done that would have changed the outcome.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't want any sympathy at all. All I want is people just to understand that there is nothing that I could have done.\"\n\nMs Lee, 29, says it feels \"highly unfair\" that she has been a public focus of the inquiries into the Met's action, adding: \"It's been a case of let's go in at the bottom rather than going up higher at the top.\"\n\nThe Met said that Ms Lee's disciplinary hearing was not about her handling of the investigation of Couzens but about her \"honesty and integrity\" during it.\n\nShe revealed some of the most abusive messages sent to her on social media have been reported to police, including ones \"saying that it should have been me that was kidnapped and murdered\".\n\nMs Lee said she felt she was being \"blamed completely for the horrendous murder of Sarah Everard.\"\n\n\"The only person that should be blamed for that awful, awful, horrendous crime\" should be Wayne Couzens, she added.\n\nCouzens, a former Met Police officer, kidnapped and murdered Sarah Everard soon after exposing himself to staff at a McDonald's branch in Swanley, Kent, on 14 and 27 February 2021.\n\nIn March this year, Couzens was sentenced to 19 months in prison after admitting three counts of indecent exposure.\n\nHe was already serving life behind bars for the kidnap, rape and murder of Ms Everard.\n\nMs Lee, from Bromley, south-east London, left the Met last year.\n\nOn Tuesday this week, a disciplinary panel chairman criticised Ms Lee's \"lamentably poor\" investigation into the incidents; had she still been a serving officer, she would have been dismissed.\n\nThe former officer was found to have failed to make \"the correct investigative inquiries\" when she went to the McDonald's Couzens exposed himself in.\n\nThe restaurant's manager told the hearing he had shown Ms Lee CCTV of Couzens where his number plate was clearly visible, and showed her receipts which recorded the last four digits of his payment card.\n\nMs Lee said he had told her the footage had already been deleted, a claim the hearing was told was a lie to cover up her failure.\n\nAt the time of Ms Lee's investigation into Couzens, police carrying out number plate checks would not have known whether the vehicle owner was an officer.\n\nMs Lee says the Met was also treating indecent exposure as a \"low level\" offence and that is why she was not asked to investigate immediately.\n\nMs Lee admits making mistakes in her probe but still insists she did not lie about not viewing the CCTV footage, suggesting the McDonald's manager had showed the images to another officer, not her.\n\n\"I should have probably asked a lot more questions around the CCTV and done a more thorough investigation,\" she said.\n\n\"I've gone over in my head so many times... if I'd have done that, would the awful events that happened that day have been prevented and [that] just wouldn't happen.\"\n\nShe added the revelation that Couzens was a police officer was \"traumatising for myself, especially because I was linked to the case\".\n\nMs Lee said the police should have sent someone to investigate sooner, \"there was definitely opportunities that were missed, but not by myself. I'd say that's more by the organisation\".\n\nShe also highlighted an indecent exposure incident from 2015 that has been linked to Couzens, that has not been investigated by Kent Police.\n\n\"I definitely feel like it's more of a case of I've been sort of I want to use the term scapegoat, but it's sort of like I've been treated completely unfairly as a woman PC...\n\n\"I'm just someone who's able to be thrown under the bus to go, right?\n\n\"'She's done a terrible job. We've got rid of this officer. Now we can brush this under the table and pretend like it never happened.' And rather than making the genuine changes that I believe would have actually prevented this.\"\n\nSarah Everard was murdered by Couzens soon after the indecent exposure incidents\n\nAsked to comment, the Met referred the BBC to a statement from Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy, issued after the disciplinary hearing concluded.\n\nHe said that the panel found Ms Lee's actions \"fell below the professional standards expected of her. As the panel has made clear, honesty and integrity are fundamental to policing and our relationship with the public.\n\n\"The purpose of the gross misconduct hearing was not to decide whether Wayne Couzens' future offending could have been prevented.\"\n\nHe added: \"Fundamentally, I am sorry that Couzens was not arrested before he went on to murder Sarah Everard and we continue to think of her loved ones.\n\n\"We know that in recent years the Met's response to violence against women and girls has not been good enough. We are working hard with survivors, communities and partners to improve our response and rebuild trust.\"\n\nYou can watch the full interview with Samantha Lee on Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 BST, or catch-up later on iPlayer (UK only)", "Mizzy was in court on Wednesday over one of his prank videos\n\nA TikTok star known as Mizzy has been remanded in custody after being charged with breaching a court order imposed after posting a \"prank\" video.\n\nBacari-Bronze O'Garro pleaded not guilty at Thames Magistrates' Court to three breaches of a court order.\n\nOn Wednesday, magistrates ordered the 18-year-old not to post any videos on social media without the consent of people featuring in them.\n\nTwo of the three offences are alleged to have taken place on Thursday.\n\nMr O'Garro, who gave his address as Crayford Road, Dartford, was accused of posting a video on to social media without the consent of the people featured as well as visiting Westfield Centre in Stratford, east London, which he is not permitted to do under the criminal behaviour order.\n\nThe court also heard he visited Hackney on Friday, where he is accused of posting a video on to social media without the consent of the people featured.\n\nHe was remanded in custody until a further hearing on Tuesday.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US will support the delivery of advanced fighter jets to Ukraine by allowing Western allies to supply American-made F-16s, and by training Ukrainian pilots to use the jets.\n\nIt would certainly be a military boost for Kyiv - but the devil is in the detail.\n\nThe crucial questions are: how many, how quickly, and what weapons will the jets come supplied with?\n\nNo-one doubts the ability of the F-16, which has more than proved itself in conflicts around the world.\n\nThey will be a step up from Ukraine's Soviet era Mig-29s and Su-27s, which fly comparable missions.\n\nThe F-16 radar can see further, allowing hostile aircraft to be engaged at longer ranges.\n\nThey typically come with missiles that do not require the aircraft to maintain a radar lock to hit their target - a capability that Russia currently has, but Ukraine does not.\n\nF-16s can also launch precision bombs guided by laser, GPS, and advanced targeting systems, and are better at targeting and destroying enemy ground-based radars than Ukraine's current fighter jets.\n\nBut it is not yet clear which of these capabilities would be made available to Ukraine if the delivery of the jets goes ahead.\n\nTraining and delivery will also be a challenge for Ukraine. The computer systems on board - such as the avionics - operate in a very different way to Soviet aircraft.\n\nIn combat, pilots need to instinctively select multiple, correct modes in complex scenarios where they are at risk of being overwhelmed by rapidly developing events - a situation known as task-saturation.\n\nImagine as a car driver switching from a Renault to a Mercedes, and having to instantly know the position of the headlight switches, the wipers and the fog lights - all on a hugely more complicated level. It takes time and practice.\n\nUkrainian pilots will receive training on bespoke simulators. But it is also highly likely they would have been practising on commercially available software, which delivers a very close representation of the workflow required to operate an F-16.\n\nNumbers are also key. It is little use sending half a dozen jets which on their own might be vulnerable to the mighty Su-35s operated by Russia.\n\nCombat aircraft are most effective in packages where jets are grouped together for certain roles - all to carry out one specific mission.\n\nFor example, if the mission is to neutralise an enemy radar installation, you might want a \"four-ship\" comprising four jets to carry the missiles or the bombs to destroy that structure.\n\nThat role is called a Suppression of Enemy Air Defences (SEAD) strike. But you do not want that critical flight itself to be vulnerable to attack.\n\nSo you might have another four aircraft flying ahead in a \"SEAD escort\" role, armed with air-to-air weapons, to protect the SEAD strike from enemy planes.\n\nThe point is all this requires many aircraft, and they need to be supported by other assets.\n\nThat would include surveillance planes to warn about enemy fighters in the area, ground maintenance crews to ensure the upkeep of the jets and having, of course, the necessary infrastructure to take off and land safely.\n\nSo the US decision to give the OK to other nations to supply F-16s marks the start of a complicated process and much work will be required to get to delivery.\n• None Biden to let allies supply F-16s in boost for Kyiv", "A man arrested after a car crashed into Downing Street's gates has appeared in court charged separately with making indecent images of children.\n\nSeth Kneller, from Crewe, had been held on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving over Thursday's incident.\n\nScotland Yard said the 43-year-old had been released under investigation in relation to that.\n\nPolice said the charge he did face was \"unrelated\" to their initial inquiry.\n\nMr Kneller appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court to answer the charge.\n\nHe was remanded in custody until 23 June.\n\nThere were no reports of any injuries in the Downing Street incident and inquiries are continuing, the Met said on Saturday.\n\nIt is not being treated as terror-related.", "Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died in a bike crash on Monday\n\nPolice have confirmed for the first time that officers were following two boys whose deaths just minutes later sparked a riot in Cardiff.\n\nHarvey Evans, 15, and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, died in the Ely area on Monday.\n\nPolice and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael initially said police did not chase the boys but CCTV showed their electric bike was followed by police.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Bacon would not answer questions about it at a press conference on Wednesday.\n\nShe said the South Wales Police officers' van was on Grand Avenue when the fatal crash happened on Snowden Road, about half a mile away.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy Chief Constable Rachel Bacon would not answer questions about CCTV\n\nMs Bacon said only the bike was involved in the fatal crash, but would not comment on why police were spotted following the teenagers on CCTV, citing the ongoing police watchdog investigation.\n\nShe told a press conference: \"I want to be as transparent and open as I can with the communities of Ely so they understand what has happened.\n\n\"I've set out the timeline based on the factual information that we have.\n\n\"But the IOPC are conducting an independent investigation on whether any pursuit has taken place so I can't fully answer your question today.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said it had sent investigators to attend the police post-incident procedures and had obtained initial accounts from key police witnesses.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said he felt \"profound sorrow\" for the two teens, as well as the wider \"utterly decent hardworking\" people of Ely.\n\nHe also said the police had questions to answer and there was \"repair work to be done\" on their relationship with the community.\n\nMs Bacon laid out a timeline of events and said the crash, which killed the two best friends, took place half a mile away from the police vehicle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What the CCTV tells us about teens' final moments\n\nHarvey and Kyrees' deaths sparked a riot which saw cars set alight, fireworks thrown at police and 15 officers injured.\n\nSome residents claimed that the boys were being chased by police when they were killed in the crash.\n\nMr Michael initially said officers had not been chasing the teenagers when they died, but at Wednesday's press conference, Ms Bacon said officers were following the boys.\n\nShe added that she was aware of concerns about the timeline of events, including CCTV footage.\n\nAn upturned car burns amid disorder in the Cardiff district of Ely\n\nShe outlined the timeline from when the boys' bike first travelled towards the police vehicle on Frank Road at 17:59, to the crash which happened about two minutes later.\n\n\"I've been really clear that I've given you factual and accurate information,\" she added when quizzed over whether BBC footage contradicted her timeline of events.\n\n\"The situation yesterday morning was still very unclear. I've explained to you the huge amount of work that has had to be undertaken to get to the point where we are.\n\n\"I would have wanted to speak to our communities sooner and I haven't been able to because we haven't had that level of information.\"\n\nThe police have said that, in the minute or so before the crash took place, they turned into a main road and were half a mile away from the scene of the crash on Snowden Road.\n\nThe only reason why they didn't continue on the road towards where the crash took place is because there are bollards between Stanway Road and Snowden Road.\n\nSo, the police were on the main road and they are correct: They were not behind the boys, they weren't in the area where the crash took place.\n\nBut the only reason they weren't there is because they knew they couldn't follow the boys any further because the road was blocked.\n\nThis is a force under pressure.\n\nSouth Wales Police referred itself to the IOPC and did that after the BBC had put out new footage that showed the police were following the two boys before the crash.\n\nA car with its windows smashed on Snowden Road in Ely\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating the incident - the reason which Ms Bacon said was why she could not comment.\n\nUp to 150 people gathered in Ely after the boys' deaths and rioters threw fireworks at police and set cars alight.\n\nThe aftermath was described as a \"warzone\" by a BBC reporter at the scene.\n\nMany tributes to the two boys have been left in Ely\n\nTributes have since been stamped to lampposts and laid out across the street.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, Harvey's mum said: \"He lived life to the full, he had a big heart and deep down he truly cared.\"\n\nKyrees's family described him as \"a loving, caring, handsome young man\".", "Mexican authorities shut one of two clinics linked to the fungal outbreak\n\nUS and Mexican authorities are urging the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a public health emergency over a fungal outbreak linked to cosmetic operations in Mexico.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said two people who got surgeries involving epidural anaesthesia have died of meningitis.\n\nAlmost 400 people in the US and Mexico are being monitored.\n\nTwo cosmetic clinics in the Mexican city of Matamoros have been shut.\n\nAuthorities in both the US and Mexico have urged people who had surgeries involving epidural anaesthesia at either the River Side Surgical Center or Clinica K-3 since January to get evaluated, even if they are currently asymptomatic.\n\nThe CDC said it had already identified 25 people in the US with \"suspected\" or \"probable\" cases of fungal meningitis.\n\nMany US citizens travel to Mexico for cosmetic procedures such as liposuction, breast augmentation and Brazilian butt lifts, which all require the injection of an anaesthetic into the area around the spinal column.\n\nThe CDC's Dallas Smith said that medications used during anaesthesia in the current outbreak may have been contaminated either in the epidural itself or in other medications that are added in conjunction during the surgeries like morphine.\n\n\"There's a shortage currently in Mexico, and there could be potential for a black market that could have contaminated medicine,\" said Mr Smith.\n\nLast October, a batch of a local anaesthetic commonly used for operations such as Caesarean births was found to have been infected by the same fungus, leading to the death of 39 people in the Mexican state of Durango.\n\nThe most common early symptom of fungal meningitis is headaches, followed by symptoms like fever, vomiting, neck pain, and blurred vision.\n\nFungal meningitis is not contagious and can be treated with antifungal medicines - but it can can quickly become life-threatening once symptoms begin.\n\nAmericans often travel to Mexico for low-cost medical services.\n\nThe WHO declares a public health emergency when a disease spreads between countries and a co-ordinated international response may be required to bring it under control.\n• None Kidnapped Americans were in Mexico for tummy tuck", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nLuton Town completed their journey from non-league to Premier League as they beat Coventry City 6-5 on penalties to win the Championship play-off final at Wembley.\n\nGustavo Hamer equalised for Coventry to cancel out a first-half strike from Jordan Clark as the game finished in a 1-1 draw after 120 minutes.\n\nBoth goals came after Luton lost captain Tom Lockyer early on after he collapsed on the pitch but the defender was taken to hospital where the club have confirmed he is \"responsive and talking\" to his family.\n\nCoventry's Fankaty Dabo blasted the 12th penalty kick of the shootout over the crossbar to send the Hatters to the Premier League for the first time.\n\nHaving last been in English football's top flight in 1992, the year the Premier League began, Luton have waited 31 years to take their place at the top table.\n\nBut they were still in the fifth tier only nine years ago after a decade of financial hardship.\n\nAnd, in becoming the first side to go all the way from the top tier to non-league and back, it completed a remarkable achievement for Luton boss Rob Edwards, who began this season as manager of the Hatters' fierce local rivals Watford.\n\nJust a year on from managing Forest Green to the League Two title, Edwards won his second successive promotion.\n\nHe left Forest Green to take on the Watford job at the end of last season, but was then sacked in late September.\n\nHe then returned to management in November when Nathan Jones walked out on Luton for a second time - and Edwards has now masterminded the completion of one of football's great journeys.\n\nLuton edge first half in game of two halves\n\nAway from the tightly packed, raucous atmosphere of Kenilworth Road, there was a slight concern Luton might struggle in the vast space of Wembley - but they were by far the more dominant side before the break.\n\nAside from the one goal they did score, they had two more disallowed - and a string of other dangerous moments too.\n\nNot even the early loss of defensive linchpin Lockyer could halt their flow.\n\nWithin eight minutes of the Wales international collapsing and being stretchered off, the Hatters were ahead when bustling striker Elijah Adebayo caused havoc, carving out the opening for Clark to run on down the inside-left channel and smash home a stunning left-foot screamer just inside the left upright.\n\nBut towards the break, and especially into the eight minutes of stoppage time because of the Lockyer situation, Coventry began to threaten.\n\nHamer powered a volley just over after the ball had come at an awkward height, before loan signing Brooke Norton-Cuffy almost weaved his way through with a mesmeric run.\n\nIt was the same pattern at the start of the second half as Coventry restarted well, with an extra striker on in Matty Godden.\n\nAnd, 21 minutes after the restart, at a similar time to the Luton first-half opener, Coventry were level with a similarly constructed goal.\n\nTop scorer Viktor Gyokeres was played into space down the left, held the ball up and turned it back into the path of Hamer, who put enough bend on his measured side-foot finish to find the bottom-right corner.\n\nBut Godden then fired a great chance just over, Hamer was forced off just 14 minutes after scoring - and the 90 minutes, extended by another eight minutes of time added on, ended with both sides going end to end in a desperate search for a winner.\n\nA fiercely-struck low Gyokeres right-foot shot tested Horvath at his near post at the start of extra time.\n\nLuton then thought they had it won in the second period of extra time when substitute Joseph Taylor pounced on a mistake by Jonathan Panzo and ran on to fire the ball past City keeper Ben Wilson. But VAR had spotted Taylor's use of his right hand - and the goal was disallowed to a massive Sky Blue roar of relief.\n\nInstead, it was on to penalties - and all went to plan with the first 10 spot-kicks.\n\nCarlton Morris, sub Taylor, Marvelous Nakamba, earlier scorer Clark and Luke Berry all netted superbly for Luton, cancelled out by similarly well-struck efforts from Coventry's chosen quintet of Godden, Gyokeres, Ben Sheaf, Josh Eccles and skipper Liam Kelly.\n\nBut, when it went to sudden death, Luton sub Dan Potts converted - before the luckless Dabo hit his effort high and wide.\n\nBoth this season's league meetings between Luton and Coventry had ended in draws, so it was no surprise they could not be separated over 120 minutes.\n\nTwo sides with more illustrious pasts, Wembley cup final winners respectively within a year of each other - Coventry lifting the FA Cup in 1987 and Luton prevailing in the 1988 League Cup - both trying to get back to the top flight just five years after getting promoted together from League Two.\n\nBut in the end it was the unfancied Bedfordshire side who picked the lock on a windfall, estimated by Deloitte to be worth at least £170m over the next three seasons.\n\nFor starters it would help fund the building of the new stadium that is central to Luton's plans and seen as the key to securing their future - although that is not likely to be ready for another three years and they will first have to spend an estimated £10m renovating their comparatively dilapidated back-streets Kenilworth Road home.\n\nThey will still have the smallest ground capacity in the top flight next season, but it is all still a far cry from when they dropped out of the Football League in 2009, before taking five seasons to get back in 2014, eventually under John Still.\n\nThey took the next two steps under Jones, with back-to-back promotions in 2018 and 2019 before he moved on to Stoke.\n\nHaving returned for a second spell to establish the Hatters as Championship promotion contenders, Jones then moved on again.\n\nBut, since Edwards took over, he has presided over 18 wins and just six defeats from his 35 matches in charge.\n\nDefeat for Coventry for the first time in a Wembley final was particularly cruel.\n\nTheir fans have had a tortuous time since being relegated from the Premier League in 2001.\n\nIn 2005 they were forced to leave their Highfield Road home, then two years later they were saved from potential extinction by just minutes following Sisu's late takeover.\n\nIn 2013 they sought refuge from their ongoing rent row with the local council by moving to Northampton.\n\nThey moved back to their home at the Ricoh Arena the following year, with fellow tenants Wasps now their new landlords.\n\nBut in 2019 they had to move again, with two seasons spent at Birmingham City's St Andrew's.\n\nThey then found themselves bottom of the league, without a pitch, at the start of this season, when they had to postpone four home games, playing six of their first seven away.\n\nThey were then even briefly without a ground too, when they were served with the threat of an eviction by the stadium's new owners.\n\nBut boss Mark Robins and his assistant manager Adi Viveash, both rewarded in the past fortnight with new four-year contracts, did a brilliant job turning their season round - and the club were put even more firmly back on the rails when new owner Doug King took over in January.\n\nIn the short term, failing to go up might yet cost them the services of their much-admired star striker Gyokeres, who failed to score in the Sky Blues' final five games, and Brazilian playmaker Hamer.\n\nBut Robins and his team have crucially won back the Coventry fans - and they will start next season among the Championship promotion favourites.\n\n\"We lost Tom Lockyer, but recovered really well after that and showed a lot of emotional strength and character.\n\n\"We lost our captain and best player. All I've been thinking about since the final whistle is that. Health is more important than anything.\n\n\"The performance in the first half was excellent. They had the first 20-25 minutes of the second half and got the goal, but we started wrestling back some momentum and then obviously it was tight.\n\n\"I'm so proud to be a part of this club. The players, the staff, the board, the supporters, they deserve to enjoy this - they've been through a lot.\"\n\n\"It was very tight. First half we didn't really show up. Second half, we were much better. We got back into it, Gustavo Hamer scored and it looked like there was only going to be one winner. They were rocking.\n\n\"But the fact that Gustavo got injured and we then had to take him off swung the impetus back in their favour a bit. He landed on his ankle badly and had to come off.\n\n\"When their goal was disallowed, I thought maybe it was going to be our day, but then it was penalties.\n\n\"The first 10 were outstanding. Our lads had to be so brave, taking them up at that end in front of their supporters, and with the added pressure of always having to take the second penalty. But someone had to miss and unfortunately it was Fanky Dabo, who was distraught.\"\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Fankaty Dabo (Coventry City) right footed shot is close, but misses the top right corner. Fankaty Dabo should be disappointed.\n• None Goal! Coventry City 1(5), Luton Town 1(6). Daniel Potts (Luton Town) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Coventry City 1(5), Luton Town 1(5). Liam Kelly (Coventry City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Coventry City 1(4), Luton Town 1(5). Luke Berry (Luton Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Coventry City 1(4), Luton Town 1(4). Josh Eccles (Coventry City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Coventry City 1(3), Luton Town 1(4). Jordan Clark (Luton Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Coventry City 1(3), Luton Town 1(3). Ben Sheaf (Coventry City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Coventry City 1(2), Luton Town 1(3). Marvelous Nakamba (Luton Town) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Coventry City 1(2), Luton Town 1(2). Viktor Gyökeres (Coventry City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Coventry City 1(1), Luton Town 1(2). Joseph Taylor (Luton Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Coventry City 1(1), Luton Town 1(1). Matt Godden (Coventry City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Coventry City 1, Luton Town 1(1). Carlton Morris (Luton Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Luke Berry (Luton Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Carlton Morris with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "E-gates at Edinburgh Airport are not working\n\nMajor Scottish airports have warned passengers may be impacted by problems with e-gates at passport controls.\n\nThe barriers are not working at airports across the UK causing delays for passengers.\n\nEdinburgh Airport said it was working on contingencies with Border Force while it addressed the problem.\n\nMeanwhile Glasgow International Airport said it did not have any significant queues so far, but entry to the UK may take longer than usual at peak times.\n\nA spokesperson said that Border Force has additional staff in place to keep disruption to a minimum.\n\nThe issue affects all UK airports that use the gates, including Heathrow, Manchester and Gatwick. It began on Friday night.\n\nIt means people flying in are having to get their passports checked by Border Force staff manually.\n\nThe Home Office said it was working to minimise disruption from the \"nationwide border system issue.\"\n\nThe Immigration Services Union warned that queues would build quickly.\n\nIt is not known what the problem is with the border system, with a Home Office spokesman saying it was \"too sensitive to say\".\n\nThe e-gate system speeds up passport control by allowing some passengers to scan their own passports. It uses facial recognition to verify identity and captures the traveller's image.\n\nE-gates can be used by British citizens aged over 12 and those from the EU, as well as people from countries including Australia, Canada, the US, Japan and New Zealand.\n\nBut all entry points retain manned security desks for other passengers and those unable to use e-gates.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said they were aware of a \"nationwide border system issue affecting arrivals into the UK\".\n\n\"We are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible and are liaising with port operators and airlines to minimise disruption for travellers,\" they said.", "Phillip Schofield left his role on This Morning last week following reports of a rift with Holly Willoughby\n\nPhillip Schofield has quit ITV after admitting he had an affair with a younger male ITV employee and lied to cover it up.\n\nThe ex-This Morning host said the relationship with his junior colleague was \"unwise but not illegal\".\n\nIn a statement to the Daily Mail, Schofield said he \"met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television\".\n\nHe apologised for lying to colleagues, employers, the media and public.\n\nAn ITV spokesperson said they were \"deeply disappointed by the admissions of deceit\" made by Schofield and confirmed it had cut all ties with the host.\n\nIt means the 61-year-old will no longer present the British Soap Awards next month.\n\nHe will also not front a new prime-time series which ITV had said last week they were developing with him.\n\nSchofield left his role at This Morning last week after reports of a rift with co-star Holly Willoughby.\n\nHe said his departure from the show was unrelated to the affair with the colleague, who the BBC is not naming.\n\nThe TV presenter was still married to his wife Stephanie Lowe at the time of the relationship. They separated in 2020, after Schofield came out as gay.\n\nSchofield said he was \"so, very, very sorry\" for being unfaithful to his wife, and for lying to his colleagues, agents, employers, friends, the media and the public.\n\nSchofield said he was \"so, very, very sorry\" for being unfaithful to his wife Stephanie Lowe (pictured in 2017)\n\nThe TV host said he would reflect on his \"very bad judgement in both participating in the relationship and then lying about it\".\n\nAn ITV spokesperson said: \"The relationships we have with those we work with are based on trust.\n\n\"Phillip made assurances to us which he now acknowledges were untrue and we feel badly let down.\"\n\nHis announcement follows significant online speculation over several months about Schofield's personal relationships.\n\nTalent agency YMU has also cut ties with Schofield following his announcement about the affair.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the TV presenter said: \"It is with the most profound regret that after 35 years of being faultlessly managed by YMU I have agreed to step down from their representation with immediate effect.\"\n\nSome former ITV daytime figures, including Eamonn Holmes and Dan Wootton, have suggested the network has questions to answer about how much managers knew about the relationship and what action they took.\n\n\"I am making this statement via the Daily Mail to whom I have already apologised personally for misleading, through my lawyer who I also misled, about a story which they wanted to write about me a few days ago.\n\n\"The first thing I want to say is: I am deeply sorry for having lied to them, and to many others about a relationship that I had with someone working on This Morning. I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague at This Morning.\n\n\"Contrary to speculation, whilst I met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television, it was only after he started to work on the show that it became more than just a friendship. That relationship was unwise, but not illegal. It is now over.\n\n\"When I chose to come out I did so entirely for my own wellbeing. Nobody 'forced' me out. Neither I nor anyone else, to my knowledge, has ever issued an injunction, super or otherwise, about my relationship with this colleague, he was never moved on or sacked by or because of me.\n\n\"In an effort to protect my ex-colleague I haven't been truthful about the relationship. But my recent, unrelated, departure from This Morning fuelled speculation and raised questions which have been impacting him, so for his sake it is important for me to be honest now.\n\n\"I am painfully conscious that I have lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and friends, to my agents, to the media and therefore the public and most importantly of all to my family. I am so very, very sorry, as I am for having been unfaithful to my wife.\n\n\"I have therefore decided to step down from the British Soap Awards, my last public commitment, and am resigning from ITV with immediate effect expressing my immense gratitude to them for all the amazing opportunities that they have given me.\n\n\"I will reflect on my very bad judgement in both participating in the relationship and then lying about it.\n\n\"To protect his privacy, I am not naming this individual and my deepest wish is that both he and his family can now move on with their lives free from further intrusion, and that this statement will enable them to do so.\n\n\"I ask the media now to respect their privacy. They have done nothing wrong, and I ask that their privacy should be respected.\"\n\nSchofield's final appearance on This Morning was on Thursday 18 May. He announced his departure from the ITV daytime show that weekend.\n\nCover presenters Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary paid tribute to Schofield at the start of Monday's programme.\n\nSchofield had presented This Morning show since 2002, with Willoughby joining him as a co-presenter in 2009.\n\nWilloughby is currently on holiday but set to return to the show on Monday 5 June.\n\nEarlier this year, his brother Timothy Schofield was jailed for 12 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing a boy.\n\nSchofield and Willoughby presented ITV's This Morning and Dancing on Ice together before his departure", "After health inspectors considered closing a maternity unit over safety fears, the BBC's Michael Buchanan looks at a near-decade of poor care at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\n\"I've been telling you for months. The place is getting worse.\"\n\nThe message in February, which I received from a member of the maternity team, was stark but unsurprising. In a series of texts over the previous few months, the person had been getting increasingly concerned about what was happening at the East Kent trust.\n\nThe leadership is \"totally ineffective\" read one message. \"How long do we have to keep hearing this narrative - we accept bad things happened, we have learned and are putting it right. Nothing changes.\"\n\nFriday's report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is unfortunately just the latest marker in a near-decade of failure to improve maternity care at the trust. The revelation that inspectors considered closing the unit at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford comes nine years after the trust's head of midwifery made a similar recommendation for the same reasons - that it was a danger to women and babies. The failure to act decisively then allowed many poor practices to continue.\n\nAn independent review published last October found that between 2009 and 2020, at least 45 babies may have survived with better care, while 12 other babies and 23 mothers wouldn't have suffered harm if they'd received good maternity care.\n\nPut simply, the trust has repeatedly failed to provide good care - and then failed to act when presented with evidence of poor care.\n\nConsider the extraordinary deaths of two new mothers from herpes at two of the trust's hospitals, just six weeks apart in 2018. The trust told the families there was no connection between the deaths. There were. A BBC investigation three years later found they'd been operated on by the same surgeon, and that the trust had failed to test him for herpes despite being told to do so.\n\nWhen those disclosures led to an inquest being ordered, the trust delayed its start for weeks by making last-minute legal arguments about wanting the coroner to put reporting restrictions on naming the surgeon, arguments it could have made months earlier, as it had been repeatedly discussed at previous hearings.\n\nWhen the inquest took evidence, a consultant microbiologist at the trust, Dr Sam Moses, was reprimanded for allegedly coaching a colleague in how to respond to answers while another clinician was sitting in the witness box.\n\nDr Moses also admitted that he hadn't told one family about the connections between the deaths, despite being in a meeting in which the mother of one of the women who had died asked explicitly about a link. He told the court that \"my role was to assist the trust. I didn't know whose responsibility it was to tell\" about the connection.\n\nAt the heart of the trust's problems, it seems, is a dysfunctional culture that stretches back almost a decade. In 2015, a review of its maternity services by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists found multiple problems, including consultants failing to carry out ward rounds, assess women or attend out-of-hours calls. The report was dismissed as \"a load of rubbish\" by the trust. A Maternity Improvement Plan, overseen by NHS England, was devised. However, by the end of 2019 fewer than a quarter of its action points had been completed.\n\nImproving care is virtually impossible if colleagues don't get along. An Employment Tribunal decision, published in February, concluded that a \"toxic and difficult working environment\" existed at William Harvey Hospital's maternity unit where people were \"shouted and sworn at over differences of professional opinion\".\n\nOlukemi Akinmeji, a black midwife, sued the trust for race discrimination and victimisation after colleagues \"joked\" that they should \"check their bags\" on her last day at the hospital. Ms Akinmeji, who worked at the William Harvey between 2018 and 2020, won her case.\n\nThe tribunal judgement described hearing evidence of a broken working environment and a foul-mouthed registrar that one former colleague described as \"totally unprofessional\". Since Ms Akinmeji left the trust, that doctor has been promoted to consultant, after apparently being told to cut out the swearing.\n\nThree former staff have told the BBC there is a clique of senior midwives at the William Harvey, nicknamed by some as \"the untouchables\". They are described as \"watching each other's backs\", swearing, prone to talking disparagingly about both patients and colleagues. They've been working there for many years and are resistant to new working methods, and often, outsiders.\n\n\"It is the worst trust I've ever worked for,\" says one, \"there is so much unprofessional behaviour\". Another former staff member says,\"midwives often left the end of their shifts in tears, or broke down during a shift. People felt they couldn't speak up - even the managers had their favourites.\"\n\nIn that context, it's little wonder that the CQC found low morale and low levels of staff satisfaction, particularly among maternity staff at the William Harvey. Last year's staff survey, recently published, found that on all nine measures rated - including \"we are safe and healthy\" and \"we are always learning\" - the scores from all maternity staff were significantly lower than elsewhere in the trust. Bear in mind that the trust's overall scores included some of the lowest scores of any trust in England.\n\nIt's not as if East Kent has been left alone to sort its problems out. NHS England has been all over the trust for years, overseeing improvement plans and sending, as it announced in 2020, \"an expert team into the trust to ensure that improvements are made immediately\". Asked why their effort hadn't improved maternity care, NHS England couldn't provide an answer but said they had helped them recruit more nurses and midwives.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the East Kent trust said it accepted it \"was not consistently providing the standards of maternity care women and families should expect.\" But it says that in the past few years, it has \"worked hard to improve services,\" including investing \"to increase the number of midwifes and doctors\" and to improve staff training.\n\nOn the final day of evidence in the inquest into the two deaths from herpes, in a different room in the same building, a pre-inquest review was taking place into the death of a 14-day-old boy in September 2022 at the William Harvey Hospital. Evidence heard at that hearing suggests that with better care, his death may have been avoided. The full inquest later this year will come to a final conclusion.\n\nThe baby's death, the CQC report and its actions at the herpes inquest show that East Kent's problem are deep-rooted and ongoing, and that multiple changes of various directors over many years have led to little discernible improvement.", "Lorraine Barwell had worked at Serco for more than a decade\n\nSecurity contractor Serco has been fined £2.25m for health and safety failings that led to a prisoner kicking one of its custody officers to death.\n\nLorraine Barwell, 54, was killed in the summer of 2015 by Humphrey Burke, now 28, a prisoner she was escorting.\n\nThe day she was attacked, Burke was due to be sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court for arson and attempted robbery.\n\nIn January, he was given an indefinite hospital order for manslaughter by diminished responsibility.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Jeremy Baker also ordered Serco to pay the Health and Safety Executive's costs of £433,596.\n\nSentencing the firm, he said: \"I am satisfied that had it not been for Serco's breach of duty towards its employees, Lorraine Barwell would not have died in the circumstances in which she did.\"\n\nSerco is contracted by the Ministry of Justice to provide security services in courts. Ms Barwell, who had worked for the security firm for more than 10 years, is believed to be the first prison custody officer to be killed on duty, the Ministry of Justice said.\n\nSerco pleaded guilty last April to failing to discharge general health, safety and welfare duties from January 2014 to March 2017.\n\nFollowing the sentencing hearing, Anthony Kirby from Serco said: \"We continuously strive to seek to ensure such an incident can never happen again.\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Ms Barwell's daughter Louise Grennan said her mother was \"wonderful, loving\" and \"supportive\".\n\n\"We spoke about plans to move abroad to live in the sun once mum had retired from work. That has all gone now,\" she said.\n\nThe prosecution alleged that two attacks on custody officers within the January 2014 to March 2017 period - one on Ms Barwell and another on Bernadette Cawley - demonstrated what could happen if the right health and safety steps were not taken.\n\nMs Cawley, who survived the attack on her, was throttled and rammed up against a wall in the dock in an annex court at Woolwich Crown Court in June 2016, but no other custody staff were nearby to help when she pressed the alarm.\n\nOn the day he assaulted Lorraine Barwell, Humphrey Burke had been due to be sentenced for arson and attempted robbery\n\nSerco admitted two limited breaches in relation to the attacks on its staff at Blackfriars and Woolwich, but denied its actions directly led to the the two women being harmed.\n\nThe prosecution alleged there were wider failings in areas including risk assessment, staffing levels, training and monitoring.\n\nIn his sentencing, the senior judge found Serco's level of culpability for the offence was \"high\".\n\nAmong the failings, he said there was \"insufficient\" availability of court custody officers, an issue that had been raised with management \"on numerous occasions\".\n\nMr Justice Baker added there had been an \"obvious and avoidable\" risk posed to Ms Barwell by Burke.\n\nHelen Donnelly from the Health and Safety Executive said: \"Serco drastically failed in their duties to protect both Lorraine Barwell and other staff over a sustained period.\n\n\"Had Serco carried out their legal duties, these incidents could have been prevented.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to act against those who fail to protect their workers.\"\n\nMr Kirby, from Serco, added: \"The safety and wellbeing of colleagues is our highest priority and, as recognised by the court, we have improved our safety processes.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Paul Heaton also paid for drinks at 60 pubs to mark his 60th birthday last year\n\nPop star Paul Heaton said he is putting money behind the bar of four pubs in Warrington so fans attending a festival can \"have a drink on him\".\n\nThe ex-Housemartins and Beautiful South singer is playing the Neighbourhood Festival in Victoria Park this weekend.\n\nHe also paid for drinks at 60 pubs to mark his 60th birthday last year.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Heaton said the gesture was a \"thank you and a small amount of help\" during the cost of living crisis.\n\nThe pubs involved will be the The Bull's Head on Church Street, The Kings Head on Winwick Street and The Cheshire Cheese on Knutsford Road, which are all within a couple of miles of the festival site.\n\nThe Facebook post said: \"Money will also be left behind the bar of the festival's own pub, the Neighbourhood Inn for anyone heading into the festival early looking to catch any of the artists kicking off the different stages each day.\n\n\"A similar process will be running local to the other Paul Heaton shows over this summer.\"\n\nHeaton shot to fame with the Hull-based Housemartins in the early 80s.\n\nThey had two successful albums and a number of hit singles, including a cover version of Caravan of Love which reached Number One in the UK charts in December 1986.\n\nAfter the band split he formed the Beautiful South in 1988, which became one of the biggest-selling UK acts of all time, releasing 15 albums over nine years.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None Drinks on the Housemartin as singer pays for pints\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elon Musk - who took over Twitter last October - pictured in Paris earlier this month\n\nTwitter has pulled out of the European Union's voluntary code to fight disinformation, the EU has said.\n\nThierry Breton, who is the EU's internal market commissioner, announced the news on Twitter - but warned the firm new laws would force compliance.\n\n\"Obligations remain. You can run but you can't hide,\" he said.\n\nTwitter will be legally required to fight disinformation in the EU from 25 August, he said, adding: \"Our teams will be ready for enforcement.\"\n\nTwitter has not confirmed its stance on the code or responded to a request for comment.\n\nDozens of tech firms both big and small are signed up to the EU's disinformation code, including Meta - which owns Facebook and Instagram - as well as TikTok, Google, Microsoft and Twitch.\n\nThe code was launched in June last year, and aims to prevent profiteering from disinformation and fake news, as well as increasing transparency and curbing the spread of bots and fake accounts.\n\nFirms that sign the code can decide which pledges to make, such as cooperating with fact-checkers or tracking political advertising.\n\nUnder Elon Musk's ownership, moderation at Twitter has reportedly been greatly reduced - which critics say has allowed an increase in the spread of disinformation.\n\nThe social media giant used to have a dedicated team that worked to combat coordinated disinformation campaigns, but experts and former Twitter employees say the majority of these specialists resigned or were laid off.\n\nLast month, the BBC found hundreds of Russian and Chinese state propaganda accounts were thriving on Twitter.\n\nBut Twitter boss Mr Musk claims there is now \"less misinformation rather than more\" since he took over last October.\n\nAlongside the voluntary code, the EU has also brought in a Digital Services Act - a law which obliges firms to do more to tackle illegal online content.\n\nFrom 25 August, platforms with more than 45 million monthly active users in the EU - which includes Twitter - will have to comply legally with the rules under the DSA.\n\nThe law will mean Twitter will have to have a mechanism for users to flag illegal content, act upon notifications \"expeditiously\" and put in measures to address the spread of disinformation.\n\nOn Friday, AFP news agency quoted a European Commission official as saying: \"If (Elon Musk) doesn't take the code seriously, then it's better that he quits.\"\n• None Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk", "Boris Johnson has insisted that there is nothing in his diary entries that shows further rule-breaking during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe was referred to police last week following a review of his official diary as part of the Covid inquiry.\n\nThe former PM was approached by Sky News before catching a flight in Washington - and said any new claims of rule-breaking were \"absolute nonsense\".\n\nHe said the diary entries were \"completely innocent\".\n\nHe added that the diaries, from his time in Downing Street, \"merely record entries in my day\".\n\nThe short interview is Mr Johnson's first public comment on the latest development and he said: \"This whole thing is a load of nonsense from beginning to end.\"\n\nMr Johnson, who is currently being investigated by the privileges committee over whether he lied to parliament over his repeated Partygate denials, questioned why the Cabinet Office had handed over entries from his diary to police without first querying them with him.\n\n\"I think it's ridiculous that elements in my diary should be cherry-picked and handed over to the police [and] to the Privileges Committee without even anybody having the basic common sense to ask me what these entries referred to.\"\n\nThe Times, which first broke the story about Mr Johnson's diaries, said the entries revealed visits by Mr Johnson's friends to Chequers - the PM's country estate - and events in Downing Street during the pandemic.\n\nBur Mr Johnson told Sky: \"There are tens of thousands of entries in the prime ministerial diary - none of them constitute a breach of the rules during Covid.\"\n\nMr Johnson, who resigned as prime minister last July and has already been fined by the Metropolitan Police for breaking lockdown rules, previously said he believes he is the victim of a \"politically motivated stitch-up\" following his police referral on Wednesday.", "Russia has warned Western supplies of weapons to Ukraine risk escalating the war to levels not seen so far.\n\nAndrei Kelin, Russia's ambassador to the UK, told the BBC his country had \"enormous resources\" and it was yet to \"act very seriously\".\n\nHis remarks come despite more than a year of fighting and widespread evidence of Russian war crimes.\n\nIn the interview with Laura Kuenssberg, he suggested he was offended when challenged about Russia's conduct.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to the BBC, Mr Kelin warned of a \"new dimension\" in the war.\n\nInsisting Russia \"hasn't just started yet to act very seriously\", the ambassador said \"Russia is 16 times bigger than Ukraine. We have enormous resources.\"\n\nThe length of the conflict, he said, \"depends on the efforts in escalation of war that is being undertaken by Nato countries, especially by the UK\".\n\nHe added: \"Sooner or later, of course, this escalation may get a new dimension which we do not need and we do not want. We can make peace tomorrow.\"\n\nThe ambassador's comments came as one of Ukraine's most senior security officials, Oleksiy Danilov, told the BBC the country is ready to launch its long expected counter-offensive against Russian forces.\n\nBut Mr Kelin's claim that Russia has \"enormous resources\" available to fight clashes with multiple reports on the ground of its forces being poorly equipped and without proper training.\n\nThose warnings have even come from the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has been heavily involved in the conflict.\n\nHe has been one of Vladimir Putin's staunchest supporters, but has been increasingly vocal and critical of the regime, suggesting in the last few days \"we could lose Russia\" if the war carried on without extra resources being provided.\n\nEarlier this month he publicly scolded Putin's ministers in a post on social media, surrounded by dead bodies of his fighters. \"Where is the... ammunition?\", he said. \"They came here as volunteers and die for you to fatten yourselves in your mahogany offices.\"\n\nThe denial of the situation on the ground by Mr Kelin was accompanied by his repetition of baseless claims about Russia's invasion, which he still insisted on calling a \"special military operation\".\n\nMr Kelin was speaking in his residence, underneath a chandelier, where the chairs are gilt and coffee served by staff with white gloves.\n\nHe tried to blame Ukraine for provoking the conflict. It's a familiar and untrue claim that has been used by Russian leaders for more than a year to try to justify its illegal invasion of Ukraine in the first place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLike his ambassador, President Putin continues to claim a neo-Nazi regime was set up in Ukraine in 2014 and that it was even seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, which meant Russia had no choice but to invade.\n\nAnd the ambassador denies reality when it comes to the behaviour of Russian troops on the ground during the conflict, too.\n\nConfronted with evidence from an official United Nations report of widespread crimes, torture, rape and the forced deportation of children, he replied by claiming Ukrainian forces had committed crimes against civilians too.\n\nThere is evidence of a small number of human rights violations by Ukrainian forces. But the scale of Russian abuses is widespread, well-documented and beyond doubt.\n\nWhen pressed that Russia was simply lying about what has happened, and the clear patterns of appalling abuse, the ambassador claimed in our interview to be offended.\n\nAnd he had no other response to the latest missile attack in Dnipro other than to say \"the problem is that the shooting is going on for nine years, and every day shooting is going on Luhansk, Donetsk and all of that\", claiming that the western media was ignoring acts being carried out by Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe ambassador's comments that the war is not yet \"serious\" contradicts the experience of so many Ukrainians whose lives have been turned upside down by the war, and many Russians who are suffering.\n\nBut as Ukraine plans its counter-offensive, and Russia shows no sign of retreat, the war may indeed get more serious still.\n\nYou can watch our interview with Ambassador Kelin on the show tomorrow morning at 09:00, where we talk about what is going on in the conflict and also about how President Putin deals with criticism, how he can justify war crimes, and when the conflict could end.\n\nAnd, after a big week or the NHS, when both Labour and the Conservatives set out their plans, we'll be joined by the Health Secretary, Steve Barclay.", "Olivia Perks, 21, was found dead in her room at the Sandhurst military academy\n\nThe Army missed opportunities to prevent the suicide of a \"positive and bubbly\" officer cadet, a coroner has concluded.\n\nOlivia Perks, 21, was found hanged in her room at Sandhurst military academy in Berkshire on 6 February 2019.\n\nSpeaking after the inquest, her mother said it had been a \"horrific, dreadful journey\" discovering the failures in Army welfare support for her daughter.\n\nThe Army said it was \"deeply sorry\" for its \"systemic and individual failings\".\n\nThe inquest at Reading Town Hall was told Ms Perks felt an \"overwhelming sense of embarrassment\" after spending the night in an officer's room five days before her death.\n\nShe had been attending the Falklands Ball and stayed with Colour Sgt Griffith, who was in charge of Ms Perks' day-to-day training and welfare.\n\nBoth denied any sexual activity, with Ms Perks claiming the colour sergeant had invited her in out of concern for her welfare and she had only used the room for sleep.\n\nMs Perks was a cadet at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst\n\nThe next morning, when Ms Perks was seen leaving his room in her ball gown, she was told \"my office now\" by the regimental sergeant major, the inquest heard.\n\nShe then missed a parade and had to walk past colleagues in her outfit from the night before.\n\nA friend told the coroner's court Ms Perks had felt \"under the microscope\" and like she was \"on trial\" as Sandhurst academy leaders questioned her about the incident and rumours about it spread on WhatsApp.\n\nThe coroner said the chain of command missed an opportunity to get Ms Perks seen by a doctor after that night.\n\nThe inquest, which took place over 16 days, heard Ms Perks fell victim to a \"complete breakdown in welfare support\" during her time at the academy.\n\nShe previously attempted to end her life during a visit to the Royal Engineers in Dorset the summer before, but was deemed at \"low risk\" of trying again.\n\nMs Perks was described by her mother as \"the most wonderful, vivacious and captivating girl\"\n\nMs Perks was back on duty two days later and warned she risked losing her place at the academy if she engaged in similar behaviour again.\n\nRecording a conclusion of suicide, coroner Alison McCormick said: \"The risks to Olivia were not managed in accordance with the Army policy for the risk management of vulnerable people.\n\n\"There was a missed opportunity by the chain of command to recognise the risk which the stress of her situation (after the Falklands Ball) posed to Olivia and a medical assessment should have been, but was not, requested.\n\n\"It is not possible to know what the outcome would have been had a medical assessment taken place, but it is possible that measures would have been put in place which could have prevented Olivia's death.\"\n\nThe court heard Ms Perks was interviewed after her first suicide attempt and the reason for the interview was recorded as \"inappropriate behaviour\" with \"the catalyst being excessive alcohol\".\n\nBut counsel to the coroner Bridget Dolan KC said Ms Perks appeared to be being told to sign a letter that makes clear \"deliberate self-harming is inappropriate behaviour\".\n\nMs Perks was in her last term at the prestigious military academy\n\nNone of the chain of command at Sandhurst were shown the report following the interview and only a welfare officer and commander who had left the academy had access to it.\n\nFollowing the inquest, solicitor Ahmed Al-Nahhas from law firm Bolt Burdon Kemp read out a statement on behalf of Ms Perks' mother Louise Townsend.\n\nHe said: \"Hearing the evidence from the court has been so hard - from fellow cadets, to the failures of welfare support.\n\n\"Learning that it could have been avoided with the right help, the fact that she may well have been with us now - I don't know that she was safeguarded adequately and that is so hard to comprehend.\"\n\nMs Perks was selected for officer training in 2018. She was the youngest of 180 cadets and was held in high regard.\n\nShe was in the last term of a 44-week course.\n\nLouise Townsend, Ms Perks' mother, pictured on the left, released a statement through her family's solicitor Ahmed Al-Nahhas\n\nHer mother explained they had reservations about Ms Perks joining as they were not a military family.\n\nShe said: \"She wanted to do this from the age of 14, worked tirelessly towards it - it was her dream. We were absolutely incredibly proud of how hard she'd worked.\n\n\"I remember thinking: 'Well, for 44 weeks you will be saying you'll be tired, you're exhausted, you'll be put through the motions, you may feel you don't want to pursue this - but you will be safe'.\n\n\"So it's been it's been horrific. A dreadful journey that we've been on for the past years, discovering that things weren't as they should have been.\"\n\nThe inquest heard Sandhurst academy had been rated as outstanding by education watchdog Ofsted.\n\nHowever, the coroner was also told it had only one welfare officer for 2,500 people.\n\nLt Col Rupert Whitelegge, who was commander of the academy's Old College at the time, told the inquest this level of support was \"irresponsible\".\n\nColonel Robert Manuel, president of the internal inquiry into Ms Perks' death, told the court he had found a complete breakdown in welfare support at Sandhurst.\n\nMajor General Zac Stenning said he was \"truly sorry for the systemic and individual failings\" at the academy\n\nIn a statement after the inquest, Army spokesman Maj Gen Zac Stenning, said: \"We are deeply sorry for the systemic and individual failings within the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst which led to the tragic death of Olivia Perks.\n\n\"Much more should and could have been done to support her. As an organisation we should have been better.\"\n\nMaj Gen Stenning added the inquest had been \"extremely difficult for all\" and described Ms Perks as \"a young woman full of sparkling promise\".\n\nHe continued: \"We are committed to being better and will consider all of the coroner's findings to ensure we learn any further lessons to provide the best possible leadership and care for our soldiers, officers and trainees.\n\n\"This includes zero tolerance of the utterly unacceptable behaviours exposed by the Service Inquiry and this inquest.\"\n\nMaj Gen Stenning confirmed officer cadets attending Sandhurst \"now experience vastly improved supervisory care on their journey to become future leaders.\n\n\"We owe this to Olivia and our people,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritish Cycling is to ban transgender women from the female category of its competitions following a nine-month review and consultation.\n\nUnder a new participation policy that the governing body said was \"predicated on fairness\", such athletes will compete in an 'open category' with men.\n\nFemale races will be \"for those whose sex was assigned female at birth\".\n\nThe changes will prevent riders such as Emily Bridges potentially being part of the British women's team.\n\nLast year Bridges - the country's highest-profile transgender cyclist - was stopped from competing in her first elite women's race by the UCI, cycling's world federation, despite meeting the rules at the time.\n\nBridges reacted to the announcement with a statement on social media, calling the change a \"violent act\" by a \"failed organisation\" that was \"controlling\" the conversation on transgender inclusion.\n\nShe added that the racing scene was \"dying under its watch\" and that British Cycling was engaged in \"culture wars\".\n\nBritish Cycling's policy had allowed transgender women to take part in elite female events if they met testosterone-based regulations.\n\nBut with the governing body at the heart of the debate over balancing inclusion with fairness, its regulations were suspended amid mounting controversy about Bridges and a review was launched.\n\n\"Research studies indicate that even with the suppression of testosterone, transgender women who transition post-puberty retain a performance advantage,\" said British Cycling.\n\n\"Our aim in creating our policies has always been to advance and promote equality, diversity and inclusion, while at the same time prioritising fairness of competition.\n\n\"We recognise the impact the suspension of our policy has had on trans and non-binary people, and we are sorry for the uncertainty and upset that many have felt during this period.\"\n\nTransgender women will be able to participate in non-competitive recreational and community cycling without restriction.\n\nThe new policies will be implemented by the end of the year.\n\n'You have no right to tell me when I am done' - Bridges response\n\nIn her statement, Bridges was critical of the state of British Cycling and its treatment of transgender riders.\n\n\"Cycling is still one of the whitest, straightest sports out there and you couldn't care less,\" she said. \"I agree there needs to be a nuanced policy discussion and continue to conduct research. This hasn't happened.\n\n\"Research isn't being viewed critically, or any discussion about the relevance of the data to specific sports.\n\n\"I've given my body up to science for the last two years, and this data will be out soon.\n\n\"There is actual, relevant data coming soon and discussions need to be had.\"\n\nBridges claimed discussion of the debate is \"inherently political\" and \"framed by the media who are driven through engagement by hate\", saying she was \"terrified to exist\".\n\nShe claimed British Cycling was \"furthering a genocide against us. Bans from sport is how it starts\".\n\nShe added: \"I know a lot of people will think I'm being dramatic, or overplaying how scary things are at the moment. I don't even know if I want to race my bike any more… but you have no right on telling me when I am done.\"\n\nBritish Cycling is not commenting on Bridges' statement.\n\nHaving been a highly promising competitor in junior men's events, Bridges came out as transgender in 2020, starting hormone therapy as part of her gender dysphoria treatment.\n\nShe then became eligible to compete in elite women's events under British Cycling's transgender regulations, which required riders to have had testosterone levels below five nanomoles per litre for a 12-month period prior to competition.\n\nBut days before the 2022 National Omnium Championships, the UCI said Bridges' participation could only be allowed once her eligibility to race in international competitions was confirmed, dashing her hopes of competing for Wales in the Commonwealth Games.\n\nA group of elite female cyclists called on the UCI to \"rescind\" its rules around transgender participation, claiming female athletes in the UK were \"willing to boycott\" events over their \"concerns about fairness in their sport\".\n\nBridges said she felt \"harassed and demonised\" and had \"little clarity\" on her eligibility. She added that she \"does not have any advantage\" over her competitors, and could prove it with data.\n\nWhile British Cycling suspended its rules, the UCI then toughened its regulations, doubling the qualification period to two years and lowering the required testosterone threshold for transgender women riders to 2.5nmol/L.\n\nBut this month, after Austin Killips became the first transgender woman to win a UCI women's stage race at the Tour of the Gila, the world governing body re-opened consultation on the issue, saying it \"hears the voices of female athletes and their concerns about an equal playing field for competitors\".\n\n\"We acknowledge the paucity of research at this time, but can only look at what's available to use,\" said British Cycling chief executive Jon Dutton.\n\n\"I am confident that we have developed policies that both safeguard the fairness of cycle-sport competition, whilst ensuring all riders have opportunities to participate.\n\n\"We have always been very clear that this is a challenge far greater than one sport. We remain committed to listening to our communities, to monitor changes in the scientific and policy landscape, to ensure that sport is inclusive for all.\"\n\nFiona McAnena from Fair Play For Women told BBC Radio 4's World at One she was \"concerned about all the women and girls who need to know that sport will be fair so I think an open category is a great solution because it doesn't negate anyone's identity…[and] the female category can be protected.\"\n\n\"We're finally reverting to fairness. We are going to see it across all sports.\"\n\nHowever Joanna Harper - a sports scientist who studies the effects of transition on transgender athletes, and who is transgender herself - said she was \"disappointed but not surprised\".\n\n\"I don't think it's necessary\" she told BBC Radio 5Live. \"Trans women have been competing in cycling for many years…and although they have achieved some success in the sport, they are under-represented and are not anywhere near taking over the sport.\"\n\nIn March, UK Athletics also banned transgender women from competing in the female category in its competitions and events. There have been similar moves in swimming,triathlon and both codes of rugby.\n\nA number of studies have suggested transgender women retain cardiovascular and strength advantages compared to female athletes, even after taking testosterone-suppressing hormones.\n\nCritics of transgender athletes' participation in some women's sports argue that gives them a disproportionate advantage over their peers and limits opportunities for their rivals.\n\nHowever, others argue there is not enough detailed research in the area, that the science is not clear, and that with very few elite transgender athletes, sport should be more inclusive, with open categories criticised for being discriminatory.\n\nBritish Cycling said its women-only community programme \"will continue to remain open and inclusive for transgender women and non-binary people\" who can \"continue to participate in a broad range of British Cycling activities in line with their gender identities\".\n• None Will they carve a brighter future down under?\n• None Michael Mosley chews over the surprising benefits of these nutrient powerhouses", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nJust Stop Oil protesters caused a stoppage to rugby's Gallagher Premiership final by running on to the pitch and throwing orange paint powder.\n\nThe match between Sale and Saracens at Twickenham was briefly delayed when two men ran from the stands.\n\nStewards escorted the protesters away to cheers from the crowd, and the men were later arrested.\n\nIt was the latest sporting event to be affected after play was halted at the World Snooker Championship in April.\n\nA man climbed on to a table at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre and covered it in orange powder as another protester tried to glue herself to the second table. A 25-year-old man and 52-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage.\n\nA statement from Twickenham stadium said it was a \"police matter\", adding: \"We would like to thank our stewarding team who acted decisively and swiftly.\"\n\nJust Stop Oil said the protesters at Twickenham were a doctor and a construction worker.\n\nA statement read: \"Today's action occurs against a back-drop of more extreme weather events, as increasingly greater carbon concentrations in the atmosphere push us closer to irreversible tipping points, threatening to spin the balance of humanities' life supports systems out of control.\"\n\nSaracens won 35-25 to secure their sixth Premiership title and first in four years.\n• None Just Stop Oil: What is it and what does it want?\n• None Will they carve a brighter future down under?\n• None Michael Mosley chews over the surprising benefits of these nutrient powerhouses", "The Night Time Industries Association said it would be a \"huge blow\" if the venue permanently closed\n\nMusic fans are being asked to \"step up\" to save the O2 Academy Brixton from permanent closure.\n\nLambeth Council is considering revoking the south London venue's licence after a fatal crush at a gig on 15 December.\n\nTwo people died after the crowd surge at the concert by singer Asake and the Academy has been closed ever since.\n\nThe Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), which lobbies for the live music sector, wants people to express support for the venue to stay open.\n\nThe Met Police recently urged Lambeth Council to strip the venue of its licence due to safety concerns.\n\nHowever, Michael Kill, CEO of the NTIA, told the BBC the O2 Academy Brixton was \"hugely important to the cultural economy of London and the UK and without doubt one of the landmark performance venues in the world\".\n\n\"This venue has been responsible for shaping and nurturing artists' careers,\" he said.\n\nMr Kill added that many live music venues had closed in recent years and losing the \"iconic\" academy would be \"devastating\".\n\nThe NTIA is asking people to write to the Lambeth Council, urging it to keep the venue open.\n\nRebecca Ikumelo and Gaby Hutchinson died as a result of the crush\n\nThe crush happened when a crowd of more than 1,000 people turned up to a concert, many without tickets, and forced their way into the lobby of the building.\n\nMother-of two Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, from east London, and Gaby Hutchinson, 23, from Gravesend in Kent - a security contractor working at the venue, were fatally injured. The Met Police investigation into what happened is continuing.\n\nIn a recent letter to Lambeth Council, the Met said officers were called to a \"large-scale disorder\" and arrived to find security staff \"completely out of control of the situation\".\n\nConcerns have also been raised about the strength of the doors, staffing levels and the provision of medical cover.\n\nThe Academy Music Group, which runs the venue, previously said it had made \"detailed proposals that we believe will enable the venue to reopen safely\".\n\nLambeth Council is expected to make a decision on the venue's future later this year.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former US President Donald Trump has filed a court notice of appeal two days after a civil trial found he sexually abused a woman, E Jean Carroll, in a New York department store.\n\nA New York jury awarded Ms Carroll nearly $5m in damages over her allegation that Mr Trump attacked her in the 1990s.\n\nJurors found Mr Trump, 76, liable for battery and defamation, but not rape.\n\nHis appeal comes a day after the former president called his accuser a \"wack job\" during a CNN town hall event.\n\n\"I swear on my children, which I never do. I have no idea who this woman is. This is a fake story,\" he said.\n\nHe accused the civil trial's presiding judge of anti-Trump bias and said that his decision not to testify in person would not have made any difference to the outcome.\n\nThe jury's verdict marked the first time Mr Trump, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women, was found legally responsible for assault.\n\nMs Carroll, a writer and long-time advice columnist, claimed Mr Trump raped her inside a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room and has defamed her by calling her allegation \"a hoax and a lie\".\n\nThe jury of six men and three women deliberated for less than three hours on Tuesday before reaching their decision.\n\nThe standard of proof in civil cases is lower than in criminal cases, meaning that jurors were only required to find that it was more likely than not that Mr Trump assaulted Ms Carroll.\n\nWhile the jury found Mr Trump liable for sexual battery and defamation of Ms Carroll, they did not find Mr Trump liable of raping her. To do so, the jury would have needed to have been convinced that Mr Trump had engaged in non-consensual sexual intercourse with Ms Carroll.\n\nMr Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina told reporters outside the courtroom that it was \"a strange verdict\".\n\n\"They rejected her rape claim and she always claimed this was a rape case, so it's a little perplexing,\" he said.\n\nHe added that, in Mr Trump's hometown of New York, where the former president is now unpopular, \"you just can't get a fair trial\".\n\nThe case will now move to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.\n\nMs Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan earlier expressed confidence to US media that Mr Trump has \"no legitimate arguments for appeal\".\n\n\"I've rarely felt more confident about an appeal than I do about this one,\" she said.\n\nMs Kaplan also told the New York Times that her client was giving \"serious consideration\" toward filing a new defamation suit against Mr Trump over his latest comments on CNN.\n\nMr Trump is currently the frontrunner to once again win the Republican nomination for president in 2024, earning more than 50% support in national polls, including several conducted after the New York trial began.", "The campaign group says the bilingual tradition must be protected and respected\n\nMore than 50 businesses in the Bannau Brycheiniog national park have called for its English name to be reinstated.\n\nThey have formed a campaign group and said they were considering legal action.\n\nThe group argued businesses have spent decades making the area a \"well-known global hotspot for tourism\".\n\nThe park authority, which said it would stop using the Brecon Beacons name last month, said people were \"welcome to use whichever name they choose\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brecon Beacons National Park will now be calling itself only by its Welsh name, Bannau Brycheiniog\n\nThe decision was aimed at promoting local culture and heritage, as part of a wider overhaul of how the park is managed.\n\nThe new campaign group - called \"Our Bannau Brycheiniog/Brecon Beacons\" - is made up of range of businesses in the fields of tourism, farming, green energy, hospitality and retail.\n\nHelen Howarth says losing the English language name will hurt tourism\n\nThey said they were proud of operating in a bilingual nation and believed \"this tradition must be protected and respected\".\n\nThey said they were also seeking legal advice about whether they could mount a High Court challenge, which would argue the park's rebrand conflicts with the 1993 Welsh Language Act obliging public bodies in Wales to treat Welsh and English on an equal basis.\n\n\"I firmly believe that losing our identity as the Brecon Beacons National Park will be detrimental to us all and especially tourism, hospitality and trade,\" said Helen Howarth, who owns a self-catering accommodation business.\n\nThe group has penned an open letter to park bosses calling on them \"to reinstate the bilingual Bannau Brycheiniog/ Brecon Beacons National Park name and brand\".\n\nThey say a number of the campaign's signatories are part of a scheme to be official ambassadors for the park and were \"not even notified about the renaming and rebranding project before its launch on 17 April\".\n\nNigel Kilgallon says the name change seems like \"an act of sabotage\"\n\nNigel Kilgallon, who runs a B&B in Brecon and is a town councillor, said the name change highlights the disconnect between the authority that runs the national park, and the local community.\n\n\"You could call it a trademark, you could call it intellectual property, you could call it a marketing tool. All these things that it could be. But it's also the home of the people that live here. Our Brecon Beacons,\" he said.\n\n\"And so to just change it, just seems like an act of sabotage. It's either that or it's just ill-thought out by the authority.\n\n\"It's what it's always known as and that bilingualism is really at the heart of what we're trying to do here.\"\n\nOwen Williams, the managing director of a digital marketing agency, said he found it difficult to understand the campaigners' argument.\n\nThe attention the national park had received through its decision in recent weeks had been \"unreal\", he claimed.\n\n\"It's been a very canny marketing strategy,\" he said.\n\nReferring to moves in other countries such as Australia to focus on the indigenous names for iconic sites he said \"tourism doesn't drop because the Ayres Rock name is minimised and Uluru brought to the fore\".\n\nA spokeswoman for Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority said the organisation had \"decided to prioritise the Welsh name going forwards\".She added: \"The park is not asking other people or organisations to prioritise the Welsh name. This is an organisational decision and applies to all the work they do.\n\n\"Others are welcome to use whichever name they choose for the park.\"", "Why does the Bank of England keep raising rates?\n\nJames from Norwich notes that people are spending more because of high energy and food prices. The point of raising interest rates is to reduce the amount people spend - so why does the Bank of England keep raising rates? Lots of people are asking the same question – for entirely understandable reasons. Why would the Bank of England raise rates, increasing the financial pain on those already suffering, knowing that the impact on prices could be limited? One answer is that the base rate is a blunt instrument, but pretty much the sharpest the Bank has. So, the committee has decided that a higher rate will dampen some non-essential spending, and bring down the rate of price rises (known as inflation). It may take some time. Clearly, the impact is that borrowing gets more expensive for millions of people. This may, or may not, be the end of the run of rate rises. It certainly isn’t the end of the debate over this policy.", "Former Conservative minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused Rishi Sunak of breaking his word after the government ditched plans to allow thousands of EU-era laws to expire by the end of 2023.\n\nDefending the move, Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch told MPs the government was still \"ending EU supremacy\" but just \"changing how we are doing it\".\n\nShe said it showed Brexiteers could be \"pragmatic\" and \"do what is right\".\n\nBut Mr Rees-Mogg said the deadline would \"make Whitehall work\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, he said: \"It is hard enough to motivate Whitehall at the best of times - they are not necessarily coming into the office, they don't seem to be working with the efficiency one would like.\n\n\"Without a deadline, nothing will happen and we will retain these EU laws for a long time.\"\n\nMr Rees-Mogg, who championed the deadline when he was business secretary last year, said getting rid of the laws would help make the UK's economy more competitive and reduce inflation. Of the PM, he said: \"He has broken his word. This is very serious in my view\".\n\nDave Penman, the head of the FDA Union which represents senior civil servants, hit back at suggestions the civil service were to blame, saying the deadline was \"an inevitability\".\n\n\"It was a bizarre way of doing business in government to say that unless we get to a certain point in time, any piece of legislation will simply fall away.\"\n\nDuring his unsuccessful bid to be Conservative leader in the summer, Mr Sunak sought to attract members' votes by putting out a campaign video which saw bundles of EU laws being shredded.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg is not the only Conservative MP upset at the government's decision to scrap the 2023 deadline.\n\nOn Wednesday, 20 Tory backbenchers went to see the chief whip Simon Hart to express their concern, and some MPs went into Downing Street to do the same.\n\nAnd during an urgent question in Parliament on the subject, several Conservative MPs criticised the move.\n\n\"What on earth are you playing at?\" asked Mark Francois as he accused the government of performing a \"massive climbdown\".\n\nDominic Raab - who resigned as justice secretary last month - urged ministers to \"resist the resistance\" in Whitehall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, ministers received support from other Conservative backbenchers - Sir Bob Neill said he now felt more able to support the bill, because gaps in the legislation had been \"sensibly filled\".\n\nThe divisions in the Conservative Party over Brexit are far from as serious as they were under Theresa May. But there are still spits over the pace and extent of divergence from Europe.\n\nWhen the UK officially left the EU in 2020, the UK incorporated thousands of EU laws into UK law to minimise disruption to businesses - with an ongoing audit by civil servants having identified 4,800 so far.\n\nThe Retained EU Law Bill, introduced during Liz Truss's premiership, set a 31 December 2023 deadline, after which most of the laws would have expired unless ministers decided to replaced or retain them.\n\nCritics - including opposition parties, trade unions and campaign groups - had argued that the deadline was unrealistic and could lead to important legislation being lost by accident.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on... Brexit and the clash over EU laws\n\nEnvironmental groups had been particularly concerned warning about a loss of rights and legal protections in areas including water quality, air pollution standards and protections for wildlife.\n\nSetting out the decision on Wednesday to scrap the deadline, Ms Badenoch said the cut-off point would be replaced with a list of 600 laws the government wants to replace by the end of the year.\n\nShe said that list was \"not the limit of the government's ambition\" and that ministers expected to have repealed more than 2,000 pieces of rule by the end of the year.\n\nLabour's shadow business minister Justin Madders, described the situation as an \"absolute shambles\".\n\n\"It was completely unrealistic, reckless and frankly arrogant to think they could strike 4,000 laws from the statute book in the timescale.\"\n\nThe SNP's Kirsten Oswald's described the bill as \"damaging\" and \"anti-democratic\" and expressed concern that UK ministers would still have the power to act in areas that are devolved to Scotland.", "Parents and teachers of Year 6 pupils say a Sats reading paper was so difficult it left children in tears.\n\nOne mother told the BBC that her child, who loves reading, was unable to finish the paper.\n\nA head teachers' union said even staff had struggled to understand the questions, and it would be raising concerns about the paper.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said it worked to ensure that \"all tests are appropriate\".\n\nSome parents said on social media that their children were \"distraught\" after the paper, which is part of a series of national curriculum tests known as Sats.\n\nA head teacher in Cheshire wrote to her MP calling for Sats to be scrapped after her primary school pupils were left \"broken\".\n\nJill Russell, from Cumbria, said her daughter, Pashley, was \"very close to tears\" when she picked her up from school on Wednesday.\n\nPashley, who is autistic, loves reading and is the subject ambassador for English in her school. She had been worried about Sats, but reading was \"the one she was least concerned about\".\n\nPashley (l) is a keen reader, says her mum Jill (r)\n\n\"She usually ends up having a lot of extra time left over, and she said 'I don't think I got to the end of the paper.... I didn't understand a lot of it. It didn't make sense',\" Ms Russell said.\n\n\"It's definitely made her more anxious about going back in today [Thursday].\"\n\nMs Russell thinks it is \"good, in a way, to have some kind of tests\" before GCSEs and thinks Pashley's school is \"fantastic\", but feels that schools in general are under too much pressure to perform well in Sats.\n\n\"It kind of feels like they're being taught how to pass the test, as opposed to being taught, and then the test is an addition,\" she said.\n\nThe government has advised that the content of the test paper should not be published until all Year 6 pupils have had the chance to take it.\n\nSarah Hannafin, head of policy for the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), said the union was \"very concerned\" about the paper.\n\n\"Members have told us that the choice of texts was not accessible for the wide range of experiences and backgrounds children have and the difficulty was beyond previous tests, leaving children upset and with even staff struggling to understand the questions,\" she said.\n\nShe said the NAHT would raise the concerns with Standards and Testing Agency, which delivers assessments, and Ofqual, England's exams regulator.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the Sats this week had been \"a punishing experience for many pupils and staff\".\n\nShe said that children who do not meet expected standards in results this year \"will take this demotivating label with them into their secondary schools\".\n\n\"This is not a system that is concerned about children and their learning. There are better ways of assessing pupils,\" she said.\n\nA DfE spokesman said Key Stage 2 assessments \"play a vital role in understanding pupils' progress and identifying those who may have fallen behind\".\n\n\"Our test development process is extremely rigorous and includes reviews by a large number of education and inclusion experts and professionals, including teachers, and we trial tests with hundreds of pupils over several years to ensure that all tests are appropriate,\" he said.\n\n\"It's important that schools encourage pupils to do their best, but preparing for these exams should not be at the expense of their wellbeing.\"\n\nLast year, 59% of Year 6 pupils met the expected levels in reading, writing and maths - down from 65% in 2019.\n\nThe national curriculum tests were cancelled in 2020 and 2021.", "TransPennine Express will be nationalised after customer complaints of poor service and cancelled trains.\n\nThe government will now run the service which covers Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds in the north of England and runs to Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland.\n\nPassengers will see no change to the service but the overall aim is to improve its performance.\n\nIn January and February about a quarter of its services were cancelled, which was the highest rate in the UK.\n\nThat improved to around one in six in March, but it was still the worst-performing train operator in terms of cancellations.\n\nThe Department for Transport said that TransPennine's contract would not be renewed on 28 May.\n\nIt will now be run by the Operator of Last Resort (OLR), which means a business will step in on behalf of the government to take over the management of the service.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper said taking TransPennine under state control was \"not a silver bullet and will not instantaneously fix a number of challenges being faced\".\n\nTransPennine, which is run by the company FirstGroup, has stood out for the number of trains it has cancelled the night before they are due to run, which it has blamed on staff shortages.\n\nThe rail operator's services run across the north of England, and include destinations in Yorkshire, the North East and Lincolnshire.\n\nPassengers on the packed Manchester to York line on Thursday morning weren't surprised by the news.\n\n\"I've been getting this train for 20 years and it's been a bit fraught,\" said Chris Flanagan.\n\nA few years ago there was some investment, but since the Covid pandemic \"it's been absolutely horrendous\", he said.\n\n\"Most days you can't actually get into the office. [It's been] pretty grim,\" he added.\n\nFellow commuter Sarah Hunt agreed, saying she checks what trains are running both the night before and in the morning before setting off.\n\nBut the the service being nationalised \"could be a good thing\", she said.\n\n\"I feel like Northern did benefit a lot from when it was taken over by the Operator of Last Resort, so I do think that possibly, it could be quite useful.\"\n\nNorthern, London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) and Southeastern Trains are all currently run by the OLR.\n\nScotrail, Transport for Wales and Northern Ireland Railways are also nationalised.\n\nBased on the latest figures, when the OLR takes over TransPennine's contract, more than one in five train journeys in Britain could be run by nationalised companies.\n\nNigel Harris, managing editor of Rail magazine, said nationalising TransPennine was little more than \"political window dressing\", as in effect the government has been in control of the rail network in England since coronavirus lockdowns led to \"the collapse of all the franchises\".\n\nEmergency contracts were signed during the pandemic, which were replaced by national rail contracts with most train companies in England, whereby the company is paid a fixed fee to operate services and the taxpayer shoulders the financial risk.\n\n\"There will be no immediate difference in how the services are operated and the same old problems will persist - but now it will be clearly the government's fault,\" Mr Harris said.\n\nThere has been ongoing disruption to TransPennine services since early 2022, but the company has said a recovery plan was bringing the numbers down.\n\nIt has previously blamed high staff sickness rates, a backlog of driver training and the lack of an overtime working agreement with the drivers' union Aslef.\n\nThe transport secretary also blamed strikes by Aslef for hampering a full service being offered on TransPennine routes.\n\nHowever, Aslef said that was \"misleading\" and that the blame should lie with the company's \"inept management\".\n\nFirstGroup said it was disappointed by the government's decision not to renew the contract it has run in various guises since 2004.\n\n\"Our team have worked extremely hard to improve services, including by recruiting and training more drivers than ever before,\" said Graham Sutherland, FirstGroup's chief executive.\n\nHowever, Louise Haigh, Labour's shadow transport secretary, said: \"This endless cycle of shambolic private operators failing passengers shows the Conservatives' rail system is fundamentally broken.\"\n\nA Labour government would nationalise railways as contracts expire, she added.\n\nAndy Burnham, Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, said privatisation has \"seen fares shoot up, and the standard of services go down, and the companies in the end are not accountable to the paying public\".\n\nWest Yorkshire's Labour Mayor Tracy Brabin said there had been \"a catalogue of failure and delays and cancellations\" on TransPennine and that it was \"absolutely right that this is the end of the line\" for the operator.", "The UK has confirmed it is supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles it requested for its fight against invading Russian forces.\n\nThe Storm Shadow cruise missile has a range of over 250km (155 miles), according to the manufacturer.\n\nBy contrast, the US-supplied Himars missiles used by Ukraine only have a range of around 80 km (50 miles).\n\nThe weapons will give Ukraine the \"best chance\" of defending itself, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said.\n\nThey are fired from aircraft, so the longer range means Ukrainian pilots will be able to stay further from the frontlines.\n\nOnce launched, the Storm Shadow drops to low altitude to avoid detection by enemy radar, before latching onto its target with an infra-red seeker.\n\nThe announcement was made in the House of Commons by Mr Wallace. The decision follows repeated pleas from Ukraine for more weapons from the West.\n\nMr Wallace said the missiles would \"allow Ukraine to push back Russian forces based on Ukrainian sovereign territory\".\n\nHe said the UK took the decision after Russia \"continued down a dark path\" of targeting civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.\n\nMr Wallace wrote to his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu in December, he said, to warn that further attacks could result in the UK donating more capable weapons.\n\nHe said the missiles were \"going into\" or already in Ukrainian hands, and described the move as \"calibrated and proportionate to Russia's escalations\".\n\n\"None of this would have been necessary had Russia not invaded,\" he said.\n\nHe said the missiles would be compatible with Ukraine's existing, Soviet-era planes and praised the technicians and scientists who made that possible.\n\nBut he warned the range of the British-supplied Storm Shadows was \"not in the same league\" as Russia's own missile systems - with some of Moscow's weapons being able to travel far further.\n\nEarlier this year, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov insisted longer-range missiles would not be used to attack targets within Russia itself.\n\n\"If we could strike at a distance of up to 300 kilometres, the Russian army wouldn't be able to provide defence and will have to lose,\" he told an EU meeting.\n\n\"Ukraine is ready to provide any guarantees that your weapons will not be involved in attacks on the Russian territory.\"\n\nThe UK's Royal Air Force arms its Eurofighter Typhoon jets with Storm Shadow missiles\n\nIn February, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was prepared to send long-range missiles to Ukraine, and the British government opened a bidding process for their procurement.\n\n\"Together we must help Ukraine to shield its cities from Russian bombs and Iranian drones,\" Mr Sunak said then. \"That's why the United Kingdom will be the first country to give Ukraine longer-range weapons.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow would take an \"appropriate\" military response to any British-supplied Storm Shadow weapons used by Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe Storm Shadow missile has been operated by both British and French air forces and has been used previously in the Gulf, Iraq and Libya.\n\nThe British-supplied missiles can only be fired by aircraft, but French missiles can be fired from ships and submarines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says his army needs more equipment ahead of counter-offensive\n• None Zelensky: We must wait before starting offensive", "A strike by train drivers caused disruption for rail passengers on Friday and services are set to be affected across the weekend.\n\nMembers of the Aslef train drivers' union walked out from 16 companies, with some running no services at all.\n\nOn Saturday - the day of the Eurovision final in Liverpool - the RMT union is taking separate strike action, which will affect 14 rail operators.\n\nAs well as Friday's walkout, Aslef is also striking on Wednesday 31 May and Saturday 3 June - the day of the FA Cup final.\n\nAslef insisted that Friday's strike was not scheduled to affect travel to the Eurovision final.\n\nBut both Aslef and the RMT have been accused by Transport Secretary Mark Harper of targeting the contest.\n\nTrain companies said the action was \"likely to result in little or no services across large areas of the network\", with services also disrupted on the days immediately after the strikes.\n\nPassengers need to plan ahead and check services before travel, they said.\n\nThe first that Monika, a 26-year-old librarian from Whitstable, knew about the strikes was when she turned up at the railway station on Friday morning.\n\nShe told the BBC she had a flight booked from Stansted to Warsaw for an important family gathering, but when she tried to get a taxi to the airport, they were all busy.\n\nShe then travelled to Canterbury, thinking it would be easier to get a cab, but by the time she got there she had missed her flight.\n\nMonika booked another flight from Heathrow, but then had to get a taxi there. All in, with cab fares and plane tickets, Monika paid out nearly £600 - wiping out most of her savings and forcing her to borrow from her parents.\n\n\"It is a lot for me,\" she said. \"I work in a library so I'm on a low income.\"\n\nMonika said she felt \"really frustrated\" by the situation. But she added that she feels sympathy for the striking train workers and is \"100% behind\" them.\n\nAslef general secretary Mick Whelan told the BBC that if the union had deliberately targeted the Eurovision final, it would have taken action on the \"Friday, Saturday and the Sunday\" instead.\n\nMr Whelan added: \"We don't want to hurt anybody, but there is no good day for a strike. If you pick any one day in any given week you'll hit some event.\"\n\nHowever, the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train firms, insisted that the action was timed to hit Eurovision and would \"disrupt the plans of thousands of fans\".\n\nThe Department for Transport said it was \"hard to believe\" Aslef would be \"unaware of the huge impact\" on Eurovision of its action.\n\nFans have been gathering for events at the Eurovision Village in Liverpool throughout this week\n\nMr Whelan was asked whether Aslef would be able to find a \"middle ground\" with the government, but he said talks were not ongoing.\n\n\"I haven't seen the government since January... they take no ownership,\" he told the BBC. \"They don't talk to us, only the [rail] companies.\"\n\nRail Minister Huw Merriman insisted Aslef had been offered a \"fair and reasonable\" pay deal.\n\n\"We had a good positive meeting... and it was agreed with Mick Whelan and the Rail Delivery Group that they'd go off and have further talks,\" he said.\n\nHe added that a pay offer was put to Aslef but had not been \"put through\" to members to vote on, which he was \"disappointed\" with.\n\nAsked why the government was not doing more to end the disputes, Mr Merriman argued that being a train driver is a \"well-paid job\" and said it would be \"even more so if this pay offer was put forward to members and accepted\".\n\n\"At the moment a train driver is paid on average, for a 35-hour week, just short of £60,000,\" he told the BBC. \"The latest offer would take them up to £65,000.\"\n\nBut Mr Whelan told the BBC it was a \"malicious lie\" that the offer was fair and reasonable \"because the strings attached to it rip up every condition we've gained over the last 140 years\".\n\nHe said the offer was less than inflation \"so in effect it's a 20% pay cut for giving all our terms and conditions\", and negotiations had been \"scuppered\" by union \"red lines\" being put back into the deal.\n\nEurovision fan Harry Cunningham said the strikes were a \"huge disappointment\"\n\nHarry Cunningham, 23, who lives in London, had been planning to get the train on Friday to Liverpool and stay the night for the Eurovision Village grand final on Saturday.\n\nWhen the strikes were announced, he and his friend looked into other transport options but any alternative would have been three times longer than the train.\n\nHe said it was \"crushing\" and \"heartbreaking\" that they wouldn't be able to go.\n\n\"It's a huge disappointment... this is something we've been planning and prepping for since September.\"\n\nThere have already been six strike days in Aslef's long-running pay dispute.\n\nThe industry and the government say the railway's finances are unsustainable, so ways of working have to change and efficiencies be made, in return for wages going up.\n\nUnions point out the pay rises on the table are way below inflation, and argue their members' jobs and working conditions are being attacked.\n\nLast month, Aslef rejected the latest proposals from the group representing train companies.\n\nSeparately, RMT members who work as maintenance workers and signallers at Network Rail voted to accept a deal in March, ending that dispute.\n\nBut the parallel dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions with 14 train companies goes on.\n\nThe RMT's committee has rejected the train companies' latest offer, including a 5% pay rise one year and 4% the next.\n\nAre your travel plans affected by the industrial action? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A relatively new and dangerous street drug called monkey dust, which is already banned in the US, could soon face tougher penalties in the UK.\n\nThe government is asking officials about the drug that can cause violence and paranoia - some users have jumped off buildings or tried to eat glass.\n\nThe city of Stoke-on-Trent has seen a big rise in users and related crimes, including arson.\n\nReclassifying it from Class B to A would increase jail terms for dealers.\n\nStoke-on-Trent South MP Jack Brereton says he is pleased the government is taking action.\n\nHe said: \"It's a hallucinogenic drug, and many people's lives have been completely destroyed as a result of taking this drug.\n\n\"There is no treatment for those who become addicted - and it is very addictive. For those who succumb to it, it's very profound.\"\n\nHe said users could become a danger to themselves as well as others.\n\nThe effects can vary considerably from user to user.\n\nPolice officers have described tackling those under the influence as like trying to wrestle with the Incredible Hulk.\n\n\"It's so cheaply available, it's cheaper than the price of alcohol and people are able to just pick it up readily. We need to see reclassification and put the consequences up for those who are pushing this drug.\"\n\nAccording to Mr Brereton, a hit can cost as little as £2 to buy on the street.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMonkey dust is the street name for methylenedioxy-α-pyrrolidinohexiophenone or MDPHP, which is a synthetic cathinone.\n\nIt is a white or yellowish powder that is sold by dealers as an alternative to drugs like speed, ecstasy or cocaine.\n\nUsers snort it or wrap it in paper and swallow it, but it can be smoked.\n\nWhile it can create euphoria, it can make users feel anxious and paranoid.\n\nSome users may experience fits and heart damage.\n\nPolicing Minister Chris Philp said: \"These synthetic drugs ruin lives, families and neighbourhoods. Made in labs and pumped into our communities, our drug laws must keep pace with their evolution.\"\n\nBy making monkey dust a Class A substance, criminals caught supplying it would face a life sentence.\n\nPossession would carry a penalty of up to seven years in prison.\n\nThe Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs will give the government the findings of its review in due course.\n\nThe BBC's political reporter in Staffordshire, Amara Sophia Elahi, said: \"I covered the problems the substance was causing in Stoke-on-Trent for BBC News, and five years on it is still a huge issue for the city. In fact, Staffordshire Police now have a dedicated operation aimed at trying to disrupt the supply chain of the drug in Stoke-on-Trent.\n\n\"In recent weeks, the force has seized more than 10 kilograms of Monkey Dust worth over £100,000 which was due to be delivered to addresses in the city.\n\n\"Although Stoke-on-Trent will receive an extra £1.5 million from the government's Drugs Strategy funding over the next year to try to tackle substance misuse, for many in this city reclassification seems to be the only way to prevent Monkey Dust from wreaking further havoc yet.\"", "The Russian fleet sent to South Africa for naval exercises was led by the Admiral Gorshkov warship, seen here in Cape Town in February\n\nThe US ambassador to South Africa has accused the country of supplying weapons to Russia despite its professed neutrality in the war in Ukraine.\n\nReuben Brigety claimed that a Russian ship was loaded with ammunition and arms in Cape Town last December.\n\nPresident Cyril Ramaphosa's office said it was disappointed by the claims and said no evidence has been provided to support them.\n\nThe country has maintained claims of neutrality in the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMr Brigety said at a media briefing in Pretoria on Thursday that Washington had concerns about the country's stated non-aligned stance on the conflict.\n\nHe referred to the docking of a cargo ship in the Simon's Town naval base between 6 and 8 December last year which he was \"confident\" uploaded weapons and ammunition \"as it made its way back to Russia\".\n\nThe presence of the ship, the Lady R, had seemed curious at the time and raised questions from some local politicians.\n\n\"The arming of the Russians is extremely serious, and we do not consider this issue to be resolved,\" Mr Brigety said, in a damning accusation that seems to have caught South Africa's officials off guard.\n\nIn the wake of the allegations, the South African government announced the establishment of an independent inquiry led by a retired judge, a spokesman for the president's office said.\n\nThe US has been critical for months about South Africa's continued cosy relationship with Russia.\n\nState Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told journalists on Thursday that the US had previously raised concerns about the Lady R with numerous South African officials.\n\nHe said the US would speak out against \"any country taking steps to support Russia's illegal and brutal war in Ukraine\", but would not say whether there would be any repercussions for South Africa if the claims proved to be true.\n\nWashington has also expressed concerns about South Africa's participation in military exercises with Russia and China during the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa told parliament his government was looking into the claims\n\nThe naval exercises took place over 10 days in February and were criticised by opposition figures as an endorsement of the Russian invasion.\n\nThe South African authorities denied the war games were provocatively timed to coincide with the one-year anniversary and said the country routinely hosts similar drills with other nations, including France and the US.\n\nSouth Africa previously abstained from a UN vote condemning the invasion. It also refused to join the US and Europe in imposing sanctions on Russia.\n\nIn response to a question raised by the leader of the opposition John Steenhuisen, President Ramaphosa told parliament on Thursday that the comments made by the US ambassador would be looked into.\n\nThe president asked opposition parties to allow for the process to be completed, adding that \"in time we will be able to speak about it\".\n\nIf the claims are true, they not only weaken South Africa's claim of neutrality, but some may even go as far as saying the country is complicit in the ongoing aggression of Russia in Ukraine.\n\n\"If South African bullets are found on Ukraine bodies, that is not a position we would want to be in,\" one expert in international relations said.\n\nThe details around the arms cache are still thin. It is not clear if the weapons would have been acquired from a state-owned arms company, or a weapons company based in South Africa.\n\nBut either way, this does not bode well for South Africa's international ties, especially with the US, one of its largest trade allies.\n\nAt the heart of the issue for South Africa now, off the back of these claims, will be the impression this could create that the country is not only non-aligned but has in fact chosen to be a \"soft ally\" to Russia, at a time when some Western countries see Russia as an aggressor guilty of human rights violations.\n\nSouth Africa has modern-day ties with Russia because they are members of the Brics alliance, a group which represents some of the world's leading emerging economies, including China, Brazil and India.\n\nThe country's governing African National Congress (ANC) also has long-standing ties with Russia.\n\nSouth Africa was faced with a diplomatic dilemma in March after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nHe is accused of being responsible for war crimes in Ukraine, including the unlawful deportation of children.\n\nMr Putin was due to attend an upcoming Brics summit in South Africa in August but the warrant meant that Pretoria would have to detain him on arrival.\n\nIn response, last month Mr Ramaphosa said the ANC had decided that South Africa should quit the ICC, before backtracking hours later citing what his office called a communications \"error\".\n\nHistorically, South Africa had a thriving arms industry, selling weapons to countries across the continent. The scale of that arms power to date is currently not known.\n\nSouth Africa's authorities have been less than pleased with the accusation from the US ambassador, saying the matter should have been handled through proper diplomatic channels.\n\nIt is not enough for the envoy to simply claim the existence of the intelligence and there will be an expectation from many in South Africa for the US to provide evidence of its claim.\n\nThis is a hang-over from claims once made by the US of weapons of mass destruction, which led to the invasion of Iraq some years ago.", "An autistic girl aged 16 spent nearly seven months in a busy general hospital due to a lack of suitable children's mental health services in England.\n\nHer local health and care system said it was \"very sorry\" for how she was treated \"when she was most vulnerable\".\n\nCampaigners describe the shortage of appropriate support for people with autism as a human rights crisis.\n\nDirectors of council care services are calling for an urgent government review of children's mental health services.\n\nThe teenager, called Molly, spent about 200 days living in a side-room of a children's ward at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth. It is not a mental health unit.\n\nExperts say a general hospital was not the right place for her, but she had nowhere else to go because of a lack of help in the community.\n\nWarning: Molly's story contains details that some people may find upsetting\n\nAgency mental health nurses were brought in because she needed constant, three-to-one observations to keep her safe. Her family says security guards were also often stationed outside her room.\n\nMolly's autism is at the root of the deep anxiety and eating problems that she struggles with.\n\nLike many autistic people, she finds dealing with noise difficult. The clamour of the hospital overloaded her senses and her behaviour sometimes became challenging. She was restrained numerous times.\n\nIn the final 10 days she was at the hospital, her family says the children's ward was closed to other patients because she became so distressed.\n\nA spokesperson for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System (ICS) said it was sorry Molly \"did not receive care in an environment better suited to her needs\", adding: \"Molly's safety has always been our priority.\"\n\nThe National Autistic Society says it is hearing from hundreds of autistic people who cannot get the support they need.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care says it recognises \"the importance of getting people the right care in the right place\".\n\nThis may be one person's experience, but it tells us so much about how the health and care system is failing too many young people who are struggling.\n\nMolly is a bright, engaging teenager, who loves animals and finds the outdoors calming. She was diagnosed as autistic when she was 10 years old. She is also partially sighted.\n\nFor nearly a year, I've been speaking to Molly and her parents. Through the many emails, phone calls, video meetings and visits I've followed the frustrating fight they've faced to try to get Molly the right support.\n\nMolly with her parents Mandy and Richard\n\nWhen I first sat talking to Molly in the kitchen of her family home last August, she had already spent 90 days on the children's ward of the general hospital because there was no support available elsewhere.\n\nShe had initially been taken there because her weight had fallen dangerously low, but described the loud, bright, busy hospital environment as like \"living in hell\".\n\n\"It feels like they're torturing you,\" she said. \"It's almost like the hospital room is like a small box, and you're not allowed to leave it. There are phones going off, alarms, children screaming.\"\n\nThe three-person restraint team that moved in when she became distressed or if she was refusing to eat \"just made things 100 times worse\", she remembered.\n\nIn the past four years, Molly has also spent time on four child and adolescent mental health units. Two of the units have since closed after highly critical inspection reports. Her family believes none of the places provided Molly with the therapy or autism support she needed.\n\nHer father Richard said: \"There is no long-term strategy. No planning really, other than reacting to crises.\"\n\nThe Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICS spokesperson said there had been \"a significant and rapid rise\" in the number of children and young people with complex mental health conditions requiring care and support since the Covid pandemic.\n\nIt says across England, the proportion of children aged five to 16 years identified as having a probable mental disorder increased from 10.8% in 2017 to 16% in 2020. In south-east England the proportion is even higher at 17.4%.\n\nWhen I asked Molly why she wanted to speak to us, she was very clear. She didn't want others to be treated as she had been treated.\n\n\"The system really needs to change,\" she said.\n\nOnce Molly was back at home after being discharged from the last unit, they hoped she would get intensive support in the community to help with her disordered eating and anxiety.\n\nHer family says this proved patchy, with many changes of staff.\n\nLast October, Molly reached another crisis. Her weight dropped again and she was taken back to the Queen Alexandra Hospital. Her parents asked us to delay telling her story, hoping she would be home soon. Nearly seven months later she was still there.\n\nHer family says she was traumatised by the hospital environment, being frequently restrained and largely isolated from other young people.\n\n\"It's a vicious cycle,\" Richard said. \"The more distressed she gets, the more her behaviour becomes challenging and then the more intense support they've got around her, which is more oppressive and more sensory-overloading.\"\n\nDespite the close supervision, she has also harmed herself seriously on several occasions.\n\n\"I think we know something is wrong before we even pick up, if the phone rings at night,\" said her mother, Mandy.\n\nThey are both exhausted and when I asked how they were coping, Mandy said: \"You have to cope, there is no other way.\"\n\nIn March, Molly's parents told me that the teams involved in her care seemed to agree she was stuck.\n\nRichard said past experience had shown that \"off-the-shelf solutions\", including stays in mental health units, were \"very negative for her and completely don't meet her autistic needs\".\n\nAn ICS spokesperson said: \"Everyone involved has done all they can to ensure she receives safe and compassionate care and sought to move Molly to a setting that better meets her needs as quickly as possible. Teams continue to do their very best to help ensure Molly gets the care she needs.\"\n\nThe National Autistic Society says it hears from hundreds of people trapped in a similar cycle.\n\nIt wants the government and NHS to put more money into mental health services that support people at home and to intervene early when there are problems.\n\nThe charity's head of research, Tim Nicholls, says that unless this is done the pattern will repeat itself and \"one of the great human rights crises of our generation\" will continue.\n\nIt is hard to calculate how much Molly's latest stay in the general hospital will have cost, but according to the Nuffield Trust health think-tank, a paediatric NHS hospital bed costs nearly £500 a day. If a child has an eating disorder that rises to about £1,400 a day.\n\nThe NHS hasn't commented on the financial impact of the nearly 200 days Molly has spent at the hospital, but with the costs of employing agency mental health staff included, it could easily have reached a quarter of a million pounds.\n\nWhile the NHS runs most mental health services for children, councils also provide community-based support.\n\nIn a recent survey, 79% of directors who run council children's services in England said there was \"rarely\" or \"never\" appropriate beds available for children with complex needs.\n\nSteve Crocker from the Association of Directors of Children's Services in England said they had seen \"a real increase in the number of children stuck on hospital wards with mental health issues\".\n\nUntil recently he ran children's social care in Hampshire, where Molly lives. While he can't comment on individual cases, he says generally the need for change is urgent and \"we also need to push government for a full review around children's mental health services\".\n\nThe government says its ambition is to halve the number of autistic people and those with a learning disability in mental health hospitals by March 2024. A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson added that this is backed by extra funding and \"our action plan to improve community support and reduce over-reliance on mental health hospitals\".\n\nIn April, Molly's family says she became so distressed the children's ward was closed to other patients. Ten days later she was moved to a mental health unit - even though that has not worked for her in the past. It is meant to be a short-term solution but her family say no other options are currently being discussed.\n\nI last spoke to Molly a couple of days ago. She had had a few trips out with her parents and was desperate to get on with life.\n\nAnd if she can get the right support, her hopes of staying out of hospital and going to college should be possible.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this article you can find details of organisations that can help via the BBC Action Line.\n\nDo you have a similar story? Please email us: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Train operator TransPennine Express (TPE) cancelled around one in six of its services in the four weeks to the end of March, new figures show.\n\nThe regulator said the cancellation rate leapt from 5.8% to 17% when trains cancelled up to 10pm the night before due to staff shortages were included.\n\nIt was the highest in the country, but down on the 23.8% cancellation rate in the previous period to 4 March.\n\nTPE says cancellations have come down after it put a recovery plan in place.\n\nThe Transport Secretary has insisted he has not yet decided whether to renew it.\n\nThe operator, which runs services across the North of England and into Scotland, has been criticised for months of poor performance.\n\nIt has struggled to deliver all its planned services, amid staff shortages it has blamed on staff sickness and a training backlog, and amid poor industrial relations.\n\nThe Labour Party, regional mayors and some MPs have said TPE's contract should be removed.\n\nRowan Burnett says he has seen no improvement in TPE services\n\nRowan Burnett, who travels on TPE's trains from his home in Marsden, West Yorkshire to work in Manchester, told the BBC in January that regular cancellations and delays were a source of daily stress.\n\nThis week, he said: \"I would love to tell you a positive story or a turnaround in the last quarter, but no it hasn't improved.\n\n\"I still wake up every day, check my phone, see the swathe of red across my cancelled trains. Then I have to make the best of the commute one way and then hopefully back home.\"\n\nMr Burnett wants to use the train as it is more sustainable, but feels trust has been eroded because he is not confident he can be in the right place at the right time.\n\nHe said whichever company ran the service needed to be held accountable. \"I personally can't carry on like this\", he added.\n\nOn Wednesday, Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the current level of service had been \"unacceptable\", and if he thought TPE was not capable of improving, \"no option is off the table\".\n\nHe told the Transport Select Committee he had to make a decision that was \"legally defensible\" by examining all of the evidence about the service and the \"capacity of the company to improve those services\".\n\nIn January, TPE's managing director admitted to the BBC services had not been good enough, and said the company had a recovery plan to do better.\n\nFor the third month in a row, figures from the Office of Road and Rail show TPE used pre-planned cancellations - also called P-coding advance cancellations - because of a lack of available staff more than any other operator in Britain.\n\nHowever, it has cut its use of \"P-coding\" when not enough staff are available by nearly half.\n\nA spokesperson for TransPennine Express said: \"We introduced our recovery plan at the beginning of February to reduce cancellations and provide greater reliability and stability for our customers.\n\n\"As a direct result of this plan, we have seen a 40% reduction in cancellations, and continue to work to bring these numbers down in the coming weeks and months.\"\n\nThe overall rate of cancellations at train companies across Britain rose from 3.3% to 3.7% for the same period.", "Paramedics from London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance treated the woman at the scene\n\nA woman in her 80s has been critically injured in a crash with a police motorcycle escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh.\n\nIt happened at the junction of West Cromwell Road and Warwick Road in Earl's Court, west London, at 15:20 BST on Wednesday, the Met Police said.\n\nThe woman was taken to hospital after treatment from paramedics.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duchess's \"heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with the injured lady and her family\".\n\nSophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, was \"grateful for the swift response of emergency services\", a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said\n\nInquiries into the circumstances of the accident are ongoing, the Met Police said.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesperson said the duchess was \"grateful for the swift response of emergency services and will keep abreast of developments\".\n\n\"Further comment at this time would not be appropriate while the incident is being investigated,\" they added.\n\nThe injured woman, whose family has been informed, was treated at the scene by the London Ambulance Service (LAS) and London's Air Ambulance.\n\nThe LAS said she was transferred to a \"major trauma centre\" in the capital.\n\nThe Directorate of Professional Standards has been notified about the crash.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has begun an investigation, which is at a \"very early stage\", a spokesperson said.\n\nThe watchdog had sent investigators to the scene on Wednesday night, they added.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Buyers and banks need to be \"very careful\" with 100% mortgages that have no deposit requirement, the Bank of England has warned.\n\nAndrew Bailey, its governor, said \"quite a few problems\" could arise from such deals which some see as riskier.\n\nThis week Skipton Building Society became the latest lender to offer a deposit-free mortgage aimed at first-time buyers currently renting.\n\nMr Bailey's warning came after the Bank raised interest rates again.\n\nThe increase - from 4.25% to 4.5% - was the 12th in a row, and means some mortgage holders will see an immediate increase in their repayments.\n\nThe Bank has been trying to control inflation - the rate at which prices rise - which is currently near a 40-year high and putting pressure on families.\n\nHowever, after its decision on Thursday the Bank warned that price rises were likely to remain higher for longer due to soaring food costs.\n\nSkipton's latest 100% mortgage requires borrowers to show they have had 12 months of on-time rental payments and a good credit history.\n\nUnlike the handful of other no-deposit deals it offers, the deal does not need a guarantor, such as a family member.\n\nSkipton said it had spotted a \"gap in the market\" as rapidly rising rents and the cost of living made it increasingly difficult for first-time buyers to save for a deposit.\n\nThe government's flagship Help to Buy scheme, aimed at helping first-time buyers, is no longer open.\n\nHowever, zero deposit mortgages have been seen as riskier loans, and were one of the contributing factors behind the 2008 financial crisis, when many borrowers found themselves unable to afford their repayments.\n\n\"I think we have to watch it very carefully,\" Mr Bailey told the BBC when asked about the return of 100% deals.\n\nHe added that the risks needed to be well assessed by both lenders and borrowers.\n\n\"I'm not going to say no to 100% mortgages but both lenders and borrowers have to be very careful about this,\" he added.\n\n\"You can get quite a few problems. People can often get stuck with mortgages for a long period of time which they can't trade out of.\"\n\nCurrently there are 15 other zero-deposit products on the market, according to financial data firm Moneyfacts, accounting for just under 0.3% of the UK market.\n\nThe rate for Skipton's latest 100% deal is 5.49%, which is more expensive than its current average five-year fixed deal of 5%.\n\nSome borrowers have been struggling as rising interest rates have driven up mortgage costs.\n\nCheryl in Bromley, Greater London, told the BBC the rate rises last year led to her having to sell her house and move back in with her parents as she was unable to afford the mortgage.\n\n\"I lived with my daughter and couldn't provide a roof over her head,\" the 43-year-old added. \"She had to go live with her father and I found myself back at my parents' house.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Bailey said he was more optimistic about how quickly the UK economy would grow this year.\n\nHe added that the country was likely to avoid a recession, which is when the economy shrinks for two three-month periods in a row.\n• None Warning prices to be higher for longer as rates rise", "The Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch has received an angry dressing down from the House of Commons Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, who asked her \"who do you think you're speaking to?\"\n\nAnswering an Urgent Question on the government's decision to ditch plans to allow thousands of EU-inherited laws to expire by the end of the year - and Ms Badenoch's failure to announce it in the Commons before writing about it in a newspaper - the business and trade secretary told the Speaker she was \"very sorry that the sequencing that we chose was not to your satisfaction\".\n\nA report in the Telegraph said the government intended to abandon its targets to scrap all retained EU law after Brexit, but this was not announced to the House of Commons first, to the anger of the Speaker.", "The incident on 1 May was filmed by bystanders and sparked protests across New York\n\nA former US Marine who placed a homeless man in a fatal chokehold on the New York subway is expected to be charged with manslaughter.\n\nDaniel Penny, 24, will be arrested on Friday and accused of causing the death of 30-year-old Jordan Neely in a train carriage on 1 May.\n\nHis lawyers say he could not have known his actions to subdue Mr Neely would lead to his death.\n\nMy Neely was pinned to the ground and put in a chokehold for several minutes.\n\nHe had been shouting at other subway passengers and asking for money, witnesses said, but there is no indication he had physically attacked anyone.\n\nThe incident was filmed by bystanders and sparked protests across New York. A video captured by a freelance journalist on the train shows the former Marine holding the Mr Neely around the neck for two minutes and 55 seconds.\n\nHe was later found unconscious in the carriage and taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. His death resulted from compression of the neck, the city's medical examiner ruled.\n\nMr Penny told other riders to call the police during the struggle, according to CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\n\nHe was questioned and released by police in New York on the day of the incident. But on Thursday, prosecutors said they would bring criminal charges against him.\n\n\"We can confirm that Daniel Penny will be arrested on a charge of manslaughter in the second degree,\" a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said in a statement.\n\n\"We cannot provide any additional information until he has been arraigned in Manhattan criminal court.\"\n\nIt is not clear whether charges will be brought against two other unidentified people who were also seen restraining Mr Neely.\n\nIn a statement earlier this month, lawyers for Mr Penny expressed condolences to the Neely family, and said Mr Penny and other passengers acted in self-defence.\n\nThey said Mr Neely's behaviour was \"the apparent result of ongoing and untreated, mental illness\", which prompted Mr Penny and others \"to protect themselves, until help arrived\".\n\nA witness to the altercation said Mr Neely was shouting about being hungry and thirsty. Police sources also told CBS News that Mr Neely was allegedly acting erratically.\n\nIn a statement earlier this week, Mr Neely's family said that Mr Penny needed to be in prison. \"The family wants you to know that Jordan matters,\" they said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Neely was a Michael Jackson impersonator who frequently performed in Times Square.\n\nHe had a number of previous offences, which New York City Mayor Eric Adams said highlights the need to improve the mental health system so that it can better protect people like him.\n\nHe had 42 arrests on charges such as evading fares, theft, and assaults on three women, according to US media reports.\n\nHis mother, Christie Neely, was murdered in 2007 by her boyfriend, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2012, according to the Jersey Journal.\n\nFollowing his mother's death, Mr Neely began experiencing mental health issues, his aunt, Carolyn Neely, told the New York Post.", "Monkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus, a member of the same family of viruses as smallpox\n\nMonkeypox is no longer a global public health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, almost a year after the threat was raised.\n\nThe virus is still around and further waves and outbreaks could continue, but the highest level of alert is over, the WHO added.\n\nThe global health body's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on countries to \"remain vigilant\".\n\nIt can be passed on by close contact with someone who is infected.\n\nIts official name is Mpox and it is caused by the monkeypox virus, a member of the same family of viruses as smallpox, although it is much less severe.\n\nOnce the fever breaks a rash can develop, often beginning on the face, then spreading to other parts of the body, most commonly the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.\n\nAnyone with the virus should abstain from sex while they have symptoms, to help prevent passing it on to others.\n\nMore than 87,000 cases and 140 deaths have been reported from 111 countries during the global outbreak, according to a WHO count.\n\nBut almost 90% fewer cases were recorded over the last three months compared with the previous three-month period, meaning the highest level of alert is no longer required, Tedros said.\n\nIn the UK, only 10 cases have been reported since the beginning of the year.\n\nThe announcement comes just a week after the UN agency also declared the Covid emergency over.\n\nDeclaring a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) signals that countries need to work together to manage a shared threat, such as a disease outbreak.\n\nThere is now just one WHO-declared PHEIC - for poliovirus, which was declared in May 2014.\n\nDr Katy Sinka, head of sexually transmitted infections at the UK Health Security Agency, said: \"If you're eligible and still need to take up the vaccine, please come forward ahead of the summer months to ensure you have maximum protection.\n\n\"First doses of the vaccine will end on 16 June and both doses will cease at the end of July.\"\n• None What is monkeypox and how do you catch it?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One person was killed and five others were injured when a Palestinian rocket hit an apartment in Rehovot, in central Israel\n\nThe Israeli military has killed two Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders in air strikes in Gaza during a third day of fighting with militants there.\n\nA pre-dawn attack on an apartment in Khan Younis killed the head of PIJ's rocket-launching force and two others, who the military said were militants.\n\nIn the afternoon, his deputy was killed in a strike in a nearby town.\n\nLater, one woman was killed when a rocket fired from Gaza hit a building in the central Israeli city of Rehovot.\n\nIt was the first fatality in Israel since it began an operation against PIJ on Tuesday morning with a series of air strikes that killed another three of the group's commanders.\n\nTwenty-nine people have been killed and 93 injured in Gaza over the same period, health officials there say. At least 10 civilians are also among the dead, which the United Nations has called unacceptable.\n\nThe Israeli military said four people, including three children, were killed in Gaza by rockets falling short on Wednesday, though this has not been corroborated by Palestinian sources. PIJ denied the allegation and accused Israel of trying to evade responsibility for their deaths.\n\nMilitants have launched at least 803 rockets since Wednesday, 620 of which have crossed into Israeli territory, the Israeli military says. Some have hit buildings, but most have landed in open areas or been intercepted. It says it has hit 191 PIJ sites since Tuesday.\n\nOn Thursday night a barrage of rockets reached the area around Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial capital, about 60km (37 miles) north of Gaza, with no immediate reports of injuries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Yolande Knell: \"A very frightening day for Israelis and Palestinians\"\n\nThe early morning Israeli air strike in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, destroyed an apartment at the top of a six-storey building and damaged the apartment below it.\n\nAbdullah Samir Hummaid, whose apartment in a neighbouring building was also damaged, said he had just got into bed when \"two explosions sounded within a few seconds\".\n\nThe PIJ confirmed that the head of its missile unit, Ali Hassan Ghali, also known as Abu Mohammed, was killed the attack, which it described as a \"treacherous Zionist assassination\".\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry said three people were killed and seven others injured. Palestinian media reported that the two other dead were Ghali's brother and nephew.\n\nThe PIJ is the second biggest militant group in Gaza after Hamas, which controls the territory, and has been responsible for many of the rocket attacks on Israel in recent years.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed it had targeted Ghali and what it called two \"other Islamic Jihad operatives in Gaza\" in their \"hideout\".\n\nIt said Ghali had been \"responsible for the recent rocket barrages launched against Israel\".\n\nLater on Thursday, militants began firing mortars and rockets at Israeli communities near the Gaza perimeter fence, damaging two homes in the Eshkol Regional Council area.\n\nThe IDF said it struck a number of targets belonging to PIJ in response to the rocket fire before it announced in the late afternoon that it had killed the deputy head of the group's rocket-launching force, Ahmed Abu Daqqa, in an attack in the town of Bani Suheila, near Khan Younis.\n\nIt said Abu Daqqa \"took a significant part\" in carrying out the rocket barrages over the past two days.\n\nPIJ also confirmed Abu Daqqa's death, while local health officials four people were wounded in the strike.\n\n\"Anyone who comes to harm us - blood on his head, and also blood on the head of his replacement,\" warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to a military base.\n\nNot long afterwards, Palestinian health officials reported that another two people were killed in the Shejaiya area of Gaza City.\n\nSeveral barrages of rockets were also launched towards communities in southern and central Israel, triggering sirens and causing residents to run to shelters.\n\n\"We've got 30 seconds to literally get in [the safe room],\" Beverly Jamil, who lives in Ashkelon, 12km north of Gaza, told the BBC .\n\n\"You can be anywhere - parking the car, in the middle of cooking, in the shower, you've got 30 seconds to get in here, close the door and wait and we have to make sure that we're all in, ie the whole family, me, my husband, my two girls and the three dogs.\"\n\nIsrael's Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance service said there was a direct hit on an apartment building in Rehovot, about 21km south of Tel Aviv, killing one person. It said five people have been wounded by rockets and 16 injured running to shelters since the rocket fire began on Wednesday.\n\nPalestinian Islamic Jihad commander Ahmed Abu Daqqa was killed in an Israeli strike on a house in Bani Suheila, Gaza\n\nEarlier, a spokeswoman for UN Secretary General António Guterres said he condemned \"the civilian loss of life, including that of children and women, which he views as unacceptable\".\n\nThis week's fighting is the heaviest since three days of hostilities between Israel and PIJ last August, in which 49 Palestinians were killed in Gaza.\n\nMeanwhile, tensions remain high in the occupied West Bank.\n\nThe Palestinian health ministry there said a 66-year-old Palestinian man was killed by Israeli forces during a raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp, near Tulkarm. The IDF said its troops returned fire after one was shot and lightly wounded by gunmen.\n\nUpdate 12 May 2023: This story has been updated to say that the Israeli civilian killed in Rehovot was a woman and not a man, as initial reports stated.", "Boris Johnson has denied he knowingly or deliberately misled Parliament over Partygate\n\nTaxpayers are being billed up to £245,000 to cover the cost of Boris Johnson's Partygate inquiry lawyers.\n\nThe former PM is being investigated by MPs over whether he misled them over lockdown parties in Downing Street.\n\nHe is facing growing calls to cover the legal costs himself, as the bill for his defence team increased this week for a second time.\n\nThe BBC has learned the Treasury did not sign off the decision to use public money to pay the bill.\n\nMinisters and civil servants are expected to follow Treasury guidance when making decisions about spending public money.\n\nThe Treasury's spending rulebook says its consent should always be sought for costs \"which set precedents, are novel, contentious or could cause repercussions elsewhere in the public sector\".\n\nThe BBC asked the Cabinet Office if this would apply to Mr Johnson's legal bills, in a freedom of information (FOI) request. We were told the Treasury was not required to approve all spending decisions.\n\nMr Johnson was flanked by lawyers during a four-hour, televised grilling by MPs on the Commons Privileges Committee in March, when he denied knowingly or deliberately misleading Parliament.\n\nIf the committee finds him in contempt of Parliament, he faces suspension as an MP, which could trigger a by-election in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nMr Johnson's spokesperson said he had \"fully co-operated with this very long process at every stage\" and would consider the committee's findings when they are brought forward.\n\nThe contract to hire Mr Johnson's legal team - led by top barrister Lord Pannick KC - was signed last August, shortly before he was forced to resign as prime minister.\n\nIt was this week extended for the third time, rising in value from £222,000 to £245,000.\n\nOpposition parties say Mr Johnson should pay the legal fees himself given he has earned millions since standing down as prime minister.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Cabinet Office and a source close to Mr Johnson argued there is a long-standing precedent that former ministers are supported with legal representation.\n\nBut former senior civil servants disputed this, telling the BBC that it would not normally apply to parliamentary inquiries, like the one into Mr Johnson.\n\n\"Payment of legal fees to the former prime minister in these circumstances would seem to set a precedent and is certainly contentious, so looks on the face of it to meet the test to require Treasury approval,\" said Alex Thomas, a former top civil servant and director of the Institute for Government think tank.\n\n\"I'm surprised that the payments were made at all - but also that they were signed off in this way.\"\n\nA former permanent secretary also said they were surprised that Treasury approval wasn't sought.\n\n\"I would have regarded this as novel and contentious,\" the former senior civil servant said. \"The whole situation is highly unusual, if not unique.\n\n\"It's just the sort of situation that Treasury cover is needed for.\"\n\nLord Pannick KC was on the legal team hired to defend Mr Johnson during the Partygate inquiry\n\nThe government has cited legal support given to former ministers during public inquiries into the Grenfell Tower fire, the BSE disease outbreak in cattle, and infected blood products as examples of precedents.\n\nBut these were statutory public inquires initiated by the government, rather than political parliamentary inquiries carried out by MPs.\n\nThe last former minister to be investigated by a parliamentary committee for misleading Parliament was former Labour MP and transport secretary Stephen Byers in 2005.\n\nMr Byers was investigated by the standards committee over allegations he misled MPs over the collapse of British railway infrastructure operator Railtrack.\n\nIn 2006, the committee cleared Mr Byers of lying to MPs about Railtrack, but told him to apologise for giving an \"untruthful\" answer.\n\nDuring the four-month inquiry, Mr Byers appeared in front of MPs to give evidence, as Mr Johnson did in March this year.\n\nBut unlike Mr Johnson, Mr Byers did not have any legal representation - taxpayer funded or otherwise - during the parliamentary inquiry, nor was he offered any by the government.\n\nMore recently, Dominic Raab, the former deputy prime minister, paid his own legal fees during a bullying inquiry.\n\nThe latest register of interests for MPs shows Mr Johnson has earned more than £5.5m since he stood down as prime minister last year.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said the arrangement that left taxpayers covering Mr Johnson's \"Partygate defence fund is not only without precedent but without justification\".\n\nShe said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak \"must explain why he failed to put a stop to this brazen scheme and take immediate steps to ensure his disgraced predecessor returns this money to the public purse\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have urged Mr Sunak to ask his ethics adviser to launch an investigation into Mr Johnson's legal costs and \"how this precedent has been set\".\n\n\"Boris Johnson needs to pay back every penny to the public purse immediately,\" said Wendy Chamberlain, the party's chief whip.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO), which scrutinises government spending, has been examining the decision to cover Mr Johnson's legal costs during the inquiry, including whether Treasury approval was sought.\n\nA spokesperson said the spending watchdog had spoken to the Cabinet Office about the contract to hire Mr Johnson's lawyers \"as part of our standard audit procedures\".\n\n\"The NAO will publish its report on the Cabinet Office's 2022-23 accounts when the audit is complete, which we are planning to be this summer,\" a spokesperson said.", "The Duke of Sussex has blamed alleged illegal intrusion into his private life by journalists for the break-up of his relationship with Chelsy Davy.\n\nIn a witness statement, Prince Harry claimed Ms Davy decided that \"a royal life was not for her\" following repeated acts of harassment.\n\nThe claims emerged in a High Court case against Mirror Group Newspapers brought by several high profile figures.\n\nMGN denies allegations of voicemail interception in the cases.\n\nIt also claimed some of the cases being brought are beyond a legal time limit.\n\nMs Davy and Prince Harry were in an on-off relationship between 2004 and 2010.\n\nIn a summary of his witness statement, the duke's lawyers alleged unlawful activity \"caused great challenges\" in the relationship, and led Ms Davy to decide that \"a Royal life was not for her\".\n\nThis included journalists booking into a hotel in Bazaruto, a small island off the coast of Mozambique, where Harry and Ms Davy had tried to escape to in order to \"enjoy some peace and quiet\", the document reads.\n\nThe lawyers also said that mobile phonecalling data to be used in the trial shows that Ms Davy was targeted for voicemail interception between 2007 and 2009.\n\nThe activities caused him \"huge distress\" and \"presented very real security concerns for not only me but also everyone around me\", he said, adding that they also created \"a huge amount of paranoia\" in future relationships.\n\n\"Every time he was in a relationship, or even a rumoured relationship, that whole person's family, and often their friends, would be 'dragged into the chaos' and find themselves the subject of unlawful activity on the part of MGN,\" lawyers said.\n\nPrince Harry's lawyers allege that his mobile phone number was recorded in a handheld device belonging to \"prolific hacker and head of news at the Sunday Mirror\" Nick Buckley.\n\nThe prince is also expected to allege that he experienced what was, in hindsight, voicemail interception in relation to 30 people with whom he had a close relationship.\n\nHe is expected to give evidence in June - the first time a senior royal will be a witness in court in modern times.\n\nMGN has not admitted to any of the charges, although it said it \"unreservedly apologises\" for a separate instance of unlawful information-gathering against Harry and said that the legal challenge brought by the prince \"warrants compensation\".\n\nThe article that incident referred to - regarding an MGN journalist instructing a private investigator to unlawfully gather information about Harry's activities at the Chinawhite nightclub on one night in February 2004 - is not one of the claims being brought by the prince.\n\nMGN said it would never be repeated.\n\nIn written submissions, MGN's barrister, Andrew Green KC, said the publisher denied that 28 of the 33 articles in Harry's claim involved phone hacking or other unlawful information gathering.\n\nHe said that stories came from a variety of other sources - including other members of the Royal Family.\n\nMr Green added that it was \"not admitted\" that five of the 33 articles contained unlawful information gathering.\n\nOther celebrities have brought claims against MGN, with \"test cases\" - including Prince Harry's - selected to go to trial from the wider group of claimants.\n\nThey include that of former Coronation Street actress Nikki Sanderson, comedian Paul Whitehouse's ex-wife Fiona Wightman and actor Michael Turner - who played Kevin Webster in Coronation Street and goes by his stage name Michael Le Vell. All are expected to give evidence during the six- to seven-week trial.\n\nThe court heard that Ms Sanderson felt like she was \"public property\" and experienced abuse in the street following \"false insinuations\" in articles published by MGN.\n\n\"[She had] people shouting at her in the street calling her a 'whore', 'slag' or 'slut' and even being physically assaulted on numerous occasions,\" barrister David Sherborne said.\n\nMr Turner was accused by fellow cast members of being a \"mole\" amid alleged phone hacking, the court heard.\n\nThe hearing is focusing on what senior executives at MGN knew about alleged phone hacking - including TV host Piers Morgan, who was editor of the Daily Mirror between 1995 and 2004.\n\nMr Sherborne told the court that unlawful information gathering was both habitual and widespread at three papers - the Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People - between 1991 and 2011.\n\nHe described \"a flood of illegality\", adding that \"this flood was being authorised and approved of\" by senior executives.\n\nThe barrister also accused executives of misleading the Leveson inquiry - the inquiry into the practices, culture and ethics of the press - something it denies.\n\nIn written arguments, Mr Sherborne said it was \"inconceivable\" that Mr Morgan and other editors did not know about MGN journalists instructing private investigators to obtain information.\n\n\"The systemic and widespread use of PIs [private investigators] by MGN journalists to unlawfully obtain private information was authorised at senior levels,\" Mr Sherborne, who is also representing the duke, said.\n\nMr Morgan has repeatedly denied any knowledge of phone hacking or illegal activity at the Daily Mirror when he was editor.\n\n\"I've never hacked a phone. I've never told anybody to hack a phone,\" he told the BBC's Amol Rajan in an interview conducted before the trial began.\n\nMGN has previously settled a number of claims against it in relation to stories obtained through unlawful means.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "A Ukrainian soldier firing an anti-tank grenade launcher at a front line near Bakhmut (pictured on 3 May)\n\nUkraine says it has recaptured ground in Bakhmut, a rare advance after months of grinding Russian gains in the eastern city.\n\nKyiv said its forces advanced 2km (1.2 miles) in a week. Russia said its troops had regrouped in one area.\n\nThe claims signal a momentum shift in Bakhmut - but more widely, there is no clear evidence of a Ukrainian counter-offensive.\n\nHowever, two explosions were reported on Friday in Russian-occupied Luhansk.\n\nImages posted on social media, verified by the BBC, show a big plume of black smoke rising from the city, which lies about 90km (55.9 miles) behind the front line in eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe blasts come a day after the UK said it had supplied Ukraine with long range Storm Shadow cruise missiles.\n\nKremlin-appointed officials said six children in Luhansk were injured in a missile attack alongside Russian parliamentarian Viktor Vodolatsky. The authorities there have blamed the attack on Kyiv.\n\nLuhansk is beyond the reach of the Himars rockets Ukraine has previously relied on for deep strikes against Russian targets.\n\nBut Russian-appointed officials in the region said they thought Ukrainian-made missiles were responsible, hitting administrative buildings of two defunct enterprises.\n\nEarlier Russia's defence ministry said Russian troops in one Bakhmut area had changed their position for strategic reasons.\n\nIt said units of the southern group of Russian forces had taken up a better defensive position in the Maloilinivka area, something which took into consideration \"the favourable conditions of the Berkhivka reservoir\".\n\nHowever the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin said what the Ministry of Defence was talking about \"is unfortunately called 'fleeing' and not a 'regrouping'\".\n\nAs the intense, bloody battle has worn on, Bakhmut has become symbolically important - though many experts question its tactical value.\n\nIn a post on Telegram, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar claimed Russia suffered significant troop losses as Ukraine gained 2km without losing any positions.\n\nMeanwhile Russian military bloggers reported Ukrainian advances or troop movements in several areas.\n\nThe Institute for the Study of War also said Ukrainian forces had probably made gains of 2km in Bakhmut.\n\nThe BBC has verified video of soldiers with Ukrainian-identifying markings posing in front of a gate and a tank in the distance, also with Ukrainian markings.\n\nThe video, published on 11 May, has been located to an area around Bakhmut industrial college, until recently held by Wagner troops.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says his army needs more equipment ahead of counter-offensive\n\nAway from Bakhmut, the exiled mayor of Melitopol reported a large explosion on Friday morning in the centre of the south-eastern city, which has been occupied by Russia since the start of the war.\n\nIt was not known what caused the blast, but the Ukrainian air force made 14 strikes on Russian forces and military equipment on Thursday, Ukraine's armed forces said.\n\nAlongside the air strikes, Ukraine said it destroyed nine Russian drones and carried out successful attacks on dozens of military targets - including artillery units, an ammunition warehouse and air defence equipment.\n\nAfter months of stalemate, a Ukrainian counter-offensive - helped by newly-arrived Western weapons - has been openly discussed. But Ukraine's president said on Thursday it was too early to start the attack.\n\n\"With [what we already have] we can go forward and, I think, be successful,\" President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview.\n\n\"But we'd lose a lot of people. I think that's unacceptable. So we need to wait. We still need a bit more time.\"\n\nDespite President Zelensky's words, pro-Kremlin Russian war correspondent Sasha Kots claimed the counter-offensive had begun.\n\nUkrainian tanks were on the Kharkiv ring road heading towards the border with Russia, he said, quoting \"trusted\" sources. His claims could not be independently verified.\n\n\"There are low loaders in the columns carrying Western [tank] models among others,\" Kots added.\n\n\"In other words,\" he said, \"Kiev [Kyiv] has decided to aggravate the situation along the northern front in parallel with the start of offensive actions on the flanks of Artyomovsk [the Russian name for Bakhmut].\"\n\nAnother Russian war correspondent, Alexander Simonov, wrote on Telegram that Ukrainian forces had broken through near the village of Bohdanivka, close to Bakhmut, taking \"several square kilometres\" of ground.\n\nUkrainian military analyst Oleksandr Musivenko said Kyiv recognised that the anticipated counter-offensive might not necessarily defeat Russia \"in all occupied areas\".\n\nHe told Ukrainian NV radio there was every possibility the war could continue into next year. \"It all depends on how the battles develop. We can't guarantee how the counteroffensive will develop,\" he said.\n\nAn unnamed senior US military official told CNN that Ukrainian forces were preparing for a major counter-offensive by striking targets such as weapons depots, command centres and armour and artillery systems..\n\nUkraine's spring 2022 advances in the southern and north-eastern parts of the country were also preceded by air attacks to \"shape\" the battlefield.\n\nDaniele Palumbo and Richard Irvine-Brown contributed to this article\n\nFrank Gardner weighs up the possible outcomes for the war, as Ukraine prepares a counter-offensive against Russian forces.", "Stephen Tompkinson told his trial he had acted in self-defence\n\nActor Stephen Tompkinson has been found not guilty of causing grievous bodily harm to a drunken man making noise outside his home.\n\nThe 57-year-old actor was accused of punching the man in the early hours of 30 May 2021 in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside.\n\nNewcastle Crown Court had heard Mr Tompkinson's actions caused Karl Poole to fall and fracture his skull.\n\nThe DCI Banks star said he acted in self-defence.\n\nProsecutors claimed he had \"snapped\" and \"lashed out\" at Mr Poole in \"disgust\" at his behaviour.\n\nBut Mr Tompkinson told jurors the contact \"wasn't enough to knock a sober man off his feet\".\n\nMr Tompkinson nodded but showed no visible emotion when the verdict was announced following just under two hours of jury deliberations.\n\nAsked for his reaction as he was leaving court, he told reporters: \"I just want to go home.\"\n\nThe trial heard Mr Poole and his friend Andrew Hall had been drinking since midnight that bank holiday Sunday and had gone to the beach before walking back.\n\nMr Tompkinson, who was living with his partner and her seven-year-old son at the time, heard \"strange noises\" at about 05:30 BST.\n\nJurors were told he called 999 after seeing the two men try to stand up and fall several times while drinking from a bottle of Jagermeister at the bottom of the driveway.\n\nWhile waiting to be connected, Mr Tompkinson went outside wearing pyjamas and a dressing gown and told the \"heavily intoxicated\" men who he was calling.\n\nHe said the pair \"took great objection to me complaining about them being there\" and had started to move towards him.\n\nKarl Poole had told the court he suffered a brain injury after his head hit the pavement\n\nNeighbour Caroline Davidson, who was watching from her bedroom window, told the court she saw Mr Tompkinson slap and punch Mr Poole, causing him to stumble and fall backwards, hitting his head on the ground.\n\nHowever, Mr Tompkinson, who was born in Stockton-on-Tees, said he could not have punched him because he was holding his phone.\n\n\"I didn't want to hurt him, I wanted to stop him to change his mind about coming towards me and further on to my property,\" he said giving evidence.\n\nHe told jurors punching a drunk man would have been \"career suicide\" and that he had already lost acting work since being charged.\n\nHe told the court he was \"not responsible\" for the brain injuries Mr Poole sustained but that he accepted some accountability.\n\nIn his closing speech, prosecutor Michael Bunch had said the actor was \"an expert in playing a part\" and his \"obvious talent makes him convincing in putting across a story\".\n\nSpeaking after the jury delivered its verdict, Mr Poole said he was shocked and disappointed.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adidas has decided to sell some of the trainers and other products it made with rapper Kanye West and donate some of the proceeds to charity.\n\nThe German sportswear giant cut ties with the celebrity, now known as Ye, last year after he made anti-Semitic comments.\n\nThe decision has cost the firm millions in sales and has it facing its first annual loss in more than three decades.\n\nShoes from the collaboration remain wildly popular in the resale market.\n\nChief executive Bjoern Gulden said the company was still working out how the sales would happen.\n\n\"What we are trying to do now over time is to sell some of this merchandise... burning the goods would not be a solution,\" he said at the company's annual shareholder meeting.\n\nAdidas has about 1.2bn euros (£1bn; $1.3bn) worth of Yeezy shoes sitting in storage.\n\nMr Gulden said the firm had decided to sell some of the merchandise, instead of donating it, because it did not want to see the products reach the market indirectly.\n\nLast week, Adidas said that if it decided not to \"repurpose\" its remaining unsold Yeezy stock, it would hurt its operating profit by €500m this year.\n\nA sale could help reduce some of those losses. Ye will also be entitled to some of the money, under the terms of the partnership.\n\nShares in Adidas were up 2% following the meeting.\n\nThe company is being sued by investors who claim Adidas knew about Kanye West's problematic behaviour years before it ended their partnership.\n\nInvestors allege Adidas failed to limit financial losses and take precautionary measures to minimise their exposure.\n\nMr Gulden defended Adidas' years-long collaboration with the designer and musician, saying that \"as difficult as he was, he is perhaps the most creative mind in our industry\".\n\nThe company said it had concluded an internal investigation into reports that the artist had created a \"toxic\" environment.\n\nIt said the review had not substantiated all allegations of misconduct but that \"erratic\" behaviour had created challenges. It said that the firm was putting in place changes to prevent such problems from happening in the future.", "The Metropolitan Police says it will not now investigate an allegation of sexual assault, reported to be against a Labour frontbench MP, \"at the victim's request\".\n\nTortoise first reported that a female Labour MP claimed she had been sexually assaulted by a male shadow minister.\n\nThe BBC has been told she reported the incident to the Met Police and the Labour whips.\n\nLabour said the whips had urged her to make a formal complaint to the party.\n\nHowever, Tortoise reported that she \"felt his popularity within the party would stand against her\".\n\nIn response to the report, the Metropolitan Police told the BBC they received a report in March that a woman was sexually assaulted by a man in London in July 2021.\n\nThe incident is alleged to have happened after a summer party in London.\n\nThe force said: \"At the victim's request, the incident will not now be investigated at this time.\"\n\nIt added that enquiries were at an \"assessment stage\" and a formal investigation had not been launched.\n\nThe Met has not identified either MP.\n\nLabour told the BBC they had not been contacted by the Met, nor received a formal complaint.\n\nA party spokesman said: \"We take any allegations of this sort very seriously and would always encourage individuals to go to the parliamentary process, the Labour Party process or the police.\n\n\"In terms of the Labour Party process, it is a thorough, robust and independent process that individuals can have confidence in.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin has battled against illness and injury to walk again at the age of 86\n\nTwo years ago doctors told Martin Birkhans he would never walk again after contracting an infection in his spine.\n\nThe 86-year-old had survived a 50:50 chance of dying from sepsis and pneumonia and was also recovering from a broken hip.\n\nBut after working tirelessly with physios, the Edinburgh grandfather can now walk again and is even able to climb stairs.\n\nMartin said his personal best was now 12 laps of the track in the garden of the Cramond Residence nursing home in Edinburgh - a distance of 700 metres.\n\n\"I was in a sad physical state when I arrived here,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The doctors at the hospital had said they could not do any more for me. They said I would never stand and never walk.\n\n\"They said I would be incontinent for life too, it was the most devastating news you could ever cook up, just dreadful. I was given zero hope.\"\n\nMartin Birkhans says he is happy to have his life back\n\nPhysios had helped his late wife, the author Joan Lingard, who had dementia. So when his daughters were choosing a nursing home for him, they picked the one that had a physiotherapy package.\n\nAnd when physio Nicola McIntosh noticed that Martin had slight movement in his body, she decided to get him to a standing position.\n\nMartin had not thought it would be possible - but she was able to get him onto his feet with the help of the hoist and other physios.\n\n\"It was very elementary standing, but I was on my feet. It was crazy. Then we took it from there.\"\n\nOver the months his nerves started to repair and he built up the strength in his muscles.\n\nMartin can now climb up and down stairs\n\n\"One would be behind me with the wheelchair and the other on her knees in front of me managing my feet. When someone does that for you, you had better respond.\n\n\"If they had said jump out of the window I would have done it. I had total faith.\"\n\nAfter a year he was able to walk down the corridor outside his room.\n\nThen he progressed to the lift, then the stairs, the gym and the garden.\n\n\"Up until two weeks ago I had to do these things with someone, but now I can do it myself, I have the run of the place,\" he said.\n\nHe has now been able to go on holiday to his daughter's house in Kingussie. He is no longer incontinent and does not need to take the dozens of pills he was on each day.\n\nMartin Birkhans with his wife Joan and children\n\nThe former architect was born in Latvia, where he lived until he was seven. He then spent two years in refugee camps in Germany until his family left for Canada.\n\n\"I know all about walking along dusty roads dodging bullets,\" said Martin, who moved to Scotland when he was 30.\n\n\"Canada was great. I was an athlete so I was perfect for the outdoor life there.\n\n\"So when I found myself bedbound I wasn't filled with happiness.\n\n\"I lay there thinking I don't believe it, my life had changed so extremely.\"\n\nMartin can now stand unaided while he brushes his teeth, although he needs a walker for support when he moves.\n\nMartin cared for his wife, Joan, for eight years at their house in Edinburgh while she had dementia\n\n\"I was on a fierce programme to learn to stand without support of my hands,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm allowed to walk without people watching me now. I feel emancipated.\n\n\"I can go for lunch with my daughter as I can now get in and out of the car, and I've just been on holiday.\n\n\"I would like to visit my sisters in Toronto so we'll see if I can ever make it on a plane.\"\n\nEileen Crawford, a charge nurse at Cramond Residence, said Martin could not walk when she first met him.\n\n\"He never gave up. I have never seen anyone with determination like this, he needs a medal,\" she said.\n\nMartin can do 12 laps of a track at his nursing home - the equivalent of 700 metres\n\nBenedicte Aarseth, a physio from Balanced Edinburgh, has been treating Martin. She said her colleague Nicola had noticed that he had more movement than was described in the discharge letter from the hospital.\n\n\"She realised he was starting to heal so could be pushed a bit more. A big part of it is how motivated he is.\n\n\"People in rehab normally plateaux but Martin is still continuing to climb and managing to have new achievements.\n\n\"We are not going to stop until he tells us.\"\n\nShe said that he may one day be able to walk with a stick instead of the walker.\n\nMartin uses a cycling machine for 20 minutes every day\n\n\"He is the most successful client I've ever had - his transformation is incredible,\" added Benedicte.\n\n\"For an 86-year-old's quality of life to still be improving is amazing.\n\n\"He could have been in a full body hoist for the rest of his life if someone didn't pick up on the ability he had.\"\n\nMartin said he would continue to work on his walking distance record.\n\n\"I'm in love with trying to improve myself and in love with my physios,\" he added.\n\n\"The value of all carers is underestimated as they make a huge difference to our lives.\"\n• None 'I was told I would never walk again' Video, 00:01:17'I was told I would never walk again'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Google has announced it is rolling out generative artificial intelligence (AI) to its core search engine.\n\nThe move comes after Microsoft incorporated GPT-4 into its Bing search engine earlier this year.\n\nSearch Generative Experience - which will be part of Google - will craft responses to open-ended queries, the company said.\n\nHowever, the system will only be available to a limited number of users and is still in \"experimental\" phase.\n\n\"We are reimagining all of our core products, including search,\" said Sundar Pichai, the boss of Google's parent company Alphabet.\n\nAdditionally, the company announced a new feature on Google's Android system will proactively warn users about unknown AirTags, tiny devices developed to track personal items like keys and wallets.\n\nThe technology giant said the \"unknown tracker alerts\" would go live this summer.\n\nThe announcement came after Apple and Google said last week they were working together to address the problem.\n\nLast year two women sued Apple over AirTag stalking.\n\nWomen who have been tracked using the devices told the BBC last year that not enough was being done to prevent misuse.\n\nGoogle made the announcement at its annual developer conference, where leaders of the company touted their latest advancements in artificial intelligence and new hardware offerings, including a $1,799 (£1,425) phone that opens and closes like a book.\n\nThe company said it was removing the waitlist for \"Bard\", its experimental, conversational, chat service, which will be rolled out in English in 180 countries and territories.\n\nIt also said the chatbot would soon be able to respond to prompts with images as well as text.\n\nGoogle has been under pressure to burnish its artificial intelligence offerings, after the runaway success of rival chatbot ChatGPT, which is funded by Microsoft.\n\nA previous attempt to show off its credentials in the field, in February, ended in embarrassment, after it emerged that - in an advert intended to illustrate its capabilities - Bard had answered a question incorrectly.\n\nThe incident wiped $100bn (£82bn) off parent company Alphabet's share value - an indication of how keenly investors are watching how the tech giants' AI ventures play out.\n\nMicrosoft is deploying ChatGPT technology into its search engine Bing, after investing heavily in the company that developed it, OpenAI. Chinese tech giant Baidu also has a chatbot, called Ernie.\n\nChirag Dekate, analyst at Gartner, said Google remained an industry leader and was well poised to benefit in the interest in AI.\n\n\"Google has the tools to dominate the AI battles, the perennial question is - will they?\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nInter Milan took a big step towards reaching the Champions League final as they beat their city rivals in a thrilling Milan derby at San Siro.\n\nIn a game that had been anticipated for weeks in Italy and was witnessed at the ground by a vocal and passionate 80,000-strong crowd, Inter made the perfect start when Edin Dzeko volleyed home in the eighth minute.\n\nThe goal silenced the Milan fans - the designated home side for this tie in the stadium the two sides share - as they significantly outnumbered the Inter supporters.\n\nAnd the hosts were stunned further three minutes later when Henrikh Mkhitaryan swept a shot beyond Mike Maignan after being set up by Federico Dimarco.\n\nHakan Calhanoglu hit the woodwork as Inter threatened to get a third, but there was hope for AC Milan when referee Jesus Gil Manzano reversed a decision to award the visitors a penalty, deeming Lautaro Martinez to have dived after consulting the pitchside monitor.\n\nInter dropped their tempo in the second half as they looked to protect their two-goal advantage and it almost presented AC Milan with a lifeline as Sandro Tonali struck the post with a shot from the edge of the box.\n\nBut Inter held firm and are in a strong position to reach the final - where they will face either Manchester City or Real Madrid - when the two sides meet again at San Siro for the second leg on Tuesday, 16 May (20:00 BST).\n• None What is the best Champions League semi-final ever?\n\nInter Milan are three times winners of the European Cup or Champions League, but have not reached the final since they last lifted the trophy 13 years ago.\n\nThis is the furthest they have been in the competition since then and, despite the intimidating atmosphere created by the overwhelming number of AC Milan fans, they were determined to push on.\n\nInter boss Simone Inzaghi opted for the 37-year-old Dzeko to lead the attack, with Romelu Lukaku on the bench, and it didn't take long for that decision to be vindicated as the former Manchester City striker steered home a brilliant finish from a corner.\n\nAC Milan knocked Tottenham and Serie A champions Napoli out of the Champions League on their way to the semi-finals but looked capable of being opened up by Inter with every attack and would have been pleased to reach half time just 2-0 down.\n\nThey were better after the break but did not manage a shot on target until the 81st minute - a deflected Junior Messias effort - and will need to be much, much better if they are to deny Inter a place in the Champions League final.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Roberto Gagliardini (Inter Milan).\n• None Attempt saved. Tommaso Pobega (AC Milan) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sandro Tonali.\n• None Roberto Gagliardini (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Theo Hernández (AC Milan) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "More than 500 police officers were involved in Wednesday's operation\n\nItalian police have arrested a further 61 suspected members of Italy's most powerful mafia, the 'Ndrangheta, in a series of raids across seven regions.\n\nThey are suspected of crimes including fraud, drug-trafficking, infiltrating government and extorting local farmers.\n\nMore than 500 police officers were involved in the operation, which targeted 167 people in total - including dozens currently in prison.\n\nThe sting was part of a wider, ongoing operation to crack down on the group.\n\nLast week, more than 100 people were arrested across Europe in what police said was the biggest operation to have ever been carried out against the 'Ndrangheta.\n\nThe investigation also revealed important new information about how some of the highest levels of the group operate - including during the Covid pandemic.\n\nOne of its alleged bosses, Pasquale Bonavota, was arrested in a cathedral in the northern city of Genoa last month.\n\nHundreds of other alleged mobsters and corrupt officials have either been imprisoned or are still to be tried over their suspected involvement with the Mancuso family.\n\nIt is just one of the 150 families that form part of the 'Ndrangheta's criminal network, which has surpassed Cosa Nostra as the most powerful mafia group in the country and operates in more than 40 countries around the world.\n\nItalian and Belgian investigators believe that the crime group smuggled close to 25,000kg of cocaine between October 2019 and January 2022 and funnelled more than €22m from Calabria to Belgium, the Netherlands and South America.", "The only NHS gender identity facility for young people is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nThe closure of the only NHS gender clinic for children in England and Wales has been delayed to March 2024, about a year later than first planned.\n\nThe Gender Identity Development Service (Gids), based at London's Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, will be replaced by two regional hubs.\n\nA southern hub will open in autumn, with the northern hub following next April.\n\nA review said a new model was needed, after Gids was heavily criticised.\n\nNo new first patient appointments for those on the waiting list to be seen will be offered until the southern hub opens, but the Tavistock will continue providing care for the roughly 1,000 children it is currently treating.\n\nThere is currently thought to be a waiting list of several thousand for children wanting to use the service. An online support service will launch in June to provide support to those waiting to be seen.\n\nThe new hubs are being formed with partnerships managed by London's Great Ormond Street Hospital and Alder Hey Children's Hospital, in Liverpool.\n\nRobbie de Santos of LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall said it was \"pleased with the continuity of care\" for existing patients \"ensuring their needs are met until new services are ready\" and also welcomed the regional hubs.\n\n\"However, we remain concerned about waiting times and urge NHS England to continue to communicate plans and provide further support for those on the waiting list,\" he said.\n\nTransgender Trend, a UK campaign group that questions the increase in diagnoses of transgender children, said it was also concerned about the number of children on the waiting list as they may have co-existing mental health needs.\n\n\"We would like to see some temporary provision put in for children on the wait list to see a mental health professional,\" it said.\n\n\"CAMHS [Child and Adult Mental Health Services] therapists are already adequately trained to deal with such co-existing issues affecting children with gender-related distress.\"\n\nThe Tavistock clinic was rated as \"inadequate\" by inspectors who visited in late 2020 after the BBC's Newsnight programme reported whistleblowers' concerns.\n\nThe subsequent review called for more \"holistic\" care, looking at patients' overall needs.\n\nThere has been a large increase in referrals to the clinic in recent years and it has struggled to meet demand.\n\nMany of those referred were recorded as female at birth but developed gender distress in their early teens.\n\nIn July last year, NHS England announced Gids would close in spring 2023, following the interim report by Dr Hilary Cass which called the current single service \"unsustainable\". NHS England said the timetable had since been revised because of the complexity involved.\n\nMore than 5,000 patients were referred to Gids in 2021-2022.", "Ukrainian forces are preparing for a counteroffensive near the besieged city of Bakhmut\n\nIn a bunker just outside the city limits of Bakhmut, Ukraine's 77th Brigade direct artillery fire to support their infantry - their last line of defence on the western edge of the city.\n\nUkraine is still clinging to the last few streets here.\n\nBut the live video feed the artillery gunners watch intently, from a drone flying above the city, suggests that even if Russia can finally wrestle control, it would be little more than a pyrrhic victory.\n\nThe prize is now a crumpled, skeletal city - with hardly a building left unscathed, and with its entire population vanished.\n\nThe battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut has been the longest and bloodiest of this war so far. Western officials estimate between 20,000 and 30,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded here, while Ukraine's military has also paid a heavy price - and it still isn't over.\n\nThe plumes of smoke still hang heavy over the besieged city, accompanied by the relentless rumble of artillery fire.\n\nRussia has been trying to capture Bakhmut for months, and it's been a testament - so far - to Ukraine's determination not to give ground. But it's also a reminder that its coming counteroffensive could prove far more challenging.\n\nDrone footage from above Bakhmut shows the devastation caused by the continuing battle for the city\n\nBack in the bunker, Ukraine's 77th Brigade orders another artillery strike on a house. Seconds later a plume of smoke rises from the rubble. Two men emerge from the smoke, stumbling down a street. One appears to be injured.\n\nI ask if they're Wagner soldiers - the Russian paramilitary force which has been leading the assault. \"Yes,\" replies Myroslav, one of the Ukrainian troops staring at the screen.\n\n\"They are fighting quite well, but they don't really care about their people,\" he says.\n\nHe adds that they don't seem to have much artillery support and they just advance in the hope that they'll be \"luckier than the last time\". His comrade, Mykola, interjects: \"They just walk towards us, they must be on drugs.\"\n\nLooking at this shell of a city it's hard to understand why either side has sacrificed so many lives for it.\n\nMykola admits that the defence has also been costly for Ukraine. He says many soldiers have given their lives, and it's hard to fight in the densely packed streets. He says they've been replaced by troops with less experience, but adds: \"They will become the same warriors as those who fought before them.\"\n\nThe whole point of Bakhmut is to keep the enemy there\n\nTo the south of the city, Ukraine's 28th Brigade has been helping prevent Bakhmut from being encircled.\n\nThe Wagner forces they once faced have already been replaced by paratroopers of Russia's VDV, or airborne forces. But they're still locked in daily skirmishes.\n\nDuring a lull in the fighting, Yevhen, a 29-year-old soldier, takes us on a tour of their defensive position in a small wood.\n\nThe arrival of spring has provided them with some leaves for cover, but many of the trees have been stripped by the constant shelling.\n\nUkrainian troops seek cover behind bushes on the outskirts of the city of Bakhmut\n\nAs we run from a trench, across exposed ground pock-marked by shell holes, the Russians open fire with their mortars. \"That was pretty damn close,\" says Yevhen in perfect English as we reach some cover.\n\nAs we move to another position he says: \"Now we're going to fire back.\"\n\nMinutes later his men follow up with a volley of small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). There are no casualties this time. But hours after we leave one of their soldiers is seriously injured.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky has called Bakhmut \"a fortress\" of Ukrainian morale. Yevhen displays that determination not to give up. \"The whole point of Bakhmut is to keep the enemy there,\" he says.\n\nIf Ukraine gave up Bakhmut, he says, they'd only lose more lives later. \"We could retreat to save a few lives, but we would then have to counter-attack and we'd lose even more\".\n\nUkraine's hope is that the fight over Bakhmut has blunted Russia's ability to conduct its own offensive operations, and exhausted its army and supplies.\n\nIn a bunker just outside the city limits, Ukraine's 77th Brigade direct artillery fire to support their infantry\n\nBut Russia has also been preparing to stymie Ukraine's upcoming offensive.\n\nRecent satellite images of the occupied south show it has built hundreds of miles of deep trench lines and dragon's teeth tank traps to slow down any attempted advance. More difficult to punch through than the razor wire and mines we saw in front of these Ukrainian positions.\n\nSouthern Ukraine is where many expect the focus of the Ukrainian offensive to be. Russia has already ordered a partial evacuation near the nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia.\n\nUkraine, too, has been rationing artillery rounds in preparation for an attack that will be spearheaded by newly trained brigades of troops and some of the 1,300 armoured vehicles and 230 tanks supplied by the West. Though we have also witnessed convoys of Western military equipment heading East.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has tried to dampen down expectations - warning against \"overestimating\" the outcome.\n\nI ask Yevhen if he feels that pressure too. He says he knows it won't be easy, but adds: \"We've already changed the whole world's opinion of the Ukrainian army and we still have lots of surprises.\"\n\nBut this time it may prove harder to conceal the element of surprise.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Natasha says there's no amount of time Nicholas Bateman can do in prison that will be enough\n\nA mother whose baby was shaken by his father so violently he suffered brain damage has spoken of her relief that he has finally been jailed.\n\nNatasha, 27, was out of the family home in March 2018 when Nicholas Bateman, 31, assaulted their son.\n\nThe next day, the seven-week-old boy began having seizures and would go on to develop cerebral palsy.\n\nMore than five years later, Bateman was finally jailed last week for causing grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\n\"I always hoped and wished that justice would be served. It went on one year, two years, now we've hit the five-year mark,\" said Natasha, whose surname is not being reported in order to protect her son's identity.\n\n\"I started to think 'is he going to get away with it? Is he going to walk free?'\"\n\nOn 9 March 2018, while Natasha popped to a doctors appointment, Bateman phoned her to say their son had bumped his lip on his shoulder.\n\nBut when she returned home her son was lying limp on the sofa.\n\nAfter a call to emergency services Natasha was told to administer CPR before the boy was taken into hospital.\n\nThe following day he began suffering from seizures and Natasha was told to prepare for the worst as he was put into an induced coma.\n\nAfter medical examinations, doctors found the baby had multiple fractures including a bleed on his brain.\n\nThe injuries caused multiple seizures resulting in brain damage and later a diagnosis of cerebral palsy.\n\nStill, Bateman's only explanation was that his son had banged his lip.\n\nOn the baby boy's final day in hospital, to her shock, both Natasha and Bateman were arrested.\n\nAs she had been the person to call emergency services for help and Bateman was keeping to his story, police placed her as being at the property at the time of the incident.\n\nBut Natasha said their arrests was the moment she knew her son had been intentionally hurt.\n\n\"(My son) came back with multiple fractures and it was indicating shaken baby syndrome. I knew I didn't do it and the only other person that could have done it was Nicholas.\n\n\"In hospital he just seemed like a sad father that wanted his child to get better. But knowing he put him in that situation, he hasn't shown any remorse.\"\n\nNatasha said no sentence would be enough for her ex partner's assault on her son\n\nIt wasn't just authorities who had suspicions about her role in the baby's injuries. The police and ambulance workers who attended the aftermath of the incident had inevitably caught the attention of neighbours.\n\n\"People judged, people were staring thinking 'did she do it, will it come out?',\" she said.\n\n\"They'd judge me and I was like, I didn't need to give them an explanation. The people that knew I didn't do it, thankfully, like my family and friends, knew I couldn't do something like that.\"\n\nNatasha's son was made the subject of family court proceedings, and had to live with his grandparents while authorities worked out who was responsible for his injuries.\n\nNatasha, said: \"Still he (Bateman) didn't admit to nothing at all. He even tried telling people that I was lying about my son being disabled.\"\n\nNicholas Bateman was jailed for more than 10 years for assaulting his son\n\nBut after eight months of proceedings, Bateman was charged by police with causing grievous bodily harm with intent. No further action was taken against Natasha.\n\nThere were years of criminal court delays, in part due to the start of the coronavirus pandemic and Bateman's denials that he had harmed his son.\n\nAfter many court appearances, and just over five years on the from the assault, Bateman eventually pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown Court on 21 March.\n\nHe was sentenced to 10 years and nine months in jail at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on 4 May.\n\nJudge Lucy Crowther told the sentencing hearing that Bateman had likely first gripped the little boy around his face and chest before \"violently\" shaking him and throwing him onto a soft surface.\n\n\"You shook him when he wouldn't stop crying. You were just too frightened to say what you had done,\" the judge said.\n\nNatasha said despite her relief that justice has finally been served, she feels there is \"no amount of time\" that Bateman can serve \"that will be enough for what he's done\".\n\n\"To hear him say (he is guilty) is something we've all wanted to hear. But then to hear him say it five years later is too late. He hasn't had to see what he has done. He's lived a normal life. He's carried on with his life\".\n\nShe said her son cannot talk, walk or stand without assistance. He struggles to eat a normal diet and survives mainly on yoghurts. He also cannot sleep without medication and doesn't have much of a pain threshold.\n\n\"I always look at him and I think 'why?' He was only seven weeks old,\" said Natasha, from Rhondda Cynon Taf in south Wales.\n\n\"I don't know what his future will be. We'll always show him love, he will always be happy. But there will be ways where he will suffer.\n\n\"I don't know if he will be able to go out on his own, or have a family. He's had that taken away from him.\n\n\"I don't want to say it, but I think he will be his mum's boy for the rest of his life and I'll take care of him for the rest of his life.\"", "David McCue failed to appear in court for sentencing on 31 March\n\nA rapist who went on the run before the end of his trial has been arrested.\n\nDavid McCue, 40, was convicted in his absence at the High Court in Glasgow of sexual offences against a woman and a younger girl.\n\nHis attacks on the woman, which took place in the city's Townhead and Barlanark areas, included raping her while she was asleep.\n\nMcCue, from Springboig in Glasgow, had failed to appear for sentencing on 31 March.\n\nThe four charges of which he was convicted spanned between 2010 and 2018.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed he had been re-arrested and is due to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Friday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Yolande Knell: \"A very frightening day for Israelis and Palestinians\"\n\nIsrael says Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired more than 460 rockets at it, and that its military has hit over 130 militant targets in Gaza, in the heaviest fighting in nine months.\n\nSix people were killed and 45 injured in Gaza, local medics say.\n\nSeveral were hurt rushing to shelters in Israel, where most rockets have been intercepted or fell in open areas.\n\nIt comes a day after 15 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, including three Islamic Jihad leaders.\n\nThe Islamic Jihad (PIJ), which is the second biggest militant group in the territory after Hamas, had sworn to avenge their deaths.\n\nIn a televised address on Wednesday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel's \"campaign is not over\".\n\n\"We have hit Islamic Jihad with the most significant blow it has ever suffered,\" he said, referring to the simultaneous killings of the three PIJ commanders in the early hours of Tuesday.\n\nHours before Mr Netanyahu spoke, Egyptian media reported that Egypt had brokered a ceasefire, but there was no immediate confirmation from the two sides. Soon afterwards, another rocket barrage was fired towards southern Israel and there were further strikes in Gaza.\n\nAn umbrella organisation representing armed factions in Gaza earlier warned that \"if Israel increases its aggression, dark days await it\".\n\nPalestinians said the exchange of fire began on Wednesday morning with several loud explosions in southern Gaza, sending up large plumes of smoke.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said an aircraft targeted PIJ operatives travelling in a vehicle to a concealed rocket launcher in the Khan Younis area.\n\nAbout an hour later, the IDF announced that it had started attacking underground rocket launchers belonging to PIJ across the territory in order to thwart planned attacks.\n\nPalestinian media reported strikes in and around Gaza City, in the southern town of Rafah, and in the northern towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun.\n\nThe Palestinian health ministry in Gaza reported that six people were killed in Israeli strikes.Four of them were members of the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the group said, adding that two died in Khan Younis and the other two in Rafah.A 10-year-old girl was also killed in Gaza City in unclear circumstances.\n\nAs Israeli aircraft struck Gaza, militants began firing barrages of rockets from Gaza and rocket sirens sounded in communities in southern Israel.\n\nLater, rockets were launched towards central Israel, triggering sirens in the Tel Aviv area, 80km (50 miles) from Gaza. In one video filmed in Old Jaffa, explosions could be heard as two rockets appeared to be intercepted overhead.\n\nThe Israeli military said four houses suffered direct hits - two in Sderot, which is only 1km (0.6 miles) from Gaza, and two in Ashkelon, 7km from Gaza. Another hit the roof of a kindergarten in Nirim, on the edge of Gaza to the south, and a yeshiva (religious school) in Netivot, 11km east of Gaza. There were no injuries directly from rocket fire.\n\nThe IDF said one in four rockets fired at it had fallen short and landed inside Gaza. It said Israel's Iron Dome air defence system had intercepted 153 rockets, three had hit urban areas in Israel and the rest landed in open areas.\n\nThe Joint Operations Room of armed groups in Gaza, which includes Islamic Jihad and Hamas, claimed in a statement that they had launched the rockets.\n\n\"The damage to the homes of civilians and faction fighters is a red line, and we will respond strongly to it. Resistance forces are ready for all options,\" it said.\n\nThe Israeli military said it was targeting sites used by Islamic Jihad to launch rockets\n\nThe IDF launched Operation Shield and Arrow in the early hours of Tuesday with several waves of strikes across Gaza that killed 13 Palestinians.\n\nThree were PIJ commanders who the IDF said were involved in recent attacks against Israeli civilians and were planning more. But the other 10 dead were civilians, including four women and four children.\n\nAnother two Palestinians were killed on Tuesday afternoon in a strike that the IDF said targeted militants planning to fire anti-tank missiles.\n\nThe strikes were the deadliest since three days of hostilities between Israel and PIJ last August, in which 49 Palestinians were killed in Gaza.\n\nPIJ has been responsible for many of the rocket attacks on Israel in recent years and is sworn to Israel's destruction.\n\nThere was a serious flare-up last week, as PIJ and other groups fired more than 100 rockets into Israel over two days, following the death in an Israeli prison of a Palestinian hunger striker. The Israeli military carried out air strikes on sites it said were linked to Hamas in response.\n\nTensions also remained high in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, after Israel carried out arrest raids overnight.\n\nTwo Palestinians were killed in the town of Qabatiya by Israeli forces, who said the pair fired at them. The IDF also said a soldier was also seriously wounded during a separate exchange of fire with Palestinian gunmen in Tubas.", "Hospitals in England have failed to hit key targets to tackle the backlogs in cancer care and routine treatment.\n\nWaiting times show too many patients were still facing long waits at the end of March.\n\nThe targets were to eliminate 18-month waits for planned care, such as knee and hip replacements, and to bring 62-day cancer waits to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nNHS England said huge progress had been made, particularly on routine care.\n\nThe numbers waiting more than 18 months for treatment peaked in September 2021 at nearly 125,000.\n\nBy the end of March, just over 10,700 were waiting that long - but NHS England said about 4,000 of them were complex cases or patients who had been offered treatment but had chosen to wait.\n\nHalf of the people were concentrated in 10 NHS trusts.\n\nOverall, there are now a record 7.3 million people on a hospital waiting list, which is nearly three million higher than it was before the pandemic started.\n\nMinisters have warned it could be next spring before the numbers start falling.\n\nLast spring a tumour was found on Phil Martlew's kidney.\n\nDoctors said there was an 80% chance it was cancerous.\n\nWithin two months he had a pre-op assessment, but delays meant it was seven months before the tumour was eventually removed in January 2023.\n\nThe 68-year-old from Merseyside said the treatment, when he received it, was \"exemplary\".\n\nBut he said the wait placed a huge mental strain on him.\n\n\"The wait was enormously stressful and the thought that the tumour may be cancerous is on your mind every day.\n\n\"It's like the film Alien. I kept thinking that this thing's inside of me and I just wanted it out.\n\n\"All the medical staff who dealt with my care have been fabulous.\n\n\"I'm annoyed about the admin and management of it.\"\n\nAre you experiencing a long wait for elective surgery or cancer treatment? Get in touch.\n\nThe NHS had already acknowledged it was going to miss the cancer target.\n\nIt was set a goal of bringing back the number of people waiting more than 62 days for treatment to pre-pandemic levels of 14,200.\n\nBy the end of March, more than 19,200 were waiting that long - although that is also well down from the peak in September 2022 of nearly 34,000.\n\nNHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard said \"great strides\" were being made in the face of \"incredible pressure\".\n\nAs well as the demands placed on hospitals by flu and Covid this winter, the NHS has also had to contend with managing the impact of strikes by nurses, junior doctors, physios and ambulance workers, which have caused the postponement of more than 500,000 appointments and operations.\n\n\"There is still much work to be done, but these are remarkable achievements given all the NHS has had to contend with,\" added Ms Pritchard.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"I promised I would cut NHS waiting lists and we are delivering.\n\n\"Reducing 18-month waits by over 90% is huge progress, and it is testament to the hard work of NHS staff who have achieved this despite one of the busiest winters on record.\"\n\nAt the end of last year, the National Audit Office warned that the plan to tackle the backlog in treatment was at serious risk.\n\nA lack of staff and hospital beds was affecting productivity, it warned.\n\nIt has meant the NHS is still doing fewer planned treatments, such as knee and hip replacements, than before the pandemic.\n\nTim Mitchell, from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said it was \"disappointing\" the targets had not been met.\n\nHe said NHS staff were \"doing the very best they could\", but were being hampered by the \"chronic staff vacancies that impede the day-to-day running of the NHS\".\n\nHe urged ministers to publish the much-delayed NHS workforce plan which will set out how staffing shortages will be tackled.\n\nThe plan is expected in the coming weeks.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the government had \"broken its promise, leaving thousands of patients in pain and discomfort for unacceptably long\".", "Rory Gallagher said the allegations had been investigated and dealt with by the relevant authorities\n\nThe manager of the Derry senior Gaelic football team has issued a statement in response to what he described as \"very serious\" allegations made by his estranged wife.\n\nRory Gallagher is due to lead Derry into Sunday's Ulster Senior Football Championship final against Armagh.\n\nHis statement is in response to a social media post by his wife.\n\nNicola Gallagher made several claims about alleged domestic abuse over a 24-year period.\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service (PPS) considered two files from the police relating to the incidents but determined there was not enough evidence to prosecute.\n\nIn a lengthy post on social media earlier this week, Mrs Gallagher also referred to a number of locations including Clones in County Monaghan and Enniscrone in County Sligo.\n\nMrs Gallagher said she was an 18-year-old schoolgirl when she was beaten after being \"dragged into a carpark in Clones\" by \"a person I trusted and thought was my best friend\".\n\nShe added: \"I forgave that man and I married him.\"\n\nShe also claimed the alleged beatings continued through their marriage and that \"my pregnancies never changed the violence\".\n\nMrs Gallagher went on to describe how she \"developed a problem with alcohol because, at the time, I didn't know how else to cope\".\n\nTowards the end of her post, Nicola Gallagher said: \"Blocking it out was easier than admitting what was happening.\"\n\nShe concluded her social media post by saying: \"Silence nearly killed me\".\n\nIn a statement responding to the allegations, Mr Gallagher, who is originally from County Fermanagh, said he had been \"made aware of a social media post by my estranged wife Nicola Gallagher in which she has made a number of very serious allegations against me\".\n\nHe went on to explain that their marriage broke down more than four years ago, adding: \"Those closest to our family are well aware of the reasons for the breakdown of our marriage and the continued issues we have faced since that time.\"\n\nHe added: \"Following long-running court proceedings in family courts in both jurisdictions, I was granted a full Residence Order in respect of our three young children on 17 February 2023. This outcome was recommended by social services.\"\n\nMr Gallagher also said: \"Allegations against me have been investigated and dealt with by the relevant authorities.\"\n\nIn the statement, issued through a firm of solicitors, he added: \"My focus over the past four years has been to protect our children from the ongoing turmoil in our family.\"\n\nMr Gallagher has asked for the privacy of their family to be respected at this time.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it had \"investigated a number of reported incidents and files have been submitted to the Public Prosecution Service\".\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service (PPS) received two investigation files from the PSNI in January 2022 and June 2022.\n\nIt was determined there was not enough evidence to provide a reasonable prospect of conviction in relation to any individual, with the decisions made in accordance with the PPS' test for prosecution.\n\nIn a statement, Brian McAvoy, Ulster GAA chief executive, said: \"While we cannot comment or make judgement on any specific allegation or allegations, Ulster GAA does not condone any form of domestic violence.\n\n\"We are proud to have joined with White Ribbon NI in pledging to never commit, condone or remain silent about violence against women.\n\n\"We encourage and support anyone who has been a victim of such abuse not to suffer in silence but to avail of the statutory and voluntary support services that are available in the community.\"", "Wind turbines have generated more electricity than gas for the first time in the UK.\n\nIn the first three months of this year a third of the country's electricity came from wind farms, research from Imperial College London has shown.\n\nNational Grid has also confirmed that April saw a record period of solar energy generation.\n\nBy 2035 the UK aims for all of its electricity to have net zero emissions.\n\n\"There are still many hurdles to reaching a completely fossil fuel-free grid, but wind out-supplying gas for the first time is a genuine milestone event,\" said Iain Staffell, energy researcher at Imperial College and lead author of the report.\n\nThe research was commissioned by Drax Electrical Insights, which is funded by Drax energy company.\n\nThe majority of the UK's wind power has come from offshore wind farms. Installing new onshore wind turbines has effectively been banned since 2015 in England.\n\nUnder current planning rules, companies can only apply to build onshore wind turbines on land specifically identified for development in the land-use plans drawn up by local councils. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak agreed in December to relax these planning restrictions to speed up development.\n\nScientists say switching to renewable power is crucial to curb the impacts of climate change, which are already being felt, including in the UK, which last year recorded its hottest year since records began.\n\nSolar and wind have seen significant growth in the UK. In the first quarter of 2023, 42% of the UK's electricity came from renewable energy, with 33% coming from fossil fuels like gas and coal.\n\nBut BBC research revealed on Thursday that billions of pounds' worth of green energy projects are stuck on hold due to delays with getting connections to the grid.\n\nSome new solar and wind sites are waiting up to 10 to 15 years to be connected because of a lack of capacity in the electricity system.\n\nAnd electricity only accounts for 18% of the UK's total power needs. There are many demands for energy which electricity is not meeting, such as heating our homes, manufacturing and transport.\n\nCurrently the majority of UK homes use gas for their heating - the government is seeking to move households away from gas boilers and on to heat pumps which use electricity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Penny Mordaunt reveals to the BBC how she prepared to carry the Sword of State for the King's Coronation.\n\nPenny Mordaunt has said she took a couple of painkillers to help her get through her role of carrying ceremonial swords during the King's Coronation.\n\nThe Tory minister won praise for her stamina, carrying the 17th Century Sword of State and Jewelled Sword of Offering for more than an hour.\n\nWorking on the coronation has been a \"huge privilege\", Ms Mordaunt said.\n\nShe told Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast she enjoyed becoming a hit on social media after the ceremony.\n\n\"I was reunited with my phone and found I had become a meme,\" she said.\n\nShe said she saw photoshopped images on social media of the sword replaced by a kebab, and the laurel motif on her dress likened to Poundland's corporate branding.\n\n\"I say well done to the Great British public.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked if she had been in training, she said: \"I was not in the gym for six months prior to this,\" but added: \"You want to make sure you are in good nick.\n\n\"I did take a couple of painkillers before just to make sure I was going to be all right.\"\n\nMs Mordaunt said her navy training in Portsmouth also helped her know how to keep her circulation going by \"wriggling your toes\".\n\nAnyone hoping to emulate her feat should \"practise\", \"have a good breakfast\", and \"wear comfortable shoes\", she added.\n\nShe carried the 17th Century Sword of State made for Charles II into Westminster Abbey, and exchanged it for the Jewelled Sword of Offering, which symbolises royal power and the monarch accepting his duty and knightly virtues.\n\nShe carried the Jewelled Sword of Offering, with hilt encrusted with diamonds, rubies and emeralds, for the rest of the service and walked with it in front of the King as he left the abbey.\n\nThey were two of four swords used in the ceremony, a practice which dates back to the coronation of Richard the Lionheart in 1189.\n\nNotably, Ms Mordaunt became the first woman to carry and present the sword.\n\nOdds on Ms Mordaunt becoming the next leader of her party were slashed by betting companies at the weekend after her performance at the Coronation.\n\nAs she returned to her day job as leader of the House of Commons, she was praised - and ribbed - by her political opponents, before the usual hostilities resumed.\n\nLabour's shadow leader of the house, Thangam Debbonaire said Ms Mordaunt was a \"symbol of solemnity\" and a \"credit to this House as our representative\".\n\nHer SNP counterpart Deidre Brock said she showed \"commendable upper body strength\".\n\n\"It appears carrying a lethal weapon and wearing an imperial style outfit now makes her favourite to be the next Tory leader,\" Ms Brock added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe run up to the coronation was a \"highly emotional time\", she said.\n\n\"It is nice to be recognised and I think I was a bit of a metaphor for everyone on the day - everyone did their bit, everyone did it really well.\"\n\nMs Mordaunt's dress also sparked numerous comments, with people on social media comparing her to Princess Leia from Star Wars.\n\n\"That's not the look I was going for,\" she said.\n\nWhile her predecessors would have worn \"formal dress, which is black\", Ms Mordaunt said she wanted to reflect the modern tone of the coronation \"with historical references\".\n\n\"I thought I'm going to buy a modern dress,\" she said, explaining that she decided to embroider it with the fern motif of the Privy Council \"as a nod to the past\".\n\nAlongside her role as Leader of the House, Ms Mordaunt is also Lord President of the Privy Council, both positions given to her by then-Prime Minister Liz Truss in September.\n\nThe Privy Council role normally requires chairing meetings of the group of the UK's most senior politicians, who are charged with presenting business to the King.\n\nAs president of the council, Ms Mordaunt was also responsible for announcing the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the Accession Council last autumn.\n\nAsked about suggestions she was deliberately given the normally low-profile role to keep her out of the spotlight, Ms Mordaunt said: \"I can't speculate as to why people have done something.\n\n\"But if that was the plan it has not worked out well.\"\n\nThe full interview with Penny Mordaunt is available to listen to on BBC Sounds. It will also be broadcast on Saturday 13 May on BBC Radio 4 at 17:30 and on the BBC News Channel at 22:30.", "The leasehold system will not be abolished in England and Wales this year, despite Housing Secretary Michael Gove previously promising to scrap it.\n\nMr Gove has described the system - where the owner of a property pays maintenance charges and often ground rent - as unfair and outdated.\n\nThe government says it will bring in new laws later this year to make life better for leaseholders.\n\nBut their plans will not include a date for abolishing the system.\n\nKarolina Zoltaniecka, co-founder of the Commonhold Now campaign group, said this was \"a betrayal\".\n\nShe said \"more sticking plaster reforms\" would \"do nothing to hand control to the paying leaseholders\".\n\nMr Gove's long-held ambition is to scrap the system entirely and he has expressed this view repeatedly in media interviews and in the House of Commons.\n\nIn January, he told MPs the government would \"absolutely\" maintain a commitment to abolish the leasehold system and would \"bring forward legislation shortly\".\n\nHowever, as first reported by the Guardian, legislation due in the autumn will stop short of that.\n\nInstead, the proposed new law is expected to focus on further protections for tenants from ground rents and legal fees, and strengthening the powers they have in dealings with freeholders.\n\nRosemary White, who lives in a leasehold property in Bolton, said she was very disappointed by the news.\n\nThe 73-year-old said her service charge had more than doubled since she moved in around 10 years ago, which she said had been a \"nightmare\".\n\nThe rise was largely due to increased buildings insurance costs, but as a leaseholder she had no say over which insurance company was chosen.\n\nAs a retiree, Ms White said it had been a struggle to cover the increase and some of her neighbours had suffered financial hardship as a result.\n\nRosemary has lived in a leasehold flat since 2012\n\nOnly a handful of countries still have leasehold systems but around 20% of homes in England are leasehold properties, many of them flats in cities.\n\nLast year, the government abolished ground rents for most new residential leasehold properties in England and Wales, but only for new leases granted after June 2022.\n\nA ground rent is often paid by owners of leasehold properties on top of their mortgage, with some facing high charges and unexpected increases.\n\nThis is because they only own the lease, which gives them the right to use the property, but not the land it is built on.\n\nWhen a leasehold flat or house is first sold, a lease is granted for a fixed period of time. People may extend their lease or buy the freehold, but this can be complicated and expensive and involve legal fees.\n\nMr Gove's pledge to abolish leaseholds was viewed with some scepticism, even at the time, not least because an alternative system has not been fully established.\n\nA bill including further leasehold reforms is expected in the King's Speech, which sets out the legislation the government intends to pursue in the next parliamentary session.\n\nThe scope of the bill has not yet been agreed, but it is expected to bring forward reforms that will make the leasehold system less attractive, and lay the groundwork for a viable commonhold system.\n\nA commonhold system would mean occupants jointly own and take responsibility for their buildings without an expiring lease.\n\nMr Gove's ambition to move away from leasehold to commonhold is unchanged, but the existing system will not be abolished overnight, which will disappoint campaigners.\n\nConservative MP Bob Blackman said the \"much-needed reform\" had been \"delayed for far too long\".\n\nMichael Gove has previously said he wants to scrap the leasehold system\n\nLabour has pledged to end the sale of new private leasehold houses and introduce a system to replace private leasehold flats with commonhold.\n\nThe party's shadow housing secretary Lisa Nandy, said: \"In the space of a few months, this government has caved into backbenchers on housing targets, locked themselves in internal battles on making the basic improvements for renters and is now rowing back on leasehold commitments.\n\n\"Labour is the only party that will deliver much needed reform to give people secure, affordable and decent housing.\"\n\nThe government is also facing challenges over other aspects of housing policy.\n\nIn December, Mr Gove agreed to water down housing targets for local councils, in response to a rebellion from Conservative MPs.\n\nBut other Tories believe this was a mistake and that failing to build enough homes could damage the party's prospects, particularly with younger voters.\n\nMeanwhile, long-promised legislation to reform the rental market has been delayed for \"procedural\" reasons, prompting criticism from campaigners and demands from Labour not to water down promised protections for tenants.\n\nA Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities spokesperson said: \"We are determined to better protect and empower leaseholders to challenge unreasonable costs.\n\n\"We have already made significant improvements to the market - ending ground rents for most new residential leases, and announcing plans to make it easier and cheaper for leaseholders to extend their lease or buy their freehold.\n\n\"In line with our manifesto commitment, we will bring forward further leasehold reforms later in this Parliament.\"\n\nAre you a leaseholder? What is your reaction? Share your views and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAustralia's Voyager have broken the rock group curse at this year's Eurovision Song Contest by qualifying for Saturday's grand final.\n\nThe five-piece, fronted by immigration lawyer Danny Estrin, sailed through the second semi-final alongside fellow rockers Joker Out, from Slovenia.\n\nTheir success comes two days after the first semi, where every guitar group was eliminated.\n\nThey included Ireland's Wild Youth, who extended the country's losing streak.\n\nIreland, who hold the record for the most Eurovision wins of all time, have now failed to qualify five times in a row.\n\nVoyager's lead singer, Daniel Estrin is a partner at law firm Estrin Saul, who spends his days in court helping migrants sort out their visa issues, before taking to the stage at night.\n\n\"I think I might be the first lawyer to take part in Eurovision,\" he told Australian Broadcaster SBS. \"Although I know San Marino sent a dentist a while ago.\"\n\nThis could be Australia's final chance to win - their contract with Eurovision runs out in 2023, and will need to be renegotiated before next year's contest.\n\nMeanwhile, the song contest's organiser has confirmed it will not allow Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky to deliver a video message at the Eurovision final on Saturday.\n\nThere is expected to be a special tribute to Ukraine on the night with 11 artists performing including last year's winner Kalush Orchestra.\n\nBut the European Broadcasting Union said \"strict rules\" prevented it from allowing the Ukrainian leader to speak.\n\n\"One of the cornerstones of the contest is the non-political nature of the event,\" the EBU said.\n\n\"This principle prohibits the possibility of making political or similar statements as part of the contest.\"\n\nThe second semi wasn't as thrilling as Tuesday's first instalment, with a surfeit of piano ballads sapping the show of energy. A highlight reel reminding fans of the night's songs was essentially a three-minute supercut of women belting out high notes.\n\nBut every so often, the contest showed signs of life. Be-hatted Belgian star Gustaph lit up the stage with his infectious house anthem Because Of You; and Poland's Blanka brought some sunshine to a rainy Liverpool Thursday thanks to her breezy pop hit Solo, which is already a huge streaming hit.\n\nBoth acts made it through to the grand final, where they'll face stiff competition from Sweden's Loreen and Finland's Käärijä, who are favourites to win.\n\nOf the 16 acts who performed on Thursday, the following 10 qualified:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Most notable moments from Eurovision semi-final two (UK only)\n\nHosts Alesha Dixon, Hannah Waddingham and Ukrainian singer Julia Sanina were also back on stage after making their presenting debut on Tuesday night.\n\nThey oversaw a conga line led by cartoon character Peppa Pig, and an exuberant half-time show by drag queens Miss Demeanour, Mercedes Benz and Tamara Thomas.\n\nThe contest itself opened with Danish-Faroese pop singer Reiley, whose wayward vocals set the tone for a night full of fluffed notes.\n\nHis 11 million TikTok followers weren't enough to help his sugary-sweet pop anthem Breaking My Heart qualify for the final.\n\nReiley's pastel-coloured staging was designed to appeal on TikTok\n\nArmenia's Brunette was next up with Future Lover - a yearning ballad, about a lover she has yet to meet. Staged with dramatic lighting atop a perilously titled stage, her self-penned song also made the cut.\n\nBut it was bad news for Romania's Theodor Andrei, whose torrid tale of a toxic relationship (sample lyric: \"Take off your clothes and step on me\") proved too off-putting to pick up votes.\n\nThe other acts who went home were Iceland's Diljá, Georgia's Iru, San Marino's Piqued Jacks and Greece's Victor Vernicos who, at 16 years old, was this year's youngest contestant.\n\nAlbania's ode to family unity, Duje, got the seal of approval, as did Austria's Who The Hell Is Edgar - a slyly subversive anthem about the music industry's mistreatment of songwriters.\n\nTeya and Salena were greeted by huge cheers, as the audience sang their hooky \"Poe, poe, poe, poe, poe\" chorus\n\nThere was a British connection for Lithuanian qualifier Monika Linkyte, whose backing singer is an Adele impersonator who works in an Essex supermarket.\n\nAnd viewers got their first glimpse of the UK's actual entrant, Mae Muller, towards the end of the show.\n\nThe singer spoke briefly to host Alesha Dixon, before introducing a rehearsal clip of her entry, I Wrote A Song.\n\n\"I think it's safe to say on behalf of the whole UK that we're so excited to be hosting on behalf of Ukraine,\" she said, as fans lifted the country's blue and yellow flags around the Liverpool Arena.\n\n\"We love you guys,\" she added.\n\nViewers got their first glimpse of Mae Muller's colourful performance\n\nThe UK is one of five countries - alongside Spain, Italy, France and Germany - who qualify automatically for the final thanks to their financial contribution to the contest.\n\nUkraine, who won last year, also go straight to the final. Their act, Tvorchi, also introduced their song, Heart Of Steel, on Thursday night.\n\nLiverpool is hosting the contest on behalf of the Eastern European country due to the ongoing Russian invasion.\n\nRussia has been suspended from participating as a result, while this week's events have had a strong Ukrainian flavour.\n\nThursday's show featured a moving segment titled \"'Music Unites Generations\", where Mariya Yaremchuk, who represented Ukraine in Eurovision 2014, sang a medley of well-known Ukrainian songs.\n\nShe was joined on stage by rapper OTOY and 14-year-old Ukrainian Junior Eurovision representative Zlata Dziunka, illustrating how music can transcend generations and overcomes darkness.\n\nSeveral former Ukrainian contestants will take part in Saturday's Grand Final, including former winners Kalush Orchestra (2022) and Jamala (2016).\n\nLiverpool's rich music heritage will also be celebrated, with stars including Duncan Laurence, Cornelia Jakobs, Daði Freyr, Netta, and Sonia, performing songs from the host city.", "Researchers say the new genetic map of humanity is more representatives of variety\n\nScientists have produced an updated map of all human DNA which could help to transform medical research.\n\nThe original human genome, published 20 years ago, is mostly from one person, and does not represent human diversity.\n\nThe latest version - dubbed the pangenome - is made up of data from 47 people from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe.\n\nIt is hoped it will lead to new drugs and treatments that work for a much wider range of people.\n\nAccording to Dr Eric Green, who is director for the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda Maryland, the research, which has been published in the journal Nature, has the potential to transform medical research.\n\n\"This represents a tremendous scientific achievement. A pangenome that better reflects the diversity of the human population will enable scientists to better understand how genetic variation influences health and disease and moves us to a future in which genomic medicine benefits everyone\".\n\nThe genes that make up human DNA are made up of of sequences of chemicals.\n\nThe pangenome consists of 47 separate DNA maps of the people from different ancestries, which can also be combined and compared with new software tools to find important genetic differences.\n\nThe aim is to develop more effective treatments for more people, but genetic scientists are aware that the research has the potential to be misused. Prof Muzlifah Haniffa, of the Sanger Institute in Newcastle, who was not part of the research team, said that the science should not be misinterpreted,\n\n\"Genetic information about diversity should be used responsibly and not to provide evidence of differences in race, which is a social construct. We have to understand what it shows and, importantly, what it doesn't show. We have to make sure that taking information very superficially to establish false racial characteristics does not happen\".\n\nThe human genome was largely completed in 2003. It is a map of the basic chemical building blocks that make up human DNA. Researchers use it to identify genes involved in diseases so as to develop better treatments. It has led to improved cancer therapies and the development of tests to predict the onset of inherited conditions, such as Huntington's disease.\n\nIt took hundreds of machines 13 years to read all the DNA that makes a human\n\nBut the downside is that 70% of the genome came from a single individual: an American man with European and African ancestry. This therefore misses important genetic differences that play an important part in diseases in people from other backgrounds, according to Dr Karen Miga of the university of California in Santa Cruz.\n\n\"Having one map of a single human genome cannot adequately represent all of humanity. This reboot can be the foundation for the scientific community to have more equitable healthcare in the future\".\n\nAlthough the map of the human genome currently used by researchers has a lot of African DNA in it, counterintuitively it is the population that is one of the most lacking, according to Dr Ewan Birney, deputy Director General of the European Molecular Biology Lab near Cambridge.\n\n\"The most important place in the World to get genomes from is sub-Saharan Africa. It is where we started as a species, and it has the greatest genetic diversity. So, one African American genome is not enough to represent that diversity\".\n\nDr Zamin Iqbal, a senior researcher at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute near Cambridge, believes that a more representative genome will lead to better treatments for more people.\n\n\"Expanding the range of populations present in the human reference genome will reduce a long-standing implicit bias in studies of human genetics. Humans are diverse, and it's important that our analytical methods incorporate that.\n\nTwo recent studies in the US and in the UK and Ireland found that children of European ancestry were twice as likely to be diagnosed with genetic tests than those of African ancestry.\n\nDr Alexander Arguello, who is the programme director at at the National Human Genome Research Institute, says the aim of the new project was to change those outcomes.\n\n\"The hope is that once you capture sufficient diversity you will get the same diagnostic results whatever the population\".\n\nThe new pangenome is made up from 47 people, half of whom have ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa, a third from the Americas, 13% from China and 2% from Europe, with representation of indigenous people.\n\nBut this is just the start of an ambitious programme to better represent the diversity of the world's population. The initial aim is to increase the number to 350. After that the scientists leading the largely US programme plan to increase numbers and diversity further by working with organisations from other countries in what they hope will become phase two of the human genome project.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Edward Gaines was supported by charity Blind Veterans UK in his later years\n\nOne of the last surviving D-Day veterans who transported dynamite to Omaha beach has died aged 98.\n\nEdward Gaines, known as Eddie, died at his home in Poole, Dorset, on 21 April.\n\nMr Gaines, who had four children and 16 grandchildren, had previously told the BBC about his experience of preparing for the Normandy landings in June 1944.\n\nBlind Veterans UK, which supported Mr Gaines in his later years, said he left \"a legacy of service to his family, his country and the veteran community\".\n\nMr Gaines left school aged 16 to take up an engineering apprenticeship\n\nHe was born in 1925 and left school at the age of 16 to take up an engineering apprenticeship, although a bomb blast destroyed the firm and he went on to join the Royal Navy in 1943.\n\nAfter initially training on motor gun boats at Portland, Mr Gaines transferred to become a petrol stoker on landing craft.\n\nHe and the other four crew of his landing barge vehicle set off from Poole on 4 June 1944 in preparation for the Normandy landings and they transported 35 tonnes of explosives and a bulldozer to land at Omaha beach on D-Day.\n\nThey continued to work on the beach, transporting ammunition, equipment and men, for several months and he served in Normandy until Christmas Eve 1944.\n\nMr Gaines spoke to the BBC about his experiences and being supported by Blind Veterans UK in 2017\n\nAfter leaving the Navy when the war ended, he worked in a mill in Battersea before helping his parents build their dream bungalow and then becoming self-employed as a bricklayer until his retirement aged 60.\n\nMr Gaines first received support from Blind Veterans UK in 2016 after losing his sight much later in life due to age-related macular degeneration.\n\nHis family said: \"Eddie was so passionate about his support for Blind Veterans UK that he flew the charity's flag outside his home for the last years of his life.\"\n\nThe charity also arranged for Mr Gaines to be presented with the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion D'Honneur in recognition of his part in the liberation of France.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This is a classic example of a big, bold campaigning promise colliding with reality.\n\nWhen Rishi Sunak was running to be Conservative leader last summer, he put out a video.\n\nIn it, inside what is called the 'Brexit Delivery Department,' vast bundles of paper representing EU laws thud down on a desk, and then a shredder is wheeled into the room.\n\nAnd yes, you guessed it, those A4 pages encounter oblivion, one after another, as they are fed in.\n\nWell, not enough people did, from his perspective, but he became prime minister in the end nonetheless - and now that video has collided with reality.\n\nIt turns out trying to feed too much stuff into a shredder, too quickly, runs the risk of not being able to read it all before it encounters the metal gnashers and is torn to smithereens.\n\nThe government ditching its plan to automatically cull thousands of EU-era laws at the end of this year has had the whiff of inevitability about it for some time.\n\nFor months, a myriad groups have raised concerns about the unintended consequences of laws disappearing by default.\n\nBut plenty of Tory MPs are grumpy about this, seeing it as a straight forward failure to deliver from the prime minister.\n\nOne told me many felt the government was acting in \"bad faith\" and they didn't buy the argument that this was an impossible deadline.\n\nAround 20 Conservative MPs went to see the chief whip Simon Hart to register their irritation.\n\nSome Tory MPs went into Downing Street to do the same.\n\n\"There was an arms race in last summer's leadership race, where Liz and Rishi found themselves out Brexiting each other. That's where all this started,\" one senior figure told me.\n\nMinisters claim they are now being pragmatic.\n\nThey say they are still \"taking back control\", as the Brexit campaign slogan put it, but are doing so at a more sensible pace.\n\nThe move has angered Brexiteer Tory MPs like Jacob Rees-Mogg\n\n\"Kemi [Badenoch] approaches Brexit not as an end in itself, but as a means to an end,\" one ally said of the business and trade secretary.\n\nShe happened to inherit all this because it had been a responsibility of Jacob Rees-Mogg, who was briefly Business Secretary under Liz Truss.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg is now the most outspoken public critic of Mrs Badenoch's plan.\n\nMinisters are promising to get rid of another 600 laws by the end of the year - we'll find out which ones next week.\n\nThey claim around 1,500 others have either already gone, have been reformed, or that they soon will be.\n\nBut that still leaves a couple of thousand not yet looked at.\n\nThe old saying goes that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose.\n\nIn this instance, we've gone from a brash campaign video last August to a government ministerial statement nine months later.", "The Times is reporting that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has been \"blocked\" from addressing the 160 million people expected to watch Saturday's grand final.\n\nUkraine won last year's contest and, under normal circumstances, would have been this year's host. But the country is still under attack from Russia.\n\nThe EBU, which organises Eurovision, has long taken the position that the contest should be free of politics and, although this year's event is reflecting Ukrainian culture, it was felt that an address from President Zelensky would contravene the spirit of the contest.\n\n“The Eurovision Song Contest is an international entertainment show and governed by strict rules and principles which have been established since its creation. As part of these, one of the cornerstones of the contest is the non-political nature of the event,” a spokesman said.\n\n\"The request by Mr Zelensky to address the audience at the Eurovision Song Contest, whilst made with laudable intentions, regrettably cannot be granted as it would be against the rules of the event.”\n\nIt is not the first time the president has had such a request denied. He was turned down by the Oscars in March, and by Italy's Sanremo Music festival - which selects the country's Eurovision entrant - in February.", "Pakistan's Supreme Court has ruled that former prime minister Imran Khan's dramatic arrest on corruption charges this week was illegal.\n\nThe court ordered Mr Khan's immediate release. His lawyers had argued that his detention from court premises in Islamabad on Tuesday was unlawful.\n\nAt least 10 people have been killed and 2,000 arrested as violent protests have swept the country since he was held.\n\nTuesday's arrest escalated growing tensions between him and the military.\n\nThe opposition leader, ousted in a confidence vote in April last year, was brought to court on the orders of Pakistan's top judge.\n\nAs Mr Khan arrived in court, media ran through the corridors to capture his first public appearance since he was arrested.\n\nSurrounded by security, Mr Khan said nothing as he walked to the wood-panelled courtroom which was filled with officials from his party and journalists.\n\nThe Supreme Court was surrounded by police\n\nMr Khan stood surrounded by his lawyers in front of the three Supreme Court judges as they told him that because of the way he had been arrested on Tuesday - inside a court complex, conducting biometric tests - the arrest was invalid.\n\nFootage of his arrest showed paramilitary forces seizing Mr Khan, who was injured in a gun attack last year, and dragging him from inside court premises, before whisking him away in an armoured vehicle.\n\n\"Your arrest was invalid so the whole process needs to be backtracked,\" Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial told Mr Khan. He would now be under the protection of the Supreme Court.\n\nIt was then Mr Khan's turn to speak, defiant and indignant at the way he had been arrested.\n\nThe former cricketer told the judges he'd been kidnapped from the High Court on Tuesday and \"hit with sticks\". He was reminded several times by the judges that others had experienced worse treatment.\n\nThere was no immediate response from the security forces to the allegation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party says the cases against him are politically motivated. The arrest enraged his supporters - the past 48 hours have seen widespread violence and rare attacks on state and military facilities.\n\nSeven senior PTI leaders are among those arrested. They include former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who police say \"incited violence\". In a statement Mr Qureshi denied this and urged supporters to continue with peaceful protests.\n\nMr Khan has been kept at a police guesthouse in the capital since Tuesday, which was turned into a makeshift court on Wednesday where a judge formally charged him with corruption for the first time in the dozens of cases he faces. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nConviction would disqualify the former international cricket star - prime minister from 2018-2022 - from standing for office, possibly for life. Elections are due later this year.\n\nFormer Pakistani ambassador Maleeha Lodhi told the BBC she thought the court's decision would help to defuse the anger of Mr Khan's supporters.\n\nA paramilitary check post in Karachi that was set on fire during the recent protests\n\n\"The last couple of days have seen extraordinary violence by protesters who are supporters of Imran Khan, who are obviously enraged by the manner in which he was arrested,\" she said.\n\n\"There is still uncertainty, but hopefully the situation will not return to the kind of violent scenes that we have seen.\"\n\nAlthough Mr Khan asked repeatedly to be allowed to stay at his home, the court determined that because of the security situation he would have to remain at the police guesthouse. However the judges repeatedly emphasised that he would be allowed to have whoever he chooses as a guest.\n\nWhen the proceedings finished, Mr Khan sat within the court for 15 minutes taking questions from the media. He said he had not known that people had been killed during the protests or that senior members of his party had been arrested.\n\nHe told the BBC that when he was arrested he had been hit on the head and was bleeding and that when those images had circulated around the world the reaction by his supporters was not surprising.\n\nWhen asked whether he would now ask his supporters to stop violent protests he said that he had already made his statement, saying he had always called for protests to be peaceful.\n\nSupporters of Mr Khan welcomed the court's decision. \"Imran Khan's release proves we knew the truth,\" one man, who had spent the past few days gathered outside the PTI leader's residence in Lahore, told the BBC.\n\nAnother said the verdict had \"revived our hope in the nation\".\n\nKhan supporters celebrated in Peshawar after the Supreme Court acquitted him\n\nMany analysts believe Mr Khan's election win in 2018 happened with the help of the military, which both parties denied. But he later fell out with the powerful army. After a series of defections, and amid mounting economic crisis, he lost his majority in parliament.\n\nSince being ousted less than four years into his term, he has become one of the military's most vocal critics, and analysts say the army's popularity has fallen.\n\nIn November 2022, Mr Khan was shot in the leg while leading a protest march. He has accused a senior intelligence officials of carrying out the attack - which the military has strongly denied.\n\nA day before his arrest, the military warned him against making \"baseless allegations\" after he again accused a senior officer of plotting to kill him.\n\nObservers see the country facing an unprecedented series of crises - given endless political turmoil, the economy on a cliff edge and mounting violence by Islamist militants eroding confidence in the security forces.", "Billions of pounds' worth of green energy projects are on hold because they cannot plug into the UK's electricity system, BBC research shows.\n\nSome new solar and wind sites are waiting up to 10 to 15 years to be connected because of a lack of capacity in the system - known as the \"grid\".\n\nNational Grid, which manages the system, acknowledges the problem but says fundamental reform is needed.\n\nThe UK currently has a 2035 target for 100% of its electricity to be produced without carbon emissions.\n\nLast year nearly half of the country's electricity was net-zero.\n\nBut meeting the target will require a big increase in the number of renewable projects across the country. It is estimated as much as five times more solar and four times as much wind is needed.\n\nThe government and private investors have spent £198bn on renewable power infrastructure since 2010. But now energy companies are warning that significant delays to connect their green energy projects to the system will threaten their ability to bring more green power online.\n\nA new wind farm or solar site can only start supplying energy to people's homes once it has been plugged into the grid.\n\nEnergy companies like Octopus Energy, one of Europe's largest investors in renewable energy, say they have been told by National Grid that they need to wait up to 15 years for some connections - far beyond the government's 2035 target.\n\nThere are currently more than £200bn worth of projects sitting in the connections queue, the BBC has calculated.\n\nAround 40% of them face a connection wait of at least a year, according to National Grid's own figures. That represents delayed investments worth tens of billions of pounds.\n\n\"We currently have one of the longest grid queues in Europe,\" according to Zoisa North-Bond, chief executive of Octopus Energy Generation.\n\nThe problem is so many new renewable projects are applying for connections, the grid cannot keep up.\n\nThe system was built when just a few fossil fuel power plants were requesting a connection each year, but now there are 1,100 projects in the queue.\n\nTorbay Council has been hit by the delays. The diggers are already clearing the ground for a 6-hectare solar plant it is building in Torquay. It is due to be finished next year.\n\nThe council plans to use money raised from selling the energy to help fund local services, but it has been told the plant will not be connected for five years.\n\nAnd even that date is not certain. \"Worryingly, there are some indications that that could slip into the mid 2030s\", said Alan Denby from Torbay Council. \"That's a real problem for the council in that we declared that we wanted to be carbon neutral by 2030.\"\n\nWith projects unable to get connections, construction is either being paused or projects are being completed but are unable to produce any power.\n\nTorbay Council's solar site was due to finish in a year but will not be connected until 2028 at the earliest\n\nNational Grid, which is responsible for moving electricity across England and Wales, says it is tightening up the criteria for projects to apply so only the really promising ones join the queue.\n\nBut a huge new investment is also required to restructure the grid so it can deal with more power sources, says Roisin Quinn, director of customer connections.\n\n\"Fundamental reform is needed,\" she told the BBC. \"More infrastructure is needed. We are working very hard to design and build at a faster pace than we ever have done before.\"\n\nEnergy Networks Association represents the UK's network operators, such as DNOs, which connect people's homes to the main system owned by National Grid. It says that the government needs to speed up the planning process so electricity infrastructure can be built more quickly.\n\nA Department for Energy Security and Net Zero spokesperson said: \"We have connected the second highest amount of renewable electricity in Europe since 2010 but we recognise the challenge of connection delays.\"\n\nThe government is due to announce a new action plan for speeding up connections later this year.\n\nThe energy regulator, Ofgem, which oversees the operators, said that all stakeholders were playing catch-up with the government's targets.\n\nRebecca Barnett, director of networks at Ofgem, said: \"The targets have been increasing in the last two or three years dramatically and there is a long lead in investment time that is needed to commit, develop, and deliver these really big assets.\n\n\"I think that has caused a real problem; we definitely need to catch up. The incremental approach of the past is not fit for purpose.\"\n\nOfgem says it has agreed to allow the National Grid to raise an additional £20bn over the next 40 years from customer bills to pay for the huge upgrades the grid needs.\n\nCustomers have seen household prices soar over the last year following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and a run-on gas.\n\nBut Ms Barnett said this new investment will have a minimal impact on customers bills and will help shoulder the burden of some of the volatile energy prices.\n\n\"The future is for green, more secure and in fact cheaper energy. We know there is some investment cost needed to get us there, but in the long run it is going to be cheaper for us all,\" she said.", "Prince Harry attended the High Court in March for a separate hearing against the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper\n\nUnlawful information gathering was widespread and authorised by those at the highest levels of Mirror Group Newspapers, a court has heard.\n\nPrince Harry is among high-profile figures accusing the publisher of using private investigators and phone hacking to gain access to stories about them.\n\nHis barrister David Sherborne said millions of pounds were paid to private investigators, with the payments signed off by senior figures at MGN.\n\nIt is alleged that journalists from the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People newspapers obtained private and confidential information about people's lives through a variety of illegal means.\n\nThe bulk of the trial's evidence are 207 newspaper stories, published between 1991 and 2011 - some 67% of which were written about Harry, the Duke of Sussex.\n\nMr Sherborne told the High Court one of the most \"serious and troubling\" features of the case is the extent to which \"widespread, habitual and unlawful\" activities were \"authorised at the highest level\".\n\nThis included \"the systemic and widespread use of PIs (private investigators) by MGN journalists to unlawfully obtain private information\" of various individuals, Mr Sherborne told London's High Court.\n\nMr Sherborne has referred the court to key senior figures in MGN who he claims \"authorised\" the unlawful obtaining of information.\n\nHe said this included former editors Piers Morgan, Neil Wallis, Tina Weaver, Mark Thomas, Richard Wallace and Bridget Rowe, and alleged that managing editors and senior executives also knew.\n\n\"Mr Morgan was right at the heart of this in many ways,\" Mr Sherborne told the court. \"He was a hands-on editor and was close to the board. We have the direct involvement of Mr Morgan in a number of these incidents.\"\n\nMr Morgan was Daily Mirror editor from 1995 until 2004.\n\nMr Sherborne said the alleged unlawful activities also included MGN journalists intercepting landline voicemails, even if the phone numbers were ex-directory - meaning they were not listed in the telephone directory and the phone company would not provide them to those who asked for them.\n\nClaims brought by Harry and three others are being heard in the trial, expected to last six to seven weeks, as being \"representative\" cases of the types of allegations facing the publisher.\n\nThe other claimants are former Coronation Street actors Nikki Sanderson and Michael Turner, known by his stage name Michael Le Vell, and comedian Paul Whitehouse's ex-wife Fiona Wightman.\n\nThey are all expected to give evidence - when the prince does so in June, he will become the first senior member of the Royal Family to appear in court and be cross-examined in modern times.\n\nThe four cases were chosen by the trial judge to help the court set the level of damages MGN should pay if the claimants win, as well as establish the various allegations facing the publisher.\n\nThe court would then consider other cases from celebrities including the former Girls Aloud singer Cheryl, actor Ricky Tomlinson, former Arsenal and England footballer Ian Wright and the estate of late singer-songwriter George Michael.\n\nMGN has denied the allegations, including those of voicemail interception.\n\nIn its defence against some of the claims made by Prince Harry, MGN's lawyers argued that he did not have \"a reasonable expectation of privacy\".\n\nThis argument was made in response to articles about his relationship with Chelsy Davy - the break-up of which Harry blamed on press intrusion, his alleged drug use and one that reported he was forced to carry out farm work as punishment for wearing a Nazi uniform to a party.\n\nIn other instances it claimed published information was \"limited and banal\".\n\nIn response to one of the 33 articles put forward by Prince Harry's legal team, which gave details about his 18th birthday celebrations, MGN lawyers argued that the information came from an interview the duke gave to the Press Association.\n\nThe article published under the headline \"No Eton trifles for Harry, 18\" in September 2002 \"simply repeated the details that the claimant [Harry] had given\" including that he would not be having a party and would be spending the day with his father and brother, MGN argues in court documents. It said there was \"no evidence of voicemail interception\".\n\nHowever on Wednesday, the publisher acknowledged and \"unreservedly\" apologised for a separate instance of unlawful information gathering against Harry, adding that the legal challenge brought by the prince \"warrants compensation\".\n\nOn Thursday, reporters saw the list of 33 stories at the heart of Prince Harry's claim for damages against MGN. He is relying on them to prove phone hacking and other unlawful activity against him. Here are some of them:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"I've never hacked a phone, I wouldn't even know how\" - Piers Morgan (interview filmed in March)\n\nIn Thursday's hearing, Mr Sherborne discussed a Daily Mirror front page story from 1999, which revealed confidential details about the finances of Prince Michael of Kent - cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth II - including that he was in debt to a bank.\n\nPrince Michael's lawyers later told MGN they had deduced that a \"blagger\" had called the bank and, posing as the royal's accountant, obtained confidential information.\n\nMGN eventually settled the claim, published an apology and paid his legal costs, the barrister said.\n\n\"It's inconceivable, given the way this progressed, that the legal department and Mr Morgan were not well aware of the source of the story, and that it came from illegally obtained information,\" Mr Sherborne told the court.\n\nMr Morgan has consistently denied any knowledge of phone hacking during his time editing the newspaper, but this will be the first time a court has been asked to rule on claims about what he knew.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Amol Rajan before the trial began, Mr Morgan said he could only talk to what he knew about his own involvement, adding: \"I've never hacked a phone, I wouldn't even know how.\"\n\nMr Morgan also pointed out he only worked for the Daily Mirror and had no responsibility for the Sunday Mirror, Sunday People or other titles.\n\nIn 2015, MGN admitted journalists had regularly used unlawful techniques to obtain private information - and issued a public apology.\n\nThe High Court ordered the publisher to pay out damages totalling £1.25m to eight phone-hacking victims, including more than £260,000 to the actor Sadie Frost.", "The BBC's Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg is best-known for keeping us up to date with events in Moscow, but he is also a huge Eurovision fan.\n\nHe knows how to play upwards of 300 hits on the piano... from memory.\n\nAt an event in Liverpool he put his skills on show before a live audience.", "People in the UK lost £1.2bn to fraud in 2022, the equivalent of £2,300 every minute, according to bank industry group UK Finance.\n\nIt said around three million scams took place - slightly less than the previous year - with frauds involving payment cards being the most common.\n\nUK Finance said losses were not always reimbursed and urged tech firms to \"share the burden\" of covering costs.\n\nMinisters say they will get tougher on scams as part of a national strategy.\n\nFraud is now the most common crime in the UK, with one in 15 people falling victim.\n\nAccording to UK Finance, the amount of money stolen in 2022 was actually 8% less than in 2021, and fraud cases were down 4% - but there were still nearly three million cases across the UK in total.\n\nIt said the most common type of fraud after card fraud was scams involving purchases.\n\nUK Finance boss David Postings said drugs gangs, criminal groups abroad and \"state-sponsored bad actors\" were responsible for the majority of fraud.\n\nHe added that while banks were legally obliged to refund so-called unauthorised fraud, they did not have to cover the costs of authorised scams - where victims are tricked into agreeing to send money to fraudsters.\n\nAs a result, banks only refunded about 59% of the losses from this type of fraud on a voluntary basis, amounting to £285.6m of the £485.2m stolen.\n\nMr Postings said many of the most common frauds started online and called on tech and telecoms companies to play a greater role in reimbursing lost funds.\n\nHowever, industry group Tech UK said technology firms \"already take a wide range of active measures to prevent fraud\".\n\nIn terms of future threats, Mr Postings said he was concerned that artificial intelligence [AI] would let scammers \"spoof people even more than is already the case\".\n\nHe added that AI could be used to automate fraud and generate convincing scams to trick people.\n\nThe government recently released a new fraud strategy, which will include allowing banks to delay payments from being processed for longer, to allow for suspect payments to be investigated.\n\nThe strategy will also include banning cold calls on all financial products, such as those relating to bogus insurance or sham cryptocurrency schemes, to help stop scams at source.", "Mr Carsi, 40, was an analyst for a Scottish investment management firm\n\nA man from Edinburgh has died and his wife is seriously ill after a suspected carbon monoxide leak at their holiday home in Spain.\n\nJaime Carsi, 40, was found dead on Saturday at a house in Majorca by emergency crews and Mary Somerville, 39, was discovered next to him.\n\nMs Somerville is understood to be in a serious condition in Manacor Hospital.\n\nThe newlywed couple were staying at a rural property in Cala Mesquida in the north-east.\n\nMajorcan newspaper Ultima Hora reported that Mr Carsi and Ms Somerville married two weeks before the incident.\n\nIt said they were due to go on a boat trip on Saturday and the alarm was raised when they failed to show up.\n\nMr Carsi was an analyst for a Scottish investment management firm.\n\nPatti Montella, a friend of the couple, said he was a \"magnificent soul\" in a social media post.\n\nShe wrote: \"Jaime Carsi came into my life and took up residence in my heart, so many years ago, in London.\n\n\"His smile and spirit are pure love.\n\n\"And when he married our precious Edinburgh girl, sweet Mary, it was a match made in heaven.\"\n\nThe couple were involved in the Edinburgh Interfaith Association which aims to bring the city's religious faiths together.\n\nThe association's director Iain Stewart said: \"They were just such a warm, open couple - they would light up the room.\n\n\"Jaime was a joy to be around, he was so open, such a kind person - you just felt better about yourself when you were with Jaime.\"\n\nMs Somerville is a talented harpist, who often plays at events organised by the association.\n\nMr Carsi described himself online as being from Madrid but it is believed he moved to the UK as a child and relocated to Edinburgh from London about six years ago\n\nPolice in Majorca confirmed the incident is under investigation.\n\nA Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office spokesperson said: \"We are supporting the family of a British national who was hospitalised in Mallorca. We are in contact with the local authorities\".", "Police in the US responded to a report of someone crying for \"help\", but as their bodycam footage showed, it turns out that someone was a distressed goat.\n\nOfficers of the Enid police department arrived at the scene in Oklahoma, only for a farmer to explain to them the goat was upset as he had been separated from his friend.\n\n\"Thank you, gentlemen. Your swift actions (although in the end not necessary) are appreciated by us all,\" police joked in a statement reported on CBS News. \"All in all, you really can't say it was that baaad of a call.\"", "A Belfast-based activist from Hong Kong has called on the UK government to shut down an alleged Chinese \"police station\" operating in Belfast.\n\nPatrick Yu claimed they are being used to monitor Chinese citizens abroad.\n\nThere have been four alleged stations identified in the UK, with a senior MP claiming one operates in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Chinese government has previously denied the claims.\n\nIt is estimated there are at least 100 such illegal bureaus across the world with widespread allegations of intimidation.\n\nA Chinese \"police station\" in Dublin was ordered to close by the Irish government last October.\n\nThe UK government told BBC News NI it takes the claims very seriously.\n\nThe stations are understood to be operating in 53 countries, according to Spain-based human rights organisation Safeguard Defenders, which monitors disappearances in China.\n\nLast month Alicia Kearns, the Conservative chair of Westminster's foreign affairs Committee, told the House of Commons that the UK was vulnerable to \"Chinese transnational repression\".\n\nThe Chinese government operate a consulate in south Belfast but it is unknown where the alleged \"police station\" operates\n\n\"It is still true that there are four illegal police stations operating in the country that we know of - the one in Belfast seems to be missing from much of the reporting,\" she said.\n\nThe Safeguard Defenders report identified two of the facilities in London with another in Glasgow.\n\nFormer Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was previously in contact with police over the facility, which reportedly operated out of a restaurant.\n\nIn April the Times newspaper reported one of the alleged stations is operating in Croydon, south London.\n\nElsewhere, US prosecutors arrested two men in New York last month for allegedly operating one of the stations while Dutch media found evidence that the stations were being used to try to silence Chinese dissidents in Europe.\n\nIt is alleged that the underground policing units exist to carry out persuasion operations, aimed at coercing those suspected of speaking out against the Chinese regime to return home.\n\nPatrick Yu claims the alleged police stations are used to monitor Chinese citizens abroad\n\nMr Yu, who has lived in Northern Ireland for about 30 years and sits on the board of the NI Council for Racial Equality (NICRE), told BBC News NI: \"I think it's about the monitoring of Chinese citizens and a way of threatening them.\n\n\"If you're a Chinese citizen the government is always watching you.\"\n\nMr Yu, who helped organise some of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, said he is unable to return to Hong Kong because of his campaigning and the National Security Law enacted in Hong Kong in 2020.\n\nHe said the government should take the necessary action to shut down any alleged police stations operating in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith told the Commons that the security services had warned the UK government about the existence of these stations.\n\n\"We know that they are bringing Chinese dissidents in, confronting them with videos of their families and threatening their families in front of them if they do not co-operate, leave and go back to China,\" said the former Conservative leader.\n\nDuring the same debate, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Jim Shannon said: \"I have some constituents who are Chinese expats who have told me that they feel they have been followed.\n\n\"They are pretty sure that their phones have been tapped.\"\n\nHe later told Belfast Live: \"Their concerns are that they have family back home in Hong Kong and... they're very conscious that whatever they do or say that the Chinese authorities, or whoever it may be, are keeping a tab on them.\"\n\nThe Chinese government has also been accused of establishing \"police stations\" across the globe\n\nThe EU director of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, Mark Sabah, told BBC News NI that UK authorities \"have done nothing\" on the matter of Chinese-controlled stations, despite mounting political pressure.\n\n\"If the [Belfast station] is in any way aligned with the two in London and the one in Glasgow then it should be immediately shut down and the owner called in for questioning or expelled,\" he said.\n\nAmnesty International in Northern Ireland said the government should tell Chinese authorities it \"will not tolerate the long arm of Chinese state oppression here\".\n\nPatrick Corrigan, the head of Amnesty International NI, said: \"Any Chinese 'police station' being used to spy on Hong Kong and mainland Chinese communities in Belfast - or anywhere else in the UK - must be shut down immediately.\n\n\"The UK authorities need to steadfastly protect Hong Kong and mainland Chinese people against any intimidation by Beijing.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"Reports of alleged, undeclared 'police stations' operating in the UK are of course very concerning and are taken extremely seriously.\n\n\"Attempts by foreign governments to coerce, intimidate, harass or harm their critics overseas, undermining democracy and the rule of law, are unacceptable. We are committed to tackling these challenges wherever they originate.\"", "First off, that the amount of evidence in this case is going to be mind-boggling. If someone can quickly point me in the direction of an AI legal document reader bot I'd be grateful (PR agencies: this is a joke).\n\nSeriously, what we can see here is a two-pronged attack from Prince Harry's legal battalion. First off, they're wanting to prove that there was a pattern of hacking, illegal intrusion not just against him but many, many others - and that editors, lawyers and executives at the Mirror Group knew.\n\nThis will depend on key partially-documented incidents like the Prince Michael of Kent allegation (see our earlier posts) and also inviting the judge to draw inferences.\n\nSecondly, the disclosure this afternoon of the 33 critical articles at the heart of his case reveals that he is prepared to argue with the newspaper group over stories that it insists were already in the public domain or obtainable by lawful means.\n\nThis means every single day is going to be a grinding legal battle - tiny details pored over and pulled apart. I don't expect a single one of Prince Harry's witnesses to be given an easy day in court. It is going to be gruelling.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This is who I'm meant to be'\n\n\"They come every year, they meet their friends and family - maybe they haven't seen some people since this time last year.\"\n\nAs the Balmoral Show 2023 opens its gates, organiser Rhonda Geary is a firm believer that it is about a lot more than farming and food.\n\n\"We've more than 600 trade stands for people to enjoy, a fantastic horticultural area,\" she says.\n\n\"There is something for everybody here.\n\n\"Last year we'd more than 120,000. We hope to hit that again and perhaps exceed it.\"\n\nThe show is a highlight of the agricultural calendar and the potential prize-winning animals will have been prepped and pampered for months in hopes of achieving a rosette.\n\n\"Our livestock entries have exceeded our expectations and we're delighted to have so many here,\" says Rhonda.\n\nRhonda Geary hopes the number of people at the show will be even more than in 2022\n\nThis is the 154th Balmoral Show and the third since it was cancelled in spring 2020 and 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. A smaller event was held in September 2021.\n\nThere are more than 3,000 livestock entries across all classes and a new Makers' Market for crafters and artisan traders.\n\nAmong the seasoned farmers displaying their animals at the show, the farmers of the future are also making their presence known.\n\nNine-year-old Georgia from Keady in County Armagh has been to the showring to display a bull almost as tall as she is.\n\nAlong with her mother, father, brother and six-week-old baby sister, she is competing at Balmoral with the family bull, a Dexter named Arcadius.\n\n\"It's a funny feeling but it feels wonderful,\" said Georgia.\n\nThere are more than 3,000 livestock entries across the show\n\nTo get animals ready for the show does not come cheap.\n\nDavid Connolly has spent almost £30,000 on his blond Charolais bull called Balmyle Sandy in the hope of bringing the animal's desirable traits into his herd.\n\n\"He's doing a daily live weight gain, as we talk about, of 1.7kg (3.75lb) per day,\" David told BBC News NI.\n\n\"So for the bodybuilders out there, if they could put on a kilo and seven every week they'd be happy.\"\n\nOne category missing from the show again this year is poultry because of bird flu restrictions.\n\nA housing order that was in place was lifted too late for arrangements to be made for the classes to be included.\n\nThere will be just one flock from a single breeder on display.\n\n\"It's disappointing for the exhibitors but unfortunately the restrictions on the housing were still in place when our entries opened for this year's Balmoral Show,\" says Rhonda.\n\n\"But we have a fantastic display of poultry - we've more than 100 birds in our poultry marquee.\n\n\"And we've our egg classes and our rabbits and cavies [guinea pigs] all over in that area so still a really busy area and a lovely display.\"\n\nRobert McKibbin is the only poultry farmer displaying at the show\n\nPoultry breeder Robert McKibbin is providing birds for the display and he is looking forward to getting back to some form of showing.\n\n\"There's a social end to the whole thing, there's a lot of friends that we have met over the years and we don't actually see them from show to show,\" he says.\n\n\"You always had a bit of craic with them and now you don't see them at all or very rarely.\n\n\"When you're breeding lovely birds and you think: 'This bird could do very well in a show' but then there is no show, then that bird passes its best and you have to start all over again for the next year and hope for the best.\n\n\"You have to live in hope.\"\n\nThe show is taking place against a backdrop of increasing bovine tuberculosis (bTB) numbers.\n\nRates are at their highest in more than 20 years.\n\nShow organisers are hoping to attract more than 120,000 visitors\n\nFormer Ulster Farmers' Union president Victor Chestnutt said it had become the scourge of every livestock farmer in Northern Ireland.\n\nSix years ago he lost his prize Belgian Blue cattle to the disease.\n\n\"We lost the best genetics in one fell swoop,\" he said.\n\nClougher Wilma and her sister Clougher Wendy went to slaughter, along with another cow.\n\nVictor's main breeds on his north coast farm now are Charolais and Aberdeen Angus.\n\nA Bovine TB strategy was announced in March 2022, including what then-minister Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots called a \"limited\" cull of badgers as a wildlife source of the disease.\n\nA legal challenge to the plan has been launched.\n\nThe Balmoral Show runs from Wednesday 10 May until Saturday 13 May at the Eikon Centre near Lisburn.", "Adam Price says he no longer had the support of his party\n\nAdam Price has quit as Plaid Cymru leader after a report found misogyny, harassment and bullying in the party.\n\nNorth Wales Senedd member Llyr Gruffydd will take over as interim leader, with a new leader in place in the summer, the party has said.\n\nIt follows months of difficulties including allegations of a sexual assault made against a senior staff member, and a toxic working culture.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Mr Price said he no longer had the \"united support\" of his colleagues.\n\nHe said he wanted to resign in the wake of the report's findings, but was initially persuaded not to quit.\n\n\"You have my personal assurance that I will continue to serve my country, my constituents and our party with determination and enthusiasm,\" he said in a letter to party chairman, Marc Jones.\n\nOn Thursday Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford said discussions on his co-operation agreement with Plaid will take place \"in light of recent developments\"\n\nHe thanked Mr Price \"for the constructive way the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru have worked together\".\n\nThe resignation announcement was made following a meeting of the party's ruling body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), late on Wednesday night.\n\nOne source from the meeting said some members raised the possibility of Adam Price remaining in post.\n\nBut it was considered untenable given the seriousness of the findings of the review.\n\nPlaid's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said Mr Price was not asked to resign in the wake of the \"toxic culture\" report because \"stability\" was needed to implement its recommendations.\n\nInterim Plaid Cymru leader Llyr Gruffydd has been in the Senedd since 2011\n\nSpeaking on the Today programme, Liz Saville Roberts said: \"Effective leadership is about balancing conflicting demands.\n\n\"What we felt strongly was that we needed a collegiate approach within the party because it (the report) cuts across all aspects of the party and it requires a change of culture\".\n\n\"In order to do that we would need stability\".\n\nShe also told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that Mr Price had to go because he had become a \"distraction\".\n\nShe ruled herself out of a leadership contest, saying any new leader would have to be an elected member in the Senedd.\n\n\"I'm an MP in Westminster so that's done and dusted,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adam Price apologised last week but said the damning report points to a \"collective failure\" across the party\n\nMr Gruffydd's appointment as interim leader was agreed at a meeting of the party's Senedd members on Thursday and will need to be rubber-stamped by Plaid Cymru's National Council on Saturday.\n\nHe will not stand in the forthcoming leadership contest\n\nMr Gruffydd said he was \"grateful to the Plaid Cymru Senedd group\" for the nomination and thanked Mr Price for his \"vision, commitment, and dedication\".\n\nPlaid Cymru is the third largest party in the Welsh Parliament, with 12 Members of the Senedd and three MPs in Westminster.\n\nThe pro-independence party is in a co-operation agreement with the Welsh Labour government, which means they help them govern.\n\nMr Price was elected party leader in 2018, when he ousted Leanne Wood.\n\nWelsh Conservative leader, Andrew RT Davies, said: \"I have no doubt Adam Price's departure is a moment of personal sadness for him.\n\n\"Following the recent report into the culture within their party, it became clear Plaid Cymru politicians no longer had confidence in his leadership, so his departure became inevitable.\"\n\nFor the converted, the die-hard believers, it wasn't meant to be like this.\n\nAdam Price was touted by many in Plaid Cymru as a \"once in a generation\" politician who could overcome the party's many electoral barriers.\n\nWhen he challenged his predecessor for the leadership in 2018, he said only he could \"create the momentum\" Plaid needed to become Wales' main party of government and install him as first minister.\n\nAnd yet, there was no great advance at the following Senedd election - Plaid remains in third place behind the Welsh Conservatives.\n\nSupporters will say it was an election like no other, one focused almost entirely on the public's broadly favourable opinion of the Welsh Labour government's handling of the pandemic.\n\nIt is clear, though, that some of the sheen had faded and in terms of public support, the party remains no further forward under Adam Price's leadership.\n\nAs it nears its 100th birthday celebrations, Plaid Cymru will seek its 11th leader with many of the perennial questions about its purpose, its lack of reach beyond the heartlands and its relationship with Welsh Labour likely to be raised.\n\nBut it is the drip, drip of negative stories over the last year, culminating in a damning report that found a toxic culture within the party that meant Adam Price's position was no longer tenable.\n\nAddressing those major issues will be his successor's primary focus.\n\nSince last year Plaid Cymru has been dogged by claims of a toxic culture in the party, and it emerged last November that an allegation of sexual assault had been made against a senior member of staff.\n\nSeparately, a serious allegation was also made about the conduct of a Member of the Senedd, Rhys ab Owen, who is now suspended from the Senedd group pending an investigation.\n\nThe party asked Nerys Evans, a lobbyist and former Plaid assembly member, to hold a review last December.\n\nHer working group's report said Plaid needed to \"detoxify a culture of harassment, bullying and misogyny\".\n\nIt said too many instances of bad behaviour were tolerated, and said an anonymous survey of staff and elected members highlighted examples \"of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination\".\n\nMr Price admitted the document left Plaid Cymru \"harmed and tarnished\". He apologised, but refused to quit.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Mr Price said: \"On receiving the report, I informed you that I felt morally bound to step down as leader of the party in recognition of our collective failure.\"\n\n\"You counselled against my resignation as you felt it would make it more difficult to achieve progress in implementing the recommendations.\"\n\nHe said he was \"persuaded by the argument that my stepping down would be an abdication of responsibility\".\n\nBut he added: \"It is now clear I no longer have the united support of my colleagues that would be necessary to follow this course to fruition.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"I want to thank Adam Price for the constructive way the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru have worked together to develop and implement the co-operation agreement. These shared priorities are making a real difference to people across Wales.\n\n\"The co-operation agreement is an agreement between the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru - not between individuals. There will be discussions about the agreement in light of recent developments.\"", "The plant in Sindelfingen employs about 35,000 people\n\nTwo people have been killed in a shooting at a Mercedes-Benz factory in south-western Germany, police said.\n\nA 53-year-old man entered the production hall at the plant in Sindelfingen and opened fire, shooting two 44-year-old men.\n\nOne of the victims died at the scene, the other died later in hospital. No one else was hurt.\n\nSecurity staff detained the suspect and handed him to officers who arrested him without resistance, police said.\n\nThe incident happened at about 07:45 local time (05:45 GMT), police in the city of Ludwigsburg said.\n\n\"We are deeply shocked and saddened by the tragic news from Sindelfingen this morning. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families and all colleagues on site,\" Mercedes-Benz said in a statement.\n\nMercedes-Benz produces its S-Class luxury model at the Sindelfingen plant, which employs about 35,000 people.\n\nThe firm said the people involved in the shooting had been employed by an external service provider.\n\nThe Stuttgart prosecutor's office said there was a single perpetrator and no one outside the factory was involved.\n\nThere was no danger to the public, police said.\n\nGermany has some of the strictest gun laws in Europe and authorities say they are planning to tighten them further.\n\nIn March a shooting at a Jehovah's Witnesses meeting hall in Hamburg claimed seven lives, including that of an unborn child.\n\nAuthorities were also alarmed by a suspected plot to overthrow the government, which led to mass arrests in December.\n\nCurrent laws require anyone aged under 25 to pass a psychological evaluation before getting a gun licence.\n\nIn 2021, there were around one million private gun owners in Germany, according to the National Firearms Registry. They account for 5.7 million legal firearms and firearm parts, most of them owned by hunters.", "Heather Armstrong, who found success in the 2000s documenting the ups and downs of motherhood on her blogging website Dooce, has died at the age of 47.\n\nHer boyfriend Pete Ashdown told the Associated Press (AP) he had found her on Tuesday night in their Utah home.\n\nThe \"queen of mommy blogging\" wrote frequently about her children, relationships and personal struggles.\n\nAt the height of its popularity, her Dooce website received more than eight million visitors a month, reports Vox.\n\nThat was in 2009 - the same year Ms Armstrong was named in Forbes' annual list of the 30 most influential women in media.\n\nMs Armstrong founded Dooce in the early 2000s as a place to discuss work, sex and leaving the Mormon church.\n\nThe site's name came from an inside joke about how she was unable to spell out the word \"dude\" quickly in online chats, according to the AP and New York Times.\n\nIn 2002, Ms Armstrong was fired from her job as a web designer in Los Angeles after the blog - in which she gave colleagues nicknames like That One Co-worker Who Manages to Say Something Stupid Every Time He Opens His Mouth - was found to be hers.\n\nHer firing, and the reason for it, ignited a public debate about privacy - and boosted traffic to her blog.\n\nThe site restarted six months later as a different kind of blog after she became pregnant. Embracing honesty in her writing, Ms Armstrong detailed her children's temper tantrums, her mental health challenges, and her struggles with alcoholism and postpartum depression.\n\nAccording to an estimate quoted in the Wall Street Journal, by 2009, the blog may have generated $40,000 (£32,000) a month in revenue from paid advertising.\n\nMs Armstrong turned her success into a strong social media presence and three books, including the 2009 memoir It Sucked and then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown and a Much Needed Margarita.\n\nAccording to the book, she suffered chronic depression throughout her life and it was not treated until she got to college.\n\nA caption on a Dooce Instagram page on Wednesday announcing her death said: \"Hold your loved ones close and love everyone else.\"\n\nMr Ashdown told the AP that his partner had been sober for more than 18 months but had recently had a relapse. He said she had taken her own life.\n\nMs Armstrong is survived by her ex-husband Jon; her children Leta, 19 and Marlo, 14; as well as Mr Ashdown and his three children from a previous marriage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. North Wales Police said the incident is being \"fully investigated\"\n\nFootage circulating online appears to show a police officer punching a man nine times while restraining him on the floor.\n\nThe incident occurred during the arrest of a man, 34, in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, north west Wales, on Wednesday.\n\nIn the footage, a male officer is seen with his arm around the man's neck appearing to punch him in the face.\n\nNorth Wales Police said the matter was being \"fully investigated\" and referred itself to the police watchdog.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has since launched an independent investigation.\n\nThe video appears to show the suspect taken to the ground by a male and female officer after a brief altercation.\n\nSeparate footage shows the man being led to a police vehicle with a swollen and bruised face.\n\nHe was then taken to hospital and assessed by medical staff before being transferred into police custody, said the force.\n\nThe incident happened on Pensyflog, a street in the coastal town of Porthmadog.\n\nNia Jeffreys, Gwynedd councillor for the area, said: \"The whole community is shocked to tell the truth and it's really shaken our faith and trust in the police here in north Wales.\n\n\"Trust is definitely shaken. Nobody expects to see one police officer punching a man several times whilst he is already on the floor, it's very serious.\n\n\"This kind of behaviour by one police officer can't be tolerated it's very difficult to justify.\"\n\nMs Jeffreys added that she, along with the local MP and MS, have written to the chief constable to determine the \"facts of this situation\".\n\nPolice and Crime Commissioner for north Wales, Andy Dunbobbin, described the footage as \"concerning\" and said he was taking it \"very seriously\".\n\n\"I discussed this incident with the chief constable this morning and she has confirmed the matter is rightly being investigated by North Wales Police,\" he said.\n\n\"I take such incidents very seriously and will work with the police and other bodies to understand the circumstances behind the footage,\" he added.\n\nDavid Ford, director of the IOPC, said: \"Footage on social media, capturing part of the interaction between police officers and the arrested man has, understandably, attracted significant interest and public concern.\n\n\"It is important that we thoroughly and independently investigate the whole incident, in order to establish whether the level of force used during the arrest was reasonable and proportionate in the circumstances.\"\n\nA North Wales Police spokesperson said: \"This matter is currently being fully investigated by North Wales Police and further updates will be issued in due course.\"", "Adam Price took over as party leader in autumn 2018\n\nAdam Price said Plaid Cymru's \"time has come\" when he took over as leader five years ago.\n\nHis victory was not unexpected - with his imposing presence and strong oratory skills, Mr Price had long been regarded as a future leader.\n\nBut he departs after a report heavily criticised the workplace culture that existed in his party, alleging harassment, bullying and misogyny.\n\nA miner's son from the Amman Valley, Adam Price's politics were shaped by the long miners' strike of the mid-1980s.\n\nHe became an MP in 2001, representing Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, and made his mark in Westminster by leading an unsuccessful attempt to impeach the then prime minister, Tony Blair, over claims that Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.\n\nMr Price stood down as an MP in 2010 before going to study at the prestigious Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the US.\n\nIn 2016 he returned to frontline politics - this time in Cardiff Bay, still representing his home constituency.\n\nOne campaign leaflet that year famously described him as an \"X-factor politician\" and the \"mab darogan\" (the son of prophecy) - a figure from Welsh mythology who it is said will redeem Wales in its hour of need.\n\nAdam Price and other party leaders meeting the Prince of Wales at the Senedd last year\n\nTwo years later he ousted Leanne Wood and became the first openly gay leader of a Welsh political party.\n\nMr Price described the decision to challenge one of his \"oldest friends in politics\" as \"the most difficult thing I've had to wrestle with in my political life\".\n\nMs Wood would later tell the BBC that the move led to the collapse of their friendship.\n\nIn a departure from his predecessor's approach, Mr Price put the notoriously tricky subject of independence at the heart of his political plan, pledging to hold a referendum on the issue by 2030.\n\nBut at the snap general election of December 2019 the party found itself squeezed out of the Brexit-dominated debate, and though Plaid held on to its four seats in Westminster, its share of the vote fell back and it came a disappointing third in its main target seat of Ynys Môn.\n\nLabour First Minister Mark Drakeford and Adam Price signed a co-operation deal in late 2021\n\nAnd so to the 2021 Senedd election, where independence would be front and centre of the party's campaign.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Price said that he would count anything less than becoming first minister as a \"failure\", and he ruled out working with the Conservatives and joining a coalition with Labour as a junior partner.\n\nBut the party slipped back into third place, losing its grip on the Rhondda seat held by Ms Wood, as it struggled to compete with the favourable response towards the Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford's leadership during the pandemic.\n\nMonths later, and with Mr Drakeford having fallen just short of a majority in the Senedd, Mr Price formed a co-operation agreement with the Welsh Labour government.\n\nThis was to be a new kind of deal, and one which would allow Plaid Cymru to push through some of its key policies, including Senedd expansion, the extension of free school meals, and free childcare for two year-olds.\n\nAnd that's why in the run-up to last May's Welsh local elections Mr Price - by now a father of two young children - was able to claim his party was \"making a difference\", and had \"snatched a moral victory from the mawing jaws of defeat\".\n\nBy the end of the year the party was engulfed by claims of a toxic culture within Plaid and criticism of the leadership's handling of the situation.\n\nThat culminated in a report by Nerys Evans which said the party had tolerated \"too many instances of bad behaviour\".\n\nMr Price initially insisted he would remain in post, arguing that quitting would be \"abdicating\" his responsibility.\n\nHowever a week on Mr Price has announced that he will step down and so it will be up to his successor to address the issues raised by the report and set a course for the party into the general election.", "The BBC had \"no concerns\" about Richard Sharp's integrity when he was chairman, a review by the corporation has found.\n\nMr Sharp announced his resignation as BBC chairman last month, after failing to disclose dealings with Boris Johnson ahead of his appointment.\n\nHe will stand down from his position at the end of June.\n\nA previous report found Mr Sharp \"failed to disclose potential perceived conflicts of interest\" in relation to the former prime minister.\n\nHis position was scrutinised after it emerged he tried to secure a high-level government meeting for a businessman offering Mr Johnson financial help.\n\nMr Sharp defended his conduct but stood down saying he did not want to be a distraction.\n\nThe latest review was carried out by three non-executive members of the BBC board's nominations committee - Sir Nick Serota, Shirley Garrod and Dame Elan Closs Stephens.\n\nThey were asked to look into Mr Sharp's personal and financial interests since his appointment to the role of BBC chairman in February 2021.\n\nRichard Sharp made his resignation statement ahead of the publication of Adam Heppinstall's report in April\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said: \"In conclusion, the committee confirmed it had no concerns in respect of the chairman's integrity while in the role.\n\n\"It was noted - in line with the findings of the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments - that the relevant declarations should have been made at the outset of the chairman's tenure, to avoid any potential perceived conflicts of interest. This was not in line with clause 2.4 of the BBC board's code of practice.\n\n\"The committee further agreed all other aspects of the board's code of practice had been followed satisfactorily during the chairman's time in his role.\"\n\nIf the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments had yet to report on whether Richard Sharp had broken public appointments rules, or if it had reported, but Mr Sharp had decided to stay on in his role as BBC chairman, the scrutiny of this new report would be intense.\n\nRichard Sharp's integrity has been called into question in the media ever since the Sunday Times splash in January. He took the heat out of the story by resigning.\n\nNow, nearly two weeks later, the BBC finds it has \"no concerns in respect of the Chairman's integrity whilst in the role\", although it says he did break the BBC's codes \"at the outset\" by not declaring his involvement in the story that eventually brought about his demise at the corporation.\n\nThe Nominations Committee met four times between February and May; I'm told their work cost the BBC nothing as it was built into their existing duties.\n\nThe minutes of those meetings offer up more details of Mr Sharp's interactions with senior government figures. He had three meetings with senior politicians, including Boris Johnson, that had not been noted in BBC records, although he told them either the director general or the BBC would have been notified. He also had three social meetings with the then prime minister, arranged at short notice. He discussed BBC business at two of them.\n\nMr Sharp told his three fellow board members who carried out the review that his relationship with Boris Johnson was \"largely professional\" with \"only limited social engagement\". His relationship with Rishi Sunak, having been his first employer, is \"close\", but he considered it professional and \"had only recently met with his family socially for the first time\". They had a trip to the Proms together, and Mr Sunak paid for his own ticket.\n\nIf he had not resigned, journalists would be poring over this document. Instead, it feels like a footnote.\n\nThe critical report which led to Mr Sharp's resignation last month followed months of speculation about his position and a row about BBC independence.\n\nLed by barrister Adam Heppinstall, it found that the ex-investment banker and Conservative Party donor had failed to disclose two potential perceived conflicts of interest.\n\nThe first was a perception \"he influenced the former prime minister to recommend him\" for the BBC role by telling Mr Johnson he wanted to apply for the job before doing so.\n\nThe second related to Mr Sharp's offer to assist the PM in a \"private financial matter\" by setting up a meeting between Simon Case, the country's most senior civil servant, and billionaire businessman Sam Blyth.\n\nIn the event, the meeting never took place, the report found.\n\nMr Sharp did not accept the first conclusion but he apologised for the second, though described it as \"inadvertent and not material\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe committee responsible for the latest report also published the minutes of the four meetings in which they discussed their review.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"I've never hacked a phone, I wouldn't even know how\" - Piers Morgan (interview filmed in March)\n\nPiers Morgan says he is not aware of phone hacking taking place while he was editor of the Daily Mirror.\n\nA High Court case against its owners, Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), brought by Prince Harry and several other high-profile figures, began on Wednesday.\n\nLawyers argue that executives at the publisher knew about widespread phone hacking, but failed to act.\n\nSpeaking before the trial, Mr Morgan said: \"I've never hacked a phone. I've never told anybody to hack a phone.\"\n\nThe long-awaited case involves allegations that the publisher of the Mirror illegally gathered information about the Duke of Sussex and a number of other celebrities to generate stories.\n\nIn written arguments put before the court, the barrister representing Prince Harry said it was \"inconceivable\" that Mr Morgan and other editors did not know about MGN journalists instructing private investigators to obtain information.\n\nMr Morgan has always denied any knowledge of phone hacking or illegal activity at the Daily Mirror when he was editor.\n\nHe was editor of the Daily Mirror from 1995 to 2004\n\nHe was interviewed by the BBC's Amol Rajan before the trial began. In it, Mr Morgan said he thought phone hacking - the interception of mobile phone voicemail messages - was completely wrong.\n\nHe added it \"shouldn't have been happening\" and said it was \"lazy journalists being lazy\". He said there was no evidence that he knew anything about it.\n\nAsked in the interview whether it stretched credulity that, as a hands-on editor, he didn't know what was going on, Mr Morgan replied: \"I didn't. So I don't care whether it stretches people's credulity, or not.\"\n\nThe former editor pointed out that although there were civil cases happening, none of the journalists who worked with him at the Daily Mirror have been arrested in connection with phone hacking.\n\nMr Morgan worked at the Daily Mirror for nearly a decade, but he said none of the civil cases had anything to do with him.\n\n\"I've not been called to give evidence, I know nothing about it,\" he told BBC News. Asked if he was worried about Prince Harry's legal action, he said he \"couldn't give a monkey's cuss\".\n\n\"I don't give a damn what actions he wants to take,\" he said.\n\nPiers Morgan told Amol Rajan he wasn't aware of any phone hacking while he was at the Daily Mirror\n\nIn 2015, MGN, which publishes the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, paid out £1.2m in damages to eight phone hacking victims who refused to settle out of court, including Paul Gascoigne and the actor Sadie Frost.\n\nOther cases have been settled out of court so damages to individuals remain unknown.\n\nOn Wednesday, MGN apologised to Prince Harry for one instance of unlawful information gathering in relation to a story which appeared in the Sunday People in 2004, but it denied allegations of voicemail interception in all the cases being examined.\n\nMr Morgan pointed out he only worked for the Daily Mirror and had no responsibility for the Sunday Mirror or Sunday People, or other titles.\n\nA MGN spokesman said: \"Where historical wrongdoing has taken place we have made admissions, take full responsibility and apologise unreservedly, but we will vigorously defend against allegations of wrongdoing where our journalists acted lawfully.\n\n\"MGN is now part of a very different company. We are committed to acting with integrity and our objective in this trial is to allow both the business and our journalists to move forward from events that took place many years ago.\"\n\nMr Morgan presents a show on TalkTV following his controversial exit from ITV's Good Morning Britain. He left in March 2021, after saying he \"didn't believe a word\" the Duchess of Sussex had said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.\n\nMedia figure Piers Morgan answers questions on everything from phone hacking to Meghan Markle.\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK Only) or on BBC Two at 19:00 BST.", "Dr Susan Gilby said she faced \"offensively sexist comments\" in meetings\n\nA former NHS chief executive is suing her employer, saying she was \"bullied, harassed, intimidated and undermined\" by the hospital trust's chairman.\n\nIn legal papers, seen by BBC News, Dr Susan Gilby alleges she was effectively unfairly dismissed by the Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust, after she made a formal complaint.\n\nShe has also accused the chairman of putting finance above patient safety.\n\nIn a statement, the trust said it denied all the allegations.\n\nDr Gilby, a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care, was appointed as medical director and assistant chief executive of the NHS trust, in August 2018.\n\nHer arrival came a month after nurse Lucy Letby was arrested on suspicion of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others at one of the trust's hospitals in Cheshire. Ms Letby's trial is ongoing and she denies the charges.\n\nWhen the chief executive resigned in September that year, Dr Gilby was promoted to the role.\n\nAccording to documents prepared for a forthcoming employment tribunal, Dr Gilby alleges the problems began when a new chairman, Ian Haythornthwaite, was appointed in late 2021.\n\nShe claims that soon after joining the trust, Mr Haythornthwaite - a former BBC accountant - sought to \"intervene and influence, and ultimately to control, many operational matters\" beyond the scope of his job.\n\nDr Gilby's claim alleges that the chairman had an \"extremely and unnecessarily aggressive\" approach, with subordinates \"increasingly frightened of crossing him\".\n\nShe also accuses him of appointing friends to the trust's board and putting finance above patient safety.\n\nDr Gilby claims the chairman was \"highly aggressive and intimidatory\" in meetings, that he banged his hand on a desk to emphasise his point, and oversaw a climate where \"offensively sexist comments and ferocious and repetitive criticisms\" were made by either him or his associates.\n\nDr Gilby's complaint accuses the chairman of putting finance above patient safety at the hospital trust\n\nShe made a formal whistle-blowing complaint against the chairman in July 2022, raising her concerns about his behaviour to both the trust and NHS England.\n\nThe trust responded to her concerns, Dr Gilby claims, by proposing that she be seconded to a senior advisory role within NHS England on the condition she withdrew her allegations.\n\nNHS England also contacted her about a role. Dr Gilby responded to the offer in November saying she was not willing to withdraw her allegations; she was suspended by the trust on 2 December. On 5 December, she gave the trust six months' notice of her intention to resign.\n\nDr Gilby is suing the trust and Mr Haythornthwaite for constructive unfair dismissal.\n\nIn a statement, the Countess of Chester NHS Trust said: \"There are significant points of dispute between Dr Gilby and the trust and the trust denies all allegations that she has raised. A number of active internal investigations are in train and the trust will not provide any further comment whilst those investigations are ongoing.\"\n\nMr Haythornthwaite said he had \"nothing to add at this time\" to the trust's statement.", "Supporters of New York City's weight discrimination bill rally in New York\n\nNew York City has passed a bill outlawing discrimination based on weight, joining a growing movement in the US to make size a protected trait on par with race and gender.\n\nMore than 40% of American adults are considered obese and studies show weight stigma is pervasive.\n\nThe bias can bring sharp costs, such as lower wages, especially for women.\n\nCity Councilman Shaun Abreu said weight discrimination was \"a silent burden people have had to carry\".\n\nDuring public hearings, supporters cited difficulty navigating seating at restaurants and theatres, getting turned away by landlords, and butting up against weight limits on the city's bike sharing programme.\n\nCouncilman Abreu, who sponsored the bill, said he became more aware of the issue when he gained more than 40lb (18.1kg) during lockdown and saw a shift in how he was treated. He said the lack of protections had amplified the problems people face.\n\n\"They're being discriminated against with no recourse and society saying that's perfectly fine,\" he said.\n\nThe measure is expected to be signed into law by New York's mayor later this month. The effort received widespread support, passing 44-5, despite scepticism in some quarters.\n\nNew York City council's minority leader, Joseph Borelli, who is a Republican, told the New York Times he was worried the law would empower New Yorkers \"to sue anyone and everything\".\n\n\"I'm overweight but I'm not a victim. No-one should feel bad for me except my struggling shirt buttons,\" he said.\n\nMichigan has barred workplace discrimination based on weight since 1976 and a handful of other cities, including San Francisco and Washington DC, have legislation on the books.\n\nState-level bills have now been introduced in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Jersey.\n\nThe efforts follow a dramatic increase in obesity rates over the past 20 years.\n\nTegan Lecheler, advocacy director for the National Association for the Advancement of Fat Acceptance, which worked with Councilman Abreu on the New York City bill, said she hoped the measure would \"encourage a larger conversation of framing this beyond health\".\n\n\"It's not a health issue. It's a civil rights issue,\" she said. \"This is really about if people are safe and protected and have the right to be in spaces.\"\n\nNew York's human rights law already bars discrimination in housing, the workplace and public accommodation based on 27 characteristics, including age, marital status, disability and national origin.\n\nThe bill adds weight and height to that list, while including exceptions for jobs in which weight and height are a \"bona fide occupational qualification\" or where there is a public health and safety concern.\n\nCouncilman Abreu said he hoped the move by the largest city in the country would encourage other cities and states to follow suit.\n\n\"We want this bill to send a message to everybody that you matter, regardless of if you're above or below average weight,\" he said. \"That's why we pushed this.\"", "The government has ditched its plan for thousands of EU-era laws to expire automatically at the end of the year.\n\nThe plan - dubbed a post-Brexit bonfire - would see laws that were copied over to the UK after Brexit vanish, unless specifically kept or replaced.\n\nCritics of the bill had voiced concern that it could lead to important legislation falling away by accident.\n\nBut the climbdown is likely to trigger anger from Brexit-backing Conservative MPs and members of the House of Lords.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kemi Badenoch said the cut-off point would be replaced with a list of 600 laws the government wants to replace by the end of the year.\n\nIn a statement, she said the change would be made through an amendment when the Retained EU Law Bill returns to Parliament next week.\n\nTory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, who introduced the bill when he was in government, called the move an \"admission of administrative failure\".\n\nIt showed an \"inability of Whitehall to do the necessary work and an incapability of ministers to push this through their own departments,\" he added.\n\nHe said the move to ditch the deadline represented the triumph of \"the blob\" - a term used by some Tory MPs to describe the Whitehall establishment.\n\nThe UK incorporated thousands of EU laws into UK law to minimise disruption to businesses when the UK officially left the EU in 2020 - with an ongoing audit by civil servants having identified 4,800 so far.\n\nSince September 2021, it has been reviewing this body of legislation to identify opportunities to give British firms an edge over European competitors.\n\nThe Retained EU Law Bill, which began its journey through Parliament during Liz Truss's premiership, would have introduced a 31 December cut-off date for most of these laws to expire, unless ministers replaced or decided to retain them.\n\nHowever opposition parties, trade unions and campaign groups cast doubt on whether the deadline was realistic, given the huge workload in reviewing the legislation.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch acknowledged the deadline had created \"legal uncertainty\" for businesses.\n\nShe said the government had already got rid of, changed or replaced around 1,000 EU-era laws - and was still committed to \"lightening the regulatory burden on businesses\".\n\nBut she added that the \"growing volume\" of EU laws identified during the ongoing audit had started to get in the way of \"meaningful reform\".\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, she added: \"Getting rid of EU law in the UK should be about more than a race to a deadline\".\n\nHowever, Labour called the move a \"humiliating u-turn,\" accusing ministers of trying to \"rescue this sinking ship of a bill\".\n\n\"After wasting months of parliamentary time, the Tories have conceded that this universally unpopular bill will damage the economy,\" said Jenny Chapman, Labour's shadow Cabinet Office minister.\n\nLiberal Democrat peer Lord Fox said the Conservatives had \"dug themselves into a hole\" with the bill, adding: \"While they may have stopped digging, they're still in the hole\".\n\nAsked about Ms Badenoch's article, David Penman, chair of the civil servants' union the FDA, said he read it as a criticism of an \"artificial deadline\" championed by the former business secretary, Mr Rees-Mogg.\n\n\"If you set an artificial deadline, what is a government department going to do? It's going to focus on the things that need to be retained in government,\" Mr Penman told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday. He said this would \"inevitably\" take precedence over focusing on what needs to change.\n\nGovernment is about \"doing things, it's about protecting people, it's about making sure business can work,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on... Brexit and the clash over EU laws\n\nThe bill was passed by MPs in January, but was expected to run into significant opposition when it faces further scrutiny in the House of Lords.\n\nPeers were meant to start debating the bill last month, but the government was reported to have put it on hold until last week's local elections in England were over.\n\nThe government is still expected to face opposition from peers over new powers for ministers to amend or replace EU laws using secondary legislation, a fast-track process that attracts less scrutiny in Parliament.\n\nOpposition MPs, and some Conservatives, say this would rob Parliament of a meaningful say over what is changed.\n\nAround 500 EU laws covering financial services had been exempted from the deadline, as they are due to be repealed by a separate bill making its way through the Commons. The same is expected for EU legislation affecting VAT and customs.\n\nHowever, the footprint of EU-era legislation is particularly large when it comes to environmental regulation.\n\nCampaign groups have warned about a loss of rights and legal protections in areas including water quality, air pollution standards and protections for wildlife.\n\nThe move to get rid of the deadline may be a pragmatic move, but is likely to disappoint MPs on the right of the Conservative Party and leave Prime Minister Rishi Sunak open to the charge he's not delivering the benefits of Brexit he promised.\n\nMr Sunak had promised during his unsuccessful leadership campaign last summer to publish a list of which EU laws would be retained or scrapped within 100 days of taking office.\n\nHowever, he did not keep the pledge after taking office in October after he was chosen to replace Liz Truss as prime minister by Conservative MPs.", "Jordan Walker-Brown spoke outside Southwark Crown Court after the jury found PC Imran Mahmood not guilty\n\nA Met Police officer who left a man paralysed when he fell after being Tasered by him has been cleared of causing grievous bodily harm.\n\nPC Imran Mahmood, 36, inflicted the injuries on Jordan Walker-Brown in Harringay, north London, during the first coronavirus lockdown in May 2020.\n\nMr Walker-Brown, 23, broke his back when he fell backwards over a fence.\n\nThe officer said he had feared Mr Walker-Brown had a knife and believed he needed to be \"contained\".\n\nPC Mahmood wept in the dock at Southwark Crown Court as the jury's verdict was delivered - after nearly 10 hours of deliberations - as did some others, although some people walked out of the courtroom shaking their heads.\n\nFollowing the verdict, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it was looking into whether PC Mahmood should face disciplinary action.\n\nPC Mahmood admitted inflicting serious injury but denied he had acted illegally\n\nSpeaking to reporters outside the court Mr Walker-Brown, who is paralysed from the waist down, said he had known what the verdict would be.\n\n\"I feel like he won before he got here, it's rigged, I was fighting against something that is bigger than everything.\n\n\"But I'm over it, it's done. Win or lose, it's a losing battle.\"\n\nWhen he gave evidence last week, PC Mahmood described how he was one of a group of nine officers from the Met's territorial support group who were in a police vehicle when they saw Mr Walker-Brown walking down the road, on 4 May 2020.\n\nThe defendant told jurors he thought Mr Walker-Brown was wearing a small bag around his waist, and his suspicion was \"heightened\" because such bags were often used to conceal weapons or drugs and Mr Walker-Brown did not seem to be out for shopping or exercise.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment PC Imran Mahmood fired his Taser at Jordan Walker-Brown was captured on body-worn camera\n\nThe court heard that PC Mahmood and a colleague began following him on foot when Mr Walker-Brown started running away from them, climbing on top of a wheelie bin and scrambling on to an adjacent wall. It was at this point PC Mahmood Tasered Mr Walker-Brown, who fell and hit his head on a footpath.\n\nThe defendant told the jury Mr Walker-Brown had reached for his waistband while running and did not respond when asked to stop.\n\nIn a statement, the director of the IOPC Amanda Rowe said: \"We note the jury's decision and acknowledge the devastating impact this incident has had on Mr Walker-Brown, who sustained life-changing injuries.\n\n\"We will now be considering evidence from the trial and liaising with the Metropolitan Police regarding disciplinary proceedings for potential breaches of police professional standards.\"\n\nMr Walker-Brown was supported by his family and friends\n\nDet Ch Supt, Caroline Haines, who is responsible for policing in Enfield and Haringey, said after the verdict: \"My thoughts today are with Mr Walker-Brown and his family whose lives have been changed forever.\n\n\"I don't underestimate the effect this incident will have had on them and have offered to meet with them when appropriate to listen to their concerns and discuss the matter in further detail.\"PC Mahmood has been on restricted duties since the incident.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Humza Yousaf has warned the public about carbon monoxide poisoning\n\nHumza Yousaf has paid tribute to an Edinburgh man who died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.\n\nJaime Carsi, 40, was found dead at his holiday home in Spain. His wife Mary Somerville, 39, is understood to be in a serious condition in hospital.\n\nThe first minister has echoed calls for holidaymakers to pack \"life-saving\" detectors when they travel abroad.\n\nAll homes in Scotland must have a detector in any room with a carbon-fuelled appliance.\n\nMr Carsi and Ms Somerville were staying at a rural property in Cala Mesquida in the north east of Majorca.\n\nLocal newspaper Ultima Hora reported the couple had married two weeks before the incident.\n\nAt FMQs, SNP MSP Clare Adamson warned that regulations for carbon monoxide alarms are inconsistent overseas.\n\nShe highlighted advice from organisations such as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and the Safer Tourism Foundation which says Scots should consider a carbon monoxide alarm as \"essential holiday packing\".\n\nMr Carsi, 40, was an analyst for a Scottish investment management firm\n\nHumza Yousaf agreed and said: \"My thoughts are with, of course, the family of Jamie Carsi and indeed with his wife Mary.\"\n\nHe added: \"And of course with their friends, their family and the community that will be deeply saddened and rocked by these events.\"\n\nThe first minister said carbon monoxide detectors can give \"life-saving\" warnings.\n\n\"Fitting one of these detectors is vital for safety - it could quite literally save your life,\" he told MSPs.\n\nMr Yousaf encouraged Scots to find out more about carbon monoxide poisoning.\n\nScotland became the first nation in the UK to legally require every home to have interlinked smoke alarms in February 2022.\n\nThe legislation was introduced in 2019 following the Grenfell disaster but was delayed until 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic.", "Elon Musk says that he has found a new chief executive to lead Twitter.\n\nHe announced the news on the social media platform, which he bought last year for $44bn (£35bn).\n\nMr Musk did not name the site's new boss but said \"she\" would start in six weeks, and he would become executive chairman and chief technology officer.\n\nReports said the incoming leader would be Linda Yaccarino, head of advertising sales at media giant NBCUniversal, which later confirmed her departure.\n\nMr Musk has been under pressure to name someone else to lead the company and focus on his other businesses.\n\nLast year, after Twitter users voted for him to step down in an online poll, he said: \"No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive.\"\n\nHowever, although Mr Musk had said he would hand over the reins, it was by no means clear when or even if it would happen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTesla shares rose after the announcement. Mr Musk has previously been accused by shareholders of abandoning Tesla after his takeover of Twitter and damaging the car company's brand.\n\n\"We ultimately view this as a major step forward with Musk finally reading the room that has been around this Twitter nightmare,\" said Dan Ives from investment firm Wedbush Securities.\n\n\"Trying to balance Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX as CEOs [is] an impossible task that needed to change.\"\n\nAccording to the Wall Street Journal and Variety, NBCUniversal's Ms Yaccarino was in talks to become Twitter's chief executive. The speculation surrounding Ms Yaccarino intensified on Friday when NBCUniversal announced she had left the firm.\n\nTwitter did not comment on the reports.\n\nIt is sometimes difficult to know when the billionaire and owner of Twitter is being serious.\n\nLast month, when the BBC asked Mr Musk who was going to succeed him as chief executive of the social media company, he said he had made a dog Twitter's leader.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Elon Musk says his 'dog is the CEO of Twitter'\n\nBut if Mr Musk has indeed appointed a female executive, it would make her one of the few women to reach the top of a major technology company.\n\nWomen accounted for fewer than 10% of chief executives of tech firms included in America's 500 biggest companies last year.\n\nAlthough Mr Musk has talked about paid subscribers to Twitter Blue, it is advertising that brings in the vast majority of revenue at Twitter.\n\nThe new boss will no doubt seek to improve relationships with advertisers, and smooth their fears over content moderation.\n\nMr Musk, a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, has said he took over Twitter to protect free speech. However, advertisers do not want their content next to misinformation or extremist content.\n\nHe purchased Twitter in October only after a lawsuit forced him to go through with the deal. Upon taking charge, Mr Musk controversially fired thousands of staff in a bid to cut costs at the firm, which has struggled to be profitable.\n\nIn March, Mr Musk said those efforts had paid off and the platform's finances were improving.\n\nAnd last month he told the BBC that most of the advertisers that had abandoned Twitter immediately after the acquisition had returned.", "Finland's outgoing Prime Minister Sanna Marin and her husband Markus Raikkonen have filed for divorce.\n\n\"We are grateful for the 19 years together and our beloved daughter,\" Ms Marin said on Instagram on Wednesday.\n\nThe couple married in 2020, when Ms Marin was leading the country's pandemic response, and they share a five-year-old daughter.\n\nShe is due to leave office after her centre-left party lost the general election last month.\n\nIn a story posted on her Instagram account, Ms Marin said she is \"still best friends\" with Mr Raikkonen, who is a businessman and former professional footballer.\n\n\"We will continue to spend time together as a family and with each other,\" she added.\n\nMs Marin, 37, became the world's youngest prime minister when she took office in 2019. But she lost out in a tight race to the National Coalition Party, headed by Petteri Orpo, and the right-wing populist Finns Party, led by Riikka Purra, in April.\n\nIt was a bitter defeat for Ms Marin. While she increased her party's seats and secured 19.9% of the vote, her coalition partners all lost significant numbers of seats.\n\nHer government has formally resigned but will continue serving on a caretaker basis until the formation and appointment of a new government. Mr Orpo has said he hopes to conclude negotiations by June.\n\nMs Marin has enjoyed high polling throughout her time in office, with many praising her for steering Finland into Nato and navigating her country through the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nBut she is also a polarising figure in Finland, with headlines pertaining to her personal life surfacing in recent months.\n\nShe has frequently been a target for criticism for her apparent love of partying - most notably when a video of her at a party singing, dancing and drinking circulated on social media in August 2022.\n\nAt the time, Ms Marin said the video had been filmed on \"private premises\" and that she had spent \"an evening with friends\".\n\nBut the video prompted dozens of complaints alleging Ms Marin's behaviour undermined Finland's \"reputation and security\".\n\nThe incident led to many women coming out in support of Ms Marin. In Finland, women took to social media to post videos of themselves dancing in solidarity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is the Title 42 border policy?\n\nA record number of migrants were recently apprehended at the US-Mexico border in a single day, fuelling fears over what will happen in a few hours when a controversial immigration policy expires.\n\nThe rule, known as Title 42, was first implemented in 2020 and made it easier for the US to expel migrants back to Mexico using the coronavirus pandemic as justification.\n\nBut its looming expiration at 23:59 ET on Thursday (03:59 GMT on Friday) has triggered a rush to reach the border, and cities on both sides are readying for a rise in attempted crossings once it lapses.\n\nPresident Joe Biden acknowledged earlier this week that the border would be \"chaotic for a while\" despite the best efforts of the authorities.\n\nThe potential impact is already clear in the Texas city of El Paso, which is seeing an increase in arrivals ahead of the rule change.\n\nMigrants - many of them confused about the impending change - are sleeping rough in makeshift campsites on the city's streets. Several thousand were camped out earlier this week around a church in the city centre.\n\n\"We've never seen this before,\" Mayor Oscar Leeser said at a border security expo just streets away from the campsite on Wednesday. \"Something has to change. As a community, we can't do this forever.\"\n\nHe warned that across from El Paso alone, an estimated 10,000 migrants were \"lined up at the border, waiting to come in\".\n\nJoe Sanchez, the regional director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, compared the situation to a stampede at a football game - only many times larger.\n\n\"Imagine 60,000 people in one location, and all of a sudden an alert comes on and says there's a bomb in the building. What happens after that? Chaos… It's very hard to control and very hard to manage,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"That's exactly what it's like on the border.\"\n\nFor those migrants - and those already in the US - the future is uncertain.\n\nIn a bid to stop the flow, the Biden administration introduced strict new rules for asylum seekers on Wednesday, which included barring those who cross illegally from applying from asylum for five years.\n\nUS officials have also announced new changes aimed at encouraging migrants to seek legal pathways to the country, as well as strict penalties and swift deportation for those who do not.\n\nMigrants are camped out at a church in El Paso ahead of Title 42 ending\n\nMoreover, about 24,000 law enforcement officers have been stationed along the length of the 2,000 mile (3,218km) border, along with thousands of National Guard troops and active-duty military personnel sent to help Customs and Border Protection (CBP).\n\nThe new measures come at a challenging time for the CBP. In the El Paso sector alone, officers have seen a sharp rise in attempted crossings over the past six months and are carrying out hundreds of detentions every day.\n\nAuthorities in the city have been left to contend both with unprocessed migrants who crossed illegally, and those who have been released from detention to await a court date with an immigration judge. Some migrants in El Paso told the BBC they would have to wait years before they appear in court.\n\nAnd just days before Title 42 expires, officials here have launched an enforcement operation asking migrants to head to the nearest processing facility.\n\nThose who were found to have legitimate asylum claims were given dates to appear before an immigration judge, while others were detained for eventual removal. One woman told the BBC that her court date was in 2025 in Miami, Florida.\n\nMigrants in the area also said that some had run, fearful of deportation, while others had reluctantly presented themselves to CBP officers in the hopes that they would be allowed to stay.\n\n\"It was crazy. They came to tell us early in the morning, when it was still dark,\" said Luis Angel, a 29-year-old Cuban who was paroled into El Paso awaiting his court date. \"Some of my friends are still detained.\"\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that much of the problem stemmed from smugglers who had \"been hard at work spreading false information that the border will be open\" after 11 May.\n\n\"It will not be. They are lying,\" he added. \"We urge migrants once again not to believe the smugglers who are lying to them solely to make a profit. We are building lawful pathways for you to come to the United States.\"\n\nAmong the steps being taken are the opening of regional processing centres aimed at helping migrants apply to come to the US, as well as expanded access to CBP One, an app which migrants can use to schedule asylum appointments.\n\nMigrants run from Border Patrol after crossing into El Paso, Texas\n\nCBP also plans to ramp up efforts to counter misinformation to combat rumours about border policies.\n\nStill, many migrants in El Paso said that they found the rules confusing and had heard conflicting information about what might happen before or after the policy ends.\n\n\"The rules definitely influenced me. I heard that with Title 42 they'd return me to Mexico to try again until I get in,\" said Daniel, a Venezuelan.\n\n\"But now they'll return everyone to their country,\" he said. \"If I go back to Venezuela, who knows, they might torture or imprison me. That's how it is there.\"\n\nWith additional reporting from Angelica Casas and Morgan Gisholt Minard", "The View, pictured left to right: Darren Rennie, Kieren Webster, Pete Reilly and Kyle Falconer\n\nA gig came to an abrupt halt after The View lead singer apparently threw a punch at the band's bassist.\n\nFans were left shocked when the disturbance broke out between Kyle Falconer and Kieren Webster at The Deaf Institute in Manchester.\n\nThe set ended with the musicians walking off stage after the clash was captured in footage shared on Twitter.\n\nFan Saffie Yates, who had waited six years to see the band, said she first thought it was some sort of stunt.\n\nShe said: \"It was very scary to see someone you respect behave like this.\n\n\"The bass player normally plays a couple of songs and it was his birthday yesterday. He wanted to play a third song and the lead singer went for him.\n\n\"He punched the bassist. I didn't know if it was part of the act.\n\n\"The band left the stage and the fans were hanging around waiting to see what would happen.\n\nWarning: The Tweet below contains offensive language and violence.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Window Co This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Window Co\n\nA statement from the band's management apologised to fans who attended the Wednesday night show.\n\nA spokesman said the group's next appearance, booked in London for Thursday night, had been postponed.\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately we are having to postpone tonight's London show.\n\n\"Our promoter is working to resolve the situation.\n\n\"Please keep hold of your tickets for now & we will make a further announcement in a few days. Massive apologies to all our fans.\"\n\nThe band, from Dundee, is also due to play at the Neighbourhood Weekender festival in Warrington at the end of the month before several other festival dates over summer.\n\nFormed in 2005, The View is best known for its hit Same Jeans, which charted at number three in 2007, and their platinum-selling debut album Hats Off to the Buskers which topped the album charts.\n\nThe band split in 2017 and has since played a variety of comeback gigs.\n\nDescribed on its Twitter feed as \"three pals in a band from Dryburgh\", the group is planning to release a new album called Exorcism of Youth in August.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram?You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Supermarkets are being investigated by the competition watchdog over high food and fuel prices.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it would look at whether a \"failure in competition\" meant customers were overpaying.\n\nSupermarkets said they were working to keep food prices \"as low as possible\".\n\nBut an investigation into the fuel market, which has already started, has found some supermarkets have increased margins on petrol and diesel.\n\nThe CMA said evidence suggested at least one supermarket had set a higher target for its margin on fuel prices in 2022, which could have led to rivals following suit and raising prices too.\n\nThe BBC has contacted supermarkets individually for comment.\n\nAsda said it would work \"in full cooperation\" with the CMA and added it was \"focused on providing our customers with the best value at the pumps\".\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the BRC, said supermarkets were \"confident\" that they were \"doing all they can to keep food prices as low as possible\".\n\n\"The UK has one of the most competitive markets for food in the world, and as global prices begin to fall we are confident that the competitive nature of the industry will help food inflation fall as a result,\" he said.\n\nHigher food prices have been hitting households hard in recent months, and some have questioned why a drop in the cost of wholesale food globally has not led to falls in the prices charged by UK supermarkets.\n\nSupermarkets have said there is typically a three to nine-month lag to see price falls reflected in the shops.\n\nBut the war in Ukraine has driven up food prices around the world, and the UK has faced other problems on top of this - from Brexit red tape to labour shortages.\n\nCMA chief executive Sarah Cardell, said the watchdog recognised that \"global factors\" were behind many grocery price increases and said it had seen \"no evidence at this stage of specific competition problems\".\n\nShe added due to concerns about high prices, the CMA was \"stepping up our work in the grocery sector to help ensure competition is working well and people can exercise choice with confidence\".\n\nMs Cardell said the watchdog was \"concerned about the sustained higher margins on diesel compared to petrol we have seen this year\".\n\nShe said her team was not satisfied that all the supermarkets had been \"sufficiently forthcoming with the evidence\" on fuel pricing, and said bosses would be called in for formal interviews to \"get to the bottom of what is going on\".\n\nThe CMA said although supermarkets still tend to be the cheapest retail suppliers of petrol and diesel, evidence indicated \"at least one supermarket\" had significantly increased its margin targets last year.\n\n\"Other supermarkets have recognised this change in approach and may have adjusted their pricing behaviour accordingly,\" the watchdog added.\n\nThe CMA noted while Russia's invasion of Ukraine had caused prices to rise, higher pump costs could not be \"attributed solely to factors outside the control of the retailers\".\n\nIt said the higher prices at the pumps appeared to be in part due to \"some weakening of competition\" in the UK fuel retail market.\n\nA review of the fuel market has been ongoing for several months, over initial concerns that retailers and forecourts were failing to pass on a 5p fuel duty cut to motorists.\n\nMotoring groups claimed the findings from the CMA confirmed what they had been campaigning on for some time - that drivers were not getting a fair deal.\n\nIn December, the CMA said it found evidence that so-called \"rocket and feather\" fuel pricing happened in 2022, when fuel prices rise as wholesale costs rise, but then fall more slowly than costs come down.\n\n\"If ever a business sector needed a major shake-up, it's the fuel trade - critical to the cost of living, family finances, transport costs and inflation,\" said Edmund King, president of the AA.\n\nSimon Williams, fuel spokesman for the RAC, added: \"Something badly needs to change to give drivers who depend on their vehicles every day a fair deal at the pumps. We hope even better news will be forthcoming later this summer.\"", "Chancellor Scholz (right) pledged to support President Zelensky (left) and Ukraine \"for as long as it is necessary\"\n\nUkraine has no plans to hit targets in Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said in Germany, where Kyiv secured a big new defence aid package.\n\n\"We are not attacking Russian territory,\" he said after talks in Berlin with Chancellor Olaf Scholz.\n\n\"We are preparing a counterattack to de-occupy the illegitimately conquered territories,\" Mr Zelensky added.\n\nMr Scholz vowed to back Ukraine \"for as long as it is necessary\", promising €2.7bn (£2.4bn) worth of weapons.\n\nThis includes advanced German Leopard tanks and more anti-aircraft systems to defend Ukraine from almost daily deadly Russian missile and drone attacks.\n\nPresident Zelensky described the new tranche as \"the largest since the beginning of the full-scale aggression\" by Russia in February 2022.\n\nThe war has transformed Germany's attitude towards Ukraine, moving from being a reluctant supplier of military hardware to virtually doubling its contribution overnight, the BBC's Jenny Hill in Berlin says.\n\nRussia accuses Ukraine of repeatedly hitting targets inside Russia, including a reported drone attack on Moscow's Kremlin earlier this month.\n\nUkraine denies the accusations, while also stressing that it has a legitimate right to use force and other means to fully de-occupy its territories currently under Russian control. These include four regions in the south and east, as well as the Crimea peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014.\n\nLater on Sunday, President Zelensky travelled to the western city of Aachen to receive the prestigious Charlemagne Prize awarded this year to him and the Ukrainian people. The honour is given for efforts to foster European unity.\n\n\"Ukraine incarnates everything the European idea is living for: the courage of convictions, the fight for values and freedom, the commitment to peace and unity,\" EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at the award ceremony.\n\nIn other developments on Sunday:\n\nPresident Zelensky flew to Germany from Italy overnight, his plane escorted by two German Air Force fighter jets.\n\nIn Rome, the Ukrainian leader met Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. He also had a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican.\n\nThe Argentine pontiff said he was constantly praying for peace in Ukraine.\n\nThe Pope also stressed the urgent need to help \"the most fragile people, innocent victims\" of the Russian invasion.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Meloni assured Mr Zelensky of Rome's support for united Ukraine.\n\nLater on Sunday, the Ukrainian leader arrived in Paris, where he went to the Élysée Palace for a working dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At the wheel of a 'world first' self-driving bus ready to take to the roads in Scotland\n\nThe UK's first full-sized driverless buses have started operating for passengers in Edinburgh.\n\nThe autonomous vehicles, operated by Stagecoach, run across the Forth Road Bridge from Ferrytoll park-and-ride in Fife to Edinburgh Park station.\n\nDespite the \"driverless\" name, the buses operate with two staff on board.\n\nOne will sit in the driver's seat to monitor the technology, and a so-called bus captain will help passengers with boarding and buying tickets.\n\nStagecoach said the five single-decker buses have the capacity for about 10,000 passenger journeys per week.\n\nThe vehicles have sensors enabling them to travel on pre-selected roads on the 14-mile route at up to 50mph.\n\nThe AB1 service is the first registered autonomous bus route in UK.\n\nIt is part of Project CAVForth, run by Stagecoach and funded by the UK government.\n\nStagecoach worked with Fusion Processing Ltd and project partners Transport Scotland, Alexander Dennis, Edinburgh Napier University and Bristol Robotics Laboratory.\n\nThe Alexander Dennis Enviro200AV buses can take on complex traffic manoeuvres such as roundabouts, traffic lights, and weaving between motorway lanes.\n\nThe project has recruited 20 staff from Stagecoach East Scotland's existing driving team.\n\nStagecoach UK managing director Carla Stockton-Jones said: \"We are excited to introduce the UK's first autonomous bus fleet in east Scotland.\n\n\"We are proud to be at the forefront of transport innovation with this project that marks a significant milestone for public transport.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal's fading title hopes were dealt a devastating blow after losing to Brighton to leave leaders Manchester City one win from a fifth Premier League title in six seasons.\n\nThe Gunners needed to respond after City's 3-0 win over Everton earlier on Sunday left Mikel Arteta's side trailing by four points in the race for the title.\n\nOn a deeply frustrating day for Arsenal, Leandro Trossard hit the bar against his former club while Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka both went close before Julio Enciso's close-range header put Brighton ahead.\n\nSubstitute Deniz Undav doubled the lead after lobbing Aaron Ramsdale in the 86th minute before Pervis Estupinan added to Arsenal's misery with Brighton's third in the 96th minute.\n\nCity will win the Premier League title next Sunday in front of their own fans if they beat Chelsea at home (16:00 BST), even if Arsenal defeat Nottingham Forest at the City Ground on Saturday (17:30).\n\nHowever, City will be confirmed champions without playing on Saturday if the Gunners lose at Forest.\n\nIn a game littered with niggly challenges, Arsenal lost Brazil forward Gabriel Martinelli to injury in the first half after a foul by Brighton's Ecuador midfielder Moises Caicedo, who the Gunners tried to sign in January.\n\nBrighton, who are chasing a place in Europe for the first time, had gone close through Enciso before the 19-year-old Paraguay forward stunned the Emirates with his 51st-minute goal.\n\nThe win lifted the Seagulls above both Aston Villa and Tottenham into sixth on 58 points, four behind fifth-placed Liverpool with one game in hand.\n\nThe maximum number of points Arsenal can score is 87, while City have 85 with matches against Chelsea (home), Brighton (away) and Brentford (away) to come.\n• None Reaction from Arsenal-Brighton, plus how Sunday's Premier League action unfolded\n• None Go straight to all the best Arsenal content\n\nArsenal's players sank to their knees after the full-time whistle, the realisation quickly sinking in that their title dream was all but over after being picked off by Brighton.\n\nThe Gunners deserve enormous credit for the way they have pushed Manchester City in the title race. They were eight points clear of City at the top after 18 games but their pursuit is running out of steam after a highly damaging defeat at the business end of the season.\n\nManchester City's comfortable win at Everton earlier on Sunday opened up a four-point gap at the top but this time Arsenal were unable to respond to the pressure heaped on them by Pep Guardiola's Treble-chasing team.\n\nThere was still almost 40 minutes left when Enciso opened the scoring and Arteta sent on Eddie Nketiah and Emile Smith Rowe to try and salvage a point.\n\nBut the Arsenal boss, who was shown a yellow card by referee Andy Madley, saw his side concede two further goals while the home side failed to score for the first time since 4 February on their way to a comprehensive defeat.\n\n\"We knew the challenge we had, it was very different to the one we had at Newcastle,\" Arteta told Match of the Day, referencing a 2-0 win.\n\n\"I was stood here and very proud of what we did last week but today we have to apologise to our people. We have to move on very quickly and not keep that feeling for a long time.\"\n\nBrighton's incredible season far from over\n\nThis was another statement win in what looks like being a history-defining season for Brighton, who bounced back from a crushing 5-1 home defeat by Everton to produce one of their best performances of the season.\n\nThey were at their clinical best as Arsenal were beaten at the Emirates for only the second time in the league.\n\nRoberto De Zerbi has called on his players to \"write club history\" by qualifying for Europe for the first time.\n\n\"It's not enough to qualify for the Europa League,\" said De Zerbi. \"We have four games and they're all tough games. We have 58 points and that's not enough. We have to win other games and the first game will be in Newcastle [on Thursday].\n\n\"I enjoy working with the players. I am very lucky to be their coach and I am happy they enjoy working with me.\n\n\"That's a great satisfaction for me, but I prefer to speak about everything at the end of the season because we want to achieve something historic for the fans and for the club.\"\n\nTwo wins from the last four games - Newcastle (away), Southampton (home), Manchester City (home), Aston Villa (away) - will be enough to see the Seagulls confirm their place in next season's Europa League.\n\nAgainst Arsenal, Brighton were at their attacking best, registering six chances on target and scoring from half of them.\n\n\"The manager showed us a Michael Jordan video, to show us how he motivated himself for each game,\" goalscorer Undav told Sky Sports.\n\n\"It was the right choice to show us the video and we showed today how mentally strong we are.\"\n\nAs Arsenal's players looked desolate at the final whistle, Brighton's triumphantly marched over to where their travelling fans were gathered to show their appreciation.\n\nThis incredible season for the Seagulls, which has included an FA Cup semi-final and league doubles over Manchester United and Chelsea, is far from over.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 3. Pervis Estupiñán (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Deniz Undav (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Danny Welbeck.\n• None Attempt blocked. Reiss Nelson (Arsenal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thomas Partey.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Levi Colwill tries a through ball, but Pervis Estupiñán is caught offside.\n• None Moisés Caicedo (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Deniz Undav.\n• None Thomas Partey (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 0, Brighton and Hove Albion 2. Deniz Undav (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pascal Groß.\n• None Attempt saved. Deniz Undav (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Magalhães (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Thomas Partey following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Reiss Nelson (Arsenal) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Eddie Nketiah. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "The company behind the websites Vice and Motherboard has filed for bankruptcy in the US and is set to be sold to a group of its lenders.\n\nVice Media Group - which was valued at $5.7bn (£4.5bn) in 2017 - could be taken over for $225m.\n\nThe youth-focused digital publisher said it will continue to operate during the bankruptcy process.\n\nIt added that it \"expects to emerge as a financially healthy and stronger company in two to three months\".\n\nLaunched in 1994 as a fringe magazine called Voice of Montreal by Shane Smith, Gavin McInnes and Suroosh Alvi, Vice currently operates in more than 30 countries.\n\nIt was once heralded as part of vanguard of companies set to disrupt the traditional media landscape with edgy, youth-focused content spanning print, events, music, online, TV and feature films.\n\nAfter a visit to the Brooklyn-based firm's office in 2012, media mogul Rupert Murdoch tweeted: \"Who's heard of VICE media? Wild, interesting effort to interest millennials who don't read or watch established media. Global success.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rupert Murdoch This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPast credits have included My Journey Inside the Islamic State, in which a Vice journalist filmed alongside the terror group in Syria. It also followed basketball star Dennis Rodman and the Harlem Globetrotters team on a \"sports diplomacy\" trip to North Korea.\n\nMore recent fare has included documentaries about controversial influencer Andrew Tate and a film about Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, by actor Sean Penn.\n\nVice Media Group's investors include Fortress Investment Group, Monroe Capital and Soros Fund Management - the firm founded by fund manager and billionaire George Soros.\n\nThe hope was that Vice would reap the financial rewards from attracting millions of younger readers through social media networks such as Facebook and Instagram.\n\nHowever, the company's revenues have been flat for some years and it has also struggled to turn a profit. Vice's plans to go public through a merger also failed.\n\n\"The issue with Vice and all similar websites is that they never really worked out a business model for free online journalism,\" Joseph Teasdale, head of technology at Enders Analysis, told the BBC.\n\nWebsites like Vice came along at the same time as the first dotcom boom was in its infancy and technology start-ups were springing up.\n\n\"There was a tendency at the time to treat everything like software, where you do your investment up front, attract a bunch of users, and then eventually when you're big enough you become incredibly profitable,\" he said.\n\n\"But it turns out content doesn't work like that - if you want people to keep coming back to your website, or to reach new people in new markets, you have to keep spending to make new content.\"\n\nAnd some of Vice's content was \"pretty expensive journalism\", Mr Teasdale said, involving global trips.\n\nLast month, Vice announced layoffs after its flagship TV programme was shut down.\n\nBuzzFeed, another pioneering online platform, also recently announced that it was shutting down its news division and laying off 15% of its workforce amid serious financial challenges and a slump in advertising revenue.\n\nVice Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a procedure which postpones a US company's obligations to its creditors, giving it time to reorganise its debts or sell parts of the business.\n\nAnnouncing the bankruptcy move, Bruce Dixon and Hozefa Lokhandwala, Vice's co-chief executive officers, said: \"This accelerated court-supervised sale process will strengthen the company and position Vice for long-term growth.\"\n\nVice's lenders have approved $20m of funding to keep the firm going through the bankruptcy process. During this time, other firms can submit \"higher or better\" bids for the media company.\n\nIf these offers are not successful, Vice Media's lenders will acquire the publisher for $225m.\n\nThe sale process is expected to take about two to three months.", "Jacob Rees-Mogg has suggested the Conservatives introduced voter ID to boost their election chances, but it came \"back to bite them\".\n\nThe former minister said it had \"made it hard for our own voters\" to take part in England's local elections.\n\nThe polls on 4 May were the first in Britain where people had to show photo ID, such as a passport or driving licence, to vote.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg said the change had \"upset a system that worked perfectly well.\"\n\nDowning Street denied the government had brought in voter ID to gain an electoral advantage, saying it was a measure aimed at tackling voter fraud.\n\nLast week's local elections saw the Conservatives lose more than 1,000 councillors and control of 48 councils, with Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens all making gains at the expense of Rishi Sunak's party.\n\nSpeaking at a conference for Conservatives in London, he accused Labour of \"gerrymandering\" - fixing rules to gain electoral advantage - by potentially extending voting rights to some EU citizens if they enter government.\n\nHe told delegates Labour's idea was \"particularly silly,\" adding: \"Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding that their clever scheme comes back to bite them, as dare I say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections.\n\n\"We found the people who didn't have ID were elderly and they by and large voted Conservative, so we made it hard for our own voters and we upset a system that worked perfectly well.\n\n\"It was done on trust, and the system worked. If there's any problem in our system, it's with postal votes, which don't require voter ID.\"\n\nHave you been turned away from voting because you had no ID?\n\nMr Rees-Mogg was Commons leader in Boris Johnson's cabinet - a role in which he was responsible for shepherding the legislation to introduce voter ID through the House of Commons.\n\nAsked about his comments afterwards, Mr Rees-Mogg told the BBC: \"I thought people assumed that it would help get more Conservatives out and in the end, it actually did the opposite\".\n\nHe added that there was \"no evidence that personation [the crime of voter fraud] was a serious problem\".\n\n\"There have been hardly any prosecutions or even any complaints in this country over decades.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Rees-Mogg's speech, No 10 said: \"We've talked at length about the rationale for the introduction of voter ID and the importance of guarding against the possibility of election fraud.\"\n\nSimilar schemes were in place in \"many other European countries\" and Northern Ireland, the PM's spokesman added.\n\nPhoto ID has been mandatory in Northern Ireland since 2003, but this month's local elections in England marked the first time it was required in Great Britain.\n\nAlthough Mr Rees-Mogg suggested it had reduced turnout from Conservative voters, some commentators have previously predicted it would suppress the Labour vote by discriminating against marginalised groups more likely to vote for them.\n\nOpposition parties have also claimed it will reduce turnout at elections.\n\nThe Electoral Commission, the elections watchdog, is collecting data about the application of the scheme in England and is expected to publish a report into its impact next month.\n\nElections officers gathered data on the number of people who were turned away at polling stations because they lacked the correct ID, and how many returned.\n\nSome councils have started to publish headline figures on the number of people refused ballots, although it will take some time for a fuller picture to emerge.\n\nLabour, however, has argued the true impact of the scheme may never be known because the official data does not include people who were turned away by \"greeters\" outside polling stations.\n\nInformation on the number of voters suspected of forging ID, or denied a vote because officials thought they were using someone else's ID, will be given to the Electoral Commission but not published.\n• None What photo ID do you need to vote?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vehicles were set alight in Wimborne and Poole from Sunday night into the early hours of Monday\n\nThirteen vehicles have been set on fire overnight in the Wimborne and Poole areas of Dorset.\n\nFirefighters worked through the night to put out the multiple fires between 23:30 on Sunday and 03:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe fire from one vehicle parked in Poole Road, Wimborne, also spread to a home.\n\nDorset Police is appealing for witnesses and anyone with home CCTV or dashcam footage to come forward.\n\nFire crews worked through the night to put the fires out\n\nGrant Stewart, a 33-year-old builder from Ferndown, described the scene as a \"warzone\" with people running around in a panic and cars \"banging\".\n\nHe said: \"I was woken up by a bang and thought it was a car crash, looked out the window to see an orange glow and people running around.\n\n\"I went out to find it was like a warzone with three cars ablaze and bangs going off.\"\n\nResidents were woken by the vehicle fires in the early hours\n\nChloe Torring, who lives in Wimborne, said she was woken at 01:20 by a neighbour at the door saying her car was on fire.\n\nShe said: \"I've only had it five months. We assume they just did a loop because there's a circle, about a mile radius, of cars on fire.\"\n\nDet Sgt Simon Austin, of county CID, said: \"These incidents have affected a large number of victims in the wider Wimborne area and we are aware that this will cause concern.\n\n\"I would like to reassure our local communities that officers are currently investigating all reported incidents and are making every effort to identify those responsible.\"\n\nOne of many fire damaged cars in Wimborne\n\nThe force added officers would be in the areas making house-to-house and CCTV inquiries and additional neighbourhood officers would also be in the areas involved.\n\nDorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue said about 65 calls came into its service control centre received via 999 about the fires.\n\nThe roads with reported vehicle fires were Wentworth Drive, Oakley Hill, Oakley Road, Merley Ways, Stour Walk, New Borough Road, Grove Road and Leigh Road.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the emotional moment Rob Burrow is carried over the line\n\nRugby league legend Kevin Sinfield stopped short of the finish at the inaugural Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon to carry his friend over the line.\n\nThe event named after former Leeds Rhinos star Burrow, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019, saw more than 12,000 people take part.\n\nIt was inspired by Sinfield, who pushed his former team-mate around the course in a specially-adapted wheelchair.\n\nHe then lifted Burrow up and carried him, to the delight of spectators.\n\nAs a crowd cheered them on, Sinfield gave Burrow a kiss after joining thousands of other runners in Leeds' first marathon in 20 years.\n\nSinfield and Burrow at the start of the 2023 Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon\n\nSpectators also lined the 26.2-mile (42.2km) course - which started and ended at Headingley Stadium - to cheer them on.\n\nOne woman told BBC Look North it had been an emotional day, especially seeing the two friends completing the marathon together.\n\nAnother said she was there to support her 76-year-old husband, who was running his first marathon, with two false knees and four stents.\n\nSinfield said the marathon was a celebration of friendship\n\nThe marathon aimed to raise funds for The Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Appeal and the Leeds Hospitals Charity, as well as a host of other causes.\n\n\"The support for the MND community through the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon has been fantastic,\" said Sinfield, who has himself set numerous fundraising running challenges in support of his friend.\n\nAhead of the race, Sinfield thanked all those involved for \"creating something so incredible in Rob's name\".\n\n\"Today is a celebration of friendship,\" he added.\n\nSinfield has raised more than £8m for MND charities after several other ventures, including running seven back-to-back ultra marathons in November.\n\nIn late 2020, Sinfield ran seven marathons in seven days and in 2021 he completed a run of 101 miles in 24 hours.\n\nMore than 12,000 people signed up to take part in the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon\n\nSpeaking before the big day, Burrow said: \"Leeds is such a wonderful city and I am so grateful for all the support the city has shown not just for me and my family, but for the event and the entire MND community.\"\n\nRun For All announced last month The Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon would return in 2024 after an \"overwhelming\" number of people entered this year's race.\n\nJenn Scribbins, from the Motor Neurone Disease Association, said the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon was important to defeat the \"devastating\" disease.\n\n\"Six people are diagnosed every day and unfortunately there is no cure,\" she said.\n\n\"What this event is doing is raising those funds to help us get closer to that cure.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some 132,000 expats - like this woman in Berlin - voted in Germany. Image caption: Some 132,000 expats - like this woman in Berlin - voted in Germany.\n\nAbout a million Turkish expats have voted in the presidential election, with turnout highest amongst those living in Germany, Canada, and the US, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.\n\nThe Supreme Election Council says the increase in votes overseas is part of what has delayed the vote counting.\n\nThe agency says support for Erdogan was high in northern Africa and parts of western Europe, while the Americas and Oceania backed Kilicdaroglu.\n\nThe Supreme Election Council says the increase in votes overseas is part of what has delayed the vote counting.", "The number of people in England and Wales who were born outside the UK has increased by 2.5 million since 2011, latest census data shows.\n\nThe 2021 survey counted 10 million foreign-born people, among a population of 59.5 million in England and Wales.\n\nOf these, India was the most common birth place, with 920,000 people, 1.5% of usual residents, born there.\n\nThe number of Romanian-born people in England and Wales rose 576% between 2011 and 2021 to 539,000.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland retained its position in the top 10 non-UK countries of birth - but had the greatest decrease, at 20.3%, from 407,000, in 2011, to 325,000, in 2021.\n\nOn census day, 21 March 2021, the combined population of England and Wales was 59,597,542 - up from 56,075,912 in March 2011.\n\n\"Natural\" population increase - the number of deaths subtracted from the number of babies born - accounted for 42.5% of the rise.\n\nThe other 57.5% was due to positive net migration - the difference between the numbers who immigrated into and emigrated out of England and Wales, amounting to two million people.\n\nLondon is the region with both the largest proportion of people born outside the UK. In 2021, more than four in 10 (40.6%) of the capital's usual residents were non-UK born.\n\nIn contrast, both Wales (6.9%) and the north-east of England (6.8%) had approximately one in 14 usual residents born outside the UK.\n\nThe census data reveals a huge amount about the population of England and Wales on one specific day in 2021.\n\nThe figures can be compared with the previous census, in 2011, but this illuminates just two moments in time - they do not reveal what was going on in between.\n\nAnd when it comes to international migration, a lot happened - not least Brexit and significant changes to the immigration system.\n\nThe 2021 census refers to \"a longer-term trend of an increasing proportion of non-UK born residents being from within the EU\".\n\nAnd between the two censuses, the number of EU-born citizens increased by 1.1 million.\n\nBut this hardly tells the whole story. Other data suggests the EU-born population is now declining, with significant social and political consequences.\n\nThe census shows an almost six-fold increase in the number of Romanians resident in England and Wales since 2011 - but not whether this number is now rising or falling.\n\nWhile fascinating, it has limitations in trying to understand the current dynamics of demography.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics has also calculated the average size of households in England and Wales, which remains about the same as in 2011, although the number of them has increased in line with the population.\n\nThe average household size in England and Wales in 2021 was 2.4 people, as it had been in 2011, but six in 10 are single-family households and three in 10 only have one person.\n\nCensus officials say the increase in the number of Romanians was driven by working restrictions for them being lifted in 2014.\n\nItaly also entered the top 10 non-UK countries of birth, rising to 277,000 from 135,000 between 2011 and 2021, a 105% increase.\n\n\"The census tells us about the change over the whole decade - who was living here in March 2021, compared with March 2011,\" said census deputy director Jon Wroth-Smith.\n\n\"We can see Romanians have been a big driver in this change, while there have also been increases due to migration from India, Pakistan and Poland, as well as southern European countries such as Italy.\"\n\nThe number of deprived households fell by 700,000, to 12.8 million, in the 10 years to March 2021, according to the census.\n\nHouseholds were considered deprived if they met one or more of the following criteria:\n\nThis change affected every part of England and Wales but with marked regional differences.\n\nThe highest proportion of deprived households was in the North East, at 54.6% compared with 48% in the South East.\n\nLocal authorities with the highest proportion of deprived households included:", "In an emotional message S Club confirmed they would be continuing with their October tour\n\nS Club 7 have confirmed they will be embarking on a planned tour after the death of Paul Cattermole - but without remaining member Hannah Spearritt.\n\nIn a video posted to the group's official Instagram page, the other five members confirmed she would not be taking part in the 19-date tour.\n\nCattermole died last month aged 46 at his home in Dorset, weeks after the 25th anniversary tour was announced.\n\nHe and Spearritt had been in a relationship while in the band.\n\nLast month, she gave an interview to the Sun in which she said she had been unable to stop crying since learning of his death.\n\nThe cause of the star's death has not been confirmed but police said there were \"no suspicious circumstances\".\n\nS Club 7 were one of the biggest pop acts of the late 1990s and early 2000s.\n\nTheir hits included Reach, Don't Stop Movin' and S Club Party. In total, they had 11 UK top 10 singles, including four number ones, and sold more than 10 million albums worldwide. They also won two Brit Awards.\n\nThe tour will take place in October this year, taking in arenas across the UK, plus one date in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIn one other change, the branding on the band's website had been updated with the '7' in the group's logo removed as they have reverted to their previous name of S Club. The band used this version of the name in the mid-2000s when Cattermole initially left the band.\n\nIn the Instagram video, the band sit on a sofa and appear to be clearly emotional.\n\nIt opens with them explaining they had recently been taking time to deal with Paul's death, saying it had been \"a bit of a shock\".\n\nS Club members said Paul Cattermole had been involved in the planning of the October tour\n\nOn the departure of Hannah Spearritt, Jon Lee said she remained a member of the group.\n\n\"She won't be joining us on this tour but we wish her all the best for the future. However, the five of us are really excited and geared up to crack on,\" he said.\n\nHe goes on to say the tour will be a \"tribute\" to Paul, and is being renamed the Good Times Tour, after one of the songs that featured Paul as the lead vocalist.\n\nRachel Stevens said: \"He's always going to be with us. He was such a big part of this tour, so involved in everything that we are planning.\"\n\n\"And we are just going to keep his memory alive and share it with all of you and its going to make it even more special.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sclub7 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBradley McIntosh said Paul was like a \"big brother\" to the group, with Jo O'Meara saying that Paul would light up a room \"with humour and love\" and was \"just a really special person\".\n\nTina Barrett added: \"It's just really sad and really, really hard to process it right now.\"", "The body of Jean Hanlon was recovered from the sea off Crete 14 years ago\n\nA third investigation into the death of a Dumfries woman in Crete has ruled it was foul play but the case has been closed due to lack of evidence.\n\nThe body of Jean Hanlon, 53, was pulled from the water in Heraklion in 2009.\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded she drowned but information later suggested there may have been a struggle.\n\nHer son Michael Porter has said the latest ruling by Greek authorities was \"infuriating\" and called for the case to be reopened.\n\nNeither the Greek Ministry of Justice nor the Hellenic Police have responded to the BBC's requests for comment on Ms Hanlon's death.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Porter said: \"To be told for a third time 'this isn't an accident, it is foul play, but there's just not enough evidence so we closed the case,' it's heart-breaking, it's frustrating and it's just infuriating.\n\n\"It changes you as a family.\"\n\nMichael Porter, now 38, has called for the investigation into his mother's death to be reopened\n\nAt the time Ms Hanlon died she had been living in Crete for several years, working in bars and tavernas.\n\nThe mother-of-three's body was recovered from the sea off the Mediterranean island on 13 March, 2009, four days after she disappeared.\n\nAlthough the initial post-mortem examination said Ms Hanlon drowned, information later emerged suggesting she suffered injuries consistent with a struggle.\n\nFor the last 14 years Ms Hanlon's family have campaigned for justice having been frustrated with the Greek police investigations.\n\nHer case was reopened in 2019 following a television documentary but it failed to secure a breakthrough.\n\nIn 2020 the family issued a fresh appeal on the Greek equivalent of Crimewatch.\n\nThe third and latest investigation was reopened in 2021 by police dealing with organised crime - the family received their ruling in November last year.\n\nMr Porter said he was unsure of the timeline of the investigation but he said he believed police had done a good job.\n\nThe family say they know for sure that on the night of her death, Ms Hanlon was with a man in the port of Heraklion who had still not been traced.\n\n\"That's the million dollar question for us,\" Mr Porter said.\n\n\"If this man left on good terms and mum was still happy, alive, then why has he not come forward?\n\n\"Has he maybe for some strange reason not seen the news in 14 years, or is he not coming forward because he knows something?\n\n\"We know someone knows something and allies change over the years.\"\n\nThe youngest of three sons, Mr Porter said the search for answers has taken a \"massive toll\" on the family.\n\nHe has previously spoken about the financial struggle associated with loved ones dying abroad - and lack of support available to their families.\n\nDespite the latest investigation failing to provide fresh leads, Mr Porter said he refused to give up hope.\n\n\"Over time you get hardened up and you start to worry what else can we do that we haven't already done over the 14 years,\" he said.\n\n\"We'll hold onto the fact that we've had two departments confirm to us that it wasn't an accident. It's something you're thrown into and you will fight until the end.\"", "David Hunter, pictured at an earlier hearing, has been in custody since his wife's death\n\nA British pensioner accused of murdering his ill wife has told a court in Cyprus she begged him to help end her life.\n\nJanice Hunter, who was 74 and had cancer, died in December 2021 at home near Paphos.\n\nLawyers for her 75-year-old husband David, a retired Northumberland miner, say her death was assisted suicide.\n\nMr Hunter has admitted killing his wife but a plea deal on a lesser charge of manslaughter collapsed in December.\n\nThe trial has previously heard Mrs Hunter had a rare blood cancer but might not have had terminal leukaemia.\n\nGiving evidence - at times tearfully - her husband said she asked repeatedly for help to end her suffering but that he \"just couldn't do it\".\n\nHe said he \"regretted\" what \"I had to do\".\n\nJanice and David Hunter had been together for more than 50 years\n\nAfter his wife told him she was \"sick of being alive\" he reluctantly acted, he told the court.\n\n\"In the last four or five weeks, she asked me to help and I said 'no' every day,\" he told his trial.\n\n\"She asked me all the time and I always said 'no' - I didn't want to do it.\n\n\"After 57 years together, I just couldn't do it. In the last week she just cried and just cried and begged me to help her. I didn't answer.\"\n\nMr Hunter said his wife told him she felt she had \"no life\" due to her repeated trips between hospital and home.\n\nHe told the court at one point she became \"hysterical\" and to calm her down he said he would help end her suffering even though he said he had no intention of doing so.\n\nHowever, on the day of her death, he said he had got up to make coffee and his wife was crying.\n\nAsked by the defence barrister what he remembered, he said his \"mind switched off - I never wanted to kill her\".\n\nHe added he then suffocated his wife with his hand.\n\n\"I don't even know how I thought about it,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't know how long I kept my hands there for. She did not attempt to stop me.\n\n\"In my statement I said that she was resisting but she wasn't. She was moving her head. I don't even think she opened her eyes.\"\n\nAsked about his feelings for her, Mr Hunter said he loved his wife and added: \"I regret what I had to do.\n\n\"I would never help her take her life if she hadn't begged me.\"\n\nDavid Hunter told the court he loved his wife Janice\n\nAs he recounted his wife's final few weeks, he said: \"She cried. She couldn't do nothing. She couldn't move.\n\n\"She was sleeping in the leather chair downstairs and for the last week we slept down on those chairs together.\"\n\nResponding to a question from defence lawyer Ritsa Pekri, Mr Hunter said his wife had been unable to look after herself.\n\n\"The last two or three days, she said she couldn't move her arms and had trouble with her legs. She couldn't balance.\n\n\"She was only eating soup. She couldn't hold anything down. She lost a lot of weight.\"\n\nUnder cross-examination from state prosecutor Andreas Hadjikyrou, Mr Hunter said he had been hoping for a \"small miracle\" to help his wife's health improve and that she would change her mind about wanting to die.\n\nHe said: \"My mind was full 24 hours a day thinking of my wife. She was lying in pain, suffering, I couldn't do anything to help her.\n\n\"I wanted her to change her mind. I kept saying it's not easy [to help someone die], you can't just do something like that.\n\n\"I had no intention of killing her.\n\n\"It was her decision, she didn't want any more treatment. I can't tell her, she's got her own mind and she asked me. She wasn't just my wife, she was my best friend.\n\n\"You haven't seen the strain of the last six years, what she's gone through - the situation, the pressure. I wouldn't like anyone to go through the last six months we both went through.\"\n\nThe retired couple lived in Tremithousa, near Paphos\n\nAsked by the prosecution why he had told a doctor he had decided to end his wife's life but not tell her in case she changed her mind, Mr Hunter said he was \"under so much pressure\" and there were some things he could not remember as a result of a stroke.\n\nHe said he had told his wife that if she did die, he would have to take his own life, saying to her: \"I don't want to be without you for the rest of my life.\"\n\nDavid Hunter had waited 17 months for this.\n\nFinally, he could give his own version of events to the three judges who will decide his fate.\n\nWearing a black shirt and black jeans, the grandfather walked into the courtroom looking composed. He spoke for more than four hours through a translator.\n\nIt was a painful testimony. There were tears when he talked about the final moments of his wife's life and smiles when he spoke about their marriage.\n\nIn a trial for the murder he denies, today was an important day for him to explain why he says it was not premeditated, but a last-minute decision - and therefore, assisted suicide.\n\nThis is being seen as a test case in Cyprus where euthanasia is strongly opposed by the Orthodox Church.\n\nEarlier in the trial, the court heard Mr Hunter contacted his brother on Facebook to say he had killed his wife and then tried to take his own life at their home in Tremithousa.\n\nCypriot police were alerted by Interpol in the UK shortly before 20:00 GMT on 18 December 2021.\n\nOfficers arrived at the couple's retirement property and Mr Hunter was taken to hospital and later arrested.\n\nThe couple had moved from Ashington to Paphos 20 years ago.\n\nAfter the day's proceedings drew to a close, Mr Hunter spoke to reporters about giving evidence and said: \"I got my say, this is what I wanted. To tell them things that they never even thought about.\"\n\nAt home in the UK, the couple's daughter Lesley Cawthorne said it had been \"a very emotional experience to see my dad have to relive the worst day of his life\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Researchers are studying the 55-year-old's health while he lives underwater\n\nA US researcher has broken the record for the longest time spent living underwater without depressurisation.\n\nJoseph Dituri has spent more than 74 days at the bottom of a 30ft-deep lagoon in Key Largo, Florida.\n\nAnd he does not have plans to stop yet. On Sunday, he said he would stay in Jules' Undersea Lodge for at least 100 days.\n\n\"The curiosity for discovery has led me here,\" he said.\n\n\"My goal from day one has been to inspire generations to come, interview scientists who study life undersea and learn how the human body functions in extreme environments,\" he added.\n\nThe previous record for most days spent living underwater at ambient pressure - 73 - was established by two professors in 2014 in the same Key Largo lodge.\n\nUnlike a submarine, the lodge does not use technology to adjust for the increased underwater pressure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProf Dituri - who goes by the nickname Dr Deep Sea - began his journey on 1 March at Jules' Undersea Lodge, a small room that sits at the bottom of a lagoon in the Florida Keys.\n\nIt is named after Jules Verne, who wrote the well-known sci-fi book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.\n\nFor the project, called Project Neptune 100, the University of South Florida professor is studying how the human body reacts to long-term exposure to extreme pressure.\n\nResearchers are studying the 55-year-old's health, as well as the psychological effects of being isolated and confined for so long, by running a series of medical tests.\n\nBut his time underwater has not kept him from his professorial duties. Prof Dituri - who also served in the Navy for 28 years - is teaching his biomedical engineering classes online while he lives in the lagoon, according to the University of South Florida.\n\nTo keep busy, the professor wakes up at 05:00 each day to exercise. He stays full by reportedly eating protein-heavy meals such as eggs and salmon that he can keep warm with his microwave.\n\nAnd while his underwater stay has proven ground-breaking, he is excited to get back to some above-ground activities.\n\n\"The thing that I miss the most about being on the surface is literally the sun,\" he told the Associated Press.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Gifts and cheers for the man wanting to reform Thailand\n\nThai voters have delivered a stunning verdict in favour of an opposition party that is calling for radical reform of the country's institutions.\n\nEarly results show Move Forward exceeding every prediction to win 151 of the 500 seats in the lower house.\n\nIt's now 10 seats ahead of what was the frontrunner, Pheu Thai, led by ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's daughter.\n\nAnalysts are calling this a political earthquake that represents a significant shift in public opinion.\n\nIt is also a clear repudiation of the two military-aligned parties of the current government, and Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led a coup that ousted an elected government in 2014. The governing coalition won only 15% of the seats.\n\n\"We didn't leave any stones unturned,\" Move Forward's 42-year-old leader Pita Limjaroenrat told the BBC. \"People have had enough in the last decade. Now, it's a new day.\"\n\nPheu Thai, the second-largest party, has said it has agreed to join Move Forward and four smaller opposition parties, giving them a coalition of more than 60% of seats in the new parliament.\n\nHowever, that still isn't enough to outvote the 250-strong unelected senate, which was appointed by Mr Prayuth, and are allowed to join the vote in parliament for the next administration. They are likely to object to Move Forward's progressive agenda, in particular its pledge to amend the controversial lese majeste law.\n\nIn the political negotiations which lie ahead, many Thais fear the military and its backers may yet try to block the winning parties from taking office. A military coup is unlikely, but yet another court ruling to disqualify Move Forward on a technicality, as happened to its predecessor Future Forward in 2020, is possible.\n\nThe other question is how well Move Forward and Pheu Thai, whose relations in the last parliament were sometimes fractious, can work together. Mr Pita, a Harvard University graduate and a skilled parliamentarian, is still untested in the more ruthless art of stitching together and sustaining a coalition.\n\nBut that uncertainty doesn't change the fact that the people of Thailand woke up to a changed political landscape this morning.\n\n\"The majority of votes reflect the need to escape from the 'Prayuth regime', and the yearning for change,\" says Prajak Kongkirati, a political scientist from Thammasat University. \"It shows that people believe in the Move Forward demand for change - many more people than predicted.\"\n\nThai social media has been awash with victory messages from Move Forward supporters, who call themselves \"organic canvassers\", and describe the party's win as a \"wind of change\" and the \"dawn of a new era.\"\n\nMr Pita tweeted that he was \"ready\" to become the country's 30th prime minister. \"We have the same dreams and hopes. And together we believe that our beloved Thailand can be better, and changes are possible if we start working on them today,\" he wrote.\n\n\"This election really tells you that only four years have passed, but the people's thinking has changed a lot, both the establishment and the pro-democracy camps,\" a tweet read, adding that, \"democracy cannot be taken for granted\".\n\nIt would have once been unthinkable that Move Forward, a party calling for wholesale changes to Thailand's bureaucracy, its economy, the role of the military, and even the laws protecting the monarchy, could win more seats and votes than any of its rivals.\n\nSocial media is full of Thais taking \"big steps\" as a show of support for Move Forward\n\nIt's no coincidence that these were the same issues that spurred a months-long student-led protest movement in 2020. Some of Move Forward's candidates had been leaders in the movement. And, like the 2020 protests, young and passionate voters, many of them followers of Move Forward, played a big role in the election result.\n\nThe mood in favour of the young party was hard to miss in the weeks leading up to the election. A new wave of memes exploded on Thai social media - people taking big steps or leaps in an obvious nod to Move Forward's Thai name.\n\nAnd that played out in real life at voting booths on Sunday as people took exaggerated, giant steps to show their support. It was the only way to indicate which way they were leaning because election rules don't allow voters to declare their preferences openly. Others wore bright orange shirts, flip flops and sneakers - the party's chosen colour for campaigning.\n\nMove Forward's candidates had fewer resources than their rivals, and had to rely on social media, and sometimes old technology like bicycles, to get their message across. It helped that their vision seemed much clearer than other parties.\n\nMove Forward ruled out any coalition with parties associated with the 2014 military coup, a position on which its reformist rival Pheu Thai was initially evasive. The party was also fresh and bold, and in the last parliament, was known for taking principled positions.\n\nThe vote is also a rejection of nearly a decade of military-backed rule\n\nIt also benefitted from what appears to be a widespread public appetite for change. Voters under 26 years are not a large bloc in ageing Thailand - they make up just 14% of the 52-million electorate - but they worked hard to persuade older voters to back Move Forward to offer their generation a better future.\n\nThe most immediate question is whether, despite the mandate for change, the two reformist parties are allowed to form a government.\n\nMr Pita was optimistic while addressing the media on Monday. \"With the consensus that came out of the election, it will be quite a hefty price to pay for someone who is thinking of abolishing the election results or forming a minority government... it is quite far-fetched for now,\" he said.\n\n\"And I think the people of Thailand will not allow that to happen.\"", "Turkish voters are faced with a momentous choice which will affect their country's political and economic future\n\nTurks are at a historic turning point - whether to keep their leader of more than 20 years or change to a more pro-Western path and roll back some of his sweeping presidential powers.\n\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan is favourite to win Sunday's run-off vote, and promises a strong, multilateral Turkey. He says opposition claims of a dictatorship are smear campaigns and pure nonsense.\n\nHis chief rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, backed by a broad opposition, has billed the vote as a referendum on the future direction of Turkey and has sought the support of nationalist voters to increase his chance of victory.\n\nSince 2017, Mr Erdogan has run Turkey with extensive presidential power, from a vast palace in Ankara. As executive president he can declare a state of emergency and can pick or dismiss civil servants.\n\nHe accuses his opponents of being \"pro-LGBT\", while his Islamist-rooted party positions itself as on the side of the family and highlights its success in modernising Turkey.\n\nIf he wins on Sunday, not much will change, says Selim Koru, a member of Turkey's Tepav think tank. His powers are already so broad he won't seek to extend them further, he says.\n\nBut Alp Yenen, lecturer in Turkish studies at Leiden University, believes if Turkey's rampant inflation of more than 43% endures, the president's AK Party could accelerate what has been \"a slow pace of authoritarianism\".\n\nThe man seeking to replace Mr Erdogan wants to scrap the presidential system brought in five years ago and return to a parliament and prime minister in charge. Independent courts and a free press would follow.\n\nPresident Erdogan acquired sweeping executive powers in the aftermath of the botched coup against him in 2016\n\nThe president would become apolitical and the other five parties in the Kilicdaroglu alliance would each have a vice president, along with the two centre-left mayors of Ankara and Istanbul.\n\nBut Mr Erdogan's party and its nationalist and conservative allies have secured a majority in parliament and if the opposition alliance were to win the presidency they might struggle to push through their reforms.\n\nTurkey is part of the West's Nato defensive alliance, but the Erdogan presidency has sought close ties with China and Russia too, buying a Russian S-400 air defence system and inaugurating a Russian-built nuclear plant - Turkey's first - ahead of the election.\n\nHe advocates a multilateral stance, viewing Turkey as \"an island of peace and security\", and offering Ankara as a mediator in the Russian war in Ukraine.\n\nHis opponent and his allies, meanwhile, want to return to the process of joining the European Union and restore Turkey's military ties with the US, while maintaining relations with Russia.\n\nIf Mr Erdogan stays in power then Selim Koru believes he will continue to push Turkey away from the West, without leaving Nato. \"He wants to get Turkey to a point in the medium term or distant future where Nato membership is irrelevant.\"\n\nThis election is being watched very carefully by 3.5 million Syrian refugees who have temporary protection in Turkey, because Kemal Kilicdaroglu wants to send them home fast.\n\nThat's a major worry for Syrians, who came here mainly in the first six years of the war until 2017.\n\nNot least because, after the opposition leader trailed in the first round, he made refugees and irregular migrants the number one issue of his campaign. He needs the vote of almost 2.8 million Turks who supported an ultranationalist candidate in the first round.\n\nHe has accused President Erdogan of bringing 10 million migrants into Turkey, and he is talking about Syrians, but Iranians, Afghans and Pakistanis too.\n\nMore than 80% of Turks want the Syrians to go home, and yet more than 700,000 Syrians are in Turkish schools and 880,000 Syrian babies have been born in Turkey since 2011.\n\n\"I cannot understand how they would leave this life and go back to Syria,\" says Prof Murat Erdogan, who conducts Syrians' Barometer, a regular field study on Syrians in Turkey.\n\nKemal Kilicdaroglu says he will negotiate the Syrians' return with Damascus, but as Syria insists on Turkey leaving its 30km (18-mile) buffer zone over the border, that runs the risk of Syria launching attacks on the zone and sparking a new wave of refugees.\n\nTurkey's government says more than half a million Syrian refugees have returned home, but the opposition wants more to leave\n\nThe opposition leader knows full well an agreement would take up to two years, and he would ask the United Nations to oversee it. But Murat Erdogan believes it could take a decade to implement.\n\nPresident Erdogan has sought to defuse the issue, by promising to speed up the voluntary repatriation of a million Syrians through an agreement with President Bashar al-Assad. The idea of Syrians returning voluntarily seems far-fetched but Turkish state media reported that work on building 5,000 flats in Syria had already begun.\n\nTurkey's Kurds make up as much as a fifth of the 85 million population and they have a big stake in this election.\n\nThe pro-Kurdish party, which attracted almost 9% of the parliamentary vote, publicly backed Kemal Kilicdaroglu for president and sees the vote as a historic moment to get rid of a \"one-man regime\".\n\nPresident Erdogan has accused him of surrendering to the \"blackmail\" and agenda of both the pro-Kurdish party and PKK militants, who are seen by Turkey and the West as terrorists.\n\nBut Kurdish voters are alarmed the opposition challenger has aligned himself with a far-right leader on fighting \"terrorism\", because that usually refers to Kurdish militants.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu has also agreed that Kurdish mayors can be replaced by trustees appointed by Ankara in so-called \"terror\" cases.\n\nThe pro-Kurdish party's co-chair Pervin Buldan has fully backed the opposition leader, but that does not mean all Kurdish voters will follow suit.\n\n\"Getting the nationalist vote is a possibility but there's a risk in losing the Kurdish vote - it's a delicate balance - how do you get them without losing Kurds?\" asks Alp Yenen.\n\nAhead of the first round it was the state of Turkey's economy that was foremost in voters' minds, before the refugee issue came to the fore.\n\nInflation is officially 43.68%, and Turks have had a cost of living crisis far more severe than most. Many will tell you the real inflation rate feels far higher.\n\nThe early Erdogan years were a byword for strong economic growth and enormous construction projects. And Turkey always stuck closely to the terms of its loan agreements with the IMF.\n\nBut in recent years his government has abandoned orthodox economic policy. It gradually eroded the independence of the central bank, sacking three of its governors in quick succession, says Selva Demiralp, professor of economics at Koc University.\n\nInflation soared, as interest rates were kept low - while Turkey's currency the lira depreciated to improve the trade balance and boost exports.\n\nOfficial inflation rates have fallen to 44% but Turks say the real inflation rate in shops and markets feels higher\n\nMr Erdogan still promises high growth, six million new jobs and a big push for tourism, but Prof Demiralp believes his policies will keep inflation as high as 45% for months to come.\n\nIf Kemal Kilicdaroglu and his allies win the presidency and parliament, she believes a return to orthodox economic policies and an independent central bank will lower inflation to 30% by the end of 2023 and it will continue to go down after that.", "Simon Mitchell's family said they were \"devastated\"\n\nA family has been left \"devastated\" after a \"passionate\" photographer was hit and killed by a bike at the British Motocross Championships.\n\nSimon Mitchell, who was in his 50s, died when a rider came off his bike during a jump and the machine crashed through a barrier made of bales.\n\nA marshal in his 60s also suffered a serious injury at Sunday's event in Swindon, attended by 10,000 people.\n\nThe family of Mr Mitchell said he was \"taking pictures in a place he adored\".\n\nMs Dancey said her brother had been \"doing what he loved\" when he died\n\nHis sister, Nikki Dancey, said photography and motocross \"came before everything else in life\".\n\n\"I think the fact that he was where he was, doing what he loved, I think in time that will bring us some comfort,\" she said.\n\n\"Foxhill was a big love of his, he adored that event. That was his place.\"\n\nHis family were \"devastated\" by his loss, she added.\n\nThe track at Foxhill is known for its challenging terrain\n\nThe event was abandoned after the crash at about 14:50 BST.\n\nIt happened at the end of the Premier Class Race, a spokesperson for the event said.\n\nBoth men were behind a specific marshal point and not with spectators.\n\nThe event, organised by Langrish MXC, was stopped immediately. The rider was not hurt in the crash.\n\nA rider came off his bike during a jump and the machine crashed through a barrier made of bales\n\nAn event spokesperson, who has worked in motocross for 25 years, said it was \"very rare in motocross\" for a non-rider to be killed and that he could \"not remember a fatality that wasn't a rider\".\n\nIn a statement on its website, the series promoter RHL Activities said: \"Langrish MX Club, are saddened to announce the death of Simon Mitchell, a gentleman well known within the motocross community.\n\n\"The thoughts and condolences of everyone concerned are with Simon's family and friends at this time.\"\n\nGareth Hockey, the event's promoter, added: \"It is a massive tragedy. Simon was a popular guy around here.\"\n\nMr Hockey said his thoughts were with Mr Mitchell and his family.\n\n\"It is a massive tragedy,\" Gareth Hockey, the event's promoter, said\n\n\"He had a very strong character,\" Mr Hockey said.\n\n\"He was very happy. This venue seemed to be Simon's happy place.\n\n\"He loved taking pictures, he loved the sport, like we all do.\"\n\nThe weekend's event was the third round of the Revo ACU British Motocross Championship.\n\nFoxhill, home to the Langrish MCC, is considered one of the best motocross tracks in the UK and has played host to several events.\n\nThe 1.5-mile (2.4km) long track is known for its challenging terrain, steep hills, and technical sections and features a variety of jumps, berms, and obstacles.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"John Doe I\" had his hand cut off and eye gouged out, according to court documents. He died in 2003\n\nEleven Indonesian villagers from Aceh province have reached a confidential financial settlement with oil giant ExxonMobil.\n\nThe villagers have been at the centre of a two-decade long legal battle over alleged human rights abuses.\n\nThey say they endured torture, sexual assault, and beatings by Indonesian soldiers contracted by ExxonMobil.\n\nExxonMobil said it condemns such abuses \"including those asserted in this case against the Indonesian military\".\n\nThe villagers allege a number of crimes were committed - these included witnessing their loved ones being shot.\n\nThey also said pregnant women were forced to jump repeatedly before being sexually assaulted, and men were subjected to electric shocks, burns, and knife-inflicted graffiti on their backs.\n\nIn a statement, the oil giant said: \"It should be noted while there were no allegations that any employee directly harmed any of the plaintiffs, the settlement brings closure for all parties.\"\n\n\"We express our deepest sympathy to the families and the people who were involved.\"\n\nThe alleged atrocities were said to have taken place in and around ExxonMobil's operations in the Arun field, North Aceh. This gas field, referred to as \"the jewel in the company's crown\", was among the world's largest natural gas fields.\n\nDuring much of the litigation period, ExxonMobil reported significant profits.\n\nA trial was scheduled to begin at the end of this month in Washington but has now been averted due to the settlement.\n\nThe plaintiffs, identified only as Jane and John Doe for their safety, said they were satisfied with the outcome.\n\nA file photo from 2001 shows children playing in front of a gas facility owned by ExxonMobil in Aceh\n\n\"While nothing will bring back my husband, this victory delivers the justice we have spent two decades fighting for and will be life-changing for me and my family,\" one of the villagers said.\n\nTheir lawyer Agnieszka Fryszman praised their bravery in taking on one of the world's largest and most profitable corporations for more than 20 years.\n\nFounder and executive director of International Rights Advocates and the attorney who filed this case in 2001, Terrence Collingsworth, said he was \"pleased the villagers will have some peace\" after the settlement.\n\n\"Their dedication and commitment to seeking accountability over two decades is inspiring,\" he said.\n\nMichel Paradis, a lecturer at Columbia Law School, who was not involved in the case, described the outcome as momentous.\n\n\"Exxon and its lawyers threw everything they could at them, and they overcame it. That is a testament not simply to their perseverance, but to the justness of their cause.\"\n\n\"They and their lawyers should take tremendous satisfaction in the fact that they not only succeeded in getting accountability for what was done to them, but that they helped advance a sea change of reform to the way corporations govern themselves that will prevent things like this from happening again.\"\n\nThe financial details of the settlement remain undisclosed to protect the safety of the plaintiffs, who will maintain their anonymity.\n\nWhile the financial settlement marks a resolution in the legal process, Indonesian human rights activists emphasize that it does not address the deep psychological trauma endured by the victims.\n\nHowever, they believe that the outcome is significant in that it has brought the alleged atrocities to the attention of the world.", "Krystle Berger before and after she has used an app called FaceTune to change her appearance\n\nThe issue of photo manipulation on social media has long been a concern for many, but with the technology now increasingly extending to videos, should authorities intervene?\n\nKrystle Berger insists that she is \"not drastically changing my features\" when she posts photos and videos across Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. \"I'm really just digitally giving myself the perfect make-up and lighting,\" she says.\n\nA young mother from the US state of Indiana, Ms Berger pays to subscribe to an app called FaceTune that has been downloaded more than 200 million times around the world.\n\nThe app allows users to both make subtle changes to their facial appearance, such as smoothing over wrinkles, or alternatively - completely transform how they look. For example, they can narrow their face, change the shape and size of their eyes, or give themselves a digital nose-job.\n\nOriginally only able to work on photos, two years ago FaceTune launched a version for short selfie videos that has increasingly grown in its effectiveness since then.\n\nFaceTune was one of the first firms in the sector to extend its app from still images to videos\n\nMeanwhile, another popular app that allows users to alter their social media photos - Perfect365 - is due to launch its video version later this year.\n\nFaceTune is owned by Israeli-firm Lightricks and two years ago the company was reported to have a valuation of $1.8bn (£1.4bn).\n\nLightricks' founder Zeev Farbman says that \"the name of the game\" is making the app work as easily as possible. \"You want to give people 80% of the power, with 20% of the complexity of professional software. That's the game we are trying to play.\"\n\nBut it has long been argued that such tools are unhealthy, in that they promote an unrealistic view of beauty that can be dangerous, particularly for impressionable children and young adults. For example, 80% of teenage girls said they had changed their appearance in an online photo by the age of 13, according to a 2021 survey by skincare brand Dove.\n\nWhile no-one is calling for the tech to be banned, there have been increasing moves to force social media advertisers and influencers - people who are often being paid to promote products in a more informal way - to admit when they have altered their physical image.\n\nShould governments regulate the use of social media photo and video manipulation?\n\nNorway introduced a law in 2021 that requires these two social media groups to indicate whether a photograph has been retouched. France is now going one stage further, and is in the process of demanding the same requirement, but for both photos and videos.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK is now looking at the same issue, as the government's Online Safety Bill continues to make its way through Parliament. However, it remains to be seen whether the law will target just adverts on social media, or influencers as well.\n\nA spokesperson for the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said: \"The government recognises the threat that digitally manipulated content can pose, and takes the issue very seriously.\"\n\nConservative MP Luke Evans has long campaigned for advertisers and influencers to admit when they have altered an image on social media.\n\nHe wants to see the new law \"contain future proofed regulation\", so it also requires the same admission for altered videos, and any other tech developments.\n\n\"It's imperative that we have wider awareness and increased transparency surrounding these new technologies,\" he says. \"For me this is all about honesty.\"\n\nNew Tech Economy is a series exploring how technological innovation is set to shape the new emerging economic landscape.\n\nMr Farbman's response is that while \"this conversation was always there... over time the acceptance of these tools just grows\". He adds that it is a free speech issue. \"It's always kind of weird to me that a company will decide to limit the expressive freedom of its users, because of aesthetic or ethical sensibilities.\"\n\nSean Mao, the chief executive of San Francisco-based Perfect365, urges people to use its app \"in a safe and ethical way\". He adds: \"We encourage people to use the app to express their creativity and not to use the app with malicious intent to deceive others or misrepresent themselves.\"\n\nPsychologist Stuart Duff, a partner at UK practice Pearn Kandola, says that some social media influencers will always be tempted to use tricks to improve their online appearance - because being good-looking sells.\n\n\"Physical attraction has a very strong but often unconscious influence on our decisions when it comes to buying products and services from others,\" he says.\n\n\"When asked what matters most, we consciously talk down the importance of physical appearance and talk up qualities such as intelligence, values and personality, yet psychological research consistently reveals a strong positive relationship between a person's attractiveness and their ability to sell to us.\"\n\nOne social media influencer who goes by the name of Brandon B has 5.6 million subscribers on YouTube. He takes the view that photo and video manipulation apps should be seen in a positive light.\n\nSocial media influencer Brandon B says that image manipulation apps can give some people increased confidence\n\n\"I'm glad these apps exist, because I think there are a lot of people who are not body positive enough to present on social media, so they might feel left out,\" he says. \"These tools help them get on social media.\"\n\nHowever, Dr Shira Brown, an emergency physician at South Niagara Hospital, in Ontario, Canada, says that \"distorted perceptions of body image\" appear to be being \"exacerbated by common social media practices\".\n\nShe adds: \"We see the urgent mental health consequences of social media in our departments on a daily basis, such as anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and depression.\"", "In recent days, the prime minister has said immigration should fall.\n\nThe Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK's \"immigration dependency\", as he put it, must end.\n\nEven if, in an interview I did with him, he wasn't willing to explicitly say he wanted the numbers to fall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says he will not pick \"arbitrary migration targets\" over the number of workers coming to the UK from abroad\n\nAnd then there are these latest figures. Half a million more people arriving in the UK than leaving in the year to June. Half a million. The highest ever.\n\nTake a step back from the political argument here, and this is an outwardly flattering scenario. A country whose magnetism to so many propels people to our shores in such numbers.\n\nWhatever their circumstances or background, half a million more people concluding their hopes and dreams are better served by moving to the UK than by leaving.\n\nAnd yet, as so often with the question of immigration, it creates a cascade of political and societal quandaries.\n\nOpinion polls suggest concerns about immigration eased after the Brexit referendum, but it remains a significant worry for many.\n\nNot on the scale of the cost of living, the economy or the health service. But important nonetheless.\n\nAnd none of these issues exist in isolation.\n\nMigration has an impact on these issues too.\n\nIt's worth remembering, by the way, that not all political leaders express a desire for the numbers to shrivel. Take the Scottish National Party, for instance, which advocates more immigration.\n\nBut for those that do talk about, or at least hint at reducing the numbers, actually delivering that requires difficult decisions. Should fewer international students be allowed in? What about fewer people coming to the UK to work in the NHS? And at what consequence?\n\nBut what too could be the consequence of political rhetoric and observable reality being so out of step, as a swelling population heaps further pressure on school places, the health service and housing?\n\nAlmost instantly, the former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage branded it a disgrace, and said that Reform UK, the successor to the Brexit Party, would field candidates everywhere at the next general election.\n\nOne recent opinion poll from Deltapoll does suggest that among Conservative-leaning, Leave-backing voters, asylum and immigration is hugely, hugely important.\n\nSo how do those voters, many of whom perhaps backed Leave expecting immigration to fall, respond?\n\nWho do they blame? And where do they turn? And what do the Conservatives and Labour say now?\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said \"we remain committed to reducing migration over time, in line with our manifesto commitment\".\n\nYou may remember the Conservatives long promised to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands, and it never happened.\n\nLabour said there had been Conservative \"mismanagement\" of the asylum and immigration systems. But they themselves have shifted their frontbench view a million miles from where it was. They want to appear robust on immigration.\n\nBut can both big parties at Westminster continue saying this stuff with any credibility if the numbers tell a different story?", "Tvorchi held up a sign displaying the name of their hometown while participating in the Eurovision Song Contest\n\nThe hometown of Ukraine's Eurovision act was hit by Russian missiles moments before the band took to the stage in Liverpool, officials say.\n\nThe head of Ternopil regional state administration, Volodymyr Trush, confirmed two people had been injured.\n\nUkraine's foreign ministry accused Russia of attacking Kyiv and Ternopil regions before and during Tvorchi's Eurovision performance.\n\nTen minutes before taking to the stage at the Liverpool Arena, Tvorchi posted on Instagram citing reports of Ternopil in western Ukraine being attacked.\n\nAfter performing, they added: \"Ternopil is the name of our hometown, which was bombed by Russia while we sang on the Eurovision stage about our steel hearts, indomitability and will.\n\n\"This is a message for all cities of Ukraine that are shelled every day. Kharkiv, Dnipro, Khmelnytsky, Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Uman, Sumy, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Kherson and all others.\n\n\"Europe, unite against evil for the sake of peace!\"\n\nTvorchi posted on Instagram saying Russia was bombing their native city of Ternopil\n\nTvorchi, made up of producer Andrii Hutsuliak and Nigeria-born vocalist Jeffery Kenny, hoped to defend the Eurovision title after Kalush Orchestra won last year in Turin.\n\nThey performed \"Heart of Steel\" - a song about troops who led an ultimately unsuccessful resistance against Russian forces at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.\n\nLiverpool is hosting the contest on behalf of Ukraine due to the ongoing conflict.\n\nAt the end of their performance, Tvorchi held their fists in the air as acts from other nations were also seen waving the blue and yellow flag of Ukraine.\n\nTvorchi are made up of producer Andrii Hutsuliak and Nigeria-raised vocalist Jeffery Kenny\n\nThe UK's ambassador to Ukraine Dame Melinda Simmons described Tvorchi's Eurovision performance as \"poignant\".\n\nWriting on Twitter, she added: \"Reminder that the reason why Ukraine could not host this event is because Russia continues to invade and the people of Ukraine live in continuing danger.\"\n\nThough Swedish act Loreen took the Eurovision crown after a nail-biting finish, there was praise for Tvorchi from Ternopil's mayor who thanked the band for supporting the city during their performance.\n\nPosting on Facebook in Ukrainian, Mayor Nadal wrote: \"It was at this time that our city was attacked by Russian missiles.\n\n\"Thank you, because your speech has become a symbol of not only the unity of the country, but of the whole world.\"\n\nHe told the BBC the fire at the warehouse in Ternopil had been brought under control.\n\n\"Firefighters worked all night and continue to work,\" he said, adding that the two people who were wounded suffered minor injuries and were in hospital.\n\nRussia has not yet made any official comment.\n\nEarlier in the day, President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Pope Francis at the Vatican and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome.\n\nHe has since flown to Germany, arriving in Berlin just before 01:00 local time.", "Winkleman held off competition from Big Zuu, Sue Perkins and Lee Mack to win best entertainment performance\n\nReality competition series The Traitors and its host Claudia Winkleman were among the big winners at the TV Baftas.\n\nThe show, which sees players \"murder\" each other in a Scottish castle, developed a cult following after it launched in November.\n\nDerry Girls and Bad Sisters won the top TV prizes, while Ben Whishaw and Kate Winslet were among the acting winners.\n\nBut Winkleman's other series Strictly Come Dancing lost out to The Masked Singer for best entertainment show.\n\nThe ceremony, which was hosted by comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, took place on Sunday at London's Royal Festival Hall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nAccepting the prize for best reality series on behalf of The Traitors, Winkleman recalled the meeting she had with commissioners ahead of its launch.\n\n\"I went, 'OK, just to be clear, we're going to Scotland, we've got some cloaks, we're going to use the word murder, I've got a big rollneck and I'm holding a ceremonial pouch, are you OK with that?' And they went 'go for it'.\"\n\nShe took the opportunity to ask her husband from the stage: \"Please, can we have a dog?\"\n\nOther winners included a documentary about Sir Mo Farah which revealed the athlete had been illegally trafficked to the UK as a child.\n\nA special edition of The Repair Shop which featured King Charles was named best daytime programme.\n\nKate Winslet was named best leading actress for her performance in I Am Ruth\n\nPresenter Jay Blades said it was the \"first time\" that a \"six-foot black guy, from Hackney, gold tooth, single parent\" had been presented with an award for daytime TV.\n\nAsked about Richard Osman's suggestion that the daytime category should be expanded to include more programmes, Blades told BBC News: \"If Bafta can do that, it'd be brilliant, but it's above my pay grade!\"\n\nWinslet won best leading actress for her performance in I Am Ruth, about a mother who tries to help her depressed teenage daughter.\n\nThe star, who acted opposite her daughter in the series, said \"small British television dramas can be mighty\" and mental health stories such as this one \"need to be heard\".\n\nShe added: \"If I could break it in half, I would give the other half to my daughter Mia Threapleton, we did this together, kiddo.\"\n\nWinslet held off competition from Sarah Lancashire, who was nominated for her performance in HBO's Julia. The most recent series of her hit police drama Happy Valley was broadcast too late to be eligible this year.\n\nDerry Girls star Siobhan McSweeney was rewarded for her comedy performances, even though she is not one of the five main teenage protagonists of the show\n\nSharon Horgan, whose Apple TV series Bad Sisters won best drama, used part of her acceptance speech to say she stands in \"solidarity\" with the current writers' strike taking place in the US.\n\nDerry Girls was named best scripted comedy programme following its conclusion last year. \"What an amazing end to our Derry Girls journey,\" said its writer Lisa McGee.\n\nShe recalled how the show had been a hard sell in the early days because it \"didn't have runaway hit written all over it, but what we found is in the specific there is always the universal\".\n\nThe show's star Siobhan McSweeney won best female comedy performance for her performance as Sister Michael in Channel 4 comedy Derry Girls.\n\nShe joked: \"As my mother lay dying in Cork, one of the very last things she said to me was, would I not consider retraining as a teacher?\n\n\"If she could see me now getting a Bafta for playing a teacher... joke's on you.\"\n\nBen Whishaw played a junior doctor in the adaptation of Adam Kay's memoir This Is Going To Hurt\n\nJames Bond and Paddington star Whishaw collected best leading actor for his performance as an under-pressure doctor in BBC series This Is Going To Hurt, based on the best-selling memoir.\n\nOn stage, the 42-year-old actor said \"everybody in the show is just mind-blowing\" and \"most of all thank you, Adam Kay, for writing this wonderful role\".\n\nHowever, the medical programme lost out on best mini-series to BBC Three's Mood, one of the night's most surprising winners.\n\nSir Mo Farah won the single documentary prize for The Real Mo Farah, which revealed the Olympic gold medallist had been illegally trafficked to the UK as a child.\n\nDedicating the award to \"children who are being trafficked\", Sir Mo said: \"The kids have no say at all, they are just kids and no child should ever go through what I did, I hope my story shows they aren't alone, we are in it together.\"\n\nThe in memoriam section paid tribute to TV stars who have died in the past year, including talk show host Jerry Springer, Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman, presenter and drag queen Paul O'Grady, Doctor Who actor Bernard Cribbins and Dame Edna Everage star Barry Humphries.\n\nThe Repair Shop host Jay Blades took a picture of the Bafta audience from the stage\n\nThe Masked Singer beat Ant And Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and Strictly Come Dancing to win best entertainment programme.\n\nHost Joel Dommett said he was surprised to win, describing the show as \"so silly and so wonderful... it has brightened up so many families and homes\".\n\nJudge Mo Gilligan added: \"People tried to mock it when it first came out, and now it has won a Bafta. It is great escapism... people at home don't want to watch something depressing.\"\n\nJoe Lycett vs Beckham: Got Your Back At Xmas - which saw the comedian criticise the former footballer for his links with Qatar - won the features category.\n\nThe comedian dedicated his Bafta to the \"people still being oppressed in Qatar\".\n\nLenny Rush, 14, won best male performance in a comedy programme for Am I Being Unreasonable?\n\nLenny Rush, the 14-year-old actor who starred opposite Daisy May Cooper in Am I Being Unreasonable?, said he was \"over the moon\" to win best male performance in a comedy programme.\n\nThe memorable moment award went to Paddington bear having tea with the late Queen during the Platinum Jubilee: Party At The Palace celebrations.\n\nWinkleman also won best entertainment performance, commenting that she did not want to get emotional because her eyeliner would run.\n\nShe also thanked her mother and father and said the award was \"for you\" before joking: \"You can't have it, but you can touch it.\"\n\nLewis Capaldi and Jax Jones performed at the ceremony and followed last month's Bafta TV Craft Awards, which saw This is Going to Hurt and House of the Dragon take home three prizes each.", "Joann and Christian Edwards say they were \"left in the dark\" after their son Elijah died from a heart infection\n\nGrieving parents have been left waiting more than 14 months for answers about why their 12-day-old son died.\n\nElijah was born at Merthyr Tydfil's Prince Charles Hospital on 25 February 2022 and died after being diagnosed with enterovirus and myocarditis.\n\nJoann and Christian Edwards said they were told they would have a report by the end of 2022, but are still waiting.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said its investigation \"took longer than initially anticipated\" and apologised.\n\nJoann and Christian, from Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said they were told Elijah's myocarditis was a \"one off\" but subsequently read about 10 babies, including one who died, getting severe enterovirus with myocarditis across south Wales.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said Elijah's death was not being looked into as part of an investigation into this cluster of cases, as the dates were set at June 2022 to April 2023 to coincide with the enterovirus season.\n\nBut it said it would look to include Elijah's death as part of a \"wider clinical investigation\" of the cases.\n\nA PHW spokesperson added: \"We send our sincere condolences to the Edwards family following Elijah's death, and our thoughts are very much with them.\n\n\"However, we are very aware of the case and he has not been forgotten.\"\n\nElijah Edwards died after getting enterovirus, a bug similar to the common cold\n\nElijah was healthy when he was sent home from hospital but was lethargic and severely constipated, which was initially thought to be jaundice.\n\nAfter five days without pooing, Elijah's parents took him back to hospital.\n\nHe was first diagnosed with sepsis, then bronchiolitis.\n\nAfter being admitted to the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff, he was diagnosed with enterovirus - a bug similar to the common cold that can attack the heart in young babies.\n\nHe died at Bristol Children's Hospital on 9 March.\n\nJoann said the paediatric doctor at UHW told her Elijah's chances of getting enterovirus in the UK was \"one in hundreds of thousands\" and that his death was down to an \"unlucky situation\".\n\nShe added that she and Christian were told an investigation into Elijah's death by Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board would report back by the end of 2022.\n\n\"We were led to believe that there wasn't an answer for it happening and we may never have an answer. It left us in limbo.\"\n\nJoann and Christian were still waiting for the report in May when Joann read a BBC Wales report about a cluster of cases of myocarditis in babies under 28 days old, who had been to UHW between June and November last year.\n\nElijah was healthy when he was born but developed severe constipation in the days after going home\n\nIn shock, Joann said she wrote to PHW to find out if Elijah was part of the investigation, but got no response.\n\n\"To be left in the dark made us feel then like as if there's something to hide,\" she said.\n\nChristian said doctors did \"probably everything that could have possibly been done\" to save his son.\n\n\"It's how he contracted it and this information that has come out now is more the gripe that we've got.\n\n\"If there's a investigation going on, obviously we wouldn't mind knowing what is happening.\"\n\nPHW said: \"We would be happy to discuss Elijah's case further with the family if they would find it helpful.\"\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board added: \"We will share the findings of our investigation with the family as soon as is appropriate.\n\n\"The death of a child is deeply tragic and we express our heartfelt condolences, as well as an offer of support, to Elijah's family as they continue to come to terms with their loss.\"\n\nJoann and Christian say they want an investigation into where their son's infection came from\n\nChristian wants an investigation into where where his son's infection came from, which he said doctors believed started about a day after his birth.\n\nPrince Charles Hospital was under Covid restrictions when Elijah was born, so the newborn was only in contact with staff and his parents, who had no enterovirus symptoms.\n\nChristian said: \"I wanted to know for my peace of mind, were there more children at the same time as him in that area?\n\n\"This could be an opening to see why it happens, could have been prevented, are there more tests they can do before the child's born?\"\n\nThe couple said they had suffered alone and would like to speak to other parents who have gone through a similar tragedy.\n\nJoann said: \"Because we were led to believe we were the only ones, we haven't been able to really discuss this with anybody else that would fully understand.\"\n\nThe most difficult part, Joann added, had been explaining what happened to Elijah's sister who went from \"loving life\" as a big sister for a week, to losing her brother.\n\n\"Every question she's got we try and answer them the best we can,\" Joann said.\n\n\"But we haven't got the answers ourselves let alone trying to explain to a five-year-old.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVernon Kay began his first day as host of BBC Radio 2's coveted mid-morning slot promising \"more of the same\".\n\n\"Nothing has changed apart from the voice behind the microphone,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nKay, 49, has taken over from veteran broadcaster Ken Bruce, who hosted the weekday programme for 31 years.\n\nBruce's Radio 2 show was the most listened to show in the UK, regularly attracting more than eight million listeners.\n\nHe announced his departure from the BBC in January and started his new mid-morning show on Bauer's Greatest Hits Radio in April.\n\nKay, a former BBC Radio 1 presenter who is married to Strictly Come Dancing host Tess Daly, began the show with U2's Beautiful Day.\n\nHe followed it with Good Times by Chic, which he said he hoped would be a sign of things to come.\n\nVernon Kay started his first show as the mid-morning host on Radio 2\n\nIn his first words to his audience he said that despite broadcasting from London, the city would not be the focus of the show.\n\n\"This show's for you, it's not just about the capital, it's about what's going on in your world,\" he said.\n\nKay also hosted Ten To The Top - the new music quiz designed to replace Bruce's popular PopMaster.\n\nHe was welcomed to the station by fellow presenters Zoe Ball, Scott Mills and Jo Whiley, who have also made the jump from Radio 1 to 2.\n\n\"Welcome Vern, I cannot wait for our handovers - smash it baby,\" Zoe said in an audio message on his first show.\n\n\"I'm so glad you're starting on weekdays, I get to see you every day, you deserve it so much - welcome to the family,\" added Scott Mills.\n\n\"You're just a joy to hear, welcome,\" Jo Whiley also said.\n\nVernon Kay presented at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Carlisle in 2011\n\nKay has fronted various TV shows including ITV's All Star Family Fortunes, Just The Two of Us and Beat the Star.\n\nHis new show will feature a record and album of the week and performances from the Radio 2 Piano Room.\n\nAsked what he will bring to the show, Kay said: \"Nothing that they haven't heard before really, just tales of the past and everything that has gone on from when I was a caretaker in Bolton.\n\n\"All those stories that connect me with the audience, it's not all champagne, bubbles, tuxedo and dinner parties once you get into showbiz.\"", "The airport suffered major disruption in 2018 after drone sightings\n\nOperations at Gatwick Airport were disrupted after a suspected drone was seen close to the airfield.\n\nA spokesman for the airport in West Sussex said operations were suspended temporarily just before13:45 BST but resumed about 50 minutes later.\n\nHe said 12 inbound aircraft were diverted to other airports during the incident but many were expected to return to Gatwick on Sunday.\n\nGatwick was shut for more than a day in December 2018 after drone sightings.\n\nNo-one was ever prosecuted over the incident that caused chaos for travellers, affecting more than 1,000 flights and about 140,000 passengers.\n\nSince then, experts have been working on systems to prevent drones disrupting operations at major airports.\n\nA spokesman for Gatwick said: \"Passenger safety is the airport's absolute priority and - following established procedures - operations at London Gatwick were suspended temporarily at 13:44, while investigations into the sighting of a suspected drone close to the airfield took place.\n\n\"These investigations have now completed and the airfield reopened at 14:35.\"\n\nBritish Airways said the disruption affected one of its flights, which landed at Stansted before refuelling and returning to Gatwick.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Artian Lushaku died four days after he was struck by a car in the north of Glasgow\n\nA 13-year-old boy has died four days after being hit by a car in Glasgow.\n\nArtian Lushaku was critically injured when he was struck by a Toyota Aygo on Balmore Road, in the city's Lambhill area, at about 17:55 on Wednesday.\n\nPolice Scotland said he died from his injuries at the Royal Hospital for Children on Sunday.\n\nOfficers urged anyone who witnessed the incident to come forward and said they were particularly keen to speak to the driver of a white van.\n\nSgt Nicholas Twigg said: \"This is a deeply distressing time for Artian's family as they try to come to terms with his death.\n\n\"It's imperative we establish the full circumstances of the collision and our investigation remains ongoing.\n\n\"We are keen to hear from the driver of a white van who was in the area around the time of the incident and we would ask them to get in touch with us as we believe they could assist with our ongoing investigation.\"\n\nArtian had been a pupil at Cleveden Secondary School for two years.\n\nHeadteacher Claire Wilson said the school community was devastated by his death and said the 13-year-old was loved by everyone who knew him.\n\nShe said: \"He has left such a mark on our school with his confident, outgoing, friendly, caring and enthusiastic nature. Artian brought a sense of fun to anything he set his mind to.\n\n\"He will also be remembered for his sporting talents, and we will all miss him.\n\n\"The awful events of last week have been a shock to everyone and our thoughts and loving prayers are with Artian's family and friends at this deeply distressing time.\n\n\"We will do everything we can to support our school community over the coming days and months.\"\n• None Boy, 13, critical after being hit by car", "A long-awaited report has strongly criticised the FBI's handling of its investigation into alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.\n\nIn a 306-page report, special counsel John Durham said the agency's inquiry lacked \"analytical rigor\".\n\nHe concluded the FBI had not possessed evidence of collusion between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia before launching an inquiry.\n\nThe FBI said it had addressed the issues highlighted in the report.\n\nIn the report, Mr Durham - who was appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr in 2019 - accused the FBI of acting on \"raw, unanalysed and uncorroborated intelligence\".\n\nAmong the investigative mistakes it made were repeated instances of \"confirmation bias\", in which it ignored information that undercut the initial premise of the investigation.\n\nThe report noted significant differences in the way the FBI had handled the Trump investigation when compared with other potentially sensitive inquiries, such as those involving his 2016 electoral rival Hillary Clinton.\n\nMr Durham noted that Mrs Clinton and others had received \"defensive briefings\" from the FBI aimed at \"those who may be the targets of nefarious activities by foreign powers\". Mr Trump had not.\n\n\"The Department [of Justice] and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law,\" the report concluded.\n\nIn a statement, the FBI said it had \"already implemented dozens of corrective actions\".\n\n\"Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented,\" the statement added.\n\nSpecial Counsel John Durham was appointed by then Attorney General William Barr in 2019\n\nThe FBI investigation into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, which was carried out by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, led to dozens of criminal charges against Trump campaign staff and associates for crimes including computer hacking and financial crimes.\n\nIt did not, however, find that the Trump campaign and Russia had conspired together to influence the election.\n\nWriting on his social media platform, Truth Social, Mr Trump said the Durham report showed that the \"American public was scammed\". He cited the report's conclusion that there had not been enough evidence to warrant a full investigation by the FBI. Mr Trump has long claimed that members of the \"Deep State\" are targeting him unfairly.\n\nLast year, Mr Trump said he believed the Durham report would provide evidence of \"really bad, evil, unlawful and unconstitutional\" activities and \"reveal corruption at a level never before seen in our country\".\n\nThe Durham report falls short of the blockbuster revelations and prosecutions that some Trump allies hoped for from the inquiry.\n\nThe four-year investigation has resulted in three prosecutions. They include an FBI attorney who pleaded guilty to altering evidence while applying for permission to eavesdrop on a former Trump campaign official.\n\nTwo other people were acquitted on charges of lying to the FBI.\n\nThe former president cited some court filings by the Durham team as part of a lawsuit he filed against Mrs Clinton and several other Democrats and government officials, alleging that they had plotted to undermine his 2016 presidential bid by spreading rumours about his campaign's ties to Russia.\n\nA judge dismissed the lawsuit as frivolous in January and ordered Mr Trump to pay nearly a million dollars in penalties.\n\nMr Durham and his investigation are not likely to disappear from the national headlines in the immediate future.\n\nShortly after news that the report would be publicly released, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan announced that he would be calling the US former attorney to testify before Congress about his work.", "Alexander Lukashenko (centre) looked visibly tired during last week's Victory Day parade in Moscow, and his right hand was bandaged\n\nThe autocratic politician, 68, usually speaks publicly at the annual National Flag, Emblem and Anthem Day event but his prime minister read a message on his behalf on Sunday.\n\nLast week, Mr Lukashenko left Moscow soon after Victory Day parade, skipping lunch with President Vladimir Putin.\n\nMr Lukashenko looked visibly tired, and his right hand was bandaged.\n\nHe was last seen in public laying flowers in the capital Minsk during Belarus' own Victory Day celebrations on 9 May - a few hours after returning from the Russian capital.\n\nAn opposition Telegram channel reported that Mr Lukashenko visited a presidential medical centre just outside Minsk on Saturday night - but this information has not been independently verified.\n\nMr Lukashenko's office has so far made no comments on the issue.\n\nOften described in the West as Europe's last dictator, Mr Lukashenko has ruled Belarus since 1994, suppressing any dissent.\n\nIn 2020, he was proclaimed as the winner of presidential elections, which were denounced by the opposition as a sham.\n\nThousand of people were later arrested and brutally beaten by riot police and KGB security service agents during mass anti-government protests that rocked the country.\n\nHowever, Mr Lukashenko managed to stay in power, backed by Russia.\n\nLast year, he supported President Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, offering Belarus as a launchpad for Russian troops to cross into Ukraine and allowing Russian war planes to carry out strikes from Belarusian soil.", "Tim Westwood has been interviewed under caution over five alleged sexual offences\n\nA review of what the BBC knew about allegations regarding DJ Tim Westwood's conduct has received a \"significant amount of important new information\".\n\nWestwood was interviewed under caution over five alleged sexual offences by the Metropolitan Police earlier this year. He denies the allegations.\n\nThe alleged incidents are said to have occurred between 1982 and 2016.\n\nA dedicated phone line set up to help people contribute evidence to the review will close on Friday.\n\nBarrister Gemma White, who is leading the review, said it was set up to \"expand the ways people can come forward\" and report information.\n\nShe was appointed by the BBC Board last August after an internal review found that the corporation should have paid more attention to a string of sexual assault allegations that had been made against the former Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJ.\n\nThe inquiry, which has already seen more than 50,000 BBC documents, is expected to publish its findings in the summer.\n\nWhite thanked everyone who had used the phone line and said: \"We know that taking the decision to call was not easy for many of you and that speaking to us has taken courage.\n\n\"Your evidence will assist me in my task of independently establishing whether the BBC knew of concerns and responded appropriately to them.\n\n\"If you have been thinking of contributing but have not been sure about whether to do so, please do get in touch now.\"\n\nWestwood, 65, stepped down from his show on Capital Xtra in April last year and strongly denies the allegations.\n\nLast year, a statement from a representative of Westwood said: \"Tim Westwood strongly denies all allegations of inappropriate behaviour.\n\n\"In a career that has spanned 40 years, there have never been any complaints made against him officially or unofficially.", "At least six people have died and others remain unaccounted for following a fire in a hostel, New Zealand's prime minister has told local media.\n\nEmergency services were called to the four-storey Loafers Lodge hostel in Wellington just after midnight local time (12:30 GMT Monday).\n\nMore than 50 people were rescued from the building, but police said 11 people remained unaccounted for.\n\nPM Chris Hipkins warned the number of dead was likely to increase.\n\nPolice added that they could not be more specific on the number of deaths until they could access the building.\n\nThe cause of the blaze is still unknown. Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) said they were treating the fire as suspicious, but police \"don't believe it's been deliberately lit\", the New Zealand Herald reported.\n\nArriving at the scene, firefighters found the top level of the building ablaze. By 04:00 at least 20 fire engines had been sent to the blaze.\n\nLocal media reports said the sprinklers did not work and officials could not confirm whether fire alarms were working.\n\nFENZ district commander Nick Pyatt described it as Wellington's \"worst nightmare\".\n\nMr Pyatt also said the building contained asbestos and urged locals to wear a face mask and keep their windows closed to avoid inhaling smoke, the New Zealand Herald reported.\n\n\"This is a tragic event for all involved. My heartfelt condolences go to the loved ones of those who have lost their lives\", he said.\n\nAuthorities rescued at least five people from the roof of the burning building, while one person sustained serious injuries after jumping from the third floor of the building to escape the flames, local media reported.\n\nOne resident, Tala Sili, told national broadcaster Radio New Zealand he saw smoke coming from under his door and opened it to find the hallway full of smoke. He decided to jump out of the window onto a roof two floors below.\n\n\"It was just scary, it was really scary, but I knew I had to jump out the window or just burn inside the building,\" he said.\n\nLoafers Lodge Hostel has 92 rooms in total and caters to both short and long-term guests.\n\nIt was designated by New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development in 2011 as an emergency accommodation provider. Official figures show that more than 3,300 households currently live in emergency housing as of February.\n\nLoafers customers range from shift workers like nurses and hospital staff to unemployed and homeless people, according to local media reports.\n\nSeveral residents are people who have been deported from Australia, with some still unaccounted for.\n\nIn comments to local media, Mr Hipkins called the fire \"an absolute tragedy\" and paid tribute to local firefighters \"who have put themselves in harm's way over past hours to get people out of the building and put the fire out\".", "UK holiday village chain Center Parcs has been put up for sale by its owner, the Canadian private equity firm Brookfield.\n\nThe company is looking to raise between £4bn and £5bn from the sale according to the Financial Times.\n\nBrookfield bought the business for about £2.4bn in 2015.\n\nCenter Parcs runs six holiday villages in the UK and Ireland which attract more than two million visitors every year.\n\nThey are particularly popular with families as they offer a range of activities on-site, with an indoor waterpark as the central attraction and wooden cabins set in cycle-friendly forests.\n\nThe first UK location opened in 1987, at Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. There are now holiday villages at Elveden Forest, Longleat Forest, Whinfell Forest and Woburn Forest.\n\nIn 2019, it opened its first site in Ireland, with Center Parcs Longford Forest close to the town of Ballymahon in County Longford.\n\nThe Financial Times said that Brookfield had appointed investment bankers to sound out potential buyers, including other private equity firms.\n\nDanni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell, said there still appeared to be strong demand for Center Parcs holidays for now, with some wealthier holidaymakers trading down from holidays abroad.\n\n\"During the pandemic Brits rushed to snap up sought after places, but even with cash-strapped families ditching the extra 'staycation' in favour of one holiday, it's clear by the prices and availability that there's still more than enough business to go around - so far,\" she said.\n\nBut rising mortgage costs and the difficult economic climate did raise a question over future growth, she added.\n\nEarlier this year, Center Parcs scrapped plans to develop a new holiday village in West Sussex.\n\nIn July 2021, the company had secured an option agreement to acquire Oldhouse Warren, a privately-owned woodland on the outskirts of Crawley.\n\nHowever, Center Parcs said a \"rigorous\" environmental survey had revealed that the site was not suitable for development.\n\nEnvironmentalists had argued that the site would destroy established woodland and damage the habitats of rare birds.\n\nAt the end of last year Center Parcs said occupancy rates were at 97.3%, and broadly in line with pre-Covid levels.\n\nRevenue of £426.6m between April and December last year represented a 20% increase compared to the same period a year earlier, and 18% higher than before the pandemic.\n\nLast year, Center Parcs was forced to backtrack over a decision to ask guests to leave its sites on the day of the Queen's funeral.\n\nWhen it announced the move, it said the decision was made \"as a mark of respect\" and to allow employees to \"be part of this historic moment\".\n\nBut the move prompted angry complaints from holidaymakers as it would have meant some guests would have had to leave part-way through their break and return afterwards.\n\nCenter Parcs UK is a separate business from Center Parcs Europe, which has holiday villages in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and France. The European business is still owned by Blackstone Group which sold the UK part of the business to Brookfield in 2015.", "Value added tax - better known as VAT - should be scrapped on sunscreen to make it more affordable, say several UK cancer charities.\n\nSunscreen is classified as a \"cosmetic\" product and carries a 20% tax, adding around £1.50 to the cost of a bottle.\n\nCharities want high-factor protective creams to be VAT exempt, citing the cost-of-living crisis which has seen many struggling to buy essential items.\n\nMost skin cancers are caused by sun damage.\n\nThere are several types of skin cancer, and melanoma is the most dangerous, as well as the most common type among young people in the UK - with cases on the rise.\n\nIf untreated, the cancer can spread to other areas of the body.\n\nSunbeds also increase the risk of skin cancer, with some delivering greater doses of UV rays than the midday tropical sun.\n\n\"Few realise that getting painful sunburn just once every two years can triple your risk of skin cancer,\" said Dr Louise Soanes, Chief Nurse, Teenage Cancer Trust.\n\n\"Preventing skin cancer by using an effective sun cream is essential - and sun cream shouldn't be a luxury that only some can afford.\"\n\nCruise ship dancer Kass Barker, who says she used to be \"really into sunbathing\", was diagnosed with melanoma in October 2020, at the age of 22.\n\nShe had gone for a check-up of a mole on her wrist that had been worrying her.\n\n\"I just had a gut-feeling something was wrong,\" says Kass, from Tyne and Wear.\n\nKass wants to warn others about how serious melanoma can be.\n\n\"If there was a cream that people said could prevent breast cancer, then everyone would be buying it - but for some reason people do not see skin cancer as such a threat.\n\n\"I'm a dancer and I love being tanned, but is it worth your life? I see people on social media joking about getting sunburnt, but it's no joke. Melanoma can kill.\"\n\nKass wants people to be aware that changes to a mole - as seen on hers - can be a sign of melanoma\n\nA mole that has changed shape, or colour, or looks and feels unusual.\n\nSee a doctor if you are concerned.\n\nScottish National Party MP Amy Callaghan is running a campaign and petition urging government to act. She was diagnosed with melanoma at 19.\n\n\"More people wearing sunscreen means fewer people getting melanoma,\" said Ms Callaghan.\n\n\"But when 52% of people in my constituency can't afford to turn on the heating, it's unlikely they'll take on extra expenses like sunscreen.\n\n\"That's why we must make sunscreen more affordable, by removing VAT.\"\n\nThe charity Melanoma Focus surveyed 2,000 people in the UK aged 16 and over. Around half of them thought sunscreen was too expensive.\n\nOne in 10 said they didn't use it at all because of the cost.\n\nOther reasons given for not using it included a desire to tan, a belief their skin won't burn, or a feeling that sunscreen is too messy - and unpleasant to apply or wear.\n\nTanning itself is actually a sign of skin damage; people don't have to burn to be at a higher risk of skin cancer.\n\nClaire Knight, from Cancer Research UK, said: \"While price may be a barrier for some, it's worth remembering that you don't need to spend a lot on a sunscreen to get good protection - what matters is an SPF of at least 15, and a star rating of 4 or 5.\n\n\"There may be other reasons people don't use sunscreen - for example, not realising that you can burn on a cloudy day, or mistakenly thinking make-up with SPF in is sufficient.\n\n\"But when it comes to sun safety, sunscreen is only part of it. Spending time in the shade and covering up with clothing are the best and cheapest ways to protect yourself against damage from too much of the sun's UV rays.\"\n\nThe 20% standard VAT rate applies to most goods and services, including sunscreen products purchased over the counter at pharmacies.\n\nThe exemption the campaigners are requesting would be for proven sun protection, but not foundation or other make-up containing SPF.\n\nAn HM Treasury spokesperson said: \"We recognise the impact that rising prices are having at home which is why we are providing significant support worth on average £3,300 per household. This includes holding down energy bills, uplifting benefits and delivering direct cash payments.\n\n\"High-factor sunscreen is on the NHS prescription list for certain conditions and is already provided VAT free when dispensed by a pharmacist to these patients.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Royal Mail is facing an investigation by the industry watchdog after it failed to meet its delivery targets over the past year.\n\nOfcom said it would consider whether any \"exceptional events\" explained why Royal Mail fell short.\n\nBut if there were no \"satisfactory explanation\", the regulator said it would consider imposing a fine.\n\nThe postal service delivered only 73.7% of First Class mail within a day - far short of the 93% target.\n\nOfcom said the impact of Covid was no longer \"an excuse for poor delivery performance\".\n\nIf Royal Mail is fined, it would be its second penalty since 2019 when it paid out £1.5m for failing to deliver first class letters on time.\n\nA Quality of Service report from Royal Mail also showed it delivered only 90.7% of second class mail within three days, below a target of 98.5%.\n\nA spokesperson for Royal Mail said it was \"disappointed\" with its performance, adding: \"We will participate fully with any Ofcom's investigation.\"\n\n\"Ofcom takes quality of service very seriously,\" the regulator said. \"In deciding whether the company is in breach of its obligations, we will consider if there were any exceptional events - beyond the company's control - that may have explained why it missed its targets.\"If it does not provide a satisfactory explanation and we determine that Royal Mail has failed to comply with its obligations, we may consider whether to impose a financial penalty,\" it said.\n\nOn Friday, Royal Mail's chief executive Simon Thompson announced that he would leave, meaning the company will soon be searching for its third boss in five years.\n\nRoyal Mail said its services had been affected by 18 days of strike action and that high levels of staff absence continued to hamper operations.\n\nIt said it hoped an agreement reached last month with Communication Workers Union (CWU) would resolve the matter and allow it to \"rapidly improve\" its services.\n\nRoyal Mail's chief operating officer Grant McPherson apologised to customers who were affected by the missed targets, but added the past year had been \"one of the most challenging in [Royal Mail's] history\".\n\n\"With the plans we have in place to drive service levels and reduce absence, we hope and expect to see further progress in the coming months,\" he said.\n\nRoyal Mail has previously said the strike action was costing £200m and could threaten its survival. In addition, in January the firm faced a ransomware attack which disrupted overseas mail for more than a month.\n\nIn March MPs on parliament's Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee referred Royal Mail to the regulator following claims the firm was prioritising parcels over letters.\n\nRoyal Mail must, by law, deliver letters to all parts of the UK, six days per week, as part of its \"universal service obligation\", and prioritising parcels risked that, MPs said.\n\nPoliticians also questioned whether Mr Thompson had been \"wholly accurate\" in answers he gave to the committee earlier in the year.\n\nThey said there had been a significant number of complaints after Mr Thompson told the committee that Royal Mail did not use technology to track and discipline workers.\n\nRoyal Mail said it rejected the suggestion that Royal Mail \"may have misled\" the committee, and that the use of monitoring technology was to make sure workloads are \"balanced and even\".", "Katie had found the courage to give evidence against the running coach who abused her\n\nEncouraging abuse victims to come forward without a specialist support system in place is \"totally irresponsible\", campaigners have said.\n\nIn an open letter, 150 signatories including Rape Crisis and Refuge, are calling for fully-funded support to be included in the upcoming Victims Bill.\n\nIt was written by a woman whose friend helped convict their abusive running coach but then took her own life.\n\nThe government says it is improving support for victims at every stage.\n\nThe letter's author Charlie Webster and her friend Katie belonged to the same running group in Sheffield as teenagers. But the best friends never shared with each other that that their coach Paul North had sexually abused them over many years.\n\nIn 2002, North was jailed for 10 years after Katie and another victim reported him to police. Then aged 18, she had found the strength to give evidence against him in court.\n\nBut once North was convicted, Katie's mother Sue said her daughter was abandoned by a criminal justice system that seemed more interested in the offender than the victim.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this story you can contact the BBC Action Line.\n\n\"In a way, she was sacrificed,\" she told the BBC. \"She got let down by the police, by the running club, and she got left hung out to dry.\"\n\nKatie was offered very little therapeutic support during the court process and nothing over the next 20 years.\n\n\"I can't see how she could have been expected to have got over that and just got on with life,\" Sue added.\n\nWhile North served just half of his sentence, his victims were left to deal with their ongoing trauma. For Katie, this culminated with her taking her own life at her home in Australia in January this year aged 39. Her mum said she had never got over what had happened.\n\nIn her open letter, Charlie (pictured left) wrote that Katie (right) deserved better than how she was treated\n\nThe Victims and Prisoners Bill, which is aiming to offer improved, legally-defined support to crime victims in England and Wales, is to be debated by MPs in the Commons on Monday.\n\nBut campaigners are concerned that a key element is missing - guaranteed funding written into law to provide the specialist support services needed to help these victims recover from their trauma.\n\nMs Webster and charity Rape Crisis have sent the letter to the Justice Secretary Alex Chalk. Its signatories include other charities like Women's Aid, plus athletes Sebastian Coe and Paula Radcliffe.\n\nIn the open letter, Ms Webster shares Katie's story, explaining that her friend had done what society had asked of her.\n\n\"She spoke out, she stood tall despite victim blaming and because of her courage, others were saved,\" she writes. \"Katie did her duty to society. But what about Katie? What did the system do to help her? She deserved better.\"\n\nMs Webster urges the justice secretary to ensure sufficient multi-year funding is allocated to ensure victims are given access to counselling and emotional support to help them rebuild their lives.\n\nA young, talented athlete who was abused by her coach then betrayed by the system.\n\nThe letter says specialist support services are facing unprecedented demand, which it says, coupled with a chronic lack of underfunding, means survivors are waiting many months, even years, for support.\n\nRape Crisis England and Wales says it has 14,000 survivors on its waiting lists.\n\nMs Webster adds: \"It is irresponsible and dangerous to raise awareness of victims' rights to then leave them unable to access any help or support due.\"\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Ms Webster said going through the justice system at the moment \"can be really traumatising\" and there is a \"disconnect\" between victims, the justice system and the government.\n\nJayne Butler, CEO of Rape Crisis, said demand for the charity's services has increased by 38% in the past year, \"clearly demonstrating the pressures on specialist services which have been unable to meet demand for a long time\".\n\n\"I want to see a Victims Bill that gives victims and survivors what Katie and Charlie never had. If the government truly wishes to make a difference with this bill it must provide the funding needed to support it,\" she added.\n\nIn its report about the draft bill, the cross-party Justice Committee said a recurring theme in its inquiry was that victim support services already faced unmanageable referral levels and caseloads.\n\n\"We caution that the bill risks raising victims' awareness of their rights only to leave them unable to access them due to the relevant services already working at full capacity,\" it said.\n\nLabour is calling for the government to make a number of changes to the planned law, including ensuring rape survivors get free legal advice to help reduce the number dropping out of court action.\n\nIt also wants the Victims' Commissioner to have more powers to hold the government to account, including by producing an annual report to Parliament, and for victims of anti-social behaviour to be covered by the Victims' Code.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice told us it commended the bravery of Katie's family and friends in sharing her story.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesman said: \"Through our new Victims and Prisoners Bill we are improving support for victims at every stage, setting out a clear expectation of the support and information victims should receive from the police and courts.\n\n\"This is on top of our commitment to quadrupling funding for victim support services. Last year we awarded £4.5m to charities to fund vital support specifically for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse to help ensure victims of this horrific crime get the help they need.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The video shows the schoolboy being approached by at least four officers\n\nAn 11-year-old boy armed with a knife was Tasered by police during a stand-off in South Ayrshire, it has emerged.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed the incident took place on 22 March at the Craig Tara caravan park, near Ayr.\n\nFootage published by the Scottish Sun shows several officers asking the boy to put down the weapon before one of them fires the 50,000-volt stun gun.\n\nThe incident had been referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc).\n\nPolice Scotland said the situation \"was resolved with no serious injuries\".\n\nThe video shows the schoolboy being approached by at least four officers, one of whom is pointing a Taser at the child. He appears to be holding a knife and a mobile phone.\n\nThe officers can be heard asking him to put down the knife and \"do the right thing\" but the boy backs away from them.\n\nOne officer asks him: \"What do you want do with the knife?\"\n\nBut the child continues to retreat and tells them to \"stay back\".\n\nThe police officer with the stun gun then discharges the weapon.\n\nAll Taser discharges in Scotland are automatically referred for investigation\n\nThe Police Scotland website describes Tasers as a useful tool to protect people from violence or threats of violence where other more traditional methods such as physical restraint could result in injury to the person or officers.\n\nTheir use on children, however, is controversial, and the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called for a ban.\n\nThe office of the Children's and Young People's Commissioner in Scotland expressed concern at the footage.\n\nNick Hobbs, head of advice and investigations, said: \"Tasers are potentially lethal and inflict severe pain which creates significant risk for children.\n\n\"Human rights bodies, including the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, have long called on Scotland to ban the use of Tasers on children, highlighting the serious risk of physical and psychological harm such weapons pose.\n\n\"We remain seriously concerned about Tasers' use in situations where there may be more effective and safer ways to de-escalate high-pressured situations.\"\n\nThe incident took place at the Craig Tara holiday park near Ayr\n\nIn 2021 Police Scotland revealed plans for a four-fold increase in Taser officers in response to a rising number of assaults on frontline staff.\n\nThe force confirmed Specially Trained Officers (STO) numbers would increase from about 500 to 2,000 by 2024.\n\nAll incidents where a Taser is discharged are referred to Pirc.\n\nA spokesperson for Pirc said: \"We are investigating the circumstances, and once our investigations are complete a report will be issued to the chief constable.\"\n\nA national advisory group on Taser use in Scotland was set up in February 2022 , and includes children's rights representatives.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"Officers attended a disturbance involving an 11-year-old boy in possession of a knife at Craig Tara Caravan Park near Ayr around 11.15pm on Wednesday, 22 March.\n\n\"The incident was resolved with no serious injuries. It was contained and there was no risk to the wider public.\n\n\"A Taser was discharged during this incident. As part of standard procedure, the circumstances of the incident were referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner.\"\n\nDavid Threadgold, chairman of the Scottish Police Federation, said all officers who carried Tasers were specially trained to do so.\n\nHe added: \"They will run through dynamic risk assessments as they are dealing with a particular set of circumstances, and they will ultimately make a decision which they believe they can justify to keep people safe.\"\n\nA spokesperson from Haven, which runs Craig Tara caravan park, said: \"We are aware that a serious and isolated incident occurred at our Craig Tara site in March. We fully cooperated with the police at the time and as this is now a matter for the authorities, we are unable to comment further.\"", "Cyclone Mocha has hit the coasts of Bangladesh and Myanmar, battering the land around the east of the Bay of Bengal.\n\nStorm surges of up to four metres (13ft) could swamp villages in low-lying areas and there are fears for refugee camps in the region.\n\nRead more on this story.", "The UK will send hundreds of air defence missiles and armed drones to Ukraine on top of the Storm Shadow cruise missiles announced last week.\n\nThe move means the UK is going further than any other country in providing weapons with the potential to tip the battlefield in Ukraine's favour.\n\nEarlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky met the UK's Rishi Sunak as part of his tour of Western allies.\n\nMr Zelensky said it was important for the West to send fighter jets as well.\n\nBut the prime minister said providing fighter jets was \"not a straightforward thing\", although he did say the UK would form \"a key part of the coalition countries\" providing that support.\n\nUkraine is continuing to prepare for a much-anticipated counter-offensive against Russian forces.\n\nLast week, Mr Zelensky told the BBC his country needed more weaponry before it could launch the attack.\n\nOn Monday, the Ukrainian president had about two hours of talks with Mr Sunak at Chequers, near London.\n\nHe arrived on British soil for a surprise visit after a whirlwind tour of Western Europe that also took in Rome, Berlin and Paris.\n\nMr Zelensky said Ukraine and the UK were \"real partners\", while Mr Sunak's spokesman described the meeting as \"warm and collegiate\".\n\nThe Storm Shadow cruise missiles can be used to destroy Russia's positions on occupied Ukrainian territory.\n\nIf Ukraine can destroy Russia's command centres, logistics hubs and ammunition depots in occupied territory, then it may prove impossible for Moscow to continue resupplying its frontline troops in places.\n\nThis is what Ukraine did so successfully in Kherson last year, forcing the Russians to withdraw almost without a fight. It will now be hoping to repeat the process with the help of Western-supplied munitions.\n\nPresident Zelensky's repeated calls for Nato to send F-16 jets are being met with delays and obfuscations, for several reasons.\n\nThe Ukrainian air force has trained its pilots on F-16s, which the RAF do not use, but such training takes months, not days.\n\nLogistics, maintenance and the need to find suitable runways are all important too.\n\nFinally, there is the question of escalation. Nato is struggling to balance giving Kyiv the maximum support it can, without getting directly drawn into this conflict.\n\nIf Nato does end up sending F-16 warplanes, however old they may be, then that, in Moscow's eyes, constitutes a major provocation by the West.\n\nMr Zelensky said he discussed the supply of Western fighter jets with Mr Sunak.\n\nNew jets were a \"very important topic for us, because we can't control the sky\", the Ukrainian leader added.\n\n\"We spoke about it and I see that in the closest time you will hear some, I think, very important decisions, but we have to work a little bit more on it,\" he said.\n\nThe UK has no plans to send fighter jets to Ukraine, according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nBut No 10 said elementary training for Ukrainian pilots would begin this summer, along with British efforts to work with other countries on providing F-16 jets to Ukraine.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman also denied that any drones supplied by the UK would be used to hit targets inside Russia.\n\nThey would be used for the defence of Ukraine on Ukrainian sovereign territory, the spokesman said.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"This is a crucial moment in Ukraine's resistance to a terrible war of aggression they did not choose or provoke.\n\n\"They need the sustained support of the international community to defend against the barrage of unrelenting and indiscriminate attacks that have been their daily reality for over a year.\"\n\nIn response, Russia said the new British weapons due to be supplied to Kyiv would only cause \"further destruction\".\n\n\"Britain aspires to position itself at the forefront of the countries that continue to pump weapons into Ukraine,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.\n\nUkraine secured a new defence aid package from Germany after talks in Berlin with Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday, taking its total military funding to nearly $7bn (£6.44bn).\n\nMr Zelensky described the new pledge of German Leopard tanks and anti-aircraft systems as \"the largest since the beginning of the full-scale aggression\" by Russia in February 2022.\n\nFrance has promised dozens more light tanks and armoured vehicles after President Emmanuel Macron met his Ukrainian counterpart in Paris.\n\nIn February, Mr Zelensky visited London for the first time since the start of the war, during which he attended an audience with the King and addressed Parliament.\n\nHis latest visit to the UK comes ahead of a G7 gathering in Hiroshima, Japan, later this week which will also be attended by Mr Sunak.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps: \"I accept that they are very difficult and detailed pledges\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak's five key pledges to voters are \"difficult\" but the government is committed to delivering them, Energy Secretary Grant Shapps has said.\n\nIn January, Mr Sunak vowed to halve inflation, grow the economy, reduce national debt, cut NHS waiting lists and stop migrant boats.\n\nMr Shapps on Sunday urged people to wait before judging the PM's promises.\n\nBut Labour said the government's policy agenda lacked ambition.\n\nMr Shapps appeared on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme after Mr Sunak was scolded by critics within his party over the weekend, with senior Conservative MPs venting their anger over heavy losses in May's local elections in England.\n\nMr Shapps downplayed reports of growing Tory unrest over Mr Sunak's leadership - and accepted the prime minister's five pledges were \"difficult and very detailed\".\n\n\"These are not vague numbers... It is difficult,\" he told the programme. \"I thought it was always going to be difficult.\"\n\nThe energy secretary said the prime minister would not change course, insisting \"we are still absolutely committed to delivering those things\".\n\nIt was no surprise that Mr Shapps said Mr Sunak was still committed to the promises - but the admission that it would be difficult for him to stick to them was notable.\n\nProgress on the now famous five pledges is not stellar.\n\nHospitals in England have failed to hit key targets to resolve backlogs in cancer care and routine treatment.\n\nUK inflation remains close to its highest level for 40 years, and according to the Bank of England is not dropping as quickly as predicted.\n\nEconomic growth is measly, although recession has probably been avoided, and last week 564 people crossed the English Channel in small boats.\n\nMr Sunak's credibility is based on keeping those promises, which are far from straightforward.\n\nIn his interview, Mr Shapps called on people to \"wait until the end\" of Parliament to judge the PM's progress on his promises.\n\nOn growth, he said: \"We have avoided the recession that even the experts were predicting.\n\n\"His pledge was to grow the economy, and we're starting to see it grow.\"\n\nOn other pledges, he said the government had put \"huge resources\" into cutting NHS waiting lists and was bringing in legislation that would help stop migrant boats crossing the Channel.\n\nAppearing on the same programme Labour's shadow business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said his party had ambitious policies to meet the country's challenges.\n\n\"We don't see that from the government,\" he said. \"I listen to government ministers, and all I hear is, we're going to do the same, more of what we've done for the last 13 years, and it hasn't worked.\"\n\nIt has been a tricky few days for the prime minister, with former cabinet ministers openly criticising the direction of policy under his leadership.\n\nSpeaking at a conference held by the Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO) on Saturday, former Home Secretary Priti Patel blamed the party's leadership for the loss of more than 1,000 seats in the recent local elections.\n\nMs Patel said she was sorry that it was \"errors and mistakes sometimes of us in Westminster and our actions that have cost our party dearly\".\n\nShe was among several high-profile Tory MPs who spoke to the CDO, a new grassroots group of pro-Boris Johnson Conservatives.\n\nMr Shapps said his party was \"buzzing with ideas\" and that support for Mr Johnson among Conservatives was not a \"shocking revelation\".\n\n\"I don't have to agree with everything that everybody says to welcome the very fundamental fact that we're still the party coming up with new ideas, with a vision for the United Kingdom, and I think that is a good thing,\" he said.\n\nConferences and get-togethers by supporters of Mr Johnson are the most obvious signs of the rumblings of discontent, but they are not the only ones.\n\nEarlier this week, Brexit-backing MPs were angered by a decision to revoke around 600 retained EU laws rather than the 4,000 pledged.\n\nThe government had originally promised a \"sunset\" clause on all EU laws carried over by the end of 2023.\n\nBut Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch said the cut-off point would be replaced with a list of 600 laws the government wants to replace by the end of the year.\n\nTory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, who introduced the bill when he was in government, called the move an \"admission of administrative failure\".\n\nThe Tory fury continued this weekend, as Eurosceptic Conservative MP Sir William Cash called on the government to change course.\n\nDefending his handling of Brexit in an interview with the Mail On Sunday, Mr Sunak said: \"I voted for Brexit, I campaigned for Brexit, I believe in Brexit, and when I was chancellor I started to deliver some benefits of Brexit.\"", "Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has denied involvement in phone hacking\n\nPiers Morgan was told a Daily Mirror story about Kylie Minogue was obtained from voicemails during his time as the paper's editor, a court has heard.\n\nOmid Scobie, who wrote a book about Prince Harry, says he heard the conversation while an intern in 2002.\n\nMr Morgan has always denied knowledge of any phone hacking.\n\nPrince Harry is among a group accusing Mirror Group Newspapers of unlawful information-gathering. The newspaper group is contesting the claims.\n\nMGN denies senior executives at the publisher of Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People knew about the practices and failed to stop them.\n\nIt is alleged that journalists from the newspapers obtained private and confidential information about people's lives through a variety of unlawful means between 1991 and 2011 - including accessing voicemail messages on their phones.\n\nMr Scobie was called to give evidence on day four of a High Court case brought against MGN.\n\nThe court heard that as a journalism student, Mr Scobie spent a week at the Sunday People where he claims he was given \"a list of mobile numbers followed by a detailed verbal description of how to listen to voicemails, as if it were a routine newsgathering technique\".\n\nIn a written witness statement describing work experience at the Daily Mirror in the spring of 2002, the royal commentator \"recalls during one of those days in the office the editor, Piers Morgan, came over to talk to someone about a story relating to Kylie Minogue and her [then] boyfriend James Gooding\".\n\n\"Mr Morgan was asking how confident they were in the reporting and was told that the information had come from voicemails,\" the statement adds.\n\n\"I recall being surprised to hear this at the time, which is why it stuck in my mind.\"\n\nThe court was also told there is an invoice from a private investigator firm for £170, addressed to a showbiz journalist at the paper, for \"K Minogue\".\n\nMirror Group Newspapers is contesting the cases and has said there is \"no evidence, or no sufficient evidence, of voicemail interception\" in any of the four claims chosen as \"representative\" cases.\n\nAndrew Green KC, for the group, accused Mr Scobie of \"a false memory\" and being a mouthpiece for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, after co-authoring a book about them - Finding Freedom.\n\n\"What I am doing right now is giving ammunition to the tabloids to continue calling me his friend,\" Mr Scobie told the court.\n\nThe royal correspondent said he did not have Prince Harry's mobile number, adding: \"I am a member of the press trying to do my job... what I am doing today is making my life more difficult.\"\n\nReturning to Mr Scobie's work experience at MGN, Mr Green went on to suggest it was \"somewhat implausible\" that a student intern, who was only at the paper for about a week, would have been asked to hack phones.\n\nMr Scobie replied: \"I was not a stranger to this [journalist], I had already met them at some events, I knew them through another person.\n\n\"The word hack was not used... this was just a journalist telling me how to do something.\"\n\nMr Scobie said: \"It felt wrong. In the moment you just sit there and listen, it's only as it sinks in that it does not feel right.\"\n\nHe said he did not hack any phones.\n\nPrince Harry is expected to give evidence at the trial in June. He among four people whose claims are being heard in the trial as \"representative\" cases of the types of allegations facing the publisher. They will also help the court set the level of damages MGN should pay if the claimants win.\n\nOthers involved are Coronation Street actors Nikki Sanderson and Michael Turner, known by his stage name Michael Le Vell, and comedian Paul Whitehouse's ex-wife Fiona Wightman.", "Travellers on an intercity train in Austria were startled on Sunday when a recording of an Adolf Hitler speech was played on board.\n\nInstead of the normal announcements, a crowd could also be heard shouting \"Heil Hitler\" and \"Sieg Heil\" over the train's speaker system.\n\nThe operator said there had been several such incidents in recent days.\n\nOne passenger on the Bregenz-Vienna service told the BBC that everyone on the train was \"completely shocked\".\n\nDavid Stoegmueller, a Green Party MP, said the speech by the Nazi German leader was played over the intercom shortly before the train, an ÖBB Railjet 661, arrived in Vienna.\n\n\"We heard two episodes,\" he said. \"First there was 30 seconds of a Hitler speech, and then I heard 'Sieg Heil'.\"\n\nMr Stoegmueller said the train staff were unable to stop the recording and were unable to make their own announcements. \"One crew member was really upset,\" he added.\n\nIn a statement sent to the BBC, Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) said: \"We clearly distance ourselves from the content.\n\n\"We can currently assume that the announcements were made by people directly on the train via intercoms. We have reported the matter to the police,\" the ÖBB said.\n\nIt is understood that complaints have been filed against two people.\n\nMr Stoegmueller said he had received an email from a man who was on the train with an old lady who was a concentration camp survivor. \"She was crying,\" he said.\n\nHe said another passenger remarked that when other countries had technical problems, it involved the air conditioning breaking down.\n\n\"In Austria, the technical problem is Hitler.\"\n\nHitler was born in Austria and emigrated to Germany in 1913 as a young man.", "President Erdogan greeted supporters much the same way he celebrated previous victories\n\nTurkey's battle for the presidency looks almost certain to go to a run-off, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set for a four-point lead in the first round.\n\nAfter 20 years in power, he stood on the balcony of his party HQ saying he was convinced he would win five more.\n\nOpposition challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu also claimed to have victory in his grasp.\n\nEverything appeared to have fallen into place for first-round success.\n\nBut incomplete results give him around 45%, with Mr Erdogan on more than 49% of the vote. Candidates need more than 50% to win in the first round.\n\nAnd Mr Erdogan has an added boost as he seeks to extend his presidency. His People's Alliance of parties has also won a majority in parliament, according to preliminary figures provided by the state news agency.\n\nFor months, Turkey's disparate opposition parties had pooled their resources in a bid to bring an end to a president who has extended his power dramatically since a failed coup against him in 2016.\n\nAnd Turks went out to vote in very high numbers. Officials put the turnout at 88.8%.\n\nThe election is being watched very closely in the West, because Mr Kilicdaroglu has promised to revive Turkish democracy as well as relations with its Nato allies. On the other hand, President Erdogan's Islamist-rooted government has accused the West of plotting to bring him down and Turkey's candidacy for the EU has long been on ice.\n\nIn the early hours of Monday, Mr Kilicdaroglu stood on a stage at his party headquarters in Ankara, flanked by his allies, doing his best to sound upbeat.\n\n\"If our nation says second round, we will absolutely win in the second round,\" he said.\n\nParty spokesman Faik Oztrak later reinforced his comments, adding that they would do everything they could in the two weeks before the run-off.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu and his allies put on a show of unity as the results came in\n\nSupporters outside party headquarters chanted one of his slogans, \"everything will be all right\", but it was not clear for them that it would.\n\nThe opposition leader had earlier angrily accused the government of seeking to \"block the will of the people\", by launching repeated challenges in opposition strongholds. Two rising stars in the party, the mayors of Istanbul and Ankara, reminded voters that this was a strategy that Mr Erdogan's AK Party had used before.\n\nThey praised an enormous team of opposition volunteers guarding ballot papers to ensure nothing untoward happened to the votes.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu, 74, has lost several elections as leader of his Republican People's Party, but this time his message of scrapping the president's excessive powers struck a chord.\n\nTurks have also been reeling from a cost-of-living crisis with 44% inflation, made only worse by Mr Erdogan's unorthodox economic policies. It was of little surprise that Turkey's Bist-100 stock market dropped 2.7% on Monday morning, and the Turkish lira fell back too.\n\nAnd then the Erdogan government was blamed for a slow rescue response to the double earthquakes in February which killed more than 50,000 people in 11 provinces.\n\nAnd yet, despite a very difficult few months, Turkey's dominant president appears to have the upper hand.\n\nOvernight results suggest the president's support in eight party strongholds hit by the earthquake dipped by just two to three points.\n\nIn seven of those eight cities, his support remained above 60%. Only in Gaziantep did it slip to 59%.\n\nAddressing supporters from the balcony he had used for previous victories he announced that \"even though the final results are not in, we are far ahead\".\n\nWhatever the margin between the two contenders ahead of the expected run-off in two weeks, the president appears to have defied many pollsters who said his rival had the edge and could even win outright without a run-off.\n\nHe is also heading for a majority in parliament, along with his nationalist MHP ally, according to unconfirmed results quoted by state news agency Anadolu. Of the 600 seats in parliament, the AKP and nationalist ally MHP have 316, it says.\n\nHis supporters ridiculed the opposition allies first for declaring that Mr Kilicdaroglu would become the 13th Turkish president, and then for gradually lowering their expectations as the night progressed.\n\nPro-Erdogan celebrations went on well into the night in the biggest city Istanbul\n\nWhat this result does confirm is the extent to which Turkish society has become polarised, 100 years since Kemal Ataturk's foundation of the modern Turkish republic.\n\nIn the final hours before voting began, Mr Kilicdaroglu rounded his campaign off with a trip to Ataturk's mausoleum in Ankara.\n\nPresident Erdogan instead chose to make a very symbolic statement to his conservative and nationalist support base, by making a campaign speech at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.\n\nUnder the Ottomans the former Orthodox Christian cathedral had become a mosque. Ataturk had turned it into a museum, but in 2020 Mr Erdogan turned it back into a mosque, defying international criticism.\n\nIt is unclear how close the expected run-off will be, and there is already considerable speculation over what will happen to the 5% of votes that went to the third candidate in the election, ultranationalist Sinan Ogan.\n\nHe knows both leaders will be trying to court him and has set some uncompromising conditions for the Kilicdaroglu camp, including the return of refugees to their original countries and \"fighting terrorism\".\n\nEven if he were to act as a kingmaker by endorsing one candidate or the other, it is far from certain that his first-round voters would follow his suggestion.", "President Erdogan's powers have increased dramatically since he first led Turkey in 2003\n\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in power for more than 20 years and he is favourite to win five more, having narrowly missed out on a first-round victory.\n\nTurkey is a Nato member state of 85 million people, so it matters who is president both to the West and to Turkey's other partners including Russia.\n\nMr Erdogan's opponent in a second-round run-off on 28 May is Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who was backed by six opposition parties and won almost 45% of the vote - some 2.5 million votes less than his rival.\n\nTurkey has become increasingly authoritarian under President Erdogan and this was the opposition's biggest chance yet to defeat him, with Turks struggling with soaring inflation and reeling from twin earthquakes that have left more than 50,000 people dead.\n\nWhoever wins the vote on 28 May will win the presidency.\n\nHis AK Party has been in power since November 2002, and he has ruled Turkey since 2003.\n\nAlthough Turkey's 64 million voters are deeply polarised, the 69-year-old leader has an in-built advantage over his rival.\n\nMr Erdogan's allies control most mainstream media, to the extent that state TV gave the president 32 hours and 42 minutes of air time and his challenger just 32 minutes, at the height of the campaign in April.\n\nMonitors from the international observer group OSCE said there was an unlevel playing field and biased coverage in Turkey's vote, even if voters had genuine political alternatives.\n\nInitially Mr Erdogan was prime minister, but he then became president in 2014, running the country from a vast palace in Ankara. He responded to a failed 2016 coup by dramatically increasing his powers and cracking down on dissent.\n\nLeading Kurdish politicians have been jailed and other opposition figures threatened with a political ban.\n\nBut this election was the opposition's biggest hope of unseating the president yet.\n\nIncreasing numbers of Turks have blamed him for rampant inflation of 44%, and academics say the real rate is far higher than that.\n\nHe and his ruling AK Party were widely criticised for their response to the double earthquakes in February that left millions of Turks homeless in 11 provinces.\n\nAnd yet most of the cities which are considered Erdogan strongholds still gave him 60% of the vote.\n\nHis party is rooted in political Islam, but he has forged an alliance with the ultra-nationalist MHP.\n\nKemal Kilicdaroglu, 74, is an unlikely choice of candidate to unseat the president.\n\nHe is seen as a mild-mannered and bookish opponent and presided over a string of election defeats at the helm of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).\n\nHe polled well in the first round, taking Mr Erdogan to his first run-off, but not as well as the opinion polls had indicated he would.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu secured the backing of six opposition parties, including the nationalist Good party and four smaller groups, which include two former Erdogan allies one of whom co-founded the AK Party.\n\nKemal Kilicdaroglu has agreed that the leaders of his alliance will all share the role of vice president\n\nHe also has the support of Turkey's second-biggest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish HDP, whose co-leader described the elections as \"the most crucial in Turkey's history\".\n\nHis biggest hope of snatching victory from a president buoyant after his first-round lead lies in increasing the support of both nationalist and Kurdish voters. A difficult feat when Turkey's nationalists want the next president to take a tougher line on Kurdish militants.\n\nIn the lead-up to the second round, he made a clear pitch to nationalist voters, banging his fists on the table and vowing to send home 3.5 million Syrian refugees. This was already his policy, but now he has decided to make a big point of it.\n\nKemal Kilicdaroglu's selection was not universally popular as the mayors of Istanbul and Ankara were potentially stronger candidates. Both are party colleagues who took control of Turkey's two biggest cities in 2019 for the CHP for the first time since 1994.\n\nHe is also a member of Turkey's Alevi minority, and when the opposition candidate drew attention to his roots Mr Erdogan accused him of seeking to exploit it.\n\nHis Nation Alliance, also known as the Table of Six, are united in their desire to return Turkey from the presidential system created under Mr Erdogan to one led by parliament.\n\nThe leaders of the other five members of the alliance have agreed to take on the roles of vice-president. But even if they were to win the presidency, the Erdogan alliance won a majority in parliament on 14 May and would make reforms very difficult.\n\nTurnout in the first round was already very high at almost 89% among voters in Turkey.\n\nIf Mr Kilicdaroglu is to make up the 2.5 million votes between him and President Erdogan, he will need to win over voters who backed ultranationalist candidate Sinan Ogan who came third in the first round with 2.8 million votes.\n\nThat task was made even harder when Mr Ogan endorsed the president.\n\nHis demand is for a tougher stance on tackling Kurdish militants and returning Syrian refugees.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu had already adopted a more strident tone on Syrians since the first round, promising to \"send away\" all refugees as soon as he came to power.\n\nReacting to Mr Ogan's decision to back his rival, he said the vote was now a referendum: \"We are coming to save this country from terrorism and refugees.\"\n\nPresident Erdogan said he had made no deals with Mr Ogan: 450,000 refugees had already returned home and the plan was to send back another million, he said.\n\nThe ruling AK Party of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has forged an alliance with the nationalist MHP and together they have secured a majority of 322 seats in the 600-seat parliament, down on five years ago.\n\nParties tend to form alliances because they need a minimum of 7% support to enter parliament.\n\nThe six-party opposition wants to change that but its Nation Alliance only managed 212 seats.\n\nThe pro-Kurdish party ran under the banner of the Green Left to avoid a potential election ban, and came third with 61 seats.\n\nUnder the Erdogan reforms, it is now the president who chooses the government, so there is no prime minister.\n\nUnder Turkey's revamped constitution allowing only two terms as president, Mr Erdogan would have to stand down in 2028 if he won the 28 May run-off. There are currently no plans for a successor.\n\nHe has already served two terms but Turkey's YSK election board ruled that his first term should be seen as starting not in 2014 but in 2018, when the new presidential system began with elections for parliament and president on the same day.\n\nOpposition politicians had earlier asked the YSK to block his candidacy.\n\nUnder an Erdogan presidency, Turkey can expect increased control of state institutions and the media and a greater crackdown on dissent. Inflation is likely to remain high because of his preference for low interest rates.\n\nInternationally, he could continue to resist Sweden's bid to join Nato and will paint himself as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu and his allies want to remove the president's right to veto legislation, cutting the post's ties to political parties and making it electable every seven years.\n\nHe wants to bring inflation down to 10% and send 3.5 million Syrian refugees home. President Erdogan has promised to speed up the voluntary repatriation of a million Syrians.\n\nMr Kilicdaroglu also wants kickstart Turkey's decades-long bid to join the European Union and restore \"mutual trust\" with the US, after years of fractious relations during the Erdogan years.", "Lindsey Burrow initially set out to raise £7,777, but has since raised more than £53,000\n\nThe wife of rugby league legend Rob Burrow has said she was \"lost for words\" after smashing her fundraising target at the Leeds Marathon.\n\nLindsey Burrow was raising money for Leeds Hospitals Charity at the event created in her husband's name.\n\nRob Burrow, who has motor neurone disease (MND), has been raising money with friend and former Leeds Rhinos teammate Kevin Sinfield.\n\n\"The support they received will live with them for ever,\" she said.\n\nMs Burrow initially set a target of £7,777 - a nod to the number seven shirt her husband wore when playing.\n\nSince she ran the marathon on Sunday she has raised more than £53,000.\n\nRob Burrow, Kevin Sinfield and Lindsey Burrow waved runners off during the event on Sunday\n\n\"It was just such a special occasion,\" she told BBC Radio Leeds.\n\n\"I've just pulled up at work and I've had so many text messages saying, 'Have you seen your JustGiving page?'\n\n\"Honestly, I'm absolutely lost for words. I'm quite emotional actually thinking about it. I'm just a working mum, and I know obviously Rob's wife, but that will make a real difference [to the charity].\n\nMore than 12,000 people are thought to have run the first ever Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon\n\nMore than 12,000 people took part in the inaugural 26.2-mile (42.2km) run, which was set up to raise money for charities following Kevin Sinfield's huge fundraising efforts.\n\nThe start time of the race was delayed with so many runners taking on the full marathon and half marathon.\n\nBurrow thanked runners before the races for taking part, following his MND diagnosis in 2019.\n\nSinfield, who pushed Burrow round the course in a specially-adapted chair, stopped short of the finish to carry his friend over the line.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the emotional moment Rob Burrow is carried over the line\n\n\"I've seen the footage of Kevin carrying Rob over the finish line and I just think what a special friendship, what a special bond,\" said Ms Burrow.\n\n\"Rob was delighted to take part in the marathon.\"\n\nDescribing the support of the community as \"phenomenal\", she added: \"I've never experienced anything like that, it was incredible.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Atiq Ahmed, seen here outside a Delhi court in 2008, was one of India's most dreaded gangster-politicians\n\nLast month, Atiq Ahmed, one of India's most dreaded gangster-politicians, was shot dead live on TV along with his brother. The shocking murder marked the end of his four-decade-long reign of terror in Prayagraj, a city once known for its rich culture. Soutik Biswas in New Delhi and Vikas Pandey in Prayagraj piece together Ahmed's tumultuous life, in which the boundaries between crime and politics became blurred.\n\nOn a foggy January morning in 2005, Raju Pal, a newly-minted lawmaker, was travelling in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj (formerly known as Allahabad) when two vehicles suddenly appeared out of nowhere, swerved dangerously and pulled up in front of his Toyota SUV.\n\nMore than half-a-dozen men jumped out and began firing into the car at Pal. After raining several rounds from their handguns, they walked away. Bystanders pulled out the crumpled, bleeding legislator and carried him to another vehicle to take him to the hospital.\n\nThen the men returned to attack their dying target some more.\n\nRavindra Pandey, a crime reporter, was sipping coffee in a bustling cafeteria when he spotted a convoy of cars carrying the assailants race by, unleashing a barrage of bullets at the vehicle ferrying the wounded politician to the hospital.\n\nRaju Pal was a municipal councillor with alleged links with the underworld\n\nThey were in hot pursuit until the vehicle reached the hospital. In a final act of ruthless brutality, the men fired a couple of rounds into an inert Pal to make sure he was dead. Doctors found 19 bullets in his body. The lawmaker, who allegedly had close links with the underworld himself, had been married for just nine days.\n\n\"We saw the shooting. The entire city saw the shooting. This was the first such incident here. Everyone knew who was responsible for the attack,\" recounts Mr Pandey.\n\nAt that time, Atiq Ahmed was already Prayagraj's most feared gangster-turned-politician. A year before the killing, he had become an MP after five consecutive terms as a legislator from the city in Uttar Pradesh state.\n\nPal was allegedly killed because he had dared to challenge Ahmed on his own turf. Ahmed had bequeathed his Allahabad West seat in the state elections to his brother and fellow strongman, Ashraf, in order to fight - and eventually win - a parliamentary election from neighbouring Phulpur (a prestigious seat that had previously sent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, to parliament thrice). However, Ashraf had suffered a shock defeat by 4,000 votes at the hands of Pal. The gangster and his men had reportedly taken revenge by getting Pal murdered, and were named as the main accused in the case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Moments before former Indian MP Atiq Ahmed is shot live on TV\n\nAhmed, a portly man sporting a handlebar moustache and his trademark white turban, exuded an aura of fear wherever he went, embodying the archetype of a gangster-politician.\n\nFor over 40 years, the son of a poor tanga-wallah (horse-drawn carriage driver) and a homemaker mother held sway over the criminal underworld of a quiet city situated at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna, two of India's holiest rivers.\n\nPrayagraj has been famous for its poets, singers, artists, writers and lawyers (Nehru and Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan were born here). But its deceptively tranquil exterior concealed a combustible mix of crime and politics.\n\nNobody contributed to this infamy more than Atiq Ahmed. At home, he was a doting father to five sons, kept pedigreed dogs, threw lavish parties and hosted mushairas (poetry recitals) for his friends, even featuring a respected Bollywood lyricist once.\n\nOutside, he reportedly seized properties and businesses, extorted money from businessmen, issued counterfeit cheques for purchases and got his rivals beaten up in prison. Many police officers and politicians reportedly sided with him and helped him. Even the courts appeared to be cautious: in 2012, 10 high court judges recused themselves from a hearing on whether to grant him bail.\n\nUnsurprisingly Ahmed had a long resume in police records. He was the leader of the so-called \"Inter-State Gang 227\" and had accumulated nearly 100 cases, including murders and kidnappings. A lot of the time he had remained at large and in plain sight.\n\nThe actual number of Ahmed's crimes are much higher because \"people feared him and didn't report hundreds of cases\", says Lalji Shukla, a former top police officer in Prayagraj.\n\nYet, it was only in March this year that Ahmed was found guilty in a case of kidnapping and sentenced to life in prison - the first time he was convicted. Mr Shukla attributes this delay to Ahmed knowing \"how to manage the system\".\n\n\"He would frequently miss court dates and threaten witnesses. Even some witnesses who didn't fear him would eventually get tired after many years of court dates,\" he says.\n\nBut a few days after the conviction, on the night of 15 April, it all ended in a rather macabre manner.\n\nAhmed and his brother were gunned down point-blank on live TV outside a hospital in Prayagraj in the presence of more than a dozen armed policemen. The brothers had been in police custody and were speaking with journalists on their way to a routine medical examination.\n\nThe police arrested three men who, they said, killed the brothers because they wanted to \"make a name for themselves in the criminal world\". The murders shocked the country and the state government swiftly ordered an investigation.\n\n\"No mafia can spread terror in Uttar Pradesh anymore,\" Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Uttar Pradesh, said days after the murder. He didn't mention Ahmed directly.\n\nAtiq Ahmed in 2011, outside the same hospital where he was eventually killed\n\nAtiq Ahmed was born in a Muslim-dominated neighbourhood in Prayagraj in 1962.\n\nNot much is known about his early life apart from the fact that he dropped out of high school and got involved in petty crimes.\n\nBy 1979, however, Ahmed appeared to have come of age. He was accused in a case of murder, but the charges could not be proved.\n\nOver the next decade, he burnished his credentials as a gangster, police say. He stole scrap metal from railway yards, secured government contracts after threatening rival contractors and usurped land and property belonging to others. He also joined a gang led by a gangster-turned-municipal councillor called Shauq Ilahi, popularly known as Chand Baba.\n\nBy 1989, Ahmed was eyeing a career in politics. The mentor and his follower fell out when they both stood against each other in elections to the state assembly that year. (IIahi asked Ahmed to stand down; and the latter refused.)\n\nFollowing the announcement of election results, or perhaps during the vote counting process (there are conflicting reports), a violent gang war broke out on the streets of the city between the supporters of the now rival gangsters. In the melee, Ilahi, who was the primary target, was killed. With the elimination of his mentor and a resounding victory in his first election as an independent candidate, Ahmed was thrust into the limelight.\n\nAhmed driving gangster Shauq Ilahi, popularly known as Chand Baba, (standing), in this undated picture\n\nOver the next three decades, Ahmed grew into Prayagraj's most feared gangster. Mr Shukla remembers arresting him three times, including for murder, but each time Ahmed got bail. \"He had connections and supporters everywhere. Everyone feared him,\" he says.\n\nThanks to these connections, Ahmed's power and influence as a gangster soared. He often spent time in prison as an undertrial for his illegal activities, yet remained undaunted - he frequently summoned his rivals and businessmen to jail to extort money, ordered their beatings, and even circulated videos of their mistreatment as proof of his continued dominance.\n\nIn 2018, a businessman named Mohit Jaiswal made a police complaint alleging that he had been abducted from Lucknow and taken to the Deoria prison, where Ahmed was being held. Jaiswal told journalists that he was brutally beaten by the gangster, his henchmen, and even the prison staff.\n\nPolice officials in Prayagraj speak about Ahmed forcibly \"capturing\" a film theatre, a hotel, a workshop and a restaurant in the city. \"In the internecine gang wars, he ended up harassing Hindus and Muslims alike. In fact, many of his victims belonged to the Muslim community,\" Mr Shukla says.\n\nRajkumar Ojha, a local resident, tells the story of how Ahmed waded into a land dispute involving his brothers, offered to mediate and ended up forcibly getting the family plot registered in his wife's name at a throwaway price. \"When I met him later, he taunted me saying that I had not been able to handle my brothers properly and therefore met this fate,\" says Mr Ojha.\n\nZeeshan Ali, one of Ahmed's relatives, vividly recalls a terrifying incident that occurred in his home two years ago. A group of armed men forcefully entered his house, demanding that he sign over a plot of land in the gangster's name. Mr Ali received a call from Ahmed himself, ordering him to comply.\n\nAccording to Mr Ali, Ahmed presented him with two options: either surrender the land's ownership or pay him a significant sum of money, equivalent to a third of the land's value, in cash. \"I remained silent. Then Ahmed ordered his men to kill me. They began hitting me but I managed to escape,\" Mr Ali says.\n\nAhmed's influence extended beyond Prayagraj. In one incident, he led an armed gang to try and seize an empty plot of land owned by a businessman in an upscale neighbourhood in the state capital of Lucknow, some 200km away.\n\n\"They just arrived in the morning, took out their guns and said they owned the land,\" says a senior police official, who wanted to remain unnamed. \"We stopped them from claiming the land forcibly\".\n\nDays later, Ahmed and his men reportedly barged into a hotel owned by the businessman, and instructed the manager to switch off the CCTV cameras. He then allegedly listed the names of over a dozen powerful people in the city and said to the manager, \"Do whatever you want. Take my photo and give it to these people if you like.\"\n\nSushil Gurnani, the businessman, later told news networks: \"They came into our hotel and said: 'This land was yours until yesterday. From tomorrow it is ours.'\"\n\n\"They said go and tell the chief minister and police if you want.\"\n\nAhmed arrives in parliament from a jail in Prayagraj to attend a special session of parliament in July 2008\n\nIn a photograph from 22 July 2008, Atiq Ahmed, MP, confidently strides into the Indian parliament in Delhi, adorned in a safari suit. With a beaming smile directed towards the cameras, Ahmed is clearly the centre of attention in this image.\n\nAhmed and five other jailed Indian MPs had been furloughed by the government - released temporarily so they could cast their ballots in a no-confidence vote that it was facing over a controversial civilian nuclear deal with the US.\n\nThis particular day was a high point in the life of the politician-MP, unmasking the reality that gangster-politicians had entrenched themselves within India's political system.\n\nThe ruling Congress party-led UPA government narrowly survived the vote, and the six furloughed MPs then returned to jail.\n\n\"Judging by the lengthy list of criminal cases in which he stood accused, Ahmed was equally proficient in running a criminal enterprise as he was conducting constituency service,\" wrote Milan Vaishnav in his book When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics.\n\n\"Locals marvelled at this weekly durbar, where Ahmed, one ear pressed to his mobile phone and other taking in requests for constituency service, would mutter orders to his personal assistant or stenographer\".\n\n\"The party headquarters in which Ahmed would hold forth often bore close resemblance to an armoury than an administrative office, the walls impressively lined with imported automatic weaponry,\" Mr Vaishnav wrote.\n\nAhmed outside a court in Prayagraj, days before his murder\n\nGangsters like Ahmed joined political parties, or formed their own, mainly for protection. They usually won in seats where social divisions driven by caste or religion were sharp and the government was seen to be failing to carry out its functions - delivering services, dispensing justice, or providing security - in an impartial manner.\n\nLike most gangster-politicians Ahmed had led a tangled life. From 1989 to 2002, he won the same seat in Prayagraj for five consecutive terms. He began as an independent candidate and later became a leader of the influential regional Samajwadi Party. Finally, he joined Apna Dal, a rump party formed by a lower-caste leader.\n\nAhmed had the most success during the rule of the Samajwadi Party and was known to have a close relationship with its leader, Mulayam Singh Yadav, who died last year. It was the Samajwadi Party that gave him a ticket to contest from Phulpur.\n\nAs a leader of the Samajwadi Party, Ahmed did not hesitate to use violent tactics. He was allegedly involved in the infamous 1995 \"guest house attack\" on Mayawati, the Dalit leader of the regional Bahujan Samaj Party, who was then running a fraying coalition government with the rival Samajwadi Party. Ahmed was allegedly part of a group which stormed into a guest house where Mayawati was holding a meeting - to discuss whether to pull out of the government - and assaulted her.\n\nAhmed was a lawmaker from the Muslim-dominated Allahabad West constituency\n\nWhen Mayawati returned to power in Uttar Pradesh between 2002 and 2003, Ahmed felt vulnerable for the first time. Many of his properties, including a sprawling office where he met his people, were razed to the ground and he was jailed. But his fortunes changed again when the Samajwadi Party (SP) won elections in 2003.\n\nHe was now a seasoned politician.\n\nIn public meetings, Ahmed worked the crowds and spoke like an astute politician. He spoke about equality, secularism, social justice and education of girls. \"Education is the biggest love you can give to your children,\" he told a cheering crowd many years ago.\n\nWhen reporters quizzed him on his criminal record, Ahmed would remind them that a court had quashed a record 123 cases against him in a single day. \"Has it happened anywhere else in the world - the fact that I face so many fake cases?\" he asked a reporter.\n\nHe often took on the the Hindu nationalist BJP. He once said people filed cases against him because he was fighting for Hindu-Muslim amity. He claimed he was interested in capturing power to \"improve the lives of people\".\n\nAhmed presented himself as a sacrificial figure in politics, claiming he had little personal life because he was working for the people. \"He gave money to the poor to settle their medical bills, send their children to school. He helped Hindus and Muslims alike. But there was nothing charitable about it. It was all about cultivating an image like other gangster-politicians do,\" says Anupam Mishra, editor of The Leader, a prominent Prayagraj newspaper.\n\nZeeshan Ali, who is related to Ahmed, says the don tried to grab his property and kill him\n\nA politically successful man like him would always attract enemies and go to prison, Ahmed said once. He compared himself with Nelson Mandela, saying that even the revered statesman \"was in jail for 27 years\".\n\n\"Mandela was once a most wanted man. Then he became his country's most respected ruler.\"\n\nHe consolidated his political power between 2003 and 2007. But just before the Samajwadi Party's rule ended and fresh elections were called in 2007, a horrific case further triggered his downfall and seemed to make him fall out of favour with the Muslims in his constituency - two young girls were abducted from a madrassa and gangraped.\n\nThis caused immense outrage within the community, and many people pointed fingers at Ahmed and his men, although the gangster's name was not mentioned in the police complaint. \"Ever since this incident, Ahmed lost the goodwill of his community who were his biggest voting bloc,\" says Mr Ali.\n\nTwo years later, Ahmed lost his seat in parliament. He never won an election after that.\n\nBut he continued to contest polls, was in and out of jail and still held sway in the world of crime.\n\nIn 2017, Mr Adityanath's BJP government came to power. Since then, Ahmed spent most of his time in jail.\n\nCCTV footage captured the killing of Umesh Pal in February\n\nEven behind bars, Ahmed appeared to wield influence in the outside world, often making headlines. A high-profile killing earlier this year was linked to him and shocked the country.\n\nOn a balmy February evening, Umesh Pal was shot dead outside his home by gunmen suspected to be part of Ahmed's gang.\n\nCCTV footage showed Umesh, a lawyer and key witness in the 2005 killing of Raju Pal, talking on his phone and stepping out of a white Hyundai SUV near his home.\n\nEven as his armed security guard steps out of the front seat, a young man brandishing a revolver shoots at Pal. The 48-year-old lawyer staggers into a lane, and a few other men emerge, shooting at him. A bomb detonates, shrouding the busy street in an envelope of smoke, and people run helter-skelter.\n\nAhmed's family - his wife, son and brother - were charged with murdering Umesh. Since Ahmed and his brother were already in jail in connection with other cases, the implication was that they had ordered the daylight hit. (The trial of Raju Pal's murder was still grinding on in the courts).\n\nAtiq Ahmed's sprawling office was declared illegal and razed to ground in 2002\n\nAhmed had been spending time in a prison in Gujarat state since 2019 after India's top court ordered that he should not be kept in Uttar Pradesh to stop him from running his gang from inside the jail.\n\nBy then, he appeared to have fallen out of favour with his political patrons. Days before his murder, his son Asad, a law student, was killed by the police. Asad was allegedly seen in CCTV footage shooting at Umesh Pal and he was named as an accused in the murder.\n\nPolice declared that they seized and demolished the gangster's properties - houses, offices, businesses - worth nearly 10,000 million rupees.\n\nThe cycle of violence and retribution that Ahmed unleashed had continued long after he went to prison. A key witness had been eliminated in broad daylight in February. Three months later, Ahmed himself met a shocking fate.\n\nDid someone order his killing? Nobody quite knows. An epilogue - or two - on Prayagraj's seething underworld is possibly still waiting to be written.\n\nBBC News India is now on YouTube. Click here to subscribe and watch our documentaries, explainers and features", "Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has been in the UK for talks with the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe visit came ahead of a Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces, expected to begin in the coming weeks.\n\nSince the start of the conflict in Ukraine, the UK has been a major supplier of weapons and equipment to Kyiv, though on a much smaller scale than the US.\n\nSo what exactly is being sent, and how much of a difference is it making?\n\nThe UK confirmed that it had supplied Ukraine with long-range missiles earlier this month.\n\nThe Storm Shadow cruise missile has a range of over 250km (155 miles), according to the manufacturer.\n\nBy contrast, the US-supplied Himars missiles used by Ukraine only have a range of around 80 km (50 miles).\n\nCurrently, Storm Shadow has the longest range of any missile available to Ukraine, and can therefore strike targets previously believed to be safe by Russian forces.\n\nRussia claims the system has already been used against its forces.\n\nThe UK is the first country to supply cruise missiles to Kyiv.\n\nThe UK also led the way in supplying Nato standard main battle tanks to Ukraine.\n\nIn January the UK announced that 14 Challenger 2 tanks would be sent, alongside around 30 AS90 self-propelled guns.\n\nThe Challenger 2 was built in the 1990s, but is significantly more advanced than Warsaw Pact standard tanks used by Ukraine.\n\nFollowing the UK's announcement, several others committed to sending tanks to Ukraine, including Germany with its Leopard 2 model.\n\nMany military analysts believe tanks, in co-ordination will other weapons systems, will be vital to any attempt by Ukraine to dislodge Russian forces from heavily fortified positions in the expected counter-offensive.\n\nOn Monday, Downing Street said that it would supply \"hundreds\" of attack drones and air defence missiles.\n\nThe statement did not reveal what kind of drones would be supplied, but it said they would have a range of over 124 miles (200km).\n\nIt is anticipated they may be used to hit logistics and control facilities deep behind Russian lines.\n\nIn 2022, the Ministry of Defence announced supplies of heavy lift drone systems to provide logistical support to isolated forces.\n\nAnalysts say that drones can be very effective in getting supplies over the \"last mile\" to front line troops, particularly under threat of Russian artillery fire and in situations where there is a risk of encirclement.\n\n\"It's the sheer quantity of stuff needed by troops,\" says Justin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi). \"Every time you can use a drone instead of a soldier to get supplies forward is one less time someone is exposed to extreme danger.\"\n\nThe donation of M270 multiple-launch rocket systems with M31A1 precision munitions to Ukraine was confirmed in 2022.\n\nThe UK's M270 system is similar to the American Himars launchers.\n\nJack Watling Rusi told the BBC: \"These systems are precisely what Ukraine needs. They allow the Ukrainians to out-range a lot of the Russian artillery systems and also to strike with precision.\"\n\nThe UK has sent more than 5,000 next generation light anti-tank weapons, or Nlaw, to Ukraine.\n\nNlaws are designed to destroy tanks at short range with a single shot.\n\nCrucially for Ukraine's armed forces who need weapons immediately, the missiles are easy to transport and simple to use. A soldier can be trained to use them in less than a day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMany analysts believe they had a major impact on the course of the conflict in the days following Russia's invasion.\n\n\"Nlaw was absolutely critical to the defeat of Russian ground thrusts in the early stages of the war,\" says Mr Bronk.\n\nThe weapons have been \"particularly effective\" when used in combination with artillery, he says.\n\nMaritime Brimstone missiles were also sent to Ukraine in 2022.\n\nBrimstones can be used against tanks, artillery and some smaller vessels such as landing craft, according to Capt Chris Carlson, formerly of the US Navy.\n\nThe missiles are normally fired from aircraft, but in Ukraine they are being modified to be fired from trucks.\n\nLaunching them from the ground reduces their effective range, says Capt Carlson.\n\nWhen used as anti-ship missiles, Brimstones are far too small to sink larger vessels, but could cause substantial damage.\n\n\"It all depends where you hit,\" he says. \"If you went through an engine or near the water line, you could give an enemy some serious trouble.\"\n\nBritain has donated at least 120 armoured vehicles to Ukraine, including Mastiff patrol vehicles.\n\nMastiffs were very popular among British troops in Afghanistan as they provide a high level of protection against landmines and improvised explosive devices.\n\nAnalysts say that in an area which as been as heavily mined as the Donbas, Mastiffs are likely to be very useful.\n\nIt is understood that both sides in the conflict have used landmines extensively.\n\nBritain says it has donated at least six air defence systems, including Starstreak missiles.\n\nStarstreak is designed to bring down low-flying aircraft at short range.\n\nIt ignores counter-measures such as flares and chaff deployed by many aircraft.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"From a pilot's point of view, Starstreak is a very unpleasant thing,\" says Mr Bronk. \"There's very little you can do about it.\"\n\nHe says Russian forces may deem some operations too risky if they are aware that a weapon as deadly as Starstreak is on the ground.\n\nThe UK has also supplied Stormer vehicles to act as a mobile platform for Starstreak missiles.\n\nOther equipment supplied by the UK includes:", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nCurtis Jones has scored three goals in his past four games for Liverpool Curtis Jones scored twice as in-form Liverpool brushed aside hapless Leicester to maintain their recent winning streak and push the Foxes closer to Premier League relegation. Jurgen Klopp's side have won their past seven games to bolster their push for a top-four finish and now lie a point behind Newcastle and Manchester United, albeit having played a game more. Another dismal loss for Leicester leaves the 2016 Premier League champions firmly rooted in danger in 19th position, two points adrift of safety with only two games remaining. The Reds scored twice in the space of three first-half minutes through the same combination, Mohamed Salah twice feeding Jones who finished confidently to claim his first Premier League double. It should have been 3-0 before half-time but home goalkeeper Daniel Iversen made a superb reaction save to deny Cody Gakpo from close range. Salah claimed his third assist in the second period by laying off a free-kick for Trent Alexander-Arnold to curl a sublime finish into the top corner.\n• None 'That's the end of them' - Leicester look 'gone' after Liverpool loss Has Liverpool's charge for a Champions League spot come too late? The two Uniteds above them need two wins from their last three games to guarantee a top-four finish but Liverpool are right on their tails and poised to profit from any mishaps. The Reds started slowly at Leicester, Luis Diaz smashing into the side-netting and Fabinho blazing over the pick of their early openings. But they clicked into gear on the half-hour mark as midfielder Jones took his tally to three goals in his last four games. His first was a controlled finish at the far post from Salah's deep cross and the second he thumped home following the Egyptian's through ball. Salah provided a hat-trick of assists by rolling the ball off for Alexander-Arnold's stunning second-half strike, but the Egyptian must wait for his 20th goal of the campaign after a remarkable miss late on, putting wide when through on goal. Liverpool face European-chasing Aston Villa at home on Saturday and round off their season against relegated Southampton knowing maximum points in those games may complete a stunning turnaround in an otherwise disappointing season. Leicester look doomed and are prime candidates to join Southampton in the Championship next season. The Foxes have collected just one win in their last 14 games - earning six points in total during that run - and lost at home for a club-record equalling 10th time this season. Their frailties lie at the back where boss Dean Smith made another change by giving a start and handing the captain's armband to Jonny Evans, who has played one minute of top-flight football in the last seven months. But it was ill-fated defensive partner Wout Faes - the scorer of two own goals in December's reverse fixture - who was culpable for both of Jones' strikes. The Belgian lost the flight of the ball for the first, failing to clear as the it dropped from the sky, and was caught out of position for the second, running out to intercept a pass without success. The hosts had shown bright sparks early on but their confidence ebbed away alarmingly once they conceded. Harvey Barnes forced Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson into a fine flying save with a curling effort in the second half, but the sorry home side never looked like making a comeback. The Foxes have fixtures remaining at Newcastle and home to West Ham as they bid to avoid the ignominy of relegation just seven years after their remarkable title triumph.\n• None Luke Thomas (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Wout Faes tries a through ball, but James Maddison is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harvey Elliott (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by James Milner.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Ibrahima Konaté (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: No final policy on giving votes to EU citizens\n\nLabour is considering extending voting rights to some EU citizens living in the UK if the party wins the next general election.\n\nThe party is working on a package of proposals, including votes for some EU nationals and 16 and 17-year-olds in general elections.\n\nIn 2020, Labour's leader Sir Keir Starmer called for all EU nationals to be given full voting rights in the UK.\n\nBut Labour said no final policy decisions had been made.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said the party's policy on the issue had been the subject of speculation and discussions about this were \"part of our manifesto process\".\n\n\"We do want to strengthen our democracy,\" Mr Reynolds told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme. \"We believe if people make a contribution to this country, if they live here, there's an argument for having them involved in [the democratic] process.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party said Labour's plan to give foreign nationals the vote at parliamentary elections \"is laying the groundwork to drag the UK back into the EU by stealth\".\n\n\"The right to vote in parliamentary elections and choose the next UK government is rightly restricted to British citizens and those with the closest historical links to our country,\" Conservative Party Chairman Greg Hands said.\n\nCurrently, EU nationals who are legally resident in the UK can vote in local and devolved elections but not general elections.\n\nA Labour source said the party was thinking about proposals \"that will enable people who live and contribute long-term to our society to be able to have their say in how the country is governed\".\n\nThe source said Sir Keir believes it is \"fair and right\" to give those people a voice in elections.\n\nBut the source said the details of the proposals have not yet been decided, despite suggestions made in newspaper reports by the Financial Times and the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nThere are an estimated 3.4 million EU nationals with settled status in the UK, and a further 2.7m with pre-settled status.\n\nSettled status allows EU citizen to continue to live, work and study in the UK on an indefinite basis, while pre-settled status is a grant of temporary residence for five years.\n\nThe idea of extending the franchise to more EU nationals in the UK is controversial, with the Conservatives branding such a move \"an attempt to rig the electorate to re-join the EU\".\n\nWhen Sir Keir was running to be Labour leader in 2020, he said the \"government should give all three million EU nationals living in the UK full voting rights in future elections\".\n\n\"We were never just 'tolerating' EU citizens living in this country - they are our neighbours, friends and families,\" Sir Keir wrote in an op-ed for the Guardian. \"To see their status in doubt devastates our sense not just of justice but also of fellowship.\"\n\nExtending the franchise to more EU nationals in the UK is a controversial idea\n\nLabour's 2019 manifesto included a commitment to \"oversee the largest extension of the franchise in generations\" by lowering the voting age to 16 and giving \"full voting rights to all UK residents\".\n\nAs the party looks ahead to the next general election, it is deciding what reforms on voting rights to propose in its manifesto.\n\nThe BBC has been told Labour's package of proposals will include the introduction of votes for 16- and 17-year-olds, in line with Scotland and Wales.\n\nAt the moment, 16 and 17-year-olds are allowed to vote in elections for the Scottish and Welsh devolved parliaments, but cannot vote in general elections.\n\nA commitment to lower the voting age to 16 was included in both Labour's 2015 and 2017 manifestos.\n\nThe Greens and the Liberal Democrats also support lowering the voting age.", "A leading NHS consultant psychiatrist has met me in person and concluded I don't have ADHD - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Yet, after shorter assessments online, three private clinics have told me I do - and offered me powerful medication.\n\n\"You fit the criteria for ADHD very well. You'll have it in writing, officially that you have been diagnosed. There is no expiration date for this. You were diagnosed for life,\" says the psychologist through the computer screen, as I sit at my kitchen table.\n\nI am working undercover, using my middle name James, to investigate private clinics that can offer ADHD assessments at a time when NHS waiting times have risen, in some areas, to more than five years.\n\nThe assessment over Zoom, with a clinic called Harley Psychiatrists, costs £685 and takes 45 minutes. As my assessor asks her quick-fire questions, she appears to be slouched on a sofa wearing a tracksuit top.\n\n\"Did I have problems concentrating at school?\"\n\nI try my best to answer but the screen keeps wobbling as she struggles to get comfortable. The whole time she plays with her hair and I get the sense she isn't focusing completely.\n\nAt the end, she diagnoses me with ADHD - a lifelong condition. It is a neurodevelopmental disorder, with symptoms falling into two categories - inattentiveness, plus hyperactivity and impulsiveness.\n\nStunned, all I can say back to my assessor is: \"It's a lot to take in.\"\n\nThings were very different when I met Dr Mike Smith, a consultant psychiatrist who leads a specialist adult ADHD service in the NHS. I told him about my investigation and he said he also had concerns about how some private providers were operating. He agreed to show me how an assessment should be carried out.\n\nAhead of the appointment at his Leeds clinic, my mum, girlfriend and I were forwarded forms to fill out - collecting information on my habits, from my childhood up to now. They took hours to complete. Dr Smith was even interested in reading my school reports.\n\nHe warned me when I arrived: \"This is going to get very personal. Are you OK with that?\"\n\nIn truth, I wasn't prepared for what followed. I was under the impression I was just going to spend the next couple of hours answering questions about my lack of focus, but Dr Smith wanted to get a full picture of my mental health. I found myself telling him about some of my hardest times.\n\nWhen I was 14, I witnessed the aftermath of my sisters being knocked down by a car. Ailis survived, Claire - who was 11 - died. Almost 17 years to the day, my dad died unexpectedly. I was a different person after those events. The reason I am sharing this is because I was told the effect of such trauma can sometimes manifest itself into symptoms similar to ADHD.\n\n\"You do not have ADHD,\" said NHS consultant Dr Mike Smith\n\nA friend of mine - who had been privately diagnosed with the condition - had once suggested to me that I might have it too. Some of ADHD's recognised symptoms felt uncomfortably familiar - I can forget things, I fidget, I will on occasion zone out of long meetings.\n\nMy social media feeds had been filling up with videos talking about ADHD and I could relate to them. But on the whole, I was dubious about whether they related to me. None of these things seemed to really impact my life.\n\nDr Smith took the time to explore these life-altering moments and the struggles they have caused. He says that when considering the symptoms a patient describes - such as finding it hard to focus - it's important to differentiate between ADHD and other things that may explain them, such as the effects of trauma.\n\nBefore diagnosing someone with ADHD, it is also vital to establish that any symptoms are having a serious impact on their life.\n\n\"I can't see any evidence you've got any serious problem with your concentration, your hyper-activity, or your level of activity, or impulsivity,\" Dr Smith told me, after more than three gruelling hours.\n\nContrast this lengthy deep dive into my life and personality with the consultation I received at Harley Psychiatrists - during which there was no interrogation of how prevalent or serious any of my symptoms were. There were few follow-up questions.\n\nAdmittedly I was relieved I didn't have to go over any of the traumatic experiences in my life again, but I felt like the psychologist had missed some crucial background.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) sets out how individuals should be diagnosed in the UK with ADHD. To meet the threshold, a patient will have a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms, which often include:\n\nDr Smith - the NHS consultant - told me I hadn't met the clinical threshold for any of the 18 symptoms associated with ADHD.\n\nBy comparison, the psychologist who assessed me for Harley Psychiatrists told me I had met the threshold for 15 out of the 18 ADHD symptoms. A week later, I discussed treatment plans with a psychiatrist working for the company. This lasted less than 10 minutes and I was quickly prescribed a stimulant commonly used to treat ADHD. There was also no mention of other treatments, such as talking therapy.\n\nThe medication interacts with chemicals in the brain and can help someone with the condition concentrate better, be less impulsive and feel calmer.\n\nThe powerful controlled drug is safe and effective if prescribed properly, but it has the potential to cause serious side effects. ADHD medication can cause insomnia, elevated heart rate and high blood pressure - and in rare cases panic attacks, psychosis and seizures. But the psychiatrists from Harley Psychiatrists simply advised me to have a good breakfast before taking it, without talking through the potential serious side effects.\n\nHarley Psychiatrists' lawyers told the BBC that clinicians also take account of information in pre-assessment forms,. They said: \"diagnosis of ADHD… depends on the answers given by the patient\" and that there had been \"numerous patients [assessed by the clinic] not diagnosed with ADHD\".\n\n\"The suggestion our client is misdiagnosing adults with ADHD is untrue,\" they said, as was the suggestion that adequate checks were not being conducted.\n\nThe clinic accepts that I \"should not have been able to obtain a prescription\", and has updated its processes.\n\nLawyers for the psychologist who first assessed me said that while her testing had produced results \"indicative of a patient having ADHD\", such a \"diagnosis is formally made by a psychiatrist\".\n\nLawyers for the psychiatrist who prescribed the drugs said their client stood by his diagnosis - and would \"normally take between 30 and 45 minutes\", but in this case he \"did not consider it necessary\" because of the psychologist's report.\n\nI think I'd have felt more reassured if I could have seen both the psychologist and the psychiatrist in person. But this wasn't an option, despite the company website saying its \"main clinic\" was located on Harley Street, central London's prestigious medical neighbourhood.\n\nWhen I later visited the address listed on Harley Psychiatrists' website, I was told over the intercom that there were no psychiatrists on site. Harley later told us it has routinely seen patients at that location, even though it doesn't have a permanent clinic on the site.\n\nThis whole investigation began when Panorama received an email from a concerned mother. She had written to us to say she felt her 21-year-old daughter had been diagnosed too quickly by a private clinic and that it had prescribed her strong drugs with no proper follow-up care.\n\nAs I started to research the subject - speaking to NHS staff, specialists, academics, former patients and whistleblower staff at private clinics - I heard a common refrain.\n\n\"If you're willing to pay for an assessment, you'll get a diagnosis.\"\n\n\"I can't imagine them saying, 'No, you don't have it',\" says former patient Casey\n\nA former Harley Psychiatrists' patient I spoke to - Casey - says she chose the company for the name, its location and positive online reviews. Casey was being treated on the NHS for anxiety, but says after seeing an Instagram post about ADHD she became convinced that she had that too.\n\nPut off by the long NHS waiting lists, she borrowed the money to book a £685 appointment. Her experience was similar to mine. She was diagnosed in two stages - with a psychologist assessment, followed by a video call with a psychiatrist. The appointments lasted similar lengths of time to mine and she was prescribed stimulant medication at the end.\n\n\"It was kind of like a diagnostic factory,\" she recalls.\n\n\"If I didn't have ADHD,\" she said, \"I can't imagine them saying, 'No, you don't have it.'\"\n\nCasey says her calls and emails were frequently ignored - and yet the clinic was quick to make contact when she posted a negative review online, demanding that she remove it.\n\nThe clinic emailed her saying her \"false review and all other correspondence\" had been passed on to its \"legal department\".\n\nCasey says she felt deeply upset by the experience and - after leaving Harley Psychiatrists - she was signed off work for four months. Since then, Casey has been seeing a different psychiatrist and her care has improved.\n\nLawyers for Harley Psychiatrists say they have never sought the removal of negative reviews that were truthful, only those that they claim contained falsehoods.\n\nMore and more people are turning to private clinics for an assessment to determine whether they have ADHD. Panorama investigates whether some are giving unreliable diagnoses\n\nWatch the full investigation on BBC iPlayer now\n\nIt will be on BBC One on Monday 15 May at 20:00 in England and Scotland, and 20:30 in Wales and Northern Ireland\n\nBy the time I was booked in for my second private assessment with a company called ADHD 360, I had an idea of what to expect. ADHD 360 is a private provider that has won a number of NHS contracts.\n\nThe government is keen to outsource NHS work to private firms to tackle lengthy waiting times. However, we had been told by patients, former staff and some within the NHS, that there were serious concerns regarding how ADHD 360 assessed people.\n\nIt cost £950 to be assessed and treated by ADHD 360, and my online assessment - carried out by a pharmacist - was longer than with Harley Psychiatrists, lasting just over an hour. There were more follow-up questions about some of the answers I had given, but it did not feel thorough.\n\nAt one point, I did mention that my sister had died, but the clinician - who seemed to be uncomfortable by what I just said - moved on quickly. There was also an interlude as we discussed our favourite Leeds United players.\n\nThe assessor totted up my scores from what appeared to be a checklist of symptoms, confirmed that I met the criteria for ADHD, and proceeded to prescribe a higher dose of stimulant medication than had been recommended by Harley Psychiatrists.\n\nADHD 360 told us it is regulated as an NHS provider and delivers \"high standard assessment, diagnosis, treatment and care\" for thousands of patients. Its \"qualified clinicians\" are trained in its own academy and its \"assessments meet all accepted best practices\". It said on this occasion its \"prescription policy was regrettably not followed\", and \"procedures have now been reviewed\" and enhanced.\n\nMy final online assessment - with ADHD Direct in Glasgow - cost £1,095 and was conducted by a nurse. She was new, and so was being supervised by another nurse. The assessment was a little longer - one hour and 40 minutes - and I had a follow-up appointment three weeks later to get my results.\n\nOnce again, I was told I had ADHD and offered stimulant medication, but this time I told the clinic I was a reporter before I got my prescription.\n\nLawyers for ADHD Direct told us there would have been more checks before I was prescribed any drugs - and that the clinic stood by its diagnosis and had carried out a \"full developmental and psychiatric history\".\n\nA company audit had shown that 10% of patients seen did not have ADHD and that there was \"no incentive… to over-diagnose\" - they said.\n\nSo despite having had a comprehensive NHS assessment carried out by a consultant psychiatrist which concluded that I don't have ADHD - I now also had three private diagnoses saying the opposite.\n\nThere's no doubt that many people who go private will have ADHD.\n\nBut my investigation shows how some clinics hand out unreliable diagnoses - and that can put vulnerable patients at risk.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this story you can visit BBC Action Line.", "Rory Gallagher was due to lead Derry into Sunday's Ulster Senior Football Championship final against Armagh\n\nThe estranged wife of ex-Derry senior football manager Rory Gallagher has claimed the GAA was aware of domestic abuse allegations \"but did nothing\".\n\nMr Gallagher stepped aside from his role earlier this week, following a post on social media by Nicola Gallagher.\n\nIt detailed serious allegations of domestic abuse over a 24 year period.\n\nMs Gallagher told the Sunday Independent her father emailed Derry management last year with the claims.\n\nThe newspaper said it had seen the email sent by Gerry Rooney on 25 May 2022.\n\nThe family said they did not receive a response to the email.\n\n\"The GAA knew about all of this, 100%, and the county boards of Fermanagh and Derry knew - because we told them,\" Ms Gallagher told the newspaper.\n\n\"There were senior members of the GAA who knew what was going on, there are incidents that took place at GAA events. It was a well known fact.\"\n\nShe went on to say she felt let down by \"all these institutions\", including the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).\n\nDerry GAA said it was seeking clarification on the email Ms Gallagher said her father sent to its management.\n\nBBC News NI has contacted the GAA and Fermanagh GAA in response to her comments in the Sunday Independent.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Gallagher, who previously managed Donegal and Fermanagh, said that allegations against him had been \"investigated and dealt with by the relevant authorities\".\n\nHe said: \"Those closest to our family are well aware of the reasons for the breakdown of our marriage and the continued issues we have faced since that time.\"\n\nHe was due to lead Derry into the Ulster Senior Championship Final on Sunday against Armagh.\n\nOn Friday, he stepped aside from his position.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"This decision is borne out of a desire to protect my children from the ongoing turmoil.\"\n\n\"They will always be my priority,\" he added.\n\nCiaran Meenagh, who took charge as Derry defeated Armagh on penalties, said after the match that it had been a \"challenging week for everybody\" but his main focus was on football.\n\nOn Thursday, Ulster GAA addressed the issue of domestic abuse \"in light of recent events\".\n\nIt said: \"While we cannot comment or make judgement on any specific allegation or allegations, Ulster GAA does not condone any form of domestic violence.\"\n\nIn a brief statement, the Derry GAA county board said: \"Derry GAA condemns all forms of domestic violence.\n\n\"We encourage anyone who had experienced domestic violence to report it to the relevant authorities immediately.\"\n\nRory Gallagher said the allegations had been investigated and dealt with by the relevant authorities\n\nMs Gallagher's interview criticised the PSNI for her treatment at a police station in Enniskillen after she made her initial complaint.\n\n\"I asked for a female officer and I got a male. I was already nervous enough. Then when the PPS rejected by case, I felt hopeless.\"\n\nOn Sunday, the PSNI said it investigated a number of reported incidents and files were submitted to the PPS.\n\nCh Insp Heather Campbell, from the Public Protection Branch (PPB), said police \"takes all allegations of violence and harassment against women seriously and we work alongside partners to help keep all women safe\".\n\nShe added that PPB has specially trained domestic abuse officers \"who strive to protect victims, prosecute offenders and prevent re-offending\".\n\nThe PPS has said it received two investigation files from the PSNI in January and June 2022, and that all available evidence was considered in line with the PPS code for prosecution.\n\nIt added it was determined there was insufficient evidence to provide a reasonable prospect of conviction for any offence in relation to any individual.\n\nThe PPS said the decisions not to prosecute were issued in January and September last year.\n\nA spokesperson said on Sunday: \"The PPS takes cases of domestic violence and abuse extremely seriously, and we are committed to prosecuting all such cases where the evidence allows us to do so, in strict accordance with the PPS Code for Prosecutors.\n\n\"We are aware of comments made by Mrs Gallagher in the media. We will contact Mrs Gallagher to discuss her concerns.\"\n\nIn a lengthy social media post, Nicola Gallagher claimed that domestic abuse occurred before and during her marriage.\n\n\"Blocking it out was easier than admitting what was happening,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter outlining a catalogue of alleged beatings, Ms Gallagher, who is from Belleek, County Fermanagh, concluded: \"Silence nearly killed me.\"\n\nNicola Gallagher told the Sunday Independent her decision to post the allegations on social media was difficult.\n\n\"I sat for ages looking at it on my computer. I kept thinking, 'Will I do it or will I not?' What impact will this have on my children? I had a tightness in my chest, I got really afraid…and then I hit 'post.'\"\n\nAsked about what would have happened had she not posted on social media she said, \"I would be dead, one hundred per cent. I needed to do it - it was my last resort.\"\n\nShe told the newspaper she also felt let down by the Western Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nThe Trust told BBC News NI it would not provide comment on an individual for confidentiality and privacy reasons, but added issues can be raised through its complaints system, the Patients' Advocate Office.\n\nMs Gallagher also alleged some of the incidents had happened in the Republic of Ireland and the gardai (Irish police) were aware.\n\nThe gardai said they would not comment on individual cases.", "Exams were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid\n\nGCSE and A-level students are being told their grades will be protected from Covid disruption, as exams get under way for most students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nExtra measures are in place to help pupils, but support varies across the different parts of the UK.\n\nCovid led to an increase in top grades in 2020 and 2021, with results based on teacher assessments instead of exams.\n\nUnlike last year, students in England have not been given advance information about the topics they are likely to be tested on. Grades are expected to fall back in line with results in 2019.\n\nHowever, some of the adjusted measures from last year remain in place.\n\nExams will be spaced apart more than they were prior to the pandemic, allowing for rest and revision.\n\nGCSE students will be given formulae and equations in some subjects, and will not be expected to confront unfamiliar words in language exams.\n\nOutside England, grades are expected to remain higher than they were in 2019.\n\nTeenagers in Scotland have already started exams. Modifications introduced in Covid, such as paring back some assessments, remain in place.\n\nIn Wales and Northern Ireland, many students have been given advance information about what will appear in their exam papers.\n\nVocational technical qualifications, such as BTec courses, are still mostly assessed through practical learning but some exams and assessments have taken place across the year.\n\nAs pupils head on study leave, exam boards have warned students not to approach social media accounts claiming to sell exam papers.\n\nIn most cases, the papers for sale are fake. Nonetheless, BBC News has been told some students are paying up to £4,000 to get hold of them.\n\nMargaret Farragher, chief executive officer of JCQ, said some accounts on TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and other platforms \"seem intent on scamming students for money\".\n\n\"This issue is increasing every year,\" she said.\n\nHave you been scammed by social media accounts claiming to sell exam papers? Get in touch.\n\nMost teenagers taking GCSEs and A-levels will have been in Year 8 and Year 10 respectively at the start of the pandemic, in 2020.\n\nMany will have experienced further disruption from industrial action this year, although many schools have tried to prioritise exam year groups on days where strike action has occurred.\n\nRocsi, who is 15 and lives in London, said she was \"a little bit nervous\" about her GCSE exams, the first of which is Biology, on Tuesday.\n\n\"I'm just at the stage now where I want to get it over and done with,\" she told the BBC.\n\nRocsi feels that her year group has been disadvantaged by Covid because they started some GCSE courses early, in Year 9 - when schools closed to most pupils for parts of the year.\n\n\"It did actually impact us,\" she said. She says her cohort missed out on in-person learning, such as science experiments, which means they should be given additional help in the forthcoming exams.\n\nRocsi has been able to go into school during recent teacher strikes. She supports the teachers, but says it has made it more difficult to revise.\n\n\"They kept having to group us together to change lessons. It was a bit hectic.\"\n\nMore than 200 miles away, in Preston, Olivia, 16, feels \"pretty confident\" about most of her exams - although she also struggles with the practical experiments she missed out on in Year 9.\n\nOlivia thinks her school has been \"really good\" at supporting her revision with the online learning tools which were first introduced during Covid. She says she used the days her teachers were on strike to revise at home.\n\n\"We have logins to certain school apps, and there's videos on there and quizzes for us to do,\" she said.\n\nHaving equations and formulae in some exams will make the process less of a \"memory game\", according to Olivia.\n\n\"That's not really what they should be testing you on - your memory,\" she said. \"It's if you can actually apply [the formulae] to what you're working out.\"\n\nLast year, the proportion of top A-level and GCSE grades fell compared to the highs of 2020 and 2021 - but they remained higher than 2019.\n\nDr Jo Saxton, head of England's exams regulator, Ofqual, said results would be more similar to pre-pandemic levels this year, and examiners would use data to set grade thresholds that were \"fair to students\".\n\nShe said a return to \"pre-pandemic arrangements\" would give clarity to universities and employers, but Ofqual recognised that this year's candidates, too, had experienced disruption.\n\n\"There's no doubt that the pandemic has cast a long shadow, and that's partly why we've put some protections in place,\" she said.\n\n\"A student should be able to get a grade that they would have got had there not been a pandemic,\" she said, \"even if the quality of their work is a little bit weaker\".\n\nShe stressed Ofqual had introduced checkpoints and deadlines to ensure that the delays that affected BTec and other results last year would not happen again.\n\nScarlett, a Year 12 student from Essex, will sit her A-levels next year, but has been assessed for a Level 3 BTec in Performing Arts throughout this year - which most recently involved performing a duet from the musical, Wicked.\n\nShe told the BBC that this year was more \"exciting\" than her Level 2 BTec, when Covid restrictions meant she was unable to see some of the plays she was meant to be studying.\n\n\"There's definitely more opportunities, because we're able to put on live performances and attend shows and see different things that I wouldn't have been able to do last year,\" she said.", "Extinction Rebellion staged protests at a right wing conference in London organised by the US-based National Conservatism movement.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg was unexpectedly joined onstage by a man warning about fascism. Later on, Home Secretary Suella Braverman was interrupted as she began a speech on conservatism and immigration.\n\nThe protesters - who Extinction Rebellion say were protesting about \"increasingly dangerous rhetoric\" from senior politicians - were ejected from the hall.\n\nThe home secretary joked that the protests were \"audition day for the shadow cabinet\".", "A book about the menopause by TV presenter Davina McCall has scooped the top prize at the British Book Awards.\n\nMenopausing, by McCall and Dr Naomi Potter, was named overall book of the year.\n\nThe so-called \"Davina effect\" saw a huge increase in demand for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after a Channel 4 documentary on the subject.\n\nNovelist Sir Salman Rushdie was also honoured, nine months after being attacked on stage in New York.\n\nMcCall and Potter's Menopausing was praised by a panel of judges which included Channel 4 newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy, broadcaster Anita Rani, and DJ Vick Hope.\n\nSix months after publication, it continues to rank highly in the bestseller charts.\n\nGuru-Murthy said the book had helped to start a national conversation about menopause.\n\nHe said the broadcaster and the menopause doctor had produced an authoritative and entertaining book about \"an important and ignored subject\".\n\nLong Lost Family presenter McCall said she was \"walking on air\" after the award was announced.\n\n\"We are so so grateful to everyone that contributed... We will never stop spreading the message,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe has previously said she though she had a brain tumour or Alzheimer's when suffering from perimenopausal symptoms.\n\nHer experience with her changing hormones led her to the decision to campaign to increase awareness and destigmatise the menopause.\n\nHer Channel 4 documentary Sex, Myths and Menopause was broadcast in 2021 and Menopausing was published in September 2022.\n\nHRT prescriptions rose by 42% in the last year leading to shortages due to lack of supplies.\n\nSalman Rushdie says it is now difficult to publish in countries of the west\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Salman Rushdie said he was proud to receive the Freedom to Publish award on behalf of \"everybody fighting that fight\".\n\nThe award-winning writer lost the vision in one eye and spent six weeks in hospital after being attacked on stage ahead of a speech in New York in August 2022.\n\nHe has long faced death threats for his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.\n\nIn his acceptance speech, he said: \"We live in a moment, I think, at which freedom of expression, freedom to publish has not in my lifetime been under such threat in the countries of the West.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Bookseller This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Bookseller\n\nThe author said the freedom to publish was also the freedom to read what you want without it being decided for you externally.\n\nRushdie voiced concern about the loss of libraries and books for children in schools.\n\nHe described it as an \"extraordinary attack\" and added: \"It is quite remarkably alarming, and we need to be very aware of it, and to fight against it very hard.\"\n\nHe also warned publishers against altering the work of authors like Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming. He said they should resist that and allow books \"to come to us from their time and be of their time.\"\n\nPhilip Jones, editor of The Bookseller and chair of the judging panel said publishers had played a role in creating conversations around \"mental health, misogyny, sexuality and gender, the menopause and more\".\n\nOthers who were recognised at the awards, which were held in London on Monday evening, include:\n\nMany people don't think about the menopause until they're in their 40s. But it could start much earlier. Four women reveal the shock of it happening to them.", "Fabio Vincenti posted a picture of the ice cream on social media last week and received a letter three days later\n\nAn ice cream parlour has changed the name of one its products after a \"polite\" request from Marks & Spencer.\n\nFabio's Gelato, based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, only began making its Percy Pig ice cream last week.\n\nBut the retailing giant sent the owner Fabio Vincenti a letter which said he could continue to use the sweets, but not the name of the product.\n\n\"It is what it is, they've got to protect Percy Pig,\" he said.\n\nMarks & Spencer said the name of Percy Pig, which started life as a bag of sweets in 1992 but has since evolved to other ranges, could only be used on \"official M&S products\".\n\nFabio Vincenti runs the ice cream parlours in Hitchin and Letchworth with his wife Hannah\n\nThe ice cream parlour uses several different branded items for flavours, including chocolate bars, energy drinks and Marmite.\n\nMr Vincenti said: \"We've done so many different brands of ice cream.\"\n\nHe said the feedback was generally positive from the various companies but he \"wondered why no-one ever moaned and always knew someone might say something\".\n\nThe \"polite and fair\" letter from M&S was received on Thursday, along with some packets of the swine-faced treat, he said.\n\nMr Vincenti posted a copy of the letter on social media, saying he could continue to make the ice cream, but had to change the name to something such as \"Pig Faces or Pig Sweets\".\n\nThe letter said: \"Percy Pig is one of our 'hero' brands and we own trade marks to protect it.\n\n\"We risk losing those trade marks (and more importantly to us, consumers will no longer be confident Percy Pig-branded products originate from M&S) if we do not take steps to stop others from using them without our permission.\"\n\nMr Vincenti said the ice cream had already proved popular online and would, for now, be renamed \"Fabio's Pig\".\n\nAn M&S spokesman said it was \"careful to only put [Percy Pig's] name on official M&S products\".\n\n\"It's flattering that he's inspired Fabio's new gelato and we hope they enjoy the treat we sent,\" he said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None Why are Percy Pigs a headache for M&S?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Krystle Berger before and after she has used an app called FaceTune to change her appearance\n\nThe issue of photo manipulation on social media has long been a concern for many, but with the technology now increasingly extending to videos, should authorities intervene?\n\nKrystle Berger insists that she is \"not drastically changing my features\" when she posts photos and videos across Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. \"I'm really just digitally giving myself the perfect make-up and lighting,\" she says.\n\nA young mother from the US state of Indiana, Ms Berger pays to subscribe to an app called FaceTune that has been downloaded more than 200 million times around the world.\n\nThe app allows users to both make subtle changes to their facial appearance, such as smoothing over wrinkles, or alternatively - completely transform how they look. For example, they can narrow their face, change the shape and size of their eyes, or give themselves a digital nose-job.\n\nOriginally only able to work on photos, two years ago FaceTune launched a version for short selfie videos that has increasingly grown in its effectiveness since then.\n\nFaceTune was one of the first firms in the sector to extend its app from still images to videos\n\nMeanwhile, another popular app that allows users to alter their social media photos - Perfect365 - is due to launch its video version later this year.\n\nFaceTune is owned by Israeli-firm Lightricks and two years ago the company was reported to have a valuation of $1.8bn (£1.4bn).\n\nLightricks' founder Zeev Farbman says that \"the name of the game\" is making the app work as easily as possible. \"You want to give people 80% of the power, with 20% of the complexity of professional software. That's the game we are trying to play.\"\n\nBut it has long been argued that such tools are unhealthy, in that they promote an unrealistic view of beauty that can be dangerous, particularly for impressionable children and young adults. For example, 80% of teenage girls said they had changed their appearance in an online photo by the age of 13, according to a 2021 survey by skincare brand Dove.\n\nWhile no-one is calling for the tech to be banned, there have been increasing moves to force social media advertisers and influencers - people who are often being paid to promote products in a more informal way - to admit when they have altered their physical image.\n\nShould governments regulate the use of social media photo and video manipulation?\n\nNorway introduced a law in 2021 that requires these two social media groups to indicate whether a photograph has been retouched. France is now going one stage further, and is in the process of demanding the same requirement, but for both photos and videos.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK is now looking at the same issue, as the government's Online Safety Bill continues to make its way through Parliament. However, it remains to be seen whether the law will target just adverts on social media, or influencers as well.\n\nA spokesperson for the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said: \"The government recognises the threat that digitally manipulated content can pose, and takes the issue very seriously.\"\n\nConservative MP Luke Evans has long campaigned for advertisers and influencers to admit when they have altered an image on social media.\n\nHe wants to see the new law \"contain future proofed regulation\", so it also requires the same admission for altered videos, and any other tech developments.\n\n\"It's imperative that we have wider awareness and increased transparency surrounding these new technologies,\" he says. \"For me this is all about honesty.\"\n\nNew Tech Economy is a series exploring how technological innovation is set to shape the new emerging economic landscape.\n\nMr Farbman's response is that while \"this conversation was always there... over time the acceptance of these tools just grows\". He adds that it is a free speech issue. \"It's always kind of weird to me that a company will decide to limit the expressive freedom of its users, because of aesthetic or ethical sensibilities.\"\n\nSean Mao, the chief executive of San Francisco-based Perfect365, urges people to use its app \"in a safe and ethical way\". He adds: \"We encourage people to use the app to express their creativity and not to use the app with malicious intent to deceive others or misrepresent themselves.\"\n\nPsychologist Stuart Duff, a partner at UK practice Pearn Kandola, says that some social media influencers will always be tempted to use tricks to improve their online appearance - because being good-looking sells.\n\n\"Physical attraction has a very strong but often unconscious influence on our decisions when it comes to buying products and services from others,\" he says.\n\n\"When asked what matters most, we consciously talk down the importance of physical appearance and talk up qualities such as intelligence, values and personality, yet psychological research consistently reveals a strong positive relationship between a person's attractiveness and their ability to sell to us.\"\n\nOne social media influencer who goes by the name of Brandon B has 5.6 million subscribers on YouTube. He takes the view that photo and video manipulation apps should be seen in a positive light.\n\nSocial media influencer Brandon B says that image manipulation apps can give some people increased confidence\n\n\"I'm glad these apps exist, because I think there are a lot of people who are not body positive enough to present on social media, so they might feel left out,\" he says. \"These tools help them get on social media.\"\n\nHowever, Dr Shira Brown, an emergency physician at South Niagara Hospital, in Ontario, Canada, says that \"distorted perceptions of body image\" appear to be being \"exacerbated by common social media practices\".\n\nShe adds: \"We see the urgent mental health consequences of social media in our departments on a daily basis, such as anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and depression.\"", "British men are taking payments of thousands of pounds to pose as fathers for migrant women's babies, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nThey are being offered up to £10,000 to add their names to birth certificates - enabling a child to get UK citizenship and giving mothers a residency route.\n\nScammers are using Facebook to tout for business and claim to have helped thousands of women in this way.\n\nFacebook says such content is banned by its rules.\n\nThe investigation, by BBC Newsnight, found that the fraud is happening in different communities around the UK.\n\nIt uncovered agents operating across the UK who find British men to be fake fathers.\n\nA researcher went undercover, posing as a pregnant woman who was in the UK illegally, and spoke to people offering these services.\n\nOne agent, who went by the name Thai, told her he had multiple British men who could act as fake fathers and offered a \"full package\" for £11,000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch secret filming: \"Thai\" offered to act as a broker for Newsnight's undercover researcher\n\nHe described the process as \"very easy\" and said he \"would do everything\" to get the child a UK passport.\n\nThai, who didn't advertise on Facebook, said he would concoct a convincing backstory in order to successfully dupe the authorities.\n\nHe introduced the undercover researcher to a British man called Andrew, who he said would pose as a father. Andrew would be paid £8,000 from the total fee.\n\nDuring their meeting, Andrew showed his passport to prove he was a UK national. He also took selfies with the researcher.\n\nThe BBC did not pay any money to any of the agents offering the fake father service.\n\nWhen Thai was later confronted about his involvement in the racket he denied any wrongdoing and said he \"didn't know anything about it\".\n\nAndrew has not responded to our request for comment.\n\nAnother agent, calling herself Thi Kim, claimed she had helped thousands of pregnant migrant women.\n\nShe said she could provide a British man and it would cost \"ten thousand for the dad\", with her fee being £300.\n\n\"All of the men I use were born here and have never registered for any babies before,\" Thi Kim told the researcher.\n\n\"I know how to handle everything. You won't have to worry about not having a passport. It will definitely be granted.\"\n\nThi Kim has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThi Kim, an agent who offered to set up an arrangement with a British man\n\nThe fake father scam is described as \"incredibly elaborate\" by immigration lawyer Ana González.\n\n\"It is very sophisticated, incredibly difficult to police,\" she says. \"In a way it's just proof of how desperate these women are and the incredible lengths they're prepared to go through in order to secure the right to remain in the UK.\"\n\nIf a migrant woman is in the UK illegally and gives birth to a child fathered by a British citizen or a man with indefinite leave to remain, the baby is automatically British by birth.\n\nThe mother can then apply for a family visa, which will give her the right to remain in the UK - and apply for citizenship in due course.\n\n\"This rule is to protect children, not to give visas to women who have no papers in the UK,\" says Ms González. \"It's not a loophole. It should not be seen as such.\"\n\nThe BBC could not estimate the scale of the fraud, as the Home Office was unable to provide data on the number of cases it had investigated.\n\nIt also does not publish data on the number of visas granted for non-UK parents of British children.\n\nHowever, last year 4,860 family visas were granted to \"other dependents\" - a category which includes those applying to stay in the UK as parents of British children.\n\nThe Home Office has told the BBC that it has measures in place to prevent and detect immigration fraud using false birth certificates.\n\nIt says that \"a birth certificate alone may not be sufficient evidence of proof of paternity\" and in cases where this needs to be established, \"additional evidence may be requested to enable our checks to be satisfactorily completed\".\n\nHowever, immigration lawyer Harjap Bhangal disputes whether enough action is being taken: \"It's not a one-off, it's potentially thousands... The Home Office has just not picked up on this.\"\n\nHe says that the practice occurs in many different immigrant communities including those from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Sri Lanka, and that it has been happening for many years.\n\nNewsnight's investigation found that the illegal practice is advertised widely on some Vietnamese Facebook groups for job-seekers.\n\nWe found dozens of posts from accounts boasting about their credentials as suitable fake fathers as well as women looking for British men to pose as fathers.\n\nOne account posted: \"I'm 4 months pregnant. I desperately need a citizenship daddy aged between 25-45.\"\n\nAnother read: \"I'm a dad with a red book [Vietnamese slang for a UK passport]. If you're pregnant and haven't got a father then DM me.\"\n\nMeta, the company that owns Facebook, says it does not allow \"the solicitation of adoptions or birth certificate fraud on Facebook\". It says it will continue to remove content that violates its policies.\n\nDivya Talwar investigates an elaborate immigration scam where pregnant migrant women pay British men thousands of pounds to pose as fathers to children that are not theirs.\n\nWatch the full investigation on BBC iPlayer and on BBC World News and BBC News Channel on Saturday 20 May at 10:30.\n\nWe spoke to one woman who told us she had paid a man £9,000 to pose as the father of her child.\n\nShe said: \"He was 30 years older than me. I heard he'd done it before with another woman.\"\n\nThe woman said she didn't have much contact with the man. The pair only met three times including when they went to the register office for the birth certificate.\n\nAnother woman told us she had paid a man £10,000 to pose as a father - only to learn that he had lied about his immigration status.\n\n\"Only a day after getting my baby's birth certificate I found out that he didn't actually have citizenship. I went crazy, because I already put down his details on the birth certificate. I couldn't change it.\"\n\nThe woman now has a stranger as the registered father of her baby and she and her child still do not have leave to remain in the UK.\n\nHarjap Bhangal says the Home Office needs to investigate more visa applications that raise a \"red flag\".\n\n\"If a child claims to be British and has a British parent and the other parent doesn't have a visa - that should be a perfect case for a simple request for a DNA test.\"\n\nIn the UK there is no requirement for DNA testing when registering a birth or applying for a child's British passport.\n\nMr Bhangal doesn't think many people are being prosecuted for this crime.\n\n\"That's why people are doing it - because there's no fear of any repercussions.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised here? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A Met Police constable missed an opportunity to properly investigate Wayne Couzens over two instances of flashing hours before he murdered Sarah Everard, a hearing has been told.\n\nSamantha Lee is said to have failed to make \"the correct investigative inquiries\" when Couzens exposed himself at a fast-food restaurant in Kent.\n\nAt the misconduct hearing, she was also accused of lying about her actions.\n\nMs Lee, who is no longer a police officer, denies gross misconduct.\n\nShe also denies breaching the force's standards.\n\nWayne Couzens will never be freed\n\nThe misconduct allegations relate to how Ms Lee investigated two instances of Couzens exposing himself to female members of staff at the McDonald's drive-through restaurant in Swanley, Kent, on 14 and 27 February 2021.\n\nThe police disciplinary hearing was told that Ms Lee visited the restaurant on 3 March, interviewing the branch's manager Sam Taylor, hours before Ms Everard was kidnapped by Couzens in Clapham, south-west London.\n\nPaul Ozin KC, for the Met Police, said after the incidents were reported to the force on 28 February, the matter was recorded as \"less urgent\" than other matters the force had to deal with.\n\nHe said a computer check, which was made after the restaurant manager made the call, confirmed the black Seat Exeo had been registered to Couzens since January 2018.\n\nMr Ozin added: \"There is no standard check that takes place to see whether a suspect in criminal police cases are police officers.\"\n\nThe hearing was also told about claims that Ms Lee lied about her knowledge of the restaurant's CCTV.\n\nMr Ozin said Mr Taylor claimed to have explained to her that while the drive-through CCTV soon deleted automatically, other CCTV footage - which he showed her - depicted Couzens' car.\n\nMr Taylor also showed her receipts that showed the last four digits of Couzens' card on both occasions, the hearing was told, as well as witness statements taken from two members of staff.\n\nHowever, Mr Ozin told the hearing Ms Lee says she was not shown any CCTV footage but was instead shown how the CCTV system worked.\n\nHe said she had accepted she took possession of receipts and witness statements from Mr Taylor.\n\nIn a report made after attending the restaurant, Ms Lee recommended Couzens be arrested and questioned.\n\nMr Ozin said Ms Lee said she believed this report would be allocated to a different team to follow up on.\n\nHowever, Mr Ozin said she did not put the witness statements and the receipts in a sealed evidence bag, instead keeping them in a pocket in her body armour.\n\nMr Ozin said: \"One of the central issues of this case is whether there has been some horrible misunderstanding.\n\n\"It [the evidence] is supportive of the unpalatable conclusion that PC Lee just did not bother to get the CCTV, even though she knew it was important, instead relying on others to do that instead of her, and that she later lied to others when she knew that the stakes had escalated astronomically.\"\n\nThe Met Police says the allegations amount to gross misconduct\n\nIf Ms Lee is found to have committed gross misconduct, she could be banned from serving as a police officer again.\n\nIn March, Couzens was sentenced to 19 months in prison after admitting three counts of indecent exposure. He was already serving a whole-life term for the kidnap, rape and murder of Ms Everard.\n\nThe misconduct hearing is expected to last seven days.\n\nHow did the Met miss opportunities to stop Wayne Couzens and spot a serial sex offender in its ranks?\n\nFormer PC Samantha Lee is accused of doing a lamentably poor and rushed job to investigate reports of him indecently exposing himself just days before he kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard.\n\nShe denies gross misconduct and over the next few days the panel will have to decide whether her failure to secure CCTV and follow up her own recommendation that Couzens be arrested and questioned was a horrible misunderstanding, or whether she deliberately sought to cover up doing a bad job.\n\nThe case may also raise wider questions about the way police investigate indecent exposure.\n\nThe panel heard that the 999 call reporting the two incidents at McDonald's were classed as low risk.\n\nMs Lee was assigned to investigate three days after the second incident was reported, hours before Couzens kidnapped Sarah.\n\nIt also heard the check on the police national computer flagged up Couzens as the registered owner of the car - and his home address - but not his job in the Met Police. There is no standard check that would show that a suspect in a criminal case is a serving officer.\n\nThere's also still an independent inquiry, the second part of the Angiolini inquiry, which is looking at police culture and systems and what's being done to protect women from sex offenders.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPatients are being offered powerful drugs and told they have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) after unreliable online assessments, a BBC investigation has discovered.\n\nThree private clinics diagnosed an undercover reporter via video calls.\n\nBut a more detailed, in-person NHS assessment showed he didn't have the condition.\n\nThe clinics say they conduct thorough assessments and follow national guidelines.\n\nPanorama spoke to dozens of patients and whistleblowers after receiving tip-offs about rushed and poor-quality assessments at some private clinics, including Harley Psychiatrists, ADHD Direct and ADHD 360.\n\nAll three diagnosed undercover reporter Rory Carson with the neurodevelopmental disorder - a recognised medical condition which affects behaviour and can be considered a disability under the Equality Act 2010.\n\nCommenting on Panorama's findings, Dr Mike Smith - an NHS consultant psychiatrist - said he was seriously concerned about the number of people who might \"potentially have received an incorrect diagnosis and been started on medications inappropriately\".\n\nThere has been a big increase in the number of adults seeking ADHD diagnoses in recent years - because of the success of treatments and more awareness of the condition. Support groups say it has long been under-diagnosed.\n\nDiscussion about ADHD is widespread on social media, with #ADHD attracting more than 20 billion hits on TikTok alone.\n\nIn some areas, it can take more than five years to secure an NHS assessment - so many patients are instead prepared to pay hundreds of pounds to be seen at private clinics. The NHS is also picking up the bill for thousands of these private assessments, as part of the government's drive to bring down waiting lists.\n\nHaving ADHD can be considered a disability - it depends whether or not someone's condition has a \"substantial\" and \"long-term\" negative effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.\n\nPanorama's undercover reporter answered questions about his symptoms truthfully throughout each of the assessments. Although, he didn't tell the private clinics the real reason he'd booked the appointment.\n\nHis first assessment was at a face-to-face meeting with Dr Smith - who leads a specialist adult ADHD service in the NHS.\n\nDr Mike Smith concluded that Rory Carson does not have ADHD\n\nCarson and his family filled out questionnaires about his habits and childhood history ahead of an appointment that lasted more than three hours. It involved a full psychiatric assessment. His assessment followed the guidelines issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).\n\nSome of the symptoms of ADHD can include things many people experience, such as fidgeting, getting distracted and acting impulsively. But NICE guidelines say someone should only receive a diagnosis of ADHD if those symptoms severely impact their life.\n\nDr Smith concluded that Carson does not have ADHD.\n\nThere are 18 recognised symptoms that can indicate someone has ADHD and Carson was found not to meet the clinical threshold for a single one of them.\n\nBut when the journalist went undercover at Harley Psychiatrists, he was scored 15 out of 18 - after a 45-minute video call with a psychologist.\n\nHe paid £685 for his assessment and was told by the psychologist: \"There's no expiration date for this. You're diagnosed for life.\"\n\nMore and more people are turning to private clinics for an assessment to determine whether they have ADHD. Panorama investigates whether some are giving unreliable diagnoses\n\nWatch the full investigation on BBC iPlayer and on BBC One on Monday 15 May at 20:00 in England and Scotland and 20:30 in Wales and Northern Ireland\n\nThere was a follow-up appointment with a psychiatrist a week later, lasting less than 10 minutes, at which Carson was prescribed a stimulant called methylphenidate.\n\nThis is a standard treatment for ADHD. The medication interacts with chemicals in the brain and can help someone with the condition concentrate better, be less impulsive and feel calmer.\n\nThe drug is considered safe and effective for most people who have the condition, but can have serious side effects for some patients, such as those with heart problems or certain mental health issues.\n\nBeing exposed to this medication if you don't have ADHD can be a dangerous health risk, according to Dr Smith, and it can also exacerbate existing mental health conditions. Stimulants used to treat ADHD are Class B drugs - controlled substances under the Misuse of Drugs Act.\n\nHarley's psychiatrists didn't ask the BBC reporter any detailed questions about his mental health before prescribing the drugs and he wasn't warned about the potential for serious side effects.\n\nLawyers for Harley Psychiatrists told Panorama clinicians also take account of information in pre-assessment forms: \"The suggestion there is a high risk our client is misdiagnosing adults with ADHD is untrue and unsubstantiated - as is the suggestion that adequate checks are not conducted.\"\n\nThey said, \"diagnosis of ADHD… depends on the answers given by the patient\", and there have been \"numerous patients who have not been diagnosed with ADHD\".\n\nThe lawyers said the clinic accepted that Carson \"should not have been able to obtain a prescription\" and has updated its processes.\n\nLawyers for the Harley psychologist who assessed Carson told us that while her testing produced results \"indicative of a patient having ADHD\", such a \"diagnosis is formally made by a psychiatrist\".\n\nLawyers for the psychiatrist - who prescribed the drugs - said their client stood by his diagnosis. He would \"normally take between 30 and 45 minutes\" to complete consultations, they said, but in this case he \"did not consider it necessary\" because of the psychologist's report.\n\nCarson also had an assessment with ADHD Direct, based in Glasgow.\n\nHe was assessed by a nurse who was new to the clinic and being supervised by another nurse. NICE guidelines say assessments must be conducted by a psychiatrist or a suitably qualified clinician.\n\nThe assessment lasted an hour and 40 minutes, and cost £1,095. The nurses asked more thorough questions than Harley Psychiatrists about Carson's medical history - and he and his family were asked to fill out a questionnaire beforehand. But Carson says the assessment still felt \"like a tick-box exercise\".\n\nOnce again he was diagnosed with ADHD at a follow-up appointment and offered a prescription for stimulants.\n\nThe journalist revealed to the clinic that he was an undercover reporter before going any further.\n\nLawyers for ADHD Direct said there would have been more checks before Mr Carson got the drugs. They say his assessment included a \"full developmental and psychiatric history\" and the clinic \"stands by its diagnosis\".\n\n\"ADHD is under-identified, under-diagnosed and under-treated,\" the lawyers added - stating that the clinic has \"no incentive… to over diagnose\" and that an audit had found that \"10% of the patients seen did not have ADHD\".\n\nThe undercover reporter also booked an online appointment with ADHD 360, a clinic based in Lincolnshire, which assesses thousands of NHS-funded patients.\n\nPatients and former staff had told the BBC that appointments were short and almost everyone who went there got diagnosed with ADHD.\n\nOne clinician said that while working for ADHD 360 he would see a patient \"on the hour, every hour\" and that he didn't think this was safe. ADHD 360 says clinicians are only expected to do two assessments a day.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this story, visit the BBC Action Line.\n\nCarson was assessed by a pharmacist. He didn't take a full psychiatric history but diagnosed the reporter with ADHD after an hour and 15 minutes. He also prescribed stimulant medication, without proper checks.\n\nADHD 360 says it is regulated as an NHS provider and delivers \"high standard assessment, diagnosis, treatment and care\" for thousands of patients. Its \"qualified clinicians\" are trained in its own academy and its \"assessments meet all accepted best practices\".\n\nIt says on this occasion its \"prescription policy was regrettably not followed\" and \"procedures have now been reviewed\" and enhanced.\n\nPeople who spoke to Panorama also expressed their concerns about the quality of care being offered by private clinics to vulnerable patients who turn to their services in desperation because NHS waiting lists are so long.\n\nCasey faced a three-year wait for an ADHD assessment with the NHS and borrowed almost £700 to be seen by Harley Psychiatrists instead.\n\nCasey posted a negative review online and Harley Psychiatrists told her the matter had been passed to its legal team\n\nShe says she was diagnosed with ADHD - by the same psychologist as the BBC reporter - after a video call lasting about 40 minutes.\n\nCasey posted a number of negative reviews online, and the clinic sent her a letter - seen by Panorama - which said she had written \"potentially unlawful\" reviews and that the matter had been passed to the company's legal department.\n\nThe BBC is aware of a number of other apparent legal threats made to patients, after they left negative reviews about Harley Psychiatrists.\n\nLawyers for the clinic said it was entitled to request the removal of false and defamatory reviews.\n\nThere is no doubt that many people who go to private clinics will have ADHD, but experts say patients might not get the right treatment if the assessment was unreliable.\n\n\"These people were supposed to help me and they took advantage of me,\" Casey told the BBC.\n\n\"I wasn't someone who was struggling with their mental health and needed help, I was just money to them.\"", "Javad Marandi has donated more than £633,800 to the Conservative Party\n\nA top businessman whose foreign companies were part of a global money laundering investigation is a major donor to the Conservative Party.\n\nJavad Marandi, who has an OBE for business and philanthropy, can be named after losing a 19-month legal battle with the BBC to remain anonymous.\n\nThe judgement against him is a milestone for freedom of the press amid growing privacy laws in the courts.\n\nA spokesman for the businessman said: \"Mr Marandi is deeply disappointed at the court's decision to lift reporting restrictions, knowing the reputational damage that is likely to follow.\"\n\nThe BBC's reporting on Tuesday prompted an urgent question in the House of Commons from opposition MPs asking for an investigation into Conservative donations.\n\nA National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation found some of Mr Marandi's overseas interests had played a key role in an elaborate money-laundering scheme involving one of Azerbaijan's richest oligarchs.\n\nIn January 2022, a judge ruled the NCA could seize £5.6m [$7m] from the London-based family of Javanshir Feyziyev, a member of Azerbaijan's parliament.\n\nTheir British bank accounts received cash that had been removed from Azerbaijan in what the judge said had been \"a significant money-laundering scheme\".\n\nThe family have denied that allegation - and at the outset of the hearing, in October 2021, Mr Marandi was granted anonymity in court.\n\nNow, High Court judges have ruled that Mr Marandi can be identified because he had been a \"person of importance\" in the NCA's case.\n\nMr Marandi, 55, was born in Iran and grew up in London, where he still lives.\n\nHis ties to the Conservative Party emerged through reports of his generous donations. Between 2014 and 2020, he gave £633,800 according to Electoral Commission records.\n\nIn February 2022, the Sunday Times reported he was a member of a group of major donors who had access to senior party members, including to then prime minister, Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Marandi is well known for his philanthropic work and support of the arts\n\nMr Marandi was described in court as a \"highly successful international businessman\" with a broad portfolio of business interests in the UK and abroad.\n\nHe owns the iconic design brand, The Conran Shop, a stake in Anya Hindmarch Ltd, the luxury handbag firm, and an exclusive private members' club and hotel in Oxfordshire.\n\nAlong with his wife, he heads the Marandi Foundation, which funds the Prince and Princess of Wales's charity.\n\nIn 2021, Mr Marandi became a special adviser to homelessness charity Centrepoint, providing guidance on how it could expand its work with disadvantaged young people.\n\nNone of Mr Marandi's UK businesses or these organisations form any part of the NCA's investigation, which looked at earlier events.\n\nThe probe began in 2017, after investigative journalists revealed an enormous money-laundering scheme, which became known as the \"Azerbaijani Laundromat\".\n\nThe Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) revealed how $2.9bn (£2.3bn) of dirty money - cash stolen from Azerbaijan's people and economy - had been spirited away by members of the country's elite. It was largely for their own benefit, but also to bribe European politicians.\n\nPaul Radu, the OCCRP's co-founder, said the Laundromat scheme was one of the most significant examples of post-Soviet looting.\n\n\"The Azerbaijani Laundromat brought a lot of damage on many levels to Azerbaijan itself, to the European Union, to the US, and other parts of the world,\" he said.\n\n\"Small businesses lost a lot of money - they had deposits with a bank that was at the centre of the Laundromat.\"\n\nThose revelations prompted the NCA to investigate the Feyziyev family's finances in the UK - leading to its application, in 2021, to seize some of their UK cash - and the disclosure in court of the link to Mr Marandi.\n\nAccording to documents from the NCA's case at Westminster Magistrates' Court, the suspect money that made its way to the Feyziyev family accounts in London had originated in bank accounts belonging to a company with neither employees, nor traceable records of its activities.\n\nFake companies: NCA says money trail began with cash moved into bogus firm in Baku\n\nBased in Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, Baktelekom looked like a state-owned firm that has an almost identical name.\n\nDistrict Judge John Zani found that \"substantial funds from this criminal enterprise\" were then moved into two bank accounts in the Baltics belonging to Glasgow-registered shell companies.\n\nSome of the cash was then moved onwards to accounts linked to Javanshir Feyziyev and Javad Marandi, according to the NCA.\n\nA series of firms, sharing the name Avromed, were \"central\" to the transfer of this money.\n\nOne of them had been set up in the Seychelles in 2005, with Mr Marandi being its beneficiary.\n\nCourt papers show the Avromed Seychelles company received large sums, as shown in the graphic below.\n\nMoney flowed into the company from other sources. In total, investigators say it paid out:\n\nRuling on the NCA's application to seize cash from the Feyziyev family, the judge concluded: \"I am satisfied that there is overwhelming evidence that the invoices and contracts purporting to support legitimate (and very substantial) business transactions between Baktelekom, Hilux and Polux were entirely fictitious.\"\n\nThey were produced in order to allow \"very significant sums into and out of their accounts so as to mask the underlying money-laundering activities of those orchestrating the accounts\".\n\nSeychelles: Company registered here, with a bank account in the Baltic, received cash from Glasgow-registered firms\n\nThe National Crime Agency told the court it would \"neither confirm nor deny\" whether there was an active investigation into Mr Marandi's finances - but the well-known businessman has adamantly denied any involvement in wrongdoing.\n\nHis lawyers told the court that between 2012-2017, tight currency controls in Azerbaijan meant he had to use exchange houses in Latvia and Estonia to transfer legitimately-owned dividends from Avromed and other businesses.\n\n\"The funds were lawfully earned, and lawfully transferred, and there is no question of money laundering,\" they said.\n\nLegal battle: Began in October 2021 at outset of major NCA case\n\nWhen the NCA's case against the Feyziyev family first went to court, Mr Marandi's lawyers argued that revealing his identity would breach his privacy and cause \"profound and irremediable\" damage to his reputation - not least because no law enforcement body had interviewed or approached him regarding the case.\n\nAfter the court ruled the NCA could seize millions from the Feyziyev family's British bank accounts, the BBC and London Evening Standard argued it was in the public interest to disclose that some of Mr Marandi's overseas interests had been part of the case.\n\nJudge Zani ruled, in May 2022, that Mr Marandi - who was referred to as MNL - could be named under principles of open justice, saying he had been a \"person of importance to the main proceedings\".\n\nThat ruling triggered more than a year of further challenges by Mr Marandi.\n\nHis lawyers succeeded in getting a costly High Court review of Judge Zani's ruling. By this stage, the London Evening Standard had dropped out of the challenge.\n\nLast month, two of the country's most experienced judges ruled the media could name Mr Marandi.\n\nThey concluded that open justice was a fundamental principle and that anonymity should only be allowed in exceptional circumstances.\n\nMr Justice Mostyn said: \"My only surprise is that the anonymity order was granted in the first place. For reasons of procedural unfairness as well as a distinct lack of merit, it should never have been granted.\"\n\nSpeaking after losing the case, a spokesman for Mr Marandi said that he not been the subject of the claim against the Feyziyev family, nor a witness.\n\n\"It is therefore unjust to be named, without having had the fundamental right to rebut these false findings.\"\n\nIn its decision on Monday evening to allow the BBC to report the story, the Court of Appeal said: \"[Mr Marandi] may not have been a party to or a witness in the forfeiture proceedings, but that did not mean that he had no fair opportunity to address the allegations made against him.\n\n\"He could have refuted them in detail when he put in his evidence in support of his claim for anonymity. Instead, he chose to rest on a bare denial of wrongdoing.\n\n\"Moreover in this case, as the [High Court] held, the forfeiture judgment contained no finding that [the applicant] was guilty of an offence.\"\n\nDuncan Hames, director of policy at the anti-corruption research group Transparency International UK, said the Conservative Party had questions to answer.\n\n\"This is a political bombshell,\" he said. \"We've learned today that someone who's given hundreds of thousands to a British political party has, in the words of the judge, been a person of importance in proceedings before the court about a major money-laundering enterprise.\n\n\"That should be a concern, not just to people who are worried about where that money came from, but about what it says about how easily money can reach political parties without [them] doing proper checks on on its origins.\"\n\nThe former Liberal Democrat MP added: \"It's not good enough just to check whether someone is on the electoral roll. Our political parties need to be much more careful about who they take money from. \"\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said in a statement the party only accepts donations from \"permissible sources, namely individuals registered on the UK's electoral roll or UK registered companies\".\n\n\"Donations are properly and transparently declared to the Electoral Commission, openly published by them, and comply fully with the law.\"\n\nIn Parliament, SNP MP Alison Thewliss was granted the urgent question on the implications of the NCA's investigation. She asked Home Office minister Chris Philp to confirm whether Mr Marandi had meetings with ministers or received any government contracts.\n\nLabour MP Margaret Hodge - the former chair of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee - said: \"We should take these allegations very seriously. If true, dirty money has well and truly crept into our politics… Will the government bring forward regulations requiring all parties to do due diligence and checks on the source of all political donations\".\n\nMr Philp said the government was \"committed to making sure the UK does not have dirty money\", and stressed electoral law set out a \"stringent regime of donations' controls\".\n\nHe said the government \"does not and cannot comment on investigations being undertaken by law enforcement operations\".\n\nBBC News has contacted the Royal Foundation and Centrepoint for comment.\n\nIn an earlier version of this story the BBC reported Mr Marandi's Conservative Party donations as £756,300. That figure included donations from another member of his family.", "This visit to the UK comes after a hectic few days travelling around Europe for Ukraine's President Zelensky.\n\nOn Saturday, he flew to Italy, where he met the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, PM Giorgia Meloni and Pope Francis.\n\nHis Italian hosts promised full military and financial backing, and after a 40-minute private meeting with the Pope, Zelensky thanked the Pontiff for his \"personal attention to the tragedy of millions of Ukrainians\".\n\nIn the early hours of Sunday, Zelensky flew to Berlin. He was welcomed by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and met Chancellor Olaf Scholz only a day after Germany announced €2.7bn (£2.4bn) worth of weapons.\n\nIn the afternoon, Zelensky travelled to Aachen in Germany, where he received the prestigious Charlemagne prize at a ceremony attended by EU chief Ursula von der Leyen.\n\nThat evening, Zelensky met French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. Macron promised France “will train and equip” several Ukrainian battalions and provide them with “tens of armored vehicles and light tanks\".\n\nAnd then, on Monday morning, Zelensky touched down in the UK. PM Rishi Sunak pledged \"hundreds\" of air-defence missiles and long-range attack drones for Ukraine - although he didn't commit to sending the figher jets Zelensky has been asking for.\n\nEach of these trips had undoubtedly been in the works for some time, as any visit by Zelensky requires huge security operations.\n\nYet his movements are not generally revealed until the last possible minute - so most of these visits came as a surprise to onlookers.", "Mr Erdogan is favourite to win the second round after Sunday's vote success\n\nTurkey's powerful president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will go head to head with his opposition rival in a run-off vote, the supreme election council has confirmed.\n\nMr Erdogan led the first round with 49.51% of the vote, its chairman said.\n\nAlthough he had a clear lead over his main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who polled 44.88%, he needed more than half the vote to win the race outright.\n\nA second round will go ahead on 28 May, with Mr Erdogan the clear favourite.\n\nShortly before the announcement by election council leader Ahmet Yener, the president's rival appealed to supporters not to \"fall into despair\" and to stand and take on the election together.\n\nBut it was not immediately obvious how the opposition Nation Alliance could narrow a margin of almost five points in just two weeks. Although the third candidate, ultranationalist Sinan Ogan, polled 5.17% it seemed unlikely that all his voters would switch to the centre-left-led opposition.\n\nMr Erdogan has been in power in Turkey for more than 20 years, first as prime minister and then as president, extending his powers still further after a failed coup in 2016.\n\nMany opinion polls had suggested his rival was on course to win the first round, and Erdogan supporters celebrated outside party headquarters in Ankara long into the night.\n\nAddressing them from the balcony, he told them he had won 2.6 million more votes than his chief rival.\n\nWith Mr Kilicdaroglu as candidate, the opposition was seen as having its best chance so far at removing him from power. It drew together a broad-based alliance of parties and offered an end to soaring inflation and Mr Erdogan's system of an all-powerful presidency.\n\nBut initial confidence in victory turned to disappointment and the opposition leader did his best to rally supporters by declaring \"we will absolutely win in the second round\".\n\nMr Yener said all of the ballot boxes from Sunday's vote had been opened and turnout in Turkey was 88.92%. However, it was clear that a number of votes cast abroad had not yet been counted.\n\nThe international monitoring group OSCE highlighted several flaws in the election, pointing out that Mr Erdogan and the ruling parties had enjoyed \"an unjustified advantage\".\n\nAlthough the monitors praised the high turnout and political choice, they said the vote had been limited by an unlevel playing field. They singled out \"biased media coverage\", as well as intimidation of the pro-Kurdish party and the jailing of its former joint leader and that of philanthropist Osman Kavala.\n\nAnother issue they highlighted was the limited help given to survivors of February's earthquakes to take part in the election.\n\nMr Erdogan was widely criticised for the state's slow response to the disaster, which left more than 50,000 people dead.\n\nBut it had little effect on election results in the eight cities seen as strongholds of his AK Party in the earthquake zone. In seven of the cities the president's support remained above 60%. Only in Gaziantep did it slip to 59%.\n\nSunday's vote was not only for the presidency but for the 600 seats in parliament too. And here too the Erdogan party had a good night, heading for a majority of about 317 seats.\n\nAttention has now switched to the 2.79 million ballots cast for Sinan Ogan, who told BBC Turkish that without him the presidential race would have been over in one round, implying that Mtr Erdogan would have won outright.\n\nHe was remorseless in his criticism of the opposition for failing to win when the ruling party was struggling with so many setbacks, from the economy to the earthquakes and the two decades of Erdogan rule.\n\nEven if he were to act as a kingmaker by endorsing one candidate or the other, it is far from certain that his first-round voters would follow his suggestion.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA powerful cyclone has hit the coastlines of Bangladesh and Myanmar after intensifying into the equivalent of a category-five storm.\n\nCyclone Mocha did not make landfall at the sprawling refugee camp in Cox's Bazar as earlier feared, but still tore apart hundreds of makeshift shelters.\n\nAt least six people have been reported dead in Myanmar.\n\nUp to 90 per cent of the western Rakhine state's capital city Sittwe has been destroyed, residents told the BBC.\n\nThe Burmese military has declared the whole of Rakhine as a natural disaster area.\n\nBy late Sunday, the storm had largely passed. Bangladesh's disaster official Kamrul Hasan said the cyclone caused \"no major damage\", but landslides and floods are still hitting the country. No casualties have been reported in Bangladesh so far.\n\nMyanmar appears to have borne more direct impact, with the storm crashing through houses and cutting power lines in Rakhine state. Myanmar's meteorological department said it pounded through the country at about 209km/h (130 mph).\n\nCamps for displaced Rohingya in the state have also been ripped apart.\n\nLocal media reported that a 14-year-old boy were among those reported dead - he was killed by a falling tree in the state.\n\nElectricity and wireless connections were disrupted across much of Sittwe. Footage online showed roofs being blown off houses, telecom towers brought down, and billboards flying off buildings amid teeming rain across the region.\n\nAuthorities have declared Rakhine state a natural disaster area, while the Myanmar Red Cross Society said it was \"preparing for a major emergency response\".\n\nMyanmar appears to have borne more direct impact from the cyclone\n\nVillagers in Myanmar flee their homes as the storm approaches\n\nAuthorities in Bangladesh had evacuated 750,000 people ahead of the storm.\n\nThe streets of Cox's Bazar emptied as the cyclone intensified - the skies darkened, the winds picked up pace and the rains pounded down.\n\nHundreds of people crammed into a school which had been turned into a temporary cyclone shelter.\n\nMothers with babies, young children, the elderly and the frail packed into any available space in the classrooms, sleeping on desks and sitting under them.\n\nAs many arrived at the shelter in rickshaws and on foot, they brought their livestock - cattle, chickens, goats - as well as mats to sleep on.\n\nThey had come from fishing and coastal villages up to two hours away, making a difficult choice.\n\n\"I didn't want to leave my house,\" said Sumi Akter, who lives on a riverbank.\n\nSumi and others we met here say they have lived through other cyclones in recent years and are resigned to the regular pattern of leaving their homes to the mercy of nature.\n\nStorm surges of up to four metres could swamp villages in low-lying areas. Sumi and others here are fearful their homes may be submerged.\n\n\"I wish the homes we lived in were built more strongly,\" she said.\n\nJannat, aged 17, whom we had met the day before in the same shelter, said she too was terrified of what might happen to her home on the riverbank.\n\nLast year, another cyclone, Sitrang, destroyed her house, forcing her to spend what little money she had on repairing it.\n\n\"How can I live if this keeps happening? I can't afford to rebuild it - we are very poor,\" she said.\n\nNature was also punishing the poor in the world's largest refugee camp nearby.\n\nBangladesh's government does not allow Rohingya refugees to leave the camps, nor to build permanent structures.\n\nAs the cyclone hit, they hunkered down in flimsy bamboo shelters with tarpaulin roofs. Some were moved to community shelters within the camps, which offered little more protection.\n\nAuthorities told the BBC that more than 1,300 shelters were damaged by the wind, as were 16 mosques and learning centres. Trees had fallen in the camps, while two landslides also caused some damage.\n\nThe tarpaulin that covered Mohammed Ayub's shelter was torn off by the winds. Now he and his family of eight are living in the open, in wet and miserable weather.\n\nHaving spent the days before terrified of what Cyclone Mocha could bring, Mohammed was relieved the camps didn't take a direct hit from the storm.\n\nMizanur Rahman, from the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner, said that as far as he was aware, there were no casualties in the camps as a result of the cyclone.\n\nFamilies with young children are crammed into makeshift cyclone refuges\n\nEvacuees at one cyclone shelter told the BBC they were worried about the lack of food\n\nForecasters warned Cyclone Mocha could be the most powerful storm seen in Bangladesh in nearly two decades.\n\nThe Bangladeshi meteorological department office said the maximum sustained wind speed within 75km (45 miles) of the centre of the cyclone was about 195km/h (120mph), with gusts and squalls of 215km/h.\n\nIn preparation for the storm's arrival, nearby airports had been shut, fishermen were ordered to suspend their work and 1,500 shelters set up as people from vulnerable areas were moved to safer spots.\n\nIn 2008, Cyclone Nargis tore through the southern coastal regions of Myanmar, killing almost 140,000 people and severely affecting millions. Most of those who died were killed by a 3.5 metre wall of water that hit the low-lying Irrawaddy Delta.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Winner Laura Black said she entered in hope rather than expectation\n\nA butcher from North Lanarkshire has won what organisers say is the first Haggis World Championship.\n\nLaura Black perfected a 40-year-old family recipe to take top prize at the event in Perth on Sunday.\n\nThe owner of Coopers of Bellshill described the win as a career highlight. \"I've never entered it in competition before and I'm so proud and pleased,\" she said.\n\nHead judge John Wilkin described the winning haggis as \"near perfection\".\n\n\"Laura's haggis is worthy of the world championship title - it's absolutely superb,\" he said.\n\nAlmost 70 entrants from Scotland were in the running to take the title.\n\nJudges said the flavour of the winning haggis was \"spot on\"\n\nLaura is keeping the award-winning family recipe secret. She said: \"Let's just say we only use fresh ingredients and a secret combination of spices that brings it to life.\n\n\"I inherited the recipe from my parents when I joined the business in 2017 and every time I taste it I think, 'that's a damn good haggis'. Now the world thinks so too.\"\n\nEvent hosts Scottish Craft Butchers (SCB) said the first world haggis title reflected the status of the \"iconic dish\" and superseded the current Scottish haggis championships.\n\nSCB president George Jarron said: \"We have been running a Scottish haggis championship for the past 30 years, but this is the first ever world championship,\" he said.\n\n\"We decided that haggis was such an iconic dish the world over that it was deserving of a global championship title to let the world know we had recognised and rewarded the very best.\n\n\"And it was only fitting that the first world title for a product so quintessentially Scottish should be staged in Scotland.", "The Scottish government announced plans to build a new Border Control Post (BCP) at Cairnryan in 2021\n\nThere is uncertainty over whether new facilities will be built at Cairnryan Port to check goods coming from the Republic of Ireland and wider EU via Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK is finally due to start implementing post-Brexit controls on EU goods later this year.\n\nIn 2021, the Scottish government announced plans to build a new Border Control Post (BCP) at Cairnryan.\n\nBut a funding dispute with the UK government has stalled work on it.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"Scottish ministers have asked that the full value of border infrastructure be met by the UK government, in line with promises made during the Brexit campaign.\n\n\"We have had no choice but to pause construction of the BCP until these uncertainties are resolved.\"\n\nFrom the end of October food products being exported to Great Britain from the EU will require certification.\n\nPhysical checks of those goods is then due to begin at the end of January next year.\n\nHowever, it is not certain when physical checks on goods from the Republic of Ireland entering Great Britain will begin with the UK government saying a date will be clarified later this year.\n\nThe new checks and controls will not apply to EU goods directly entering Northern Ireland due to the operation of the Northern Ireland Protocol/Windsor Framework.\n\nFood products being exported to Great Britain from the EU will soon require certification\n\nThe Cairnryan BCP is politically sensitive because any controls on goods which originate from the Republic of Ireland must not interfere with the free flow of goods from Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK government has consistently promised that Northern Ireland goods will continue to have \"unfettered access\" to the wider UK market and intends to strengthen that promise in law later this year.\n\nThat \"unfettered access\" includes the commitment that Northern Ireland businesses will not have to provide official declarations of goods which are being moved from Northern Ireland to Great Britain.\n\nThis raises the question of how any officials at Cairnryan will be able to discriminate between goods from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and therefore which loads to inspect.\n\nThe movement of goods from Northern Ireland to Great Britain is based on a legal concept known as \"qualifying NI goods\" which states that any goods that are in free circulation in NI qualify for unfettered access.\n\nGoods which start their journey in the EU do not qualify for unfettered access if they are moved through Northern Ireland into Great Britain for \"an avoidance purpose\".\n\nHowever, in recent weeks, trade experts have suggested that avoidance is already happening and could increase when the new border controls are implemented.\n\nCustoms expert Dr Anna Jerzewska told the House of Lords NI Protocol subcommittee that there is \"anecdotal evidence\" of EU companies registering in Northern Ireland for the purpose of moving goods to Great Britain to avoid formalities and tariffs.\n\n\"We are not talking about large multinationals. We are particularly talking about small companies that are able to operate under the radar to a certain extent, with smaller movements,\" she said.\n\nPeter Summerton, managing director at haulage firm McCulla Ireland, told the committee that controls on Republic of Ireland goods at other British ports like Liverpool and Holyhead would be \"completely pointless\" if Cairnryan was allowed to operate as an effective backdoor.\n\n\"The UK has left a clear legislative gap on how movements from Northern Ireland to GB will be controlled, should there be movement from the EU and rest of the world into Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said the UK government must \"urgently clarify the policy on Northern Ireland to Great Britain trade\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"This will be crucial to understanding the impact on businesses and devolved responsibilities.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"We are committed to creating a seamless, digital border that will improve security and biosecurity while reducing friction for businesses.\n\n\"Whilst responsibility for Border Control Posts is a devolved matter, we are working closely with the Scottish government on the requirements for goods arriving in Cairnryan.\"", "The Merino cross Romneys deliver finer and softer wool which can be used to create a more high-end product\n\nA new breed of sheep which produces high quality wool and meat has been successfully bred for the first time.\n\nSemen from a Merino ram from Australia was used to artificially inseminate 35 Romney sheep on two farms in Gwynedd.\n\nThe project found that the \"multi-purpose\" lambs born subsequently delivered finer and softer wool without compromising on meat quality.\n\nThis extra source of income was crucial as the industry faces uncertainty, the Arloesi Gwynedd Wledig project said.\n\nIt added that throughout the past year, lambs have proved they can thrive in the UK environment without any welfare concerns.\n\nSemen from Merino ram Charlie was imported to Wales to artificially inseminate sheep on Welsh farms\n\nElen Parry from Made with Wool, which promotes Welsh wool, said the main aim of the project was to increase the price farmers get for their wool.\n\n\"It's a worrying time for the wool industry in Wales,\" she said.\n\n\"It will mean that Welsh farmers can produce lambs with a much higher quality of wool, which in turn will increase the number of end uses for the wool, increasing demand and hopefully the price.\"\n\nThe lambs' growth rates, wool characteristics and samples, and meat quality were monitored, and the project found a big improvement in the multi-purpose lamb's wool characteristics compared to a control group.\n\nThe Merino cross Romneys have shown they can thrive in the UK environment\n\nThe Merino cross Romneys delivered wool that was was much finer than the farmers expected, especially considering they were only the first cross lambs.\n\nFarmers John and Gillian Williams from Parlla Isa Farm in Tywyn who took part in the project said they were keen to increase the flock of 17 ewes to 300 in the future.\n\nThe pilot project focused on breeding new versatile sheep\n\n\"The next test will be to see how the ewes cope during breeding,\" they said.\n\n\"But given that the scheme has been a success so far, we're hopeful we can go on to produce a far more useful breed in terms of wool and meat, and as a result, there is a chance to receive many more benefits.\"", "WhatsApp says it will allow users to edit messages, in a move that will see it match a feature offered by competitors like Telegram and Discord.\n\nThe firm says messages can be edited for up to 15 minutes after being sent.\n\nThe instant-messaging service is part of US technology giant Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram.\n\nThe feature will made be available to WhatsApp's 2 billion users in the coming weeks. It counts India as its largest market, with 487 million users.\n\n\"From correcting a simple misspelling to adding extra context to a message, we're excited to bring you more control over your chats,\" the messaging service said in a blog post on Monday.\n\n\"All you need to do is long-press on a sent message and choose 'Edit' from the menu for up to fifteen minutes after,\" it added.\n\nEdited messages will be tagged as \"edited\", so recipients are aware that the content has been changed.\n\nHowever, they will not be shown how the message has been tweaked over time.\n\nSteps to edit a message as shared by WhatsApp\n\nWhatsApp's announcement came after the feature was offered by messaging services Telegram and Signal.\n\nThe edit function was introduced by social media platform Facebook almost a decade ago.\n\nAround that time, Facebook revealed that more than half its users accessed the site on mobile phones, which are more prone to typing errors.\n\nOn Facebook, updates that are modified are marked as edited. A history of the edits is also available for users to view.\n\nLast year, Elon Musk's social media platform Twitter said it was giving its paying subscribers the ability to edit their tweets.\n\nTweets can be edited a few times in the 30 minutes after posting.\n\n\"Tweeting will feel more approachable and less stressful,\" Twitter said in a blog post at the time.\n\n\"You should be able to participate in the conversation in a way that makes sense to you and we'll keep working on ways that make it feel effortless to do just that,\" the platform added.", "On Monday, thousands of junior doctors in England will start a 72-hour strike. They want a 35% pay rise. Yet doctors are among the highest paid in the public sector. So why do they have the biggest pay claim?\n\nThe origins of the walkout by British Medical Association members - the biggest by doctors in the history of the NHS - can be found in a series of discussions on social media platform Reddit in late 2021.\n\nA collection of junior doctors were expressing their dissatisfaction about pay.\n\nThe numbers chatting online grew quickly and by January 2022 it had led to the formation of the campaign group Doctors Vote, with the aim of restoring pay to the pre-austerity days of 2008.\n\nThe group began spreading its message via social media - and, within months, its supporters had won 26 of the 69 voting seats on the BMA ruling council, and 38 of the 68 on its junior doctor committee.\n\nDr Vivek Trivedi and Dr Rob Laurenson stood for BMA election on a Doctors Vote platform\n\nTwo of those who stood on the Doctors Vote platform - Dr Rob Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi - became co-chairs of the committee.\n\n\"It was simply a group of doctors connecting up the dots,\" Dr Laurenson says. \"We reflect the vast majority of doctors,\" he adds, pointing to the mandate from the wider BMA junior doctor membership - 77% voted and of those, 98% backed strike action.\n\nAmong some of the older BMA heads, though, there is a sense of disquiet at the new guard. One senior doctor who has now stood down from a leadership role says: \"They're undoubtedly much more radical than we have seen before. But they haven't read the room - the pay claim makes them look silly.\"\n\nPublicly, the BMA prefers not to talk about wanting a pay rise. Instead, it uses the term \"pay restoration\" - to reverse cuts of 26% since 2008. This is the amount pay has fallen once inflation is taken into account.\n\nTo rectify a cut of 26% requires a bigger percentage increase because the amount is lower. This is why the BMA is actually after a 35% increase - and it is a rise it is calling for to be paid immediately.\n\nThe argument is more complicated than the ones put forward by most other unions - and because of that it has raised eyebrows.\n\nFirstly, no junior doctor has seen pay cut by 26% in that period. There are five core pay points in the junior doctor contract with each a springboard to the next. It means they move up the pay scale over time until they finish their training.\n\nA junior doctor in 2008 may well be a consultant now, perhaps earning four times in cash terms what they were then.\n\nSecondly, the 26% figure uses the retail price index (RPI) measure of inflation, which the Office for National Statistics says is a poor way to look at rising prices. Using the more favoured consumer price index measure, the cut is 16% - although the BMA defends its use of RPI as it takes into account housing costs.\n\n\"The drop in pay is also affected by the start-year chosen,\" Lucina Rolewicz, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, says. A more recent start date will show a smaller decline, as would going further back in the 2000s.\n\nAnother way of looking at pay is comparing it with wages across the economy by looking at where a job sits in terms of the lowest to highest earners.\n\nThe past decade has not been a boom time for wage growth in many fields, as austerity and the lack of economic growth has held back incomes.\n\nLast year, the independent Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration Body looked at this. It found junior doctors had seen their pay, relative to others, fall slightly during the 2010s, but were still among the highest earners, with doctors fresh out of university immediately finding themselves in the top half of earners, while those at the end of training were just outside the top 10%.\n\nThen, of course, career prospects have to be considered. Consultants earn well more than £100,000 on average, putting them in the top 2%. GP partners earn even more.\n\nA pension of more than £60,000 a year in today's prices also awaits those reaching such positions.\n\nBut while the scale of the pay claim is new, dissatisfaction with working conditions and pay pre-date the rise of the Doctors Vote movement.\n\nStudying medicine at university takes five years, meaning big debts for most. Dr Trivedi says £80,000 of student loans are often topped up by private debt.\n\nOn top of that, doctors have to pay for ongoing exams and professional membership fees. Their junior doctor training can see them having to make several moves across the country and with little control over the hours they work. Their contract means they are required to work a minimum of 40 hours and up to 48 on average - additional payments are made to reflect this.\n\nThis lasts many years - junior doctors can commonly spend close to a decade in training.\n\nIt is clearly hard work. And with services getting increasingly stretched, it is a job that doctors say is leaving them \"demoralised, angry and exhausted\", Dr Trivedi says, adding: \"Patient care is being compromised.\"\n\nBut while medicine is undoubtedly tough, it remains hugely attractive.\n\nJunior doctor posts in the early years are nearly always filled - it is not until doctors begin to specialise later in their training that significant gaps emerge in some specialities such as end-of-life care and sexual health.\n\nLooking at all doctor vacancy rates across the NHS around 6% of posts are unfilled - for nurses it is nearly twice that level.\n\nMany argue there is still a shortage - with not enough training places or funded doctor posts in the NHS in the first place.\n\nBut the fact the problems appear more severe in other NHS roles is a key reason why the government does not seem to be in a hurry to prioritise doctors - formal pay talks to avert strikes have begun with unions representing the rest of the workforce\n\n\"If we have some money to give a pay rise to NHS staff,\" a source close to the negotiations says, \"doctors are not at the front of the queue.\"\n\nUpdate: This article was updated on 18 May 2023 to make it clear doctors can be required to work up to 48 hours and the footnote on the first chart has changed 'overtime' to 'additional hours'.\n\nAre you taking part in the strike action? Has your appointment been cancelled or delayed? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSuella Braverman says she is \"confident nothing untoward happened\", but has refused to be drawn over whether she asked civil servants to arrange a one-to-one speed awareness course for her.\n\nThe home secretary was caught speeding in 2022 and, according to reports, asked the civil service for advice on arranging a private course.\n\nThe PM is under pressure to investigate whether she broke the ministerial code.\n\nRishi Sunak has asked his ethics adviser about the case.\n\nHe has also spoken to the home secretary, and Downing Street said he still had confidence in the home secretary.\n\nMrs Braverman is under scrutiny not over the speeding offence itself, but over whether she acted properly in relation to the civil service, by asking officials to assist with a private matter, over a one-to-one speed awareness course.\n\nAfter being caught speeding, Ms Braverman faced getting three points on her licence and a fine, or a course as part of a group.\n\nA government source told the BBC the senior minister had been \"concerned\" about her insurance premiums, and favoured doing a course. She is reported to have asked civil servants about a one-on-one course, citing security concerns about doing one as part of a group. She was told it was not a matter for the civil service.\n\nShe then asked a special adviser to try to arrange a private course.\n\nWhen the speed course provider said there was no option to do this, Mrs Braverman opted to pay the fine and accept the points, because she was \"very busy\" a source told the BBC. By this point she had been reappointed as home secretary in Mr Sunak's government.\n\nThe same government source refused to say whether Mrs Braverman's motivation to do the course in private was to reduce the chances of her being recognised by members of the public.\n\nSpeeding awareness course providers are contracted by individual police forces. According to UK Road Offender Education, the not-for-profit organisation responsible, these contracts make \"no provision for private one-to-one courses\" at the request of the driver.\n\nThe ministerial code requires ministers to ensure \"no conflict arises\" between their public duties and their private interests.\n\nRepeatedly asked in an interview whether she instructed officials to arrange a one-on-one speeding course, Mrs Braverman said: \"Last summer, I was speeding, I regret that, I paid the fine and I took the points.\"\n\nAsked whether she would welcome an investigation into what happened or if she had spoken to the prime minister about it, Ms Braverman said: \"I am focussed on working as the home secretary.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yvette Cooper claims Suella Braverman is \"not answering basic factual questions\" about her 2022 speeding fine\n\nSpeaking to the Westminster Hour on BBC Radio 4, former senior civil servant Sir Philip Rycroft said Mrs Braverman's reported actions appeared to be a \"real lapse of judgement\".\n\n\"Obviously, there's still investigations to be done and so on but the code is very clear. Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises or appears to arise between their public duties and their private interests.\n\n\"Even asking a question of a civil servant as to how she might go on one of these courses puts them in an impossible position.\"\n\nThe ministerial code sets standards of conduct expected of ministers, including that they must uphold the political impartiality of the civil service.\n\nFormer business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg told Radio 4's World at One, he was confident Ms Braverman had not broken any rules.\n\n\"What goes on in private offices is a minister is busy and has many things to do and sometimes will ask for something the civil servants can't do,\" he said.\n\n\"As soon as once they say no, and you accept it, you haven't done anything wrong.\"\n\nIn the Commons, Mr Sunak told MPs he has \"asked for further information\" and will update MPs \"on the appropriate course of action in due course\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said Mr Sunak \"wants to avail himself of all the information before he makes a decision\". The prime minister still has confidence in the home secretary, the spokesman added.\n\nMrs Braverman was in Downing Street on Monday lunchtime, and afterwards headed to the House of Commons for a scheduled question session from MPs on Home Office issues.\n\nDuring the session, Mrs Braverman was repeatedly pressed on whether she had asked civil servants to arrange a private speed awareness course.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: \"If the home secretary can't grip on her own rule-breaking behaviour how can she get a grip on anything else.\"\n\nThe home secretary told MPs she had paid the speeding fine and had not sought to avoid any sanction.\n\nLabour Leader Sir Keir Starmer said the prime minister should order his adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, to investigate whether ministerial rules were broken.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Sir Keir said it looked like \"inappropriate action took place\" from the home secretary that \"needs to be fully investigated\".\n\n\"The usual consequence of breaking the ministerial code is that you'll go,\" he added.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are also calling for an investigation and said Mr Sunak needed to make a statement in Parliament about the claims.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Did you have any questions about the summit?\" Rishi Sunak asks the BBC's Chris Mason\n\nAnswering questions at the G7 summit over the weekend, Mr Sunak apparently did not know anything about the story the until it was first reported in the Sunday Times. and he declined to say whether he would be ordering an investigation.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference, he also declined to say he backed Mrs Braverman - but a Downing Street source later said that \"of course\" he did.\n\nAfter serving as attorney general between February 2020 and September 2022, Mrs Braverman was promoted to home secretary under Liz Truss.\n\nShe resigned on 19 October after sending an official document from a personal email to a backbench MP - describing it as a \"technical infringement of the rules\". But she was reappointed to the same role by Mr Sunak six days later following the collapse of Liz Truss's government.", "Junior doctors in England have announced a new 72-hour walkout in June after the latest round of government pay talks broke down.\n\nThe strike will take place between 07:00 on Wednesday 14 June and 07:00 on Saturday 17 June.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) union, which represents doctors and medical students, said a government offer of a 5% rise was not \"credible\".\n\nMinisters said pay talks could only continue if the strike was called off.\n\nA government spokesperson called the new pay offer \"fair and reasonable\", and said it was \"surprising and deeply disappointing\" that the BMA had declared further strikes \"while constructive talks were ongoing\".\n\nThe BMA said it was willing to continue talks, and was hoping for a \"credible offer\" from the government.\n\nThis will be the third strike by junior doctors since the pay dispute began.\n\nThe BMA said strikes would take place \"throughout summer\" if the government did not change its position, with a minimum of three days of walkouts a month until its mandate expires in August.\n\nThe union has been asking for a 35% increase to make up for 15 years of below-inflation rises.\n\nDr Vivek Trivedi and Dr Robert Laurenson, co-chairs of the BMA Junior Doctors Committee, said the BMA had had three weeks of negotiations with the government but that ministers would not recognise \"the scale of our pay erosion\", which they said was equivalent to a 26% cut over the last 15 years.\n\nThis is the amount pay has fallen once inflation is taken into account, the BMA says.\n\nNHS Providers, a membership organisation for NHS services, said the strikes would cause \"major disruption\" and it was \"vital serious talks take place between the government and unions\" to resolve the dispute.\n\nDeputy chief executive Saffron Cordery said: \"We understand junior doctors feel they've been pushed to this point by factors including below-inflation pay uplifts and severe staffing shortages.\"\n\nLast month, unions representing most - although not all - staff on one key type of NHS contract did agree to the government's latest pay offer of a 5% pay rise and a one-off payment of at least £1,655.\n\nThat did not cover doctors or dentists but did include many paramedics, physios, cleaners and porters - although members of both the nurses' union, the Royal College of Nurses (RCN), and Unite, which represents some ambulance staff, voted against it.\n\nThe government had been in talks with junior doctors in a bid to avert a third round of strike action after previous walkouts in March and April.\n\nThe language from the BMA and the government suggests both sides are a long way from agreement, with union representatives saying ministers will not accept the \"fundamental reality\" of the situation.\n\nAt the same time, their more senior colleagues - consultant doctors - are being balloted separately on industrial action in a vote which runs through until 27 June.\n\nJunior doctors make up around half of all hospital doctors in England and a quarter of all doctors working in GP surgeries. The BMA represents over 46,000 junior doctors in the UK.\n\nIn Scotland, junior doctors have been offered a new 14.5% pay rise over a two-year period after negotiations with the Scottish government.\n\nBMA Scotland said it would now consult its members, who voted in favour of strike action earlier this month, on the offer.\n\nAre you a doctor with a view on the strike? Are you a patient affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Why are doctors demanding the biggest pay rise?", "Climate activists had proposed scrapping plane journeys where train journeys of under four hours existed\n\nFrance has banned domestic short-haul flights where train alternatives exist, in a bid to cut carbon emissions.\n\nThe law came into force two years after lawmakers had voted to end routes where the same journey could be made by train in under two-and-a-half hours.\n\nThe ban all but rules out air travel between Paris and cities including Nantes, Lyon and Bordeaux, while connecting flights are unaffected.\n\nCritics have described the latest measures as \"symbolic bans\".\n\nLaurent Donceel, interim head of industry group Airlines for Europe (A4E), told the AFP news agency that \"banning these trips will only have minimal effects\" on CO2 output.\n\nHe added that governments should instead support \"real and significant solutions\" to the issue.\n\nAirlines around the world have been severely hit by the coronavirus pandemic, with website Flightradar24 reporting that the number of flights last year was down almost 42% from 2019.\n\nThe French government had faced calls to introduce even stricter rules.\n\nFrance's Citizens' Convention on Climate, which was created by President Emmanuel Macron in 2019 and included 150 members of the public, had proposed scrapping plane journeys where train journeys of under four hours existed.\n\nBut this was reduced to two-and-a-half hours after objections from some regions, as well as the airline Air France-KLM.\n\nFrench consumer group UFC-Que Choisir had earlier called on lawmakers to retain the four-hour limit.\n\n\"On average, the plane emits 77 times more CO2 per passenger than the train on these routes, even though the train is cheaper and the time lost is limited to 40 minutes,\" it said.\n\nIt also called for \"safeguards that [French national railway] SNCF will not seize the opportunity to artificially inflate its prices or degrade the quality of rail service\".\n• None Should we get rid of air miles for climate change", "It \"absolutely makes sense\" to be lenient with migration rules when firms face staff shortages, the former chief economist of the Bank of England says.\n\nAndy Haldane told the BBC the UK should be \"liberal in our visa policies\" to fill skills gaps, and that in turn would help to grow the economy.\n\nIt comes after the prime minister said legal migration was too high.\n\nThe Home Office said its system allowed in the skills needed while encouraging investment in the domestic workforce.\n\nMr Haldane's comments come ahead of new figures on net migration to the UK due to be published this Thursday.\n\nWhile the prime minister has been facing pressure to deliver on a 2019 Conservative manifesto commitment to bring down levels of net migration, some businesses have warned it would damage their industries.\n\nSectors such as hospitality and retail have been among those facing labour shortages.\n\nMr Haldane, who sits on the chancellor's council of economic advisers, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was important to draw a distinction between \"near term and medium term\".\n\nHe added: \"Given the huge shortages in both staff and skills being felt by businesses right across the UK right now - every sector and every region - it absolutely makes sense in the short run that we are lenient in our immigration rules, that we are liberal in our visa policies, in filling those skills gaps to enable the economy to grow, to enable businesses to flourish.\"\n\nLast week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the BBC legal migration to the UK was \"too high\" but refused to put a precise figure on acceptable levels of people coming to the UK.\n\nHe added he was \"considering a range of options\" to bring down legal migration.\n\nAnd earlier in the week, Home Secretary Suella Braverman called for lower immigration, and suggested more British people should be trained to do jobs commonly done by overseas workers, such as lorry driving and fruit picking.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"The public rightly expects us to control immigration, which is why our points-based system delivers for the whole of the UK by prioritising the skills and talent the UK needs, whilst encouraging investment in the domestic workforce.\"\n\nMr Haldane also said the UK was still some way short of having a fully fledged industrial strategy.\n\n\"All around the world now, we see a set of countries engaging in very activist, big budget acts of industrial policy,\" he said.\n\n\"The UK still falls short I think in having such a well-articulated, big budget plan to enable us to compete in what is a global arms race to bring business home.\"\n\nMr Haldane added that the UK's strategy felt \"quite responsive at the moment\".\n\n\"Every week appears to bring another event, another impending loss of business,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after one of the world's biggest carmakers warned it may have to close UK factories if the government did not renegotiate the Brexit deal.\n\nStellantis, which owns Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, had committed to making electric cars in the UK, but now says that is under threat.\n\nIt warned it could face tariffs of 10% on exports to the EU due to rules on where parts are sourced from.\n\nMr Haldane said: \"Whether it's EVs last week… that doesn't feel like a strategy - and businesses will tell you we're still some way short of having that plan in advance of these events tripping us up.\"\n\nA Department for Trade spokesperson said: \"The government has shown a clear strategy for UK manufacturing with a variety of schemes that ensure sectors from auto, to aerospace, to low-carbon technologies have access to the funding, talent and infrastructure they need.\n\n\"We are focusing on providing a competitive business environment to stimulate growth, reducing red-tape and investing millions in new government funding to help manufacturing SMEs increase productivity.\"", "When this cow ran onto an interstate, police in Michigan relied on a cowboy to lasso the suspect bovine. The animal is safe and has not been charged with a crime.", "An armed group has crossed from Ukraine into Russia's Belgorod region and clashes there have injured a number of people, Russian authorities say.\n\nLocal governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said Russian forces were searching for \"saboteurs\" who, he said, had attacked Grayvoronsky district by the border.\n\nVladimir Putin's spokesman said the Russian president had been informed.\n\nUkraine denies responsibility and said Russian citizens from two paramilitary groups were behind the incursion.\n\nMr Gladkov said eight people had been hurt, including two people admitted to hospital after a village was shelled and three people who were hit by shrapnel in the town of Grayvoron.\n\nFighting had also damaged three houses and a local administrative building, and the situation remains \"extremely tense\", he said.\n\nThe governor said a \"counter-terrorist operation\" had been launched in the region, giving special powers to the authorities including on identity checks and communications surveillance.\n\nBBC Verify has been analysing footage from the Belgorod region that emerged on social media on Monday.\n\nSo far, the team has located a video apparently filmed from a drone that features several armoured vehicles near a border checkpoint south of Belgorod. Additionally, BBC Verify has geolocated footage of helicopters operating in the region.\n\nThe footage is recent, but it is hard to say for certain from the videos what the exact sequence of events is.\n\nKyiv said those behind the ongoing incident were from groups called the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC).\n\nThe Liberty of Russia Legion - a Ukraine-based Russian militia which says it is working inside Russia to overthrow President Vladimir Putin - said on Twitter on Monday it had \"completely liberated\" the border town of Kozinka. It said forward units had reached the town of Grayvoron, further east.\n\nHowever Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies that efforts were under way to eliminate the sabotage group, and said its purpose was to draw attention away from the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut - which a Russian mercenary group claims to have taken control of after months of intense and bloody fighting.\n\n\"We perfectly understand the purpose of such sabotage - to divert attention from the Bakhmut direction, to minimise the political effect of the loss of Artyomovsk [Bakhmut] by the Ukrainian side,\" he said.\n\nKyiv says it still controls parts of the city.\n\n\"Behind these attacks are Russian citizens who are fed up with the actions of their terrorist regime\", commented Yurik Sak, an adviser to Ukraine's defence minister.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's World Tonight programme, he welcomed the developments and pointed to what he called a \"growing trend of Russian partisan movements\".\n\nBut he said he could not confirm or deny whether his country was harbouring or supporting the groups involved.\n\nThe latest incident comes ahead of a widely expected counter-offensive by Kyiv against invading Russian forces.\n\nParts of Belgorod and several other Russian regions have come under artillery or drone attack since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year.\n\nRussian officials have blamed the Ukrainian military, although Ukraine has denied responsibility for alleged sabotage attacks on Russian territory.\n\nIn April, Russia accidentally dropped a bomb on the city of Belgorod, which lies 40km (25 miles) north of the border with Ukraine.\n\nMore than 3,000 people were evacuated from their homes after an undetonated explosive was found days later.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: CCTV appears to show police following people minutes before crash\n\nPolice are verifying CCTV showing a police van following two people on an electric bike minutes before a fatal crash that sparked a riot in Cardiff.\n\nThose who died were named locally as Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15.\n\nThe footage shows the South Wales Police van and the bike 900m, or just over half a mile, from the crash site.\n\nBut police said none of their vehicles were on Snowden Road in Ely - where the crash was - at the time it happened.\n\nThe video analysed by BBC Verify is time-stamped to 17:59 BST on Monday on Frank Road.\n\nTributes were left to the two teenagers who died in Ely\n\nLocal people had earlier claimed on social media that police were pursuing the bike.\n\nPolice said the collision had already occurred when officers arrived, and they remained on the scene to manage \"large-scale disorder\" until the early hours of Tuesday morning.\n\nThen South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael had denied the boys were being pursued by officers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We have received footage that shows a police vehicle following a bike at just prior to 6pm,\" Ch Supt Martyn Stone said in a statement outside Cardiff Bay police station on Tuesday evening.\n\nHe declined to answer questions after the statement.\n\nThe footage \"will assist us in piecing together the circumstances leading up to the collision,\" he added.\n\nMr Michael later declined to comment on the footage of the police van.\n\n\"You should examine the carefully-worded statement from the chief superintendent,\" he said.\n\nA car burns amid disorder in the Cardiff suburb of Ely\n\n\"We can confirm that the following investigations have been carried out so far, and that when the collision occurred there was no police vehicle on Snowden Road,\" Ch Supt Stone said.\n\n\"At this stage we do not believe any other vehicles were involved.\"\n\nThe force has made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), he confirmed.\n\nAn IOPC spokesperson said: \"We will be sending investigators to a police post incident procedure to begin gathering information and to assess whether the IOPC will carry out an independent investigation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ashes of burnt-out cars could be seen on Tuesday morning\n\nOn Tuesday night, 24 hours after the trouble began, dozens of young people gathered near hundreds of floral tributes on Snowden Road. The mood in the area was calm.\n\nThat was in contrast to Monday, when cars were set alight, fireworks set off and paving slabs thrown at police as more than 100 people gathered following the crash.\n\n\"Fifteen police officers were injured, 11 were taken to hospital, and four were treated at the scene,\" Ch Supt Stone said.\n\nLitter and burnt cars were left on the street in Ely, Cardiff\n\nA number of arrests have already been made he said, \"and there will be more to come\".\n\n\"Residents have our assurances that we will be doing our best to arrest those responsible,\" he added.\n\nPolice were called to the crash shortly after 18:00 BST on Monday.\n\nAt about 20:00, police tweeted that they were still at the scene of the collision but were also working to \"de-escalate\" disorder.\n\nThe force said it had received a large number of calls from \"understandably frightened\" residents.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it was called back to the scene at 22:30 and took five people to hospital.\n\nResident Vikki Takata said she saw \"loads of riot vans\" from her window, and a helicopter that was \"shining the torch down on us\".\n\n\"It was carnage,\" she recalled. \"I've never seen anything like it other than on the telly.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther eyewitnesses said young people were chasing police officers up the road and throwing stones and missiles at cars.\n\n\"The police with the shields were all literally opposite my car,\" Ms Takata recalled. \"It was quite frightening.\"\n\nThe force said its thoughts were with the families of the two boys who had died as well as those affected by the rioting.\n\nA car was set on fire and tipped on its roof\n\nBridy Bool, who knows the Evans family, said Harvey had \"loads of friends\" and loved motorbikes and football.\n\n\"He was best friends with Kyrees and [they] were into the same things. It was not unusual for them to be together,\" she said.\n\nMs Bool said she believed the pair were being chased by officers \"as there are videos going around\".\n\nA car with its windows smashed on Snowden Road in Ely\n\nMinister for Social Justice Jane Hutt told the Senedd on Tuesday afternoon that more arrests are expected.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford - whose Cardiff West constituency includes Ely - said he was \"very concerned\" by the \"upsetting reports\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesperson said what had happened was \"appalling and completely unacceptable\".\n\nPlaid Cymru and the Welsh Liberal Democrats have called for a full investigation. Welsh Conservative Senedd group leader Andrew RT Davies called it \"deeply concerning\".\n\nCardiff council leader Huw Thomas appealed for calm, and said the local authority was \"assisting with the clean-up, so we can rebuild and project a more positive image of Ely\".\n\nAre you in the area? Did you witness the disorder? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "E Jean Carroll, who a New York jury found was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump, is seeking further damages from the ex-president over disparaging comments about her.\n\nA civil trial jury found earlier this month that Mr Trump abused Ms Carroll in Manhattan in the 1990s.\n\nIn a new complaint filed on Monday, Ms Carroll is seeking unspecified damages for remarks Mr Trump made a day later during a town hall event on CNN.\n\nIt is part of a lawsuit filed in 2019.\n\nOn 9 May, the federal jury in New York found Mr Trump had sexually assaulted and defamed Ms Carroll and ordered him to pay her about $5m (£4m) in damages.\n\nMr Trump was found not liable for raping Ms Carroll in a department store dressing room.\n\nOn 10 May, during a town hall event with Republican voters, broadcast by CNN, Mr Trump repeated previous claims she had \"made up\" a story about him assaulting her at the Bergdorf Goodman store.\n\nHe also called Ms Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, a \"whack job\" and claimed the trial was \"rigged\".\n\nThe new legal filing, which seeks to amend an original defamation lawsuit filed in 2019, also refers to posts published after the verdict by Mr Trump on his social network, Truth Social.\n\nIn the amended complaint, filed in US District Court in New York, Ms Carroll's attorneys argued that awarding her \"very substantial punitive damages\" would punish Mr Trump and \"deter him from engaging in further defamation\".\n\nMr Trump has not yet commented publicly on the new filing.", "The new solar facility at a car park in southern England\n\nThere's more than just cars and empty spaces in this car park. Huge arrays of angled solar panels sit atop jet black steel supports, soaking up the sun and shading the vehicles beneath.\n\nOutside the offices of a major car manufacturer in the south of England, there are now more than 2,000 panels in total with a peak capacity of just under 1 megawatt (MW).\n\nThat's enough to power hundreds of homes.\n\n\"They are looking stunning,\" declares Guy Chilvers, business development manager at SIG, the firm that supplied the solar canopies.\n\nThese structures make car parks more visually appealing, he insists, while admitting, \"I would say that\".\n\nSolar car parks or car ports enable electricity production in open spaces that tend to be positioned conveniently near to energy-guzzling facilities such as hospitals, shopping centres or offices. The canopies have additional benefits in that they protect cars from rain and snow, or hot sun in the summer.\n\nIn a drive to boost clean energy production, the French Senate recently approved legislation that makes it mandatory for all existing and new car parks with 80 spaces or more to be covered by solar panels.\n\nWhile there is no equivalent requirement in the UK, solar car parks have been around for years and there are signs that they are beginning to boom here. With electricity prices currently still elevated, many businesses are turning to on-site renewables to try to keep costs down in the long run.\n\nThere is a huge opportunity to turn more British car parks into solar farms, according to a new report published by the countryside charity CPRE and the UCL Energy Institute.\n\n\"We think the total potential in the built environment is about 117GW,\" says Prof Mark Barrett of UCL. \"And of that, 11GW, we think, is car parks.\"\n\nDemand has gone \"crazy\" for this framework, says Guy Chilvers, pictured on the left with a colleague\n\nFor context, the UK currently has around 15GW of solar capacity in total and requires 40GW by 2030 in order to meet net zero targets, according to Solar Energy UK.\n\nProf Barrett notes that the figure of 11GW is conservative and is based on an estimate of 130 sq km of available car parks in the UK - lower than the 200 sq km estimated by estate agents Knight Frank. The CPRE and UCL report also assumed that 50% of each individual car park would be covered by a canopy rather than 100%.\n\nWhichever way you look at it, there's plenty of space out there in car parks for solar panels and people are beginning to realise this.\n\n\"It's absolutely gone crazy,\" says Mr Chilvers, referring to his inbox. Lately, he's quoted for hotels, hospitals and leisure centres. Mr Chilvers and his colleagues design and build the steel structures for solar canopies while the panels are supplied separately.\n\nRival companies that spoke to the BBC also described high demand for solar car park canopies.\n\nPraxia Energy, based in Spain, supplies about 3MW of car park solar installations in the UK each year and says it expects this to grow tenfold by 2028.\n\nA spokeswoman for Veolia says the company recently installed a 1.1MW solar canopy system in the car park of Eastbourne Hospital and the firm has registered increased demand for solar infrastructure in the UK lately.\n\nSolarsense, a company in Clevedon, says it has also received rising enquiries in recent months.\n\nTim Evans, chief executive of 3ti, argues that, in the past, the UK has been slow to pursue this technology in comparison with countries on the continent. \"We are quite some way behind the curve,\" he says.\n\nThe biggest car park solar array in the UK is at the Bentley factory in Crewe\n\nThere are some flagship examples already in place, though. The largest solar car park installed to date in the UK is the one at the Bentley car factory in Crewe, which has a peak capacity of 2.7MW.\n\nMr Evans says he is currently exploring four new potential projects with clients that could exceed 5MW peak capacity.\n\nSolar panels in car parks can also power electric vehicle (EV) charging. This works especially well at offices, where employees' cars are parked outside for many hours. Shopping centres, football stadiums, leisure centres and cinemas are also suitable venues, since cars tend to be parked for two hours or more to allow sufficient charging, says Mr Evans.\n\nBut the steel supports required for many solar canopies do add to the cost. It is often cheaper to simply put solar panels on the roof of large buildings, such as supermarkets. Mr Evans estimates that rooftop solar yields electricity at about 9p per kWh currently, versus 14p or 15p per kWh from panels in car parks.\n\nSunny countries are way ahead of the UK when it comes to solar car parks\n\nThere aren't many other obvious downsides to the canopies, though, says Richard Watkins at the University of Kent. He notes that installers might want to fit them with efficient under-canopy lighting so that they don't result in dark, potentially dangerous spaces at night.\n\nOne hiccup facing many renewable energy projects at the moment is a lack of grid connections, since surplus energy generated by solar panels, for example, must be handled by the grid. Billions of pounds worth of renewable installations are effectively on hold because of this issue, according to BBC research.\n\n\"I've just had a megawatt car park, beautiful car park, for a factory turned down because it can't get a grid connection,\" says Mr Chilvers.\n\nA spokesman for Solar Energy UK also highlights this problem, saying that solar car parks becoming a common sight will remain a \"distant prospect\" until it is resolved.\n\nThe energy industry regulator Ofgem is looking at ways to speed up connections and National Grid also has a plan to improve the process.\n\nThere are lots of other locations around the UK, besides car parks, that could also accommodate solar installations and help us ditch fossil fuels, notes Prof Sara Walker at Newcastle University. Cycle paths and railways, for instance, or reservoirs that can be covered with floating solar panels. These also help reduce the evaporative loss of water from reservoirs.\n\n\"Where we can co-locate solar photovoltaics alongside infrastructure that would be there anyway, like a car park, it enables us to get double use out of the land surface,\" she says.", "A man who died after being pulled from a river has been named as former BBC Radio Derby presenter Mike Carey.\n\nDerbyshire Police said Mr Carey was rescued from the River Derwent at Darley Abbey Mills on Saturday morning.\n\nThe 87-year-old, who was from the local area, was taken to hospital but died shortly after.\n\nMr Carey hosted a programme called Memorable Melodies for the radio station for almost 20 years before stepping down in 2019.\n\nPolice said officers were investigating how he got into the water.\n\nAnyone who was in the area between 08:30 and 09:20 BST on Saturday has been asked to contact the force.\n\nAs well as being a radio presenter, Mr Carey was an author and worked as a national cricket correspondent.\n\nAftab Gulzar, executive editor at BBC Radio Derby, told the station Mr Carey had an \"incredible life\".\n\nMr Gulzar said: \"Our hearts go out to Mike's family, friends and our audiences who will fondly remember his Memorable Melodies programme which was loved for almost 20 years on Radio Derby.\n\n\"Mike retired in 2019 and leaves us with wonderful memories of his passion for music and incredible stories from a fantastic career.\"\n\nCharles Collins, a sports journalist and broadcaster, said he met Mr Carey when he joined BBC Radio Derby in 2002 and they became \"great mates\".\n\nMr Collins said Mr Carey was a great source of stories \"because he knew everybody in Derbyshire\".\n\n\"When I was covering Derbyshire cricket, I could check any story just by ringing Mike,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire County Cricket Club said it was \"deeply saddened\" by the news of Mr Carey's death.\n\nThe club's heritage officer David Griffin said: \"As teenagers following Derbyshire in the 1970s, Mike Carey was a familiar figure to us all, a popular writer - often accompanied by his pet dog - with forthright views on the game.\"\n\nDarley Abbey Cricket Club has also paid tribute to Mr Carey, described as a \"long-standing supporter\".\n\nThe club said: \"For those that knew him, there will be a fund of stories to tell about both him and his dogs. Rest In Peace Mike.\"\n\nThroughout his career, Mr Carey reported on cricket in Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa covering England's international tours.\n\nMr Carey had several books published about cricket, and wrote about the lives of Derby composer Ronald Binge and singer Denny Dennis.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alastair Campbell alleges in his evidence information about him and his partner was obtained unlawfully\n\nAlastair Campbell has told the High Court he and his partner were targeted by private investigators working for the publisher of the Daily Mirror.\n\nIn his evidence on Tuesday, he accused the newspaper's former editor Piers Morgan of \"two-faced conduct\".\n\nTony Blair's former spin doctor was giving evidence in London on Tuesday as part of a trial brought against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).\n\nThe High Court is hearing \"representative\" cases brought by the Duke of Sussex and others and concerns stories dating back, in some cases, more than 20 years.\n\nThe claimants allege information was gathered via unlawful methods including phone hacking, securing information through deception, and journalists using private investigators to trick others into handing over confidential information about the targets.\n\nThe claimants believe their private and confidential information was obtained by journalists from the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People newspapers.\n\nPrior to 1994, Mr Campbell had been a journalist for the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror.\n\nIn a written witness statement, he said he had been shown three documents by the claimants' legal team, dating from when he was chief press secretary in Downing Street, a role he held between 1997 and 2000.\n\nTwo of the documents were from invoices by private investigation firm Southern Investigations, both addressed to then-Daily Mirror investigations editor Gary Jones, and the third was a confidential hand-written note which contained numbers for financial accounts held by Mr Campbell and his partner Fiona Millar, he said.\n\nIn his statement he said the \"fact that MGN unlawfully obtained such private and personal financial information\" about himself and his partner was \"extremely troubling\".\n\n\"The fact that they did not publish the information they obtained in no way minimises this view,\" he said.\n\nMr Campbell said he believed the inquiries into his affairs related to a story involving the finances of Labour grandee Peter Mandelson, published on Christmas Eve in 1998.\n\nHe said he had also seen documents which indicated that a \"blagger\" sent Lord Mandelson's private banking and mortgage details to Southern Investigations, who sent them on to Gary Jones, now editor of the Daily Express, on December 23 of that year.\n\n\"As a result, I believe that the Daily Mirror decided, at the time of the Mandelson story, to fish into my bank and mortgage affairs in the hope that they too would reveal something they considered newsworthy,\" he said.\n\nIn his witness statement, he said he believed Mr Morgan was aware of such conduct.\n\n\"I have read the section of Piers Morgan's memoirs, The Insider, dealing with late December 1998 and I can now see that Mr Morgan does not set out truthfully how he obtained the information on Mr Mandelson,\" he said.\n\nHe said that Mr Morgan purported \"to be a real ally of the prime minister and the Labour government, while all the time he and his senior team were using illegal means to find stories designed to destabilise that government\".\n\nMr Campbell said this \"compounds the anger I feel about this\", as did \"the fact that this conduct has been emphatically denied, by Mr Morgan and his colleagues, for so long\".\n\n\"Fiona and I are shocked and, frankly, appalled at this intrusion into our privacy by the Daily Mirror,\" the statement said.\n\n\"I find it very hard to believe that any editor, especially one as hands-on as Mr Morgan, would not have known and demanded to know where the big stories were coming from.\n\n\"Nor do I believe that people in senior positions in government with access to highly sensitive information and with obvious security concerns would have been targeted in this way without the editor knowing and sanctioning such methods.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA child killer who murdered a seven-year-old girl in 1992 has been jailed for at least 29 years.\n\nDavid Boyd, 55, lured Nikki Allan to a derelict building in Sunderland where he beat her and stabbed her 37 times.\n\nJudge Mrs Justice Lambert said Nikki must have endured \"unimaginable fear\" in the moments before her death.\n\nBoyd, who was eventually snared by DNA advances in 2017, was sentenced to life after being convicted of murder earlier this month at Newcastle Crown Court.\n\nNikki \"knew and trusted\" Boyd but he \"took advantage of her young age and naivety\" when he \"tricked\" her into following him on the evening of 7 October 1992, the court heard.\n\nShe was last seen skipping to keep up with Boyd, who was a neighbour and her babysitter's boyfriend, as he walked towards the Old Exchange building.\n\nNikki Allan was lured to a derelict building where she was murdered\n\nBoyd had a \"sinister purpose\" when he lured Nikki to wasteland outside the abandoned building and her \"fate was sealed\" when she screamed and Boyd decided to \"kill her to silence her\".\n\nHe struck Nikki in the face \"to shut her up\" then pushed her into the \"pitch black building\" where she \"must have been petrified\".\n\n\"She must have quickly known she was trapped,\" Mrs Justice Lambert said.\n\nNikki was attacked and killed in another room suggesting she had tried to flee her attacker.\n\n\"Her fear, as she saw you lurching towards her in the dark, is unimaginable,\" Boyd was told.\n\n\"It must have been a truly terrifying experience for this seven-year-old girl.\"\n\nNikki would have endured \"unimaginable fear\" as Boyd pursued her inside the Old Exchange building, the judge said\n\nBoyd hit Nikki on the head with a brick, fracturing her skull, and then repeatedly stabbed in her in the chest before dragging her down a flight of stairs and dumping her body in the basement.\n\nThe judge said Nikki's murder had \"shocked and bewildered\" the community of Hendon, in the east end of Sunderland, for 31 years and as time passed Boyd would have \"thought with some relief\" that he had \"got away with it\".\n\nHowever, the science of DNA had also advanced in the decades since the murder, which allowed detectives to match samples from Nikki's clothes to her killer.\n\nMrs Justice Lambert said under current rules she would have jailed Boyd for a minimum of 37 years but she had to comply with the sentencing regulations in 1992 which suggested a lesser sentence, albeit one \"well in excess of 20 years\".\n\nBoyd lured Nikki to wasteland outside the Old Exchange for a \"sexual purpose\", the court as told\n\nSpeaking after sentencing, Nikki's mother Sharon Henderson, 57, said she was \"absolutely devastated\" by the sentence which she labelled a \"disgrace\", adding Boyd should have been jailed for life without the possibility of parole.\n\n\"This is what happens to families like mine over and over again - injustice,\" she added.\n\nIn an earlier statement read to the court, Ms Henderson recalled her daughter as a \"bright and sparky child\" who had a \"beautiful smile and was loved\".\n\nThe story of Sharon Henderson and her hunt for her daughter's killer.\n\nShe was 25 when Nikki was murdered and was \"accused of being a bad mother\" with \"local people angry towards me and not towards the person responsible\".\n\nShe said Boyd \"destroyed\" her family's lives but she had \"fought tirelessly and endlessly\" for justice.\n\nMs Henderson said she had suffered mentally and physically and \"at times targeted those who I believed were covering for others\" which led to her own arrest.\n\nShe said: \"I felt so frustrated over the years, as I felt I had not been listened to.\"\n\nSharon Henderson (left, with Nikki's sister Stacey) told the judge Boyd had \"destroyed\" her family's lives\n\nNikki's father, David Allan, said he was 28 when Nikki was murdered and \"from that night my life changed\".\n\nIn a statement, he said he felt \"anger and hatred\" towards the killer and would \"never be able to forgive the man responsible\".\n\nMr Allan said the \"devastation\" he felt was \"indescribable\" because Boyd had \"lived his life for 30 years whilst Nikki did not get to live hers\".\n\nNorthumbria Police initially charged another of Nikki's neighbours, George Heron, with her murder but a judge presiding over the then 24-year-old's trial in Leeds in 1993 said the detectives' questioning had been \"oppressive\" and he was cleared.\n\nAfter the case, he said: \"Finding out about the current investigation has been difficult - so many details and negative memories; bringing up mixed emotions about what happened back in 1992 and since.\n\n\"I feel sadness, disgust, anger, betrayal by people I expected to tell the truth (especially the original investigating officers).\"\n\nFollowing Boyd's conviction, the force apologised to Mr Heron and to Ms Henderson, although she rejected their words as \"hollow\".\n\nShe has called for a public inquiry into the force's \"historic failures\" in her daughter's case, and has been backed by the legal charity Centre for Women's Justice.\n\nNikki's family lived in the same block of tenement flats as Boyd which was just a few hundred yards from the murder scene\n\nProsecutor Richard Wright KC said the 1992 investigation was \"utterly misconceived\" and made multiple errors, but the team who re-opened \"the troubled and challenging\" case started from scratch with \"no assumptions\".\n\nPolice collected DNA samples from more than 800 men from around the country, took 1,200 statements and produced 2,500 documents.\n\nThe judge commended the \"Herculean\" effort and said the DNA evidence gathered had been \"critical\" in convicting Boyd.\n\nDavid Boyd admitted to having sexual fantasies about young girls\n\nThe court had heard Boyd was a neighbour of Nikki's in the Wear Garth flats, he knew how to navigate the Old Exchange building and had sexual fantasies about young girls.\n\nHe also had 22 convictions for 45 offences including sexual crimes.\n\nIn 1986, he exposed himself to a woman. He later told a psychiatrist he had been doing it since the age of 16 and \"couldn't control\" the urge.\n\nThat same year he was convicted of breaching the peace in Sacriston, County Durham, when he grabbed a 10-year-old girl in a park and tried to kiss her.\n\nIn 1997, he admitted to police he exposed himself to three teenage girls but was not charged.\n\nTwo years later he groped a nine-year-old girl in a park in Stockton and confessed to a probation officer that he had \"dirty thoughts\" and \"sexual fantasies\" about young girls.\n\nBoyd, seen here at about the time of Nikki's murder, has a history of sexually motivated crimes\n\nIn mitigation, Jason Pitter KC, for the defence, said Boyd had a history of mental illness, learning difficulties and an IQ level \"in the bottom 2% of the population\".\n\nHowever, the judge dismissed that as irrelevant because he used \"sufficient guile\" to lure Nikki away from her home and was quick to cover his tracks by conjuring a false alibi.\n\nShe said there was no guarantee Boyd would be released from prison and it would be up to the parole board to decide.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A riot unfolded in the Ely area of Cardiff after a road traffic accident in which two teenagers are understood to have died, police have said.\n\nBetween 100-150 people gathered, with rioters burning cars and throwing objects in clashes with police.\n\nBBC Wales correspondent Tomos Morgan visited the scene the morning after, to see the devastation.", "A security firm that sells AI weapons scanners to schools is facing fresh questions about its technology after a student was attacked with a knife that the $3.7m system failed to detect.\n\nOn Halloween last year, student Ehni Ler Htoo was walking in the corridor of his school in Utica, New York, when another student walked up behind him and stabbed him with a knife.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to the BBC, the victim's lawyer said the 18-year-old suffered multiple stab wounds to his head, neck, face, shoulder, back and hand.\n\nThe knife used in the attack was brought into Proctor High School despite a multimillion weapons detection system installed by a company called Evolv Technology.\n\nEvolv Technology is a security firm that wants to replace traditional metal detectors with AI weapons scanners.\n\nInstead of simply detecting metal, Evolv says its scanner \"combines powerful sensor technology with proven artificial intelligence\" to detect weapons.\n\nScreengrab from a video, moments before the attack\n\nWhen the system detects a concealed weapon - like knives, bombs or guns - it triggers an alert.\n\nThe company has publicly stated their system is highly accurate, and previously boasted its scanners can help to create \"weapons-free zones\".\n\nThe company's chief executive, Peter George, has also said that its systems \"have the signatures for all the weapons that are out there\".\n\nPrevious press releases have listed the weapons the system can find - which include firearms, explosive devices, and knives.\n\nHowever, a BBC investigation last year revealed that testing had found the system could not reliably detect large knives - after Evolv's scanner missed 42% of large knives in 24 walk-throughs.\n\nThe system is used in major stadiums across the US, and the Manchester Arena in the UK. The testers said Evolv should inform potential clients.\n\nDespite this, the company has been expanding into schools, and now claims to be in hundreds of them across the US.\n\nIn March 2022, the Utica Schools Board bought Evolv's weapons scanning system for 13 schools. It was installed over the summer holidays.\n\nOn 31 October, CCTV captured the perpetrator of the attack against Ehni Ler Htoo entering Proctor High School and passing through the Evolv weapons scanners, according to one source at the school who has seen the security footage.\n\n\"When we viewed the horrific video, we all asked the same question. How did the student get the knife into the school?\" said Brian Nolan, Superintendent of Utica Schools.\n\nThe knife used in the stabbing was more than 9in (22.8cm) long.\n\nThe attack triggered an internal investigation by Utica's school district.\n\n\"Through investigation it was determined the Evolv Weapon Detection System… was not designed to detect knives,\" Mr Nolan said.\n\nThe scanners were removed from Proctor High School and replaced by 10 metal detectors. But the scanners are still operating in the district's remaining 12 schools. Mr Nolan says the district cannot afford to get rid of Evolv's system in its remaining schools.\n\nSince that attack, Mr Nolan says three other knives have been found on students in other schools in the district where the Evolv systems continue to operate.\n\nOne of the knives was 7in long. Another was a curved blade with finger holes. Another was a pocket knife. Mr Nolan says they were all found because they were reported to staff - not because the weapons scanner had detected them.\n\n\"The kids [who had the knives] all said they walked right through the weapons detection system, we asked them about that… it truly, truly does not find knives,\" he said.\n\nAfter the stabbing, the wording on Evolv's website changed.\n\nUp until October last year, Evolv's homepage featured a headline that boasted of \"Weapons-Free Zones\". The company then removed that wording, and changed the text to \"Safe Zones\". It has now been changed again and reads \"Safer Zones\".\n\nThe homepage of Evolv's website in October 2022\n\nThe homepage now says 'safer zones'\n\nEvolv claims its system uses cutting-edge AI technology to find weapons. However, its critics say not enough is known about how the system works - or how effective this technology is at finding different types of weapons.\n\nThe BBC sent a detailed right of reply to Evolv, laying out what had happened at the school in Utica, and the decision of the school to stop using its system.\n\nWe also asked what Evolv had told schools about what its system could and could not detect, whether it had told schools that independent testing had found its systems could not reliably detect large knives, and whether it thought its systems were suitable for use in schools. Evolv did not answer the questions.\n\nConor Healy of IPVM, a firm that analyses security equipment, says Evolv has exaggerated how effective the system is.\n\n\"There's an epidemic of schools buying new technology based on audacious marketing claims, then finding out it has hidden flaws, often millions of dollars later. Evolv is one of the worst offenders. School officials are not technical experts on weapons detection, and companies like Evolv profit from their ignorance.\"\n\nPlaying fast and loose with marketing claims is unacceptable when you sell a security product used to protect young people, he added.\n\nAlthough Evolv did not give the BBC a comment, it did direct it to a blog post from its CEO, Peter George, in which he defends the lack of detail in how much the firm has said about how the technology works.\n\n\"Marketing weapons detection security requires a delicate balance between educating stakeholders on new technology and not providing bad actors with the information they could use to do harm,\" he said.\n\n\"So, while public-facing marketing materials are intentionally not specific, we communicate all aspects of the Evolv Express system - including limitations and capabilities - with the trusted security professionals at our customers, partners, and prospects\", the blogpost read.\n\nThe BBC contacted seven other school districts that all use Evolv weapons scanners. Five did not respond. Two said they did not wish to comment.", "David Lawson says the results were the worst he has seen\n\nVapes confiscated from school pupils contain high levels of lead, nickel and chromium, BBC News has found.\n\nUsed vapes gathered at Baxter College in Kidderminster were tested in a laboratory.\n\nThe results showed children using them could be inhaling more than twice the daily safe amount of lead, and nine times the safe amount of nickel.\n\nSome vapes also contained harmful chemicals like those in cigarette smoke.\n\nHigh levels of lead exposure in children can affect the central nervous system and brain development, according to the World Health Organization.\n\nIt is thought vapes are being used widely by secondary school children and Baxter College is not alone in trying to stop them vaping during school hours.\n\nThe Inter Scientific laboratory, in Liverpool, which works with vape manufacturers to ensure regulatory standards are met, analysed 18 vapes.\n\nMost were illegal and had not gone through any kind of testing before being sold in the UK.\n\nLab co-founder David Lawson said: \"In 15 years of testing, I have never seen lead in a device.\n\n\"None of these should be on the market - they break all the rules on permitted levels of metal.\n\n\"They are the worst set of results I've ever seen.\"\n\nIn \"highlighter vapes\" - designed with bright colours to look like highlighter pens - the amounts of the metals found were:\n\nThe metals were thought to come from the heating element - but the tests showed they were in the e-liquid itself.\n\nThe lab tests also found compounds called carbonyls - which break down, when the e-liquid heats up, into chemicals such as formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, also found in cigarette smoke - at 10 times the level in legal vapes. Some even had more than cigarettes.\n\nManufacturers have to follow regulations on ingredients, packaging and marketing - and all e-cigarettes and e-liquids must be registered with the Medicine and Health Care Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). But the agency is not required to check the claims made in paperwork and has no power to investigate unregistered products.\n\nMHRA head of e-cigarettes Craig Copland said the results would be reviewed to assess whether the vapes posed a health risk.\n\nBBC News showed the findings to Baxter College pupils Leon and Oscar, whose vapes had been confiscated. They admitted in a previous interview they were hooked on nicotine and struggled to give up vaping.\n\nBaxter College pupils Leon and Oscar learning about their confiscated vapes\n\nThe boys say it is easy to ignore the risks.\n\n\"You won't really care, if you're addicted to it - you'll just forget about it,\" Oscar said.\n\nLeon said regulation and policing should be doing more to tackle the problem.\n\n\"They're not really as bothered as they should be,\" he said.\n\nHead teacher Mat Carpenter was horrified by the findings. He has installed sensors in the school toilets to try to reduce opportunities to vape.\n\n\"It's been part of youth culture for a long time and we are a long way behind the curve in influencing children's behaviour around this, which is why we need such a strong message,\" Mr Carpenter said.\n\n\"As a society we are capable of holding two messages, one that if you smoke already vaping can have a positive effect on your health, but children should not be vaping.\"\n\nUniversity of Nottingham epidemiology professor John Britton, who sits on the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Group, said inhaling metals could be dangerous.\n\n\"Lead is a neurotoxin and impairs brain development, chrome and nickel are allergens and metal particles in general in the bloodstream can trigger blood clotting and can exacerbate cardiovascular disease,\" he said.\n\n\"The carbonyls are mildly carcinogenic and so with sustained use will increase the risk of cancer - but in legal products, the levels of all of these things is extremely low so the lifetime risk to the individual is extremely small.\"\n\nBut Mr Lawson said there had been a much greater rise in illegal products recently and \"some of these are hard to distinguish between the ones which are potentially legal\".\n\nProf Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard, who is Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, said she was \"genuinely shocked\" by the findings.\n\n\"Unregulated products need to be taken off our streets, out of our shops, and our young people need to be protected.\n\n\"Vaping is something we should be avoiding if we can, albeit better than smoking. If you have any suspicion that your child is using an illicit vape, this is dangerous for their health. Please intervene,\" she advised parents and carers.\n\nThe government has allocated £3m to tackle the sale of illegal vapes in England. It wants to fund more test purchases and have the products removed from shops and is calling for evidence to help cut the number of children accessing vapes.\n\nIt is illegal to sell vapes to under-18s. But a YouGov survey in March and April for Action on Smoking and Health suggests a rise in experimental vaping among 11- to 17-year-olds, from 7.7%, last year, to 11.6%.", "Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, then aged three\n\nIn the intervening years, a huge, costly police operation has taken place across much of Europe.\n\nMadeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, say all they have ever wanted is to find their daughter.\n\nHere is the story so far.\n\nMadeleine went missing from this apartment block at the Ocean Club. The family's apartment is on the left of the building, as seen here\n\nOn 3 May Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, is on holiday with her family at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, Portugal.\n\nOn 12 May, the McCanns say they \"cannot describe the anguish and despair\" they are feeling.\n\nPortuguese police say they believe Madeleine was abducted but is still alive and in Portugal.\n\nOn 26 May, police issue a description of a man seen on the night of Madeleine's disappearance, possibly carrying a child.\n\nA search took place in the areas around Praia da Luz on the Algarve\n\nIn June, a Portuguese police chief admits vital forensic clues may have been destroyed as the scene was not protected properly.\n\nIn July, British police send sniffer dogs to assist the investigation, and inspections of the McCann's apartment and rental car are conducted.\n\nBy August it is 100 days since Madeleine disappeared. Investigating officers publicly acknowledge she may not be found alive.\n\nOn 6 September, Portuguese police interview Kate McCann as a witness. On 7 September, detectives make the couple \"arguidos\" and days later, the McCanns return to the UK. Prosecutors later say there is no new evidence to justify re-questioning them.\n\nGerry McCann releases a video in November saying he believes his family was watched by \"a predator\" in the days before his daughter's disappearance.\n\nKate and Gerry McCann leave church after a service to mark the first anniversary of their daughter's disappearance\n\nOn 20 January the McCanns release sketches of a suspect, based on a description by a British holidaymaker of a \"creepy man\" seen at the resort.\n\nIn April, Portuguese police fly to the UK to sit in on interviews conducted by Leicestershire Police of the McCanns' friends they had dinner with on the night Madeleine disappeared.\n\nOn 3 May, one year since the disappearance, Mrs McCann urges people to \"pray like mad\" for her little girl.\n\nBy July Portuguese police say they have submitted their final report on the case. Weeks later, authorities shelve their investigation and lift the \"arguido\" status of the McCanns.\n\nAn image was released of how Madeleine might look at six\n\nOn 3 November, new images of how Madeleine might now look are released.\n\nIn March 2010, the McCanns criticise the release of previously unseen Portuguese police files - detailing possible sightings of Madeleine - to British newspapers.\n\nA month later, in April, Gerry McCann says it is \"incredibly frustrating\" that police in Portugal and the UK had not been actively looking for his daughter \"for a very long time\".\n\nIn November, the couple sign a publishing deal to write a book about Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nThe McCanns' book, Madeleine, is released in May.\n\nPrime Minister David Cameron asks the Metropolitan Police to help investigate. A two-year review follows.\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Redwood, the detective leading the UK review of Madeleine's disappearance, tells an April broadcast of the BBC's Panorama his team is \"seeking to bring closure to the case\".\n\nA computer-generated image of what Madeleine might look like aged nine is released, a day before Portuguese authorities say they are not reopening their investigation.\n\nIn May, UK detectives reviewing the case say they have identified \"a number of persons of interest\".\n\nBy July, Scotland Yard announces it has \"new evidence and new witnesses\" in the case and opens a formal investigation.\n\nBy October, Scotland Yard detectives say they have identified 41 potential suspects.\n\nA BBC Crimewatch appeal features e-fit images of a man seen carrying a blond-haired child of three or four in Praia da Luz at about the time Madeleine went missing.\n\nPortuguese police reopen their investigation - to run alongside Scotland Yard's - citing \"new lines of inquiry\".\n\nMet Police officers searched scrubland near where Madeleine vanished in 2014\n\nIn January British detectives fly to Portugal amid claims they are planning to make arrests.\n\nIn June searches in Praia da Luz are carried out, including an area of scrubland situated south-west of the Ocean Club complex. It yields nothing of interest.\n\nA month later, in July, four suspects are quizzed by police but no new developments emerge.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three when she went missing in 2007\n\nIn September 2015 the British government disclose that the investigation has cost more than £10m.\n\nIn April 2017 the four official suspects investigated by police are ruled out of the investigation but senior officers say they are pursuing a \"significant line of inquiry\".\n\nIn June 2019 the UK government says it will fund the Met Police inquiry, which began in 2011, until March 2020.\n\nA year later, in June 2020, police reveal that a 43-year-old German prisoner - named by German media as Christian B - has been identified as a suspect. The McCanns thank police, saying: \"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nGerman investigators have classed it as a murder inquiry and say they are assuming that Madeleine is dead.\n\nThe UK's Metropolitan Police says it has received more than 270 calls and emails since a new appeal for information was launched on Wednesday.\n\nIn April 2022, a German man is declared an official suspect by Portuguese prosecutors investigating the case.\n\nChristian Brueckner, then 45, is made an \"arguido\", although Portuguese authorities do not formally reveal the suspect's name.\n\nThe McCann family mark the 16th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance on 3 May 2022, saying she is \"still very much missed\" and they \"await a breakthrough\".\n\nLater that month, a Portuguese news website reports that an area near a reservoir, about 30 miles (48km) from Praia da Luz, had been being sealed off. Police say they will begin searching the Arade dam on 23 May.\n• None In Pictures: The search for Madeleine McCann", "Dan Kaszeta will no longer be speaking at tomorrow's Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference, despite being invited to do so four months ago\n\nA global expert on nerve agents, stood down from speaking at a government-backed conference, says he believes it is because he is outspoken on a range of issues including asylum policy.\n\nDan Kaszeta was disinvited from Tuesday's conference after his social media content was vetted.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said checks on people speaking at government-organised events ensured a balanced discussion.\n\nBut Mr Kaszeta insisted he would have only spoken on his area of expertise.\n\nThat is firmly in the area of chemical, biological and radiological weapons and warfare - a subject in which he has gathered three decades of experience. He also spent 12 years working as an adviser for the White House.\n\nSo when the Ministry of Defence was putting together the guest list for the 25th annual Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference - which in its own words would \"bring together international experts and promoting collaboration to achieve a future free from chemical weapons\" - Mr Kaszeta's services as a keynote speaker were secured back in January.\n\nThe American, who has been based in the UK for the past 13 years, told BBC Two's Newsnight he was \"outraged\" that the government's trawl through his Twitter account - on which he poked fun at Liz Truss, expressed anti-Brexit views and criticised asylum policy - means he can no longer share his knowledge with delegates from the government, industry, academia and armed forces.\n\nHe received an email last month - which has been shown to Newsnight - that told him: \"Rules introduced by the Cabinet Office in 2022 specify that the social media accounts of potential speakers must be vetted before final acceptance to the programme. The vetting is impartial and purely evidence-based.\n\n\"The check on your social media has identified material that criticises government officials and policy. It is for this reason and not because we do not value your technical insight, that I'm afraid that we have no choice and must cancel your invitation to the CWD conference.\"\n\nMr Kaszeta stressed he was never going to speak about policy matters at the event.\n\n\"This is an outrage against free speech. I was going to speak about possible future scenarios around the world in which chemical demilitarisation would be relevant. I think perhaps the most controversial thing I would say was perhaps, gee, we don't really know what's going on in North Korea,\" he said.\n\nThe email is the clearest indication so far of the unpublished guidance from the Cabinet Office on the restrictions on who can be given a prominent platform to speak at government venues and events.\n\nIt was first introduced after political blogger Guido Fawkes highlighted the views of an academic who was due to speak to civil servants at the Home Office during Black History Month in 2021.\n\nA year later, the first known example of the new \"no-platform\" rule being used came when Kate Devlin, a professor at King's College London, an expert on artificial intelligence, was disinvited from speaking at an event about women in tech.\n\nShe told the Independent at the time that she had received an email saying it was because she had \"made a criticism of government policy on social media\".\n\nIn her case, she had previously criticised the government's planned Online Harms Bill, made anti-monarchy comments and retweeted a parody of Liz Truss.\n\nInterviewed at the time, she told Newsnight she had been very clear that her talk would not be touching on any areas she had her own private views on and she found it \"quite alarming\" that she had still been excluded.\n\nMr Kaszeta argued that being a critic of some government policies should not prevent him taking part in an event on a completely unrelated subject.\n\n\"I'm a critic of the government's policy on homelessness and asylum seekers. Why that should have any impact whatsoever on whether or not I can speak to a technical conference in my own area of expertise. That's Stalinist.\"\n\nWhen approached by Newsnight for an explanation, the government said: \"As the public would expect, we conduct due diligence checks and carefully consider all speakers at any government hosted conference to ensure that we can have a balanced and constructive discussion around our policies.\"\n\nOther than Ms Devlin and Mr Kaszeta, whose identity was first revealed by the Times, Newsnight knows of three other professionals who have received similar letters after the Cabinet Office vetted their social media.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nMicah Richards says La Liga president Javier Tebas' response to the racist abuse suffered by Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr \"makes my blood boil\".\n\nReal's La Liga match at Valencia on Sunday was paused in the second half after an incensed Vinicius reported opposition fans to the referee.\n\nVinicius has been the target of racist abuse multiple times this season and the latest incident has seen him receive support from the footballing world.\n\nAnd there has been widespread condemnation of how the incident has been handled, including from the Brazilian government.\n\nAfter the match, Vinicius and Tebas were involved in a row on Twitter, after the Brazilian said La Liga \"belongs to racists\" and \"in Brazil, Spain is known as a country of racists\".\n• None Three held in Spain over Vinicius Jr racial abuse\n\nTebas responded by saying Vinicius twice did not turn up for a meeting to discuss what it \"can do in cases of racism\", adding: \"Before you criticise and slander La Liga, you need to inform yourself properly.\"\n\n\"Javier has tried to make himself the victim in all this, it's absolutely embarrassing what he has come out with in his statement,\" former Manchester City and England defender Richards told BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club.\n\n\"It makes my blood boil and that is part of the problem. It's not just a football issue, it's a life that people go through every single day.\"\n\nReal have reported the abuse towards the 22-year-old to the Spanish prosecutor's office as a hate crime.\n\nPolice in Spain said on Tuesday they had detained three people in connection with racist abuse directed at the player Sunday's game.\n\nOn Monday the lights on the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro were switched off for an hour, in cooperation with the Brazilian FA and the Observatory of Racial Discrimination in Football.\n\nThe Archdiocesan Sanctuary, which manages the monument, said it \"repudiates\" the racism faced by Vinicius, adding: \"The lighting of the monument will be switched off as a symbol of the collective fight against racism and in solidarity with the player and all those who suffer prejudice around the world.\"\n\nVinicius said on Instagram: \"Black and strong. May this image of a statue of Christ symbolise our struggle. Thanks so much for all the love. I will always be ready to fight for our ideals.\"\n\n'What chance do we have?'\n\nRichards said measures to try and curb racism in the game were \"not working\".\n\n\"People don't care enough and that is the problem,\" he added. \"If people cared they would do something about it.\n\n\"It's not about taking the knee or wearing Kick it Out shirts because it's not working. I'm tired of having to talk about the same things that happens over and over again.\n\n\"We have spoken enough. The people who need to sort themselves out are the ones who are being racist. Until harsher punishments are delivered it's always going to be the same.\n\n\"If Javier thinks like that, what chance do we have?\"\n\nFellow pundit and former Blackburn and Chelsea striker Chris Sutton called for Tebas to be removed from his position.\n\n\"When you have someone in such a powerful position, to have a Twitter spat with Vinicius Jr, to tell him he is wrong, it's glaringly obvious to everyone there needs to be change in that position,\" he said.\n\n'It's not football, it's inhuman'\n\nIn a new social media post on Monday, Vinicius listed the instances of abuse he has suffered this season and said they were not \"isolated cases\".\n\n\"What is missing to criminalize these people? And punish the clubs sportively? Why don't the sponsors charge La Liga? Don't the televisions bother to broadcast this barbarity every weekend?\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"The problem is very serious, and press releases don't work anymore. Neither does blaming me to justify criminal acts. It's not football, it's inhuman.\"\n\nCommenting on the post on Instagram, Burnley manager and former Manchester City defender Vincent Kompany wrote: \"My heart is bleeding when I see these images.\n\n\"So much has already been endured by our fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers… and still the fight is not over. Our children will not grow up in a world where discrimination and hate prevails. They will know their worth and they will never bow down to those who chose to discriminate, separate and hate. Vinicius, You Are Not Alone. We stand together and we are stronger than ever.\"\n\nSeptember 2022 - Some Atletico Madrid fans sang racist songs toward Vinicius outside their Wanda Metropolitano stadium before Real Madrid played them in September 2022. Atletico Madrid later condemned \"unacceptable\" chants by a \"minority\" of fans.\n\nSeptember 2022 - some pundits in Spain criticise Vinicius' goal celebration, in which he dances by corner flag. He responds by saying \"the happiness of a black Brazilian in Europe\" is behind the criticism.\n\nDecember 2022 - Vinicius appeared to be subjected to racist abuse at Valladolid while he walked past fans after being substituted. La Liga said it has filed charges relating to the racist abuse of Vinicius to the \"relevant judicial, administrative and sporting bodies\".\n\nJanuary 2023 - An effigy of the Real Madrid winger was hung from a bridge near the club's training ground before a game against Atletico Madrid in the Copa del Rey. Atletico said the incident was \"repugnant\".\n\nFebruary 2023 - Mallorca fans were filmed allegedly racially abusing the Brazilian during a game against Real.\n\nMarch 2023 - La Liga said \"intolerable racist behaviour was once again observed against Vinicius\" in a game against Barcelona and it had reported the racist insults to the Barcelona Court of Instruction.\n• None Will Wrexham get to the Premier League? A heartwarming look back at the history of the football club now owned by two Hollywood actors\n• None Can you put ten British monarchs into the correct order? Test your memory with this fun challenge", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From captaining a Royal Navy ship to meeting former US First Lady Michelle Obama\n\nA woman who ticked off a bucket list of ambitions while living with terminal cancer has died, her mother has said.\n\nLaura Nuttall was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in 2018 and was given an initial prognosis of 12 months.\n\nIn 2021, she said after she got her diagnosis, she had chosen \"to do something about it and stay positive\".\n\nPaying tribute to the 23-year-old on Twitter, Nicola Nuttall said Laura had been \"fierce and tenacious to the end\".\n\n\"I'm heartbroken to share the news that we lost our beautiful Laura in the early hours of this morning,\" she said.\n\nShe said it had \"truly\" been the \"honour of my life to be her mum\".\n\n\"We are devastated at the thought of life without our girl,\" she added.\n\n\"She was a force of nature.\"\n\nLaura Nuttall (left) was given an initial prognosis of 12 months\n\nAccepting a BBC Radio Lancashire Make A Difference award in 2021, Laura, who was from Barrowford, said she did not want people just to focus on her cancer, \"because what is the point in that?\"\n\n\"What sort of legacy will I leave if I just focus on myself and not others?\" she said.\n\n\"The day I was diagnosed with brain cancer, I just thought 'I've got two options... I could say all right, that's fine, I'm going to sit here and die or am I going to do something about it and stay positive?' and that is what I chose to do.\"\n\nLaura was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, the most aggressive form of brain cancer, following a routine eye test.\n\nShe was later found to have eight tumours and, in 2018, was given just a year to live.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Nuttall and her mum Nicola made a video diary of their night at Wembley\n\nIn 2021, comedian Peter Kay, who worked with Ms Nuttall's father, Mark, played his first gigs in four years to raise money for her treatment.\n\nIn March, she underwent treatment in Germany, which followed her fourth major operation in October 2022 to remove a tumour.\n\nThe comic took her and her family out to lunch a few weeks later after Ms Nuttall was told the tumour had grown back and the family then brought forward Christmas after being told it had spread further.\n\nMr Nuttall tweeted he was \"heartbroken\" and losing Laura had left \"a huge chasm\".\n\nHe said the family were \"so very proud of her and what she achieved in her short life\".\n\n\"Her flame burned so brightly, unfortunately, not nearly for long enough,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the family would continue \"to support the charities and beliefs which were very dear and important to Laura\".\n\nJack Morris, the chairman of trustees at the Brain Tumour Charity, said they were \"so proud of everything she achieved\" and \"so honoured to have been able to call her a much-adored friend and ambassador\".\n\n\"Since her diagnosis in 2018, Laura was steadfast in her determination to share her story to raise vital awareness of glioblastomas, their devastating impact and the need for greater investment in research,\" he said.\n\nHe said Ms Nuttall had become \"one of our incredible Young Ambassadors in 2019\", a role in which she had \"touched the hearts and minds of so many, reaching out to offer comfort and hope to others going through similar diagnoses\".\n\nHe added that in the face of \"such an impossibly difficult diagnosis at such a young age\", Ms Nuttall had carried herself with \"so much grit and compassion [and] so often with a beaming smile\" and her determination to \"live life to the full never failed to inspire everyone she met\".\n\nMs Nuttall graduated from university in 2022, four years after receiving her terminal diagnosis\n\nThe University of Manchester's Prof Jackie Carter said Ms Nuttall had been \"an incredible and spirited young woman\" who had \"defied all the odds\" to complete her studies.\n\n\"I got to know Laura and her amazing family well during her time here, as my own son has incurable brain cancer,\" she said.\n\n\"I'll never forget her telling me when we were raising money together at Manchester Pride that she wanted people to know who she was as a person, and see her determination, rather than just being seen as someone with cancer.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Nuttall presented BBC North West Tonight's weather as part of her list\n\nMany people have paid tribute to her on social media, including comedian Diane Morgan, who had previously recorded a message of support.\n\nShe said she felt she had got to know Laura through Nicola's posts and she \"was an amazing person\".\n\nThumbs Up for Charlie, a charity which was set up in memory of a five-year-old boy who died of brain cancer, tweeted that Ms Nuttall had been \"an inspirational young woman\" who had \"accomplished so much\" and \"whose legacy will live on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Radio 1 Newsbeat teamed up with Leah Williamson and the FA to get a special message to cancer patient Laura\n\nOn Facebook, her MP Andrew Stephenson said Laura would be \"deeply missed by so many people, including me and my team\".\n\nHe said he felt \"very grateful to have got to know Laura\" when she did work experience at both his Nelson and Westminster offices before she went to university.\n\nHe said she had dedicated herself to raising awareness of brain tumours \"and to achieving as much as she could \"in what time she had\".\n\nThe charity Brain Tumour Research said it was \"deeply saddened\" at the news as \"yet another brave soul lost to this devastating disease\".\n\n\"Along with her family [Laura] did so much to raise awareness of this disease, and our thoughts are with her family at this time.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The Russian defence ministry released photos of what it said were abandoned or damaged Western military vehicles, including US-made Humvees\n\nThe US has distanced itself from an incursion into Russia - which Moscow says ended in the defeat of armed insurgents who entered from Ukraine.\n\nParts of the border region of Belgorod came under attack on Monday, in one of the largest cross-border raids since Russia invaded its neighbour last year.\n\nRussia later released pictures of abandoned or damaged Western military vehicles, including US-made Humvees.\n\nThe US insisted it did not \"encourage or enable strikes inside of Russia\".\n\nA state department spokesman acknowledged reports \"circulating on social media and elsewhere\" that US-supplied weapons had been used, but said his country was \"sceptical at this time of the veracity of these reports\".\n\nIn a news briefing on Tuesday, Matthew Miller added: \"It is up to Ukraine to decide how to conduct this war.\"\n\nSome Ukrainian military experts and bloggers have suggested that the images of destroyed US vehicles released by Russia could have been staged.\n\nVillages in Belgorod near the border were evacuated after coming under fire. Russia says 70 attackers were killed, and has insisted the fighters were Ukrainian.\n\nBut Kyiv denies involvement - and two Russian paramilitary groups opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin say they were behind the incursion.\n\nMonday's raid led Moscow to declare a counter-terrorism operation, giving the authorities special powers to clamp down on communications and people's movements.\n\nThe measures were only lifted the following afternoon, and even then, one of the paramilitary groups was claiming it still controlled a small piece of Russian territory.\n\nRegional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said one civilian had died while being evacuated, and several others were injured during the violence.\n\nIn a later development, he said the region had been subject to a \"large\" number of drone attacks overnight on Tuesday. He said the attacks damaged private vehicles, houses and offices, but there were no victims.\n\nMr Gladkov also said a gas pipeline was damaged in the Graivoron district by the drone barrage, which led to a small fire on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe claims by the warring sides have not been independently verified - although the BBC was able to establish that a building used by Russia's main security agency, the FSB, was among those hit during the violence. It is not clear what caused the damage.\n\nAnother Russian photo showed a wrecked vehicle with the words \"for Bakhmut\" written in Russian on the side\n\nCommenting on the hostilities in Belgorod, Russia's defence ministry said a \"unit of a Ukrainian nationalist formation\" had invaded its territory to carry out attacks.\n\nOne of its photos showed a wrecked vehicle with the words \"for Bakhmut\" written on it, a reference to the Ukrainian city which Russia says it has recently captured - a claim disputed by Kyiv.\n\nAs well as killing dozens of what it described as \"Ukrainian terrorists\" in artillery and air strikes, the ministry claimed to have driven the rest of the fighters back to the Ukrainian border.\n\nBut Ukrainian officials said the attackers were Russians, from groups known as the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC).\n\nSocial media posts from the two paramilitary groups appeared to confirm their involvement. Both groups also told Ukraine's public broadcaster Suspilne that they were creating \"a demilitarised zone on the border with the Russian Federation from which they will not be able to shell Ukraine\".\n\nAny assaults on Russian soil make leaders in the Nato military alliance of Western countries nervous - meaning that the developments could prove a mixed blessing for Kyiv.\n\nThe cross-border incursion may be embarrassing for Moscow, and go some way to offset the bad optics for Ukraine of reportedly losing control of Bakhmut after months of intense and bloody fighting.\n\nIt is also likely to be part of Ukraine's shaping operations ahead of its coming counter-offensive, aiming to draw Russian troops away from the south where Kyiv is expected to attack.\n\nBut it is not a development that is likely to be welcomed by the West.\n\nThe long-range weapons these countries have provided to Kyiv - although not used in this attack - still come with the proviso they are not to be used to hit targets inside Russia.\n\nDespite official denials from Kyiv, it is hard to believe this raid was launched without assistance from Ukrainian military intelligence.\n\nIt plays into the Kremlin narrative that Russia's own sovereign security is under attack from malign forces backed by the West.\n\nIt is a narrative likely to be fuelled by reports that some of those who took part are linked to far-right extremism, reinforcing Moscow's claim that it is trying to rid Ukraine of neo-Nazis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nArmed insurgents who crossed the border from Ukraine to launch attacks in Russia's Belgorod region have been defeated, Moscow claims.\n\nVillages near the border were evacuated after coming under shellfire in one of the most significant cross-border raids since the start of Russia's invasion.\n\nRussia says 70 attackers were killed and insists the fighters are Ukrainian.\n\nBut Kyiv has denied involvement and two Russian paramilitary groups have said they were behind the incursion.\n\nMonday's raid led Moscow to declare a counter-terrorism operation, giving the authorities special powers to clamp down on communications and people's movements.\n\nThe measures were only lifted on Tuesday afternoon, and even then, one of the paramilitary groups was claiming it still controlled a \"small, but our own piece of the Motherland\".\n\nThe claims by the warring sides have not been independently verified, but any assaults on Russian soil make Nato leaders nervous, and the development could prove a mixed blessing for Kyiv.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said a \"unit of the Ukrainian nationalist formation\" invaded its territory and was responsible for heavy shelling on the Kozinka checkpoint and other parts of the nearby area.\n\nAs well as killing dozens of what it described as \"Ukrainian terrorists\" in artillery and air strikes, the ministry claimed to have driven the rest of the fighters back to the Ukrainian border.\n\nBut Ukrainian officials said the attackers were Russians, from groups known as the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC).\n\n\"These are Russian patriots who want to change the political regime in the country,\" Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar told Ukrainian TV.\n\nThe Liberty of Russia Legion said on Twitter on Monday it had \"completely liberated\" the border town of Kozinka and that its units had reached as far as the town of Grayvoron, further east.\n\nThe group said it was continuing to free the Belgorod region and Russian armed forces could not oppose it.\n\nSeparately, on Tuesday afternoon the RVC posted a video of its fighters moving towards what looked like a border check-point, saying it still controlled a \"small... piece of the homeland\".\n\nBoth of the paramilitary groups also told Ukraine's public broadcaster Suspilne that they were creating \"a demilitarised zone on the border with the Russian Federation from which they will not be able to shell Ukraine\".\n\nThe cross-border incursion may be embarrassing for Moscow, and go some way to offset the bad optics for Ukraine of reportedly losing control of Bakhmut after months of intense and bloody fighting.\n\nIt is also likely to be part of Ukraine's shaping operations ahead of its coming counter-offensive, aiming to draw Russian troops away from the south where Kyiv is expected to attack.\n\nBut it is not a development that is likely to welcomed by the West.\n\nThe long-range weapons they have provided to Kyiv, although not used in this attack, still come with the proviso they are not to be used to hit targets inside Russia.\n\nDespite official denials from Kyiv, it is hard to believe this raid was launched without assistance from Ukrainian military intelligence.\n\nIt plays into the Kremlin narrative that Russia's own sovereign security is under attack from malign forces backed by the West.\n\nIt is a narrative likely to be fuelled by reports that some of those who took part are linked to far right extremism, reinforcing Moscow's claim that its trying to rid Ukraine of Neo-Nazis.\n\nBelgorod's governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said several people had been injured in the fighting, including two civilians who were being evacuated from their homes.\n\nMr Gladkov said that people in several villages had been evacuated and warned those who had fled their homes not to return yet, as Russian forces carried out what he described as a \"mopping-up\" operation.\n\nHe added that air defences had shot down drones overnight, damaging buildings.\n\nTemporary shelters have been set up in the Grayvoronsky district for some 9,300 people who have been displaced, according to local authorities.\n\nThe BBC has verified that a building used by Russia's main security agency, the FSB, was among those hit. It is not clear what caused the damage.", "Samantha Lee denied breaching Met Police standards in her investigation of Wayne Couzens\n\nA former Met Police officer who carried out a \"lamentably poor\" investigation into Wayne Couzens has been found guilty of gross misconduct.\n\nSamantha Lee failed to make \"the correct investigative inquiries\" into two flashing incidents, a panel heard.\n\nCouzens killed Sarah Everard in south-west London soon after exposing himself to staff at a branch of McDonald's.\n\nDuring the hearing Ms Lee admitted she made some errors in the investigation, but denied gross misconduct.\n\nShe is no longer a police officer having left last year, but was a PC at the time.\n\nWayne Couzens was already serving life for murdering Sarah Everard when he was sentenced for indecent exposure earlier this year\n\nThe police disciplinary panel heard Ms Lee carried out a \"lamentably poor and rushed investigation\" into the two incidents when Couzens exposed himself to female members of staff at the fast food restaurant in Swanley, Kent, on 14 and 27 February 2021.\n\nThe former PC went to the restaurant as part of her investigation on 3 March, just hours before Couzens kidnapped Ms Everard in Clapham.\n\nThe McDonald's manager told the hearing he had shown her CCTV of Couzens where his number plate was clearly visible, and showed her receipts which recorded the last four digits of Couzens' card.\n\nShe said he had told her the footage had already been deleted, a claim the hearing was told was a lie to cover up her failure.\n\nPanel chairman Darren Snow found this dishonesty amounted to gross misconduct, and that had Ms Lee still been a serving officer, she would have been dismissed from the force. He added she will be barred from serving in the police again.\n\nReading the panel's findings, Mr Snow found that Sam Taylor, the McDonald's manager, was a \"credible\" witness and it was \"inconceivable that he would not have shown her the CCTV evidence\".\n\nHe added that the panel believed Ms Lee had been driven to dishonesty by the \"pressure\" of the investigation.\n\nSarah Everard was murdered by Couzens soon after the indecent exposure incidents\n\nIn her evidence, Ms Lee admitted she had made errors, but said nothing she could have done \"would have changed the tragic outcome\" of what happened to Sarah Everard.\n\n\"As much as I have thought it over and over, I don't believe that anything I could have done would have changed the tragic outcome of what happened later that day,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, she claimed she has been made a \"scapegoat\" by the Met and said: \"I have never lied\".\n\nIn March this year, Couzens was sentenced to 19 months in prison after admitting three counts of indecent exposure.\n\nHe was already serving life behind bars for the kidnap, rape and murder of Ms Everard.\n\nThe third indecent exposure incident related to when Couzens exposed himself to a female cyclist on a Kent country lane in November 2020.\n\nEvidence heard by the panel has highlighted questions around the wider police response.\n\nThe 999 call, made by the McDonald's manager on 28 February, prompted the operator to run the registration details of the black Seat Exeo through the police national computer which confirmed it was registered to Wayne Couzens and gave his home address, but didn't show he was a serving police officer.\n\nPaul Ozin KC, representing the Met, told the hearing there was \"no standard check that takes place to see whether a suspect in criminal police cases are police officers\".\n\nThis is an issue that's been previously highlighted by the chief constable of British Transport Police, Lucy D'Orsi, who wrote on a policing blog in January it was in her view \"a priority issue for our attention\".\n\nThe case will also raise questions once again over how police respond to indecent exposure offences, which campaigners believe need to be taken far more seriously.\n\nThe panel heard that the 999 call was initially treated as \"comparatively low urgency\".\n\nFormer PC Lee was not assigned to attend the scene until three days later. Just a few hours after she did, Couzens kidnapped Sarah Everard.\n\nDuring the hearing Ms Lee accepted she \"could have done more around CCTV and evidence gathering\", but added she did not \"believe that anything I could have done would have changed the tragic outcome of what happened later that day\".\n\nNow, the police watchdog, the the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is calling for the introduction of a national system to ensure criminal allegations that are made against serving officers notify relevant police forces.\n\nIn a statement, the IOPC added it had already recommended the Met \"consider developing a system automatically flagging when an officer is under criminal investigation\".\n\nThe IOPC's director of operations Amanda Rowe said: \"It may not have prevented Couzens from committing his crimes, but if it is combined with the change in culture that policing recognises is necessary, it could help prevent it from happening again in the future. That's why we'll be exploring this possibility of this with the NPCC later this week.\n\n\"We have also been working closely with the Angiolini Inquiry, sharing evidence to inform its work looking at cultural issues within policing and addressing the broader concerns around women's safety in public highlighted by Sarah Everard's death.\"\n\nThe Met's deputy assistant commissioner Stuart Cundy said: \"As the panel has made clear, honesty and integrity are fundamental to policing and our relationship with the public.\n\n\"The wider circumstances leading to Sarah Everard's terrible murder will be considered by the Angiolini Inquiry and any subsequent inquest, and we are fully assisting them with their vital work.\n\n\"Fundamentally, I am sorry that Couzens was not arrested before he went on to murder Sarah Everard and we continue to think of her loved ones.\"\n\nThe force added it has been \"taking steps to improve\" the way it deals with allegations of indecent exposure - including ensuring investigations are led by specially trained officers, increasing capacity in intelligence teams to identify perpetrators and linked offences, and using a wide range of methods to identify sexual predatory behaviour and deter offenders.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sophie met students and teachers during her visit to a girls' school in Baghdad\n\nThe Duchess of Edinburgh has become the first UK royal to visit Baghdad - as part of her work to support survivors of sexual violence in conflict.\n\nBuckingham Palace said Sophie had spent two days in Iraq's capital to learn of the challenges women and girls face.\n\nShe visited a girls' school to hear from pupils about their education.\n\nAfter meeting Iraq's women young and old, Sophie visited President Abdul Latif Rashid and prime minister Mohammad Shia Al Sudani.\n\nShe was praised for being the first member of the Royal Family to visit Baghdad by the UK's ambassador to the country, Mark Bryson-Richardson, whom she spent most of the trip with.\n\nSophie, who gained the title of Duchess of Edinburgh when her husband Prince Edward took on a new role in March after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, has said in the past that she is passionate about supporting women and gender equality around the world.\n\nShe champions a global initiative to prevent sexual violence in conflict and on International Women's Day in 2019, she announced her mission to support the UN's women, peace and security agenda, which encourage women's participation in peace processes and conflict resolution.\n\nDuring her visit to Baghdad this week, Sophie gave a speech at the annual Women's Voices First Conference to promote that agenda - which says women must play a part in all efforts to achieve international peace and security.\n\nSophie gave a speech at the conference which aims to live up to its title to put women's voices first.\n\nEarlier in the day, Sophie posed for photos with students and teachers at Hitten Girl's School as she discussed education for young women in the country, and what their hopes were for the future,\n\nShe also visited a family planning centre to hear about work being carried out to support the reproductive health and wellbeing of Iraqi women, and met female business leaders to discuss the importance of women's economic empowerment.\n\nThe duchess then paid a visit to the two men running the country - prime minister Mohammad Shia Al Sudani and president Abdul Latif Rashid.\n\nFirst lady Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed was also present as Sophie was formally received by the president.\n\nMr Bryson-Richardson said Sophie and the two political leaders spoke about the UK and Iraq's \"strong ties\", as well as discussing the country's plans to give support and justice to survivors of sexual violence in armed conflict.\n\nSophie also had a formal task to complete, passing on a message of greeting from King Charles to the two leaders.\n\nMr Bryson-Richardson further praised Sophie for helping to raise awareness on the importance of Iraq to the UK as he said it was a \"sign of the strength of our bilateral relationship\".\n\nSophie was formally received by the President of Iraq Abdul Latif Rashid\n\nThe unannounced trip had been kept secret for security reasons and was made at the request of the ForeignOffice, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nThe Foreign Office currently advises British nationals against all travel to the majority of provinces in Iraq due to the threat of violent protests in and around the International Zone in Baghdad.\n\nThe UK and Iraq have been rebuilding their relationship in recent years due after British troops fought there two decades ago in the second Iraq war, which broke out in 2003.\n\nOther royals have visited different parts of the country over the years.\n\nWhen he was Prince of Wales, Charles travelled to Basra in 2004 to visit British troops fighting in the war.\n\nA couple of years later in 2006, Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh, also made a surprise trip to see the troops in Basra.\n\nSophie has had a high profile this month as she helped mark the King's Coronation over the four-day celebrations.\n\nShe also delighted royal fans as she was spotted dancing to Lionel Richie as he sang his classic song All Night Long during the Coronation Concert.\n\nThen on the Sunday, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh visited a street lunch in Surrey as more than 1,000 street parties and lunches were held across Kent, Sussex and Surrey.", "Dr Alexandra Anderson, head of Let's Be Heard, wants people's experiences to shape the investigation\n\nScots are being asked to share their personal experience of the pandemic.\n\nA new website is being launched to allow members of the public to detail how they thought the Scottish government handled the health crisis.\n\nThe project aims to assess the impact Covid had on them or their loved ones, and what lessons should be learned.\n\nExperiences shared will be \"at the heart\" of the inquiry into the Scottish government's response to the pandemic from 1 January 2020 to the end of 2022.\n\nThe Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry will establish facts and lessons to be learned.\n\nIt will also make recommendations to Scottish ministers to ensure the country is better prepared in future.\n\nThe main UK Covid inquiry began last August, but the separate Scottish investigation has been beset by delays.\n\nFour members of the inquiry's legal team stood down last October.\n\nIts chairwoman Lady Poole also quit for personal reasons and was replaced by Lord Brailsford.\n\nThe new website - Let's Be Heard: Sharing Scotland's Covid Experience - will be launched on Tuesday.\n\nPrinted submissions will also be available in GP practices, care homes, pharmacies and libraries.\n\nDr Alexandra Anderson, head of Let's Be Heard, said: \"Everyone in Scotland has been affected by the pandemic.\n\n\"Thousands of people have lost their lives, and many continue to be deeply impacted. Lessons people believe should be drawn from their experiences, both positive and negative, will be at the heart of the inquiry's investigations.\n\n\"Our internal research team will analyse the experiences people share with us and produce a series of reports to help shape the inquiry's investigations and inform its reporting and recommendations to Scottish ministers.\"\n\nJane Morrison lost her 49-year-old wife Jacky during the pandemic\n\nJane Morrison, whose wife Jacky died from hospital-acquired Covid in 2020, welcomed the project.\n\nShe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We don't want any other people to ever have to go through what we've gone through.\n\n\"Where things have gone wrong, we can hopefully tell people about them and make suggestions for how it could can be improved.\"\n\nMs Morrison, from Scottish Covid Bereaved, said the group were also keen to highlight areas of good practice they had come across.\n\nAnd she said the \"very positive\" initiative would help bring together many experiences.\n\nMs Morrison added: \"It would be impossible in the inquiry setting to get all of these people to come forward and tell their story.\n\n\"They can tell their story, they can say this is what happened to me and, more importantly, this is the impact this had on me.\"\n\nThe campaigner also welcomed the fact that, unlike the UK inquiry, every response will be read by someone on the Scottish inquiry team.\n\nAccording to Scottish government statistics on 18 May, there were 2.1m cases of Covid in Scotland during the pandemic.\n\nJust over 36% of people in Scotland have tested positive for the virus. A total of 17,599 people lost their lives.\n\nThe Scottish inquiry has cost taxpayers more than £2m to date.\n\nIt was set up to investigate areas such as pre-pandemic planning, the decision to go into lockdown, the supply and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) and how the virus was dealt with in care homes.\n\nThe inquiry will begin in July with expert evidence, with full hearings to follow in October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 19 children have died in a fire in the central Guyanese mining town of Mahdia, officials say.\n\nThe fire broke out just after midnight on Monday, engulfing a secondary school dormitory and trapping students.\n\nEmergency services are struggling to contain the fire because of bad weather conditions, the government says.\n\nInitial investigations suggest the blaze may have been started maliciously, police say - although no suspects have yet been identified.\n\nEarlier reports had recorded the death toll as being slightly higher, with at least 20 lives lost.\n\nSeveral other people have been injured and some are being prepared for evacuation to the capital, Georgetown, where a special centre has been set up.\n\n\"This is a major disaster. It is horrible, it is painful,\" said Guyanese President Irfaan Ali.\n\nMr Ali was quoted by AFP as saying that, as well as medical teams stationed at the airport, Georgetown's two major hospitals would be prepared \"so that every single child who requires attention be given the best possible opportunity to get that attention\".\n\nHome Affairs Minister Robeson Benn is at the scene of the disaster, and the prime minister and other government officials are on their way there.\n\n\"It is with heavy heart and pain that the cabinet is being briefed and kept updated on a horrific fire at the dormitory in Mahdia. All efforts are being made to have a full-scale medical evacuation-supported response,\" the government's Department of Public Information said in a statement.\n\nGuyana is located between Venezuela and Suriname on the northern coast of South America.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak is still considering whether to order an investigation into Suella Braverman's conduct, No 10 has said.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said he was \"still looking at all the requisite information\".\n\nOpposition parties accused him of \"dither and delay\".\n\nThe home secretary is facing claims she asked civil servants to arrange a one-to-one speed awareness course for her, after being caught speeding in 2022.\n\nMr Sunak has spoken to his ethics adviser and Mrs Braverman about the issue but is still deciding whether to order an investigation into whether she broke the ministerial code.\n\nOn Monday, Mrs Braverman said she was \"confident nothing untoward happened\" but has refused to confirm whether she did ask civil servants to arrange a private course for her.\n\nAsking an urgent question in the Commons, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said Mrs Braverman had \"serious questions to answer\" and accused the prime minister of \"days of dither and delay\".\n\nIn response, Cabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin said: \"It is right that the prime minister... be allowed time to receive relevant information on this matter.\"\n\nHe added that MPs would be updated \"in due course\".\n\nHowever, Liberal Democrat Chief Whip Wendy Chamberlain said: \"This endless dither and delay needs to end now.\n\n\"Sunak needs to grow a backbone and tell his ethics adviser to investigate these latest allegations.\"\n\nSNP Cabinet Office spokeswoman Kirsty Blackman also raised claims, reported by the Independent , that Mrs Braverman failed to disclose her previous work with the Rwandan government before she became an MP.\n\nIn 2011 Mrs Braverman co-founded the Africa Justice Foundation, a charity which helped train Rwandan government lawyers.\n\nAs home secretary, Mrs Braverman has been an enthusiastic champion of the government's Rwanda policy, which seeks to send some asylum seekers to the east African country.\n\nMs Blackman called for an investigation into \"all alleged ministerial code breaches\".\n\nMr Quin said he had not seen the full article but understood Mrs Braverman's work with the foundation was \"some considerable time ago\" and a \"charitable endeavour before she entered Parliament\".\n\nSeveral other Conservative MPs defended Mrs Braverman in the Commons, with Jonathan Gullis describing the allegations against her as a \"witch hunt\".\n\nSir Edward Leigh described the \"moral outrage\" over Mrs Braverman's alleged conduct as \"ludicrous\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Edward Leigh on Suella Braverman speeding claims: \"We used to have proper scandals about sex or money.\"\n\nThe ministerial code requires ministers to ensure \"no conflict arises\" between their public duties and their private interests.\n\nIt also sets out that ministers must uphold the political impartiality of the civil service.\n\nAfter being caught speeding, Ms Braverman, who was then attorney general, faced getting three points on her licence and a fine, or a course as part of a group.\n\nA government source told the BBC the senior minister had been \"concerned\" about her insurance premiums, and favoured doing a course. She is reported to have asked civil servants about a one-on-one course, citing security concerns about doing one as part of a group. She was told it was not a matter for the civil service.\n\nShe then asked a special adviser to try to arrange a private course.\n\nWhen the speed course provider said there was no option to do this, Mrs Braverman opted to pay the fine and accept the points, because she was \"very busy\" a source told the BBC. By this point she had been reappointed as home secretary in Mr Sunak's government.\n\nThe same government source refused to say whether Mrs Braverman's motivation to do the course in private was to reduce the chances of her being recognised by members of the public.\n\nAfter serving as attorney general between February 2020 and September 2022, Mrs Braverman was promoted to home secretary under Liz Truss.\n\nShe resigned on 19 October after sending an official document from a personal email to a backbench MP - describing it as a \"technical infringement\" ministerial rules.\n\nBut she was reappointed to the same role by Mr Sunak six days later following the collapse of Ms Truss's government.", "Foreign postgraduate students on non-research courses will no longer be able to bring family members to the UK, under new immigration curbs.\n\nThe announcement has been made two days before official statistics are expected to show legal migration has hit a record 700,000 this year.\n\nLast year, 135,788 visas were granted to dependants of foreign students, nearly nine times the 2019 figure.\n\nPM Rishi Sunak told ministers the move would help bring migration down.\n\nHe told the cabinet that the change, to begin in January 2024, will make a \"significant difference to the numbers,\" according to No 10.\n\nHowever, the impact it will have on official migration levels is unclear, since students and family members who come to the UK for less than a year are not counted.\n\nLast week, he said ministers were \"considering a range of options\" to bring migration down, but refused to say what an acceptable level was.\n\nThe Conservatives have previously promised to bring net migration below 100,000 a year, but ditched the target ahead of the 2019 election after repeatedly failing to meet it.\n\nUnder the announcement, partners and children of postgraduate students other than those studying on courses designated as research programmes will no longer be allowed to apply to live in the UK during the course.\n\nThere were 135,788 visas granted to dependants last year, a rise from 54,486 in 2021, and more than seven times the 19,139 granted in 2020.\n\nThese figures have increased since study visa requirements for European Economic Area (EEA) students were introduced after Brexit.\n\nApplications have also risen since rules were changed in 2019 to allow foreign students to stay in the UK for two years after graduating to look for jobs.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said the rise in dependants being granted visas was \"unprecedented,\" and it was \"time for us to tighten up this route to ensure we can cut migration numbers\".\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, she added that the move \"strikes the right balance\" between bringing down migration and \"protecting the economic benefits that students can bring to the UK\".\n\nThere was a division within government about going further - and possibly banning the dependants of all postgraduate students, including those on research courses.\n\nBut some ministers, including Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, argued they were based in the UK longer and provided greater economic benefits.\n\nTitilope came to the UK from Nigeria to do a degree in mental health nursing\n\nThe BBC spoke to two Nigerian students studying at Wolverhampton University.\n\nRotimi, who is doing a masters degree in mechanical engineering, says he understands why politicians might want to reduce immigration levels.\n\nBut he adds that most of those coming to the UK to study also \"look beyond studying\" - and want their family to be \"part of that experience\".\n\nHe says that without a way for overseas students to bring their family, \"most people won't even consider leaving\" - or might opt to study elsewhere instead.\n\nAs an undergraduate doing a course in mental health nursing, Titilope isn't in the category of students that can bring dependents to the UK.\n\nHowever, she says that allowing students to have family with them means they can focus on their studies, without having to worry about whether \"they have money, or if they are alright\".\n\n\"At the same time, you know that you have the family there. If you're going through a tough time, it's always better to have the family to talk it through. You don't feel so alone.\"\n\nUniversities UK (UUK), umbrella group for British universities, said it recognised the \"substantial\" rise in dependant visas had sometimes led to \"local challenges\" over family accommodation and schooling.\n\n\"Given this, some targeted measures to mitigate this rise may be reasonable,\" said Jamie Arrowsmith, the director of UUK's international arm.\n\nHe called on the government to work with universities to monitor the effect of the changes, adding they were \"likely to have a disproportionate impact on women and students from certain countries\".\n\nThe University and College Union (UCU), which represents university staff, called it a \"vindictive move\" that had raised \"deep concern\" within the sector.\n\nThose accompanying overseas students to the UK \"bring huge value to our society and deserve the right to live alongside their loved ones whilst they study,\" its general secretary Jo Grady said.\n\nAdam Habib, director of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, criticised the announcement as \"a terrible decision\" for three reasons: \"First a financial challenge, second it raises issues of coherence in government, and third a human rights question.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: \"What this decision runs the risk of doing is making sure these institutions, these universities which are dependent on the fee income of international students, go through a financial crisis.\n\n\"We are already seeing financial crises in universities over the last year - there have been strikes over the last year, and vice-chancellors are having to manage that problem - but you will aggravate that problem.\"\n\nAccording to HESA, an education data group, there were 679,970 international students in the UK in 2021/2022.\n\nOf these 307,470 were undergraduates, who already can't bring family members to the UK during their course.\n\nThere were 372,500 postgraduates, of whom 46,350 are on research courses - the vast majority of them for PhDs, along with a small number of research-based masters degrees.\n\nStudents coming to the UK with a visa need to provide documents proving their relationship to dependants, who have to pay £490 for a visa.\n\nDependants are also required to pay the immigration health surcharge - an annual contribution between £470 and £624 towards NHS services.\n• None Legal migration is too high, says Rishi Sunak", "A review group has reported on Police Scotland's record on equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights\n\nA review of the culture within Police Scotland has uncovered first-hand accounts of racism, sexism and homophobia by serving officers.\n\nThe review group, set up in 2021, heard instances of people being \"punished\" for raising concerns.\n\nIt also heard the force's efforts to improve its culture are being held back by financial issues and pressure on frontline resources.\n\nThe initial findings were published in the first of two reports due this year.\n\nIt comes just weeks after four women spoke to BBC Newsnight about allegations of a \"boys club\" culture at all levels of Police Scotland.\n\nOne of the women, former firearms officer Rhona Malone, won almost £1m in compensation from the force after an employment tribunal found she had been victimised when she had raised concerns about sexism.\n\nAlthough some had spoken publicly before, the women felt their stories had been lost and there has been no measurable change in attitudes towards female staff.\n\nMeanwhile the force is also under pressure due to an ongoing inquiry into the death of Sheku Bayoh, who was restrained by around six police officers..\n\nThe inquiry is investigating the circumstances of the 31-year-old's death and whether race was a factor.\n\nEarlier this year Police Scotland also stepped up its vetting procedures in response to the case of David Carrick, who admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences as a Met police officer.\n\nThe independent review group was established by Police Scotland two years ago to examine its record on equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights.\n\nIts report was published ahead of a Scottish Police Authority board meeting on Thursday.\n\nIt noted the \"widespread view\" that although discriminatory attitudes are still present in the force, there had been a marked shift over the past decade.\n\n\"However, our interviews with both key interviewees and divisional staff revealed instances of ongoing discrimination against minoritised communities, including first-hand accounts of racism, sexism, and homophobia,\" it added.\n\nPeople had been punished for raising issues or concerns, it heard, including being side-lined within teams or moved to a less convenient location.\n\nThe group said it heard \"scepticism and even outright fear\" among staff over raising concerns at all because it can \"just lead to the person being moved and the issue being avoided\".\n\nIt heard of poor behaviour being known and seen \"in plain sight\" with no action being taken, as well as a \"vicious circle\" of the personnel affected not having the confidence to report concerns, peers not speaking up and managers not taking action.\n\nThe report also noted anecdotal concerns that formal processes by the professional standards department took too long.\n\nGroup members also found there was a tendency to jump straight to formal grievance processes without the opportunity to pursue mediation.\n\nIt said this had resulted in a \"significant administrative burden\".\n\nThe report noted issues in several other areas including:\n\nThe group also heard significant concerns about financial investment in the service and the negative impact on infrastructure - including the dilapidation of the police estate in some areas and the quality of technology.\n\nIt also highlighted the impact on local policing due to the \"fragility\" of other public services.\n\nIt said that 80% of response time is absorbed by social welfare issues, often mental health related, rather than crime.\n\nThe group urged Police Scotland to consider a number of points while its work is ongoing, including streamlining of initiatives and being \"alert\" to backlash - particularly of \"all lives matter\" views.\n\nIt said the force should avoid being overly reliant on diversity organisations to take work forward - as it had heard of fatigue and people being retraumatised in speaking about their own experiences.\n\nA final report from the group is expected to be delivered in 2024.\n\nLast year Police Scotland launched a four-year strategy titled \"Policing Together\" to tackle discrimination in the force and in the community.\n\nAn assistant chief constable has since been appointed to oversee its delivery.\n\nAn update on the programme, published on Tuesday, announced a mandatory leadership programme to be rolled out to about 5,000 officers and staff to improve \"the existing workplace culture\".\n\nDep Ch Con Fiona Taylor, who also leads work to improve the culture in the force, said: \"As part of our Policing Together programme we are investing to give every police leader the skills and tools they need to build effective teams which live our values and we are improving our knowledge and learning on inclusion.\n\n\"Because of policing's position of trust and authority in society we are held to high standards and through rigorous recruitment, vetting, prevention, and conduct measures our vigilance has never been stronger.\"", "Principal Sean Spillane said pupils were prevented from going to school\n\nThe principal of a primary school that was forced to shut due to a security alert has said he was shocked and angered by the disruption to education.\n\nLough View Integrated Primary School and Nursery closed on Tuesday as the nearby Henry Jones playing fields was searched by police.\n\nThe East Belfast Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is among the clubs which use the sports facilities.\n\nPolice said \"nothing untoward\" was found but \"enquiries remain ongoing\".\n\nThe security operation began on Monday evening and police and Army technical officers were deployed to the council-run playing field on Church Road, Castlereagh on the outskirts of east Belfast.\n\nMembers of the public were asked to avoid the area and a road closure was then put in place at the junction of Church Road and Manse Road.\n\nThe road closures were lifted on Tuesday afternoon and a few hours later, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said the security operation had ended.\n\nWhen asked what had sparked the day-long alert, a PSNI spokeswoman said: \"Police received information concerning the pitches and took proactive steps to ensure the area was safe.\"\n\nBomb disposal equipment was used during the searches at Henry Jones playing fields\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, staff at Lough View Integrated Primary School said they were advised by police to keep their building closed during the operation.\n\nIts headteacher Sean Spillane said the closure had disrupted his pupils' education and the alert had stopped people in the area from going to work.\n\n\"I'm so shocked today that we've had to take this action, but more than anything it's just disappointment, it's just disillusionment and anger as well,\" Mr Spillane told the BBC's Nolan Show.\n\n\"We're now having to explain to our children that some people, because they don't agree with a particular sport being played across the road from our school, that they can't exercise their right to come to school today.\"\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday evening, PSNI Ch Insp Rosemary Thompson said: \"A thorough search of the playing fields at Church Road in Castlereagh has been conducted and, thankfully, nothing untoward has been found.\"\n\nThe statement added that PSNI \"enquiries remain ongoing\" and asked for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nSecurity force personnel are wearing protective gear during the search operation\n\nEarlier, East Belfast GAA released a statement which said that local sports clubs had worked hard to revive pitches at the site and it was \"saddened at those who threaten to disrupt the peace and cause alarm\".\n\n\"This is especially disappointing following the positive news that some of the underutilised space at Henry Jones will be reallocated to facilitate a GAA pitch,\" the statement added.\n\nIt would be the first council-run GAA pitch in east Belfast \"and is long overdue\", the club added.\n\nEast Belfast GAA was set up in May 2020\n\nEast Belfast MP Gavin Robinson also criticised those behind the alert.\n\n\"Sport cancelled. Community disrupted. School closed. For what? Catch a grip,\" the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP tweeted.\n\nAlliance Party leader and East Belfast assembly member Naomi Long said that the situation was \"utterly unacceptable\".\n\nUlster Unionist leader Doug Beattie said: \"This is wrong and must be condemned utterly.\"\n\nThe SDLP's Séamas de Faoite described the alert as an \"utter disgrace\".\n\nFootball coach Tim Wareing was at Henry Jones Park on Monday evening, taking a one-on-one football session with an 11-year-old boy when the incident happened.\n\nAt about 19:00 BST he said a council worker came over and told him there was a security alert and he would have to clear up and leave the scene as soon as the PSNI arrived.\n\nThere was a large police presence in the area\n\n\"It was quite shocking - it's 2023 - you would think we would have moved on from this - our own club is very inclusive and we have stayed away from aligning ourselves with an area in Northern Ireland to bring the two communities together,\" he said.\n\n\"Hearing that news is quite shocking when you've got a young child there - it makes it even worse as you're trying to keep them calm and wondering what on earth is going on.\"\n\nEast Belfast GAC started in May 2020 and was the first GAA club in the east of the city in almost 50 years. It fields football, hurling and camogie teams.\n\nA security alert was sparked at the same playing fields in 2020.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nNewcastle secured Champions League football for the first time in 20 years with a goalless draw against relegation-threatened Leicester, whose fate is now out of their hands.\n\nEddie Howe's side failed to break the deadlock in a match they dominated, striking the post three times, but the result was sufficient for the Magpies to make a long-awaited return to Europe's elite competition next season.\n\nNewcastle are four points clear of fifth-placed Liverpool heading into Sunday's final day of the season, while Leicester remain in the relegation zone, two points adrift of safety.\n\nThe hosts had 78% possession during the contest and initially found it difficult to make inroads, but Callum Wilson hooked an effort against the post and saw his follow-up effort headed off the line by Wilfred Ndidi.\n\nThree minutes before half-time the hosts rattled the post again through Miguel Almiron, while in the second half visiting goalkeeper Daniel Iversen acrobatically tipped over Alexander Isak's effort from distance.\n\nBruno Guimaraes also hit the woodwork with a header from almost on the goalline in the second period, but Leicester almost won it in injury time when Nick Pope kept out Timothy Castagne's acrobatic effort.\n\nFoxes boss Dean Smith started England internationals James Maddison and Harvey Barnes on the bench but neither was able to inject any impetus into their dull performance after coming on.\n• None Can you name Newcastle's last Champions League side in our quiz?\n\nIt was the 2002-03 season, under the guidance of legendary manager Sir Bobby Robson, when Newcastle last played in Europe's elite club competition.\n\nHowe's men will be back in the big time following a tremendous first full season in charge in which the ex-Bournemouth boss has upset the established order with a place in the top four, as well as taking them to the Carabao Cup final.\n\nIt has been a remarkable turnaround since Howe took charge 18 months ago, one month after the Saudi Arabian-backed £305m takeover of Newcastle and with the club five points from safety at the foot of the Premier League.\n\nA tremendous atmosphere was generated by the home fans before kick-off, waving their flags and unfurling a huge banner of Howe and the team, and although they were unable to break the deadlock, they left the stadium singing about Champions League football.\n\nWilson, who had scored 11 goals in his past 10 games before this encounter, came inches from adding to his tally, while Almiron and Guimaraes also came mightily close.\n\nThe Brazil midfielder, though, was lucky to still be on the pitch after receiving only a yellow card for a studs-high challenge on the knee of Leicester midfielder Boubakary Soumare.\n\nNewcastle will aim to complete a successful season on a high on Sunday, travelling to face Chelsea hoping to secure third position.\n\nLeicester host West Ham on the last day hoping the Hammers have taken their eye off the ball with their top-flight place secure and a Europa Conference League final to look forward to.\n\nBut they go into that game knowing even a win might not be enough as 17th placed Everton can guarantee their Premier League status with victory over Bournemouth at Goodison Park.\n\nThe result at Newcastle extended Leicester's run to just one win in their past 15 games, earning just seven points during that run, and they are favourites to join Southampton in the second tier.\n\nSupporters will be left wondering how the match may have panned out had key players Maddison and Barnes been given starts instead of being left on the bench.\n\nCastagne's acrobatic effort in the 92nd minute almost secured a shock victory, but their defence did at least manage to keep a first clean sheet in the league since November.\n• None Attempt saved. Timothy Castagne (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Maddison with a cross.\n• None James Maddison (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Substitution, Leicester City. Nampalys Mendy replaces Wilfred Ndidi because of an injury.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City).\n• None Attempt missed. Miguel Almirón (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Five things to know about Ron DeSantis\n\nFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis will announce his 2024 presidential bid in an online appearance with Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday.\n\nMr Musk is scheduled to host a Twitter Spaces conversation with Mr DeSantis at 18:00 local time (22:00 GMT).\n\nAn official launch video from the DeSantis campaign is expected later the same evening.\n\nMr DeSantis, 44, is viewed as former president Donald Trump's chief rival for the Republican Party's nomination.\n\nThe governor joins a growing list of contenders seeking to unseat Mr Trump, who leads by more than 30 points in national opinion polls.\n\nRepublican voters go to the polls in a series of primary elections beginning next February to determine which candidate will face President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the November 2024 general election.\n\nTwitter Spaces is a platform that allows \"creators\" to host live audio conversations that other Twitter users can join and engage with.\n\nWednesday's event will be moderated by tech entrepreneur David Sacks, a close ally of the Tesla founder and a supporter of Mr DeSantis.\n\nA Fox News tweet about the upcoming Twitter Spaces \"interview\" was retweeted by Mr Musk to his 140 million followers on Tuesday.\n\nIt was not immediately clear whether the two plan to appear together in person and whether Mr Musk is showing support for the Floridian's campaign by hosting the launch on his platform..\n\nAt a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) event earlier, Mr Musk claimed the occasion will mark \"the very first time\" such an announcement takes place on social media.\n\nHe told attendees that he was not planning to make an endorsement but wants to use Twitter as a public town square.\n\nThe tech mogul has previously expressed support for Mr DeSantis in 2024, including writing on Twitter last November that his preference is for \"someone sensible and centrist\".\n\nMr DeSantis's announcement will come on the first day of a fundraising retreat in Miami where his supporters will reportedly be briefed about the upcoming campaign.\n\nIt will end months of speculation about when Mr DeSantis will officially announce his candidacy.\n\nHis tenure as Florida's governor has seen the state expand gun-ownership laws, implement restrictions on sex and gender identity education in public schools, and bring in new limits on abortion.\n\nOver the coming months, he is expected to pitch himself as an accomplished politician with a long list of conservative policy achievements and without the \"daily drama\" of Mr Trump.\n\nEarlier this month, he aimed thinly veiled criticism at the former president, saying that governing is not about \"building a brand or talking on social media\".\n\nMr Trump is no longer an active user of Twitter, although his account was re-instated in November after it was removed in the wake of the 6 January riots at the US Capitol.\n\nInstead, Mr Trump uses his own platform, Truth Social, where he has frequently launched broadsides against Mr DeSantis.\n\nTwitter has significantly more active users than Truth Social, potentially giving the DeSantis campaign an opportunity for more publicity.\n\nIt will also give him the ear of Mr Musk's large fan base.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo teenage boys died in a crash before a riot broke out in Cardiff which left several police officers injured.\n\nCars were set alight and fireworks thrown at police as 100 to 150 people gathered in Ely on Monday night.\n\nPolice dismissed social media rumours that they were involved in the crash, saying officers arrived at the scene afterwards.\n\nThe link between the crash and the disorder was unclear, South Wales' police and crime commissioner said.\n\n\"It would appear that there were rumours, and those rumours became rife, of a police chase - which wasn't the case,\" Alun Michael said.\n\n\"And I think it illustrates the speed with which rumours can run around with the activity that goes on on social media nowadays - and that events can get out of hand.\"\n\nMr Michael said up to 12 officers had been injured in the disorder.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesperson said what had happened was \"appalling and completely unacceptable\".\n\nFirst Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford said he was \"very concerned\" by the \"upsetting reports\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Taxi driver Ahmad Abdullah was in his living room when he began hearing \"screaming and shouting\"\n\nSouth Wales Police was called to the fatal crash on Snowden Road shortly after 18:00 BST on Monday.\n\nAt around 20:00, police tweeted that they were still at the scene of collision but also working to \"de-escalate ongoing disorder\".\n\nThe force said it received a large number of calls from \"understandably frightened\" residents.\n\nBy 01:10 BST on Tuesday, police said a number of vehicles had been set alight and arrests were being made.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe force said its thoughts were with the families of the two boys who had died as well as those affected by the rioting.\n\nMore arrests would follow, a police spokesperson said.\n\n\"Our focus now is to fully investigate the circumstances of the collision and the appalling scenes that followed\", the spokesperson added.\n\nA car was tipped on its roof and left burnt out at the scene\n\nMr Michael told BBC Radio 4's Today that the crash in which the two teenagers died was \"being investigated in its own right\", but that it appeared to have sparked the disorder.\n\nBut he said that the connection between the two events was \"far from clear\".\n\n\"So obviously there's going to be investigations going on this morning to try and establish what happened\", Mr Michael said.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said it had not been asked to investigate the fatal crash or the riot in Ely.\n\nFloral tributes were left at the scene in Ely, Cardifff\n\nEly is an estate on the western side of Cardiff, roughly five miles (8km) from the city centre.\n\nLocal resident Ahmad Abdullah, 34, said he heard threats from rioters to \"kill\" police officers at the scene.\n\n\"They said that they would not stop until they killed a police officer.\n\n\"Now the people in this community don't feel safe now. We feel it could escalate at any time.\"\n\nYoung people were chasing police officers up the road, throwing stones and missiles at cars, he said.\n\nRiot police attended the scene of disorder in the district of Ely in Cardiff\n\nMr Abdullah, a taxi driver who lives with his wife and three children in the street where the rioting took place, said police officers used fire extinguishers to put out missiles that had been set on fire and thrown at cars.\n\n\"They damaged my taxi, my next door neighbour's car too. They were throwing stones at my front door, bricks too.\n\n\"It was like they were throwing missiles. Like a rocket.\n\n\"I thought to myself, it is the end of the world now,\" he said.\n\nThe vicar of Ely said something has been \"simmering\" in the area for some time.\n\nCanon Jan Gould told BBC Radio 5 Live's Nicky Campbell: \"It is not uncommon in the summer to hear helicopters keeping an eye on things. It is becoming more and more of a problem.\"\n\nShe added: \"My heart bleeds for Ely.\"\n\nTwo police cars were damaged in the disorder, with pictures showing one with its windscreen broken and its wing mirrors hanging off.\n\nA car left vandalised in the Ely district of Cardiff\n\nA member of the public was also attacked because some of those gathered thought they were an undercover police officer, according to one of the senior officers at the scene.\n\nAt least two parked cars were set alight, one of them after being tipped onto its roof.\n\nJane Palmer said she and her family watched from a window as people outside set fire to her car.\n\n\"I'm disabled so now I'm trapped without my car,\" she said.\n\n\"Why are they doing this? It's just silly now.\"\n\nLitter and burnt cars were left on the street in Ely, Cardiff\n\nAs the disorder continued into the early hours of the morning, those gathered moved down nearby Highmead Road as police attempted to disperse them.\n\nPolice, including officers on horseback, were seen outside Ely police station amid suggestions that it could be targeted.\n\nJohn Urquhart, who lives in Ely, witnessed the incident escalate from the start of the evening.\n\nHe said the vast majority of people were in the street because they \"wanted to know what would happen next\", and added that there was \"a very small number of people actually doing any sort of violence.\"\n\nMr Urquhart said he was very \"counter-violence\" and offered first aid to people during the evening.\n\nAnother resident, who did not want to be named, said those behind the violence were \"kids\", and that it had \"crossed a line\" and \"needs to stop\".\n\nAre you in the area? Did you witness the disorder? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Christine Quinn, star of Selling Sunset, alongside her bosses, Brett and Jason Oppenheim\n\nNetflix has started its long-promised crackdown on password sharing in major markets including the UK and the US.\n\nA Netflix subscription in the UK can cost anything between £4.99 to £15.99 per month.\n\nThe streaming giant said it was notifying customers that they must pay an additional £4.99 per month, or $7.99 in the US, if they want to share their account outside their homes.\n\nThe move is intended to boost subscribers.\n\nBut in some countries where it has already been trialled, some are baulking at the expense.\n\nIn Spain, when it started charging 5.99 euros (£5.27) for an additional account, it lost more than a million subscribers in the first three months of the year, according to Kantar.\n\nOn Tuesday Netflix sent an email about sharing accounts to customers in 103 countries and territories including Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Mexico and Singapore.\n\nThe company previously warned investors there would be cancellations as it expands its programme, but said: \"Longer term, paid sharing will ensure a bigger revenue base from which we can grow as we improve our service\".\n\nIn Canada, where the changes were introduced in February, its paid membership base is now larger than it was before the changes, and revenue growth picked up, it said previously.\n\nNetflix had previously estimated that more than 100 million households share passwords despite this being against its official rules.\n\nThe company wants to tap into this audience to make more money, as its subscriber growth slows and increased competition challenges its dominance of the streaming market.\n\nHeavyweights such as Disney and Amazon have weighed in with their own services, and Netflix has a host of other rivals.\n\nThese entertainment giants are vying for customers, many of whom have been under pressure from the soaring pace of general price rises.\n\nNetflix has been trying to tempt users with a less expensive streaming option with ads, and cut prices in 116 countries in the three months to March.\n\nIt has also been expanding its paid sharing programme, which it started trialling in some countries last year.\n\nThe move to notify customers brings the scheme to some of the company's most important markets.", "Protesters had gathered outside before the meeting had even begun\n\nClimate protesters stormed Shell's annual shareholder meeting in London, with security having to step in to protect board members.\n\nProceedings were delayed as the protesters, yelling \"shut down Shell\", ran to the front of the room where executives were sitting on stage.\n\nSome demonstrators had to be carried out of the building by security.\n\nShell said protesters were not \"interested in constructive engagement\" as crowds continued to gather outside.\n\nIn a statement, the energy giant said it was keen to underline it had a \"clear target of net-zero emissions by 2050\".\n\nHowever, campaign groups are looking to ramp up the pressure on Shell and other energy companies to bring forward those targets to absolute carbon emissions cuts by 2030 and focus more resources on renewables.\n\nBut targets proposed by the campaigners were rejected in a vote by shareholders at the meeting.\n\nGroups gathering outside the investor event include Christian Climate Action, a branch of Extinction Rebellion; Catholic protest group Laudato Si' Movement; and Quakers for Climate Justice.\n\nShell's chief executive, Wael Sawan, defended the company against accusations that it was not switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy quickly enough.\n\nMr Sawan said the company had invested $4.3bn (£3.5bn) in 2022 in low-carbon energy, including biofuels, hydrogen, electric car charging and renewable power. He conceded that was only part of its total capital spending of $25bn - most of which was on oil and gas.\n\nThe protesters were allowed in the room because of their investment in the company. Known as activist shareholders, these groups buy shares in companies to put pressure on its management.\n\nIn February, Shell reported profits of $39.9bn for 2022, double the previous year's total and the highest in its 115-year history.\n\nWhile the jump in oil and gas prices following the start of the war in Ukraine led to big profits for energy companies, it also fuelled a rise in energy bills for households and businesses.\n\nProceedings, which were due to start at 10:00, did not get under way until well past 11:00 amid waves of disruption from these activists.\n\nShortly after the meeting began, a choir of protesters began a song to the tune of Hit The Road Jack, singing: \"Go to hell Shell and don't you come back no more.\"\n\nAs protesters were later carried out by security, Shell's chairman Sir Andrew Mackenzie could be heard saying: \"We want to have a civilised debate.\"\n\nSir Andrew's position as chair is due to be voted on and many activist groups have said they will block his reappointment.\n\nInvestors will also vote on pay packages for 2022, including that of outgoing chief executive Ben van Beurden, who took home $12m (£9.7m), including a $9.3m bonus.", "The sale of ivory from the tusks and teeth of five more species will be banned under government plans.\n\nThe import, export and dealing of elephant ivory was banned in the UK last year. The animals that could join the list are killer whales, hippos, walruses, narwhals, and sperm whales.\n\nThe creatures are hunted and killed for their ivory which is often used in decorative carvings.\n\nThe government plans to extend the Ivory Act 2018 to include them.\n\nPeople found to be breaking the law can be given unlimited fines or be jailed for five years.\n\nParliament must vote on the extension of the Act before it can come into force.\n\nThe species set to be included in the ban are already at risk from climate change and habitat loss, and conservationists are concerned that poaching for ivory will drive them closer to extinction.\n\n\"The Ivory Act is one of the toughest bans of its kind in the world and by extending greater legal protections to five more species, we are sending a clear message the commercial trade of ivory is totally unacceptable,\" said Biodiversity Minister Trudy Harrison.\n\nHippos, killer whales and sperm whales are targeted for their teeth, while narwhals and walruses are hunted for their tusks.\n\nAn investigation in 2022 by conservation charity Born Free found 621 individual online ivory listings in the UK, with a total guide price of over £1.2m.\n\nThis was a significant decrease in the volume traded before restrictions were introduced, the charity said.\n\nBut last year wildlife campaigners also warned that the ban on elephant ivory trafficking had led to an increase in trade of hippo teeth.\n\nIn 2020 hippo teeth were among the mammal body parts most often seized in the EU, according to a European Commission report.\n\nThe International Fund for Animal Welfare welcomed the government's proposal.\n\n\"We welcome the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs's decision to extend this powerful legislation, which will go a long way in cracking down on a damaging trade. Today is a good day for conservation and a step change towards international commitments to safeguard our natural world,\" said Frances Goodrum, Head of Campaigns and Programmes at IFAW UK.\n\nThe five species are listed in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES), which regulates their trade internationally.\n\nHippopotamus, walrus and sperm whale are listed as vulnerable on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list.", "Buckingham Palace has declined a request to return the remains of an Ethiopian prince who came to be buried at Windsor Castle in the 19th Century.\n\nPrince Alemayehu was taken to the UK aged just seven and arrived an orphan after his mother died on the journey.\n\nQueen Victoria then took an interest in him and arranged for his education - and ultimately his burial when he died aged just 18.\n\nBut his family wants his remains to be sent back to Ethiopia.\n\n\"We want his remains back as a family and as Ethiopians because that is not the country he was born in,\" one of the royal descendants Fasil Minas told the BBC.\n\n\"It was not right\" for him to be buried in the UK, he added.\n\nBut in a statement sent to the BBC, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said removing his remains could affect others buried in the catacombs of St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.\n\n\"It is very unlikely that it would be possible to exhume the remains without disturbing the resting place of a substantial number of others in the vicinity,\" the palace said.\n\nThe statement added that the authorities at the chapel were sensitive to the need to honour Prince Alemayehu's memory, but that they also had \"the responsibility to preserve the dignity of the departed\".\n\nIt also said that in the past the Royal Household had \"accommodated requests from Ethiopian delegations to visit\" the chapel.\n\nHow Prince Alemayehu ended up in the UK at such a young age was the result of imperial action and the failure of diplomacy.\n\nIn 1862, in an effort to strengthen his empire, the prince's father Emperor Tewodros II sought an alliance with the UK, but his letters making his case did not get a response from Queen Victoria.\n\nAngered by the silence and taking matters into his own hands, the emperor held some Europeans, among them the British consul, hostage. This precipitated a huge military expedition, involving some 13,000 British and Indian troops, to rescue them.\n\nThe force also included an official from the British Museum.\n\nIn April 1868 they laid siege to Tewodros' mountain fortress at Maqdala in northern Ethiopia, and in a matter of hours overwhelmed the defences.\n\nThe emperor decided he would rather take his own life than be a prisoner of the British, an action that turned him into a heroic figure among his people.\n\nA 19th Century engraver imagined the scene when the soldiers discovered Emperor Tewodros II's body\n\nAfter the battle, the British plundered thousands of cultural and religious artefacts. These included gold crowns, manuscripts, necklaces and dresses.\n\nHistorians say dozens of elephants and hundreds of mules were needed to cart away the treasures, which are today scattered across European museums and libraries, as well as in private collections.\n\nThe British also took away Prince Alemayehu and his mother, Empress Tiruwork Wube.\n\nThe British may have thought this was to keep them safe and prevent them being captured and possibly killed by Tewodros' enemies, who were near Maqdala, according to Andrew Heavens, whose book The Prince and the Plunder recounts Alemayehu's life.\n\nFollowing his arrival in Britain in June 1868, the prince's predicament and his status as an orphan elicited the sympathy of Queen Victoria. The two met at the queen's holiday home on the Isle of Wight, just off England's south coast.\n\nShe agreed to support him financially and put him in the guardianship of Captain Tristram Charles Sawyer Speedy, the man who had accompanied the prince from Ethiopia.\n\nThey first lived together on the Isle of Wight and then Captain Speedy took him to other parts of the world, including India.\n\nBut it was decided that the prince should have a formal education.\n\nHe was sent to the British public school Rugby but he was not happy there. He later moved to the Royal Military College in Sandhurst where he was subjected to bullying.\n\nThe prince had a \"hankering\" to return home, correspondence quoted by Heavens says, but that idea was swiftly quashed.\n\n\"I feel for him as if I knew him. He was dislocated from Ethiopia, from Africa, from the land of black people and remained there as if he had no home,\" Ethiopian royal descendent Abebech Kasa told the BBC.\n\nEventually, Alemayehu ended up being tutored in a private home in Leeds. But he became ill, possibly with pneumonia, and at one point refused treatment thinking he had been poisoned.\n\nAfter a decade in exile the prince died in 1879 at the age of just 18.\n\nHis illness had become the subject of articles in the national press and Queen Victoria wrote in her diary of her sadness at his death.\n\n\"Very grieved and shocked to hear by telegram, that good Alemayehu had passed away this morning. It is too sad! All alone, in a strange country, without a single person or relative, belonging to him,\" she said.\n\n\"His was no happy life, full of difficulties of every kind, and was so sensitive, thinking that people stared at him on account of his colour... Everyone is very sorry.\"\n\nShe then arranged for his burial at Windsor Castle.\n\nThere are several photographs of Prince Alemayehu including this where he is wearing a hat with the name of the ship, HMS Urgent\n\nDemands that the body should return are not new.\n\nIn 2007 the country's then-President Girma Wolde-Giorgis sent a formal request to Queen Elizabeth II for the body to be sent back, but those efforts proved fruitless.\n\n\"We want him back. We don't want him to remain in a foreign country,\" Ms Abebech said.\n\n\"He had a sad life. When I think of him I cry. If they agree to return his remains I would think of it as if he came home alive.\"\n\nShe had hoped that she would get a positive response from newly crowned King Charles III.\n\n\"Restitution is used as a way to bring reconciliation, to recognise what was wrong in the past,\" says Professor Alula Pankhurst, a specialist in British-Ethiopian relations.\n\nHe believes the return of the body would be \"a way for Britain to rethink its past. It's a reflection and coming to terms with an imperial past.\"\n\nWatch more on this story:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Family calls for return of Ethiopian prince's body from UK", "Kyrees (L) and Harvey were best friends, their families said Image caption: Kyrees (L) and Harvey were best friends, their families said\n\nThe families of both boys who died in the crash - which sparked a riot in Cardiff on Monday - have said the pair were best friends.\n\nHarvey's family said he was \"a best friend to Kyrees, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family also\".\n\n\"He lived life to the full, he had a big heart and deep down he truly cared,\" Harvey's mum said.\n\nKyrees' family described him as \"a loving, caring handsome young man\".\n\nThe tribute from Kyrees' family added: \"He was loved so much by his grandparents and aunties and uncles and his many cousins.\n\n\"Him and Harvey, along with Niall, were best friends since they were young and went everywhere together, they both had so many friends and were very well liked doing many things together, having fun and laughs.\"", "Prince Harry has lost a legal challenge over his bid to be allowed to make private payments for police protection.\n\nHis lawyers wanted a judicial review of the rejection of his offer to pay for protection in the UK, after his security arrangements changed when the prince stopped being a \"working royal\".\n\nBut a judge has ruled not to give the go ahead for such a hearing.\n\nHome Office lawyers had opposed the idea of allowing wealthy people to \"buy\" security from the police.\n\nThis ruling, refusing permission for a judicial review, followed a one-day court hearing in London last week.\n\nSince then the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been involved in what their spokesperson described as a \"near catastrophic car chase\" involving paparazzi in New York.\n\nBut at the High Court last week, lawyers for Prince Harry had challenged the decision to reject his private funding for police protection when visiting the UK.\n\nWhen Prince Harry stepped down from being a \"working royal\" in 2020 it meant he no longer had access to his previous level of security.\n\nBut Prince Harry challenged how this decision was reached by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures - known as Ravec - which covers security for high-profile figures, including senior royals.\n\n\"Ravec has exceeded its authority, its power, because it doesn't have the power to make this decision in the first place,\" Prince Harry's lawyers had told the court.\n\nThey argued that there were provisions in legislation allowing for payment for \"special police services\" and as such \"payment for policing is not inconsistent with the public interest\".\n\nBut lawyers for the Home Office said the type of protection under discussion, which could mean \"specialist officers as bodyguards\", was not the same as funding for extra policing for football matches.\n\nA barrister for the Metropolitan Police argued that it would be unreasonable to expose officers to danger because of \"payment of a fee by a private individual\".\n\nThe Home Office legal team said the Ravec committee had unanimously rejected the offer of private payment and that it was a matter of policy to oppose the idea that a \"wealthy person should be permitted to 'buy' protective security\".\n\nThe Home Office said there was no requirement for the Ravec committee to allow Prince Harry to make representations to them and there was little prospect of the decision being changed.\n\n\"Given the nature of the arguments now advanced by the claimant, the court can be confident that such representations would have been highly likely to have made no substantial difference in any event,\" the Home Office's lawyers told the court.\n\nMr Justice Chamberlain ruled provisions for paying for police services, such as at \"sporting or entertainment events\", were not the same as for specialist protection officers \"who are required to put themselves in harm's way\".\n\nThere was nothing \"irrational\" in Ravec's arguments about why its specialist services \"should not be made available for payment\", the judge. added.\n\nPrince Harry has lost this case, which he had said was intended \"not to impose on the taxpayer\" for security costs. But there are still other claims to be heard over his security in the UK.\n\nLast July, he won the right to also challenge what he regards as the \"procedural unfairness\" around Ravec's decision-making - because he was not given an opportunity to make \"informed representations beforehand\" - with dates still to be set for a hearing.", "Actor Ray Stevenson, pictured at the premiere of Thor: Ragnarok in Los Angeles in 2017\n\nThe actor Ray Stevenson, who appeared in major TV shows such as Rome, Vikings and Dexter, has died aged 58.\n\nHe was known for roles in the Thor films and the Divergent series, as well as several UK TV shows like Band of Gold, Peak Practice and Murphy's Law.\n\nHis US-based publicist firm, Viewpoint, confirmed his death to the BBC but did not provide any further details.\n\nNo cause of death has been revealed but he was reportedly hospitalised during filming on the Italian island Ischia.\n\nAt the time of his death, he was working on an action movie, Cassino in Ischia.\n\nHis death was announced four days before his 59th birthday.\n\nRay Stevenson, pictured in April, at Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London\n\nStevenson was born in Northern Ireland but moved to England when he was eight years old.\n\nHis father was stationed with the Royal Air Force (RAF) near Lisburn, County Antrim, at the time of his birth in 1964.\n\nHis family relocated to Newcastle upon Tyne and he spent much of his childhood in England.\n\nStevenson was inspired to become an actor after seeing John Malkovich in a play at a West End theatre in London.\n\nHe studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and one of his first TV roles was in the Catherine Cookson drama The Dwelling Place.\n\nHe later appeared in a wide range of British TV shows including Waking the Dead, Dalziel and Pascoe and At Home with the Braithwaites.\n\nRay Stevenson, pictured with Keira Knightley and Ioan Gruffudd at the King Arthur premiere in 2004\n\nIn 2004, he played a knight in the big-budget Hollywood film, King Arthur, which starred Keira Knightley.\n\nMore recently, Stevenson secured roles in successful US-made TV shows and movies, taking the role of Volstagg in the Thor trilogy and Titus Pullo in HBO's historical drama series Rome.\n\nHe will star as Baylan Skoll in the upcoming Disney+ series Star Wars: Ahsoka.\n\nStevenson's co-stars have been paying tribute to the late actor on social media.\n\nEnglish actor James Purefoy, who starred alongside Stevenson in Rome, described him as a \"brilliant, gutsy, larger-than-life actor who filled every part he played right up to the brim\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRosario Dawson - who will appear in the Ashoka series alongside Stevenson - posted on Instagram to say her co-star was a \"giant of a man\" whose death left her \"stunned and reeling\".\n\nMeanwhile director James Gunn, who was involved in the production of the second Thor film, wrote that the late actor had been a \"joy to work with.\"\n\nBear McCreary, the composer who soundtracked the Black Sails TV series, saluted Stevenson's \"mesmerisingly unforgettable\" turn as Blackbeard in the programme.\n\nAnd actor Scott Adkins, who starred alongside Stevenson in Accident Man, sad he was \"shocked and saddened by the tragic news\", adding: \"I will miss you, Big Ray!\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: First pictures from the scene of the reservoir search for Madeleine\n\nPolice investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are to carry out searches at a reservoir in Portugal.\n\nA search of the Arade dam will begin on Tuesday, 50km from where the toddler went missing in Praia da Luz in 2007.\n\nChristian Brueckner, 45, was made a formal suspect, or an \"arguido\", by Portuguese prosecutors in 2022.\n\nThe search was requested by German police as the area was visited by Brueckner when Madeleine, then three years old, disappeared.\n\nMadeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, had been on holiday with her family in Portugal's Algarve when she went missing on 3 May 2007.\n\nPortuguese police said in a press statement that it is co-ordinating searches in the Algarve over the next few days, with British officers also present.\n\nHans Christian Wolters, German state prosecutor in Braunschweig, told the BBC a short statement of confirmation would be released by the German authorities on Tuesday morning.\n\nAn area of the reservoir's peninsula just over a mile long was sealed off by police shortly after midday on Monday, Portuguese television network SIC reported.\n\nThe search is expected to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, it said.\n\nPolice have erected blue tents and are closing off roads leading to the man-made dam, while a total of 20 police officers have been assigned to the search.\n\nPolice have cordoned off a stretch of the reservoir and set up blue tents to conduct the search\n\nMr Wolters is treating Brueckner as the main suspect in the McCann case, although he has never been charged over Madeleine's disappearance and has denied any involvement.\n\nThe state prosecutor said a growing amount of evidence had connected Brueckner to the case, including his mobile phone records showing he was in the Praia de Luz area at the time of Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nBrueckner, a German national, is currently in prison in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old woman in 2005 in the same area where Madeleine McCann went missing.\n\nHe was living near the Praia da Luz resort when the McCann family was on holiday, and spent time in the area between 2000 and 2017.\n\nPolice have been seen at the remote reservoir in the Algarve, a site 50km away from where Madeleine disappeared\n\nIt is not the first time the reservoir has been searched as part of the investigation.\n\nIn 2008, Portuguese lawyer Marcos Aragao Correia paid for specialist divers to check the waterway after he claimed to have been tipped off by criminal contacts that Madeleine's body was in the reservoir.\n\nThe most recent search in Portugal in relation to Madeleine's disappearance was in 2014, when British police were given permission to examine scrubland near where she vanished.\n\nEarlier this month, Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, held a vigil to mark the 16th anniversary of her disappearance.\n\nThey also marked their daughter's 20th birthday in May, vowing to \"never give up\" on finding their daughter.\n\n\"Happy birthday Madeleine. Still missing. Still very much missed. Still looking. For as long as it takes,\" they said in a post on the official Facebook page of the Find Madeleine Campaign.\n\n\"We love you and we're waiting for you. We're never going to give up.\"", "The police officer who Tasered a 95-year-old woman at an Australian care home has been suspended from duty.\n\nClare Nowland was critically injured when police responded to reports she was wandering her care home with a knife around 4am on Wednesday.\n\nAmid public outcry, critics have called the response by police and care home staff disproportionate.\n\nAn investigation into the incident continues, as Ms Nowland receives \"end of life care\" in hospital.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, New South Wales (NSW) Police said the 33-year-old senior constable who Tasered Ms Nowland has been stood down, with pay.\n\nPolice say Ms Nowland was \"armed\" with a steak knife at the care home - which is in the town of Cooma about 114km (71 miles) south of Canberra - and the officer discharged his weapon after she began approaching \"at a slow pace\".\n\n\"She had a walking frame. But she had a knife,\" Assistant Police Commissioner Peter Cotter told media on Friday.\n\nMs Nowland is believed to have suffered a fractured skull and a serious brain bleed after falling and hitting her head during the incident.\n\nCommunity groups, including the NSW Council for Civil Liberties and People with Disability Australia (PwD), have strongly criticised the response, and called for better de-escalation training.\n\n\"The family are shocked, they're confused... and the community is outraged,\" family friend Andrew Thaler told the BBC on Friday.\n\n\"How can this happen? How do you explain this level of force? It's absurd.\"\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Ms Nowland's family added that they were grateful for the outpouring of support from around the world, but appealed for privacy amid a \"worrying and distressing time\".\n\n\"Well respected, much loved and a giving member of her local community, Clare is the loving and gentle-natured matriarch of the Nowland family,\" the statement said.\n\nInvestigations into the response by police and care home staff are under way, with the homicide squad involved.\n\n\"No officer, not one of us, is above the law,\" Mr Cotter said.\n\n\"All our actions will be scrutinised robustly from a criminal perspective as well.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe driver of a truck that crashed into security barriers near the White House on Monday night has been arrested.\n\nHe has been charged with various offences including reckless driving.\n\nA Secret Service official said there were no injuries and initial investigations suggested the crash might have been intentional.\n\nThe driver, a 19-year-old Missouri man, allegedly made threatening statements aimed at President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris.\n\nUS Park Police named the suspect as Sai Varshith Kandula, a resident of the St Louis suburb of Chesterfield.\n\nAt a hearing on Tuesday, a lawyer representing the teenager told a DC Superior Court judge there was no evidence Mr Kandula's actions were intentional.\n\nThe judge disagreed and said he posed \"a significant risk to the community\".\n\nThe case is expected to be transferred to federal court.\n\nMr Kandula has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, a threat to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on a president, vice-president or family member, as well as destruction of federal property and trespassing.\n\nCiting a law enforcement source, CBS, the BBC's US partner, reported that Mr Kandula is a US citizen who was not on any police watch lists. He is not believed to have any significant criminal record.\n\nThe Rockwood School District confirmed Mr Kandula graduated from Marquette High School in Chesterfield, Missouri in 2022.\n\nThere were no weapons or explosives found in the vehicle, officials said. A Nazi flag as well as a black backpack and a roll of duct tape were found inside the truck, according to US media reports.\n\nSai Varshith Kandula went to school in Missouri\n\nReuters news agency published an image showing the red flag on the floor near to the vehicle as police conducted a search.\n\nThe incident - which happened just before 22:00 local time (02:00 GMT) - triggered evacuations of local hotels including the historic Hay-Adams.\n\nVideo of the crash taken by witnesses and posted to social media show the truck stopped on a sidewalk before it accelerated and collided with a set of security posts.\n\nIt is unclear where Mr Biden was at the time of the incident. Earlier in the day, he was at the White House for debt ceiling talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\n\nSecurity has been increased at the White House and other federal buildings in Washington DC following a string of incidents in recent years.\n\nIn April 2021, a police officer was killed and another wounded when a driver rammed a security barrier near the US Capitol. The driver, a 25-year-old Indiana man, was shot and killed.\n\nIn another incident in August last year, a man drove into a barricade near the Capitol before firing shots into the air and taking his own life.", "The alarm was raised on Monday lunchtime and the man was found on a small ledge\n\nA hillwalker spent 24 hours stuck on a cliff edge above a Highland loch before being rescued by a lifeboat crew.\n\nThe 72-year-old man got into difficulty near Kinloch Hourn on Loch Hourn in the west Highlands on Sunday.\n\nBut there is little to no mobile phone reception in the remote area and he was only able to contact the coastguard on Monday afternoon.\n\nKyle RNLI lifeboat crew found the man and got him to safety in a rescue operation lasting more than six hours.\n\nA spokesman for the RNLI said the man was an experienced hillwalker who had become trapped in an \"impossible situation, unable to go forward or back\".\n\nThe search was carried out by the Kyle of Lochalsh-based RNLI crew and members of Glenelg Mountain Rescue Team, after the alarm was raised at about 13:20 on Monday.\n\nIt began at 16:00 with the Glenelg team dropped off at the head of the sea loch, an area where there is no electronic communication signal, according to the RNLI.\n\nThe lifeboat crew headed back out of the loch to re-establish communications with the coastguard.\n\nBy this point, the hillwalker had been able to get in contact with emergency services again to say he had spotted the lifeboat, but it was too far away for him to signal to the crew.\n\nKyle RNLI picked up the Glenelg team and headed back into Loch Hourn to make a search. The man was eventually found on a small ledge just above the waterline at 19:00.\n\nHe was reunited with his family in Kyle of Lochash about 30 minutes later.\n\nThe search and rescue operation lasted more than six hours\n\nA spokesman for Kyle RNLI said: \"This gentleman is an experienced walker who had unfortunately become trapped in an impossible situation, unable to go forward or back.\n\n\"Due to the location, he had no mobile signal from the time he had become trapped until Monday lunchtime, when he noticed he had a very weak one.\n\n\"He was then able to get in touch with the emergency services who launched a search and rescue operation.\"\n\nHe said: \"We regularly train with other rescue agencies and by working well with everyone involved, we were able to return him back to his family safely.\"\n\nKinloch Hourn is a small community at the end of a single track road on the edge of Knoydart, an area often dubbed as the \"last great wilderness\".", "Former deputy prime minister Dominic Raab will stand down as an MP at the next election.\n\nHis decision, first reported in The Telegraph, comes a month after he resigned as a minister when a bullying inquiry found he had acted in an \"intimidating\" way towards officials.\n\nThe paper quotes Mr Raab as saying he is concerned about \"the pressure the job has placed on my young family\".\n\nMr Raab and his wife have two sons, aged 10 and eight.\n\nSince becoming an MP in 2010, Mr Raab has served in many ministerial roles.\n\nIn 2018 then-prime minister Theresa May appointed him as Brexit secretary, a job he quit less than six months laterover Theresa May's draft Brexit deal.\n\nBoris Johnson picked him to be his foreign secretary and first secretary of state - the latter role meant he was left in charge of running the country when Mr Johnson was hospitalised with Covid in April 2020.\n\nMr Raab has also been a close ally of Rishi Sunak, supporting him in last summer's Conservative leadership race.\n\nMr Sunak rewarded his loyalty when he became prime minister, making Mr Raab both his justice secretary and deputy prime minister.\n\nMr Raab confirmed to BBC News that he would not seek re-election as the MP for Esher and Walton, which he has represented since 2010 and won with a majority of 2,743 votes in 2019.\n\nIn a letter from Mr Raab to his constituency, seen by the Telegraph, the MP said it had been a \"huge honour to represent the Conservatives since 2010 in this wonderful constituency\".\n\nHis departure from Parliament means the Conservatives will have to find a new candidate for the Surrey constituency.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, who are targeting his seat at the next election, called on him to \"do the decent and honest thing\" and stand down immediately, triggering a by-election to replace him.\n\n\"People in Esher and Walton deserve better than to have a MP found guilty of bullying, who has now thrown in the towel,\" said the party's deputy leader Daisy Cooper.\n\nMr Raab joins a growing number of senior Conservatives deciding not to stand in the next general election, expected in 2024.\n\nFormer ministers including Sajid Javid and George Eustice have also announced their intention to leave the House of Commons.\n\nIn all, 53 MPs from different parties have said they would stand down at the next election.\n\nMr Raab was at the centre of months of speculation when bullying allegations from civil servants led to an inquiry into the MP's conduct.\n\nThe report - conducted by senior lawyer Adam Tolley KC - concluded Mr Raab had engaged in an \"abuse or misuse of power\" as foreign secretary.\n\nThe findings prompted Mr Raab to step down, but in his resignation letter he noted that the inquiry \"dismissed all but two of the claims levelled against me\".\n\nHe also said the inquiry was \"flawed and sets a dangerous precedent\" and would \"encourage spurious complaints against ministers, and have a chilling effect on those driving change on behalf of your government - and ultimately the British people\".\n\nResponding to his decision to quit as an MP, fellow Conservative Angela Richardson tweeted: \"His constituents will miss his dedication. I am happy for his young family though. This job is tough enough on family life as a simple backbencher, let alone being in Cabinet.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice officers have started digging near a reservoir in Portugal in a long-running investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.\n\nThe Arade dam is 31 miles (50km) from where the British toddler went missing in Praia da Luz 16 years ago.\n\nThe operation is being led by German police looking for evidence to link her disappearance to Christian Brueckner.\n\nThe 45-year-old German national was made a formal suspect, or an \"arguido\", by Portuguese prosecutors in 2022.\n\nBrueckner is known to have visited the picturesque spot around the time Madeleine, who would now be 20, went missing.\n\nSniffer dogs were used in a search of the reservoir's banks, and police officers went out into the water on an inflatable boat.\n\nUniformed and plain-clothed officers spent a number of hours scouring the scrubland, using pickaxes and inspecting small rocks with rakes and spades.\n\nEmergency services and officials from Portugal, Germany and the UK held briefings near blue police tents erected at the site.\n\nSpeaking to the German regional public broadcaster NDR, German state prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said the authorities \"have grounds to believe that we could find evidence there (in the reservoir)\".\n\nIn a separate statement to German TV channel RTL, Mr Wolters said he could not \"give any concrete information\" on the clues on which the search operation is based.\n\n\"They are not tips that come from the accused... but you can imagine that we don`t start searching somewhere in Portugal on the off chance, but that there must be a good reason for it.\n\n\"We do have one, but I ask for your understanding that I cannot disclose it here at the moment for tactical reasons.\"\n\nSpecialists are combing through the area located 31 miles (50km) from the apartment where Madeleine went missing\n\nAround lunchtime, more than 20 officers were digging beside the reservoir. A number of bags have been taken away from the search area, although it is not known what is in them.\n\nThere are reportedly four areas of interest to be searched this week.\n\nA short statement from the prosecutor's office in the German city of Braunschweig has confirmed the search but did not say why it was taking place.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said its officers were in Portugal so they can inform Madeleine's family of any developments.\n\nThe new searches come as the Home Office granted an extra £110,000 in funding this financial year for the Metropolitan Police to assist with finding Madeleine.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three when she went missing 16 years ago\n\nIt is not the first time the reservoir has been searched as part of the investigation.\n\nIn 2008, Portuguese lawyer Marcos Aragao Correia paid specialist divers to check the waterway after an apparent tip-off from criminal contacts that Madeleine's body was in the water.\n\nMadeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, was three years old when she went missing on 3 May 2007 while on holiday with her family in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.\n\nHer parents, Kate and Gerry, had gone for dinner with a group of friends at a resort restaurant, leaving Madeleine and her younger brother and sister sleeping in their apartment 100 yards away.\n\nThe adults had devised a rota to check on all of the group's children during the evening. But when it was Kate's turn, she discovered Madeleine had gone.\n\nMadeleine McCann's disappearance has drawn huge media interest over the years\n\nMr Wolters is treating Brueckner as the main suspect in the McCann case, although he has never been charged over Madeleine's disappearance and has denied any involvement.\n\nThe state prosecutor said a growing amount of evidence had connected Brueckner to the case, including his mobile phone records showing he was in the Praia de Luz area at the time of Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nBrueckner is currently in prison in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old woman in 2005 in the same area where Madeleine went missing.\n\nHe was living near the Praia da Luz resort when the McCann family was on holiday, and spent time in the area between 2000 and 2017.\n\nThe most recent search in Portugal in relation to Madeleine's disappearance was in 2014, when British police were given permission to examine scrubland near where she vanished.\n\nEarlier this year three other charges, unrelated to the McCann case, were thrown out of court because Brueckner's lawyer argued that, because of Brueckner's last place of residence in Germany, prosecutors in another German region should be responsible.\n\nState prosecutor Mr Wolters has launched an appeal against this and, in Tuesday's comments to German media, clarified that he is still the prosecutor in charge of the case.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo teenagers who died in a crash which sparked a riot in Cardiff have been named locally as Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe boys were killed while riding an electric bike in Ely shortly after 18:00 BST on Monday.\n\nSome residents claimed to the PA news agency that the boys were being chased by police.\n\nSouth Wales Police denied that the boys were being pursued.\n\nSeveral vehicles were set alight during the riot on Monday night\n\nCars were set alight and fireworks thrown at police as more than 100 people gathered following the crash.\n\nBridy Bool, who knows the family of Harvey, said he had \"loads of friends\" and loved motorbikes and football.\n\n\"He was best friends with Kyrees and [they] were into the same things. It was not unusual for them to be together,\" she said.\n\nMs Bool said she believed the pair were being chased by officers \"as there are videos going around\".\n\nPolice dismissed this claim and said they arrived at the scene after the crash, remaining there to manage \"large-scale disorder\" until the early hours of Tuesday.\n\nUp to 12 officers were injured in the rioting, said South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael.\n\n\"It would appear that there were rumours, and those rumours became rife, of a police chase - which wasn't the case,\" Mr Michael said.\n\nSouth Wales Police said arrests had been made but did not say how many.\n\nCars were set alight and fireworks thrown at police as 100 to 150 people gathered in Ely on Monday night.\n\nAt about 20:00, police tweeted that they were still at the scene of the collision but were also working to \"de-escalate ongoing disorder\".\n\nThe force said it had received a large number of calls from \"understandably frightened\" residents.\n\nBy 01:10 BST on Tuesday, police said a number of vehicles had been set alight and arrests were being made.\n\nThe force said its thoughts were with the families of the boys who died as well as those affected by the rioting.\n\nMore arrests would follow, a police spokesperson said.\n\nMr Michael told BBC Radio 4's Today the crash was \"being investigated in its own right\", but that it appeared to have sparked the disorder.\n\nHe said the connection between the two events was \"far from clear\".\n\n\"There's going to be investigations going on this morning to try and establish what happened,\" Mr Michael said.\n\nFloral tributes being left in Ely on Tuesday after the boys' deaths\n\n\"Our focus now is to fully investigate the circumstances of the collision and the appalling scenes that followed\", the spokesperson added.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford - whose Cardiff West constituency includes Ely - said he was \"very concerned\" by the \"upsetting reports\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesperson said what had happened was \"appalling and completely unacceptable\".\n\nThe IOPC said: \"We have not received a referral from South Wales Police with regards to the incident in Ely last night and there is no indication yet that we will receive a referral.\"\n• None Police attacked in riot after teens killed in crash", "Boris Johnson has been referred to police by the Cabinet Office over further potential rule breaches during the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe department said it made the referral after a review of documents ahead of the Covid public inquiry.\n\nA spokesperson for the former PM dismissed claims of any breaches as a \"politically motivated stitch-up\".\n\nBoth the Metropolitan and Thames Valley Police say they are assessing the information received.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said officials had been obliged to disclose the documents to the police under civil service rules.\n\nThe Times, which first reported the story, says Mr Johnson has been referred to Thames Valley police because his ministerial diary revealed visits by family and friends to Chequers - the prime minister's country house in Buckinghamshire - during the pandemic.\n\nThames Valley Police said it had \"received a report of potential breaches of the Health Protection Regulations between June 2020 and May 2021 at Chequers, Buckinghamshire\".\n\nThe Met Police released a similar statement but said their information related to potential breaches in Downing Street.\n\nIt is understood Mr Johnson has had no contact from the police.\n\nThe spokesman for the former prime minister said it was \"totally untrue\" that there had been further Covid rule breaches.\n\n\"The events in question were all within the rules either because they were held outdoors or came within another lawful exception. They include regular meetings with civil servants and advisers.\n\n\"It appears some within government have decided to make unfounded suggestions both to the police and to the Privileges Committee - many will conclude that this has all the hallmarks of yet another politically motivated stitch-up.\"\n\nThe spokesman said Mr Johnson's lawyers had written to the Cabinet Office, as well as the Commons Privileges Committee, \"explaining that the events were lawful and were not breaches of any Covid regulations\".\n\nThe seven-member committee of MPs has been investigating whether Mr Johnson misled Parliament over Covid rule-breaking events in government buildings.\n\nIn a statement, the committee said it had received additional evidence from the government last week and asked Mr Johnson for a response, both of which it would now take into account during its probe.\n\nIf the committee concludes Mr Johnson deliberately misled MPs over the events, he could potentially face a suspension from Parliament, which in turn could lead to a by-election in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman also said it was \"bizarre and unacceptable\" that \"no contact was made with Mr Johnson before these incorrect allegations were made both to the police and to the Privileges Committee\". The Cabinet Office has denied the suggestion Mr Johnson was not given prior notice.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said the material it had passed to police came from the \"normal\" process of reviewing documents to be submitted to the public inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic.\n\n\"In-line with obligations in the Civil Service Code, this material has been passed to the relevant authorities and it is now a matter for them.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told the matter was not considered by ministers or the cabinet secretary, who heads the civil service.\n\nThe public inquiry, which is separate to the privileges committee probe, will begin hearings next month.\n\nBoth Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were fined for attending a birthday party in Downing Street\n\nResponding to the announcement, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"These new allegations are for the police to examine but the government must explain who else knew at the time and why this has only now come to light.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper, said Mr Johnson \"should finally do one decent thing and consider his position as an MP\".\n\nLindsay Jackson, spokesperson for Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, said Mr Johnson was \"totally unfit for any form of public service, never mind being the prime minister\".\n\nBut, speaking on his GB News programme, Conservative MP and former minister Jacob Rees-Mogg defended Mr Johnson, saying: \"The latest stories are just another example of how those who don't like Boris, mainly because of Brexit, are always looking for something to have a go at him on.\"\n\nMr Johnson resigned as prime minister last July, in part due to public anger over revelations he broke Covid lockdown rules.\n\nIn April 2021 he received a fine from the police for breaking lockdown rules after attending a gathering on his birthday in June 2020.\n\nAnd, in May 2022, a report by then-senior civil servant Sue Gray set out a series of social events held by staff in Downing Street which broke the rules.", "Relatives of those killed in a spate of gun murders in Belfast over the past four-and-a-half years are concerned the culprits will never be caught.\n\nMark Hall, 31, was shot dead in his family home in the Lower Falls in 2021.\n\nJim Donegan, 43, was shot dead outside a school on the Glen Road in 2018.\n\nIn their first broadcast interviews, Mr Hall's partner, Sabrina Wilde, and Mr Donegan's brother, Sean, tell BBC Spotlight about the impact the murders have had on their families.\n\nIn both murders, police have said dissident republican activity is a line of inquiry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sabrina Wilde describes hearing the gun attack on her partner Mark Hall while she spoke to him on the phone\n\nMs Wilde told BBC Spotlight she would leave her partner's killers \"to God\".\n\n\"I pray to him every day that he will do the right thing. They're all cosy in their beds and enjoying life while they destroyed mine,\" she said.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said gun murders were extremely complex and there had been both charges and convictions in a number of fatal shootings in recent years.\n\nSpotlight has also spoken to Sean Donegan, whose brother Jim was murdered while collecting his son from school in west Belfast in December 2018.\n\nThe Donegan family, who have never spoken publicly before, are taking the PSNI to court, claiming it mishandled intelligence prior to the murder.\n\nSean Donegan said that while he had faith in the police investigation after his brother's murder, he now has none.\n\nSean Donegan says he has no faith in the police investigation\n\n\"They're meant to be here to protect the community. They failed,\" he said.\n\nThe PSNI said Jim Donegan's murder was a \"deplorable, violent act\".\n\nIt added that the Donegan family's court case and an ongoing Police Ombudsman probe into the police's handling of the murder investigation meant it could not comment on the issues raised by Sean Donegan.\n\nThe programme examines links between a number of murders carried out between late 2018 and autumn 2022 where assassins have struck swiftly and ruthlessly, apparently leaving little forensic trace.\n\nDespite some of the victims being alleged to have had links to organised crime, in every case the police have said that dissident republican involvement was a line of inquiry.\n\nPolice initially blamed the murder of Jim Donegan on the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), which has been heavily linked to organised crime, before also pointing the finger at another dissident republican group, Oglaigh na hEireann (OnH).\n\nThe organisation went on \"military ceasefire\" in 2018 but there is significant evidence that it is still involved in criminality, including murder and procuring new weaponry.\n\nIn a speech at Milltown Cemetery in west Belfast at Easter 2022, masked OnH members appeared and a speech was read out on their behalf boasting of the organisation having used \"lethal force\" against people it believed were drug dealers and \"British agents\".\n\nRajan Basra said the authorities should know where to look online for traces of OnH\n\nThey also wielded guns made using a 3D printer which, according to arms expert Rajan Basra, was the first time a paramilitary group had ever been seen with the relatively new firearms.\n\n\"The weapons can definitely be lethal. Although terrorist adoption of them is probably in the early stages there's demonstrable proof that these firearms do work, and they are effective,\" he said.\n\nMr Basra of King's College London said the blueprint for the kind of 3D gun on show at Milltown was known only to people in a shadowy online group - potentially presenting an opportunity for law enforcement.\n\n\"When OnH made this public appearance with the 3D printed gun, they inadvertently signalled to people that they were members of that private group,\" he said.\n\n\"And so, if the authorities were looking at that, they would know exactly where they need to focus their attention to perhaps see the online traces of ONH.\"\n\nThe PSNI told Spotlight ONH was a proscribed organisation and police would continue to investigate any criminality it was involved in.\n\nBBC Spotlight's Murder on the Streets is now available on BBC iPlayer and will be on BBC One Northern Ireland on Tuesday at 22:40 BST.", "More than 35,000 incidents of sexual misconduct or sexual violence - ranging from derogatory remarks to rape - were recorded on NHS premises in England between 2017 and 2022.\n\nRape, sexual assault or being touched without consent accounted for more than one in five cases.\n\nThe data was collected by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and the Guardian, and shared with BBC File on 4.\n\nFreedom of Information requests were received from 212 NHS trusts in England.\n\nThe data that came back from trusts showed at least 20% of incidents involved rape, sexual assault or inappropriate physical contact - including kissing. Other cases included sexual harassment, stalking and abusive or degrading remarks. One in five cases involved patients abusing other patients - although not all trusts provided a detailed breakdown.\n\nOne former patient told File on 4 how she had been sexually assaulted by a male patient while she had been showering in a hospital.\n\n\"The door flew open and there was a man in the doorway,\" said Mary (not her real name). \"I screamed as I had no clothes on. He ran towards me and shouted 'I'll have some of that'.\"\n\nWhen the man grabbed her arm, she explained, she \"managed to elbow him and push him away\".\n\n\"I was trying to run and cover myself with my hands and parts of my body because there's everybody staring.\"\n\nMary, now in her early 80s, had been admitted to the hospital after suffering a heart attack in 2020.\n\nHer attacker had been sitting in a chair outside the shower room.\n\nThe incident was reported to the police but the force involved said there wasn't enough evidence to proceed with a prosecution.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson has told the BBC that all NHS organisations must have robust measures in place to ensure immediate action is taken in any sexual cases reported to them.\n\nBut the BMJ and Guardian investigation found that fewer than one in 10 NHS trusts has a dedicated policy to deal with sexual assault and harassment - and that managers are also no longer obliged to report abuse of staff to a central database.\n\n\"I'm hearing time and time again, this has happened to so many other people,\" says Lib Dem MP Daisy Cooper\n\nMary says she wasn't given any support by the hospital after the attack - and the NHS trust involved has admitted to File on 4 that more should have been done.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' health spokeswoman Daisy Cooper MP is calling for a new sexual complaints system to protect patients, visitors and staff. She says Mary's story is an example of the \"absolutely unacceptable\" number of sexual attacks happening in NHS hospitals across the UK.\n\n\"I'm hearing time and time again, this has happened to so many other people.\n\n\"There is not a simple, clearly signposted way for people to make a complaint of a sexual nature and for it to be treated with respect and be treated efficiently.\"\n\nMore than 20,000 alleged incidents of sexual violence and sexual misconduct by patients on hospital staff were recorded.\n\nOne former nurse told File on 4 that she had been sexually assaulted by a patient on a hospital ward in 2020.\n\n\"I was checking the cannula on the back of his hand,\" said Tracey (not her real name).\n\n\"When I bent over in front of him, he launched himself at me and grabbed my breasts.\"\n\nTracey says the ordeal left her in a state of shock and harmed her mental health.\n\nShe reported the incident to her hospital trust but it failed to immediately report it to the police.\n\nThe trust told File on 4 that it has apologised to Tracey about the delay in reporting the incident to the police.\n\nHowever, it says this was done within three days and it has carried out its own investigation in order to offer further training to its staff.\n\nConsultant Philippa Jackson: \"I was asked a series of questions about whether or not I had led him on\"\n\nConsultant Philippa Jackson told File on 4 she had been sexually assaulted by a senior NHS colleague when working as a junior doctor.\n\n\"He rubbed himself against my thigh, he then made a comment about his erection,\" she said.\n\n\"Then he kissed me on the bottom of my neck and again I felt very uncomfortable.\"\n\nWhen Ms Jackson made a formal complaint about the individual, she says she was quizzed by senior managers at the hospital.\n\n\"I was asked a series of questions about whether or not I had led him on, essentially, whether or not I was being flirtatious,\" she says.\n\nNo action was taken against the man, and Ms Jackson says she was told the incident hadn't been witnessed and could not be proved - so there was no case to answer.\n\nAlthough more than 4,000 NHS staff were accused of rape, sexual assault, harassment, stalking, or abusive remarks towards other staff or patients in 2017-22, the BMJ and Guardian investigation found that only 576 have faced disciplinary action.\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"The health and social care secretary is working closely with the NHS and recently convened an urgent meeting with NHS leaders to discuss how to root out this vile behaviour and ensure services are always safe for staff and patients.\"", "TikTok has sued to block the US state of Montana from banning residents from accessing its social media platform.\n\nMonday's lawsuit comes after last week Montana became the first US state to pass a sweeping ban on the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform.\n\nIn a statement, TikTok said the ban conflicts with US free speech rights.\n\nTikTok has come under scrutiny from authorities around the world over concerns that data could be passed to the Chinese government.\n\nThe lawsuit filed on Monday in the United States District Court for the District of Montana says it is suing to overturn the \"unlawful\" ban.\n\n\"We are challenging Montana's unconstitutional TikTok ban to protect our business and the hundreds of thousands of TikTok users in Montana,\" a spokesperson said in a statement.\n\n\"We believe our legal challenge will prevail based on an exceedingly strong set of precedents and facts.\"\n\nThe TikTok lawsuit argues that the ban violates the constitutional First Amendment right to free speech.\n\nThe company's complaint states that the ban was \"unconstitutionally shutting down the forum for speech for all speakers on the app\".\n\nThe ban is due to take effect in January 2024. It will make it illegal for app stores to offer TikTok, but does not ban people who already have TikTok from using it.\n\nMontana, which has a population of just over one million, banned the app on government devices last December.\n\nTikTok says it has 150 million American users. Although the app's user base has expanded in recent years, it is still most popular with teenagers and users in their 20s.\n\nHowever, there are concerns across the US political spectrum that TikTok could be a national security risk.\n\nThe social media platform is owned by ByteDance - a Chinese company. ByteDance has repeatedly denied it is controlled by the Chinese government.\n\nThe lawsuit also argues that Montana has overstepped its authority by concerning itself with users' data and national security - which is the purview of the federal government.\n\nIt says the ban is based on the \"unfounded speculation\" that China's government could access TikTok data.\n\nLawyers for Montana's government have previously said that they expected lawsuits, and that they are prepared to defend the ban in courts.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The fight over TikTok explained in 60 seconds", "The UK economy is expected to avoid a recession this year, the International Monetary Fund has said, after it sharply upgraded its growth forecast.\n\nIt now expects the UK to grow by 0.4% in 2023, whereas last month it forecast the economy would contract by 0.3%.\n\nGrowth would be helped by \"resilient demand\" and falling energy prices.\n\nBut the IMF said inflation \"remains stubbornly high\" and that higher interest rates will need to remain in place if it is to be brought down.\n\nSpeaking in London, the IMF's managing director Kristalina Georgieva said the upgraded growth figure had been sparked by falling energy prices, easing concerns over Brexit and improved financial stability.\n\nShe added that the government had taken \"decisive and responsible steps in recent months\".\n\nBut Ms Georgieva also said now was not the time to look at cutting taxes, warning that at the moment \"neither is it affordable, nor is it desirable\".\n\nThe IMF report noted that the risks for the UK economy were \"considerable\", with the biggest danger coming from \"greater-than-anticipated persistence in price- and wage-setting\", which would keep inflation higher for longer.\n\nIt also said the UK must address the record numbers of people not working, many of whom have long-term illnesses.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said the report \"credits our action to restore stability and tame inflation\".\n\n\"If we stick to the plan, the IMF confirm our long-term growth prospects are stronger than in Germany, France and Italy.\"\n\nPat McFadden, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said the report revealed \"the fragility of the UK economy, highlighting the slowdown in economic activity since last year and stubbornly high prices\".\n\nThe IMF said faster-than-usual pay growth and global supply chains returning to normal after the pandemic had also contributed to its growth upgrade.\n\nHowever, it noted that the outlook for growth \"remains subdued\".\n\nThe IMF forecasts the economy will grow by 1% in 2024, rising to 2% in 2025 and 2026.\n\nIt also predicts that inflation will not return to the Bank of England's target of 2% until mid-2025, which is later than it had forecast previously.\n\n\"Further monetary tightening will likely be needed,\" the agency said, and interest rates \"may have to remain high for longer to bring down inflation more assuredly\".\n\nEarlier, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, told MPs on the Treasury Select Committee inflation had \"turned the corner\".\n\nHowever, he admitted that inflation is currently 0.8% higher than the Bank of England had expected in February, blaming the high price of food and goods like clothing and footwear as underlying reasons.\n\nThe Bank has put up interest rates 12 times in a row in an attempt to bring down inflation, but this has pushed up costs for many mortgage holders.\n\nOn interest rates, Mr Bailey said: \"I can't tell you whether we're at the peak. I think we're nearer to the peak than we were.\"\n\nWith this IMF health check on the UK's economic recovery, the chancellor gets some ammo in his battles with the opposition, inside and outside his party. The UK this year is no longer bottom of the G7 or G20 league tables.\n\nThe IMF also goes out of its way to praise UK progress, the Budget, and the response to banking pressures and the prime minister's Northern Ireland Brexit deal.\n\nThe result is a punchy upgrade within just a few weeks from decline of 0.3% to growth of 0.4%.\n\nTo be clear, this is closer to zero than normal growth, and definitely not sunlit uplands. But it does also significantly exceed the worst recessionary forecasts from around the time of the mini-budget, and the series of global crises.\n\nThe IMF also helped the chancellor in his battles with the right of the party over both Brexit and tax cuts. The Windsor Framework has boosted investment confidence, it said, and the time and place for changes to tax and spend policy had not come.\n\nBut the IMF also deployed a new key phrase, warning against \"premature celebration\" on inflation.\n\nIts managing director Kristalina Georgieva told me: \"What is most concerning is food prices. Even with energy prices, trimming down, staying as high as it is, it does mean that interest rates will have to remain higher for longer. The discussion around interest rates has somewhat shifted from 'how high?' to 'for how long?'\"\n\nThat was a clear hint that expectations that interest rates could be expected to fall within a year may be off the mark.\n\nSticky inflation, and especially food price inflation, is the enduring concern.\n\nThe IMF works to stabilise the global economy and one of its key roles is to act as an early economic warning system.\n\nLast year, the fund openly criticised the short-lived plans by the UK government, then led by Liz Truss, for tax cuts. It said the measures, which were unveiled in September's mini-budget but quickly scrapped, were likely to fuel the cost of living crisis.\n\nOne of the criticisms of the mini-budget was that there was no analysis from the government's independent forecasting body, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).\n\nIn its latest forecast, the IMF recommended that all major fiscal policy changes should be accompanied by OBR forecasts.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, official figures showed UK government borrowing hit a higher-than-expected £25.6bn in April, the second-highest borrowing figure for the month since records began in 1993.\n\nThe borrowing figure - which represents the difference between spending and tax income - was £11.9bn more than for the same month last year, with inflation pushing up interest payments on debt partly to blame.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said interest payments on central government debt hit £9.8bn in April. That was £3.1bn more than a year earlier, and was the highest April figure since monthly records began in 1997.\n\nInflation figures due on Wednesday are expected to show the rate falling below 10% for the first time since last August.", "Gearing up: Coaches and lorries queue at the Port of Dover ahead of the bank holiday weekend\n\nThe Port of Dover's boss has said it has done \"everything we can\" to prevent travel delays over the upcoming bank holiday and school half-term break.\n\nSome coach passengers faced 15-hour delays to board ferries to France in the lead up to Easter.\n\nBut Port of Dover chief executive Doug Bannister said it has since taken steps to stop traffic getting snarled up in post-Brexit border checks.\n\nUp to 5,500 cars and 350 coaches are expected at the port on Friday.\n\n\"So it is quite a busy day,\" Mr Bannister told the BBC.\n\nTraffic control measures have already been put in place to manage the flow of lorries travelling to Dover on the M20.\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum, which manages emergency planning for the county, said: \"The passenger forecasts from both Eurotunnel and the Port of Dover indicate an extremely busy period for cross-Channel traffic over the bank holiday weekend at the end of May.\n\n\"This also coincides with schools in the UK breaking up for half-term.\"\n\nThis weekend will be a key test for the Port of Dover, which has been dogged by long tailbacks of vehicles during busy holiday periods.\n\nMr Bannister admits that in the past images of queues have put people off travelling through the port. \"Certainly there was some trepidation in the market,\" he said. \"But the volumes came back.\"\n\nMost recently in late March and early April, ferries said they had received 15% more coach bookings than they expected while at the same time, bad weather disrupted sea travel, leading to severe delays.\n\nMr Bannister admits: \"It wasn't a great experience, particularly for people that had saved up to travel abroad, or the school groups of kids going across maybe on their first trip, it was not good.\"\n\nFor Matt Barnes, director at Barnes Coaches, travelling through Dover in April was an endurance test for his drivers and passengers.\n\nHis company was operating four coaches over the Easter weekend. The first arrived on Friday, an hour-and-a-half before the ferry was supposed to set sail - and was still waiting 15 hours later.\n\nMatt Barnes, director at Barnes Coaches, said no-one wants a repeat of the scenes over Easter\n\n\"By the time they actually got to a ferry, the port couldn't accept the coaches, they were sent away to a service station,\" he said.\n\n\"The service station hadn't been warned they were coming. There's hundreds and hundreds of people there. All the food outlets are closed, the toilets are overflowing, there's no provision for anybody. So the children were pretty much on the coaches for the 15 hours waiting to get on the ferry.\"\n\nHe added: \"The scenes that start these holidays are dreadful. No-one wants to repeat that and people are scared of travelling by ferry into Europe.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Barnes said he has had reassurances from the Port of Dover that it will be able to cope with the number of coaches.\n\n\"It is extremely important for us to pass on to our customers that they can trust this way of travelling into Europe,\" he said.\n\nA key issue for the Port of Dover is the time it takes for travellers to pass through border checks following the UK's departure from the European Union.\n\nIt now takes up to a minute-and-a-half to get a car through the port's border checks, which are staffed by France's Police aux Frontières. For coaches, it can take up to 15 minutes compared to a \"few minutes\" in pre-Brexit times.\n\nMr Bannister said: \"Right now, what has to happen is coach passengers need to disembark the coach, present themselves in front of Police aux Frontières to have their passports reviewed, any security questions that need to be asked are asked and [the passport] is stamped and [they] get back on the coach.\"\n\n\"There's no doubt that the additional checks are a factor in the queues,\" he said.\n\nBut he said that the port has taken a number of measures to speed things up since Easter.\n\nIt has reviewed all the traffic volumes to understand exactly what to expect.\n\nHe also said that the ferry operators have worked closely with coach companies to smooth the flow of traffic. This should ensure that coaches don't arrive at the port all at once.\n\n\"We created a new processing centre in the western part of the port to better sequence the traffic coming into the port and to the advanced passenger information checks,\" he said.\n\nIt also has a covered area where coaches will go for passenger passport checks.\n\n\"And then finally, what we've done is we've worked with all of our port partners, but specifically Police aux Frontières, to ensure that the resource levels are what we require, to make certain that we can maintain the flow rates. And they responded very well,\" he said.\n\nThe port could ask the ferries that operate out of Dover to limit the number of passengers they book onboard, and Mr Bannister said: \"We've had a look at it.\"\n\nBut he said: \"But to be fair, what I would rather do is make certain that collectively, we come together and try and service the demand of the coach industry as best as we possibly can.\"\n\nEven with all this, however, Mr Bannister admits that \"it would be foolish\" to guarantee that there will never be queues at the Port of Dover.\n\n\"Because one of the things that we have found is that things happen, right,\" he said. \"But what I can say is that we have put in place all the measures all the processes installed new facilities, in the best effort to make certain that those queues cannot happen again.\"", "Dominic Raab has resigned as deputy prime minister after a bullying inquiry found he acted in an \"intimidating\" and \"aggressive\" way towards officials.\n\nThe inquiry, by a senior lawyer, was set up by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after eight formal complaints about Mr Raab's behaviour as a minister.\n\nThe lawyer made multiple findings that fit a description of bullying in a report submitted to Mr Sunak.\n\nMr Raab said the inquiry was \"flawed and sets a dangerous precedent\".\n\nThe senior Conservative MP said he would quit the government if the inquiry by senior lawyer Adam Tolley KC made any finding of bullying against him whatsoever.\n\nThe bullying complaints, which involved 24 people, relate to Mr Raab's previous periods as justice secretary and foreign secretary under Boris Johnson, and his time as Brexit secretary under Theresa May.\n\nMr Tolley's report concluded Mr Raab had engaged in an \"abuse or misuse of power\" when foreign secretary, and \"acted in a manner which was intimidating\" towards officials at the Ministry of Justice.\n\nIn a resignation letter to Mr Sunak, Mr Raab said the inquiry \"dismissed all but two of the claims levelled against me\".\n\nHe said he feared the inquiry would \"encourage spurious complaints against ministers, and have a chilling effect on those driving change on behalf of your government - and ultimately the British people\".\n\nIn a letter to Mr Raab, Mr Sunak said his former deputy had kept his word after \"rightly\" undertaking to resign if the report made any finding of bullying whatsoever.\n\nBut the prime minister said he thought there had been \"shortcomings\" in the process and had asked civil servants to look at how complaints are handled.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesperson said Mr Sunak did not regret appointing Mr Raab to be his deputy.\n\nThe resignation of Mr Raab - one of Mr Sunak's key supporters during the Conservative leadership contest last year - triggered a mini-reshuffle of Mr Sunak's top team.\n\nMr Sunak has promoted two of his closest allies - Oliver Dowden as deputy prime minister, and Alex Chalk justice secretary - to fill the posts left vacant by Mr Raab.\n\nMr Raab's political fate had been hanging in the balance for about 24 hours after the prime minister received the report from Mr Tolley on Thursday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sir Keir Starmer said Rishi Sunak should have sacked Dominic Raab, rather than allow him to resign\n\nMr Raab's resignation is the third departure of a cabinet minister since Mr Sunak became prime minister.\n\nA Downing Street source said Mr Sunak did not urge Mr Raab to resign.\n\nLabour has accused Mr Sunak of being weak for failing to sack Mr Raab.\n\n\"We've had 13 years of Tory PMs trying to dodge the rules and defend their mates,\" a Labour source said. \"Enough is enough.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said Mr Raab's resignation should trigger a by-election for his Esher and Walton seat, in Surrey, calling him \"unfit to represent his constituents in Parliament\".\n\nIn his conclusions, Mr Tolley said he found a description of bullying had been met, when Mr Raab was foreign secretary and justice secretary.\n\nThe High Court in 2021 defined bullying, and confirmed that harassment, bullying and discrimination was not consistent with the Ministerial Code and was not to be tolerated, as Mr Tolley points out in his report.\n\nMr Tolley said Mr Raab had \"acted in a way which was intimidating, in the sense of unreasonably and persistently aggressive conduct in the context of a work meeting\", and that his behaviour involved \"an abuse or misuse of power in a way that undermines or humiliates\".\n\nMr Tolley also said, at meetings with policy officials, Mr Raab \"acted in a manner which was intimidating, in the sense of going further than was necessary or appropriate in delivering critical feedback\".\n\nMr Raab was \"also insulting, in the sense of making unconstructive critical comments about the quality of work done (whether or not as a matter of substance any criticism was justified)\", Mr Tolley said.\n\nHe said Mr Raab \"did not intend by the conduct described to upset or humiliate\", nor did he \"target anyone for a specific type of treatment\".\n\nMr Raab pulled no punches in his resignation letter. He made that clear that, while he accepted the outcome of the inquiry, he did not agree with the findings against him.\n\nHe said ministers \"must be able to give direct critical feedback on briefings and submissions to senior officials, in order to set the standards and drive the reform the public expect of us\".\n\nWhile he apologised for any \"unintended\" stress caused, he attributed this to the \"pace, standards and challenge\" he brought to the Ministry of Justice.\n\n\"In setting the threshold for bullying so low, this inquiry has set a dangerous precedent,\" Mr Raab wrote.\n\nHis main argument appears to be that ministers need to be able to give direct critical feedback, and exercise direct oversight, over their civil servant officials.\n\nOne question now is whether he decides to take any further action.\n\nHe has punchily accused some civil servants of \"systematic leaking of skewed and fabricated claims\" and claimed a senior official initiated a \"coercive removal\" of some of his private secretaries last year.\n\nSomeone who advised Mr Raab in a senior role in one department told the BBC his resignation letter contained \"one of the best examples of a 'non-apology' from a minister in recent years\".\n\nThe person said Mr Raab's version of being the deputy prime minister \"is one that should be learnt from and ultimately consigned to the history books\".\n\nA senior Tory MP and former Cabinet minister said: \"Has Dominic Raab been hard done by? Certainly. Is he the victim of a civil service union ambush? Probably.\"\n\nThe FDA, a union that represents civil servants, has called for an independent inquiry in to ministerial bullying following the Raab investigation.\n\nFDA General Secretary Dave Penman said Mr Raab's resignation was a \"damning indictment\" of the process for enforcing ministerial standards within government.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nValencia have been sanctioned with a partial stadium closure for five matches following the racist abuse of Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr.\n\nSpanish police have detained three people in connection with the abuse directed at the Brazilian at Mestalla Stadium on Sunday.\n\nValencia have also been fined 45,000 euros (£39,000).\n\nVinicius' late red card has been rescinded, meaning he will not have to serve a suspension.\n\nValencia called the decision to partially close their stadium \"disproportionate, unjust and unprecedented\" and said they intend to appeal against that part of the sanction.\n\n\"Valencia have collaborated from the first minute with the police and all relevant authorities to clarify the events that occurred,\" a statement from the club read.\n\n\"In addition, we have applied the maximum possible sanction with the ban for life from our stadium for racist behaviour of the fans identified by police.\"\n\nSpeaking at a press conference, Valencia head coach Ruben Baraja added: \"I am not going to allow the Valencia CF fans and Mestalla to be smeared with labels that do not represent us.\n\n\"Just as a player rightly fights back against insults and I support that with all my might, we as a club and a fanbase rebel against those who, during the days since the game, have accused us of being what we are not.\"\n\nThe closure will apply to the Mestalla Stadium's south stand, an area a clearly angry and emotional Vinicius was seen pointing to during Sunday's second half before reporting the issue to the referee.\n\nHe was sent off in the 97th minute of the 1-0 defeat, but with the red card now overturned, will be available for Wednesday's game against Real Vallecano if he recovers from a knee injury that forced him to miss training on Tuesday.\n\nVinicius was dismissed following a video assistant referee (VAR) check for pushing Valencia forward Hugo Duro to the floor. However, the footage the VAR showed the on-field referee did not include the part where Duro grabbed the Brazilian around the neck before the incident, which is also a red card offence.\n\nThe Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) said that the referee's decision to dismiss Vinicius was due to him being \"deprived of a decisive part of the facts\", adding that it was \"impossible for him to properly assess what happened\".\n\nExplaining the partial stadium closure, the RFEF added: \"It is considered proven that, as reflected by the referee in his minutes, there were racist shouts at Vinicius, altering the normal course of the match and considering the infractions very serious.\"\n\nThe match was paused in the second half as an incensed Vinicius reported opposition fans to the referee.\n\nReal have reported the abuse to the Spanish prosecutor's office as a hate crime.\n\nA number of Brazilians protested outside the Spanish consulate on Tuesday. Spanish government spokeswoman Isabel Rodriguez said: \"Spain is fighting this behaviour. We condemn it and we are working to eradicate it.\"\n\nReal Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti said Brazilian Vinicius is \"very sad\" but overwhelmed by the support he has received and believes he will stay in Spain despite the abuse.\n\n\"His love for the club is very big and he wants to make his career here,\" said Ancelotti.\n\n'It's so bad that it is going to force change'\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate was asked about the incident after naming his name squad for June's European Championship qualifiers against Malta and North Macedonia.\n\nEngland forward Raheem Sterling and midfielder Jude Bellingham were both targets of racial abuse during a game against Hungary in September 2021.\n\n\"I think we could debate about walking off [the pitch] or not,\" said Southgate.\n\n\"It's a disgusting situation. I think it's so bad that actually it is going to force change. It has taken a central story, not only in Europe but around the world, and it will force change.\n\n\"It is another example of what we are dealing with and another example of people burying their heads in the sand.\n\n\"We've been in a similar situation and I think [Real Madrid manager] Carlo Ancelotti dealt with it really well.\n\n\"There is a lot to take from it, it looks as though action has been taken. Hopefully it is a story that doesn't just disappear in 24-48 hours without anything being done.\"\n\nVinicius has been the target of racist abuse multiple times this season and, following the latest incident, has received support from the footballing world.\n\nAnd there has been widespread condemnation of how the incident has been handled, including from the Brazilian government.\n\nBefore Tuesday night's games between Real Valladolid and Barcelona, and Celta Vigo and Girona, players and match officials stood behind banners which read \"Racism, out of football\".\n\nBarcelona winger Raphinha revealed a message of support for his compatriot in the second half when he was substituted.\n\nThe daughter of Brazil legend Pele also urged football's governing bodies to take tougher measures against racism.\n\n\"Spain should be ashamed. La Liga should be ashamed. Real Madrid should be ashamed that they're not putting their foot down and standing up for him,\" Kelly Cristina Nascimento wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"How much more powerful if my father's legacy was not a stadium, but a movement, a law, a tangible action that fights racism, that makes it so a Vini Junior today does not have to go through what my father went through in 1958.\"\n\nLa Liga has said it will request \"more sanctioning powers\" so it can punish incidents of racism.\n\nThe league was criticised heavily following a post-match row on Twitter involving its president Javier Tebas.\n\nIt happened after Vinicius said La Liga \"belongs to racists\" and \"in Brazil, Spain is known as a country of racists\".\n\nTebas responded by saying Vinicius twice did not turn up for a meeting to discuss what it \"can do in cases of racism\", adding: \"Before you criticise and slander La Liga, you need to inform yourself properly.\"\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino previously said a three-step process needed to be used across football to deal with incidents of racism in matches - stopping the game, then re-stopping it, and then abandoning the match.\n\nHowever, Jonas Baer-Hoffman, the general secretary of world players' union Fifpro, said such a process had \"repeatedly failed\".\n\n\"It has shown that the referees are either not well-trained and have the capacity to execute it properly,\" Baer-Hoffman told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"The amount of times players get yellow cards, red cards for showing their emotions when they are saying what is happening to them and being punished shows that this protocol has failed.\n\n\"We have repeatedly pointed this out and called on the organisations to bring in a new process, led by those who actually have lived experiences to change that protocol.\"", "Disgraced former entertainer Rolf Harris, who was jailed for a series of indecent assaults on girls, has died aged 93.\n\nHarris was found guilty of a string of indecent assaults between 1968 and 1986 following a trial in 2014 - and was jailed for five years and nine months.\n\nHe was released from prison in 2017 - but never apologised to his victims.\n\nBefore his crimes came to light, Harris had been a fixture of family entertainment in Britain and Australia.\n\nAccording to his death certificate, which was registered on Tuesday, he died of neck cancer and \"frailty of old age\" at his home in Bray, Berkshire, on 10 May.\n\nA statement released by his family said: \"This is to confirm that Rolf Harris recently died peacefully surrounded by family and friends and has now been laid to rest.\n\n\"They ask that you respect their privacy. No further comment will be made.\"\n\nFollowing a trial at Southwark Crown Court, Harris was initially found guilty of 12 attacks on four girls, mainly in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nOne conviction, relating to an allegation he indecently assaulted an eight-year-old girl, was later overturned. But Court of Appeal judges dismissed his application to challenge the other 11 convictions.\n\nThe victims included two girls in their early teens and a friend of his daughter.\n\nBefore his crimes came to light, Harris had been a well-known figure in the entertainment industry in Britain and his native Australia for more than 50 years.\n\nHe arrived in London in 1952, aged 21, and went on to host a string of children's TV and variety shows as well as series about animals and art. Harris painted a portrait of the late Queen to mark her 80th birthday in 2006.\n\nHarris was also well known for a number of hit songs, including Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport; Two Little Boys and a cover of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven.\n\nDuring his career he was made an OBE, MBE and CBE and awarded a Bafta fellowship, but he was stripped of the honours following his convictions.\n\nAt his sentencing, the court heard he was a \"sinister pervert\", who used his fame to get close to young women and girls.\n\n\"You have shown no remorse for your crimes at all,\" the judge told him. \"Your reputation now lies in ruins, but you have no one to blame but yourself.\"\n\nHarris served three years of his sentence at Stafford Prison in Staffordshire. After his release he returned to the home in Bray, Berkshire, he shared with his wife, Alwen - who he had married in 1958.", "A video message from Christian Glass' parents will be shown to police at the start of a training course\n\nThe family of a man who was shot dead by police in Colorado while suffering a mental health crisis will receive a $19m (£15.3m) settlement.\n\nThe payment from both state and local authorities is the largest lawsuit settlement in Colorado's history.\n\nThe agreement, which was announced on Tuesday, also mandates local police to create a crisis response team and boost training in crisis intervention.\n\nChristian Glass was killed by a sheriff's deputy last June.\n\nHis death drew national attention and prompted calls to reform how police respond to people with mental health issues.\n\nThe 22-year-old had called police after his car became stuck on an embankment in the rural town of Silver Plume. He initially told the dispatcher he was being followed and made other statements that appeared to show he was hallucinating.\n\nHis mother later said he had been suffering a mental health crisis that day and was \"petrified\".\n\nBody camera footage shows Mr Glass telling police he is afraid and refusing to exit the car. He can be seen making heart shapes with his hands to the officers and praying.\n\nHe offers to throw two knives out of the vehicle but is told by police not to.\n\nAfter lengthy negotiations, officers smash a window of the vehicle and taser him. A panicked Mr Glass then brandishes a knife before being shot five times.\n\nWhile an initial police statement indicated he was the aggressor, a grand jury found officers needlessly escalated the stand-off and said Mr Glass did not pose a threat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA lawyer for his parents, Sally and Simon Glass, said they hoped police would intervene in similar incidents in future.\n\n\"Any of the seven officers there could have stopped this simply by saying something. They want to empower law enforcement to have this courage,\" Siddhartha Rathod said.\n\n\"The size of the settlement reflects the immense wrong and injustice committed by the officers,\" he added.\n\nA video message from the couple will be shown to police officers at the start of a training course about how to intervene if they feel a colleague is going too far.\n\nTwo officers, sheriff's deputy Andrew Buen and his supervisor Kyle Gould, are being prosecuted over the incident. Charges includes second-degree murder and official misconduct.", "Thanks for following our live coverage as police began a new search for Madeleine McCann at a reservoir in Portugal.\n\nWe're expecting the search to last a few more days and it will span across at least four areas around the Arade reservoir.\n\nToday's writers were Emily McGarvey, Malu Cursino and Laura Gozzi, and Rob Corp and Brandon Livesay were the editors.\n\nFor all the latest on the search for Madeleine McCann, read our news story here.", "The group said they had nothing to do with the decision to pull the track.\n\nThe Proclaimers have spoken for the first time about the decision to pull their most famous song from an official Coronation playlist.\n\nThe Scottish duo's hit I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) was initially included in the list, curated by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.\n\nBut the song was later removed following complaints about the brothers' well-known republican views.\n\nCraig and Charlie Reid appeared bemused and said the row had passed them by.\n\n\"We didn't know it was going on and we didn't know it was coming off,\" they told BBC Radio Scotland's Afternoon Show.\n\nCraig said he had first heard at the end of last year that the song had been suggested for use at Coronation celebrations.\n\nIt featured on the Spotify playlist alongside Queen, The Beatles, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Electric Light Orchestra and some other top UK artists.\n\n\"I don't think it's the royals themselves that do it, I think they probably get a company to cobble together whatever,\" he added.\n\n\"I didn't give it a second thought and then a few weeks ago they said that it's been taken off because of our republican views.\"\n\nThe brothers have been outspoken in the past about the monarchy, describing their 2007 song In Recognition as \"our overwhelming contempt for people on the left in this country who snipe against the Royal Family and then end up taking honours\".\n\nBut while they describe themselves as lifelong republicans, Charlie Reid said they had nothing to do with the decision to remove the song from the playlist.\n\n\"We're presuming some 'Bufton Tufton' from Tunbridge Wells has complained but who knows?\" he said\n\n\"Maybe somebody at a newspaper does it to create a story and I believe these things go on. We'll never really know and it's better that we don't.\"", "Mechelle Davis was 48 when she had her operation\n\nA woman who had a hysterectomy has said she was discharged without sufficient information on its impact on her physical and mental health.\n\nMechelle Davis, from County Down, said it was crucial women left hospital with appropriate medication and advice.\n\nHer operation involved removal of her womb, ovaries, fallopian tubes, and cervix.\n\nThe South Eastern Health Trust said patients were told pre and post-surgery of the risks and benefits involved.\n\nMs Davis was 48 when she had her operation and said she had no option but to look online for advice, something she described as \"unsatisfactory\".\n\n\"I had the operation in October 2022 and didn't go on HRT until the following February,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I felt that I was going crazy, the night sweats, the hot flushes and then the low mood.\n\n\"Every woman who is going through the menopause - including surgically induced - needs support.\n\n\"We need to know what to expect because it is a total life-changer.\"\n\nShe added that she left hospital with a pessary, anti-blood clotting injections and a leaflet on pelvic floor exercises.\n\n\"Women just feel that you get your hysterectomy and bye bye there you go,\" Ms Davis said.\n\nThe South Eastern Health Trust said while it could not comment on individual cases, its patients were \"provided with written information and are signposted to online resources, to assist with informed consent\".\n\n\"These resources include patient information leaflets for consent, Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology information on abdominal hysterectomy; recovering well, menopause and later life and websites such as Menopause Matters and the British Menopause Society website,\" the statement added.\n\nIn its online tool for clinicians, British Menopause Society advise that HRT plays a significant role in managing surgical menopause, especially in women under 45 - provided there are no contradictions such as personal history of hormone dependant cancer.\n\nIt also adds that \"all women undergoing surgical menopause should have counselling and be provided with information about the hormonal consequences of surgery and the role of HRT, both before surgery and before leaving hospital with clear communication to the primary care team.\"\n\nBBC News NI has spoken to other women who, after having a hysterectomy, were discharged without advice or a HRT prescription.\n\nAll the women said they felt miserable, confused and debilitated but that symptoms eased after taking HRT.\n\nGeneral practice nurse Elizabeth Wenden-Kerr said it would be a \"win win for women and the health service\" if professionals like her were given specialist menopause training to help women like Ms Davis.\n\nMs Wenden-Kerr is petitioning parliament to introduce menopause training for general practices.\n\nFrom her east Belfast surgery, the nurse said it was important that women were \"provided with evidence-based information\" to help inform their decisions about taking Hormone Replacement Therapy, also, to warn them about what to expect post-surgery.\n\nElizabeth Wenden-Kerr is petitioning parliament to introduce menopause training for general practices\n\nShe secured funding from the Royal College of Nursing to train and receive a qualification in menopause education from the British Menopause Society.\n\nShe said she saw as many women as possible or offered advice by phone about hormonal or non-hormonal treatment.\n\n\"I think it would be a win-win for women and the health service because by offering women treatment - we then hopefully will improve the health of women and then fend off long term conditions associated with menopause such as heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis - so yes if offers support for women both now and in the future.\n\n\"Often the GPs here will refer women to us to work out whether their symptoms are menopausal or if something else is going on. We then can discuss the best treatment options for them and provide a choice of treatment.\"\n\nWhile GPs receive some menopause training, many have told BBC News NI it was not enough and they had to refer to the British Menopause Society's tool kit, which was not ideal.\n\nIn February, a consultant addressed the issue of hysterectomies on social media.\n\nDr Siobhan Kirk, associate specialist in gynaecology and menopause posted on Twitter for \"gynaecology colleagues to \"please stop removing young women's ovaries without adequate pre-op discussion on the consequences/symptoms of #menopause and a clear plan for ~HRT including those having risk reducing surgery.\"\n\nDr Kirk works at the Belfast Health Trust and is a specialist at the menopause clinic based at the Mater Hospital in the north of the city.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorthern Ireland remains the only region in the UK to not have a women's health strategy.\n\nWithout an executive at Stormont, attempts to introduce one have stalled.\n\nRecently the issue and the absence of a legislature was raised during Northern Ireland Questions in the House of Commons when Labour MP Carolyn Harris asked Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris to meet her and Menopause Support Group NI to address their campaign for improved menopause services.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said he would be be more than happy with to meet her.", "A woman hit by a police motorcycle escorting Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, through London has died.\n\nThe family of 81-year-old Helen Holland, from Birchanger in Essex, said she fought \"for her life for nearly two weeks... but irreversible damage to her brain finally ended the battle\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duchess was \"deeply saddened\" and sent her \"deepest condolences\" to all the family.\n\nThe police watchdog is investigating the crash.\n\nMs Holland had been in London visiting her sister when she was struck at the junction of West Cromwell Road and Warwick Road in Earl's Court on 10 May.\n\nFollowing the crash, her family said she was in a coma, and on Friday the police said she remained in a critical condition.\n\nAnnouncing her death, her son, Martin Holland, said his mother had died after \"suffering multiple broken bones and massive internal injuries\".\n\nSophie, who is married to the King's youngest brother, will get in touch privately with Ms Holland's family.\n\nShe gained the title of Duchess of Edinburgh when her husband Prince Edward took on a new role in March.\n\nSophie is deeply saddened by Helen Holland's death, the palace says\n\nChief Supt Richard Smith, head of the Metropolitan Police's Royalty and Specialist Protection Unit, said the \"tragic outcome is being felt by colleagues across the Met\" and \"thoughts are very much with the woman's family and loved ones\".\n\n\"Officers know that their actions, both on and off duty, are open to scrutiny and following our referral of the incident, the IOPC launched an independent investigation - we continue to co-operate with and support that inquiry,\" he said.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which investigates the most serious incidents involving officers, said its inquiry was \"at an early stage\".\n\nIt issued a witness appeal last week and said it \"would still like to hear from anyone who saw or recorded any part of this incident who is yet to speak to us\".\n\nThe watchdog also said it had been in touch with Ms Holland's family to explain its role and would keep them updated on the investigation.\n\nThe duchess has recently returned from a two-day visit to Iraq's capital Baghdad where she met the country's leaders and visited a girls' school to hear from pupils about their education.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Crews from Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue and Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Service carried out searches\n\nA body has been found in the search for a 17-year-old boy who went missing in a river, police have confirmed.\n\nGloucestershire Police was called at about 22:00 BST on Sunday after the boy was spotted in the River Thames near Lechlade on Thames.\n\nA group of five had been at the location together, and some had entered the water to try to find him.\n\nThe others have been accounted for and the death is not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThe National Police Air Service, Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service and Severn Area Rescue Association carried out searches into the early hours of Monday.\n\nSearches continued throughout Monday and a body was later recovered from the river by specialist police divers from Avon and Somerset Police.\n\nFive teenage boys had been playing in the river, but the others have been accounted for\n\nAlthough formal identification has not yet taken place, the boy's next of kin have been informed and they are being supported by trained officers.\n\nGloucestershire Constabulary has said its thoughts were with the boy's family and friends at this distressing time.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "An explosion in the Russian border region of Bryansk derailed a freight train on Monday, authorities said.\n\nLocal governor Alexander Bogomaz said an explosive device went off along the Bryansk-Unecha line, 60km from Ukraine.\n\nThe incident, which occurred at 10:17 Moscow time (07:17 GMT), saw the locomotive catch fire and seven freight wagons derailed, Russian Railways said.\n\nThe region - which borders Ukraine and Belarus - has seen acts of sabotage since Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nThe train was reportedly carrying oil products and timber. No injuries were reported.\n\n\"An unidentified explosive device went off at the 136-kilometre mark on the Bryansk-Unecha railway line, derailing a freight train,\" Mr Bogomaz said in a post on Telegram.\n\nImages on social media showed tank carriages turned on their side with plumes of grey smoke billowing into the air.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Bogomaz said four people died after Ukraine shelled the village of Suzemka, around seven miles (12km) north of Russia's border with Ukraine.\n\nMeanwhile, power lines were destroyed early on Monday by a suspected explosive device in Leningrad Region, in north-west Russia, according to local governor Alexander Drozdenko.\n\nThe incident took place near the village of Susanino, some 60km (37 miles) south of St Petersburg, he wrote on Telegram, adding that the power supply to nearby settlements were not interrupted.\n\nA second suspected device was defused, Mr Drozdenko said.\n\nThe sabotage occurred as Russia fired missiles across Ukraine in its second pre-dawn strike in three days.\n\nThe attacks caused widespread damage at a logistics hub in Pavlohrad, near the central city of Dnipro.\n\nDozen of houses were destroyed and 34 people were wounded.\n\nOverall, the Ukrainian military said it shot down 15 of the 18 cruise missiles that had been fired.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV and Red Button with uninterrupted coverage on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app\n\nMark Selby created history as he became the first player to make a maximum 147 break in a World Championship final.\n\nBut the four-time world champion trails Luca Brecel 9-8 going into Monday's last day of action.\n\n\"The atmosphere when I potted that final black was electric. It is incredible. Just to make a 147 here is hard enough,\" said 39-year-old Selby.\n\n\"I always thought that if I got in that position I would be shaking like a leaf. It was amazing how calm I felt.\"\n\nBelgium's Brecel had dominated the opening session with his flamboyant attacking style to open up a 6-2 advantage.\n\nHowever, Selby, who appeared jaded on Sunday afternoon as a consequence of the draining late-night finish to his semi-final victory over Mark Allen, delivered a superb riposte in an exhilarating second session.\n\nA high-quality start saw Selby finally display his devastating potting ability, opening with a 134 break and then a 96 as he reeled off three of the first four frames.\n\nBrecel, who crafted a brilliant 99 of his own in the 10th frame of the match, constructed back-to-back half centuries to re-establish a four-frame lead at 9-5.\n\nBut Selby again responded, pinching the final frame of the session after his 147 to leave snooker's blue-riband event delicately poised when play resumes at 13:00 BST on Monday.\n\nSelby's special effort arrived in the 16th frame of the match, with the Englishman coming to the table after Brecel had left a red hanging in the jaws of the bottom corner pocket.\n\nAs excitement built he went on to superbly pot a difficult final red with the rest to clear all 15 reds, all accompanied by blacks, before dispatching the colours.\n\nIt prompted joyous scenes as the fans inside the auditorium erupted.\n\nReferee Brendan Moore, officiating in his third and last Crucible final before retirement, congratulated Selby, who was also embraced warmly by Brecel.\n\nSelby's feat comes 40 years on from the first ever maximum at the Crucible, compiled by Cliff Thorburn in 1983.\n\nThe Englishman is the 10th player to achieve a total clearance at the Sheffield venue - Kyren Wilson also made a 147 earlier in the tournament.\n\nThere have been 14 maximums in total at the Crucible with Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stephen Hendry making three each.\n\nThe select band of players to reach the magical tally is completed by Cliff Thorburn, Jimmy White, Mark Williams, Ali Carter, John Higgins and Neil Robertson.\n\nWilson's 147 came during his 10-5 first-round win against Ryan Day.\n\nSelby is set to share with him an additional £55,000 in prize money, with £40,000 on offer for a 147 and £15,000 for the tournament's highest break.\n\nIt was amazing, to be here and have a bird's eye view of it, it's a magical moment in Crucible history.\n\nTo make a maximum in a final is just the icing on the cake for Mark Selby in his career.\n\nPhenomenal. Iconic pictures. The irony that during the interval we were running a piece about Cliff Thorburn [making the Crucible's first maximum in 1983] and celebrating the anniversary of that, to then a couple of frames later [for Selby to make one].\n\nIt was absolutely amazing. What a competitor. To then follow that up by winning the final frame, that is absolutely vital. A very interesting day that we're set up for tomorrow.", "UK airlifts at an airstrip near Khartoum ended on Saturday\n\nTwo extra evacuation flights carrying British nationals have left Sudan, as UK efforts now turn to diplomacy and humanitarian aid.\n\nThe \"exceptional\" flights - billed as the last UK airlift from Sudan - took off from Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast on Monday evening.\n\nMilitary rescue flights from an airstrip near the Sudanese capital Khartoum ended on Saturday.\n\nNearly 2,200 people had been evacuated as of Monday afternoon.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said it would release passenger numbers for the two latest flights on Tuesday.\n\nBritish nationals and others, including Sudanese NHS staff, were asked to travel to Port Sudan by midday on Monday for the \"additional exceptional\" flights.\n\nThe Foreign Office would not confirm the movements of the flights, but a flight tracking website showed a RAF transport Hercules aircraft had landed in Larnaca, Cyprus, at 22:45 local time (20:45 BST). A RAF Atlas transport aircraft was due to land later.\n\nThe UK government said it had ended evacuation flights from Wadi Saeedna airstrip because of a decline in demand by British nationals and the \"increasingly volatile situation\" on the ground, with the last military plane taking off on Saturday night.\n\nAirstrikes and fighting were reported over the weekend despite a ceasefire between the Sudanese army and its rival the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.\n\nThe UK government described the operation in Sudan as the \"longest and largest airlift\" by any Western nation, with 2,197 people airlifted from the war-torn nation as of 17:30 Sudan time on Monday.\n\nThis figure included 1,087 people from other nations, including the US and Germany.\n\nIn addition, a UK team is providing consular assistance in Port Sudan, where they will be helping British nationals leave by commercial routes. Royal Navy ship HMS Lancaster is supporting evacuation efforts from Sudan.\n\nThe FCDO said the situation remained volatile and \"our ability to conduct evacuations could change at short notice\".\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly said: \"With thanks to the extraordinary efforts of staff and military, the UK has brought 2,197 people to safety from Sudan so far - the largest airlift by any Western nation.\n\n\"As the focus turns to humanitarian and diplomatic efforts, we will continue do all we can to press for a long-term ceasefire and an immediate end to the violence in Sudan.\"\n\nOptions to provide humanitarian assistance to Sudanese people in co-ordination with the UN and non-governmental organisations were being explored, the FCDO said.\n\nBut concerns have been raised by some British nationals attempting to get family, without British passports, into the UK.\n\nDr Hanna Yahya, from Cheadle, Greater Manchester, told the BBC her mother, who has a Sudanese passport and a valid 10-year UK visa, was refused entry on to an evacuation flight at Port Sudan.\n\nShe explained her British passport-holding brother, who had made the journey from Khartoum with his mother, had been told by a British Embassy helpline his mother could be evacuated if he proved she was dependent on him. But at Port Sudan she was told she could not be airlifted out the country as she was not \"immediate family\".\n\nThey are now stuck at the Sudanese border attempting to leave.\n\nDr Yahya said: \"My mother doesn't have anyone to look after her. If she is left alone, she will probably die. She has mobility issues. She can walk for about 10 metres. She uses a wheelchair. a normal chair or a walking aid when tired.\n\n\"My brother will stay with my mom to look after her. It breaks my heart.\"\n\nBritish nationals had to make their way unescorted to Port Sudan\n\nFighting has entered its third week in Sudan. Tens of thousands of people have fled the country since fighting engulfed the country more than two weeks ago.\n\nThe capital city Khartoum has seen the heaviest fighting, with the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary group, fighting for control of the country.\n\nSudan's military said on Saturday it was launching a major new offensive against RSF positions in Khartoum.\n\nThe latest truce, which has not held, was due to end at midnight on Sunday. But the RSF said the ceasefire had been extended for another three days.", "Tony Hawk was speaking at a conference in San Diego\n\nOne of the world's most famous skateboarders, Tony Hawk, has backed calls for a skatepark in Portrush, County Antrim.\n\nHe was speaking at a conference in San Diego, California, when he gave his support to the decades-long campaign.\n\nHe said a facility would be used from sun up to sundown and that there were more people interested in the sport than is often realised.\n\n\"There's a lot of stigma attached to skateboarding,\" he said.\n\n\"It's all very antiquated but if you dig deep you will see there are these people and skaters who have a passion for what they do.\"\n\nMr Hawk was responding to a question by an Ulster University academic on how skateboarders can be taken seriously as users of public space on the north coast.\n\nVideos which highlighted the experiences of skaters in Portrush were also shown at the conference.\n\nThere has been a decades-long campaign for a skateboard park in Portrush\n\nDr Jim Donaghey asked how they could convince the council that adequate urban sports facilities would benefit the whole community.\n\nIn response, Mr Hawk said skaters were \"determined, they're persistent, they just love to skate, they're not trying to cause trouble\".\n\n\"The only reason you see them as troublemakers is because you won't provide a facility for them to do what they love doing so they have to resort to public property,\" he added.\n\nIn 2022, Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council removed ramps from Station Square citing health and safety risks.\n\nThe equipment was returned but barriers have since been erected in the public square.\n\n\"All the change that happens in Portrush marginalises skateboarders, which is a really strange thing because Portrush is so much associated with skateboard culture,\" Dr Donaghey said.\n\n\"If you look at other sports cultures in Portrush you might think of golf, motorbikes, lawn bowls even and, of course, surfing - they're all part of the tourist identity Portrush puts forward of itself and that's brilliant, it's vibrant.\n\n\"And I think skateboarding is and should be taken seriously as part of that overall culture.\"\n\nCampaigners say there are skateboard parks in many other parts of Northern Ireland but not Portrush\n\nSlaine Brown started skateboarding in Portrush in 1995 and has been filming the scene ever since.\n\n\"It hit me really hard how long it's been - year after year we've been asking the council again and again can we have a skatepark\" he said.\n\n\"It does make me feel emotional that after all this time - I've been skating for 29 years and we have to take it to a world audience.\"\n\nMr Brown said skateboarders had gone from skating in a much bigger space in the town \"to this really tiny square which we've now been caged into\".\n\n\"It is interesting to think we're now in the year 2023 and the space we've had is reduced,\" he said.\n\n\"I've skated all around the world - in Hong Kong, Australia, America, all around Europe.\n\nTony Hawk skateboarding at an event in Sydney in 2018\n\n\"I've been to places in eastern Europe where the council provided little parks the space of this but the ramps were way better.\n\n\"We had parks built in Belfast, Banbridge, Newtownabbey - which is one of the biggest ones in the UK - Carrickfergus, Ballymena. Antrim is getting a park, Newtownards has a park.\n\n\"And every time we go to those skateparks, the local skaters tell us we still can't believe that Portrush hasn't got one.\"\n\nThe council said it is currently working with a local group to support the development of skateboarding facilities in Portrush.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greg Ead called the attack a \"devastating blow for the community”\n\nA five-month-old baby has been taken to hospital after a dog attack, police have said.\n\nEmergency services were called to Penyrheol, Caerphilly county, on Saturday morning, Gwent Police said.\n\nThe baby was taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales. The child's injuries are unknown but are not believed to be life-threatening.\n\nCaerphilly MP Wayne David said he was shocked by the incident, after two recent fatal dog attacks in the area.\n\nAll three incidents have happened within a half mile (about 0.8 km) radius of each other.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service confirmed it was called to a dog attack at 09:00 BST.\n\nCaerphilly councillor, Greg Ead, said witnesses heard screams coming from the property at the time of the attack.\n\nLocal groups met on Thursday to discuss how to stop the rising numbers of attacks, with campaigners saying more needs to be done.\n\nPolice say they will be making further inquiries and will remain at the scene as the investigation continues\n\nGwent Police said officers seized the dog and confirmed no other animals were involved.\n\n\"We were called to an address in Penyrheol, Caerphilly at around 9.10am on Saturday 29 April, following reports of a dog attack,\" said the force.\n\n\"A five-month-old baby has been taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.\n\n\"The dog was seized by officers. No other animals were involved in the attack.\"\n\nChief Insp Laura Bartley said officers would be making further inquiries and would \"remain at the scene as the investigation progresses\".\n\n\"It is possible that you may see ongoing police activity in Caerphilly as part of this work, but please do not be alarmed.\n\n\"If you have concerns or information then please do stop and talk with us.\"\n\nPenyrheol councillor, Greg Ead, said his son was staying at his girlfriend's home on the same street where they heard and shouts and screams.\n\nMr Ead called the attack \"traumatic\" for everyone on the road.\n\n\"I think another death would be absolutely devastating for this community,\" he said.\n\nThe incident comes after two fatal dog attacks in the area. The latest is understood to have happened at Y Cilgant in Penyrheol.\n\nA previous dog attack in Penyrheol saw Jack Lis, 10, killed by an XL Bully dog back in 2021\n\nJack Lis, 10, from Caerphilly, died after being mauled by an American or XL Bully dog - a legal breed - in November 2021.\n\nAnd Shirley Patrick, 83, died in hospital after suffering a \"violent and unnatural\" death after being attacked by a dog in Caerphilly in December.\n\nJack's mum Emma Whitfield has been campaigning for changes in the law about breeding and selling dogs since his death.\n\n\"At the moment anyone can buy and sell a dog with no knowledge of where the dog has come from or who it is going to,\" she told BBC Wales on Sunday.\n\nMs Whitfield said she wanted to see more emphasis placed on breeding and selling dogs.\n\n\"With owners, I think people need to start realising that they have responsibilities.\n\n\"This problem is not going away.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I can't say out loud what I saw because I don't want other people to have to picture it either\"\n\nIn February, Welsh Labour MS Lesley Griffiths said the Welsh government had updated its animal welfare licensing regulations and closed \"loopholes relating to pet sales\".\n\nShe told the Senedd: \"We need to make sure the public are making informed decisions when they buy a pet, but there is absolutely more we can do.\n\n\"I've asked officials to actually start to look at dog licensing again.\"\n\nDetails of the dog's breed involved in Saturday's attack has not yet been released by police.\n\nCaerphilly MP Wayne David added: \"There have been a number of incidents around Penyrheol.\n\n\"It shows there needs to be recognition that all dogs are potentially dangerous, particularly ones with a strong physique.\n\n\"Dogs like this need to be handled with great care and caution. They need to be trained properly.\n\n\"It's about responsible dog ownership. Children should not be able to go near them.\n\n\"The more general issue is all sorts of cross breeds being breed for the wrong reason with many not appropriate to be pets. They are bred to be violent.\n\n\"Not sure that's the case here.\n\n\"The aim is to have a different kind of approach to the issue of dogs.\n\n\"We must make sure that all owners are aware of what they are taking on when they are small puppies to make sure that people recognise that keeping a dog like this is a big undertaking.\"\n\nMr David said it was too difficult to ban certain breeds because of crossbreeding.\n\n\"So many of these breeds are now cross breeds, it's not that easy, you would have a list of thousands of breeds.\n\n\"What is happening is that the regulations are being broken, the wrong kinds of dogs are being bred.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "China's Ding Liren, 30 is the country's first winner of the World Chess Championship\n\nDing Liren has become China's first men's world chess champion, after defeating Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi.\n\nDing, 30, won a rapid-play tiebreaker after 14 first-stage games at the World Chess Championship in Kazakhstan.\n\nHe succeeds Norway's Magnus Carlsen, the five-time champion who said he was \"not motivated\" to defend his title.\n\nCarlsen accused a US opponent of cheating last year in a row that rocked the chess world. He remains number one in the rankings.\n\nDing's victory makes him the 17th winner of the world chess tournament, while Nepomniachtchi, who had previously made a grand final, fell at the final hurdle for a second time.\n\nDing said he was \"quite relieved\" after his victory, according to comments shared by FIDE, the International Chess Federation.\n\n\"The moment Ian resigned the game was a very emotional moment. I couldn't control my feelings. I know myself, I will cry and burst into tears. It was a tough tournament for me.\"\n\nHis victory was celebrated by chess fans and patriots in China, which is a growing chess power.\n\n\"One Ding to rule em all,\" tweeted fellow grandmaster Anish Giri after Ding's victory.\n\nChina's General Administration of Sport, a government department, also posted a warm congratulatory message, praising Ding for \"winning glory for the motherland and its people\".\n\nA native of Wenzhou, China's \"chess city\", Ding triumphed in dramatic circumstances in Astana, the Kazakh capital.\n\nThe opening 14 games were played over three weeks. Ding and Nepomniachtchi each won three, with eight draws.\n\nFor the tiebreaker, each player had only 25 minutes to make their moves, plus an additional 10 seconds for each move played. Ding clinched victory in winning the fourth quick-fire game.\n\nThe 2m euro (£1.8m; $2.2m) prize money will be split 55-45 between the two players.\n\nDing was able to compete against Nepomniachtchi due to Carlsen's abstention. Ding had finished second at the Candidates Tournament, which players must win to challenge the world champion.\n\nIn 2009, he became China's youngest chess champion at national level.\n\nWithin 12 years, he had become the highest-ranked Chinese player in the world rankings, reaching second place.\n\nDing was undefeated in classical chess for 100 games from August 2017 to November 2018. This was the longest unbeaten streak in top-level chess history until Carlsen surpassed it in 2019.\n\nHis triumph reflects China's growth in the global chess scene.\n\nChina has dominated women's chess tournaments since the 1990s, when Xie Jun became the first Chinese person to claim a world title in 1991 in the women's game.\n\nNo Chinese player had ever previously won the World Chess Championship, in which both men and women can compete.", "Liz Truss used Chevening House in Kent as she prepared for power in August last year\n\nLiz Truss is contesting a government bill relating to her use of the grace-and-favour country house she had access to as foreign secretary.\n\nThe former Conservative prime minister has been asked to foot a bill of about £12,000 for costs incurred at Chevening House in Kent.\n\nThe bill covers the period last year when Ms Truss was running to be the leader of the Conservative Party.\n\nThe government said it was a matter for the Chevening Trust.\n\nMs Truss was foreign secretary when she used Chevening House in August 2022 as she prepared for power during the Tory leadership contest.\n\nConservative Party members elected Ms Truss to be leader in September last year, but her government collapsed within 45 days after her tax-cutting mini-budget spooked financial markets.\n\nChevening, a Grade I-listed, 115-room country house, was left to the nation by 7th Earl Stanhope following his death in 1967.\n\nSince then, it has been up to the prime minister to decide who uses Chevening, with the foreign secretary the usual beneficiary.\n\nThe BBC has been told that Ms Truss's Chevening bill - which was first reported by the Mail on Sunday newspaper - covers missing items, including bathrobes, which she is happy to pay to replace.\n\nBut the former prime minister is maintaining that the majority of the invoice relates to using Chevening for government business, meaning she should not be liable for most of the bill.\n\nThose close to Ms Truss have stressed that she will account for all personal expenses incurred.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Costs and funding relating to Chevening House are a matter for the Chevening Trust.\"\n\nAnd \"where appropriate\", the government said it works closely with the Chevening Trust \"to ensure costs incurred are allocated accordingly\".\n\nLiz Truss was granted access to Chevening House when she was foreign secretary\n\nThe ministerial rulebook states \"where ministers host party or personal events in [official] residences it should be at their own or party expense with no cost falling to the public purse\".\n\nA spokesman for Ms Truss said: \"Liz always paid for the costs of her personal guests at Chevening.\n\n\"The latest invoice contains a mixture of costs for her personally and costs for official government business with civil servants including [Cabinet Secretary] Simon Case and senior officials from other departments who met at Chevening during the transition preparations.\n\n\"The latter constitutes the majority of the bill. It would be inappropriate for her to pay the costs for officials as it would have breached the Civil Service Code for civil servants to accept hospitality during the leadership campaign. She has therefore asked for this to be billed separately.\"\n\nMs Truss is still an MP and has spent some of her time giving speeches about her economic philosophy since she left office, with the latest register of interests for MPs showing she received £65,000 for one speaking engagement.\n\nMs Truss - the shortest-serving prime minister in history - claimed her government was partly brought down by what she called \"the left-wing economic establishment\".\n\nShe has ruled out running as prime minister again, but is planning to stand again as the MP for South West Norfolk at the next general election.", "A photo shared online on Monday, verified by the BBC as being in Pavlohrad, showed a fiery skyline\n\nRussia has launched a series of missiles at Ukrainian cities in the second pre-dawn attack in three days.\n\nPavlohrad, a logistics hub near the central city of Dnipro, was hit ahead of a much-anticipated counter-offensive by Ukraine.\n\nThe strike sparked a major fire, destroyed dozens of houses, and wounded 34 people.\n\nHours later, the air raid alert sounded across the country, with the capital Kyiv among the targets.\n\nAcross the country, the Ukrainian army said it shot down 15 of the 18 cruise missiles that had been fired.\n\nThe most significant damage was in Pavlohrad, a city in Ukrainian-held territory around 70 miles (110km) from the frontline. Pictures posted on social media showed a massive blaze.\n\nOne resident, Olha Lytvynenko, said she was getting dressed to leave their house when \"both doors were smashed out by the explosion wave\".\n\n\"I ran outside and saw that the garage was destroyed. Everything was on fire, glass shards everywhere. Had we been outside, we would have been killed,\" she said.\n\nUkraine's Dnipropetrovsk military administration described it as a \"tragic night and morning\", saying an industrial site had been hit.\n\nNineteen high-rise apartment blocks, 25 private houses, six schools and kindergartens and five shops were also damaged, it added.\n\nVladimir Rogov, a Russian-installed official, said the strike targeted railway infrastructure and fuel depots, in a message on Telegram with a thumbs-up gesture.\n\nAt around 04:00 local time (02:00 GMT) the air raid alert sounded in Kyiv and lasted for about three hours.\n\nThe military administration said all missiles and drones directed at the capital were destroyed.\n\nIn the Kherson region - which is still partly controlled by Russia - Ukrainian regional authorities said Russia had carried out 39 shellings.\n\nThey came from ground-based weapons, as well as drones and planes, the authorities said, adding that one person was killed.\n\nRecent days have seen an increase in attacks in Ukraine, with places away from the front lines being targeted. On Friday, 23 people were killed in the central city of Uman.\n\nUkraine says it is finishing plans for a long-awaited offensive against Russian forces, supported by Western-supplied weapons and military equipment.\n\nRussia, meanwhile, is also preparing for a Ukrainian push, and has fortified its positions in occupied territory.\n\nIn the latest change at the country's military leadership, Cl Gen Mikhail Mizintsev - the Russian deputy defence minister who oversaw armed forces logistics - has been sacked, after being appointed to the role only last September.\n\nThere have been longstanding complaints that front line troops are not getting sufficient military equipment, and suffer shortages of food and uniforms.\n\nMeanwhile, a Ukrainian official on Monday said the army had ousted Russian forces from some positions in Bakhmut, an eastern city that has been under siege for months.\n\nGeneral Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of ground forces, said on Telegram the situation remained \"quite difficult\" - but \"the enemy is unable to take control of the city\".", "A Ukrainian soldier fires towards Russian positions outside Bakhmut in November\n\nMore than 20,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in fighting in Ukraine since December, the US estimates.\n\nA further 80,000 have been wounded, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, citing newly declassified intelligence.\n\nHalf of the dead are from the Wagner mercenary company, who have been attacking the eastern Bakhmut city.\n\nRussia has been trying to take the small city since last year in a grinding war of attrition.\n\nMoscow currently holds most of Bakhmut, but Ukrainian troops still control a small portion of the city in the west. The fierce battle has taken on huge symbolic importance for both sides.\n\nUkrainian officials have also said they are using the battle to kill as many of Russia's troops as possible and wear down its reserves.\n\n\"Russia's attempt at an offensive in the Donbas [region] largely through Bakhmut has failed,\" Mr Kirby told reporters. \"Russia has been unable to seize any real strategic and significant territory.\n\n\"We estimate that Russia has suffered more than 100,000 casualties, including over 20,000 killed in action,\" he added.\n\nThe toll in Bakhmut accounts for losses since the start of December, according to the US figures.\n\n\"The bottom line is that Russia's attempted offensive has backfired after months of fighting and extraordinary losses,\" Mr Kirby said.\n\nHe added he was not giving estimates of Ukrainian casualties because \"they are the victims here. Russia is the aggressor\".\n\nThe BBC is unable to independently verify the figures given and Moscow has not commented.\n\nA local resident pushes his bicycle down a street in Bakhmut in January\n\nThe capture of the city would bring Russia slightly closer to its goal of controlling the whole of Donetsk region, one of four regions in eastern and southern Ukraine annexed by Russia last September following referendums widely condemned outside Russia as a sham.\n\nAnalysts say Bakhmut has little strategic value, but has become a focal point for Russian commanders, who have struggled to deliver any positive news to the Kremlin.\n\nThe Wagner mercenary group - which widely uses convicts and has become notorious for its often inhumane methods - has taken centre stage in the Russian assault on Bakhmut.\n\nIts leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has staked his reputation, and that of his private army, on seizing the city.\n\nBut he recently threatened to pull his troops out of Bakhmut.\n\nIn a rare in-depth interview to a prominent Russian war blogger, he vowed to withdraw Wagner fighters if they were not provided with much-needed ammunition by the Russian defence ministry.\n\nWagner fighters could be redeployed to Mali, he warned.\n\nHe has often clashed with Russia's defence ministry during the war, accusing officials of not providing his fighters with enough support.\n\nMr Prigozhin also called upon the Russian media and military leadership to \"stop lying to the Russian population\" ahead of an expected Ukrainian spring counteroffensive.\n\n\"We need to stop lying to the Russian population, telling them everything is all right,\" he said.\n\nHe praised the Ukrainian military's \"good, correct military operations\" and command.\n\nA top Ukrainian general said on Monday that counterattacks had ousted Russian forces from some positions in Bakhmut, but the situation remained \"difficult\".\n\nNew Russian units, including paratroopers and fighters from Wagner, are being \"constantly thrown into battle\" despite taking heavy losses, Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine's ground forces, said on Telegram.\n\n\"But the enemy is unable to take control of the city,\" he said.", "Video has emerged showing a branch of the Central Bank of Sudan on fire as fighting continues throughout Khartoum.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify the date it was filmed.\n\nOn Sunday, air strikes intensified in the city despite a truce aimed at allowing civilians to flee. The army said it was attacking the city to flush out its paramilitary rivals, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).\n\nMore on the latest developments here", "A photograph of Princess Charlotte taken by her mother has been released on the eve of her eighth birthday.\n\nThe smiling young royal, who is third in line to the throne, is pictured in a white dress patterned with flowers and sitting in a white chair.\n\nHer mother, the Princess of Wales, took the image in Windsor at the weekend.\n\nThe daughter of the Prince of Wales was born in the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, at 08:34 on 2 May 2015, weighing 8lb 3oz.\n\nCharlotte and her siblings George and Louis are expected to watch their grandfather, King Charles III, be crowned on Saturday.\n\nGeorge will be one of eight pages of honour during the service, joining a procession through the nave and assisting with the holding of robes.\n\nThe trio will also be expected on the Buckingham Palace balcony afterwards along with their parents, Prince William and Catherine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A look at two golden coaches to be used for King Charles III's coronation\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "A joint funeral service has taken place for brother and sister Dan and Christine McKane who died in the collision\n\nThe hearts of a community have been \"torn apart\" by the deaths of two siblings in a crash in Strabane, County Tyrone, a priest has said.\n\nBrother and sister Christine and and Dan McKane died along with their aunt Julia McSorley, 75, in the collision on the A5 last Thursday,\n\nThe minibus they were travelling in was in a collision with a lorry.\n\nMourners have heard how Dan McKane was \"a big-hearted\" man who lived for his family.\n\nChristine McKane was described as \"small in stature but big of heart\".\n\nFr Declan Boland told mourners in The Church of The Immaculate Conception, she was \"a pocket rocket\" whose children and grandchildren were \"everything to her\".\n\nBrother and sister Dan and Christine McKane died in the collision\n\nThe mother-of-three was described as a \"chocoholic\" who was \"so proud of her two wonderful little grandchildren\".\n\n\"Her wonderful children and beautiful grandchildren, they were everything to Christine. She just lived for them,\" Fr Boland said.\n\nHe added: \"As long as they were all happy and okay, she was happy\".\n\nNothing, the parish priest said, \"was a bother to Dan McKane\". A father of two daughters, he was the \"go-to person\" in times of need.\n\nA lorry driver for a living, Fr Boland said it was \"in his blood\".\n\nFr Boland said local hearts \"are sad and broken\" following the crash on Thursday.\n\nA single piper led a procession of hundreds into The Church of The Immaculate Conception\n\n\"Events of last week remind us we are fragile. We never know the day or hour, that has been brought home so forcibly in recent days.\n\n\"Our community's hearts have been torn apart by this terrible loss\".\n\nHe thanked Commandant Brian Walsh, aide-de-camp to President Michael D Higgins, for his message of support. He also thanked Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill, who was among the mourners.\n\nEarlier, a single piper led a procession of hundreds into the church. As the coffins entered the church grounds side-by-side, four lorries beeped their horns in unison.\n\nNaomh Eoghan GAA formed a guard of honour outside the church, as the service took place.\n\nRequiem Mass was held for Ms McSorley on Sunday.\n\nShe was described as \"selfless, smiling, kind and bubbly\".\n\nJulia McSorley's funeral has taken place in Glenock, near Strabane, County Tyrone\n\nThursday's fatal crash was the latest to happen on the A5 road, which forms part of the main route between Londonderry and Dublin.\n\nFour other people were injured in the incident.\n\nCampaigners from Enough Is Enough, a group calling for urgent improvements to the route, previously said 44 people have died on the road since plans to upgrade it were first announced in 2007.", "The Welsh Guards remove their hats as they give three cheers for King Charles in a rehearsal on Sunday\n\nThousands of ceremonial troops have been rehearsing ahead of the King's Coronation, bringing together the largest parade of military personnel since Winston Churchill's funeral.\n\nThe troops practised at an airbase which had been transformed into a life-size replica of the procession route.\n\nMore than 7,000 troops took part.\n\nCapt Jordan Charles Whiteman, whose grandfather had taken part in the late Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, said he felt \"ecstatic\" to be involved.\n\nOrganisers were creative in recreating the route with a pair of rugby posts acting as Buckingham Palace, a minibus standing in for the royal Gold State Coach and a set of cones replacing Admiralty Arch at the entrance to the Mall.\n\nTroops from 34 Commonwealth nations practised at the airbase in Hampshire\n\nOn 6 May, the armed forces will accompany King Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, between Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe route will be a quarter of the length of the late Queen's grand procession back in 1953.\n\nIrish wolf hound Turlough Mor, also known as Seamus, rehearsed his role as the mascot of the Irish Guards\n\nThe rehearsal - which included sailors, soldiers and aviators - took place at RAF Odiham in Hampshire on Sunday.\n\nThe procession route was mapped out onto the airfield using a pace stick to ensure it was the exact distance.\n\nSome 40 nations were represented, including troops from 34 Commonwealth countries and six overseas territories.\n\nMore rehearsals are scheduled to take place, partly at night, ahead of the big day.\n\nMore than 7,000 troops will be involved in the King's Coronation next week\n\nCapt Whiteman said the coronation would be a very special day for his family as they reminisced about his grandfather, Sgt Charles White.\n\nDespite dying before he was born, Capt Whiteman said his grandfather had shared some advice, passed down by his mother.\n\n\"What's been passed on is remember the nerves will keep you sharp and keep your wits about you.\n\n\"But also actually don't forget to actually enjoy the moment and enjoy the day - it certainly is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,\" he added.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe rehearsal was the first time all elements of the procession had been come together\n\nAlso taking part were identical twins Amy and Jessica McLenaghan - who will be in the procession, just one row apart.\n\nThe air engineer technicians said they applied at the same time and were really pleased to both be selected.\n\nOn the day there is going to be a mixture of emotions, said Amy, \"but overall it is a proud moment to be a part of\".\n\nThe rehearsal on Sunday was the only full daytime run-through of the big event\n\nGuards carried flags from some of the Commonwealth countries", "Hundreds of pension funds have been asked to check whether data was stolen by cybercriminals during a major hack of the UK's largest outsourcer.\n\nThe Pensions Regulator has asked trustees responsible for funds that use Capita as an administrator to assess whether clients' data is at risk.\n\nAfter the hack in March, information apparently containing Capita data began to circulate on the dark web.\n\nThe pensions watchdog said on Sunday that it had written to the hundreds of pension funds that employ Capita to administer their payment systems.\n\nThe letter, first reported by the Sunday Times, urged funds to \"determine whether there is a risk to their scheme's data\" and tried to establish whether they are in touch with the company.\n\nA spokesman for the Pensions Regulator added: \"We take IT security and the risk of cyber attacks extremely seriously.\" Capita's systems administer pensions of more than four million savers on behalf of 450 organisations, including Royal Mail and Axa.\n\nIt said that only a small number of its computer servers were compromised during the cyber-attack.\n\nIn a statement, it added that it has also been in regular contact with authorities since the hack and that it will update them on the investigation as it progresses.\n\nCapita is also one of the government's biggest suppliers - it provides IT services among its businesses, which include running the London congestion charging zone, collecting the BBC licence fee and overseeing training for the Royal Navy.\n\nIt is also a leading pension adviser in the UK, providing consulting services to 150 pension schemes.", "Printworks is closing to make way for office space\n\nOne of the UK's biggest and most well-known nightclubs is closing its doors, after holding a final show on Monday.\n\nPrintworks originally opened in 2017 and has played host to the Chemical Brothers, Deadmau5 and Aphex Twin.\n\nThe unique south London venue, which once housed the largest printing presses in Western Europe, was only meant to hold club nights temporarily.\n\nEvents company Broadwick Live became caretakers and established the space as the go-to for all dance music genres.\n\nDespite being recognised as one of the best clubs in the world, it is now it is set to become an office block, but there are hopes within the clubbing community that a space for them will be saved within its walls.\n\nDJ and radio presenter Melvo Baptiste is one of last people to play at Printworks and is part of the line-up for disco record label Glitterbox's final show at the venue.\n\nSpeaking backstage before his set, he tells the BBC: \"It's strange because when you walk into the empty room here, it's almost like it shouldn't work.\n\nMelvo Baptiste has been DJing at Printworks for four years\n\n\"There's just a magic and an energy in that room - four years ago I played my first closing set here and I looked up at 6,000 people and it was terrifying.\"\n\nHe says losing the space is \"heartbreaking\" and worries about what it could mean for young clubbers just getting into dance music.\n\n\"Club environments are where you really find your tribe and meet friends, you don't do that in bars or restaurants as there's not that one common thing that's connecting everyone apart from alcohol,\" he says.\n\nWe find two partygoers in the crowd, Libby Minney and Andrew Bartha, both 25, who tell the BBC they became friends after meeting at Printworks.\n\n\"I've met so many friends here,\" says Ms Minney.\n\n\"It's especially sad to think in the future that's not going to happen,\" she adds.\n\nBartha calls the venue \"a cultural institution\" and says \"it's given rise to a lot of great friendships and good memories\".\n\nPrintworks can hold 6,000 partygoers - making it one of the biggest clubs in the UK\n\n\"Printworks is one of the last big proper venues where when you come in, it feels like a proper rave,\" Minney adds.\n\nMr Bartha says what makes it special is \"the great production - the lighting and graphics\", which he says is missing in smaller clubs.\n\nThe pair might be too young to remember the illegal warehouse scene that developed in 1980s London, as an antidote to licensing laws that saw the city shut down at 3am. But that's not the case for all Printworks attendees - it has quite the reputation of attracting clubbers of all ages who want to remember the feeling of the rave.\n\nThis is echoed by some of club's performers who say what makes Printworks so special is its inclusive feel.\n\nThe venue has hosted every dance genre from drum and bass to house and techno, and it has also championed LGBT friendly events such as Sink The Pink and disco label Glitterbox.\n\n\"When you're up on that stage and you look out down at seas of thousands of people - it's the closest feeling you ever get to being a pop star,\" says transgender dancer Lucy Fizz.\n\n\"For all of us queer people, those who have been marginalised, to have that experience and be on a platform where we are celebrated for being our authentic selves - it's really amazing,\" she adds.\n\nLucy Fizz, a dancer for Glitterbox, hails Printworks as an inclusive space\n\nDancer and performer Te Te Bang calls the venue \"the Olympics of nightclubs\".\n\nShe adds: \"It's like an adult playground, it really is a utopia where you're in this little bubble of music where everyone's really free to be themselves - there's nothing else like it in the UK\".\n\nSimeon Aldred, who is one of the founders of Broadwick Live, says Printworks has been incredibly special for his team.\n\n\"It's our baby, we created it from scratch - to replicate it or find that anywhere else in the world is difficult,\" he tells the BBC.\n\nPrintworks' closure comes at a time when Britain has the lowest number of nightclubs on record and Mr Aldred says operating nightclubs is \"pretty difficult\" in 2023.\n\n\"The pandemic was pretty horrific, with two years of closure critical to us. Now the cost of living has hit us across the 26 venues we own and operate, and then power has gone up by millions of pounds across that portfolio,\" he says.\n\n\"There's also some massive challenges and inconsistencies around licensing and planning,\" Mr Aldred adds.\n\n\"You've got some councils that are really pro-culture and some that aren't\".\n\nPrintworks is known for its imposing press halls that are 130 metres long.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Department for Media, Culture and Sport, who declined to comment.\n\nMr Aldred says Printworks established itself as not only a London clubbing staple, but a national and even international attraction, evidenced by the relationship the venue owners have established with local hotels.\n\nHe says \"one of the hotels next door [to Printworks] does an average of 100 rooms for every show\" whilst their reinvigoration of the daytime clubbing scene has allowed for people to venture down to the capital for the day too.\n\n\"It's also really valuable to other venues nearby when we finish at 11pm,\" he adds.\n\n\"So people can go to after-parties at venues that have maybe been seen as competitors, but they're actually all friends because we are all part of one ecosystem\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City and Everton had to settle for a draw in a chaotic match which leaves both in deep trouble at the wrong end of the Premier League table.\n\nThe two clubs started the game in the bottom three but a point was enough to drag Leicester out of the drop zone on goal difference, while Everton stay 19th, one point behind 17th-placed Leeds.\n\nDominic Calvert-Lewin opened the scoring with just his second goal of the season from the penalty spot, picking himself up to convert after being bundled over by Timothy Castagne.\n\nThe lead lasted just seven minutes as the hosts equalised through Caglar Soyuncu, who rolled home a cool finish from Wout Faes' knockdown.\n\nAnd Leicester turned the game around after 33 minutes as the sprightly Jamie Vardy latched on to James Maddison's through ball before rounding Jordan Pickford and stroking home.\n\nThe Toffees should have levelled before half-time but Calvert-Lewin contrived to miss an open goal from a couple of yards with the ball appearing to strike his heel, before Leicester broke down the other end and Vardy struck the crossbar.\n• None Three from five? Who faces Premier League relegation?\n\nThere was still time in a breathless first half for Pickford to save Maddison's penalty, which was struck straight down the middle by the England midfielder.\n\nIt proved costly as the visitors drew level nine minutes after the restart when Alex Iwobi guided in a low finish, but neither side were able to find a winner.\n\nEverton, meanwhile, will also be concerned by a serious-looking injury to captain Seamus Coleman, sustained in the opening period following a collision with Boubakary Soumare.\n\nThe game ebbed and flowed between two sides aiming for top-flight survival but was a missed opportunity in their aim to escape the relegation mire.\n\nAn electric atmosphere was generated at King Power Stadium by both the home fans with their 'clappers' and the away supporters through their vociferous backing.\n\nUltimately, Maddison's penalty miss at the end of the first half turned out to be the crucial moment - the playmaker was made to wait to take the spot-kick before fluffing his effort straight at Pickford.\n\nIt would have put Leicester 3-1 up and possibly out of sight, but Sean Dyche's men clawed out a draw courtesy of Iwobi's well-taken strike on 54 minutes.\n\nMidfielder Maddison was heavily involved throughout the game as well as the miss from 12 yards, and saw a low drive and curling effort kept out by his England team-mate.\n\nThe home side recovered from Calvert-Lewin's 15th-minute penalty to turn the game around as defender Soyuncu levelled and Vardy rolled back the years with a vintage finish.\n\nBut Leicester's issues lie in defence where a porous backline have now failed to keep a clean sheet in their past 19 games, dating back to November.\n\nThey also missed the opportunity to collect back-to-back victories at home for the first time in a year and bear all the hallmarks of a relegation-threatened team.\n\nDespite being on a three-game unbeaten run, the Foxes have won just one of their past 12, picking up only six points in the process.\n\nLeicester have four games remaining to preserve their top-flight status, away at Fulham and Newcastle and home games against Liverpool and West Ham on the last day of the season.\n\nWhere will Everton's next point come?\n\nLike their opponents, Everton are stuck in a rut. Despite a bright start the Toffees have now won just one of their past 11 games under Dyche, and the eight points gained on that run have not been enough to drag them out of trouble.\n\nThis was a significant chance to get back to winning ways and it started well through Calvert-Lewin's thumping penalty, but it is difficult to see where the points might come in their remaining games.\n\nThey travel to impressive Brighton in their next match, before hosting league leaders Manchester City and rounding off their season at Goodison Park against in-form Bournemouth.\n\nIn between, they face a trip to Wolves - but that too is a tough ask for a side winless in their past 15 on the road and victors in just two of 34 away league games.\n\nThe league's lowest scorers managed to bag two this time, and Dyche will be satisfied to rescue a point, but it could have been so much better with more clinical finishing.\n\nDaniel Iversen made a stunning reflex save to deny Iwobi early in the first half, and the Danish goalkeeper also kept out efforts including Calvert-Lewin's shocking miss and Dwight McNeil's strike from eight yards out.\n\nBut he saved his best until late when Everton pushed for the winner and Abdoulaye Doucoure strode forward before unleashing an arrowed low drive which Iversen turned round the post at full stretch.\n• None Victor Kristiansen (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Nathan Patterson (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None James Maddison (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Abdoulaye Doucouré (Everton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Patson Daka tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Michael Keane (Everton) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Dwight McNeil with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alex Iwobi (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "The call from Ukraine for more weapons and ammunition to bolster its defences has grown louder as the war has gone on\n\nA year ago Volodymyr and his men were firing all 40 barrels of their BM-21 Grad rocket launcher in one go. Now they can only afford to fire a few at a time at Russian targets.\n\n\"We haven't got enough ammunition for our weapon,\" he explains.\n\nHis unit, the 17th Tank Battalion, is still being called on to provide fire support to Ukrainian forces desperately clinging on to the edges of Bakhmut, the eastern Ukrainian city which Russia has spent months trying to capture.\n\nRussian forces are getting ever closer to their goal of taking the city, but at enormous cost.\n\nWhile we're waiting in a line of trees, hidden from view, Volodymyr receives a call to fire his rocket launcher at a Russian mortar position about 15 kilometres away.\n\nSome of the Ukrainian Grad missile supplies are coming from the Czech Republic, Romania and Pakistan\n\nHis men remove the branches camouflaging their vehicle. They drive towards an empty field about a kilometre away and quickly work out the range.\n\nThey elevate the rocket barrels towards the target while, out of sight, a Ukrainian drone hovering above assesses their accuracy.\n\nThey're told their first rocket misses by about 50 metres, so they adjust the elevation and fire another two and quickly return to the trees for cover. This time they're told they've hit the target.\n\nVolodymyr however, is frustrated they can't do more. \"We could have provided more support to our guys who are dying there.\"\n\nHe says Ukraine has already burned through its own stocks of Grad ammunition, so is relying on rockets sourced from other countries. Volodymyr says supplies are coming from the Czech Republic, Romania and Pakistan. He complains the rockets originating from Pakistan are \"not of a good quality\".\n\nUkraine's call for more weapons and ammunition has only become louder the longer the war has gone on. The focus now is preparing for a major offensive. But at the same time Ukraine is still having to expend huge resources on just maintaining its position.\n\nDespite the recent arrival of modern weapons - like tanks and armoured vehicles - Ukraine remains heavily reliant on its older, Soviet-era arsenal.\n\nThe Russian-made Buk air defence system, which can target aircraft, drones and missiles, is still one of its prized possessions. We get rare access to see one further along the front line - also hidden in a wooded area.\n\nThis sophisticated weaponry has helped prevent Russia gaining control of the skies.\n\nJosef, the Buk commander, tells me it's \"target number one for Russia\". This explains the extreme care taken to protect it. The long vehicle with its radar dome is buried in a deep trench covered with camouflage netting. On top are two grey missiles. Normally it carries four.\n\nSerhiy fears Ukraine won't have resources for the war to go on for five or ten years\n\nA cache of classified US documents was leaked online earlier this month - maps, charts and photos - revealing detailed intelligence gathered on the war.\n\nI ask Josef if these were correct in highlighting an acute shortage of Buk missiles. \"No, that's not true,\" he insists. But he does admit that the Buk is proving hard to maintain and Ukraine needs more.\n\n\"We haven't got enough,\" he says. \"Parts break and we haven't got spares because the factories that produce them are not in Ukraine.\"\n\nJosef doesn't only dispute some of the contents of those leaked US intelligence reports. He questions whether they have really revealed any secrets.\n\n\"Why should we be angry with the Americans?\" he asks. \"Because they gave information the Russians have had for 20 years? Ridiculous!\" Russia, he believes, has always known about the capabilities of Ukraine's armed forces.\n\nBut Russia still does not know the timing or place of Ukraine's expected offensive. It will be key to taking back territory and relieving some of the pressure being felt along Ukraine's 800 mile (1,300km) front. Wherever it happens Russia will have to redirect some of its forces.\n\nBut Ukraine too is having to arm and equip new units to conduct that offensive. Both sides are struggling to feed the front line.\n\nWe're worried our Western allies are getting tired of helping us\n\nAt another location near Bakhmut, Ukrainian troops from its 80th Brigade are already expending hundreds of artillery rounds a day, to try to repel Russia's advances.\n\nThey are already using some of the weapons supplied by the West. Serhiy and his men are operating a British made L119 light artillery gun. But Serhiy says they too are having to ration rounds. He says they're firing on average 30 rounds a day.\n\n\"We've got enough people for the moment\", he says. \"But we need ammunition. Ammunition is the most important.\"\n\nI ask Serhiy if this is the make or break year for Ukraine. \"If we go on the offensive this year and retake our land, then we'll win,\" he replies. \"But, if that doesn't happen, then we don't have the resources for the war to go on for another five to ten years.\"\n\nVolodymyr, the commander of the Grad, is even more blunt. \"The country is exhausted, the economy too,\" he says.\n\nAnd he fears that if Ukraine's action on the battlefield are not decisive this year then Western support may falter. \"We are also worried our Western allies are getting tired of helping us.\"", "The millennial politician scuppered plans for a government vote on retirement reforms - catapulting him onto the national stage\n\nAurélien Pradié has exploded onto the centre stage of French politics after single-handedly scuppering a government vote on pension reforms.\n\nIn the space of just a few weeks, the MP has emerged as one of the biggest stars on the national political scene, helped by his youth - he is just 37 years old - his good looks, and his oratory skills. Now, he tells me, he is not ruling out a run for the presidency.\n\nI met Mr Pradié at the biennial county fair in the village of Bétaille, where the centre-right politician grew up.\n\nThe département of Lot in south-west France is one of the country's most rural. Some 15% of the working population here are employed in the agriculture sector.\n\nDespite the cold, relentless rain and muddy conditions, Mr Pradié spent several hours shaking hands, kissing women on the cheek, and tasting locally grown food at the stands. He has rock star status here.\n\nLast month he took a wrecking ball to President Emmanuel Macron's retirement reform bill by refusing to back his own Les Républicains party's support for it, despite winning major concessions from the government.\n\nMany of the MPs from his party followed him. It left the government's centrist Renaissance party without the parliamentary majority it thought it had to pass the bill.\n\nThe retirement reforms have sparked huge and often violent protests across France\n\nInstead, the government used highly controversial constitutional powers to force the bill through without a parliamentary vote - a move that sparked weeks of often violent protests.\n\nMr Pradié defied his party leadership again shortly afterwards, choosing to censure the government in a no-confidence vote which would have forced it to resign and scrap the retirement bill.\n\nThe government survived by just nine votes. Mr Pradié was stripped of his position as deputy leader of his party for his act of rebellion. He said it's not the job of his party to become a crutch for President Macron and his Renaissance party, which doesn't have an absolute majority in parliament.\n\n\"I believe in destiny in politics,\" he said. \"I wasn't breast fed with the idea I would one day become president, but I want a situation where the French don't have to continuously choose between candidates that they don't want.\"\n\nMr Pradié (centre) - seen here joining a rugby game on the campaign trail - was easily re-elected as an MP last year\n\nThe millennial politician's rapid political rise was done the old fashioned way - door to door, village by village. In his first election campaign he rode a moped as he couldn't afford a car. He became an MP at the age of just 31 in a socialist stronghold and was easily re-elected last year.\n\nHe told me that coming to events like this village fair was essential for getting to know what people are thinking.\n\n\"This isn't about folklore, this is where I pick up things about people's everyday lives,\" he said.\n\n\"Having roots in politics is fundamental and what has poisoned political life recently is the disconnection between politicians and the population. Here people don't lie to you - they tell you what they think and it's not always easy because they sometimes shout at me.\"\n\nHis focus, however, is expanding beyond the local. Since 2014 Mr Pradié has gone from village mayor to regional councillor to MP.\n\nRight now he doesn't speak English, and he knows that as his national and international profile soars that could be a problem. He confided he will start taking intensive English classes in a few weeks' time.\n\nPhilippe Labarthe (right) says he likes that Mr Pradié sticks to his political convictions\n\nAs we wandered among the food stands and exhibitors, the main subject was the cost of living crisis and the impact on farmers. His blunt way of talking and doing business went down well here.\n\n\"When it comes to the retirement reform I think [Mr Pradié] did the right thing, and he made the government fold,\" honey producer Philippe Labarthe said. \"At least he has convictions and sticks to them. Even if I disagree with him I have to recognise that quality.\"\n\nBenoît Jouclar, who runs an agricultural museum, said the MP has a vital role to play locally and nationally. \"He is very important for our region, he promotes us and we need young combative people like him in government. He tells the truth and we support him entirely.\"\n\nOne of the foremost analysts of French southern politics, Laurent Dubois, said Mr Pradié has a window of opportunity to rise further - but it won't last long.\n\n\"He is something new on the scene, but can he last in the long term with something new to offer and prove that he can handle his opponents?\" he said.\n\n\"His big advantage is his freshness, [but] his biggest challenge is going the distance - especially as what is new in politics often ends up out of date.\"\n\nMr Pradié says he wants to create a new revolution from the right, but he is vague on specifics. \"I think one of the big mistakes of the French right is that in recent years it's been abandoned by the French people,\" he said.\n\n\"It no longer represents the workers, the French middle class who work hard, who struggle to make ends meet and this retirement reform punishes those who work the hardest. For a while now the right has only talked to a more privileged bourgeois part of society.\"\n\nThere are just two MPs representing Lot. The other is Huguette Tiegna, from President Macron's ruling centrist Renaissance party. She says her opponent is simply an opportunist who seized the retirement reform as a way to climb the political ladder.\n\nPradié likes to talk... You get the impression it's all about him and his career\n\n\"I deal with key issues in depth. Pradié likes to talk,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a real problem because he's thinking just about himself, you get the impression it's all about him and his career.\"\n\n\"Since I am not from the establishment and have different convictions from them I am accused of being an opportunist who wants to steal the limelight, which is ridiculous when you consider the criticism I have received. If I wanted an easy life I would have taken another approach.\n\n\"The right can't keep pretending everything is all right and sweep the dust under the carpet - if we want to rebuild then there has to be an electroshock,\" he said.\n\n\"Sometimes collateral damage is the price to pay to rebuild a home.\"\n\nChris Bockman is the author of Are you the foie gras correspondent? Another slow news day in south-west France.", "US rock 'n' roll band Aerosmith have announced a farewell tour to mark more than five decades together.\n\nThe band, who are now all in their 70s, are well known for hits such as Dream On, Walk This Way and I Don't Want To Miss A Thing.\n\nThey broke the \"earth-shattering\" news in a star-studded video on Monday, featuring celebrity pals including Sir Ringo Starr, Dolly Parton and Eminem.\n\n\"It's not goodbye it's peace out!\" they declared in a joint statement.\n\n\"Get ready and walk this way, you're going to get the best show of our lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aerosmith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe 40-date run of shows across North America will begin in Philadelphia on 2 September 2023 and will end on 26 January 2024 in Montreal, via a New Year's Eve gig in their hometown, Boston.\n\nBut no UK/European tour dates have been announced so far.\n\n\"I think it's about time,\" guitarist Joe Perry, 72, told the Associated Press.\n\n\"It's kind of a chance to celebrate the 50 years we've been out here. You never know how much longer everybody's going to be healthy to do this.\"\n\n\"It's been a while since we've actually done a real tour. We did that run in Vegas, which was great,\" he added.\n\n\"It was fun, but (we're) kind of anxious to get back on the road.\"\n\nLast year, the band cancelled part of their Las Vegas residency after their flamboyant frontman, Steven Tyler checked himself into rehab.\n\nIn a statement to AP, Tyler, 75, said of the forthcoming farewell tour: \"We're opening up Pandora's Box one last time to present our fans with the Peace Out tour.\n\n\"Be there or beware as we bring all the toys out of the attic. Get ready.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by AerosmithVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAerosmith formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970 and went on to sell 150 million records worldwide, as well as winning four Grammys.\n\nKnown for their hedonistic, wild lifestyles as much as their riffs, the group were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2001, the same year that they performed at the Super Bowl halftime show.", "The storm in Florida was so powerful that it flipped a car upside down within seconds. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Wilson Garcia describes the tragic events that allowed him to flee\n\nThe man on the run after killing five people in Texas was deported at least four times, US media report.\n\nThe suspect, 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza, is a Mexican national who had reportedly been deported twice in 2009, then again in 2012 and 2016.\n\nPolice say he killed five of his neighbours, including a child, after an argument about him practice-shooting with a semi-automatic weapon nearby.\n\nA reward of $80,000 (£64,000) has been announced for information.\n\nA man who survived the shooting in which his wife and son died has tearfully recalled the details of the tragedy at a vigil held in Texas on Sunday.\n\nWilson Garcia said the noise of a neighbour's gunfire made his one-month-old son cry, so he and two others asked the man to move farther away.\n\nThe suspect, Francisco Oropeza, later fired indiscriminately on Mr Garcia's home, killing five people inside, say police\n\nMr Garcia said he \"respectfully\" asked his neighbour in the small town of Cleveland, San Jacinto County, to shoot his gun farther away so his infant son could sleep.\n\n\"He told us he was on his property, and he could do what he wanted,\" he told Associated Press.\n\nMr Garcia called the police five times and was reassured each time that help was on the way. Then he saw Mr Oropeza running toward his home and reloading his weapon.\n\nHis wife, Sonia Argentina Guzman, told him to go inside because he wouldn't fire at a woman, he recalled. But she turned out to be his first victim as he shot at the house.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere were 15 people in the house at the time of the shooting - many of them reportedly there on a church retreat.\n\nAlso among the dead was Mr Garcia's son, Daniel Enrique Laso, aged nine, and two women who died while protecting Mr Garcia's infant and two-year-old daughter.\n\nMr Garcia said one of the women had told him to jump out a window to stay alive, in order to take care of his surviving children.\n\nThe victims were all from Honduras. The others include Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; and Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18.\n\n\"I don't have words to describe what happened,\" Mr Garcia told local news. \"It's like we're alive but at the same time we're not. What happened truly was horrible.\"\n\nThree children present during the shooting who were injured and taken to the hospital were released on Sunday, the Houston Chronicle reported.\n\nAn aerial view of the search\n\nA manhunt continues for the suspect. He should be considered armed and dangerous, police said.\n\nAuthorities have announced an $80,000 (£64,000) reward for information leading to Mr Oropeza's arrest, funded by Texas Governor Gregg Abbott, the FBI and local authorities.\n\nSan Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said at least three weapons were discovered inside the suspect's home, CNN reported.\n\n\"I can tell you right now, we have zero leads,\" FBI special agent James Smith told reporters. \"We do not know where he is. We don't have any tips right now to where he may be. Right now, we're running into dead ends.\"\n\nFollowing the shooting, more than 150 officers gathered in a wooded area near the site to search where authorities initially believed Mr Oropeza had fled on foot, finding clothes and a phone.\n\nTracking dogs eventually lost the suspect's scent, Mr Capers said, but the search involving over 200 officers continued on Sunday.\n\nThe FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Texas Public Safety Department are all involved in the manhunt - which has some law enforcement on horseback.\n\nWhen asked about the response time to Mr Garcia's multiple calls for help, he said officers got there as quickly as possible and that he had only three officers patrolling several hundred square miles.\n\nHonduras' foreign minister, Enrique Reina, tweeted: \"We demand that the full weight of the law be applied against those who are responsible for this crime.\"\n\nThe incident came days after nine people were injured at a shooting during a teenagers' party in eastern Texas.\n\nTwo weeks ago, four young people were shot dead during a 16th birthday party in Alabama.\n\nFirearm incidents are the top cause of death for US children and teenagers, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.", "British microchip designing giant Arm has filed to sell its shares in the US, setting the stage for what could be the biggest stock market listing this year.\n\nThe Cambridge-based firm is reportedly aiming to raise up to $10bn (£8bn).\n\nIn a blow to the UK, the company said in March that it did not plan to list its shares in London.\n\nArm was bought in 2016 by Japanese conglomerate Softbank in a deal worth £23.4bn. At the time Arm was listed in London and New York.\n\nThe firm designs the tech behind processors - commonly known as chips - that power devices from smartphones to game consoles.\n\nIts designs are used by chip manufacturers like the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and household brands like Apple and Samsung to build their own processors.\n\nSoftbank said it had \"confidentially submitted a draft registration statement\" for the listing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).\n\nThe announcement did not reveal how much it planned to raise or when the share sale might take place.\n\nThe firm was seeking to raise between $8bn and $10bn through the listing this year on the technology-heavy Nasdaq platform in New York, according to reports.\n\nListing a firm on a stock exchange takes it from being a private to a public company, with investors able to buy and sell shares of a company's stock on specific exchanges.\n\nSometimes referred to as the \"crown jewel\" of the UK's technology sector, Arm was founded in Cambridge, England, in 1990.\n\nEarlier this year, Arm said it did not plan to pursue a London Stock Exchange listing.\n\nReports in January said that UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had restarted talks with Softbank about a possible London listing.\n\nArm's decision raised concerns that the UK market is not doing enough to attract tech company stock offerings, with US exchanges seen to offer higher profiles and valuations.\n\nThe registration shows that Softbank is pushing ahead with the multi-billion dollar sale despite difficult conditions in the global financial markets.\n\nThe number of stock market listings has fallen sharply since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, shares in major technology companies have fallen in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nSoftbank said the listing was \"subject to market and other conditions and the completion of the SEC's review process.\"\n\nLast year, Softbank called off its planned $40bn sale of Arm to technology group Nvidia after facing regulatory hurdles in the UK, US and EU.\n\nAfter an acute shortage of semiconductors during the pandemic, the chip making industry has faced slowing demand.\n\nLast week, US chipmaking giant Intel reported its largest quarterly loss in the company's history, while South Korean rival Samsung posted a more than 90% fall in its profits.\n\nA successful stock market listing of Arm would be welcome news for its owner Softbank. Its Vision Funds have been hit by losses due to the declining valuations of many of its investments in technology start-ups.", "Police are investigating after a high-end jewellery store in Paris was robbed in broad daylight on Saturday afternoon.\n\nVideo shows the moment suspects made their getaway from the store at Place Vendôme.\n\nThe Bulgari shop has been targeted by armed robbers before - with jewellery worth €10 million (£8.77m) taken less than two years ago.\n\nOn that occasion, one of the perpetrators was shot in the leg by police, and later convicted.", "Rami Badawi and his siblings are stuck in Khartoum\n\nA number of Sudanese citizens are unable to escape fighting in their country because their passports are locked inside European embassies.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to several people whose passports were being processed for European visas when war broke out.\n\nWestern diplomats evacuated without giving the passports back and now the embassies are closed.\n\nSpain's foreign ministry urged people to obtain travel documents from the Sudanese authorities.\n\nRami Badawi, 29, told the BBC he had been stranded in Khartoum because the French embassy had refused to return his passport. Mr Badawi works at the Sudan offices of a French technology company. His passport was at the embassy because he was applying for a visa for a business trip to France.\n\n\"I want to leave but I can't,\" he said.\n\nMr Badawi contacted the French embassy after the fighting broke out, asking if he could come and collect his passport. But he says they did not reply to his emails.\n\nThe French embassy has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\n\"They started their evacuation and left without any communication.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on Sunday evening, he said he was angry and afraid: \"I can hear the sound of guns from morning till night\".\n\nHis mother, father, and siblings have their passports and they planned to travel by bus to Egypt. They faced the agonising decision of whether to leave without him, but the whole family decided to stay in Khartoum rather than leave him there alone.\n\nThe main available routes out of Sudan are currently to take a bus to the northern border and cross into Egypt, or to travel to the coastal city of Port Sudan and take a boat across the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia. Thousands of people have also fled to neighbouring Chad, which is struggling to provide people with food, water or accommodation.\n\nMohamed Elfadil, 30, told the BBC he had been planning a holiday to Spain and was waiting for his visa when the war broke out.\n\nHe says when he phoned the emergency number for the Spanish embassy in Khartoum to ask for his passport back, \"the woman who answered asked me 'are you Sudanese or Spanish?' When I told her I was Sudanese she hung up immediately\".\n\nMr Elfadil has left Khartoum and reached northern Sudan but says he will be separated from his family, who plan to cross the border to Egypt without him. \"I am the only one of my family who cannot travel.\"\n\n\"We are praying for the passport office to open, but the main passport centre is in Khartoum, and it is not functioning due to the war,\" he says.\n\n\"I had no response, no feedback, nothing from the Spanish embassy. My passport is very valuable, I need it to escape from this war. And what hurts the most is that I never got any replies.\"\n\nAnother man, who asked not to be named, said he felt \"less of a human\" after the Spanish diplomats evacuated themselves and their citizens without replying to his requests to return his passport. He told the BBC he managed to cross the border into Ethiopia using an old passport that had expired two years ago - but that was just luck.\n\nThe Spanish foreign ministry told the BBC: \"The Embassy closed its attention to the public and, since the evacuation, there is no longer a possibility to access it, among other reasons because of the huge security risk.\"\n\nThe ministry said that warnings about this were posted on social media.\n\n\"People who left their passport there have been urged to obtain another travel document from the Sudanese authorities,\" the ministry said.\n\nAhmed Mahmoud and his wife after travelling by bus from Khartoum to Port Sudan\n\nThe Embassy of Sweden in Khartoum is also accused of failing to return passports before they evacuated their staff.\n\nAhmed Mahmoud is a 35-year-old filmmaker who is currently in Port Sudan, having escaped Khartoum two days ago. He told the BBC he had applied for a visa to take part in a Swedish film festival.\n\n\"When the war started the embassy staff just up and left without any regard to my passport,\" he complained. On the day the fighting started he contacted the embassy and said he no longer wanted the visa, and asked for his passport back.\n\n\"They said they would look into it. I called them every day, and then at the end of the week the Swedish embassy evacuated. I was told there is no way you can get your passport.\"\n\nMr Mahmoud said he feared for his safety. \"If this war carries on, I will need to leave immediately. It is going to be very bad for people like me, for civil society, artists - it will be like what [President Abdul Fattah] al-Sisi did in Egypt.\"\n\nHe added that his wife had her passport \"and so if she wants to leave, I cannot go with her\".\n\nOnce he gets a new passport, he says he will travel to Kenya, Uganda or Ethiopia, because he can get a visa on arrival at the border or airport.\n\nSweden's Ministry for Foreign Affairs said: \"The embassy staff have been evacuated, and the embassy will continue its operations from Stockholm. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs cannot comment in detail on the security measures that the embassy has taken ahead of the relocation as this would defeat the point of those measures.\"\n\nFighting has entered a third week in Sudan\n\nConcerns have also been raised about the closure of a UK visa application centre in Khartoum.\n\nMujtaba Haddad, a structural engineer based in Cardiff, told the BBC his wife handed in his passport to the centre run by TLScontact on 13 April to have her passport scanned, as part of a dependent visa application to join him.\n\nBut since the conflict closed the centre, Mazza Hamid has been unable to retrieve her passport. Mr Haddad explained it meant his wife was \"trapped\" as she could not escape to Egypt with her family as she had no documentation.\n\n\"They didn't arrange for my wife to get her passport back during the (first three days of) ceasefire,\" he said.\n\n\"They are living on one meal a day now that's for sure. They are trying to make what they have last. They have no access to clean water anymore and the power goes on and off.\"\n\nHe said he was worried for his wife's safety, and the longer this situation continues the harder it will be to travel to Egypt.\n\n\"The best-case scenario is that she receives an email to say her visa has been approved along with her passport but if not, I'd just like her to get her passport back,\" he added.\n\nTLScontact has yet to respond to a request for comment, but a UK foreign office spokesperson told the BBC: \"Due to the ongoing conflict, we have had no option but to close the Visa Application Centre in Khartoum. Where an individual is eligible to come to the UK, we are doing everything possible to provide support, recognising that many people are facing very challenging circumstances and decisions.\"\n\n\"We continue to work intensively, alongside international partners, to bring an end to fighting - the single most important thing we can do to ensure the safety of British nationals and others in Sudan.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Pentagon leaks explained in under 60 seconds.\n\nThe UK is among a number of countries with military special forces operating inside Ukraine, according to one of dozens of documents leaked online.\n\nIt confirms what has been the subject of quiet speculation for over a year.\n\nThe leaked files, some marked \"top secret\", paint a detailed picture of the war in Ukraine, including sensitive details of Ukraine's preparations for a spring counter-offensive.\n\nThe US government says it is investigating the source of the leak.\n\nAccording to the document, dated 23 March, the UK has the largest contingent of special forces in Ukraine (50), followed by fellow Nato states Latvia (17), France (15), the US (14) and the Netherlands (1).\n\nThe document does not say where the forces are located or what they are doing.\n\nThe numbers of personnel may be small, and will doubtless fluctuate. But special forces are by their very nature highly effective. Their presence in Ukraine is likely to be seized upon by Moscow, which has in recent months argued that it is not just confronting Ukraine, but Nato as well.\n\nIn line with its standard policy on such matters, the UK's Ministry of Defence has not commented, but in a tweet on Tuesday said the leak of alleged classified information had demonstrated what it called a \"serious level of inaccuracy\".\n\n\"Readers should be cautious about taking at face value allegations that have the potential to spread misinformation,\" it said.\n\nIt did not elaborate or suggest which specific documents it was referring to. However, Pentagon officials are quoted as saying the documents are real.\n\nOne document, which detailed the number of casualties suffered in Ukraine on both sides, did appear to have been doctored.\n\nUK special forces are made up of several elite military units with distinct areas of expertise, and are regarded to be among the most capable in the world.\n\nThe British government has a policy of not commenting on its special forces, in contrast to other countries including the US.\n\nThe UK has been vociferous in its support of Ukraine, and is the second largest donor after the US of military aid to Kyiv.\n\nUS Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the Department of Justice had opened a criminal investigation and he was determined to find the source of the leak.\n\n\"We will continue to investigate and turn over every rock until we find the source of this and the extent of it,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Expert says US and Egypt ready to move forward after leak", "Limits have been placed on the amount of books convicted terrorists in England and Wales can keep in their prison cells.\n\nExtremists will also now be banned from taking a \"leading role\" in religious services under the new measures.\n\nIt follows a 2022 report which raised concerns about radicalisation and Islamist gangs in prisons.\n\nNew Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said the changes would stop terrorists advancing \"their own sinister agenda\".\n\nThose in custody convicted of terrorism - about 200 people - will be limited to two medium-sized boxes of books that must weigh no more than 15kg.\n\nPrisoners can obtain books from prison libraries, order from approved retailers or be sent them by friends and family.\n\nBut there are concerns around extremist materials being hidden inside approved books, or covers being swapped as a disguise.\n\nThe government said the move would make it easier for prison staff to search for prohibited material, citing a case in which one convicted terrorist had 200 books in his cell.\n\nA previous blanket ban on prisoners being sent books from people outside prison was ruled to be unlawful by the High Court in 2014, less than a year after it was imposed.\n\nThe same ruling said there was \"no good reason\" to restrict the amount of books prisoners can have by volume, but the Ministry of Justice said it was not expecting a legal challenge as the change is limited to terror offenders.\n\nThe changes announced on Sunday do not require Commons approval and come into force immediately, the Ministry of Justice said.\n\nThe library at HMP Berwyn in Wrexham, Wales, photographed in 2017\n\nRestrictions will also be strengthened so convicted terrorists can not have any formal role in religious services, such as delivering a reading.\n\nCurrently only the most dangerous prisoners are banned from leading Friday prayers. Now the ban will cover prisoners of any faith, and not just those in high-security prisons.\n\nThe changes follow recommendations made by Jonathan Hall, the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, which drew particular attention to the influence of Islamists in prison.\n\nHe said the prison service had \"lost its role in the national endeavour to reduce the risk of terrorism\" and called for tighter restrictions on terror offenders while in custody.\n\nMr Chalk, who replaced Dominic Raab as justice secretary after his resignation earlier this month, said he recognised the role faith can play in a prisoners' rehabilitation but said some may abuse the rules.\n\nHe added: \"These changes, alongside tougher sentences for terrorists who commit crimes behind bars and our work to separate more of the most radical terrorists, will better protect our hardworking staff, other prisoners and the public.\"\n\nLabour responded by criticising the government's record on counter-terrorism policy, referencing concerns about the potential effect on terror trials raised by the security services in 2021 amid attempts to reform the Human Rights Act.\n\nShadow justice secretary Steve Reed said: \"If the Conservatives really cared about stopping terrorists they would not be proposing changes in the law that will slow down prosecuting them.\n\n\"Britain's security services slapped down the government's disastrous proposals to slow down trials for foreign terrorists and risk cases collapsing so instead of being jailed or deported they remain loose on Britain's streets.\n\n\"Only Labour can be trusted with keeping the public safe. And that starts by working with our intelligence services to do their job, not working against them.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat cabinet affairs spokesperson Christine Jardine accused the Conservatives of breaching pre-election rules, which restrict ministers from making party political announcements with the help of government resources in the run-up to a vote.\n\nIn a letter to the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, she called for the timing of the announcement - which came via the Ministry of Justice press office days before the local elections - to be investigated.\n\nBBC News has contacted the Green Party for a response.", "The Met Gala wouldn't be the Met Gala without a dress train so long that it puts a king-sized duvet to shame, and this year is no different.\n\nWhile Emily in Paris star Lily Collins had a go with a train that had emblazoned on it the single word \"KARL\", Glenn Close also wore an incredible, and very large, blue cape by Erdem.\n\nBut, from an unscientific study, it seems like Pugh's might be the biggest of the night so far.\n\nShe told The New York Times a few days ago that she would be attending the event for the first time in something “big”.\n\nAnd while she is not wrong, the look is more than its train alone – from the cutout, architectural gown to the feathery sculpture on her head, this is an outfit from someone unafraid to run with a brief.", "The Labour MP said she was left feeling humiliated\n\nAn MP has said she was left \"humiliated\" when she was subjected to a social services investigation after a complaint from an internet troll.\n\nThe probe was launched after a man complained to Leicestershire Police that Stella Creasy's children should be taken into care.\n\nThe Labour MP told Today on BBC Radio 4 he made the complaint as he disagreed with her campaign against misogyny.\n\nWaltham Forest Council decided no action was needed against her.\n\nThe Walthamstow MP told the Today programme the man, from Leicester, had initially emailed her office angry about the work she was doing to tackle violence against women.\n\nShe ignored them as she gets \"a lot of emails like that, lots of MPs do and you think people are entitled to their opinion\".\n\nShe then received a call from social services informing her they had held a safeguarding investigation over an allegation her children were at \"direct risk\".\n\nThey then told her they thought she was the person who may be at risk \"because of the way in which this person is targeting me\", she said, adding social services wanted to know how to raise concerns about her safety with the parliamentary policing system.\n\n\"I was horrified and humiliated,\" she said.\n\n\"My children now have a social services record and it sets the green light that in public life, you can target these children. I think most people would think that's unacceptable.\"\n\nThe council said it launched the investigation as it was legally required to following the referral from Leicestershire Police.\n\nA panel, which was made up of social workers, then met to discuss the case.\n\nAlthough the panel decided no action was needed, it is legally prevented from removing the complaint from its record.\n\nThe MP said she was told the complainant would not face criminal sanctions as he was \"entitled\" to his view her children should be taken into care.\n\nLeicestershire Police said it had investigated a \"number of emails\" sent to the MP and gave the man a community resolution rather than a formal sanction because the messages did not meet the threshold for a criminal offence.\n\nIt said the content of the messages had \"understandably caused upset and distress\" to the MP and officers had spoken to the sender who admitted he was responsible and apologised.\n\nMs Creasy said she was not \"pushing for a prosecution\" but for a caution as that would have meant the details would have gone into the police intelligence database.\n\n\"Having worked on harassment legislation myself, the irony is not lost on me that one of the challenges we've been trying to raise in tackling harassment against women, is the attitude of the police and that's exactly what I experienced,\" she said.\n\nMs Creasy added she was \"passionate about safeguarding\" and \"we can't have the system corrupted in this way\".\n\nThe MP is a prominent campaigner for women's rights\n\nThe MP also voiced concerns that instances like this were \"damaging the whole of public life\".\n\nShe said MPs did not want to be \"put into glass cages\" but this was \"the reason why a lot of women are put off\" standing to be an MP as it is \"women who are targeted\".\n\n\"It's not a matter of free speech, the police acted as if his free speech to argue without any evidence at all - he'd never met me, seen my children, he'd never been in a room with us; he simply disagreed with my views.\n\n\"That can't stand in a thriving democracy because it's going to drive people out of it.\"\n\nThe force said it had told the complainant to not contact Ms Creasy and there had been no report of further unwanted contact.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Leicestershire Police takes any report of harassment extremely seriously and will carry out a full investigation into the report and take the appropriate action.\n\n\"The force remains fully committed to keeping women and girls safe, listening to concerns and tackling violence.\"\n\nAccording to the Sentencing Council, a community resolution is an \"informal, non-statutory disposal used for dealing with less serious crime and anti-social behaviour where the offender accepts responsibility\".\n\n\"The views of the victim are taken into account in reaching an informal agreement between the parties which can involve restorative justice techniques,\" it adds.\n\nWaltham Forest Council said: \"All safeguarding allegations are dealt with in line with the national legislation. We have a duty to treat each case seriously and ensure the statutory process is followed.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Laura Trevelyan, now a slavery reparations campaigner, worked for some time as a BBC correspondent in the United States\n\nA descendant of 19th Century aristocrat Sir Charles Trevelyan has said if the Irish government asked her family to pay compensation over the Irish famine they would consider the request.\n\nLaura Trevelyan accepts that her great, great, great-grandfather was among those who \"failed their people\" while governing Ireland during the famine.\n\nThe Irish folk song The Fields Of Athenry singles him out for blame.\n\nBut she does not believe her family should be held personally responsible.\n\nMs Trevelyan, a former BBC journalist, said this is because Sir Charles was involved in his capacity as a British government official during the famine.\n\nIn the 1840s, he was the senior British civil servant in charge of Irish famine relief.\n\nMore than a million people died and another two million emigrated during the famine, the result of potato blight and exports of food to Great Britain, which ruled the entire island of Ireland at the time.\n\nThe Fields Of Athenry is a ballad about a man prosecuted for stealing \"Trevelyan's corn\".\n\nThe Trevelyan family recently agreed to donate more than £100,000 to the Caribbean island of Grenada to compensate for their ancestors' historic role in the slave trade.\n\nAsked why the Trevelyan family would pay compensation to Grenada over slavery and not to Ireland over the famine, Ms Trevelyan said her ancestors were personally profiting from the sale of sugar cane harvested by enslaved Africans in the Caribbean, while Sir Charles was carrying out government policy.\n\nShe added: \"If the Irish government said the Trevelyan family are liable for what Sir Charles Edward did, then of course that would have to be considered.\"\n\nAfter 30 years in the BBC, in the UK and America, Ms Trevelyan left the corporation last month to become a full-time slavery reparations campaigner.\n\nAfter her family issued a public apology in February over their historic links to slavery, the Irish novelist Katherine Mezzacappa asked Ms Trevelyan on Twitter: \"Any word on Charles Trevelyan's catastrophic handling of famine relief in Ireland?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Trevelyan told BBC Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show that the Fields Of Athenry had been sung at her, and she had been directly challenged about her family link to the famine by Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness in the 1990s.\n\nShe said: \"A quarter of a century ago, when I was a BBC reporter covering the Good Friday Agreement, I tripped over my own history.\n\n\"I well remember Martin McGuinness saying to me, 'Is this a coincidence that the British have sent a Trevelyan for the BBC, a state institution, to cover these negotiations?'.\n\n\"I assured him it was a coincidence but he didn't think it was at all and that's when I tripped up against Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan.\n\n\"And I remember so clearly being in Crossmaglen in south Armagh and speaking to a member of Republican Sinn Fein who looked at me in horror and said, 'How can you be driving around south Armagh with the blood of the Irish on your hands?' And to my embarrassment I didn't even really understand what either of them were talking about.\n\n\"When I got back to Britain I began to read up on Sir Charles.\"\n\nLaura Trevelyan as a young BBC reporter in the historic town of Carrickfergus, County Antrim\n\nAmid all the recent publicity about her family's connection to the slave trade, she expected questions to be also asked about what happened during the Irish famine.\n\nIn the 1830s, after the abolition of slavery, the Trevelyan family received about £34,000 in official compensation, the equivalent of about £3m in modern money.\n\nAsked for her personal view of Sir Charles Trevelyan, she said: \"When I wrote a book in 2006, A Very British Family, I'd read everything that had been written about him to that point.\n\n\"Where one ends up is, as [the then prime minister] Tony Blair said in 1997, those who governed in London at the time of the Irish famine failed their people by standing by while a crop failure turned into a massive human tragedy.\n\n\"He [Sir Charles] was the Treasury official in charge of the famine relief so he is an absolutely central character in this and as I reflected in my book in 2006, he's a providentialist, he's a laissez-faire economist. He feels that private charity in Ireland should be leaping to the rescue.\n\n\"It is hard to interpret his writings in some ways because they're so Victorian and convoluted and open to interpretation in some ways. But he both says the people cannot under any circumstances be allowed to starve - and they do starve, so he's failed by his own point.\n\n\"And he also seems to suggest that in some ways this is the divine punishment of God for a one-crop economy. It's very hard to defend any of it.\"\n\nIn her book, she said there was a debate over the extent of the role played by Sir Charles, with some historians being more critical than others, and at least one defending him.\n\nDetail from an illustration depicting a scene outside a 19th century workhouse during the Irish famine\n\nAs for the song, The Fields Of Athenry, it has become very familiar to Ms Trevelyan.\n\nWritten by Pete St John, it has grown in popularity in recent years and is often sung at Irish sporting occasions, including by fans supporting the Ireland rugby team.\n\n\"It's been sung to me many a time,\" Ms Trevelyan said.\n\n\"I was once trying to park a car outside the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Dublin and somebody came and helped me get into the spot. I said, 'Thanks very much', and he said, 'What's your your name?' and I said 'Laura Trevelyan'.\n\n\"He looked at me… and began singing The Fields of Athenry.\n\n\"And I when I got into the Irish Ministry for Foreign Affairs I was shown around as though I was an historical artefact - 'she's related to Sir Charles' - all of which was pretty extraordinary. What I was embarrassed about at the time was that I didn't know the history of my family and here I was meeting all these people who knew it intimately.\n\n\"It made me realise that the past defines the present… you realise that more and more, how the past is not really the past.\"\n\nOn the issue of reparations for Ireland, Ms Trevelyan expanded on her position.\n\nShe said: \"To the best of my knowledge there isn't an inter-government request from the Irish government to the British for reparations to be paid for the famine because of the action of officials like Sir Charles.\n\n\"I guess the distinction I would make is that in the Caribbean my ancestors were acting for private profit whereas Sir Charles was acting as an official for the British government, and the British government did in 1997 acknowledge his failures and the failures of others.\"\n\nAfter three decades of telling the stories of other people, Laura Trevelyan is now at the centre of her own.\n\nFrom anchoring BBC World News America, the broadcaster has turned into a campaigner.\n\nWhile finding the sudden switch \"truly weird\", she says she has no regrets and is now fully focused on her new role.\n\nListen to the full interview with Laura Trevelyan on The Nolan Show on BBC Sounds.", "Disabled people have been struggling to use one of Wales' busiest railway stations for more than 20 years.\n\nCardiff's Cathays station is the seventh-most used in Wales yet people with mobility issues and wheelchair users cannot easily cross platforms.\n\nThe footbridge between the two platforms has no lift and the Transport for Wales (TfW) website describes the steps as steep.\n\nTfW said a \"proposed\" accessible bridge was part of the South Wales Metro.\n\nThe station is right next to Cardiff University so Alice Moore, who represents students with disabilities, said it was \"a really important aspect of public transport for students\".\n\nShe said the city's good transport links were \"no good when disabled students - arguably the students who need it the most - are excluded from using it\".\n\nCathays station was used 514,730 times in 2021-22 - more than Bangor, Wrexham General and Cardiff Bay.\n\nFunding to make the station more accessible was announced by the Department for Transport in 2019 as part of its Access for All programme.\n\nTfW's website advises wheelchair users travelling from the valleys to travel to Queen Street station, then get on another train to come back to Cathays if they wish to access the university or Civic Centre, but an extra ticket is not needed.\n\nAlice, who has cystic fibrosis, said she was \"disappointed and appalled\" at this suggestion.\n\nDisabled train users have been trying to get changes to Cathays station since the 1990s\n\nThis issue is not a recent one and has been a problem for students for more than two decades.\n\nDisability activist and photojournalist Natasha Hirst, 44, was the disabled students' officer at Cardiff University in the late 1990s.\n\nShe recognised the problem during her time and it is yet to be addressed.\n\nShe said: \"You've got that footbridge and if you've got mobility impairments, there's no easy way of getting from one side of the station to the other.\n\n\"I guess during the daytime you can go through the students' union and use the lifts but if you're not a student you're not really going to feel able to go into a building that you don't know.\n\n\"Why should people have to do that?\"\n\nNatasha Hirst says disabled people \"should be able to have equal access to the same services\"\n\nMs Hirst said Cathays station needed a brand-new accessible footbridge with either a lift or a long ramp.\n\nKat Watkins uses a wheelchair and often commutes from Swansea to Cardiff - she opts to drive to work in Cathays most days due to the access problems at the station.\n\nShe said TfW's suggestion that people extend their journey in order to get to the right platform was \"such a hassle\".\n\n\"It's not as simple as they think because you've got to wait for your train and then wait for another train,\" the 36-year-old said.\n\nKat Watkins does not feel comfortable catching the train to Cathays for work due to accessibility issues\n\nDisability Wales said it was \"vital that disabled people and wheelchair users can access public transport\".\n\nIt added: \"It is important that public bodies engage with organisations, such as ourselves, so we can ensure disabled people's voices are heard.\"\n\nTfW said it was working with partners on \"the initial stages\" of a fully accessible footbridge at Cathays station and would \"share further information as it progresses\".\n\nA spokesman said the company was \"committed to improving accessibility at stations throughout the Wales and Borders network and our work is guided by our dedicated experts who advise us how to support disabled, deaf and older customers to use our services effectively\".\n\nCardiff University said it shared students' concerns and would work with TfW and others so people could have \"a fully accessible station in Cathays, as soon as practicably possible\".", "The two-year-old daughter of a Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL player drowned in a swimming pool at the family's home on Sunday, authorities said.\n\nPolice officers responded to a call that Arrayah, the youngest daughter of Shaquil Barrett, fell into the pool around 09:30 local time (14:30 BST).\n\nShe was taken to a hospital in Tampa, Florida, and pronounced dead.\n\nA Super Bowl winning linebacker with the Buccaneers, Mr Barrett, 30, and his wife have three other children.\n\nThe Buccaneers released a statement on the \"tragic\" and \"heartbreaking\" news.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with Shaq, (his wife) Jordanna and the entire Barrett family during this unimaginably difficult time,\" it said.\n\n\"While no words can provide true comfort at a time such as this, we offer our support and love as they begin to process this very profound loss of their beloved Arrayah.\"\n\nPolice said an investigation is ongoing but the death was not believed to be suspicious.\n\nMr Barrett is entering his fifth year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, after spending the first four seasons of his career with the Denver Broncos.\n\nHe is currently recovering from an Achilles injury that kept him on the bench during the second half of last season.\n\nHe led the NFL with 19.5 sacks in 2019 and in the following season helped the Buccaneers win the Super Bowl alongside the retired, famed NFL quarterback Tom Brady.", "A cache of classified US documents leaked online sheds new light on American intelligence gathered about other countries.\n\nImages of the covert files have appeared on messaging app Discord since early March.\n\nComplete with timelines and dozens of military acronyms, the documents, some marked \"top secret\", paint a detailed picture of the war in Ukraine and also offer information on China and allies.\n\nPentagon officials are quoted as saying the documents are real.\n\nBBC News and other news organisations have reviewed the documents and these are some of the key findings.\n\nThe US believed the UN secretary general's stance on a key grain deal was undermining attempts to hold Russia accountable for the war in Ukraine.\n\nAntonio Guterres was too willing to accommodate Russian interests, according to files which suggest Washington has been closely monitoring him.\n\nSeveral documents describe private communications involving Mr Guterres and his deputy.\n\nOne leaked document focuses on the Black Sea grain deal, brokered by the UN and Turkey in July following fears of a global food crisis.\n\nIt suggests that Mr Guterres was so keen to preserve the deal that he was willing to give in to Russia's demands - a stance which was \"undermining broader efforts to hold Russia accountable\".\n\nWhile the bulk of the leaked documents concern, in one way or another, the war in Ukraine, there are others that touch on a huge range of unrelated issues. Many of them shed light on some of Washington's global preoccupations.\n\nLike the spread and purpose of Chinese technology.\n\nThe documents appear to have been printed out and folded before being photographed and posted online\n\nThree documents based on intelligence from late February detail discussions among senior Jordanian officials over whether or not to shut the Chinese firm Huawei out of its 5G rollout plans.\n\nJordan's Crown Prince Hussein, in charge of the rollout, is said in the document to be worried about retaliation from China if they keep Huawei out.\n\nNor is this the only place where fears about Chinese technology are revealed\n\nAnother document marked top secret addresses China's \"developing cyber-attack capabilities.\" It says these are designed \"to deny, exploit, and hijack satellite links and networks as part of its strategy to control information, which it considers to be a key warfighting domain.\"\n\nNewly discovered documents suggest Russian officials are at loggerheads over the reporting of casualties.\n\nThe main intelligence agency, the FSB, has \"accused\" the country's defence ministry of playing down the human impact of the war, the files show.\n\nThese findings show the extent to which the US agencies have penetrated the Russian intelligence and military.\n\nOne document, dated 23 March, refers to the presence of a small number of Western special forces operating inside Ukraine, without specifying their activities or location. The UK has the largest contingent (50), followed by Latvia (17), France (15), the US (14) and the Netherlands (1).\n\nWestern governments typically refrain from commenting on such sensitive matters, but this detail is likely to be seized upon by Moscow, which has in recent months argued that it is not just confronting Ukraine, but Nato as well.\n\nOther documents say when a dozen new Ukrainian brigades - being prepared for an offensive that could begin within weeks - will be ready. They list, in great detail, the tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery pieces that are being provided by Ukraine's Western allies.\n\nOne map includes a timeline that assesses ground conditions across eastern Ukraine as spring progresses.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post newspaper, one document from early February expresses misgivings about Ukraine's chances of success in its forthcoming counteroffensive, saying that problems with generating and sustaining sufficient forces could result in \"modest territorial gains\".\n\nUkraine's difficulties in maintaining its vital air defences are also analysed, with warnings from late February that Kyiv might run out of critical missiles.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Pentagon leaks explained in under 60 seconds.\n\nCasualty figures are also listed. One slide refers to as many as 223,000 Russian soldiers killed or wounded, and as many as 131,000 Ukrainians.\n\nSome Ukrainian officials have dismissed the leaks, suggesting they might constitute a Russian disinformation campaign. But there are signs of frustration and anger too.\n\nOne presidential advisor, Mykhailo Podolyak, tweeted: \"We need less contemplation on 'leaks' and more long-range weapons in order to properly end the war.\"\n\nPresident al-Sisi is said to have told officials to keep production of rockets for Russia secret - but an Egyptian official says the allegation is baseless\n\nThe Washington Post obtained access to another document from mid-February, where they found that Egypt had plans to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia in secret.\n\nThe Post said President Abdul Fatah al-Sisi told officials to keep production and shipment secret \"to avoid problems with the West\".\n\nAn official is quoted as saying he would \"order his people to work shift work if necessary because it was the least Egypt could do to repay Russia for unspecified help earlier\".\n\nIt is unclear what the earlier help refers to. In January, Reuters reported that Russia's share of Egyptian wheat imports had risen in 2022, offering one possible explanation.\n\nThere is no indication that Egypt - a recipient of US security assistance, worth around $1bn a year - went ahead with the proposed sale to Russia.\n\nAn unnamed official quoted on Egyptian news channels described the allegation as \"utterly baseless\" and said Cairo did not take sides in the war.\n\nThe Kremlin called it \"just another canard\" and the White House said there was \"no indication\" Egypt was providing lethal weapons to Russia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expert: US and Egypt ready to move forward after leak\n\nA classified document, seen by the BBC, reveals that South Korea was torn about selling weapons for use in Ukraine.\n\nThe report, based on signals intelligence, details a sensitive conversation between national security advisers.\n\nThey are torn between US pressure to send ammunition to Ukraine and their policy not to arm countries at war.\n\nOne of the advisers suggests sending the shells to Poland instead, to avoid appearing to have given in to the US.\n\nAs part of a resupply deal last year, Seoul insisted that the US could not pass the shells on to Ukraine. Seoul has been reluctant to arm Ukraine, for fear of antagonising Russia.\n\nThe leak has triggered security concerns in Seoul, with opposition politicians questioning how the US was able to intercept such a high-level conversation.\n\nThe Post also found that Beijing tested one of its experimental missiles - the DF-27 hypersonic glide vehicle - on 25 February.\n\nThe missile flew for 12 minutes over a distance of 2,100km (1,300 miles), according to the documents.", "The Pentalina only came back into service earlier this week after time in dry dock\n\nA ferry has run aground in Orkney with 60 people on board, including a baby.\n\nSmoke was detected in the engine room of the MV Pentalina before it became grounded near the village of St Margaret's Hope.\n\nEmergency services are at the scene as well as lifeboats from the RNLI.\n\nFerry company Pentland Ferries said all 56 adults, three children and an infant on board were safe. \"The safety of our passengers is, of course, our first priority,\" it added.\n\nPentland Ferries sails across the Pentland Firth from Gills Bay in Caithness to St Margaret's Hope on the Orkney Islands.\n\nThe Pentalina came back into service earlier this week after time in dry dock to allow another ferry, the MV Alfred, to service other routes to islands on Scotland's west coast.\n\nThe MV Alfred itself ran aground in the Pentland Firth in Swona in July last year, with 97 people on board who were transferred to lifeboats.\n\nThe Rail, Maritime and Transport union said the MV Pentalina was \"taking on water with a fire in the engine room\", describing it as a \"major incident\".\n\n\"RNLI lifeboats have been dispatched and all of the ferry's passengers and crew are reported to be safe.\n\n\"A thorough investigation will be needed to establish how this major incident aboard the Pentland Ferries vessel occurred.\"\n\nScottish Transport Minister Kevin Stewart tweeted that he was \"sorry\" to hear of the incident, but that \"all on board are safe and well and that emergency services are in attendance\".", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nBest of Luca Brecel as he beats Mark Selby in world final Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV and Red Button with uninterrupted coverage on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app Belgium's Luca Brecel became the first player from mainland Europe to claim snooker's World Championship with an 18-15 win over Mark Selby in Sheffield. Brecel, 28, is just the fourth non-British winner at the Crucible and the first overseas player to triumph since Neil Robertson in 2010. Brecel won six of Monday afternoon's eight frames to open up a 15-10 lead. A visibly emotional Brecel sealed victory and the £500,000 top prize by taking three frames in the evening. \"It's amazing. [Selby is] the worst opponent to have in the final. He just keeps coming back, he's such a fighter and at 16-15, I didn't fancy winning at all to be honest,\" Brecel told BBC Sport. \"I was missing balls by a mile. I don't know how I did it. Once I got to 17, I fancied it if I got a chance to clear up, which I did. It's a great feeling.\" Despite becoming the youngest player to ever participate in the tournament in 2012, aged 17 years and 45 days, the 'Belgian Bullet' had remarkably never won a single match at the famous venue until this year, losing in the first round on his five previous visits. \"Snooker is a difficult sport and in the first round [this year] I could have lost to Ricky Walden - I beat him 10-9,\" he added. \"If I'd have lost that game then everybody would have said 'he's lost again in the first round' and now I'm the winner, that's the small margins in snooker, it's crazy. I still can't believe it.\" It is a moment that has long been in the making for Brecel, who climbs eight places to finish the season second in the world rankings behind Ronnie O'Sullivan. But it only arrived after he had come through the sternest of examinations from England's four-time world champion Selby, who won five consecutive frames and scored 315 points without reply at one stage to get back to 16-15. With the tension rising Brecel knocked in a timely 51 to leave himself on the brink of victory, which he confirmed with a stylish 112 break.\n• None Snooker will explode in Europe after win - Brecel Brecel comes of age on biggest stage Luca Brecel moves up to second in the world rankings after winning the world title After losing Sunday's opening session 6-2, the manner in which Selby fought back to within one frame in the second session - a run lit up a sparkling 147 maximum break - raised significant questions about how Brecel might respond. But, resuming 9-8 in front on Monday afternoon, Brecel produced an incredible display of attacking snooker to seemingly take the match away from his opponent again, compiling four superb century breaks of 113, 101, 141 and 119. In a contest billed as a test of Brecel's mental endurance as much as his undoubted skill, few inside the Crucible Theatre could have been prepared for his blistering start. Brecel fired in doubles, a succession of stunning long pots and seemingly cleared balls at will as he rattled through the first four frames in under an hour. It was a theme that initially continued into the concluding session, Brecel making several astounding pots to craft a 67 that saw him go 16-10 ahead. Brecel's swashbuckling style has endeared him to fans across the world, in particular the manner of his famous victories over O'Sullivan and Si Jiahui on his run to the final. But when things do not go to plan the drawback is that it guarantees his opponent opportunities - and few in the game are as ruthless as Selby at capitalising on those. A wild effort on a long blue saw Selby reduce his arrears with a break of 78 and he then carved out a superb 122 on his way to reaching the mid-session interval just 16-13 adrift. Selby's charge continued with a half-century in the 30th frame and a fluked red set him on the way to winning the 31st frame. That opened up the possibility of a first Crucible finale to go the distance since Peter Ebdon's 18-17 victory over Stephen Hendry in 2002, but Brecel recovered his composure to get across the line for an emotional victory. \"I battled and gave everything but every credit to Luca he deserves it,\" said Selby, the Crucible champion in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2021. \"Congratulations to Luca, he's a great talent and a great lad with a lovely family. I wish him all the best. It was great to make a 147 at the Crucible, I never thought I would do it in a final. \"It was an amazing achievement and something I will remember for rest of my life but it's not about me today, it is about Luca, he played fantastic over the two days.\" He's been a breath of fresh air through this tournament. It's a refreshing thing to watch. He goes for his shots, he doesn't care if he misses but he pots more than he's entitled to. We talked about Mark's character this evening but how much did Luca show? To get over the line there, that's what champions do. Then in the last frame, to finish like he did with a century, the sign of a champion. Young players will be looking at that and saying 'that's the way to play, that's the way to win'. Don't hang around, don't study every shot, see the shot, go for it, trust your first instincts. It's great to see somebody play swashbuckling snooker but with balance as well and push the game to even more new limits than we thought possible. Sign up to My Sport to follow snooker news on the BBC app.\n• None Which pair will finish first? A frenetic race across Canada without phones and flights\n• None A warm-hearted Aussie rom-com about a flawed, funny couple getting it all utterly wrong", "Pavel Kuzin was killed in Bakhmut amid brutal fighting around the eastern Ukrainian city\n\nStaff sergeant Pavel Kuzin took his position at the machine gun - the only soldier still able to fight. Everyone else in his troop lay dead or injured.\n\nSuffering from shell-shock and with one arm bandaged, the 37-year-old fired at the waves of Russian soldiers trying to storm his position. They didn't even try to take cover, but simply walked towards him across the open field.\n\nIt was clear Pavel wouldn't be able to hold the position for long, but he needed to buy time for a rescue team to arrive. His final action in life was to ensure his wounded comrades got to safety.\n\nThe Ukrainian military says Bakhmut is now the scene of many \"unprecedentedly bloody\" battles like this, where they now have to repel up to 50 attacks on their positions every day. Russia has concentrated massive forces in this area, and their brutal strategy of launching human wave attacks helps them to advance slowly - but at a very high cost.\n\nPavel was in charge of a forward observation group that consisted of six Ukrainian soldiers. On 17 February, shortly after the start of their watch, they came under heavy fire. A tank began hammering their position.\n\nUnlike relentless mortar rounds, the tank's aiming was chillingly accurate. Shells were landing a few metres from their trenches. Two soldiers were wounded and Pavel told them to go into a dugout. A combat medic went down to tend to their injuries and prepare them for an evacuation. Moments later, the wooden shelter was directly hit by a shell.\n\n\"There was a bright flash,\" one of the wounded soldiers with a callsign Tsygan told the BBC. \"I was thrown onto the logs with such force that it nearly crushed me. I couldn't understand whether I was dead or alive. Someone was shouting, it seemed the sound was coming from 100m away.\"\n\nI couldn't understand whether I was dead or alive\n\nIt was Pavel's voice who was checking on them. The other soldier was half-buried under dirt and logs. He was dead.\n\nTsygan could barely move and Pavel had to drag him up over the splintered logs that blocked the way. It was painfully slow to move Tsygan just a few metres away into a nearby trench. When the shelling paused briefly, Pavel went back trying to find others.\n\nTwo minesweepers arrived to clear the logs and find the bodies. But yet another shell hit the dug out, killing one of the men and injuring the other. The tank kept firing.\n\nAt that moment, Russian troops started storming their position. Pavel called for a support group to evacuate the wounded and rushed back to his Browning machine gun to stop the Russian infantry.\n\nThe 206th Battalion in which Pavel served had fought in the southern Kherson and north-eastern Kharkiv regions. But the battles over Bakhmut were very different from what they had seen before.\n\n\"The intensity of fighting to break through our positions was shocking,\" says Mykola Hlabets, platoon commander. \"Sometimes, [Russian soldiers] would get as close as 20 metres from us, crawling and moving under a treeline or across an open field. This is where we had our first gunfights at such proximity.\"\n\n\"They would just stand and walk towards our positions without any cover. We wiped out one group after another, but they kept coming.\"\n\nHlabets described them as a suicide squad. Others call them cannon fodder.\n\nUkrainians are trying to fight off Russia's human wave attacks - similar to tactics used during World War One\n\nA number of videos have been shared on telegram channels recently where newly mobilized Russian soldiers appealed to President Vladimir Putin and the authorities to stop what they called \"illegal orders\" to send them \"to be slaughtered\".\n\nLast month mobilised soldiers from Belgorod posted a video saying that they were sent for an assault mission without proper training. After suffering heavy losses, they said they refused to carry out their orders.\n\nOften these poorly trained soldiers are reportedly forced to keep pushing forward. The assault group Storm of the 5th Brigade of the Russian army said in a video appeal that they couldn't leave their position because of zagryad otryad, or blocking troops - detachments that open fire at their own men who try to retreat.\n\nThese wave attacks are similar to World War One tactics, when troops charged the enemy and engaged in close combat. And despite their lack of training and experience, sending newly recruited soldiers to such assaults are bringing some results for Russia, albeit at a very high cost.\n\nUkrainians expose their positions when they open fire to stop those attacks. That allows Russian artillery to identify the target and destroy it, as happened with Pavel's post.\n\nAlso, soldiers at forward positions run out of ammunition while trying to repel numerous wave attacks. They then become an easy target.\n\nThat was the risk Pavel knew he faced as he rushed to his Browning machine gun. But as long as he kept firing, his wounded brothers-in-arms had a chance to be rescued.\n\nTsygan was bleeding in the trench where Pavel had left him. Shrapnel had smashed his pelvis. Another piece had gone through his thigh, and a third had hit his abdomen, \"turning the internal organs upside down\", he said. He was barely conscious.\n\n\"I didn't see much, it was all white,\" he said. \"I lay on the snowy ground for two hours and I didn't feel cold or anything.\"\n\nNext to him was another wounded soldier. The rescue team on an armoured personnel carrier hastily picked them up as shelling resumed. They didn't even have time to close the hatch, Tsygan says.\n\nBy that time, Pavel's machine gun had fallen silent. He died from a head wound: a piece of shrapnel had pierced his helmet.\n\nCommanders of the 206th battalion decided to send a group to retrieve the bodies of Pavel and the other soldiers.\n\nThe next day in the evening, three groups of two soldiers each set off to bring the bodies back.\n\n\"The plan looked good on paper, but things quickly went wrong,\" junior sergeant Vasyl Palamarchuk, who was in the lead group, remembers. They got lost and nearly ran into Russian positions in the dark. When they got close to the dugout, Russians spotted them and opened fire from a tank.\n\nPavel Kuzin died holding off Russian attackers so his wounded fellow soldiers could be evacuated\n\nRussian tanks and artillery had continuously shelled that post in those days, but the Ukrainian big guns had largely stayed quiet. The reason was a massive shortage of shells.\n\n\"Once we counted that the Russians had fired up to 60 shells a day, whereas we could allow only two,\" Palamarchuk explains. \"They destroyed trees and everything else and you had no place to hide.\"\n\nUkraine is struggling to find ammunition for its Soviet-era artillery. Getting shells for weapons donated by Ukraine's western partners has its own limits. As the secretary general of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said recently: \"The current rate of Ukraine's ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production.\"\n\nPalamarchuk's group eventually picked up Pavel's body just a few hours before Russian troops seized the area. Heavy snow turned into a freezing rain. After numerous breaks on the way back, crawling through craters left by shells, they finally arrived. The whole operation over just a kilometre's distance lasted for six hours.\n\nIt was past midnight but the entire battalion gathered at the evacuation point to pay their respects to Pavel, who is survived by his daughter and wife.\n\n\"It was a huge loss for our unit,\" Palamarchuk says. \"He saved two people but died himself.\"", "The conflict unfolding in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, threatens to spread across the most fragile parts of Africa\n\nIf you want to know why Sudan matters to so many other countries, just take a look at a map.\n\nThere's a reason why the fighting that has erupted there over the past week is ringing so many international alarm bells. Sudan is not only huge - the third largest country in Africa - it also stretches across an unstable and geopolitically vital region.\n\nWhatever happens militarily or politically in the capital, Khartoum, ripples across some of the most fragile parts of the continent.\n\nThe country straddles the Nile River, making the nation's fate of almost existential importance; downstream, to water-hungry Egypt, and upstream, to land-locked Ethiopia with its ambitious hydro-electric plans that now affect the river's flow.\n\nSudan borders seven countries in all, each with security challenges that are intertwined with the politics of Khartoum.\n\nTrouble in Sudan's western Darfur region almost inevitably spills over into neighbouring Chad, and vice versa. Weapons and fighters from coup-prone Chad, and from the war-torn Central African Republic, often flow freely across the region's porous borders. Much the same has proved true with Libya, to the north-west.\n\nSudan borders the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia - only recently emerging from a gruelling conflict that involved another unpredictable neighbour, the isolated and highly militarised autocracy of Eritrea. There is also tension on other parts of Ethiopia and Sudan's shared - and in places, contested - border.\n\nTo the south, Sudan faces a relatively new nation, South Sudan, which formally broke away from its northern neighbour in 2011 after one of Africa's longest and bloodiest civil wars. That border, too, remains unstable.\n\nSouth Sudan quickly spiralled into the sort of broad scale civil war that some fear could now be Sudan's fate too. Upon independence, South Sudan took with it most of the region's precious oil fields, leaving Sudan far poorer, and contributing, indirectly, to the current crisis in Khartoum, as rival military groups now struggle for control of shrinking economic resources, like gold and agriculture.\n\nPeople are fleeing neighbourhoods close to the fighting in Khartoum, as the Sudanese army battles a paramilitary group for control\n\nAs part of that struggle, Sudan's generals - the military have always been big, allegedly corrupt players in the local economy - have gone in search of foreign partners. For agriculture, that has meant inviting Gulf states to invest in the huge, and relatively underused potential of the rich soil that borders the Nile River.\n\nWhen it comes to gold, far murkier deals appear to have been done with Russia's notorious Wagner group, which is accused of smuggling gold out of Sudan. The US Treasury has accused Wagner's head, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, of \"exploiting Sudan's natural resources for personal gain and spreading malign influence\" online through his \"troll farm\".\n\nRussia's interests in the country, and region, go much further. Eastern Sudan's stark coastline looks out onto the Red Sea.\n\nThe Kremlin has, for years, been seeking to establish a military base in Port Sudan, giving its warships access to - and influence over - one of the world's busiest and most contested sea lanes. Moscow has come close to finalising a deal about the base with Sudan's military government - which seized power in 2021 in a coup.\n\nNot surprisingly, a vast range of governments are now seeking to influence events on the ground in Sudan.\n\nFor now, the focus appears to be on ending the battle between the army and the RSF paramilitary group before it spreads further, and threatens to evolve from a relatively straightforward power struggle into a more complex civil war.\n\nBeyond that, some foreign governments are anxious to help guide Sudan towards the democracy that many had hoped might follow the overthrow, back in 2019, of the country's brutal ruler, Omar al-Bashir.\n\nBut other states may prefer to back another strongman, and to thwart the will of the Sudanese people, who have waited decades for one of Africa's struggling giants to fulfil its potential.", "Ant and Dec have hosted the Prince's Trust Awards 10 times\n\nTV presenters Ant and Dec are to attend the King's Coronation in their roles as goodwill ambassadors for his charity, the Prince's Trust.\n\nThey will be joined at the Westminster Abbey ceremony on 6 May by young people the charity has supported.\n\nThe duo - full names Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly - have worked with the charity for two decades.\n\nOther Coronation guests linked to the Prince's Trust include singers Lionel Richie and Kelly Jones.\n\nNews of the invitees comes as more details about the Coronation have emerged, including that the King is recycling a chair used by King George VI for the ceremony.\n\nJones is frontman of Welsh band Stereophonics, who were supported by the trust before signing a record deal, with a grant to help them buy new equipment so they could perform live.\n\nUS singer-songwriter Richie was named chairman of the charity's global ambassador group in 2019.\n\nThe trust, which was founded in 1976 by the then Prince of Wales, is a youth charity helping people access jobs, education and training.\n\nMcPartlin and Donnelly have hosted the Prince's Trust Awards 10 times and recently worked with the charity on a course to make the media industry more accessible.\n\nThe pair's Making It In Media course \"is a real passion project\", said McPartlin.\n\n\"There are so many roles in TV and media that young people may have never considered as a career,\" he said. \"We want to help young people find out more about the industry.\"\n\nDonnelly said they were \"incredibly proud\" to work with the charity, adding: \"We hope we can help change many more young lives together in the years ahead.\"\n\nSinger Lionel Richie was named chairman of the Prince's Trust global ambassador group in 2019\n\nMagician Dynamo, whose real name is Steven Frayne, is another Coronation guest who was helped by the charity.\n\n\"The Prince's Trust gave me the support no-one else would and it changed my life - that's real magic,\" he said.\n\nBritish-Ghanaian hairstylist Charlotte Mensah, who received a grant to help her set up her own salon, will be attending.\n\nAnd British Vogue's editor-in-chief Edward Enninful, who has helped the Prince's Trust with its work in Africa and worldwide as a global ambassador, is also among the guests.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nHassan Alkhawam, 24, is one of the young people who will be attending the Coronation.\n\nAfter escaping the conflict in Syria and finding sanctuary in Northern Ireland with his family in 2017, he was supported by the trust as he applied for university to study software engineering.\n\nHe will be joined by Funmilola Sosanya, 31, from south-east London, who experienced bereavement and unemployment before the trust helped her find work as a healthcare assistant.\n\nAs well as the guests seated in the Abbey, more than 30 people supported by the charity will attend a screening in St Margaret's Church in Westminster.\n\nThe Coronation, which will see the King crowned alongside Camilla, the Queen Consort, is due to start at 11:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nIt has been revealed that the public will be invited to pledge allegiance to the King and his heirs during the ceremony.\n\nA spokesman for Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's office, said \"the homage of the people\" was \"exciting\" because anyone could take part, \"wherever they are\".\n\nBut the move has been described as \"offensive, tone deaf and a gesture that holds the people in contempt\" by campaign group Republic.\n\nIt was earlier revealed that the King would be reusing a chair in the Coronation that was used by his grandfather, King George VI in 1937. Camilla will be using a chair previously used by the Queen Mother.\n\nIn a further nod to sustainability and the King's love of nature, primary school children will be sent wildflower seeds to mark the Coronation.\n\nMore than 200,000 seed packets will be sent to state-funded primary schools, under the scheme run by the Eden Project and the Department of Education.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 108 police officers have been injured in clashes across France with protesters angry at pension reforms, the interior minister has said.\n\nGérald Darmanin said such a large number of police wounded was extremely rare, adding that 291 people had been arrested during the unrest.\n\nHundreds of thousands have been taking part in May Day demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron's reforms.\n\nMost were peaceful but radical groups threw petrol bombs and fireworks.\n\nIt is not clear how many protesters have been injured.\n\nPrime Minister Élisabeth Borne tweeted that the violence was \"unacceptable\", while also praising the \"responsible mobilisation and commitment\" of demonstrators in numerous cities.\n\nThis is the latest day of mass action against changes that raise the state pension age from 62 to 64. Trade unions want them withdrawn.\n\nThe Interior Ministry put the overall number of demonstrators at 782,000, including 112,000 in the capital Paris, but the CGT union say the figure is three times that number.\n\nUnion leaders were adamant that months-long opposition to the reforms was not waning.\n\n\"The page is not going to be turned as long as there is no withdrawal of this pension reform. The determination to win is intact,\" said CGT leader Sophie Binet, quoted by AFP.\n\nIn Paris, one police officer suffered serious burns to his hands and face when struck by a petrol bomb, Mr Darmanin said.\n\nViolence also broke out in Lyons, Toulouse and Nantes, where vehicles were set on fire and businesses attacked.\n\nMost of the protests were peaceful but police clashed with radical groups throwing projectiles and firebombs\n\nThere were also reports that protesters briefly occupied a luxury hotel in the southern city of Marseille. Monday was the first time since 2009 that France's top eight trade unions had backed calls for a protest, AFP news agency said.\n\nMr Darmanin accused far-left groups known as black blocs and numbering a few thousand of being behind the violence and urged that \"those who attacked the police and public property be severely punished\".\n\nThere has been a violent element to the protests ever since March, when the government decided to force the legislation through the lower house of parliament - where it lacks an absolute majority - without a vote.\n\nMr Macron says the reform is a necessity.\n\nHe signed the reform into law on 15 April, hours after France's Constitutional Council broadly backed the changes, but opinion polls show a large majority of the population opposes the higher pension age.\n\nThe reforms are expected to come into force by September.\n\nThe government has promised further talks but the unions are determined to get the changes repealed, and it is not clear where a compromise could be found.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAir strikes have pounded Sudan's capital, Khartoum, despite a truce aimed at allowing civilians to flee.\n\nThe army said it was attacking the city to flush out its paramilitary rivals, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).\n\nThe fighting intensified even as the warring sides said they would extend the truce by another three days.\n\nMore than 500 deaths have been reported with the true number of casualties believed to be much higher. Millions remain trapped in Khartoum.\n\nArmy commander Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF chief Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti, are vying for power - and disagree in particular about plans to include the RSF into the army.\n\nThe generals agreed a humanitarian truce after intensive diplomatic efforts by neighbouring countries, the US, UK and UN. It was extended, but did not hold.\n\nHowever, it remains unclear on what they will do in the next stage of the deal arrived at with US and Saudi mediation, according to the army.\n\nThe country is now in a civil war, says Sudanese businessman and philanthropist Mo Ibrahim, and its conflict must not be allowed to spill over its borders and become regional.\n\n\"We don't want another Syria,\" he told the BBC, adding that it was difficult for either side to win outright.\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams, who is monitoring events from the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, says the fighting is concentrated mainly in the north of Khartoum, close to the confluence of the Blue and White Niles, but right across the city, people are huddled in their homes, wondering whether it is more dangerous to stay or leave.\n\nThe army will find it difficult to expel the RSF from Khartoum - for all the army's superior firepower, the paramilitaries are highly mobile and more suited to urban warfare, our correspondent adds.\n\nBefore the announcement of the extension on Sunday, the army said it had conducted operations against RSF troops north of the city centre.\n\nOn Monday, the World Food Programme announced that it was resuming its operations in Sudan, reversing its decision to pull out two weeks ago, after three of its staff were killed when fighting erupted in Khartoum.\n\nHamid Khalafallah, from the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, is one of those unable to flee.\n\n\"When there is very loud bombing and it gets closer, we take shelter in the house, try to all come to a central room, far from windows, far from walls, and so on, and just lie on the floor until it passes.\n\n\"When it's a bit further, we try to use the quiet hours that we get - a couple of hours a day - to just quickly go out and get what we need which is also very risky but we have to do it,\" he told BBC Newsday.\n\nMr Khalafallah said his neighbourhood was dotted with RSF checkpoints, with people risking their lives every time they had to negotiate their way past.\n\n\"It's basically a gamble. Sometimes they let you through, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they shoot at you, sometimes they steal your things and it's very random,\" he added.\n\nMr Khalafallah said he has not had a \"single drop of water\" at his home since fighting started on 15 April, and he was getting it from neighbours who had wells at their homes.\n\nThe first major aid flight, laden with medical supplies, has arrived in the country.\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says a plane landed at Port Sudan with eight tonnes of relief supplies, including health kits for hospitals.\n\n\"With hostilities still ongoing, ICRC teams will need guarantees of safe passage from the parties to the conflict to deliver this material to medical facilities in locations with active fighting, such as Khartoum,\" a statement said.\n\nMore than 70% of health facilities in the capital have been forced to close as a result of the fighting that erupted on 15 April.\n\nForeign countries have been evacuating their nationals amid the chaos.\n\nThe UK government announced on Sunday that it would organise a final evacuation flight on Monday - two days after it said it had ended its operation to bring British nationals out. The Foreign Office (FCDO) advised those wishing to leave to travel to the evacuation point in Port Sudan before 12:00 (10:00 GMT). So far, 2,122 people have been evacuated, the FCDO statement said.\n\nA US-organised convoy has reached Port Sudan to evacuate more US citizens by ship to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. It said hundreds of Americans had already left, in addition to the diplomats evacuated by air a week ago.", "The judge ruled that he was satisfied that Mr Adams meets the test for compensation\n\nGerry Adams was wrongly denied compensation after his convictions for trying to escape from prison in the 1970s were quashed, the High Court has ruled.\n\nThe former Sinn Féin president won an appeal to have two historical convictions overturned in 2020.\n\nMr Justice Colton said he was satisfied that Mr Adams meets the test for compensation.\n\nHe also ordered the Department of Justice to reconsider Mr Adams's application.\n\nMr Adams had been found guilty of two attempts to escape from lawful custody while being held at the Maze Prison - then known as Long Kesh internment camp - in 1973 and 1974.\n\nHe was in jail because he had been interned without trial, a practice that was introduced in Northern Ireland amid spiralling violence in the early 1970s.\n\nMore than 1,900 people suspected of being members of paramilitary organisations were detained, but many were arrested based on flawed intelligence.\n\nMr Adams, who has consistently denied being a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), was later sentenced to a total of four-and-a-half years in jail.\n\nIn 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that his detention had been unlawful and quashed both convictions.\n\nThe interim custody order (ICO) used to initially detain him was held to be invalid because the then-Northern Ireland secretary, Willie Whitelaw, had not personally authorised it.\n\nMr Adams issued judicial review proceedings after a subsequent application for compensation was turned down.\n\nUnder the statutory scheme, payment for a miscarriage of justice is made in cases where \"a new or newly-discovered fact\" shows the person did not commit the offence, which lawyers representing Mr Adams argued he qualifies under based on new circumstances established by the Supreme Court.\n\nMr Adams' lawyer said the newly-discovered fact in this case was the confirmation that \"there was no personal consideration by the secretary of state, and that (another) minister of state signed the ICO without authorisation to do so\".\n\n\"If the applicant was not lawfully detained, he did not commit the offence he was convicted of.\n\n\"The newly-discovered fact led to the quashing of these convictions,\" he added.\n\nA lawyer for the Department of Justice had argued it was the analysis of a legal point which led to the guilty verdicts being overturned, rather than a new or newly-discovered fact.\n\nThe judge stressed that both counsels were unaware of the factual situation surrounding the invalid ICO.\n\n\"The applicant has been convicted of a criminal offence, his conviction has been reversed in circumstances where a newly-discovered fact, the lack of consideration by the secretary of state, shows beyond reasonable doubt that there has been a miscarriage of justice, that is the applicant is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted,\" he said.\n\nHe concluded that the Department of Justice had \"erred in law\" in determining that the reversal of Mr Adams's conviction arose from a legal ruling on facts, something which he said had been known all along.", "The piano was placed outside the main railway station in the city of Kakogawa\n\nA city in Japan has decided to remove a street piano after officials concluded too many people were displaying poor manners while playing.\n\nThe local council in Kakogawa placed a piano inside the area's main railway station in November.\n\nAuthorities hoped residents would respond to a global trend that has seen a huge rise in street pianos.\n\nBut officials were disappointed by apparent rule-breaking, such as people playing for too long or singing.\n\nIn law-abiding Japan, some directives were laid out for the piano's use. Officials insisted that users should disinfect their hands before playing, that performances should be kept to 10 minutes and that people should avoid voice accompaniment.\n\nBut they decided to pull the plug on the grounds that too many people used the piano for longer, or sang loudly while playing.\n\nSome budding musicians stand accused of practising the same sounds, over and over - for up to an hour - while others provoked complaints by continuing to play during station announcements.\n\nOfficials said they had issued warnings, but saw no improvement.\n\nBut there is hope for local music lovers. Officials say they might place the offending piano in a different public location, away from the station loudspeakers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWith temperatures soaring to more than 40C at this time of the year, I normally sleep outside in my garden, but I am too scared to do that now, as fighter jets roar over my home in Sudan's Omdurman city - despite the latest ceasefire.\n\nI live with my mother and siblings in the centre of Omdurman, just over the River Nile from the capital, Khartoum.\n\nThe fighter jets are a constant reminder that Sudan is now in a state of war. I cannot get used to their terrifying sound.\n\nThe fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is all around us - to our north, south, east and west.\n\nIt came close to our home on Monday afternoon, when a bullet ripped through the roof of my neighbour's house, hitting her leg while she was asleep. Fortunately, she was not seriously wounded.\n\nWe heard loud noises - boom, boom, boom - a short while earlier. We think it was anti-artillery fire, but are not sure. We hid in our homes, as it is too dangerous to even look out of our windows.\n\nFrom morning to evening, ceasefire or no ceasefire, fighter jets fly past our neighbourhood, coming from the same military airport from where foreign nationals have been evacuated, and heading towards Khartoum to strike at positions of the RSF.\n\nFrom all the reports I have received, most of Khartoum is controlled by RSF fighters, with hardly any army soldiers - or police officers - on the streets.\n\nThe RSF fires anti-aircraft artillery to try and bring down the fighter jets, but I am not aware of any aircraft that has been shot down.\n\nThree days ago, some of the projectiles landed in an open field in my neighbourhood. Luckily, they missed a nearby mosque and homes.\n\nThe RSF has its origins in the war that broke out in Darfur two decades ago, and is made up of the Janjaweed militiamen who helped the government crush a rebellion there.\n\nIt had around 20,000 men before the fall of long-time ruler Omar al-Bashir in 2019, but has since turned into a force with an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 fighters.\n\nIt built a strong presence in cities and towns across Sudan, but many of its fighters have now been deployed to Khartoum as RSF commander Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti, fights army commander Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan for power.\n\nThe city is dotted with checkpoints, manned by RSF fighters in pick-up trucks.\n\nHamid Khalafallah, from the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, told the BBC's Newsday programme that people risk their lives every time they have to negotiate their way past.\n\n\"It's basically a gamble. Sometimes they let you through, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they shoot at you, sometimes they steal your things and it's very random,\" he said.\n\nTens of thousands of people have fled Sudan following the outbreak of conflict more than two weeks ago\n\nThe fighting has been most intense around the international airport, presidential palace, and the military headquarters.\n\nAll my friends who lived in these areas have fled - some of them making a long and arduous road journey to Egypt, not lucky enough to be evacuated, like foreign nationals, in specially chartered planes.\n\nI have decided to stay, as my neighbourhood is one of the safest, but I do not know for how long.\n\nA relative of mine, in her early 30s, has died of dengue fever. She was supposed to have got married this month, but died because she could not get treatment as hospitals were either shut or treating only those with gunshot wounds.\n\nThe Omdurman Teaching Hospital is one of the biggest in Sudan, but it is operating at minimal capacity.\n\nMany doctors are unable to get to the hospital, as it is too dangerous for them to travel.\n\nAlong with the breakdown in health services, there is a water and electricity crisis.\n\nSome residents have not had water in their homes since fighting broke out on 15 April, forcing them to rely on the wells of neighbours for their supply.\n\nWe are all hoping that the war ends soon, but our biggest fear is that former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok could be proven right, with Sudan descending into a civil war worse than those in Syria and Libya.", "An extra RAF evacuation flight for British nationals still trapped in Sudan was due to depart on Monday.\n\nForeign NHS staff and their dependants with the right to live in Britain were also eligible for what is being billed as the last UK airlift from Sudan.\n\nThe UK has so far carried 2,122 people on 23 flights.\n\nPeople needed to reach to the airport in coastal city Port Sudan, 500 miles from capital Khartoum where previous planes took off, by noon local time.\n\nThe Foreign Office would not confirm whether the plane had taken off. But flight tracking websites showed a Royal Air Force Hercules transport aircraft departed Port Sudan New International Airport at 18:43 local time (17:43 BST).\n\nAnother flight, an RAF Atlas transport plane, was due to leave at 20:25 local time (19:25 BST).\n\nForeign Office minister Andrew Mitchell warned on Saturday that the UK \"can't stay [in Sudan] forever\" as the security situation continued to deteriorate.\n\nAirstrikes and fighting have been reported over the weekend despite a ceasefire between rival army factions.\n\nTens of thousands of people have fled the country since fighting engulfed the country more than two weeks ago.\n\nThe capital city Khartoum has seen the heaviest fighting, with the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary group, fighting for control of the country.\n\nSudan's military said on Saturday it was launching a major new offensive against RSF positions in Khartoum.\n\nThe latest truce, which has not held, was due to end at midnight on Sunday. But the RSF said the ceasefire had been extended for another three days.\n\nBritish security services had been scoping out Port Sudan as an alternative evacuation site since the beginning of the week, and have established a limited diplomatic presence there.\n\nThe British Ambassador to Sudan is leading the UK's regional response from Addis Ababa in neighbouring Ethiopia.\n\nThe FCDO said the dependants of British nationals and NHS staff, who have leave to enter the UK, would also be allowed on the flight.\n\nThe UK government on Friday announced non-British NHS staff in Sudan could catch evacuation flights out of the country, in a U-turn on its previous policy.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said: \"I am grateful to our armed forces who have ensured there was an alternative to Wadi Saeedna and who are currently supporting FCDO and Border Force staff to facilitate the rescue effort.\"\n\nA Royal Navy frigate - the HMS Lancaster - and Royal Air Force personnel are in Port Sudan, Mr Wallace added.\n\nAnother British vessel - the RFA Cardigan Bay - is on its way to Sudan and would also be able to provide humanitarian support, the BBC has been told.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Baby meets father for first time after evacuation from Sudan to UK\n\nThe UK initially faced criticism for starting its evacuation after other countries, including European nations which rescued hundreds before the first British airlift took place.\n\nA separate operation days earlier saw special forces troops evacuate UK diplomats from Khartoum after fighting broke out around the embassy.\n\nBut a Foreign Office spokesperson said the UK's Sudan evacuation had grown to become \"the largest of any Western country\".\n\nThe UN's top humanitarian official, Martin Griffiths, says he is travelling to Sudan to co-ordinate the international aid effort, and would be looking to bring immediate relief to millions of people who have fled their homes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The former US president is visiting the UK for the first time since 2019.\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has said \"it is great to be home\" as he arrived in Aberdeen on a visit to his Scottish golf properties.\n\nIt is Mr Trump's first visit to the UK since 2019 after leaving office.\n\nHe attended a ceremony to break ground on a new course at his Aberdeenshire resort, Trump International Scotland.\n\nMr Trump, whose mother was from the Isle of Lewis, sparked a security operation on a 2018 visit with protests in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.\n\nThe visit comes as Mr Trump faces court action in the United States. Earlier this month he pled not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.\n\nHe is also facing a civil trial over an allegation that he raped an advice columnist in the mid-1990s. A judge has denied his legal team's request for a mistrial.\n\nMr Trump, who is running for the White House again in 2024, is visiting Scotland as a private individual.\n\nIt is understood there is no requirement on the Scottish or UK governments to pay for special security.\n\nMr Trump walked down the steps to the sound of bagpipes\n\nThe former president arrived at Aberdeen Airport at about 11:30 and was met by two pipers, a red carpet and a 10-vehicle motorcade.\n\nHe left the plane and greeted reporters as he walked to a waiting car, but did not stop to take questions.\n\nBefore getting into the vehicle, he said: \"It's great to be home, this was the home of my mother.\"\n\nHis mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, was born on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides before emigrating to the US.\n\nMr Trump said a \"spectacular\" second course on the Menie Estate at Balmedie in Aberdeenshire would be dedicated to her.\n\nMr Trump cut the ribbon on the MacLeod course with son Eric and Sarah Malone of Trump International Scotland\n\nThe former president cut a ceremonial red ribbon to mark the beginning of work on the MacLeod course.\n\nHe said the new course would be fit to \"host many great championships\" in future.\n\nHe added: \"My mother was an incredible woman who loved Scotland. She returned here every year and she loved the Queen.\"\n\nHe added: \"I love Scotland just as much.\"\n\nMr Trump is later expected to visit the Trump Turnberry course in Ayrshire before travelling to his course in Doonbeg on Ireland's west coast.\n\nOn Mr Trump's last major visit to Scotland in July 2018 he spent two days at his Turnberry resort with wife Melania.\n\nMr Trump was heckled as he played golf there with his son Eric.\n\nIt was part of a four-day trip to the UK, during which he met then Prime Minister Theresa May and the Queen.\n\nDonald Trump's mother may have come from Scotland but he's had a very difficult relationship with people and politicians in the country of her birth.\n\nWhile he is now opening the second of two golf courses in Aberdeenshire, his investment there remains a fraction of the one billion pounds he originally promised.\n\nDeveloping the site brought him into conflict with some of his neighbours and environmental campaigners who wanted to preserve the sand dune system and its natural habitats.\n\nDonald Trump also clashed with the Scottish government in court in an unsuccessful attempt to block a wind farm off the Aberdeenshire coast.\n\nHis redevelopment of Turnberry in Ayrshire was more warmly received.\n\nAll Holyrood party leaders opposed his election as President in 2016 and the new First Minister Humza Yousaf suggested Trump be barred from the UK following the storming of the US Capitol building by his supporters.", "A TV presenter in Switzerland had a surprise when a climate activist walked on stage and glued himself to a podium during a live show.\n\nJeremy Seydoux was hosting a debate on local elections when the man walked on stage. He was later removed.", "A soldier mans a machine gun mounted on an army vehicle during a Turkish and Russian military patrol in Syria\n\nTurkish forces have killed the suspected leader of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced.\n\nAbu Hussein al-Qurayshi is said to have taken over the group after his predecessor was killed last autumn.\n\nMr Erdogan told broadcaster TRT Turk the IS leader was \"neutralised\" in a Turkish MIT intelligence agency operation on Saturday.\n\nIS has so far made no comment on the reported operation.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to independently verify President Erdogan's claim.\n\nThe MIT intelligence agency had been following Qurayshi for a \"long time\", Mr Erdogan said.\n\n\"We will continue our struggle with terrorist organisations without any discrimination,\" he added, providing no further details.\n\nSyrian sources quoted by Reuters news agency said the operation took place in the northern town of Jandaris, close to the Turkish border.\n\nLast November, the jihadist group announced the death of its leader, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi. The US said he was killed in an operation by the rebel Free Syrian Army in south-west Syria in mid-October 2022.\n\nHe took over the group after previous leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi set off a blast killing himself and his family as US special forces rounded on his hideout after a gunfight in February 2022.\n\nThat operation \"removed a major terrorist threat to the world\", US President Joe Biden said at the time.\n\nIS once held 88,000sq km (34,000sq miles) of territory stretching from north-eastern Syria across northern Iraq and imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people.\n\nThe group was driven from its last piece of territory in 2019, but the UN warned in July that it remained a persistent threat.\n\nIt is estimated to have between 6,000 and 10,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq, who are based mostly in rural areas and continue to carry out hit-and-run attacks, ambushes and roadside bombings.\n\nIS regional affiliates also pose threats in other conflict zones across the world. The UN said the most vigorous and well-established networks were based in Afghanistan, Somalia and the Lake Chad basin.", "Michael Allen has been named as the man who died at the scene\n\nTributes have been paid to a man stabbed to death near a nightclub on Sunday whom police have named as Michael Allen, 32.\n\nMr Allen was confirmed dead at the scene close to the Eclipse venue on Castle Canyke Road in Bodmin, Cornwall, following reports of a street brawl.\n\nSeven men and women with suspected stab wounds were taken to hospital.\n\nPolice have been granted by magistrates more time to question a man, 24, in connection with their murder inquiry.\n\nPolice investigations are continuing in the area\n\nThe family of Mr Allen, from Liskeard, said he was a \"much-loved son, brother, grandson, and uncle who loved his dogs\".\n\nThe family wished to \"respectfully request privacy at this time\", their statement added.\n\nThe suspect, also from Bodmin, has been arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nOfficers were called to the scene at 03:15 BST on Sunday.\n\nOf the seven people injured, five have since been released and two remain in hospital recovering from surgery.\n\nBodmin Rugby Club have set up a tribute site for people to remember Michael Allen\n\nA tribute site has been set up at Bodmin Rugby Club, where Mr Allen was a player, for people to gather and remember him.\n\nOfficers will be in attendance to support the local community between 16:00 and 18:00 BST on Monday, and twice daily from 10:00 to 12:00 and then 16:00 to 18:00 for the next week.\n\nThe club said Mr Allen's \"humour and kindness has left a mark on us all, and we will miss him dearly\".\n\nDet Insp Ilona Rosson said police would \"continue to ask the public for their help\" in the investigation.\n\nShe said: \"If you have any information relating to this murder and have yet to have spoken with the police, please come forward immediately. The information you have, no matter how small you may feel it could be, could be vital to our investigation.\"\n\nIt is unclear whether the victims had attended the nightclub prior to the violence outside.\n\nEclipse released a statement saying it was \"deeply saddened\" by the events and its \"thoughts are with the victims and their families\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scotsman worked in renowned restaurants around the world before opening his own in Australia.\n\nHis death was confirmed by broadcaster Network 10 on the day the 2023 season premiere of MasterChef was set to air.\n\nZonfrillo is survived by his wife Lauren Fried and four children, who said in a statement their hearts were \"shattered\".\n\n\"For those who crossed his path, became his mate, or were lucky enough to be his family, keep this proud Scot in your hearts when you have your next whisky,\" the family said.\n\nZonfrillo was found dead at a house in Melbourne when police conducted a welfare check in the early hours of Monday morning. Victoria Police said the death is not being treated as suspicious.\n\nHis death has sparked an outpouring of grief from figures in the culinary and entertainment world.\n\nCelebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay, as well as a host of former Masterchef contestants led the tributes.\n\nOliver, who had been due to appear in the season opener posted a picture to Instagram of him with Zonfrillo and the two other judges, Melissa Leong and Andy Allen, on set.\n\n\"I'm in total shock to wake up to the sudden death of [Jock].. we had the best time working together for this year's MasterChef,\" he wrote.\n\nRamsay wrote on Twitter: \"Saddened by the devastating news... I truly enjoyed the time we spent together on MasterChef in Australia\".\n\nNetwork 10 also paid tribute to the star, saying Zonfrillo's charisma, passion and wicked sense of humour had inspired a nation of home cooks. MasterChef - which is pre-recorded - will not air this week as planned, it said.\n\nBorn in Glasgow in 1976, Zonfrillo began working in kitchens at 12. At 15, he became one of the youngest-ever apprentices to work at luxury Scottish resort, The Turnberry Hotel.\n\nTwo years later he started working for Michelin-starred British chef Marco Pierre White at his famous Hyde Park Hotel.\n\nBut despite his burgeoning career, Zonfrillo said he became broke, homeless and addicted to heroin in his teenage years. He wrote at length about his struggles with drug addiction in his 2021 memoir, Last Shot.\n\nHe said he turned a new leaf with a move to Australia in 2000, and went on to open several restaurants. His most successful was Adelaide's award-winning Restaurant Orana, which opened in 2013.\n\nIn 2019, the presenter was announced as part of an all new host line-up for MasterChef Australia.\n\nBut Zonfrillo's career was not without controversy. Orana closed in 2020 with debts of millions of dollars, and Last Shot was criticised as inaccurate by former colleagues, including Marco Pierre White.", "\"Comedian\", pictured here in Beijing in 2021, is currently being displayed in Seoul\n\nA South Korean art student ate a banana that was part of an installation by artist Maurizio Cattelan, saying he was \"hungry\" after skipping breakfast.\n\nThe artwork called \"Comedian\", part of Cattelan's exhibition \"WE\", consisted of a ripe banana duct-taped to a wall at Seoul's Leeum Museum of Art.\n\nAfter eating the banana, the student, Noh Huyn-soo, taped the peel to the wall.\n\nThe museum later placed a new banana at the same spot, reported local media.\n\nThe incident, which lasted more than a minute, was recorded by Mr Noh's friend.\n\nThe Leeum Museum of Art did not respond to an email inquiry by the BBC. However, it told media that it will not claim damages against the student.\n\nThe banana on display is reportedly replaced every two or three days.\n\nIn videos posted online, shouts of \"excuse me\" can be heard as Mr Noh takes the banana off the wall. He does not respond and starts eating as the room goes quiet.\n\nHe then tapes the peel to the wall and poses for a moment before walking off.\n\nMr Noh later told local media that he saw Cattelan's work as a rebellion against a certain authority. \"There could be another rebellion against the rebellion,\" the Seoul National University student told KBS.\n\n\"Damaging an artwork could also be seen as an artwork, I thought that would be interesting... Isn't it taped there to be eaten?\"\n\nWhen told about the incident, Mr Cattelan said, \"No problem at all\".\n\nThis is not the first time bananas used for Mr Cattelan's work have been eaten by a visitor.\n\nIn 2019, performance artist David Datuna pulled the banana from the wall after the artwork was sold for $120,000 (£91,000) at Art Basel in Miami.\n\nThe banana was swiftly replaced and no further action was taken.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of have people gathered for a vigil to remember the three members of a family who died in a minibus crash in Aughnacloy, County Tyrone.\n\nThe victims have been named locally as Dan McKane, his sister Christine McKane and their aunt Julia McSorley.\n\nThey were killed when their minibus collided with a lorry on the A5 Tullyvar Road on Thursday morning.\n\nThe family had been returning home to Strabane, County Tyrone, from an aunt's funeral in England when it happened.\n\nPrayers were said and candles were lit at the vigil in Strabane on Friday evening\n\nFour others who were in the minibus suffered serious injuries.\n\nFather Declan Boland, a priest in Strabane, said the family and the community in the town were in total disbelief at the tragedy.\n\n\"The community are struggling to comprehend what is happening,\" he told the BBC's The North West Today programme.\n\n\"We have to face into the horror of the bodies coming home and then the funerals.\"\n\nFr Declan Boland said people in Strabane were shocked and saddened\n\nFr Boland visited the home of Ms McKane on Thursday where people had come together to pay tribute.\n\n\"People were just gathering in groups, not saying an awful lot but just being there in silent solidarity, embracing one another,\" he said.\n\n\"It really is a silent witness where words are really inadequate.\"\n\nThe vigil was held at the Holy Grotto in Strabane\n\nTwo people who were badly injured in the crash had emergency surgery in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital will pull through, added the priest.\n\nSpeaking at the vigil in Strabane on Friday evening, he said the community had come together to \"stand in solidarity\" with the family and grieving relatives.\n\nThe community then prayed the rosary in memory of the victims and in support of those who were injured.\n\n\"It's just important to show the family that we're all with them,\" one woman attending the vigil told BBC News NI.\n\n\"It's a tragic loss for the town of Strabane.\"\n\nAnother vigil-goer said: \"The family are well known so it's hit every part of the community.\n\n\"As you can see today, the community has come out in force and they will do over the next [few] days to make sure that the family has support.\"\n\nCandles were lit in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Strabane\n\nThere's a palpable sense of shock and disbelief in Strabane in the wake of this tragedy.\n\nPeople attending morning Mass in the Church of the Immaculate Conception on Barrack Street said they were heartbroken at the deaths.\n\n\"I can't believe that they were over in England for a funeral and returning home when this happened. It's terrible, just terrible,\" said one woman.\n\nAnother woman said she was going to Mass to pray for the family and light a candle for them: \"It's just such an awful tragedy.\"\n\nFriends of the McKane family said they are lovely people and are completely devastated by what has happened.\n\nThursday's fatal crash is the latest to happen on the A5 road, which links the north-west with Dublin in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPlans to upgrade the road between Aughnacloy and New Buildings in County Londonderry were announced in 2007.\n\nBut they have been delayed amid funding issues and legal challenges.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure said the estimated cost of the project was £1.6bn - up £400m since the last estimate.\n\nCampaigners from Enough Is Enough, a group calling for the upgrade to take place, previously said 44 people have died on the road since 2007.\n\nAlan Kilpatrick, who lives on the road where the crash happened, said it was dangerous.\n\nHe was one of the first people to arrive at the scene of the crash on Thursday morning.\n\n\"I don't want to see what I saw again... because this is avoidable with a better road,\" he told the BBC News NI.\n\nHe said there was a high volume of traffic on the road, including heavy commercial vehicles trying to navigate small roads.\n\n\"Here is a main road between the largest city on the island, the whole north-west of the island and it's absolutely horrendous.\"", "Adidas is being sued by investors who claim the firm knew about Kanye West's problematic behaviour years before it ended their partnership.\n\nInvestors allege Adidas failed to limit financial losses and take precautionary measures to minimise their exposure.\n\nThe sportswear giant ended its collaboration with the designer and rapper, who is known as Ye, last year following antisemitic comments.\n\nIn response, Adidas said: \"We outright reject these unfounded claims.\"\n\nIt added it \"will take all necessary measures to vigorously defend ourselves against them\".\n\nWest is not party to the lawsuit. The rapper designed a line of hugely successful trainers under the Yeezy brand for Adidas.\n\nSince then, Adidas admitted that it could lose up to €700m (£619m) after being left with hundreds of millions of euros worth of unsold Yeezy products.\n\nLast October, when the company ended the collaboration, it said: \"Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech.\n\n\"Ye's recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company's values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.\"\n\nHowever, investors who filed the lawsuit in the US against the company on Friday claim that Adidas knew about other questionable behaviour by West, alleging that it was discussed by former chief executive Kasper Rorsted as well as other management.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal published details of an alleged meeting in 2018 where Adidas discussed West.\n\nThe report claimed that senior executives spoke about how to mitigate the risk of staff interacting with him as well the company possibly cutting ties with the rapper.\n\nKanye West designed trainers for Adidas under the Yeezy brand\n\nSince Adidas parted ways with West in October last year, it has launched an investigation after reports he created a \"toxic environment\" at the company.\n\nRolling Stone magazine published excerpts of an open letter by Adidas staff members who claimed bosses were aware of West's \"problematic behaviour\" but \"turned their moral compass off\".\n\nIn response, Adidas said it was not clear whether the accusations made in the anonymous letter were true.\n\n\"However, we take these allegations very seriously and have taken the decision to launch an independent investigation of the matter immediately to address the allegations,\" it said.\n\nLast October, West held a show at Paris Fashion Week where models wore clothing with the slogan \"White Lives Matter\".\n\nThe Anti-Defamation League said it is \"a white supremacist phrase that originated in early 2015 as a racist response to the Black Lives Matter movement\".\n\nLater that month, West had both his Instagram and Twitter accounts suspended after making antisemitic remarks.", "Local Hero was released in 1983 and is recognised as a classic\n\nIt is the story of a US petro-chemical giant seeking to build a refinery in a coastal village whose staff are won over by the gentler rhythms of local life.\n\nThe 1983 Bill Forsyth movie Local Hero was set in Scotland, but had a universal story which won over film fans around the world.\n\nIt also brought fame to a red phone box in the Aberdeenshire village of Pennan, which played a key role in the film.\n\nOn the 40th anniversary of its UK release, its stars and local people have been speaking about the film's importance.\n\nOne of the central characters is Mac MacIntyre, played by Peter Riegert.\n\nIn the film he updates his boss in America each night from the traditional red phone kiosk on the seafront. Pennan features as the fictional village of Ferness.\n\nSpeaking from his home in New York, Mr Riegert, now, 76, said the best part of being involved in Local Hero was that it was still \"so fondly appreciated\" 40 years on.\n\n\"Whenever I say yes to something I'm not saying yes because it's going to be a classic, because no-one knows,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"But it was really clear to me when we were making it that this was as good as it gets.\n\n\"It may just be the best-written screenplay I've ever read. Everything came off the page. The script was so magical. Local Hero was filled with whimsy metaphor - everything about it was right in my wheelhouse.\"\n\nHe described the film's setting as \"a magical place\".\n\n\"I realised that my job was to leave home thinking I was one person and I was going to be leaving Scotland knowing I was another person.\n\n\"There were two events that were going to influence me. One was the physical location and the other was the people.\n\n\"The light on the beach during the magic hour, I'd never seen anything like it. It was spectacular.\n\nPennan - with the phone box visible - is nestled at the foot of cliffs on the Aberdeenshire coast\n\n\"And that was every day we were shooting there. The sunset seemed to be changing colours - it wasn't the Northern Lights - but it was whatever that was, and to see it every night.\n\n\"I didn't have to act. I was just there being in awe.\"\n\nHe recalled a memorable telephone scene from the film.\n\n\"We were shooting that scene at midnight,\" he said.\n\n\"I was under the impression that if I had some brandy or whisky, I would stay warm. But it has the opposite effect. By the time we were finished shooting, I was so drunk.\n\n\"I went to Bill (Forsyth, the director) the next day and said I'm so sorry. And he said: 'For what?' I said: 'Oh my God I was so drunk' and he said: 'Yeah, it was very believable'.\"\n\nMr Riegert added: \"I love that the movie still means so much to people. It's very thrilling to have it so well thought of.\"\n\nBill Pitt, 63, is originally from Charlestown, South Carolina, but now runs self catering cottages overlooking Pennan.\n\nHe paints and maintains the phone box with the help of Eddie Hayes.\n\n\"I think it's very important,\" Mr Pitt said.\n\n\"It brings people in. It's a big economic driver for the area. The phone box means a lot to people and we take it seriously that we want to keep it looking nice. It's a reflection of the community, on Pennan and the wider area.\n\n\"We just enjoy coming down here and painting it to make it look good. It's appreciated by locals, it's appreciated by visitors that come to the area.\"\n\nAsked if he felt like a Mac Macintyre character himself, he said: \"My wife and I moved over in 2006 and a little bit of it really had to do with the phone box and the film Local Hero.\n\n\"When we go back home to South Carolina, our heart is still here. Similar to what Mac did going back to Houston. And I think Pennan and the north east has that feeling for many people.\"\n\nMr Hayes added: \"People enjoy coming and making a call from the Local Hero phone box. It makes their holiday.\"\n\n\"You just try to do the best job you can and hope it will be well received,\" the 75-year-old said.\n\n\"It's such a satisfying feeling that Local Hero has had such longevity. It's so popular in the States and has this extraordinary shelf life.\"\n\nLawson said the role was \"right up there\" alongside the highlights of his 50-year career.\n\n\"I am very proud of the movie, he was a great character to play,\" he said.\n\n\"It was a movie set in Scotland but it had a universal story. It could have been anywhere in the world.\"\n\nAsked if he had a message for the film's fans, he said: \"It's very moving, it's very touching, that people still have this connection with the film after 40 years and want to celebrate that.\n\nOver the next month local events and screenings are being held to celebrate the anniversary of the film, which also starred Burt Lancaster, Peter Capaldi and Fulton Mackay.\n\nShona Stephen runs the Coastal Cuppie at Pennan Harbour, keeping locals and tourists refreshed.\n\nShe hopes the film's legacy lives on.\n\n\"It takes in so many tourists who just love the film,\" she said. \"There's a real cult following I would say for Local Hero.\n\n\"For the amount of people who come and for the size of Pennan, for the iconic phone box, it's absolutely amazing.\n\n\"I meet a lot of people who have come especially to Pennan to see the telephone box - from Australia, America, New Zealand, France, Germany.\n\n\"I think we're very keen to keep it going because it's so iconic. And to celebrate the 40 years is amazing.\n\n\"I think it's something that we'll keep going forever.\"\n• None Local Hero 40th to be celebrated in north-east - Aberdeenshire Council The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Macron is seeking to relaunch his second period in office and the latest viral video is a potential distraction\n\nEven a traditional sing-song with a group of young Parisians is fraught with risk for a president attempting to persuade France to accept an unpopular increase in the pension age.\n\nEmmanuel Macron had given a TV address on Tuesday regretting \"no consensus could be found\" on the reform when he went for a walk with his wife Brigitte.\n\nHe joined some men singing a song he remembered from his grandmother.\n\nBut it was shared by a Facebook group reportedly set up by the far right.\n\nThe young singers were part of a Parisian choir singing traditional songs on a street in the sixth district in Paris,\n\nOne of them approached President Macron asking him to join in a rendition of an old song from the Pyrenees called \"Le Refuge\", which he sang on a trip to the French mountain range last year.\n\nThe men, who were part of the local Saint Longin choir, were apparently using a mobile phone app to read the words of the song created by the Canto project.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast October, left-leaning newspaper Libération revealed that the project, set up to promote the memory of traditional songs, had been founded and run by far-right activists.\n\nSongs included French classics and nursery rhymes, but also others with a more questionable past including songs linked to the Spanish fascist Falange of the 1930s and Nazi Germany.\n\nPresident Macron and his team are keenly aware of how viral videos can distract from the business of the day, especially when it comes to pension reforms.\n\nReacting to the video on a trip to the eastern Alsace region, he told journalists that whatever he did would have been wrong.\n\n\"You're the president and you're in the street. There are 10 young people in the street who I don't know, singing a song I know... they say 'would you like to sing with us?'\n\n\"You tell them no, no etc... you [journalists] would have spent 48 hours saying 'he shows contempt, he's not a nice guy'. On the other hand you know the song so you stop and what do you get? 'He sang with these guys who are politicised.'\"\n\nLast month another viral video showed how his relatively expensive watch magically disappeared in the middle of a TV interview.\n\nIt was a non-story as there was no evidence to back up claims that he was embarrassed by its opulence. The more obvious explanation was that it was banging the table. No matter, it was the tale that counted.\n\nThe only link with the far right is that the founder of the Canto project app he was reading from was close to the National Rally opposition party.\n\nBut the app's aim is to encourage communal singing. It includes plenty of revolutionary songs dear to the far left on its site, like \"Ah ça ira\", which features the friendly line \"Aristocrats to the gallows!\".\n\nThe choir are evidently from the Catholic right, but one of the singers, Géraud, told public radio station France Inter that their only link to the Canto project was that it had a repertoire of music they were interested in.\n\nThese protesters against the Macron pension reforms urged the president to \"come and work a bit at night to see\"\n\nThe story has legs because of the video and because the president is not in good odour at the moment.\n\nHe has now signed into law deeply unpopular reforms that raise the pension age from 62 to 64 and given Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne the job of leading 100 days of action, with a roadmap of major projects \"at the service of France\".\n\nHis latest appearance in public has had a far more cacophonous response.\n\nThe aim of his visit to the eastern region of Alsace was to relaunch his second term in office.\n\nOn arrival in the town of Sélestat in Alsace, he was booed loudly by residents and protesters. He then spoke to workers at a timber factory only to find that the power had been cut by union members protesting against the pension reforms.\n\nPresident Macron responded defiantly to the chorus of boos on the streets, insisting he expected nothing else. \"Anger won't stop me continuing to move around,\" he said.", "Ladas Drive was one of the streets closed during the alert\n\nA man has been charged with a number of offences after a car crashed into the wall of a police station in east Belfast.\n\nThe crash happened at Alexander Road, outside Castlereagh Police Station, in the early hours of Monday morning.\n\nIt sparked a security alert and a 49-year-old man was detained at the scene.\n\nHe has been charged with attempted criminal damage, criminal damage, driving without due care and failing to provide a specimen while driving unfit.\n\nHe has also been charged with possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.\n\nThe man will appear at Belfast Magistrates' Court on Friday 26 May.\n\nRobotic bomb detection equipment was deployed during the operation\n\nPolice evacuated a number of homes in the area while Army technical officers examined the car.\n\nRoads between Orangefield Crescent and Ladas Drive, and at Bellsbridge roundabout on the Cregagh Road were closed for a time.\n\nNothing untoward was found and residents were allowed back home.\n\nOnly one vehicle was involved in the crash.\n\nSeveral police vehicles were sent to the scene", "Abdalla Hamdok served twice as Sudan PM between 2019 and 2022\n\nSudan's former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has warned that the conflict in his country could become worse than those in Syria and Libya.\n\nThe fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) would be a \"nightmare for the world\" if it continued, he said.\n\nEarly on Sunday, warplanes and heavy anti-aircraft fire were heard over the capital Khartoum, residents said.\n\nThe army said it was attacking from all directions, using heavy artillery.\n\nThe fighting that started on 15 April has left hundreds dead, while tens of thousands of people are fleeing the country.\n\nThursday night's extension of an uneasy ceasefire between the rival factions followed intensive diplomatic efforts by neighbouring countries, as well as the US, UK and UN. But the 72-hour extension has not held.\n\nMeanwhile, there are chaotic scenes in Port Sudan where people are desperate to board ships, some of which are heading to Saudi Arabia and Yemen.\n\nThe UK government said it had ended its evacuation operation. The Foreign Office said the last flight left Khartoum at 22:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Saturday, and in total nearly 1,900 people were flown out.\n\nThe US government meanwhile said a US-organised convoy had reached Port Sudan to evacuate more US citizens by ship to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. It said hundreds of Americans had already left Sudan, in addition to the diplomats evacuated by air a week ago.\n\nSpeaking at a conference in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, Mr Hamdok called for a unified international effort to persuade the Sudanese army chief and the RSF leader to hold peace talks.\n\n\"This is a huge country, very diverse ... I think it will be a nightmare for the world,\" he said.\n\n\"This is not a war between an army and small rebellion. It is almost like two armies - well trained and well armed.\"\n\nMr Hamdok - who served as prime minister twice between 2019 and 2022 - added that the insecurity could become worse than the civil wars in Syria and Libya. Those wars have led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, created millions of refugees and caused instability in the wider regions.\n\nTens of thousands of people are attempting to flee Sudan\n\nArmy commander Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF chief Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti, disagree about the country's proposed move to civilian rule, and in particular about the timeframe of the 100,000 strong RSF's inclusion into the army.\n\nBoth factions fear losing power in Sudan, partly because on both sides there are men who could end up at the International Criminal Court for war crimes committed in the Darfur region almost 20 years ago.\n\nMillions of people remain trapped in Khartoum, where there are shortages of food, water and fuel.\n\nSudan's army has urged people in Khartoum to remain indoors and stay away from windows, as it deploys tanks and other artillery in an effort to recapture areas held by the RSF.\n\nThe RSF says the army is widening the conflict by deploying the Central Reserve police - a unit with a reputation for brutality against civilians.\n\nViolence is also reported to have been particularly bad in El Geneina, a city in Darfur in western Sudan, with claims that militia groups have looted and torched markets.\n\nHemedti has told the BBC he will not negotiate until fighting ends.\n\nHe said his fighters were being \"relentlessly\" bombed since the truce was extended.\n\n\"We don't want to destroy Sudan,\" he said, blaming army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan for the violence.\n\nGen Burhan - the head of Sudan's regular army - has tentatively agreed to face-to-face talks in South Sudan.\n\nAround 2,000 people have arrived in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah\n\nAround 2,000 people have arrived in Jeddah from Port Sudan. Most are expected to be flown home via charter flights arranged by their governments within the next few days.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet in Jeddah, Nazli, a 32 year-old Iranian civil engineer who fled with her fellow engineer husband, recalled the fighting they fled.\n\n\"We couldn't even sit on our balcony; the gunfire was everywhere,\" she said.\n\n\"Please please help our family in Sudan,\" cried Rasha, a Sudanese-American mother of four children - who spoke of hiding for three days, terrified.\n\n\"I call on the world to protect Sudan,\" she pleaded, underlining fears that once all the foreign nationals have fled, the fighting will intensify.\n\nAre you in Sudan? If you are preparing to leave on an evacuation flight share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlie McLeod's mum says she will miss \"everything about him\"\n\nThe mum of a student who killed himself days after sharing his suicidal thoughts with his university said it \"could have been different\" if his family were told he was struggling\n\nCharlie McLeod, 25, was found dead in his student accommodation at Aberystwyth University on 3 February.\n\nHis mother, Emma Laney, does not know if enough was done when he told the university's wellbeing services.\n\nThe university said it was in touch with Charlie \"throughout\" the year.\n\nMs Laney said more needed to be done at universities to make sure people get the help they need while having a mental health crisis.\n\n\"If they'd just contacted home, it could have been a different outcome. We'll never know, sadly,\" she added.\n\nEmma said she would remember her son, from Winchester in Hampshire, as \"an extremely intelligent young man\" who was an \"amazing big brother\" to Max and Angel.\n\nAfter a stint in China as an English teacher, Charlie applied to Aberystwyth to study computer science.\n\n\"He was always saying that he was doing well on the course. He found it very interesting. He made some new friends. It seemed a positive time for him,\" said Emma.\n\nCharlie McLeod taught English in China before starting at Aberystwyth University\n\nBut in the summer of 2022, she said she noticed a difference - he was not communicating as often and kept telling his family he was busy.\n\n\"Christmas time he seemed extremely down. He didn't want to join in with anything. Everything seemed an effort. He just wasn't himself.\"\n\nEmma was told Charlie admitted himself to A&E as a result of his mental health on 25 January.\n\nThe following day he went to a scheduled counselling session with the university's wellbeing service and said he was feeling suicidal.\n\nThis was his last engagement with the service and he died days later.\n\nAn inquest into his death is due to be held in the autumn.\n\nA university spokesman said: \"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with Charlie's friends and family at such an extremely difficult time.\n\n\"While we cannot go into individual circumstances, our student wellbeing team were in contact with Charlie throughout the 22-23 academic year, with the aim of providing direct support as well as linking to statutory NHS health and mental health services where appropriate.\"\n\nEmma Laney says Charlie (left) was \"an amazing big brother\" to Max and Angel\n\nEmma said she had \"an overwhelming sense that something wasn't right\" so asked Charlie's dad to contact the university, which is when it was discovered that Charlie was dead.\n\nShe said: \"I feel a lot more should have been done. A lot more communication, sharing of information. I mean if they'd just contacted home or even a professional mental health then, you know, it could have been a different outcome.\"\n\nRomana Nemcová, 22, was Charlie's girlfriend and is now one of the organisers of the Charlie Asked For Help campaign, which was set up by fellow students to demand the university changes how it handles cases like this.\n\nShe said: \"It's really important because Charlie was an incredible person. I want to make a change for future students so, future students will not suffer how he suffered.\n\n\"He could still be here if he'd had help and that's the most difficult part for me.\"\n\nEmma Laney feels something could have been done to save her son's life\n\nThe Charlie Asked For Help campaigners say students need clearer communication with wellbeing services, as well as help to register with a GP practice when they start university.\n\nRachael Eagles, chief executive of Area 43, a mental health charity based in Ceredigion, said there were not enough services to meet demand.\n\n\"We need to decide what the gold standard of mental health services and care looks like and then ensure access to that wherever you are,\" she said.\n\nThis \"gold standard\" is something the National Union of Students Wales wants the Welsh government to implement at all universities in to ensure a \"consistent model\" of support.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We have established an expert group to provide advice on how to improve access to mental health services and ensure universities across Wales have consistent and accessible support for students.\"\n\nAberystwyth University said it was \"continuously\" reviewing its processes and updating practices to ensure it was giving students \"the best support possible\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any issues raised in this article, help and support can be found at BBC Action Line.", "King Charles will wear layers of golden robes during the Coronation\n\nWe know the date, the time, most of the guest list - and now we know the outfit.\n\nThe heavy and priest-like golden robes King Charles III will wear for his Coronation have been revealed.\n\nDuring the service, the King will put on layer upon layer of glittering vestments, some of which were created for his great-grandfather George V.\n\nPrince William will help during the service by placing a ceremonial robe on his father.\n\nThe Imperial Mantle, seen here, is meant to symbolise the divine nature of kingship\n\nFor the crowning, King Charles will be given a long shimmering gold-sleeved coat to wear called the Supertunica.\n\nThe robe was created for George V in 1911 and has been worn at successive coronations including by the late Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nIt weighs about 2kg (4.4lb), is made of cloth of gold - silk thread wrapped in thin pieces of gold or silver gilt metal - and is embroidered with stylised arabesques and floral motifs.\n\nLayered on top of the Supertunica, there will be a floor-length cloak called the Imperial Mantle, or Robe Royal, which was made for George IV in 1821 - it weighs 3-4kg (6.6-8.8lb).\n\nThe mantle, which fastens across the chest with a golden eagle clasp, is inspired by ancient coronation ensembles and its priest-like style is meant to symbolise the divine nature of kingship.\n\nMade of cloth of gold, it is embellished with motifs including fleur-de-lis, as well as imperial eagles, and national floral emblems of red-pink roses, blue thistles and green shamrocks.\n\nIt has been worn by previous monarchs including Queen Elizabeth II during her coronation in 1953.\n\nThe Imperial Mantle fastens across the chest with this golden eagle clasp\n\nThe weight of the ceremonial robes comes on top of the crown which weighs about 2.23kg (nearly 5lbs).\n\nThe robes are reminiscent of the coronation ceremony, explained Caroline de Guitaut, deputy surveyor of the King's Works of Art at the Royal Collection Trust.\n\n\"They have clearly incredible historic significance, but they're also significant because of the sacred nature of their use during the investiture part of the coronation ceremony,\" she said.\n\nThe garments are usually kept in the Tower of London and form part of the coronation regalia.\n\nIt is tradition for recent monarchs to reuse garments, just as King Charles is, but they usually have a new coronation sword belt and glove to be used during the ceremony.\n\nBut in a move aimed at making the event more sustainable, the King has decided to reuse the belt and glove worn by his grandfather George VI - the last male monarch.\n\n\"It was the King's personal decision\", said Ms de Guitaut, adding that the items remain in \"remarkable condition\".\n\n\"And it's in keeping with this idea of sustainability and efficiency to reuse these pieces,\" she added.\n\nThe sword belt from 1937, also known as the Coronation Girdle, is made of embroidered cloth of gold and has a gold buckle stamped with national emblems.\n\nDuring the investiture, it will be placed around the King's waist, over the Supertunica, and has a gold clip used for briefly attaching the jewelled Sword of Offering, which symbolises being able to decide between good and evil.\n\nMeanwhile, the single coronation glove, also known as the Coronation Gauntlet, will go on King Charles' right hand while he holds the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross during the crowning.\n\nIt is made of white leather and the large cuff is embroidered in the form of national emblems including the Tudor rose, thistle, shamrock, oak leaves and acorns. The back of the hand has an embroidered ducal coronet above the coat of arms of the family of the Dukes of Newcastle.\n\nThe garments are usually kept in the Tower of London and form part of the coronation regalia.\n\nKing Charles decided to recycle the Coronation Gauntlet worn by his grandfather George VI\n\nKing Charles will arrive at Westminster Abbey in George VI's crimson red Robe of State which he will remove for his anointing.\n\nThen for the investiture he will put on a sleeveless white garment called the Colobium Sindonis - Latin for shroud tunic - and will also be given a long, narrow embroidered band of gold silk which goes around the shoulders, known as the Coronation Stole.\n\nAt the end of the service, the King will change into George VI's purple Robe of Estate to leave the Abbey.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "Evacuees rest aboard a Saudi naval vessel as it travels from Port Sudan to Jeddah\n\nIn the dead of night, as HMS Al Diriyah approached Sudan's coast, Saudi officers flicked on sweeping search lights to secure safe passage for their warship into a harbour rapidly transforming into a major evacuation and humanitarian hub in Sudan's deepening crisis.\n\nEven at 2am two other hulking vessels were also anchored offshore at Port Sudan, its largest port, waiting their turn in this international rescue effort.\n\n\"I feel so relieved but also so sad to be part of this history,\" Hassan Faraz from Pakistan told us, visibly shaken.\n\nWe reached the quayside in a Saudi tugboat at the end of a 10-hour journey through the night in HMS Al Diriyah from the Saudi port city of Jeddah. A small group of foreign journalists were given rare access to enter embattled Sudan, if only briefly.\n\n\"People will be speaking about these events for many years to come,\" Faraz reflected, as a long queue formed on the wharf for passports to be checked against the Saudi manifest. This time, it was many young workers from South Asia who said they had waited here for three long days - after two hard weeks in this hellscape of war.\n\nAnother man from Pakistan, who said he had worked at a Sudanese foundry, spoke of having \"seen so much, so many bomb blasts and firing\". Then he fell silent, staring into the sea, too traumatised to say more.\n\nThe fighting which raged in recent weeks, amidst very imperfect and partial ceasefires, is a pitched battle for power between the Sudanese army led by Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group headed by Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti.\n\n\"Port Sudan has fared relatively better in this war,\" my British-Sudanese colleague Mohanad Hashim explained. \"Fighting only erupted here on 15 April, the first day, but now this port city is overwhelmed by people fleeing Khartoum and other places.\"\n\nWe had just sailed past the graceful Naval Club turned tented village for the displaced. Many people are now sleeping rough on the streets as they wait for a way out. Local hotels are swamped by people with passports from the world over, along with emergency consular services hastily established by embassies who have evacuated most of their staff from the capital.\n\nMany fear there is no way out. Port Sudan is packed with people who have less lucky passports, including Yemenis, Syrians and Sudanese.\n\nSome 3,000 Yemenis, mainly students, have been stuck for weeks in Port Sudan. \"The Saudis are rescuing some Yemenis but they're nervous about accepting large numbers,\" admitted a security adviser trying to help them find a way back to their own war-torn country.\n\nRasha, surrounded by her young children, has only one message: \"Please tell the world to protect Sudan\"\n\nMany passengers arriving in the Saudi kingdom are provided with a short hotel stay. But it's made clear that their own countries are expected to soon pick up the bill and arrange onward travel.\n\nMohanad Hashim scanned the wharf at Port Sudan, hoping to catch sight of any of his own Sudanese relatives who may be trying to make it out. The day before, at the King Faisal naval base in Jeddah where we began our journey, he suddenly found himself embracing a cousin who had made it to the Saudi city, along with two of his teenage children, after an 18-hour passage across the Red Sea.\n\nFor the Sudanese with foreign passports who make it to safe shores, the moment is bittersweet.\n\n\"Please, please help our family left in Sudan,\" a pink-scarfed Rasha pleaded, one child sleeping on her shoulder, three more waving flowers handed out by Saudi soldiers. \"Please tell the world to protect Sudan,\" she implored us. Their family had been living near Sport City in Khartoum where gunfire erupted the morning of 15 April.\n\nThousands have been fleeing from Port Sudan in recent days\n\nHer eight-year-old daughter Leen, speaking fluent English with an American accent, recounted in excited detail how armed men burst into their home. \"We had to all hide, all ten of us, in the back room,\" she declared with youthful bravado. \"I stayed calm. I didn't cry because we couldn't make any noise.\"\n\n\"They were bad, bad guys,\" her younger brother chimed in. Her father explained that it had been RSF forces. Their gunmen are blamed for much of the looting and violence.\n\nThis worsening and deeply worrying war between Sudan's two most powerful men is fuelled not just by deep personal and political animosities, but also by the competing interests and influence of major powers.\n\nRegional heavyweights, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have long bankrolled Hemedti, who grew ever richer by sending forces to fight for their side in the early years of their destructive war against Yemen's Houthis.\n\nBut in recent years Riyadh has also drawn close to Gen Burhan and also has longstanding ties to Sudan's army. The tangled political geography in a country with vast mineral wealth and agricultural potential also includes Egypt, Israel and Russia, including the mercenary Wagner group.\n\nMany evacuees from Sudan now face an uncertain future\n\nBut in this current crisis, where the United States and Britain and other would-be peacemakers are also weighing in, outside powers are now said to be speaking with one voice in trying to end this dangerous spiral and the enormous suffering of civilians.\n\nDiplomats express gratitude for Saudi Arabia's evacuation effort. So far, more than 5,000 people, of 100 nationalities, have made the Red Sea crossing on Saudi warships or private vessels chartered by the Saudi military. The biggest single operation on Saturday, which carried some 2,000 passengers, even included Iranians. Arch-rivals Riyadh and Tehran recently moved towards a cautious rapprochement, including reopening their embassies and consulates.\n\n\"It is our luck. We hope there will be peace between our countries,\" 32-year-old civil engineer Nazli remarked as she disembarked in Jeddah with her engineer husband, who has also worked for years as an engineer in Sudan.\n\nIn Port Sudan on Sunday, as another packed tugboat sailed in choppy waters to a waiting Saudi warship, its passengers turned en masse to wave a final farewell to a country they regretted, with sadness, they may never return to.", "A video of a man doing the \"worm\" during a Rita Ora performance at a charity event has gone viral.\n\nMs Ora was performing her song Praising You at a Prince's Trust event in New York when Australian lobbyist Ian Smith decided to show off his dance moves.\n\nThe 57-year-old's wife, and former Australian senator, Natasha Stott Despoja watched on as her other half was filmed by high-profile stars like Kate Beckinsale.", "Police were called to Castle Canyke Road at about 03:15 BST on Sunday\n\nA man has died and several people have been stabbed in a street brawl near a nightclub in Bodmin, police have confirmed.\n\nOfficers were called to the town at 03:15 BST on Sunday where the victim, aged in his 30s, died at the scene.\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and investigations are ongoing, Devon and Cornwall Police said.\n\nThe victim's family has been informed and is being supported by specialist officers.\n\nPolice investigations are continuing in the area\n\nThe force said it was called to Victoria Square, on Castle Canyke Road and near to Eclipse Nightclub, to reports that someone was in possession of a knife and that \"multiple people had sustained suspected stab wounds\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"At least seven other men and women have been injured and taken to hospital to receive treatment.\n\n\"At this time none are being treated as life-threatening.\"\n\nA 24-year-old man from Bodmin has been arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent. He remains in police custody.\n\nIt has been described as an \"isolated matter\" by police\n\nDet Insp Ilona Rosson, from the major crime investigation team, said: \"At this time we are treating this as an isolated matter and we are not seeking anyone else in connection to this incident.\n\n\"This is a live and active police investigation and I would urge people not to speculate on social media, but if you have information which may assist us, please report it.\"\n\nSupt Rob Youngman said: \"This investigation is in its early stages and the public can expect to see a heightened policing presence around Bodmin today whilst inquiries are ongoing.\n\n\"Understandably this incident will have an impact on the local community and our thoughts are with the families of the victims.\n\n\"Cordons will stay in place today whilst officers gather information and evidence from the scene.\n\n\"Anyone who has not yet been spoken to by officers and has any information which may assist our investigation, please get in touch.\n\n\"This could include any relevant dashcam, mobile/video phone and CCTV footage from the area of Victoria Square and along Castle Canyke Road.\"\n\nCornwall councillor Leigh Frost said the attack, which is in his ward, was \"shocking and devastating\" for the town.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"Bodmin is a small town and it's not rife with crime, it's quite a friendly place.\n\n\"We are a strong community and we will pull together and get though this together.\n\n\"My thoughts are with everyone involved, the victim and his family.\n\n\"I also praise the emergency services for responding so quickly and the police for ensuring there is a full investigation.\"\n\nBodmin Mayor Phil Cooper said the town council was \"saddened by this tragic incident\".\n\n\"We never expected this to happen in our town and I send thoughts and best wishes to the families of everyone affected,\" he added.\n\n\"Bodmin is a fantastic community and we will support the victims and their families in every way we can.\"\n\nCornwall councillor Leigh Frost has praised the emergency services for \"responding so quickly\" to the brawl\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crying out in grief for her son, killed in the earthquakes, Fethiye Keklik blamed corrupt officials and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\n\nThere is no election fever in the ancient city of Antakya in southern Turkey - just rubble and torment.\n\n\"What I want from the ballot box is his dead body and nothing else,\" says Fethiye Keklik. \"Our souls have been ripped away. He's no use to us.\"\n\nThe 68-year-old grandmother is referring to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Insulting the president can get you jailed here, but she won't be silenced.\n\n\"He just brings harm. I'm thinking of burning my ballot paper - in front of the police and the soldiers.\"\n\nTurkey's Islamist leader is looking vulnerable as never before in upcoming elections for parliament and the presidency on 14 May.\n\nThe end of the authoritarian Erdogan era - if it comes - should mean a freer, more democratic Turkey. Jails may be less crowded and relations with the West less fraught.\n\nIn the run-up to the polls, Turks have had much to complain - and grieve - about, from the state's slow response to February's earthquakes to an economy in ruins. The official inflation rate is 50%. The real figure could be twice that. Experts blame the president's economic policies, politely described as \"unorthodox\".\n\nHere in southern Turkey, politics and economics are overshadowed by death.\n\nAs the rubble is cleared, historic Antakya is revealed now as a patchwork of ruins and empty spaces\n\nThe official toll from the worst natural disaster in modern Turkish history is more than 50,000. Many here believe the real figure is much higher and the government has stopped counting.\n\nWe find her at a bleak roadside cemetery where her grief rends the air. She is crumpled on the ground, in a dark headscarf and woollen cardigan, crying out to her son Coskun, 45, who lies beneath the soil.\n\n\"How can I forget you?\" she wails, clutching the crude wooden board marking his grave. \"Please take me with you. You left orphans behind you. I've brought Eren to see you.\"\n\n\"I'm thinking of burning my ballot paper - in front of the police and the soldiers,\" says Fethiye\n\nAt the mention of his name, her four-year-old grandson comes to console her, squatting down by the grave to give her a hug. \"Your father is lying here,\" she tells him. \"No, Papa isn't here,\" says Eren firmly.\n\nThe sombre little boy, in a dark blue anorak, has a raised scar on his forehead - imprinted by the quakes. Fethiye cradled him in her arms under the rubble for eight hours before they were pulled free - not by Turkish rescue workers, but by neighbours, who are Syrian refugees.\n\nThe family lost Eren's father, brother, sister and a nephew - all four now lie buried in a row. Fethiye blames corrupt officials, cowboy builders and, most of all, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\n\"In first place, it's him,\" she says, \"because he gave an opportunity to such people. The developers bribe the municipalities and they build. They bribe and build. They killed us all.\"\n\nThe earthquakes exposed structural faults in President Erdogan's long rule. He presided over repeated amnesties for illegal construction. Developers could build a death trap and just pay a fine. And the state itself was hollowed out, critics say, resulting in a lack of proper oversight and preparedness.\n\nWalk through what remains of Antakya - a crucible of civilisations and religions - and you can see the consequences. Centuries of history have been reduced to a patchwork of ruins and empty spaces. Outside one collapsed house a chunky grey armchair remains intact, as if the owner might come back and take a seat. Some multi-storey blocks have been upended, others ripped open like grotesque dolls' houses.\n\nAlmost every conversation here is punctuated with stories of the dead - many of whom perished waiting for help that never came. But in this deeply polarised country, the earthquakes are another fissure.\n\nSupporters of the president - and there are many - echo his view that it was destiny. Among his religious conservative support base, his leadership remains an article of faith.\n\nWe come across Ibrahim Sener sitting in the ruins of Zumrut Street in Antakya's old city, among shards of glass and jagged metal. The 62-year-old seems not to notice, lost in thought and cigarette smoke.\n\n\"Our president did his best,\" says Ibrahim Sener, whose brother died in the disaster\n\n\"Our house cracked from end to end,\" he tells us. \"We lived the biggest nightmare inside the house. We can't be happy that we survived because we lost our family and friends. There were no phone lines, no internet. No-one could help anyone. After five or six hours I got the news that my brother had died.\"\n\nHis belief in the president is unshaken.\n\n\"It came from God,\" he says. \"It was God's will that it happened. This should not be politicised. It's not our president who created the earthquake. Our president did his best.\"\n\nIbrahim goes on his way, but two women remain just across the road - Gozde Burgac, 29, and her aunt Suheyla Kilic, 50, who are both actresses. Gozde has a tattoo on her arm - \"life is beautiful\" written in French. In this new landscape of rubble, it reads like a mockery.\n\nThey came to the area to feed stray cats, an enduring Turkish tradition even in the worst of times. And they listened to Ibrahim's account in disbelief and in agony.\n\n\"It's his fault,\" says Gozde Burgac, left, of Turkey's president and his role in the disaster\n\n\"What I've just heard really offended me because nobody helped us in any way,\" says Gozde, close to tears.\n\n\"Were we in a different universe, or was he? What he said about Erdogan was definitely not true. It's his fault. The government are the ones obliged to help us, but nobody was here.\n\n\"With our own efforts, our own means, we tried to reach our families during the first hours of the earthquake. We reached their dead bodies hours later, days later.\"\n\nGozde says officials from the presidency showed up once, as her brother-in-law was about to be brought out alive.\n\nShe says he was rescued by an Italian team, while all the government officials did was \"pose for the cameras, so their uniforms were visible\".\n\n\"Then they left and nobody else came,\" she says.\n\nThe women are now in mourning for three relatives, and for the treasured mosaic that was their city.\n\nMonths on, the wreckage of collapsed buildings is still being cleared in Antakya\n\nWill all the death and destruction shift the needle on election day?\n\nPolls taken after the quakes suggested only a minor drop in support for the president, who has apologised for the state's sluggish response. He has also promised an ambitious - if implausible - reconstruction programme.\n\n\"It won't affect Erdogan,\" according to Istanbul-based political analyst and pollster Can Selcuki. \"This election is not about performance. It's about identity. Those who want him, want him no matter what.\"\n\nPresident Erdogan is slightly behind in the polls, but still commands support from many in Turkey\n\nAfter more than two decades in power, the Turkish leader has a serious - if mild-mannered - challenger. Kemal Kilicdaroglu is the secular candidate of an opposition alliance. Opinion polls give a slight lead to Kilicdaroglu, who is famed for making election videos sitting at the table in his modest kitchen. In a BBC interview, the former civil servant promised to bring freedom and democracy and reorient Turkey towards the West.\n\nBut many aren't writing off the president just yet. That includes the Mayor of Antakya, Lutfu Savas, who is from Kilicdaroglu's party.\n\nWe meet at a cluster of temporary buildings that now serve as his office.\n\n\"He [Erdogan] is the leader of a political party that has been able to stay in power for 21 years,\" he says - longer than anyone else, even Turkey's founding father, Kemal Ataturk. \"Despite all the difficulties - economic, social and resulting from the earthquake - he knows how to use politics, and all the instruments of the state for victory.\"\n\nRecep Tayyip Erdogan - the most controversial president in modern Turkish history. What is behind his rise from prison to power - and his ruthless determination to stay at the top?\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK Only)\n\nPresident Erdogan and his Justice and Development (AK) Party will certainly be helped by his grip on the Turkish media. The government controls 90% of the national media, according to the press freedom group, Reporters without Borders.\n\nWhat happens here matters beyond Turkey's borders. The country is a regional heavyweight, facing both East and West. Its neighbours and its Nato allies will be watching closely.\n\nMany analysts believe the contest will go to a second round on 28 May because neither presidential candidate will get more than 50% in the first ballot.\n\nBy the roadside, victims of the quake are buried in anonymous graves with makeshift markers\n\nBack at the cemetery, change cannot come soon enough for Fethiye, who is scarred by memories of prising her dead son from the rubble - with her bare hands, and only her relatives for help.\n\n\"Turkey is finished,\" she says. \"When Erdogan leaves, Turkey will rise.\"", "Low-income pensioners entitled to pension credit are being urged to claim it or risk missing out on an extra cost-of-living payment.\n\nThe government says those making a new claim in the next 10 days could get a cost-of-living payment worth £301.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people who are eligible for pension credit do not claim it.\n\nThis means they do not receive a top-up of the state pension, as well as other payments and discounts.\n\nPensions Minister Laura Trott said: \"Pension credit can make a real difference and I am determined to make sure this support - worth an average of £3,500 a year - is reaching everyone who needs it, particularly as we know how much pressure households across the country have been under.\n\n\"Please check if you or your loved ones can claim for this extra support.\"\n\nAbout 1.4 million people claim pension credit which is a benefit paid to those on low incomes who are above state pension age. Although up-to-date figures are not available, it is thought that as many as 850,000 pensioner households fail to claim it.\n\nIt is designed to help with living costs by guaranteeing a minimum income. It ensures weekly incomes are a minimum of £201 for single pensioners and £307 for couples, or more if a person has a disability or caring responsibilities.\n\nSignificantly, it can also lead to the automatic payment of additional support, including housing benefit, a council tax discount, help with NHS dental treatment, glasses and transport costs, and a free TV licence for those aged 75 and over.\n\nProvided a claim is made before 19 May, it can be backdated for up to three months as long as the applicant was also eligible to receive it during that time. That would ensure the latest cost-of-living payment of £301 is received.\n\nTwo more cost-of-living payments of about £300 are to be given to those on a low income and receiving certain benefits over the next year.\n\nYou can check your eligibility for pension credit via the government's online calculator.\n\nInformation is also available on how to make a claim. There is also a phone line available on weekdays - 0800 99 1234.\n\nGuide to benefits, when you qualify and what to do if something goes wrong, are provided by the independent MoneyHelper website, backed by government.\n\nBenefits calculators are also run by Policy in Practice and charities Entitledto and Turn2us.\n• None What are cost-of-living payments and who gets them?", "Northop Hall Country House Hotel closed during the first Covid lockdown of 2020\n\nVillagers have said they will fight plans to house 400 asylum seekers in a former hotel.\n\nNorthop Hall Country House Hotel's pre-application consultation has been re-opened until 17 May.\n\nNorthop Hall Village Action, formed to oppose the plans, said it was the \"wrong plan\" in the \"wrong place\".\n\nThe Home Office said it would \"work closely with councils and key partners to manage the impact\".\n\nOnce the consultation period runs out, Paymán Holdings 3 Ltd intends to submit a formal planning application to Flintshire council.\n\nThe website outlining the project said about 250 single men would be housed in temporary units in the hotel cark park with another 150 in the existing 37-bedroom building.\n\nAfter seven years, the building would revert to being a hotel.\n\nThe Welsh Refugee Council (WRC) said asylum seekers were \"fleeing war and persecution and must be treated with dignity and respect while their asylum claims are processed\", and the plans did \"not add up\".\n\nThe accommodation would be operated by Clearsprings Ready Homes (CRH), the Home Office appointed operator in Wales.\n\nJohn Gollege said the proposals were \"a recipe for disaster\"\n\nChairman of Northop Hall Community Council, John Gollege, who lives near the site, said he was in \"total shock\" when he heard about the plans for the village, which has a population of about 1,500 people.\n\nHe said: \"400 single males will increase the total population of the village by 25%. I can't believe there will not be a drain on community facilities which are already over extended.\"\n\nHe said, with only three bus services in the village each day, people would have \"nowhere to go\".\n\nThere are also three private houses and a cattery within the grounds of the site, which is set back from the road up a long driveway.\n\nKate Banjo says \"you can only imagine\" what it will be like for 150 people living in a 37-bedroom hotel\n\nKate Banjo lives in one of the houses that shares a boundary wall with the former hotel's function room.\n\n\"My concern is there would be people... 400 men who we don't know. They could be from the local town, they could be from Mold, it doesn't matter.\"\n\nShe added that she was concerned about the impact on the mental health of hundreds of men living in close proximity with each other, unable to work and in an area where \"there's nothing here\".\n\nGill Davies says she cannot \"comprehend\" the plans\n\nGill Davies, who runs the Brook Park Farm Cattery on the site and lives in one of the houses next door, said if the plan went ahead \"life would change completely\".\n\nThe hotel closed its doors during the first Covid lockdown and was sold last year to Paymán Holdings 3 Ltd company director Na'ím Anís Paymán.\n\nIt was initially thought he would continue to operate it as a hotel, but it has not re-opened and Mr Paymán did not want to make any comment on the proposal.\n\nBut the planning, design and access statement, which forms part of the consultation, said ratios of staff and levels of safeguarding and security would be high, and the proposal \"strongly aligns with national and local objectives\".\n\nPaymán Holdings 3 Ltd is the company that bought the former hotel\n\nDelyn MP Rob Roberts has written to Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick asking for the Northop Hall site to be ruled out as an asylum hostel and raised the issue in the House of Commons.\n\nThe WRC said: \"Squeezing people into bad accommodation is negligent and produces poor health outcomes, as seen in Penally Barracks and Manston.\n\n\"We are also concerned about the location, far away from any services and transport links, which is a further barrier to people rebuilding their lives in Wales. Asylum seekers deserve the right to adequate and suitable housing.\"\n\nThe organisation called on the Home Office to \"speed up delays in the asylum system\".\n\nThe Home Office said: \"These accommodation sites will house asylum seekers in basic, safe and secure accommodation as they await a decision on their claim.\n\n\"We understand the concerns of local communities and will work closely with councils and key partners to manage the impact of using these sites, including liaising with local police to make sure appropriate arrangements are in place.\"\n\nFlintshire council said pre-application consultations were run and managed by applicants and it had not received a formal planning application.", "King Charles and Queen Camilla made a surprise appearance on the US talent show American Idol on Sunday.\n\nThey were part of a comedy sketch with Katy Perry and Lionel Richie, who performed at the King's coronation concert, broadcast from Windsor Castle.", "The Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales, have been meeting crowds celebrating the King's Coronation on the Long Walk in Windsor.\n\nThousands have been taking part in street parties across the UK as part of the Coronation Big Lunch.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Witness describes the moment he saw the gunman\n\nA three-year-old boy and his parents, two elementary school children and a young engineer from India have been named as victims of a shooting attack in Texas on Saturday.\n\nJames Cho died alongside his parents Cho Kyu Song, 37, and Kang Shin Young, 35, according to reports. His six-year-old brother was injured but survived.\n\nThe identifications come as officials probe whether the killer had links to any far-right organisations or beliefs.\n\nEight were killed in the shooting.\n\nA verified GoFundMe page says that the Cho family were at the Allen Premium Outlets mall on Saturday to exchange clothing their six-year-old son had received as a birthday gift a few days before.\n\n\"An afternoon that should have been filled with light, love and celebration unfortunately was cut short by another mass shooting massacre,\" friends of the family wrote on the page.\n\nKorean consulate officials in Texas told the Dallas Morning News newspaper that the Cho family were American citizens of Korean descent and that diplomats are in contact with their family members.\n\nPrimary school pupils Daniela and Sofia Mendoza, who were sisters, were also killed. Their mother, Ida, remains in hospital in critical condition, according to CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\n\nAishwarya Thatikonda, a 27-year-old engineer from India, was also killed during a visit to the mall with a friend, as well as security guard Christian LaCour, 20.\n\nHe was from Dallas, Texas.\n\nSix people were pronounced dead at the scene in the north Dallas suburbs, while two died later in hospital.\n\nThe 33-year-old suspect, Mauricio Garcia, was shot dead by a police officer who was responding to an unrelated call, ending the attack.\n\nInvestigators are now reviewing social media to look into the killer's beliefs, reports CBS.\n\nDuring the attack, the rifle-wielding attacker wore an insignia which has been associated with hate groups, as well as combat tactical gear.\n\nHe was seen on video with a clothing patch with the letters RWDS, which stands for \"Right Wing Death Squad\".\n\nThis is a phrase popular among right-wing extremists and white supremacy groups.\n\nAn account run by the suspect on a Russia-based social network seen by BBC News includes pictures of Nazi swastikas and SS tattoos, other posts glorifying Nazis, and rambling messages about violence.\n\nHe also posted pictures from previous visits to the outlet mall, as recently as mid-April.\n\nAccording to the US defence department, the suspect entered the US Army in June 2008 and was \"terminated three months later without completing initial entry training\" due to \"physical or mental conditions\".\n\nHe was reportedly working as a security guard at the time of the shooting and did not have a serious criminal record. Officials have searched his parents' home and a nearby extended-stay motel where he had been recently living.\n\nThere have been 201 mass shootings this year according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines such incidents as four people injured or killed.\n\nPeople who went to help the victims in the aftermath of the shooting at the expansive outdoor mall have recalled their efforts to save lives.\n\nMeanwhile, graphic videos from the scene spread rapidly and were viewed millions of times on Twitter before the social media site began taking the footage down more than 24 hours after the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Joe Biden ordered flags at the White House to fly at half-staff in honour of the victims of \"the latest act of gun violence to devastate our nation\".\n\nThe Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, told Fox News Sunday his aim was to target the possession of weapons by criminals and deal with a rising mental health crisis, rather than consider wider bans.\n\n\"People want a quick solution,\" he said. \"The long-term solution here is to address the mental health issue.\"\n\nAllen is a racially diverse suburb north of Dallas and has an infamous connection with another recent mass shooting.\n\nA man who lived there in 2019 went on a gun rampage at a Walmart in El Paso, killing 23 people, after posting a racist manifesto online. In February he pleaded guilty to hate crime charges.", "As exam season gets under way, students might be tempted to turn to new artificial intelligence (AI) tools to give them the edge in assessments.\n\nUniversities have been scrabbling to understand what AI applications such as ChatGPT are capable of and introduce guidance on how they can be used - and now, they're being urged to teach students how to use them.\n\nAcademics at the University of Bath have been considering the challenges and opportunities.\n\n\"Our first question was, 'Could this be used by students to answer our assessment questions?'\" James Fern says of ChatGPT - an online tool that can answer questions, including producing essays and emails, in human-like language.\n\nJames has been looking at how robust his department's assessments are\n\n\"Multiple choice questions, for example, it will handle those very well.\n\n\"We definitely were not expecting it to do as well as it did... it was getting close to 100% correct.\"\n\nBut with more complex questions, which require students to think critically and which he says make up the bulk of assessment, it struggles.\n\nOne example, from a final-year assessment, reads: \"Why is it important to understand the timing of exercise in relation to nutrition status in people with [a technical term, according to James] overweight?\"\n\nAnd there are tell-tale signs the answer given by ChatGPT was not written by a student.\n\n\"On first glance, it looks very good - it looks very clearly written, it looks quite professional in its language,\" James says.\n\nBut some of the statements are more like those of a GCSE pupil than a university student.\n\nIt has a habit of repeating the exact phrasing of the question in its introductions and conclusions, \"just written in slightly different ways\".\n\nAnd when citing sources of information, as is standard in academic work, it simply makes them up.\n\n\"They look perfect - they've got the right names of authors, they've got the right names of journals, the titles all sound very sensible - they just don't exist,\" James says.\n\n\"If you're not aware of how large language models work, you would be very easily fooled into thinking that these are genuine references.\"\n\nSince ChatGPT was released to the public, about six months ago, many students have been unsure when they can and cannot use it.\n\n\"I might be tempted to use ChatGPT... but currently, I'm too scared to because you can get caught,\" says one student walking between classes on campus.\n\n\"It's not clear yet what is considered cheating with ChatGPT,\" another says. \"If you copied your whole assignment from ChatGPT that's cheating - but it can be really helpful to guide.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan said in a speech on Monday that AI was \"making a difference in schools and universities already\", and suggested it could help school teachers with lesson plans and marking.\n\nNew advice from Quality Assurance Agency, which reviews standards at UK universities, urges them to equip students with AI skills they can take into the world of work.\n\nIt encourages them to explain to new and returning students, in September, how and when AI should be used - and to adapt courses where appropriate.\n\nMarketing lecturer Kim Watts calls it \"another tool in the toolbox\". And some students in her department have already started using ChatGPT this term, in coursework that asks them to produce a marketing plan.\n\nKim says ChatGPT will help get \"students started on things\"\n\n\"I'm suggesting that students go to ChatGPT, those who maybe don't know where to start... and start playing around with prompts,\" she says.\n\n\"It won't give them the answers - but it can give them ideas.\"\n\nKim demonstrates by asking ChatGPT to produce its own marketing plan.\n\nIt responds with a series of numbered points - everything from the creation of a brand identity to the use of social media.\n\nBut Kim, looking up from her screen, says: \"This will not pass.\n\n\"Submitting something like this is just not detailed enough - it doesn't show us any learning, it doesn't show any critical thinking.\"\n\nNeurodivergent students and those for whom English is not their first language will benefit most from ChatGPT, Kim says.\n\nBut any student choosing to use it will be asked to submit their ChatGPT prompts and answers as an appendix, to make it \"really clear how far they have come\" from the chatbot answers.\n\nAs with most universities, Bath's policy on ChatGPT and other AI tools is still in the works. It is due to be in place from September.\n\nAfter that, a team will meet throughout the year to ensure it keeps up with the rapidly changing technology.\n\nIn the meantime, many staff are once again setting in-person, invigilated summer exams.\n\nDr Chris Bonfield, the head of a team that helps design assessments, says the \"default assumption\" is students should not be using ChatGPT this year. And, if staff decide to allow it, they should clearly set out their expectations.\n\nThe pace at which the technology is evolving poses a challenge for universities - but Bath quickly moved away from conversations about banning it.\n\nChris says the pace at which the technology changes poses a challenge for universities\n\n\"This tool is not going away,\" Chris says.\n\n\"In order to ensure our students are equipped with the skills they need for the future workplace, but also that our degrees remain current, we're going to have to engage.\"\n\nLast week Geoffrey Hinton, widely regarded as the godfather of AI, resigned from Google, saying he regretted his work - and chatbots could soon be more intelligent than humans.\n\nProf Verena Rieser, a computer scientist at Heriot-Watt University who has been working in the AI field for two decades, says her own students are \"using it in very creative ways\" - but chatbots are still in the early stages of development and \"can be used to generate misinformation at [a] scale which is obviously very concerning\" when it comes to education.\n\nPrevious models of ChatGPT were not released because they were deemed \"too dangerous\", she says.\n\nIts developer, OpenAI, says \"like any technology, these tools come with real risks\" and it works \"to ensure safety is built into our system at all levels\".\n\nSince ChatGPT's launch, other companies have focused their efforts on AI. Google, for example, released Bard, which is available to adults only.\n\n\"I would expect that we'll soon see different flavours of ChatGPT by different companies out there and hopefully also safer models which actually mitigate for the possible dangers,\" Verena says.\n\n\"At this moment we don't really know how to stop the models outputting information which is wrong or toxic or hateful - and that's a big problem.\"\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Protesters hold up placards saying \"not my king\" in Trafalgar Square\n\nMet Police officers have arrested anti-monarchy protesters in central London ahead of the King's Coronation.\n\nThe leader of anti-monarchy group Republic has been arrested and the force said it had detained multiple people in the City of Westminster.\n\nThey are held on suspicion of breaching the peace, conspiracy to cause public nuisance and possessing articles to cause criminal damage, the force said.\n\nRepublic said hundreds of their placards had also been seized.\n\n\"A significant police operation is under way in central London,\" the force said on Twitter.\n\nFootage on social media showed officers using their powers under the new Public Order Act.\n\nChief executive of anti-monarchy group Republic, Graham Smith, was among those apprehended in St Martin's Lane near Trafalgar Square.\n\nPictures showed protesters in yellow \"Not My King\" T-shirts, including Mr Smith, having their details taken.\n\nIn one video an officer said: \"I'm not going to get into a conversation about that, they are under arrest, end of.\"\n\nProtesters from climate protest group Just Stop Oil are apprehended by police officers in the crowd\n\nThe Met confirmed that four people were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance on St Martin's Lane and that lock-on devices were seized.\n\nThe force also said they made a number of breaching-the-peace arrests in the area of Carlton House Terrace and a further three arrests in the Wellington Arch area on suspicion of possessing articles to cause criminal damage.\n\nMatt Turnbull, one of those arrested from Republic, said the straps holding the placards had been \"misconstrued\" as something that could be used for locking on.\n\nNew legislation passed this week means it is illegal to prepare to lock-on to things like street furniture.\n\nJust Stop Oil said that a protester had been arrested in Piccadilly on their way to the Mall.\n\nFootage from the scene also showed about 15 protesters being handcuffed and taken away by a heavy police presence.\n\nOn Wednesday the Met said that it would have an \"extremely low threshold\" for protests during the coronation celebrations, and that demonstrators could expect \"swift action\".\n\nRepublic activist Luke Whiting, 26, said: \"Six Republic members have been arrested... It is unclear why, potentially it is because one of them was carrying a megaphone.\n\n\"It is unclear exactly whether the police are using these new powers and whether they are misusing them to stop protest happening.\"\n\nNon-profit campaign group Human Rights Watch said the coronation arrests were \"something you would expect to see in Moscow not London\".\n\nIts UK director Yasmine Ahmed said in a statement: \"The reports of people being arrested for peacefully protesting the coronation are incredibly alarming.\n\n\"Peaceful protests allow individuals to hold those in power to account.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Goldman Sachs will pay $215m (£170.5m) to settle claims that it discriminated against women, offering female staff lower pay and fewer opportunities.\n\nThe agreement comes a month before the long-running class-action lawsuit was due to come to trial.\n\nIt resolves claims from about 2,800 female staff who worked at the bank in the US.\n\nGoldman will work with outside experts to analyse its pay patterns and methods of promotion as part of the deal.\n\n\"I have been proud to support this case without hesitation over the last nearly 13 years and believe this settlement will help the women I had in mind when I filed the case,\" said Shanna Orlich, one of the women who first filed the legal complaint.\n\nThe deal resolves a legal matter that has dogged the bank since 2010, when women stepped forward to accuse the Wall Street giant of a \"boys club\" work culture that hindered their advancement.\n\nThe fight provided a glimpse of the inner workings of the bank, which was accused of paying female vice presidents 20% less than their male peers, while tolerating incidents of sexual harassment.\n\nGoldman has said it wants to increase the number of women among its more senior ranks, aiming to have women account for 40% of vice presidents by 2025.\n\nAbout 29% of Goldman's partners and managing directors are currently women.\n\n\"After more than a decade of vigorous litigation, both parties have agreed to resolve this matter,\" said Jacqueline Arthur, Goldman Sachs' global head of human capital management.\n\nShe said the bank was committed \"to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace for all our people\".\n\nKelly Dermody, one of the lawyers who represented the women, called the settlement figure \"substantial\".\n\nWomen who worked for the bank's investment banking, investment management, or securities divisions in the US as far back as 2002 may be eligible to receive some of the money.\n\nAllegations of pay discrimination against women have been rife, especially in industries such as finance and tech.\n\nIn the UK, where Goldman is required to report on pay by gender to the government, the typical man at the firm out-earned the typical women by at least 20% - far higher than the 9.4% gap found across the country. Those figures do not account for differences in position or rank.\n\nGoogle last year paid $118m to resolve claims brought by 15,000 women, while video game company Riot Games in 2021 agreed to a $100m settlement in a suit involving about 2,300 women.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin has issued a series of angry statements at the Russian government in recent months\n\nRussia's Wagner Group boss says Moscow has agreed to his demands for more ammunition, days after he threatened to withdraw his men from Bakhmut.\n\nOn Thursday, Yevgeny Prigozhin attacked his Russian partners in a gruesome, expletive-filled rant, filmed among dozens of Wagner troops' corpses.\n\nThe next day he said Wagner fighters would leave Bakhmut by 10 May.\n\nBut on Sunday Prigozhin said Moscow had agreed to provide the supplies \"needed to continue fighting\" in the city.\n\nPrigozhin's apparent U-turn is not a huge surprise. He is a publicity seeker who has not followed through on previous threats.\n\nRussian troops and fighters from Wagner, a private military company, have been trying to capture Bakhmut for months - despite its questionable strategic value.\n\nWestern officials believe thousands of Russian and Wagner troops have been killed in the fighting, and the eastern Ukrainian city has become a symbolic prize.\n\nYet - although Russian troops and Wagner fighters are on the same side - it is an uneasy alliance.\n\nPrigozhin has regularly criticised Russian officials for what he claims is a lack of front-line support.\n\nIn his new statement, Prigozhin claimed that Gen Sergei Surovikin - who commanded Russia's forces in Ukraine between October and January - had been appointed to liaise between Russia's regular military and Wagner mercenaries.\n\n\"This is the only man with the star of an army general who knows how to fight,\" Prigozhin said. \"No other army general is reasonable.\"\n\nWhile Prigozhin didn't expressly reverse his pledge to withdraw troops from Bakhmut, he said his forces had been given permission to \"act in Bakhmut as we see fit\" - appearing to suggest they will remain.\n\nThe Kremlin has not commented on Prigozhin's latest statement.\n\nWagner has its own set of commanders, objectives and motivations, and Prigozhin is widely believed to hold his own domestic political ambitions.\n\nDefence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov have often been the focus for his anger, amid reports of infighting among different power groups in Vladimir Putin's entourage.\n\nIn his statement on Thursday, Prigozhin raged: \"Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where is the... ammunition?... They came here as volunteers and die for you to fatten yourselves in your mahogany offices.\"\n\nAnd he said Wagner's casualties were \"growing in geometrical progression every day\" because of the lack of ammunition.\n\nAt the time, Ukrainian officials expressed scepticism that Prigozhin truly intended to withdraw his forces from Bakhmut.\n\nDeputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said on Friday that Wagner was actually redeploying mercenaries towards Bakhmut in a bid to capture the city before Tuesday's Victory Day celebrations in Russia.\n\nIn other developments in Ukraine and Russia:", "Anna Ekvist said people in Liverpool had embraced Ukrainian culture\n\nLiverpool has welcomed Ukrainian people \"with open arms\", a representative for the community and refugees in the city has said.\n\nAnna Ekvist, 36, said it was \"heartwarming\" to see how the city had embraced her nation's culture ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest.\n\n\"Liverpool people have been so friendly and it has had a big impact,\" she said.\n\n\"To see people support and respect our culture, we don't feel so lonely. We feel part of the Liverpool family.\"\n\nThe UK is hosting the international song contest on behalf of Ukraine.\n\nAnna Ekvist has helped to support Ukrainian people living in Liverpool\n\nMs Ekvist has lived in the city for seven years and recalled waking up to 25 missed calls on 25 February 2022 to news Russia had launched a full-scale invasion on the country.\n\n\"They all said, 'war is here, shooting is here',\" she said.\n\n\"I couldn't believe this is going on in my lifetime and I couldn't reach them and felt like there was nothing I could do.\"\n\nMs Ekvist now works at the Liverpool Big Help Project as a Ukrainian Engagement Officer, helping support refugees arriving in the city and sending donations from local people to Ukraine.\n\n\"We are so pleased to see people support for Ukrainian people in Liverpool,\" she said.\n\n\"It's nice there is so much interest.\"\n\nShe said it was also \"really wonderful\" to see local people learning the Ukrainian language to be able to have basic conversations with refugees.\n\nTraditional Ukrainian craft sessions have helped refugees feel at home, Ms Ekvist said\n\n\"We feel very welcome,\" she said.\n\n\"It is also great to see Ukrainian flags everywhere in the city.\n\n\"People are not forgetting why the Eurovision party is here. Some Ukrainian people feel guilty and that they don't deserve to feel happy while people are dying and fighting for freedom in Ukraine, but said it was important for people to continue to have nice things going on.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is nice to be able to celebrate and to forget for some moments the terrible things that are happening.\n\n\"It is warming up our hearts to see the city is embracing the Ukrainian culture.\"\n\nShe said it was \"emotional\" to see how many symbols of the nation had been reflected in the city's Eurofest which includes a display of traditional song birds and also the development of a Ukrainian memorial garden.\n\n\"We may not be able to go to Ukraine, but pieces of Ukraine can come here.\"\n\nShe said she hopes by hosting Eurovision, Liverpool will have an ongoing relationship with the nation.\n\n\"I hope that after the war people will visit Ukraine and see how beautiful country is. I hope our friendship will last forever,\" she said.\n\nFather Taras Khomych, of the Association of Ukraine in Great Britain - Liverpool Branch, said it was \"amazing\" to see how the city had stood in solidarity with Ukraine.\n\nThe Catholic priest, who has lived in the city for 10 years, said he was \"grateful\" for the support provided by people in the city and across the UK.\n\n\"At the start of the full-scale invasion people in Liverpool contacted me asking how they could help,\" he said.\n\nHe said it was \"important\" to reflected solidarity with Ukraine and was \"delighted\" to see Ukrainian culture celebrated in the city.\n\nHe added Liverpool had been \"warm and welcoming\" and the atmosphere in the run up to the Eurovision song contest was \"amazing\".\n\n\"It is unique in that it has never happened before that a country would host the Eurovision on behalf of another,\" he said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Prince's much-publicised memoir sold 467,183 copies in its first week\n\nThe ghostwriter of Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, has described finding himself at the centre of a media frenzy when the book came out in January.\n\nWriting in the New Yorker magazine, JR Moehringer said he and his family were stalked and harassed by press.\n\nBut he also says the experience made him understand the Prince better.\n\nIn its first week, Spare became the fastest-selling non-fiction book in the UK since records began in 1998.\n\nIn the article, Moehringer describes how a paparazzi photographer tailed him as he drove his son to preschool shortly after the book's publication, leaving him and his wife feeling \"fragile\".\n\nLater the same day, he says a newspaper journalist appeared at his window while he was working.\n\nMoehringer says he and Harry worked on the memoir together for over two years. The writer describes long Zoom chats, messaging constantly and visiting Harry and his wife Meghan at their house in Montecito, California, as well as bonding with Harry over the loss of their mothers.\n\nMoehringer is an experienced celebrity ghostwriter who has written memoirs for retired tennis star Andre Agassi and Nike co-founder Phil Knight. The author says he always insists on a clause in his contract giving him the right to remain anonymous but, ahead of Spare's publication, his name was leaked to the press.\n\nHe then found himself \"squinting into a gigantic searchlight\" of media attention, he says.\n\n\"Every hour, another piece would drop, each one wrong. My fee was wrong, my bio was wrong, even my name,\" he writes.\n\nMoehringer said the experience made him realise he had \"understood nothing\" about how a life in the spotlight had affected Prince Harry - but said the Duke of Sussex was \"all heart\" and supported him throughout.\n\nSome copies of Spare went on sale in Spain several days before the official publication date. Journalists hurried to translate some of the most striking passages from Spanish back into English, leading to what Moehringer says were \"bad translations\" that \"read like bad Borat\".\n\nThe author says a \"frenzied mob\" then ensued in the media when the book was published in English. He says the bad translations didn't stop as \"innocent passages\" were \"hyped into outrages\".\n\nPrince Harry gave several TV interviews about his memoir, which included details of conflict with his father, King Charles III, and his brother, Prince William. Neither Kensington Palace not Buckingham Palace has ever commented on the contents of the book.\n\nLast week, Prince Harry flew to the UK to attend King Charles' Coronation - the first time he was seen publicly with his family since his controversial memoir came out.\n\nHe flew back to Los Angeles immediately after the Coronation service ended.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "An entrance to Abbey Caves in New Zealand is shown in this file photo\n\nA teenage boy has gone missing in a cave system amid widespread flooding in New Zealand's Auckland region.\n\nHe was among 15 students and two teachers who had gone to Abbey Caves, a series of three underground caves.\n\nThe rest of the group was initially trapped but made it out safely.\n\nAuckland, which is New Zealand's largest city, has declared a state of emergency after heavy rainfall stranded cars, toppled trees and disrupted rail services.\n\nLate on Tuesday, the search for the missing boy was suspended until first light on Wednesday. He was reported to be in Year 11, typically a level for students aged 15 or 16.\n\nThe Abbey Caves Reserve features limestone outcrops and sink holes. Rapidly rising water and roof falls in the caves pose significant risks for cavers, say local authorities.\n\nIt is unclear why the outdoor education class went ahead despite the bad weather, but the principal of Whangārei Boys' High School has promised an investigation, the New Zealand Herald reported.\n\nIn a statement, police Supt Tony Hill said: \"Our thoughts are with the whanau (family) of the missing child, as well as all those involved in the group outing and the school.\"\n\nThe same region of New Zealand was hit by record rainfall in January, and Cyclone Gabrielle a month later.\n\nOn Tuesday, images on local media showed people rushing out of office buildings to go home early, causing traffic jams in some parts of the city.\n\nA state of emergency was declared as a precaution and disaster response services mobilised, Auckland Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson told reporters.\n\nShe described the flooding as an \"evolving emergency situation\".\n\nFrom January to April, the Auckland region received 90% of its average total annual rainfall, with some areas receiving up to 35mm (1.3in) of rain in just one hour.\n\nThe New Zealand Meteorological Service noted that the region is \"very saturated\" after a \"very rough\" five months.\n\nAuthorities advised people to postpone unnecessary travel and avoid driving on flooded streets.\n\nCyclone Gabrielle ravaged New Zealand in mid-February, leaving 11 people dead and a trail of devastation that Finance Minister Grant Robertson likened to the damage wrought by the Christchurch earthquake from 12 years ago.\n\nNew Zealand's Climate Change Minister James Shaw attributed the scale of the disaster to climate change.\n\nThe cyclone hit just weeks after torrential rains and flooding left four dead and parts of Auckland's main airport submerged.", "Rachel Crooks, Jessica Leeds and Samantha Holvey at a press conference after accusing Trump of sexual harassment in 2017 Image caption: Rachel Crooks, Jessica Leeds and Samantha Holvey at a press conference after accusing Trump of sexual harassment in 2017\n\nCarroll is not the only woman to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct.\n\nOver two dozen women have come forward with accusations against Trump in recent years.\n\nThe alleged incidents stretched as far back as the 1970s, with accusations that Trump reached up their skirts, touched, or kissed them without their consent.\n\nAs he did with Carroll, Trump has denied all the allegations, and has claimed women who spoke out were lying or politically motivated.\n\nSome of these women told their stories during the 2016 election. Jessica Leeds said that Trump had groped her without consent on an airplane in the 1970s.\n\nLeeds appeared as a witness in Carroll's trial and told the jury that Trump \"was trying to kiss me, trying to pull me towards him. He was grabbing my breasts. It was like he had 40 zillion hands. It was like a tussling match between the two of us.”\n\nRachel Crooks, who spoke to the New York Times, accused Trump of kissing her without permission during a Trump Tower encounter in 2005.\n\nJill Harth sued Trump for sexual harassment in 1997. She said that Trump pushed her against a wall, put his hand up her skirt, and forcibly kissed her.\n\nBut no woman has come close to earning $5m in damages from Trump for their alleged encounters, E Jean Carroll is the first.", "The police had to make \"tough choices\" while handling protests during the Coronation, a minister has said, following criticism over arrests.\n\nCulture Secretary Lucy Frazer told BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg the police were right to factor in the scale and global-nature of the event.\n\nMPs, human rights groups and a former chief constable have criticised the police's tactics.\n\nPolice said on Sunday that 64 people were arrested during the Coronation.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police had previously said 52 arrests were made on Saturday. In its latest update, it said four people had been charged, while another person arrested remains in custody for non-payment of fines.\n\nFifty-seven people have been released on bail while two others will face no further police action.\n\nAmong those held on Saturday was the head of the anti-monarchy group Republic, Graham Smith. He was released after 16 hours in custody and said there was \"no longer a right to peaceful protest in the UK\".\n\nOther concerns have been raised over reports three volunteers with a Westminster-based women's safety programme had been arrested while handing out rape alarms.\n\nThe Met said it received intelligence protesters were planning to use rape alarms to disrupt coronation proceedings.\n\nMs Frazer said the right to protest was \"really important\" and people should be heard but there had been a recent change in protesters' tactics.\n\nProtesters have been stopping people going about their day-to-day lives, she said, and there was a need to redress that balance.\n\nOfficers would have made operational decisions on a case-by-case basis, she said, taking into account the scale of the Coronation celebrations.\n\n\"We were on the global stage, there were 200 foreign dignitaries in the UK, in London at an event, millions of people watching and hundreds of thousands of people at the scene,\" she added.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting told the BBC he was reassured the Met were aware of a gap in public confidence over policing and the force was \"explaining and justifying\" why they made some of the arrests.\n\nHe said Labour would \"wait and see\" whether the force got the balance right, adding \"accountability\" over policing decisions was important.\n\nMr Streeting said if they did not get it right, it was important to \"hold your hands up\".\n\nThe King and Queen went past some protesters on their way to Westminster Abbey for the Coronation ceremony\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Karen Findlay defended her officers' response, saying they had a duty to intervene \"when protest becomes criminal and may cause serious disruption\".\n\nShe added the Coronation was a \"once-in-a-generation event\" which was a key consideration in their assessment.\n\nHundreds of protesters gathered in the rain in central London on Saturday, with chants including \"down with the Crown\", \"don't talk to the police\" and \"get a real job\".\n\nBut Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said some of the arrests \"raise questions\" over the Met's actions, adding he has \"sought urgent clarity\" whilst investigations are ongoing.\n\nOther protests were organised in Cardiff, Glasgow and Edinburgh. No arrests were reported outside London.\n\nWhile campaigners insisted their protests were peaceful, the police said they had intelligence that groups were \"determined to disrupt\" the occasion.\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ed Davey said he was not sure about the exact circumstances of the arrest, and called for more detail from the police.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, he criticised the government for \"passing legislation to clamp down on protest that breached British traditions of civil liberties\".\n\nSeveral Labour MPs have also been critical of the Met's response. Senior backbencher Sir Chris Bryant said on Twitter that \"freedom of speech is the silver thread that runs through a parliamentary constitutional monarchy\".\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, Republic chief Mr Smith said the arrests had \"destroyed whatever trust might have existed between peaceful protesters and the Metropolitan police\".\n\n\"What is the point in being open and candid with the police, working with their liaison officers and meeting senior commanders, if all their promises and undertakings turn out to be a lie?\"\n\nMr Smith was arrested early on Saturday - before the Coronation began - at a protest in Trafalgar Square.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met said it had confiscated \"lock-on devices\" which protesters can use to secure themselves to things like railings.\n\nIt has now become illegal to prepare to lock-on following changes to the law passed this week.\n\nBut Matt Turnbull, another member of Republic who was arrested, said the straps were being used to hold the placards and had been \"misconstrued\" as lock-on devices.\n\nA former police chief has said she is \"very disappointed\" by the arrest of protesters and strongly criticised the new powers.\n\nSue Sim, a former chief constable with Northumbria Police and a specialist in public order policing, said she was \"very disappointed\" by the arrest of protesters and called the new powers \"draconian\".\n\n\"I think when you're talking about terrorism, where people's lives are at risk that's a very different thing. But where you are talking about peaceful protest the whole thing for me is, what type of society do we want? We do not want a totalitarian police state,\" she told BBC Radio 4's World This Weekend.\n\nConcerns about the police's approach were also raised by Westminster City Council over reports that volunteers with its Night Star women's safety programme had been detained and questioned after being stopped by officers while handing out rape alarms.\n\nCouncillor Aicha Less said the authority was working with the Met to establish what happened and was in touch with volunteers to make sure they were being supported.\n\nThe Met said it had received intelligence about plans to use rape alarms to disrupt the Coronation procession by scaring military horses, causing \"significant risk to the safety of the public and the riders\".\n\nThe force said three people were arrested in the Soho area of London over suspicion of conspiracy to commit public nuisance.\n\nOne man was also further arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods. All three have since been released.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan said the force were \"aware of and understand there is public concern over these arrests\" and added the matter was still under investigation.", "Patients who carry a certain type of adrenaline auto-injector pen are being told to contact their GP or pharmacy to swap to a new brand.\n\nEmerade 300 and 500 microgram auto-injector pens, which treat anaphylaxis, are being recalled after some failed to deliver the dose of adrenaline.\n\nThe pens are prescribed for people with severe, life-threatening allergies.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) says users should ask for alternative brands.\n\nThese include EpiPen or Jext. People are also advised to seek help on how to use the replacement pen.\n\nPatients should return their Emerade pens only once they have received a replacement. It is estimated around 25,000 people may have one.\n\nSimilar concerns with Emerade pens failing to inject have been raised by the MHRA in the past.\n\nSome of the main triggers of a severe allergic reaction or anaphylaxis requiring adrenaline injections include foods such as nuts and milk, medicines, insect stings and latex.\n\nAccording to the NHS, adrenaline should be administered if a person starts to feel lightheaded or faint, has breathing difficulties and a fast heartbeat.\n\nDr Alison Cave, MHRA chief safety officer, said: \"We are taking prompt action to protect patients, following detection of damage to internal components of the Emerade pens if they are dropped, which may mean they activate too early or fail to activate and deliver adrenaline.\n\n\"Patients are reminded to carry two pens with them at all times as normal and to contact their healthcare professional when a replacement is due.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Itamar Ben-Gvir accused the EU of \"undiplomatic gagging\" in response to the decision\n\nThe EU has cancelled its diplomatic event for Europe Day in Israel because of the planned participation of the far-right minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.\n\nOrganisers said they did not want \"to offer a platform\" to someone whose views contradicted its values.\n\nAs the Israeli government's designated representative, Mr Ben-Gvir had insisted he would give the customary speech at a ceremony on Tuesday.\n\nIn response to the decision, he accused the EU of \"undiplomatic gagging\".\n\nIt is understood that the Israeli Government Secretariat put forward Mr Ben-Gvir's name according to a rotating list of ministers selected to attend official diplomatic events and that EU ambassadors were caught by surprise.\n\nDespite explicit requests from the EU and its prominent member states to send a minister who was not identified with the extreme right, Mr Ben-Gvir insisted that he would go.\n\nThe national security minister had stated that he would use his speech to call for a united \"struggle against jihad and terrorism\" while also telling EU representatives it was \"inappropriate for EU countries to fund initiatives against IDF [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers and Israeli citizens\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by EU in Israel 🇪🇺🇮🇱 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by EU in Israel 🇪🇺🇮🇱\n\nSeveral EU representatives had threatened not to attend.\n\nThe decision to cancel the diplomatic ceremony was made after a meeting of EU ambassadors to Israel. Israeli media report that only Hungary and Poland, two conservative, pro-Israel countries, dissented.\n\nIn its short statement, the EU delegation to Israel said it would continue to celebrate Europe Day on Tuesday, as it does annually.\n\nIt said that a cultural event for the general public scheduled to take place in Tel Aviv would go ahead \"to celebrate with our friends and partners in Israel the strong and constructive bilateral relationship\".\n\nThe response from Mr Ben-Gvir's office criticised the EU, saying it was \"a shame\" that the international body \"which claims to represent the values of democracy and multiculturalism, practises undiplomatic gagging.\"\n\n\"It is an honour and privilege for me to represent the Israeli government, the heroic IDF soldiers, and the people of Israel in every forum,\" he added.\n\nSince Israel swore in its most hard-line government ever at the end of last year, official representatives of many European countries - which have strong relations with Israel - have refused to meet Mr Ben-Gvir and his fellow ultranationalist, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.\n\nThe controversy around Europe Day has been a source of diplomatic embarrassment.\n\nAdding to the sensitive timing, the EU harshly condemned Israel's demolition on Sunday of an EU-funded elementary school for Palestinian children near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.\n\nThe Israeli military said the structure - in part of the West Bank under full Israeli control - was built illegally and was unsafe, leading to an Israeli court decision to demolish it.\n\nOn its Twitter account, the EU delegation to the Palestinians said it was \"appalled\" by the action, which it said would affect 60 children, and that the demolition was illegal under international law.\n\nPalestinians often justify what Israel deems as illegal building in the West Bank by saying it is virtually impossible to obtain official construction permits.", "Tesco's chairman has strongly denied claims that he touched women's bottoms on two separate occasions.\n\nA report in the Guardian newspaper alleges that John Allan touched a Tesco employee at the supermarket giant's shareholder meeting last year.\n\nIt also claims Mr Allan, who is the former president of the CBI, \"grabbed\" a woman at one of its events in 2019.\n\nMr Allan said that the claims are \"simply untrue\" and Tesco said it has not received any complaints.\n\nThe supermarket giant - which Mr Allan has chaired for eight years - told the BBC that in relation to his conduct at Tesco's annual general meeting last year \"it has received no complaints or concerns formally or informally, including through our confidential Protector Line service\".\n\nIt said it noted that Mr Allan strongly denies the allegation and his conduct has \"never been the subject of a complaint during his tenure as chair of Tesco\".\n\nTesco added: \"This is a serious allegation, and if anyone has any concerns or information, we would ask them to share those with us through any of our reporting channels including through our confidential Protector Line, so we can investigate.\"\n\nThe Guardian also claims that Mr Allan commented on a CBI employee's dress and bottom in 2021 - an incident that he said he does not recall.\n\nHe does, however, admit to making a comment to a female CBI worker in late 2019 about a dress suiting her figure.\n\nMr Allan said he was \"mortified after making the comment in 2019\" and immediately apologised. A spokesperson for Mr Allan said: \"The person concerned agreed the matter was closed and no further action was taken.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"Regarding the other claims, they are simply untrue.\"\n\nMr Allan was president of the business lobby group the CBI between 2018 and 2020, then spent just over a year as vice president.\n\nThe allegations have emerged as the CBI fights for survival following claims of sexual misconduct at the lobby group, including two allegations of rape. The City of London police is investigating the allegations.\n\nFox Williams, a law firm, conducted an investigation into the claims and the CBI admitted that it had hired \"culturally toxic\" staff and failed to fire people who sexually harassed female colleagues.\n\nIt has since fired a number of people.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Allan said that he requested that Fox Williams investigate the claims against him and that the law firm decided not to.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for Fox Williams said this was incorrect.\n\nIt said that once the City of London police opened inquiries into alleged sexual misconduct at the CBI \"we were not permitted to speak to all individuals involved in the allegations\".\n\nThe scope of Fox Williams' investigation was therefore limited to whether the leadership of the CBI was aware of claims of misconduct, what steps it took or failed to take to address them and what lessons could be learnt.\n\nFollowing the conclusion of Fox Williams' investigation, a spokesman for the law firm said: \"Mr Allan was provided with the opportunity to give an account to the CBI which, as far as we are aware, he has chosen not to do.\"\n\nIn response, a spokesman for Mr Allan said that on 4 April his lawyers told Fox Williams he wanted it to investigate the allegation against him.\n\nHe said Fox Williams was contacted again on 21 April by Mr Allan's lawyers to explain he was available for interview.\n\n\"Fox Williams chose not to meet him,\" the spokesman said. \"Instead, on 23 April, Fox Williams offered to forward a statement from Mr Allan to the CBI although confirmed that their investigation had already concluded.\"\n\nCommenting on the allegations against John Allan in the Guardian, a CBI spokesperson said: \"Where an individual is identified as being a victim, witness or perpetrator of a potential criminal offence, with the agreement of the City of London Police, they would be referred to the City of London Police to continue the investigation.\"\n\nIt added that Fox Williams \"did not investigate the matter themselves\".\n\nMr Allan is also chairman of Barratt Developments, the housebuilder. The company said it had \"clear and secure whistleblowing policies in place and have never been made aware of any concerns or allegations in relation to John Allan during his time at Barratt\".\n\nA large number of companies have either quit the CBI or suspended their membership following separate allegations of misconduct and rape against employees at the lobby which emerged in April.\n\nTesco paused its membership, stating: \"We are deeply concerned by these very serious allegations and we have paused our membership of the CBI with immediate effect.\"\n\nDuring his time as chairman of Tesco, Mr Allan drew criticism when in 2017 he suggested that white men were becoming \"endangered species\" on company boards.\n\nHe said: \"If you are a white male - tough - you are an endangered species and you are going to have to work twice as hard.\"\n\nHe later said that his comments were meant to be \"humorous\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAir raid sirens have sounded across Ukraine after Russia launched a fresh wave of drone and missile strikes.\n\nExplosions were heard overnight in the capital, Kyiv, where the mayor said five people had been injured in the \"biggest\" kamikaze drone attack so far.\n\nOne person was killed in the attack on the southern Odesa region. Ukraine's Red Cross says its warehouse was hit.\n\nIt marks the fourth attack in eight days on Kyiv and comes just 24 hours before Russia celebrates Victory Day.\n\nThe annual holiday commemorates the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during World War Two, a conflict the Kremlin has baselessly tried to draw parallels with since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year.\n\nAfter a lull in Russian attacks on civilian targets in recent months, which saw Kyiv go days without an attack, Moscow has intensified its air raids over the past week ahead of a widely expected Ukrainian counter-offensive.\n\nThe Ukrainian military said the latest Russian raids - which lasted for more than four hours and were launched shortly after midnight - saw Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drones swarm across the country.\n\nKyiv's Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said nearly 60 drones had been launched by Russia, describing it as the \"biggest\" such attack so far.\n\nHe added that all 36 drones had been destroyed over Kyiv, but five people had been injured by falling debris from downed drones.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify these numbers.\n\nEmergency services responded after drone wreckage fell on a runway at Zhuliany international airport - one of the city's two commercial airports - Kyiv's military administration said.\n\nAnd civilians were injured after drone debris hit a residential building in the central Shevchenkivskyi district, the administration added.\n\nElsewhere, in the Black Sea port city of Odesa, a warehouse was set ablaze after eight missiles were fired at targets by Russian bombers, Ukrainian officials said.\n\nIn a statement, Ukraine's Red Cross said its warehouse with humanitarian aid was destroyed and all aid deliveries had to be suspended.\n\nNatalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Southern Command, later said a body of a man - a security guard - was pulled from the wreckage.\n\nIn a daily update, the Ukrainian military's command said there had also been a wave of missile strikes on the Kherson, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions.\n\nAt least eight people - including a child - were injured in two villages in the southern Kherson region, local officials said.\n\nIn Zaporizhzhia, the head of the Russian installed administration, Vladimir Rogov, said Russian forces hit a warehouse and a Ukrainian troop position in the small city of Orikhiv.\n\nOn the eastern front, the Ukrainian commander of forces in the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut said Russian troops had stepped up shelling, in a bid to take the city by Tuesday's celebrations.\n\nRussian troops and fighters from the Wagner Group, a private military company, have been trying to capture Bakhmut for months - despite its questionable strategic value.\n\nOver the weekend, Wagner's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared to U-turn on a threat to withdraw from the city after he was promised fresh ammunition supplies by the defence ministry in Moscow.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that 9 May would from now be celebrated as Europe Day, in line with the European Union. The move - which needs parliamentary approval - is seen as a pointed rebuke to Russia.\n\nMr Zelensky said he had signed a decree that the day would commemorate European unity and the defeat of \"Ruscism\" - a term that is shorthand for \"Russian fascism\".\n\nHe also said that 8 May would now officially be a Day of Remembrance and Victory, as marked in many countries around the world.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will hold talks with Mr Zelensky in Kyiv on Tuesday.\n\nMeanwhile, as Russia is preparing for Tuesday's Victory Day parade on Moscow's Red Square, the Kremlin is yet to reveal what President Vladimir Putin's role will be at the annual event.\n\nLast year, Mr Putin addressed the marching troops and was seen sitting among World War Two veterans in the VIP box.\n\nRussia says the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - all former Soviet republics - are expected at the parade, which has been otherwise snubbed by major world countries, including the UK, the US and France - all wartime allies of the then Soviet Union.\n\nIn a separate development, a court in Berlin banned the carrying of Russian and Soviet flags during rallies at Soviet war memorials in the German capital on 9 May.", "King Charles' Coronation is the first time the Duke of Sussex has been seen publicly with his family since his controversial memoir Spare came out.\n\nPrince Harry could be seen sitting two rows behind his brother, the Prince of Wales, at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe BBC's Duncan's Kennedy breaks down the prince's brief stint in London and what he did.", "The Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) said education cuts would \"target the most vulnerable\"\n\nThe Education Authority (EA) has \"regrettably and reluctantly agreed\" £14m worth of cuts which it has submitted to the Department of Education for it to consider.\n\nThe EA's board held a meeting on Tuesday to try to find over £200m of savings.\n\nThe £14m of savings were mainly to the EA's own operations and £5.5m of cuts, which were not approved, will be to subject to further impact assessment.\n\nMany of the proposals were not backed.\n\nThat is because some - such as cuts to school transport or special-educational needs provision - would need changes to law or Department of Education policy.\n\nBBC News NI understands the £5.5m of savings not approved were to do with some transport costs for pre-school transport, taxis and other private hire services.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting, chairman Barry Mulholland said board members had expressed \"grave concerns\" that any decisions to reduce spending by more than £200m would \"impact every child in Northern Ireland and will also have a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable and those from socially deprived areas\".\n\nHe said there had been a \"chronic under funding\" over the last 10 years and he called for more investment in education.\n\nA headteacher said she was \"really nervous\" about what the future holds for schools.\n\nAine Leslie, acting principal of Hazelwood Integrated College, said no one knows where to make these cuts.\n\n\"I don't envy the education board, they don't want to make these cuts, they don't know probably how to make these cuts,\" she told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\nShe said that schools need guidance because the \"clock is ticking\" for teachers to plan for next year.\n\nAine Leslie said she doesn't know how schools can make further cuts\n\nMichael Allen, the principal of Lisneal College in Londonderry, said education was not being prioritised because it wasn't a vote winner.\n\n\"It is essentially a political choice in terms of how much money is invested here in education from the money coming from Westminster,\" he told BBC's North West Today.\n\nMr Allen believes that since the Covid-19 pandemic there has been \"a growing distance\" between those making the strategic decisions and staff on the ground.\n\nThe Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) said education cuts would \"target the most vulnerable\".\n\nIts northern secretary Mark McTaggart said it would lead to a \"reduction in the number of teachers, an increase in class size, and an erosion in the quality of the education\".\n\nThe annual funding for education was cut by £70m (2.5%) in the recent 2023-24 budget set by Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris.\n\nHowever, the real-terms reduction, taking account of inflation, is likely to be higher.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Fiscal Council has said the relatively large cut for education may reflect that it overspent its budget in 2022-23.\n\nThe Department of Education (DE) has already axed a number of schemes to save money, including the school holiday food grant for children entitled to free school meals.\n\nIt is, however, the EA which spends the bulk of the £2.5bn education budget on things such as funding schools, special educational needs (SEN), school transport, maintenance and school meals.\n\nEarlier this year, the EA introduced a number of measures to save money including a freeze on the recruitment of school crossing patrol staff.\n\nBut board members have been told that the organisation faces a \"potential funding gap\" of £225m in 2023-24.\n\nDetails of the budget pressures were given at a previous EA committee meeting on 6 April.\n\nWhile that meeting took place before the secretary of state confirmed the 2023-24 budget, BBC News NI understands the financial pressures the EA faces are largely unchanged.\n\nThe meeting was told, for instance, that the budget for youth services faces a cut of more than £7m - 25% less than the funding in 2022-23.\n\nMr McTaggart said schools were already \"heavily under-funded\" and cuts would \"potentially lead to a reduction in the number of teachers, an increase in class size...unmaintained school buildings and ultimately an erosion in the quality of the education.\"\n\nPropsed cuts to youth services could lead to a increase in anti-social behaviour, he warned.\n\nA school meals programme for holiday periods has been cut\n\nThe EA has around £438m to spend on SEN in 2023-24, which includes special schools, transport and support for children in mainstream schools.\n\nHowever, the committee was told that was around 15% less than would be needed.\n\nWhile the overall funding directly to schools is similar to 2022-23, they are unlikely to receive additional money for any \"inescapable pressures\" such as rising energy and inflationary costs.\n\nThe EA board has to tell the Department of Education how it will achieve a balanced budget by Friday 12 May.\n\nAs the bulk of education funding goes on paying staff and providing services to schools, finding large savings is difficult.\n\nFor instance, providing transport to school for around 84,000 pupils costs over £80m a year.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nKevin de Bruyne's screamer earned Manchester City a Champions League semi-final first-leg draw at Real Madrid to keep their dream of the Treble on track.\n\nCity know any win next Wednesday at home against Madrid will send them to only their second Champions League final, against either Inter Milan or AC Milan.\n\nPep Guardiola's side dominated the early stages at a nervy Bernabeu, with Thibaut Courtois denying De Bruyne, Rodri and Erling Haaland twice.\n\nBut Vinicius Jr scored with Real's only chance of the first half, a 25-yard thunderbolt which flew past Ederson following a brilliant run by Eduardo Camavinga.\n\nJust as Real began to dominate a period of the second half, City found a way back with De Bruyne fizzing a shot from a similar distance into the bottom corner.\n\nAurelien Tchouameni almost gave Real, looking to extend their record tally to 15 European crowns, the lead again with another strike from range but it was well saved by Ederson.\n\nCity are now unbeaten in 21 games in all competitions, a run which includes 17 wins. Seven more victories and they get the Treble (winners of league, FA Cup and Champions League titles).\n• None 'If Haaland doesn't get you, De Bruyne will'\n• None Man City feel 'unstoppable' at home - but are they still favourites?\n\nThe Champions League is the one that has been missing for City and they are arguably the best European team of the current era never to win it.\n\nIt sounds so simple, but they just need to beat Real, who are third in La Liga, at home and then either the team fourth or fifth in Italy's Serie A in the final in Istanbul. Milan face Inter on Wednesday.\n\nNot that Guardiola will let his players get carried away with that scenario.\n\nThey lead the Premier League from Arsenal with four games to go and face Manchester United, the only English team to win the Treble, in the FA Cup final in June.\n\nTalk before the game was of revenge, with Real beating City at this stage last season in a 6-5 aggregate classic.\n\nBut, a year on, City look more grown up and almost unbeatable. This game was edgy and heated but lacked some of the chaos of last season's first leg, which ended 4-3.\n\nGuardiola knows his best team now so the days of throwing a tactical shock, which often did not work, in a game like this seem a thing of the past.\n\nThey played this game as if they were at home, with Real supporters booing their relentless possession. Courtois had four saves to make in the opening 16 minutes alone.\n\nBut then they trailed to Vinicius' goal - with the Brazilian also scoring against City last year.\n\nHowever their heads did not drop, and their three-month unbeaten run continues thanks to De Bruyne.\n\nIlkay Gundogan laid the ball off for De Bruyne, who thrashed a shot past his Belgium team-mate Courtois. Having also netted in 2020, De Bruyne is the first player in Champions League history to score in separate away games against Real in the knockout stages.\n\nCity - who did not make any substitutions - never had a chance to win the game, with that their last shot. Next week they will hope to see 51-goal Haaland get more joy in front of goal.\n\nMadrid's aura in the Champions League is something special. They are not the defending champions - and 14-time winners - by accident.\n\nDomestically they sit 14 points behind champions elect Barcelona, with Atletico Madrid also above them.\n\nBut they have won five Champions League titles in nine years, with two of them coming in seasons they finished third.\n\nCarlo Ancelotti's side came into this game on a good bit of domestic news, having won the Copa del Rey final against Osasuna on Saturday.\n\nBut this is where Real thrive - often against English clubs too. This is the sixth knockout tie in a row in which they have faced an English team - and they have won the other five.\n\nThe first half was a smash and grab to some extent with Vinicius' goal coming from their first real attack. Only Haaland (13 - 12 goals, one assist) has been involved in more Champions League goals than Vinicius this season (12 - seven goals, five assists).\n\nThey grew into the game in the second half, with De Bruyne giving them a taste of their own medicine by scoring after the end of a good spell for Real.\n\nCamavinga, who set up their goal, gave the ball away to Rodri in the build-up, highlighting the pros and cons of playing a central midfielder at left-back.\n\nMadrid boss Ancelotti was booked for his angry reaction to the goal, claiming the ball went out of play in the build-up. His side had chances to win the game with Benzema's header saved by Ederson, before French sub Tchouameni went close.\n• None Attempt saved. Nacho (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Eduardo Camavinga.\n• None Attempt blocked. Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Vinícius Júnior.\n• None Attempt blocked. Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Aurélien Tchouaméni (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Karim Benzema.\n• None Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Toni Kroos. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None What haunting secrets are buried Inside No. 9?:\n• None Which pair will finish first?: A frenetic race across Canada without phones and flights", "Russia’s Victory Day parade is typically a bombastic affair, intended to show off the country’s military might, but this year things were drastically slimmed down in the Russian capital.\n\nRussia attributed the cut-backs to security concerns. The country has experienced a number of attacks across the country in recent months, which it has blamed on Ukraine, but which Kyiv denies involvement in.\n\nThe most high profile of these came last week, when Russia’s air defences brought down two drones over the Kremlin. Ukraine denied carrying out the strike, claiming it was staged by Russia.\n\nRecent months have seen other acts of apparent sabotage across the country.\n\nA few days ago, an oil refinery in the southern region of Krasnodar, about 200km (124 miles) from the Crimean border, was targeted by drones, according to Russian media reports. Drones have also been brought down in other towns and villages well inside Russian territory.\n\nIn recent days Zakhar Prilepin, a Russian pro-war writer, was severely injured in a car bomb explosion, while last month Vladlen Tatasrky, a Russian military blogger, was killed in an explosion in a St Petersburg cafe.", "Angel Lynn was bundled into a van before she was found injured on the A6\n\nA woman left with serious injuries after being kidnapped by her then boyfriend is able to stand for the first time since the attack, her family has said.\n\nAngel Lynn, 22, was bundled into the back of a van by Chay Bowskill after an argument and then fell from the vehicle at 60mph on the A6 in Leicestershire.\n\nShe was left unable to walk, talk or feed herself after the kidnap in 2020.\n\nHer parents told BBC Breakfast she has been doing \"really well\".\n\nThe news from parents Paddy and Nikki Lynn comes ahead of a Channel 4 documentary into the kidnapping, which is due to air later on Tuesday.\n\nMrs Lynn said: \"She's doing really well. She can write, she is taking small sips of drink and they [her physiotherapists] are standing her up now.\n\n\"They are really good. She gets a bit moody sometimes when she is being bent around but it's doing her the world of good. She's loosening up.\"\n\nAngel's mother Nikki said she had made progress and was able to move parts of her body\n\nMr Lynn said Angel, who requires 24-hour care, was beginning to take steps again.\n\nHe said: \"She had an operation on her left foot to straighten that. She's doing really well.\"\n\nAngel, who requires 24-hour care, is beginning to take steps again, her family said\n\nMr and Mrs Lynn have recently met the air ambulance crew, which was called after Angel was found on the carriageway.\n\nMrs Lynn said: \"We just can't thank them enough. What they did, getting to Angel so fast, saved her life.\"\n\nShe said she would be taking on the Great North Run to raise money for the doctors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angel Lynn: Woman's kidnap by then boyfriend caught on camera\n\nBowskill, from Syston, Leicestershire, was convicted of kidnapping Angel and originally sentenced to seven and a half years in a young offenders institution.\n\nHis sentence was later reviewed by the Court of Appeal following concerns it was too lenient and increased to 12 years.\n\nBowskill was also convicted of coercive and controlling behaviour towards Angel, and perverting the course of justice.\n\nChay Bowskill had been in a relationship with Miss Lynn at the time\n\nMr and Mrs Lynn said they wanted to do the documentary to raise awareness of the dangers of coercive control by abusive partners.\n\nMrs Lynn said: \"[We're] just absolutely devastated that we didn't spot it because we wouldn't be here today had we spotted it earlier.\n\n\"It can happen to anyone. It doesn't matter how strong you are. It can happen to men and women.\n\n\"We've had to do this because this is how we tell other people about being coerced and how easy it is, even if you're strong-minded, that it can happen to you and to just get out of it, because I wouldn't want anyone else to go through what we've been through.\"\n\nRocco Sansome, who was driving the van, was sentenced to 21 months in a young offenders institution.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "In newly released video from his deposition played for jurors in Ms Carroll's civil rape suit against him, former US President Donald Trump appears to mistake E Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples.", "Events have been held in Russia to mark Victory Day, an annual holiday which commemorates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.\n\nBut this year's celebrations were somewhat muted, with some events scaled back over security concerns.\n\nThe BBC's Will Vernon in Moscow explains.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police have released footage of what happened on the night of the 14-year-old's murder\n\nA teenager who murdered a 14-year-old boy, London's youngest stabbing victim in 2021, has been detained for life.\n\nMarques Walker previously admitted attacking Jermaine Cools outside a chicken shop near West Croydon station, south London, on 18 November that year.\n\nAppearing at the Old Bailey, the 17-year-old became the first youth to be sentenced on television as he was ordered to serve a minimum of 19 years.\n\nThe court heard Jermaine had died in \"a senseless attack\".\n\nProsecutor Caroline Carberry KC told the court: \"It is clear that Jermaine Cools did not stand a chance. He could offer no resistance. He was unarmed, he was on the floor, and he was totally vulnerable.\n\n\"He was stabbed a total of seven times by Marques Walker in a senseless attack of extreme ferocity.\"\n\nJudge Sarah Munro KC said Walker had attacked the 14-year-old \"mercilessly\" and the victim \"must have been terrified and in agony\".\n\nMarques Walker was ordered to serve a minimum of 19 years\n\nThe court heard Walker, who was 16 at the time of the killing, had a history of carrying deadly weapons and had been on bail for having a Zombie knife six weeks before Jermaine's death.\n\nShowing a lack of remorse, he wrote about the murder in rap lyrics while awaiting trial saying: \"Even if that youth was a civilian I would still rewind and chef up (stab) his back.\"\n\nThe victim's mother, Lorraine Dudek, described the failure to deal with Walker's knife-carrying habit as a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nShe said: \"Had it been addressed earlier he would not have had the opportunity to go out to kill.\n\n\"Young males get caught with a knife, the knife gets confiscated. Within an hour they get another one from Snapchat or social media.\"\n\nPolice had arrested Walker numerous times for possessing knives, including this \"zombie\" knife\n\nShe said police stop-and search tactics \"has its place and it's very, very good for removing weapons but the follow-up has to be there.\n\n\"When Jermaine got stopped and searched I was happy about it. Some parents complain about their children being stopped and searched - that could be the deterrent that stops them,\" she added.\n\nThe court heard how Walker, from Bromley, was caught on CCTV footage calmly walking towards Jermaine and drawing a machete from his coat. He then lunged at the 14-year-old, who had fallen to the ground after being pushed by another person.\n\nJermaine, who had previously confided in his parents that he was worried about knife crime, was driven by a passer-by to the Mayday Hospital where he died from a wound to the chest.\n\nDetectives identified the defendant from CCTV footage but he was not arrested for nearly six weeks as he avoided the police by sleeping on the sofas of friends.\n\nMs Dudek added: \"All these gang members. All his friends and family that protected him have my son's blood on their hands. I will never forgive the defendant.\"\n\nJermaine's father Julius Cools, said he wanted everyone connected with Jermaine's murder to face justice\n\nJermaine's father Julius Cools said he hoped Walker \"never comes out again because he's dangerous\" and he called for \"everyone that's involved in the killing to get what they deserve as well\".\n\n\"Him getting life means nothing to me, it doesn't bring my son back. The pain we're going through every day in life… the only thing I want, I can't bring Jermaine back, but I want justice for my son.\"\n\nWhen asked how he coped with his son's death, he said \"nothing matters\" to him and Jermaine's mother anymore and they \"can't wait for our time to come as well\".\n\n\"We're just waiting so that one day God can say, 'you know what, come please'. That's how I live and that's how his mum lives as well.\"\n\nIn addition to the life sentence, Walker was detained for a minimum of four years for a separate offence of GBH, which happened in July 2022 when he was on remand in custody at HMP Feltham and left the victim with severe brain damage.\n\nHe was also sentenced to eight months for possession of a dangerous weapon, with all sentences to run concurrently.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UKIP has been in electoral freefall since the UK left the European Union\n\nIn 2014, David Cameron was still British prime minister and \"Brexit\" was an obscure word.\n\nIn that year's elections to the European Parliament, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) triggered what its then-leader Nigel Farage called \"an earthquake in British politics\".\n\nUKIP clinched 24 seats and 27% of the popular vote, marking the first time a party other than the Conservatives or Labour had won a UK national election for a century.\n\nThe result gave UKIP the momentum to push for a vote on the UK's membership of the European Union and campaign successfully for leaving.\n\nNow, eight years on, the disruptor of British politics is staring down the barrel of electoral annihilation.\n\nFollowing local elections across England last week, UKIP lost all its remaining district and county councillors.\n\nTo put that into context, the party has gone from almost 500 of those councillors in 2016 - its high watermark - to zero in 2023.\n\n\"It's no exaggeration to talk about a wipeout,\" said Tim Bale, a professor of politics and author of The Conservative Party after Brexit.\n\nAll that remains for UKIP are elected holdouts on parish and town councils, the lowest tier of local government.\n\nThe party's chairman, Ben Walker, said UKIP still has about 30 parish councillors, himself among them, after last week's local elections. \"It certainly wasn't a disaster based on what we thought we'd get from these elections,\" he told the BBC.\n\nEven so, the results overall show how far the party has fallen from the heights of 2014.\n\nThe BBC's results say, in total, UKIP lost 25 seats, which were last up for election in 2019.\n\nMr Walker said only one incumbent UKIP councillor - Steve Hollis in South Staffordshire - contested these elections for the party. He lost, while the party's only other sitting councillor retired.\n\nLittle by little, UKIP councillors have either defected to other parties or quit since 2019.\n\nThe political fortunes of UKIP, originally a single-issue Eurosceptic party, have declined sharply since Mr Farage stood down as its leader in 2016.\n\nBrexit was Mr Farage's crowning glory as leader, but since then, UKIP has been unsure of its place in the British political landscape and burned through six leaders, as it attempts to find a new purpose in a post-Brexit world.\n\nProf Bale said, although UKIP struck a chord with many voters who were hostile to the EU and didn't believe the Conservative government was doing enough to limit immigration, the party was \"ultimately a vehicle for the political ambitions of one man - Nigel Farage\".\n\n\"Once he abandoned them, they were always likely to fade away and die,\" Prof Bale said.\n\nInternal instability and infighting has not helped UKIP's cause, with Mr Farage himself criticising the party's drift towards a far-right, anti-Islam platform under former leader Gerard Batten.\n\n\"The problem we've had is a succession of failed leaders and misdirection,\" Mr Walker said.\n\n\"People look at us and think, well, you've kind of did what you meant to do, didn't you? We're out of Europe, your job's done. That's where we're at. So we're trying to redefine what we are now, which is no easy task.\"\n\nUnder the current leadership of Neil Hamilton, a former Conservative MP, UKIP has been calling itself the \"only truly patriotic political party\" and promoting policies such as ending mass migration and scrapping most foreign aid.\n\nThat's similar territory to Reform UK, which was founded in 2018 as the Brexit Party, and which campaigned to leave the EU without a deal.\n\nAs Reform UK, the party has failed to make a big impression on the electorate recently, winning just six seats in last week's local elections.\n\nThe party, led by Richard Tice, had fielded hundreds of candidates, mainly in areas that had voted heavily to leave the EU in 2016.\n\nMr Walker said pooling resources with Reform UK and other like-minded smaller parties on the right was one route to an electoral revival for UKIP.\n\nBut Dr David Jeffery, a senior lecturer in British Politics at the University of Liverpool, said there appeared to be no way back for populist parties on the right of politics.\n\n\"Even Reform, the party to the right of the Conservatives with the most funding and media attention, without the galvanising issue of EU membership struggles to break past 6% in the polls,\" he said.\n\n\"The party is over for UKIP.\"\n\nMany of those who voted for UKIP in the mid-2010s haven't gone away though. Instead, many of them switched to the Conservatives after former Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to \"get Brexit done\".\n\n\"We are now one of the only Western democracies to not have a successful populist party,\" said Matthew Goodwin, a professor of politics and the author of a book about UKIP's rise.\n\n\"Much of this reflects how the Conservatives repositioned after Brexit to attract Nigel Farage's voters, though whether they can keep this force at bay, with rising immigration and a spiralling cost-of-living crisis, remains to be seen.\"", "The behaviour of children as young as eight is being affected by them viewing pornography, the children's commissioner for England has said.\n\n\"Children are seeing pornography too young - most of them by the age of 13 but [some are] seeing it at eight or nine,\" Dame Rachel De Souza said.\n\nMost children first saw pornography on social media - and technology companies should do more to remove the images.\n\nSchools needed to improve education and parents to set appropriate boundaries.\n\nDame Rachel has published a report on the influence of pornography on harmful sexual behaviour among children.\n\n\"At the most serious end\", children were using the language of violent pornography and it was affecting their behaviour, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Dame Rachel De Souza says the behaviour of eight-year-olds is being affected by them viewing pornography\n\n\"Most children see porn first on Twitter - and then on Snapchat, as well as accessing the porn companies,\" Dame Rachel told Today.\n\n\"We need decent age verification, through the Online Safety Bill, but these tech companies could be stepping up now to get these images down.\"\n\n\"If you've got a social-media site that allows 13-pluses on, then they should not be able to see pornography on it.\"\n\nBoth Twitter and Snapchat have a 13-plus age limit.\n\nA Snapchat official told BBC News: \"Our community guidelines make it clear that we prohibit accounts that promote or distribute pornographic content.\n\n\"If we find this content, we remove it immediately.\n\n\"We also use machine learning to help us detect it and are working constantly to improve these capabilities.\"\n\nTwitter has been approached for comment.\n\nIts guidelines say: \"You can't include graphic content or adult nudity and sexual behaviour within areas that are highly visible on Twitter, including in live video, profile, header, List banner images, or Community cover photos.\"\n\nThey also \"restrict specific sensitive media, such as adult nudity and sexual behaviour, for viewers who are under 18 or viewers who do not include a birth date on their profile\".\n\nThe government says the Online Safety Bill will allow regulator Ofcom to block access or fine companies that fail to take more responsibility for users' safety on their social-media platforms.\n\nDame Rachel said: \"It's going through the Lords at the moment - we need it to go through, we need children not to be able to access porn, particularly this violent porn, online.\"\n\nMen at Work founder Michael Conroy, who trains professionals working with boys and young men to have safer conversations among their peers, said: \"In the past 12 months, I've worked with I think about 1,000 teachers, social workers and youth workers.\n\n\"And in each of training sessions I asked the question, 'Are the young people you work with impacted by porn?' The majority say, 'Yes, very clearly, definitely.'\n\n\"So there is there is an awareness of the issue - but perhaps not of the depth and scale of it.\n\n\"This is the first generation ever - it's like a gigantic historical experiment where we've given our children access to anything. But more importantly, perhaps, we've given anything access to our children.\"", "Well that was a blast!\n\nBut the night is drawing to a close for us now and we're going to finish up our coverage now.\n\nIf you're still in the party mood - you can watch back on iPlayer - you'll find the link above.\n\nHere's a reminder who made it through to the Grand Final on Saturday.\n\nAnd we'll get to do it all again on Thursday for the second semi, where the second 10 places for the final will be awarded.\n\nWe hope you can join us then and in the meantime why not check out our guide to the countries still in the competition, here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Graham Smith from the Republic campaign group was arrested on Coronation day\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has expressed \"regret\" over the arrests of six anti-monarchy protesters on Coronation day.\n\nRepublic chief executive Graham Smith, who was among the group, said he has now received a personal apology from police officers.\n\nHe said he did not accept the apology and would take legal action after no charges were brought against him.\n\nThe Met also confirmed it had used a controversial new law to detain the group.\n\nMr Smith said a chief inspector and two other officers visited his Reading home on Monday evening to issue the apology.\n\nHe told PA news agency: \"They seemed rather embarrassed to be honest.\n\n\"I said for the record I won't accept the apology. We have a lot of questions to answer and we will be taking action.\"\n\nMr Smith, who is from Bristol, earlier said he wanted a \"full inquiry\" into the \"disgraceful episode\".\n\nThe Met said a review found there was no proof the six protesters, who were detained when their vehicle was stopped near the procession route, were planning to \"lock on\", a protesting tactic which is now banned.\n\nRecent changes to the law, passed last week, make it illegal for protesters to use equipment to secure themselves to things like railings.\n\nThe Met said the group of six were detained after items were found in a vehicle which officers \"had reasonable grounds to believe could be used as lock on devices\".\n\nBut the force said it was \"unable to prove intent to use them to lock on and disrupt the event\".\n\nOne man in the group was also arrested for possession of a knife or pointed article.\n\nThe Met said it was \"not clear at the time\" to the arresting officers that \"at least one of the group stopped had been engaging with police\" about holding a lawful protest prior to the Coronation.\n\n\"We regret that those six people arrested were unable to join the wider group of protesters in Trafalgar Square and elsewhere on the procession route,\" a statement continued.\n\nNow it has said all six people have had their bail cancelled and confirmed no further action will be taken.\n\nMr Smith said earlier on Monday that he had spent months consulting with officers about his group's protest plans, and said in a statement on Twitter that his group would be \"speaking to lawyers about taking legal action\".\n\nHe said he had been held for 16 hours on the morning of the Coronation after being stopped by officers who suspected him and group members of carrying \"lock on\" devices to tie themselves to inanimate objects.\n\n\"They also said they had intelligence, which is untrue,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"If they did have intelligence their intelligence officers are either lying or incompetent because there was never any discussion, thought, email, message, anything that suggested any intent to do anything disruptive.\"\n\nMr Smith added that, after months of discussions with the Met, the force had \"repeatedly said, right up until Friday, that they had no concerns about our protest plans, that they were well aware of what we were going to do and they would engage with us and not disrupt us\".\n\nHe continued: \"So they've repeatedly lied about their intentions, and I believe they had every intention of arresting us prior to doing so.\"\n\nMr Smith also rejected suggestions his arrest, along with other protesters, was necessary to limit disruption to the Coronation.\n\nFormer cabinet minister David Davis was the only Conservative MP to vote against the changes to the Public Order Bill, which criminalised protesters using lock-on measures.\n\nHe said that the legislation should be scrutinised by the Home Affairs Select Committee to ensure it is understood and implemented fairly.\n\nHe told the Today programme: \"There's too many elements of the law that are too crude and too broadly defined.\n\n\"What the government said was that it expects the police to come up with standards of behaviour. That's very woolly. If we're going to do that, we should do it properly, do it centrally, with the same level of democracy in the whole country.\n\n\"No-one wants a day ruined, but the right to put up placards is virtually absolute in British democracy.\"\n\nFormer Greater Manchester police chief Sir Peter Fahy said he gave evidence in parliament expressing his concern that the new law was \"poorly defined and far too broad\".\n\n\"We see the consequences of that, particularly for the poor police officers who have to make sense of legislation that was only passed a few days ago,\" he told the Today programme.\n\n\"This law could affect all sorts of protests in your local community, and this legislation could be used against you, and the police would be under pressure.\n\n\"The government have actually reduced the amount of discretion the police have in getting the balance right.\"\n\nShadow housing minister Lisa Nandy said \"clearly something has gone wrong\" in the handling of Mr Smith's case, and expressed her support for a review into the matter, which has been requested by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.\n\nHowever, she said Labour was not committing to \"wholesale repeal\" of the new law introduced by the Conservatives last week, which has been criticised for clamping down on the rights of peaceful protesters.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"One of the questions we have is 'why was it that this group were clearly in contact with the Met, had informed them about their plans, and yet still ended up arrested up and prevented from protesting?'.\n\n\"If there is a problem with the legislation, of course we'll rectify that in government, but we're not into wholesale repeal of legislation without understanding what the actual problem is first.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, Met Police Federation chairman Ken Marsh said officers \"police without fear or favour,\" insisting the force had done \"an incredible job\" policing the Coronation.\n\nHe told the Today programme: \"We have to take into consideration everything that at that moment is put in front of us. If individuals intend to cause an incident which will affect others near them or around them... then we take action to deal with it.\n\n\"Protesting can take place in this country, but it's to the level of which you perform that protesting that we have to balance and deal with.\"\n\nHundreds of protesters gathered across the UK as the Coronation took place.", "Sir Keir Starmer met with new local Labour leaders on Tuesday to discuss his party's plans\n\nSir Keir Starmer has asked Labour councillors to focus on easing living costs to capitalise on the party's local election results last week.\n\nThe Labour leader credited a \"single focus\" on the issue during the campaign for its strong showing, where it gained more than 500 councillors.\n\nThe result, he added, gave new local Labour leaders a \"duty to deliver\".\n\nMeanwhile, Rishi Sunak has insisted his five priorities remain the best way for the Tories to win back voters.\n\nThe prime minister is facing pressure to explain how he will improve the Conservatives' standing with voters ahead of the next general election, expected next year, after losing more than 1,000 councillors.\n\nLabour won control of 22 councils last week, after running a campaign focused on increased costs for households amid soaring inflation.\n\nThese new Labour local authorities have now been tasked with drawing up \"action plans\" to lower living costs within the next 100 days.\n\nAt a meeting with new Labour council leaders earlier, Sir Keir said he was \"absolutely convinced\" the issue was behind his party's gains, adding it had consistently come up on the doorstep during the campaign.\n\nAlthough councils have limited powers to change the economic forces behind rising prices, he said the plans could provide a \"blueprint\" for how his party could tackle the issue if it wins power nationally.\n\nIdeas raised by local leaders at the meeting included \"financial MOTs\" to help people claim the maximum amount of tax credit, and acting as a co-ordinator for local groups offering support.\n\nIn a possible hint of the party's focus ahead of the next election, the councils have also been tasked with reviewing local housing and development policies.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Sunak has insisted that his promises to cut inflation, bring down NHS waiting lists and tackle small boats, are the best way to put his party back on track after the local election losses.\n\nSome Conservative MPs have privately suggested Mr Sunak is likely to need to go beyond reiterating his five priorities - outlined earlier this year - to improve the Tories' fortunes.\n\nBut he doubled down on Tuesday, telling reporters during a visit that his priorities were \"the right ones\" to win back voters and \"the country's priorities\".\n\n\"I know that's not going to happen overnight, but what I can tell people is we are working day and night to make their lives better,\" he added.\n\nConservative MP Justin Tomlinson said the results were \"devastating\" for his party, and should serve as a \"wake-up call for the party at all levels\".\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio, he criticised the party's pitch to voters, adding it lacked a \"coherent message\" and it felt like it had \"forgotten\" to launch its campaign.\n\n\"Before we know it, we'll be heading into the general election, and we need to be back on the front foot,\" he added.\n\n\"We actually need to show that determination and that fight, and set out those tangible reasons why people should vote for what would be an unprecedented fifth term in office.\"", "Following an hour-long stand-off, neighbours described hearing two rounds of gunshots\n\nA 36-year-old woman who was shot at a house has died.\n\nArmed police were called to the property in Priory Road in Dartford, Kent at 12:40 BST on 6 May after reports of gunshots.\n\nA 29-year-old man remains in hospital in a critical condition after also suffering gunshot wounds.\n\nKent Police, which is now investigating the attack as a murder, said a trained negotiator tried to engage with a man inside the property.\n\nWitnesses reported the woman had been \"held hostage\", and was shot after an hour-long stand-off with police.\n\nThe woman died in hospital in London on Monday.\n\nPolice said the injured man was being treated as the suspect and the shooting treated as an isolated incident.\n\nThe woman died two days after being shot in Dartford\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Every day this week, we're interviewing one of the favourite acts for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nToday, it's Finland's maestro of mayhem, Käärijä, whose song Cha Cha Cha is an intoxicating blend of industrial metal and hyperpop.\n\nSplit into two distinct halves, the track is about shrugging off the drudgery of work and abandoning yourself to the dancefloor.\n\nOn the stage Käärijä, whose real name is Jere Pöyhönen, cuts a distinctive figure with his tongue-waggling dance routine, pudding bowl haircut and inflatable green sleeves.\n\nHe told us how his track had been inspired by German band Rammstein, whose logo he has tattooed on his chest, and the secret behind his trademark green sleeves.\n\nHey Käärijä! You've been making music in Finland for a while now, but how did you get started?\n\nI was born in Finland, in Vantaa, and from when I was young, I loved the drums. I'd make my own out of pots and pans and kettles and hit them with a spoon.\n\nAnd where did the stage name come from?\n\nKäärijä, if I had to translate, it means a \"roller\" or a \"moneymaker\", something like that.\n\nIs that a reference to your sideline as a semi-professional gambler?\n\nYeah, yeah. I played hockey for many years, and I play at gambling too. The first song I released in Finland told the story of my gambling.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Eurovision Song Contest This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSo have you put money on Eurovision?\n\nNot yet. Maybe I have to put some money down.\n\nCome on! You have to show faith in yourself!\n\nMaybe, but if I don't win the contest, then I don't get any money. If I put my money on Loreen [Sweden's entrant, who is the current favourite], then maybe I'll win something!\n\nI know Loreen is the favourite but you are creeping up in the odds. How does that feel?\n\nIt feels great because Loreen is a queen, she's a superstar.\n\nYou met her recently. What was that like?\n\nShe's a very calm person, very serene. We had so much fun together. There was no competition between us.\n\nSwedish star and 2012 Eurovision winner Loreen gave Käärijä some advice ahead of the contest\n\nTell me about Cha Cha Cha. Did you write it with Eurovision in mind?\n\nNot really, it was just a song we wrote in the studio, me and my two producers. But when we listened to it for the first time then we thought, \"Okay, this is crazy, man. Maybe we have to try to go to Eurovision.\" And now I'm here!\n\nYou took some inspiration from Rammstein - whose logo you have tattooed on your chest.\n\nYes, when we were writing the song, first we are listening to some Rammstein, watching their music video. When I sing in the \"hard voice\" at the start of the song, I'm trying to sound like [vocalist] Till Lindemann.\n\nThe song switches gear completely in the second half. It almost sounds like K-pop. How did you come up with that idea?\n\nWe wanted to do something new, something crazy. Two songs inside one song. Something people won't expect - and when that second part comes in, it's mind blowing! What's happening now?!\n\nA lot of people have compared it to K-pop - but for me, it's party metal.\n\nAnd tell me the story of the lyrics...\n\nCha Cha Cha, for me, it's all about freedom. Every day of life, we all have problems. Hard things happen, bad things happen. And when the weekend comes, people want to forget all those sad things. And many times they drink a piña colada and get the courage to go to the dancefloor.\n\nFor me, I don't need the alcohol because I'm so crazy mad that I don't care what other people are thinking. Am I good dancer or not? It don't matter! And I hope other people will think the same.\n\nThe star's performance tells a story of its own\n\nAm I right that the staging reflects that story? You start out trapped in a box, with huge shadows behind you that represent your demons.\n\nExactly, it's the demons, because we all have some demons in our life.\n\nMaybe if this wasn't Eurovision, I'd tell you!\n\nThe performance in Liverpool is even bigger than the one you did in Finland. Where do you find the energy?\n\nI love the energy! We didn't want to do the same things we did in Finland. We wanted to feed you with some surprises. It makes the singing a bit harder, but I can do it.\n\nBut you can't change the dance moves... They've gone viral on TikTok.\n\nYeah, it's iconic now. Many people do that dance, the sailor move! We don't want to change that.\n\nDo you wake up doing the dance?\n\nNo. I want to forget that song! When I have free time, I want to just feel that I'm on holiday.\n\nKäärijä is one of the bookmakers' favourites for this year's Eurovision\n\nYou've also got a Finnish music legend on backing vocal - Aija Puurtinen from Honey & The T-Bones.\n\nAija is so, so professional. She tried to teach me how to use my voice and how to open my vocal cords, because my technique is not so good. Many times, I broke my voice and Aija gave me techniques to stop that happening.\n\nActually, Aija says not to drink any honey. But I like honey, I take it anyway. Don't tell Aija I said that!\n\nThe other element of your performance that everyone talks about is your green bolero sleeves. I heard that you've nicknamed them Kaalimato, which is Finnish for \"cabbage worm\".\n\nYeah, Kaalimato. It's a sex metaphor! We have [an adult] store called Kaalimato in Finland. They have some crazy things there.\n\nI don't want to tell more!", "Ms Carroll smiled to reporters as she left the courthouse\n\nA jury in a civil case has found former President Donald Trump sexually abused a magazine columnist in a New York department store in the 1990s.\n\nBut Mr Trump was found not liable for raping E Jean Carroll in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman.\n\nThe jury also found Mr Trump liable for defamation for calling the writer's accusations \"a hoax and a lie\".\n\nIt is the first time Mr Trump has been found legally responsible for a sexual assault.\n\nThe Manhattan jury ordered Mr Trump to pay her about $5m (£4m) in damages.\n\nThe jury of six men and three women reached their decision after less than three hours of deliberations on Tuesday.\n\n\"Today, the world finally knows the truth,\" Ms Carroll said in a written statement following the verdict. \"This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed.\"\n\nMr Trump's lawyer said the former president plans to appeal against the decision.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBecause the trial was in civil court rather than criminal, Mr Trump will not be required to register as a sex offender.\n\nThe former president - who has denied Ms Carroll's accusations - did not attend the two-week civil trial in the Manhattan federal court.\n\nMs Carroll, 79, held the hands of both her lawyers as the verdict was read in court and smiled as she was awarded damages by the jury.\n\nMr Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, shook her hand as the trial ended, telling her: \"Congratulations and good luck.\"\n\nRoberta Kaplan, a lawyer for the plaintiff said in a statement: \"This is a victory not only for E Jean Carroll, but for democracy itself, and for all survivors everywhere.\"\n\nAfter the verdict, Mr Trump, 76, posted on his social media platform Truth Social in all capital letters: \"I have absolutely no idea who this woman is.\n\n\"This verdict is a disgrace - a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time!\"\n\nThe standard of proof in civil cases is lower than in criminal cases, meaning that jurors were only required to find that it was more likely than not that Mr Trump assaulted Ms Carroll.\n\nWhile the jury found Mr Trump liable for sexual battery and defamation of Ms Carroll, they did not find Mr Trump liable of raping her. To do so, the jury would have needed to have been convinced that Mr Trump had engaged in non-consensual sexual intercourse with Ms Carroll.\n\nThe trial saw a tense cross-examination between Ms Carroll and Mr Trump's attorneys.\n\nHer legal team called 11 witnesses to corroborate her claims that Mr Trump had assaulted her in the lingerie department of the luxury store in 1995 or 1996.\n\nThey included two women who also say they were sexually assaulted by Mr Trump decades ago. One woman told jurors that Mr Trump groped her during a flight in the 1970s. Another woman said that Mr Trump had forcibly kissed her while she was interviewing him for an article she was writing in 2005.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo long-time friends of Ms Carroll testified that she told them about the encounter shortly after it occurred.\n\nOn the stand, Ms Carroll described in graphic detail what she alleges happened in the store and the trauma she says she has endured as a result.\n\n\"I'm here because Donald Trump raped me and when I wrote about it, he lied and said it didn't happen,\" she told the court.\n\nMr Trump called no witnesses and appeared only in a video of a deposition that was played for jurors in which he denied rape.\n\n\"It's the most ridiculous, disgusting story,\" Mr Trump said in the footage. \"It's just made up.\"\n\nMs Carroll's lawsuit also argued that Mr Trump had defamed her in an October 2022 post on his social media site in which he called her claims a \"complete con job\" and \"a Hoax and a lie\".\n\nHer legal team argued Mr Trump had acted as a \"witness against himself\" during the deposition when he doubled down on comments he made in a 2005 recording.\n\nIn the audio, known as the Access Hollywood tape and leaked in 2016, Mr Trump suggested women let stars \"do anything\" to them, including grabbing their genitals.\n\nThat's what he did to Ms Carroll, her lawyer argued.\n\nIn the recorded video deposition, Mr Trump at one point confused Ms Carroll for his ex-wife, Marla Maples, which Ms Carroll's lawyers argued undermined his claim that she was \"not his type\".\n\nMr Tacopina sought to cast doubt on Ms Carroll's story, which he called \"a work of fiction\".\n\nHe questioned why Ms Carroll could not specify the date of the attack, arguing that it stripped Mr Trump of the chance to provide an alibi.\n\n\"With no date, no month, no year, you can't present an alibi, you can't call witnesses,\" Mr Tacopina said. \"What they want is for you to hate him enough to ignore the facts.\"\n\nMr Tacopina also pressed her on why she did not report a crime to police or scream while it occurred.\n\nThe former Elle magazine columnist was able to bring the civil case against Mr Trump after New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022.\n\nThe law allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state involving claims that would have normally exceeded statute limitations.", "A baby has been born using three people's DNA for the first time in the UK, the fertility regulator has confirmed.\n\nMost of their DNA comes from their two parents and around 0.1% from a third, donor woman.\n\nThe pioneering technique is an attempt to prevent children being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases.\n\nFewer than five such babies have been born, but no further details have been released.\n\nMitochondrial diseases are incurable and can be fatal within days or even hours of birth. Some families have lost multiple children and this technique is seen as the only option for them to have a healthy child of their own.\n\nMitochondria are the tiny compartments inside nearly every cell of the body that convert food into useable energy.\n\nDefective mitochondria fail to fuel the body and lead to brain damage, muscle wasting, heart failure and blindness.\n\nThey are passed down only by the mother. So mitochondrial donation treatment is a modified form of IVF that uses mitochondria from a healthy donor egg.\n\nThere are two techniques for performing mitochondrial donation. One takes places after the mother's egg has been fertilised by the father's sperm and the other takes place before fertilisation.\n\nHowever, mitochondria have their own genetic information or DNA which means that technically the resulting children inherit DNA from their parents and a smidge from the donor as well. This is a permanent change that would be passed down through the generations.\n\nThis donor DNA is only relevant for making effective mitochondria, does not affect other traits such as appearance and does not constitute a \"third parent\".\n\nThe technique was pioneered in Newcastle and laws were introduced to allow the creation of such babies in the UK in 2015.\n\nHowever, the UK did not immediately press ahead. The first baby born via this technique was to a Jordanian family having treatment in the US in 2016.\n\nThe Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (the HFEA) is saying \"less than five\" babies have been born as of 20 April 2023. It is not giving precise numbers to prevent the families being identified.\n\nThese limited details have emerged after a Freedom of Information request by the Guardian newspaper.\n\n\"News that a small number of babies with donated mitochondria have now been born in the UK is the next step, in what will probably remain a slow and cautious process of assessing and refining mitochondrial donation,\" said Sarah Norcross, the director of the Progress Educational Trust.\n\nThere has been no word from the teams in Newcastle so it is still uncertain whether the technique was successful.\n\nProf Robin Lovell-Badge, from the Francis Crick Research Institute, said: \"It will be interesting to know how well the mitochondrial replacement therapy technique worked at a practical level, whether the babies are free of mitochondrial disease, and whether there is any risk of them developing problems later in life.\"\n\nThere is technically a risk of \"reversion\" where any defective mitochondria that are carried over could gain in number and still result in disease.\n\nIt had once been estimated that up to 150 such babies could eventually be born each year in the UK.", "The missiles are said to have been launched by Tu-95MS bombers (file image)\n\nUkrainian officials say air defences downed 15 Russian cruise missiles which were launched overnight against the capital, Kyiv.\n\nUkraine's military said it destroyed 23 of 25 cruise missiles launched across the country.\n\nNo casualties were reported from the attack, according to Serhiy Popko, a senior Kyiv military official.\n\nThe new missile attacks came hours before Russia was due to celebrate Victory Day.\n\nThe 9 May holiday commemorates the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during World War Two.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has compared the Ukraine war - which he falsely defines as a battle against a \"neo-Nazi regime\" - to Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.\n\nMr Popko said he believed the missiles had been launched from four bombers flying from the Caspian sea region.\n\nUkraine's air force wrote on Telegram that \"overnight into the 'sacred' May 9, (Russia) launched an attack on the territory of Ukraine,\"\n\nMr Popko said Russian forces were trying \"to kill as many civilians as possible on this day\".\n\nThe latest attacks come after Ukraine said Russia launched its biggest drone attack of the war yet on Sunday night.\n\nThat wave of drone and missile strikes killed at least one person and injured five.\n\nAs Russia prepares for the main event of Victory Day - a military parade - the mood is one of nervousness in Moscow.\n\nA series of explosions, drone attacks and sabotage rocked Russia over the past week including an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin.\n\nMeanwhile, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday morning to mark the Europe Day celebration of peace and unity.\n\n\"I very much welcome President Zelensky's decision to make May 9 the Day of Europe. Ukraine is part of our European family,\" she told reporters on her train to Kyiv.", "Joseph James O'Connor was arrested in Spain in 2021\n\nA British national extradited to the US last month has pleaded guilty in New York to a role in one of the biggest hacks in social media history.\n\nThe July 2020 Twitter hack affected over 130 accounts including those of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.\n\nJoseph James O'Connor, 23, known as PlugwalkJoe, pleaded guilty to hacking charges carrying a total maximum sentence of over 70 years in prison.\n\nThe hacking was part of a large-scale Bitcoin scam.\n\nO'Connor, who was extradited from Spain, hijacked numerous Twitter accounts and sent out tweets asking followers to send Bitcoin to an account, promising to double their money.\n\nO'Connor, from Liverpool, was charged alongside three other men over the scam.\n\nUS teenager Graham Ivan Clark pleaded guilty in 2021. Nima Fazeli of Orlando, Florida, and Mason Sheppard, of Bognor Regis in the UK, were charged with federal crimes.\n\nUS Assistant Attorney-General Kenneth Polite Jr described in a statement O'Connor's actions as \"flagrant and malicious\", saying he had \"harassed, threatened and extorted his victims, causing substantial emotional harm\".\n\nCelebrities including US boxer Floyd Mayweather and the singer Wiz Khalifa also lost control of their accounts\n\n\"Like many criminal actors, O'Connor tried to stay anonymous by using a computer to hide behind stealth accounts and aliases from outside the United States.\n\n\"But this plea shows that our investigators and prosecutors will identify, locate, and bring to justice such criminals to ensure they face the consequences for their crimes.\"\n\nIn 2020, an estimated 350 million Twitter users saw suspicious tweets from official accounts of the platform's biggest users. Thousands fell for a scam, trusting that a crypto giveaway was real.\n\nCyber experts agreed that the consequences of the Twitter hack could have been far worse if O'Connor and other hackers had more sophisticated plans than a get-rich-quick scheme.\n\nDisinformation could have been spread to affect political discourse and markets could have been moved by well-worded fake business announcements, for example.\n\nThe hack showed how fragile Twitter's security was at the time. The attackers telephoned a small number of Twitter employees with a believable tale to convince them to hand over their internal login details - which eventually granted the hackers access to Twitter's powerful administrative tools.\n\nEssentially, the hackers managed to use social engineering tricks more akin to those of conmen than of high-level cyber-criminals to get access to the powerful internal control panel at the site.\n\nMike Bloomberg and Kanye West were among those hacked\n\nIt was, and still is, a hugely embarrassing moment in Twitter's troubled history.\n\nO'Connor's admission has not come as a shock though as there was a wealth of evidence in the public domain thanks to the hackers making some bad mistakes or being too loud in their celebrations in the aftermath of the hack.\n\nO'Connor also pleaded guilty to other hacking crimes including gaining access to a high-profile TikTok account.\n\nHe posted a video to that account where his own voice is recognisable and threatened to release \"sensitive, personal material\" related to the owner of the account to people who joined a Discord group.\n\nThe US justice department said he had also used technology to stalk a minor.", "This aerial view of Brienz shows the mass of rock directly threatening the village of Brienz beneath it\n\nResidents of the tiny Swiss village of Brienz have been told to pack their bags and leave immediately.\n\nThe reason: two million cubic metres of rock from the mountain above them is set to come loose and crash down to the valley in the next few days.\n\nThe evacuation order has not come as a complete surprise to the remaining population of about 70 villagers.\n\nBrienz, in the eastern canton of Graubünden, has been judged a geological risk for some time.\n\nThe village itself is built on land that is subsiding down towards the valley, causing the church spire to lean and large cracks to appear in buildings.\n\nWork was under way to try to stabilise that and there were signs the slippage might be slowing down. But ominously, the mountainside above Brienz was in the meantime breaking apart.\n\nVillagers had become accustomed to quite large boulders tumbling down to their gardens below.\n\nGeologists warned that the rock movement was accelerating. Part of the rockface, innocently nicknamed \"the island\", was by 2023 slipping at a rate of 32m (105ft) every year.\n\nAnd yet no one thought they would have to leave so soon.\n\nThe authorities had warned of a possible evacuation later this summer, and at the end of this week a regular village meeting was scheduled to bring everyone up to date.\n\nInstead, after latest risk assessments showed a rockslide was imminent, the order to get out came suddenly on Tuesday morning. From now on, no-one who doesn't live in Brienz will be allowed to enter, while all villagers must be out by Friday at the latest.\n\n\"I love it here, Brienz is a lovely village, it's quiet,\" one young woman told Swiss media. \"It's happened so quickly,\" said another. \"We all thought we would have more time, it's a very strange feeling.\"\n\nMost have been offered accommodation in neighbouring villages, such as the resort of Lenzerheide, which has plenty of space as the ski season is over and summer has not yet started.\n\nBut it's not a permanent solution, and it's not an easy one.\n\n\"I'm ready,\" said one elderly lady, standing on her doorstep with her suitcase. \"But I think I'll wait till the last minute.\"\n\nMany are now asking why a village should suffer such a fate in Switzerland, where building regulations are strict and risk assessment is a continuous process. But Switzerland's Alpine regions are especially sensitive to global warming.\n\nAs the glaciers shrink, and the permafrost high in the mountains begins to thaw, the rock becomes unstable.\n\nLower down, heavier rainfall linked to global warming causes erosion and slippage, and this is what appears to have happened in Brienz. Forecasts of further heavy rain all this week was what prompted the sudden decision to evacuate.\n\nIn 2006 huge chunks of rock fell off Switzerland's famous Eiger, causing the closure of hiking trails and prompting geologists to warn that such events could be expected more often.\n\nIn 2017, a massive landslide struck the village of Bondo, also in Graubünden, burying half the village and killing eight people.\n\nLast summer, latest measurements showed that Swiss glaciers had lost more than half their volume in the last 100 years.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, Brienz's residents, some already with their cars packed outside, gathered for one last update from the authorities.\n\nThat innocent sounding \"island\" is moving even faster, and geologists now say its two million cubic metres of rock is expected to fall in the next seven to 24 days.\n\nHow exactly all that rock will fall is not yet clear. It could come down fairly gradually, avoiding most of the village. Or it could come down fast, destroying Brienz entirely.\n\nThe consensus among the villagers is that they hope and expect to come back to their homes. The problem is, they don't know if they will still be standing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Official photographs from the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been released.\n\nHugo Burnand, who also took their wedding portrait in 2005, captured the royal couple in their regalia shortly after Saturday's Westminster Abbey ceremony.\n\nGroup shots of senior royals and family members were also taken.\n\nThe striking images were captured in Buckingham Palace's Throne Room and Green Drawing Room.\n\nThe King is pictured wearing the Robe of Estate, the Imperial State Crown and is holding the Sovereign's Orb and Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross.\n\nHe is seated on one of a pair of throne chairs that were especially made for use at the 1902 coronation of King Edward VII.\n\nThose chairs were also used by King Charles and Queen Camilla at Westminster Hall to receive addresses from the Speakers of both Houses of Parliament last year.\n\nThe Queen is pictured in the Green Drawing Room wearing Queen Mary's Crown and Robe of Estate.\n\nKing Charles III and Queen Camilla are pictured here with members of the working Royal Family\n\nIn a statement, the King expressed his and Camilla's \"most sincere and heartfelt thanks\" to all those who helped to make the Coronation weekend \"such a special occasion\".\n\nTo people who joined in the celebrations, the King said: \"To know that we have your support and encouragement, and to witness your kindness expressed in so many different ways, has been the greatest possible Coronation gift.\"\n\nKing Charles added that he and his wife would now rededicate their lives to \"serving the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms and Commonwealth\".\n\nThese photographs are sending an unmistakable message. It's showing King Charles and Queen Camilla in the most formal trappings of royalty, wearing their robes and crowns, showing them taking their place in these historic roles.\n\nIt's the kind of official shot you'd see on the wall of a public building rather than in a family album.\n\nThe picture of Camilla is also making it clear that this is now Queen Camilla, no longer the Queen Consort.\n\nThe choice of who is in the group shot of the Royal Family is also symbolic. It says that the focus is limited to the \"working royals\", that core group who will carry out official duties on behalf of the King. It's not the extended family or any hangers-on, these are the royals we're going to see representing the new reign.", "Businesses are being urged to limit the amount of alcohol served at work social events in order to prevent people from acting inappropriately towards others.\n\nThe warning from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) comes as it releases a new poll, suggesting a third of managers have seen harassment or inappropriate behaviour at parties.\n\nWomen were more likely than men to say they had witnessed this behaviour.\n\nThe CMI's boss said alcohol \"doesn't need to be the main event\" at parties.\n\nThat's something that Sarah, who's 27 and works in finance, agrees with.\n\n\"There are still wild parties in my industry, but I think this needs to change,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm very conscious not to drink too much at work parties. If people want to go off and buy lots of drinks after the event, that's up to them, but I think drinking at company socials can lead to inappropriate or regrettable behaviour.\"\n\nSarah says it's important that colleagues are able to socialise with each other, but that alcohol shouldn't always be at the forefront of that.\n\n\"A lot of my friends don't drink, or they might be on medication which prevents them drinking. It's awkward for them if they're at a work party, and they have to ask three times just to get a soft drink, and they could also feel peer pressured to drink.\"\n\nThe CMI, which is a professional body focusing on management and leadership, surveyed more than 1,000 managers at the end of April.\n\nThe poll, seen exclusively by the BBC, found that almost one in three managers (29%) report that they have witnessed inappropriate behaviour or harassment at work parties.\n\nThirty-three percent of women surveyed said they had seen this behaviour, compared with 26% of men.\n\nOverall, two in five (42%) said work parties should be organised around activities that don't involve alcohol. Younger people, aged between 16 and 34, were most likely to say this.\n\nManagers must ensure there are safeguards in place at work events, says the CMI's Ann Francke\n\nThe chief executive of the CMI, Ann Francke, told the BBC that socialising with colleagues is \"a great team building opportunity\" that many people enjoy.\n\nBut she added that managers have a responsibility to keep inappropriate behaviour in check, and to ensure there are safeguards in place.\n\n\"That might mean adding additional activities alongside alcohol, limiting the amount of drinks available per person or ensuring that people who are drinking too much are prevented from acting inappropriately towards others.\"\n\nIt comes after the CBI business lobby group was plunged into crisis following allegations of a rape at a summer work party in 2019 and other sexual misconduct at the organisation, which emerged last month. A second allegation of rape subsequently emerged, as reported by the Guardian.\n\nBoth rape allegations are being investigated by the police.\n\nAlison Loveday, an employment lawyer and business consultant, said many companies now see alcohol-fuelled work parties as \"too much of a risk\".\n\n\"Boozy work parties are the exception rather than the rule today. They have become much reduced because there is a realisation that alcohol and lots of people doesn't necessarily go well together,\" she said.\n\nThere are many alternative activities that firms could use for work events that don't involve alcohol, says John, like paintballing\n\nJohn, who's 66 and has worked in a range of jobs over the years, says he's seen many people embarrass themselves and act badly at work parties.\n\n\"Alcohol definitely changes behaviour, so it's a risk to be drinking on the company watch,\" he says.\n\nHe thinks work social events should be linked to an activity with little or no alcohol.\n\n\"There are loads of alternatives, such as paintballing, escape rooms, or laser quest,\" he said. \"Usually if you ask the group, they'll be up for trying something different, rather than the same old booze-ups.\"\n\nHowever, pub landlord Leigh Watts, who runs the Greyhound Inn in Coventry, says alcohol can still play a part in work parties.\n\nLeigh Watts treated his staff to an open bar at their work party last month\n\n\"People do need to let their hair down and have a laugh, particularly after Covid, and having a few drinks with colleagues is a part of that,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Watts held a staff party of his own last month, in which workers, who ranged in age from 16 to 70, were treated to an open bar.\n\n\"It's about being sensible and knowing the boundaries. But you can still enjoy yourself,\" he said.\n\nDavid D'Souza, from the human resources body the CIPD, said that work social events may become even more important, with the rise of hybrid working.\n\n\"While they can, and should, be fun, organisations and leaders must not neglect their legal and ethical responsibilities to keep employees safe - obligations they have every single day in the workplace.\"\n\nA total of 1,009 managers took part in the CMI's poll, which was conducted between 20 and 26 April 2023. The questions on work parties were asked as part of a survey regularly sent out to the CMI's membership.\n\nHow have your work parties changed? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Archbishop of Canterbury argues against the Illegal Migration Bill, but Lord Howard backs it.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury has attacked the government's migration plans, saying they risked \"great damage\" to the UK's reputation.\n\nJustin Welby said the Illegal Migration Bill would not stop small boat crossings, and it failed in \"our moral responsibility\" towards refugees.\n\nHe was speaking as the bill began what is expected to be a rocky passage through the House of Lords.\n\nBut Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick urged peers to back the legislation.\n\nAdding that the archbishop was \"wrong\" in his criticism, he said: \"There is nothing moral about allowing the pernicious trade of people smugglers to continue.\n\n\"I want to see that stopped, and this bill is the only way to do that,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\nHe added that critics of the bill, including opposition parties, had not suggested \"any viable alternatives\" to stop journeys across the Channel.\n\nThe archbishop's pointed intervention came during a lengthy, highly charged debate about the bill in the Lords on Wednesday.\n\nThe legislation cleared its first parliamentary hurdle in the Lords after a Liberal Democrat bid to block it was rejected by 179 votes to 76.\n\nThe bill, unveiled in March, is a key part of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's plan to \"stop\" small boats crossing the English Channel - which he has made a priority ahead of the next general election.\n\nIt will place a legal duty on the home secretary to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally, to Rwanda or another \"safe\" third country.\n\nThis has prompted outrage from opposition parties and charities, which argue the bill is unworkable and could breach international law.\n\nThe archbishop, one of nearly 90 peers who have put their names down to speak in the debate, told the Lords the bill \"fails utterly\" to take long-term view of the migration challenges around the world.\n\nAlthough he conceded existing international law was in need of updating, he said the bill represented a \"dramatic departure\" from existing conventions and would undermine international co-operation on the issue.\n\nDescribing the bill as a \"short-term fix,\" he said it \"risks great damage to the UK's interests and reputation, at home and abroad\".\n\nHe added it was \"morally unacceptable and politically impractical\" for the UK to let the poorest countries deal with asylum seekers when the UK is cutting its international aid spending.\n\nBaroness Helic, a former adviser to William Hague when he was foreign secretary, described the government's plans to stop small boats as \"a race to the bottom\".\n\nThe baroness, who fled to the UK from war-torn Bosnia at the age of 23, argued the Illegal Migration Bill represented \"an outright ban on asylum\" and questioned its morality.\n\nBut other peers spoke for the bill, including Conservative Lord Forsyth, who said he was \"yet to hear\" a solution to stop boat crossings from critics of the bill.\n\nHe congratulated the archbishop for his \"fantastic job\" at the Coronation on Saturday, but added that while he agreed with him on spiritual matters, they disagreed on the bill.\n\nHe said he agreed it needed further scrutiny, but it was \"not reasonable to criticise the government for trying to deal with this problem\".\n\nThe government made a series of concessions to different sections of the Conservative Party to ease its passage through the Commons last month.\n\nHowever, senior peers have told the BBC they expect significant opposition in the Lords - where the government does not have a majority.\n\nAlthough peers did not vote on amendments during the debate, it was their first chance to have a say on the bill.\n\nLib Dem peer Lord Paddick put forward a rare \"motion to decline\" that would have blocked the bill from continuing in the Lords, forcing the government to reintroduce it from scratch in the Commons.\n\nBut the motion was heavily defeated in the Lords, with peers rejecting it by 179 votes to 76, majority 103.\n\nLord Paddick said: \"This Bill is all pain and no gain. This is a question of principle.\"\n\nLabour peer Lord Coaker said that although his party was against the bill, the Lib Dem motion was not the best way to oppose it.\n\nHe said Labour would do \"all we can\" to change the bill at a later stage, vowing that the party would not be \"cowed\" into accepting the verdict of the Commons.\n\nSeveral peers have already spoken out against changes giving ministers more leeway to ignore attempts by European judges to halt deportations of migrants from the UK.\n\nThe government has also faced strong criticism from senior Tories, including former Prime Minister Theresa May and former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, over the potential impact of the bill on victims of modern slavery.\n\nThe bill would take away temporary protections against removal from the UK that are currently offered to suspected victims of modern slavery or human trafficking while their case is considered.\n\nCritics say this could deter victims from going to the police.\n\nThere has also been concern, including among Conservative MPs, over new powers in the bill to detain children on the suspicion that they are liable for removal.\n\nMinisters have agreed to work with Tory MPs on a time limit for how long unaccompanied children can be detained.\n\nTo get the bill through the Commons, ministers also promised to set out new safe and legal routes for asylum seekers, after pressure from backbenchers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVladimir Putin has said Russia's future \"rests on\" the soldiers fighting in Ukraine, during his annual speech to mark Victory Day in Moscow.\n\n\"There is nothing more important now than your combat effort,\" he said.\n\nThe military parade, which commemorates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, was scaled back this year for security.\n\nMr Putin also used his speech to justify his invasion of Ukraine, while accusing \"Western globalist elites\" of provoking conflicts.\n\nCivilisation is again \"at a decisive turning point\", he said in Moscow's Red Square to a crowd composed of just officials and veterans, as the event was not open to the public.\n\nAddressing the troops fighting in Ukraine - some of whom were present - Mr Putin said a \"real war\" had been \"unleashed\" against Russia. The reality is that it was Russia that invaded Ukraine.\n\n\"The security of the country rests on you today, the future of our statehood and our people depend on you,\" he told them.\n\nThis was the second Victory Day parade since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nBut a series of explosions and incidents of sabotage across Russia in recent weeks saw the celebrations scaled back because of security concerns.\n\nIn one incident last week, there was an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin. Russia claimed it was an attempt on Mr Putin's life and pointed the finger squarely at Ukraine and the US, but both denied any involvement.\n\nThis year's celebration had 3,000 fewer soldiers and less military hardware on display. The parade was shorter, while there was no military flypast and no modern tanks, which are usually a feature of the parade. On Tuesday, the only tank on display was the T-34 from World War Two.\n\nHowever, for the first time since 2020, a handful of international leaders attended.\n\nAll the Central Asian leaders were there, including Kazakhstan's Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko and Armenia's prime minister were also at Red Square.\n\nThe US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said the late decision of the Central Asian leaders to attend \"likely indicates their reticence to show direct and public support of the war\".\n\nMr Putin's speech followed similar themes to last year, likening the fight with Ukraine's \"criminal regime\" to the defeat of Nazi Germany.\n\nHe took aim at the West, saying \"their goal is nothing else but to see the fall of our country\".\n\nMr Putin said Russia wanted to see a \"peaceful future\", but accused Western elites of sowing the seeds of \"hatred and Russophobia\" and destroying family values.\n\nBut much of his speech was focused on his pride for the actions of Russian \"heroes\" in Ukraine.\n\n\"There is no cause stronger in the world than our love for our armed forces,\" said Mr Putin, who stands accused of war crimes in Ukraine by the International Criminal Court (ICC).\n\n\"To Russia, to our armed forces,\" he concluded, as the Russian national anthem started to play.\n\nAfter Mr Putin's speech, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen held a news conference in Kyiv.\n\nPresident Zelensky said that increased attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks had been part of Russian efforts to \"present something\" to the military and political leadership, having failed to take the eastern city of Bakhmut before Victory Day.\n\n\"They have to show that they destroyed something,\" he said.\n\nMs von der Leyen said \"the invaders have been dragged out of prisons\" to fight on behalf of Russia, which had \"dramatically failed\" in the war.\n\nReacting to Mr Putin's speech, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the EU must not be intimidated by the Russian leader's \"show of force\".\n\n\"Let's stay steadfast in our support for Ukraine - as long as it is necessary,\" he told the European Parliament.\n\nA Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launcher on show during the military parade on Red Square in Moscow", "The ENO recently staged The Dead City at its current home, the London Coliseum\n\nThe English National Opera has narrowed down its search for a new home to five cities, after being forced to move its headquarters out of London.\n\nThe opera company has been told by Arts Council England to relocate from the capital or lose its public funding.\n\nBirmingham, Bristol, Greater Manchester, Liverpool and Nottingham are on the shortlist.\n\n\"All the cities have brilliant stuff going for them,\" ENO chief executive Stuart Murphy told the BBC.\n\n\"But there'll be different versions of the ENO depending on which city we go to.\"\n\nIn November, the ENO was told to move its HQ from London after the Arts Council was instructed by the government to spread more money beyond the capital.\n\nA banner saying #LoveENO was hung outside the London Coliseum\n\nThe Arts Council suggested Manchester, the biggest city in Europe without a resident opera company, as a possible destination.\n\nOn Tuesday, the ENO is performing in another shortlisted city, Liverpool. It will deliver an operatic take on Eurovision classics before the first semi-final of this year's song contest, which is being held in the city.\n\n\"Our performance on Tuesday is the start of us testing different things over the next few years,\" Mr Murphy said.\n\n\"Each city allows us to do a different version of the ENO. So what people will see on Tuesday at Eurovision is a version of the ENO that is doing something really mad and bonkers in front of 15,000 people.\"\n\nThe company's orchestra and singers will perform at the official Eurovision fan village with guest vocalists including Russell Watson, 1990s pop star Sonia and Ukraine's 2004 Eurovision winner Ruslana.\n\n\"It's not that we would only do that type of opera if we were to go to Liverpool. But actually, it's really clear that Liverpool do mass-scale events sort of effortlessly,\" Mr Murphy added.\n\nThe ENO's performance in Liverpool is part of the build-up to the Eurovision Song Contest\n\nThe company will narrow down the shortlist to three cities by the end of this month before making a final decision by the end of the year.\n\nAsked about the criteria, he said: \"We haven't said it all depends on who will put in the most money, or which is the biggest catchment area for population, or the youngest area. It's a whole combination of stuff.\n\n\"It's how excited the city is about us going there, what opportunities there are for partnerships, what things organically happen, like Eurovision.\n\n\"If there's already an opera company there, like Birmingham Opera, how can we partner with them.\"\n\nAlthough it has told the ENO to move its main base, the Arts Council has said it does expect the company to continue to stage shows at its current home, the London Coliseum.\n\nThe Arts Council originally planned to effectively halve the ENO's grant to £17m over the next three years, even if the company did agree to move.\n\nHowever, the funding body has now agreed to increase that and provide £35.5m for the next three years.\n\nMr Murphy said: \"It won't take a brilliant mathematician to work out that we have to make exactly the same funding work for two locations, not just one.\n\n\"It's not like we're just lifting out of London and moving somewhere else. We're going to have a presence in London and open up a new base as well.\n\n\"So that's what the funding is there for. And over the three years we'll move to that [new] place.\"\n\nHe also warned that wider cuts would have a \"cataclysmic effects for the for the classical music world\".\n\nThe Arts Council handed major cuts to other opera companies like Glyndebourne and Welsh National Opera, while the BBC recently announced reductions for its English orchestras and the possible closure of the BBC Singers choir.", "A rule requires all the songs to be non-political and yet…\n\nThe international attention that comes with an event the size of Eurovision can lead to controversy.\n\nUkraine has not been alone in recent years in selecting songs which could be seen as aimed at Russia. When the contest was held in Moscow in 2009, Georgia withdrew from the competition after Eurovision organisers asked for changes to some of their lyrics.\n\nTheir song was called We Don’t Wanna Put In, but the chorus sounded an awful lot like \"We don’t want no Putin\". (Russian forces had invaded Georgia the previous year.)\n\nIn 2013, at the end of her performance, Finland’s Krista Siegfrids revealed her song Marry Me was a proposal to another woman by kissing her female backing singer. Not particularly controversial for much of Europe, but perhaps too much for Turkey, which quit Eurovision complaining about some of the competition rules, and for China which edited Siegfrids out of its broadcast.\n\nEurovision’s first openly transgender singer became a Eurovision icon in 1998, winning with the dance-pop anthem Diva. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups in Israel were less than happy about the choice and she received death threats ahead of her performance.\n\nItaly may be the only country to have banned one of its own songs when Gigliola Cinquetti performed Si (meaning \"Yes\") in 1974.\n\nAfter selecting the song, the national broadcaster RAI became worried it might be seen as a message to vote \"Yes\" in upcoming referendum on banning divorce and decided not to show the performace. The song finished second, the Italian public voted \"No\" and divorce remained legal.\n\nFinally, there is the rumour that, after winning two years in a row, Ireland deliberately picked acts it hoped would lose in the mid-90s.\n\nSome fans believe that Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan were chosen in 1994 because their gentle, acoustic song-writing was unfashionable and Ireland would avoid the cost of hosting for a third time. If that was the reason, it backfired spectacularly because they won - and Ireland remains the only country to win Eurovision three times in a row.\n\nAt the start of the grand final, all the finalists walk on to stage accompanied by their national flag. During this year’s parade, listen out for a unique UK-Ukraine flavour as some much-loved former Ukrainian contestants sing their Eurovision entries woven in with British classics.\n\nWatch all of Eurovision on BBC and BBC iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch thousands gather for anti-gun march in Belgrade after mass shootings\n\nTens of thousands of Serbs have joined protests against gun violence in the capital Belgrade and another city after two mass shootings last week.\n\nSeventeen people died in the shootings on Wednesday and Thursday, including eight children in a primary school.\n\nThe protesters are demanding that top government officials resign, and want newspapers and TV stations that they say promote violence to be shut down.\n\nHe accused the opposition of capitalising on a national tragedy to promote their own interests. He said he was ready to test his party's popularity at a snap vote.\n\n\"I will continue to work and I will never back down before the street and the mob... Whether it will be a reshuffle of the government or an election, we shall see,\" he said on TV.\n\nThe next parliamentary elections are set to take place in 2026.\n\nPolice were stationed near all of Belgrade's schools as they restarted classes on Monday. The government is planning to recruit more officers to be stationed at schools.\n\nCrowds marched through the centre of the city behind a banner that read \"Serbia against violence\".\n\n\"We are here because we can't wait any longer. We've waited too long, we've been silent too long, we've turned our heads too long,\" Marina Vidojevic, a schoolteacher, told the crowd, as quoted by AFP news agency.\n\n\"We want safe schools, streets, villages and cities for all children.\"\n\nThousands also turned out across the northern city of Novi Sad, where protests threw flowers into the Danube river which flows to the capital.\n\nThe protesters called for the resignation of the interior minister and the head of Serbia's intelligence agency.\n\nSerbia's Education Minister, Branko Ruzic, stepped down on Sunday, citing the \"cataclysmic tragedy\" of the recent school massacre in his resignation letter.\n\nIn Novi Sad, protesters threw flowers into the Danube river\n\nSerbia has the highest rates of gun ownership in Europe. A 2018 survey suggests there are 39 guns for every hundred people in Serbia - the vast majority unlicensed.\n\nMr Vucic has started a one-month amnesty for surrendering illegal weapons, with people able to drop of their guns to police with no questions asked.\n\nThe amnesty will last 30 days.\n\nOn the first day of the amnesty around 1,500 guns were surrendered, according to Serbian police.", "The then Prince Charles meets fishmonger Pat O'Connell at the English Market in Cork in 2018\n\nAs King Charles III prepares to take to the throne he also takes on another legacy left over by his mother.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's 2011 trip to the Republic of Ireland is often seen as a turning point in Anglo-Irish relations.\n\nWill her son continue those steps in reconciliation and what has his relationship been with the Republic of Ireland?\n\nMarie Coleman, professor of 20th Century history at Queen's University Belfast, said that rather than building on his mother's legacy he is \"continuing his own legacy of building those good relations\".\n\n\"The Queen's visit didn't happen in isolation. The groundwork had been laid by the man who is now King Charles,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II and President Mary McAleese at Áras an Uachtaráin in Phoenix Park, Dublin 2011\n\nBefore the Queen's visit to the Republic of Ireland in 2011, King George V's visit in 1911 was the last by a British monarch.\n\nDuring that century-long gap there were seismic events that strained an already complicated relationship - Irish independence, partition and, in the latter part of the 20th Century, the Troubles.\n\nProf Coleman said \"the ice between the Irish and the British royals\" had been broken by Charles himself when he visited the Republic of Ireland in 1995.\n\nIt was the first official visit by a British Royal Family member since Irish independence.\n\n\"I'm not convinced that enough credit is given to him for that particular visit,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\nIn many ways King Charles III has a had a closer personal relationship with Ireland than his mother did.\n\nAs Prince Charles he has come on private visits as a personal friend of the Duke of Devonshire of Lismore Castle in County Waterford.\n\nHe was also co-patron with Irish President Michael D Higgins of the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool.\n\nThere have been huge changes in Ireland since Charles' great-grandfather King George V visited Maynooth, County Kildare\n\n\"He has one of the closest relationships with Ireland, certainly in the last decade, than any monarch I can think of in recent centuries,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\nSince his 2015 Mullaghmore visit he has been a regular visitor.\n\nAs soon as Covid restrictions were lifted he was back visiting in 2022 - with a trip to Tipperary.\n\n\"I would not be surprised if the Republic of Ireland was high on his agenda for some sort of significant visit early in his reign,\" added Prof Coleman.\n\nThe royals paid a visit to the Rock of Cashel in 2022\n\nAs Prince Charles he made a meaningful trip in 2015, visiting Mullaghmore in County Sligo where his great-uncle was murdered in 1979.\n\nThe IRA detonated a bomb on a fishing boat at Mullaghmore, killing Lord Mountbatten, his 14-year-old grandson, Nicholas Knatchbull, and 15-year-old Paul Maxwell.\n\nThe Dowager Lady Brabourne died the day after the attack.\n\n\"We know that he (Mountbatten) was a formative influence on the prince in his in his early years, so that must have been quite a significant emotional blow to him,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\nThe visit was a significant milestone - the then prince was the first senior member of the Royal Family to visit the scene of the attack.\n\nDuring that visit he also met Gerry Adams, then president of Sinn Féin.\n\nSpeaking at the time, he said: \"At the time I could not imagine how we could come to terms with the anguish of such a deep loss, since for me Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had.\n\nHe said the island of Ireland had \"more than its fair share of turbulence and troubles\" and \"those directly affected don't easily forget the pain\".\n\nThen Prince Charles and his wife Camilla with Timothy Knatchbull whose twin brother died in the bomb which killed Lord Mountbatten\n\n\"So I suppose in some ways, maybe that trip brought him some closure,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\n\"But it is representative of the way in which the Troubles affected not just people on the island of Ireland or people from Britain who are affected, but it it affected the Royal Family and the King himself in a very personal way,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It seemed as if the foundations of all we held dear in life had been torn apart irreparably\" - Prince Charles\n\nThe invite and acceptance list for the Coronation shows signs of how far Anglo-Irish relations have come.\n\nProf Coleman said the attendance of the President of Ireland is significant.\n\n\"The Irish Free State when it was still a dominion refused to go in 1937. The Republic of Ireland was not represented in 1953 so it's quite an important departure for the Republic of Ireland also.\"\n\nEven more significant is the presence of Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill - who has accepted an invitation to attend the coronation.\n\n\"It's even an advance on Sinn Féin's position last September, at the time of the death of the Queen, where they drew a distinction between attending events which marked the passing of the Queen, and not attending events which mark the accession of the new King,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\n\"So it looks like their position has even developed from that,\" she added.\n\nHowever, the academic said that much of the progress made in Anglo-Irish relations has been affected by Brexit.\n\nBrexit - the UK's departure from the EU - saw it leave a union once shared with Ireland.\n\nIt also raised questions of sovereignty, identity and borders.\n\nHas the drawn-out departure and protracted negotiations over the Irish border and trade put extra strain on relations between the two governments?\n\nProf Coleman said the process had \"damaged those good relations which the Queen had done so much to forge particularly during that visit in 2011\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt has become an annual event - the military parade in Red Square in Moscow and cities across Russia on 9 May, marking victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.\n\nUnder Vladimir Putin, Victory Day has become a show of strength of troops and military hardware, as well as a chance to remember the sacrifices of World War Two. Twenty-seven million Soviet citizens died, by far the greatest loss of any country, in what Russians call the Great Patriotic War.\n\nThis year, the event has taken on a significance of its own. Far from liberating Europe, Russia has waged months of war against its neighbour Ukraine and is devoid of any real form of military victory that it can celebrate.\n\nRegiments that played a key role in the war will parade in front of the top brass and the president, whose address will echo across Red Square and be scrutinised for what to expect next. Russia's leader often uses this moment to send messages of intent.\n\nThe Victory Day parade was occasionally marked in the Soviet era and revived by President Boris Yeltsin for the 50th anniversary in 1995, but it was Vladimir Putin in 2008 who made it an annual event featuring military hardware. Russian identity has been largely created with Victory Day in the background, with schoolbooks and history books focusing on Russia as Europe's wartime liberators.\n\nVladimir Putin was prime minister when the Victory Day parade began featuring military hardware\n\n\"Even in a normal year it's a huge show of Russia strength, of Putin's control and everything he stands for,\" says Ammon Cheskin of Glasgow University. \"And that's just amplified this year.\"\n\nClaims that he will declare an end to the campaign have been denied, as have reports that he will announce a full declaration of war or a mobilisation of Russian men. Russia's military would not \"artificially adjust\" its actions to any particular date, said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.\n\nSomething short of full mobilisation could be announced, in response to Russia's big losses on the battlefield. Dozens of ads have appeared on job websites in recent weeks looking for \"specialists in mobilisation work\", but such a step could hit the president's popularity and 9 May might not be the right time to announce it.\n\nAfter Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Vladimir Putin marked Victory Day with a speech in Red Square about defeating fascism, before flying to the Black Sea port of Sevastopol to celebrate his new victory in front of thousands of onlookers.\n\nIn 2014, President Putin celebrated the annexation of Crimea by travelling to Sevastopol on Victory Day\n\n\"This year the primary objective was to announce the victory that was supposed to happen in February,\" says Ernest Wyciszkiewicz of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding. \"They are preparing a PR stunt for Monday: it's important for Russians to see that the special military operation they have been hearing about has led to something tangible.\"\n\nInstead of celebrating the overthrow of Ukraine's government, the Kremlin will have to settle for the capture of most of Mariupol. The city may lie in ruins, but Russia has repeatedly talked of \"de-Nazification and demilitarisation\" of Ukraine and it may claim defeat of the Azov battalion, which it has falsely portrayed as Nazi. That would resonate on a day marking World War Two.\n\n\"In Russian cities and regional capitals we can see signs with the Victory Day symbol,\" says Olga Irisova, co-founder of analysis group Riddle Russia. \"Usually the signs say 9 May 1945 but this year it's 1945/2022, so they're trying to provide people with the idea that once again they're standing up to Nazis.\"\n\nMariupol is in ruins - but a PR stunt involving the city may feature in the events\n\nIn Mariupol itself there will be no Victory Day parade because of apparent security threats. Russia's proxy leader in the region, Denis Pushilin, has said a parade will have to wait until Mariupol becomes part of his so-called Donetsk People's Republic.\n\nThere will be unspecified festive events, though, and it could feature prominently in Russian coverage. In the run-up to 9 May the city has had visits from Kremlin TV spin doctor Vladimir Solovyov and a delegation from the Kremlin led by the president's deputy chief of staff, Sergei Kiryenko.\n\nWar in Ukraine: More coverageWhy 9 May is so important for Russia\n\nThe Red Square Victory Day parade is about aesthetics too, and military hardware in particular. It is a chance for the Kremlin to show off its latest weaponry.\n\nIt was the Armata T-14 tank that turned heads on Victory Day in 2015, but it has been conspicuous by its absence in the war in Ukraine, because it is not yet ready for frontline combat. Ukraine says it has destroyed well over 1,000 less modern Russian tanks on the battlefield.\n\nThere will be less hardware and fewer troops this year than in 2021. But there will still be some 10,000 troops and 129 pieces of military equipment, according to an analysis by BBC Russian. Gone will be one of Russia's newest tanks, the T-80BVM, as well as the Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile system.\n\nThe aerial display will be just as big as before, with 77 planes and helicopters, and the air force has been rehearsing over Red Square in a Z-formation - the controversial symbol adopted by invading forces.\n\nThese Russian warplanes were pictured flying over the Kremlin in Z-formation\n\nBut there will be no foreign leaders this year, which the Kremlin puts down to the 77th anniversary not being a significant event in itself.\n\nMost of the messaging around Victory Day is directed at the Russian population anyway, says Olga Irisova. By harnessing the Nazi narrative from World War Two, the Kremlin is able to stir up strong feelings because most Russians have relatives who either died or struggled in the war.\n\nWhile events will take place across Russia, in neighbouring countries 9 May has become less and less significant. Ukraine saw some of the greatest losses in the war and a recent opinion poll suggested that the date should be seen as a day of remembrance rather than victory.\n\nKazakhstan has cancelled its military parade for a third year running and Latvia has declared it a day of remembrance - for victims of Russia's war in Ukraine.", "Nicola Bulley's body was found in the River Wyre about a mile away from where she was last seen\n\nThe force which investigated Nicola Bulley's disappearance will not face action for sharing her personal information, a watchdog has said.\n\nThe 45-year-old mother-of-two's body was found 23 days after she disappeared from St Michael's on Wyre in January.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it would not take action over disclosures Lancashire Police made during a \"fast-paced\" investigation.\n\nThe force thanked the ICO for its \"careful consideration of this matter\".\n\nMs Bulley disappeared while walking her dog by the River Wyre after dropping off her daughters at school on 27 January.\n\nHer dog was found shortly after, along with her phone, which was still connected to a work conference call and placed on a bench by the steep riverbank.\n\nThe police mounted a large-scale operation, which included searches of the surrounding area and public appeals, but it was not until 19 February that her body was found in the river about a mile from where she was last seen.\n\nMPs and campaign groups voiced their disapproval after officers put elements of her private life into the public domain, including her struggles with alcohol and perimenopause.\n\nMs Bulley's phone was found on a bench close to River Wyre and was still connected to a work conference call\n\nAnnouncing its conclusions, ICO's deputy commissioner of regulatory policy Emily Keaney said it had sought to \"reassure the public that there are rules in place to protect how personal information is used and shared\".\n\n\"We wanted to be clear that while police can disclose information to protect the public and investigate crime, they would need to be able to demonstrate such disclosure was necessary and proportionate,\" she said.\n\nShe said the ICO had \"spoken with Lancashire Police to better understand the steps they took before releasing information\" and had heard about \"the challenging nature of considering whether and how to share personal information during fast-paced, important cases\".\n\n\"Based on our conversations... we don't consider this case requires enforcement action,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the ICO would \"provide further details around this decision following the inquest into Nicola Bulley's death\", which is due to be held in June.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said it had also concluded its investigation into an officer's contact with Ms Bulley prior to her disappearance, which had \"identified two areas of learning\" related to recording information and activating body-worn video.\n\nIt said it had focused on the actions and decisions of a police officer who attended Ms Bulley's address as part of a multi-agency team due to a concern for her wellbeing.\n\nIt added that after a \"careful review and analysis of all the evidence\", it had recommended that the force update its guidance for \"multi-agency vehicles, to ensure all police officers working in this role understand what is expected of them\".\n\nLancashire Police's Assistant Chief Constable Sam Mackenzie said the force wanted to thank the ICO \"for their careful consideration of this matter and we welcome their decision\".\n\nHe said it was \"important to stress\" that the \"completely\" separate IOPC investigation related solely to contact with Ms Bulley on 10 January and had found no misconduct or wrongdoing.\n\n\"Whilst we do have some procedural learning, it is important to note that our attendance was in support of an ambulance deployment and that the officer dealt with Nicola with compassion and empathy, putting her care at the forefront of his decision-making on that day,\" he added.\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner, Andrew Snowden, said an independent review by the College of Policing into the force's handling of the case was under way - with findings and recommendations due to be published in the autumn.\n\nHe said it would have three areas of focus: the operational response to the high-risk missing person investigation, press engagement and decision-making surrounding disclosure of sensitive personal information.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Ofcom launched an investigation after receiving 422 complaints about Naomi Wolf's comments\n\nA GB News programme which broadcast claims that the Covid-19 vaccination programme amounted to \"mass murder\" has been found to have broken Ofcom rules.\n\nThe claims were made in an interview with Naomi Wolf on a show hosted by Mark Steyn last October.\n\nOfcom received 422 complaints about the comments, and has now asked GB News to attend a meeting on the matter.\n\nGB News said it accepted Ofcom's findings and it welcomed the opportunity to meet with the watchdog.\n\nOfcom found that the broadcaster did not do enough to protect viewers from potentially harmful content.\n\nThe ruling follows a similar breach by the Mark Steyn show on GB News in April last year.\n\nMs Wolf, a journalist and author, was interviewed about the roll-out of the Covid vaccine during Mr Steyn's hour-long show on the news channel.\n\nShe claimed the vaccination programme amounted to \"mass murder\" and was comparable to the actions of \"doctors in pre-Nazi Germany\".\n\nOfcom said her claims \"amounted to the promotion of a serious, unchallenged conspiracy theory which was presented with authority\".\n\nIt was \"particularly concerned\" by her \"serious and alarming claim\" that \"mass murder\" was taking place - something she repeated three times.\n\n\"These claims had the potential to impact on viewers' decisions about their health and were therefore potentially harmful,\" the Ofcom report said.\n\n\"[GB News] should have ensured that Naomi Wolf's potentially harmful comments were challenged or otherwise contextualised to provide adequate protection for the audience, which they were not.\"\n\nThe programme was found to have broken rule 2.1 of Ofcom's broadcasting code.\n\nMr Steyn left GB News earlier this year, claiming the channel wanted to make him personally liable for Ofcom fines.\n\nIn March the regulator found that an earlier Mark Steyn show, which aired on April 21 2022, broke broadcasting rules and was \"potentially harmful and materially misleading\".\n\nIt used an \"incorrect claim\" that UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) data provided evidence of a \"definitive causal link\" between a third Covid-19 vaccine and higher rates of infection, death and people being admitted to hospital.\n\nGB News launched in June 2021, promising to \"change the face of news and debate in the UK\".\n\nA spokesperson for the channel said: \"We accept Ofcom's finding that our former presenter Mark Steyn and his guest Naomi Wolf breached the Ofcom code in their broadcast about Covid vaccines last October. Mr Steyn last appeared on the channel five months ago.\"\n\nThey said they took Ofcom compliance and freedom of speech seriously.\n\nBut they added: \"The Communications Act of 2003 and the Ofcom Code which stemmed from it were not framed with channels like ours in mind, nor did they fully envisage the current mix of news and opinion in broadcast, or indeed the online and social media world.\n\n\"We welcome the opportunity to meet Ofcom and to work with them in ensuring that our legal freedoms to speak freely are robustly protected, while remaining aligned with some of the best journalism and broadcasting standards in the world.\"\n\nIn a statement on her website, Ms Wolf said she stood by her claims and described the ruling as \"damaging censorship\" and a \"baseless reputational attack\".\n\n\"The exposure of danger to the public which Ofcom today assails, is exactly what real journalism is supposed to do,\" she added.\n\n\"I will continue to speak out with lifesaving information to help protect women and babies.\"\n\nThe Covid vaccine is safe and strongly recommended for pregnant and breastfeeding women, according to the NHS.\n\nA GB News programme hosted by two Conservative MPs is also at the centre of an Ofcom investigation, amid claims it broke impartiality rules.\n\nOfcom has the power to fine a broadcaster or to suspend or revoke a licence if they consider a broadcaster has \"seriously, deliberately, repeatedly or recklessly\" breached one of its requirements.", "Protester Matt Turnbull is one of the people arrested in the build up to the Coronation.\n\nDozens of people have been arrested during the King's Coronation, including the leader of a prominent anti-monarchy group.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police said 52 arrests were made for a range of reasons, and all remain in custody.\n\nThe arrest of anti-monarchy protesters earlier in the day has been labelled \"alarming\" by human rights groups.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: \"There is no basis for any deal, at all, with the SNP because of their politics of separation\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out a coalition with the Lib Dems if Labour fails to win a majority at the next general election.\n\nAsked if he would do a deal with the Lib Dems, the Labour leader told the BBC this was a \"hypothetical question\".\n\nBut he said he would never do a deal with the SNP because of a \"fundamental disagreement\" on Scottish independence.\n\nDespite local election gains, experts say support for Labour may not yet be enough to win an overall majority.\n\nLast week the party gained 537 councillors and 22 councils in England, including key battlegrounds like Swindon, Plymouth, Medway and Stoke-on Trent.\n\nThose are places where Labour is hoping for success at the next general election.\n\nFollowing the results, Sir Keir said his party was on course for a majority.\n\nThe BBC's projected national share - which estimates what the outcome would have been if all of Britain had the chance to vote - put Labour at 35%, nine points ahead of the the Conservatives.\n\nBut many commentators have predicted this level of support may not translate into an overall majority at the next general election, which must happen before January 2025.\n\nIf no party wins a majority in the House of Commons, the result is a hung Parliament.\n\nThe party with the most seats is usually asked to form a government but in order to secure a majority it must get support from other parties - either through an informal deal or a formal coalition.\n\nAsked if he would ever do a deal with the Liberal Democrats, Sir Keir told the BBC: \"I want to press on for a Labour majority, that's what we're aiming for. This is a hypothetical question.\"\n\nHowever, in response to the same question in relation to the Scottish National Party, he said: \"No... because there's a fundamental disagreement.\n\n\"I will never do a deal with a party that thinks the separation of the United Kingdom is the way forward.\"\n\nPut to him that this was also a hypothetical question, Sir Keir insisted \"there is no basis for a deal at all with the SNP because of their politics of separation\".\n\nOn Sunday, Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey - whose party gained 12 councils and more than 400 councillors on Thursday - ruled out going into a coalition with the Conservatives but refused to say the same for Labour.\n\nHe said it was a \"hypothetical question\" adding that he would not \"take the voters for granted\".\n\nOn Tuesday, he added that the party's strategy was to target Conservatives in so-called \"blue wall\" areas of southern England and there must be \"no sitting back\".\n\nIt all adds up to what looks like symmetrical flirting from Labour and the Liberal Democrats.\n\nThey each answer the question in exactly the same way, despite being able to be categoric about equally hypothetical situations of deals with the Conservatives and the SNP respectively.\n\nIn both local elections and at a general election, in most instances Labour and the Lib Dems are competitive against the Conservatives in different parts of the country.\n\nExpect to see Tory MPs and ministers talk up what they see as the dangers of a hung parliament, with Labour reliant on other parties for support.\n\nIn 2010, the Lib Dems formed a coalition government with the Tories but the party paid the price at the next general election, losing 49 seats.\n\nThe Conservative-Lib Dem coalition lasted a full term and was arguably more stable than the Conservative-only governments that followed it.\n\nSir Keir said he was \"confident\" Labour's local election results put the party on course for a majority but he was not \"complacent\", saying \"there's more work to do\".\n\nThe Labour leader added that his party's campaign had focused on tackling the cost of living and it now needed to \"deliver\".\n\nLeaders of the 22 councils won by Labour have been given the job of drawing up \"emergency cost-of-living plans\" within their first 100 days, as well as reviewing local housing and development policies.\n\nSir Keir was also asked if he agreed with comments made by Labour's then-Business Secretary Peter Mandelson at the height of the New Labour government under Tony Blair, that he was \"intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich as long as they pay their taxes\".\n\n\"I'm very relaxed about people being rich and getting rich,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"I know what aspiration is. I came from a working class background and I was able to not only head up the Crown Prosecution Service but now lead the Labour Party.\"\n\nHe added: \"But I want, obviously, everyone to pay their taxes and I want fairness and I want equality and I want every child to have that opportunity.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted his five priorities - including cutting inflation, bringing down NHS waiting lists and tackling small boat crossings - are the best way to put his party back on track after it lost 48 councils and more than 1,000 councillors.", "Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined their parents helping scouts in Slough as part of the Big Help Out.\n\nThe initiative, to celebrate the King Charles III's Coronation, aims to encourage people to take part in volunteering projects.", "A New York jury has found that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed a former columnist in a civil trial.\n\nE Jean Carroll sued the ex-US president, alleging he raped her in a Manhattan department store nearly 30 years ago. The jury ordered Mr Trump to pay Ms Carroll $5m (£4m) in damages.\n\nBut the jury found Mr Trump was not liable for raping Ms Carroll in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman.\n\nThe two-week trial in New York federal court featured tense exchanges with lawyers and controversial remarks about women's bodies.\n\nMr Trump did not appear in court to testify and has consistently denied the accusation.\n\nUS District Judge Lewis Kaplan delivered instructions to the nine jurors on Tuesday morning before they retired to consider their verdict.\n\n\"I know you're going to do your duty under your oath to render a just and true verdict,\" he told the six men and three women.\n\nWhile the statute of limitations has long since passed in the case, New York recently enacted a law which allowed decades-old sexual assault claims to be filed as civil lawsuits.\n\nOne of the most pivotal moments of the trial came during Ms Carroll's opening testimony, when she described in graphic detail what she alleges happened in the Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman store in 1996 and the trauma she says she has endured as a result.\n\n\"I'm here because Donald Trump raped me and when I wrote about it, he lied and said it didn't happen,\" she said.\n\nShe then proceeded to walk the court through the day of the alleged assault, explaining how she bumped into Mr Trump and exchanged flirtatious banter with him before things quickly turned violent. She said Mr Trump asked her to come with him into a dressing room, where he closed the door, held her against the wall and raped her.\n\n\"As I'm sitting here today I can still feel it,\" she told the court.\n\nShe added that Mr Trump's denial of the assault had shattered her reputation, costing her her job and romantic relationships. \"I'm here to try to get my life back,\" she said.\n\nDuring several hours of cross-examination over two days, Ms Carroll faced challenging questions about the assault from Mr Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, who attempted to cast doubt on her details of the alleged rape.\n\nDuring a particularly tense exchange, Mr Tacopina repeatedly asked Ms Carroll why she did not shout when the alleged assault occurred.\n\n\"I'm not a screamer,\" she told Mr Tacopina, adding that some women do not come forward about sexual assaults because they are asked why they did not scream.\n\n\"I'm telling you he raped me whether I screamed or not,\" she told Mr Tacopina at one point.\n\nThe Trump lawyer also pressed Ms Carroll on why she did not report the assault at first to the police.\n\nThe former Elle magazine columnist replied that she was a member of the \"silent generation\", saying women her age were taught to keep quiet.\n\nMr Tacopina also questioned Ms Carroll on why she could not recall the specific date of the assault. The writer later conceded that certain parts of her story were \"difficult to conceive of\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuring the trial, Mr Trump did not mount his own defence, calling no witnesses and appearing to defend himself only in a video of his deposition, excerpts of which Ms Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, played for the court. Ms Kaplan is not related to the judge in this case, Lewis Kaplan.\n\nFacing questions from Ms Kaplan, Mr Trump continued to deny the allegations he raped Ms Carroll, calling them a \"big fat hoax\" and repeating previous remarks that Ms Carroll was \"not his type in any way\".\n\nBut at one point, he appeared to confuse Ms Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples, a mistake Ms Carroll's lawyers claimed undermined his argument that the writer was not his type.\n\nIn the video, Mr Trump is shown an old black-and-white photo of him speaking to a man and two women at an event. \"It's Marla,\" he said, before his own lawyer told him the woman he referred to in the photo was indeed Ms Carroll.\n\nIn another excerpt from Mr Trump's video deposition played for the court, Ms Kaplan replayed for Mr Trump a controversial Access Hollywood recording from 2005 featuring a conversation between him and the show's co-host about women.\n\n\"When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything,\" Mr Trump said in the recording, which was leaked to the public just one month before the 2016 presidential election. \"Grab them by the [expletive]. You can do anything,\" he added.\n\nAsked about the clip by Ms Kaplan, the former president seemed to double down on the remarks, claiming: \"Historically, that's true with stars.\"\n\nWhen Ms Kaplan pressed him on his comments about grabbing women \"by the [expletive]\", Mr Trump said: \"Well, I guess if you look over the last million years, that's been largely true - not always true, but largely true, unfortunately or fortunately.\"\n\nIn other tense moments during the questioning, Mr Trump appeared to grow agitated with Ms Kaplan, attacking her appearance, claiming that, like Ms Carroll, \"you wouldn't be a choice of mine either, to be honest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump agrees \"stars can do anything to women\" in video deposition\n\nDuring her second day on the stand under questioning from her own lawyers, Ms Carroll described the backlash she encountered after coming forward with her rape allegation.\n\nAfter Mr Trump released a statement in social media denying the accusation and calling Ms Carroll's first lawsuit against him a \"con job\", Ms Carroll said she faced a \"wave of slime\".\n\nShe said many extrapolated on Mr Trump's remarks that she was \"not his type\", telling her she was \"too ugly to go on living\".\n\nMr Trump's social media comments also sparked a rebuke from the judge in the case, Lewis Kaplan. The former president has called the lawsuit a \"made-up scam\" and claimed Ms Carroll's lawyer was a political operative, remarks Mr Kaplan called \"entirely inappropriate\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nViolent clashes have broken out in Pakistan between security forces and supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan after he was arrested on Tuesday.\n\nProtests are erupting nationwide, and at least one person has been killed in the city of Quetta.\n\nThe United States and UK have called for adherence to the \"rule of law\".\n\nMr Khan was arrested by security forces at the High Court in the capital, Islamabad.\n\nDramatic footage showed dozens of officers arriving and detaining the 70-year-old, who was bundled into a vehicle and driven away.\n\nHe was appearing in court on charges of corruption, which he says are politically motivated.\n\nMobile data services in the country were suspended on the instructions of the interior ministry on Friday as protests grew, many of them taking place in front of army compounds.\n\nPakistan's army plays a prominent role in politics, sometimes seizing power in military coups, and, on other occasions, pulling levers behind the scenes.\n\nMany analysts believe Mr Khan's election win in 2018 happened with the help of the military. Now in opposition, he is one of its most vocal critics, and analysts say the army's popularity has fallen.\n\nFootage from Lahore posted on Twitter appeared to show a crowd breaking into the military corps commander's house destroying furniture and belongings inside.\n\nSpeaking from Washington, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he wanted to make sure that \"whatever happens in Pakistan is consistent with the rule of law, with the constitution\".\n\nUK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, speaking alongside Mr Blinken, noted that Britain enjoyed \"a longstanding and close relationship\" with Commonwealth member Pakistan, and wanted to \"see the rule of law adhered to\".\n\nOn Tuesday evening, supporters of Imran Khan gathered outside the Pakistan High Commission in London to protest against his arrest.\n\nMr Khan was ousted as PM in April last year and has been campaigning for early elections since then.\n\nGeneral elections are due to be held later this year.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newshour, Mr Khan's spokesman, Raoof Hasan, said he expected \"the worst\" and that the arrest could plunge the country \"into chaos and anarchy\".\n\n\"We're facing multiple crises. There is an economic crisis, there is a political crisis, there is a cost of livelihood crisis and consequently this occasion will be a catharsis for them to step out and I fear a fair amount of violence is going to be back,\" he said.\n\nA member of Mr Khan's legal team, Raja Mateen, said undue force had been used against him at the court.\n\n\"Mr Khan went into the biometric office for the biometrics. The rangers went there, they broke the windows, they hit Mr Khan on the head with a baton,\" said Mr Mateen.\n\nMr Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party called on its supporters to protest. In the hours after he was detained, violence was reported from cities including Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar.\n\nOn the streets of Islamabad, hundreds of protesters blocked one of the main highways in and out of the capital.\n\nPeople pulled down street signs and parts of overpasses, lit fires and threw stones. During the hour or so that the BBC was there, no police or authorities were visible.\n\nProtesters have blocked roads in protest in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city\n\nProtesters said they were angry about Imran Khan's arrest.\n\n\"This is absolutely the last straw,\" said Farida Roedad.\n\n\"Let there be anarchy, let there be chaos. If there is no Imran, there's nothing left in Pakistan. No one is there to take over.\"\n\nWriting on social media, police in Islamabad said five police officers had been injured and 43 protesters arrested.\n\nIt said at least 10 people, including six police officers, had been injured in the south-western city of Quetta in clashes between Mr Khan's supporters and security forces - with one protester killed.\n\nA water cannon was deployed by police against protesters in Lahore\n\nA statement from the inspector general of Punjab police said the arrest of Mr Khan had been ordered because he was accused of \"corruption and corrupt practices\".\n\nThe case involves allegations over the allotment of land in the so-called Al-Qadir Trust, which is owned by Mr Khan and his wife, Dawn newspaper reported.\n\nMr Khan, who is being held at an undisclosed location, denies breaking any law.\n\nIn a video message filmed as he travelled to Islamabad - and released by the PTI before his arrest - Mr Khan said he was ready for what lay ahead.\n\n\"Come to me with warrants, my lawyers will be there,\" he said. \"If you want to send me to jail, I am prepared for it.\"\n\nImran Khan has been the main opposition leader since being ousted by his opponents in parliament a year ago\n\nSecurity was tight in the centre of the capital for the former PM's court appearance.\n\nDozens of cases have been brought against Mr Khan since he was ousted from power.\n\nThe security forces have tried to detain him on a number of previous occasions at his Lahore residence, but were blocked by his supporters, resulting in fierce clashes.\n\nOn Tuesday, police had blocked roads into Islamabad, so the number of supporters with Imran Khan was not as high as on previous occasions, making it easier to arrest him.\n\nHe was elected prime minister in 2018, but fell out with Pakistan's powerful army. After a series of defections, he lost his majority in parliament. He was ousted after he lost a confidence vote in April 2022, four years into his tenure.\n\nProtesters in Peshawar set fire to the Radio Pakistan premises in protest against the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan\n\nSince then, he has been a vocal critic of the government and the country's army.\n\nIn October, he was disqualified from holding public office, accused of incorrectly declaring details of presents from foreign dignitaries and proceeds from their alleged sale.\n\nThe next month, he survived a gun attack on his convoy while holding a protest march.\n\nOn Monday, the military warned him against making \"baseless allegations\" after he again accused a senior officer of plotting to kill him.", "A lawyer for a writer accusing Donald Trump of rape in a civil trial urged a jury to hold the ex-president liable for the alleged assault.\n\n\"No one, not even a former president, is above the law,\" lawyer Roberta Kaplan said on Monday.\n\nE Jean Carroll alleges Mr Trump raped her in a New York department store in the mid-1990s, which he denies.\n\nIn closing remarks in New York, Mr Trump's legal team accused Ms Carroll of \"bringing a false claim\".\n\nThe nine-member jury are due to begin deliberations on Tuesday morning in the civil rape and defamation trial against the former president, after they receive instructions from US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is not related to Roberta Kaplan.\n\nThe jury has been hearing arguments over the past two weeks in a Manhattan federal court.\n\nIn their closing statement, Ms Carroll's attorneys focused on previous remarks Mr Trump has made about women.\n\nMs Kaplan pointed to Mr Trump's controversial remarks in a 2005 Access Hollywood tape, which emerged publicly in 2016.\n\nReferring to the comments, she said: \"He kissed [women] without consent, he grabbed them, he did not wait.\"\n\nShe argued the remarks had been a \"playbook\" for how he treated Ms Carroll and other women.\n\nMs Kaplan also said \"self-blame\" had kept Ms Carroll from going to the police for decades.\n\nIn his closing statement, Mr Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina focused on seeking to cast doubt on the details of Ms Carroll's story, which he at one point called \"a work of fiction\".\n\nHe questioned why Ms Carroll could not specify the date of the assault, arguing that stripped Mr Trump of the chance to provide an alibi.\n\nIt was \"not a coincidence\" none of the witnesses Ms Carroll had called could provide an exact date, he argued.\n\nHe also raised questions about the scene of the alleged assault, calling it \"unbelievable\" it could have occurred in a popular department store without any employees to witness it.\n\nMr Tacopina argued the story had been \"ripped from the pages of Law and Order SVU\", referring to a 2012 episode of the popular crime show in which a woman was raped in the lingerie department of a Bergdorf Goodman store.\n\nMs Carroll has acknowledged her alleged assault occurred in the same place as the episode, which was released before she came forward with her allegation in 2019, but she said that was a coincidence.\n\n\"What's the likelihood of that?\" Mr Tacopina asked.\n\nThe former president did not appear at the trial in person but instead was present in a video of an October deposition played for the court.\n\n\"It's the most ridiculous, disgusting story,\" Mr Trump said in the video. \"It's just made up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Carroll, 79, has accused Mr Trump, 76, of attacking her in 1995 or 1996, and then defaming her by denying it happened.\n\nJurors in the trial heard days of graphic testimony. Ms Carroll told jurors she had been left \"unable to ever have a romantic life again\" after the alleged attack.\n\nA former columnist for Elle magazine, Ms Carroll was able to bring the civil case against Mr Trump after New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022.\n\nThe act allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state over claims that would have normally exceeded statute limitations.", "King Charles III, seen here with Ralph Gonsalves, is head of state in a number of Caribbean countries\n\nThe Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines has said having a British monarch as head of state is \"an absurdity\" he would like to end in his lifetime.\n\nRalph Gonsalves said he would welcome an apology from the British state and monarchy on past injustices relating to slavery.\n\nHe said he believes King Charles III is open to talking about reparations.\n\nKing Charles is head of state in eight Caribbean countries.\n\nWithin the past year, political leaders in the Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda have all indicated their plans to review their positions as constitutional monarchies.\n\nThe Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, Dr Terrance Drew, told the BBC his country is \"not totally free\" as long as King Charles III remains head of state and that a public consultation on whether the nation should become a republic would begin during his leadership.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC two days after the coronation, Dr Gonsalves said the current constitutional arrangement \"offends people in a psychological way\" and his country wanted a president \"selected by our own constitutional processes\".\n\nIn 2009, St Vincent and the Grenadines held a referendum to decide whether to transition to a republic. Forty-five per cent of voters chose to replace Queen Elizabeth II with a ceremonial president - falling far short of the two-thirds required.\n\nMr Gonsalves has said he would like to try again.\n\n\"I don't know whether it will happen. But I'm hoping so. If it doesn't happen, somebody else will stand on my shoulders and carry forth that work,\" he said.\n\nAccording to a recent poll conducted in the 15 countries where the King is head of state, St Vincent and the Grenadines is among those most opposed to becoming a republic.\n\nThe survey, conducted by UK politician-turned-pollster Lord Ashcroft, suggests that the idea would be rejected by a majority of 63% to 34%.\n\nLord Ashcroft Polls interviewed 22,701 adults across the 15 countries between 6 February and 23 March.\n\nIn a statement, Buckingham Palace said the decision on transitioning to a republic \"is purely a matter for each country to decide\".\n\nMr Gonsalves added he would welcome an apology from both King Charles and the British government on the legacy of slavery.\n\n\"King Charles at least, is clearly interested in having a conversation. And I welcome that. But I don't know whether King Charles is going to do an apology without the British state.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace told the BBC the King takes slavery \"profoundly seriously\".\n\nPrime Minister Ralph Gonsalves was in office the last time St Vincent and the Grenadines voted on having the British monarch as head of state in 2009\n\nBuckingham Palace has said that it is co-operating with an independent study exploring the relationship between the British monarchy and the slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries.\n\nMr Gonsalves said he had contacted David Cameron's government on the issue, but was rejected.\n\n\"Their response was that, 'Look, we're not doing apologies. Let's look forward, let us learn. Let's not look to the past'. There's only one problem with that. The present is the past,\" he said.\n\nMr Gonsalves said the current UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, was also wrong for refusing to apologise for the UK's historic role in the slave trade, adding that going to the International Criminal Court to pursue the issue was also an option.\n\n\"We can continue the political work, we can do diplomatic work, but we can also go to the International Court of Justice, for example,\" he said.\n\n\"But I would prefer if we have the conversation, rather than to have to do that.\"\n\nSpeaking two days after the Coronation, Dr Gonsalves praised the King for his positions on climate change and inter-faith dialogue.\n\n\"I hold his Majesty in great personal regard,\" he said.\n\n\"My conversation is not one of revenge. It is just something which is reasonable and fair.\"", "Mr Carsi, 40, was an analyst for a Scottish investment management firm\n\nA man from Edinburgh has died and his wife is seriously ill after a suspected carbon monoxide leak at their holiday home in Spain.\n\nJaime Carsi, 40, was found dead on Saturday at a house in Majorca by emergency crews and Mary Somerville, 39, was discovered next to him.\n\nMs Somerville is understood to be in a serious condition in Manacor Hospital.\n\nThe newlywed couple were staying at a rural property in Cala Mesquida in the north-east.\n\nMajorcan newspaper Ultima Hora reported that Mr Carsi and Ms Somerville married two weeks before the incident.\n\nIt said they were due to go on a boat trip on Saturday and the alarm was raised when they failed to show up.\n\nMr Carsi was an analyst for a Scottish investment management firm.\n\nPatti Montella, a friend of the couple, said he was a \"magnificent soul\" in a social media post.\n\nShe wrote: \"Jaime Carsi came into my life and took up residence in my heart, so many years ago, in London.\n\n\"His smile and spirit are pure love.\n\n\"And when he married our precious Edinburgh girl, sweet Mary, it was a match made in heaven.\"\n\nThe couple were involved in the Edinburgh Interfaith Association which aims to bring the city's religious faiths together.\n\nThe association's director Iain Stewart said: \"They were just such a warm, open couple - they would light up the room.\n\n\"Jaime was a joy to be around, he was so open, such a kind person - you just felt better about yourself when you were with Jaime.\"\n\nMs Somerville is a talented harpist, who often plays at events organised by the association.\n\nMr Carsi described himself online as being from Madrid but it is believed he moved to the UK as a child and relocated to Edinburgh from London about six years ago\n\nPolice in Majorca confirmed the incident is under investigation.\n\nA Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office spokesperson said: \"We are supporting the family of a British national who was hospitalised in Mallorca. We are in contact with the local authorities\".", "A writer suing Donald Trump in a Manhattan federal court for rape says she did not come forward at first because she was a \"member of the silent generation\".\n\nColumnist E Jean Carroll alleges Mr Trump assaulted her in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.\n\nMr Trump has consistently denied her accusation, calling it \"fiction\".\n\nA judge on Monday denied a request from Mr Trump's legal team for a mistrial.\n\nThe civil rape and defamation trial began last week in a federal court in New York City.\n\nMs Carroll took the stand for the third time on Monday, facing another round of questioning from Mr Trump's attorneys, who pressed her on why she did not report the alleged assault to the police.\n\n\"I was born in 1943,\" Ms Carroll said. \"Women like me were taught and trained to keep our chins up and to not complain.\"\n\nMs Carroll added that she was ashamed of the alleged assault and had believed it to be her fault.\n\nHer testimony came moments after a judge on Monday denied a request from Mr Trump's legal team for a mistrial.\n\nIn an 18-page letter filed filed early this week in the New York City federal court, Mr Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina accused US District Judge Lewis Kaplan of making \"pervasive unfair and prejudicial\" rulings in the trial.\n\nHe claimed there had been \"numerous examples\" of \"unfair treatment by the Court, most of which has been witnessed by the Jury\".\n\nMr Trump is not required to testify in the trial, and his lawyers have implied he is unlikely to appear before the court.\n\nMs Carroll spent much of last week giving her account of the alleged assault and later being cross-examined by Mr Trump's lawyers.\n\nIn the request for mistrial, Mr Tacopina argued the judge had \"shut down\" his lines of questioning, including when he asked Ms Carroll why she did not seek to retrieve security camera footage from the store or scream during the alleged assault.\n\nThe request asked the judge to allow Mr Trump's lawyers more \"latitude to cross-examine [Ms Carroll] and her witnesses\".\n\nMs Carroll, 79, says the attack occurred at a Bergdorf Goodman store in late 1995 or early 1996.\n\nShe says she and Mr Trump bumped into each other while shopping and alleges he later assaulted her in one of the store's changing rooms.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Tacopina questioned why Ms Carroll continued to return to the Bergdorf Goodman store several times after the alleged assault.\n\n\"Bergdorf's is not a place I'm afraid to enter,\" she said.\n\nMr Trump, who is running in the 2024 presidential election, has repeatedly denied Ms Carroll's allegations.\n\nA former columnist for Elle magazine, Ms Carroll was able to bring the civil case against Mr Trump after New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022.\n\nThe act allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state over claims that would have normally exceeded statute limitations.", "Hanks says he has \"pulled every single one\" of the moments of bad behaviour he describes in his novel\n\nTom Hanks says he has written his first novel as a \"release from the never-ending pressure\" of making movies.\n\nThe two-time Oscar winner is publishing The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, inspired by his own screen career.\n\nThe long grind of shooting a film, he tells the BBC, means you can \"just run out of curiosity for the job\".\n\n\"Sometimes you just have to have some other reason to spark your imagination,\" he explains.\n\nHanks, 66, says he has \"always\" written \"in some form or another\". His collection of short stories, Uncommon Type, was published in 2017 and has sold more than 234,000 copies in the UK.\n\nHe began writing the 448-page novel the following year. \"I wrote in between films, I wrote wherever I was, I wrote on planes, I wrote at home, I wrote on vacation, I wrote in hotel rooms, I wrote on long weekends when I wasn't working,\" he says.\n\n\"It's not fair,\" he concedes, that his debut novel has been published without going through the usual trial of rejections from publishers, while other first-time writers struggle.\n\nBut he is unapologetic and knows the book will ultimately \"live and die based on its own ability to entertain and enlighten an audience\".\n\nCritics' verdicts of The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece have been lukewarm.\n\nIn The Sunday Times, David Sexton described the book as \"Hanks mansplains movie-making\", and said the \"writing is clunky throughout\".\n\nThe Observer's Tim Adams said it \"captures the humdrum of Hollywood but lacks his on-screen ability to breathe life into characters\".\n\nHanks played Elvis Presley's manager Col Tom Parker in a biopic of the singer\n\nHanks is unfazed by reviews. He says his \"day job as a movie star\" means he can \"handle\" any criticism.\n\nThe actor says he has become \"stronger when it comes down to really being torn apart\".\n\nHis novel is about the making of a multi-million dollar superhero action movie, and features a cast of characters including an eccentric director and a self-important and highly obstructive male actor who disrupts and delays filming.\n\nSo it's a surprising admission when the affable voice of Woody in Toy Story confesses: \"I have pulled every single one of those moments of behaviour myself on a set.\n\n\"Not everybody is at their best every single day on a motion picture set,\" he continues.\n\n\"I've had tough days trying to be a professional when my life has been falling apart in more ways than one and the requirement for me that day is to be funny, charming and loving - and it's the last way I feel.\"\n\nHanks prides himself on always being on time, though. \"What cannot occur on a motion picture is that someone cannot monkey around with the timing or the length of the shoot or the budget. That is a cardinal sin in the motion picture business.\n\n\"You will be amazed,\" he adds, \"at how many people know that they can get away with it, and are told they can get away with it, because they are carrying the movie on their shoulders.\"\n\nIndeed, in the book he refers to actors who are \"cry-babies, psychological train wrecks, on-the-wagon alcoholics, off-the-wagon addicts... and more than a couple of feuds between the Talent.\"\n\nThere's mention of sexual harassment too.\n\nWho could he have been inspired by? Needless to say, Hanks just laughs when asked to name names.\n\nWith such bad behaviour in his novel, the actor-writer also believes it is unnecessary to airbrush classic books for modern audiences.\n\nNovels by Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie have been updated, and Hanks's own publisher Penguin Random House has altered the work of Roald Dahl and PG Wodehouse as part of an effort to remove potentially offensive language.\n\n\"I'm of the opinion that we're all grown-ups here. Let's have faith in our own sensibilities as opposed to having somebody decide what we may or may not be offended by,\" insists Hanks.\n\n\"Let me decide what I am offended by and what I'm not offended by. I would be against reading any book from any era that says 'abridged due to modern sensitivities'.\"\n\nFleming's secret agent James Bond gets a mention, and Hanks is unequivocal that Idris Elba should be the next 007.\n\n\"Understand this,\" he says. \"James Bond has a licence to kill. I would issue that licence to Idris Elba just based on the work that I've seen him do.\"\n\nTom Hanks cheered on Aston Villa when they played Arsenal in February\n\nAston Villa, the English Premier League football team Hanks supports, also appear in the novel. But he has no plans to buy the club, after the Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney purchased Wrexham in 2020.\n\n\"I think Wrexham is a little bit different in the economic scale than Aston Villa,\" he laughs. \"That's a little above my pay grade.\"\n\nHe hasn't seen fellow Villa supporter the Prince of Wales at a game, although he has experienced \"the Prince William treatment, which is - don't get stuck in traffic, no matter what the score is.\n\n\"When it was time to leave, there was no nonsense getting out.\"\n\nSo what next? Another novel would be \"nice\", but not for a few years due to a busy filming schedule.\n\nBut the desire to write is always there, he says.\n\n\"It's just the best way to spend ones time outside of being with those that you love and make you laugh.\"", "The strikes were the deadliest since three days of fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad last August\n\nAt least 15 Palestinians, including three commanders of the militant group Islamic Jihad, have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip.\n\nPalestinian health officials said eight women and children were among the dead. Another 22 people were injured.\n\nIsrael said the Islamic Jihad leaders it targeted overnight were involved in recent attacks on Israeli civilians.\n\nIslamic Jihad has vowed revenge and Gaza-based militants are expected to respond with rocket fire into Israel.\n\nThe extent of any escalation is likely to depend on whether Hamas, which controls Gaza, decides to join in.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the country was \"prepared for all possibilities\", adding: \"I suggest that our enemies not test us.\"\n\nThe strikes were the deadliest since three days of hostilities between Israel and Islamic Jihad last August, in which 49 Palestinians were killed in Gaza.\n\nDentist Dr Jamal Khaswan's family lived in the top floor of a Gaza City apartment building that was targeted\n\nThe Israeli strikes began in the early hours of Tuesday morning, when 40 warplanes and helicopters attacked in several waves across Gaza, hitting homes and causing panic among residents.\n\nPictures showed at least two apartments with their fronts ripped away and others damaged.\n\nThe Gaza health ministry said four children and four women were among those killed. Half of the injured were women and children and several were in a critical condition in hospital, it added.\n\nRussia announced that one of its citizens, Dr Jamal Khaswan, a former chairman of the Gaza Dentists' Association, was killed along with his wife Mervat and their 21-year-old son Youssef.\n\nAnother two of their children survived, it said. They included 10-year-old daughter Diala, who was filmed sitting in the front seat of an ambulance and crying out for her father.\n\nDr Wafai al-Sousi, a friend and colleague of Dr Khaswan, condemned what he called the \"cowardly targeting\" of the family.\n\n\"I was very surprised. He was just an incredible doctor... with a good reputation. He did not belong to any political party and never worked with any military entity,\" he told the BBC.\n\nPalestinian sources said Dr Khaswan lived in an apartment in Gaza City close to one of the militants who was killed.\n\nIslamic Jihad's military wing, the al-Quds Brigades, confirmed the deaths of three of its commanders, along with their wives and a number of their children. It identified them as:\n\n\"We affirm that the blood of the martyrs will increase our resolve,\" the al-Quds Brigades said. \"We will not leave our positions, and the resistance will continue, God willing.\"\n\nThe IDF said Bahtini was the senior operational officer of Islamic Jihad in Gaza, and that he was responsible for recent rocket fire. It called him \"an imminent threat to the security of Israeli civilians\".\n\nIt added that Ghannam was a senior member of Islamic Jihad's rocket force and that Ezzedine was in charge of co-ordination with the group's operatives in the West Bank, planning attacks on Israeli civilians there.\n\nThe IDF said its aircraft also struck 10 sites used to manufacture weapons and six Islamic Jihad military facilities.\n\nA spokesman said that every effort had been made to try to minimise harm to civilians, but he acknowledged that those killed included relatives of the militants, as well as Dr Khaswan and his family.\n\nLarge crowds of mourners turned out for the funerals after midday prayers.\n\nLater on Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said one of its aircraft struck a \"terrorist squad\" carrying anti-tank missiles in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.\n\nSmoke was seen rising from a burning car after the strike. The Gaza health ministry said two people were killed and two others injured.\n\nIsrael said Jihad Ghannam, Tariq Ezzedine and Khalil al-Bahtini were responsible for recent attacks\n\nOfficially known as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the militant group is the biggest in Gaza next to Hamas.\n\nIt has been responsible for many of the rocket attacks on Israel from the territory in recent years and is sworn to Israel's destruction.\n\nThere was a serious flare-up last week, as Islamic Jihad and other groups fired several barrages of rockets into Israel over two days, following the death in an Israeli prison of a Palestinian hunger striker. The Israeli military carried out air strikes in response.\n\n\"On the day on which the rockets were fired last week, I ordered - together with the defence minister - the preparation of an operation to target the arch-terrorists that would, in effect, hit the senior leadership of the organisation in the Gaza Strip,\" Mr Netanyahu said at the start of a security cabinet meeting.\n\n\"Our principle is clear: whoever harms us, we will strike at them and with great force.\"\n\nIsraeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said his country \"must be ready for any scenario, including a prolonged campaign and expanding the firing ranges\" of rockets from Gaza.\n\nResidents of Israeli communities within 40km (25 miles) of Gaza have been advised to stay close to bomb shelters.\n\nArmed groups in Gaza said those responsible for the strikes should \"prepare to pay the price\"\n\nHamas leader Ismail Haniyeh warned: \"Assassination of leaders will not bring the Occupation [Israel] security but more resistance.\"\n\nIn a joint statement, armed groups in Gaza said they would mourn all those who died as a result of what they called \"the treacherous Israeli aggression\" and that those responsible should \"prepare to pay the price\".\n\nThe spokesman for West Bank-based Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the Israeli government \"bears full responsibility for this dangerous escalation\".\n\nUN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland condemned the deaths of civilians and urged all parties to exercise maximum restraint in order to \"avoid a broader conflict with devastating consequences for all\".\n\nIsraeli forces also carried out a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday.\n\nPalestinian media reported that two Palestinians were detained and 13 others shot and injured during confrontations with the troops. Israeli media said a soldier was lightly injured when a bomb exploded beside his armoured vehicle.", "Stuart Murray, vice president of the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association, says lawyers have been \"ignored\" by the Scottish government\n\nLawyers across Scotland are expected to join a near \"unanimous\" boycott of a pilot scheme for juryless rape trials.\n\nStuart Murray, vice president of the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association, said at least seven bodies had voted against the government proposals.\n\nLegal professionals have said the scheme, proposed to tackle low conviction rates, could undermine the judicial system.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has defended the plan.\n\nHe pointed to a \"weight of evidence\" that juries are affected by rape myths and misconceptions.\n\nThe pilot was proposed by Scotland's second most senior judge, Lady Dorrian, in a review that informed the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill.\n\nIt would see anyone accused of rape or attempted rape stand trial before a single judge or sheriff, who would decide whether or not they are guilty.\n\nIn the most recent figures, conviction rates for rape and attempted rape were 51%, compared with 91% for all other crimes.\n\nThe change to trials was proposed by senior judge Lady Dorrian\n\nThe Scottish Solicitors Bar Association represents criminal defence solicitors across the country.\n\nMr Murray, who practices in Aberdeen, spoke out against the pilot scheme after the Aberdeen Bar Association confirmed it was joining Glasgow and Edinburgh associations in a boycott.\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that associations in Dundee, Airdrie, Falkirk and Paisley had also joined the backlash.\n\n\"It is spreading, there are now seven or eight that have come out in the last week or so, just of bar associations across the country,\" Mr Murray said.\n\n\"There are more votes within the various bar associations across the country in the next week or so. I've no doubt it will be effectively unanimous across the bar associations.\"\n\nThe lawyer said he hoped the boycott would put an end to the scheme, but said he could not say for certain because the Scottish government was \"so unpredictable\".\n\nHe said lawyers had responded to \"a knee-jerk reaction from the Scottish government - a blatant attempt to increase conviction rates\".\n\n\"There are substantial failings which are highlighted in Lady Dorrian's review of the lack of communication from the Crown, lack of involvement with the police, matters being delayed at an investigative stage, all issues which impact on the conviction rate,\" the lawyer said.\n\n\"The way to deal with this is not to remove a jury of your peers.\"\n\nHe said rape cases are also \"more intimate\" and typically lack evidence such as CCTV footage and extensive witness testimony, leading to lower conviction rates.\n\nMr Murray said the scheme would hamper efforts to diversify the legal system, and countered the Scottish government's point that 80% of trials already took place without a jury.\n\nHe said: \"That's a slightly disingenuous point. Those trials are lower level, consist mainly of minor assaults, shoplifting, cases that are far less serious than cases involving sexual offences.\"\n\nHe echoed concerns about the Scottish review of rape trials lacking relevant evidence, with rules prohibiting researchers speaking to former jurors.\n\n\"There's been almost no investigation or review carried out in relation to the pilot scheme in Scotland,\" Mr Murray said.\n\n\"The Scottish government is going about this in entirely the wrong manner and rather than engaging with the profession, they are ignoring the profession.\"\n\nThe dean of the Faculty of Prosecutors and Solicitors in Dundee confirmed the group had unanimously agreed to boycott the scheme.\n\n\"The crime of rape is a high court matter which has to prosecuted and defended expertly,\" a statement read.\n\n\"It is not in the accused's best interests to be an experimental guinea pig for such a serious matter.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Angela Constance said she was \"determined to proceed in partnership\" with lawyers, adding it was \"quite simply not true\" that the government has ignored the legal profession.\n\nJustice Secretary Angela Constance has rejected claims the government has ignored lawyers\n\nShe told BBC Scotland there is \"overwhelming\" evidence that juries have misconceptions about rape.\n\n\"There is international evidence, 50-plus studies most of which have taken place in the past 20 years, that demonstrates the diversity of juries does not overcome unfair influences,\" the minister said.\n\nShe insisted the legal profession, victims and academics would be consulted as part of the parliamentary process.\n\n\"No part of the system is beyond scrutiny, including court processes,\" she said.\n\nMs Constance added: \"I think we have legitimate grounds to have concerns and we have legitimate grounds to proceed with a pilot.\n\n\"But it is important that we engage with all the voices and that's part of our parliamentary and democratic process.\"\n\nThe proposal for juryless trials have been welcomed by victim support group Rape Crisis Scotland, which has warned too many women are being let down by the justice system and too many rapists are walking free.\n\nChief executive Sandy Brindley said: \"What we all want is a system where we can be confident that the evidence being heard in rape trials is being assessed fairly and objectively, and isn't influenced by false assumptions or attitudes towards women.\n\n\"Everyone has the right to a fair trial but that does not automatically mean a jury trial. A single-judge trial is still a fair trial.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nActor Terrence Hardiman, best known for playing the title role in The Demon Headmaster, has died aged 86.\n\nHis agent announced the news with \"great sadness\", describing him as \"beloved client and much-loved stage and screen actor\".\n\nHardiman petrified a generation of kids with his performance in the CBBC series, which first ran from 1996 to 1998.\n\nHe reprised the role for a cameo when the series was rebooted in 2019.\n\nBased on the children's books of the same name by Gillian Cross, The Demon Headmaster saw Hardiman's lead character cut a frightening figure.\n\nHe kept his piercing green eyes largely hidden, ominously, behind dark glasses, only removing them to hypnotise his victims after telling them: \"Look into my eyes.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Radio Times around the time of his slight return in 2019, Hardiman recalled what he first thought about being cast to play him.\n\n\"I thought, 'what a horrible character. How lovely. A real villain of a piece. Why not?'\"\n\nHe went on to say he had had \"no idea\" that the series would go on to be so popular with children and adults alike.\n\n\"I started to be recognised in the street, especially as I lived near schools around here, in north west London,\" he explained. \"And there were people - youngsters - looking at me, and shouting out at me, and making fun of me, which is very healthy.\n\n\"It stopped me being too grand!\"\n\nTerrence Hardiman as The Demon Headmaster, a frightening figure for many children\n\nThe show first ran on CBBC from 1996 to 1998\n\nBorn in 1937 in east London, Hardiman studied English at the University of Cambridge, where he got the acting bug.\n\nHe performed for the university's amateur dramatic club, alongside future big names including Derek Jacobi.\n\nA star of the screen and stage, Hardiman appeared as Mephistophilis in a touring production of Doctor Faustus with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1968.\n\nHe got his big TV break playing Stephen Harvesty in Granada's Crown Court from 1972 onwards.\n\nAnd he went on to appear in other TV series such as The Crown, Doctor Who and Prime Suspect, as well as Wallander, often playing figures of authority.\n\nIn Richard Attenborough's 1982 film, Gandhi, he portrayed former UK Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald.\n\nHis other credits include Bergerac, Colditz, Minder and Secret Army.\n\nHardiman is survived by his wife Rowena and two children.\n• None Watch: Demon Headmaster uses hypnotic powers in TV series. Video, 00:00:41Watch: Demon Headmaster uses hypnotic powers in TV series", "The Met said police \"have a duty to act where necessary before any further injury is caused\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has defended its handling of an incident in which two dogs were shot dead and a man was Tasered.\n\nThe force said it was called just after 17:00 BST on Sunday to reports of a woman being attacked by a dog in Commercial Road, Poplar, east London.\n\nFootage on social media showed a man holding two dogs on nearby Limehouse Cut before he was Tasered and the dogs shot.\n\nThe Met said a man has been arrested.\n\nOne video showed a group of officers holding a catcher pole, riot shield and gun approaching the man and the dogs as he appears to walk away from them.\n\nThe police can be heard trying to persuade the man to surrender the dogs. The situation appears to become increasingly heated before the two dogs were shot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Officers talk with a man holding two dogs before he is Tasered. Warning: This video contains images that some people may find upsetting\n\nIn a statement, a Met spokesperson said: \"Officers attended the location where the aggressive behaviour of two dogs was of considerable concern and posed a significant threat to them.\n\n\"A man was arrested in connection with the incident for having a dog dangerously out of control and assault offences. He has been taken into police custody.\"\n\nThe statement added a Taser was discharged during the incident and both dogs \"were destroyed by police at the scene\" but no-one was taken to hospital.\n\n\"This is never an easy decision for any officer to take, but police have a duty to act where necessary before any further injury is caused,\" the statement continued.\n\nAt the scene, a handwritten paper sign has been placed on a wall to mark the spot where the two dogs were killed, with a bunch of yellow flowers laid underneath.\n\nOne woman told BBC London reporter Matt Graveling they couldn't believe officers resorted to shooting the dogs.\n\n\"I don't think the dogs looked aggressive, they were both wiggling their tails,\" Jen said.\n\nJen said she feels the officers decision to shoot the dogs was a \"choice\"\n\n\"It was crazy - there were people standing out on their balconies, it was five o'clock.\"\n\n\"The way of dealing with this with guns in the middle of the street, with us sitting on our balcony watching this, it just doesn't feel safe.\"\n\nShe said she disagreed with the Met's statement that the dogs posed a threat, saying it was \"a choice they made\" because, at that time, \"the dogs were not aggressive\".\n\nJen's partner Marcel said: \"I was quite distressed, I was screaming at them, I was trying to stop it somehow but I couldn't.\"\n\nMarcel said he's \"not sure it was necessary\" to shoot the dogs\n\nHe added: \"We feel kind of powerless that stuff like this can happen.\n\n\"I guess obviously it's a scary situation being down here, but I'm not sure it was necessary to take something that looked like a gun and shoot the dogs.\"\n\nThe Met's directorate of professional standards reviewed the incident, including all of the available body-worn camera footage, and was \"satisfied that there are no concerns around officer conduct\", the force added.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump agrees \"stars can do anything to women\" in video deposition\n\nA New York jury has concluded that it is more likely than not that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed E Jean Carroll. The verdict may be a harbinger of political and legal damage to come.\n\nWhile the ruling may not make a dent in Mr Trump's base within the Republican Party, where his supporters view the US legal system with scepticism and have stood by him through all manners of adversity, it could have a lasting sting.\n\nThe response of two Republican senators highlights the risk this moment poses to his 2024 bid to regain the White House.\n\n\"It has a cumulative effect,\" said Senator John Thune of South Dakota. \"People are going to have to decide if they want to deal with all the drama.\"\n\n\"I don't think he can get elected,\" warned John Cornyn of Texas. \"You can't win a general election with just your base.\"\n\nIn the end, Mr Trump may have been his own worst enemy in this case.\n\nCentral to Ms Carroll's lawsuit was the former president's deposition testimony, in which he seemed both demeaning and defensive. He explained away his infamous Access Hollywood tape boasts about grabbing women by their genitals as reflecting a historical truth about the power of celebrities - \"unfortunately or fortunately\".\n\nHe said that both Ms Carroll and another woman who testified that Mr Trump sexually assaulted her were not his type - a description he also applied, voluntarily, to the female attorney conducting the deposition itself.\n\nFor a jury weighing whether Mr Trump was the kind of person capable of sexual assault - or, at least, whether he was more credible than his accuser - it was exactly the wrong attitude to present.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe also mistakenly identified a photograph of Ms Carroll as being of his former wife, Marla Maples, directly undercutting that \"not his type\" assertion.\n\nIn the 2020 presidential election, suburban voters, particularly women, recoiled from Mr Trump's brand of brash politics. The jury's ruling in this case can only push those kinds of voters farther away from him.\n\nThe former president was defiant on his social media platform, calling the verdict a disgrace and insisting he had no idea who \"this woman\" was. Outside court, his lawyer told reporters Mr Trump would appeal.\n\nUp until now, the former president has run a fairly disciplined campaign to regain the White House in 2024. His team has methodically built up grass-roots support in key primary states across the country. His focused attacks on his rival Ron DeSantis appear to be drawing blood. He has managed to turn his New York indictment into a badge of honour among his base.\n\nThe sexual abuse and defamation ruling could give his Republican opponents an avenue for attack, however. If they can rattle him the way Ms Carroll's lawyer did, forcing him off message and into a defensive crouch, it could knock a candidate seemingly in control of his party into committing more unforced errors.\n\nAt the very least, it is another historic first for a former president who already faces one criminal indictment and has possibly others to come.\n\nUp until now, Mr Trump has shrugged off such legal concerns. But the New York jury's decision lands a blow against Mr Trump in a way that mere \"investigations\" do not. A jury of everyday Americans have considered the evidence and found that Mr Trump did wrong.\n\nNone of it bodes well for those other legal headaches, including special counsel Jack Smith's inquiry into the former president's involvement in the attack on the US Capitol and his handling of classified documents after he left the White House, as well as Georgia's investigations of Mr Trump's attempt to reverse that state's 2020 presidential election results.\n\nWhile it's unlikely in the extreme that Mr Trump would ever take the stand if those investigations turn into indictments - or will testify in the current New York indictment - prosecutors may look for ways to use the former president's statements or previous testimony against him as effectively as Ms Carroll's lawyer did.", "The union said the strike was part of an \"escalation strategy\"\n\nAmbulance staff with the Unite union in the South East have taken to picket lines in a continuing dispute over pay.\n\nThe action comes after Unite rejected a 5% pay deal and lump sum offer to NHS staff in England last month.\n\nThe union said the strike was part of an \"escalation strategy to exert pressure on the government\" as it seeks to reopen negotiations.\n\nThe Department of Health & Social Care said it was \"disappointing\" and would put \"more pressure\" on the NHS.\n\nIts advice for patients is to continue to call 999 in a life-threatening emergency and use NHS 111 online services for non-urgent health needs.\n\nThe action - affecting South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust and South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Trust - began at midday on Tuesday and will end at 22:00 BST, with staff joining picket lines in areas including Northfleet, Portsmouth and Banstead.\n\nThe government had offered a 5% pay rise for 2023-24 and a one-off payment of at least £1,655 to top up last year's salary.\n\nThe pay deal was signed off last week at a meeting between the government and 14 health unions representing all NHS staff apart from doctors and dentists.\n\nHowever, three unions, including Unite, vowed to continue action.\n\nUnite general secretary Sharon Graham said the offer did \"nothing to resolve the recruitment and retention crisis crippling the NHS\".\n\nShe called on the government to re-open negotiations to ensure \"a proper wage offer is made\" to NHS workers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sharon Graham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"It is disappointing... These strikes will put more pressure on the NHS and will be disruptive for patients.\"\n\nIt said it hoped those who chose to remain in dispute would recognise its offer \"carries the support of their colleagues and... bring industrial action to an end\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Joanna Cherry had been due to take part in an event in August\n\nSNP MP Joanna Cherry is threatening to take legal action against an Edinburgh venue which cancelled a Fringe show in which she was due to appear.\n\nShe says she will take \"whatever legal action is necessary\" unless The Stand admits that it acted unlawfully, issues an apology and reinstates the event.\n\nThe venue had cancelled the show after staff said they were not comfortable with her views on transgender issues.\n\nThe Stand has not yet responded to Ms Cherry's comments.\n\nThe Edinburgh South West MP had been due to take part in a series of In Conversation With... events in August.\n\nMs Cherry is a critic of Scotland's gender recognition reform plans, which make it easier for people to change their legally-recognised sex.\n\nLast week she told BBC Scotland she felt she had been \"cancelled and no-platformed\" because she was a lesbian who holds gender-critical views.\n\nShe said she had been \"greatly heartened\" by the support she had received since the story became public, and had decided to seek legal advice.\n\n\"I am prepared to take whatever legal action is necessary to vindicate my right not to be misrepresented and not to be discriminated against,\" she said.\n\n\"This is not about money. My primary goal is to have the actions of The Stand acknowledged as unlawful and to ensure the event proceeds.\n\n\"I have asked The Stand to apologise to me too. If they don't agree with my reasonable requests, I intend to ask the court to decide on the issue.\"\n\nMs Cherry said the decision to cancel her show was symptomatic of a wider problem in society.\n\n\"I am very concerned that those who hold perfectly legitimate views on a variety of issues, including women like me, are regularly being misrepresented, de-platformed and, in some cases, facing damage to or the loss of our livelihoods,\" she added.\n\n\"This is often accompanied by online abuse and threats.\n\n\"The debate on gender self-identification is a very important one which must be allowed to take place, but I am a woman of many parts who was engaged to talk about my political life in general and I see the cancelling of my one-hour event as the thin end of the wedge.\"\n\nThe Stand said it would not be making any further comment until it had discussed the matter with its solicitors.\n\nIn a statement released last week, the venue said that a number of its key operational staff - including venue management and box office personnel - were unwilling to work on the event.\n\nThe statement said: \"We will ensure that their views are respected.\n\n\"We will not compel our staff to work on this event and so have concluded that the event is unable to proceed on a properly staffed, safe and legally-compliant basis.\n\n\"We advised the show producers, Fair Pley Productions, of this operational issue and they advised Joanna Cherry that it is no longer possible to host the event in our venue.\"\n\nThe Stand - which was co-founded by SNP MP Tommy Sheppard - said it did not endorse the views of any participant in the In Conversation With... series, which is organised by independent producer Fair Pley.\n\nMr Sheppard, who sits on the venue's board and is believed to be one of a number of shareholders, said it would be wrong to characterise it as a dispute between him and Ms Cherry.\n\nThe Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow was ordered to pay almost £100,000 in damages to a controversial evangelical US preacher after axing his event in 2020.\n\nFranklin Graham's appearance at the Hydro was scrapped following pressure from Glasgow City Council, Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie and campaigners over his views on issues such as homosexuality, Islam and Donald Trump.\n\nVenue staff had claimed the move was due to security and protest concerns but a sheriff ruled that Mr Graham had been discriminated against and that the SEC had breached the Equality Act by not letting him perform.\n\nIn his ruling, Sheriff John McCormick said: \"The pursuer's right to engage a speaker at the evangelical event - in furtherance of a religious or philosophical belief - is protected by law\".", "A star-studded Coronation concert took place this evening in the grounds of Windsor Castle, after a day of street parties and Big Lunch events around the UK.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family watched from the Royal Box at Windsor Castle, alongside special guests including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Baroness Scotland.\n\nThousands also gathered to watch the spectacle as the sun went down, with performances from Olly Murs, Lionel Ritchie, Katy Perry and Paloma Faith among others.\n\nPrincess Charlotte was seen enjoying the Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog segment, in which the characters spoke with the host Hugh Bonneville.\n\nPeople also watched live screenings around the UK, from nearby Windsor to Blackpool Promenade.\n\nAnd earlier in the day, Londoners were seen blowing bubbles and holding picnics to celebrate the King and Queen.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak hosted the Big Lunch at Downing Street with his family, with US First Lady Jill Biden in attendance.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family also joined in across the country.\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales made a surprise appearance in Windsor, where they greeted crowds and well-wishers.\n\nPrince Edward and Sophie, Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, attended a Big Lunch event in Cranleigh, Surrey, with residents and representatives from the Royal British Legion, the Scouts and the Guides.\n\nPrincess Anne met residents at a street party in Swindon, Wiltshire, and Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie attended an event in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.\n\nAcross the UK, thousands more participated in the Big Lunch; including in Newcastle, Morecambe, Alfriston, London and Doagh, Northern Ireland.", "Bosses at three of the UK's water companies have decided not to take their annual bonuses after widespread public criticism over sewage pollution.\n\nThames Water's Sarah Bentley said it did not \"feel right\" to take the bonus, along with South West Water's Susan Davy and Yorkshire Water's Nicola Shaw.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the eight other major water companies to see if they will follow suit.\n\nCampaigners have called for all UK water firm CEOs to waive their bonuses.\n\nMs Bentley received a £496,000 bonus last year while Ms Davy was handed £522,000. Ms Shaw has only recently joined Yorkshire Water but last year it paid out £878,000 in bonuses to directors.\n\nThames Water said its chief financial officer Alastair Cochran would also decline his bonus.\n\nIn 2022 the Liberal Democrats urged the British government to ban bonuses for water company bosses until sewage offences stopped.\n\nThe party said its analysis showed firms in England had paid executives nearly £27m in bonuses since 2020.\n\nIt said the numbers were \"obscene\" given 1,000 sewage spills a day were recorded in 2021.\n\nThose figures have only got worse - Thames Water was last year named as among the worst performing companies for polluting waterways by regulator Ofwat.\n\nIn March a House of Lords committee said water bosses should not receive bonuses while targets were being missed and the environment was being polluted.\n\nIt also criticised Ofwat, for failing to ensure companies had invested enough in infrastructure.\n\nThe government has said it is making water companies invest £56m to modernise infrastructure, much of which is decades old.\n\nThames Water said it was spending £1.6bn to modernise its sewage infrastructure and expand its team of leak engineers.\n\n\"Nevertheless, the turnaround plan is not yet where I want it to be... against this backdrop it simply doesn't feel right to take my bonus this year,\" Ms Bentley said.\n\nBut the pressure is on Thames Water. In March it was told by the Environment Agency (EA) to fix water leaks as part of its plans to tackle drought problems.\n\nCampaigners say sewage overflows are discharging much too often\n\nSouth West Water has faced similar levels of criticism. Last month it was fined a record amount of more than £2.1m after it admitted causing pollution in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nAnd in November it was told to \"urgently address\" the impact of waste water discharges by Cornwall Council by curbing bonuses and dividends rather than increasing costs to consumers.\n\nThe company said the money Ms Davy would have received would instead go directly to customers via a shareholder scheme or be taken as a credit on their bill.\n\nAnnual reports from Yorkshire Water show Ms Shaw could have received up to £800,000 if the company met its performance targets for the year.\n\n\"I understand the strength of feeling about the issues linked to river health which is why I've decided that this year I won't be accepting a bonus,\" she said. \"This is the right thing to do,\" she added.\n\nThe move by the three chief executives has been welcomed by the Consumer Council for Water.\n\nChief executive Emma Clancy said: \"Bonuses add to people's current frustration with the water industry and they would like much more openness and transparency on this issue.\"\n\nBut the Clean Rivers Trust said a nationwide overhaul of the sewage system was needed to cope with the growing population.\n\n\"Sewers that are discharging are having to take far more sewage as house building continues and the system can't cope,\" director Harvey Wood said. \"The sewer system in this country is shot.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Samsu Miah says he is \"incredibly proud\" of his son Mohammed Alamgir Ahmed for winning his award\n\nA lifelong royal fan who moved to Wales from Bangladesh more than 50 years ago says he is \"incredibly proud\" of his son for receiving a royal award.\n\nMohammed Alamgir Ahmed, 42, from Cardiff, has received a Coronation Champions Award for volunteer work.\n\nHis father Samsu Miah, 67, will attend a garden party with him in Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.\n\n\"I'm very, very happy and excited. I never thought I would see the King in my life,\" Samsu said.\n\nSamsu grew up in a small fishing village in Bangladesh, but moved to Cardiff in 1969 - just in time to travel to Caernarfon, Gwynedd, for the investiture of Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales the same year.\n\nHe said: \"I saw the Queen and Prince of Wales, they said 'hello how are you?', so I'm proud, you know, that I've seen both of them in my life.\"\n\nSamsu has been a huge fan of the UK royal family all his life\n\nSamsu's son, Mohammed, said he remembers growing up in the family home with pictures of the royal family next to pictures of himself and his siblings on the wall.\n\nMohammed, who runs a technology recruitment company, is one of 500 people - 29 in Wales - to receive the Coronation Champions award.\n\nHe was nominated for his community work, including volunteering with children and young people, at the Dar-Ul-Isra Mosque in Cathays, Cardiff.\n\nSamsu, pictured with his family on Roath Park Lake, Cardiff, has followed the royals closely\n\nHe said: \"It's an honour really, I feel proud and humbled by it. It's also a big step because people from the black and ethnic minority community are not represented as much at these sorts of things.\n\n\"Myself at the garden party, with my dad as a guest, it's going to be great, whether we meet the King or not it's going to be great.\"\n\nMohammed is not Samsu's only son to have a royal connection.\n\nDr Abdul-Azim Ahmed, the general secretary of the Muslim Council of Wales, was one of a handful of people to greet the King in Llandaff when he arrived in Wales to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\n\"I'm very proud, one son going to see the King in a garden party and another going to receive them, so I'm very proud and happy and I think it is a very amazing thing,\" Samsu said.", "President Putin carrying a photograph of his father during last year's Victory Day celebrations\n\nSeveral Russian cities have announced they will scale back this year's Victory Day celebrations.\n\nRussian authorities have cited security reasons and attacks from pro-Ukrainian forces for the changes.\n\nExplosions and fires have occurred in Russia in recent weeks.\n\nBut some have argued that the reduced events show the Kremlin is nervous about celebrations turning into shows of dissent against its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nGreat pomp and shows of military might are the usual hallmarks of Victory Day, which marks the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany on 9 May 1945.\n\nOne of the day's most recognisable events is the Immortal Regiment procession, which sees people across the country marching holding photographs of their relatives who fought in World War Two.\n\nLast year, President Vladimir Putin led the procession across Red Square in Moscow while holding a photograph of his father in uniform.\n\nThis year, however, the Immortal Regiment \"will be held in other formats for security reasons\", lawmaker and organiser Yelena Tsunayeva told journalists last month.\n\nAccording to a news release on the Immortal Regiment of Russia's website, Ms Tsunayeva suggested that those wishing to commemorate their relatives should instead place photos of war veterans in car windows, transfer their image to items of clothing, or change their social media avatars.\n\nSome commentators have said that an in-person Immortal Regiment procession could end up highlighting the number of Russian losses in Ukraine.\n\nDmitry Kolezev, a journalist and editor of a liberal news website, now living in exile, said that had the procession not been cancelled, people would have \"almost certainly come to the Immortal Regiment with portraits of those who died in Ukraine, and the number of recent photographs may turn out to be depressingly large\".\n\nMr Kolezev also said that the authorities might be concerned that a large gathering of people could snowball into a show of dissent. \"History knows of examples when loyal events turned into protests,\" he said on Telegram.\n\nViktor Muchnik, the former editor-in-chief of a Siberian TV network, who has also left the country, said the Russian state was \"maniacally suspicious\" and was less concerned about a \"hypothetical terrorist attack\" than it was about damage to its image.\n\nHe said that the Kremlin might fear that the procession will show \"too many portraits of those who died not 80 years ago, but over the past year\".\n\n\"This will give an idea of the hidden extent of the disaster,\" Mr Muchnik said in an interview.\n\nMeanwhile, the world-famous parade of military equipment on Moscow's Red Square, which is traditionally observed by President Putin, will be strictly closed off to the public.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia's security services were working to ensure the safety of the parade against \"terrorist attacks\".\n\n\"We are of course aware that the Kyiv regime, which is behind a number of such attacks, terrorist acts, plans to continue its campaign. All our special services are doing everything possible to ensure security,\" he said.\n\nTwo separate fires at fuel storage facilities have broken out in the last few days in southern Russia and in Russian-occupied Crimea, including one on Wednesday morning in the Krasnodar region near a bridge leading to the occupied Crimean Peninsula.\n\nThis week, two separate explosions in the Russian border region of Bryansk derailed freight trains, while power lines were destroyed by a suspected explosive device in Leningrad Region.\n\nAlthough none of these attacks have been claimed by Ukraine, Kyiv's military has said that undermining Russia's logistics formed part of preparations for its long-expected counter-offensive.", "Former President Donald Trump has said in his deposition that he did not rape E Jean Carroll. He repeatedly denies Ms Carroll's allegations by claiming she is \"not my type\".", "Swedish star Loreen is the bookmaker's favourite to win the contest\n\nSweden's Loreen has sailed through to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest, cementing her position as this year's favourite.\n\nThe star, who previously won in 2012, clasped her hands to cover her eyes as it was announced she had qualified from the first semi-final in Liverpool.\n\nIreland were less fortunate, with the rock band Wild Youth on their way home after failing to attract enough votes.\n\nThe country has now failed to qualify on eight of their last 10 attempts.\n\nThe continuation of that losing streak will cause much soul-searching in the nation that holds the record for the most Eurovision victories of all time - seven in total.\n\nThe last time they qualified was 2018, when Ryan O'Shaughnessy entered with his song Together.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Night one's most iconic Eurovision performances (UK only)\n\nIreland's Eurovision commentator Marty Whelan could not hide his disappointment.\n\n\"Everything was absolutely perfect, they were fantastic,\" he said live on RTÉ One as the news sunk in.\n\n\"There's things I want to say, there's things I want to share. You can probably get it from the tone of my voice, what I'm thinking, that this is... Ugh, this is just such a shame.\n\n\"But the votes didn't come. So we are not qualifying again this year from Liverpool when we had great expectations, as the famous book says.\"\n\nIreland's Wild Youth had been endorsed by Lewis Capaldi and former One Direction star Niall Horan\n\nTuesday's semi-final at the Liverpool Arena saw 15 acts competing for a place in Saturday's grand final. These are the ones who made the cut.\n\nRock bands fared badly in the public vote, with Latvia's Sudden Lights and Malta's The Busker joining Ireland on the chopping block.\n\nThe other artists whose journey ended on Tuesday were Azerbaijani twins TuralTuranX and the Netherlands' Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper.\n\nThe show was hosted by Alesha Dixon, Julia Sanina and Hannah Waddingham\n\nTen more acts will progress to the main competition after Thursday's second semi-final. The \"Big Five\" countries, who contribute the most financially to the competition (France, Germany, Spain, the UK and Italy) qualify automatically, as do last year's winners Ukraine.\n\nLiverpool is hosting the competition on Ukraine's behalf, due to the ongoing Russian invasion of their country.\n\nThe impact of the war was referenced throughout the two-hour show. Songs like Switzerland's Watergun and Croatia's Mama ŠČ! denounced conflict and bloodlust, while the Czech band Vesna sang elements of their song in Ukrainian as a show of solidarity with their near-neighbours.\n\nDuring the interval, Ukrainian star Alyosha performed a mournful version of Duran Duran's Ordinary World, that emphasised the pain of being separated from your loved ones.\n\nThe singer fled to America with her three children when the war began, but her husband, Taras Topolja, frontman of the rock band Antitila, was required to stay at home.\n\nAs she duetted with Liverpudlian X-Factor star Rebecca Ferguson, text messages from families fleeing the country flashed up on giant video screens and the arena was lit up in the Ukrainian national colours of blue and yellow.\n\nSpeaking before the contest, Alyosha dedicated her sobering and beautiful performance to forced migrants around the world.\n\nThe half-time show also saw pop star Rita Ora performing a medley of her hits, including Anywhere and Praising You.\n\nShe was joined on stage by 12-year-old Ukrainian refugee Sofiia, who has now settled in the UK. Ora said the youngster's plight reminded her of her own family's experience of fleeing the Balkan War in the 1990s \"and how I will be forever grateful to the UK for showing us kindness and compassion\".\n\n\"Sofiia opens my performance this evening playing with a ball, representing the loss of childhood for these poor refugees,\" she wrote on Twitter. \"We love you Ukraine, we all perform tonight, for you.\"\n\nThe evening kicked off with a short video featuring famous faces from around Liverpool including Wirral-born TV baker Paul Hollywood, Ukrainian Everton footballer Vitalii Mykolenko and the late Paul O'Grady.\n\nThe video also contained a surprise cameo from the King and Queen, who unveiled the contest's stage last month.\n\nIsrael's Noa Kirel gave one of the night's most athletic performances\n\nThe royal theme continued with the opening act, Norwegian singer Alessandra, whose barnstorming electropop number Queen of Kings featured a costume inspired by Queen Elizabeth I.\n\nAfter that, the audience were treated to ballroom dancers, a Portuguese Moulin Rouge routine, and a re-enactment of a traditional Moldovan wedding ceremony.\n\nCo-host Alesha Dixon even recalled her days in the girl band Mis-Teeq, with a rap about the history of the song contest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Alesha Dixon's Eurovision rap at the first semi-final in Liverpool (UK only)\n\nNoa Kirel - Israel's answer to Beyoncé - received an enthusiastic response for her song Unicorn, and its pneumatic dance routine. And Finland's Käärijä raised the roof with his utterly bonkers thrash techno track Cha Cha Cha.\n\nThe night's most outrageous costumes came courtesy of Croatian shock rockers Let 3, who dressed in leather fetish gear before stripping down to white underwear.\n\nLet 3's song was a thinly-veiled attack on Russia's Vladimir Putin\n\nKäärijä's rock-pop hybrid Cha Cha Cha is seen as the biggest challenger to Loreen\n\nHowever, Loreen was the artist who had the arena in the palm of her hand, with a soaring performance of Tattoo - a song about a love so deep and intense that it becomes engraved on her heart.\n\nPerforming in a nude catsuit between two giant LED screens, she threw down the gauntlet to the rest of the 2023 contestants.\n\nBut over the weekend, the star said she wasn't too concerned about winning.\n\n\"No, I care about creating something that is real,\" she replied. \"So my fear is compromising, my fear is that it's not authentic.\"", "Colum Marks was shot in Downpatrick, County Down, in April 1991\n\nA now-retired police officer who shot dead an IRA man in Downpatrick more than 30 years ago will not be prosecuted, it has been announced.\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service (PPS) said the evidence was \"insufficient to provide a reasonable prospect of conviction\".\n\nHis family has disputed the police version of events, claiming he was unlawfully killed.\n\nIn a statement, his mother Roisin Marks said they were \"very disappointed\", adding: \"It was our view that new forensic evidence should have justified a prosecution.\"\n\nThe officer who shot Mr Marks had said he believed he was armed and claimed he refused to stop when an attempt was made to arrest him.\n\nNo gun was found at the scene.\n\nThe Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) had intelligence that the IRA was planning an attack on a patrol and were lying in wait as a mortar bomb was put into position near St Patrick's Avenue.\n\n\"The key issue in this case was whether the available evidence provided a reasonable prospect of rebutting a defence of self-defence,\" said Michael Agnew, PPS deputy director.\n\n\"The officer's account was that Mr Marks was running towards him and did not stop after warnings.\n\n\"He believed that Mr Marks would have been armed and claimed that he feared for his own life when he made a split-second decision to fire.\n\n\"In a self-defence case the court will assess the reasonableness of a defendant's actions in light of the circumstances as he may have genuinely believed them to be, even if that belief is a mistaken one,\" Mr Agnew added.\n\nHe continued: \"The evidence established that Mr Marks was unarmed when he was shot.\n\n\"However, the surrounding circumstances presented significant difficulties in proving to the criminal standard that the officer did not have a genuine belief that his life was at risk.\"\n\nMr Agnew added that new forensic evidence was \"not conclusive\" on whether Mr Marks had been shot in the back.\n\nThe PPS decision followed a re-investigation of the case by the Police Ombudsman, which started in 2016.\n\nMr Marks's family said they were now considering all legal options, including asking for an internal PPS review of the decision.\n\nIt is their \"strong contention\" that he could have been arrested at several times in the course of the day.\n\nTheir solicitor, Gavin Booth of Phoenix Law, said: \"New forensic evidence suggested that Colum was shot in the back and that he could not have been posing a threat.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the PPS have told the family they cannot fully determine what happened on the night in question.\n\n\"They have informed the family that on the available evidence in relation to the wounds sustained by Colum the evidence is conflicting.\n\n\"The family remain committed to finding out the full facts of what happened and we now consider all options available to them.\"", "Ed Sheeran is one of the richest Britons under 35, according to the Sunday Times\n\nEd Sheeran, Adele and Harry Styles are among the UK's richest people under the age of 35, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nThe musicians all have an estimated wealth of more than £150m after successes in the UK and US.\n\nBut they are not quite moneyed enough to make the main Rich List where people must boast wealth of £350m or more.\n\nThat includes UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy, though their wealth has fallen.\n\nFor those under 35, Ed Sheeran, 32, is ranked the seventh wealthiest with a fortune of £300m, helped by his fast-selling sixth album \"Subtract\".\n\nAdele, who is now 35, is in ninth place with £165m. The London-born singer has sold more than 100 million albums, and earlier this year she announced that her lavish Las Vegas residency would be extended. Reportedly, this pays £500,000 per show.\n\nHarry Styles had the biggest-selling UK album last year with \"Harry's House\", and is currently on tour in the UK. The 29-year-old's wealth is pegged at £150m.\n\nSitting on top of the main Rich List is Gopi Hinduja and family, who own a vast conglomerate of businesses across the world and whose combined wealth is £35bn, up from £28.4bn last year.\n\nSir Jim Ratcliffe makes a return to the top 10 of Britain's richest people after two years down the ranks.\n\nNow worth £29.6bn, Sir Jim is perhaps best known at the moment for his battle to buy Manchester United, his football team since boyhood. He made his fortune through Ineos, a chemicals and raw materials business.\n\nWhile the Rich List is made up of the uber-wealthy, this is the first year that the number of billionaires has fallen since the global financial crisis in 2008 when the banking industry nearly collapsed.\n\nThere are now 171 billionaires listed, down by six from the previous year. The economic impact of Covid, high inflation and rising interest rates - which make it more expensive to borrow money - have weighed on the fortunes of the rich.\n\nSir Richard Branson, who recently told the BBC he feared losing everything during the pandemic, has seen his wealth almost halve to £2.4bn. The man behind the airline Virgin Atlantic said he lost £1.5bn as Covid lockdowns grounded flights and kept his hotels and health clubs shuttered.\n\nMr Sunak and his wife Ms Murthy have also seen their fortunes fall by £200m, from the £730m they were worth last year to £529m.\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy are worth £529m\n\nThe majority of their wealth comes from Ms Murthy who owns a sizable stake in her father's IT business Infosys.\n\nThe newly-crowned King Charles III has the relatively low ranking of 263 on the Rich List with a fortune of £600m. However, he is wealthier than his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who was worth £320m, according to last year's list.\n\nConsiderably richer is JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books. She is worth £875m, a rise of £25m from the previous year. She could become wealthier still - the writer is reportedly in talks with the TV network HBO about making her most famous creation into a series.\n\nMeanwhile, two of the stars of the Harry Potter films are on the list of the richest under 35s. Daniel Radcliffe, 33, is worth £92m while Emma Watson, also 33, has an estimated wealth of £60m.", "Parents are scraping out dirty nappies and reusing them, a charity worker said\n\nThe stigma around hygiene poverty is holding people back for getting help, a charity that provides toiletries to 125 foodbanks, schools and refuges in Northern Ireland has said.\n\nThe Hygiene Bank has distributed over 62.6kg of nappies, sanitary items and other products throughout Northern Ireland since 2020.\n\nIts coordinator says some parents are reusing dirty nappies for their babies, in a bid to save money.\n\nHilary Young, from Portglenone, County Antrim, said many people do not want to admit they need help but \"when it comes to basic things particularly it's like a stigma, they feel ashamed they've had to do this\".\n\n\"But more and more people are having to make that step,\" said Ms Young, who stores supplies for the charity in her garage.\n\nMs Young works with the Ballymena unit of the charity but said her work now included areas from Maghera and Magherafelt to Antrim and Ballyclare.\n\n\"We have had reports of if families haven't got nappies to change into a fresh nappy, they scrape the current nappy off, clean as much as they can, and put the nappy back on.\n\n\"It's hard to imagine having to do that, but sadly that's the case. Hard to imagine when you're not in that position, but sadly that's reality.\"\n\nThe charity worker said the need for personal items such as toilet roll and toothpaste is growing, with the charity opening another two bases in Northern Ireland in recent months.\n\n\"Initially we were blinded to the reality of the need out there,\" she continued.\n\n\"It used to be you'd have thought it was a far-off country, not your own country, or your own area. But no - it's very much on our doorsteps, sadly.\"\n\nHilary Young said things are getting worse for families in Northern Ireland\n\nA family of five might only have one toothbrush to share around, and families weren't able to renew these every few months as would be advised, she said.\n\n\"I've been to Africa helping in an orphanage out there, and you expect it out there, but here you wouldn't imagine that to be the case. But sadly it is. And it's getting worse, unfortunately.\n\n\"A lot of the hygiene side of things hasn't been realised as much as it should be because it goes alongside needing food.\n\n\"We all need to eat, we need to wash, we need to do all those basic things, we need to keep warm especially when it's chilly mornings.\n\n\"The hygiene side of things is not talked about but it's very much real.\"\n\nHeather Boyd, the centre manager at the Maghera Cross Community Link, which runs a foodbank that receives donations from The Hygiene Bank, said she worried for schoolchildren who are not being washed for school.\n\n\"If kids are going to school without being washed or clean clothes it causes all sorts of problems for them,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We have seen how important it is to be able to wash.\n\n\"We've had a food bank for around nine years, but people are finding it so much harder.\n\n\"We used to be focused on just feeding people, but now it's so much more, working families are coming to us and steadily a lot of new faces in the last month.\n\n\"Families are grateful for a hygiene bag - those are the items which shouldn't be a treat, a toothbrush, shower gel.\"\n\nAntrim's Baby Bank could open for more than one day a week due to increasing demand, Sharon Caldwell said\n\nSharon Caldwell, the scheme organiser for the Baby Bank in Antrim which distributes essential supplies to families, said referrals had almost doubled in a year.\n\n\"People are not looking for luxuries, they're not looking for all the additional things, they are looking for the things we presume every child should have,\" she said.\n\nMs Caldwell said parents would often go without shampoo or shower gel in order to provide hygienic items for their babies.\n\n\"I wouldn't like to think what would happen if suddenly a place like ours did not exist,\" she said.\n\n\"People have gotten used to knowing that when they face a difficult week, when they are in crisis, if the worst comes to the worst, they know that their baby will have everything that they need.\"\n\nYou can hear Good Morning Ulster's interview with Hilary Young here.", "Nick's home has become an island during floods\n\nHomeowners risk complacency, expense and trauma unless they consider fitting simple flood protection measures, a new campaign will claim.\n\nThe Environment Agency and others say millions of UK homes are at risk, and families can be forced out of a flood-hit home for a year for it to dry out.\n\nThey say relatively cheap upgrades, including toilet bungs and air brick covers, can help cut damage and costs.\n\nForecasters say flooding in the UK will become more intense and more frequent.\n\nProtection has saved one couple's home despite nine floods in four years.\n\nNick Lupton, who lives next to the River Severn in Worcestershire, said he and his wife Annie had never had to claim on insurance, having kept their house dry despite torrents of water outside.\n\nNick Lupton says the investment is worthwhile\n\n\"We bought the house with our eyes wide open,\" said the retired engineer.\n\n\"We have added a little bit to the mitigation the previous owners put in place which had worked very well, which makes our life a little bit easier.\"\n\nThe property, part of which dates back to the 17th Century, was once the river ferryboat's inn. When it was a pub, the sound of floating beer barrels in the cellar was a sign of the rising water.\n\nNow, double flood barriers in front of the doors and pumps under the floors keep the muddy overflowing river water back. The couple are remortgaging to pay for a flood wall to circle the property, anticipating raising the value of their home as a result.\n\nNot everything is expensive. A £5 sewage bung has saved them from having to bail out the toilets every 40 minutes during the night during a flood.\n\nSuch measures will be central to the launch of the Be Flood Smart campaign on Monday by the Environment Agency and Flood Re - a scheme designed to provide affordable insurance for flood-risk homes.\n\n\"I can't stress enough just how horrendous flooding is, so any action people can take to avoid the turmoil is a good investment,\" said Andy Bord, chief executive of Flood Re, who likened the safety measures to locks to prevent burglary.\n\n\"Insurance covers a lot, but it can't make flooding any less traumatic and protect those really important sentimental items at the heart of your home.\"\n\nToilet bungs are pumped up to avoid sewage backing up during a flood\n\nJust days after the latest set of floods hit the UK, he is urging homeowners refurbishing their homes to consider measures such as waterproof tiling and covers over the holes in air bricks. The latter could prevent water getting in, the former could make any post-flood clean-up quicker and cheaper so residents can move back in sooner.\n\nSuch items are now being put to the test, and their benefits taught to the building trade, at a new flood school in Oxfordshire.\n\nThe BBC was given exclusive access to the Be Flood Ready Property Flood Resilience Centre, built at not-for-profit consultancy HR Wallingford using government funding.\n\nFlooding is simulated here with water pumped into a mock-up kitchen, showing the benefit of raised electrical sockets and appliances, as well as tiled skirting boards.\n\nA simulation shows the impact of flood water and protection measures\n\nAccording to Emma Brown, who leads the flood forecasting team at HR Wallingford, climate change will make flooding \"worse, more intense and more frequent\".\n\nThat includes coastal floods, rivers overflowing, and drainage systems unable to cope with too much rainfall. Summer rain, when the ground is hard, can create flash floods in urban areas.\n\nShe said that the risk of flooding in areas that had not suffered before could lead to some complacency, but technology was helping to highlight the risks.\n\nEmma Brown says computer modelling can alert those at risk\n\n\"State-of-the-art computer models mean we can pinpoint the homes and businesses that are most likely to be flooded. We can go out and be better prepared,\" she said.\n\nThe early results of research in Northampton suggested that every £1 spent on flood prevention in the area could mean £6 saved in dealing with damage, she said.", "The government first promised guidance for schools in relation to transgender pupils more than five years ago.\n\nAnd while the Department for Education (DfE) says it will finally publish new guidance for schools in England this term, for many this cannot come soon enough.\n\nFinding a school willing to talk about its transgender policies is almost impossible.\n\nBBC News contacted head teachers across England but almost all were too anxious to be interviewed on camera. They did not want to draw attention to their school - or pupils who identify as trans or non-binary.\n\nIn 2018, the government said it would work with the human-rights watchdog to publish \"comprehensive guidance for schools on how to support trans pupils\". Without it, many schools are making their own decisions, such as whether to introduce gender-neutral toilets or changing rooms - and how they are used.\n\nSome teachers told BBC News they worried whatever they did would \"not only be criticised but publicly vilified\" and, while schools needed clarity, it was a \"no-win\" situation.\n\nOthers said they might have to consult solicitors, amid fears of doing the \"wrong thing\".\n\nHead teacher Kevin Sexton told BBC News many schools wanted better guidance and advice to help make decisions \"in the best interests of the child\".\n\nHis, Chesterfield High School, a mixed-sex comprehensive in Crosby, Merseyside, has developed its own approach.\n\nThe school has more than 1,200 pupils, 10-20 of whom identify as transgender, non-binary or gender fluid.\n\nThere are single-sex and gender-neutral toilets, with floor-to-ceiling lockable cubicles and a supervising member of staff. And private PE changing rooms, used by all the trans pupils, are available to all.\n\nThe school's support for children questioning their gender identity had been developed over the past decade, Mr Sexton said.\n\n\"We've tried to create a school that's tolerant and inclusive,\" he said.\n\n\"We'll work with individual children to actually think about what they want to use and access - and it becomes really manageable.\"\n\nChesterfield High had never faced a challenge from parents - but other head teachers had.\n\nHead teacher Kevin Sexton says everyone should feel safe and happy at school\n\nUsing the survey tool Teacher Tapp, BBC News asked almost 7,000 teachers in England a series of questions about their experience with transgender pupils.\n\nAbout 8% of primary-school teachers said they taught trans or non-binary pupils, compared with 75% in secondary.\n\nAnd just over half said they would not be very or at all confident about the next steps to take if a child wanted to change their name, use different pronouns or change their appearance, hairstyle or clothes - what is known as socially transitioning.\n\nWhen and how schools should involve parents if a child wishes to identify as a gender different to their birth sex - and what to do if a parent disagrees - are among the most controversial matters the guidance is expected to address.\n\nEvery classroom at Chesterfield High School has a pride flag\n\nA report into gender-identity services in England says socially transitioning may have significant psychological effects - and better information is needed about its outcomes.\n\nAnd last year, an NHS England consultation proposed socially transitioning should be considered in certain circumstances only, such as to alleviate or prevent \"clinically significant distress\".\n\nAbout three-quarters of the teachers in the Teacher Tapp survey said their school would support a child who wished to socially transition.\n\nAnd 39% of the secondary teachers who responded said they would support this, regardless of parental consent.\n\n\"Everyone involved in a child's life should work together and investigate why a child may feel a certain way,\" says Tanya Carter, of the Safe Schools Alliance organisation, which is worried about how some schools are managing gender identity.\n\n\"Teachers are not doctors. [Socially transitioning] is something that should only be done with medical oversight. Concerns arise when schools affirm someone as the opposite sex, locking in what may or not may not be a transient phase in that child's life.\"\n\nThe organisation receives several messages every day from both parents and teachers worried about toilets, changing rooms, sports and overnight accommodation on school trips becoming mixed-sex.\n\n\"We get parents who have found out that their children have been socially transitioned behind their backs at schools, because the schools haven't spoken to parents,\" Miss Carter says. \"Schools are keeping secrets from parents.\"\n\nPenni Allen, who runs Chesterfield High's wellbeing unit, says the school takes parents' views into account but that \"doesn't mean that we're not going to continue supporting that child\".\n\nThe school tries to de-escalate any emotions and issues with parents and help the child understand what they are feeling.\n\n\"Some children will come and say they're just exploring,\" Mrs Allen says. \"Others will say they've been feeling this way for quite some time. They might just be at the start of a journey that never goes anywhere.\n\n\"It's not about putting them on a pathway. We don't put your child in a box and put a label on it that says, 'Your child is now trans.'\n\n\"We like to think we've got a good relationship with parents here… and hopefully, we get it right.\"\n\nPenni Allen runs Chesterfield High's wellbeing unit, where pupils can talk to counsellors about difficulties, including around gender identity\n\nBBC News spoke to parents of trans children at other schools in England but, as with teachers, it is difficult to find a view everyone agrees with and will speak about on record.\n\nSome parents told BBC News they did not want any decisions made without their approval and were not happy with their children changing their names or pronouns.\n\nSome felt their children may be struggling with their sexual orientation, rather than gender identity, and needed space and time to explore that before making other decisions, which could potentially lead down a medical pathway such as puberty blockers.\n\nBut others wanted schools to put their child's choices first, regardless of their own involvement, and were supportive of their trans identity and socially transitioning.\n\nThe decisions schools make, or do not make, can have a huge impact on the young people affected.\n\nEllie, 18, was the first pupil to publicly identify as non-binary at their Catholic school, an isolating and frustrating experience.\n\nThe lack of government guidance means teachers \"can't do their jobs properly\", Ellie says. And they were \"learning as they went\" when Ellie wanted help.\n\n\"A lot of them just don't know how to deal with things - or they're worried about saying the wrong thing, especially with it being a faith school,\" Ellie says.\n\n\"It's just really important that teachers and school staff feel like they know what they're talking about when a student comes to them and they're facing a gender-identity issue or a sexuality issue.\"\n\nAnd teachers' worries about the reaction from the media and some parents may be a barrier to schools making changes that support pupils.\n\nEllie, 18, was the first pupil to publicly identify as non-binary at their Catholic school\n\nThe guidance will build upon existing guidelines to protect people from discrimination.\n\nBut in a move signalling just how sensitive the matter is, the Department for Education will publish a draft for consultation before the final guidance is issued, which is rare for non-statutory - advisory, rather than compulsory - guidance.\n\nIt is likely to cover issues such as whether single-sex schools are legally obliged to admit transgender pupils or whether schools should inform parents if their child is questioning their gender.\n\nIt may also offer advice on sleeping arrangements during residential trips and how to manage single-sex sports. But it is not clear whether schools would receive additional funding to help them make any changes.\n\nA Department for Education official said it was \"important that we take the time to get this right\" so the guidance on such \"sensitive matters\" was \"as clear as possible for schools\". The guidance would be \"based upon the overriding principle of the wellbeing and safeguarding of children, and it will consider a range of issues\".\n\nEvery day, Teacher Tapp asks thousands of primary and secondary teachers, in both the state and private sector, questions about their experiences in the classroom.\n\nAccording to the survey for BBC News, 9% say there are adequate support services to which to refer children experiencing unease about their gender identity.\n\nThe Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) says it receives a \"steady stream\" of inquiries from its members.\n\nIn 2022, alongside other teaching unions, it published guidance on balancing transgender pupils' needs with those of others, within the legal framework of the Equality Act.\n\nBut ASCL director of policy Julie McCulloch says without official guidance, schools are working \"in a vacuum\". And it is calling for it to be published and fully consulted on as soon as possible.\n\n\"There are parents and people in the wider school community who understandably have very strong views about this issue,\" Ms McCulloch says. \"So there's also pressure coming on schools from their communities to make sure they get this right.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Email your experiences haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man pushed a Just Stop Oil protester to the ground during a slow-walk protest in a road in London.\n\nIn a video clip posted at about 09:00 BST, he can be seen walking up behind the group in the middle of Mansell Street and snatching banners from them.\n\nHe also smacked a phone out of a protester's hands and shoved several other climate activists in the group of about a dozen people.\n\nA spokesperson for the Met Police said it happened before officers arrived.\n\nJust Stop Oil also held another traffic-blocking walk nearby, from Queen Victoria Street to Fleet Street, in the City of London.\n\nIt has been holding daily slow-march protests on roads since 24 April, sparking public anger at disruption to drivers. Similar traffic-blocking tactics have long been a source of frustration to motorists held up by activists.\n\nThe man smacked a phone out of a protester's hands\n\nA spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: \"The Met and City of London Police are aware of an incident in which a member of the public appears to have remonstrated with Just Stop Oil protesters this morning, 19 May, in the City of London, before the arrival of police.\n\n\"At this stage, we are not aware that any allegations have been made in regard to this matter. We completely understand the frustration and anger of London's communities when protesters walk slowly in the roads.\n\n\"We urge people not to intervene and to wait for the arrival of police, who will attend the scene promptly.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Just Stop Oil said: \"We understand how frustrating it can be to be disrupted, however, as of this morning, 13 people are dead and 13,000 people have had to be evacuated from their homes in Italy, due to six months' worth of rain falling in a day and a half.\n\n\"The disruption we are seeing on British streets is nothing compared to the disruption wrought if we do not stop licensing new oil, gas and coal.\"\n\nJust Stop Oil is calling for an end to all new oil, gas and coal projects in the UK and says its protests will continue indefinitely.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Harry and Meghan arrive at event before alleged car chase\n\nA photo agency that took pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex during what the couple said was a dangerous car chase has refused to hand over the images to them.\n\nBackgrid told BBC News it had rejected a legal demand to share the material taken in New York on Tuesday night.\n\nIn a tongue-in-cheek response, the agency's lawyers said Americans had long ago rejected \"royal prerogative\".\n\nThe BBC has asked the couple for comment.\n\nConflicting accounts of what Harry and Meghan's spokesperson described as a \"near catastrophic car chase\" resulting in \"multiple near collisions\" have emerged since the incident was made public on Wednesday.\n\nNew York police said \"numerous photographers\" had made the couple's journey from an awards ceremony on Tuesday evening \"challenging\", but added there had been \"no reported collisions, summonses, injuries, or arrests\".\n\nA taxi driver who briefly drove them suggested their spokesperson's account was \"exaggerated\", while some photographers involved have denied parts of it.\n\nBackgrid, a California-based entertainment picture agency, said on Thursday it had received a letter from the Sussexes' legal team.\n\nIt said the letter, which the BBC has not seen, stated: \"We hereby demand that Backgrid immediately provide us with copies of all photos, videos, and/or films taken last night by the freelance photographers after the couple left their event and over the next several hours.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan attended an awards ceremony on Tuesday\n\nThe agency said it had replied in a letter: \"In America, as I'm sure you know, property belongs to the owner of it: Third parties cannot just demand it be given to them, as perhaps Kings can do.\n\n\"Perhaps you should sit down with your client and advise them that his English rules of royal prerogative to demand that the citizenry hand over their property to the Crown were rejected by this country long ago.\n\n\"We stand by our founding fathers.\"\n\nIn the UK there is no royal prerogative and there has long been tension between the Royal Family and the British media over privacy.\n\nBackgrid said on Wednesday it was investigating the conduct of four freelance photographers involved in taking images of the Sussexes, even as the agency disputed the couple's characterisation of the incident.\n\nThe photographers felt the couple were never in \"immediate danger at any point\", according to the agency.\n\nDuring the pursuit, the car carrying the duke and duchess, her mother and a security guard diverted to a nearby police station twice.\n\nBBC News interviewed a taxi driver, Sukhcharn \"Sonny\" Singh, who was briefly involved in the pursuit. He said his cab was hailed from a police station.\n\nThey only drove a block when his taxi \"got blocked by a garbage truck and all of sudden paparazzi came and started taking pictures\".\n\nMr Singh was then asked to drive them back to the police station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: BBC talks to taxi driver who drove Harry and Meghan\n\nA spokesperson for the duke and duchess said the couple understood they are public figures but that interest \"should never come at the cost of anyone's safety\".\n\nPrince Harry has spoken of his anger at the actions of the paparazzi over the years, comparing the photographers to \"a pack of dogs\" who hounded his mother, in a BBC documentary.\n\nDiana, Princess of Wales, died from injuries she sustained in a car crash after photographers chased the vehicle she was in through the streets of Paris.\n\n\"To see another woman in my life, who I love, go through this feeding frenzy - that's hard,\" he said in the recent Netflix documentary, Harry & Meghan.", "Newly released bodycam footage by US police has revealed what happened during a dramatic car chase in 2021.\n\nIowan police officer Patrick McCarty can be seen jumping into action when a man with an arrest warrant tried to flee what was initially a routine traffic stop.\n\nMr McCarty broke his back in the fall, the Iowa Capital Dispatch news service reported.\n\nThe driver, Dennis Guider Jr, pleaded guilty to causing serious injury with a vehicle and was sentenced to up to five years in prison.", "Speakers' Corner is well known as the home of free speech\n\nA man has admitted preparing to murder a Christian preacher at Hyde Park's Speakers' Corner in a terrorist attack.\n\nEdward Little, 21, from Brighton, was carrying £5,000 with which he hoped to purchase a firearm, a passport and two phones when he was arrested last year.\n\nIt was alleged his intended target was Hatun Tash, who regularly argued with other speakers, and her camera crew, as well as any police or soldiers.\n\nHe pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey by video link from Belmarsh jail.\n\nEarlier this year, Little, of Pelham Street, denied preparing to commit acts of terrorism, but changed his plea and admitted the charge on Friday.\n\nHe also admitted researching Hyde Park, where he planned to carry out the attack, collecting money to purchase a gun and travelling to buy it.\n\nLittle was on his way into London in a taxi for which he had paid £300 when he was stopped and arrested on 23 September 2022.\n\nHe had asked the driver if he could stop and pray at a mosque, although the driver had said there was not one on the way.\n\nThe prosecution asserted Little researched other targets including military figures and members of the Metropolitan Police, but defence lawyer Tom Godfrey said the 21-year-old only accepted targeting the preacher.\n\nPolice later found an encrypted chat on one phone which set out his attack plan and the gun purchase.\n\nLittle declined to answer questions in police interviews, but his mood changed when he was shown a YouTube video of the preacher and he launched himself across the table at an officer, swinging repeatedly with his fists before being restrained.\n\nHe went on to admit assaulting the officer at Newbury police station on 28 September and was sentenced to 40 weeks in prison.\n\nAt a previous hearing, Judge Richard Marks said Little had an \"absolutely shocking previous record\".\n\nThe defendant was convicted of 14 offences on seven separate occasions, including for robbery, having a knife and drug dealing, dating back to 2017.\n\nHe will be sentenced on 21 July.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Walt Disney Company has scrapped a plan to invest nearly $1bn (£806m) to build a new corporate campus in Florida, it announced.\n\nThe reversal comes amid an escalating feud between the entertainment giant and the state's Republican-led government headed by Ron DeSantis.\n\nThe plan would have seen about 2,000 employees relocate to a Disney-owned complex at Lake Nona, near Orlando.\n\nThe cancellation was announced in an internal email to employees on Thursday.\n\nThe email, seen by BBC News, said the company's decision was the result of \"considerable changes\" that have taken place since it was first announced.\n\nIn the email, Josh D'Amaro, the head of Disney's theme park division, also referred to \"changing business conditions\".\n\nWhile the email does not mention politics or Mr DeSantis, it has been interpreted as alluding to mounting tensions between Disney and Florida lawmakers.\n\n\"Disney announced the possibility of a Lake Nona campus nearly two years ago. Nothing ever came of the project, and the state was unsure whether it would come to fruition,\" Mr DeSantis' office said in a statement.\n\n\"Given the company's financial straits, falling market cap and declining stock price, it is unsurprising that they would restructure their business operations and cancel unsuccessful ventures.\"\n\nThe internal Disney email noted that the decision to scrap the project comes after \"new leadership\" at the company, referring to the sudden departure in November of ex-CEO Bob Chapek.\n\nThe Lake Nona campus, which had not been built, would have been a new home for employees at the firm's secretive theme park research and development arm, known as Imagineers, who were asked to move from California to Florida.\n\nMr D'Amaro's email said relocation would no longer be required and it would discuss next steps with those he said had already done so.\n\nMany of the jobs that were supposed to relocate to Florida were higher paid, white collar and tech-focused positions.\n\nThe Orlando Business Journal reported the project was valued at about $867m and that the average annual wage for the positions was $120,000.\n\nBob Iger, the former chief executive who made a stunning return to replace his successor, Mr Chapek, has announced sweeping changes to boost the firm's business, which has come under pressure as the traditional movie and television industries decline.\n\nDisney launched a streaming offering, Disney+, in 2019, but it remains loss making.\n\nUnlike other media companies, Disney has been shielded by the popularity of its theme parks, which have kept the firm profitable.\n\nBut the value of its share price has halved since peaking in March 2021, as investors predict a tough road ahead.\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Iger announced a plan to save $5.5bn, involving a sweeping reorganisation of the company's operations and roughly 7,000 job losses.\n\nAmong the cuts, announced separately on Thursday, was the closure of a 100-room Star Wars-themed immersive hotel experience at one of its Florida theme parks.\n\nThe relationship between Disney and Florida - where it employs more than 70,000 staff - began deteriorating last year after Mr DeSantis condemned the company for opposing a state law banning discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in public schools.\n\nIn April, Florida also moved to take control of the Reedy Creek Improvement District - covering the 25,000-acre area known as Walt Disney World - a self-governing zone, with utilities and a fire department.\n\nState lawmakers voted to give Mr DeSantis the power to appoint members to the district's governing board, removing that authority from landowners, of which Disney was by far the biggest.\n\nThe move prompted a lawsuit from Disney, accusing state officials of conducting \"a relentless campaign to weaponise government power against Disney in retaliation for expressing a political viewpoint unpopular with certain state officials\".\n\nDisney's parks in Florida have long been one of its most-popular attractions, bringing in about 50 million visitors each year.\n\nIn a call with investors a week ago, Mr Iger questioned Florida's interest in having Disney grow in the state.\n\n\"Does the state want us to invest more, employ more people and pay more taxes, or not?\" Mr Iger asked.\n\nAubrey Jewett, a politics professor at the University of Central Florida, said he believed Mr DeSantis and his allies \"did not think about the longer-term ramifications of their actions\" when they moved to \"punish Disney for speaking out\".\n\n\"They weren't going to move the Disney World complex someplace else. But as Disney has just shown, that's not the only investment and jobs they were talking about creating in Florida.\"\n\nErin Huntley, the chair of the Republican Party in Orange County, where Disney World is located, said \"it's a different ballgame\" now compared to when Walt Disney first realised the area's potential in the 1960s.\n\n\"People are still wanting to come here, no matter what battles are going on,\" she told the BBC. \"Central Florida is more than just Disney.\"\n\nMr DeSantis is expected to announce a 2024 presidential bid next week. His likely rival, Donald Trump, said in a statement that Mr DeSantis was being \"absolutely destroyed by Disney\" and that his \"political stunt\" of battling them was \"all so unnecessary\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAdditional reporting by Natalie Sherman in New York.\n\nCORRECTION: The headline in the initial versions of this story misstated the value of Disney's investment in billions rather than millions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA fraudster who conned people out of more than £100m worldwide has been sentenced to 13 years in jail.\n\nTejay Fletcher, 35, founded and ran a complex banking scam called iSpoof, brought down last year in the UK's biggest fraud sting.\n\nThe website enabled criminals to appear as if they were calling from banks and tax offices in order to trick victims.\n\nFletcher, of Western Gateway in east London, pleaded guilty to four charges relating to fraud last month.\n\nJudge Sally Cahill KC said it had been a \"harrowing experience\" for all of the victims.\n\nAs part of the scam, fraudsters using iSpoof were able to disguise phone calls so they appeared to be from a trusted organisation.\n\nThen, posing as employees of those firms or bodies, they would call people at random and warn them of suspicious activity on their accounts.\n\nVictims were encouraged to disclose security information and, through technology, the criminals might have accessed features such as one-time passcodes to clear people's accounts of money.\n\nThe fraudsters posed as staff from banks including Barclays, Santander, HSBC, Lloyds, Halifax, First Direct, NatWest, Nationwide and TSB.\n\nThe judge said the £100m of global losses was a conservative estimate and the figure could have been bigger.\n\nIn the UK alone, £43m was lost and one victim lost £3m. The average lost among the 4,785 people who reported being targeted to Action Fraud was £10,000.\n\nThe iSpoof website itself made about £3.2m in cryptocurrency Bitcoin, with the \"lions share\" ending up with Fletcher, according to prosecutor John Ojakovoh.\n\nFletcher, who has 18 previous convictions, made about £2m from the website and bought a £230,000 Lamborghini, two Range Rovers worth £110,000 and an £11,000 Rolex.\n\nTejay Fletcher was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Friday\n\nHe pleaded guilty last month to charges including making or supplying an article to use in fraud, encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence, possession of criminal property, and transferring criminal property, between 30 November 2020 and 8 November 2022.\n\nHe has been sentenced to 13 years and four months in prison.\n\nSentencing Fletcher, Judge Sally Cahill KC said he \"didn't care\" about those who had been defrauded, adding: \"The late expression of remorse is regret for being caught rather than empathy for your victims.\n\n\"The evidence in my view shows very clearly you had a leading role and an active role in creating a sophisticated article for fraud, which generated a substantial profit for you.\"\n\nWhat makes this case unusual is that the thousands who lost money through sophisticated scams were not direct victims of Fletcher and his junior partners - but they were all victims of fraud directly facilitated by the iSpoof website.\n\nThe prosecution described a business set up so that elements of detailed research and development on the one hand, and marketing on the other, encouraged criminals to cash in.\n\nFletcher bought a Lamborghini Urus with proceeds from the banking scam\n\nKate Anderson, deputy chief crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said the cost to many of the victims \"has not just been financial\".\n\n\"It has also had a huge emotional impact, causing extreme distress and devastation to those affected - many of whom had their life savings stolen from them,\" she said.\n\nDescribing the case as \"complex and challenging\", Ms Anderson thanked the Metropolitan Police for their help in securing the evidence.\n\nThe Met investigation involved 700 days of work and three detectives.\n\nThe force said that at its peak, iSpoof had 59,000 users, and at one point up to 20 people per minute were being targeted by callers using technology bought from the site.\n\nUsers of the website, which was created in December 2020, paid hundreds or thousands of pounds a month for its features, which were marketed on a channel on the encrypted messaging app Telegram called \"iSpoof club\".\n\nLast year, the Met texted 70,000 people to warn them their details had been compromised and they had likely been defrauded.\n\nMet Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said: \"Closing down iSpoof has been the UK's biggest ever fraud operation and was a collective effort.\"\n\nHe said the force was proud to have taken down \"criminals at the top of this fraudulent network\", describing them as \"heartless people\".\n\nSimon Baker KC, defending, said Fletcher was an \"extremely bright young man\" who has a young son, adding: \"It is extremely unfortunate that intellect was not channelled into gainful activities.\n\n\"His guilty plea reflects his genuine regret and remorse for his actions and his sincere wish to apologise to those who have suffered as a result of the frauds perpetrated against them, as a result of the iSpoof website.\"\n\nCommenting on how people can protect themselves against scams, cyber security analyst Jake Moore told BBC News: \"The onus is on the public unfortunately.\n\n\"Do not instantly trust caller ID - the fact is, we can't believe everything we see. And never hand over sensitive information, especially from a cold call.\"\n\nHave you been the victim of bank fraud? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "West Ham players confronted a group of AZ Alkmaar fans who attacked an area in which their friends and family were watching the teams' Europa Conference League semi-final second leg.\n\nBBC commentator Alistair Bruce-Ball, who was inside the stadium, said he saw punches being thrown by the AZ fans.\n\nVideo footage shows chaotic scenes inside the AFAS Stadion, Alkmaar, in the Netherlands, after West Ham won.\n\nYou can read more about the scenes at the end of the match here.", "Khayri Mclean died after he was stabbed near North Huddersfield Trust School in September 2022\n\nTwo teenage cousins who stabbed a 15-year-old boy to death as he walked home from school in West Yorkshire have been jailed for life.\n\nJovani Harriott, 17, and Jakele Pusey, 15, murdered Khayri McLean after ambushing him outside North Huddersfield Trust School last year.\n\nKhayri's mother pleaded for an end to violence as her son's killers were sentenced at Leeds Crown Court.\n\nHarriott must service at least 18 years and Pusey a minimum of 16.\n\nKhayri's family and friends, who wore T-shirts emblazoned with his picture in court, clapped as a judge lifted an order which had banned the reporting of his killers' identities.\n\nJovani Harriott, left, and Jakele Pusey saw Khayri Mclean as their enemy, a court heard\n\nIn a statement read out in court, his mother Charlie Mclean described how she rushed to the scene after she heard her son had been injured and watched \"helplessly\" as paramedics fought to save her son's life.\n\nShe said she had been \"living a nightmare\" since her son's death, adding: \"The fear he went through when he realised he had been stabbed and was bleeding to death will stay with me forever.\n\n\"No parent should have to contemplate this, let alone witness it.\n\n\"This violence has to stop, carrying weapons has to stop.\"\n\nThe judge, Mrs Justice Farbey, said the cousins had seen Khayri as their \"enemy\" and may have killed him in \"revenge\" for sharing a video online about a broken window at Harriott's mother's house.\n\nDet Supt Marc Bowes, of West Yorkshire Police, said it \"will be hard for many of us to comprehend\" how a \"low-level dispute\" ended with two boys \"stabbing a fellow student to death at the end of an otherwise ordinary school day\".\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Sandiford KC said Khayri was killed in a \"well-planned\" attack on 21 September.\n\nDressed in black and wearing balaclavas, the defendants waited in an alleyway before ambushing him as he walked along Woodhouse Hill with friends after school.\n\nPusey shouted Khayri's name while \"jumping into the air\" and stabbing him in the heart with a 30cm blade, the court heard. His cousin, who was 16 at the time of the attack, then knifed Khayri in the leg.\n\nKhayri was pulled to his feet by his friends and tried to run away but collapsed. He died later in hospital.\n\nKhayri's mother, Charlie Mclean, and other relatives and friends wore T-shirts showing his picture\n\nHarriott, who was 16 at the time of the attack, was convicted of murder in March while Pusey pleaded guilty to murder at an earlier hearing.\n\nMr Sandiford told the court Pusey had admitted murdering Khayri in a recording covertly obtained while he was in detention.\n\nDuring the conversation, the boy said he felt \"no remorse\" and claimed to have \"slept better\" since the killing, the prosecutor said.\n\nHis lawyer Richard Wright KC, in mitigation, said Pusey - who was in a gang called the Fartown Boys - had been exploited and \"drawn into a life\" in which \"he felt he belonged, was protected and accepted\".\n\nThe court heard the boy had told probation officers he was shot by masked men in a \"gang incident\" when he was 12 and had dealt drugs since he was 13.\n\nA pre-sentence report concluded violence was \"the norm\" for him and \"the life he lived\", Mr Wright said.\n\nKhayri Mclean was killed in an apparent revenge attack, Leeds Crown Court heard\n\nMohammed Nawaz KC, in mitigation for Harriott, said his client had shown \"genuine and real remorse\" for Khayri's death.\n\nSentencing the pair, Mrs Justice Farbey said: \"Because of what you did Khayri has lost many years of his life and his family has lost a son and brother.\"\n\nShe said Harriott, despite not inflicting the fatal wound, played \"full and equal role in planning the attack\" and would be jailed for longer because he did not plead guilty.\n\nKhayri's mother described her son as a \"loving and caring\" boy who loved Manchester United and rugby, was happy in a relationship and had plans to study engineering as he looked forward to a \"bright future\".\n\nShe added: \"All that was taken away by the two boys who attacked him so brutally. Khayri had no chance to run or defend himself and was left helpless.\n\n\"I ask myself what has this achieved? What has my son died for? Nobody has won in this situation. I've lost a child and other parents have lost two sons who have committed this offence.\"\n\nDet Supt Bowes, who led the police investigation into Khayri's murder, said the \"appalling attack\" had \"rightly shocked people across the country\" and \"highlighted the dreadful consequences of knife crime and the culture of carrying such weapons\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Timothy Schofield exploited his victim's innocence for his own sexual gratification, the judge said\n\nThe brother of TV presenter Phillip Schofield has been jailed for 12 years for sexually abusing a boy.\n\nTimothy Schofield was found guilty in April of 11 sexual offences involving a child between 2016 and 2019.\n\nFollowing the verdict, the 54-year-old was sacked from his job as a civilian worker for Avon and Somerset Police.\n\nPhillip Schofield said after the conviction: \"As far as I am concerned, I no longer have a brother.\"\n\nAt Schofield's sentencing hearing at Bristol Crown Court on Friday, the victim said in a statement he felt \"trapped in a loop of fear and anxiety\".\n\nPassing sentence, Mrs Justice Cutts said Schofield exploited his victim's innocence for his own sexual gratification.\n\n\"It was wrong on every level for you to behave as you did,\" she said.\n\n\"He felt forced to do what you wanted, trapped and unable to escape. He felt he couldn't tell anyone and did not do so for many years.\n\n\"You took away his ability to be the teenager he should have been - carefree, relaxed, happy. It is clear to me that you became utterly obsessed with him.\"\n\nShe added: \"I have not heard a single word of remorse from you, only self-pity.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Insp Keith Smith of Avon and Somerset Police spoke outside court\n\nSchofield was convicted of three counts of causing a child to watch sexual activity and three of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.\n\nHe was further convicted of three counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and two of sexual activity with a child.\n\nThe victim was interviewed by police after telling a school counsellor about the abuse.\n\nHe said he felt he had been \"blackmailed emotionally\" by Schofield.\n\nThe victim's statement continued: \"Before Tim was arrested, I felt I had no freedom. I often felt panic, stress and fear. I felt like I was trapped in a loop of fear and anxiety of the abuse happening again.\n\n\"It was only after Tim was arrested that I felt safe. It was only after Tim was arrested that I felt free - free to be me, free to be happy, free to be relaxed.\n\n\"I feel more blunt, I feel more bitter, I feel numb to life. I know I should feel really happy or really sad but I don't have the ability to emotionally react to what is happening.\"\n\nSchofield, from Bath, Somerset, claimed during his trial at Exeter Crown Court that he had watched pornography with the boy, but that the boy was over the age of 16 at the time.\n\nHe claimed the two of them had undertaken sexual acts while sitting apart, but denied performing the acts on the teen.\n\nIn September 2021 the abuser, who was arrested three months later, told his famous brother about performing sex acts with the victim present.\n\nIn a statement read during trial, the This Morning presenter said he had invited his brother to visit him in London after receiving a call from him in an \"agitated and upset state\".\n\nHe said he and his brother had a meal together and discussed mental health treatment, but his brother had confessed to the incidents involving pornography.\n\nMr Schofield's statement said: \"I turned and said, 'What did you just say?' He said it was last year and we were alone together.\n\n\"Tim said it was just this once. I told him it should never happen again.\"\n\nThe presenter said his brother had then tried to give him more details about the incident.\n\n\"I said, 'F***, stop'. I shouted at Tim that he had to stop. I didn't want to know any of the details but he made it sound like a one-off,\" Mr Schofield said.\n\n\"I said, 'I don't want you to tell me any more'. I said, 'You've got to stop, just never do it again. Regardless how that happened it must never happen again'.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "A crowd threw stones, sticks, bottles at journalists and chanted racist slogans outside Damascus Gate\n\nThousands of Israeli nationalists have marched into the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, with violence directed at media covering the event.\n\nThe flag parade is part of Israel's Jerusalem Day, marking its capture of the east of the city in the 1967 war.\n\nA group of marchers threw stones, sticks and bottles at Palestinian and foreign journalists at the Damascus Gate entrance.\n\nThey also cheered and chanted racist slogans, including \"Death to Arabs\".\n\nFar-right Israeli cabinet ministers joined the procession. One of them, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, declared: \"Jerusalem is ours for ever.\"\n\nPalestinians along the route in occupied East Jerusalem earlier shuttered homes and shops over fears of abuse.\n\nThe march has increasingly become a show of force for Jewish ultranationalists, while for Palestinians it is seen as a blatant provocation undermining their ties to the city.\n\nRacist, anti-Arab chants are often shouted by nationalist marchers. The event has in the past sparked much wider violence.\n\nIsraeli police vowed to stop law-breaking, but blamed regional \"terrorist elements\" for \"wild incitement\" about the march on social media. They also said it was only \"a small minority on both sides [who] try to agitate\".\n\nIsraeli police intervened when two Palestinians were beaten after a confrontation with marchers\n\nPalestinian Authority leaders called the East Jerusalem events a \"provocative act\", saying far-right cabinet ministers Mr Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich - staunch supporters of the parade - were \"planting seeds of conflict\".\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the event would go ahead as planned.\n\nAlong the route in the Old City, Samir Abu Sbeih pulled down the shutters of his sweet shop, saying that police had advised Palestinian businesses to do so by mid-afternoon.\n\n\"It's not their land to celebrate,\" he said of the march. \"We live under occupation and that's why we have to accept it.\"\n\nKebab restaurant owner Basti, who did not want to give his full name, said the event had become \"worse\" over the years.\n\n\"People, when they dance with the flag, sometimes they try to put the flag in your face, sometimes they spit on your face. And this is not nice.\"\n\nHe said police told him he was not being forced to close, but that if he kept his business open, it would be at his own risk.\n\n\"For me, I just want to be inside. I don't like problems, for both sides,\" he said.\n\nJerusalem Day events have been marked by Israelis for decades, but in recent years, parts of the route have been the focus of spiralling tensions.\n\nIn the late afternoon, tens of thousands of Israelis headed from the west of Jerusalem to the Old City, ending with a so-called flag dance at the Western Wall, the holiest site for Jewish prayer.\n\nBefore that, marchers went their separate ways and thousands of mainly men and teenage boys headed into East Jerusalem.\n\nThey walked through Damascus Gate, which Israeli forces usually clear of Palestinians in advance, and then into the Old City's Muslim Quarter.\n\nPrevious years have seen groups of marchers chant \"death to Arabs\" and \"may your village burn\", while others banged the shutters of Palestinian shops.\n\nOne of the marchers, Pini, who didn't want to give his surname, said he had attended for decades to mark the day \"Jerusalem was reunited and returned to the hands of the Jewish people\".\n\n\"From 1948 to 1967, we were prevented from accessing the Western Wall,\" he said referring to the period that East Jerusalem was under Jordanian control. \"We returned to the Western Wall,\" he added.\n\nAsked about a threatening atmosphere for Palestinians, he said he opposed any harassment. But, echoing highly controversial comments this year from a far-right minister, he added: \"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people; when was Palestine established? Is there a Palestinian king? Is there a Palestinian currency?\"\n\nPalestinian militant group Hamas warned Israel this week that it would reignite conflict, were it to cross \"red lines\" in Jerusalem during the event.\n\nOn flag march day in 2021, the group fired rockets at Jerusalem from the Gaza Strip as a week of boiling tensions exploded into war.\n\nHowever, this year, with another round of conflict between Israel and Gaza militants ending only last weekend, appetite for escalation appeared lower.", "Japan has become increasingly divided over its commitment to post-war pacifist ideals\n\nToshiyuki Mimaki says he remembers crying as he looked up at a blackened sunset after the nuclear bomb hit Hiroshima.\n\nHe was only three years old at the time, but he remembers the dazed and burnt survivors fleeing past his home in the countryside. He remembers heading into the city with his family, searching for his father in an apocalyptic wasteland.\n\nOver the years he has recounted these fragmented but vivid memories to school children, to journalists, to anyone seeking to document the trauma of the hibakusha, or the atom bomb survivors. These days, they are a small and dwindling group.\n\n\"There are only a few people like us who experienced the war and the atomic bombing. We are dying,\" Mr Mimaki says, while sitting in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park, where world leaders attending the G7 summit laid wreaths on Friday.\n\n\"Sooner or later, there will not be a single hibakusha. How will Japan change by then?\"\n\nIt's a fear that echoes through Japan. The world around them has changed. Japan itself has aged and its post-war miracle economy has sputtered, dwarfed by China's market and might. An anxious Japanese public now wants greater protection from new threats knocking at their door.\n\nThe governing Liberal Democrat Party (LDP), whose hands have long been tied behind its back by voters averse to militarisation, suddenly finds the knots loosening. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government is embarking on the biggest military spending spree in decades, and seeks to expand its armed forces.\n\nEach move to militarise leaves Japan more divided over its pacifist ideals.\n\n\"The world is going through a period of turmoil right now,\" Mr Mimaki says. \"Recently, Prime Minister Kishida started talking about raising the military budget. I thought: Are you going to start a war?'\"\n\nBrought to its knees by the use of atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan transformed from an imperialist power into a pacifist nation in a matter of years.\n\nIts post-war constitution, adopted in 1947 and imposed by occupying US forces, cemented this transformation. It contains a clause known as Article 9: the first paragraph renounces war, while the second promises to never maintain military forces.\n\nThe genesis of Japan's pacifism, Article 9 is at the heart of the country's struggle to balance the need for defence with its desire for peace. Some believe the law has weakened Japan, but others argue that to change it is to relinquish pacifism and forget the painful lessons of history.\n\nFaced with significant public opposition, numerous leaders have tried and failed to revise Article 9. But with every security challenge, Japan's government has succeeded in expanding its interpretation further.\n\nThe Self-Defense Forces (SDF), Japan's answer to a military, were created in response to the Korean War and the start of the Cold War. In the 1990s, during the first Gulf War, Japan sent the SDF on peacekeeping missions, dispatching its forces to overseas conflicts for the first time. More recently and controversially, in the face of a rising China and unpredictable North Korea, the late prime minister Shinzo Abe pushed through laws that allowed Japanese troops to fight overseas alongside allies in self-defence.\n\n\"Pacifism is an idée fixe of the Japanese public… they are not going to abandon it,\" says James D Brown, an associate professor of political science with Temple University Japan.\n\n\"Instead, there is a process of reinterpreting what pacifism means. Where once it meant opposition to the use of armed force, it now means opposition to aggression and acceptance of the use of force in the name of self-defence in a growing list of circumstances.\"\n\nJapan is once again at a turning point, facing unprecedented challenges that have stoked a fear of encirclement.\n\nAn assertive China is spending billions on its military. It has made increasingly daring moves in the South China Sea, especially against Taiwan, which sits on the doorstep of Japan's southernmost islands. This has fuelled Japanese anxiety that should conflict break out in Taiwan, Japan would not only be pulled into a war between the US and China, but also targeted as an ally. It hosts US military bases and has the biggest concentration of troops outside America.\n\nNorth Korea poses a perennial existential threat. Its nuclear ambitions have grown more alarming in the past year, with a record number of missile launches, including several that have flown over Japan. Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the possibility that it might use nuclear weapons - which this weekend's G7 summit is addressing - has also spurred worries of a nuclear war. The perils of a tighter Moscow-Beijing alliance also loom.\n\n\"There is a general understanding in Japan that we are now living in a very rough neighbourhood,\" says Kazuto Suzuki, an international security and political science professor with the University of Tokyo.\n\nCalls for greater militarisation have long been the domain of a minority of conservatives seeking to reclaim national pride. But recent polls show the wider public warming to the idea.\n\nMore people now want a bigger and stronger SDF, from 29% in 2018 to 41.5% last year, according to government surveys. Support for Japan's security alliance with the US has gone up to an overwhelming 90%; and 51% are in favour of amending the second part of Article 9, which stops Japan from having a military.\n\nEven some in Hiroshima are open to it.\n\n\"Every time I hear the news about [North Korea's] missiles, I am horrified,\" says a woman who identified herself as Ms Tanaka. \"There are cases in today's world where people are attacked out of the blue… I wonder if it is necessary to see [the spending] as something to protect ourselves.\"\n\nThe Hiroshima Genbaku Dome was the only structure left standing near the hypocentre of the atomic bomb\n\nThis is music to the LDP's ears. The party, whose founding principle is to advocate for constitutional reform, has always pushed for militarisation, particularly under Abe. In recent years the government has also come under pressure from Washington - notably former President Donald Trump - to do more in their security alliance with the US.\n\n\"The government has always wanted to move forward with increasing capabilities in the SDF. In the past the public has been a brake,\" Prof Brown says. \"Now, that brake is no longer there.\"\n\nUnder Mr Kishida, Japan has purchased fighter jets, refurbished aircraft carriers, and ordered hundreds of Tomahawk missiles. He has pledged to spend 43tn yen ($311bn; £250bn) on defence in coming years. By 2027, Japan's military budget will account for 2% of its GDP, and become the third-largest in the world. The LDP is also once again pushing to revise the constitution to spell out the SDF's existence and make it clear that Japan can maintain a military for self-defence.\n\nIronically, Mr Kishida has long been considered a dovish figure within the LDP. With close ties to Hiroshima - his relatives died in the nuclear attack - he has advocated for a nuclear-free world. He has even written a book on it. The choice of Hiroshima to host the G7 summit appears to be deliberate as he seeks to ram home the importance of an anti-proliferation strategy.\n\nMr Kishida's argument is that to maintain peace in Asia, Japan needs to drastically upgrade its defence. But some observers also believe that his reputation gives his government's push to militarise a more politically acceptable sheen.\n\n\"Dovish figures can make hawkish moves because people don't suspect their motives,\" Prof Brown noted.\n\nBut even Japanese hawks don't broach the idea of building a nuclear arsenal. Unsurprisingly that remains a forbidden topic in the only country to ever be attacked with a nuclear weapon.\n\nYet Japan's pursuit of a sturdier defence has seen Abe and then Mr Kishida cross what some consider to be red lines.\n\nFormer PM Abe and Mr Kishida have both pushed for more militarisation\n\nMany within Japan, and neighbours such as China, worry what other taboos the country might break in the future.\n\nOne possibility currently being debated is whether Japan should send lethal weapons to aid countries under invasion, such as Ukraine. Mr Kishida recently visited and met Volodymyr Zelensky to pledge support. Tokyo already supplies non-lethal defence equipment to Kyiv.\n\nThis, notes Prof Suzuki, would be a \"test case for Taiwan\". There are already questions over how far Japan would aid the US in a conflict with China over the island.\n\nA more controversial idea is hosting US nuclear weapons, a proposal which shocked Japan last year when it was mooted by Abe. Public support for this option, known as nuclear sharing, is still low, and last year Mr Kishida rejected the idea, saying it ran counter to Japan's stance against nuclear weapons.\n\nStill, Japan could change its mind under certain circumstances, experts say. These include South Korea gaining nuclear weapons, an increased threat from China and Russia, or if Russia uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine.\n\nEvery time Japan crosses a new red line, or mulls over taking that leap, it intensifies the struggle over its post-war identity and its commitment to pacifism.\n\nSome argue that despite its drive to militarise, Japan's ideals are still intact. While its pacifism may appear \"seemingly inconsistent\" through the years, its anti-nuclear and anti-war sentiments have remained alive, says Daisuke Akimoto, an expert on pacifism.\n\nWhat is happening now is simply Japan's \"security policy strengthening in response to the changing strategic environment,\" says Dr Akimoto, an adjunct lecturer at Hosei University in Tokyo.\n\nProf Suzuki agrees. \"I do have a trust in the Japanese intent,\" he says. \"I do have the belief that Japan has committed in the last 80 years to not go to war. We had a very bad experience, and we won't do it again.\"\n\nBut others are not so sure. They believe that the constant redefinition of pacifism stretches the principle to its breaking point.\n\n\"I think the way [the government] is doing it is dirty,\" says Sara Ogura, a student visiting Hiroshima. \"They are interpreting in such a way that it deliberately opens up opportunities for the use of force. It leads me to distrust them.\"\n\nWhile the government said \"they have no intention of going to war now, I think they are kind of getting ready to go to war when the time comes,\" says anti-nuclear weapons activist Yuna Okajima.\n\nSome also believe the willingness to militarise is fuelled by the lack of a national reckoning with Japan's own wrongdoings. While there is mandatory \"peace education\" in schools that covers the two world wars, discussion about Japan's role as the aggressor and the atrocities it committed in World War Two is often muted.\n\nGraduate student Misuzu Kanda believes that Japan's \"negative history with other countries is sometimes covered up by the nuclear weapons issue\".\n\n\"I was born in Hiroshima prefecture. The peace education is provided mostly from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki perspective, talking about how we suffered. But at the same time, when we think about peace, I think we need to reflect back on what we did to other countries.\"\n\nHer friend, Ms Okajima, agrees. \"I think it is a kind of proof that the Japanese government is not willing to face this history. That's why they would not teach it to young children, it's to nurture a patriotic spirit, I assume.\"\n\n\"But if we do not look at our history as perpetrators, there is a higher chance we would make the same mistake.\"\n\nCompletely flattened by the atomic bomb, Hiroshima today is a tidy and picturesque city nestled among mountains, carrying few traces of its past apart from the Genbaku Dome, the only structure left standing near the hypocentre of the attack.\n\nAcross a glittering river, at the Peace Memorial Park, lies a cenotaph honouring those who died in the nuclear attack. An inscription is carved in the marble: \"Let all the souls here rest in peace, for we shall not repeat the evil\".\n\n\"The atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the end because we started a war,\" says Mr Mimaki as he gazes at the cenotaph. \"Hiroshima was burned, Nagasaki was burned, and it was the Imperial Japanese Army that made those mistakes.\"", "Jonathan Hogg, 37, was \"appreciated by everyone who knew him\"\n\nA 37-year-old man who was killed after being attacked by a dog has been described as \"well-loved\" and \"kind\".\n\nJonathan Hogg died in hospital from the serious injuries he sustained in the attack in Leigh, Greater Manchester, at about 21:10 BST on Thursday.\n\nArmed officers were brought in to try to control the dog which \"posed a significant risk\" to the public.\n\nPolice said they used every \"tactic to subdue\" the animal, but it was humanely destroyed.\n\nArmed officers were deployed to Westleigh Lane in Leigh\n\nA 24-year-old man arrested on suspicion of being in charge of a dangerously out of control dog causing injury resulting in death remains in custody for further questioning.\n\nMr Hogg's family said: \"Jonathan was a well-loved, sensitive, and kind person who will never know how loved and appreciated he was by everyone who knew him.\n\n\"We have been inundated with messages of support and we ask for privacy at this time to come to terms with our loss.\"\n\nEmergency services were called to Westleigh Lane and found Mr Hogg with serious injuries.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Ukrainian leader was in Saudi Arabia ahead of an expected trip to the G7 in Japan\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky has accused some Arab leaders of \"turning a blind eye\" to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, ahead of his trip to the G7 in Japan.\n\nThe Ukrainian president made the comments while attending an Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia on Friday.\n\nOf the Arab League nations, only Syria has openly supported Russia's invasion. Others have sought to maintain good relations with Moscow.\n\nBut some states must reflect on their ties with Russia, Mr Zelensky said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there are some in the world and here among you who turn a blind eye to those [prisoner of war] cages and illegal annexations,\" said Mr Zelensky.\n\n\"I'm here so that everyone can take an honest look, no matter how hard the Russians try to influence, there must still be independence.\"\n\nMr Zelensky also told the assembled leaders in Jeddah that his country was defending itself from colonisers and imperialists, appearing to invoke the Arab world's own history of invasion and occupation.\n\nHost nation Saudi Arabia has walked a delicate line on the conflict - on the one hand supporting a UN resolution calling for Russia to withdraw its troops and pledging $400m in humanitarian aid to Ukraine, while on the other hand resisting imposing sanctions on Russia, preferring to see itself as neutral on the conflict.\n\nSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman renewed his offer for Saudi Arabia to mediate between Moscow and Kyiv to end the fighting at the summit.\n\nSyria meanwhile has only just been readmitted to the Arab League - its leader Bashar al-Assad told the summit there was an historic opportunity for the region to reshape itself without foreign interference.\n\nMr Zelensky also took aim at Iran, which is not a member of the Arab League, for supplying Shahed drones to Russia. Iran denies supplying drones for the conflict.\n\nThe Ukrainian leader will travel from Saudi Arabia to the G7 summit on Sunday, Japan confirmed on Saturday morning. Officials said he will take part in the summit's leaders' session and take part in a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.\n\nEarlier, Mr Zelensky's office also told Ukrainian media that he would meet with US President Joe Biden \"in the next few days\" in Japan.\n\nThe summit kicked off on Friday with a renewed condemnation of Russia and an announcement of further sanctions.\n\nThe group of seven nations, made up of the US, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Canada and Japan, represent the world's richest democracies. This year, eight other countries including Australia and India have also been invited.\n\nG7 leaders slapped more sanctions on Russia on the summit's opening day\n\nThe trip to Japan will be the furthest Mr Zelensky has travelled from Kyiv since the war began in February 2022.\n\nIn the past few days Mr Zelensky has visited Italy, Germany, France and the UK, where he nailed down promises of military support. He also continues to push allies to provide advanced fighter jets to Ukraine, but so far no country has committed to directly providing them.\n\nOnce he reaches Hiroshima he will probably try to persuade more cautious leaders to provide aid, such as Mr Kishida and Indian leader Narendra Modi.\n\n\"By showing up in person, it is a chance for him to ensure he does not come away empty-handed, and that he will head back to Kyiv his arms full with the weapons deals that he wants\", including a promise of lethal weapons from Japan, said John Kirton, director of the G7 Research Group think tank.\n\nThough Japan has been hugely sympathetic to Ukraine, its strict military laws have meant that so far it has only given non-lethal defence equipment.\n\nEarlier on Friday, G7 leaders were welcomed by Mr Kishida at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park where they laid wreaths to honour those who died in the US atomic bombing which hastened the end of World War Two.\n\nThe summit's first day ended with a statement in which member countries pledged \"new steps\" to stop the war in Ukraine and promised further sanctions to \"increase the costs to Russia and those who are supporting its war effort\".\n\nThey said they would \"starve Russia of G7 technology, industrial equipment and services that support its war machine\" and limit Russia's revenue from energy and diamond sales.\n\nSeparately, British PM Rishi Sunak told the BBC the UK would sanction the Russian diamond industry, and would target more people and companies connected to Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nIn response to what it termed \"anti-Russian\" US sanctions, the Russian foreign ministry announced its own set of sanctions on 500 US citizens, including former US President Barack Obama.\n\nThe G7 summit, which ends on Sunday, is expected to end with a communique on the war in Ukraine.", "More than six million people with disabilities will receive their next cost-of-living payment between 20 June and 4 July, the government has said.\n\nThe payment is designed to be a top-up to benefits to help ease the strain from higher bills and prices.\n\nThose with disabilities often have higher domestic energy costs, so receive the extra payment on top of other financial assistance.\n\nPeople on means-tested benefits and low incomes have received £301 recently.\n\nThat payment went to people including those on universal credit and pension credit, and can include pensioners - who will receive a further £300 later in the year - and those with disabilities.\n\nThe most vulnerable households can receive up to £1,350 in direct cost-of-living payments.\n\nMinisters said the specific £150 payment recognised the extra costs disabled people in particular often faced, such as care and mobility needs.\n\nIt will be paid to those who receive Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payment, Attendance Allowance, Scottish Disability Payments, Armed Forces Independence Payment, Constant Attendance Allowance, and War Pension Mobility Supplement.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride said: \"This payment helps protect those who need our support the most, providing a vital financial boost to six million disabled people.\"", "TikTok influencer Mahek Bukhari gave evidence to the jury at Leicester Crown Court on Friday\n\nA TikTok influencer accused of killing her mother's young lover has admitted to a jury she told \"repeated lies\" to police in an interview.\n\nMahek Bukhari and seven others deny killing Saqib Hussain and his friend Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21.\n\nThe men's car was rammed off the A46 in Leicestershire on 11 February 2022 to keep Ansreen Bukhari and Mr Hussain's affair secret, the prosecution says.\n\nGiving evidence, Mahek said she had not intended any harm to Mr Hussain.\n\nLeicester Crown Court has previously heard Mr Hussain, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, had repeatedly threatened to send explicit videos and images of his lover to her husband after she broke off their three-year affair.\n\nThe court has also heard Ansreen Bukhari, 46, and Mahek, 24, plotted with six others, driving from their home in Stoke-on-Trent to Leicester and arranging to meet Mr Hussain in a Tesco car park under false pretences.\n\nThe prosecution alleges the group, in an Audi TT and a Seat Leon, were attempting to retrieve Mr Hussain's phone to stop the publication of sexually explicit images and videos of Ansreen.\n\nHashim Ijazuddin (left) and Saqib Hussain died at the scene of the crash\n\nMr Collingwood Thompson KC previously said Mr Hussain \"smelled a rat\" as the Skoda entered the car park and left shortly afterwards which led to the journey up the A46.\n\nFollowing repeated blackmail threats, Mahek told the court Mr Hussain had messaged her hours before the fatal crash and said he was coming to her home in Stoke-on-Trent \"with a group of guys\".\n\nHer barrister, Christopher Millington KC asked if she had \"concerns\" about Mr Hussain at the meeting in Leicester, Mahek told the jury she thought \"he'd maybe attack us\".\n\nMahek told the jury co-accused Raees Jamal had made the decision to meet at the Hamilton Tesco car park.\n\nShe admitted she had shown Mr Jamal a photograph of Mr Hussain so he knew what he looked like and that she wanted Mr Hussain to \"get rid\" of the sexual images he had in his possession and also to \"pay him off\".\n\nThe prosecution claims the car carrying the two men was rammed off the road\n\nWhen asked about the crash, Mahek said she saw the Skoda Mr Hussain and Mr Ijazuddin were travelling in \"trying to go between the two lanes\" and then \"go towards the central reservation\" but did not see or hear the impact.\n\nShe said she only realised what had happened when she saw the burning wreckage on her way back into Leicester.\n\n\"Did you intend Saqib and Hashim inside the Skoda would be seriously injured or killed?\" Mr Millington asked.\n\nMr Millington then asked why Mahek or anyone else in the car did not ring the police.\n\nShe said: \"At the time, I just knew as soon as I'd seen the flames like there was no chance of survival at all.\"\n\nWhen asked about what was said in the car, she told the court people were \"going crazy\" saying \"did you see that car in flames?\".\n\nThe court has previously heard Mahek said in a police interview they were going to Nottingham to promote a shisha lounge and ended up in Leicester due to roadworks.\n\nIn tears, Mahek said she \"felt ashamed\" and admitted she lied to police.\n\n\"During those hours of interview, did you lie repeatedly?\" Mr Millington asked.\n\n\"Yes, yes I did,\" Mahek said.\n\nShe said she had also originally told police she was driving the Audi because she \"just didn't want anyone to get involved\".\n\nFront, from left: Ansreen Bukhari, Mahek Bukhari, Rekan Karwan, Raees Jamal with back, from left: Ameer Jamal, Sanaf Gulammustafa, Natasha Akhtar and Mohammed Patel\n\nAll eight deny two counts of murder and alternative charges of two counts of manslaughter.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment an elderly couple were rescued after being spotted hanging out of their roof skylight\n\nMore than 20 rivers have burst their banks in Italy, leaving 13 people dead and forcing thousands from their homes after six months' rainfall fell in a day and a half.\n\nMore bodies were found on Thursday after almost every river flooded between Bologna and the north-east coast 115km (70 miles) away.\n\nSome 280 landslides have taken place.\n\nThe mayor of Ravenna, a city badly affected by flooding, told the BBC it was the worst disaster in a century.\n\nMichele de Pascale described the damage caused by the floods as catastrophic, costing people in his city and the wider region their homes, possessions and for some, their lives.\n\n\"It was a very bad 48 hours. Water and mud took over our whole village,\" said Roberta Lazzarini, 71.\n\nHer home of Botteghino di Zocca, south of Bologna, was hit by a torrent on Wednesday. Streets, houses and gardens were inundated and Roberta said she was still scared.\n\n\"I've never seen anything like that here. We were stuck and didn't know what to do. I just hope it doesn't happen again.\"\n\nFirefighters helped residents flee their houses, including a 97-year-old woman who had to leave her bedroom in a rubber dinghy.\n\nThe historic centre of Lugo, outside Ravenna was among the cities with the worst flooding\n\n\"Our community is broken,\" said Roberta's daughter, Ines, who runs the local cafe in the central square. \"We felt completely cut out, isolated, some of us were truly terrified.\"\n\n\"We've had floods before, but it has never been this bad as far as I can remember,\" said Lamieri, 74, as he removed mud from his basement, where his son stores products to sell at the souvenir shop he runs in central Bologna.\n\n\"The street turned into river. We lost all of our stuff which was stored down here. We estimate thousands of euros in damage.\"\n\nThis is one of many villages and towns flooded in the province of Emilia-Romagna, not just from rivers, but overflowing canals too.\n\nMore evacuations took place west of Ravenna on Thursday and more bodies were found, including a couple in a flat in the village of Russi, which was flooded hours before.\n\nMany are warning that Italy needs a national plan to respond to the effects of climate change.\n\nCivil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci said tropical conditions had already reached Italy, with 20cm of rain falling in 36 hours, and in some areas up to 50cm.\n\n\"Soils that remain dry for a long time end up becoming cemented, drastically limiting their capacity to absorb water,\" he said.\n\nNo regional dams had been built for 40 years, he said, and a new approach to hydraulic engineering was needed.\n\nThe leader of Italy's opposition Democratic Party told the BBC the whole political system was to blame for the disaster and politicians had not done enough to address challenges posed by climate change.\n\nElly Schlein, who was formerly vice-president of Emilia-Romagna, said successive governments had consistently failed to address Italy's vulnerability to flooding and other extreme water events like droughts.\n\nMany factors contribute to flooding, but a warming atmosphere caused by climate change makes extreme rainfall more likely. Already, the world has warmed about 1.1C since the industrial era began, and temperatures will continue to rise unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nAntonio Francesco Rizzuto, a 55-year-old lawyer who lives by the river with his wife, was forced to leave on Tuesday night and is now living at his daughter's in a nearby village.\n\n\"It was something no-one was expecting in these proportions,\" he said. \"Before we left our house, the water level was getting higher by the minute. When we got back yesterday... our living room was completely submerged. We will have to throw away most of our furniture.\"\n\nStefano Bonaccini, regional president of the Emilia-Romagna region, said the damage costs ran into billions of euros.\n\nOvernight, evacuations were ordered in towns to the west of Ravenna. Residents in Villanova were ordered to seek shelter on upper floors, a day after floodwater cascaded through the historic centre of Lugo.\n\nLugo was flooded again on Thursday, as was Cervi, on the coast.\n\nRescue operations in the small village of Massa Lombarda, about 10 km from Imola\n\nThis weekend's Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola was called off because of the risk of the nearby Santerno river flooding. Many of the areas around the track used for parking and watching the race were deluged on Tuesday.\n\nAs well as the 23 rivers that burst their banks, the Zena stream turned into a raging torrent in Botteghino di Zocca.\n\nLino Lenzi, 80, was standing in what used to be his daughter's garden, which was now overflowing with mud, his grandchildren's toys submerged.\n\n\"I've lived here for 70 years and I've never seen anything like this,\" he said, \"the water is everywhere.\"\n\nLino Lenzi blames authorities for failing to dredge rivers in recent years\n\nThe house has belonged to the family for generations and his daughter had just finished renovating it.\n\nInside his kitchen, the water is is up to our ankles. The day before, it was more than 2m (6.5ft) high.\n\n\"We've had to get rid of the water with everything we've got: buckets, pots and pans.\"\n\nLino complained the local rivers had not been dredged for years.\n\n\"No-one has showed up to help. We've received zero help from the government or local authority,\"\n\nRescue operations have proved difficult because so many roads have been flooded and many towns have gone without electricity.\n\nThe only help Lino had was from a teenage boy who lives near by. \"He walked past and saw that we needed help. He helped us move our furniture.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHave you been affected by the flooding in Italy? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Polls have now closed in the Northern Ireland council elections, with counting of votes to begin on Friday morning.\n\nVoters cast their ballots to decide who should represent them on Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nA total of 807 candidates are competing for 462 seats.\n\nThe first ballot boxes are expected to be opened at about 08:00 BST on Friday, with counting anticipated to continue into Saturday.\n\nAbout 1.4 million people were eligible to vote in the election, which was originally due to take place on 4 May but was delayed due to the King's Coronation.\n\nIt is only the third election to 11 so-called super councils in Northern Ireland.\n\nGroom Pat Campbell (far right) and part of his wedding party called at the polling station at St Patrick's Primary School in Clonoe, County Tyrone, on the way to his marriage ceremony\n\nIt was also only the second time in 26 years that Northern Ireland held a standalone council election - normally they are run alongside polls for Stormont or Westminster.\n\nVoters used the single transferable vote (STV) system, the same as that used in Northern Ireland Assembly elections.\n\nPeople ranked candidates in numerical preference, marking their ballot 1,2,3 and so on for as many or as few preferences as they want.\n\nCandidates are then elected according to the share of the vote they receive.\n\nTo find out who stood in your area, type your postcode into the bar below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Opens in a new browser tab More information about these elections Is there an election in my area? To provide you with information on local candidates and where to vote the BBC sends your data to the Electoral Commission. Data privacy notice To find your council candidates and polling station\n\nThe number of candidates is slightly down from the 819 people who put their names forward for the previous council elections four years ago.\n• None All you need to know about NI council elections", "President Bashar al-Assad strode into the Arab League summit in Jeddah, relishing the clearest recognition yet that he has won his war for Syria.\n\nHe was embraced by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. A decade ago, the Saudis funded anti-Assad militias. Now the prince, known as MBS, wants to remake the Middle East, and he needs Syria onside.\n\nIn a speech, President Assad insisted that Syria would always belong to the Arab world. But other countries should not interfere with what happened inside its borders.\n\n\"It is important to leave internal affairs to the country's people as they are best able to manage them,\" he said.\n\nBy the people, President Assad meant the leader and his supporters. Between them, the princes and presidents at the summit have locked up many thousands of their opponents.\n\nEvents in Jeddah are being viewed with dismay by Syrians who blame the Assad regime for destroying their country, including all the Syrian refugees I have spoken to in Lebanon.\n\nLebanon, small and poor, has had to tolerate well over a million Syrians fleeing the war. That is the equivalent of a quarter of the Lebanese population - something like the UK accepting over 15 million refugees.\n\nNow many Lebanese have had enough, making Syrians a convenient scapegoat for their own country's chronic economic and political problems.\n\nMore than one million Syrians have fled to Lebanon, to escape 12 years of war in their home country\n\nIn the last few weeks, the army has deported around 1,500 of them back over the border at gunpoint, sometimes leaving children behind in Lebanon or forcing children out without their parents.\n\nA refugee family speaking on condition that their identities were kept secret talked about life in a town near Beirut where a curfew has been imposed on Syrians.\n\nThe children have been thrown out of school. The turmoil in their lives is clear in their teenage daughter's anguished artwork. Their father views the authoritarian Arab leaders embrace of Bashar al-Assad with contempt - and fear.\n\n\"The Assad regime is a dictatorship - the same as the other Arab regimes. They're helping each other, cooperating against the people.\"\n\nIn a refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Assad's presence in Jeddah was another crushing blow. Nasser and Marwa, a couple who've been here since 2013, fear Assad's return to the Arab League might be an excuse for more deportations.\n\nMarwa said she woke up every morning thanking God she hadn't been deported.\n\n\"Now we're always afraid of the raids. I always imagine that they will come and take all the men and deport them.\"\n\nNasser said he faced being drafted into the army if he went back. He escaped Syria to avoid fighting for the regime. He's desperately worried about what would happen to his wife and their 18-month-old daughter Lillas if they are forced back.\n\nNasser, Lillas and Marwa live in fear of deportation back to Syria\n\nNasser was disgusted with the Arab League's decision to readmit Assad's Syria.\n\n\"After everything that he's done, they're hosting him. I don't understand it, after all the killing and destruction, and the misery in Syria - it's not acceptable.\"\n\nSyria, and the Assad regime, remain under US and European sanctions. Amnesty International, the human rights group, said that the president \"turned Syria into a slaughterhouse\".\n\nThe UK government, Amnesty said, should \"strenuously oppose any attempt to bolster Assad's international standing\".\n\nSome members of the Arab League agree. Qatar, which also funded the armed opposition in Syria, does not approve of Assad's gradual return to Arab respectability.\n\nBut as well as the wider geopolitical plans of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who believe the Assad regime is a Middle Eastern reality and Syria a country they need to influence, there are other reasons for wanting to court Assad.\n\nJordan, as well as the Saudis, are fighting the spread of a narcotic drug called Captagon, which is made in Syria and smuggled into their countries. It is an amphetamine that was given to fighters to boost their endurance but is now widely used as a recreational drug.\n\nThe US and UK have imposed sanctions on named members of the Assad family who they say are heavily involved in the Captagon trade. Some estimates say the business is worth more than $50 billion (£40bn) a year.\n\nOther Arab states are fighting the trade in Captagon, made in Syria and smuggled abroad\n\nAt the United Nations, which runs a huge relief operation in Syria and Lebanon, there is cautious hope Syria's readmission to the Arab League might somehow become a circuit breaker that allows diplomatic progress.\n\nImran Riza, the UN's deputy special coordinator for Lebanon, tried to find a positive.\n\n\"If what's happening now in the region is going to help to get us to a political solution then it's a good thing.\"\n\nBut the UN does not support forced repatriation. It insists that Syrian refugees cannot return home until their country is safe and secure. That is a long way off.\n\nPresident Bashar al-Assad broke his country to save his regime. There has been no justice for his victims.\n\nBut there is a lesson for ruthless, authoritarian leaders, not least his close ally, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, whose decisive military intervention in 2015 helped the Assad regime to victory.\n\nWait out the storm and you can outlast your enemies.", "The proportion of 11 to 17-year-olds experimenting with vaping has doubled in less than 10 years\n\nA doubling of children trying vaping within the past decade has prompted calls for tighter regulations.\n\nGeoff Worsley, a father from Abergele, Conwy county, has set up a petition which has more than 100,000 signatures.\n\nHe said he was especially concerned about \"brightly coloured packaging and sweet names attractive to kids\".\n\nYouGov data for Britain suggests experimental vaping among 11 to 17-year-olds rose from 5.6% in 2014 to 11.6% in 2023.\n\nThe petition calls for more regulations for shops selling vape products as Mr Worsley believes just spending money on enforcement \"is not enough\".\n\n\"Vaping is safer and better for smokers than smoking, but it shouldn't be promoted to children,\" he added.\n\n\"Parents like me up and down the country are calling on the government to act to protect our children from vaping as well as smoking.\"\n\nMr Worsley said he started the petition after his own teenage son began vaping.\n\n\"He was getting out of breath running up a couple of flights of stairs after starting to vape,\" he said.\n\nThe worried dad believed trading standards was so busy stopping illegal e-cigarettes it was difficult to make sure shops stuck to rules banning sales to under-18s.\n\n\"Vapes need to be reclassified - and treated as a tobacco product,\" he said.\n\nHe believed like cigarettes, they should be hidden from view.\n\n\"The government are five years behind the ball on this,\" he said.\n\nDuring the YouGov survey, disposable vapes were the top e-cigarette of choice, while purchases of vapes were mostly made from corner shops.\n\nIt is illegal to sell vapes to under-18s, but social media shows teenagers are accessing the products, and discussing flavours such as pink lemonade, strawberry, banana and mango.\n\nSome parents are concerned that bright colours and fruit flavours are marketing vapes to a younger audience\n\nExperts previously warned that a new generation of disposable vapes known as puff bars - which contain nicotine - have flooded the market.\n\nIn 2021, child vapers were least likely to vape disposables (7.7%) but in 2022 they became the most used (52%) and this continued to grow to 69% in 2023.\n\nThe latest survey of 2,656 youngsters was carried out by YouGov in March and April for Action on Smoking and Health (Ash).\n\nIt will be submitted as part of the UK government's call for evidence on measures to reduce the number of children accessing vaping.\n\nNearly three-quarters (73%) of youngsters said their first vape was given to them and in two-thirds of cases it was by a friend.\n\nAn almost identical proportion said they usually bought their vapes, most commonly from a corner shop (26%).\n\nOther places included petrol stations or petrol station shops (9.4%) and online (7.6%).\n\nDeborah Arnott, chief executive of Ash, said: \"We need to stem the tide of child vape experimentation and the government's investment in a crackdown on illegal underage sales of vapes is a vital first step.\n\n\"But enforcement on its own won't do the trick without tougher regulation to address the child-friendly promotion of these cheap and attractive products.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"It's already illegal to sell vapes to children and we are exploring further ways to tackle youth vaping through our newly launched call for evidence, which will look at the appearance and characteristics of vapes, the marketing and promotion of vapes, and the role of social media.\"\n\nE-cigarettes have helped thousands of people stop smoking by removing tobacco from their habit.\n\nBut the vapour inhaled can contain small amounts of chemicals, including nicotine, which could carry risks.\n\nThere is concern young people are taking up vaping because they believe it is risk-free.\n\nUniversity of Nottingham's Professor John Britton, who advised the UK government on a report on ending smoking, said recently: \"It's inconceivable to say that vaping is safe, it is a balance of risks.\n\n\"If you don't use nicotine in any shape or form, it is madness to start vaping.\"\n\nHe anticipated in 40 or 50 years' time, people would develop lung cancer, chronic bronchitis and other serious lung conditions because of vaping.\n\nBut those numbers are likely to be small.\n\nThe UK has some of the strictest vape regulations in the world.\n\nAlmost all marketing is banned, nicotine in the product is limited and only over 18s can legally buy them.", "An elderly Australian woman with dementia is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after being Tasered by police at a care home.\n\nOfficers were called to Yallambee Lodge in Cooma, New South Wales (NSW), after reports that 95-year-old Clare Nowland was carrying a knife.\n\nThe early morning incident has sparked outcry, over what advocates say was a disproportionate response.\n\nThe New South Wales police chief has said an investigation is under way.\n\nMs Nowland was found \"armed\" with a steak knife at the care home - which is in the town of Cooma about 114km (71 miles) south of Canberra - in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Assistant Police Commissioner Peter Cotter told media on Friday.\n\nTwo officers and care home staff tried to de-escalate the situation, before she began approaching police - \"it is fair to say at a slow pace\" - and was Tasered.\n\n\"She had a walking frame. But she had a knife,\" he said.\n\nFamily friend Andrew Thaler claimed Ms Nowland was struck twice - in the chest and the back - before she fell, suffering a fractured skull and a serious brain bleed.\n\nHer family are already grieving as they do not expect her to survive, he told BBC News.\n\n\"The family are shocked, they're confused... and the community is outraged.\"\n\n\"How can this happen? How do you explain this level of force? It's absurd.\"\n\nMr Thaler described Ms Nowland as being \"a great service to the community and her church, very fondly regarded by a lot of people\".\n\nShe appeared on TV in 2008 to mark her 80th birthday by skydiving over Canberra.\n\nCommunity groups, including the NSW Council for Civil Liberties and People with Disability Australia (PwD), have criticised the police response.\n\n\"She's either one hell of an agile, fit, fast and intimidating 95-year-old woman, or there's a very poor lack of judgement [from] those police officers,\" PwD President Nicole Lee told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).\n\n\"She needed somebody to... handle her with compassion and time, not Tasers.\"\n\nNSW Police has launched a critical incident investigation, which Commissioner Karen Webb said is being treated with \"the utmost seriousness\".\n\n\"I understand and share the community concerns,\" she said.\n\nThe officer involved, who is reported to have 12 years' experience, has not been suspended but has been taken off active duty.\n\nHe will be interviewed as part of the investigation, which will include the homicide squad.\n\n\"No officer, not one of us, is above the law,\" Mr Cotter said.\n\n\"All our actions will be scrutinised robustly from a criminal perspective as well.\"\n\nThe care home, which is run by the Snowy Monaro Regional Council, has defended its response. The staff followed procedures and did what was needed in the circumstances, the council's chief operating officer Jeff Morgan told local media.\n\nYallambee Lodge opened in 1995 and looks after residents with \"higher needs\", according to its website.\n\nMs Nowland has lived at the home for more than five years, the ABC reported.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe order of the Ukrainian ground team is clear - a Russian Su-35 fighter jet has fired a missile at Silk's aircraft. He knows he has to abort the mission in order to survive.\n\nSilk, which is the pilot's callsign, quickly dives his MiG-29 so low that he can see the treetops. The old Soviet-era aircraft starts trembling as it is pushed to the limit. Silk navigates through towers and hills that he studied meticulously on the map while preparing for this mission.\n\n\"Such flights close to the surface are the most difficult ones,\" says Silk. \"You have to concentrate very hard. And because of the low height, you don't have the time or the space for a safe ejection.\"\n\nFighter jets like the one flown by Silk accompany Ukrainian ground attack aircraft during their combat missions at the front line. Silk's job is to provide cover from Russian air-to-air missiles. But there is not much Ukrainian jets can do to stop them.\n\n\"Our biggest enemy is Russian Su-35 fighter jets,\" says another MiG-29 pilot with the call sign Juice.\n\n\"We know positions of [Russian] air defence, we know their ranges. It's quite predictable, so we can calculate how long we can stay [inside their zone]. But in the case of fighter jets, they are mobile. They have a good air picture and they know when we're flying to the front lines.\"\n\nRussian missiles can fly far further than the ones used by Ukrainian pilots\n\nRussian air patrols can detect a jet's take-off deep inside the territory of Ukraine. Their R-37M missiles can hit an aerial target at a distance of 150-200km (93-124 miles), whereas Ukrainian rockets can only travel up to 50km (31 miles).\n\nSo, Russian planes can see Ukrainian aircraft and shoot them down long before they pose any threat.\n\nSince the start of the Russian invasion, the Ukrainian Air Force has suffered serious losses - although they don't reveal specific figures.\n\nRussia's claim that they've destroyed more than 400 Ukrainian planes doesn't seem plausible, given independent estimates of the Ukrainian fleet's size are at least half that number.\n\nThe IISS Military Balance 2022 report states that the Ukrainian Air Force had 124 combat-capable aircraft before the full-scale Russian invasion.\n\nTo end Russia's superiority in the air, Ukraine wants its Western partners to provide more modern jets like the US-made F-16.\n\n\"Our pilots fly on a knife's edge,\" says Col Volodymyr Lohachov, the head of aviation development department of the Ukrainian Air Force. \"But F-16 jets would allow us to operate beyond the enemy's air defence systems.\"\n\nOur pilots fly on a knife's edge... F-16s would allow us to operate beyond the enemy's air defence systems\n\nAnd their missiles can be effective up to 150km, which will enable them to attack Russian jets as well.\n\n\"Of course, we will still be targeted,\" says Juice. \"But it will be an equal fight. Right now, we don't have any response to them.\"\n\nF-16s have better radars that can detect missiles fired at them. Currently, the team that monitors ground radars must verbally communicate with pilots about threats they face.\n\n\"Our jets don't have a system to warn about [Russian rocket] launches,\" says a pilot of an Su-25 attack jet with the call sign Pumba. \"It's all visual-based. If you see them, then you just try to escape by firing off heat traps and manoeuvring.\"\n\nRussia's air superiority means that Ukraine can afford only a limited deployment of its military aviation close to the front line, which can have a major impact on the success of any future counter-offensive operations. According to Juice, they carry out up to 20 times fewer sorties than the Russian Air Force.\n\nAnd the weapons Ukrainian attack aircraft have are from the stock of old Soviet-era bombs and unguided rockets, which are quickly depleting because of limited supplies.\n\nBut it's not just air support for ground troops. Western jets can also enhance Ukraine's air defence systems, aviators say.\n\n\"Our aircraft have old radars that don't see [Russian] cruise missiles. We are like blind cats when we try to shoot them down,\" Col Lohachov explains.\n\nThe range of western weapons on F-16s will allow them to intercept cruise missiles \"on long distances right on our borders, instead of trying to catch them somewhere in central parts of Ukraine,\" says Juice.\n\nThe MiG-29 jets that Poland and Slovakia have transferred to Ukraine recently do not solve their main problems, Ukrainian pilots say. Those planes have the same old weapons and limited capacity as the Ukrainian fleet.\n\nBut the US administration has ruled out sending F-16 jets to Ukraine. Many are concerned that providing Ukraine with Western aircraft can only escalate the conflict, drawing the US and Europe directly into the war.\n\nAnd even training Ukrainian pilots to fly these planes has not been approved. In fact, Colin Kahl, the Pentagon's undersecretary of defence for policy, said that even \"the most expeditious timeline\" for delivering F-16s would be 18 months, and thus there was no sense training pilots early.\n\nHowever, Ukrainian officials are hoping to get these jets from European countries, which would still require the US's consent, but would be much quicker to deliver.\n\nAs for training pilots, \"we can afford to send only a certain number of people for a limited period at any given time. We must avoid reducing our military capabilities here,\" says Col Lohachov.\n\nSo the best option, he adds, is to start sending small groups now in order to have enough trained pilots when planes arrive.\n\nIt is clear, however, that these jets will not be delivered in time for Ukraine's expected counter-offensive. President Volodymyr Zelensky has already announced that this operation will go ahead without waiting for Western aircraft.\n\nSome experts question the impact F-16s could have in this war.\n\nUkraine would need to upgrade all its airfields if it received F-16 jets, as the planes need longer runways to take off\n\nProf Justin Bronk, Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI), says that these jets would provide an extra layer of defence but \"wouldn't turn the war around on their own\".\n\nEven with F-16 jets, \"Ukrainian pilots would still have to fly very low anywhere near the front lines because of Russia's ground-based threat and that would limit effective missile range,\" Prof Bronk explains. \"And it also means employing air power in the way the West did in wars like Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, isn't possible in Ukraine.\"\n\nLogistical challenges raise questions about whether it's worth the effort to send F-16s to Ukraine. It's not just about training pilots and mechanics - the infrastructure must be upgraded as well.\n\nF-16s are designed for very smooth and long runways. Ukraine will have to adapt its current airfields to meet those requirements - resurface them, clean them and extend them.\n\n\"But doing that will be visible to the Russians from space and through human intelligence sources,\" Prof Bronk argues. \"And if you only do one or two bases, and then try to set up ground support to operate F-15s or F-16s, then Russians will see it and they will strike it.\n\n\"So, you would have to do lots of them. Then you're into the question - is that worth the number of skilled personnel and the amount of political effort and logistical support that could otherwise be used for other things like tanks and artillery, or ground-based air defence systems?\"\n\nFor now, Ukrainian pilots like Pumba, Silk and Juice will have to rely on their old Soviet-era fighters and attack jets.\n\nWhen an alarm signals a new combat mission, they rush towards their aircraft. They give the thumbs up to mechanics to confirm that all systems on board are working.\n\nSome of them have flown more than 100 combat missions. But they know that each flight could be their last.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 May.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nRise and shine: \"I took this photo of my partner Catrina Imray at sunrise from the summit of Beinn a'Chrùlaiste, Glencoe,\" says Daniel Warren. \"An incredible cloud inversion.\"\n\nA touching gesture: \"Two gannets in an archetypal pose,\" says Jacki Gordon at Bass Rock.\n\n\"I had a morning job to do in Kinghorn and managed to grab this beautiful sunrise over the bluebells before I started,\" says John Pow who took this picture.\n\n\"Found this deer on the edge of a rapeseed field in the Carse of Gowrie,\" says Peter Wilkinson of this wonderful photograph.\n\nYvonne Macfarlane took this calming picture at Inverkip just before the weather cleared.\n\n\"An athlete running out the haar into the sunlight on the Kintyre Way Ultra,\" says William Halliday.\n\n\"This squirrel seemed to stop and enjoy the aroma as it approached the peanut feeder on the bird table,\" says Iain MacDiarmid. \"Taken in our back garden at Drumnadrochit.\"\n\nCherry picker: \"I loved how these petals landed amongst the roots of the tree in a street in Perth,\" says Valerie Pegler.\n\nTop dog: Coco trekked up Lochnagar on a glorious day for a majestic view alongside Gillian Thomson and son Andrew.\n\n\"Makes my day when I see a kingfisher, even better when she poses for me,\" says George Kelsey of this superb shot at the Water of Leith in Edinburgh.\n\nWaiting for the weather to clear on Suilven in Sutherland, says Stan Arnaud.\n\nThis lovely swan family action shot is from Katie Paton at Figgate Park in Edinburgh. \"I call this 'look at me mum',\" she says.\n\nPuffin to see here: A contemplative moment captured by Craig Lambert at Isle of May.\n\nMoving moment: \"Taken through the window of our motorhome while traveling on the road home to Perth,\" says Brian Johnston of this shot of Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe.\n\n\"On holiday in Orkney from Lancashire, we went to the Brough of Birsay where I caught this picture of a shag standing watch from a cliff, maybe looking for his dinner,\" says Stephan Devine.\n\nCycle path: \"An image of my gravel bike descent into Glen Feshie,\" says Alan Maclennan. \"This was part of a ride from Aviemore, taking in the new gravel road between Glen Tromie and Glen Feshie.\"\n\nWhale of a time: \"This is a photo I took of the orca bull #34 of the 27s pod (which featured on David Attenborough’s Wild Isles) who gave us a close encounter at St Mary’s Pier in Orkney,\" says Lucy Dobbs.\n\nWell spotted: \"My 12-year-old daughter Edie snapped this photo of a ladybird at our allotment,\" says Aileen Snowden at Newport on Tay.\n\nDouglas Coutts and Margaret-Anne Wilson silhouetted at their wedding, courtesy of Matty Pearce at Lossiemouth East Beach.\n\nThe eyes have it: \"I was up at Troup Head gannet colony,\" says Colin Denholm. \"They do give you a good hard stare if they catch you looking.\"\n\nHigh tea: \"An Exmoor pony grazing beside the Act of Union beech trees that were planted in 1707 on North Berwick Law,\" says Sylvia Beaumont.\n\nQuite a mouthful: Jan Graham spotted this bird ready to feed some newborns at Eden Estuary Centre, Guardbridge, Fife.\n\nPeak viewing: \"This picture is from the summit of Goatfell on Arran, Ailsa Craig in the far distance,\" says Donnie Mathers. \"Six friends, all senior citizens, spent the week walking and socialising. George, pointing out landmarks, first scaled the peak 60 years ago. The six friends live in various parts of the UK ranging from the Highlands to Shropshire.\"\n\n\"This photograph was taken by my daughter Cara, aged 13, in a park in Aberdeen,\" says Andy Freeman. \"She and her friend spent ages waiting for it to settle long enough to allow them to get close. Worth the wait!\"\n\nHat trick: Not the usual traffic cone on the Duke of Wellington statue in Glasgow, spotted by John Dyer.\n\nChain gang: \"A pair of returning swallows taking a well-earned rest,\" says Steven Neish in Dundee.\n\nWoolly jumper: Bryan Wark spotted this lamb admiring the view after scaling a height in Greenock.\n\nRapeseed near St Andrews in an eye-catching image featuring greens, yellows and blues, from John Watson.\n\nLove is in the air: These swans in Victoria Park in Glasgow captured the heart, as seen by Rosie McGeachan.\n\nHouse call: \"Enjoyed an afternoon at Covesea Lighthouse near Lossiemouth,\" says Danny McCafferty.\n\nFirmly planted: Dave Harrower spotted this deer looking settled in an old boat at St Fillans, says daughter Lisa.\n\n\"This tawny owl was enjoying some Spring sunshine in Milton of Campsie,\" says Sarah Thurlbeck.\n\n\"This multi-storey cluster caught my eye on a walk through Craiglockhart woods in Edinburgh,\" says Mike Andrew.\n\nUnpheasant company: \"I took this picture of two pheasants scrapping with each other from the approach road to Muirshiel Country Park,\" says Ken Ramsay.\n\nGarlic spread: \"Wild garlic and bluebells covering the forest floor at Dalkeith Country Park,\" says Huw Rees Lewis.\n\nSwanning around: \"Daisy, aged 11, took this photo whilst walking by Carlingwalk Loch, Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway,\" says Charlotte Taylor. \"It was a lovely sunny evening and her grandma's birthday.\"\n\nWalkies? Millie's thoughts seemed clear at the door in Newburgh, Fife, according to Ben Guthrie.\n\nHello deer: \"A roe deer in amongst the gorse on Perwinnes Moss, Aberdeen,\" says Norval Strachan.\n\nNeigh better feeling: \"I’m so proud of my daughter Millie Boo who won her Riding for the Disabled (RDA) regional qualifier in Glasgow,\" says Steven Smith of this photo with Jake the horse who smiling Millie Boo rode. \"She has cerebral palsy and bilateral hearing loss. She will now attend the RDA National Championships in Gloucester. I think the photo says it all. It captured her feelings.\"\n\nFlower power: \"Bluebells in full bloom at Tornagrain, Inverness-shire,\" says Kirsten Ferguson.\n\nPuppy love: \"My daughter Eva, 16, took this photo of our new puppy, Frank, the miniature dachshund,\" says Stuart Mackinnon in Troon.\n\nIn a spot of bother? \"This cheetah was sleeping as we approached the enclosure and despite our best attempts to be quiet the noise from the gravel path woke him,\" says Mike Tolmie at Five Sisters Zoo in West Calder. \"I think the expression tells you exactly what he thought.\"\n\nOn the right path: \"Managed to capture this beautiful sky on whilst walking the dog at Brodick, Isle of Arran,\" says Fee Proctor.\n\n\"The Milky Way over Arbroath cliffs,\" says Nick MacIvor of this awe-inspiring view.\n\nDriving at night: The scene at Abernethy Golf Club, courtesy of Lucie Bush who too this image of husband David.\n\n\"Walking home after a lovely fish and chip supper in Oban I saw this incredible sunset,\" says Ross Tetlow.\n\nCatching some sun: \"I headed down to Ayr beach in the hope of a decent sunset and managed to capture what looks like a seagull taking the sun in its beak,\" says Claire McIntosh. \"There's always something quite serene whilst watching the sun setting, it brings an inner peace and each sunset is always different to the last, a beauty I hope to never tire of.\"\n\nThe view of this long and winding road persuaded Alex Mackintosh to pull over. \"We had visitors staying and we took them to Gairloch. On the way home we saw this sunset. It was one of those 'we need to stop and take a picture' moments!\"\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nJake Humphrey will be stepping back from his lead television presenting role with BT Sport after 10 years.\n\nThe 44-year-old's last show for BT Sport is expected to be the Champions League final between Manchester City and Inter Milan on 10 June.\n\nSince joining BT Sport in 2013, he has helped established the production company Whisper Group and the High Performance podcast.\n\n\"It has been my dream job,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm also not ashamed to say I remain hugely ambitious.\n\n\"Stepping back from BT will allow me space to pursue other projects and fulfil other ambitions. I'm excited.\n\n\"As a football fan, hosting Premier League matches, FA Cup games and European finals has meant the world to me.\"\n\nHis BT Sport colleague Rio Ferdinand said: \"Top presenter and inspiration in many different ways. Don't doubt you will smash whatever's next!\"\n\nBT Sport paid tribute to Humphrey on Twitter: \"We're looking forward to celebrating Jake with a tribute during our Champions League final coverage next month and giving him a fitting finale for his 10 years on BT Sport.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Detectives are watching 400,000 hours of footage in an attempt to find clues in the John Caldwell case, says Eamonn Corrigan\n\nAn estimated 400,000 hours of CCTV footage has been seized for analysis in the hunt for those involved in the shooting of a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) detective.\n\nThe investigation into who shot Det Ch Insp John Caldwell is one of Northern Ireland's biggest in recent times.\n\nHe was attacked in February by two gunmen as he coached youth football while off-duty in Omagh, County Tyrone.\n\nThe 48-year-old's young son was at his side when he was ambushed.\n\nThe CCTV footage has been obtained from 750 cameras located between Belfast and Omagh.\n\nPolice believe dissident republican group the New IRA may have acted with an organised crime gang to carry out the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell is in regular contact with the team investigating his shooting and there is an \"added determination\" to catch those responsible because he is a colleague.\n\nDet Ch Supt Eamonn Corrigan, who is leading the attempted murder inquiry, said: \"We are lucky John didn't die.\n\n\"He is making a good recovery but it is going to be a long road.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Corrigan said the wounded officer, who was discharged from hospital in April, has given investigators his account of the shooting.\n\nHe added the investigation had made \"significant progress\", but gave no further details.\n\nIt is an overwhelming amount of footage that has been seized - 16,000 days viewing if one person was to watch it from beginning to end.\n\nClearly the police have seized a lot more material than they may ultimately need because they want to have it before it is wiped or deleted.\n\nThe scale of the task is huge. What we can't really quantify is the scale of progress and whether or not they have had a significant breakthrough.\n\nI left the CCTV viewing suite with the overriding impression that this is a resource hungry investigation.\n\nIt is clearly going to take a long time to build a case or indeed cases given the number of people the PSNI believe were involved.\n\nTo date, 15 people have been arrested and there have been 40 searches of premises and land.\n\nMore than 340 witnesses have been interviewed so far.\n\nTwo Ford Fiesta cars used in the attack had been bought about 70 miles away, in Glengormley and Ballyclare, County Antrim, weeks prior to be used in the shooting.\n\nThey were found burned out following the attack.\n\nAttempting to trace their movements has meant obtaining footage from hundreds of cameras spread over a large area.\n\nThis car near a farmyard on the Racolpa Road outside Omagh is thought to have been used by the gunmen and was later burnt out\n\nDetectives are poring over the material in several viewing rooms within a Belfast police base.\n\n\"All the detectives working on the case know the importance of CCTV and the fact that a 15 or 20-second piece of footage could be crucial in building a case,\" said Det Ch Supt Corrigan.\n\n\"An attack of this nature is carried out by multiple people who are organised.\n\n\"We are looking for movements of people and vehicles over time. It is time consuming and a lot of patience is required,\" he added.\n\nThe New IRA has admitted responsibility for the attack, but police believe a crime gang may have aided it.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell has run investigations into both paramilitary groups and organised crime gangs.\n\n\"Whether these people are members of a terrorist organisation or an organised crime organisation, this has been an attack on a serving police officer at the behest of the New IRA,\" Det Ch Supt Corrigan said.\n\n\"How they carry out their operations and support them logistically is not for me to decide.\n\n\"I will follow the evidence and bring people who are responsible before the courts.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nJustin Tipuric and Alun Wyn Jones have played 264 Tests between them Wales pair Alun Wyn Jones and Justin Tipuric have retired from international rugby just four months before the World Cup. Jones, 37, is world rugby's record cap holder - having played 170 Tests for Wales and the British and Irish Lions. His announcement came just an hour after 33-year-old Tipuric revealed he was also quitting international rugby. Both Ospreys forwards had been named in Warren Gatland's 54-man training squad for September's World Cup in France. The pair were Six Nations champions in 2012, 2013, 2019 and 2021 while Jones won the first of his five titles in 2008. Jones, who made his international debut against Argentina in 2006, has played 158 times for Wales and 12 Tests for the British and Irish Lions on four tours. He led the Lions on the 2021 tour of South Africa and was skipper for the 2013 Test-winning decider against Australia in Sydney. Jones captained Wales 48 times, including the 2019 Grand Slam when he was named the Six Nations player of the tournament. He has also won three league titles with Ospreys and is set to appear for the Barbarians against a World XV and Swansea, his hometown club, later this month. \"Having been selected in this year's preliminary Rugby World Cup squad, and after ongoing dialogue with the coaching staff and the WRU [Welsh Rugby Union], I have decided to step away from the international game,\" Jones said on social media . \"So, after 17 years I look back on special memories with Welsh greats and future Welsh greats. \"My grandfather and father both nurtured my passion for rugby in my younger days which has continued throughout. \"The opportunity to be professional in the sport I love was a dream come true, and to represent my home region, the Ospreys, and clubs within the region, namely Mumbles and particularly Bonymaen, who guided me in my favourite years, was beyond special and something for which I am hugely grateful.\" Wales head coach Gatland said Jones had been an \"incredibly special\" player during a \"phenomenal\" 17-year career. \"His leadership, dedication and determination are second to none, every single time he has taken to the training pitch or put on the red jersey,\" he said. \"Al's passion and commitment for his country are limitless and he has been an important pillar for the game in Wales. He leaves a lasting legacy in Welsh rugby.\" Jones' announcement swiftly followed the one made by his long-time team-mate and close friend Tipuric. Watch one of Justin Tipuric's moments of magic from the 2013 Six Nations The three-time Lions tourist has not given a specific reason behind the decision, but confirmed he will continue to play for Ospreys. Making the shock announcement on social media, he said: \"During the off-season I've had time to reflect on my career and now seems the right time to step away from international rugby.\" Tipuric made his Wales debut in 2011 and was to become regarded as among the finest all-round players of his generation. Having emerged from the shadow of Sam Warburton to finally make the number seven jersey his own, he went on captain Wales last year. He was a key member of the Wales team that reached the World Cup quarter-finals in 2015 and semi-finals four years later. He was expected to appear at a third tournament this September having been named in Gatland's early squad. \"It's been a privilege to put on the Welsh jersey and have so many great memories,\" he added in the statement. \"I'd like to thank all the players and coaches that I've been fortunate enough to work with over the years and the wonderful support I've received from the Welsh public. \"I'm looking forward to spending more time at home and putting all my energies into playing for my home region the Ospreys.\" Gatland described Tipuric as an \"integral player\" for Wales, who was never one for the limelight. \"He's quiet off the pitch, but his skill set and his work rate really set him apart from others,\" Gatland added. \"He doesn't like a lot of fuss, but he has made an outstanding contribution to Welsh rugby.\" Ospreys said his decision to step down from Test rugby would be \"sorely felt\" by Welsh rugby. \"Known for his incredible work rate, agility, and rugby IQ, Tipuric has been an integral part of the Welsh national team for over a decade,\" the club said in a statement. \"He has become known as one of the finest open-side flankers in the game. He has contributed significantly to Welsh rugby's recent successes, including two Grand Slams.\" Tipuric missed the last month of the regular domestic season with a foot injury sustained during Ospreys' Champions Cup defeat at Saracens in April.\n• None Was one of the world's tallest statues haunted? The story of the World Peace Giant Kannon statue and its impact on local residents\n• None Check out the compelling and emotional real-life stories on BBC iPlayer now", "Rishi Sunak is in Japan at the G7 summit - but a tweet from his official account has caused a social media storm closer to home\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has been criticised for misusing alt text on social media - weeks after big brands were called out for doing it.\n\nHis official Twitter account posted a four-picture photo grid showing cabinet members having a meeting.\n\nThe alt text fields - which are supposed to describe what's in the images for blind users - simply read: \"We're growing the economy\".\n\nNumber 10 said it \"aims to ensure\" images are \"as accessible as possible\".\n\nJust two weeks ago, companies like McDonald's were criticised for posting the \"click here\" meme, which used alt text to hide jokes.\n\nThe accessibility feature works with screen readers and is supposed to describe image elements like what people are wearing, their surroundings, and any text that appears.\n\nWhen photos in the tweet from Rishi Sunak's account are clicked, each expands to reveal a list of things the government says it has done.\n\nBut because this information is not included in the alt text, anyone using a screen reader will not know what it says.\n\nThe government's received backlash for not fully describing the images.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rishi Sunak This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe RNIB responded by tweeting a video demonstrating what the images would sound like to blind people using a screen reader - the phrase \"we're growing the economy\" repeated four times.\n\nBecky Brynolf, who's head of social media at the charity, tells Newsbeat she felt \"a bit of disappointment\" when she saw the tweet.\n\n\"I think that everyone should be able to access the same information. It's a basic human right access, and it's everybody's responsibility,\" she says.\n\n\"I think it is especially important to highlight when our own government is maybe misusing features and just let them know where they can improve.\"\n\nRNIB social media lead Becky Brynolf says alt text can be a way of saying \"we want you here\" to users who rely on it\n\nBecky says it's especially bad from Rishi Sunak because the government published guidance for public bodies to make their websites and apps accessible in 2018.\n\n\"I know that the guidance doesn't specifically reference social media,\" she says.\n\n\"But I think it's reasonable to expect that communications teams of a key public figure such as the prime minister also makes their social media posts accessible.\"\n\nIn a statement, Number 10 said: \"We use a broad range of methods and channels to communicate with the public and aim to ensure that they are as accessible as possible.\n\n\"That includes using alternative text on our social channels.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nurse Lucy Letby, 33, denies murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others\n\nA murder-accused nurse has told jurors mistakes by colleagues led to the death of one of her alleged victims.\n\nLucy Letby said a delay in giving antibiotics to the newborn girl's mother after her waters broke early \"may have had an impact\".\n\nMs Letby is accused of administering air to the infant via an intravenous line while she worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nThe 33-year-old, originally of Hereford, has denied all charges.\n\nThe court heard the full-term baby, referred to as Child D, died in the early hours of 22 June 2015, two days after her birth.\n\nThe prosecution said the baby girl was stable and progressing well when Ms Letby went on duty to care for two other babies in the same nursery.\n\nGiving her seventh day of evidence at Manchester Crown Court, the accused nurse told the court it was not her case that staffing levels contributed to Child D's death.\n\nProsecutor Nick Johnson KC said: \"Is it your case that medical competency contributed?\"\n\nShe replied: \"Yes. I believe she didn't have appropriate treatment at the start of her life.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"The delay with antibiotics?\"\n\nThe defendant said: \"Yes. It may have had an impact.\"\n\nThe attacks were alleged to have taken place at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nThe jury of eight women and four men previously heard from Child D's designated nurse that she was on a break when the infant first collapsed in nursery one.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Did you take the opportunity because she was absent to sabotage [Child D]?\"\n\nTwo further deteriorations followed as medics were unable to resuscitate Child D.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"[Child D] died because you injected her with air?\"\n\nOn Thursday, she told the court a \"gang of four\" consultants had pinned the blame on her for a number of baby deaths to cover up hospital failings.\n\nShe said staffing levels contributed \"in part\" to the death of Child A, on 8 June 2015.\n\nThe defendant said the boy was without fluids for some time and there was an issue with his intravenous line insertion.\n\nShe denied injecting him with air.\n\nMs Letby is also accused of trying to murder the boy's twin sister, Child B, using the same method on the next night shift.\n\nShe told the court she did not know why Child B had collapsed.\n\nShe also said she could not explain the collapses of Child C, a baby boy who died in the early hours of 14 June 2015.\n\nShe again denied she took an opportunity to sabotage Child C when his designated nurse left the room.\n\nThe court previously heard Child C was in a \"good condition\" and stable after his premature birth, but stopped breathing without warning on 13 June while being treated in nursery one of the neonatal unit.\n\nHe was pronounced dead the next day.\n\nMr Johnson quoted evidence from a former nursing colleague Sophie Ellis, who previously told the court she fed Child C for the first time at 23:00 on 13 June.\n\nShe told the jury she then left the room briefly to go to the nurse's station, but was alerted by an alarm from the baby's monitor.\n\nShe said she then saw Ms Letby \"standing by the incubator\", who told her the baby's heart rate and oxygen levels had dropped.\n\nMr Johnson asked the defendant if she was in nursery one at the time, adding that she had been allocated babies to care for in nursery three.\n\nMs Letby said she disputed Ms Ellis' account and had \"no memory\" of the events.\n\n\"Do you dispute being born?\" Mr Johnson asked.\n\n\"But you have no memory of it?\" the prosecutor continued.\n\nLucy Letby denies murdering and attempting to murder babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nContinuing, Mr Johnson quoted the evidence of a senior nurse, who told the court she had to \"ask Lucy to focus back in nursery three\", because \"Lucy went into the family room a few times\".\n\n\"Why were you so keen to spend time with [Child C's] family as they cradled their dying child?\" he asked.\n\n\"I don't agree with that, I wasn't there a lot of the time,\" Ms Letby replied.\n\n\"You were enjoying what was going on, weren't you, Lucy Letby?\" the prosecutor said.\n\nMs Letby denies murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nThe trial has been adjourned until Wednesday.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Snowmelt has brought waves of ice down the Yukon and Kuskokwin rivers in Alaska, causing massive flooding and a disaster declaration from the state's governor.", "Ukraine says one of the Russian missiles shot down over the Kyiv region fell in the backyard of a house\n\nUkraine's capital Kyiv has been attacked from the air by Russia for the ninth time this month.\n\nKyiv's authorities said it seemed all incoming missiles had been destroyed, but debris falling from the air caused some damage in two districts.\n\nOne person has been killed and two more wounded in a missile strike on the Black Sea port of Odesa, officials say.\n\nBlasts were also heard in the central-western regions of Vinnytsia, Khmelnytsky and Zhytomyr.\n\nOverall, 29 out of 30 missiles launched by Russia overnight were shot down, Ukraine's Air Force said in a statement.\n\nRussia has significantly increased the frequency of its missile attacks on Ukraine over the past days and weeks, while Ukraine appears to be shooting down more of Russia's missiles.\n\nSo far in May, Russia has carried out four mass launches - two them between 16 and 18 May alone - compared to one each in April and March, and two in February.\n\nThe last time Russia attacked with such intensity was in the period after New Year, when four attacks took place in quick succession between 31 December and 26 January.\n\nThe train derailed near Simferopol on Thursday morning, Russian-appointed officials in Crimea say\n\nIn a separate development, rail traffic was suspended between Simferopol and the city of Sevastopol after a freight train carrying grain derailed. Simferopol is the regional capital of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nVladimir Konstantinov, the Moscow-installed head of the regional parliament, told Russia's state media that the derailment was caused by an explosion. An investigation is now under way.\n\nIn the latest overnight attack on Kyiv, Russia used cruise missiles and reconnaissance drones, the capital's military administration said in a statement.\n\nIt said that \"a series of air attacks on Kyiv, unprecedented in their power, intensity and variety, continues\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Ukraine said it had shot down six Kinzhal hypersonic missiles as part of an \"exceptionally dense\" attack.\n\nSpeaking before the all-clear was given, Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a fire had broken out in a garage in the Darnytsya area of Kyiv, but added no one had been injured.\n\nThe head of Kyiv's civilian military administration said a heavy missile attack had been launched from Russian strategic bombers over the Caspian Sea.\n\nSerhiy Popko said the attack probably included cruise missiles, adding that Russia had deployed reconnaissance drones over Kyiv after unleashing its wave of air strikes.\n\nHe said a second fire had broken out in a non-residential building in Kyiv's eastern Desnyansky district, but did not give an update on if anyone was hurt.\n\nAt least eight people were reportedly killed - including a five-year-old boy near Kherson - and 17 were injured by shelling on Wednesday, as both sides traded accusations of striking civilian areas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two adults and a five-year-old killed after Russian shell falls near playground\n\nSlowly but surely Ukraine is getting ready to launch a huge assault on Russia's invading forces.\n\nWestern officials say Ukraine's army is at \"an increased state of readiness\" ahead of a long-awaited counter-offensive against Russia's invasion.\n\nThe officials said many of Kyiv's military capabilities were now \"coming together\" - including its ability to deploy tanks, fighting vehicles and combat engineers, as well as clearing mines, bridging rivers and striking long-range targets.\n\nThey said Russian troops were in a parlous state but warned that Moscow's defensive lines in Ukraine were \"potentially formidable\" and guarded by \"extensive minefields\".\n\nSo the officials argued the success of any Ukrainian offensive should be measured not just by territorial gains but also by whether it convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin to rethink his strategy.\n\nThe \"cognitive effect on the Kremlin\", they claimed, was more important than Ukrainian forces cleaving through Russian lines all the way to the border.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met with a Chinese diplomat in Kyiv and rejected any peace plan which would involve them giving up territory to Russia.\n\nBut an agreement allowing Ukraine to export millions of tonnes of grain through the Black Sea has been extended for two months, the day before it was due to expire.\n• None 'We thought it'd be a crisis we could live through'", "Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly will take a break from Saturday Night Takeaway after the 2024 series, ITV has said.\n\nReaching the \"milestone\" of 20 series seemed like the \"perfect time to pause for a little while and catch our breath,\" the presenting duo said.\n\nThe series previously took a pause in 2009 - returning four years later.\n\nITV's Kevin Lygo said the broadcaster understood why the duo have \"a desire to take a pause\".\n\n\"When you think of Saturday night television you think of Saturday Night Takeaway,\" ITV's director of television said.\n\nThe most recent series of that show launched in February, with ITV1's biggest overnight audience of the year, attracting 6.4 million viewers.\n\nSince its launch in 2002 it has received multiple Bafta and National Television Awards (NTA), including presenting accolades for Ant and Dec.\n\nThey won their first TV presenting prize at the National Television Awards in 2001 alongside boy band Blue\n\nThe pair will continue their exclusive working relationship with ITV, as hosts of popular shows including I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, Britain's Got Talent and Limitless Win.\n\n\"We love making Saturday Night Takeaway, but reaching the milestone of 20 series seemed like the perfect time to pause for a little while and catch our breath,\" Ant said.\n\nDec added: \"We still have a momentous 20th series to look forward to first so we will do our best to go out (for now) with a bang in 2024.\"\n• None Ant and Dec to miss National TV Awards with Covid", "The US says it will allow its Western allies to supply Ukraine with advanced fighter jets, including American-made F-16s, in a major boost for Kyiv.\n\nNational security adviser Jake Sullivan said President Joe Biden \"informed his G7 counterparts\" of the decision at the bloc's summit in Japan on Friday.\n\nUS troops will also train Kyiv's pilots to use the jets, Mr Sullivan said.\n\nRussia said countries would run \"enormous risks\" if they supplied F-16s to Ukraine, state media reported.\n\nDeputy foreign minister Alexander Grushko told state-owned news agency Tass that Western countries were \"sticking to the scenario of escalation\".\n\n\"This will be taken into account in all our plans, and we have all the necessary means to achieve our goals,\" he said.\n\nUkraine has long sought advanced jets and President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed the move as a \"historic decision\".\n\nCountries can only resell or re-export American military hardware if the US approves it, so this decision clears the way for other nations to send their existing stocks of F-16s to Ukraine.\n\nAlthough it seems increasingly likely that Ukraine will eventually receive the advanced jets it so desperately wants, no government has so far confirmed it will send them to Kyiv.\n\nThe US and allies had so far \"focussed on providing Ukraine with the systems weapon and training it needs to conduct offensive operations this spring and summer\", Mr Sullivan told reporters in Hiroshima, saying the moves were part of Washington's \"long-term commitment to Ukraine's self-defence\".\n\n\"As the training unfolds in the coming months, we will work with our allies to determine when planes will be delivered, who will be delivering them, and how many.\"\n\nUkraine has repeatedly lobbied its Western allies to provide jets to help in its fight against Russia.\n\nAhead of Saturday's official announcement, President Zelensky said the jets would \"greatly enhance our army in the sky\".\n\nHe said he looked forward to \"discussing the practical implementation\" of the plan at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, where he arrived on Saturday.\n\nThe US had been sceptical about providing Ukraine with modern fighter jets - at least in the near term. Its focus has instead been on providing military support on land.\n\nSome Nato member countries have expressed worries that handing jets to Ukraine would be viewed as escalating the war, risking a direct confrontation with Russia.\n\nSenior US military officials were previously sceptical about the ability of Western-supplied fighter jets to dramatically alter the conflict - there are lots of air defence systems on the ground, and Russia's large air force has struggled to gain air superiority.\n\nIn February, President Biden told reporters that he was \"ruling out for now\" sending advanced fighters to Ukraine.\n\nBut Mr Sullivan told reporters that the US had provided weapons to Kyiv as they were needed on the battlefield, and the decision to pave the way for fighter jets indicated the conflict had entered a new phase.\n\n\"Now we have delivered everything we said we were going to deliver, so we put the Ukrainians in a position to make progress on the battlefield through the counteroffensive. We've reached a moment where it is time to look down the road, and say what is Ukraine going to need as part of a future force to defend against Russian aggression,\" he said.\n\nMr Sullivan also indicated any jets Ukraine received would only be used for defence purposes, and that the US would neither enable nor support attacks on Russian territory.\n\n\"The Ukrainians have consistently indicated that they are prepared to follow through on that,\" he said.\n\nWhile the change in US policy is significant, training pilots to fly F-16 jets will take time.\n\nUkraine has more trained fighter pilots than aircraft at present, but even training experienced fighter pilots on a new plane could take up to four months.\n\nNations will also need to agree to supply the jets.\n\nThe F-16 is widely used by a number of European and Middle East nations as well as the US, which still manufactures the aircraft.\n\nThe UK, Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark also welcomed the US move.\n\nMr Zelensky is joining the G7 leaders in Japan\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tweeted: \"The UK will work together with the USA and the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark to get Ukraine the combat air capability it needs.\"\n\nThe UK does not have any F-16s in its air force itself.\n\nDenmark has announced it too will now be able to support the training of pilots, but did not confirm whether it would send any jets to Ukraine. Denmark's air force has 40 F-16s, around 30 of which are operational.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Sunak and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said they would build an \"international coalition\" to provide fighter jet support for Ukraine.\n\nMr Sunak said the UK would set up a flight school to train Ukrainian pilots. French leader Emmanuel Macron said his country was willing to do the same but would not provide jets.\n\nSome of the opposition to sending the jets has centred around maintenance issues, with former Nato official Dr Jamie Shea saying they require extensive maintenance after almost every fight.\n\nAt the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukraine was believed to have around 120 combat capable aircraft - mainly consisting of aging Soviet-era MiG-29s and Su-27s.\n\nBut officials say they need up to 200 jets to match Moscow's air-power - which is thought to be five or six times greater than Kyiv's.\n\nMr Zelensky has primarily been asking its allies for F-16s. First built in the 1970s, the jet can travel at twice the speed of sound and can engage targets in the air or on the ground.\n\nWhile now eclipsed by the more modern F-35, it remains widely in use. Experts say modern fighters like the F-16 would help Ukraine strike behind Russian lines.\n\nEarlier this year some Eastern European countries sent Soviet-era Mig fighter jets to Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris and Carrie Johnson attended the King's Coronation earlier this month\n\nFormer Prime Minister Boris Johnson's wife Carrie has announced she is pregnant with her third child.\n\nSharing the news on Instagram, Mrs Johnson said she had felt \"pretty exhausted\" for the past eight months but \"we can't wait to meet this little one\" in a few weeks' time.\n\nThe couple, who married in May 2021, already have two children - three-year-old Wilf and two-year-old Romy.\n\nMr Johnson has four children from his previous marriage to Marina Wheeler.\n\nWriting on Instagram, Mrs Johnson said: \"Wilf is v excited about being a big brother again and has been chattering about it nonstop.\n\n\"Don't think Romy has a clue what's coming…She soon will!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by carrielbjohnson This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Johnson, who left Downing Street in September, became the first prime minister to marry while in office for nearly 200 years.\n\nIt was his third marriage, having previously been married to Ms Wheeler with whom he had four children. Their divorce was finalised in 2020. He has a further child from an affair.\n\nHe did not have any children with his first wife Allegra Mostyn-Owen.\n\nIn an interview in 2021, Mr Johnson said it was \"fantastic\" living with a baby in No 10 but \"a lot of work\".", "Increasing the number of Welsh-medium teachers is a \"challenge\", the Welsh government says\n\nPlans for a million Welsh speakers by 2050 will fail without a substantial increase in teachers speaking the language, a Senedd report has warned.\n\nAccording to the 2021 Census, the number of Welsh speakers has dropped from 562,000 to 538,000 since 2011.\n\nThe report said there was not enough staff for the expansion to Welsh medium education needed and insufficient Welsh teaching in English-medium schools.\n\nMinisters said they had set out ways to develop the Welsh-speaking workforce.\n\nCensus data also found a decrease in children and young people able to speak Welsh - particularly between the ages of three and 15.\n\nThe Welsh government funds training programmes for teachers wanting to learn or improve their Welsh.\n\nDyfodol i'r Iaith (Future for the Language), which campaigns to increase the numbers of Welsh speakers, estimates 17,000 teachers would need to be enrolled on the programmes to hit the million target by 2050.\n\nThe report, by the Senedd's culture and Welsh language committee, calls for major investment to ensure more teachers, teaching assistants and lecturers sign up for the schemes.\n\nIt also recommends ministers consider developing an accreditation system for teachers who teach in Welsh.\n\n\"This would ensure that teachers have the skills to teach through the medium of Welsh where the linguistic and cultural needs of each school or area are different,\" the report said.\n\n\"This should include the need to look at how courses are designed and how teachers are trained to teach Welsh in English medium settings.\"\n\nCommittee chairwoman, Plaid Cymru MS Delyth Jewell, warned the million Welsh speakers aim was in \"serious jeopardy\".\n\n\"It's clear that having enough teachers who can speak Welsh is crucial to addressing this issue and we need the Welsh government to show real ambition over the next few years,\" she said.\n\n\"More teachers should be encouraged to learn Welsh and those working in early-years education should also be able to access the same opportunities.\"\n\nBut Ms Jewell said a \"one-size fits all approach\" might not always work as the \"linguistic map of Wales is quite varied\".\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We have published the Welsh in Education Workforce Plan which sets out a number of ambitious steps we will take with our partners to develop the workforce over the next 10 years.\n\n\"We will respond to the committee's report in due course.\"", "Whitchurch High School pupils Arwen (l) and Millie (r) missed out on the experience of GCSEs due to Covid\n\nThis summer's exams may be back to normal on the face of it, but Covid anxiety is still having an impact on A-level and GCSE pupils.\n\nExams are going ahead for the second year running after being cancelled in 2020 and 2021.\n\nThe qualifications watchdog said there are still some measures in place this year to reflect disruption to learning.\n\nWales' biggest school will see 6,500 papers sat over the month, with more than 1,000 pupils at the same time.\n\nAt the 2,400-pupil Whitchurch High School in Cardiff, making sure it all runs smoothly is \"really quite tricky,\" assistant head teacher Jonathan Davies said.\n\nMr Davies said exams were \"pretty much back to normal\" after the first full school year without Covid measures in place, but that \"the remnants of Covid-19 are still carrying on unfortunately with some of the students - they're very anxious\".\n\nExams are spread over a number of school buildings and rooms - from 300 teenagers in the main sports hall to smaller venues which seat 70 and far fewer.\n\n\"It's the logistics of making sure that every student's got the right paper, every student's sitting in the right place, each of the venues has got the right number of invigilators - people to start the exam and end the exam,\" said Mr Davies.\n\nArwen, 18, and Millie, 17, have already done some practical assessments for their A-levels but their written papers start next week.\n\nThey feel well prepared but are \"very, very stressed\" and \"feeling the pressure\" as they both hope to go to university.\n\nEva, Isabelle, Grace and Arabella (left to right) have all sat their GCSE history exam\n\nArwen feels they benefitted from having the opportunity to sit AS exams last summer, but missed out on the experience of GCSEs because they were cancelled in 2021.\n\n\"I found it very difficult trying to learn how to revise\", she said.\n\n\"The school have been great in trying to get us prepared, but having that additional support beforehand with GCSEs would've made it much easier for us.\"\n\n\"I do feel like it's back to normal - almost\", said Millie.\n\n\"But it does feel normal, it doesn't feel like we're disadvantaged in any way because everybody's in the same boat.\"\n\nExams went ahead in summer 2022 after teachers decided grades in 2020 and 2021, but some course content was cut to reflect the significant disruption due to Covid.\n\nThis year there are fewer measures, but most students have had advance information of topics they can expect to come up in exams.\n\nIt is meant to help focus their revision and grades will still be slightly more generous than before the pandemic.\n\nNothing says \"exam season\" quite like a sports hall filled with desks\n\nThe school has seen more applications for special arrangements for exams which includes some students sitting papers in smaller rooms or on their own.\n\nIt puts \"a massive pressure on schools\", Mr Davies said, because they have to find extra space and invigilators.\n\nFresh from her history GCSE paper, Arabella, 16, said she was feeling \"pretty good\" and having advance information helped.\n\n\"During the lockdown we had work put online for us, so I haven't felt I've missed out on any of the course, but it does make it a little bit harder because you feel that you haven't quite got the full experience that other people would've had if it wasn't for Covid,\" she said.\n\nEva, 15, is glad she got the \"taster\" of doing some exams last year.\n\n\"Coming into Year 11, you know what you're doing, you're not jumping in right at the deep end.\"\n\nQualification Wales called this year's arrangements the \"next step\" on the journey back to the pre-pandemic system while still offering support for pupils, schools and colleges.\n\n\"We know that the pandemic has had a long-term impact on learners, and we believe this is the fairest approach\", a spokesman said.", "A store clerk and colleague are accused of stealing a $3m (£2.4m) lottery ticket left behind by a customer.\n\nState lottery officials in Massachusetts contacted police after Carly Nunes, 23, presented a ticket that was torn and burned.\n\nMs Nunes and colleague Joseph Reddem, 32, were also overheard arguing over their claims to the winning jackpot.\n\nThe original buyer of the ticket has been identified and will claim his prize as intended.\n\nPlymouth County prosecutors said the man had purchased four tickets as well as a bag of potato chips from the Savas Liquors store in Lakeville on 17 January.\n\nMs Nunes, the clerk at the checkout counter, rang up the order but only printed two tickets, and the man left the store without his winning tickets.\n\nThat evening, his numbers were called, but the man concluded he had lost the tickets after a brief search.\n\nTwo days later, Mr Reddem drove Ms Nunes and her boyfriend to the state lottery headquarters, where she submitted her claim and redeemed the prize.\n\nBut shortly thereafter, according to prosecutors, officials overheard Mr Reddem demanding a share of the jackpot from Ms Nunes in the building's lobby. She allegedly said she would \"only pay him $200,000\".\n\nLottery investigators also questioned Ms Nunes over the poor condition her ticket was in, and opened an investigation.\n\nSurveillance video from Savas Liquors soon revealed how Ms Nunes had obtained the ticket and, in a follow-up interview, she told police she had \"inadvertently obtained\" the ticket, prosecutors said.\n\nA grand jury indicted Ms Nunes last Friday on one count each of larceny from a building, attempted larceny, presentation of a false claim and witness intimidation, and Mr Reddem on one count of attempted extortion. They will be arraigned at a later date.\n\nPolice spent nearly a month working to find the true owner of the winning ticket, canvassing the area, posting flyers of the man seen in surveillance footage and questioning local residents.\n\nThe Massachusetts State Lottery Commission has said it will honour his claim to the $3m jackpot.", "International summits are a curious mix of the theatrical, diplomatic and administrative. Firstly, their scale. They are a huge undertaking, with massive security.\n\nLittle wonder: a collection of world leaders, in the same place, at the same time, at a long before advertised event. And so the skies swarm with helicopters.\n\nThe streets are packed with lanyard wearing attendees, clutching their all-important accreditation for fear that without it, even crossing a road might prove impossible.\n\nI spotted two of my colleagues in the travelling British press pack out on a jog earlier, in the driving rain. Shorts and T shirts on, yellow G7 lanyards still hanging around their necks.\n\nPity the poor residents of Hiroshima suddenly unable to take their normal route to work or wherever, because of road closures.\n\nThen there is the theatre.\n\nAt the heart of politics are people. Personal relationships matter in politics and diplomacy just as they do in any other walk of life.\n\nAnd politicians, in particular, have audiences back home to address, images to burnish and impressions to leave.\n\nAnd so there are the theatrical moments, such as Rishi Sunak wearing the red socks of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp baseball team, whose fans include the host of the Summit - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.\n\nThen, there is the diplomacy. In the weeks and months before a summit, diplomats for each country discuss their own outlooks and those of others, to try to find common ground.\n\nThese diplomats are known as sherpas. They lead the way to the Summit.\n\nThe political leaders then come together for a marathon series of talks – in big groups and one on one – and at the end, usually, what emerges is called a communique – the agreed conclusions.\n\nOften broad, often vague, they attempt to take account of every country’s position, emphasis and focus, on various issues. The aim being ongoing discussions can build upon them.", "John Allan is stepping down as chairman of Tesco following allegations over his conduct.\n\nMr Allan, who is also a former president of the CBI business lobby group, has strongly denied three of four claims made against him.\n\nHowever, board member Byron Grote, who will temporarily replace Mr Allan as chairman, said: \"These allegations risk becoming a distraction to Tesco.\"\n\nTesco said it had made \"no findings of wrongdoing\".\n\nMr Allan will leave Tesco in June after eight years in the role.\n\nHe said: \"It is with regret that I am having to prematurely stand down from my position as chair of Tesco following the anonymous and unsubstantiated allegations made against me, as reported by the Guardian.\"\n\nA report in the Guardian had claimed that Mr Allan had touched a Tesco employee at the supermarket giant's annual shareholder meeting last year.\n\nIt also alleged that Mr Allan \"grabbed\" an employee at a CBI event in 2019. He has previously said these claims were \"simply untrue\".\n\nIt is also claimed that he made a comment about a CBI staff member's dress and bottom in 2021. Mr Allan said he does not recall this incident.\n\nHe has, however, admitted to making a comment to a female CBI worker in late 2019 about a dress suiting her figure.\n\nMr Allan said he was \"mortified after making the comment\" and immediately apologised.\n\nHe was president of the CBI between 2018 and 2020 and spent an additional year as vice president.\n\nFollowing claims he inappropriately touched a Tesco staff member, the supermarket group said it began an \"extensive review of the allegation\".\n\nThe retailer said it had asked colleagues \"to come forward if they had concerns regarding any conduct issues and specifically at the Tesco 2022 annual general meeting (AGM)\".\n\nIt also reviewed video of the event as well as its internal complaints records.\n\nMr Grote said: \"While we have received no complaints about John's conduct and made no findings of wrongdoing, these allegations risk becoming a distraction to Tesco.\n\n\"On behalf of the board, I thank him for his substantial contribution to the business,\" he added.\n\nMr Allan said: \"These allegations are utterly baseless, as the internal procedures undertaken by Tesco prove.\n\n\"There is no evidence of any wrongdoing at that time or at any stage of my chairmanship at Tesco and I remain determined to prove my innocence.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the CBI, which is Britain's biggest lobby group, is facing separate allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\nThese include two allegations of rape that are being investigated by the City of London Police.\n\nFollowing an external investigation by law firm Fox Williams, the CBI admitted that it hired \"culturally toxic\" staff and failed to fire people who sexually harassed female colleagues.\n\nIt has since dismissed some staff members.\n\nIt has also appointed its former chief economist Rain Newton-Smith as director general.\n\nShe has replaced Tony Danker who was fired in April following separate complaints of workplace misconduct.\n\nMr Danker has acknowledged he had made some staff feel \"very uncomfortable\". He said: \"I apologise for that.\"\n\nBut he said his name had been wrongly associated with separate claims, including rape, that allegedly occurred at the CBI before he joined.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this story, get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Critics have branded the UK government's delayed £1bn package of support for the semiconductor industry as \"insignificant\".\n\nSemiconductors, or chips, are inside everything from phones to cars and the government has just unveiled a new 10-year strategy.\n\nBut it is facing allegations it is not enough - the US and EU have announced support closer to $50bn (£40bn).\n\nThe PM said the plan would help turn the UK into a technology superpower.\n\nDetails were released shortly after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak agreed a partnership on semiconductors with Japan.\n\nBy boosting Britain's semiconductor industry \"we will grow our economy, create new jobs and stay at the forefront of new technological breakthroughs\", Mr Sunak said.\n\nHowever, that ambition took a knock when Cambridge-based firm Arm, whose chip designs power many smartphones, chose to list its shares in New York rather than London.\n\nArm, arguably once Britain's biggest tech asset, was sold to Japanese firm Softbank despite calls for government intervention.\n\nThe UK's biggest chip plant in Newport was also very nearly taken over by a Chinese company.\n\nBut Rene Haas, Arm's current chief executive, did welcome the new regime which would help the UK play a part in global chip supply chains for the next generation of technology.\n\nAnd trade body TechUK said it was a \"starting gun\" on a bright future for the UK semiconductor industry.\n\nTim Pullen, from British chip maker IQE, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that the government strategy is \"definitely stepping\" the industry in the \"right direction.\"\"It recognises the importance of semiconductors to the economy, to national security, and to supply chain security that's so vital to our lives and what we now need to do is work very closely with the government as we move to the execution phase,\" he said.\n\nBut critics argue the sums on offer in the strategy, which had been expected to appear last autumn, are limited compared to other nations' efforts.\n\nUS support to its industry under the CHIPS Act totals $52bn, while the EU equivalent will amount to €43bn of aid.\n\nThe money is also small compared with private sector investment. This week Ireland saw semiconductor firm ADI invest €630m in a research and manufacturing facility in Limerick.\n\nThe chair of the House of Commons Business Select Committee, Labour MP Darren Jones, welcomed the strategy and the recognition of the need to invest but added, \"the initial £250m is a very small amount of subsidy compared to other countries\".\n\nUnder the strategy £200m will be invested between 2023-25 to provide infrastructure for industry, fund more research, and promote international co-operation.\n\nLabour shadow culture minister Lucy Powell said that after years of delays, the strategy would be met with disappointment and showed \"significantly less ambition than our competitors\".\n\nGaurav Gupta of consultants Gartner said the funding was fine for research, but if the ambition was to be competitive with the big players in the field - Nvidia, Qualcomm, Broadcom and AMD then the £1bn was \"insignificant\".\n\nDr Simon Thomas, chief executive of UK based graphene semiconductor start-up Paragraf, told the BBC the announcement was \"quite frankly flaccid\".\n\n\"It is a long way from addressing the needs of UK chipmakers,\" he said.\n\nZoe Kleinman, the BBC's technology editor said: \"Many businesses making hardware say when there's a shortage, it's difficult to get a look-in with the enormous chip manufacturers because their output is hoovered up by giants like Apple with far deeper pockets than anybody else.\n\n\"Will the UK government have sharp enough elbows to muscle in? It is a noble ambition to attempt to \"mitigate\" supply chain issues but ultimately, if we aren't making chips at scale ourselves, we are always going to be at the mercy of someone else.\"\n\nThe BBC, and other media, were not shown the full report ahead of publication, but a summary was provided by officials.\n\nThe strategy will focus on areas the UK is particularly good at: semiconductor design, cutting-edge \"compound\" semiconductors, and research - areas that also require less funding than large scale chip manufacturing where essential machines cost hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nThe strategy will also try to increase the security of chip supply through international partnerships.\n\nRecent pandemic-fuelled chip shortages disrupted supplies of products from games to cars and critical manufacturing is concentrated in a few countries, such as Taiwan.\n\nPeter Claydon, the president of Picocom a chip design company based in Bristol, told the BBC it was good to have the strategy but said: \"It's not a lot of money.\"\n\nAnd he would have liked to have seen tax breaks used to support the industry and more emphasis on education to help supply the skilled professionals the industry needs.\n\nHowever, he valued the strategy's emphasis on international cooperation, although he said it would have been better to have remained in the EU with its multi-billion euro programme, which was enough to \"make some difference\", he said.", "Harrison Ford has emotionally accepted Cannes Film Festival's honorary Palme d'Or lifetime achievement award, the most prestigious honour offered at the annual event.\n\nFord was at the world renowned film festival in southern France ahead of the premiere for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth instalment of the adventure saga.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCoverage: Live text commentary and in-play video clips on the BBC Sport website & app, plus BBC Test Match Special on BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra. Daily Today at the Test highlights on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer from 19:00 BST.\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan will return to the BBC for this summer's men's Ashes series and the Test match against Ireland.\n\nVaughan has worked as a pundit since retiring from playing in 2009 but stepped back in June after he was accused of using racist language towards former team-mate Azeem Rafiq during their time at Yorkshire.\n\nHe was cleared by the Cricket Discipline Commission in March.\n\nVaughan was accused of saying \"there's too many of you lot, we need to have a word about that\" to Rafiq and team-mates Adil Rashid, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and Ajmal Shahzad during a Yorkshire match in 2009.\n\nHe was charged along with Yorkshire County Cricket Club and six other former players with bringing the game into disrepute, following a nine-month investigation by the England and Wales Cricket Board.\n\nThe panel said it was \"not satisfied on the balance of probabilities\" that the words were said by Vaughan \"at the time and in the specific circumstances alleged\".\n\nHe was not involved in BBC coverage of the 2021-22 Ashes series in Australia but returned in March 2022, before stepping back three months later.\n\nHe has since apologised for sending \"disgusting\" historical tweets which were brought to his attention in a 2021 BBC interview.\n\nAt the time of the panel's verdict, Vaughan posted on social media that the outcome \"must not be allowed to detract from the core message that there can be no place for racism in the game of cricket, or in society generally\".\n\nEngland play Ireland in their first Test match of the summer, starting on 1 June, before the men's Ashes begins on 16 June.\n\nVaughan captained England in Tests between 2003 and 2008 and led them to success in the 2005 Ashes.\n\nHe played his entire domestic career at Yorkshire - between 1993 and 2009 - before becoming a summariser on Test Match Special and later a commentator for BBC TV, BT Sport and Australia's Fox Sports.\n• None How to follow the Ashes on the BBC\n• None Was one of the world's tallest statues haunted? The story of the World Peace Giant Kannon statue and its impact on local residents\n• None Check out the compelling and emotional real-life stories on BBC iPlayer now", "Counting is continuing in local elections in Northern Ireland, with nearly half of the seats filled\n\nSo far, this has been a good day for Sinn Féin with most seats returned, followed by the DUP and then Alliance.\n\n200 councillors out of 462 have been elected. A total of 807 people are competing for 462 seats in council chambers across Northern Ireland.\n\nA total of 1,305,553 people were eligible to vote, according to the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland.\n\nWith 200 councillors elected, nearly half of the seats were filled by 2100 on Friday\n\nSinn Féin has made breakthroughs with its first councillors elected in Lisburn City and Ballymena. In Foyle, the party appears to have recovered ground lost at the last election. Party vice-president Michelle O'Neill has described it as a very positive day.\n\nThe DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said this election was always about holding ground but said that it was time to stop splitting the Unionist vote.\n\nThe Alliance Party became the third biggest at the NI Assembly election last May and so far it seems on track to replicate that in these council elections. The party has taken its first ever council seats in Ballyclare, Fermanagh and Limavady.\n\nIt will be hoping to increase its share of the vote West of the Bann but, while the party has made gains, it has also had a key loss in Londonderry.\n\nThe SDLP hopes to retain its 59 seats from the 2019 elections, but is under pressure from Sinn Féin.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party is also facing a battle to hold its ground but its leader Doug Beattie said Unionism was likely to take a hit across the board.\n\nIt has not been a good day for the Green Party. Their leader in Northern Ireland, Mal O'Hara, has lost his seat on Belfast City Council. Mr O'Hara became party leader last August after Clare Bailey lost her seat in the Stormont Assembly elections. The deputy leader of the party, Lesley Veronica, has also failed to get elected.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sunak at G7: Russia must \"pay a price\" for illegal Ukraine invasion\n\nRishi Sunak has said he wants to ensure \"Russia pays a price\" for the war in Ukraine, after announcing new sanctions targeting Russian exports.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Chris Mason at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, the prime minister said he was leading the way with new sanctions on Russia.\n\nHe said he hoped other countries would follow suit.\n\nRussian diamond imports to the UK are among the items that will be banned by the government.\n\nThe Russian diamond industry was worth $4bn (£3.2bn) in exports in 2021.\n\nRussian-origin copper, aluminium and nickel imports will also be blocked, under legislation to be introduced later this year.\n\n\"We believe in democracy, freedom, the rule of law - and it's right that we stand up for those things,\" Mr Sunak told the BBC.\n\nUK PM Rishi Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, arriving in Tokyo ahead of the G7 summit\n\n\"I'm hopeful and confident that our partner countries will follow as they have done when we've done this previously.\n\n\"That will make the sanctions more effective, ensure that Russia pays a price for its illegal activity.\"\n\nThe UK government said it was also planning to target 86 more people and companies connected to President Vladimir Putin, including people who were \"actively undermining the impact of existing sanctions\".\n\nSince Russia's attack on Ukraine, the UK has targeted more than 1,500 individuals and entities and frozen more than £18bn assets under the sanctions regime.\n\nLast year the UK, US, Canada and Japan banned imports of Russian gold in an effort to hit the country's ability to fund the war in Ukraine.\n\nDowning Street said more than 60% of President Putin's war chest has been \"immobilised\" - worth about £275bn.\n\nBoth the US and the EU have announced similar sanctions on Russia - with US President Joe Biden setting out plans to ban Russian diamonds, seafood and vodka last year.\n\nThe President of the European Council, Charles Michel, says the EU also wants to restrict trade in Russian diamonds to try to further isolate Moscow.\n\nDiamonds extracted from the Yakutia region by Russian mining company Alrosas Dynasty\n\nMr Sunak is in Hiroshima for the G7 summit, which is made up of the UK, Japan, Italy, Canada, France, the US and Germany.\n\nThe prime minister visited the Hiroshima Peace Park, the site where the US dropped the first nuclear bomb, alongside other G7 leaders before the meeting, where the Ukraine war and economic security are likely to be high on the agenda.\n\nRussia has significantly increased the frequency of its missile attacks on Ukraine recently, while Ukraine appears to be shooting down more of Russia's missiles.\n\nAt the meeting, Mr Sunak is expected to warn other world leaders \"against complacency in defending our values and standing up to autocratic regimes\".\n\nOn Sunday, he will meet the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, who is attending the G7 summit as a guest.\n\nMr Modi has remained neutral on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, calling for peaceful dialogue to end the conflict.\n\nMr Sunak told reporters travelling with him in Japan that he had seen \"positive\" steps from India in its stance on the war.\n\nThe prime minister said the sanctions demonstrated the G7 was unified in the face of the threat from Russia.\n\nHe said: \"We are meeting today in Hiroshima, a city that exemplifies both the horrors of war and the dividends of peace.\n\n\"We must redouble our efforts to defend the values of freedom, democracy and tolerance, both in Ukraine and here in the Indo-Pacific.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Harrison Ford's voice trembles as he receives the award\n\nIndiana Jones star Harrison Ford said he was \"deeply moved and humbled\" as he received an honorary Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.\n\nThe 80-year-old US actor was presented with the award ahead of the premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial Of Destiny.\n\nHis final turn as the intrepid whip-toting archaeologist was among the most highly anticipated of the festival.\n\nFord said the character he first played in 1981's Raiders Of The Lost Ark had been a great part of his life.\n\n\"They say when you're about to die you see your life flash before your eyes,\" said a tearful Ford, after audiences were shown a highlight reel of his career before the film began. \"And I just saw my life flash before my eyes.\n\n\"A great part of my life but not all of my life,\" he added, before thanking his wife, Ally McBeal actress Calista Flockhart, for having \"supported my passion and my dreams\".\n\nIn his fifth-and-final outing at the action hero, Ford stars alongside Mads Mikkelsen and Fleabag writer and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who plays his character's goddaughter.\n\nAddressing the audience directly, he continued: \"You've given my life purpose and meaning and I'm grateful for that. So grateful to have the opportunity to work with others like Phoebe and Mads.\n\n\"I am deeply moved by this honour, and humbled - but I got a movie you gotta see. So let me get out of the way.\"\n\nWhile its star received a rapturous applause for his career achievements, the film itself got only a \"lukewarm\" - by Cannes standards - five-minute applause at the end, according to Variety's Zack Sharf.\n\nSet in 1969, against the backdrop of the space race, the film finds its protagonist once again fighting Nazis and includes flashback scenes to the 1940s, in the years between previous films The Last Crusade and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.\n\nThe Guardian's Pete Bradshaw awarded the \"taut\" movie three stars, saying it had \"quite a bit of zip and fun and narrative ingenuity with all its MacGuffiny silliness that the last one [Kingdom of the Crystal Skull] really didn't.\"\n\nHe praised Waller-Bridge - who was born four years after the first Indiana Jones film - for her \"tremendous co-star turn as Indy's roguish goddaughter Helena Shaw, who wears shorts and shirt making her look like a grownup, naughty Enid Blyton heroine\".\n\n\"And in fact some amazing digital youthification effects give Indy himself a great opening flashback section back in the second world war,\" Bradshaw added.\n\nAnd while he felt it was \"probably a bit cheeky to be giving Ford a young female co-star under this 'goddaughter' tag,\" the finale, he said, was still \"wildly silly and entertaining\".\n\n\"Indiana Jones still has a certain old-school class.\"\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge plays Indiana Jones' goddaughter in the latest instalment of the franchise\n\nThe Telegraph's Robbie Collin was less enthusiastic, awarding only two stars though for what he described as \"shabby counterfeit of priceless treasure\".\n\nThe reviewer stressed how \"the shape and the gleam of it might be superficially convincing for a bit, but the shabbier craftsmanship gets all the more glaring the longer you look.\"\n\nHe added that \"the film is loaded with mayhem but painfully short on spark and bravado: there's no shot here, nor twist of choreography, that makes you marvel at the filmmaking mind that conceived it.\"\n\nThere was another two-star review from Kevin Maher of the Times, who said: \"The good news is that it's not as poor as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The bad news is that it's not much better.\n\n\"Ford, despite all this, remains on charisma overload. Even when the machine around him is on autopilot, he brings his weathered gravitas to perhaps his most significant character. Inevitably he, and Indy, deserved better.\"\n\nIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny marks the first film in the franchise not to be directed by Steven Spielberg, with James Mangold (The Wolverine and Ford v Ferrari) taking the reins instead.\n\nThe director, who also previously made Girl Interrupted and Walk the Line, said he was aiming at the \"best version\" of what his childhood hero, Spielberg, had done with the four previous films.\n\nFord, pictured with Phoebe Waller-Bridge (left) received applause and a five-minute standing ovation at the film's Cannes premiere\n\nSpielberg, he told the AFP news agency, \"has been a hero of mine all my life\", adding: \"I saw the first Indiana Jones movie when I was 17. It's a big chair to sit in, but it was also a huge personal opportunity.\"\n\nHe said the new movie was \"me kind of emulating my mentor and trying to tell a story,\" adding: \"Of course, it's still me, and not him.\"\n\nThe Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney opined that the film had \"a feel of something written by committee\". He said it \"does have is a sweet blast of pure nostalgia in the closing scene, a welcome reappearance foreshadowed with a couple visual clues early on.\"\n\nHowever, he added that \"part of what dims the enjoyment of this concluding chapter is just how glaringly fake so much of it looks\".\n\nTotal Film's James Mottram viewed things differently, noting that Indiana Jones \"goes out on a high.\"\n\n\"The action is slickly handled by Mangold, not least a thrilling tuk-tuk chase through Tangier. But best of all, this is an Indiana Jones film with tears in its eyes. We see the character has grown older, but not necessarily wiser.\n\n\"Drinking a bit too much, he's full of regrets about pursuing fortune and glory and leaving his loved ones behind.\"\n\nFord told the same film magazine last month that this would be \"the final film in the series\" and \"the last time I'll play the character.\"\n\nAnd while Disney is developing a TV series, Ford confirmed: \"I will not be involved in that, if it does come to fruition.\"\n\nIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is out in UK cinemas on 28 June.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "Auriol Grey, who confronted the cyclist in the Cambridgeshire town, was convicted of manslaughter after a retrial\n\nA pedestrian whose actions killed a 77-year-old cyclist when she was angered by her being on the pavement has failed in an appeal against her sentence.\n\nAuriol Grey, 49, shouted an expletive and gestured in an \"aggressive way\" towards Celia Ward, who fell into the path of a car in Huntingdon in 2020.\n\nIn March, Grey, of Bradbury Place, was jailed for three years after being convicted of manslaughter.\n\nCourt of Appeal judges dismissed her application for leave to appeal.\n\nThe two women passed each other in opposite directions on the pavement of the Cambridgeshire town's ring road, during the afternoon of 20 October.\n\nIn CCTV footage, Grey could be heard shouting at Mrs Ward, a retired midwife, to \"get off the [expletive] pavement\".\n\nAppeal judges said Mrs Ward then \"collided\" with Grey and fell into the road, where she was hit by a car.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Auriol Grey was filmed shouting an expletive at the cyclist in Huntingdon\n\nHer legal team had sought for her sentence to be reduced and suspended.\n\nThe Court of Appeal in London heard that, after she was jailed, a psychologist - in a report paid for by Grey's family - diagnosed her with autism.\n\nMiranda Moore KC, representing Grey, who has cerebral palsy and is partially blind, argued that the sentence was \"excessive\" and the diagnosis may have made a difference in her case.\n\nShe had argued the sentencing judge had made findings of fact against evidence, stating it \"came as something of a shock\" he found the pavement to be a shared cycleway, despite the local council being unable to confirm that.\n\nBut Mr Justice Griffiths, sitting with Lord Justice William Davis and Judge Neil Flewitt, refused to grant permission for Grey to appeal against her sentence, concluding it was \"not arguably manifestly excessive\".\n\nCelia Ward and her husband, David, pictured left, married in 1967\n\nThe court heard Mrs Ward's widower said their 50 years of marriage had ended \"in the most horrific way\".\n\nIn an impact statement, the driver of the car that hit Mrs Ward said there was \"always a piece of me that feels guilty\" and that her whole life had \"turned upside down\" following the incident.\n\nMr Justice Griffiths said: \"A blameless woman had been killed by the unlawful act of [Grey] with devastating impact upon the family she left behind and upon others including the entirely blameless driver of the car.\"\n\nHe told the court the sentence passed \"had to mark the gravity of the unlawful killing\" while taking into account mitigating factors.\n\nThe sentencing judge Sean Enright had \"placed very strong emphasis\" on Grey's disabilities, he said.\n\nHe added: \"We do not consider that the recent psychology report calls for a greater reduction than was already given in this respect by the judge.\"\n\nOutside of court, Grey's brother-in-law Alisdair Luxmoore expressed their family's condolences to Mrs Ward's family, stating \"our actions today must diminish nothing from the suffering that they have had to endure\".\n\nBut he said they were \"very sad\" about the failed appeal bid, adding: \"We don't believe that prison is the right place for someone in Auriol's circumstances.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jailed woman shown CCTV of her shouting at cyclist in Huntingdon\n\nAfter the hearing, Grey's barrister Ms Moore told reporters: \"The law of manslaughter needs to change because the perception of risk does not cater for people who are mentally challenged.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has been asked for comment.\n\nCambridgeshire County Council said following Grey's conviction it might have to review its shared pavements policy, admitting it did not know whether this section was one.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.ukor get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Harry is one of the claimants in the case\n\nA Daily Mirror news editor waved through payments to private investigators without being sure they used lawful methods, a court has heard.\n\nAnthony Harwood told the High Court trial examining Prince Harry's privacy claims that he had no reason to believe they were breaking the law.\n\nHe was shown several payments he authorised to an investigator who stole documents from celebrities' rubbish.\n\nMirror Group Newspapers (MGN) are contesting the claims against them.\n\nDuring about three hours of questioning, Mr Harwood was shown dozens of emails and invoices suggesting payments by the Mirror to a range of private investigators in the UK and US.\n\nThese suggested investigators were accessing ex-directory phone numbers, social security details, and financial records, as well as deploying other methods to obtain information.\n\nBarrister David Sherborne, who is representing the claimants in the case, said often the phrase \"special investigation\" was used, which he said indicated unlawful information gathering, but Mr Harwood said the paper was paying for information which could be obtained legitimately.\n\nMr Harwood was questioned about his ties with Benjamin Pell, a freelancer who once specialised in rummaging through the bins of well-known people for information about them.\n\nHe agreed Pell was \"notorious\" for working for other newspapers, including the now-defunct News of the World, but said he had no direct dealings with him personally.\n\nMr Sherborne presented Mr Harwood with invoices worth hundreds of pounds paid by the Daily Mirror to Pell.\n\nThese included sums for stories about David Beckham, the band All Saints, and the then director-general of the BBC, John Birt - and had been signed off by Mr Harwood.\n\nThe former news editor said he was \"just there to tick off\" the payments. Asked if he was \"just waving through payments\", he said \"yes\", adding: \"You wouldn't have time to open each one. It was a tick box system.\"\n\nHe referred to the pressure of \"getting things into the paper\", saying \"anything up to £400 I'd probably tick\".\n\nMr Sherborne asked if it was Mr Harwood's responsibility to ensure that journalists and the work they carried out was lawful.\n\nHe said he assumed that it was and he \"had no reason to believe\" they were breaking the law.\n\nMirror Group Newspapers admits illegal methods were used to gather some stories but denies senior editors knew, and disagrees that wrong-doing was widespread.\n\nMore than 100 alleged victims say their information was unlawfully obtained by Mirror newspapers through phone hacking and so-called blagging. Four cases, including that of Prince Harry, are being considered in the current trial.\n\nMr Harwood's byline appeared on a contested 2004 article by the Daily Mirror which revealed the identity of Chelsy Davy, Prince Harry's then girlfriend who was referred to as a \"mystery blonde\" at the time.\n\nThe claimants say the story was obtained through unlawful methods.\n\nMr Harwood said the identity was first reported by the Daily Mail and he was confident the Mirror's version of the story was obtained legitimately.\n\nMr Harwood worked as a desk editor between 1995 and 2003, before moving to New York as the paper's editor in the US. He returned to the UK in 2005, becoming head of news.\n\nHe was called as a witness because he is now working freelance providing \"journalistic support\" to lawyers for Mirror Group Newspapers which is defending itself against privacy claims.\n\nMr Harwood told the court: \"In my experience, phone hacking was not habitual or rife on the Mirror news desk - I was not aware of anyone in my department who hacked phones. We just didn't do that.\"\n\nHe said there was nothing untoward about the number of celebrity phone numbers he had in his possession, arguing it was necessary for a news editor to hold them in case they needed to be reached urgently to reply to a story.\n\nMr Harwood said the numbers were not used for hacking or any other unlawful method.\n\nIn earlier evidence a technical manager at Mirror Group Newspapers, Peter Raettig, was questioned about why back-ups of the email accounts of key executives in the early 2000s were largely empty.\n\nHe said users were encouraged to delete old emails to reduce the amount of data held by the system.\n\nMirror Group Newspapers provided a snapshot of its email data in 2011 to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards.\n\nCorrection 20 May: this story has been updated after an earlier version incorrectly stated how long Mr Harwood was in the witness box.", "Rishi Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, is travelling with him in Japan for the G7 summit\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said personal attacks from Labour on him and his family \"don't bother me\".\n\nMr Sunak told reporters the public were more interested in whether the government was improving their lives.\n\nLabour's attacks on the PM have become increasingly personal in recent weeks, with the party accusing him of being out of touch because of his wealth.\n\nIt has also criticised Mr Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, for previously benefitting from non-dom tax status.\n\nAsked by journalists during his visit to Japan for the G7 summit whether comments about his wealth and upbringing were fair game, Mr Sunak said: \"These things generally don't worry me.\n\n\"I don't think most people sitting at home actually are much bothered about these things either. What they care about is what am I doing for them to make their lives better.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think we've moved beyond judging people by what's in their bank account. I think they're interested in whether I'm going to deliver for them and their families.\"\n\nAsked whether it was hurtful when Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer talked about his family, Mr Sunak said: \"These things don't bother me.\"\n\nIn recent sessions of Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir has accused the prime minister of being \"clueless about life outside his bubble\".\n\nIn the run-up to the local elections in England earlier this month, Labour also put out a number of adverts on Twitter attacking Mr Sunak personally.\n\nThe most controversial claimed the prime minister did not think adults convicted of child sexual assaults should go to prison.\n\nSir Keir defended the advert, saying it highlighted the government's failures on crime, but there was uneasiness about the move among some in Labour.\n\nAnother advert criticised Mr Sunak for raising taxes on working people, while his family benefitted from \"a tax loophole\" - a reference to his wife's non-dom status.\n\nLast year, it emerged that Mr Sunak's wife had non-dom status, which allows people living in the UK to avoid paying UK tax on money made abroad.\n\nShe later said she would start paying UK tax on her overseas earnings.\n\nAt the time Mr Sunak, who was then chancellor, described criticism of his wife as \"unpleasant smears\", arguing it was unfair to attack a private citizen.\n\nHe has also previously admitted he found it \"very upsetting\" when his wife faced criticism over shares she owned in a tech company operating in Russia.", "Armed officers were deployed to Westleigh Lane in Leigh\n\nA 37-year-old man has died after being attacked by a dog.\n\nThe victim was found with serious injuries in Leigh, Greater Manchester, on Thursday night and was taken to hospital but died in the early hours.\n\nArmed officers were brought in to try to control the dog which \"posed a significant risk\" to the public, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.\n\nThe force said \"every available tactic to subdue\" the animal was used before it was humanely destroyed.\n\nA 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of being in charge of a dangerously out of control dog causing injury resulting in death.\n\nHe remains in custody for further questioning.\n\nEmergency services were called to Westleigh Lane in the town shortly after 21:10 BST and found the man with serious injuries.\n\nDet Supt Simon Hurst said: \"Firstly, I would like to extend my condolences to the loved ones of the victim of this attack.\n\n\"We recognise this incident will rightly cause concern within the local area and we would like to reassure the public that we explored every possible avenue to protect the local community and the animal involved.\"\n\nHe urged members of the public with information to come forward, adding he was \"determined\" that such a \"distressing incident\" would not happen again.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's biggest business group has admitted it hired \"culturally toxic\" staff and failed to fire people who sexually harassed female colleagues.\n\nThe CBI said a failure to act allowed a \"very small minority\" of staff to believe they could get away with harassment or violence against women.\n\nThe embattled lobby group said it has now dismissed a number of people.\n\nThe CBI was responding to an independent law firm report on misconduct allegations including rape.\n\nIn an emotional letter to members, the business lobby group - which claims to represent 190,000 firms - admitted to a series of failings and said it had made mistakes \"that led to terrible consequences\".\n\nIt said there was a collective \"sense of shame\" at \"so badly having let down the...people who came to work at the CBI\".\n\n\"Our collective failure to completely protect vulnerable employees... and to put in place proper mechanisms to rapidly escalate incidents of this nature to senior leadership.... these failings most of all drive the shame,\" CBI president Brian McBride said in the letter.\n\nIn early April, a number of claims of misconduct and harassment against CBI staff emerged including one allegation of rape at the lobby group's summer party in 2019.\n\nOn Friday a second rape allegation emerged, after a woman told the Guardian she was raped whilst working at one of the CBI's overseas offices.\n\nBoth rape allegations are being investigated by the police.\n\nIn a letter following a report by law firm Fox Williams, which was appointed to lead an independent investigation into the lobby group, the CBI admitted to its members:\n\nThe future of the CBI is hanging in the balance and it has suspended its operations until June while it tries to reform its workplace.\n\nThere has been a mass exodus of CBI members, with a number of household names including John Lewis, BMW, Virgin Media O2, insurers Aviva, Zurich and Phoenix Group, banking firm Natwest, credit card company Mastercard; B&Q owner Kingfisher and media firm ITV all quitting the group.\n\nThe government had already decided to pause any activity with the lobby group, but on Monday, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said there was \"no point\" engaging with the CBI when its own members had deserted them.\n\n\"We want to engage with a body that speaks or business. It is incredibly important for me when I'm constructing budgets to have someone that I can turn to who speaks for British business.\"\n\nMr McBride said he wanted to give members reasons to consider trusting the lobby group again.\n\nBut said: \"Whether that is possible, I simply don't know.\"\n\nMr McBride said he was concerned that CBI staff felt that their only option was to go to the Guardian newspaper - which first published the claims - instead of feeling confident enough to raise the matter internally.\n\nOne female CBI worker had told the Guardian that she had been stalked by a male colleague in 2018.\n\nThe business group upheld a complaint of harassment against the man however, he was allowed to keep working in the same office as the woman. He eventually left for an unrelated reasons, according to the newspaper.\n\nEarlier this month, the lobby group fired its director-general, Tony Danker, who joined the CBI in 2020, following separate complaints of workplace misconduct.\n\nMr Danker acknowledged he had made some staff feel \"very uncomfortable\" and apologised, but said his name had been wrongly associated with separate claims andthat his reputation had been \"destroyed\".\n\nHe is being replaced by Rain Newton-Smith, the CBI's former chief economist, who is returning to the lobby group after a brief stint at Barclays.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn was the director-general of the CBI between 2015 and 2020. The BBC has contacted her for comment.\n\nMr McBride said the CBI had accepted all 35 recommendations made by Fox Williams investigators and added the organisation had 60 days to produce an action plan for its members to vote one.\n\nThe CBI's president said the organisation had to \"go for a much more zero-tolerance culture\" and get \"much more severe in dealing\" with incidents of bullying and sexual harassment.\n\n\"For us it's about rebuilding the trust that we obviously lost with the members who left us,\" he said.\n\nBut Andy Wood, chief executive of the brewing company Adnams, which has cancelled its membership of the CBI, said he had not heard anything so far that \"reassures me that I should become a member of the CBI again\".\n\nHe said he was not sure if the group was \"salvageable\".\n\n\"Zero tolerance of bullying and sexual harassment - that has to be a given in a modern organisation,\" Mr Wood said.\n\n\"It just shows really how archaic the CBI was behind the scenes. I applaud them for trying to put their house in order but this does feel [like] a few things being done far too late.\"", "Tetiana returned home after visiting her husband Dmytro at a psychotherapy clinic. He headed back to the front lines\n\n\"When you go to bed you see it; the comrades I lost, how I pulled them out with no limbs, how they died in my arms.\n\n\"This will stay with us for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nThere is a darkness etched across Dmytro's eyes - the eyes of a soldier recently returned from the front line.\n\nAfter 15 months of fighting in the Donetsk region, Dmytro tightly holds his wife Tetiana's hand in a recovery centre in north-eastern Ukraine.\n\nShe travelled 600 miles (966km) to this innocuous collection of buildings in the Kharkiv region after Dmytro was granted a week off.\n\nLast year, around 2,000 troops came here for counselling and physiotherapy. Organisers admit this is just respite, not rehabilitation. Most head back to the front.\n\nStaff at the centre say Ukraine is trying to keep its soldiers well enough to \"stand until the end\".\n\n\"We'll suffer the consequences for the rest of our lives,\" says Dmytro as his eyes moisten.\n\nDmytro has spent 15 months fighting against the invading Russian forces in eastern Ukraine\n\nDmytro has promised to not shave his beard until the war is over. Its length reflects the 400-plus days since Russia's full-scale invasion.\n\nTetiana thinks her husband is different beyond his appearance, too.\n\n\"He has changed a lot,\" she says. \"He has proved he's capable of many things; protecting us and standing up for Ukraine. He's shown he can do a lot.\"\n\nWe chat to Pavlo, who is taking a break from being a drone pilot, in the leafy gardens. He struggles to sleep.\n\n\"Sometimes, you don't know what to talk about with old friends because old interests change,\" he says. \"I don't want to share all that I've seen with them.\n\n\"I am no longer interested in things we used to have in common. Something has changed, even snapped.\"\n\nPavlo's role means he is a target, and exposed to horrors most don't have to witness.\n\nSometimes, you don't know what to talk about with old friends... Something has changed, even snapped\n\nIt's left him in a psychological no man's land.\n\n\"Every day that I'm on the front line, I want to go home,\" he says. \"But when I come home, I get this strange feeling of wanting to go back to my comrades.\n\n\"It's a very strange feeling, of being out of place.\"\n\nManagers at this recovery centre believe it will take up to 20 years to mentally rehabilitate Ukraine's population after this war.\n\nYana Ukrayinska, from the country's health ministry, is trying to get ahead of such forecasts by planning to provide mental health support for \"every one in two citizens\".\n\n\"We're preparing our system to provide quality psychological aid for about 15 million people,\" she tells us. \"We hope it will not be needed, but we're convinced we should be ready.\"\n\nThis is, after all, a Russian invasion which affects every Ukrainian. Millions have been forced from their homes and separated from loved ones, suffering violence and losing all their belongings.\n\nExperts say the most common mental illnesses are stress or anxiety disorders, but it's thought post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) will take a real hold in the coming years.\n\nUkraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska recently launched a nationwide mental health programme, but there is still a shortage of therapists. It's why the government's emphasis is on self-care.\n\nFor a class of six in Kharkiv, that means body therapy. They take part in a session where they sit and share feelings, before exploring touch and movement with each other.\n\nWith a shortage of therapists, Ukraine's focus is on teaching self-care\n\nInna comes here to take care of her own mental health, so she can help others as a therapist.\n\n\"It's really important for me to stay in shape to have a resource that I can give to people,\" she says.\n\nInna can also see how people have changed in her city since the start of the war.\n\n\"Nowadays, people live more in the present, they don't postpone life for the future, and these are good changes, in my opinion.\n\n\"But there are also a lot of traumatic experiences, PTSD, and depression, which require the help of psychiatrists.\"\n\nA reminder of how the weight of this conflict isn't contained to the trenches. People are connected to the war in countless ways, regardless of their location.", "Tesco's chairman has strongly denied claims that he touched women's bottoms on two separate occasions.\n\nA report in the Guardian newspaper alleges that John Allan touched a Tesco employee at the supermarket giant's shareholder meeting last year.\n\nIt also claims Mr Allan, who is the former president of the CBI, \"grabbed\" a woman at one of its events in 2019.\n\nMr Allan said that the claims are \"simply untrue\" and Tesco said it has not received any complaints.\n\nThe supermarket giant - which Mr Allan has chaired for eight years - told the BBC that in relation to his conduct at Tesco's annual general meeting last year \"it has received no complaints or concerns formally or informally, including through our confidential Protector Line service\".\n\nIt said it noted that Mr Allan strongly denies the allegation and his conduct has \"never been the subject of a complaint during his tenure as chair of Tesco\".\n\nTesco added: \"This is a serious allegation, and if anyone has any concerns or information, we would ask them to share those with us through any of our reporting channels including through our confidential Protector Line, so we can investigate.\"\n\nThe Guardian also claims that Mr Allan commented on a CBI employee's dress and bottom in 2021 - an incident that he said he does not recall.\n\nHe does, however, admit to making a comment to a female CBI worker in late 2019 about a dress suiting her figure.\n\nMr Allan said he was \"mortified after making the comment in 2019\" and immediately apologised. A spokesperson for Mr Allan said: \"The person concerned agreed the matter was closed and no further action was taken.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"Regarding the other claims, they are simply untrue.\"\n\nMr Allan was president of the business lobby group the CBI between 2018 and 2020, then spent just over a year as vice president.\n\nThe allegations have emerged as the CBI fights for survival following claims of sexual misconduct at the lobby group, including two allegations of rape. The City of London police is investigating the allegations.\n\nFox Williams, a law firm, conducted an investigation into the claims and the CBI admitted that it had hired \"culturally toxic\" staff and failed to fire people who sexually harassed female colleagues.\n\nIt has since fired a number of people.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Allan said that he requested that Fox Williams investigate the claims against him and that the law firm decided not to.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for Fox Williams said this was incorrect.\n\nIt said that once the City of London police opened inquiries into alleged sexual misconduct at the CBI \"we were not permitted to speak to all individuals involved in the allegations\".\n\nThe scope of Fox Williams' investigation was therefore limited to whether the leadership of the CBI was aware of claims of misconduct, what steps it took or failed to take to address them and what lessons could be learnt.\n\nFollowing the conclusion of Fox Williams' investigation, a spokesman for the law firm said: \"Mr Allan was provided with the opportunity to give an account to the CBI which, as far as we are aware, he has chosen not to do.\"\n\nIn response, a spokesman for Mr Allan said that on 4 April his lawyers told Fox Williams he wanted it to investigate the allegation against him.\n\nHe said Fox Williams was contacted again on 21 April by Mr Allan's lawyers to explain he was available for interview.\n\n\"Fox Williams chose not to meet him,\" the spokesman said. \"Instead, on 23 April, Fox Williams offered to forward a statement from Mr Allan to the CBI although confirmed that their investigation had already concluded.\"\n\nCommenting on the allegations against John Allan in the Guardian, a CBI spokesperson said: \"Where an individual is identified as being a victim, witness or perpetrator of a potential criminal offence, with the agreement of the City of London Police, they would be referred to the City of London Police to continue the investigation.\"\n\nIt added that Fox Williams \"did not investigate the matter themselves\".\n\nMr Allan is also chairman of Barratt Developments, the housebuilder. The company said it had \"clear and secure whistleblowing policies in place and have never been made aware of any concerns or allegations in relation to John Allan during his time at Barratt\".\n\nA large number of companies have either quit the CBI or suspended their membership following separate allegations of misconduct and rape against employees at the lobby which emerged in April.\n\nTesco paused its membership, stating: \"We are deeply concerned by these very serious allegations and we have paused our membership of the CBI with immediate effect.\"\n\nDuring his time as chairman of Tesco, Mr Allan drew criticism when in 2017 he suggested that white men were becoming \"endangered species\" on company boards.\n\nHe said: \"If you are a white male - tough - you are an endangered species and you are going to have to work twice as hard.\"\n\nHe later said that his comments were meant to be \"humorous\".", "The government in England should increase its use of the private sector to tackle the NHS backlog, Labour says.\n\nIt said as many as 300,000 patients have missed out on treatment since it called for greater use of private clinics in January 2022.\n\nAnd the party said it was unjust that the lack of action meant only those who could afford to pay for treatment themselves were being seen on time.\n\nThe government said it was delivering by cutting long waits.\n\nHowever, data published by NHS England last week showed key targets to tackle the backlogs in cancer care and routine treatment had been missed.\n\nOverall, there are now a record 7.3 million people on a hospital waiting list, which is nearly three million higher than it was before the pandemic started.\n\nHealth minister Will Quince said: \"The Conservatives have virtually eliminated waits of over two years, and cut 18-month waits by 91%.\"\n\nHe said Labour politicians were split over use of the private sector in the NHS, adding: \"While Labour fight with themselves over how to deliver care, we are cutting waiting lists and delivering for patients.\"\n\nHowever, Labour shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said: \"It's completely unjust that only those who can afford to pay to go private are being treated on time, while everyone else is left behind.\n\n\"Labour would use the spare capacity in the private sector to get patients seen faster.\n\n\"If the Conservatives had got their skates on, almost 300,000 patients could have been treated, off the waiting list and back to living their lives to the full. Rishi Sunak's dither and delay is costing patients dear.\"\n\nThat figure is based on the fact the independent sector has said it has capacity to do an extra 30% of the work it was doing for the NHS before the pandemic.\n\nSo instead of carrying out the 1.8 million treatments it has for the NHS between January 2022 and March 2023, the private sector could have done 2.1 million, Labour said.\n\nIt urged the government to get on and publish the conclusions of the elective recovery taskforce that has been looking at how to make better use of the private sector.\n\nThe taskforce finished its work in March, but its findings have yet to be published - although election rules meant it could not be released in the weeks leading up to the local elections at the start of May.\n\nUnder the arrangements in place, the private sector carries out NHS work at the same rates received by NHS hospitals.\n\nThe criticism by Labour is being seen as another sign of the party's renewed interest in getting the private sector more involved in NHS care.\n\nLabour's last two leaders, Jeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband, focused their election campaigns on protecting the NHS in England from privatisation.\n\nBut under the New Labour government of the late 1990s and 2000s, the role of the private sector increased in the health service.\n\nDavid Hare, chief executive of the Independent Healthcare Providers Network, said he was pleased to see the \"cross-party consensus\" on the role the private sector could play in the NHS.\n\n\"We look forward to publication of the taskforce report,\" he added.", "Miss Mayo is accused of fracturing her son's skull before putting him in a bin bag\n\nA teenage mother accused of murdering her newborn son \"cuddled him goodbye, kissed him on the forehead\" then placed him in a bag, jurors have been told.\n\nParis Mayo allegedly killed her son Stanley at her parents' home in Springfield Avenue, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, in March 2019.\n\nShe is accused of fracturing his skull, possibly with her foot, and stuffing pieces of cotton wool into his mouth.\n\nMiss Mayo, who was 15 at the time, denies his murder.\n\nStanley is thought to have lived just over two hours, although Miss Mayo claimed in police interviews played to jurors at Worcester Crown Court on Thursday that he never showed signs of life.\n\nShe allegedly concealed her pregnancy and the birth of her son, which she managed alone at the family home on 23 March, the court has been told.\n\nIn her interviews with police which were read in court on Thursday, Miss Mayo claimed two cotton wool balls that were found in his throat were due to her panicking because Stanley \"had all this blood coming out of his mouth\", and she started \"cleaning it up\".\n\nShe admitted she could have been a bit rough and they could have gone down his throat, but her \"whole finger never went into his mouth\".\n\nThe court heard Miss Mayo, of Ruardean in Gloucestershire, did not want to wake her mother who was asleep upstairs at the time because she did not want her to be ashamed of her.\n\nShe gave birth at about 21:30 GMT in a downstairs sitting room after her parents had gone to bed after suffering cramps for 48 hours beforehand.\n\n\"When I was stood, I got sharp pain, I put my head on my arms and heard something make a noise - you could hear something hit the floor,\" she said.\n\n\"I looked down and I saw him and I just thought 'oh God'.\n\n\"When I saw the baby, he was on the floor, I saw his umbilical cord was around his throat, he wasn't crying, making any noise, he wasn't moving, he wasn't like a normal baby colour.\"\n\nShe said she put her son on a rug, and got water and a towel to clean up then saw Stanley \"had blood coming out of his mouth and I was like 'oh no'\".\n\nShe said she thought the cotton wool would \"absorb\" the blood in his mouth.\n\nWorcester Crown Court heard she gave birth alone in a sitting room at her parents' house\n\n\"I knew I couldn't help him, knew he wasn't going to come alive, so I just wiped all this blood up and left it in there (his mouth)... so it would absorb all the blood\", jurors heard.\n\nShe said she then got a black bag and put him inside, telling police \"I don't know why I just wanted it all to be over with\".\n\n\"I opened it up and put it on the floor, so he wouldn't fall in or hurt himself, I picked him up and I cuddled him goodbye.\n\n\"He still wasn't doing anything.\n\n\"I kissed him on his forehead, gently placed him in there, (and) put the placenta in next to him.\"\n\nShe said she tied the bag, picked it up \"from the bottom where he was\" and put it by the front door \"on purpose\" for her mother to find, before she said she went upstairs to bed.\n\nThe court previously heard she text her brother the next morning to ask him to put the bag \"which was full of sick\" in the bin.\n\nHer mother made the discovery as she picked up the \"unusually heavy\" bag and called emergency services.\n\nThe trial, expected to last six weeks, continues.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nTwo-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been charged with a second doping offence over \"irregularities in her athlete biological passport\".\n\nThe Romanian, 31, has been suspended since October after testing positive for a banned substance at the US Open.\n\nHer additional charge is separate to the one she is already suspended for.\n\nHalep said on Instagram she feels \"helpless facing such harassment\" and denies the charges, suggesting she has been \"a victim of a contamination\".\n\nThe athlete biological passport programme collects and compares biological data to spot discrepancies over time that suggest possible doping.\n\nFormer world number one Halep's suspension last year was imposed after she tested positive for roxadustat, an anti-anaemia drug which stimulates the production of red blood cells in the body.\n\nShe criticised the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA), which is responsible for testing within the sport, for its handling of her case, arguing that there had been unnecessary delays in the process.\n\n\"I have lived the worst nightmare I have ever gone through in my life,\" she said.\n\n\"Not only has my name been soiled in the worst possible way, but I am facing a constant determination from the ITIA, for a reason that I cannot understand, to prove my guilt while I haven't ever thought of taking an illicit substance.\"\n\nHalep added that she hopes to have the chance to prove her innocence at a hearing scheduled for the end of May.\n\nThe ITIA said it was continuing discussions with an independent tribunal team and with Halep's representatives to get the matter resolved as quickly and efficiently as possible, although did not indicate how long that would take.\n\nNicole Sapstead, the ITIA's senior director for anti-doping, said: \"We understand that today's announcement adds complexity to an already high-profile situation.\n\n\"From the outset of this process - and indeed any other at the ITIA - we have remained committed to engaging with Ms Halep in an empathetic, efficient and timely manner.\"\n\nIn April, Halep spoke for the first time since her suspension, saying she was frustrated with the time it was taking for the case to be resolved but the ITIA said \"the process is ongoing\".\n\nThe investigations into failed tests by the ITIA are often a complex process, even more so when a player denies taking a substance knowingly.\n\nIt is not uncommon for these cases to take several months to be resolved.\n\nIn such cases, a player can produce evidence to either disprove or explain the failed test, which Halep claimed she had done .\n\nThis would bring further investigation and testing by the ITIA, leading to the process being further extended.\n\nHalep, who was ranked ninth when the ban came into force, is one of the highest-profile tennis players to fail a drugs test, and the most prominent since Russian five-time major champion Maria Sharapova was banned in 2016.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Rourke, pictured in 2013, played on Smiths' classics including This Charming Man and There Is a Light That Never Goes Out\n\nAndy Rourke, the bassist for rock band The Smiths, has died aged 59, the band has announced.\n\nGuitarist Johnny Marr confirmed \"with deep sadness\" that Rourke died after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer.\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter, Marr said: \"Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by those who knew him, and as a supremely gifted musician by music fans\".\n\nMorrissey said Rourke \"will never die as long as his music is heard\".\n\nRourke played on The Smiths' most famous songs, including This Charming Man and There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, as well as featuring on solo singles for singer Morrissey after the group broke up in 1987.\n\nIn a tribute posted on his website, Morrissey said: \"I just hope wherever Andy has gone that he's OK. He will never die as long as his music is heard.\n\n\"He didn't ever know his own power, and nothing that he played had been played by someone else. His distinction was so terrific and unconventional and he proved it could be done.\"\n\n\"I suppose, at the end of it all, we hope to feel that we were valued. Andy need not worry about that.\"\n\nThe Smiths, pictured in 1985: (l-r) Johnny Marr, Morrissey, Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke\n\nThe bassist performed on all four of The Smiths' studio albums: 1984's The Smiths, 1985's Meat Is Murder, 1986's The Queen Is Dead and 1987's Strangeways, Here We Come.\n\nRourke's bandmate, drummer Mike Joyce, tweeted: \"Not only the most talented bass player I've ever had the privilege to play with but the sweetest, funniest lad I've ever met. Andy's left the building, but his musical legacy is perpetual. I miss you so much already. Forever in my heart, mate.\"\n\nRourke was described as \"a total one-off\" and \"a rare bassist whose sound you could recognise straight away\" by Suede bassist Mat Osman described Rourke.\n\n\"I remember so clearly playing that Barbarism break over and over, trying to learn the riff, and marvelling at this steely funk driving the track along,\" he recalled.\n\nThe Smiths producer Stephen Street added: \"I am so saddened to hear this news. Andy was a superb musician and a lovely guy.\n\n\"I haven't been able to read any other news about details yet, but I send my deepest condolences and thoughts to his friends and family. RIP.\"\n\nRourke, pictured in 2022, died after a \"lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer\", Marr said\n\nLater in his career, Rourke played as part of a supergroup called Freebass with two other Mancunian bass players, Gary \"Mani\" Mounfield, from the Stone Roses, and Peter Hook, from New Order.\n\nAcross his decades-long career, Rourke also recorded with the Pretenders, Killing Joke, Sinead O'Connor, Aziz Ibrahim (formerly of the Stone Roses), and former Oasis guitarist Bonehead as Moondog One - a band which also included Mike Joyce and Craig Gannon.\n\nHe also played with another Manchester singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy, joining his touring band for two years.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Badly Drawn Boy said: \"The Smiths were easily the most important band of my teens. I was beyond honoured when Andy played bass with me on tour for two years.\n\n\"He was the coolest, kindest, funniest person - a joy to tour with. Probably the best natural musician I've ever seen. Loved him. Gutted.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnnymarrgram This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRourke was born on 17 January 1964 to an English mother and an Irish father. He was interested in music from an early age and began learning the guitar aged seven.\n\n\"I always used to get a musical instrument either for Christmas or on my birthday, so I went through plastic trumpets, saxophone, keyboard - I tried a bit of everything,\" Rourke said in a 2016 interview.\n\n\"I played a bit of cello later on, but I made that up as I went along because it was needed on a Smiths record so I just bought one, tuned it up like a bass and went from there.\"\n\nHe struck up a friendship with Marr aged 11. \"We were best friends, going everywhere together,\" Marr recalled. \"When we were 15, I moved into his house with him and his three brothers and I soon came to realise that my mate was one of those rare people that absolutely no one doesn't like.\"\n\nMarr and Rourke formed a band called Freak Party but did not release any music. In 1982, when Marr formed The Smiths with Morrissey and Joyce, the group initially trialled two other bassists before permanently enlisting Rourke. Marr described playing the bass as Rourke's \"true calling\".\n\nThe group became the defining Manchester act of the 1980s and an icon of British alternative rock, with hits including Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now and Girlfriend in a Coma.\n\nJohnny Marr (left) and Andy Rourke became friends aged 11 and maintained their friendship over decades\n\nRourke was briefly sacked for two weeks in 1986 for taking heroin, but returned to record The Queen Is Dead album later that the same year.\n\nIn 1989, Rourke and Joyce took Morrissey and Marr to court, arguing they were owed an equal share of earnings, having only earned 10% each of the group's performance and recording royalties.\n\nRourke settled for a lump sum of £83,000, but Joyce persisted with the legal action and was awarded around £1m in backdated royalties, and 25% thereafter. Rourke later filed for bankruptcy in 1999.\n\nBut, Marr said: \"We maintained our friendship over the years, no matter where we were or what was happening\n\n\"Andy reinvented what it is to be a bass guitar player. Watching him play those dazzling basslines was an absolute privilege and genuinely something to behold.\"\n\nLater in his career, Rourke became a radio presenter on the radio station then known as XFM.\n\nSinger Billy Bragg tweeted: \"Very sorry to hear that Smiths bassist Andy Rourke has passed away. I have great memories of him playing with Johnny Marr and myself on the Red Wedge tour. He was a lovely guy and an amazing bass player. My condolences to his family and friends.\"\n\nPresenter Terry Christian described Rourke as a \"lovely guy\", adding: \"Another hole left In the history of Manchester music.\"\n\nThe Smiths, pictured performing in 1984, were the defining Manchester act of the decade\n\nThe Charlatans singer Tim Burgess added: \"Such sad sad news about Andy Rourke - he was an inspirational musician, with a style that made so many of us pick up a bass guitar; and the driving force for [benefit concert] Manchester Versus Cancer. Our thoughts are with everyone who knew him. Travel well x.\"\n\nMusic journalist and fellow bassist John Robb told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"In Manchester, because it's such a tightly-knit musical scene and musical family, it feels like you've lost someone from your family. You feel like you've lost one of your own.\n\n\"[Rourke's] talent, you have to celebrate it. He was a kind and beautiful man. He was one of those people who's good to be in the company of. He was affable, gentle, kind spirit.\n\n\"But his basslines were so key to The Smiths. They were melodic - driving the songs along. He was the melodic spine to those songs and really made those songs.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nWest Ham players confronted a group of AZ Alkmaar fans who attacked an area in which their friends and family were watching the teams' Europa Conference League semi-final second leg.\n\nMichail Antonio and Said Benrahma were among those who tried to intervene in the clashes moments after the Premier League team had reached the final.\n\nBBC commentator Alistair Bruce-Ball, who was inside the stadium, said he saw punches being thrown by the AZ fans.\n\n\"These are awful scenes,\" he said.\n\nEuropean football's governing body Uefa will review reports of the incidents before deciding on any action.\n\nBruce-Ball, who was commentating for BBC Radio 5 Live from the AFAS Stadion in the Netherlands, added: \"Some fans clad in dark coats and hoods up came racing down in front of the lower tier of the stand to voice their dissatisfaction, and there is trouble to our right-hand side.\n\n\"The concern here is I think the West Ham family members and friends are in that section. Those are very, very unpleasant scenes.\n\n\"The West Ham players are being held back. I can see in the distance punches being thrown.\"\n\nIt is understood the families of the players were unharmed.\n\nDutch police said they were investigating footage of the incident but no arrests had been made.\n\n\"Our aim was to disperse the crowd and restore order as quickly as possible, in which we succeeded,\" a statement read.\n\n\"Together with AZ, the municipality of Alkmaar and the public prosecution service we will evaluate last night's incidents, which we regret having happened.\n\n\"This kind of behaviour has no place in football.\"\n\n'We were worried about them'\n\nWest Ham manager David Moyes, whose 87-year-old father was reportedly among the crowd, said his players were angered by what had happened in the stadium in Alkmaar, in the north of the country.\n\n\"We'll need to wait for the dust to settle to see what it is but the biggest problem is that is the area where the players have all their families in,\" he said.\n\n\"That is where the problem came, and a lot of players were getting angry because they couldn't get to see if they were OK.\n\n\"What I don't want to do in any way is blight our night. It wasn't West Ham supporters looking for trouble.\n\n\"Was I worried? Yeah, my family were there and I had friends in that section. You're hoping they would try to get themselves away from it.\n\n\"Security wanted to take me inside, but I had to make sure my players weren't involved.\"\n\nHammers goalkeeper Alphonse Areola said: \"When families or friends are coming to the stadium, we don't want to see things like that. They want to enjoy the event and we want to enjoy it with them as well. We were worried about them.\"\n\nMidfielder Pablo Fornals added: \"I was really concerned about how the family of my team-mates and the West Ham family are. Hopefully everyone is OK and the police can do their job and realise who did it.\n\n\"It's not great when you are in that beautiful moment and people who aren't try to use violence against you.\"\n\nUefa has the power to appoint an inspector to investigate what happened if it is deemed to be serious enough.\n\nAZ have yet to make any official comment over the incident but seem certain to be sanctioned.\n\nWest Ham reached their first major European final since 1976 by beating their Dutch opponents 1-0 on the night and 3-1 on aggregate.\n\nDuring last week's first leg at London Stadium, family members of AZ players had been involved in a confrontation with West Ham fans.\n\nAZ boss Pascal Jansen said: \"What happened last week was very unfortunate and then you get the same feeling as what happened tonight.\n\n\"I feel a little bit ashamed it happened in our stadium but you have to control your emotions.\"\n\nPantelis Hatzidiakos was among several AZ players who condemned the violence in post-match interviews.\n\n\"I think it's sad what happened. My family was up there. I have been in contact with them and my girlfriend said they were shaking,\" the Greece defender told Dutch television.\n\n\"I don't even call them supporters. Just stay home if you have such intentions.\n\n\"Such a beautiful evening, such a great atmosphere, I really enjoyed it until the final whistle. What happened after that, I find very sad and a pity.\"\n\nFormer Hammers midfielder Joe Cole, who was part of the BT Sport team covering the match, said what happened was \"absurd\".\n\n\"Grown men attacking the West Ham fans,\" he said. \"Players were trying to get involved to break it up.\n\nWest Ham's elation at reaching their first major final in 43 years is tempered by the knowledge that the venue in Prague which will host the match will not be big enough to hold the number of people who want to see it.\n\nTheir opponents, Fiorentina, are a similar club in the sense they have a big following and little recent success, in their case the Coppa Italia in 2001.\n\nUefa believe the game will be shown in fan parks, which may help. However, with a 20,000 capacity and a 5,000 allocation for each club, there is a sense of nervousness about how this will be managed and whether the security around the game will be up to the job.\n\nWere you at the match last night? Did you witness the incident? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Was one of the world's tallest statues haunted? The story of the World Peace Giant Kannon statue and its impact on local residents\n• None Check out the compelling and emotional real-life stories on BBC iPlayer now", "Former teacher Louise Harris says her divorce settlement is on hold because of the change\n\nDivorcing teachers and NHS staff face delays to their financial settlements while the Treasury recalculates public sector pensions.\n\nBoth current and retired staff are affected, risking a \"severe and drastic\" impact on thousands of divorcing couples, say solicitors.\n\nOne woman told BBC News she was not expecting the change and has been unable to move home.\n\nThe Treasury announced the delay in March, promising a solution by summer.\n\nAlthough only teachers and NHS workers are currently affected, police officers, firefighters and armed forces personnel are expected to be next in line.\n\nLouise Harris, 41, from Kesgrave in Ipswich, says the recalculation of the pension \"cash equivalent transfer value\" - or CETV - means her children are currently stuck in an unsuitable home.\n\n\"It's having a negative impact on my children and also my own mental health,\" the former teacher told BBC News.\n\n\"My family is having to live in a space that isn't suitable. It's unacceptable that this has been put in place unexpectedly.\"\n\nWhen couples separate, they finalise their financial arrangements through a consent order - a legally-binding agreement reached between spouses based on the value of their current assets.\n\nBoth parties must provide details of any property, savings, and pensions they possess.\n\nIf they have a public sector pension, the only way to determine its current value is to request a cash equivalent transfer value (CETV).\n\nIn March, the NHS and teachers' pension schemes both temporarily suspended any calculation of CETV while they awaited new \"factors\" - complex mathematical tables used to calculate the value of pensions.\n\nJames Brien, from Easy Online Divorce, said the Treasury changes and subsequent delay was creating \"a huge amount of unnecessary stress\" for divorcing couples.\n\n\"It began with a couple of teachers who told us they couldn't provide their pension figures because there was an embargo.\n\n\"The phones have been ringing non-stop as more and more people have become aware of this massive problem.\n\n\"For most couples, pensions are the biggest asset they have after their home, so this delay creates a huge amount of unnecessary stress and uncertainty.\n\n\"It is possible to divorce without agreeing on finances, but it's risky, especially with pensions, because you will lose any entitlement to a widow/widower's pension rights or benefits after completing the divorce.\"\n\nThere are about 120,000 divorces a year; about 17% of employees work in the public sector.\n\nHM Treasury says it announced changes to the way public sector pension CETVs should be calculated on 30 March.\n\n\"Following the announcement, the calculation of CETVs was temporarily suspended to allow time for guidance to be updated to reflect the change,\" say official background notes.\n\nAccording to the document: \"Guidance was published on 27 April 2023 by HM Treasury and the suspension has ended\", but solicitors say they are still encountering delays, leaving thousands of divorcing couples unable to move on with their lives.", "RMT members are to stage a fresh strike on 2 June in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions.\n\nThe strike will see 20,000 train managers, caterers and station staff all walk off the job.\n\nThere will be three rail strikes within four days with Aslef train drivers walking out on 31 May and 3 June, the day of the FA Cup final.\n\nThe government said the RMT had gone \"out of their way\" to make life difficult for thousands.\n\nThe stoppages are also likely to cause disruption for many during the half term school break.\n\nThe RMT said no new proposals had been put forward by the train companies since the union's last strike action on 13 May.\n\nGeneral secretary Mick Lynch said the government was not allowing the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) to make an improved offer in the national dispute.\n\nIndustry negotiators were \"blindsided\" when the RMT turned down their latest offer in April. There was a war of words over whether the RDG had gone back on its proposals - something it strongly denied.\n\nOn Thursday, the train companies' group said it had continued to stand by its \"fair\" proposal, and said the RMT leadership had chosen to \"to prolong this dispute without ever giving their members a chance to have a say on their own offer\".\n\nAslef's walkouts are now more disruptive than the RMT's, because settling the separate Network Rail dispute in March means signalling staff are no longer involved.\n\nHowever, RMT members have backed strike action potentially into the Autumn.\n\nThe government and industry argue the railway is financially unsustainable, and working practices need to change to enable a pay rise.\n\nUnions argue jobs and conditions are being attacked and the wage increases on the table are far below inflation.\n\n\"Ministers cannot just wish this dispute away,\" the RMT's Mick Lynch said.\n\nOn Thursday the government called again for the union to allow its members to have a vote on what it described as the \"fair and reasonable offer\" tabled by the RDG.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Transport also said: \"It's extremely disappointing that for the second time in a month, RMT has decided to call strikes on the same weekend as Aslef, going out of their way to make travelling by train to the FA Cup final, Epsom Derby and a number of music concerts more difficult for thousands of people.\"\n\nThe 14 train companies affected by the RMT's ongoing strike action are: Chiltern Railways, Cross Country Trains, Greater Anglia, LNER, East Midlands Railway, c2c, Great Western Railway, Northern Trains, South Eastern, South Western Railway, Transpennine Express, Avanti West Coast, West Midlands Trains and GTR (including Gatwick Express)", "Artwork: The Blue Moon lander will be 16m tall and fully fuelled will weigh over 45 tonnes\n\nThe US space agency has enlisted a second billionaire to help it put astronauts back on the Moon.\n\nNasa is already working with Elon Musk's SpaceX firm on a descent system based on its novel Starship rocket that will touch down as early as 2025.\n\nIt has now also awarded Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos a contract to build a landing craft to take a crew down to the lunar surface later this decade.\n\nHis Blue Origin company will produce a more conventional-looking vehicle.\n\nMr Bezos will have assistance from some well established names in the American aerospace sector, including Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Draper and Astrobotic.\n\nBlue Origin secured the contract in a competition with Dynetics and Northrop Grumman.\n\nMr Bezos's company, which is based in Kent in the US State of Washington, will receive just over $3.4bn (£2.7bn) from Nasa as part of the contract. And the firm will be spending \"well north of $3.4bn\" of its own money on the project.\n\n\"We go to the Moon, to learn, to live, to invent, to create all these things to be successful at the Moon, to go to Mars,\" said agency Administrator Bill Nelson.\n\n\"The great adventure of humankind pressing out into the cosmos is here. And this is a part of it.\"\n\nIt's more than 50 years now since humans last landed on the Moon\n\nIt's now more than 50 years since astronauts last set foot on the Moon.\n\nNasa has laid out a roadmap to achieve a more sustained human presence on Earth's natural satellite the next time around.\n\nThe agency's Artemis programme envisions stays of weeks on the lunar surface rather than just days, as was the case in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nSpaceX has been asked to put down two astronauts at the Moon's south pole in late 2025 or 2026, and then again in 2028. These are the Artemis III and Artemis IV missions.\n\nBlue Origin's 16m-tall, 45-tonne vehicle is called \"Blue Moon\". It would do the job on Artemis V, which is set to occur no earlier than 2029.\n\n\"Before the first crew landing occurs, we will be landing an exact copy of that lander prior to that - one year prior. So, we will be testing out full lander systems and the full architecture prior to any astronauts entering the vehicle,\" explained John Couluris, Blue Origin's vice president for lunar transportation.\n\nThe lander could also be configured simply to deliver cargo to the lunar surface - a minimum of 20 tonnes, the executive added.\n\nBlue Origin plans to use its own rocket, known as New Glenn, to get Blue Moon off Earth (although this launcher has yet to make a debut flight). The dimensions of the lander have been determined by the volume and mass parameters of the rocket, which has a 7m-wide payload bay.\n\nArtwork: SpaceX will use a version of its Starship system. It won its contract in 2021\n\nArtemis I has already occurred, in November last year: An uncrewed test of the Nasa rocket and capsule that will take astronauts to the vicinity of the Moon. Artemis II is scheduled for next year and will see a crew of four do a simple loop around the Moon.\n\nFor all the crewed missions, the idea is for astronauts to transfer to dedicated landing craft that will be waiting for them in lunar orbit. They'd go down to the surface in these vehicles, complete their exploration and then come back up.\n\nTowards the end of the decade, Nasa intends for the transfers to be carried out at a new space station above the Moon called Gateway.\n\nSpaceX was awarded its contract in 2021. It wants to use a variant of its huge, next-generation Starship rocket system, which debuted four weeks ago.\n\nThe maiden flight was terminated after four minutes when the vehicle spun out of control. But SpaceX is already talking about a second outing this summer.\n\nStarship's readiness is one of the key factors that will determine whether Nasa can keep its Artemis programme on track. Right now, many commentators consider a first crewed landing on the Moon in late 2025 to be a very ambitious target.", "Anastasia (middle) and her cousins were among 57 people killed in Greece's biggest rail disaster in February\n\nAs backdrops to polling stations go, the view from Kastraki primary school is about as spectacular as it gets.\n\nVisitors are drawn to the scattering of monasteries perched on the edge of huge rocks above.\n\nBut beneath the surface of this striking natural beauty is a community consumed with grief.\n\nThat's because three of their brightest stars, who should have been voting for the first time, were killed in February in Greece's worst-ever train crash.\n\nThey were among 57 people who died when an intercity service carrying hundreds of passengers from Athens to Thessaloniki smashed head-on into a goods train on the same line.\n\nAhead of Sunday's general election, opposition parties have raised the disaster time and again as a symptom of a broken government and dysfunctional state.\n\nBoth Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of centre-right New Democracy and his predecessor Alexis Tsipras of centre-left Syriza have visited the families bereaved by the Tempi train crash.\n\nBut above all, it is a story of personal loss.\n\n\"My Anastasia,\" Dimitris Plakias sighs, as he looks out from the terrace of his family restaurant. Tears well in his eyes as he describes his daughter.\n\n\"I'm fortunate I had her as a daughter, even for just a little while. I will always be proud. She was a rare girl and she only had love to give.\"\n\nKastraki is one of many Greek communities hit by February's disaster\n\nAnastasia and her twin cousins Thomi and Chrysa were travelling together on the passenger train.\n\nThey were all just 20 years old.\n\nLike so many of the other victims, the young women were students returning to the University of Thessaloniki after spending a public holiday with their family.\n\n\"We relatives call it a state assassination of our children, and all the people who were aboard that train,\" says Anastasia's father. \"In which European country could this be possible?\"\n\nMr Plakias shakes his head when I ask if he has faith that any leader or party will help to prevent a similar catastrophe.\n\nThe sense of exasperation that nothing will change is compounded for many voters by the surnames on ballot papers up and down the land.\n\nGreece is far from alone in being a cradle for political dynasties, but powerful family networks still dominate the stage, right along the ideological spectrum.\n\nKyriakos Mitsotakis's father was himself prime minister, his sister was foreign minister and his nephew is the current mayor of Athens.\n\nPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is ahead in the opinion polls but his party is unlikely to secure a majority\n\nTwo hours' drive north of the rocks of Kastraki, in the village of Proti, we watch a taxi driver greet the statue of the founder of modern Greece, Konstantinos Karamanlis, a four-time prime minister and later president.\n\n\"Hello, big guy,\" he calls out to the community's famous son as he opens his boot to reveal a mass of glistening cherries he'll later sell to supplement his income.\n\nBut if Karamanlis immortalised in metal remains a giant from beyond the grave and beyond party lines, his nephew Kostas - himself the cousin of another prime minister - has faced national rage.\n\nThe day after the fatal train crash, Kostas Karamanlis resigned as transport minister, admitting the rail network he was responsible for was not fit for purpose.\n\nHowever, the tears he shed in public as he surveyed the wreckage have not stopped him from standing for re-election this weekend, which has angered many of the grieving families.\n\nIn the village coffee house, we find sympathy for the bereaved, but also support for the youngest of the Karamanlis clan.\n\nThe owner introduces us to Giannis Sarigiannis, 79.\n\nKostas Karamanlis? I spent more time with him when he was a boy, than I did my own children\n\nIt turns out Giannis was a driver for the family, including the revered Konstantinos when he was prime minister.\n\nI ask: couldn't the former transport minister also have resigned from politics as a sign of respect for the dead?\n\n\"It was not his fault, this crash,\" Giannis argues. \"And as for his family, they are a good family. Modest people.\"\n\nAnd that's why he's voting for the ruling New Democracy party, he concludes with a smile.\n\nHead south to the capital Athens, and it's accusations of nepotism and clientelism that fuel the anger of many voters.\n\nBut like so many elections around the world at the moment, the high cost of living is the key consideration.\n\nOutside a supermarket in a left-voting suburb, widowed pensioner Elena talks us through her latest shopping list.\n\n\"Bread, tomato, beans - the price of all of them has gone up,\" she says.\n\nShe will be voting for Syriza, the party that ruled from 2015 to 2019 - during the years of ongoing pain as the Greek bailout dictated strict spending measures.\n\nAlexis Tsipras's centre-left Syriza party is several points behind the centre-right New Democracy party\n\nBut Greek GDP went up 6% last year, I put to Elena, citing EU figures.\n\n\"Oh well, that may well be the case, but I don't feel it. Everything I'm buying is going up 20-30%.\"\n\nDespite the national economy bouncing back, more than a third of Greeks say they can't pay their bills each month - the highest proportion in the European Union.\n\nIf that is a prize no country wants, neither is the label Greece has just been given for the second year in a row - that of being the worst EU country for press freedom.\n\nThe adverse rating was largely down to what became known as Greece's Watergate.\n\nLast year it emerged that politicians - including the leader of the third largest party - and journalists had been spied on using wiretaps and spyware that had infected their phones.\n\nGreece's intelligence chief resigned, as did the prime minister's chief of staff - his own nephew - but the prime minister himself managed to hang on.\n\n\"It was a huge scandal,\" explains investigative journalist Eliza Triantafyllou, from independent outlet Inside Story.\n\nShe and her colleagues have relentlessly pursued the story, but it has not dominated the run-up to this election and she blames the mainstream media.\n\n\"They didn't make it a huge deal when it was first revealed and they just kept taking the answers of the government as truth.\"\n\n[The media] didn’t pressure them. And in a way the government got away with it\n\nIf the polls are correct, no party will secure a majority, so Greeks are likely to face either a coalition government or a second vote in July.\n\nThat is partly down to the scrapping of a 50-seat bonus in the first round for the winning party in the 300-strong parliament.\n\nNick Malkoutzis, political analyst from Macropolis, say voters want to move on from a \"lost decade\".\n\n\"People can see there is perhaps a nascent economic recovery in the making and they have to decide in whose hands they are better off - and opinion polls show it's Mitsotakis they trust most.\"\n\nThe same old names may remain instrumental in Greek politics, but the voters may now look to them to share power.\n\nMany go to the ballot box asking when Greece's economic growth will be shared too.", "US President Joe Biden has said that the first batch of Abrams tanks will arrive in Ukraine \"next week\".\n\nThe US is by far the largest contributor of arms to Ukraine.\n\nPoland, which was also a major donor, recently said it would stop supplying it with weapons.\n\nIt is in a dispute with Ukraine about its exports of grain, which Poland says are flooding its market.\n\nThe amount of military aid given to Ukraine is tracked by the Kiel Institute, but the data only accounts for donations up until the end of July.\n\nThe US announced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth up to $500 million.\n\nThe US has also confirmed it will provide cluster munitions, a controversial move which has caused unease among some Nato allies.\n\nUkraine has also received SCALP missiles from France - similar to the UK Storm Shadows missiles that were recently delivered.\n\nDozens of tanks have already been committed. Ukraine says they are urgently needed to defend its territory and to push out Russian troops.\n\nThe Leopard 2 is used by a number of European countries, and is considered to be easier to maintain and more fuel-efficient than most other Western tanks.\n\nDuring the first months following the invasion, Nato preferred member countries to supply Ukraine with older tanks - ones that had been used in the former Warsaw Pact.\n\nUkraine's armed forces know how to operate them, and how to maintain them, and had a lot spare parts for them.\n\nModern Western tanks are more complicated to operate and harder to maintain.\n\nRecent footage of a Ukrainian attack on Russian positions show that at least one Leopard tank and several Bradleys are already in use by Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe UK led the way in Nato by offering to provide the Challenger 2 - its main battle tank.\n\nThe Challenger 2 was built in the 1990s, but is significantly more advanced than other tanks available to Ukraine's armed forces.\n\nUkraine used Warsaw Pact designed T-72 tanks prior to the invasion, and since February 2022 has received more than 200 T-72s from Poland, the Czech Republic and a small number of other countries.\n\nAnnouncing the US decision to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, President Joe Biden described them as \"the most capable tanks in the world\".\n\nThe US and the UK are also providing depleted uranium rounds with the tanks they are donating, which are very effective at piercing armour.\n\nHowever, depleted uranium is slightly radioactive material and there are some concerns that the rounds could contaminate the soil.\n\nMilitary professionals point out that success on the battlefield requires a vast range of equipment, deployed in co-ordination, with the necessary logistical support in place.\n\nThe Stryker is one of the many armoured vehicles that have been donated to Ukraine. The US confirmed that 90 Strykers would be dispatched.\n\nAmong the other vehicles donated by the US were Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. They were used extensively by US forces in Iraq.\n\nIn December, the US also announced it was sending the Patriot missile system to Ukraine - and Germany and the Netherlands have followed suit.\n\nThis highly sophisticated system has a range of up to 60 miles (100km), depending on the type of missile used, and requires specialised training for Ukrainian soldiers, likely to be carried out at a US Army base in Germany.\n\nBut the system is expensive to operate - one Patriot missile costs about $3m.\n\nSince the start of the conflict, Ukraine has been using Soviet-era S-300 surface-to-air systems against Russian attacks.\n\nBefore the conflict began, Ukraine had about 250 S-300s and there have been efforts to replenish these with similar systems stockpiled in other former Soviet countries, with some coming from Slovakia.\n\nThe US has also provided Nasams (National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System) to Ukraine. The first Nasams arrived in Ukraine in November.\n\nIn addition, the UK has provided several air defence systems, including Starstreak, designed to bring down low-flying aircraft at short range.\n\nGermany has also provided air defence systems, including the IRIS-T air defence systems which can hit approaching missiles at an altitude of up to 20km.\n\nAmong the long-range rocket launchers sent to Ukraine by the US are the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or Himars. Several European countries have also sent similar systems.\n\nHimars are believed to have been central to Ukraine's success in pushing Russian forces back in the south, particularly in Kherson in November.\n\nHimars systems are much more accurate have a longer potential range than the Smerch system used on the Russian side.\n\nIn the months following the invasion and Russia's retreat from Kyiv, much of the war centred on the east of the country where supplies of artillery to Ukraine were in heavy demand.\n\nAustralia, Canada and the US were among the countries to send advanced M777 howitzers and ammunition to Ukraine.\n\nThe range of the M777 is similar to Russia's Giatsint-B howitzer, and much longer than Russia's D-30 towed gun.\n\nNato countries say they are planning to ramp up their supply of shells, because Ukraine has been using them much at a faster rate than they are being delivered.\n\nThey are asking their domestic manufacturers to increase production.\n\nThousands of Nlaw weapons, designed to destroy tanks with a single shot, have also been supplied to Ukraine.\n\nThe weapons are thought to have been particularly important in stopping the advance of Russian forces on Kyiv in the hours and days following the invasion.\n\nDrones have featured heavily in the conflict so far, with many used for surveillance, targeting and heavy lift operations.\n\nTurkey has sold Bayraktar TB2 armed drones to Ukraine, while the Turkish manufacturer of the system has donated drones to crowd-funding operations in support of Ukraine.\n\nAnalysts say the Bayraktar TB2s have been extremely effective, flying at about 25,000 feet (7,600m) before descending to attack Russian targets with laser-guided bombs.\n\nThe US had repeatedly rebuffed Ukraine's pleas for fighter jets, instead focusing on providing military support in other areas.\n\nBut in May, President Joe Biden announced the US would support providing advanced fighter jets - including US-made F-16s - to Ukraine and also back training Ukrainian pilots to fly them.\n\nThe US endorsement also allowed other nations to export their own F-16 jets, as the US legally has to approve the re-export of equipment purchased by allies.\n\nDenmark and the Netherlands have since confirmed that they will supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets. Denmark has committed to sending 19 aircraft whilst it is anticipated that the Netherlands will provide more.\n\nAn initial delivery of several Danish F-16s is expected for near the end of 2023.\n\nA wider joint coalition of countries, including the UK, have also agreed to help train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s. In addition to the US, the joint coalition will also help train Ukrainian ground crew to maintain the aircraft.\n\nAdditional reporting by Thomas Spencer. Graphics by Gerry Fletcher and Sana Dionysiou.", "We are now back in court, but Lucy Letby is in the dock, rather than being in the witness box. The jury has just come back in.\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Goss, apologises to them for the delay. He tells them that for reasons with which they should not concern themselves, we are not going to continue with the hearing for the rest of today.\n\nHe tells the jury that they will not be needed back at court until it's next scheduled to sit on Wednesday next week.\n\nHe reminds them not to research the case themselves, away from the evidence they hear at court.\n\nThat is the end of proceedings for today. The trial will continue next Wednesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRishi Sunak says legal migration to the UK is \"too high\" but has refused to put a precise figure on acceptable levels of people coming to the UK.\n\nThe prime minister told the BBC he was \"considering a range of options\" to bring down legal migration.\n\nHe has been facing pressure to deliver on a 2019 Conservative manifesto commitment to bring down levels of net migration.\n\nNew figures on net migration to the UK are expected next Thursday.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Chris Mason at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, Mr Sunak refused to be drawn on the specifics of the government's plan on legal migration.\n\nAsked if he would stop some international students bringing dependants with them when they come to study in the UK, Mr Sunak said he wouldn't \"speculate\".\n\n\"What I would say is we're considering a range of options to help tackle numbers of legal migration and to bring those numbers down - and we'll talk more about that in the future,\" he said.\n\nIn their 2019 manifesto, the Conservatives pledged to bring down overall numbers of migrants coming to the UK, at which time net migration levels were at 226,000.\n\nHowever, in the year to June 2022, numbers exceeded 500,000.\n\nThe rise in migration has largely been driven by people coming to the UK from outside the EU - including 170,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war in their country and 76,000 from Hong Kong, arriving under a scheme to resettle people who count as British citizens. Around 270,000 people also came to the UK to study.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics which collects the numbers said the lifting of travel restrictions after the pandemic may have triggered a bump in the number of students, but added it was too early to say if the rise represented a long-term trend.\n\n\"The numbers are too high, and we want to bring them down,\" Mr Sunak said, adding that figures were higher in 2022 due to Ukrainian refugees coming to the UK, something he said the country should be \"proud of\".\n\nPushed on what an \"acceptable level\" would be in terms of legal migration numbers, Mr Sunak said it would \"depend on how the economy's doing at any particular time and the circumstances we're facing\".\n\n\"So I don't want to put a precise number on it,\" he said, adding that tackling illegal migration was his priority.\n\nSpeaking to journalists in London, the prime minister's spokesman reiterated that Mr Sunak would not \"put a number\" on his preferred level of migration, but added that the PM would \"take stock\" after the new migration figures are released.\n\nEarlier this week, Home Secretary Suella Braverman called for lower immigration, and suggested more British people should be trained to do jobs commonly done by overseas workers, such as lorry driving and fruit picking.\n\nBut Mr Sunak has taken a less hard-line approach, and has said more seasonal fruit pickers will be allowed to come to the UK if required.\n\nWhile many in his party want to see the prime minister reducing net migration, some businesses have argued that would damage their industries, particularly at a time of low unemployment.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, CEO of food chain Itsu Julian Metcalfe, said difficulty finding staff was pushing prices up and some restaurants were struggling to open.\n\n\"The cost, particularly for places like Itsu, is going to be very painful for all of us,\" he said and urged the government to introduce a two year working visa.\n\nEarlier this week, the prime minister used his visit to a Council of Europe meeting in Iceland to call for greater cooperation between the UK and EU on illegal migration.\n\nFollowing the summit, Downing Street said the UK and the EU had agreed to work together to tackle cross-border crime and people smuggling.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, Labour Party chair Anneliese Dodds said setting a net migration target was \"not sensible\".\n\nShe said an immigration system that was \"working properly\" could see an increase in people coming into the country to fulfil \"a short-term need for skills\".\n\n\"But in the medium and long-term, a reduction, because we would be training people up in our own country - we've not had that unfortunately under the Conservatives.\"", "Kaylea Titford died after being neglected by her parents\n\nTwo parents who left their 16-year-old daughter to die in squalor have had their sentences for neglect increased.\n\nKaylea Titford's father Alun Titford, from Newtown, Powys, was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence and jailed for seven years and six months.\n\nKaylea's mum Sarah Lloyd-Jones admitted the charge and was given six years.\n\nThe Court of Appeal reviewed the sentences and increased them to 10 years and eight years respectively.\n\nKaylea was found in conditions described as \"unfit for any animal\", in soiled clothing and bed linen, following her death at the family home in October 2020.\n\nShe had spina bifida, which left her with little feeling from the waist down and limited her mobility, and had used a wheelchair from a young age.\n\nWhen she was found dead she was morbidly obese, weighing nearly 23 stone (146 kg).\n\nDuring the initial sentencing the judge said it was \"a horrifying case of sustained neglect, leading to the death of a vulnerable, bedridden child at the hands of her own parents\".\n\nAlun Titford and Sarah Lloyd-Jones have both had their jail terms increased\n\nKaylea's hair was dirty and matted and she was unwashed with ulcerated skin.\n\nBefore the lockdown, she was described as \"fiercely independent and a lovely, chatty girl\", but she became less able to move using a wheelchair.\n\nKaylea had not been seen by any medical professional in the nine months before her death, the court was told, and the evidence of a doctor was that the \"consequences of neglect\" were the worst he had seen in 30 years.\n\nOn Friday, Lord Justice Popplewell, sitting with Mrs Justice McGowan and His Honour Judge Bate, said: \"The circumstances can only be categorised as extreme, Kaylea was living in unimaginable squalor.\"\n\nWilliam Emlyn Jones KC, representing the attorney general's office, said: \"By virtue of the combination of the duration of the neglect, the nature of the victim's prolonged suffering, the extent of the victim's vulnerability and absolute dependence on her parents for care, and ultimately, the appalling conditions in which she was left to live and ultimately die, this is an offence which falls into the definition of extreme.\"\n\nLewis Power KC and David Elias KC, representing Lloyd-Jones and Alun Titford respectively, both argued the original sentences were \"well placed\".\n\nLloyd-Jones, watching via video link, was unmoved as her jail term was increased to eight years, while Kaylea's father was not present for the hearing.\n\nFollowing the hearing, Solicitor General Michael Tomlinson said: \"This was a deeply distressing and upsetting case, and my thoughts today are with all of those who loved Kaylea.\n\n\"Kaylea was subjected to horrific neglect by her parents and the court's decision to extend Alun Titford and Sarah Lloyd Jones' sentences sends a clear message that child abuse will never be tolerated.\"", "One of Australia's highest-profile TV hosts, Stan Grant, has stood down from presenting a prime-time show after receiving \"relentless\" racist abuse.\n\nGrant said he had always endured racism in his career but it had escalated after he covered the King's Coronation for national broadcaster ABC.\n\nThe veteran Aboriginal journalist had spoken during the coverage about the impact of colonisation on his people.\n\nThe ABC has called for the \"grotesque\" abuse against the host to stop.\n\nBut Grant also accused his employer of an \"institutional failure\" to protect or defend him.\n\nGrant has won several journalism awards over a four-decade career and in 1992 he became the first Aboriginal prime-time host on Australian commercial TV.\n\nBut on Friday, he announced he was indefinitely stepping away from his roles hosting the ABC's flagship Q+A panel discussion show and writing a weekly column online.\n\n\"Racism is a crime. Racism is violence. And I have had enough,\" the Wiradjuri man wrote.\n\n\"I want no part of it. I want to find a place of grace far from the stench of the media.\"\n\nMr Grant said he was invited to be part of the ABC's Coronation coverage specifically to talk about the legacy of the monarchy.\n\nDuring the segment, he said the symbol of the Crown \"represented the invasion, the theft of land - and in our case - the exterminating war\", referring to a period of martial law in 1820s New South Wales that was used to justify the killings of Wiradjuri people.\n\nThe discussion divided people online and some people made formal complaints to the ABC about its appropriateness.\n\nOn Friday, Grant accused some \"people in the media\" of distorting his words and depicting him as \"hate filled\", inflaming racist abuse against him.\n\nHe said he apologised if his own comments had caused offence but that the \"hard truths\" were spoken out of love for Australia.\n\n\"No-one at the ABC... has uttered one word of public support. Not one ABC executive has publicly refuted the lies written or spoken about me,\" he wrote.\n\nIn a statement, ABC News director Justin Stevens described Grant as \"one of Australia's best and most respected journalists\" and said his treatment had been \"abhorrent\".\n\nStevens did not address the frustrations Grant aimed at the organisation, but said \"the ABC stands by him\".\n\nOf the Coronation segment, the news director added that it was \"regrettable\" that it had elicited \"a strong response from some viewers\".\n\n\"Any complaints, criticism - or vitriol - regarding the coverage should be directed to me, not to him,\" he said, adding the ABC would continue to refer threats to police.\n\nGrant's announcement has triggered an outpouring of tributes from peers across the media industry.\n\n\"Stan Grant is an Australian icon, a serious journalist, a leader in this country. This is a sad and disgraceful result,\" newspaper columnist Sean Kelly wrote.", "Silvio Berlusconi recorded his message from his hospital room following a serious illness\n\nItaly's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has told supporters he's ready to go back to work after a month in hospital.\n\nThe 86-year-old, who is suffering from leukaemia, was rushed into intensive care with a related lung infection but his condition has since stabilised.\n\nThere has been no word on when he might leave hospital.\n\nIn a video address from his room, Mr Berlusconi thanked his Forza Italia party members for their support.\n\n\"I never stopped, not even in the past few weeks,\" he said in the pre-recorded message, in which he appeared smartly dressed in a suit.\n\n\"I worked on the party's new structure and I'm ready to return to work with you and fight alongside you our fights for freedom.\"\n\nParty members clapped enthusiastically at the end of the speech and some could be seen holding back tears.\n\nThe message was filmed on Friday after relatives and doctors stopped the billionaire media tycoon from being discharged out of concern he would try to attend the party's two-day convention in Milan, according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.\n\nHe spent two weeks in intensive care before being moved to a general ward in mid-April.\n\nForza Italia was founded by Mr Berlusconi and he remains its leader after serving four terms as president. The party is a junior member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's coalition government but has been in decline in recent years.\n\nMr Berlusconi's latter years in power were overshadowed by sex and corruption scandals and he remains a divisive figure in Italian politics.\n\nEarlier this year, he was finally cleared of bribing young showgirls to lie about his notoriously raunchy \"bunga bunga\" parties.\n\nMr Berlusconi was elected to Italy's upper house, the Senate, last September but has repeatedly required hospital treatment and is rarely seen in public.\n\nHis recent return to hospital caused concern in Italy and politicians from across the spectrum have wished him well.", "Thousands of people lined the streets of central London hoping to catch a glimpse of King Charles III as he travelled from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace after his coronation.\n\nSoldiers and royal footmen, marching bands and ornate coaches, magnificent horses and an Irish wolfhound called Seamus all took part in the UK military's largest ceremonial operation for 70 years - and it all ended with a short fly-past. Here's how the day unfolded.\n\nThe service finished at 13:00 BST and the King and Queen travelled back to the palace in the ornate Gold State Coach as part of the Coronation Procession - a much larger ceremonial display than the morning's procession to the abbey.\n\nAt the head of the procession - about a mile in front - was Brigade Major Lieutenant Colonel James Shaw riding Sovereign's Shadow.\n\nHe led more than 4,000 members of the armed forces from the UK and across the Commonwealth, 19 bands and flag-bearers, formed into eight groups. A full list of all those who took is at the end of this page.\n\nThe 1.42-mile route was lined by 1,000 members of the military from the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.\n\nThe Gold State Coach, which is covered in gold leaf and carved decorations, was first used by King George III to travel to the State Opening of Parliament in 1762. The first king to use the coach in a coronation was William IV in 1831 and it has been used at every coronation since.\n\nThe panels feature Roman gods, and sculptures of cherubs and tritons ride on the roof and over the wheels.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II, who used the coach for her coronation as well as jubilee celebrations, said it might look luxurious but it was a horrible, uncomfortable ride because of the lack of suspension.\n\nIt weighs four tonnes and is pulled at walking pace by eight grey horses, with a mounted rider or postilion for each pair.\n\nAlongside the coach, walked eight grooms, six footmen and four Yeomen of the Guard.\n\nAlso present were members of the Royal Watermen, who traditionally rowed the Royal Barges up and down the River Thames between the royal palaces, but now have ceremonial duties.\n\nThe Princess Royal was among those riding behind the coach, in her role as Gold Stick and Colonel The Blues and Royals - a ceremonial bodyguard entrusted with the safety of the sovereign.\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales and their three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, were in the first carriage behind the coach with other \"working royals\" - those family members who carry out official duties on behalf of the King - in carriages and cars following them.\n\nThe marching bands kept beat of 108 paces a minute, which is slightly slower than a standard quick march of 116 paces a minute, because of the speed of the heavy coach.\n\nMembers of the RAF were in group three of the procession, the Army in the next three groups - with the Royal Lancers in group four - and the Royal Navy and Royal Marines in group seven.\n\nThe Irish Guards with their mascot Seamus, the Irish wolfhound, were part of the final group ahead of the coach, which also includes the Welsh Guards and Scots Guards.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it was the largest military procession in London since more than 16,000 people took part in Queen Elizabeth II's coronation procession in 1953.\n\nThe coach made the 1.42 mile journey in about 30 minutes.\n\nOnce the procession had passed, members of the public were allowed to move up The Mall to fill the area around the Queen Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace.\n\nIn a coronation first, all those marching formed up in the palace gardens to give a Royal Salute and three cheers to the King and Queen.\n\nThe King and other members of the Royal Family then proceeded to the front balcony of Buckingham Palace to greet the public crowds assembled in The Mall.\n\nThe balcony moment was due to be accompanied by a spectacular six-minute fly-past involving more than 60 aircraft from the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.\n\nBut due to poor weather it was scaled back to helicopters and the Red Arrows display team.\n\nMounted Household Troops: Brigade Major's Retinue\n• Mounted Band of the Household Cavalry\n• The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery\n\nRepresentatives from the Commonwealth nations: Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland\n• Highland Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland\n• Lowland Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland\n• Representative Detachments of Realm and Commonwealth Forces: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Cameroon, Eswatini, Fiji, Gabon, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, St Kitts and Nevis, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Zambia\n\nRepresentatives from Royal Air Force: Royal Air Force Regiment\n• Bands of the Royal Air Force\n• Royal Air Force Halton\n• Royal Auxiliary Air Force\n• Royal Air Force Cranwell\n\nArmy Royal Armoured Corps: Head of Arms and Services\n• Colonel Royal Armoured Corps\n• The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabineers and Greys)\n• 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards\n• The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish)\n• The Royal Dragoon Guards\n• British Army Bands Colchester and Sandhurst\n• The King's Royal Hussars\n• The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths' Own)\n• Royal Tank Regiment\n• The Light Dragoons\n• The Royal Wessex Yeomanry\n• The Royal Yeomanry\n• Scottish and Northern Irish Yeomanry\n• The Queen's Royal Yeomanry\n• Corps Sergeant Major, Royal Armoured Corps\n\nArmy Corps and Infantry: Corps Colonels of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Royal Corps of Engineers, Royal Corps of Signals, Infantry\n• Royal Corps of Engineers\n• Royal Regiment of Artillery\n• Royal Regiment of Scotland\n• Royal Corps of Signals\n• Duke of Lancaster's Regiment\n• Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment\n• Royal Anglian Regiment\n• Royal Regiment of Fusiliers\n• Bands of the Rifles and Brigade of Gurkhas\n• Mercian Regiment\n• Royal Yorkshire Regiment\n• Royal Irish Regiment\n• Royal Welsh\n• Royal Gurkha Rifles\n• Parachute Regiment\n• Rangers\n• The Rifles\n• Corps Sergeant Majors of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Corps of Royal Engineers, Royal Corps of Signals, Infantry\n\nArmy Corps: Corps Colonels of the Army Air Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Logistics Corps, Adjutant General's Corps, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Intelligence Corps\n• Army Air Corps\n• Royal Army Medical Corps\n• Royal Logistic Corps\n• Adjutant General's Corps\n• Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers\n• Royal Army Veterinary Corps\n• British Army Bands Catterick and Tidworth\n• Royal Army Dental Corps\n• Small Arms Service Corps\n• Royal Army Physical Training Corps\n• Intelligence Corps\n• Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst\n• Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps\n• Royal Army Physical Training Corps\n• Corps Sergeant Majors of the Army Air Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Logistics Corps, Adjutant General's Corps, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Intelligence Corps\n• Royal Army Chaplain's Department\n• Honourable Artillery Company\n• Royal Bermuda Regiment\n• Royal Gibraltar Regiment\n\nRepresentatives from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines: Royal Navy\n• Royal Navy Reserve\n• Bands of the Royal Marines\n• Royal Marines\n• Royal Marines Reserve\n• Commando Training Centre Royal Marines and Britannia Royal Naval College\n• Service Chiefs: Commander Strategic Command\n• Vice Chief of the Defence Staff\n• Chief of the Air Staff, Chief of the General Staff\n• Chief of the Naval Staff\n• Chief of the Defence Staff\n• Command Warrant Officer Strategic Command\n• Corps Sergeant Major Royal Marines\n• Warrant Officer to the Royal Air Force\n• Army Sergeant Major\n• Warrant Officer to the Royal Navy\n• Senior Enlisted Adviser to the Chiefs of Staff Committee\n\nFoot Guards: Regimental Lieutenant Colonel Coldstream Guards\n• Regimental Lieutenant Colonel Irish Guards\n• Regimental Lieutenant Colonel London Guards\n• Regimental Lieutenant Colonel Welsh Guards\n• Regimental Lieutenant Colonel Scots Guards\n• Regimental Lieutenant Colonel Grenadier Guards\n• Commanding Officer Coldstream Guards\n• Commanding Officer Irish Guards\n• Commanding Officer London Guards\n• Commanding Officer Welsh Guards\n• Commanding Officer Scots Guards\n• Commanding Officer Grenadier Guards\n• The King's Colour Coldstream Guards\n• The King's Colour Irish Guards\n• The King's Colour Welsh Guards\n• The King's Colour Scots Guards\n• The King's Colour Grenadier Guards\n• Coldstream Guards\n• Irish Guards\n• Welsh Guards\n• Scots Guards\n• Grenadier Guards\n• Regimental Sergeant Major Coldstream Guards\n• Regimental Sergeant Major Irish Guards\n• Regimental Sergeant Major London Guards\n• Regimental Sergeant Major Welsh Guards\n• Regimental Sergeant Major Scots Guards\n• Regimental Sergeant Major Grenadier Guards\n\nHousehold Cavalry Regiment (Dismounted): Commanding Officer Household Cavalry Regiment\n• The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)\n• The Life Guards\n• Regimental Corporal Major Household Cavalry Regiment\n• King's Gurkha Orderly Officer (x2)\n\nThe King's Body Guards and Royal Watermen: The King's Bargemaster\n• Officer (x4)\n• Chief Yeoman Warder with Mace\n• Colour (x2)\n• Standard\n• Yeomen Warders of HM Fortress the Tower of London (x12)\n• Royal Watermen (x12)\n• The King's Bodyguard the Yeomen of the Guard (x12)\n• The King's Bodyguard for Scotland, the Royal Company of Archers (x12)\n• His Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms (x12)\n• Yeoman Gaoler with Axe\n• Messenger Sergeant Major\n• Officer (x2)\n• Royal Canadian Mounted Police\n• Staff Captain Headquarters Household Division\n• Major General Commanding the Household Division\n• ADC to the Major General Commanding the Household Division\n\nLed by: 1st Division of The Sovereign's Escort\n• 2nd Division of The Sovereign's Escort\n\nCarrying: His Majesty the King, Her Majesty the Queen\n\nFlanked by: Representatives of the Realm Armed Forces\n• Royal Waterman (x4)\n• Grooms (x8)\n• Palace Footmen (x6)\n• Yeoman of the Guard (x4)\n• Brakeman\n• Escort Commander\n• Field Officer of the Escort\n• Standard Coverer\n• Sovereign's Standard of The Life Guards\n• Trumpeter\n• The Princess Royal, Gold Stick and Colonel The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)\n• Colonel Coldstream Guards\n• Master of the Horse\n• Gold Stick in Waiting and Colonel The Life Guards\n• Silver Stick Adjutant\n• Field Officer in Brigade Waiting\n• Silver Stick\n• Crown Equerry\n• 3rd Division of The Sovereign's Escort\n\nCarriage: of The Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George of Wales, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Prince Louis of Wales\n\nCarriage: The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, The Lady Louise Mountbatten Windsor, Earl of Wessex\n\nCarriage: The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence\n\nState Car: The Duke of Kent and Princess Alexandra\n\nFollowed by: 4th Division of The Sovereign's Escort\n\nWritten and produced by Dominic Bailey and Chris Clayton, design by Lilly Huynh and Zoe Bartholomew, illustration by Jenny Law.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "King Charles III will walk through Westminster Abbey for his coronation.\n\nTake a look around our 360° virtual tour to explore the royal church in his footsteps.\n\nTo move the camera angle around, drag your mouse or press the arrow keys on a computer. Use your fingers on a mobile or tablet.\n\nIf you're watching on the BBC News app, click here for the best experience.\n\nVideo by Jamie Moreland and narrated by Huw Edwards.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby places the St Edward's Crown on King Charles's head, during the coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey.\n\nYou can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "Ukraine's reigning Eurovision champions Kalush Orchestra have got the party started in this year's host city Liverpool with a performance to open the fan village.\n\nThe band kicked off the official Eurovision build-up on Friday, watched by fans on Liverpool's waterfront.\n\nThe celebrations will continue until the grand final on Saturday, 13 May.\n\nKalush's Tymofii Muzychuk said the band members were sad it was impossible to hold this year's Eurovision in Ukraine.\n\nThe UK his hosting Eurovision 2023 on behalf of Ukraine\n\nThe winning country normally hosts the contest the following year, but organisers decided it was too dangerous to stage the annual extravaganza in Ukraine following Russia's invasion.\n\nInstead, the UK - which came second with Sam Ryder in 2022 - is hosting this year's event on behalf of Ukraine.\n\n\"It's good that it's being staged in the UK,\" Muzychuk continued. \"We see lots of Ukrainian colours, and the main thing is safety.\"\n\nKalush Orchestra will also perform at the Eurovision grand final\n\nThe musician told BBC News he wanted this year's contest to send a message to the world to not forget about Ukraine.\n\n\"The war in Ukraine is continuing,\" he said. \"It's not finished yet and we want to remind people that they shouldn't lose track of it and it should be in the headlines.\"\n\nMany people in the country will be watching the contest, he added. \"They'll be supporting and rooting for Ukraine.\n\n\"Of course we are sad that it's not being staged in Ukraine but I hope that the UK entry wins, then we can swap and hold Eurovision in Ukraine [in 2024].\"\n\nSome Ukrainians living in Liverpool turned out to see Kalush Orchestra\n\nSome fans waved Ukrainian flags as they watched the band, while others wore pink bucket hats - following the trend started by frontman Oleh Psiuk.\n\nKalush Orchestra will also perform at the grand final, opening the show with a performance titled Voices of a New Generation.\n\nAs well as the final and semi-finals, Liverpool is staging many other events around the city, including daily shows at the 15,000-capacity Eurovision Village.\n\nOn Friday, a special supergroup featuring musicians from Merseyside and Ukraine performed after Kalush Orchestra under the banner Welcome to Eurotopia.\n\nThe UK members included Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark singer Andy McCluskey, singers Jane Weaver and Natalie McCool and art-pop group Stealing Sheep, while Helleroid, Krapka;KOMA and Iryna Muha represented Ukraine.\n\nFriday also saw a street parade as part of a a Eurovision-themed cultural festival. The Blue and Yellow Submarine Parade was inspired by the colours of the Ukrainian flag along with the song and film by Liverpool's most famous musical exports, The Beatles.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEntry to the fan village is free except for grand final day, which is ticketed and already sold out.\n\nAll the build-up, insights and analysis is explored each week on a BBC podcast called Eurovisioncast.\n\nEurovisioncast is available on BBC Sounds, or search wherever you get your podcasts from.", "King Charles III and the Queen Consort Camilla are accompanied by the King's Procession as they ride to Westminster Abbey in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach.\n\nYou can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "The woman was riding along Alfreton Road when she fell off her mobility scooter\n\nOfficers are investigating after a woman in her 60s fell off her mobility scooter and died.\n\nShe was riding along Alfreton Road, in Sutton-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, shortly before 11:00 BST on Friday when she fell into the road.\n\nOfficers said she fell off near the junction with Willowbridge Lane and suffered a head injury.\n\nPolice said: \"We are currently working to understand what happened so we can give her family the answers they need.\"\n\nThe woman was taken to hospital with a head injury but sadly died later in the day.\n\nDet Con Adam Rigby said: \"We are asking any witnesses who have not yet spoken to us to come forward with information, and are particularly keen to speak with anyone who may have recorded dashcam footage at or near the scene.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Conservatives have had a miserable time in England's local elections.\n\nThe problem the Tories have faced is a range of competitive opponents. Labour, the Liberal Democrats and even the Green Party have capitalised on the shrivelling of Tory popularity.\n\nLiberal Democrat smiles were sufficiently broad that party leader Sir Ed Davey was found comparing himself to a Cheshire cat.\n\nThe Lib Dems appear to have finally banished the baggage of their years in coalition government.\n\nPlenty of Lib Dems are proud of their time serving alongside the Tories between 2010 and 2015, but plenty of their voters were horrified by it and they were near obliterated eight years ago.\n\nMemories of it for many seem to have retreated sufficiently far into the rear-view mirror that it is no longer a drag anchor on their prospects.\n\n\"We are the none-of-the-above party again,\" one party source observed.\n\nThis was the Green Party's best ever set of local election results.\n\nFor the first time, they've secured a majority on a council, in Mid-Suffolk.\n\nThe only Conservative comfort blanket on an otherwise cold night for them is the scale of a bounce back Labour has to make to win a general election.\n\nSome have suggested the numbers from this election suggest they would have fallen short of a majority had there been a general election this week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour are continuing to insist these local elections results would have led to a majority Labour government, because of progress they believe they can make in Scotland, plus the geographical distribution of their vote share.\n\nParty strategists reckon, with all the problems the Scottish National Party is facing, they could win 20 seats in Scotland at the next general election. They currently hold one.\n\nAnd Labour say their vote is much more \"efficient\" than it has been.\n\nWhat do they mean by this?\n\nThey point out Labour won the general election in 2005 on 35% of the vote, but lost in 2017 with 40% of the vote, because the party was stacking up voters in places where it was already dominant - such as big cities and university towns.\n\nThey argue this week's results show, for them, a much better distribution of their vote in places they need to beat the Conservatives - including good performances in places that voted to leave the EU and places with smaller proportions of graduates.\n\nThis weekend, the recriminations are under way among Tories.\n\nThose around Prime Minister Rishi Sunak say he has done much to steady the Tory ship and the party would be in a far worse state without him.\n\nLet me invite you to peer into my notebook to see what is scribbled there after my phone rang earlier.\n\nA figure loyal to former Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss telling me: \"Rishi has no option but to own these results.\"\n\nAnd they didn't stop there. You can read more about this here. There is little enthusiasm, though, to move against the prime minister.\n\nBut Mr Sunak's capacity to put a lid on Conservative anger appears weakened. His critics are finding their voices again.\n\nThe biggest truth is a political landscape that appears hyper-competitive and so far from definitive.\n\nFrom today's vantage point, it looks hard for either the Conservatives or Labour to be super confident of winning a majority to call their own at the next general election.\n\nAnd that election could be around 18 months away - and a lot can happen in that time.\n\nLabour see a path to victory. The Conservatives still think, still hope, that path can be blocked.\n\nOh and one final thought.\n\nI suspect the Conservatives and Mr Sunak are mighty glad the small matter of King Charles's Coronation will wipe politics off the news for the next few days.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nRed Bull's Sergio Perez took pole position for the Miami Grand Prix while team-mate and title rival Max Verstappen will start only ninth.\n\nVerstappen made a mistake on his first run in the final session and when Ferrari's Charles Leclerc crashed there was no time to resume the session.\n\nAston Martin's Fernando Alonso will join Perez on the front row.\n\nFerrari's Carlos Sainz is third, with Kevin Magnussen scoring a sensational fourth for the US-based Haas team.\n\n\"That was a mistake of mine trying to put it to the limit and then having to abort the lap,\" said Verstappen.\n\n\"Then you rely on a bit of luck of course that there is not going to be a red flag. It can happen on a street circuit so I'm a bit upset with myself.\"\n\nElsewhere, Mercedes struggled. Lewis Hamilton was knocked out in the second session and will start down in 13th. He was compromised by the team sending him out late, which affected his ability to prepare his tyres effectively.\n\nGeorge Russell managed to sneak through into the top-10 shootout, where he secured sixth place behind the Alpine of Pierre Gasly.\n\nBoth Verstappen and Leclerc were under pressure going into the final runs after making errors in the early part of the session.\n\nVerstappen had run wide at Turns Six and Seven and Leclerc brushed the wall at Turn 16.\n\nBoth needed to deliver on their final runs but Leclerc wrecked the rest of the session for everyone else when, running early, he lost control through the fast Turn Six and spun on the entry to Turn Seven, backing his Ferrari into the wall.\n\nIt was Leclerc's second crash in two days at the same place after he also lost control a little later in the same sequence of corners in second practice on Friday. He will line up seventh.\n\nThe result is a huge bonus for Perez, who is six points behind Verstappen in a private championship battle between the two drivers for the dominant Red Bull team.\n\nPerez had looked out of sorts for much of the weekend but he nailed an excellent lap on the first runs in the final session to put himself in the prime position going into the final runs.\n\nThe Mexican beat Alonso by 0.361secs as the veteran Spaniard continues his excellent start to the season.\n\nSainz was a further 0.147secs behind in his Ferrari.\n\nBehind Leclerc, Alpine's Esteban Ocon, Verstappen and Alfa Romeo's Valtteri Bottas completed the top 10.\n\nWhat did the top three say?\n\nPerez was cheered loudly by the crowd at Hard Rock Stadium in this city with a large Latino population, who saw three Spanish-speaking drivers in the first three positions, and thanked them during his interview after the session.\n\n\"It has been my worst weekend until qualifying really,\" he said. \"I just couldn't figure out how to [recover] all those tenths I was missing to the Max and the Ferraris.\n\n\"I was just resetting everything and we did a small change into qualifying and everything came alive. We were playing with the tools and everything came together.\n\n\"I was just struggling for balance, confidence, this Tarmac is very sensitive to temperature.\"\n\nAlonso said: \"It was a good qualifying. Final practice was a little bit messy for us. We tried a few set-ups and they did not work but we put the car back in a known place and it came alive.\n\n\"The car was so enjoyable to drive. You go close to the walls in Turns 11 to 16 and you need to have that confidence to go to the limit and I had that confidence and am very pleased.\"\n\nSainz added: \"P3 was where where were targeting to be but we could have been better. It is a big unknown how our car is going to compete in the heat, but if we can push ahead that could bring us to the podium and be a great result.\n\n\"I think the Red Bull is very quick but with everyone else it is going to be a good fight with Fernando, the Mercedes, I think it is going to be an exciting race.\"\n\nMercedes were not the only big-name team struggling. McLaren had a dire session, with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri knocked out early on and lining up 16th and 19th.\n\nThe result underlined the difficult position the team find themselves in at the start of this season and was an illustration of why they are restructuring the team.\n\nThis weekend, it has emerged that they have brought back former IndyCar champion Gil de Ferran, their sporting director from 2018-21, in a consultancy role, to help them identify how they can get themselves back on track.\n\nBritish-born Thai Alex Albon had a good session for Williams, starting 11th. And after an error-strewn weekend in Baku, Alpha Tauri rookie Nyck de Vries out-qualified team-mate Yuki Tsunoda for the first time this season and lines up 15th.\n• None Can you answer these game show questions? Test yourself in this fun quiz\n• None Who killed Michaela McAreavey on her honeymoon? The tragic murder of an Irish sporting icon's daughter reinvestigated", "Fentanyl trafficking has surged in the US in recent years\n\nThe Mexican president says his country has proof that illegal shipments of the powerful opioid drug fentanyl are arriving from China.\n\nA container with hidden packages of the drug was intercepted in the Pacific port of Lázaro Cárdenas, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said.\n\n\"We already have proof,\" he said, adding that he would ask the Chinese government to help stop the shipments.\n\nUS authorities say fentanyl is now the main driver of US drug overdose deaths.\n\nIn March President López Obrador said he had written to Chinese President Xi Jinping requesting Chinese help in the anti-narcotics fight, after US politicians had urged him to do so.\n\nHe told reporters on Friday that he would repeat that plea to Beijing: \"In a very respectful manner, we are going to send this information to reiterate the request that they help us.\"\n\nMexican Navy Secretary Rafael Ojeda said the container intercepted in Lázaro Cárdenas had packages weighing 34-35kg (75 pounds) with traces of fentanyl and methamphetamine hidden in fuel resin. The cargo had left the Chinese city of Qingdao and passed through Busan in South Korea before reaching Mexico.\n\nFentanyl is up to 50 times more powerful than heroin. The US Drug Enforcement Administration says 67% of the 107,375 US deaths from drug overdoses or poisonings in 2021 were linked to fentanyl or similar opioids. Fentanyl is linked to more deaths of Americans under 50 than any other cause, the DEA says.\n\nThe US authorities blame Mexican drug gangs for supplying fentanyl to users across the US. Last month three sons of drugs kingpin \"El Chapo\" - members of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel - were charged in the United States with fentanyl trafficking, but only one of them is in custody. Their father Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán is serving a life sentence in the US.\n\nPresident López Obrador has said fentanyl is not produced in Mexico but bought by the drugs gangs from suppliers in Asia.\n\nLast month Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said \"there is no such thing as illegal trafficking of fentanyl between China and Mexico\".\n\n\"China has not been notified by Mexico on the seizure of scheduled fentanyl precursors from China,\" she said. Drugs listed in schedules are subject to various official restrictions.\n\nMao Ning said the widespread fentanyl abuse in the US was a problem \"completely 'made in USA'\".", "The Met was called to reports of a stabbing on Markhouse Road, Waltham Forest\n\nA teenage boy has been fatally stabbed in north east London.\n\nThe Met was called to reports of a stabbing on Markhouse Road, Waltham Forest, at about 16:10 BST.\n\nA 16-year-old male was found at the scene with stab injuries and died 30 minutes later.\n\nCh Supt Simon Crick leading North East Command said: \"I am totally devastated at the loss of a young man's life on our streets.\n\n\"My deepest sympathy and thoughts are with the victim's family at this tragic time.\"\n\nThe boy's next of kin have been notified and a post-mortem examination is to be scheduled.\n\nRoad closures and cordons remained in place, the Met confirmed.\n\nNo arrests had been made, the force added.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHeavy Conservative local election losses represent a \"clear rejection\" of Rishi Sunak in his first electoral test as prime minister, Labour has said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer claimed his party was on course to win the next general election, expected next year.\n\nThe Tories lost 48 councils and more than 1,000 councillors across England in Thursday's polls, exceeding their worst predictions.\n\nMany Tories were angry at the scale of the losses, with some blaming Mr Sunak.\n\nLabour says it is now the largest party in local government, surpassing the Tories for the first time since 2002.\n\n\"The British public has sent a clear rejection of a prime minister who never had a mandate to begin with,\" a Labour spokesperson said.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats had what their leader Sir Ed Davey said was their \"best result in decades\", taking control of 12 councils, mostly in Tory heartlands. The party gained 405 new councillors, compared with Labour's 536 gains.\n\nThe Green Party gained 241 seats - their best-ever result in local elections - and gained its first majority on an English council, in Mid-Suffolk, although they were overtaken as the biggest party by Labour in Brighton and Hove.\n\nMr Sunak admitted the results were \"disappointing\", but said he did not detect \"a massive groundswell of movement towards the Labour Party or excitement for its agenda\".\n\nSir Keir claimed the \"fantastic\" results showed his party was well placed to oust the Tories from government in a general election, expected next year.\n\n\"Make no mistake, we are on course for a Labour majority at the next general election,\" he told cheering activists in Medway in Kent, one of the councils his party has wrested from the Tories.\n\nLabour won control of councils in areas that will be crucial battlegrounds in the general election, including Medway, Swindon, Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent, and East Staffordshire.\n\nThe BBC's projected national vote share put Labour on 35%, the Tories on 26% and the Lib Dems on 20%.\n\nLabour's projected nine-point lead represents its largest over the Conservatives on this measure since the party lost power in 2010.\n\nSir John Curtice, the polling expert, said this year's results were \"only a little short of calamitous for the Conservatives\".\n\nBut the BBC's political editor, Chris Mason, said the results suggested it would be hard for either the Conservatives or Labour to be confident of winning a majority at the next general election.\n\nLabour shadow cabinet member Peter Kyle denied the results, which saw the Lib Dems gain nearly as many new councillors as Labour, was an anti-government, rather than a pro-Labour, vote.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the results showed Labour had won back support in \"key places\" and would win an outright majority at the general election, without needing to do deals with other parties.\n\n\"In all of the areas that the Labour Party targeted, that we focused resources, that we really wanted to reconnect to voters, we did so.\"\n\nHe added that Sir Keir Starmer had \"led from the front\" and Labour had run a \"disciplined\" campaign, which showed it was \"moving towards government.\"\n\nIn Swindon, where Labour took control of the borough council for the first time in 20 years, ousted Tory council leader David Renard blamed \"the cost of living and the performance of the government in the last 12 months\" for his party's woes locally.\n\nMr Renard said although the prime minister had \"started to stabilise things\", for voters in Swindon \"what had gone on before that was something that they didn't like\".\n\nDavid Renard, Swindon's former council leader, who lost his own seat\n\nThe Conservative mayor of the Tees Valley, Ben Houchen, who is up for election next year, said the poor Tory performance was a partly a result of \"the turmoil and upheaval of the last 12 months\".\n\nHe said Labour had been \"successful in making this a referendum on the government\", adding \"people don't feel like they can vote for us\".\n\nNigel Churchill, a former Tory councillor who lost his seat on Plymouth Council - another Labour target - said \"I think we can safely say\" the Conservatives will lose the next general election.\n\n\"The general public do not trust them at the moment,\" he said.\n\nBut Education Minister Robert Halfon said this year's local elections were always \"going to be difficult\" for his party.\n\nHe said internal party divisions \"didn't help\", but claimed the losses were down to external factors, such as the cost-of-living crisis and problems in the NHS.\n\n\"Every government during the mid-term, especially a government that has been in power for 13 years, always suffers losses in local elections,\" he said.\n\nOther Tory MPs told the BBC that apathy - Conservative voters staying at home - was also a big problem for the party.\n\nThe seats up for grabs were mostly on district councils, responsible for services including bin collections, parks, public housing and planning applications.\n\nThe rest of the elections were for a mixture of metropolitan and unitary councils - single local authorities that deal with all local services - and for four mayors.\n\nThe elections were the first in England to see voter ID checks at polling stations. Some voters told the BBC they were turned away from polling stations, prompting critics to call for the ID rules to be dropped.", "The late Queen Elizabeth II and her husband the late Duke Of Edinburgh on Coronation day in 1953\n\n\"The entire world was in London for that coronation.\"\n\nThe Queen of Tonga in her open carriage, an incident with Sir Winston Churchill and a new queen - all seen from the eyes of a 14-year-old schoolboy from Greenisland in County Antrim.\n\nOn 2 June 1953, Chris Wilson watched the world go by in a \"kaleidoscope of events\" on the Mall.\n\nHe was surrounded by crowds who had travelled see the crowning of a young Queen Elizabeth II.\n\n\"For weeks before coronation day, families were camping on the footpaths along the processional route,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nChris, who went on to become a headteacher in Limavady, travelled to the coronation from Northern Ireland with his aunt by sea and rail.\n\nChris Wilson with his wife Roberta in Austria\n\nOn the day of the coronation, they hired a pre-war taxi with a soft top which folded back to give an open-top view.\n\n\"We spent at least three hours crawling along with, what was even then, almost gridlocked cars and buses.\"\n\nThe trip was worth it because Chris had a prime seat on the processional route.\n\nHe had a green ticket for stand 47, block three, row G, seat number 20 in the Mall.\n\n\"From my stand looking down The Mall towards Buckingham Palace there stretched on the roadway what appeared to be a black Persian deep-pile carpet,\" he said.\n\nThat carpet turned out to be the bearskin headdress of a guardsman.\n\nA map showing the location of numbered stands along the coronation procession route in 1953\n\nRoving reporters were asking people for their favourite songs.\n\nAccording to Chris, the film of that month was Singing In The Rain and loud speakers carried it all over central London.\n\nA lady who made a great impression and stole the show was Sālote Tupou III of Tonga.\n\n\"She was very tall and regal. Even in the heavy rain she travelled in an open carriage with only a colourful parasol for shelter.\"\n\nQueen Sālote Tupou III of Tonga riding past crowds of people along the Thames Embankment, on her way to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II\n\nIt was there that Chris witnessed what would become a moment in history.\n\n\"As Sir Winston Churchill's carriage was passing its two horses took fright and reared up,\" he said.\n\n\"A number of police officers ran forward to control them with Sir Winston leaning out of the carriage and using quite strong Anglo-Saxon language.\"\n\nHe said Sir Winston \"ordered the police to open a way through the crowd\".\n\nChris Wilson was witness to a moment in history involving Sir Winston Churchill's horses\n\nWhen the procession had passed, Chris and the throngs made their way along The Mall to Buckingham Palace.\n\n\"We stood outside the railings and chanted: 'We want the Queen.'\n\n\"The young queen, her consort, the Duke of Edinburgh, and all the other members of the Royal Family made at least seven balcony calls as RAF aircraft roared overhead in salute to a new Elizabethan era,\" remembers Chris.\n\nWhen Chris went back to Belfast High School, his teacher had told the class that he had actually gone to the coronation to marry Princess Margaret.\n\n\"I knew he had got the story wrong - but I still had quite a story to tell my school friends and my relatives.\"\n\nDavid Scott has been collecting royal memorabilia all his life\n\nDavid Scott, from Rathfriland, County Down, has been collecting royal memorabilia and camping out for royal events since the 1980s, an interest inspired by his late mother.\n\nAt the age of 12, she was selected to represent Drumlough Primary School when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth [the Queen Mother] visited Balmoral near Belfast.\n\nShe went on to build up a collection of royal memorabilia and David has kept up the tradition.\n\nDavid Scott's mother was selected to meet King George VI on a royal visit to Balmoral, Belfast, in 1937\n\nHe was present when Queen Elizabeth II was shot at during the 1981 Trooping of the Colour, as she was mounted on her favourite horse Burmese.\n\n\"Standing outside Clarence House, I remember the ripple effect of the word coming up The Mall,\" he said.\n\nNewspaper headlines from the day of the coronation\n\nHe has subsequently been to London for a number of royal events - he camped out to see Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's wedding in 1986 and Princess Diana's funeral in 1997.\n\n\"That was quite an experience because the other events were happy but this was the first sombre occasion - to witness it all was incredibly historic.\"\n\nHe took his family over to see the wedding of William and Catherine, the current Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\n\"To take your own family to experience that was really special as I was witnessing the next generation, the future monarch's wedding.\n\n\"I collect anything I see that's unique or different - a royal collection isn't worth a lot of money - it's a very affordable thing to do.\n\n\"It's more than a royal collection, it's a connection to my childhood and it's preserving aspects of royal history.\"\n\nDavid Scott inherited his mother's royal collection and has added to it since\n\nOne of David's most treasured items is a recording of the 1953 coronation.\n\n\"The authenticity, the sound of the needle going across the vinyl - it somehow transports you back,\" he said.\n\n\"I sometimes think of how families may have gathered round the wireless to listen to the Coronation and now 70 years later they will be gathered around 60-inch plasmas and it will be colour and wall-to-wall coverage.\n\n\"On Saturday I will be glued to the TV - my generation has only ever known one monarch so this is our opportunity to witness history in the making,\" he added.", "Existing patient record systems should be \"fit for purpose\", the audit office report said\n\nThe number of pre-school vaccinations is steadily declining, the Northern Ireland Audit Office report has found.\n\nIt shows that the rate of children getting the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine at two years of age has fallen from just below 96% in 2012-13 to 90% in 2021-22.\n\nThis is well below rates in Scotland and Wales, but above those in England.\n\nIn total, the report shows that 15,000 children have not received all MMR doses in the past seven years.\n\nAlso, 10,200 children have not received all recommended doses of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV).\n\nThe report recommends the Department of Health take steps to ensure existing information systems supporting vaccinations are \"fit for purpose\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Audit Office (NIAO) said information systems are essential for maintaining the integrity of immunisation data and for its \"seamless inclusion\" within an electronic patient-record system.\n\nThese systems were announced for Northern Ireland in late 2020.\n\nHowever, the NIAO study found that vaccination rates in three of five local health trusts were close to or above the World Health Organisation target.\n\nIn the Belfast Health Trust, one in three children have not been fully immunised against PCV since 2015.\n\nIn the same trust over the past seven years, one in seven children have missed the six-in-one vaccine doses which protect against multiple diseases.\n\nDorinnia Carville, the NIAO's comptroller and auditor general, said vaccination against infectious disease remains one of the most \"successful and cost-effective ways to help manage the health of a population\".\n\nShe added: \"However, as many vaccine-preventable diseases require a series of immunisations to be administered to infants and small children at pre-determined intervals, overall effectiveness is heavily reliant on consistently high levels of participation.\"\n\nOther recommendations in the report include providing adequate staffing for GP practices and appropriate clinical training to maintain standards of patient safety.\n\nIt recommended using clear, fact-based and consistent positive messages around vaccinations as an important way to mitigate against uncertainty in the population, and increase rates of coverage.\n\nDr Alan Stout, chair of the British Medical Association (BMA)'s GP committee in Northern Ireland, said the report was important.\n\nHe told BBC Good Morning Ulster that there are pressures in primary care and that \"affects the vaccination process\".\n\nDr Stout said post-pandemic, there have been \"more conversations\" about vaccines, adding: \"There's a hesitancy, whether that is causing a significant decline, I don't know.\"\n\nThe Department of Health said it agreed with the significant findings for public health highlighted in the NIAO report and accepted the recommendations made.\n\n\"We recognise the multiple factors likely contributing to declining uptake in pre-school vaccinations, including service pressures and workforce,\" a statement from the department read.\n\nIt said the Public Health Agency (PHA) had developed an action plan as part of this ongoing work.\n\nThe PHA said the decrease in children getting vaccinated was due to a combination of people forgetting how serious diseases such as measles or polio can be, due to their dramatic reduction because of good vaccine uptake in the past, and disruption to routine vaccination programmes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe agency said it was currently undertaking work to promote the importance of the childhood immunisation programme to parents and in schools.\n\nIt said more targeted interventions with multi-disciplinary teams to improve vaccination uptake among \"harder to reach\" communities were also taking place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has attended his father's Coronation, sitting two rows from his brother at Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe prince had arrived without his wife Meghan, who stayed in the US, and he left immediately afterwards for a return flight from Heathrow.\n\nThe BBC understands he was not invited to appear on the balcony at Buckingham Palace following the ceremony.\n\nIt is the first time he has been seen publicly with his family since his controversial memoir Spare came out.\n\nPrince Harry, who arrived in the UK on Friday, was back in Los Angeles at 19:30 local time on Saturday after taking a British Airways flight, the PA news agency reported.\n\nHe got into a car alone outside the abbey shortly after the Coronation service had finished.\n\nNinety minutes later, on the Buckingham Palace balcony, the King and Queen were joined by other working members of the Royal Family, including the Prince and Princess of Wales, and their children.\n\nPrince Harry's wife, the Duchess of Sussex, remained in Los Angeles with their children, where their son Prince Archie is celebrating his fourth birthday.\n\nA source earlier told the US outlet Page Six that Prince Harry intended to make \"every effort to get back in time for Archie's birthday\".\n\nPrince Harry wore a morning suit and medals at the ceremony and he sat with his cousin Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank in the third row, along with his uncle the Duke of York, Prince Andrew.\n\nTwo rows ahead in the front were the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, as well as the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.\n\nFor the late Queen Elizabeth's funeral last year, Prince Harry was in the second row - directly behind the King - at the abbey.\n\nIt was already known that Prince Harry would attend the ceremony alone and have no formal role as he is not a working member of the Royal Family.\n\nThis was also the case for Prince Andrew.\n\nPrince Harry arrived at Westminster Abbey in a morning suit with medals\n\nHe walked in alongside the Princess Beatrice and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi\n\nRelations between Prince Harry and other members of the family have been strained since his memoir was published.\n\nThe book vividly revealed fall-outs and disagreements with relatives, and he has since spoken of feeling \"different\" from the rest of his family.\n\nThe decision for Meghan to reject the invitation was widely seen as part of these continuing, unresolved family tensions.\n\nAnd last month it was revealed that the King tried to stop Prince Harry taking legal action against newspapers over alleged phone-hacking.\n\nIn a witness statement revealed by court papers, Prince Harry said he was \"summoned to Buckingham Palace\" and told to drop the cases because of the effect on the family.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA video of a deposition given by former US president Donald Trump as part of his civil rape trial has been released by the court.\n\nThe roughly 48-minute video shows Mr Trump, 76, mistaking his accuser E Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples in a photo.\n\nIt also shows him repeating his denial of Ms Carroll's allegations by claiming she is \"not my type\".\n\nLawyers for both sides rested their case on Thursday.\n\nMr Trump has not been present in New York for the trial and his lawyers called no witnesses before resting their case.\n\nBut, on a judge's orders, the former president formally provided sworn evidence on camera last October over Ms Carroll's claim that he raped her inside a New York City department store in the mid-1990s.\n\nVideo of the deposition was shown to jurors on Thursday and publicly released for the first time on Friday after a petition by media organisations.\n\nDuring the deposition, Mr Trump is shown the leaked Access Hollywood tape, which was published by the Washington Post during the 2016 presidential campaign.\n\nMr Trump can be seen shifting uncomfortably in his seat as he is heard on the tape saying \"you can do anything\" to women \"when you're a star\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump agrees \"stars can do anything to women\" in video deposition\n\nThe footage also shows him describing Ms Carroll's allegations as \"the most ridiculous, disgusting story. It was just made up\".\n\nWhen he is shown an old photo of him with his first wife Ivana, Ms Carroll and her then-husband John Johnson, Mr Trump misidentifies his accuser with the words \"it's Marla\".\n\nStill looking at the picture, he says \"That's Marla, yeah. That's my wife\" before his lawyer corrects him. Mr Trump then replies that the photo is \"very blurry\".\n\nAt another point in the video, Mr Trump is unable to recall the date of his marriage to Ms Maples, his second wife and mother to his daughter Tiffany.\n\nMs Carroll, a writer and long-time advice columnist, is suing the former president for battery over the original incident, as well as for defamation over his adamant denials of the incident.\n\nIn the deposition, Mr Trump repeated a comment he has made since Ms Carroll first came forward in 2019, saying: \"I say it with as much respect as I can, but she is not my type.\"\n\n\"Physically, she's not my type, and now that I've gotten indirectly to hear things about her, she wouldn't be my type in any way, shape, or form,\" he adds.\n\nHe goes on to tell Ms Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan: \"You would not be my choice either, I hope you're not insulted.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuring their combative exchanges, he calls Ms Kaplan a \"political operative\" and a \"disgrace\".\n\nLawyers for Mr Trump have said he will not testify in person, but the former president told reporters he might cut short a trip to Ireland and the UK to \"confront\" Ms Carroll in court.\n\nIn light of the comments, the judge granted Mr Trump until Sunday afternoon to decide if he will take the stand.", "Homosalate, a sunscreen ingredient common in concealer and foundations, may need to be tested on animals\n\nThe government has allowed animal testing for makeup ingredients to resume despite a 25-year ban.\n\nIt changed a policy on animal testing to align with EU chemical rules, according to a High Court ruling.\n\nThe High Court said on Friday that the government was acting legally after a case was brought by animal rights activists.\n\nMore than 80 brands have said they are \"dismayed\" by the government's new position.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson told the BBC: \"We are pleased that the High Court has agreed with the Government's position in this case. The government is committed to the protection of animals in science\".\n\nAnimal testing for makeup or its ingredients had been completely banned in the UK since 1998. Animal testing had only been allowed if the benefits gained from the research outweighed any animal suffering, for example for medicines.\n\nBut in 2020 the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), an EU agency which oversees chemical regulation, ruled that companies needed to test some ingredients used in cosmetics on animals to ensure they were safe for workers manufacturing the ingredients.\n\nDuring the case it was revealed that since 2019 the government had been issuing licences for animal testing of cosmetic ingredients in line with EU chemical rules, which it retained despite leaving the EU in 2020.\n\nBut manufacturers still cannot undertake any animal testing to check the safety of the makeup for consumers. This should be done using other methods.\n\nThis could include testing chemicals commonly found in foundations and concealers by forcing rats to inhale or ingest them.\n\nIt is not known how many such licences were issued or to whom.\n\nCruelty Free International (CFI), which brought the case, argued this was illegal and in breach of the animal testing ban for makeup and its ingredients, which has stood since 1998.\n\nMr Justice Linden ruled in favour of the government, saying that the change in policy still met existing laws, although he said it was \"regrettable\" the public had not been informed.\n\nThe change in the government's position has been heavily criticised by major beauty and cosmetic brands, including Unilever, Body Shop and Boots. Most major brands have long campaigned to end animal testing.\n\nCruelty Free International said it was \"outrageous\" that the government had effectively lifted the ban.\n\nChristopher Davis, director of activism and sustainability at the Body Shop said they would \"campaign vigorously\" against the changes.\n\n\"Allowing animal testing for cosmetics would be a devastating blow to the millions of people who have supported campaigns to end this appalling practice,\" he told the BBC after the ruling.\n\nThe ingredients that may be tested on animals include homosalate - a common sunscreen ingredient used already in many foundations and skincare products.\n\nIn low doses homosalate is safe but in higher concentrations the evidence for its impact on the human immune system are inconclusive.\n\nMr Justice Linden said that nothing was stopping the government from introducing an absolute ban on animal testing of makeup products if it desired.\n\nCruelty Free International CEO Michelle Thew said: \"The case shows clearly that [the government] was prioritising the interests of contract-testing companies over those of animals and the wishes of the vast majority of British people who are strongly opposed to cosmetics testing.\"\n\nCFI said it would appeal the decision made by the court and ask the government to reinstate the complete ban in the UK.\n\nEU chemicals rules require some cosmetics ingredients to be tested on animals to protect workers\n\nDr Julia Fentem, head of the safety and environmental assurance centre at Unilever - one of the world's largest cosmetic companies - said tests potentially required under the new policy were \"unnecessary\", and that safety tests could be carried out without animal involvement.\n\nA new chemicals strategy is expected to be published this year outlining the government's position on the use and testing of chemicals in the UK - which may include further guidance to cosmetic companies.\n\nClarification 11 May 2023: This article's headline has been amended to make clear that the story concerns makeup ingredients.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kate greets crowds: 'The kids are excited but a bit nervous'\n\nA smiling King Charles III has thanked well-wishers for their support during a walkabout outside Buckingham Palace ahead of his coronation.\n\nThe King laughed and shook hands with members of the public, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nPeople brought union jacks and pretend crowns, and some sang God Save the King.\n\nThe walkabout on the Mall had a high security presence, with dozens of cars and police on motorbikes.\n\nThousands turned out for the event, and shouts of \"best of luck\" and \"good luck tomorrow\" could be heard. One woman cried: \"Love you Charlie!\"\n\nThe King laughed when asked by a man if he was nervous for tomorrow, and joked to some children: \"No school? You've done very well!\"\n\nAmong the onlookers were royal fans from across the world.\n\nThe King greeted enthusiastic revellers who had gathered near Buckingham Palace\n\nCalling from the side of the Mall, one woman said: \"King Charles, it is so nice to meet you - we came here from America!\"\n\nAnother man remarked: \"I came from Bangkok\", to which the King replied: \"It's nice to meet you.\"\n\nThe walkabout by the Royal Family took place before an evening reception for foreign dignitaries at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe event was hosted by the King, and welcomed royals from countries including Spain, Denmark, Jordan and Monaco, as well as Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska and the Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.\n\nIt was also attended by US First Lady, Jill Biden, and one of her granddaughters.\n\nAs night fell on Friday evening, a number of people were camping out on the Mall to secure a spot for the Coronation on Friday.\n\nAmong those sleeping out were two women holding a sign dubbing the road \"Coronation Street\".\n\nBarbara Crowther, 69, and her friend Pauline, had come dressed in aprons with a union jack print.\n\n\"We weren't going to camp, but there are so many people here - we thought that if we don't camp out, we won't get anywhere near the front,\" said Ms Crowther.\n\n\"We've been to all the weddings, all the funerals.\"\n\nEarlier in the day at the walkabout, Prince William and Catherine posed for photographs with supporters.\n\nSpeaking to a BBC reporter on the Mall, the princess revealed her children were \"a bit nervous\" and \"excited\" and could not wait for the day.\n\nPrince George is set to play a starring role in the coronation and Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis are also expected to attend the historic day.\n\nOne woman called Faby, from London, told PA news agency she had shaken hands with the King and found him charming.\n\n\"It was incredible,\" the 55-year-old said. \"It's not every day you get to shake hands with the King. It was so lovely.\"\n\nTheresa Iredale, who turns 66 on Saturday, the day of the Coronation, wore a plastic crown.\n\nShe said the King thanked her for coming and congratulated her when she told him about her birthday.\n\n\"I was shaking. I saw his hand coming out to mine and I was like, 'I can't believe I'm shaking the King's hand'. A special moment.\"\n\nWell wishers had words of encouragements for the royals ahead of the big day tomorrow\n\n\"It is a moment of celebration; enjoy tomorrow,\" Catherine said to one woman.\n\nShe appeared to take part in a video call at one stage before also speaking on another person's phone then handing it back.\n\nAs well as union jacks, other flags on display included ones representing Germany, Wales, Canada and Australia. Cries of \"Hip, hip, hooray\" also rang out.\n\nThe King and Camilla, the Queen Consort, earlier attended a rehearsal at Westminster Abbey, before hosting a special lunch at Buckingham Palace for leaders of the Commonwealth - the 15 countries where he is monarch.\n\nAttendees included UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and Prime Minister of New Zealand Chris Hipkins.\n\nSaturday's Coronation begins at 11:00 BST (10:00 GMT) in Westminster Abbey, and will be led by the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nAt 13:00, the King and Queen will leave Westminster Abbey in a ceremonial procession back to Buckingham Palace, joined by other members of the Royal Family.\n\nAs part of the Coronation, for the first time the public are being given an active role in the ceremony and will be invited to swear allegiance to the King.\n\nThe \"homage of the people\" is a new addition to the ancient ceremony, which is being led by Justin Welby.\n\nIt was revealed, along with other details of the service, in a liturgy published by Lambeth Palace last weekend. Lambeth Palace said the liturgy had been produced \"in close consultation\" with the King and the government.\n\nCampaign group Republic called the idea \"nonsense\" and \"offensive\".\n\nThe King's close friend and biographer, broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby, earlier said the King would find the idea of people paying homage to him during his Coronation \"abhorrent\".\n\nScheduled as part of the pageantry on Saturday is a fly-past, but it will be dependent on the weather, with a 70% chance of showers at the same time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC weather forecaster Matt Taylor looks at the forecast for the Coronation\n\nRoyal fans who will be in London to celebrate the occasion are advised to bring umbrellas, cagoules and waterproof jackets.\n\nRoyal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Wigston said \"it's 50/50\" as to whether a fly-past scheduled to go over the Mall and Buckingham Palace after 14:15 BST will happen.\n\nIt will consist of more than 60 aircraft from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force - including the Red Arrows - but a final decision will be made just one or two hours before it is due to start.\n\nBBC Weather forecaster Chris Fawkes said cloud was expected to \"quickly thicken\" during the morning with \"outbreaks of rain moving in\".\n\n\"The rain will often tend to be light and drizzly, but a few heavier bursts are possible,\" he said.\n\n\"The weather will slowly become drier through the afternoon, perhaps with some sunny spells to end the day.\"\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nRodrygo scored twice as Real Madrid won the Copa del Rey for the first time since 2014 after beating Osasuna in the final in Seville.\n\nThe Brazilian was on hand to fire the winner from close range after Toni Kroos' shot deflected into his path.\n\nOsasuna, playing in only their second Copa del Rey final, had threatened an upset when Lucas Torro levelled.\n\nRodrygo handed Real an early lead with the fastest goal in a Spanish cup final for 17 years after 106 seconds.\n\nOsasuna, backed by nearly 25,000 fans inside the Estadio de La Cartuja, had their chances as they chased a first major trophy in their 103-year history.\n\nThey were denied a stoppage-time equaliser when Dani Carvajal produced a last-ditch block to keep out Kike Barja's side-footed effort.\n\nLos Rojillos, which translates as The Little Reds, had more shots on target (5) than Real (3), but Carlo Ancelotti's side were ultimately more clinical in front of goal.\n\nVictory for Real delivers a 20th Copa del Rey title as they now turn their attention to Tuesday's Champions League semi-final first leg against Manchester City.\n\nOsasuna fans had travelled in large numbers and painted the city of Seville red in anticipation of Saturday's final, but it could not have started any worse on the field.\n\nVinicius Jr, who returned to the Real starting XI as Ancelotti made five changes to the side that lost at Real Sociedad, proved to be a constant threat down the left.\n\nThe Brazilian beat his marker and got to the byline before cutting the ball back across the face of goal for Rodrygo to convert for the opening goal.\n\nOsasuna's task nearly became even harder when Karim Benzema forced Sergio Herrera into a smart save, but Jagoba Arrasate's side began to grow into the game and they could have equalised a minute later.\n\nBearing down on goal after shrugging off the challenge of Eder Militao, Abde Ezzalzouli beat Thibaut Courtois but could not guide his chipped effort on target.\n\nThe leveller did come after the break when Torro's controlled finish from outside the area against his former club sent the red half of the stadium into delirium.\n\nSome of the enthusiasm spilled over as play was momentarily halted while stewards had to use a fire extinguisher on a loose pyrotechnic where the Osasuna fans were housed.\n\nBut Madrid always carried a threat and when Vinicius Jr burst through down the left once more and dragged the ball back from the byline, Kroos' effort came off Garcia for Rodrygo to pounce and lift into the net.\n\nWith the La Liga title seemingly heading to Barcelona, Ancelotti's side will enjoy their celebrations before turning their attention to the Champions League.\n\nThe holders will be hoping they can welcome back Luka Modric from a hamstring issue to face City in the first leg at the Bernabeu.", "In 1953, millions crowded around their neighbours' television sets to watch the Queen's coronation. Seventy years on, the crowning of King Charles III was a very different kind of spectacle.\n\nBefore dawn, at 04:30 BST, a convoy of three coaches set off from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, carrying royal enthusiasts to London. On board was Sandra Hanna, who was born 10 days after King Charles. Although she and the King had experienced somewhat different upbringings, they had a \"shared history\", she said.\n\nExplaining why she had risen up so early to make the 175-mile (282km) journey, she remarked: \"You can't soak up the atmosphere through a TV screen.\"\n\nComing so soon after the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 - a moment of high emotion for millions who said goodbye - this coronation was always going to have a very different ambience. The wet May weather threatened to dampen the mood.\n\nBut still the crowds came - to central London and also to cities and towns across the UK. People gathered in public spaces where the ceremony was screened live.\n\nDraped in Ukrainian and union flags, David-Jon Davies, 52, watched on a big screen at Liverpool's Eurovision Village. It was a proud moment for the city, he said: \"Although I might see another coronation in my lifetime, I definitely won't see one at the same time we're hosting Eurovision.\"\n\nWhile some of those who turned out around the UK were ardent monarchists, for others it was the sense of occasion that mattered. \"I wouldn't say I'm a royalist but I wouldn't want to have missed this,\" said Karen Greenfield, 54, from Doncaster, who watched in Hull city centre.\n\nMany more settled indoors to watch.\n\nOne of those was Audrey Biggs, from St Hilary, in the Vale of Glamorgan, who celebrated her 100th birthday in a care home. Charles would be the fifth monarch whose reign she would live through. Back in 1953, her family had been one of those who bought a TV to watch the previous coronation.\n\n\"He's a rather sensitive sort of a man,\" she said of the King. \"He'll be anxious to make a good job of it, which he will I'm sure.\"\n\nIn a digital, multi-channel, multi-device era, the 2023 Coronation was never going to be the same kind of occasion as 1953. Some protested against the occasion itself. Others tried their best to ignore the whole thing.\n\nThe street parties and gun salutes were still there, of course. And members of the public found idiosyncratic ways to celebrate the occasion ahead.\n\nIn Milton Keynes, a model railway club spent months building a miniature version of the coronation. \"Yarn-bombers\" around Scotland crafted knitted effigies of King Charles and Queen Camilla and attached them to post boxes. Chocolatier Jennifer Lindsey-Clarke, from Worthing, in West Sussex, sculpted a life-sized bust of the King from more than 17 litres (3.7 gallons) of melted chocolate.\n\nAt the same time, plenty of others switched off - either because they simply weren't interested in the spectacle, or because they considered it an affront to democracy.\n\n\"We won't be taking any notice of it,\" Owen Williams, from Barry, told BBC Radio Wales. \"Instead of a coronation, I'd prefer an election. Instead of Charles, I'd prefer a choice.\"\n\nOther non-monarchists concluded their best option was to throw celebrations of their own. The Dog and Partridge pub, in Sheffield, declared itself an \"anti-Coronation safe space\". The Cube cinema, in Bristol, organised an \"anti-street party\" for critics of the British empire.\n\nPro-republic rallies were held in Cardiff and Edinburgh. A crowd of anti-monarchy protesters gathered in London's Trafalgar Square, where the ceremony was relayed over loudspeakers. Whenever Charles's name was mentioned, demonstrators chanted \"not my King\". There were also regular bursts of \"free Graham Smith\" - the head of campaign group Republic, who was arrested earlier in the day.\n\nBefore the procession started, there was a sense of anticipation in crowds around Buckingham Palace. In her bright red, blue and white wig, Heidi Roberts, from Surrey, said she was looking forward to having something to celebrate: \"I think we're all mourning the Queen, and I think it's a bit of a hangover from that.\"\n\nAs the procession began just after 10:20 BST, onlookers along the route erupted in cheers. This was the pageantry they had come for; that and a glimpse of the King and Queen.\n\nThe carriage reached Westminster Abbey and the ceremony began - broadcast to the world and piped to the crowds outside.\n\nThis time the TV pictures were in colour. And social media would curate it for you. On Twitter, Penny Mordaunt - the Conservative MP and leader of the House of Commons, who brandished the Sword of State as part of its presentation to the King - began trending. So too for a time was the republican slogan #NotMyKing.\n\nIn Majorca, British expats and tourists watched on big screens as they sat in the sunshine in novelty crowns. In New York, Iain Anderson, 43, organised a screening at Tea and Sympathy, a British-themed café and shop.\n\n\"We haven't had the best history after that little war\", he joked, referring to the American Revolution. \"But people still like the history. The theatre of it, the pomp and the circumstance.\"\n\nAt the moment the Archbishop of Canterbury placed the crown on King Charles's head, the sound of popping corks could be heard along The Mall. Soon afterwards, as the carriage returned to Buckingham Palace, there were shouts of \"God Save the King\" and \"hip hip hooray\" from the crowd.\n\nThe appearance of the King and Queen on the palace's balcony - albeit with a scaled-back military flypast due to the weather - was imminent. The barriers were lowered. The crowd rushed to the front.\n\nCheryl Kingbrooks, Joanne Gerrard and her son Ryan were among them. \"We never thought we'd get right to the front,\" Cheryl said afterwards.\n\n\"We were right at the back of The Mall, and then as soon as the gates opened, we just ran down and we didn't realise we'd get that far forward. But we did and it was absolutely amazing,\" Ryan added.\n\nSoon after, the new King and Queen retreated inside. For some it had been a day to immerse themselves in, to be part of, come rain or shine. For others it was something to ignore or even endure. Either way, a new reign had begun.", "Johanita Kossiwa Dogbey was attacked on Monday afternoon in Brixton\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman in south London, as well as offences connected to other alleged stabbing attacks.\n\nJohanita Kossiwa Dogbey, 31, was killed on Stockwell Park Walk in Brixton on Monday afternoon.\n\nMohamed Nur is accused of her murder and possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nMr Nur, 33, is also accused of another count of possession of an offensive weapon and causing grievous bodily harm to three people, last Saturday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said two women and a man suffered slash injuries in Town Hall Parade, Brixton Road and Acre Lane in Brixton during a one-hour period.\n\nMs Dogbey was treated by paramedics but pronounced dead at the scene\n\nEarlier on Friday, Mr Nur, of Bond Way in Vauxhall, appeared at Croydon Magistrates' Court where he was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey next week.\n\nMs Dogbey's family has described her as a \"smart, dedicated and loving\" woman who \"hasn't got one bad bone in her body\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sport has paid tribute to King Charles III on the day of his coronation.\n\nPlayers lined up as the national anthem was played before football and cricket matches throughout the country.\n\nSimilar tributes were also held before Saturday's final round of games in the rugby union Premiership, which were put back to a 16:00 BST start so fans could enjoy the celebrations.\n\nThe tributes were not universal as many Liverpool fans booed the anthem before their home game against Brentford.\n\nAs both teams lined up around the centre circle for 'God Save The King' to be played, a large part of Anfield began booing before breaking into chants of \"Liverpool\".\n\nElsewhere, there were special ceremonies held at the Newmarket horse race meeting, as well as at the Badminton Horse Trials.\n\nFootball's tribute to King Charles III started with Friday's Women's Super League match between Arsenal and Leicester at Boreham Wood, when players surrounded the centre circle to observe the national anthem.\n\nOn Saturday, Chelsea forward Sam Kerr, an Australian international, was chosen to carry her country's flag to lead the Australian delegation as they made their way into Westminster Abbey in London before the coronation ceremony.\n\nThe national anthem was later observed before four Premier League matches that kicked off at 15:00, which included Manchester City v Leeds, Bournemouth v Chelsea, Tottenham v Crystal Palace and Wolves v Aston Villa.\n\nManchester City's game at Etihad Stadium had originally been planned for an early televised kick-off but was moved to avoid a clash with the coronation ceremony after the Premier League agreed to relax broadcast blackout rules.\n\nLiverpool played the national anthem before their 17:30 kick-off against Brentford, despite the club saying they know some fans \"have strong views on it\".\n\nA section of the club's support booed 'Abide With Me' and 'God Save The Queen' before last season's FA Cup final, while anti-coronation songs were heard during Wednesday's win over Fulham at Anfield.\n\nSpeaking after the match, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, who had wished \"King Charles III well, not just today but also for the future,\" in his programme notes, said: \"We have freedom of speech. That means a free opinion as well. It was clear that something like this would happen, I think everyone knew it. And that is allowed. That is fine.\n\n\"Nothing else happened and there was not any kind of chants or anything like that. It was just that the people showed [their feelings].\n\n\"I don't know exactly what it is but the people of Liverpool in the past were not always happy with how the city or the club was dealt with so that is what they did.\"\n\nCricketers stood while 'God Save The King' was played before games in the County Championship and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, which started on Saturday morning.\n\nFormer England captain Alastair Cook, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2019, joined his Essex team-mates and opponents from Surrey, including England players Ollie Pope, Ben Foakes and Will Jacks, as they lined the boundary edge at Chelmsford.\n\nSimilar scenes played out at Headingley, Derby, Trent Bridge, Old Trafford and Chester-le-Street, while rain delayed play at Taunton, allowing spectators to watch the coronation ceremony on big TV screens at the ground before the start of Somerset's match against Northamptonshire.\n\nAll five matches in the final round of the Premiership, which included games at Bath, Bristol, Leicester Tigers, London Irish and Sale, featured a pause for the national anthem before the action began.\n\nEvents in London also had an impact at the Badminton Horse Trials, where the day's dressage started at 08:00 and paused at 10:15 to allow spectators to watch the Coronation on big screens, with competition beginning again from 12:45.\n\nAnd racing at Newmarket was put back, starting at the later time of 13:40, because of the Coronation, meaning the featured 2,000 Guineas, the first Classic race of the flat season, did not get underway until 16:40.", "Protesters in New York City have called for an arrest to be made\n\nA 24-year-old ex-Marine who placed New York City subway passenger Jordan Neely in a deadly chokehold has defended his response, saying he and other passengers were acting in self-defence.\n\nIn a statement issued by his lawyers on Friday, Daniel Penny expressed condolences to Mr Neely's family.\n\nHis cause of death has been ruled a homicide. No charges have been filed for his death so far.\n\nThe case has focused attention on crime and homelessness on public transport.\n\n\"We would first, like to express, on behalf Daniel Penny, our condolences to those close to Mr Neely,\" his lawyers said in a statement issued to US media.\n\nThe statement says that Mr Neely - a 30-year-old homeless Michael Jackson impersonator, \"had a documented history of violent and erratic behaviour\" which they said was \"the apparent result of ongoing and untreated, mental illness\".\n\nThe lawyers add that Mr Neely had been \"aggressively threatening\" their client and other passengers, and that Mr Penny and others \"acted to protect themselves, until help arrived\".\n\n\"Daniel never intended to harm Mr Neely and could not have foreseen his untimely death.\"\n\nThe Manhattan prosecutor and police are currently deciding whether to press charges. Homicide means a death caused by another person, but is not necessarily a murder.\n\nThe incident happened on Monday afternoon on the F-line train in the SoHo section of Manhattan.\n\nA video captured by a freelance journalist on the train shows the former Marine holding the 30-year-old man - who was said to have been acting erratically - around the neck for two minutes and 55 seconds.\n\nTwo other passengers are also seen restraining his arms. All three later let go of the man, who is then seen lying motionless on the floor.\n\nPolice told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, that Mr Penny told other passengers to call 911 during the struggle with Mr Neely.\n\nThe network reports that a grand jury will probably meet next week to determine whether there is enough evidence to press charges. If charges are brought, Mr Penny will probably argue that his reaction was justified to defend himself.\n\nIn order to be found guilty, prosecutors must prove that he used deadly force without believing that Mr Neely was also prepared to use deadly force, experts told the New York Times.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProtests have been held calling for an arrest to be made in the wake of the chokehold death.\n\nThe statement by Mr Penny's lawyers went on to say: \"We hope that out of this awful tragedy will come a new commitment by our elected officials to address the mental health crisis on our streets and subways.\"", "Police Scotland officers carried out a search of the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh in April\n\nPolice Scotland consulted the National Crime Agency about its investigation into the SNP's finances.\n\nThe BBC understands the national force asked the UK agency to carry out an independent review of its inquiry last year.\n\nThe terms and outcome of this exercise have not been made public.\n\nThe investigation has intensified since then with high profile arrests, searches and the seizure of a motorhome.\n\nPolice sources said it was \"good practice\" in cases of this nature for the inquiry team to ask another force to double check their work.\n\nThis is known as a \"peer review\".\n\nAccording to one senior police source, a peer review is typically \"conducted to check on the status, strategy and direction of an investigation\".\n\nThey added: \"The review checks that the lines of inquiry are correct, that nothing has been missed and that the rationale is proportionate and necessary\".\n\nThe National Crime Agency is based in Westminster, London\n\nThe National Crime Agency specialises in the investigation of serious and organised crime across the UK.\n\nIt is not otherwise involved in the investigation into the SNP's finances and fundraising, known as Operation Branchform.\n\nThat began in July 2021 following complaints about how more than £600,000 of donations for a future independence referendum were used.\n\nThe SNP's former chief executive Peter Murrell and the party's ex-treasurer Colin Beattie were arrested, questioned as suspects and released without charge.\n\nThe former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she would fully cooperate with police if they wanted to speak to her.\n\nMs Sturgeon spoke to journalists in the Scottish Parliament last month\n\nThe Uddingston home she shares with Mr Murrell, who is her husband, was searched for two days last month. She later described the experience as \"traumatic\".\n\nA further search was carried out at SNP headquarters in Edinburgh with officers removing boxes of material from the premises.\n\nPolice also removed a luxury motorhome from the driveway of Mr Murrell's mother's home in Fife.\n\nSome in the SNP have publicly questioned Police Scotland's approach with the Glasgow MSP James Dornan describing it as a \"fiasco\" on social media.\n\nMurray Foote, the party's former communications chief at Holyrood, last week said he was prepared to bet that no charges would be brought.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"As the investigation is ongoing we are unable to comment further\".\n\nThe SNP appointed new auditors this week after the firm Johnston Carmichael quit last September.\n\nThe party's Westminster group risks losing £1.2m in public funding if it cannot submit audited accounts by the end of this month.\n\nThe party as a whole could be fined if it cannot meet a separate deadline to submit accounts to the Electoral Commission in July.\n\nOn Wednesday SNP leader Humza Yousaf said he was optimistic the deadlines would be met but described the timetable as \"challenging\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDozens of people have been arrested during the King's Coronation, including the leader of a prominent anti-monarchy group.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police said 52 arrests were made for a range of reasons, and all remain in custody.\n\nThe arrest of anti-monarchy protesters earlier in the day has been labelled \"alarming\" by human rights groups.\n\nThe Met said it \"understands\" public concern, but that officers had acted proportionally under the law.\n\n\"Protest is lawful and it can be disruptive,\" Commander Karen Findlay, leading the day's operation, said - pointing to numerous protests that had been policed without any arrests.\n\nOfficers, she said, have a duty to intervene \"when protest becomes criminal and may cause serious disruption\".\n\n\"This depends on the context. The Coronation is a once in a generation event and that is a key consideration in our assessment.\"\n\nAccusations of heavy-handed enforcement began early on Saturday before the Coronation began, when the chief executive of anti-monarchist campaign group Republic, Graham Smith, was arrested at a protest in Trafalgar Square.\n\nFootage showed protesters in \"Not My King\" t-shirts being detained, including Mr Smith. Republic said they were stopped by police while unloading signs near the procession.\n\nThe Met said \"lock-on devices\" - which protesters can use to secure themselves to things like railings - had been seized. Recent changes to the law, passed this week, make it illegal to prepare to lock-on.\n\nBut Republic said officers had \"misconstrued\" straps meant to secure their signs in place.\n\nPolice said the 52 arrests were made for offences including affray, public order offences, breach of the peace and conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.\n\nA breakdown provided later revealed that 32 - or about 60% - were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.\n\nThe Met did not specify how many arrests were of anti-monarchy protesters, but climate group Just Stop Oil said about 13 protesters were arrested on the Mall in London and five others in Downing Street.\n\nA Just Stop Oil spokeswoman said their plan was \"only to display T-shirts and flags\", adding: \"This is a dystopian nightmare.\"\n\nFellow environmental protesters Animal Rising said a number of their supporters were arrested at a training session \"miles away from the coronation\".\n\n\"The reports of people being arrested for peacefully protesting the coronation are incredibly alarming,\" said Human Rights Watch UK director Yasmine Ahmed.\n\n\"This is something you would expect to see in Moscow, not London.\"\n\nHundreds of protesters gathered in the rain in central London on Saturday, with chants including \"down with the Crown\", \"don't talk to the police\" and \"get a real job\".\n\nOther protests were organised in Cardiff, Glasgow and Edinburgh. No arrests were reported outside London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRepublic posted photos on Twitter of police officers taking details from those who were arrested.\n\n\"So much for the right to peaceful protest,\" the group said, adding the force would not give the reasons for their arrest.\n\nDuring the Coronation ceremony, which was broadcast in Trafalgar Square over loud speakers, hundreds of protesters booed the declarations of \"God Save the King\".\n\nAround 300 people gathered for a protest organised by Republic Cymru in Cardiff City Centre.\n\nIn Scotland, supporters of Scottish independence chanted anti-monarchy slogans on a march in Glasgow city centre, while a separate rally was held by the group Our Republic, which campaigns for an elected head of state.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "You can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "This was history in the making - and you had to pinch yourself to think you were seeing it close-up, inside Westminster Abbey.\n\nOver there was the battered but rather beautiful Coronation chair, with a King about to be crowned. It looked almost fragile waiting for its royal occupant.\n\nYou could feel the sense of expectation. It was really happening right here, on an altar full of candlelight, prayers and a glow of gold. The Abbey was like being inside a jewel box.\n\nThe first Coronation in 70 years proved to be a sumptuous, seamless and often surreal ceremony.\n\nBefore 2,300 guests, King Charles and Queen Camilla went through the ancient rituals, with a twist of modern signals about diversity.\n\nBut it was also like a spectacularly lavish wedding, with friends, families and famous faces crowded into every corner of the church, playing with their phones, checking to see who else was there.\n\nAnd where else would international royalty, world leaders and 100 overseas heads of state get an opportunity to meet Ant and Dec?\n\nThe King is crowned in the 700-year-old Coronation chair\n\nThere were glamorous outfits and hats, splashes of military uniforms with epaulettes, plumes and swords, clerical robes and every shade and shape of national dress. The selfies on the way in were going to prove that they'd really been here.\n\nThere were traditional roles with baffling titles such as Bluemantle Pursuivant and Rouge Dragon Pursuivant and a number of men seemed to be entirely dressed in medieval flags.\n\nWalking down the nave when he arrived, the King seemed to be pausing to take it all in.\n\nWhat was he thinking, after all the decades that he'd been waiting for this day? Was he thinking about his mother, his own family, the responsibility?\n\nWhen the Archbishop of Canterbury appeared to give the crown a couple of twists on his head, the King might have been thinking less charitable thoughts.\n\nA guest in the Abbey takes a selfie with Ant and Dec\n\nAnd the only person who could have stolen the King's show was possibly Penny Mordaunt, the lord president of the council, who hovered around the high altar looking like a deity who had escaped from an ancient Greek urn.\n\nBut the King must have been delighted with the music, not least because he'd chosen it himself, like all of this elaborate ceremony. It was like a big work of art and he was its creator.\n\nAt close quarters in the abbey, the orchestra and choir were remarkable, the music welling up like a tidal wave of sound. It was bouncing off the stained glass windows.\n\nThe piece by William Byrd had all the aching melancholy and stillness that you suspect King Charles would really have enjoyed. Handel's Zadok the Priest, full of drama and anticipation, was a real spine-tingler.\n\nThere was also the most eclectic collection of people in the congregation. There were hundreds of charity workers, US First Lady Jill Biden, President Macron and rows of celebrities, such as Joanna Lumley, Maggie Smith, Stephen Fry, and hello, it's Lionel Ritchie.\n\nMany of the guests had been inside the abbey for hours before it started, which meant some of the best-dressed queues ever seen for the toilets. I'd never really thought about the mechanics of such a visit for a peer in floor-length robes and ermine.\n\nIt was a lavish and colourful spectacle in the Abbey\n\nThere had been stories about MPs complaining about a lack of tickets for the Coronation. Part of the problem might be there are now so many ex-PMs to accommodate. Even Liz Truss got a seat.\n\nBoris Johnson arrived looking like his shirt collars were staging their own backbench rebellion.\n\nThe current PM, Rishi Sunak, had a speaking part, delivering the Bible lesson.\n\nFor those hoping to watch any body language between Prince Harry and his brother Prince William, there was nothing to see, as they may as well have been sitting a continent apart.\n\nHarry arrived looking relaxed and chatty, despite this being a huge transatlantic flying visit, and was seated a couple of rows behind Prince William, the Prince of Wales.\n\nPrince Harry was heading back to the US straight after the service\n\nThe older brother, who must have been thinking that one day he'll face his own Coronation, was more engaged in his own role in the ceremony.\n\nThere seemed to be glances exchanged too between the husband and wife at the centre of this event, who were maybe having the big public wedding they didn't have before.\n\nKing Charles now has his Queen Camilla beside him. It took them about half an hour to get to the Abbey in the morning, but their journey to this point has taken them decades.\n\nIt's impossible to go into Westminster Abbey without feeling the weight of history on every side. It seeps from every plaque and statue. Even the clothes had a story. The King was wearing a robe that had been his grandfather's and Catherine was wearing earrings that had been Diana's.\n\nMany guests might have been remembering being here at the late Queen's funeral, which eight months ago went out through the same doors as today's newly-crowned couple.\n\nThe King and Queen left the Abbey in the Gold State Coach\n\nSuch grand occasions, snapshots for the history books, are where the past, present and future overlap.\n\nWith the music soaring and the guests on their feet, the King and Queen left the Abbey to step inside the crown-on-wheels that is the Gold State Coach, with umbrellas up against the rain.\n\nThe carriage pulled away, past a sea of waving camera phones, and another era had begun.", "The inaugural Deaf Arts Festival takes place in Belfast before touring across Northern Ireland\n\nAn actress from County Armagh has said she wants to be a role model for deaf and hard-of-hearing people who are interested in the performing arts.\n\nPaula Clarke, who has been acting for more than 20 years, was born deaf and grew up fluent in sign language.\n\n\"I want to show everybody that deaf actors like myself have the skills, the experience and that professional ability to perform well,\" she said.\n\nShe was speaking ahead of a performance at the inaugural Deaf Arts NI Festival.\n\nThe event, at the MAC in Belfast, is unique in that it caters to both deaf and hearing audiences.\n\nTwo productions this weekend will incorporate hearing and deaf actors performing for an inclusive audience, using a mixture of speech, sign language and interpretation.\n\n\"This has never happened,\" said Paula, who is also a sign language interpreter for BBC Newsline. \"It's so important for hearing and deaf actors, and society in general, to work together.\n\n\"This is like my dream come true. I have been waiting for such a long time and now we've done it and I'm so excited, I'm thrilled.\"\n\nPaula Clarke plays a lead role in Expecting at this year's Deaf Arts Festival\n\nPaula said she has been interested in drama from an early age by dressing up, looking in the mirror and \"trying to imagine myself as a different character\".\n\n\"I would try on make-up and I would ask my mum to photograph me... I'm an only child, so that's why I kind of enjoyed playing alone creatively.\"\n\nHer interest in the performing arts extended to college where she joined an acting course, working with hearing actors, something that was \"slow to start\" but has became easier over the years as she worked across multiple productions.\n\n\"I see so much progress that has been made; people are becoming more aware of sign language and the need for inclusivity,\" she said.\n\n\"It's so important in the arts to include people from all different backgrounds, people who are from different communities - that could be with different disabilities, neurodiversity, LGBTQ community - because there are barriers there.\n\n\"We want to invite other people who are involved in other performance companies to come to see that deaf actors can do it, can provide a high quality of performance.\n\n\"I want to be a role model for other deaf people who are interested in performing as well to show that they can do it.\"\n\nCommunication is key, according to Paula, and this goes far beyond verbal speech.\n\nShe said relationships can be built through gesture, eye contact, visual descriptions and note taking.\n\n\"It's actually a line in the play - communication is a feeling - and that's so important because it's impossible to rely on interpreters for communication all the time because interpreters aren't available 24/7.\"\n\nSarah and Stephen said they have jumped \"head first\" into the inaugural Deaf Arts NI festival\n\nDeaf Arts Northern Ireland, which has been launched to coincide with Deaf Awareness Week, was co-founded by Sara Lyle from Cre8 Theatre in Belfast and Stephen Kelly from c21 Theatre Company in Newtownabbey.\n\nThey made the decision to collaborate on the project after applying for specialist funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It's been a massive undertaking and a really big steep learning curve for the both of us,\" said Sarah.\n\nBoth company directors \"jumped head first\" into learning British Sign Language last year and have spent considerable time on research and development ahead of the festival.\n\n\"Incorporating ourselves into that environment has been amazing. We can communicate on a basic level in the rehearsal room and that's key,\" said Stephen.\n\n\"We just put two feet in and went for it, connecting with interpreters from across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I think this a different mode for them but they are generally super excited to see this amount of access going on,\" Sarah added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast year's best picture Oscar win for Coda - which stands for Children of Deaf Adults - was a victory for a low-budget, independent film that has been praised for its representation of a deaf family, and for its casting of deaf actors.\n\n\"Isn't it about time? It should have been happening ages ago,\" said Sarah.\n\nStephen said he was inspired to bring inclusivity to the forefront after seeing the huge impact made by such larger productions.\n\n\"I think that prompted me, certainly,\" he said. \"We're in a position to make an impact through the medium of drama.\"\n\nCre8 actors rehearsing their play Sleeping Beauty ahead of the festival\n\nThe festival has been made possible with additional support from the Halifax Foundation and Belfast City Council's Arts and Heritage Fund.\n\nAfter a weekend run in Belfast both productions will embark on a tour across Northern Ireland.\n\nFurther ahead, c21 Theatre Company has been invited to perform as part of this year's hearing-impaired offerings at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh.", "The fighting has been particularly fierce in the capital, Khartoum\n\nRepresentatives from Sudan's warring armies have arrived in Saudi Arabia for their first face-to-face negotiations.\n\nThe \"pre-negotiation talks\" between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were due to start on Saturday in Jeddah. They are sponsored by the US and Saudi Arabia.\n\nSeveral ceasefires have broken down since the fighting began weeks ago.\n\nBoth sides have said they will discuss a humanitarian truce but not an end to the conflict.\n\nThere has been no word so far about whether the meeting has taken place or who the representatives from both sides are.\n\nSaudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan welcomed the representatives from both parties. He said he hoped the talks would \"lead to the end of the conflict and the return of security and stability to the Republic of Sudan\".\n\nGen Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who leads the RSF, said on Twitter that the group appreciated all efforts to establish a ceasefire and provide the Sudanese people with aid. He also insisted the RSF was committed to \"the transition to a civilian-led government\".\n\nGen Daglo, better known as Hemedti, is engaged in a bitter power struggle with Sudan's army commander, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan - the country's de facto president.\n\nSaturday's talks come amid reports of continuing clashes in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.\n\nHundreds of people have been killed and nearly 450,000 civilians displaced since the fighting began. Of that total, the International Organization for Migration says, more than 115,000 have sought refuge in neighbouring countries.\n\nA joint US-Saudi statement urged \"both parties to take in consideration the interests of the Sudanese nation and its people and actively engage in the talks towards a ceasefire and end to the conflict\".\n\nA spokesman for UN children's agency, James Elder, said the conflict's first 11 days alone had killed an estimated 190 children and wounded 1,700 - and those figures were just from health facilities in Khartoum and Darfur.\n\n\"The reality is likely to be much worse,\" he said.\n\nThe intensity of the fighting has prevented much-needed aid deliveries getting through.\n\nSo far Gen Burhan and Hemedti, who led an Arab militia in the brutal Darfur conflict, have shown little readiness to reach a peace settlement.", "We're now pausing our live coverage of the Coronation of King Charles after the first British monarch was crowned in 70 years.\n\nAs the BBC's royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - who was inside Westminster Abbey - said: \"This was history in the making.\"\n\nIt was a day of pomp, ceremony and grandeur, complete with a 22-carat gold, 360-year-old crown, a flypast, and a Gold State Coach fit for a king.\n\nCamilla was crowned as Queen, and the pair were joined by members of the Royal Family - though not Prince Harry - for a balcony wave cheered on by thousands gathered outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nThere were some lighter moments, too: Katy Perry's struggle to find her seat in the abbey, Prince Louis' scene stealing yawns, and the collective social media kudos to Penny Mordaunt's sword-carrying skills.\n\nMeanwhile, dozens of people were arrested during the King's Coronation, including the leader of a prominent anti-monarchy group.\n\nWe'll be back for more Coronation coverage tomorrow.\n\nToday's page was a team effort and brought to you by James Fitzgerald, Jasmine Taylor-Coleman, Emma Owen, Alex Therrien, Dulcie Lee, Jamie Whitehead, Thomas Macintosh, Alice Cuddy, Aoife Walsh, Sam Hancock, Marie Jackson, Alys Davies, Ece Goksedef, and myself. Thanks for joining us.", "The Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey was attended by royals from around the world, international leaders, famous faces, faith leaders, charity representatives and local heroes.\n\nHere's a look at who was there - and who got the front row seats.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family were front and centre at the ceremony, many in full regalia, like the Prince and Princess of Wales. They were joined by their children Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, sitting on the front row of Westminster Abbey.\n\nCatherine and Charlotte wore similar Alexander McQueen dresses, with Jess Collett x Alexander McQueen headpieces created with silver bullion, crystal and silver thread.\n\nWilliam spoke to his two younger children, Louis and Charlotte, as they arrived at the abbey\n\nPrincess Charlotte held her brother Louis' hand as they prepared to take their seats\n\nMeanwhile, older brother George was taking his position as a page of honour\n\nTheir eldest child Prince George is one of the King's pages of honour and walked behind his grandfather as he entered the abbey, helping with his robes.\n\nPrince Harry flew in from California for the ceremony, but his wife Meghan did not attend\n\nThe Duke of Sussex attended, sitting alongside his cousins Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. His wife Meghan is staying at their California home with their children Lilibet and Archie - who turns four today.\n\nPrince Andrew arrived by car with his daughter, Princess Eugenie\n\nPrincess Beatrice attended with her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, and was seated near her cousin, Prince Harry\n\nZara Tindall, her husband Mike, and her brother Peter Phillips were all smiles ahead of the service\n\nRepresenting the US was First Lady Jill Biden, accompanied by granddaughter Finnegan - the pair were wearing complementary blue and yellow outfits, the colours of the Ukrainian flag.\n\nUS First Lady Jill Biden with her granddaughter\n\nTheir compatriots at the service included singer Katy Perry, who will be performing at the Coronation concert on Sunday.\n\nWearing a lilac skirt suit and an eye-catching flying saucer-style hat, she was accompanied by British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful as she walked to Westminster Abbey.\n\nAdam Hills, host of the Last Leg, took a photograph of himself with Katy Perry\n\nShe was later seen taking a photograph with Australian comedian Adam Hills, host of The Last Leg.\n\nWhile Lionel Richie was seen with London Mayor Sadiq Khan\n\nAlso performing at the concert will be Lionel Richie, who said hello to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan as people took their seats in the Abbey.\n\nRichie was invited because of his links to the Prince's Trust charity, set up by the King in 1976. Presenters Ant and Dec were also there in their role as goodwill ambassadors for the charity, which supports young people.\n\nThey were seen posing for a selfie inside the Abbey. Dame Joanna Lumley, a friend of the King and Queen Camilla, was also happy to strike a pose for a photograph as she waited to enter the building.\n\nAs did Dame Joanna Lumley, a close friend of the King and Camilla\n\nAnd fellow actress Dame Emma Thompson looked excited by the occasion - or maybe it was the distinctly British weather (rain, and lots of it) that was causing her expression.\n\nLaura Lopes, daughter of the queen, and her brother, Tom Parker Bowles, were among the guests\n\nAnd James Middleton and Pippa Matthews, the Princess of Wales' brother and sister, attended alongside their parents\n\nQueen Camilla's children, Laura Lopes and Tom Parker Bowles, were at the service with their children. Their father, Camilla's ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles, was also among the guests.\n\nThe Middleton family - Catherine's parents Carole and Michael, and her siblings James and Pippa - sat a few rows behind the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nMP Penny Mordaunt drew attention - with her bold teal and gold outfit, and carrying a heavy sword for much of the ceremony\n\nConservative MP Penny Mordaunt took a prominent role, in her position as Lord President of the Privy Council - she presented the jewelled sword of offering to the King.\n\nThe sword, made for George IV's coronation, was exchanged for a bag of 100 newly-minted 50p coins bearing the King's profile, as part of an ancient custom.\n\nSinger Nick Cave, who has lived in England for many years, was part of the Australian delegation\n\nFellow singer Joan Armatrading speaking to a guest at the abbey\n\nAustralian singer Nick Cave said beforehand that he would go to the Coronation for \"the stupefying spectacular, the awe inspiring\".\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty, who wore pale blue\n\nBlue was also the colour of choice for Carrie Johnson, attending with former prime minister Boris Johnson\n\nIn total, there were seven former UK prime ministers present, including Sir John Major and Sir Tony Blair\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak was joined by wife Akshata Murty, with former prime ministers also in attendance - including Boris Johnson, accompanied by wife Carrie. Sir John Major, whose wife Norma was absent, was seen chatting to Sir Tony Blair and his wife Cherie.\n\nThere are seven living former UK prime ministers for the first time, and all attended the service.\n\nDame Floella Benjamin - a former children's TV presenter - carried the Sovereign's Sceptre at the service\n\nDame Floella Benjamin took part in the coronation procession on Saturday.\n\nWhile Andrew Lloyd Webber, seen with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer\n\nOther guests from the world of politics include Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, pictured with Andrew Lloyd Webber, who composed a coronation anthem for the King.\n\nPrince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco were among the foreign royals\n\nKing Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium were there\n\nKing Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan arriving at Westminster Abbey\n\nForeign royals in attendance include Prince Albert and Princess Charlene of Monaco, as well as King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan, whose outfits brought a pop of colour to the distinctly grey day.\n\nKing Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, and King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, were seen entering the abbey together, colour coordinated in pink.\n\nForeign leaders present included Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with his wife Sophie, and French President Emmanuel Macron, with his wife Brigitte.", "Service personnel from the Army, RAF and Royal Navy arrive at Waterloo Station to take part in the coronation of King Charles III.\n\nYou can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "King Charles and Queen Camilla appear on Buckingham Palace's balcony, ahead of the flypast.\n\nYou can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "King Charles III is greeted by a musical fanfare as he enters Westminster Abbey for his Coronation.\n\nYou can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "King Charles and Queen Camilla have been crowned on a historic day at Westminster Abbey.\n\nHere's the best bits of the day.\n\nYou can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "Does anyone understand what the Coronation is about?\n\nIt may have fallen to a 65-year-old Australian rocker, looking in from the outside, to explain.\n\nNick Cave is, he says, neither republican nor monarchist. But he will be attending on Saturday for \"the bizarre, the uncanny, the stupefying spectacular, the awe inspiring\".\n\nThe Coronation will be all these things and more.\n\nBecause every big royal occasion, jubilee or wedding, birth or death, is an opportunity of sorts.\n\nA chance to remind the nation and the world of the institution's role and relevance. And a moment to reinvent and rebrand.\n\nThat reinvention needs to be done with a good deal of subtlety. An institution based on the hereditary principle and rooted in a millennium of tradition is not exactly suited to re-launches.\n\nAnd this Coronation comes against a challenging backdrop. This will be the third time in 12 months that the trumpets have sounded, the uniforms glinted and the carriages rumbled through London's streets and across TV, radio and online.\n\nFor an institution that is supposed to chunter away genially in the background, it has been quite in-your-face for a while now.\n\nThere are more questions too than before - about the cost of the monarchy, about the wealth of the Crown, about the principle of a hereditary head of state, questions that were largely below the surface in the last decades of the late Queen's reign.\n\nAnd questions about whether support for the monarchy - pretty strong in the last few decades - was actually more about support for the late Queen herself, less about popular feeling towards the institution she led.\n\nAnswers to these questions will not be found at the Coronation. The symbols and symbolism of a thousand years will crowd out much else. But the Palace is listening, closely, to the Britain of this Coronation.\n\nLook carefully and some guide to the reign to come will be seen behind the flummery and pomp.\n\nSwept from the congregation are the hereditary peers who, in a bustle of coronets and ermine, crowded into the Abbey last time in 1953.\n\nOne in five of those attending this time will be charity workers and community volunteers - a reflection of the \"welfare\" or \"service\" monarchy that has evolved over the decades.\n\nThe changing face of Britain will be at heart of the service. Dame Elizabeth Anionwu, of Irish-Nigerian descent, and Baroness Benjamin, born in Trinidad and Tobago, will carry in some of the ornate regalia.\n\nFive of the twelve composers of the music specially commissioned for the service are women. Last time around it was an all-male affair.\n\nOne of the four clerics presenting the regalia to the King and Queen will be the Jamaica-born Bishop of Dover, Rose Hudson-Wilkin. And after the service finishes, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh and Islamic faith leaders will deliver a greeting to the newly-crowned King and Queen.\n\nAs Prince of Wales, the King spent decades meeting people from every quarter of the UK. He knows how it has changed from the days of his late mother's Coronation.\n\nAnd he knows the Crown has to reflect that change. Thankfully for him, those changes chime with his sympathies.\n\n'Tradition blended with modernity' is how the Palace likes to describe aspects of the day to come. In other words, the same, but different.\n\nThe differences will be telling. The similarities will be what draw the eye and ear.\n\nNot for 70 years has such ornamental bling seen the light of day like this. Not since that Coronation in 1953 has such a military procession been seen on the streets.\n\nA moment in national life like no other. A moment of extraordinary colour and history.\n\nIt is hard to dispute the oddity of the day to come. The curious titles. The sashes and swords, robes and spurs. The crowning of a man already King. But perhaps that's the point.\n\nAnother royal excursion for a nation at ease with its own eccentricity. Or as Nick Cave puts it \"the unique weirdness of Britain itself\".\n\nSomething, perhaps, every now and then, worth marking and celebrating.", "Millions of viewers watched King Charles III crowned in a meticulously-planned ancient ceremony but it was the unexpected moments that got many people talking.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPenny Mordaunt caused a flurry of activity on social media as she played a starring role at the Coronation - holding ceremonial swords for more than an hour.\n\nOn Twitter many pointed out the Conservative MP's strength, even winning praise from her party's political foes.\n\n\"Don't let anyone ever say I never say anything positive about the Tories... I am in awe of @PennyMordaunt arm and shoulder strength,\" former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell tweeted.\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio before the ceremony, she joked she had been preparing by \"doing some press-ups\".\n\nWhile Ms Mordaunt's teal outfit - with a matching cape and headband with feather embroidery - also caught people's attention, with many drawing comparisons with Henry VIII's second wife Anne Boleyn.\n\nOne woman tweeted: \"Penny Mordaunt has absolutely stolen the show at the Abbey today! She is rocking that Anne Boleyn look!\"\n\nThe MP and Leader of the House of Commons said she was honoured to beinvolved in the ceremony through her role as Lord President of the Council - an ancient role.\n\nShe carried the 17th century Sword of State made for Charles II into Westminster Abbey, and exchanged it for the Jewelled Sword of Offering, which she delivered to the archbishop.\n\nShe then carried the Jewelled Sword of Offering, with hilt encrusted with diamonds, rubies and emeralds, for the rest of the service and walked with it in front of the King as he left the abbey.\n\nNotably, she becomes the first woman to carry and present the sword - which symbolises royal power and the King accepting his duty and knightly virtues.\n\nShe tweeted: \"I'm very aware that our armed forces, police officers and others have been marching or standing for hours as part of the ceremony or to keep us all safe.\n\n\"In comparison, my job was rather easier.\"\n\nThere was a tender moment between the Prince and Princess of Wales's children. Prince Louis, five, when he held the hand of his older sister Princess Charlotte as they walked into Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe prince, the youngest of Prince William and Catherine's children, was on his best behaviour, having stolen the show at previous royal events including Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee when he appeared to find the flypast a bit noisy while on the Buckingham Palace balcony.\n\nThis time, the prince nudged his father to point out something in the distance during the flypast and debuted a new, rather exaggerated, wave.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA gospel choir added a rather modern twist to the ancient ceremony.\n\nThe Ascension choir were handpicked and specially brought together for the occasion. Dressed in all white, the group of singers sang beautifully and swayed as they performed specially composed piece Alleluia.\n\nThey proved a hit with Catherine who gave a beaming smile as she listened.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Katy Perry searches for her seat at Coronation\n\nSinger Katy Perry turned heads in a fabulous lilac Vivienne Westwood matching jacket and skirt, and fascinator.\n\nBut the Firework singer caught viewers' eyes for another reason as she had a spot of bother finding for her seat.\n\nShe was seen walking up and down the Abbey searching for it.\n\n\"Katy Perry not finding her seat is so me,\" tweeted one Perry fan.\n\nThe pop star, who happily took selfies with other guests, will be performing at the Coronation Concert in Windsor alongside Lionel Richie on Sunday.\n\nThe King and the Prince of Wales shared a touching moment when Prince William paid homage to his father.\n\nPrince William got down on one knee to pledge his loyalty to the King, before kissing him on the cheek.\n\nThe King was then seen to say a few words to his eldest son.\n\nIn a break with tradition, the prince was the only blood prince to pay homage.", "Some of the most memorable looks among the congregation at Westminster Abbey.\n\nYou can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "King Charles and Queen Camilla have been crowned in a ceremony full of music and symbolism inside Westminster Abbey.\n\nWearing his grandfather's crimson velvet robe, King Charles took an oath and was anointed with holy oil, before the historic St Edward's Crown was placed on his head.\n\nConservative MP Penny Mordaunt presented the jewelled sword of offering to the King.\n\nQueen Camilla was crowned in a simpler ceremony with Queen Mary's Crown. She did not take an oath.\n\nFollowing the ceremony, the King and Queen left to travel through the streets of central London in the Gold State Coach.\n\nThey then appeared on the Buckingham Palace balcony alongside other members of the Royal Family to watch a flypast.\n\nPrince Harry attended the ceremony without his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.\n\nPrince Louis made his signature silly faces and yawned throughout the events.\n\nAbout 2,200 people, including the Royal Family, celebrities, faith leaders and heads of state, were there to witness the ceremony.", "Thousands of troops have been sent in to Manipur to help stop the violence\n\nAt least 30 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur, officials say.\n\nThe violence began earlier this week after a rally by indigenous communities against moves to grant tribal status to the main ethnic group in the state.\n\nMobs attacked homes, vehicles, churches, and temples. Some reports put the death toll as high as 54.\n\nAround 10,000 people have reportedly been displaced. Thousands of troops have been sent in to maintain order.\n\nA curfew is in place in several districts and internet access has been suspended.\n\nNeighbouring states have begun evacuating their students from Manipur, which is in India's northeast and close to the border with Myanmar.\n\nThe army says it is bringing the situation under control but the Hindu-nationalist BJP-led government in the state has been accused of not doing enough to prevent the violence.\n\nMembers of the Meitei community, who account for at least 50% of the state's population, have been demanding inclusion under the Scheduled Tribe category for years.\n\nIndia reserves government jobs, college admissions and elected seats at all levels of government for communities under this category to rectify historical wrongs that have denied them equal opportunities.\n\nThis status would give the Meiteis access to forest lands and guarantee them a proportion of government jobs and places in educational institutions.\n\nOther tribes are worried that they may lose control over their ancestral forest dwellings.\n\nOn Tuesday, thousands of tribal people from the hill districts of the state participated in a march called by the All Tribal Students Union of Manipur to oppose the demand.\n\nA day later, a similar rally turned violent, sparking unrest in other districts that has since spread. Each side blames the other for the unrest.", "King Charles and Queen Camilla have been crowned in a ceremony steeped in tradition and symbolism inside Westminster Abbey.\n\nYou will be able to catch up on the Coronation Ceremony on BBC iPlayer, but the BBC's coverage will continue throughout the bank holiday weekend.\n\nHere's a guide to following the events.\n\nA live stream and live page with coverage and analysis of The Coronation Big Lunch is continuing on Sunday morning on bbc.co.uk/news.\n\nLive TV coverage started at 12.30 with Coronation: The UK celebrates, a 90-minute special on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and BBC News reflecting gatherings and parties all around the country.\n\nAt 20:00, the Coronation Concert will be broadcast live from Windsor Castle on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds. It will be hosted by Hugh Bonneville and feature performances from British pop group Take That, international superstar Lionel Richie, pop icon Katy Perry and opera star Andrea Bocelli.\n\nKirsty Young will anchor the live coverage for BBC TV and BBC iPlayer and Clara Amfo and Jordan Banjo will be backstage with the artists.\n\nThe concert will see a world-class orchestra play a host of musical favourites and will also feature, for the first time ever, a joint performance from The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal College of Music and The Royal College of Art.\n\nLocal radio in England is joining teams from around the country to hear how they are marking the historic weekend.\n\nIn Scotland, BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal is covering the events in Gaelic.\n\nBBC Radio Wales will broadcast King and Country: How Wales made a monarch, on how being Prince of Wales meant more than a title to Charles, and the work he did in business, culture and conservation.\n\nBBC Radio Ulster/ Foyle have scheduled programmes in the lead-up to and on the Coronation weekend, reflecting local views on the occasion. These will include a special Gardeners' Corner programme.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "TV presenters Ant and Dec, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Joanna Lumley and Stephen Fry are among those attending the coronation of King Charles III.\n\nYou can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "The count for the Hilton ward was abandoned\n\nA local election count was abandoned while votes were being tallied after one of the candidates died.\n\nGillian Lemmon, 52, was a Conservative hopeful in the Hilton ward for South Derbyshire District Council.\n\nShe died at about 12:45 BST after sudden health difficulties, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) said.\n\nReturning officer Ardip Sandhu said a by-election would now take place for all three vacant positions in the ward.\n\nHad Ms Lemmon died after the result was declared, there would only have been a by-election for her seat, not all three.\n\nIt is unclear whether Ms Lemmon - who was elected to the council in May 2021 - was at the count when she was taken ill.\n\nHeather Wheeler, Conservative MP for South Derbyshire, said it was a \"tragic day\".\n\nAll three Hilton seats have been left vacant by the development, with residents in the meantime having to approach other council representatives with any concerns, including their county councillor, according to the LDRS.\n\nBefore the election, the three Hilton seats were all held by the Conservatives.\n\nIt will not affect the overall outcome of the authority's elections, with Labour now holding 29 seats.\n\nBut it leaves the South Derbyshire Conservatives group leader, Peter Smith, who was seeking re-election, off the council.\n\n\"It is a really sad day for everyone in the council, especially for those in our group, to report the sad passing of councillor Gillian Lemmon,\" Mr Smith said.\n\n\"Gillian was hardworking, dedicated and committed and represented everyone that elected her and everyone in the parish.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, posted these pictures on Saturday evening of the \"mad\" five-hour queues to leave the evacuated area\n\nRussia has sparked a \"mad panic\" as it evacuates a town near the contested Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, a Ukrainian official says.\n\nRussia has told people to leave 18 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, including Enerhodar near the plant, ahead of Kyiv's anticipated offensive.\n\nThe Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, said there were five-hour waits as thousands of cars left.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newshour programme Rafael Grossi - the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - said the evacuation of residents near the nuclear facility indicated the possibility of heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces around the plant.\n\nAlthough its reactors were not producing electricity they were still loaded with nuclear material, he said.\n\nMr Grossi added that he had had to travel through a minefield when he visited the plant a few weeks ago.\n\nEarlier, the IAEA warned in a statement that situation at the Zaporizhzhia facility was \"becoming increasingly unpredictable and potentially dangerous\".\n\nOperating staff were still at the site but there was \"deep concern about the increasingly tense, stressful, and challenging conditions for personnel and their families\".\n\nIt said IAEA experts at the plant had \"received information that the announced evacuation of residents from the nearby town of Enerhodar - where most plant staff live - has started\".\n\nOn Friday, the Russian-installed regional head Yevgeny Balitsky said that \"in the past few days, the enemy has stepped up shelling of settlements close to the front line\".\n\n\"I have therefore made a decision to evacuate first of all children and parents, elderly people, disabled people and hospital patients,\" he wrote on social media. .\n\nThe IAEA has issued warnings previously about safety at the plant - which Russia captured in the opening days of its invasion last year - after shelling caused temporary power cuts.\n\nIn March the IAEA warned the plant was running on diesel generators to keep vital cooling systems going, after damage to power lines.\n\nSince Russia launched its invasion in February 2022 the number of staff at the plant has declined, the IAEA says, \"but site management has stated that it has remained sufficient for the safe operation of the plant\".\n\nRussian forces occupy much of the Zaporizhzhia region but not the regional capital Zaporizhzhia, which lies just north-east of Enerhodar across the Dnipro reservoir.\n\nOn Sunday, the Ukrainian general staff said civilians were being evacuated to the cities of Berdyansk and Prymorsk, further inside Russian-held territory.\n\nThe exiled mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, wrote on Telegram that shops in the evacuated areas had run out of goods and medicine.\n\nHe also said hospitals were discharging patients into the street amid fears that electricity and water supplies could be suspended if Ukraine attacks the region.\n\nAnd he claimed that two-thirds of evacuation convoys - allegedly made up of civilians - consisted of retreating Russian troops. The BBC cannot verify this claim.\n\n\"The partial evacuation they announced is going too fast, and there is a possibility that they may be preparing for provocations and (for that reason) focusing on civilians,\" Mr Fedorov added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkraine has accused Russia of attacking the besieged city of Bakhmut with phosphorus munitions.\n\nIn drone footage released by Ukraine's military, Bakhmut can be seen ablaze as what appears to be white phosphorus rains down on the city.\n\nWhite phosphorus weapons are not banned, but their use in civilian areas is considered a war crime.\n\nThey create fast-spreading fires that are very difficult to put out. Russia has been accused of using them before.\n\nRussia has been trying to capture Bakhmut for months, despite its questionable strategic value. Western officials have estimated that thousands of Moscow's troops have died in the assault.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Ukraine's defence ministry said the attack had targeted \"unoccupied areas of Bakhmut with incendiary ammunition\".\n\nIt is unclear when it took place. But the footage shared by Ukraine - seemingly captured by a surveillance drone - showed high-rise buildings engulfed in flames.\n\nOther videos posted to social media showed fires raging on the ground and white clouds illuminating the night sky.\n\nA BBC analysis of the video posted by the defence ministry located the footage to an area just west of Bakhmut city centre and close to a children's hospital. While the analysis confirmed the attack used some kind of incendiary munitions, it could not verify the use of phosphorus.\n\nRussia has been accused of using white phosphorus in Ukraine, including during the siege of Mariupol at the beginning of the war.\n\nMoscow has never publicly admitted to using the substance, and last year Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov insisted \"Russia has never violated international conventions\" after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said it had been used.\n\nWhite phosphorus is a wax-like substance that burns at 800C and ignites on contact with oxygen, creating bright plumes of smoke.\n\nHuman Rights Watch (HRW) has warned the chemical is \"notorious for the severity of the injuries it causes\".\n\nIt is extremely sticky and hard to remove, and can re-ignite when bandages are removed.\n\nRussia has signed the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which bans the use of incendiary weapons - which are designed to catch fire - in civilian areas.\n\nBut HRW says white phosphorus does not fall under the treaty as its primary purpose is to \"create a smokescreen to hide military operations\".\n\nThe chemical has been used \"repeatedly over the past 15 years\", including by US forces against IS fighters in Iraq and Syria, according to HRW.\n\nSome analysts say its use as an incendiary weapon near civilians would still be illegal. While Bakhmut had a pre-war population of 80,000, there are practically no civilians left in the area.\n\nThe attack comes a day after the commander of Russia's Wagner paramilitary group said he would pull his forces out of Bakhmut on 10 May in a row over ammunition supplies.\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin said Wagner's casualties were \"growing in geometrical progression every day\", and blamed the defence ministry for his decision to withdraw.\n\nOn Saturday, Prigozhin said Ramzan Kadyrov - the leader of Russia's semi-autonomous Chechnya region - had agreed to take over Wagner positions in the city and replace their fighters with his own.\n\n\"I am already contacting his representatives in order to start transferring positions immediately, so that at 00:00 on 10 May,\" Prigozhin's press service quoted him as saying.\n\nDespite his claims, Ukrainian officials said Wagner was redeploying mercenaries towards Bakhmut in a bid to capture the city before Tuesday's Victory Day celebrations in Russia.\n\n\"We are now seeing them pulling [fighters] from the entire offensive line where the Wagner fighters were, they are pulling [them] to the Bakhmut direction,\" Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said.\n\nThe fighting comes amid reports that Ukraine is preparing a large-scale counteroffensive. Prigozhin himself has said he believes the attack could come as soon as 15 May.\n\nAn offensive could take place in the Zaporizhzhia region which is about 80% controlled by Russia.\n\nOn Friday, the Russian-installed governor of Zaporizhzhia ordered the evacuation of villages near the front line.\n\nRussia considers the area as its own territory, following self-styled referendums and an illegal annexation last year.", "The then Prince Charles meets fishmonger Pat O'Connell at the English Market in Cork in 2018\n\nAs King Charles III prepares to take to the throne he also takes on another legacy left over by his mother.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's 2011 trip to the Republic of Ireland is often seen as a turning point in Anglo-Irish relations.\n\nWill her son continue those steps in reconciliation and what has his relationship been with the Republic of Ireland?\n\nMarie Coleman, professor of 20th Century history at Queen's University Belfast, said that rather than building on his mother's legacy he is \"continuing his own legacy of building those good relations\".\n\n\"The Queen's visit didn't happen in isolation. The groundwork had been laid by the man who is now King Charles,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II and President Mary McAleese at Áras an Uachtaráin in Phoenix Park, Dublin 2011\n\nBefore the Queen's visit to the Republic of Ireland in 2011, King George V's visit in 1911 was the last by a British monarch.\n\nDuring that century-long gap there were seismic events that strained an already complicated relationship - Irish independence, partition and, in the latter part of the 20th Century, the Troubles.\n\nProf Coleman said \"the ice between the Irish and the British royals\" had been broken by Charles himself when he visited the Republic of Ireland in 1995.\n\nIt was the first official visit by a British Royal Family member since Irish independence.\n\n\"I'm not convinced that enough credit is given to him for that particular visit,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\nIn many ways King Charles III has a had a closer personal relationship with Ireland than his mother did.\n\nAs Prince Charles he has come on private visits as a personal friend of the Duke of Devonshire of Lismore Castle in County Waterford.\n\nHe was also co-patron with Irish President Michael D Higgins of the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool.\n\nThere have been huge changes in Ireland since Charles' great-grandfather King George V visited Maynooth, County Kildare\n\n\"He has one of the closest relationships with Ireland, certainly in the last decade, than any monarch I can think of in recent centuries,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\nSince his 2015 Mullaghmore visit he has been a regular visitor.\n\nAs soon as Covid restrictions were lifted he was back visiting in 2022 - with a trip to Tipperary.\n\n\"I would not be surprised if the Republic of Ireland was high on his agenda for some sort of significant visit early in his reign,\" added Prof Coleman.\n\nThe royals paid a visit to the Rock of Cashel in 2022\n\nAs Prince Charles he made a meaningful trip in 2015, visiting Mullaghmore in County Sligo where his great-uncle was murdered in 1979.\n\nThe IRA detonated a bomb on a fishing boat at Mullaghmore, killing Lord Mountbatten, his 14-year-old grandson, Nicholas Knatchbull, and 15-year-old Paul Maxwell.\n\nThe Dowager Lady Brabourne died the day after the attack.\n\n\"We know that he (Mountbatten) was a formative influence on the prince in his in his early years, so that must have been quite a significant emotional blow to him,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\nThe visit was a significant milestone - the then prince was the first senior member of the Royal Family to visit the scene of the attack.\n\nDuring that visit he also met Gerry Adams, then president of Sinn Féin.\n\nSpeaking at the time, he said: \"At the time I could not imagine how we could come to terms with the anguish of such a deep loss, since for me Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had.\n\nHe said the island of Ireland had \"more than its fair share of turbulence and troubles\" and \"those directly affected don't easily forget the pain\".\n\nThen Prince Charles and his wife Camilla with Timothy Knatchbull whose twin brother died in the bomb which killed Lord Mountbatten\n\n\"So I suppose in some ways, maybe that trip brought him some closure,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\n\"But it is representative of the way in which the Troubles affected not just people on the island of Ireland or people from Britain who are affected, but it it affected the Royal Family and the King himself in a very personal way,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It seemed as if the foundations of all we held dear in life had been torn apart irreparably\" - Prince Charles\n\nThe invite and acceptance list for the Coronation shows signs of how far Anglo-Irish relations have come.\n\nProf Coleman said the attendance of the President of Ireland is significant.\n\n\"The Irish Free State when it was still a dominion refused to go in 1937. The Republic of Ireland was not represented in 1953 so it's quite an important departure for the Republic of Ireland also.\"\n\nEven more significant is the presence of Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill - who has accepted an invitation to attend the coronation.\n\n\"It's even an advance on Sinn Féin's position last September, at the time of the death of the Queen, where they drew a distinction between attending events which marked the passing of the Queen, and not attending events which mark the accession of the new King,\" said Prof Coleman.\n\n\"So it looks like their position has even developed from that,\" she added.\n\nHowever, the academic said that much of the progress made in Anglo-Irish relations has been affected by Brexit.\n\nBrexit - the UK's departure from the EU - saw it leave a union once shared with Ireland.\n\nIt also raised questions of sovereignty, identity and borders.\n\nHas the drawn-out departure and protracted negotiations over the Irish border and trade put extra strain on relations between the two governments?\n\nProf Coleman said the process had \"damaged those good relations which the Queen had done so much to forge particularly during that visit in 2011\".", "A huge wave of infections hit countries around the world in 2020\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that Covid-19 no longer represents a \"global health emergency\".\n\nThe statement represents a major step towards ending the pandemic and comes three years after it first declared its highest level of alert over the virus.\n\nOfficials said the virus' death rate had dropped from a peak of more than 100,000 people per week in January 2021 to just over 3,500 on 24 April.\n\nThe head of the WHO said at least seven million people died in the pandemic.\n\nBut Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the true figure was \"likely\" closer to 20 million deaths - nearly three times the official estimate - and he warned that the virus remained a significant threat.\n\n\"Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern. I've accepted that advice. It is therefore with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency,\" Dr Tedros said.\n\nHe added that the decision had been considered carefully for some time and made on the basis of careful analysis of data.\n\nBut he warned the removal of the highest level of alert did not mean the danger was over and said the emergency status could be reinstated if the situation changed.\n\n\"The worst thing any country can do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that Covid-19 is nothing to worry about,\" he said.\n\nThe World Health Organization first declared Covid-19 to be a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) in January 2020.\n\nThis signalled the need for coordinated global action to protect people from the new virus.\n\nIt will now be up to individual countries to continue to manage Covid in the way they think best.\n\nVaccines were one of the major turning points in the pandemic. According to the WHO, 13 billion doses have been given, allowing many people to be protected from serious illness and death.\n\nBut in many countries vaccines have not reached most of those in need.\n\nMore than 765 million confirmed Covid infections have been recorded worldwide.\n\nThe US and UK, like many other countries, have already talked about \"living with the virus\" and wound down many of the tests and social mixing rules.\n\nDr Mike Ryan, from the WHO's health emergencies programme, said the emergency may have ended, but the threat is still there.\n\n\"We fully expect that this virus will continue to transmit and this is the history of pandemics,\" he said.\n\n\"It took decades for the final throes of the pandemic virus of 1918 to disappear.\n\n\"In most cases, pandemics truly end when the next pandemic begins.\"", "Ukraine has accused Russia of using phosphorus to attack the besieged city of Bakhmut.\n\nFootage of the attack was posted on the Ukraine defence ministry's Twitter account.\n\nPhosphorus weapons are not banned, but they are prohibited against civilians and civilian targets.", "Man City 2-1 Leeds: The taker is the taker, says Pep Guardiola Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City are four points clear at the top and in control of the Premier League title race, but their manager Pep Guardiola still wasn't happy after his side's 2-1 win over Leeds. Goal machine Erling Haaland and match winner Ilkay Gundogan were the players who felt his wrath with Guardiola reminding them that \"this is a business\" after seeing a late penalty miss allow Sam Allardyce's side back into the game. Leading 2-0 with six minutes to go, City were cruising towards a 10th-successive victory and were handed a chance to wrap up the points when Phil Foden was fouled in the box. Step forward the deadliest finisher in the land - their prolific 51-goal striker and regular at spot-kicks, Haaland… or so you would think. Instead, Haaland handed the ball to Gundogan, who was on a hat-trick after scoring both of those earlier goals. Gundogan hit the post, and 58 seconds later Leeds went up the other end to make it 2-1 - ensuring a nervy finish to a game that City had completely controlled. The decision did not go down well with his manager, who made it clear to both players that he had wanted Haaland to take the penalty.\n• None Man City beat Leeds to go four points clear at top\n• None Have your say on City's 2-1 win\n• None Go straight to all the best Man City content \"First he [Guardiola] showed to Erling that he was quite mad about that and then also he had a go at me,\" Gundogan explained. \"It is what it is in the end. \"The moment Erling grabbed the ball, I was sure he was going to take it but he looked out for me. I checked with him a few times to make sure he was sure. He was certain to hand the ball to me. I was confident to score. I can't even remember if the keeper saved it or it was the post? \"We should have scored a third. This is sometimes how it is that they go on the counter and score. Things can change, momentum can shift. But we dealt quite well with it and deserved the three points.\" 'The taker is the taker' Guardiola had calmed down a little by the time he faced the media after the match but he was still adamant Haaland should have taken the penalty, given the situation his side were in. \"The game is not over,\" Guardiola said. \"It shows how nice and generous Erling is. If it is 4-0 with 10 minutes left, OK. \"But at 2-0? At 2-0, especially in England, it is never over. \"Erling is the best penalty taker right now so he has to take it. I want the player who is the taker, because they have more routine and a specialism. He has maybe taken 10 or 11 penalties and he had the feeling - Gundogan does not have that right now. \"I admire the fact Gundogan wanted the responsibility to take the penalty - that is the best value in a player - but normally the taker is the taker, and Erling had to take it because he is our specialist. \"Today Erling could have scored two or three goals. He played incredibly well, in his movement and how he fought for us. I like to praise him when he does not score. \"If Gundogan scores the penalty everyone is 'OK, hat-trick, well done'. But a taker is a taker. At 2-0, this is a business, not a situation where we cannot forget it.\" Another step towards another Premier League title City have now gone 20 games unbeaten in all competitions and this victory was another step towards their third successive Premier League title, part of their bid for a Treble that also includes the FA Cup and Champions League. They have played catch-up to Arsenal for most of the season and trailed the Gunners by eight points in January but, with both sides left with four games to play, they have opened up a significant lead for the first time - not that they are taking anything for granted. \"Probably the best warning about that is today,\" Gundogan added. \"But we have an experienced team and have had these kind of run-ins in recent years. We know what to do to keep the momentum going and win games. Nothing more but also nothing less.\"\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "Protester Matt Turnbull is one of the people arrested in the build up to the Coronation.\n\nDozens of people have been arrested during the King's Coronation, including the leader of a prominent anti-monarchy group.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police said 52 arrests were made for a range of reasons, and all remain in custody.\n\nThe arrest of anti-monarchy protesters earlier in the day has been labelled \"alarming\" by human rights groups.", "Chaab was convicted of \"corruption on earth\" - a capital offence\n\nIran has executed a Swedish-Iranian man accused of being behind a deadly 2018 attack on a military parade.\n\nHabib Chaab was a founder of a separatist group calling for independence for ethnic Arabs in Iran's south-western Khuzestan province.\n\nHe had been living in exile in Sweden for a decade when he was abducted by Iranian agents in Turkey in 2020.\n\nSweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said his government had urged Iran not to execute Chaab.\n\n\"The death penalty is an inhuman and irreversible punishment and Sweden, together with the rest of the EU, condemns its application under all circumstances,\" he said.\n\nIran's judiciary accused Chaab of leading Harakat al-Nidal, or the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz, which Iran says is a terrorist group behind attacks in the south-west of the country.\n\nThe oil-rich province has a large Arab minority which has long complained of marginalisation and discrimination, which Tehran denies.\n\nThe 2018 attack on a military parade in the city of Ahvaz saw gunmen open fire at Revolutionary Guard troops, killing 25 people including soldiers and civilians watching the parade.\n\nChaab was reportedly lured to Istanbul to meet a woman before being kidnapped and smuggled into Iran in an operation said to have been orchestrated by a notorious Turkey-based Iranian crime boss.\n\nIranian officials have not provided details of how Chaab was arrested. Once inside Iran, state TV showed him appearing to admit involvement in the 2018 attack. He was convicted of being \"corrupt on earth\", a capital offence.\n\nProsecutors said Chaab had been involved in attacks since 2005 \"under the protection of two spy services, including the Mossad and Sapo\", which are Israel and Sweden's spy agencies.\n\nThey alleged that other leaders of the group were based in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden and the group received financial and logistical support from Saudi Arabia.\n\nEarlier this year regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to restore diplomatic relations, seven years after severing them in a bitter row.\n\nIran has arrested dozens of Iranians with dual nationality or foreign permanent residency in recent years, mostly on spying and national security charges.\n\nIts judiciary says two other dual-nationals have been sentenced to death or executed on security chares so far this year.\n\nIn January Iran executed British-Iranian man Alireza Akbari, 61, after he was convicted of spying for the UK, which he denied.\n\nIn an audio message to BBC Persian he said he had been tortured and forced to confess on camera to crimes he did not commit.\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his execution was a \"callous and cowardly act, carried out by a barbaric regime\".\n\nIn April Iran's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd, 67, for alleged involvement in a deadly mosque bombing in 2008, which he denies.\n\nRights group Amnesty International said his trial had been \"grossly unfair\" and he had been tortured.\n\nThe country executes more people each year than any other country except China, according to rights groups.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the Royal children enjoyed the Coronation\n\nThe prospect of a two-hour church service, full of ceremony and importance, is a daunting prospect for most, let alone if you've just turned five.\n\nBut luckily for Prince Louis, the youngest royal at the Coronation had his sister Princess Charlotte to hold his hand, physically and metaphorically.\n\nTheir older brother Prince George had a formal part to play as one of their grandfather King Charles' pages of honour.\n\nBut Louis and Charlotte ended up taking a starring role too thanks to their antics during the day.\n\nThey arrived with their parents the Prince and Princess of Wales, with Charlotte in a matching Alexander McQueen outfit to her mother, down to a miniature version of Catherine's silver leaf headdress.\n\nLouis, meanwhile, wore a dark blue tunic by Savile Row tailors Dege and Skinner.\n\nPerhaps offering reassurance, or making sure he went the right way, eight-year-old Charlotte held Louis' hand as they processed through the abbey behind their parents.\n\nOnce the Coronation proper started, they took their front row seats alongside their parents. The solemn, religious ceremony elicited a yawn or two from the young prince - and he could also at times be seen pointing things out to Charlotte from their seats near the high altar.\n\nHis age is no doubt why a break was arranged, with viewers noticing Louis had disappeared from his seat, returning in time to sing God Save the King.\n\nHe had not attended the last major royal event, the funeral of his great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II in September, when he was just four, as he was felt to be too young.\n\nThe siblings followed along with the order of service during the Coronation\n\nBut that wasn't enough to stop Louis from yawning during the two-hour event\n\nAfter the King was crowned and the formal part of the day was over, the Wales family met up with Prince George as he completed his duties.\n\nThey took their places in the royal procession to Buckingham Palace, in the first carriage behind the Gold State Coach.\n\nLouis pressed his face close to the glass on one side of the bench, sat opposite his parents, as he waved at the waiting crowds.\n\nLouis gave the crowds a smile and a wave as they made their way to Buckingham Palace\n\nLouis made headlines himself at last summer's Jubilee celebrations when he was seen pulling faces on the Buckingham Palace balcony and appearing to scream when the flypast went overhead.\n\nAnyone hoping for similar scenes after the Coronation would not have been disappointed.\n\nHe drummed his fingers on the balcony railing at one point, and showed his own version of the royal wave.\n\nThe two-handed wave, not dissimilar to the motion of windscreen wipers, was perhaps apt for a rainy day.\n\nThe children were seen pointing at the sky during the flypast before returning inside the palace after their long day.", "The Duke of Sussex looked happy and relaxed as he entered the abbey with his cousins Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, the daughters of Prince Andrew.\n\nHe was seated a few rows behind his brother, the Prince of Wales during the service.\n\nYou can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "And we'll keep you signed in.", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla are crowned at Westminster Abbey.\n\nYou can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "People have been paying tribute to the victims since Wednesday\n\nThe aroma of burning wax wafts up the tree-lined slope of Svetozar Markovic Street in Belgrade's central Vracar district. Eventually, the source of the scent comes into view: votive candles, set against a wall of white flowers.\n\nThe illuminated tributes stretch around much of the perimeter of Vladislav Ribnikar Primary School and the neighbouring high school.\n\nOn the barriers in front of the main entrance, there are pictures of the eight children who died in Wednesday's shooting, along with handwritten messages from friends and family.\n\nThree girls sit on the pavement, silently holding each other. A little way down the road, a father talks quietly to his three daughters as they lay flowers. There are scores of people at the scene, with a steady flow of arrivals and departures, but there is no buzz - only a hush.\n\nThe contrast to my last visit to Vladislav Ribnikar could hardly be greater. In 2013, I filmed traditional slava celebrations at the school, a joyous occasion paying tribute to St Sava through song, dance and drama.\n\nNow on the weekend of one of Serbia's biggest celebrations - the slava for St George - the country is in mourning. Not just for those who died on Wednesday, but the victims of another mass shooting near Mladenovac on Thursday.\n\nThere is also a sense of mourning for Serbia as people had understood it. In this country, schools had been safe and gun crime rare. Now, the two mass shootings have rocked Serbians' long-held beliefs about their society.\n\n\"Part of the shock is because no-one believed it could happen here,\" says graphic designer Ana Djordjevic. She has a 14-year-old son, and her niece is a pupil at Vladislav Ribnikar.\n\n\"My son told me he doesn't feel safe in school or on the street anymore, and that he cannot fall asleep. We need to give them time and space to process it and heal - and the teachers too.\"\n\nFor most Serbians, business as usual has been out of the question. \"Belgrade never sleeps\" is usually a proud boast about the city's proclivity for partying. This weekend, the mood is palpably subdued.\n\nWaiter Voja Cekic says the recent mass shootings have made people in Belgrade afraid\n\n\"You can feel the strange atmosphere - people are sitting with no music or laughter. If it wasn't for foreign customers, we would have very little business,\" says Voja Cekic, a waiter at a popular bar and restaurant in Belgrade's Old Town.\n\nVoja then reveals that he has a gun at home - a legally licensed Beretta pistol that his grandfather carried when he fought with the Partisans in World War Two.\n\n\"I keep it as a memento of my grandfather,\" he says. \"Perhaps it could be deactivated, so I could just have it as a souvenir. But many people in Serbia have illegal guns.\"\n\nThe question of whether Serbia has a gun problem has been a hot topic following the shootings. A 2018 survey by the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey suggested that Serbia had the third-highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world, behind only Yemen and the United States.\n\nThe Belgrade Centre for Security Policy's deputy director, Bojan Elek, describes the Survey's figure of 39 guns per 100 residents as \"a wild overestimate\". But he believes the government's proposals for \"disarmament\" in the wake of the shootings will be well-received - initially, at least.\n\n\"People are still shocked and they want the government to do something. But eventually, people who legally own weapons will be angry because they will feel they didn't do anything wrong.\"\n\nSome official reactions to the shootings have caused unease, such as Education Minister Branko Ruzic identifying \"Western values\" as an underlying cause. This seems at odds with Serbia's long-stated ambition to join the European Union.\n\nZvezdana Kovac is the Secretary General of the European Movement in Serbia\n\n\"Accusing Western values was very shocking,\" says Zvezdana Kovac, Secretary General of the European Movement in Serbia, which campaigns for EU membership.\n\n\"If one honestly wants to join the EU, one cannot say such words,\" she says. \"It is unacceptable for a serious government to misuse such an event for political purposes.\"\n\nSerbian President Aleksandar Vucic has responded swiftly to the shootings. As well as proposing a crackdown on weapons, he also suggests ensuring that a police officer is on duty at every school, and the lowering of the age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 12.\n\nBut opposition parties are unimpressed. They will march through Belgrade on Monday, protesting against what they view as an attempt by the government to bring in oppressive measures while people are still stunned by the shootings.\n\n\"We don't need more police in schools,\" says Dobrica Veselinovic from the green-left movement, Ne Davimo Beograd.\n\n\"We need more psychologists, more education and an honest talk with ourselves about our position in the world and our relationship with the past. Without that, we will be stuck - we have 30 years of violent history and wars, which we have not processed.\"\n\nFor the moment, processing the events of the past few days is challenge enough. Serbia today feels a very different place to a week ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Junior doctors in Scotland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a three-day strike amid a pay dispute with the Scottish government.\n\nIn a ballot of BMA Scotland members 97% voted for 72-hour walkout over calls for a 23.5% increase above inflation.\n\nIt follows a strikes by junior doctors in England, who walked out for three days in March and four days in April.\n\nHealth Secretary Michael Matheson said he was \"disappointed\" but that further talks on pay were taking place.\n\nThe ballot, which was open for more than five weeks, closed at noon.\n\nMore than 71% of the eligible 5,000 junior doctors voted, with 97% in favour of industrial action. A strike would impact planned operations, clinics and GP appointments.\n\nJunior doctors - fully-qualified medics who are not specialty staff doctors, consultants or GPs - make up 44% of the doctors in the NHS in Scotland.\n\nThe union said previous pay awards for junior doctors in Scotland had delivered real-terms pay cuts of 23.5% since 2008.\n\nIt added that, with rises in inflation, this year's 4.5% uplift was \"again being outstripped and the position on pay erosion will be worse by the end of the year\".\n\nThe BMA has asked for a 23.5% increase on top of inflation, arguing that it is needed to make up for 15 years of \"pay erosion\".\n\nThe union said it would begin preparations for a 72-hour walkout if the Scottish government did not put forward a credible offer. Dates for the strike have not been confirmed.\n\nCommittee chairman Dr Chris Smith said some junior doctors in Scotland were earning a basic salary that equated to about £14 an hour.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme 44% of junior doctors in the BMA were \"actively considering leaving the NHS\".\n\n\"That's just because of the low pay driving people away, which means there are gaps in the rotas, which means the work becomes harder, which drives people into burnout - it's just a self-perpetuating cycle,\" he said.\n\n\"What we need to do now is put a stop to that, and to do that we need a good pay offer from the Scottish government.\"\n\nDr Smith said the historic strike would be \"vital\" to protect the NHS.\n\n\"This ballot result shows, beyond doubt, that junior doctors in Scotland have had enough,\" he said, adding that the pay erosion since 2008 was \"simply unacceptable\".\n\n\"We have made, and continue to make, progress with Scottish government in formal negotiations on pay, but there is still some work to do before there is an offer that we believe could be credibly put to members.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Michael Matheson said negotiations were under way\n\nThe Scottish government previously said the BMA demands were \"simply unaffordable\" unless cuts were made to the NHS and other public services.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf will be under pressure to avert the strike having often pointed out during the SNP leadership campaign his record as health secretary on avoiding NHS strikes in Scotland.\n\nHealth Secretary Michael Matheson said he was \"disappointed\" by the result of the ballot.\n\n\"I will continue to do all I can to avert industrial action in NHS Scotland,\" he said. \"Negotiations to agree a pay uplift are already under way.\n\n\"As these negotiations are held in confidence, it would be inappropriate to offer any further details at this time.\"\n\nJunior doctors had already been awarded a 4.5% pay uplift recommended by the independent Doctors' and Dentists' Pay Review Body, the Scottish government said.\n\nIt wrote to the body earlier in the year asking for a \"separate and specific\" recommendation for junior doctor pay.\n\nDr Tiffany Li, from BMA's Scottish junior doctors committee, told BBC Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live the drop in pay in real terms over the past 15 years was the \"equivalent of working three months of the year for free\".\n\n\"What we're simply asking the Scottish government to do is help us to reverse that pay cut and actually bring it back to cost neutral level,\" she said.\n\nDr Li said many doctors were leaving the NHS to work abroad where pay and conditions were better.\n\n\"Patient care is the centre of what we strike for,\" she said.\n\n\"On a daily basis we are seeing that patients are not getting the care that they need. We're seeing surgeries being cancelled because of a lack of staff an outpatient clinics being cancelled, again because of a lack of doctors.\"\n\nStrikes would cause disruption to patient care but in a \"safe, controlled environment\", she added.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane said it was clear that junior doctors were \"at the end of their tether\".\n\n\"Patients will naturally be alarmed at the impact strike action will have on already unacceptable waiting times,\" he said.\n\nJackie Baillie, Scottish Labour health spokesperson, said: \"This result has not come out of the blue - it is the product of years of SNP failure to support junior doctors and reward them for their work.\"\n\nOther NHS Scotland staff previously agreed to pay settlements without their threatened strike action, with nurses, midwives and allied health professionals accepting a 6.5% increase from April on top of a 7.5% pay rise imposed for 2022/23.\n\nJunior doctors in England, who are asking for a 35% pay rise, staged strikes between 13 and 15 March and 11 and 15 April.\n\nUK Health Secretary Steve Barclay described their pay claim as unaffordable, but earlier this week a government spokesman said discussions with the BMA were \"constructive\" and both parties would meet again in the coming days.", "The edition is a close replica of a King James Bible from 1611\n\nAn academic who was tasked with editing the Bible on which King Charles will swear his Coronation Oath has spoken about why he decided to include hundreds of misprints.\n\nProf Gordon Campbell, from Leicester, edited the book the monarch will rest his hand on when he recites the oath at Westminster Abbey on Saturday.\n\nThe original text of the King James bible dates back to 1611.\n\nProf Campbell said he had wanted his version to be close to the original.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury commissioned Oxford University Press (OUP) to produce a special hand-bound edition, decorated in gold leaf, for the Coronation.\n\nProf Campbell, emeritus professor and fellow in Renaissance studies at the University of Leicester, prepared the edition to mark its 400th anniversary in 2011 but said he was surprised it was chosen for use in historic ceremony.\n\nThe King will be given a personal copy to keep\n\nHe said: \"Over the centuries the King James Version has been quietly updated, with spelling modernised and cross-references added.\n\n\"I decided to publish an edition that was as close to the original as possible, but in roman type, which is much easier to read than the black letter gothic type of the original.\n\n\"I therefore reproduced the original pagination and a text, with all its 350 misprints, that was line by line, word by word and letter by letter the same as the 1611 Bible.\n\n\"It is as close as one could possibly get to the 1611 text.\n\n\"It has for centuries been the traditional and much-loved Bible of the Church of England and the people of England.\"\n\nThe bible used in the service will be kept by the Archbishop of Canterbury and placed in Lambeth Palace's archive.\n\nOUP will produce three identical copies, one as a personal gift to King Charles and a further two to be placed in the archives of Westminster Abbey and OUP's head office in Oxford.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Swap the velvet cloaks, jewels, implausibly well-behaved choirboys and animals for ballot boxes, soggy rosettes, clipboards and leisure centres. We are watching one transfer of power on Saturday. Election results around England this week suggest one of a different kind is well under way.\n\nThe Conservatives got a kicking, Labour made good progress and Ed Davey's tractor got the Lib Dems' wheels turning again (sorry). So what's next?\n\nWhen the gap in the opinion polls between the Tories and Labour had been tightening in recent weeks, some Conservatives had been wondering aloud whether the prospects for them were not as disastrous as they'd feared. Real votes have put a dampener on that.\n\nIt does not seem likely, though, that MPs are going to start howling in pain publicly, or suggesting a change at the top, despite a few noises from predictable quarters. One former minister says they are all \"tired and fed up, but if you put your head above the parapet and moan, you just make it worse\".\n\nThe atmosphere in the party may then seem - outwardly, at least - quite calm. After the last few years, an unhappy peace is a political achievement of sorts, but don't mistake it for satisfaction with the leadership.\n\nThe former minister, not a regular critic of Mr Sunak, says it's one of \"resigned depression\". So what might the PM do to cheer it all up?\n\nExpect relentless focus on - you guessed it - the five promises he made. Perhaps, one source suggests, there may be a reshuffle before the summer to line up the team for a future general election before the party conference in the autumn.\n\nAmid the Coronation celebrations, Rishi Sunak had cause for concern about a different kind of transfer of power\n\nBut it's worth a bet that, before too long, Tory HQ will start using the c-word a lot - coalition. The way the results break down suggest that Labour is well ahead - more of that in a moment - but they can't be certain that they would have enough MPs to control the Commons on their own.\n\nDon't be surprised, then, if the Tories start asking questions about who Labour might work with, to recreate previous campaign conversations about \"coalitions of chaos\".\n\nThe situation is already being used to campaign by the SNP, using the message on social media that \"election experts predict the next general election is likely to see a hung parliament - this means the SNP holding the balance of power, so ensure we kick the Tories out\".\n\nRight now there is no way, repeat, no way that we can be sure what the situation will be at the next general election. But the tussle for Labour over whether they could win on their own is already under way and a Conservative source reckons they'll \"hammer it at every opportunity\".\n\nThe numbers from Thursday's local election in England do suggest that if everyone in the country voted in a general election this week Labour would not have had quite enough backing to get to Number 10 on their own. There was support for the Lib Dems too.\n\nBut Labour is already pushing a different message - the line they pumped out yesterday was to claim they are on track for a majority.\n\nThe last thing Labour leader Keir Starmer's party might want this far away from a general election is to get sucked into a debate about how he could govern and with whom if there were a hung parliament.\n\nSir Keir Starmer's supporters say the results vindicate him, but Labour wants to avoid debate about a hung parliament\n\nThe leader's backers reckon the results this week are instead a vindication of his whole approach, and they need to keep on keeping on - fleshing out their plans, his \"missions\", as the months go by and presenting themselves as hard-working winners.\n\nThe results make it easier to argue down those on the left who have grumbled that he's not radical enough, not bold enough.\n\nThe internal fights aren't over, but the Labour leader has more evidence this week that his plans are bearing fruit, particularly when you look at the parts of the election map that turned red.\n\nLastly, what's next for the Lib Dems, once their celebrations of their results have faded?\n\nWell, opportunity, but also risk. The issues they picked in the campaign worked: When they are \"brazen and bold\", one of their MPs said, they benefited from \"anger with Boris Johnson, and anger with everything\".\n\nThere are 80 Westminster seats where they are in second place to the Conservatives. But experienced, wise heads caution about suddenly thinking they can sweep them all yellow.\n\nThe Lib Dems are still a small party, resources are an issue, and they have a \"history of over-stretching', the MP warns, so expect them to proceed with some caution.\n\nSir Ed Davey toasted Lib Dem success in Windsor and elsewhere, but party sources say it won't go to their heads\n\n\"We won't let this go to our heads,\" another party source explains. There will be celebrations this weekend maybe, and perhaps the party's list of target seats might get a little longer. But it'd be a mistake to imagine that one set of local results completely transforms the landscape for them - or any of the parties.\n\nThe snapshot from Thursday is a valuable confirmation when it comes to our two main parties that Labour is well on its way - unimaginable in the ruins of 2019 - and the Conservatives are in deep, deep trouble.\n\nReal votes, not opinion polls, are the ones that matter most.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury placed Queen Mary's crown on her head.\n\nYou can watch full highlights of the Coronation now, on BBC iPlayer.", "There was panic on a Tube train at Clapham Common station on Friday as passengers smashed windows to escape a smoke-filled carriage.\n\nTransport for London said the London Fire Brigade confirmed there was no fire on board, and that it was investigating the cause.\n\nIn a tweet, British Transport Police said that there were no reported injuries and that the incident was now resolved.", "King Charles' Coronation takes place at 11:00 on Saturday 6 May, with an elaborate and lengthy ceremony.\n\nThe occasion is steeped in Anglican liturgy, from the singing of hymns to the taking of bread and wine in the eucharist.\n\nOther elements are unique to the Coronation.\n\nWe've got our full guide to how the day unfolds here, but read on for the full, unabridged details of the ceremony, its music and pageantry, as listed in the official order of service.\n\nLists of music and the order of processions have been appended to the bottom of this page.\n\nWhen William, Duke of Normandy, defeated King Harold at Hastings in 1066, he was determined that he should be seen as the legitimate king of England. He set his sights on being crowned in the new Abbey Church that Edward the Confessor had built beside his Palace at Westminster. For almost a thousand years, Westminster Abbey, with the Shrine of St Edward, King and Confessor, at its heart, has remained the place of coronation for our Monarchs.\n\nThe rite of Coronation in England, which is really a series of ancient rituals, has its roots in the ninth century and was codified in the fourteenth in a book called the Liber Regalis, which the Abbey still possesses. It was further modified over the following centuries, adapting to changing needs.\n\nToday's service draws on that long tradition, set once again within the context of the Eucharist, which is the defining act of worship for the Church universal. Bible passages will be read from the letter to the Colossians and the Gospel according to St Luke; the Archbishop will preach a short sermon; hymns will be sung; and bread and wine will be offered, consecrated, and received by The King and Queen, to strengthen and guide them in their public service.\n\nEarly in the service His Majesty The King turns to each of the four points of the compass and is recognised by his peoples as their 'undoubted King', who acceded immediately upon the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nA Bible is presented to The King, upon which he swears oaths to govern the peoples with justice and mercy and uphold the Churches. Then, for the first time at a Coronation, The King prays publicly for grace to be 'a blessing to all ... of every faith and belief' and to serve after the pattern of Christ.\n\nAfter the sermon, the ancient hymn Veni, Creator Spiritus is sung in languages from across the United Kingdom, calling on the Holy Spirit just before the most sacred part of the Coronation rite - the anointing with holy oil. A Screen shields The King from view as he sits in the Coronation Chair for this most solemn and personal of moments. Beneath him, the Cosmati pavement symbolises the whole cosmos on the Day of Judgement, when Christ will judge all things in his mercy; the King of kings, whom all Monarchs are called to reflect, and to whom all must give an account.\n\nOnce anointed, The King is vested in priestly garments that symbolise both humility (the Colobium Sindonis) and splendour (the Supertunica, Stole, and Robe); reflecting the two natures of Christ who 'though he was in the form of God ... emptied himself ... being born in human likeness' (from Philippians 2: 6-8). The King represents humanity restored to its full dignity and glory in Christ, as 'a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation' (1 Peter 2: 9).\n\nVarious items of regalia are presented to The King, each a visible reminder of his great responsibility under God. There are Spurs and Armills, which would have been worn by a medieval knight, and a Sword which The King first wears and then offers in the service of God. Then come the symbols of secular and spiritual power: an Orb, representing the world under Christ; a Sceptre with Cross, representing earthly power, held in a restrained, gloved hand; and the Sceptre with Dove, representing spiritual authority exercised chiefly in mercy. There is also a Ring symbolising the faithful 'marriage' of a Monarch to his peoples. In particular, those presenting the regalia to The King reflect the diversity of the United Kingdom and its peoples, in striking contrast to seventy years ago. A moment of great symbolism follows when the Archbishop places St Edward's Crown on The King's anointed head, all cry 'God Save The King', a fanfare is sounded, the Abbey bells are rung, and gun salutes are fired.\n\nThe King then moves from the Coronation Chair to his Throne in the centre of the Abbey and is encouraged by the Archbishop to 'Stand firm and hold fast', confident in God 'whose throne endures for ever.' Once enthroned, The King receives Homage (a promise of allegiance and faithfulness, recognising his spiritual and earthly authority), first from the Archbishop of Canterbury, then from His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, and finally the opportunity for the congregation and people elsewhere to participate in various ways. Before joining The King, enthroned alongside him in the centre of the Abbey, The Queen is herself anointed and crowned, and presented with her own items of regalia.\n\nThe Liturgy of the Sacrament, with the giving of Holy Communion to The King and Queen, constitutes the remainder of the service, after which they retire into the Chapel of St Edward to prepare for the final procession.\n\nIn 1547, Archbishop Cranmer preached at the Coronation of Edward VI:\n\nThe Almighty God of his mercy let the light of his countenance shine upon your majesty, grant you a prosperous and happy reign, defend you, and save you; and let your subjects say, Amen.\n\nThroughout the changing centuries, the Coronation Service has held together hopes both for our immediate and our eternal destinies. It has been and still is an occasion for prayer. Today we pray for our King, and pray with him, for a nation united and rejoicing in its diversity, and, ultimately, for a world healed and reconciled in the eternal banquet of the saints in heaven.\n\nFaith Leaders and Representatives are led to places in the North Transept. All remain seated.\n\nGovernors-General and Prime Ministers, or their representatives, of the Commonwealth Realms are led in procession to their seats. National Standards are placed in the Sacrarium. All remain seated.\n\nThe choir proceeds to places in Quire. All remain seated.\n\nMembers of foreign Royal Families arrive at the Great West Door and are conducted to their seats in the Lantern. All remain seated.\n\nMembers of The Royal Family arrive at the Great West Door and are conducted to their seats in the Lantern. All remain seated.\n\nTheir Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte of Wales and Prince Louis of Wales arrive at the Great West Door and are conducted to their seats in the Lantern. All remain seated.\n\nTheir Majesties The King and The Queen arrive at the West Gate. A fanfare is sounded. All stand.\n\nProcession of the King and Queen\n\nWAS glad when they said unto me :\n\nWe will go into the house of the Lord.\n\nOur feet shall stand in thy gates,\n\nthat is at unity in itself.\n\nO pray for the peace of Jerusalem,\n\nThey shall prosper that love thee.\n\n- Hubert Parry (1848-1918) Psalm 122: 1-3, 6-7, composed for the Coronation of Edward VII (1902), arranged by John Rutter\n\nTheir Majesties The King and The Queen move through the body of the Church to the Chairs of Estate in the Theatre of Coronation\n\nThe Regalia, Bible, Paten, and Chalice are placed upon the Altar\n\nAll remain standing. Samuel Strachan, Child of His Majesty's Chapel Royal, addresses The King\n\nYOUR Majesty, as children of the kingdom of God we welcome you in the name of the King of kings.\n\nIn his name and after his example I come not to be served but to serve.\n\nTheir Majesties remain standing at the Chairs of Estate in silent prayer\n\nThe Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan, gives the Greeting and Introduction\n\nTHE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you. And with thy spirit.\n\nHe is risen indeed. Alleluia.\n\nDEARLY beloved, we are gathered to offer worship and praise to Almighty God; to celebrate the life of our nations; to pray for Charles, our King; to recognise and to give thanks for his life of service to this Nation, the Realms, and the Commonwealth; and to witness with joy his anointing and crowning, his being set apart and consecrated for the service of his people. Let us dedicate ourselves alike, in body, mind, and spirit, to a renewed faith, a joyful hope, and a commitment to serve one another in love.\n\nThe choir, together with Sir Bryn Terfel CBE, sings Kyrie eleison\n\nThe King moves to stand west of the Coronation Chair and turns to face east. The Archbishop says\n\nI HERE present unto you King Charles, your undoubted King: Wherefore all you who are come this day to do your homage and service, are you willing to do the same?\n\nA fanfare is sounded. The King turns to face south. The Right Honourable Lady Elish Angiolini LT DBE KC says\n\nI HERE present unto you King Charles, your undoubted King: Wherefore all you who are come this day to do your homage and service, are you willing to do the same?\n\nA fanfare is sounded. The King turns to face west. Christopher Finney GC says\n\nI HERE present unto you King Charles, your undoubted King: Wherefore all you who are come this day to do your homage and service, are you willing to do the same?\n\nA fanfare is sounded. The King turns to face north. The Right Honourable the Baroness Amos LG CH says\n\nI HERE present unto you King Charles, your undoubted King: Wherefore all you who are come this day to do your homage and service, are you willing to do the same?\n\nA fanfare is sounded as The King returns to the Chair of Estate and sits\n\nThe presenting of the Holy Bible\n\nThe Right Reverend Dr Iain Greenshields, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, receives the Bible from the Dean of Westminster and presents it to The King, saying\n\nSIR, to keep you ever mindful of the law and the Gospel of God as the Rule for the whole life and government of Christian Princes, receive this Book, the most valuable thing that this world affords. Here is Wisdom; this is the royal Law; these are the lively Oracles of God.\n\nThe Moderator receives the Bible and places it before The King. The King stands and the Archbishop says\n\nYOUR Majesty, the Church established by law, whose settlement you will swear to maintain, is committed to the true profession of the Gospel, and, in so doing, will seek to foster an environment in which people of all faiths and beliefs may live freely. The Coronation Oath has stood for centuries and is enshrined in law.\n\nAre you willing to take the Oath?\n\nThe King places his hand on the Bible, and the Archbishop administers the Oath\n\nWILL you solemnly promise and swear to govern the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, your other Realms and the Territories to any of them belonging or pertaining, according to their respective laws and customs?\n\nI solemnly promise so to do.\n\nWill you to your power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all your judgements?\n\nThe King kneels at the Chair of Estate. The Archbishop says\n\nWILL you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England?\n\nAnd will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them?\n\nAll this I promise to do.\n\nThe King places his hand on the Bible and says\n\nThe things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God.\n\nThe King kisses the Bible. The Archbishop says\n\nYOUR Majesty, are you willing to make, subscribe, and declare to the statutory Accession Declaration Oath?\n\nI CHARLES do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess, testify, and declare that I am a faithful Protestant, and that I will, according to the true intent of the enactments which secure the Protestant succession to the Throne, uphold and maintain the said enactments to the best of my powers according to law.\n\nThe King signs copies of the Oaths, presented by the Lord Chamberlain, whilst the choir sings\n\nPREVENT us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\n- William Byrd (c 1540-1623) The Book of Common Prayer 1549\n\nThe King kneels before the Altar and says\n\nGOD of compassion and mercy whose Son was sent not to be served but to serve, give grace that I may find in thy service perfect freedom and in that freedom knowledge of thy truth. Grant that I may be a blessing to all thy children, of every faith and belief, that together we may discover the ways of gentleness and be led into the paths of peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nThe King returns to the Chair of Estate and sits\n\nGLORIA in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis. Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te, gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam, Domine Deus, Rex caelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens. Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe; Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis; qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram; qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus, tu solus Dominus, tu solus Altissimus, Jesu Christe, cum Sancto Spiritu, in gloria Dei Patris. Amen.\n\nGlory be to God on high, and on earth peace, good will towards men. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty. O Lord, the only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us. For thou only art holy; thou only art the Lord; thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father. Amen.\n\nWilliam Byrd from Mass for Four Voices\n\nAll stand for the Collect\n\nLORD, enthroned in heavenly splendour: Look with favour upon thy servant Charles our King, and bestow upon him such gifts of wisdom and love that we and all thy people may live in peace and prosperity and in loving service one to another; to thine eternal glory, who with the Father and the Holy Spirit reignest supreme over all things, one God, now and for ever. Amen.\n\nAll sit. The Right Honourable Rishi Sunak MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reads the Epistle\n\nA reading from the Epistle to the Colossians.\n\nFOR this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.\n\nThis is the word of the Lord.\n\nO clap your hands together, all ye people;\n\nO sing unto God with the voice of melody.\n\nFor the Lord is high and to be feared.\n\nHe is the great King upon all the earth.\n\nThe Right Reverend and Right Honourable Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, Dean of His Majesty's Chapels Royal, reads the Gospel\n\nHear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke.\n\nJESUS came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, 'this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.'\n\nThis is the Gospel of the Lord.\n\nFor God is the King of all the earth.\n\nAll sit. The Archbishop preaches the Sermon\n\nTheir Majesties kneel at the Chairs of Estate. The congregation kneels or remains seated. The choir sings in English, Welsh, Gaelic, and Irish\n\nIs comfort, life, and fire of love.\n\nThe dullness of our blinded sight.\n\nWith the abundance of thy grace.\n\nKeep far our foes, give peace at home:\n\nWhere thou art guide, no ill can come.\n\nTeach us to know the Father, Son,\n\nAnd thee of both to be but One,\n\nThat, through the ages all along,\n\nThis may be our endless song:\n\n- Veni, Creator Spiritus attributed to Rabanus Maurus (c 780-856), plainsong translated by John Cosin (1594-1672), Grahame Davies, Iain D Urchadan (b 1966), and Damian McManus (b 1956)\n\nThe Archbishop in Jerusalem receives the Ampulla from the Dean. The Archbishop of Canterbury says\n\nBLESSED art thou, Sovereign God, upholding with thy grace all who are called to thy service. Thy prophets of old anointed priests and kings to serve in thy name and in the fullness of time thine only Son was anointed by the Holy Spirit to be the Christ, the Saviour and Servant of all.\n\nBy the power of the same Spirit, grant that this holy oil may be for thy servant Charles a sign of joy and gladness; that as King he may know the abundance of thy grace and the power of thy mercy, and that we may be made a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for thine own possession. Blessed be God, our strength and our salvation, now and for ever. Amen.\n\nThe King is divested of the Robe of State, and moves to sit in the Coronation Chair. The Anointing Screen, borne by representatives of the Household Division, is held around the Coronation Chair. The choir sings\n\nZADOK the priest, and Nathan the prophet anointed Solomon king; and all the people rejoiced, and said: God save the king. Long live the king. May the king live for ever. Hallelujah. Amen.\n\n- George Frideric Handel 1 Kings 1: 39-40, composed for the Coronation of George II (1727)\n\nDuring the anthem, the Archbishop of Canterbury anoints The King in the form of a cross: on the palm of both hands, saying\n\nBe your hands anointed with holy oil.\n\nBe your breast anointed with holy oil.\n\non the crown of the head, saying\n\nBE your head anointed with holy oil, as kings, priests, and prophets were anointed. And as Solomon was anointed king by Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet, so may you be anointed, blessed, and consecrated King over the peoples, whom the Lord your God has given you to rule and govern; in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.\n\nThe Anointing Screen is removed. The King kneels before the Altar and the Archbishop says\n\nOUR Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who by his Father was anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows, by his holy anointing pour down upon your head and heart the blessing of the Holy Spirit, and prosper the works of your hands: that by the assistance of his heavenly grace you may govern and preserve the peoples committed to your charge in wealth, peace, and godliness; and after a long and glorious course of ruling a temporal kingdom wisely, justly, and religiously, you may at last be made partaker of an eternal kingdom; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nThe investiture and the crowning\n\nThe King rises and is vested with the Colobium Sindonis, Supertunica, and Girdle\n\nThe King sits in the Coronation Chair\n\nThe Spurs are brought from the Altar by the Lord Great Chamberlain. The King\n\ntouches them, and the Archbishop says\n\nRECEIVE these spurs, symbols of military honour and chivalry, that\n\nyou may be a brave advocate for those in need.\n\nGive the king your judgements, O God, and your righteousness to the son of a king.\n\nThen shall he judge your people righteously and your poor with justice.\n\nMay he defend the poor among the people, deliver the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.\n\nMay he live as long as the sun and moon endure, from one generation to another.\n\nIn his time shall righteousness flourish, and abundance of peace till the moon shall\n\nGlory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning,\n\nis now, and shall be for ever. Amen.\n\nO Lord, save the king and answer us when we call upon you.\n\nAlleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Glory to you, our God, glory to you.\n\nDuring the chant the Lord President of the Council exchanges the Sword of State for the Jewelled Sword of Offering, and delivers it to the Archbishop, who says\n\nHEAR our prayers, O Lord, we beseech thee, and so direct and support thy servant King Charles, that he may not bear the Sword in vain; but may use it as the minister of God to resist evil and defend the good, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nThe Jewelled Sword of Offering is placed into The King's right hand. The Archbishop says\n\nRECEIVE this kingly Sword: may it be to you and to all who witness these things, a sign and symbol not of judgement, but of justice; not of might, but of mercy.\n\nThe King rises. The Sword is put upon The King, and he sits. The Archbishop says\n\nWITH this sword do justice, stop the growth of iniquity, protect the holy Church of God and all people of goodwill, help and defend widows and orphans, restore the things that are gone to decay, maintain the things that are restored, punish and reform what is amiss, and confirm what is in good order: that doing these things you may be glorious in all virtue; and so faithfully serve our Lord Jesus Christ in this life, that you may reign for ever with him in the life which is to come. Amen.\n\nThe King stands and offers the Sword at the Altar, where it is received by the Dean. The King returns to the Coronation Chair. The Sword is redeemed and is returned to the Lord President of the Council\n\nThe Armills are brought from the Altar by the Right Honourable the Lord Kamall. The King touches them, and the Archbishop says\n\nRECEIVE the Bracelets of sincerity and wisdom, tokens of the Lord's protection embracing you on every side.\n\nThe Robe Royal is brought to The King by the Right Honourable the Baroness Merron. The Stole Royal is presented to The King by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. The King is invested and sits in the Coronation Chair. The Archbishop says\n\nRECEIVE this Robe: may the Lord clothe you with the robe of righteousness, and with the garments of salvation.\n\nThe Orb is brought from the Altar by the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and Metropolitan. The Archbishop of Canterbury places it in The King's right hand and says\n\nRECEIVE this Orb, set under the Cross, and remember always that the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdom of our God, and of his Christ.\n\nThe Orb is returned to the Altar. The Ring is brought from the Altar by the Right Honourable the Lord Patel KT. The King touches the Ring and the Archbishop says\n\nRECEIVE this Ring, symbol of kingly dignity and a sign of the covenant sworn this day, between God and King, King and people.\n\nThe Glove is brought forward by the Right Honourable the Lord Singh of Wimbledon CBE. The Glove is put upon The King's right hand. The Archbishop says\n\nRECEIVE this Glove, that you may hold authority with gentleness and grace; trusting not in your own power but in the mercy of God.\n\nThe Sceptre with Cross and the Sceptre with Dove are brought from the Altar by the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Archbishop of Wales. The Archbishop of Canterbury delivers them into The King's right and left hands, and says\n\nRECEIVE the Royal Sceptre, the ensign of kingly power and justice; and the Rod of equity and mercy, a symbol of covenant and peace. May the Spirit of the Lord who anointed Jesus at his baptism, so anoint you this day, that you might exercise authority with wisdom, and direct your counsels with grace; that by your service and ministry to all your people, justice and mercy may be seen in all the earth.\n\nAll stand. The Archbishop takes St Edward's Crown into his hands and says\n\nKING of kings and Lord of lords, bless, we beseech thee, this Crown, and so sanctify thy servant Charles, upon whose head this day thou dost place it for a sign of royal majesty, that he may be crowned with thy gracious favour and filled with abundant grace and all princely virtues; through him who liveth and reigneth supreme over all things, one God, world without end. Amen.\n\nThe bells of the Abbey are rung. A Gun Salute is fired by The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery on Horse Guards Parade. This is accompanied by Gun Salutes at His Majesty's Fortress the Tower of London fired by the Honourable Artillery Company, and at Saluting Stations throughout the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, Bermuda, and Ships at Sea\n\nAll remain standing. The Lord Archbishop of York and Primate of England, says\n\nTHE Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you, and give you his peace.\n\nThe Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain says\n\nThe Lord protect you in all your ways and prosper all your work in his name.\n\nThe Moderator of the Free Churches Group says\n\nThe Lord give you hope and happiness, that you may inspire all your people in the imitation of his unchanging love.\n\nThe General Secretary of Churches Together in England says\n\nThe Lord grant that wisdom and knowledge be the stability of your times, and the fear of the Lord your treasure.\n\nThe Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster says\n\nMay God pour upon you the richness of his grace, bless you and keep you in his holy fear, prepare you for a happy eternity, and receive you at the last into immortal glory.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury says\n\nAnd the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be with you and remain with you always. Amen.\n\nO LORD, grant the king a long life, that his years may endure throughout all generations. Let him dwell before thee for ever. O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness that they may preserve him. So shall we alway sing and praise thy name. Amen.\n\n- Thomas Weelkes (c 1576-1623) The Book of Common Prayer 1559\n\nThe enthroning and the homage\n\nThe King is enthroned, escorted by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and Bishops Assistant, surrounded by Great Officers of State. The Archbishop of Canterbury says\n\nSTAND firm, and hold fast from henceforth this seat of royal dignity, which is yours by the authority of Almighty God. May that same God, whose throne endures for ever, establish your throne in righteousness, that it may stand fast for evermore.\n\nThe Archbishop kneels before The King and says\n\nI, Justin, Archbishop of Canterbury, will be faithful and true, and faith and truth I will bear unto you, our Sovereign Lord, Defender of the Faith; and unto your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God.\n\nThe Prince of Wales kneels before The King and says\n\nI, William, Prince of Wales, pledge my loyalty to you, and faith and truth I will bear unto you, as your liege man of life and limb. So help me God.\n\nAll stand. The Archbishop says\n\nI now invite those who wish to offer their support to do so, with a moment of private reflection, by joining in saying 'God save King Charles' at the end, or, for those with the words before them, to recite them in full.\n\nI swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God.\n\nA fanfare is sounded, after which the Archbishop says\n\nMay The King live for ever.\n\nAll sit. The choir, together with Roderick Williams OBE, sings\n\nBE strong, and show thy worth: keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.\n\n- Confortare after 1 Kings 2: 1-3, Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941), composed for the Coronation of George VI (1937), arranged by John Rutter\n\nThe Coronation of the Queen\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury anoints The Queen and says\n\nBe your head anointed with holy oil.\n\nALMIGHTY God, the fountain of all goodness; hear our prayer this day for thy servant Camilla, whom in thy name, and with all devotion, we consecrate our Queen; make her strong in faith and love, defend her on every side, and guide her in truth and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nThe Queen's Ring is brought from the Altar by the Keeper of the Jewel House. The Queen touches the Ring. The Archbishop says\n\nRECEIVE this Ring, a symbol of royal dignity and a sign of the covenant sworn this day.\n\nThe Crown is brought from the Altar. The Queen is crowned by the Archbishop, who says\n\nAY thy servant Camilla, who wears this crown, be filled by thine abundant grace and with all princely virtues; reign in her heart, O King of love, that, being certain of thy protection, she may be crowned with thy gracious favour; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nThe Queen's Sceptre and Rod are brought from the Altar by The Right Reverend and Right Honourable the Lord Chartres GCVO and The Right Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin CD MBE, Bishop of Dover. The Queen touches them in turn. The Archbishop says\n\nRECEIVE the Royal Sceptre. Receive the Rod of equity and mercy. May the Spirit guide you in wisdom and grace, that, by your service and ministry, justice and mercy may be seen in all the earth.\n\nThe Queen is enthroned, escorted by the Archbishops and Bishops Assistant\n\nMAKE a joyful noise unto the Lord for he hath done marvellous things. And his holy arm hath gotten him the victory. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. O make a joyful noise unto the Lord all the earth. Make a loud noise; rejoice and sing his praise. Let the sea roar, the world and they that dwell within. Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills be joyful together. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all the earth. Rejoice and sing his praise. For he cometh to judge the earth. And with righteousness shall he judge the world and the people with equity. O make a joyful noise unto the Lord all the earth. Sing unto the Lord with the harp and the voice of a psalm. With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord the King.\n\n- Andrew Lloyd Webber (b 1948) after Psalm 98, composed for this service\n\nAll stand to sing the Hymn. The King offers bread and wine which are placed upon the Altar. Their Majesties move through the Chapel of St Edward to the Chairs of Estate\n\nCHRIST is made the sure foundation,\n\nwho, the two walls underlying,\n\nbound in each, binds both in one,\n\nholy Sion's help for ever,\n\nand her confidence alone.\n\nGod the One, in threefold glory,\n\nTo this temple, where we call thee,\n\nshed within its walls for ay.\n\nHere vouchsafe to all thy servants\n\nwhat they supplicate to gain;\n\nhere to have and hold for ever,\n\nand hereafter, in thy glory,\n\nwith thy blessed ones to reign.\n\nLaud and honour to the Father;\n\nlaud and honour to the Son,\n\nlaud and honour to the Spirit,\n\never Three, and ever One,\n\n- Westminster Abbey Angularis fundamentum 7th-8th century, Henry Purcell translated by John Mason Neale (1818-66), arranged by James O'Donnell (b 1961) Organist Emeritus, Organist of Westminster Abbey 2000-22\n\nAll remain standing. The Archbishop says\n\nBLESS, O Lord, we beseech thee, these thy gifts, and sanctify them unto this holy use, that by them we may be made partakers of the Body and Blood of thine only-begotten Son Jesus Christ, and fed unto everlasting life of soul and body: and that thy servant King Charles may be enabled to the discharge of his weighty office, whereunto of thy great goodness thou hast called and appointed him. Grant this, O Lord, for Jesus Christ's sake, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.\n\nWe lift them up unto the Lord.\n\nLet us give thanks unto the Lord our God.\n\nIt is meet and right so to do.\n\nIT is very meet, right and our bounden duty that we should at all times and in all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting God, through Jesus Christ thine only Son our Lord.\n\nWho hast at this time consecrated thy servant Charles to be our King, that by the anointing of thy grace, he may be the Defender of thy Faith and the Protector of thy people; that, with him, we may learn the ways of service, compassion, and love; and that the good work thou hast begun in him this day may be brought to completion in the day of Jesus Christ. Therefore with angels and archangels and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name; evermore praising thee, and saying,\n\nHOLY, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord most high.\n\nALL glory be to thee, Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who, of thy tender mercy, didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption; who made there, by his one oblation of himself once offered, a full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice, oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world; and did institute, and in his holy gospel command us to continue, a perpetual memory of that his precious death, until his coming again.\n\nHear us, O merciful Father, we most humbly beseech thee, and grant that, by the power of thy Holy Spirit, we receiving these thy creatures of bread and wine, according to thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ's holy institution, in remembrance of his death and passion, may be partakers of his most blessed body and blood; who, in the same night that he was betrayed, took bread; and when he had given thanks to thee, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying: take, eat; this is my body which is given for you; do this\n\nLikewise after supper he took the cup; and when he had given thanks to thee, he gave it to them, saying: drink ye all of this; for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me.\n\nWherefore, O Lord and heavenly Father, we thy humble servants, having in remembrance the precious death and passion of thy dear Son, his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension, entirely desire thy fatherly goodness mercifully to accept this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; most humbly beseeching thee to grant that by the merits and death of thy Son Jesus Christ, and through faith in his blood, we and all thy whole Church may obtain remission of our sins, and all other benefits of his passion. And although we be unworthy, through our manifold sins, to offer unto thee any sacrifice, yet we beseech thee to accept this our bounden duty and service, not weighing our merits, but pardoning our offences; and to grant that all we, who are partakers of this holy communion, may be fulfilled with thy grace and heavenly benediction; through Jesus Christ our Lord, by whom, and with whom, and in whom, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all honour and glory be unto thee, O Father Almighty, world without end. Amen.\n\nLet us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us:\n\nOUR Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.\n\nThe choir sings Agnus Dei, during which Their Majesties receive Holy Communion\n\nO LAMB of God, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.\n\nO Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.\n\nO Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, grant us thy peace.\n\nAll stand. The Archbishop says the Post-Communion Prayer\n\nO ALMIGHTY Lord, and everlasting God, vouchsafe, we beseech thee, to direct, sanctify, and govern both our hearts and bodies, in the ways of thy laws, and in the works of thy commandments; that through thy most mighty protection, both here and ever, we may be preserved in body and soul; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.\n\nOur help is in the name of the Lord:\n\nBlessed be the name of the Lord.\n\nNow and henceforth, world without end. Amen.\n\nCHRIST our King, make you faithful and strong to do his will, that you may reign with him in glory; and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, rest upon you, and all whom you serve, this day, and all your days.\n\nAll sing the Hymn, during which Their Majesties move to the Chapel of St Edward\n\nPRAISE, my soul, the King of heaven;\n\nwho like me his praise should sing?\n\nPraise him for his grace and favour\n\nto our fathers in distress;\n\npraise him still the same for ever,\n\nslow to chide, and swift to bless.\n\nFather-like, he tends and spares us;\n\nwell our feeble frame he knows;\n\nin his hands he gently bears us,\n\nrescues us from all our foes.\n\nAngels, help us to adore him;\n\nsun and moon, bow down before him;\n\ndwellers all in time and space.\n\nPraise with us the God of grace.\n\nAll sit. The choir sings the Anthem\n\nTHE King shall rejoice in thy strength O Lord. Exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation. Thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodness, and shalt set a crown of pure gold upon his head.\n\n- William Boyce (1711-79) Psalm 21: 1, 3, composed for the Coronation of George III (1761)\n\nWE praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.\n\nAll the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting.\n\nTo thee all angels cry aloud, the heavens and all the powers therein.\n\nTo thee cherubin and seraphin continually do cry,\n\nHeaven and earth are full of the majesty of thy glory.\n\nThe glorious company of the apostles praise thee.\n\nThe goodly fellowship of the prophets praise thee.\n\nThe holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee:\n\nthe Father of an infinite majesty;\n\nalso the Holy Ghost the Comforter.\n\nThou art the everlasting Son of the Father.\n\nWhen thou tookest upon thee to deliver man,\n\nWhen thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death,\n\nthou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.\n\nThou sittest at the right hand of God, in the glory of the Father.\n\nWe believe that thou shalt come to be our judge.\n\nWe therefore pray thee, help thy servants,\n\nMake them to be numbered with thy saints in glory everlasting.\n\nGovern them and lift them up for ever.\n\nand we worship thy name, ever world without end.\n\nVouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin.\n\nO Lord, have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us.\n\nO Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us, as our trust is in thee.\n\nO Lord, in thee have I trusted; let me never be confounded.\n\n- William Walton, composed for the Coronation of Elizabeth II (1953), arranged by John Rutter\n\nA fanfare sounds, and all stand to sing the National Anthem\n\non him be pleased to pour,\n\nto sing with heart and voice\n\n- from Thesaurus Musicus c 1743 anonymous and William Hickson (1803-70), arranged by Gordon Jacob (1895-1984)\n\nProcession of the King and the Queen\n\nThe King is greeted at the Great West Door by Faith Leaders and Representatives, who say\n\nYOUR Majesty, as neighbours in faith, we acknowledge the value of public service. We unite with people of all faiths and beliefs in thanksgiving, and in service with you for the common good.\n\nThe King is greeted by the Governors-General\n\nMarch 'Pomp and Circumstance' no 4 Edward Elgar, arranged by Iain Farrington\n\nMarch from The Birds Hubert Parry, arranged by John Rutter\n\nThe Sub-Organist plays Chorale Fantasia on 'The Old Hundredth' Hubert Parry\n\nThe Brass Ensemble plays Earl of Oxford's March William Byrd, arranged by Matthew Knight\n\nThe bells of the Abbey are rung\n\nMembers of the congregation are kindly requested to remain in their seats until directed to move by the Honorary Steward\n\nThe service is conducted by The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan.\n\nThe service is sung by the Choirs of Westminster Abbey and His Majesty's Chapel Royal, St James's Palace (Director of Music: Joseph McHardy), with choristers from Methodist College, Belfast (Director of Music: Ruth McCartney), and Truro Cathedral Choir (Director of Music until April 2023: Christopher Gray), and an octet from the Monteverdi Choir.\n\nThe music during the service is directed by Andrew Nethsingha, Organist and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe organ is played by Peter Holder, Sub-Organist, Westminster Abbey.\n\nThe Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists are conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE.\n\nThe Coronation Orchestra is conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano.\n\nThe State Trumpeters of the Household Cavalry are led by Trumpet Major Julian Sandford.\n\nThe Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Air Force are conducted by Wing Commander Piers Morrell OBE MVO, Principal Director of Music, Royal Air Force.\n\nThe fanfares at The Recognition and The Homage were composed for this service by Dr Christopher Robinson CVO CBE.\n\nThe King's Scholars of Westminster School are directed by Tim Garrard, Director of Music.\n\nThe Ascension Choir is directed by Abimbola Amoako-Gyampah.\n\nThe Byzantine Chant Ensemble is directed by Dr Alexander Lingas.\n\nThe Coronation Brass Ensemble is conducted by Paul Wynne Griffiths.\n\nJupiter from The Planets Gustav Holst (1874-1934) arranged by Iain Farrington (b 1977)\n\nCrown Imperial William Walton (1902-83), composed for the Coronation of George VI (1937), arranged by John Rutter (b 1945)\n\nBe thou my vision; Triptych for Orchestra* traditional Irish melody\n\nSoloists: Jason Edwards Organist of Westminster Abbey 1679-95 and Matthew Williams arranged by John Rutter\n\nArrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)\n\nOh, had I Jubal's lyre from Joshua George Frideric Handel\n\nNimrod from Variations on an Original Theme Edward Elgar (1857-1934) arranged by Iain Farrington\n\nDr Wendi Cunningham Momen MBE Director and Trustee, National Spiritual Assembly of The Baha'is of the United Kingdom\n\nThe Most Venerable Bogoda Seelawimala Chief Sangha Nayaka of Great Britain, Head Monk of the London Buddhist Vihara\n\nThe Right Honourable the Lord Singh of Wimbledon CBE Director of the Network of Sikh Organisations UK\n\nChief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis KBE Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth\n\nThe Most Reverend Mark O'Toole Archbishop of Cardiff\n\nThe Most Reverend Andrew John Archbishop of Wales\n\nThe Right Reverend Hugh Gilbert OSB President of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland\n\nThe Right Reverend Dr Iain Greenshields Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland\n\nThe Most Reverend Dr Eamon Martin Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland\n\nThe Right Reverend Dr John Kirkpatrick Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland\n\nThe Most Reverend John McDowell Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and Metropolitan\n\nHis Eminence Archbishop Nikitas Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain\n\nThe Right Reverend Mike Royal General Secretary, Churches Together in England\n\nHis Eminence Archbishop Angaelos of London OBE The Coptic Church in Great Britain\n\nProcession of the King and Queen (beginning)\n\nThe Cross of Wales and Lights\n\nThe Reverend Canon Paul Wright LVO Sub-Dean of His Majesty's Chapels Royal\n\nThe Very Reverend Professor David Fergusson OBE Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland and Dean of the Thistle\n\nThe Right Reverend and Right Honourable Dame Sarah Mullally DBE Dean of His Majesty's Chapels Royal\n\nThe Right Reverend David Conner KCVO Dean of Windsor\n\nThe Right Reverend James Newcome DL Clerk of the Closet\n\nPrimatial Cross of York borne by The Reverend Dr Jenny Wright, Chaplain to The Archbishop of York\n\nThe Most Reverend and Right Honourable Stephen Cottrell Lord Archbishop of York and Primate of England\n\nThe Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Segrave\n\nThe Order of New Zealand Richard McCaw ONZ\n\nThe Order of Companions of Honour The Lord Coe CH KBE\n\nThe Order of Merit The Right Reverend the Lord Eames OM\n\nThe Most Venerable Order of St John Professor Mark Compton AM GCStJ\n\nThe Order of Australia Yvonne Kenny AM\n\nThe Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Dame Susan Ion GBE\n\nThe Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George The Right Honourable the Baroness Ashton of Upholland LG GCMG\n\nThe Most Honourable Order of the Bath Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton GCB\n\nThe Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle The Right Honourable the Lord Hope of Craighead KT\n\nThe Most Noble Order of the Garter Lady Mary Peters LG CH DBE\n\nThe Standard of the Principality of Wales borne by the Marquess of Anglesey\n\nStandards of the Quarterings of the Royal Arms borne by The Duke of Westminster The Earl of Caledon KCVO The Earl of Dundee DL\n\nThe Right Honourable Marcus Jones MP Treasurer of the Household\n\nThe Cross of Westminster and Lights\n\nThe Venerable Tricia Hillas Canon Steward and Archdeacon of Westminster\n\nThe Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle MBE Dean of Westminster\n\nPrimatial Cross of Canterbury borne by The Reverend Tosin Oladipo, Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nThe Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan\n\nThe Reverend Canon Adrian Daffern Chaplain Extraordinary to the Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nThe Queen's Ring borne by The Right Reverend and Right Honourable the Lord Chartres GCVO\n\nThe Queen's Rod borne by the Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws KC\n\nThe Queen's Crown borne by the Duke of Wellington OBE DL\n\nThe Sceptre with Cross borne by the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry KT KBE CVO DL, High Steward of Westminster\n\nThe Ring borne by Brigadier Andrew Jackson CBE, Keeper of the Jewel House\n\nThe Spur borne by the Lord Hastings\n\nThe Spur borne by the Earl of Loudoun\n\nThe Armills borne by the Right Honourable the Lord Darzi of Denham OM KBE\n\nThe Jewelled Sword of Offering borne by Petty Officer Amy Taylor\n\nThe Sword of Temporal Justice borne by General the Lord Houghton of Richmond GCB CBE DL\n\nCurtana, The Sword of Mercy borne by Air Chief Marshal the Lord Peach GBE KCB DL\n\nThe Sword of Spiritual Justice borne by General the Lord Richards of Herstmonceux GCB CBE DSO DL\n\nAlderman Nicholas Lyons DL Lord Mayor of the City of London\n\nThe Earl of Courtown Captain, The King's Body Guard of The Yeoman of the Guard\n\nThe Earl of Dalhousie GCVO DL Deputy Captain General, The King's Body Guard for Scotland\n\nThe Right Honourable the Baroness Williams of Trafford Captain, His Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of the Gentlemen at Arms\n\nThe Earl of Crawford and Balcarres Deputy to the Great Steward of Scotland\n\nThe Earl of Erroll Lord High Constable of Scotland\n\nThe Sword of State borne by the Right Honourable Penny Mordaunt MP, Lord President of the Council\n\nThe Sceptre with Dove borne by the Baroness Benjamin OM DBE DL\n\nThe Most Reverend Dr Hosam Naoum Archbishop in Jerusalem, bearing the Holy Bible\n\nThe Right Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin CD MBE Bishop of Dover, bearing the Paten\n\nThe Right Reverend Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani Bishop of Chelmsford, bearing the Chalice\n\nThe Right Reverend Richard Jackson Bishop of Hereford, Bishop Assistant\n\nThe Right Reverend Graham Usher Bishop of Norwich, Bishop Assistant\n\nThe Marchioness of Lansdowne The Queen's Companion\n\nMajor Oliver Plunket The Groom of the Robes\n\nThe Right Reverend Dr Michael Beasley Bishop of Bath and Wells, Bishop Assistant\n\nThe Right Reverend Paul Butler Bishop of Durham, Bishop Assistant\n\nHis Royal Highness Prince George of Wales Page of Honour\n\nLieutenant Colonel Jonathan Thompson The Groom of the Robes\n\nThe Lord de Mauley TD Master of the Horse\n\nThe Right Honourable Sir Edward Young KCVO Joint Principal Private Secretary to The King\n\nThe Right Honourable the Lord Parker of Minsmere GCVO KCB\n\nLord Chamberlain The Right Honourable Sir Clive Alderton KCVO Principal Private Secretary to The King and The Queen\n\nProcession of the King and the Queen (end)\n\nChaplain Extraordinary to the Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nThe Bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of Durham\n\nThe Bishop of Hereford The Bishop of Norwich", "A prominent Russian writer and pro-war blogger has had surgery and is now under sedation after a car bomb attack, officials say.\n\nZakhar Prilepin, a vehement supporter of Russia's campaign in Ukraine, was in a car blown up in a village in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region. He suffered fractures and his driver was killed.\n\nInvestigators say they are questioning a suspect named Alexander Permyakov who has admitted operating for Ukraine.\n\nThat has not been confirmed by Kyiv.\n\nNor has Kyiv denied involvement, or responded to a Russian foreign ministry allegation that Ukraine - backed by the US government - targeted Prilepin as an ideological enemy.\n\nRussian reports did not specify Prilepin's injuries. The Investigative Committee (SK), which handles serious crimes including terrorism, accuses Permyakov of having detonated a remote-controlled bomb, wrecking Prilepin's Audi.\n\nThe SK says the suspect was caught in a neighbouring village. The region is more than 425km (265 miles) east of Moscow.\n\nThe suspect \"admitted doing an assignment for the Ukrainian secret services\", the SK alleges.\n\nThe bomb was allegedly planted on the road and detonated remotely\n\nIt comes a month after another pro-Kremlin blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky, died in a bombing at a St Petersburg café.\n\nSaturday's explosion reportedly took place on a remote road some 80km from the town of Bor.\n\nThe partisan group Atesh, which is made up of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars, claimed it was behind the attack on Prilepin.\n\n\"We had a feeling that sooner or later he would be blown up,\" they wrote on Telegram. \"He was not driving alone, but with a surprise on the underside of the car.\"\n\nAs well as being one one of Russia's best-known novelists, Prilepin is known for his involvement with Russian ultra-nationalist politics.\n\nA veteran of Russia's bloody wars in Chechnya in the 1990s, the 47-year-old has admitted fighting alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.\n\nPrilepin rose to literary fame in the 2000s\n\nHe has called for the \"return of Kyiv to Russia\". Last year a group founded by Prilepin called on officials to \"purge the cultural space\" of all who oppose the conflict.\n\nKremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on the alleged bombing until the investigation was complete.\n\nBut Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova sought to blame the attack on the UK and the US.\n\n\"The fact has come true: Washington and Nato fed another international terrorist cell - the Kiev regime,\" she wrote on Telegram. \"We pray for Zakhar.\"\n\nThe attack is the latest to target high-profile supporters of President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.\n\nVladlen Tatarsky was killed last month. The blogger had reported from the Ukraine front line and gained notoriety last year after posting a video filmed inside the Kremlin in which he said: \"We will defeat everyone, we will kill everyone, we will rob everyone as necessary. Just as we like it.\"\n\nActivist Darya Trepova, 26, was later arrested and was charged with terrorism following the publication of a video - believed to have been recorded under duress - in which she admitted bringing a statuette to the café that later blew up.\n\nAnd in August 2022, Darya Dugina - the daughter of a close ally of Mr Putin - was killed in a suspected car bombing near Moscow.\n\nIt is thought her father, the Russian ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, who is known as \"Putin's brain\", may have been the intended target of that attack.\n\nThe BBC's Laurence Peter contributed to this report.", "Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at Westminster Abbey ahead of the coronation ceremony\n\nThe wording of the invitation for people to pay homage to the King has been changed for the Coronation following criticism.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury will now \"invite\" those who wish to express support for, instead of a \"call\" for people to swear allegiance to him.\n\nLambeth Palace said the \"homage of the people\" was \"always an invitation rather than expectation\".\n\nIt is the first time the public are being given a role in the Coronation.\n\nThe change follows criticism of the wording in the order of service from both republicans groups and friends of the King.\n\nLambeth Palace said it had been mutually agreed with Buckingham Palace that the introductory words would be changed.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was to say: \"I call upon all persons of goodwill in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of the other realms and the territories to make their homage, in heart and voice, to their undoubted King, defender of all.\"\n\nAll those interested would be invited to reply: \"I swear that I will pay true allegiance to your majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God.\"\n\nBut now he will say: \"I now invite those who wish to offer their support to do so, with a moment of private reflection, by joining in saying God save King Charles at the end or, for those with the words before them, to recite them in full.\"\n\nBroadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby - a close friend of the King - said he would find the find the idea of people paying homage during the Coronation \"abhorrent\", while anti-monarchist campaign group Republic described the idea \"nonsense\" and \"offensive\".\n\nThe \"homage of the people\" is a new addition to the ancient ceremony which is being led by the head of the Church of England.\n\nIn a statement, Lambeth Palace said the homage \"was always an invitation rather than expectation\".\n\n\"To provide further clarity as the Order of Service was finalised, it has been mutually agreed by Lambeth Palace and Buckingham Palace that the introductory words will be changed.\n\n\"This reflects the collaborative approach that has been taken throughout the Coronation planning. We are looking forward to the service with much joy and expectation.\"", "Former President Donald Trump has said in his deposition that he did not rape E Jean Carroll. He repeatedly denies Ms Carroll's allegations by claiming she is \"not my type\".", "A lorry driver crossing the Gulana-Lulalu causeway in Kenya was surrounded by sudden flood waters.\n\nThe alarm was raised by worried onlookers, but thankfully the aerial unit of a local wildlife charity were on hand to save the day.\n\nThe Sheldrick Wildlife Trust flew their helicopter over the rushing water and managed to save the driver.", "King Charles III has been crowned alongside Queen Camilla in ceremony steeped in splendour and tradition inside Westminster Abbey.\n\nA host of other events have been planned for the rest of the weekend. Here is your guide to what will happen on Sunday and Monday.\n\nNeighbours and communities across the UK are being invited to share food and fun together as part of the Coronation Big Lunch.\n\nFrom 20:00, The Coronation Concert will showcase the country's diverse cultural heritage in music, theatre and dance. Kirsty Young will anchor the live coverage for BBC TV and BBC iPlayer and Clara Amfo and Jordan Banjo will be backstage with the artists.\n\nThe concert will see a world-class orchestra play a host of musical favourites and will also feature, for the first time ever, a joint performance from The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal College of Music and The Royal College of Art.\n\nAs part of the show, ten locations around the UK including Blackpool, Sheffield, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Gateshead, Cornwall and Belfast will be lit up in a live sequence as part of Lighting Up The Nation.\n\nHow to watch: The Coronation Concert will be broadcast live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds. In London it will be shown on the big screen in St. James's Park.\n\nHundreds of parties, picnics and all sort of events have been planned by local councils and members of the public.\n\nOn Bank Holiday Monday, members of the public will be invited to take part in The Big Help Out, aiming to raise awareness of volunteering.\n\nThousands of organisations across the country are encouraging the public to make a difference in their local communities, with plenty of opportunities to get involved.\n\nFor those staying at home, specially-commissioned programming will be available on iPlayer, including Charles R: The Making of a Monarch, Songs of Praise: A Coronation Celebration and Stitching for Britain.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nPubs, clubs and bars across England and Wales will stay open for an extra two hours on Friday and Saturday. This map allows you to search for events in your area. Here are just a few examples of other events that will be happening around the UK:\n\nWhat are your plans for the Coronation? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nSinger Tina Turner, whose soul classics and pop hits like The Best and What's Love Got to Do With It made her a superstar, has died at the age of 83.\n\nTurner had suffered a number of health issues in recent years including cancer, a stroke and kidney failure.\n\nShe rose to fame alongside husband Ike in the 1960s with songs including Proud Mary and River Deep, Mountain High.\n\nShe divorced the abusive Ike in 1978, and went on to find even greater success as a solo artist in the 1980s.\n\nDubbed the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, Tina Turner was famed for her raunchy and energetic stage performances and husky, powerful vocals.\n\nHer death was announced on her official Instagram page.\n\n\"With her music and her boundless passion for life, she enchanted millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of tomorrow,\" the post said.\n\n\"Today we say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us all her greatest work: her music.\"\n\nTurner won eight Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 2021 as a solo artist, having first been inducted alongside Ike Turner in 1991.\n\nUpon her solo induction, the Hall of Fame noted how she had \"expanded the once-limited idea of how a Black woman could conquer a stage and be both a powerhouse and a multidimensional being\".\n\nYounger stars who have felt her influence include Beyoncé, Janet Jackson, Janelle Monae and Rihanna.\n\nTurner's manager of 30 years, Roger Davies, said in a statement that \"Tina was a unique and remarkable force of nature with her strength, incredible energy and immense talent\".\n\n\"From the first day I met her in 1980, she believed in herself completely when few others did at that time... I will miss her deeply,\" he added.\n\nAmerican singer Gloria Gaynor, who also rose to fame in the 1960s, said Turner \"paved the way for so many women in rock music, black and white\".\n\nThere were also tributes from Supermodel Naomi Campbell, Basketball legend Magic Johnson and singers Kelly Rowland, Ciara and Blondie's Debbie Harry.\n\nOn Instagram, The Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger said Turner was \"inspiring, warm, funny and generous\" and helped him when he was young.\n\nSir Elton John, who in his autobiography wrote about the heated arguments the pair had while trying to work together in 1997, said she was one of the world's \"most exciting and electric performers\".\n\nActress Viola Davis praised Turner as \"our first symbol of excellence and unbridled ownership of sexuality!!\"\n\nTurner was also a style icon - here she's performing in New York's Central Park in 1969 wearing a red leather outfit\n\nBorn in Tennessee into a sharecropping family, she first found prominence as one of the backing singers for her husband's band The Kings of Rhythm.\n\nShe soon went to to front the band, and the couple tasted commercial success with Fool in Love and It's Gonna Work Out Fine, which made the US charts in the early 60s.\n\nTheir other hits included 1973's Nutbush City Limits, about the small town where Tina was born. But Ike's physical and emotional abuse was taking its toll.\n\nIt was he who changed her name from her birth name, Anna Mae Bullock, to Tina Turner - a decision he took without her knowledge, one example of his controlling behaviour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tina Turner spoke frankly about domestic abuse with the BBC's Will Gompertz back in 2018\n\nShe recalled the trauma she suffered throughout their relationship in her 2018 memoir, My Love Story, in which she compared sex with the late musician to \"a kind of rape\".\n\n\"He used my nose as a punching bag so many times that I could taste blood running down my throat when I sang,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter escaping her abuser, she went on to rebuild her career and become one of the biggest pop and rock stars of the 80s and 90s, with hits including Let's Stay Together, Steamy Windows, Private Dancer, James Bond theme GoldenEye, I Don't Wanna Fight and It Takes Two, a duet with Rod Stewart.\n\nShe also starred in 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - which featured another of her smashes, We Don't Need Another Hero - and The Who's 1975 rock opera Tommy as the Acid Queen.\n\nShe found happiness with her second husband, German music executive Erwin Bac. They began dating in the mid-80s, and got married in 2013.\n\nThe pair lived in Switzerland, with Turner taking Swiss citizenship. He donated one of his kidneys to her in 2017 after it was discovered she was suffering from kidney failure.\n\nShe also suffered tragedy with the loss of her eldest son Craig to suicide in 2018. His father was Turner's former bandmate, Raymond Hill.\n\nAnother son, Ronnie, whose father was Ike Turner, died in 2022. She also had two adopted sons, Ike Jr and Michael, Ike's children from a previous relationship.\n\nTina's life story spawned a 1993 biopic titled What's Love Got To Do With It, which earned Angela Bassett an Oscar nomination for playing the star; and a hit stage musical - aptly titled Tina: The Musical. She was also the subject of HBO documentary Tina in 2021.\n\nIn an interview with Marie Claire South Africa in 2018, Turner said: \"People think my life has been tough, but I think it's been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happened, it's how you deal with it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSuella Braverman says she is \"confident nothing untoward happened\", but has refused to be drawn over whether she asked civil servants to arrange a one-to-one speed awareness course for her.\n\nThe home secretary was caught speeding in 2022 and, according to reports, asked the civil service for advice on arranging a private course.\n\nThe PM is under pressure to investigate whether she broke the ministerial code.\n\nRishi Sunak has asked his ethics adviser about the case.\n\nHe has also spoken to the home secretary, and Downing Street said he still had confidence in the home secretary.\n\nMrs Braverman is under scrutiny not over the speeding offence itself, but over whether she acted properly in relation to the civil service, by asking officials to assist with a private matter, over a one-to-one speed awareness course.\n\nAfter being caught speeding, Ms Braverman faced getting three points on her licence and a fine, or a course as part of a group.\n\nA government source told the BBC the senior minister had been \"concerned\" about her insurance premiums, and favoured doing a course. She is reported to have asked civil servants about a one-on-one course, citing security concerns about doing one as part of a group. She was told it was not a matter for the civil service.\n\nShe then asked a special adviser to try to arrange a private course.\n\nWhen the speed course provider said there was no option to do this, Mrs Braverman opted to pay the fine and accept the points, because she was \"very busy\" a source told the BBC. By this point she had been reappointed as home secretary in Mr Sunak's government.\n\nThe same government source refused to say whether Mrs Braverman's motivation to do the course in private was to reduce the chances of her being recognised by members of the public.\n\nSpeeding awareness course providers are contracted by individual police forces. According to UK Road Offender Education, the not-for-profit organisation responsible, these contracts make \"no provision for private one-to-one courses\" at the request of the driver.\n\nThe ministerial code requires ministers to ensure \"no conflict arises\" between their public duties and their private interests.\n\nRepeatedly asked in an interview whether she instructed officials to arrange a one-on-one speeding course, Mrs Braverman said: \"Last summer, I was speeding, I regret that, I paid the fine and I took the points.\"\n\nAsked whether she would welcome an investigation into what happened or if she had spoken to the prime minister about it, Ms Braverman said: \"I am focussed on working as the home secretary.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yvette Cooper claims Suella Braverman is \"not answering basic factual questions\" about her 2022 speeding fine\n\nSpeaking to the Westminster Hour on BBC Radio 4, former senior civil servant Sir Philip Rycroft said Mrs Braverman's reported actions appeared to be a \"real lapse of judgement\".\n\n\"Obviously, there's still investigations to be done and so on but the code is very clear. Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises or appears to arise between their public duties and their private interests.\n\n\"Even asking a question of a civil servant as to how she might go on one of these courses puts them in an impossible position.\"\n\nThe ministerial code sets standards of conduct expected of ministers, including that they must uphold the political impartiality of the civil service.\n\nFormer business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg told Radio 4's World at One, he was confident Ms Braverman had not broken any rules.\n\n\"What goes on in private offices is a minister is busy and has many things to do and sometimes will ask for something the civil servants can't do,\" he said.\n\n\"As soon as once they say no, and you accept it, you haven't done anything wrong.\"\n\nIn the Commons, Mr Sunak told MPs he has \"asked for further information\" and will update MPs \"on the appropriate course of action in due course\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said Mr Sunak \"wants to avail himself of all the information before he makes a decision\". The prime minister still has confidence in the home secretary, the spokesman added.\n\nMrs Braverman was in Downing Street on Monday lunchtime, and afterwards headed to the House of Commons for a scheduled question session from MPs on Home Office issues.\n\nDuring the session, Mrs Braverman was repeatedly pressed on whether she had asked civil servants to arrange a private speed awareness course.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: \"If the home secretary can't grip on her own rule-breaking behaviour how can she get a grip on anything else.\"\n\nThe home secretary told MPs she had paid the speeding fine and had not sought to avoid any sanction.\n\nLabour Leader Sir Keir Starmer said the prime minister should order his adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, to investigate whether ministerial rules were broken.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Sir Keir said it looked like \"inappropriate action took place\" from the home secretary that \"needs to be fully investigated\".\n\n\"The usual consequence of breaking the ministerial code is that you'll go,\" he added.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are also calling for an investigation and said Mr Sunak needed to make a statement in Parliament about the claims.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Did you have any questions about the summit?\" Rishi Sunak asks the BBC's Chris Mason\n\nAnswering questions at the G7 summit over the weekend, Mr Sunak apparently did not know anything about the story the until it was first reported in the Sunday Times. and he declined to say whether he would be ordering an investigation.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference, he also declined to say he backed Mrs Braverman - but a Downing Street source later said that \"of course\" he did.\n\nAfter serving as attorney general between February 2020 and September 2022, Mrs Braverman was promoted to home secretary under Liz Truss.\n\nShe resigned on 19 October after sending an official document from a personal email to a backbench MP - describing it as a \"technical infringement of the rules\". But she was reappointed to the same role by Mr Sunak six days later following the collapse of Liz Truss's government.", "CCTV has captured a brazen jewellery store heist in Queensland by two thieves armed with guns and disguised in what appear to be burkas. Rhia Jewellers owner Madhuri Azam told the BBC the thieves made off with over A$200,000 (£106,000) worth of stock after a bystander began screaming.", "UK homeowners and renters are facing a \"huge income shock\" as rising interest rates hit mortgages and monthly costs, the boss of Barclays has warned.\n\nCS Venkatakrishnan, who is known as Venkat, estimates that payments by mortgage holders and tenants will take a chunk of between 28% and 30% out of their income.\n\nHe said that compares to an average 20% in previous years.\n\nThe Bank of England has sharply raised interest rates to curb inflation.\n\nThe Barclays boss said that \"most people will begin to feel the impact of higher rates when their current deal expires by the end of next year\", and predicted \"there is a huge income shock\" on the way.\n\nMr Venkat was speaking to a conference held by the Wall Street Journal.\n\nAround 85% of all mortgages are fixed-rate, according to the Bank of England.\n\nIt said around 1.3 million households are expected to reach the end of their deals this year and face a rise of up to £200 per month, based on current rates.\n\nThe Bank of England has raised interest rates 12 times since December 2021 in an attempt to keep price rises, or inflation, under control.\n\nA typical tracker mortgage customer is now paying about £417 more a month while those on a variable rate have seen their costs rise by £266.\n\nData released on Wednesday shows inflation slowed to 8.7% in the year to April but remains higher than some economists predicted.\n\nIt has prompted expectations of a further increase in borrowing costs when the Bank of England's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets in June.\n\nAndrew Montlake, managing director at mortgage brokers Coreco, said: \"While on the face of it we have seen a fall in inflation back down to single figures, it is not by quite as much as expected.\n\nHe added: \"What is more, the important underlying inflation figure has proved to be stickier than envisaged. This has led to a reaction from the markets as they believe the Bank of England may now continue with their policy of rate rises.\"\n\nSushil Wadhwani, a former member of the MPC who is now on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Economic Advisory Council, said markets have indicated interest rates could peak around 5.5%.\n\nHe said a lot people are on fixed rate mortgages \"and these haven't adjusted yet\".\n\n\"That's an adjustment that's yet to come and it's deeply worrying for all of us,\" he added.\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "One of the world's biggest carmakers has warned it may have to close UK factories if the government does not renegotiate the Brexit deal.\n\nStellantis, which owns Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, had committed to making electric cars in the UK, but says that is under threat.\n\nIt warned it could face tariffs of 10% on exports to the EU due to rules on where parts are sourced from.\n\nIn response to the comments, Rishi Sunak said he believed in Brexit.\n\n\"I voted for Brexit, I believe in Brexit,\" the prime minister told reporters while travelling to the G7 Summit of world leaders in Japan.\n\nMr Sunak cited what he called \"Brexit benefits\" he introduced as chancellor and reforms to retained EU law which he said would save business a billion pounds a year.\n\nHe did not directly address concerns made by Stellantis, but a spokesperson said the government was \"determined\" UK car making would remain competitive.\n\nIt is the first time a car firm has openly called for a renegotiation of the terms of the Brexit trade deal, and the BBC understands all major manufacturers in the UK have raised similar concerns with government.\n\nStellantis warned that if the cost of electric vehicle manufacturing in the UK \"becomes uncompetitive and unsustainable, operations will close\".\n\nThe car giant called on ministers to come to an agreement with the EU to maintain the status quo until 2027, with a review of arrangements for manufacturing parts in Serbia and Morocco.\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer said the country needed \"a better Brexit deal\" to ensure firms such as Vauxhall could continue operating in the UK.\n\nSources said Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch had a \"constructive\" virtual meeting with Stellantis on Wednesday, with them \"cautiously optimistic\" after conversations with the EU which recognised a deal was in both parties' interest.\n\nJust two years ago, Stellantis, which is the world's fourth biggest car maker, said the future of its Ellesmere Port and Luton plants was secure.\n\nBut the firm told a House of Commons inquiry the current trade rules posed a \"threat to our export business and sustainability of our UK manufacturing operations\".\n\nFrom next year, 45% of the value of an electric car should originate in the UK or EU to qualify for trade without tariffs. This will rise to 65% in 2027.\n\nStellantis said it was \"now unable to meet these rules of origin\" due to the recent surge in raw material and energy costs.\n\nIf the government cannot get an agreement to keep the current rules until 2027, exports of its UK-made cars \"would be subject to 10% tariffs\" from next year, it said.\n\nThis would make the UK an uncompetitive place to manufacture cars compared with Japan and South Korea, it added.\n\n\"To reinforce the sustainability of our manufacturing plants in the UK, the UK must consider its trading arrangements with Europe,\" Stellantis said.\n\nA government spokesperson said ministers will take \"decisive action\" to ensure future investment in the industry but Labour said car makers had been let down by a \"government in chaos\".\n\nTrading rules around electric cars were one of the very last issues settled in the Brexit negotiations in 2020.\n\nBut Stellantis warned the current rules meant manufacturers could relocate abroad, pointing to BMW's decision to make its new electric Mini in Germany and Honda's closure of its plant in Swindon.\n\nAlong with trade barriers, a core problem remains the lack of electric car battery plants in the UK, when compared with the US, China and EU which are pouring subsidies into electric car making.\n\nFormer Nissan executive and battery start-up businessman Andy Palmer said the UK was \"running out of time\" to develop its own battery manufacturing industry.\n\nEarlier this week, French President Emmanuel Macron hosted Tesla's Elon Musk, who hinted he might invest in a battery plant - or gigafactory - in France.\n\nMeanwhile, the Spanish government is currently trying to woo the UK's biggest car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, into building a gigafactory in Spain.\n\nWith the rules due to tighten again in 2027 experts believe UK exporters will find it impossible to sell cars overseas tariff free unless they can source batteries domestically.", "A government minister has attacked Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg for the \"extraordinary moral choice\" to roll out encryption in Facebook messages.\n\nMeta was allowing child abusers to \"operate with impunity\", Security Minister Tom Tugendhat said.\n\nEnd-to-end encryption (E2EE) stops anyone but the sender and recipient reading the message.\n\nMeta which owns Facebook, said it would work with law enforcement and child safety experts as it deployed the tech.\n\nThe government has long been critical of those plans and of other platforms' resistance to weakening the privacy of end-to-end-encrypted messaging.\n\nPolice and government maintain the tech - also used in apps such as Signal, WhatsApp and Apple's iMessage - prevents law enforcement and the firms themselves from identifying the sharing of child sexual abuse material.\n\nMr Tugendhat said: \"Faced with an epidemic of child sexual exploitation abuse, Meta are choosing to ignore it and in doing so, they are allowing predators to operate with impunity.\n\n\"That is an extraordinary moral choice. It is an extraordinary decision. And I think we should remember who it is who is making it.\"\n\nHe was speaking at the PIER23 conference on tackling online harms at Anglia Ruskin University Chelmsford.\n\nThe security minister singled out the Meta boss for criticism.\n\n\"I am speaking about Meta specifically, and Mark Zuckerberg's choices particularly. These are his choices,\" he said.\n\nA government advertising campaign will soon be launched \"to tell parents the truth about Meta's choices and what they mean for the safety of their children\", he said.\n\nThe campaign, which would run in print, online and broadcast, would \"encourage tech firms to take responsibility and to do the right thing\", Mr Tugendhat said.\n\nThe Home Office declined to provide more detail about the campaign when approached by the BBC.\n\nMr Tugendhat has been security minister since September 2022\n\nMeta argues the majority of British people already rely on apps that use encryption to keep them safe from hackers, fraudsters and criminals.\n\n\"We don't think people want us reading their private messages so have developed safety measures that prevent, detect and allow us to take action against this heinous abuse, while maintaining online privacy and security\", it said.\n\nThe company removes and reports millions of images each month.\n\nWhatsApp, which Meta owns, made more than one million reports in a year even though it uses end-to-end-encryption.\n\nThe Home Office has promoted similar campaigns in the past, such as last year's No Place to Hide campaign, which also called on Facebook to abandon plans for end-to-end encryption.\n\nBut the data watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office was critical of the campaign, arguing the tech helped protect children from criminals and abusers, urged Facebook to roll it out without delay.\n\nThe Online Safety Bill, currently going through Parliament, contains powers that could enable communication regulator Ofcom to direct platforms to use accredited technology to scan the contents of messages.\n\nSeveral messaging platforms, including Signal and WhatsApp, have previously told the BBC they will refuse to weaken the privacy of their encrypted messaging systems if directed to do so.\n\nThe government argues it is possible to provide technological solutions that mean the contents of encrypted messages can be scanned for child abuse material.\n\nThe only way of doing that, many tech experts argue, would be to install software that would scan messages on the phone or computer before they are sent, called client-side scanning.\n\nThis, critics argue, would fundamentally undermine the privacy of messages and to argue otherwise would be like arguing that digging a hole under a fence did not break the fence\n\nSignal told the BBC in February that it would \"walk\" from the UK if forced to weaken the privacy of its encrypted messaging app.\n\nIn response to the minister's comments, its president Meredith Whittaker told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the government was trying to implement \"a mass surveillance apparatus\". It would, she said, require people to \"run government-mandated scanning services on their devices\".\n\nCiaran Martin, the former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, told Today that: \"Essentially it's building a door that doesn't currently exist, not into the encrypted messaging app but into devices, which could be used or misused by people who aren't interested in protecting children for more nefarious purposes.\"\n\nMr Martin said he believed the UK would end up in the \"unhappy situation\" where the power in the bill would be passed by Parliament but not used.\n\nApple tried client-side scanning, but abandoned it after a backlash. In an article in the Financial Times, Mr Martin suggested Apple is privately critical of the powers in the bill, but the firm has so far declined to set out publicly its position on the issue.\n\nBBC News learned from Freedom of Information requests that Apple has had four meetings since April 2022 with the Ofcom team responsible for developing policy regarding the enforcement of the relevant section of the bill.", "US retailer Target is removing some items from its LGBTQ Pride Collection after threats and confrontations in certain stores.\n\nThe company said on Tuesday the move would protect employees after what it described as \"volatile circumstances\" in some of its 2,000 shops.\n\nIn some states, Target said it had moved Pride month merchandise to the back of the store.\n\nThe 2,000-item range includes rainbow motifs and \"love is love\" t-shirts.\n\nOther items include \"gender fluid\" mugs and children's books titled \"Bye Bye, Binary,\" \"Pride 1,2,3\" and \"I'm not a girl.\"\n\n\"Since introducing this year's collection, we've experienced threats impacting our team members' sense of safety and well-being while at work,\" Target said in a statement.\n\n\"Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the centre of the most significant confrontational behaviour.\"\n\nA spokesperson said there has been an increase in incidents of Pride merchandise being thrown on the floor.\n\nThe products Target is withdrawing are being removed from all its US stores and its website, the spokesperson told Reuters news agency.\n\nWhile various Pride Collection products are under review, the ones being immediately removed are under the Abprallen label, which has been criticised for using images of pentagrams, horned skulls and other Satanic visuals.\n\nIt comes as brands across the world find themselves mired in controversy over product ranges that hope to reflect and champion LGBTQ diversity.\n\nIn Malaysia, Swatch said authorities confiscated 164 rainbow-coloured watches worth $14,000 (£11,271) from its stores, including in the capital Kuala Lumpur last week.\n\nHomosexuality is forbidden in Malaysia, a Muslim-majority Southeast Asian nation. Although enforcement is rare, gay sex can be punished with imprisonment and whipping.\n\n\"We strongly contest that our collection of watches using rainbow colours and having a message of peace and love could be harmful,\" said Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek. \"This has nothing political.\"\n\n\"We wonder how the home ministry's enforcement unit will confiscate the many beautiful natural rainbows that are showing up thousand times a year in the sky of Malaysia,\" Mr Hayek said.\n\nSwatch will replenish stocks of its Pride Watches range and display them on store shelves, as instructed by its headquarters in Switzerland, said the company's marketing manager, Sarah Kok.\n\nBased on a summons notice to Swatch that was seen by AFP, the watches had \"LGBT elements\" and violated a 1984 printing law that government critics had long criticised as draconian.\n\nWith reporting by Joel Guinto in Singapore\n• None Why Bud Light and Disney are under attack", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: CCTV appears to show police following people minutes before crash\n\nPolice are verifying CCTV showing a police van following two people on an electric bike minutes before a fatal crash that sparked a riot in Cardiff.\n\nThose who died were named locally as Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15.\n\nThe footage shows the South Wales Police van and the bike 900m, or just over half a mile, from the crash site.\n\nBut police said none of their vehicles were on Snowden Road in Ely - where the crash was - at the time it happened.\n\nThe video analysed by BBC Verify is time-stamped to 17:59 BST on Monday on Frank Road.\n\nTributes were left to the two teenagers who died in Ely\n\nLocal people had earlier claimed on social media that police were pursuing the bike.\n\nPolice said the collision had already occurred when officers arrived, and they remained on the scene to manage \"large-scale disorder\" until the early hours of Tuesday morning.\n\nThen South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael had denied the boys were being pursued by officers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We have received footage that shows a police vehicle following a bike at just prior to 6pm,\" Ch Supt Martyn Stone said in a statement outside Cardiff Bay police station on Tuesday evening.\n\nHe declined to answer questions after the statement.\n\nThe footage \"will assist us in piecing together the circumstances leading up to the collision,\" he added.\n\nMr Michael later declined to comment on the footage of the police van.\n\n\"You should examine the carefully-worded statement from the chief superintendent,\" he said.\n\nA car burns amid disorder in the Cardiff suburb of Ely\n\n\"We can confirm that the following investigations have been carried out so far, and that when the collision occurred there was no police vehicle on Snowden Road,\" Ch Supt Stone said.\n\n\"At this stage we do not believe any other vehicles were involved.\"\n\nThe force has made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), he confirmed.\n\nAn IOPC spokesperson said: \"We will be sending investigators to a police post incident procedure to begin gathering information and to assess whether the IOPC will carry out an independent investigation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ashes of burnt-out cars could be seen on Tuesday morning\n\nOn Tuesday night, 24 hours after the trouble began, dozens of young people gathered near hundreds of floral tributes on Snowden Road. The mood in the area was calm.\n\nThat was in contrast to Monday, when cars were set alight, fireworks set off and paving slabs thrown at police as more than 100 people gathered following the crash.\n\n\"Fifteen police officers were injured, 11 were taken to hospital, and four were treated at the scene,\" Ch Supt Stone said.\n\nLitter and burnt cars were left on the street in Ely, Cardiff\n\nA number of arrests have already been made he said, \"and there will be more to come\".\n\n\"Residents have our assurances that we will be doing our best to arrest those responsible,\" he added.\n\nPolice were called to the crash shortly after 18:00 BST on Monday.\n\nAt about 20:00, police tweeted that they were still at the scene of the collision but were also working to \"de-escalate\" disorder.\n\nThe force said it had received a large number of calls from \"understandably frightened\" residents.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it was called back to the scene at 22:30 and took five people to hospital.\n\nResident Vikki Takata said she saw \"loads of riot vans\" from her window, and a helicopter that was \"shining the torch down on us\".\n\n\"It was carnage,\" she recalled. \"I've never seen anything like it other than on the telly.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther eyewitnesses said young people were chasing police officers up the road and throwing stones and missiles at cars.\n\n\"The police with the shields were all literally opposite my car,\" Ms Takata recalled. \"It was quite frightening.\"\n\nThe force said its thoughts were with the families of the two boys who had died as well as those affected by the rioting.\n\nA car was set on fire and tipped on its roof\n\nBridy Bool, who knows the Evans family, said Harvey had \"loads of friends\" and loved motorbikes and football.\n\n\"He was best friends with Kyrees and [they] were into the same things. It was not unusual for them to be together,\" she said.\n\nMs Bool said she believed the pair were being chased by officers \"as there are videos going around\".\n\nA car with its windows smashed on Snowden Road in Ely\n\nMinister for Social Justice Jane Hutt told the Senedd on Tuesday afternoon that more arrests are expected.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford - whose Cardiff West constituency includes Ely - said he was \"very concerned\" by the \"upsetting reports\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesperson said what had happened was \"appalling and completely unacceptable\".\n\nPlaid Cymru and the Welsh Liberal Democrats have called for a full investigation. Welsh Conservative Senedd group leader Andrew RT Davies called it \"deeply concerning\".\n\nCardiff council leader Huw Thomas appealed for calm, and said the local authority was \"assisting with the clean-up, so we can rebuild and project a more positive image of Ely\".\n\nAre you in the area? Did you witness the disorder? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "If the deal goes through batteries for Jaguar Land Rover would be built at the site in Somerset\n\nA deal to build a multi-billion pound electric car battery factory in the UK is understood to be close to completion.\n\nThe BBC understands the gigafactory for Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) would be built at Gravity business park, in Somerset.\n\nUp to 9,000 jobs would be created at the Bridgwater site, close to the M5.\n\nTalks between the British government and JLR owner Tata are believed to be at an advanced stage after offers of incentives by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt.\n\nWest of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris said \"swift action is needed to seal the deal\" after it was reported in The Times that Somerset faces competition from Europe to be the factory's home.\n\nTata is considering whether to build its battery plant in the UK or Spain, but is said to be looking at settling in the UK after subsidies and financial incentives from the government.\n\nMr Norris said he had previously held face-to-face meetings last year with Jaguar Land Rover, whose electric vehicle batteries will be produced at the plant if the deal is confirmed.\n\nThe gigafactory would be built at the Gravity business park near Bridgwater\n\nHe said he was keen to welcome the company to the region and that the Gravity site was \"super convenient with Bristol Port on the doorstep\".\n\n\"We need an effective UK industrial strategy to ensure we benefit from the huge opportunities of net-zero. We have a site that's shovel-ready so let's now seal that deal,\" he added.\n\nGigafactories are being built across the world to meet predicted a huge increase in demand for the batteries as countries start to ban petrol and diesel engines.\n\nThe UK government is under pressure from car-makers to increase the capacity of battery production in Britain, amid fears car-making plants may leave the UK.\n\nEarlier this week Stellantis, owner of Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, warned it may have to close UK factories if the government does not renegotiate the Brexit deal.\n\nThe company, one of the world's biggest carmakers, had committed to making electric vehicles in the UK, but said its pledge was now under threat.\n\nIt warned it could face tariffs of 10% on exports to the EU because of rules on where parts are sourced from.\n\nThere is growing optimism Jaguar Land Rover owner Tata group will choose Somerset as the site for a new multi-billion pound electric vehicle battery plant.\n\nHowever, sources within government caution that it is not a certainty.\n\nTata is also considering a site in Spain and government officials say they are not aware of any final decision.\n\nThe Chancellor of the Exchequer this week acknowledged the urgency to secure battery manufacturing in the UK after the BBC revealed that Peugeot Citroen parent firm Stellantis had told MPs they would not be able to comply with new rules requiring 45% of a car's value to be sourced within the UK or the EU.\n\nOther manufacturers have raised similar concerns and the EU automotive trade body also said the regulations would need to be amended or postponed, as EU car firms are still sourcing most of their batteries from Asia while they build out their own facilities.\n\nThe chancellor told business leaders at the British Chambers of Commerce to \"watch this space\" and while Treasury insiders say they do not recognise a reported figure of £500m in subsidies to land the plant, they admitted significant incentives in the hundreds of millions were on the table.\n\nTata is also the owner of several steel plants in the UK including Port Talbot in South Wales and there are ongoing negotiations over hundreds of millions in subsidies to upgrade and safeguard the future of those plants.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA paralysed man has been able to walk simply by thinking about it thanks to electronic brain implants, a medical first he says has changed his life.\n\nThe electronic implants wirelessly transmit his thoughts to his legs and feet via a second implant on his spine.\n\nThe system is still at an experimental stage but a leading UK spinal charity called it \"very encouraging\".\n\n\"I feel like a toddler, learning to walk again,\" Mr Oskam told the BBC. He can also now stand and climb stairs.\n\n\"It has been a long journey, but now I can stand up and have a beer with my friend. It's a pleasure that many people don't realise.\"\n\nSensors on Gert-Jan's head transmit his brain signals from an implant to a computer\n\nThe development, published in the journal Nature, was led by Swiss researchers. Prof Jocelyne Bloch, of Lausanne University, who is the neurosurgeon who carried out the delicate surgery to insert the implants, stressed that the system was still at a basic research stage and was many years away from being available to paralysed patients.\n\nBut she told BBC News that it was the team's aim to get it out of the lab and into the clinic as soon as possible.\n\n\"The important thing for us is not just to have a scientific trial, but eventually to give more access to more people with spinal cord injuries who are used to hearing from doctors that they have to get used to the fact that they will never move again.\"\n\nGert-Jan's intention to move his legs is translated by a computer programme into instructions for his leg muscles\n\nHarvey Sihota is chief executive of the UK charity Spinal Research, which was not involved in the research. He said that although there was a long way to go before the technology would be generally available, he described the development as \"very encouraging\".\n\n\"While there is still much to improve with these technologies this is another exciting step on the roadmap for neurotechnology and its role in restoring function and independence to our spinal cord injury community\".\n\nThe operation to restore Gert-Jan's movement was carried out in July 2021. Prof Bloch cut two circular holes on each side of his skull, 5cm in diameter, above the regions of the brain involved in controlling movement. She then inserted two disc-shaped implants which wirelessly transmit brain signals - Gert-Jan's intentions - to two sensors attached to a helmet on his head.\n\nThe Swiss team developed an algorithm which translates these signals into instructions to move leg and foot muscles via a second implant inserted around Gert-Jan's spinal cord - which Prof Bloch intricately attached to the nerve endings related to walking.\n\nThe researchers found that after a few weeks of training he could stand and walk with the aid of a walker. His movement is slow but smooth, according to Prof Grégoire Courtine of the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (EPFL), who led the project.\n\n\"Seeing him walk so naturally is so moving,\" he said. \"It is a paradigm shift in what was available before\".\n\nThe brain implants build on Prof Courtine's earlier work, when only the spinal implant was used to restore movement. The spinal implant amplified weak signals from the brain to the damaged part of the spinal column and was boosted further by pre-programmed signals from a computer.\n\nBBC News reported how in 2018, David M'Zee became the first patient to be successfully treated with a spinal implant, so much so that he was able to have a baby with his wife, something that had not been possible previously.\n\nAnd last year we reported how as the result of the same technology, Michel Roccati became the first man with a completely severed spine to walk again.\n\nBoth have benefitted tremendously but their walking motion is pre-programmed and looks robotic. They also have to keep their intended movements in step with the computer and have to stop and reset if they get out of sync.\n\nGert-Jan in the black jumper in 2018 when he was unable to walk, with other patients helped by the technology developed by Prof Courtine (standing)\n\nGert-Jan had only the spinal implant before he had the brain implants. He says that he now has much greater control.\n\n\"I felt before that the system was controlling me, but now I am controlling it\".Neither the previous or new systems can be used constantly. They are bulky and still at an experimental stage.\n\nInstead, patients use them for an hour or so for a few times a week as part of their recuperation. The act of walking trains their muscles and has restored a degree of movement when the system is turned off, suggesting that damaged nerves may be regrowing.\n\nThe eventual aim is to miniaturise the technology. Prof Courtine's spin out company Onward Medical, is making improvements to commercialise the technology so it can be used in people's day-to-day lives.\n\n\"It's coming,\" says Prof Courtine,. \"Gert-Jan received the implant 10 years after his accident. Imagine when we apply our brain-spine interface a few weeks after the injury. The potential for recovery is tremendous\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Foreign postgraduate students on non-research courses will no longer be able to bring family members to the UK, under new immigration curbs.\n\nThe announcement has been made two days before official statistics are expected to show legal migration has hit a record 700,000 this year.\n\nLast year, 135,788 visas were granted to dependants of foreign students, nearly nine times the 2019 figure.\n\nPM Rishi Sunak told ministers the move would help bring migration down.\n\nHe told the cabinet that the change, to begin in January 2024, will make a \"significant difference to the numbers,\" according to No 10.\n\nHowever, the impact it will have on official migration levels is unclear, since students and family members who come to the UK for less than a year are not counted.\n\nLast week, he said ministers were \"considering a range of options\" to bring migration down, but refused to say what an acceptable level was.\n\nThe Conservatives have previously promised to bring net migration below 100,000 a year, but ditched the target ahead of the 2019 election after repeatedly failing to meet it.\n\nUnder the announcement, partners and children of postgraduate students other than those studying on courses designated as research programmes will no longer be allowed to apply to live in the UK during the course.\n\nThere were 135,788 visas granted to dependants last year, a rise from 54,486 in 2021, and more than seven times the 19,139 granted in 2020.\n\nThese figures have increased since study visa requirements for European Economic Area (EEA) students were introduced after Brexit.\n\nApplications have also risen since rules were changed in 2019 to allow foreign students to stay in the UK for two years after graduating to look for jobs.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said the rise in dependants being granted visas was \"unprecedented,\" and it was \"time for us to tighten up this route to ensure we can cut migration numbers\".\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, she added that the move \"strikes the right balance\" between bringing down migration and \"protecting the economic benefits that students can bring to the UK\".\n\nThere was a division within government about going further - and possibly banning the dependants of all postgraduate students, including those on research courses.\n\nBut some ministers, including Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, argued they were based in the UK longer and provided greater economic benefits.\n\nTitilope came to the UK from Nigeria to do a degree in mental health nursing\n\nThe BBC spoke to two Nigerian students studying at Wolverhampton University.\n\nRotimi, who is doing a masters degree in mechanical engineering, says he understands why politicians might want to reduce immigration levels.\n\nBut he adds that most of those coming to the UK to study also \"look beyond studying\" - and want their family to be \"part of that experience\".\n\nHe says that without a way for overseas students to bring their family, \"most people won't even consider leaving\" - or might opt to study elsewhere instead.\n\nAs an undergraduate doing a course in mental health nursing, Titilope isn't in the category of students that can bring dependents to the UK.\n\nHowever, she says that allowing students to have family with them means they can focus on their studies, without having to worry about whether \"they have money, or if they are alright\".\n\n\"At the same time, you know that you have the family there. If you're going through a tough time, it's always better to have the family to talk it through. You don't feel so alone.\"\n\nUniversities UK (UUK), umbrella group for British universities, said it recognised the \"substantial\" rise in dependant visas had sometimes led to \"local challenges\" over family accommodation and schooling.\n\n\"Given this, some targeted measures to mitigate this rise may be reasonable,\" said Jamie Arrowsmith, the director of UUK's international arm.\n\nHe called on the government to work with universities to monitor the effect of the changes, adding they were \"likely to have a disproportionate impact on women and students from certain countries\".\n\nThe University and College Union (UCU), which represents university staff, called it a \"vindictive move\" that had raised \"deep concern\" within the sector.\n\nThose accompanying overseas students to the UK \"bring huge value to our society and deserve the right to live alongside their loved ones whilst they study,\" its general secretary Jo Grady said.\n\nAdam Habib, director of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, criticised the announcement as \"a terrible decision\" for three reasons: \"First a financial challenge, second it raises issues of coherence in government, and third a human rights question.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: \"What this decision runs the risk of doing is making sure these institutions, these universities which are dependent on the fee income of international students, go through a financial crisis.\n\n\"We are already seeing financial crises in universities over the last year - there have been strikes over the last year, and vice-chancellors are having to manage that problem - but you will aggravate that problem.\"\n\nAccording to HESA, an education data group, there were 679,970 international students in the UK in 2021/2022.\n\nOf these 307,470 were undergraduates, who already can't bring family members to the UK during their course.\n\nThere were 372,500 postgraduates, of whom 46,350 are on research courses - the vast majority of them for PhDs, along with a small number of research-based masters degrees.\n\nStudents coming to the UK with a visa need to provide documents proving their relationship to dependants, who have to pay £490 for a visa.\n\nDependants are also required to pay the immigration health surcharge - an annual contribution between £470 and £624 towards NHS services.\n• None Legal migration is too high, says Rishi Sunak", "Principal Sean Spillane said pupils were prevented from going to school\n\nThe principal of a primary school that was forced to shut due to a security alert has said he was shocked and angered by the disruption to education.\n\nLough View Integrated Primary School and Nursery closed on Tuesday as the nearby Henry Jones playing fields was searched by police.\n\nThe East Belfast Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is among the clubs which use the sports facilities.\n\nPolice said \"nothing untoward\" was found but \"enquiries remain ongoing\".\n\nThe security operation began on Monday evening and police and Army technical officers were deployed to the council-run playing field on Church Road, Castlereagh on the outskirts of east Belfast.\n\nMembers of the public were asked to avoid the area and a road closure was then put in place at the junction of Church Road and Manse Road.\n\nThe road closures were lifted on Tuesday afternoon and a few hours later, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said the security operation had ended.\n\nWhen asked what had sparked the day-long alert, a PSNI spokeswoman said: \"Police received information concerning the pitches and took proactive steps to ensure the area was safe.\"\n\nBomb disposal equipment was used during the searches at Henry Jones playing fields\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, staff at Lough View Integrated Primary School said they were advised by police to keep their building closed during the operation.\n\nIts headteacher Sean Spillane said the closure had disrupted his pupils' education and the alert had stopped people in the area from going to work.\n\n\"I'm so shocked today that we've had to take this action, but more than anything it's just disappointment, it's just disillusionment and anger as well,\" Mr Spillane told the BBC's Nolan Show.\n\n\"We're now having to explain to our children that some people, because they don't agree with a particular sport being played across the road from our school, that they can't exercise their right to come to school today.\"\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday evening, PSNI Ch Insp Rosemary Thompson said: \"A thorough search of the playing fields at Church Road in Castlereagh has been conducted and, thankfully, nothing untoward has been found.\"\n\nThe statement added that PSNI \"enquiries remain ongoing\" and asked for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nSecurity force personnel are wearing protective gear during the search operation\n\nEarlier, East Belfast GAA released a statement which said that local sports clubs had worked hard to revive pitches at the site and it was \"saddened at those who threaten to disrupt the peace and cause alarm\".\n\n\"This is especially disappointing following the positive news that some of the underutilised space at Henry Jones will be reallocated to facilitate a GAA pitch,\" the statement added.\n\nIt would be the first council-run GAA pitch in east Belfast \"and is long overdue\", the club added.\n\nEast Belfast GAA was set up in May 2020\n\nEast Belfast MP Gavin Robinson also criticised those behind the alert.\n\n\"Sport cancelled. Community disrupted. School closed. For what? Catch a grip,\" the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP tweeted.\n\nAlliance Party leader and East Belfast assembly member Naomi Long said that the situation was \"utterly unacceptable\".\n\nUlster Unionist leader Doug Beattie said: \"This is wrong and must be condemned utterly.\"\n\nThe SDLP's Séamas de Faoite described the alert as an \"utter disgrace\".\n\nFootball coach Tim Wareing was at Henry Jones Park on Monday evening, taking a one-on-one football session with an 11-year-old boy when the incident happened.\n\nAt about 19:00 BST he said a council worker came over and told him there was a security alert and he would have to clear up and leave the scene as soon as the PSNI arrived.\n\nThere was a large police presence in the area\n\n\"It was quite shocking - it's 2023 - you would think we would have moved on from this - our own club is very inclusive and we have stayed away from aligning ourselves with an area in Northern Ireland to bring the two communities together,\" he said.\n\n\"Hearing that news is quite shocking when you've got a young child there - it makes it even worse as you're trying to keep them calm and wondering what on earth is going on.\"\n\nEast Belfast GAC started in May 2020 and was the first GAA club in the east of the city in almost 50 years. It fields football, hurling and camogie teams.\n\nA security alert was sparked at the same playing fields in 2020.", "Steve Rodhouse - who has since gone on to work for the National Crime Agency - was a senior figure at the Met\n\nThe officer who led a disastrous Scotland Yard investigation into false VIP sex abuse allegations has a case to answer for gross misconduct, the police watchdog has said.\n\nSteve Rodhouse ran an operation that probed invented claims that MPs and generals abused and murdered children.\n\nHe currently works as deputy head of the National Crime Agency.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) looked at if he used inaccurate or dishonest words in 2016.\n\nWhile working for the Met, he oversaw Operation Midland, which was largely based on claims made by Carl Beech, who was jailed in 2019 for making false allegations.\n\nBeech was sentenced to 18 years in prison for 12 charges of perverting the course of justice, one of fraud, and for several child sexual offences.\n\nHe was only brought to justice after a damning review by retired high court judge Sir Richard Henriques recommended he be investigated by another police force.\n\nBut the BBC revealed two other complainants who made false claims were not referred by the Met for investigation, despite Sir Richard recommending they should be.\n\nIn 2016, then Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse told Sir Richard in a private presentation that he was \"satisfied\" the other two complainants had \"told deliberate lies\".\n\nHowever, when Operation Midland closed months earlier, Scotland Yard issued a public statement to the media which said detectives had \"not found evidence to prove that they were knowingly misled by a complainant\".\n\nCarl Beech was jailed for inventing the elaborate lies which led to the investigation\n\nThe investigation by the IOPC related to the contrast between Mr Rodhouse's private and public positions.\n\nScotland Yard said \"we will seek to respond as fully and comprehensively as possible when we receive the final directions and recommendations from the IOPC\".\n\nThe force added that, in January this year, it arranged for West Midlands Police to consider all relevant material relating to the two complainants and advise on further investigation.\n\nThe IOPC inquiry followed a complaint by former MP Harvey Proctor, who was one of those falsely accused of murder and abuse.\n\nResponding to the update, he said: \"At last a senior police officer of the Metropolitan Police is being held to account for gross misconduct\".\n\nHe added: \"As cracks start to appear in the police cover-up, it now time to hold a full public inquiry into Operation Midland and the Metropolitan Police's conduct.\"\n\nIOPC Director Amanda Rowe said Mr Rodhouse \"may have breached police professional standards of behaviour relating to honesty and integrity regarding comments made to the media about Operation Midland in March 2016 and comments subsequently made to Sir Richard Henriques in August 2016.\"\n\nThe IOPC also found that, by never following Sir Richard's original recommendation, the service provided by the Met was \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe Met had conducted several internal reviews which all said no investigation was needed, but the IOPC found those reviews were \"flawed, did not consider all of the evidence and their rationales were not sound.\"\n\nThe watchdog has recommended the Met apologise to the individuals affected.\n\nBecause Mr Rodhouse left the Met more than 12 months before the IOPC investigation began, the watchdog said it would now enter into a consultation period regarding a disciplinary hearing.\n\nThe National Crime Agency said it would engage with the IOPC \"fully on this matter\".", "Katie Harkin said attending a special children's centre brought her closer to her daughter Ellie\n\nThe mother of a child with severe learning difficulties has said she is afraid for the future of vulnerable children as a result of funding cuts.\n\nKatie Harkin's daughter Ellie is three and has additional needs.\n\nShe said the pair had no \"bond\" until Ellie joined a special children's centre in Londonderry.\n\nBut the centre's services could be cut by half if the fund that supports it comes to an end.\n\nThe Pathway Fund currently supports 187 early years settings across Northern Ireland.\n\nIts future is uncertain after Stormont's Department of Education announced it is to make \"significant\" spending reductions to remain in budget.\n\nFunding for the project currently remains in place until the end of June, but beyond that is unknown.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Education said it had received its budget allocation for the year ahead from the Northern Ireland Office and was \"working through the detail\".\n\nThey said: \"The allocation is extremely challenging and will likely require significant reductions across a wide range of areas to remain within budget.\n\n\"To sustain important early years services over the next three months, the Department of Education has made an interim allocation of funding of £1.05m in respect of the Pathway Fund to all 187 settings eligible for a Pathway award in 2023/24 for the period 1 April 2023 to 30 June 2023.\n\n\"The department will confirm the final Pathway Fund allocation following consideration of the education budget.\"\n\nKatie Harkin said funding cuts would mean vulnerable children would not get the support they need\n\nThree-year-old Ellie attends Little Orchids, which is one of the settings currently receiving support by the Pathway Fund.\n\nIt offers \"therapeutic intervention\" for toddlers and pre-schoolers with additional needs, as well as support and training for their parents.\n\nKatie Harkin told BBC News NI: \"Before coming here, Ellie had very little contact with me.\n\n\"Ellie didn't like physical touch. She had limited eye contact and sometimes she lived in her own world.\n\n\"There was none of that bond that you would think a parent had with their child.\n\n\"But coming here to Little Orchids, they brought Ellie out of her shell. They taught me how to go into Ellie's world and how to become the best parent that I can be for Ellie.\"\n\nAccording to campaigners, more than 10,000 children could be affected by plans to scrap the Pathway Fund.\n\nMs Harkin said she is afraid that other families will not get to benefit from services like those at Little Orchids.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katie Harkin said she is afraid for the future of vulnerable children as a result of funding cuts.\n\n\"Especially with the next year coming through,\" she said. \"They're the Covid babies - they've already had limited social interaction, they've already missed out on things like mother and toddler groups.\n\n\"If you take away this service that provides so much help and support to those kids, I'm afraid of what's going to happen.\n\n\"Not this year or next year, but 10 years down the line when the kids start to grow up, when they're not supported, not nurtured correctly.\n\n\"I'm afraid for the next generation - the most vulnerable in society. Because in reality that's what kids with additional needs are.\"\n\nAudrey Rainey, director of services for Early Years, which facilitates the Pathway Fund, said an end to the funding would be devastating to the sector.\n\n\"This is a sector that's already been impact by the financial crisis, and further decisions like these and termination of funding will undoubtedly have a devastating impact for the future of young children in Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\nAudrey Rainey said more than 10,000 children could be affected by the ending of the Pathway Fund\n\nLast Monday, about 60 people attended a gathering in Galliagh to voice concerns about the future of the Pathway Fund.\n\nJackie Connolly, who is the coordinator of Rainbow Child and Family Centre, where the meeting was held, said they discussed an action plan to try and help secure the fund.\n\n\"This is people's lives we are dealing with here,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Education has already cut funding for numerous schemes, mainly aimed at helping disadvantaged pupils, to save money.\n\nMuch like the Pathway Fund, funding for Sure Start has not yet been confirmed beyond June.", "RDK commander Denis Kapustin said the cross-border raid was a success\n\nThe head of the Russian paramilitary group that said it was behind a cross-border raid into Russia from Ukraine has vowed more such incursions.\n\n\"I think you will see us again on that side,\" said Denis Kapustin, who leads the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK).\n\nRussia said it had repelled the raid, killing more than 70 saboteurs. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu promised a \"harsh response\" to any future incursions.\n\nDenis Kapustin is known as a Russian nationalist, and his group openly says it wants a mono-ethnic Russian state.\n\nThe RDK along with the Liberty of Russia Legion (LSR) claimed Monday's raid into Belgorod region.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday to reporters on the Ukrainian side of the border, its leader, whose nom de guerre is White Rex, said: \"We're satisfied with the result [of the raid].\"\n\nHe said his group had managed to seize \"some weapons\", including an armoured personnel carrier, and take prisoners during the operation - before leaving Russian territory after 24 hours.\n\nHe said two RDK fighters were injured, denying claims by the Russian military about heavy casualties inflicted on the saboteurs.\n\nSeparately, the LSR said two of its fighters had been killed and 10 injured.\n\nThe casualty claims by the warring sides have not been independently verified.\n\nAt the news briefing Denis Kapustin denied reports that his fighters were using weapons provided by Western allies to Ukraine to help defend itself against Russia's full-scale invasion launched in February 2022.\n\nRussia describes the RDK and LSR as Ukrainian militants - but Kyiv says they come from two anti-Kremlin paramilitaries.\n\nBoth groups say they want to dismantle Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, and have in the past been described as part of an international legion involved in Ukraine's territorial defence.\n\nMr Kapustin said that Ukraine only provided support to the RDK with medical supplies, petrol and food.\n\nThe RDK came to prominence in March 2023, taking part in a cross-border raid in Russia's Bryansk region which it said involved 45 people.\n\nAsked on Wednesday about reported neo-Nazis in the group's ranks, its leader responded that \"it's all a question of perception\" and went on to describe himself as having \"traditionalist\" and \"patriotic\" views.\n\nIn 2020, a Ukrainian investigative website alleged he had links to neo-Nazi groups and Mr Kapustin has spoken in the past of belonging to a movement of football hooligans.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Mr Shoigu briefed Russian military officials on Moscow's response to the Belgorod raid.\n\nHe said \"more than 70 Ukrainian nationalists\" had been killed and the rest pushed back into Ukraine.\n\n\"We will continue to respond to such actions by Ukrainian militants promptly and extremely harshly,\" the Russian defence minister added.\n\nMoscow says several civilians were injured during the incursion.\n\nRussia released photos of abandoned or damaged Western military vehicles - but some experts say the images are staged\n\nRussia posted pictures of destroyed US vehicles apparently at the scene of the fighting in the Belgorod region - but some Ukrainian military experts and bloggers have suggested they could have been staged.\n\nThe US said it was sceptical that reports of US-supplied weapons being used in the incursion were true and did not \"encourage or enable strikes inside of Russia\".\n\nBut Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the vehicles were evidence of growing Western military involvement in Ukraine.\n\n\"It is no secret for us that more and more equipment is being delivered to Ukraine's armed forces. It is no secret that this equipment is being used against our own military,\" he said.\n\n\"We are drawing the appropriate conclusions.\"\n\nMonday's raid led Moscow to declare a counter-terrorism operation, giving the authorities special powers to clamp down on communications and people's movements. The measures were only lifted the following afternoon.\n\nBelgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said drone attacks on Tuesday night were mostly dealt with by air defences, but some damage was caused to cars, private houses and administrative buildings", "Work pressures are driving thousands of nurses and midwives a year away from the profession, the regulator says.\n\nThe Nursing and Midwifery Council said retention was becoming a major concern despite an overall growth in the register.\n\nIts annual report found 27,000 professionals had left the register in the UK in the year to the end of March.\n\nWhile retirement appeared to be the most common reason for leaving, health and exhaustion were cited as the next.\n\nThe regulator said slightly fewer had left than the year before - but the proportion leaving early was still undermining the pipeline of new joiners.\n\nIt surveyed leavers, receiving responses from a third. Most had left the profession earlier than they planned.\n\nNMC Chief Executive Andrea Sutcliffe said: \"There are clear warnings workforce pressures are driving people away.\n\n\"Many are leaving earlier than planned, because of burnout and exhaustion, lack of support from colleagues, concerns about quality of care and workload and staffing levels.\"\n\nThere were, however, a record 52,000 new recruits, including nursing associates - a role, in England only, between healthcare assistants and nurses. Nearly half were recruited from abroad - but the number of those trained domestically rose the most.\n\nIt means there were a record 788,000 professionals on the register at the end of March - 30,000 more than a year previously. This includes those working in the private and social-care sectors, as well as the NHS.\n\nThe register is also becoming more ethnically diverse, the NMC said, with more than a quarter of professionals belonging to ethnic minorities.\n\nAnd as research showed these staff were more likely to face harassment, bullying and abuse, Ms Sutcliffe said, it was important for employers to work harder to foster \"inclusive\" cultures.\n\nThe warning comes amid a pay dispute in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which has led to a series of strikes by Royal College of Nursing members over the past six months.\n\nEngland Health Secretary Steve Barclay said the rise in numbers was \"promising\" and the NHS was on track to hit the government's target of recruiting 50,000 more nurses during this Parliament.\n\n\"We will shortly publish a long-term workforce plan to go even further, including projections for the number of doctors, nurses and other professionals we will need in five, 10 and 15 years' time,\" he added.\n\nBut RCN general secretary Pat Cullen said: \"These figures bear out our concerns over the failure to retain experienced staff.\n\n\"While internationally educated nursing staff are a vital and valued part of the NHS, the over-reliance on staff from overseas, including those countries with shortages of their own, is not sustainable.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice officers have started digging near a reservoir in Portugal in a long-running investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.\n\nThe Arade dam is 31 miles (50km) from where the British toddler went missing in Praia da Luz 16 years ago.\n\nThe operation is being led by German police looking for evidence to link her disappearance to Christian Brueckner.\n\nThe 45-year-old German national was made a formal suspect, or an \"arguido\", by Portuguese prosecutors in 2022.\n\nBrueckner is known to have visited the picturesque spot around the time Madeleine, who would now be 20, went missing.\n\nSniffer dogs were used in a search of the reservoir's banks, and police officers went out into the water on an inflatable boat.\n\nUniformed and plain-clothed officers spent a number of hours scouring the scrubland, using pickaxes and inspecting small rocks with rakes and spades.\n\nEmergency services and officials from Portugal, Germany and the UK held briefings near blue police tents erected at the site.\n\nSpeaking to the German regional public broadcaster NDR, German state prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said the authorities \"have grounds to believe that we could find evidence there (in the reservoir)\".\n\nIn a separate statement to German TV channel RTL, Mr Wolters said he could not \"give any concrete information\" on the clues on which the search operation is based.\n\n\"They are not tips that come from the accused... but you can imagine that we don`t start searching somewhere in Portugal on the off chance, but that there must be a good reason for it.\n\n\"We do have one, but I ask for your understanding that I cannot disclose it here at the moment for tactical reasons.\"\n\nSpecialists are combing through the area located 31 miles (50km) from the apartment where Madeleine went missing\n\nAround lunchtime, more than 20 officers were digging beside the reservoir. A number of bags have been taken away from the search area, although it is not known what is in them.\n\nThere are reportedly four areas of interest to be searched this week.\n\nA short statement from the prosecutor's office in the German city of Braunschweig has confirmed the search but did not say why it was taking place.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said its officers were in Portugal so they can inform Madeleine's family of any developments.\n\nThe new searches come as the Home Office granted an extra £110,000 in funding this financial year for the Metropolitan Police to assist with finding Madeleine.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three when she went missing 16 years ago\n\nIt is not the first time the reservoir has been searched as part of the investigation.\n\nIn 2008, Portuguese lawyer Marcos Aragao Correia paid specialist divers to check the waterway after an apparent tip-off from criminal contacts that Madeleine's body was in the water.\n\nMadeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, was three years old when she went missing on 3 May 2007 while on holiday with her family in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.\n\nHer parents, Kate and Gerry, had gone for dinner with a group of friends at a resort restaurant, leaving Madeleine and her younger brother and sister sleeping in their apartment 100 yards away.\n\nThe adults had devised a rota to check on all of the group's children during the evening. But when it was Kate's turn, she discovered Madeleine had gone.\n\nMadeleine McCann's disappearance has drawn huge media interest over the years\n\nMr Wolters is treating Brueckner as the main suspect in the McCann case, although he has never been charged over Madeleine's disappearance and has denied any involvement.\n\nThe state prosecutor said a growing amount of evidence had connected Brueckner to the case, including his mobile phone records showing he was in the Praia de Luz area at the time of Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nBrueckner is currently in prison in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old woman in 2005 in the same area where Madeleine went missing.\n\nHe was living near the Praia da Luz resort when the McCann family was on holiday, and spent time in the area between 2000 and 2017.\n\nThe most recent search in Portugal in relation to Madeleine's disappearance was in 2014, when British police were given permission to examine scrubland near where she vanished.\n\nEarlier this year three other charges, unrelated to the McCann case, were thrown out of court because Brueckner's lawyer argued that, because of Brueckner's last place of residence in Germany, prosecutors in another German region should be responsible.\n\nState prosecutor Mr Wolters has launched an appeal against this and, in Tuesday's comments to German media, clarified that he is still the prosecutor in charge of the case.", "A senior doctor has been recorded questioning why changes to the controversial Tavistock clinic are needed.\n\nA doctor with a key role in reforming a controversial gender identity clinic for children has been recorded questioning the need for change.\n\nProf Gary Butler, clinical lead for the children's gender clinic in England and Wales, also appeared to accuse the author of a report, which will underpin the new service, of \"nepotism\".\n\nHe was recorded making the comments in a keynote speech at a major conference.\n\nWhen asked about the speech, he said he fully supported plans for new services.\n\nThe Gender Identity Development Service (Gids), based at London's Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, was rated as \"inadequate\" by inspectors, who visited in late 2020. It was earmarked for closure in July 2022.\n\nAn independent review, led by Dr Hilary Cass, also called for a \"fundamentally different\" model of care for children with gender dysphoria.\n\nProf Butler has been awarded a key role in shaping the new service, as one of several people tasked with implementing a new training programme, underpinned by Dr Cass's recommendations.\n\nHowever, BBC Newsnight has learned Prof Butler - the current service's most senior doctor - has publicly questioned the need for change and described Dr Cass's recommendations as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nIn the 14-minute speech at the conference, he talked about current services across the UK, the legal challenges to the situation in England, and how he felt Gids has been the subject of \"lies\" in the media.\n\nThe consultant paediatric endocrinologist at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) told the conference of hundreds of transgender healthcare professionals how the Cass Review had highlighted the need to provide \"developmentally appropriate healthcare for children and young people\".\n\n\"But what on earth are we doing now?\" he told the European Professional Association for Transgender Health conference, which was held in Ireland, last month. \"It's exactly what we're doing at the present time, and what the Gids is doing.\"\n\nSpeaking about the new proposals, he said instead of expanding gender care, \"they've almost contracted it\".\n\nIn the recording, which was then handed to Newsnight, he was also heard questioning the personal integrity of Dr Cass. He implied there had been, what he referred to as, nepotism around the choice of two hospitals in the south of England as the sites for new clinics - suggesting Dr Cass's previous involvement in them both had been a factor.\n\nThe review led by Dr Hilary Cass was initially commissioned in 2020\n\nNHS England says the two new regional hubs, which will replace Gids, are taking longer than anticipated to set up. They are intended to offer a clean break from the past.\n\nBut referring to the hospitals, which will form these new hubs, Prof Butler appeared to question the need for a more diverse workforce, telling the conference that none of the staff had \"any experience of management of gender incongruence in young people\". He added: \"It's shocking.\"\n\nIn his role at UCLH, Prof Butler is responsible for prescribing medication including puberty blockers and hormones to young people who have been assessed by Gids as suitable for such treatments.\n\nGids will now remain open until at least March 2024. Meanwhile, there are more than 8,000 young people currently waiting for care.\n\nIn a statement, Prof Butler said Newsnight's reporting of his comments were \"highly selective\" and that his views were made as part of a wider presentation on gender identity services in the UK. \"I wish to make clear that I fully support Dr Hilary Cass's recommendations to develop new services for young people experiencing gender dysphoria,\" he added.\n\nThe Cass Review team said, while it accepts that people hold different views on how services should develop, there was \"general consensus that the current model, within a single specialist gender service, cannot provide timely, holistic care for the mix of children and young people seeking support\".\n\nIt said Dr Cass did not select which hospitals would form the new regional centres, saying accusations to the contrary were \"baseless\".\n\nEm: 'They push the drugs on you so early on'\n\nWhile Gids has helped some young people, critics - including young trans people seen by the clinic - claim it was sometimes too quick to refer young people for medical interventions and it could overlook mental health difficulties.\n\n\"They push the drugs on you so early on,\" Em, a 19-year-old trans man, who has identified as male since early childhood, told Newsnight. Em says he was offered medication during his second appointment, adding: \"I was 11.\"\n\nAfter five appointments, Gids referred Em to UCLH for puberty blockers. These were prescribed by Prof Butler when Em was 12. He stayed on them for nearly four years.\n\nWhile the blockers slowed Em's puberty, they didn't stop it. He was put on higher doses and, when that did not work, he was administered beta blockers. Em later collapsed at school.\n\n\"To me that was dangerous\", Em's mother told Newsnight. Em suffered violent mood swings and gained lots of weight while on the blockers.\n\nHe stopped taking puberty blockers in 2019 and hasn't chosen to take hormones to masculinise his body. Since being discharged in 2020, neither Gids nor UCLH has been in touch with Em.\n\n\"I feel completely forgotten about,\" he says now. \"I still don't know what is happening with my body [or] what the blockers did.\"\n\nThe NHS says little is known about the long-term side effects of puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria. Dr Cass has insisted there needs to be more research.\n\nBoth the NHS and Dr Cass have made it clear that staff at the new gender identity services for children must have wider experience of working with young people - including expertise in autism, mental health and safeguarding.\n\nEm says the new services must be different. \"The new system needs to be a mental health service,\" he says, and offer more holistic care for trans people. \"For them, you weren't transgender unless you're willing to go the full way [in medically transitioning]. I was a child. I did not know what I was doing.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust said it had reviewed Newsnight's claims, adding that they \"do not align with the evidence we have\", though it declined to give specifics about that evidence.\n\nIt said it works on a case-by-case basis with every young person, their family and local services, but said it was inappropriate to comment on Em's individual patient care.\n\n\"Patients who begin medical treatment do so only after they've been fully assessed (including mental health), and only if the parent/carer is supportive,\" the trust added.\n\nA UCLH spokesman also said it would be inappropriate to comment on an individual patient's care, but added that Gids clinicians \"discuss non-medical interventions with patients before and after referral to our endocrinology clinic\".\n\n\"Patients only begin medical treatment if they are assessed as having full competence to consent and there is parental support,\" UCLH said, adding that the clinic follows the service specification set out by NHS England.\n\nNHS England, which commissions children's gender identity services, said all aspects of the new service would be guided by the ongoing findings and expert advice from the Cass Review.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care agreed, adding that an oversight group will ensure training is in line with the new clinical approach.", "Relatives of those killed in a spate of gun murders in Belfast over the past four-and-a-half years are concerned the culprits will never be caught.\n\nMark Hall, 31, was shot dead in his family home in the Lower Falls in 2021.\n\nJim Donegan, 43, was shot dead outside a school on the Glen Road in 2018.\n\nIn their first broadcast interviews, Mr Hall's partner, Sabrina Wilde, and Mr Donegan's brother, Sean, tell BBC Spotlight about the impact the murders have had on their families.\n\nIn both murders, police have said dissident republican activity is a line of inquiry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sabrina Wilde describes hearing the gun attack on her partner Mark Hall while she spoke to him on the phone\n\nMs Wilde told BBC Spotlight she would leave her partner's killers \"to God\".\n\n\"I pray to him every day that he will do the right thing. They're all cosy in their beds and enjoying life while they destroyed mine,\" she said.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said gun murders were extremely complex and there had been both charges and convictions in a number of fatal shootings in recent years.\n\nSpotlight has also spoken to Sean Donegan, whose brother Jim was murdered while collecting his son from school in west Belfast in December 2018.\n\nThe Donegan family, who have never spoken publicly before, are taking the PSNI to court, claiming it mishandled intelligence prior to the murder.\n\nSean Donegan said that while he had faith in the police investigation after his brother's murder, he now has none.\n\nSean Donegan says he has no faith in the police investigation\n\n\"They're meant to be here to protect the community. They failed,\" he said.\n\nThe PSNI said Jim Donegan's murder was a \"deplorable, violent act\".\n\nIt added that the Donegan family's court case and an ongoing Police Ombudsman probe into the police's handling of the murder investigation meant it could not comment on the issues raised by Sean Donegan.\n\nThe programme examines links between a number of murders carried out between late 2018 and autumn 2022 where assassins have struck swiftly and ruthlessly, apparently leaving little forensic trace.\n\nDespite some of the victims being alleged to have had links to organised crime, in every case the police have said that dissident republican involvement was a line of inquiry.\n\nPolice initially blamed the murder of Jim Donegan on the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), which has been heavily linked to organised crime, before also pointing the finger at another dissident republican group, Oglaigh na hEireann (OnH).\n\nThe organisation went on \"military ceasefire\" in 2018 but there is significant evidence that it is still involved in criminality, including murder and procuring new weaponry.\n\nIn a speech at Milltown Cemetery in west Belfast at Easter 2022, masked OnH members appeared and a speech was read out on their behalf boasting of the organisation having used \"lethal force\" against people it believed were drug dealers and \"British agents\".\n\nRajan Basra said the authorities should know where to look online for traces of OnH\n\nThey also wielded guns made using a 3D printer which, according to arms expert Rajan Basra, was the first time a paramilitary group had ever been seen with the relatively new firearms.\n\n\"The weapons can definitely be lethal. Although terrorist adoption of them is probably in the early stages there's demonstrable proof that these firearms do work, and they are effective,\" he said.\n\nMr Basra of King's College London said the blueprint for the kind of 3D gun on show at Milltown was known only to people in a shadowy online group - potentially presenting an opportunity for law enforcement.\n\n\"When OnH made this public appearance with the 3D printed gun, they inadvertently signalled to people that they were members of that private group,\" he said.\n\n\"And so, if the authorities were looking at that, they would know exactly where they need to focus their attention to perhaps see the online traces of ONH.\"\n\nThe PSNI told Spotlight ONH was a proscribed organisation and police would continue to investigate any criminality it was involved in.\n\nBBC Spotlight's Murder on the Streets is now available on BBC iPlayer and will be on BBC One Northern Ireland on Tuesday at 22:40 BST.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA deadly fire at a school dormitory in Guyana appears to have been started by a pupil who was angry her mobile phone had been confiscated, officials say.\n\nNineteen people - mostly female students - were killed in the blaze in the South American country in the early hours of Monday.\n\nThe dorm was reportedly locked and had covered windows which trapped victims.\n\nThe teenage suspect is currently in hospital with burns, and has reportedly admitted to the arson.\n\nAuthorities are now taking advice on whether to charge her, according to a government source who spoke to the AFP news agency.\n\nThe fire was started in the bathroom area and eventually tore through the whole building, which was partially made of wood and was housing 57 pupils at the time.\n\nSurvivors of the incident in the central town of Mahdia spoke of being woken up in the middle of the night by screams.\n\nThe building, which housed 57 people, was completely destroyed\n\nThe girl is accused of threatening her attack after being disciplined for having a relationship with an older man, according to an Associated Press report.\n\nIt has emerged that the dorm administrator - who lost her five-year-old son in the fire - was unable to locate the keys to unlock the door in her state of panic.\n\nFirefighters are said to have resorted to smashing through the walls to help people escape.\n\nBut they initially struggled to contain the fire because of bad weather conditions.\n\nAs well as the victims who died - most of whom were indigenous girls - several other people were injured.\n\nThey were taken to hospital, some of them in the capital Georgetown, and a number of them remain in a serious condition.\n\nLocal media reported that the fire was so severe that DNA testing was required to identify some victims.\n\nThe fire was earlier labelled a \"major disaster\" by President Irfaan Ali.\n• None At least 19 children dead in Guyana school fire", "It was only on Tuesday that in an otherwise upbeat assessment of the UK economy, the International Monetary Fund warned of \"premature celebration\" of sharp falls in the main rate of inflation.\n\nThere are two separate inflationary trends occurring here.\n\nThe main rate is falling, less sharply than anticipated, but down below 10% nonetheless.\n\nThis will continue and is the mechanical consequence of the massive rises in energy prices one year ago, now being baked into the calculation.\n\nThe bigger concern, however, is about the extent to which inflation is becoming embedded across the economy and will linger for months to come, even as energy prices stabilise.\n\nWednesday's figures show some evidence for that, with measures of core inflation and services inflation going up.\n\nMobile phone bills, for example, went up by double digit amounts in April because they were linked to existing interest rates.\n\nFood price rises might be showing the delayed impact of previous energy price rises.\n\nSome double digit pay rises in shortage areas of the workforce may keep prices high.\n\nThe stubbornness or stickiness of inflation is a global phenomenon, and not surprising after one shock that damaged the world's supply lines - the Covid pandemic - and another that hiked the cost of gas and oil - Russia's Ukraine war.\n\nDouble digit inflation has not in history tended to resolve itself in weeks or months but has taken two to three years.\n\nHowever the figures raise the question about whether UK inflation is stickier and more stubborn than elsewhere.\n\nAt 8.7% in the UK, inflation is higher here than in France, Germany and US. The UK has the highest core inflation in the G7 and now the highest food inflation too.\n\nThere are some timing differences on energy support measures that could explain some of the UK inflation premium.\n\nBut some at the Bank of England have pointed to the fact that British producers now face less intensive competition on prices from European firms.\n\nIt may mean a greater tendency for prices that shot up like a rocket to fall like a feather.\n\nHowever, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said it is \"very dangerous to make international comparisons when things are changing so rapidly\".\n\n\"A few months ago, everyone was saying we were going to be the lowest-growing economy in the G7, now we're definitely not going to be that, and possibly higher. So we don't know,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\nAt the top of government, the hope and the assumption is that the UK is doing better economically than the statistics suggest, and so generating more inflation.\n\nThat is welcome up to a point.\n\nBut it creates a prolonged headache for the Bank of England, which seems set to raise interest rates closer to 5%, to rein in those price pressures.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nValencia have been sanctioned with a partial stadium closure for five matches following the racist abuse of Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr.\n\nSpanish police have detained three people in connection with the abuse directed at the Brazilian at Mestalla Stadium on Sunday.\n\nValencia have also been fined 45,000 euros (£39,000).\n\nVinicius' late red card has been rescinded, meaning he will not have to serve a suspension.\n\nValencia called the decision to partially close their stadium \"disproportionate, unjust and unprecedented\" and said they intend to appeal against that part of the sanction.\n\n\"Valencia have collaborated from the first minute with the police and all relevant authorities to clarify the events that occurred,\" a statement from the club read.\n\n\"In addition, we have applied the maximum possible sanction with the ban for life from our stadium for racist behaviour of the fans identified by police.\"\n\nSpeaking at a press conference, Valencia head coach Ruben Baraja added: \"I am not going to allow the Valencia CF fans and Mestalla to be smeared with labels that do not represent us.\n\n\"Just as a player rightly fights back against insults and I support that with all my might, we as a club and a fanbase rebel against those who, during the days since the game, have accused us of being what we are not.\"\n\nThe closure will apply to the Mestalla Stadium's south stand, an area a clearly angry and emotional Vinicius was seen pointing to during Sunday's second half before reporting the issue to the referee.\n\nHe was sent off in the 97th minute of the 1-0 defeat, but with the red card now overturned, will be available for Wednesday's game against Real Vallecano if he recovers from a knee injury that forced him to miss training on Tuesday.\n\nVinicius was dismissed following a video assistant referee (VAR) check for pushing Valencia forward Hugo Duro to the floor. However, the footage the VAR showed the on-field referee did not include the part where Duro grabbed the Brazilian around the neck before the incident, which is also a red card offence.\n\nThe Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) said that the referee's decision to dismiss Vinicius was due to him being \"deprived of a decisive part of the facts\", adding that it was \"impossible for him to properly assess what happened\".\n\nExplaining the partial stadium closure, the RFEF added: \"It is considered proven that, as reflected by the referee in his minutes, there were racist shouts at Vinicius, altering the normal course of the match and considering the infractions very serious.\"\n\nThe match was paused in the second half as an incensed Vinicius reported opposition fans to the referee.\n\nReal have reported the abuse to the Spanish prosecutor's office as a hate crime.\n\nA number of Brazilians protested outside the Spanish consulate on Tuesday. Spanish government spokeswoman Isabel Rodriguez said: \"Spain is fighting this behaviour. We condemn it and we are working to eradicate it.\"\n\nReal Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti said Brazilian Vinicius is \"very sad\" but overwhelmed by the support he has received and believes he will stay in Spain despite the abuse.\n\n\"His love for the club is very big and he wants to make his career here,\" said Ancelotti.\n\n'It's so bad that it is going to force change'\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate was asked about the incident after naming his name squad for June's European Championship qualifiers against Malta and North Macedonia.\n\nEngland forward Raheem Sterling and midfielder Jude Bellingham were both targets of racial abuse during a game against Hungary in September 2021.\n\n\"I think we could debate about walking off [the pitch] or not,\" said Southgate.\n\n\"It's a disgusting situation. I think it's so bad that actually it is going to force change. It has taken a central story, not only in Europe but around the world, and it will force change.\n\n\"It is another example of what we are dealing with and another example of people burying their heads in the sand.\n\n\"We've been in a similar situation and I think [Real Madrid manager] Carlo Ancelotti dealt with it really well.\n\n\"There is a lot to take from it, it looks as though action has been taken. Hopefully it is a story that doesn't just disappear in 24-48 hours without anything being done.\"\n\nVinicius has been the target of racist abuse multiple times this season and, following the latest incident, has received support from the footballing world.\n\nAnd there has been widespread condemnation of how the incident has been handled, including from the Brazilian government.\n\nBefore Tuesday night's games between Real Valladolid and Barcelona, and Celta Vigo and Girona, players and match officials stood behind banners which read \"Racism, out of football\".\n\nBarcelona winger Raphinha revealed a message of support for his compatriot in the second half when he was substituted.\n\nThe daughter of Brazil legend Pele also urged football's governing bodies to take tougher measures against racism.\n\n\"Spain should be ashamed. La Liga should be ashamed. Real Madrid should be ashamed that they're not putting their foot down and standing up for him,\" Kelly Cristina Nascimento wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"How much more powerful if my father's legacy was not a stadium, but a movement, a law, a tangible action that fights racism, that makes it so a Vini Junior today does not have to go through what my father went through in 1958.\"\n\nLa Liga has said it will request \"more sanctioning powers\" so it can punish incidents of racism.\n\nThe league was criticised heavily following a post-match row on Twitter involving its president Javier Tebas.\n\nIt happened after Vinicius said La Liga \"belongs to racists\" and \"in Brazil, Spain is known as a country of racists\".\n\nTebas responded by saying Vinicius twice did not turn up for a meeting to discuss what it \"can do in cases of racism\", adding: \"Before you criticise and slander La Liga, you need to inform yourself properly.\"\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino previously said a three-step process needed to be used across football to deal with incidents of racism in matches - stopping the game, then re-stopping it, and then abandoning the match.\n\nHowever, Jonas Baer-Hoffman, the general secretary of world players' union Fifpro, said such a process had \"repeatedly failed\".\n\n\"It has shown that the referees are either not well-trained and have the capacity to execute it properly,\" Baer-Hoffman told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"The amount of times players get yellow cards, red cards for showing their emotions when they are saying what is happening to them and being punished shows that this protocol has failed.\n\n\"We have repeatedly pointed this out and called on the organisations to bring in a new process, led by those who actually have lived experiences to change that protocol.\"", "Tina Turner, who has died at the age of 83, was widely referred to as the Queen of Rock'n'Roll.\n\nShe rose to fame as the lead singer of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue before her career as a solo performer took off in the 1980s.\n\nShe is best known for hits including The Best, Private Dancer, What's Love Got to Do With It, Typical Male and Let's Stay Together.\n\nTina met Ike Turner at a performance by his band, the Kings of Rhythm, in 1956, and she soon became part of the act (pictured above in 1961).\n\nIn 1960, the pair's A Fool in Love entered the pop charts, and a string of hit singles soon followed. They included It's Gonna Work Out Fine, River Deep, Mountain High, and Proud Mary.\n\nTurner was married to Ike Turner for 16 years but they divorced in 1978. In her 1986 autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story, the star told of the abuse she had suffered at the hands of her first husband throughout their marriage.\n\nShe released her debut solo album, Private Dancer, in 1984. It sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and won three Grammy Awards.\n\nWhat's Love Got To Do With It picked up record of the year, and best female performance. Better Be Good To Me won best female rock vocal performance.\n\nDuring her career, Turner won a total of eight Grammy awards, including the lifetime achievement award in 2018.\n\nTurner collaborated with the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger many times over the years, supporting the band on tour and performing with him at festivals. She said she \"always had a crush on Mick Jagger\".\n\nShe also had a close friendship with David Bowie, who invited her to sing a duet on the title track of his album Tonight. In return, she invited Bowie to perform as a special guest on her Private Dancer tour.\n\nTurner's career spanned five decades. After a farewell tour in 2000, she went back on the road in 2009 aged 69 to celebrate her 50th anniversary in music.\n\nTurner married her long-term partner Erwin Bach in Switzerland in 2013. She suffered a stroke in the early days of their marriage and he later saved her life by donating one of his kidneys to her.\n\nHer life has also been portrayed in West End and Broadway musical, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical. It tells Turner's life story, focusing on how the singer dared to defy the constraints of age, gender and race during her long career.\n\nTurner said of the musical: \"It's really important to me to have the chance to share my full story. This musical is not about my stardom. It is about the journey I took to get there. Each night I want audiences to take away from the theatre that you can turn poison into medicine.\"\n\nAbout retirement, Turner said: \"No-one knew how tired I was of singing and dancing. This is it. I'm going home now.\"", "When this cow ran onto an interstate, police in Michigan relied on a cowboy to lasso the suspect bovine. The animal is safe and has not been charged with a crime.", "Wayne Couzens is serving a whole-life sentence for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard in 2021\n\nKent Police could have arrested Wayne Couzens in 2015, six years before he murdered Sarah Everard, documents released by the police watchdog showed.\n\nA sergeant investigating an indecent exposure in Dover had Couzens' name and address and his car number plate, papers released by the Independent Office for Police Conduct say.\n\nCouzens is serving a whole-life prison term for killing Ms Everard in 2021.\n\nKent Police said its investigation should have been better.\n\nThe IOPC released the papers after former Met Police officer Samantha Lee was found guilty of misconduct.\n\nShe had failed to properly investigate Couzens when he exposed himself at a McDonald's restaurant in Swanley in February 2021 and lied about not having been shown CCTV of his car hours before he murdered Ms Everard on 3 March 2021.\n\nSarah Everard was murdered by Couzens soon after the indecent exposure incidents\n\nAs proceedings against Lee concluded, the IOPC revealed how in 2015 a member of the public informed the force a man had driven past him in Dover wearing no clothing from the waist down.\n\nThe report revealed the sergeant that investigated the incident had Couzens' name and address, his number plate, the make and colour of the car, and an image of the driver from a roadside camera.\n\nIt also emerged Couzens had worked at the same police station as the investigating sergeant some years before, and the sergeant knew Couzens' brother who was also a police officer.\n\nThe sergeant said he didn't know Couzens but he had twice opened a computer file that said he had worked as a Kent Police special constable. The IOPC could not be certain, however, that the sergeant had actually read that information.\n\nAt that stage, Couzens was not arrested and the case was closed. Despite all the information, the sergeant said the suspect had not been identified and the offender was \"unknown\".\n\nSamantha Lee had denied breaching Met Police standards in her investigation of Wayne Couzens\n\nKent Police said it referred itself to the IOPC over its handling of an indecent exposure allegedly committed by Couzens in Dover in 2015 and the watchdog referred the matter back to Kent to resolve internally.\n\nAt a misconduct meeting in 2023, it was concluded while the sergeant had breached professional standards, the officer's actions fell short of misconduct. It was agreed that the officer would be made subject to a Reflective Practice Review Process, which allows officers to learn from their actions and is not a formal disciplinary outcome.\n\nDep Ch Con Peter Ayling said: \"Whilst the Kent Police officer who investigated the 2015 incident in Dover could never have predicted what Wayne Couzens would go on to do six years later, the investigation should still have been carried out to a better standard.\n\n\"It is important to note that we have revised our approach to investigating reports of indecent exposures, recognising the severe impact it can have on victims.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The death of a 43-year-old man is the first in the UK to be linked to the \"zombie\" drug xylazine, which is prompting overdose warnings in the US.\n\nNormally used as a large-animal tranquiliser but now being found in heroin, it can cause a dangerously low heart rate and large open skin wounds.\n\nUK experts are calling it \"a really concerning drug\".\n\nThey say drug users should be warned it is now present in the UK but there is no safe dose in humans.\n\nKarl Warburton, form Solihull, West Midlands, died in May 2022 at home and had a history of illicit drug use, according to the coroner's report. He had been referred to addiction services on a number of occasions.\n\nAn examination of his body detected heroin, fentanyl and cocaine in his system, as well as xylazine.\n\nA report on his death in the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine says he was \"likely to have bought heroin and not known it was laced with xylazine and fentanyl\".\n\n\"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first death associated with xylazine use reported in the UK, and even Europe, and indicates the entry of xylazine into the UK drug supply,\" it adds.\n\nXylazine is used by vets as a powerful sedative but it's not approved for use in humans.\n\nKnown as \"tranq\" or \"tranq dope\" when cut with heroin and fentanyl by drug dealers, xylazine has been causing huge problems in the US.\n\nIf injected directly into someone's bloodstream, it can cause large open skin ulcers to form. These can start to rot and lead to amputation.\n\nIt also lowers breathing and heart rate to dangerously low levels, which has led to it being dubbed a \"flesh-eating zombie drug\".\n\nXylazine emerged on the illicit drug market in Puerto Rico in the early 2000s and has since been found in the US, mainly in the east, and in Canada.\n\nThe US government has called it \"an emerging threat\" because of its growing role in fatal overdoses across the country - about 7% of the total.\n\nAnd in some states, the drug was found in more than a quarter of overdoses.\n\nBut until now, there has been no sign of xylazine in the UK.\n\nThe drug was detected only because the Birmingham lab that carried out tests after the man's death noticed some strange results and identified xylaxine.\n\n\"The drug is not included in standard drug screens in the UK, so we don't know how widespread the xylazine problem is,\" said Dr Caroline Copeland, King's College London lecturer and director of the National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths.\n\n\"We need to find out how that person ended up with it in his system.\"\n\nXylazine was listed on the man's death certificate as contributing to his death but there was no way of recording it in the UK drug-deaths database.\n\nThe report highlights the need to monitor changes in illicit-drug markets and in emerging drugs.\n\n\"There is no safe dose to use\", it concludes, because there is an overlap between fatal and non-fatal doses of xylazine reported in people.", "The UK is set to win a battle with Spain to host a multi-billion-pound electric car battery plant in Somerset, the BBC understands.\n\nThe boss of Jaguar Land Rover-owner Tata is expected to fly to London next week to finalise the deal.\n\nSome in the car industry have described the plant as the most significant investment in UK automotive since Nissan came to Britain in the 1980s.\n\nTata's chairman is scheduled to meet the prime minister mid-next week.\n\nSources familiar with the matter say that although the deal has yet to be signed, engagement has moved from negotiations to drafting and choreography of how the landmark agreement will be presented.\n\nUp to 9,000 jobs would be created at the Bridgwater site, close to the M5.\n\nThe UK government has acknowledged the urgent need for electric vehicle battery manufacturing in the UK to secure the future of the car industry.\n\nThe country's automotive sector employs up to 800,000 people directly and in the supply chain.\n\nWhen pressed on the subject last week, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt told the BBC to \"watch this space\".\n\nTata was considering another site in Spain and the expected decision to choose Somerset will be presented as a major achievement for the UK government.\n\nThe government has been criticised for lacking a clear industrial strategy and falling behind the US and EU in attracting investment.\n\nLast week, one of the world's biggest carmakers, Stellantis, warned it may have to close UK factories if the government does not renegotiate the Brexit deal. The firm, which owns Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, had committed to making electric cars in the UK but told the BBC this was under threat.\n\nIn the case of Tata's new plant, the UK's expected success has not been easily or cheaply won.\n\nThe government has said that while it does not recognise a figure of £500m in reported subsidies, they concede that it is in the hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nThe gigafactory would be built at the Gravity business park near Bridgwater\n\nThis would take the form of cash grants, energy subsidies and other training and research funding.\n\nIndia's Tata has extensive steel interests in the UK including the Port Talbot plant in South Wales and the government will also offer around £300m to subsidise, upgrade, and decarbonise those operations.\n\nAlong with additional energy discounts, it will bring the total incentive package to Tata close to £800m.\n\nGovernment sources conceded that while the two investments will not be announced at the same time, the two projects are linked.\n\nThe Somerset site's access to power, a skilled UK automotive workforce and the British heritage of Jaguar Land Rover's brands are also cited as helping the UK bid.\n\nAlthough the price tag will be seen as high, the UK is reluctantly involved in an international subsidy war which has been dramatically escalated by the US Inflation Reduction Act - a piece of legislation offering $370bn (£299bn) in sweeteners to companies prepared to locate production and supply chains in the US.\n\nThe EU is preparing its own package in response.\n\nSome industry insiders hope that the Tata battery investment will open the door to further battery investments in the UK, which currently only has one plant in operation next to Nissan's Sunderland factory, and one barely on the drawing board in Northumberland.\n\nBy contrast the EU has 35 plants open, under construction or planned.\n\nNumber 10 said it did not comment on commercially sensitive matters.", "Joseph and Jason Nee were handed gang injunctions at Liverpool County Court\n\nA man who was the intended target when Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed has been banned from gang-related activity, including riding a motorbike or owning more than one phone, police have said.\n\nJoseph Nee, a convicted drug-dealer, 36, was chased into the nine-year-old's Liverpool home by murderer Thomas Cashman, in August 2022.\n\nHe and his brother, Jason Nee, 33, have been given two-year gang injunctions.\n\nThey are both prohibited from \"associating with named persons\".\n\nMerseyside Police said the injunctions, handed to them at Liverpool County Court, also banned the brothers from having more than one mobile phone and sim card, which must be registered.\n\nThe order prevents them from riding or being a passenger on any electrically-powered bike, scooter, quad bike, motorbike, scrambler bike, trail bike, or any other type of two-wheeled motorised bike within Merseyside.\n\nThe force said the injunctions demonstrated it was \"tackling serious organised crime in our communities\" and it was proactively targeting gang-related activity in the Dovecot area.\n\nThe bullet that killed Olivia was fired through the front door of her home by Cashman\n\nCh Insp Tony Fairhurst said: \"The prohibitions detailed in these specific injunctions are widely known by our local officers and will be policed rigorously.\n\n\"This means that should either men breach their prohibitions, we can act quickly to arrest them and put them back before the courts.\n\n\"Breaches can result in prison sentences, making them a really strong deterrent.\"\n\nThomas Cashman, 34, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 42 years for killing Olivia in her home in Dovecot.\n\nHis trial heard how he \"lay in wait\" with two guns to attack Joseph Nee.\n\nFleeing the gunfire, Nee ran towards the open door of Olivia's home after her mother went out to see what the noise was.\n\nCashman continued shooting and a bullet went through the door and Ms Korbel's hand, before fatally hitting Olivia in the chest.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Samantha Lee denied breaching Met Police standards in her investigation of Wayne Couzens\n\nA former Met Police officer who carried out a \"lamentably poor\" investigation into Wayne Couzens has been found guilty of gross misconduct.\n\nSamantha Lee failed to make \"the correct investigative inquiries\" into two flashing incidents, a panel heard.\n\nCouzens killed Sarah Everard in south-west London soon after exposing himself to staff at a branch of McDonald's.\n\nDuring the hearing Ms Lee admitted she made some errors in the investigation, but denied gross misconduct.\n\nShe is no longer a police officer having left last year, but was a PC at the time.\n\nWayne Couzens was already serving life for murdering Sarah Everard when he was sentenced for indecent exposure earlier this year\n\nThe police disciplinary panel heard Ms Lee carried out a \"lamentably poor and rushed investigation\" into the two incidents when Couzens exposed himself to female members of staff at the fast food restaurant in Swanley, Kent, on 14 and 27 February 2021.\n\nThe former PC went to the restaurant as part of her investigation on 3 March, just hours before Couzens kidnapped Ms Everard in Clapham.\n\nThe McDonald's manager told the hearing he had shown her CCTV of Couzens where his number plate was clearly visible, and showed her receipts which recorded the last four digits of Couzens' card.\n\nShe said he had told her the footage had already been deleted, a claim the hearing was told was a lie to cover up her failure.\n\nPanel chairman Darren Snow found this dishonesty amounted to gross misconduct, and that had Ms Lee still been a serving officer, she would have been dismissed from the force. He added she will be barred from serving in the police again.\n\nReading the panel's findings, Mr Snow found that Sam Taylor, the McDonald's manager, was a \"credible\" witness and it was \"inconceivable that he would not have shown her the CCTV evidence\".\n\nHe added that the panel believed Ms Lee had been driven to dishonesty by the \"pressure\" of the investigation.\n\nSarah Everard was murdered by Couzens soon after the indecent exposure incidents\n\nIn her evidence, Ms Lee admitted she had made errors, but said nothing she could have done \"would have changed the tragic outcome\" of what happened to Sarah Everard.\n\n\"As much as I have thought it over and over, I don't believe that anything I could have done would have changed the tragic outcome of what happened later that day,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, she claimed she has been made a \"scapegoat\" by the Met and said: \"I have never lied\".\n\nIn March this year, Couzens was sentenced to 19 months in prison after admitting three counts of indecent exposure.\n\nHe was already serving life behind bars for the kidnap, rape and murder of Ms Everard.\n\nThe third indecent exposure incident related to when Couzens exposed himself to a female cyclist on a Kent country lane in November 2020.\n\nEvidence heard by the panel has highlighted questions around the wider police response.\n\nThe 999 call, made by the McDonald's manager on 28 February, prompted the operator to run the registration details of the black Seat Exeo through the police national computer which confirmed it was registered to Wayne Couzens and gave his home address, but didn't show he was a serving police officer.\n\nPaul Ozin KC, representing the Met, told the hearing there was \"no standard check that takes place to see whether a suspect in criminal police cases are police officers\".\n\nThis is an issue that's been previously highlighted by the chief constable of British Transport Police, Lucy D'Orsi, who wrote on a policing blog in January it was in her view \"a priority issue for our attention\".\n\nThe case will also raise questions once again over how police respond to indecent exposure offences, which campaigners believe need to be taken far more seriously.\n\nThe panel heard that the 999 call was initially treated as \"comparatively low urgency\".\n\nFormer PC Lee was not assigned to attend the scene until three days later. Just a few hours after she did, Couzens kidnapped Sarah Everard.\n\nDuring the hearing Ms Lee accepted she \"could have done more around CCTV and evidence gathering\", but added she did not \"believe that anything I could have done would have changed the tragic outcome of what happened later that day\".\n\nNow, the police watchdog, the the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is calling for the introduction of a national system to ensure criminal allegations that are made against serving officers notify relevant police forces.\n\nIn a statement, the IOPC added it had already recommended the Met \"consider developing a system automatically flagging when an officer is under criminal investigation\".\n\nThe IOPC's director of operations Amanda Rowe said: \"It may not have prevented Couzens from committing his crimes, but if it is combined with the change in culture that policing recognises is necessary, it could help prevent it from happening again in the future. That's why we'll be exploring this possibility of this with the NPCC later this week.\n\n\"We have also been working closely with the Angiolini Inquiry, sharing evidence to inform its work looking at cultural issues within policing and addressing the broader concerns around women's safety in public highlighted by Sarah Everard's death.\"\n\nThe Met's deputy assistant commissioner Stuart Cundy said: \"As the panel has made clear, honesty and integrity are fundamental to policing and our relationship with the public.\n\n\"The wider circumstances leading to Sarah Everard's terrible murder will be considered by the Angiolini Inquiry and any subsequent inquest, and we are fully assisting them with their vital work.\n\n\"Fundamentally, I am sorry that Couzens was not arrested before he went on to murder Sarah Everard and we continue to think of her loved ones.\"\n\nThe force added it has been \"taking steps to improve\" the way it deals with allegations of indecent exposure - including ensuring investigations are led by specially trained officers, increasing capacity in intelligence teams to identify perpetrators and linked offences, and using a wide range of methods to identify sexual predatory behaviour and deter offenders.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The shooting took place at Youth Sport on the Killyclogher Road in Omagh\n\nAn off-duty police officer is in a critical but stable condition after being shot at a sports complex in Omagh, County Tyrone.\n\nThere are unconfirmed reports that he was hit several times on the Killyclogher Road at about 20:00 GMT.\n\nThe Police Federation for Northern Ireland said two gunmen were involved and he was shot while he coached young people playing football.\n\nRishi Sunak said he was \"appalled by the disgraceful shooting\".\n\n\"There is no place in our society for those who seek to harm public servants protecting communities,\" said the prime minister.\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Simon Byrne said he was \"shocked and saddened\" by the events.\n\n\"We will relentlessly pursue those responsible,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe victim is being treated at Altnagelvin Area Hospital in Londonderry.\n\nPolice forensic officers are carrying out an examination of the grounds of the sports facility where the off-duty officer was shot.\n\nLocal politicians who arrived shortly after the gun attack say it was a chaotic scene as parents arrived to pick up children from training.\n\nForensics are at the scene at Youth Sport on Wednesday night\n\nThey say it was very busy this evening with a number of different sports groups using the facility.\n\nThe complex has been sealed off while police commence their investigation.\n\nA number of cars remain in the car park, within the police cordon, with the entire complex now a crime scene.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said it received a call about the shooting at Youth Sport Omagh at 20:00 GMT and sent a crew.\n\nPolice went to the scene of the shooting on Wednesday night\n\nSinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill said it was an \"outrageous and shameful attack\" and added: \"I unreservedly condemn this reprehensible attempt to murder a police officer.\"\n\nDemocratic Unionist leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson condemned the \"cowards responsible for this\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer justice minister and Alliance leader Naomi Long said her thoughts were with those affected by this \"evil act of cowardice\".\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood, MP, said it was a \"chilling attack on an individual serving his community\".\n\nUlster Unionist assembly member Tom Elliott said it was a \"despicable and cowardly action\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris, said that \"those responsible for such horror must be brought to justice\".\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Leo Vardakar said he condemned the \"grotesque act of attempted murder\".\n\nThe Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin, said he was \"shocked and appalled\" by the shooting.\n\nThis is probably the most serious attack on a police officer since the murder of Ronan Kerr in 2011.\n\nThat attack, like this, took place in Omagh.\n\nThe officer targeted is a detective of quite senior rank.\n\nHe has a public profile, having carried out media duties as the lead officer on several high-profile cases.\n\nThese cover both dissident republican violence and crime gang murders.\n\nThe police have said nothing officially about a potential motive for the shooting.\n\nBut among fellow officers, suspicion in the first instance has fallen on dissident groups.\n\nDespite a relative lull in activity in recent years, the New IRA in particular has continued to target police officers.\n\nThe Police Federation for Northern Ireland said it \"condemned this appalling and barbaric act of violence on an off-duty officer\".\n\n\"Our thoughts are with our colleague and his family. These gunmen offer nothing to society. Anyone with information should come forward.\"\n\nAn Garda Síochána (Irish police) said it had intensified patrolling in border counties.\n\nThe last gun attack on a PSNI officer was in January 2017. The PSNI officer was hit by an automatic gunfire at a petrol station in north Belfast.\n\nThe officer was hit at least twice in his right arm, and it is thought a bulletproof vest may have saved his life.", "Rishi Sunak has told Home Secretary Suella Braverman she will not be investigated for breaching the ministerial code over her handling of a speeding offence.\n\nIn her response, Mrs Braverman said she regrets her actions and with hindsight would have handled it differently.\n\nThe full letters can be seen below.\n\nThank you for your letter and for your time discussing these matters with me.\n\nIntegrity, professionalism and accountability are core values of this Government and it is right and proper that where issues are raised these are looked at professionally to ensure the appropriate course of action is taken.\n\nI have consulted with my Independent Adviser. He has advised that on this occasion further investigation is not necessary and I have accepted that advice. On the basis of your letter and our discussion, my decision is that these matters do not amount to a breach of the Ministerial Code.\n\nAs you have recognised, a better course of action could have been taken to avoid giving rise to the perception of impropriety.\n\nNevertheless, I am reassured you take these matters seriously. You have provided a thorough account, apologised and expressed regret.\n\nIt is vital that all those in Government maintain the high standards the public rightly expects. I know you share this view, just as we are committed to delivering on the issues that matter to the British people - from making our streets safer and reducing net migration to stopping the boats.\n\nI am writing to provide further information in relation to my receipt and handling of a speeding ticket, which has been the subject of recent media interest.\n\nAround June 2022, while Attorney General, I was found to be speeding. I received notification that I could take a group speed awareness course or receive a fine and three points on my licence, which was clean at the time. I opted to take the course and booked a date in Autumn.\n\nAfter arriving at the Home Office in September as Home Secretary, I informed officials in my Home Office Private Office (PO) about the course and asked whether it was appropriate given my new role.\n\nThis reflected my lack of familiarity with protocol relating to my newly acquired official status as a 'protected person', which means I am required to have a close protection security team overseeing my movements, and with me always in public.\n\nThis involves close protection having knowledge of and involvement in many areas of what would otherwise be considered my 'private life', not related to my work as a Minister or Member of Parliament.\n\nIn discussions with my Principal Private Secretary (PPS) I was advised that the Cabinet Office's Propriety and Ethics Team (PET) would be the best source of advice on whether it was appropriate to seek to do the course in a way that protected my privacy, security, and was least disruptive to the course participants and provider.\n\nI readily agreed to this suggestion. Consequently, on 28 September 2022 my PPS discussed this with the Permanent Secretary's Office.\n\nThe Permanent Secretary's Office, at the request of the Permanent Secretary, then asked PET for guidance (noting that their own initial view was that this was not a matter for civil servant involvement) and asked if they were aware of any precedents and for any advice.\n\nPET advised it was not an appropriate matter for civil servants to take forward.\n\nMy PPS also rightly pointed out that I needed to be mindful to ensure that I did not ask a company to change their rules due to my position, which neither I, nor to the best of my knowledge anyone acting on my behalf, ever sought to do.\n\nMy PPS confirmed that I could continue discussing the matter with Special Advisers, and asked them to pick up with me. I made no further requests of officials.\n\nI therefore later engaged with Special Advisers about how we would enable my participation in a way that would maintain my security and privacy.\n\nThis was to determine whether there were other options possible within the overall framework and rules of the provider.\n\nMy preference at this point, following consultation with my Special Advisers, was to attend a group course in person rather than online due to privacy concerns.\n\nParticipation in a speed awareness course is supposed to be private, and Special Advisers raised concerns about the risk of me being covertly recorded while participating online, and the political ramifications of this. PO and the Permanent Secretary's officials also had previously advised that participating online risked generating media interest.\n\nHowever, Special Advisers raised concerns about the difficulties of ensuring the appropriate security arrangements for an in-person course.\n\nTheir concerns included that my protective Security team might need to join me in the room or be unable to undertake appropriate vetting of other course participants owing to third party privacy concerns.\n\nSpecial Advisers then contacted the course provider to better understand the range of appropriate options that might be available - and consistent with the course provider's rules, policies and practices.\n\nBased on this further information, I concluded that none of these could satisfactorily address the aforementioned security, privacy and political concerns. I therefore opted to take the points and pay the fine, which I did in November.\n\nI accept that I was speeding and regret doing so. At no point did I try to avoid sanction. My actions were always directed toward finding an appropriate way to participate in the speed awareness course, taking into account my new role as Home Secretary and the necessary security and privacy issues that this raised.\n\nMy interactions with officials intended to provide appropriate clarification of the options available to me in my role as Home Secretary. Whenever I was informed that a possible option was not available, I accepted that. At no point did I instruct officials to behave contrary to the advice that was provided.\n\nI considered the involvement of my Special Advisers appropriate, given the logistical, security, privacy, media, and therefore political considerations involved. I regret that my attempt to find a way to participate in the course in a manner that would have satisfied these concerns has enabled some to construe a potential conflict of interest.\n\nWith hindsight, I acknowledge that the better course of action would have been to take the points and fine upfront.\n\nThe Ministerial Code sets out that Ministers must provide a list of all interests which might be thought to give rise to a conflict. It does not define what should be included, but it does specify the different types of interests.\n\nThese are all framed around the responsibility for avoiding a conflict of interest between Ministers' public duties and their private interests, and tend to relate to ongoing circumstances or relationships. Recognising the importance of integrity and transparency, I approach my declarations with great care and consideration.\n\nThe purpose of the form is to declare anything which might interfere, or be perceived to interfere, with a Minister's integrity when making decisions in the public interest. I did not consider that a speeding infringement or attending a speed awareness course, needed to be disclosed.\n\nIt is not an ongoing situation with the potential to influence my decisions. In general, minor driving offences tend to be excluded from official forms. For example, barristers are not required to inform the regulator of minor speeding infractions; similarly, these are excluded if you are asked about any criminal history when you apply for a visa to the UK, or in the annual security questions asked of civil servants in the Home Office with heightened security clearance.\n\nI note that PET has, since November 2022, introduced references to fixed penalty notices in their introductory discussions with new ministers, recognising that the position was unclear given these are not currently explicitly covered by Ministerial interest forms. I am grateful for this clarity, and in the future would declare any similar speeding course or fine.\n\nAs I outlined, I informed my officials of the speeding and driving course, and the Permanent Secretary's office was involved in the conversations as described above, determining whether it was appropriate for civil servants to engage with the security and logistics of me attending this course. It was never suggested by anyone in my PO or the Permanent Secretary's Office that I needed to disclose the situation on an updated form.\n\nI also understand that, despite being aware of events at the time, at no point did the Permanent Secretary or Cabinet Office suggest that my actions resulted in a conflict of interest or merited any investigation.\n\nI am deeply committed to all the Nolan Principles of Public Life, including honesty, integrity and openness, and I regret that these events have led some to question my commitment.\n\nI have at all times been truthful and transparent, and taken decisions guided by what I believed was right and appropriate given my office, not by any personal motivation. Another principle, of course, is leadership: Ministers must hold themselves — and be seen to hold themselves — to the highest standards. I have always strived, and will continue to strive, to do this.\n\nAs I say, in hindsight, or if faced with a similar situation again, I would have chosen a different course of action. I sought to explore whether bespoke arrangements were possible, given my personal circumstances as a security-protected Minister.\n\nI recognise how some people have construed this as me seeking to avoid sanction — at no point was that the intention or outcome. Nonetheless, given the fundamental importance of integrity in public life, I deeply regret that my actions may have given rise to that perception, and I apologise for the distraction this has caused.\n\nI hope this clearly sets out my involvement in this matter and provides you with all relevant information. Should you require any further information, I will of course be happy to provide it.", "Handout from Belgorod governor purports to show damage caused to buildings during incursion\n\nRussian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has promised a \"harsh response\" to cross-border incursions from Ukraine.\n\nHis comments came after Moscow said it had defeated an attack in the Belgorod region.\n\nHowever, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said there had been a \"large number\" of drone attacks overnight.\n\nUkraine denies involvement in the raid - and two Russian paramilitary groups opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin say they were behind it.\n\nReporting to defence ministry officials on the incursion, Mr Shoigu said \"more than 70 Ukrainian nationalists\" had been killed and the rest pushed back into Ukraine.\n\n\"We will continue to respond to such actions by Ukrainian militants promptly and extremely harshly,\" he said.\n\nThe two Russian paramilitary groups - the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) and Liberty of Russia Legion (LSR) denied that they had sustained any casualties, and said a Russian motorised rifle company had been destroyed.\n\nThe casualty claims by the warring sides have not been independently verified.\n\nRussia also says that Western military vehicles were used in the incursion.\n\nIt posted pictures of destroyed US vehicles apparently at the scene of the fighting but some Ukrainian military experts and bloggers have suggested they could have been staged.\n\nThe US said it was sceptical that reports of US-supplied weapons being used in the incursion were true and did not \"encourage or enable strikes inside of Russia\".\n\nBut Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the vehicles were evidence of growing Western military involvement in Ukraine.\n\n\"It is no secret for us that more and more equipment is being delivered to Ukraine's armed forces. It is no secret that this equipment is being used against our own military,\" he said.\n\n\"We are drawing the appropriate conclusions.\"\n\nThe Russian defence ministry released photos of abandoned or damaged Western military vehicles, but some have claimed the images are staged\n\nMeanwhile attacks in the region appear to be continuing.\n\nMr Gladkov said overnight attacks by drones were mostly dealt with by air defences, but some damage was caused to cars, private houses and administrative buildings in and around Belgorod city, as well as in the border district of Borisovka.\n\nNo-one was injured in the attacks, he added.\n\nA \"small fire\" began after a gas pipeline was damaged in Grayvoron district.\n\nLow-level attacks in Russian border regions such as Belgorod and Bryansk have become frequent in recent weeks.\n\nMr Gladkov said that agricultural workers were going out into the fields wearing helmets and bulletproof vests because of the threat of attacks.\n\nVillages in Belgorod near the border were evacuated on Monday after coming under fire.\n\nMonday's raid led Moscow to declare a counter-terrorism operation, giving the authorities special powers to clamp down on communications and people's movements.\n\nThe measures were only lifted the following afternoon, and even then, one of the paramilitary groups was claiming it still controlled a small piece of Russian territory.", "Catherine McNerlin attended the Autism in The Air event with her son Haydn\n\nFamilies with autistic children have said free try-before-you-fly events at George Best Belfast City Airport have reassured them about travel plans.\n\nAutism In The Air, which is run through Queen's University Belfast (QUB), lets families experience the sights and sounds of a busy airport scenario.\n\nCatherine McNerlin's son Haydn was diagnosed with autism two years ago.\n\nShe told BBC News NI a twice postponed holiday can go ahead after their visit to the airport last weekend.\n\nMs McNerlin said they had postponed a family holiday two years in a row fearing five-year-old Haydn might struggle with big crowds, long queues and loud noises.\n\n\"Haydn is hyper sensitive and not good with change, he needs constant routine and uses a visual support board to transition throughout his day,\" Ms McNerlin told BBC News NI.\n\nDr Nichola Booth, a lecturer in behaviour analysis and autism at QUB, believes giving children on the autism spectrum an opportunity to familiarise themselves with the process of air travel is beneficial for them and their parents or guardians.\n\n\"What we noticed was that a lot of families of autistic children and young people were finding that going on holiday was a distressing experience,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"Some actually avoided going on holiday altogether because of the unknown situation of an airport with all the crowds and the unfamiliar sounds associated with them.\"\n\nDr Nichola Booth (pictured far right) with duty manager Bill Doole (far left) and support staff at George Best Belfast City Airport\n\nDr Booth said the scheme could help pinpoint any potential issues the child might experience during their time at the airport or on the plane and parents could then have a plan in place.\n\n\"Families really do benefit from this trial experience so that they can be less apprehensive about travelling in the future,\" Dr Booth said.\n\nAt the most recent event, 10 families got to experience busy check-in desks, go through mock airport security, wait at a departure gate and even get to board a grounded plane.\n\nMs McNerlin said she was overjoyed with how well Haydn's experience was at the airport, so much so that they were now planning to go on their long-overdue holiday.\n\n\"Haydn is now excited to go on the holiday, he got the opportunity to repeat things he was unsure about on the plane and now has a greater understanding of airports,\" she said.\n\n\"Before the event he had only ever seen airports through pictures at school or videos on TV or YouTube and didn't understand about them fully until he actually entered the building.\n\n\"Autism In The Air has completely turned around his whole way of thinking about them, we're now heading off [on holiday] in July and we are so much more confident.\"\n\nLaurie Cunningham's 13-year-old son, Ethan, is autistic and is about to head off on a holiday for the first time without her\n\nLaurie Cunningham's 13-year-old son, Ethan, is autistic and is about to head off with his friends on a Boys' Brigade (BB) trip to London.\n\nMs Cunningham said she was quite apprehensive about her young son flying without her for the first time, but said she knew he would be in capable hands.\n\n\"The BB leaders are all fantastic with Ethan and one of the leaders going has a brother who is autistic so is great with Ethan as well,\" she said.\n\nMs Cunningham signed herself and Ethan up for the Autism In The Air event to allow him an opportunity to experience what it would be like going through a busy airport.\n\n\"Airports are so big and there are just so many people everywhere and I would just be worried about how he would cope sometimes,\" Ms Cunningham said.\n\n\"This was just a way to put my mind at ease because I know he wouldn't be used to it,\" she said.\n\n\"As a parent you do worry, so it was a great way for him to see what it was like and I could then flag to his BB leaders about any potential issues that he had on the trial run.\"\n\nZoe Ferguson's 3-year-old son, Rex, does not cope well in crowd spaces and she worries how he will feel in a busy airport\n\nZoe Ferguson's three-year-old son, Rex, is non-verbal and is currently being assessed for autism spectrum disorder (ASD).\n\nMs Ferguson said she had not been on a plane with Rex since he was a baby, and was apprehensive about the prospect of the potential lengthy waits when it comes to airports.\n\nShe was also nervous about how well he would cope in crowded spaces and attended the event to reassure her about them flying together.\n\nRex Ferguson got to sit on a grounded airplane as part of the Autism In The Air Event\n\n\"He is not one to sit still and, like any three-year-old, it's a handful to try and keep him occupied,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"If it didn't go well on the trial run, we probably wouldn't have travelled through an airport again until he was much older.\n\n\"We probably would rather go on a boat or go somewhere in the car instead if we wanted to head off somewhere.\n\n\"But I was very pleased with how well he did and it was great preparation for him for when we do fly in the future.\"", "Kyrees (L) and Harvey were best friends, their families said Image caption: Kyrees (L) and Harvey were best friends, their families said\n\nThe families of both boys who died in the crash - which sparked a riot in Cardiff on Monday - have said the pair were best friends.\n\nHarvey's family said he was \"a best friend to Kyrees, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family also\".\n\n\"He lived life to the full, he had a big heart and deep down he truly cared,\" Harvey's mum said.\n\nKyrees' family described him as \"a loving, caring handsome young man\".\n\nThe tribute from Kyrees' family added: \"He was loved so much by his grandparents and aunties and uncles and his many cousins.\n\n\"Him and Harvey, along with Niall, were best friends since they were young and went everywhere together, they both had so many friends and were very well liked doing many things together, having fun and laughs.\"", "Tariq Ramadan was voted one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2004\n\nRenowned Islamic studies scholar Tariq Ramadan has been cleared of rape and sexual coercion by a Swiss court.\n\nMr Ramadan, who is a Swiss citizen, is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.\n\nThe case was brought by a Swiss woman who said she had been raped by Mr Ramadan in a Geneva hotel in 2008.\n\nA convert to Islam, and a fan of Mr Ramadan's, the woman told the court she had been subjected to a brutal sexual assault, beatings and insults.\n\nShe said it happened after she was invited by the former Oxford academic for a coffee after a conference.\n\nMr Ramadan, who is 60, had faced up to three years in prison if convicted. He denied all the charges, but did admit to having met the woman.\n\nThe trial was a sharp contrast to the career so far of the man once feted as a \"rock star\" of Islamic thought.\n\nAs Europe struggled with terrorist attacks and rising anti-Muslim feeling, Mr Ramadan appeared as a voice of reason - condemning terrorism and opposing the death penalty. He was denied entry to Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Syria, because, he said, he had criticised their lack of democracy.\n\nIn 2004 he was voted one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.\n\nIn 2007 he became a professor of Islamic studies at St Antony's College Oxford. He also had his critics, particularly in France, where a number of leading academics accused him of anti-Semitism.\n\nBut in 2017, Mr Ramadan's meteoric rise ended, when he was accused by a French woman of rape.\n\nSupporters of Mr Ramadan protested on the streets of Paris following the allegations in France\n\nWhen that case became public, more women came forward.\n\nBy 2020 he was facing five charges of rape - four in France, and one in Switzerland - and had spent nine months in detention in France before being released on probation. He has consistently denied all the charges against him.\n\nThe Swiss case was the first to come to trial, and the atmosphere in the Geneva courtroom was tense.\n\nMr Ramadan faced a barrage of cameras as he arrived. His accuser, using the name Brigitte to protect her identity, requested a screen be put up in the courtroom so she would not have to look at the man she claimed raped her.\n\nShe described the alleged attack in detail, saying she feared she would die.\n\nMr Ramadan admitted inviting her to his hotel room, but denied any form of violence. He said all the accusations against him have been politically motivated and designed to discredit him.\n\nHis French and Swiss lawyers also questioned the accusers' truthfulness, citing inconsistencies around the dates of the alleged attacks.\n\nMr Ramadan was supported in that argument by his family. His son Sami, pointing to his father's \"role in the debate about Islam in France,\" told the BBC in 2019 that the cases against his father were \"motivated by other reasons, which we feel are political.\"\n\nThat view was backed by dozens of high-profile figures, including American philosopher Noam Chomsky, and British filmmaker Ken Loach, who signed an open letter questioning whether Mr Ramadan was receiving a fair legal process, with the usual presumption of innocence.\n\nIn court in Geneva, the prosecution insisted Brigitte could not have invented the alleged attack or have been able to tell it to the judges in such detail.\n\nMr Ramadan's defence lawyer insisted on his innocence, describing the charges against him as \"crazy\". In his own remarks to the court, Mr Ramadan asked not to be tried on his \"real or supposed ideology\".\n\nAfter a week's deliberation, the three Swiss judges found him innocent.\n\nWhile he has been cleared in Switzerland, this could be just the first of several trials.\n\nIn France, prosecutors are still assessing whether charges brought against Mr Ramadan should go to court.\n\nHe continues to protest his innocence in all the cases, and has vowed to clear his name.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alun Michael has insisted police were not chasing the boys at the time of the crash\n\nTwo teenagers whose deaths led to riots in Cardiff, were not being chased by police when they were killed in a bike crash, a police commissioner insists.\n\nAlun Michael, South Wales' police and crime commissioner, said the police had assured him the youths were not chased.\n\nKyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died in the crash on Snowden Road, Ely, shortly after 18:00 BST on Monday.\n\nCCTV footage shows a police van following a bike about half a mile from the crash site just minutes earlier.\n\nPolice watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), has announced it will independently investigate the incident.\n\n\"I was assured [by the police] and I am still assured, that the youths were not being chased by the police at the time of the road traffic accident,\" Mr Michael told Radio Wales Breakfast on Wednesday.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Michael said: \"It would appear that there were rumours, and those rumours became rife, of a police chase - which wasn't the case.\"\n\nThe deaths sparked a riot in Ely which saw cars set alight, fireworks thrown at police and 15 officers injured.\n\nSouth Wales Police's Deputy Chief Constable Rachel Bacon is due to make a statement at about 16:30.\n\nMany tributes have been left in Ely to Kyrees Sullivan and Harvey Evans, seen here in a photo first shared in 2016\n\nAfter the CCTV footage circulated, South Wales Police said it was \"studying\" the video and police vehicle tracking data, adding there were \"no police vehicles on Snowden Road\" at the time of the crash.\n\nThe CCTV footage, which has been analysed by BBC Verify, is time-stamped to 17:59 on Monday on Frank Road.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: CCTV appears to show police following people minutes before crash\n\nMr Michael has denied being misinformed when he previously claimed that no police chase had occurred.\n\n\"What happened was footage emerged of something that happened a short time before the road traffic accident, and that too needs to be investigated,\" he said.\n\n\"That was not available to the police or to me at the time when we responded to the first thing that happened, which was a road traffic accident.\"\n\nIt was put to Mr Michael that this leaves open the possibility of a pursuit and he replied: \"It leaves open the possibility.\"\n\nMr Michael claimed the CCTV footage was filmed five minutes before the crash occurred.\n\n\"There was no police vehicle in the road where the crash happened. There was a police van in another street and the police were called quickly to the accident and conducted CPR,\" he added.\n\n\"That is being investigated as well and the matter is being referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) so anything that comes in needs to be investigated fully so we have the full picture.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts said Mr Michael had \"serious questions to answer\" following the police's response to the incident.\n\n\"The role of police and crime commissioners is to be the voice of the people and hold the police to account,\" she said.\n\n\"Alun Michael this morning spoke rather as a spokesperson and defender for South Wales Police.\"\n\nA friend of Kyrees' and Harvey's families, who did not wish to be identified, said their \"heart is hurting\" following the deaths.\n\n\"I'm just absolutely devastated and heartbroken for my friends. That's the little boy I used to babysit and push around in a pram. It is so, so sad,\" they said.\n\nThey said the boy's parents went to see their children at the hospital on Tuesday, adding that \"they are both very numb and haven't gone much to say at the moment\".\n\nBalloons and flowers have covered a street in Ely following the teenagers' death\n\nCardiff Council said the clean-up operation cost about £22,500 after three cars were burnt out, tonnes of debris was left on the street and a lamp-post was broken.\n\nThe council said 14 staff and 10 vehicles were involved in the clean-up, which saw almost five tonnes of waste removed from the site.\n\nVicar at the Church of the Resurrection in Ely, Canon Jan Gould, said she \"can't even begin to imagine\" the amount of pain and grief the families of Kyrees and Harvey will be feeling.\n\nShe added it was \"absolutely 100% vital\" communication between the police and the community was handled properly.\n\n\"This is a very difficult community for the police to work in, we have some people in our community here that are very antagonistic toward police… a police presence anywhere will wind them up.\n\n\"But we also have a very large part of our community that are very reassured by police presence, so the police are treading this very fine line between these two different groups trying to maintain order.\"\n\nA balloon release in memory of Kyrees and Harvey is being organised by the community for 18:00 on Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why were we not told that this morning? - Reporters confront police\n\nFollowing the crash about 100 to 150 people gathered in Ely and at about 20:00 the force tweeted that it was working to \"de-escalate\" disorder.\n\nThe force said it had received a large number of calls from \"understandably frightened\" residents.\n\nDuring the disorder, 15 officers were injured and 11 were taken to hospital, according the force.\n\nFollowing the incident, First Minister Mark Drakeford - whose Cardiff West constituency includes Ely - said he was \"very concerned\" by the \"upsetting reports\".\n\nDozens of handwritten notes were left for Kyrees and Harvey\n\nLabour MP Kevin Brennan, who represents the Cardiff West constituency in the UK parliament, said on Tuesday it was \"highly unfortunate\" that the information initially provided by the police appears not to have been \"entirely correct\".\n\n\"It's important, if we're going to have trust and confidence between the community [and] the local police force… there has to be openness and clarity,\" added Mr Brennan.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesperson said what had happened was \"appalling and completely unacceptable\".\n\nThe IOPC has said its investigators will examine \"any interaction between the police and the boys\".\n\nIOPC director, David Ford, said: \"It is important that we independently investigate the circumstances leading up to this tragic event.\n\n\"This incident and the events that followed have, understandably, attracted significant interest and public concern.\n\n\"It is important that we thoroughly and independently investigate this matter, in order to establish the full facts and circumstances of exactly what happened on Monday.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Boris Johnson has been referred to police by the Cabinet Office over further potential rule breaches during the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe department said it made the referral after a review of documents ahead of the Covid public inquiry.\n\nA spokesperson for the former PM dismissed claims of any breaches as a \"politically motivated stitch-up\".\n\nBoth the Metropolitan and Thames Valley Police say they are assessing the information received.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said officials had been obliged to disclose the documents to the police under civil service rules.\n\nThe Times, which first reported the story, says Mr Johnson has been referred to Thames Valley police because his ministerial diary revealed visits by family and friends to Chequers - the prime minister's country house in Buckinghamshire - during the pandemic.\n\nThames Valley Police said it had \"received a report of potential breaches of the Health Protection Regulations between June 2020 and May 2021 at Chequers, Buckinghamshire\".\n\nThe Met Police released a similar statement but said their information related to potential breaches in Downing Street.\n\nIt is understood Mr Johnson has had no contact from the police.\n\nThe spokesman for the former prime minister said it was \"totally untrue\" that there had been further Covid rule breaches.\n\n\"The events in question were all within the rules either because they were held outdoors or came within another lawful exception. They include regular meetings with civil servants and advisers.\n\n\"It appears some within government have decided to make unfounded suggestions both to the police and to the Privileges Committee - many will conclude that this has all the hallmarks of yet another politically motivated stitch-up.\"\n\nThe spokesman said Mr Johnson's lawyers had written to the Cabinet Office, as well as the Commons Privileges Committee, \"explaining that the events were lawful and were not breaches of any Covid regulations\".\n\nThe seven-member committee of MPs has been investigating whether Mr Johnson misled Parliament over Covid rule-breaking events in government buildings.\n\nIn a statement, the committee said it had received additional evidence from the government last week and asked Mr Johnson for a response, both of which it would now take into account during its probe.\n\nIf the committee concludes Mr Johnson deliberately misled MPs over the events, he could potentially face a suspension from Parliament, which in turn could lead to a by-election in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman also said it was \"bizarre and unacceptable\" that \"no contact was made with Mr Johnson before these incorrect allegations were made both to the police and to the Privileges Committee\". The Cabinet Office has denied the suggestion Mr Johnson was not given prior notice.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said the material it had passed to police came from the \"normal\" process of reviewing documents to be submitted to the public inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic.\n\n\"In-line with obligations in the Civil Service Code, this material has been passed to the relevant authorities and it is now a matter for them.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told the matter was not considered by ministers or the cabinet secretary, who heads the civil service.\n\nThe public inquiry, which is separate to the privileges committee probe, will begin hearings next month.\n\nBoth Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were fined for attending a birthday party in Downing Street\n\nResponding to the announcement, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"These new allegations are for the police to examine but the government must explain who else knew at the time and why this has only now come to light.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper, said Mr Johnson \"should finally do one decent thing and consider his position as an MP\".\n\nLindsay Jackson, spokesperson for Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, said Mr Johnson was \"totally unfit for any form of public service, never mind being the prime minister\".\n\nBut, speaking on his GB News programme, Conservative MP and former minister Jacob Rees-Mogg defended Mr Johnson, saying: \"The latest stories are just another example of how those who don't like Boris, mainly because of Brexit, are always looking for something to have a go at him on.\"\n\nMr Johnson resigned as prime minister last July, in part due to public anger over revelations he broke Covid lockdown rules.\n\nIn April 2021 he received a fine from the police for breaking lockdown rules after attending a gathering on his birthday in June 2020.\n\nAnd, in May 2022, a report by then-senior civil servant Sue Gray set out a series of social events held by staff in Downing Street which broke the rules.", "It's been a busy morning, what with Rishi Sunak's decision over Suella Braverman's speeding ticket and his appearance at prime minister's questions, and lunch beckons for our team.\n\nIf you want to read more, and at a more leisurely pace, you can go to our politics page.\n\nYou'll also find the latest on Boris Johnson after he was referred to police over further potential lockdown breaches - we've just heard he's ditching the government-appointed lawyers representing him in the Covid inquiry.\n\nChris Mason wrote about this story earlier. You can read his thoughts here.\n\nThat's all from us. Today's writers were Malu Cursino, Brandon Livesay, Richard Morris, Michael Sheils McNamee, Luke Mintz and Laura Gozzi. Arryn Moy and James Harness edited our videos.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "Disgraced former entertainer Rolf Harris, who was jailed for a series of indecent assaults on girls, has died aged 93.\n\nHarris was found guilty of a string of indecent assaults between 1968 and 1986 following a trial in 2014 - and was jailed for five years and nine months.\n\nHe was released from prison in 2017 - but never apologised to his victims.\n\nBefore his crimes came to light, Harris had been a fixture of family entertainment in Britain and Australia.\n\nAccording to his death certificate, which was registered on Tuesday, he died of neck cancer and \"frailty of old age\" at his home in Bray, Berkshire, on 10 May.\n\nA statement released by his family said: \"This is to confirm that Rolf Harris recently died peacefully surrounded by family and friends and has now been laid to rest.\n\n\"They ask that you respect their privacy. No further comment will be made.\"\n\nFollowing a trial at Southwark Crown Court, Harris was initially found guilty of 12 attacks on four girls, mainly in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nOne conviction, relating to an allegation he indecently assaulted an eight-year-old girl, was later overturned. But Court of Appeal judges dismissed his application to challenge the other 11 convictions.\n\nThe victims included two girls in their early teens and a friend of his daughter.\n\nBefore his crimes came to light, Harris had been a well-known figure in the entertainment industry in Britain and his native Australia for more than 50 years.\n\nHe arrived in London in 1952, aged 21, and went on to host a string of children's TV and variety shows as well as series about animals and art. Harris painted a portrait of the late Queen to mark her 80th birthday in 2006.\n\nHarris was also well known for a number of hit songs, including Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport; Two Little Boys and a cover of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven.\n\nDuring his career he was made an OBE, MBE and CBE and awarded a Bafta fellowship, but he was stripped of the honours following his convictions.\n\nAt his sentencing, the court heard he was a \"sinister pervert\", who used his fame to get close to young women and girls.\n\n\"You have shown no remorse for your crimes at all,\" the judge told him. \"Your reputation now lies in ruins, but you have no one to blame but yourself.\"\n\nHarris served three years of his sentence at Stafford Prison in Staffordshire. After his release he returned to the home in Bray, Berkshire, he shared with his wife, Alwen - who he had married in 1958.", "Boris Johnson has had no contact from the police, the BBC understands\n\nThe justice secretary has defended officials who passed material to the police relating to Boris Johnson over potential rule breaches during Covid.\n\nCivil servants referred information to two police forces after reviewing the former PM's official diary.\n\nAlex Chalk said officials would have been criticised if they had \"sat on\" the information.\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman said it was \"totally untrue\" there had been any further breaches of Covid rules.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said officials had been obliged to disclose the documents to the police under civil service rules.\n\nThe Times, which first reported the story, says Mr Johnson has been referred to Thames Valley police because his ministerial diary revealed visits by family and friends to Chequers - the prime minister's country house in Buckinghamshire - during the pandemic.\n\nMr Johnson's diary was being considered by lawyers \"so that material can be provided\" to the Covid inquiry, Mr Chalk told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.\n\nLawyers \"saw material that they had a concern about\", Mr Chalk said.\n\nThis was then passed to civil servants, who in turn referred it to police \"without any involvement with ministers\", Mr Chalk added.\n\nHe said: \"If they had sat on it then people would have criticised them for that - if they had passed it on, others would criticise.\n\n\"They have been put in a quite a difficult position and ultimately it comes down to what is in the documents, which I haven't seen.\"\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Johnson has had no contact from the police.\n\nThe spokesman for the former prime minister said: \"The events in question were all within the rules either because they were held outdoors or came within another lawful exception.\n\n\"They include regular meetings with civil servants and advisers.\n\n\"It appears some within government have decided to make unfounded suggestions both to the police and to the Privileges Committee - many will conclude that this has all the hallmarks of yet another politically motivated stitch-up.\"\n\nThe spokesman said Mr Johnson's lawyers had written to the Cabinet Office, as well as the Commons Privileges Committee, \"explaining that the events were lawful and were not breaches of any Covid regulations\".\n\nAlex Chalk was appointed Justice Secretary in April after Dominic Raab resigned\n\nFormer leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg said the police referral \"shows that some people will never rest until they have hounded Boris further and further\".\n\nMr Rees-Mogg told GB News he went to Chequers, the prime ministers official country house, during the period when alleged breaches occurred.\n\n\"I was invited there with my children, entirely in accordance with the rules,\" Mr Rees-Mogg said.\"Another senior government minister was going to come, but the prime minister cancelled him because you were only allowed to have one family present at the time.\"The prime minister was diligent about it.\"\n\nThames Valley Police said it had \"received a report of potential breaches of the Health Protection Regulations between June 2020 and May 2021 at Chequers, Buckinghamshire\".\n\nThe Met Police released a similar statement but said their information related to potential breaches in Downing Street.\n\nThe new findings have also been passed to the Commons Privileges Committee, which is investigating whether Mr Johnson misled Parliament over Covid rule-breaking events in government buildings.\n\nMr Johnson resigned as prime minister last July, in part due to public anger over revelations he broke Covid lockdown rules.\n\nIn April 2022, he received a fine from the police for breaking lockdown rules after attending a gathering on his birthday in June 2020.\n\nAnd, in May 2022, a report by then-senior civil servant Sue Gray set out a series of social events held by staff in Downing Street which broke the rules.", "Climate activists had proposed scrapping plane journeys where train journeys of under four hours existed\n\nFrance has banned domestic short-haul flights where train alternatives exist, in a bid to cut carbon emissions.\n\nThe law came into force two years after lawmakers had voted to end routes where the same journey could be made by train in under two-and-a-half hours.\n\nThe ban all but rules out air travel between Paris and cities including Nantes, Lyon and Bordeaux, while connecting flights are unaffected.\n\nCritics have described the latest measures as \"symbolic bans\".\n\nLaurent Donceel, interim head of industry group Airlines for Europe (A4E), told the AFP news agency that \"banning these trips will only have minimal effects\" on CO2 output.\n\nHe added that governments should instead support \"real and significant solutions\" to the issue.\n\nAirlines around the world have been severely hit by the coronavirus pandemic, with website Flightradar24 reporting that the number of flights last year was down almost 42% from 2019.\n\nThe French government had faced calls to introduce even stricter rules.\n\nFrance's Citizens' Convention on Climate, which was created by President Emmanuel Macron in 2019 and included 150 members of the public, had proposed scrapping plane journeys where train journeys of under four hours existed.\n\nBut this was reduced to two-and-a-half hours after objections from some regions, as well as the airline Air France-KLM.\n\nFrench consumer group UFC-Que Choisir had earlier called on lawmakers to retain the four-hour limit.\n\n\"On average, the plane emits 77 times more CO2 per passenger than the train on these routes, even though the train is cheaper and the time lost is limited to 40 minutes,\" it said.\n\nIt also called for \"safeguards that [French national railway] SNCF will not seize the opportunity to artificially inflate its prices or degrade the quality of rail service\".\n• None Should we get rid of air miles for climate change", "Richard Micklewright says the experience was \"extremely difficult\"\n\nAn ex-independent member forced to resign from a health board described the actions of Health Minister Eluned Morgan as \"tantamount to bullying\".\n\nRichard Micklewright said he and his fellow independent members at Betsi Cadwaladr health board (BCUHB) were treated as \"expendables to be used, abused and discarded at her whim\".\n\nAt the time, Eluned Morgan she had to address the health board's performance.\n\nBCUHB said it could not comment \"on the status of any employees at this stage\".\n\nMeanwhile the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has said he was \"deeply worried\" following stories about the health board, and allegations made by a leaked finance report should be \"investigated properly\".\n\nA Conservative MP told the Commons the report \"revealed serious misconduct on the part of several senior board executives, including a conspiracy to falsify accounts\".\n\nWelsh Health Minister Eluned Morgan told the Senedd on Wednesday that people named in the report by EY have been suspended.\n\nSpeaking for the first time to Wales Live since the 11 independent members were made to quit. Mr Micklewright said it was \"tantamount to bullying\" and had come out of the blue.\n\n\"There'd been no communication from her or her officials to indicate there was dissatisfaction in what we were doing. We just felt that we had been completely let down and treated badly.\n\n\"We had no options about what we were going to do. We were just dismissed.\n\n\"It was an extremely difficult, traumatic experience.\"\n\nAs a former vice chair of Betsi Cadwaladr's audit committee he believes \"there needs to be a criminal investigation\" into financial matters at the health board.\n\nA leaked report by accountancy firm Ernst and Young (EY), alleged finance officials made deliberately wrong entries in accounts.\n\nThe report said Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, which serves north Wales, wrongly accounted for millions of pounds.\n\nIt alleged EY's work was \"hindered\" by the alteration of a document and the deletion of a recording of a meeting.\n\nYsbyty Gwynedd in Bangor is one of the hospitals administered by the health board\n\nNHS Counter Fraud Wales, which is part of an NHS Wales organisation, concluded in April that no further action was needed.\n\nBut Mr Micklewright said that he and his former colleagues believe that \"crimes have occurred, and they need to be dealt with\".\n\n\"The Ernst and Young report found quite serious examples of actual criminality.\n\n\"They found false accounting, which is a crime.\n\n\"They found misconduct in public office, which is a crime.\n\n\"And it was suggested by the counter fraud people possibly also conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, which is a much more serious crime,\" he said.\n\nOn Wednesday, at Prime Minister's Questions, Conservative MP David Jones told the Commons the EY report \"revealed serious misconduct on the part of several senior board executives, including a conspiracy to falsify accounts\".\n\nRishi Sunak replied: \"I am deeply worried about the Betsi Cadwaladr hospital in labour run north Wales. It has been, as he said, in special measures for six of the last eight years and, as he remarked, the official audit said there was worrying dysfunctionality.\n\n\"I do hope this issue is investigated properly, and I believe my honourable friend is in contract with the secretary of state for Wales to take this further.\"\n\nIn the Senedd Conservative politician Darren Millar said the report had wider implications for the Welsh NHS.\n\nHe said its findings \"include false accounts and the manipulation of documents, which amounts to fraud\".\n\n\"These were done in the knowledge of senior members of staff at the health board.\"\n\n\"The junior staff who pushed back against these appalling practices were overruled by their superiors.\n\n\"There were deliberate efforts to hide those actions from Audit Wales and Forensic investigators from Ernst and Young. It absolutely stinks.\n\n\"The report still isn't the public domain. It should be published.\"\n\nEluned Morgan, health minister, told the Senedd the report \"did make extremely sobering reading, which absolutely needs to be acted upon\".\n\n\"As has been said in this chamber on a number of occasions this is not our report, so I can't ask for it to be published.\"\n\nShe said \"key individuals named in the report have been suspended. Clearly they have legal employment rights. The key thing for me is that we've got to follow the right process\".\n\nShe added that she had asked a senior civil servant to see if there were broader implications for the Welsh government.\n\nNorth Wales Police have said they are looking into the claims in the EY report.\n\nDet Ch Supt Gareth Evans said: \"We are aware of media reports regarding financial matters at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and have also had concerns raised with us by individuals.\n\n\"We are liaising with colleagues in other agencies regarding enquiries already undertaken in order to make an assessment and will issue an update in due course.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"We do not comment on leaked documents, particularly when, as in this case, internal procedures are still proceeding at the Health Board.\"\n\nThey did not want to comment on the specific allegations but said that independent board members were offered counselling at the time.\n\nThe 11 former independent members of the board have questioned the focus on them after a damning audit report called the executive team dysfunctional.\n\nExecutives are responsible for the day-to-day operation of health services while independent board members are there to scrutinise the executives' decisions.\n\nThe executives are still in their place and Richard Micklewright believes that \"something does need to be done about the executive\".\n\n\"The minister was quite clear that she didn't have the ability to deal with the executives, which is true up to a point. She doesn't have the power to hire and fire so she couldn't fire the executive directors.\n\n\"She did however, have the ability to take them off the board so they could be removed from the position where they were making decisions that were detrimental to Betsi going forward.\"\n\nAn accountant, who has worked for a number of other public sector organisations, Mr Micklewright said that he had never been treated like this before \"it was something that I've never experienced before and my colleagues haven't either\".\n\nHe also accused the health minister of a lack of duty of care, saying some of the other members were \"suffering from stress and upset\" but there had been \"nothing from Eluned Morgan's team to indicate any awareness of that or any concern for us after the event\".\n\n\"Somebody needs to take responsibility and I can only see two people in the frame potentially - Mark Drakeford and Eluned Morgan,\" he said.\n\nA spokesperson for BCUHB said: \"The management of the issues raised in the EY report is progressing in line with existing procedures and policies.\n\n\"This follows the conclusion of the NHS Counter Fraud Wales investigation connected to the Auditor General's qualified opinion of the Health Board's 2021-22 financial accounts.\n\n\"It is inappropriate to comment on the status of any employees at this stage.\n\n\"We currently have six independent board members in place, alongside two associate independent members. Two further independent board members are in the process of being appointed and these will be announced in due course.\"", "Nurse Lucy Letby, 33, denies murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others\n\nNurse Lucy Letby has blamed \"dirty\" conditions as a factor in the deaths of babies she is accused of killing.\n\nThe 33-year-old is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.\n\nContinuing her defence, Ms Letby told the court the hospital had plumbing problems with \"raw sewage coming out of sinks\" in one of the nurseries.\n\nThe nurse, originally from Hereford, denies all 22 charges against her.\n\nShe said: \"It's a contributory factor if the unit is dirty and staff were unable to wash their hands properly.\n\nEarlier, the jury was also told she had \"made up\" parts of her evidence about a baby twin, who she is said to have murdered, and was repeatedly accused of lying and adding details to her account.\n\nShe was asked about her recollections of the baby boy - referred to in court as Child E - who she is said to have first injured, causing a bleed, and then killed with an injection of air.\n\nChild E was a twin and was born prematurely alongside brother Child F in late July 2015.\n\nLucy Letby denies murdering and attempting to murder babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nThe jury at Manchester Crown Court has heard that Ms Letby was the designated nurse caring for both boys on the night shift of 3 August.\n\nThe court has previously heard the mother of the twins heard Child E making \"horrendous\" sounds and found him bleeding from the mouth when she arrived at the nursery at 21:00 with breastmilk.\n\nUnder cross examination, Ms Letby was asked whether Child E's mother's recollection was correct.\n\nShe said she \"accepted\" that mothers bring breast milk to the unit and that was a \"normal occurrence\", but could not \"specifically\" recall Child E's mother visiting.\n\nProsecutor Nick Johnson KC put it to Ms Letby that Child E was bleeding at 21:00.\n\nShe said \"I don't agree\", adding: \"There wasn't blood prior to 22:00.\"\n\nMr Johnson referenced Ms Letby's initial defence statement, agreed in February 2021, in which she said Child E's mother \"may have\" visited \"later than 21:00\".\n\nThe nurse is being cross-examined by prosecution barrister Nick Johnson KC\n\n\"You're now saying it cannot have been before 22:00,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMs Letby told the court she could not say \"definitively\" what time it was but repeated that \"there was no blood prior to 22:00\".\n\nMr Johnson responded: \"You're lying aren't you Ms Letby?\". \"No\", she responded.\n\nThe barrister put it to Ms Letby that Child E's mother made a phone call to her husband at 21:11, in which she expressed concern about the blood around their baby boy's mouth.\n\nMs Letby accepted there was a phone call, as has been established through phone records, but did not accept the content of the conversation.\n\n\"Do you accept what she and her husband said was said in that call,\" Mr Johnson asked.\n\nMr Johnson went on to accuse Ms Letby of lying and adding additional detail to her statement, which she denied.\n\nThe nurse told the court that if she had \"seen blood at any point I would have escalated that to somebody\".\n\nThe attacks are alleged to have taken place at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nMr Johnson noted that a doctor was not called to respond to the blood until 22:00, an hour after Child E's mother said she saw it.\n\nMr Johnson again accused Ms Letby of not telling the truth and put it to her that Child E was bleeding as a result of her having \"inflicted an injury\" on him.\n\n\"I don't accept that. That did not happen,\" she said.\n\n\"You killed [Child E] didn't you?\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nThe nurse earlier said Child E's deterioration and death could have been the result of \"medical incompetence\" of doctors on shift that night.\n\nShe told the court she thought \"doctors could have acted sooner to respond to [Child E's] bleeding issue\".\n\nMs Letby was also asked if she reported the issue of sewage, to which she replied \"not personally, no\".\n\nMr Johnson then turned to a premature baby girl, Child G, who Ms Letby is accused of overfeeding with milk through a nasogastric tube in an attempt to kill her in September 2015.\n\nThe court has heard Child G was clinically stable until 7 September, when she projectile vomited at about 02:00.\n\nMs Letby said the vomit \"potentially\" could have been caused by a nursing colleague having mis-measured a feed.\n\n\"I can't say for definite that didn't happen. I'm not saying she did do that, but it is a possibility\", Ms Letby said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Charles (top right) and his sister Princess Anne pictured leaving Northern Ireland after their first visit in 1961\n\nKing Charles III was just 12 years old when he arrived in Northern Ireland for his first official visit.\n\nOn 8 August 1961, the young prince and his family sailed into Carrickfergus, County Antrim, on board a \"floating palace\" - the Royal Yacht Britannia.\n\nHe travelled with his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, his late father the Duke of Edinburgh and his then 10-year-old sister, Princess Anne.\n\nIt was to be the first of 39 trips to Northern Ireland as heir to the throne.\n\nHis parents had arrived for a two-day tour, packed full of formal engagements at town halls and locals businesses.\n\nBut while the Queen carried out her official duties, the royal children were largely kept away from the cameras.\n\nInstead, Prince Charles and his little sister had afternoon tea at a County Down estate and enjoyed a picnic on a private island, where a hungry Labrador stole their bodyguard's lunch.\n\nThe 1961 papers were intrigued by the prince's daytrip to a County Down island\n\nTight security measures have been a feature of royal visits since the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, but back in 1961, the Royal Family's schedule could be publicised days in advance.\n\nThe Belfast Telegraph published an almost minute-by-minute guide of the Queen's itinerary, pointing out the best locations to see the monarch's motorcade.\n\nThere was great excitement ahead of what was her first visit for seven years, and only her third tour as reigning monarch.\n\nIn a rain-soaked Carrickfergus, an armada of little boats owned by well-wishers greeted the Royal Family, while hundreds of cheering spectators lined the town's harbour.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II disembarks from the royal barge at Carrickfergus in 1961\n\nThe Queen and the Duke disembarked for a tour of Carrickfergus Castle, but unlike their parents' itinerary, the younger royals' travel plans were not pre-announced.\n\n\"The children's destination had been kept secret at the Queen's wishes, right until the last minute,\" the Belfast Telegraph reported.\n\nPrince Charles and his sister were brought ashore at Belfast and driven to Rademon Estate on the outskirts of Crossgar, County Down.\n\nThe 500-acre estate was then home to the aptly-named King family who were long-standing friends of the Windsors.\n\nJames Osborne King was a prominent estate agent and his wife, the Hon Elizabeth Patricia King (née White), was a childhood friend of Queen Elizabeth.\n\nThe Queen was also godmother to the couple's eldest child, 14-year-old Elizabeth Lavinia Sarah King.\n\nThe late Queen, then known as Princess Elizabeth, attended baby Lavinia King's baptism in Comber, County Down, in 1946\n\nMrs King was descended from the Spencer family, sharing ancestry with Lady Diana Spencer - the future first wife of the young Prince Charles.\n\nShe was a first cousin of Lady Diana's father, the 8th Earl Spencer, but her family link to the Windsors goes back further.\n\nMrs King's mother, Lavinia Emily White (née Spencer), had been a lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Mother while she was the Duchess of York.\n\nAt Rademon, Prince Charles and his sister were joined by their parents for afternoon tea hosted by the Kings.\n\nThe following day, the Queen visited Belfast City Hall and Harland and Wolff shipyard but, reportedly, she did not believe her children would enjoy either event.\n\nSo instead, it was arranged that the prince and princess would go for a picnic on Strangford Lough, accompanied by Mr and Mrs King's three young children.\n\nSir Richard Pim, a retired inspector-general of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, was entrusted with sailing the children to Pawle Island - a small, uninhabited land mass off the lough's western shore.\n\nFew people spotted the heir to the throne tucking into his packed lunch, but in the days that followed, \"scores of holidaymakers\" flocked to the island to explore the royal picnic spot.\n\nPawle Island, pictured here in June 2020, briefly became a tourist attraction after the 1961 royal picnic\n\nTwenty years later, ahead of Prince Charles's wedding to Lady Diana, Sir Richard regaled the Belfast Telegraph with his memories of the Pawle Island picnic.\n\n\"I had brought Bracken, my Labrador, with me and the prince had his detective with him, a big fellow who must have been all of 20 stones,\" Sir Richard recalled.\n\n\"The detective decided he would go and find himself some beer and he went off, leaving his lunch on the stone where he had been sitting.\n\n\"Bracken, as soon as his back was turned, promptly went across and ate it.\"\n\nSir Richard said the young prince found the case of the stolen sandwiches \"very funny\" and the pair laughed about it when they met again in later life.\n\nThe 1961 visit was the King's only childhood trip to Northern Ireland and 18 years passed before he came back for a second tour.\n\nDuring that period, the security situation in Northern Ireland deteriorated markedly.\n\nThe Troubles began in the late 1960s and Prince Charles was 31 years old by the time he returned to Northern Ireland in 1979.\n\nPrince Charles's second visit to Northern Ireland in 1979 had a very different tone to his first\n\nHe arrived three months after the IRA killed 18 soldiers in a bomb attack at Narrow Water, County Down.\n\nThe paramilitary group also killed his own great uncle and beloved mentor, Lord Mountbatten, in a bombing in the Republic of Ireland on the same day.\n\nPrince Charles spent his 1979 visit meeting soldiers at various barracks close to the border, which had been the target of regular IRA attacks.\n\nThe peace process began to take hold in the 1990s and Prince Charles soon became a regular guest of Northern Ireland and an occasional visitor to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nAt a St Patrick's Day dinner four years ago, he revealed his lifetime ambition to visit all 32 counties on the island of Ireland.\n\nIn a speech to guests, he said he had already ticked 15 off the list at that stage.\n\n\"I am quite determined, before I drop dead and finally lose my marbles, that I should get around to the remaining 17,\" he added.", "Chelsea's Mason Mount was bombarded with messages during a four-month stalking campaign\n\nA woman has pleaded guilty to stalking two Premier League footballers and harassing a third.\n\nTikToker Orla Melissa Sloan, 21, bombarded Chelsea's Mason Mount, 24, with messages in a four-month stalking campaign after their relationship ended.\n\nShe also pleaded guilty to stalking his former team-mate Billy Gilmour, 21, and harassing Ben Chilwell, 26.\n\nMr Gilmour said her messages had a \"huge impact\" on his life.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard Sloan and Mr Mount slept together after they met at a party at Mr Chilwell's home in November 2020.\n\nProsecutor Jason Seetal said they stayed in contact for about six months before Mr Mount \"decided that the relationship was not going to progress\".\n\nHe subsequently was bombarded with messages from her and blocked her number, the court was told.\n\n\"He then began to receive messages from new numbers and each time he would block those numbers there would be messages from a different number,\" Mr Seetal said.\n\nA total of 21 different numbers were used to contact Mr Mount, the court heard.\n\nMr Seetal said Mr Mount was \"concerned she had an obsession or fixation with him and he didn't know what she was capable of\".\n\nIn a statement, the footballer said he was worried that Sloan would \"turn up at my training centre\".\n\nThe court heard other messages were aimed at professional footballers, friends and family members, including Mr Mount's England and Chelsea team-mate, Mr Chilwell.\n\nBilly Gilmour said the messages had a \"huge impact\" on his life\n\nScotland midfielder Mr Gilmour said her messages had a \"huge impact\" on his life, after he joined Brighton & Hove Albion from Chelsea in September last year.\n\n\"I have not been able to sleep and have had to take sleeping tablets,\" he said.\n\nSloan, from Exeter, pleaded guilty to causing \"serious alarm or distress\" by stalking Mr Gilmour between 10 September and 28 October last year.\n\nShe also admitted stalking Mr Mount between 19 June and 28 October last year, as well as causing harassment to Mr Chilwell between 20 October and 29 October 2022.\n\nDistrict Judge Neeta Minhas said Sloan's most serious offence, against Mr Gilmour, crossed the custody threshold.\n\nSloan was granted unconditional bail and sentencing was adjourned to 20 June.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This was His Majesty's 40th trip to Northern Ireland, but his first as King\n\nOn his first visit to Northern Ireland as King, Charles III said his mother \"never ceased to pray for the best of times for this place and its people\".\n\nThe King also received a message of condolence from the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nSinn Féin's Alex Maskey said the Queen recognised how a \"small but significant gesture can make a huge difference in changing attitudes\".\n\nThe royal couple spent just over four hours in Northern Ireland.\n\nTheir first engagement was at Hillsborough Castle, the only royal residence in Northern Ireland, which has been a focal point for floral tributes to the late Queen.\n\nThe King and Camilla, the Queen Consort, met well-wishers in the County Down village, before the King held a private meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris and senior representatives from Stormont's political parties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Charles III: New King meets NI parties for first time as monarch\n\nThe royal couple then travelled into Belfast for a service in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.\n\nSpeaking at Hillsborough Castle, the King said the late Queen had seen momentous and historic changes throughout her long reign.\n\n\"My mother felt deeply, I know, the significance of the role she herself played in bringing together those who history had separated and extending a hand to make possible the healing of long-held hurts,\" he said.\n\n\"Now, with that shining example before me, and with God's help, I take up my new duties resolved to seek the welfare of all the inhabitants of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen made a \"huge difference in changing attitudes\" in Northern Ireland, says Stormont Speaker Alex Maskey\n\nStarting his speech in Irish, Mr Maskey, Sinn Féin's longest-serving elected representative, said: \"Ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh leat ag an am crua seo (I would like to sympathise with you at this difficult time).\n\n\"It's extraordinary to consider how much social and political change Queen Elizabeth witnessed... throughout her long reign.\n\n\"Yesterday an assembly of unionists, republicans, nationalists and those for whom the Constitution is not a main focus united to pay tribute to the late Queen.\n\n\"When she first came to the throne, no one would have anticipated an assembly so diverse and inclusive.\"\n\nHe was there to deliver a message of condolence to the King and Queen consort on the death of the Queen.\n\nBut the message he delivered went much further as he reflected on the changing political landscape in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe carefully contrasted the Queens leadership in helping to build peace and reconciliation with the lack of leadership elsewhere - a veiled swipe at those behind the stalemate at Stormont.\n\nIn another political dig to others, he highlighted how the Queen in her work underlined that one tradition is not diminished by reaching out to show respect to another.\n\nThe speaker also took the opportunity to remind the King how the political landscape has been transformed allowing someone from his background to hold the office of Speaker.\n\nRead more of Enda's analysis here.\n\nKing Charles III and Camilla, the Queen Consort arrived at Belfast City Airport\n\nAfter leaving Hillsborough Castle the royal couple travelled into Belfast to meet leaders from all the major faiths in Northern Ireland before a service of prayer and reflection on the life of Queen Elizabeth II at St Anne's Cathedral.\n\nDuring the service, Archbishop of Armagh John McDowell, the head of the Church of Ireland, highlighted the Queen's efforts to foster peace on the island of Ireland.\n\nHe told the King and Queen Consort that \"faithfulness, care, dutifulness, love and devotion\" were all part of her long reign.\n\n\"All of these could be employed to describe her relationship with Northern Ireland, with patience binding them all together, but paying attention especially to what she said most recently, the word which I think will be most associated with Queen Elizabeth and Ireland, north and south, is 'reconciliation',\" the archbishop said.\n\nHe added that the Queen \"followed where Jesus led as women often have in the elusive and unfinished work of reconciliation here in Ireland\".\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss attended the service, along with Irish President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin.\n\nAgain, hundreds of people lined the route through the city.\n\nThe Reas from Carryduff and the Dolans from Belvoir took the day off school and made their way to City Hall at 08:00 BST to see the royal couple.\n\n\"We'll never see anything like this again,\" said Lisa Dolan.\n\n\"It's a once in a lifetime event.\"\n\nMs Dolan said she felt sorry for the King being \"unable to grieve the way the rest of us would\", but understood it was his duty as monarch.\n\n\"He's been working towards this his entire life,\" she added.\n\nHazelwood Integrated students Jo and James were among those who gathered at Writers' Square, across from St Anne's Cathedral.\n\nHazelwood Integrated students Jo and James hoped to see the royal couple after the service at St Anne's Cathedral\n\nThey said that as history students, they were excited to be witnessing such an historical event.\n\n\"I was a wee bit heartbroken when the queen died - I'm not going to lie,\" said James.\n\nBut he was equally excited to see the new King.\n\n\"I had never really thought about the Queen as a force in my life until she died and then it felt like something was missing,\" Jo said.\n\nAt the end of the service, the King and Queen Consort left St Anne's through the west door where they again met members of the public in Writers' Square, before heading back to Belfast City Airport for the return flight to London.", "East Belfast GAA was set up in May 2020\n\nMembers of East Belfast Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) are horrified and angered following a security alert at playing fields used by the club, its chairwoman has said.\n\nThe area where her club plays is used by different sections of the community, Kimberly Robertson added.\n\nThe alert has been widely condemned by politicians.\n\nIt resulted in the closure of nearby Lough View Integrated Primary School and Nursery on Tuesday.\n\n\"It's something that we have dealt with in the past. We thought those days were over,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\nBBC News NI understands the alert was prompted by a note left at the gates of the council-run Henry Jones playing fields on the outskirts of east Belfast.\n\nA police spokesperson said: \"Police received information concerning the pitches and took proactive steps to ensure the area was safe.\"\n\nThe security operation began on Monday evening and police and Army technical officers were deployed to the scene.\n\nMembers of the public were asked to avoid the area and road closures were put in place.\n\nLater, officers said they had found \"nothing untoward\".\n\nThere was a large police presence in the area on Tuesday\n\nEast Belfast GAA started in May 2020 and was the first GAA club in the east of the city in almost 50 years. It fields football, hurling and camogie teams.\n\nMs Robertson said her \"stomach just sank\" when she received a phone call informing her of the security alert.\n\nPanic for her team members and the wider public soon turned to \"horrified anger\".\n\nA security alert was sparked at the same playing fields in 2020 and Ms Robertson said the club is frustrated to be \"still dealing with this\".\n\n\"It's 2023, we never imagined that people would be putting bombs on our pitches, or at least threatening to.\n\n\"From what I was told by the authorities and by people who were there was that it was very specifically geared towards us,\" she added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by East Belfast GAA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEast Belfast MP Gavin Robinson was one of many politicians who criticised those behind the alert.\n\n\"Sport cancelled. Community disrupted. School closed. For what? Catch a grip,\" the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP tweeted.\n\nAlliance Party leader and East Belfast assembly member Naomi Long said that the situation was \"utterly unacceptable\".\n\nUlster Unionist leader Doug Beattie said: \"This is wrong and must be condemned utterly.\"\n\nThe SDLP's Séamas de Faoite described the alert as an \"utter disgrace\".\n\nKimberly Robertson also criticised Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) council candidate Anne Smyth for a statement released on social media last week.\n\nShe said comments about the club's former president, Linda Ervine, who also runs Irish language classes, were \"unnecessary\".\n\n\"Anne Smyth was running as a councillor in my constituency, in Titanic, so it was very uncomfortable to see some of those comments made not only towards us but towards Linda,\" Ms Robertson said.\n\nIn the statement Ms Smyth expressed \"GAA expansionism concerns\" surrounding the Henry Jones playing fields and criticised Ms Ervine \"for her attempts to persuade east Belfast people to learn Gaelic\".\n\n\"Anne's comments were unnecessary and they were inflammatory, in our opinion, they put our members at risk,\" Ms Robertson continued.\n\nA TUV spokesman said the party condemned the security alert.\n\n\"The good folk of east Belfast do not need or want such incidents and we would urge anyone with information to come forward to the PSNI,\" he said.\n\n\"Anne Smyth's comments are a completely different matter and related to how the use of playing fields had been gifted by a Sinn Féin dominated City Council to the detriment of other sports,\" he added.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) told BBC News NI it was aware of the social media post and was looking at the content.\n\nIn a statement, Belfast City Council said four existing grass pitches Henry Jones were being reconfigured to create \"one soccer pitch and one GAA pitch\".\n\nIt added that \"extensive engagement has taken place as directed and the pitches at Henry Jones Playing Fields are currently being used for both soccer and GAA bookings\".\n\n\"Where bookings from any sporting discipline cannot be facilitated at this site, staff are continuing to work with clubs to help them secure space at other council-owned facilities, including nearby alternatives at Cherryvale, Victoria Park and Blanchflower Park.\"", "Jill Barclay's body was discovered at the weekend\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with murder after the death of a woman in Aberdeen.\n\nThe body of Jill Barclay, 47, was discovered outside an address on Stoneywood Road, Dyce, close to the Marriot Hotel, early on Saturday.\n\nRelatives said she was a \"deeply loved life partner, mother and daughter\".\n\nRhys Bennett, 22, of Ballingry, Fife, appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court charged with murder and attempting to defeat the ends of justice.\n\nHe made no plea and was remanded in custody.\n\nThe body was discovered outside an address on Stoneywood Road\n\nPolice have been appealing for information.\n\nThe company's Nick Shorten said in a statement: \"Jill was a much loved and respected member of Petrofac's team here in Aberdeen.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with her children, partner, and wider family at this truly heart-breaking time. We will do everything we can to support them.\"", "\"Would you let me finish?\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Bacon, of South Wales Police, was involved in a tense exchange with a BBC reporter when asked if new CCTV footage contradicts the police timeline of events that led to the deaths of two boys in a crash, sparking a riot.\n\nHarvey Evans, 15, and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, died in the Ely area on Monday.\n\nPolice and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael initially said police did not chase the boys but CCTV later showed they were followed by a police van.\n\nThe force has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC),", "It was hoped JLR owner Tata would invest in the site at Coventry Airport\n\nThe owner of Jaguar Land Rover's decision not to build a car battery factory in Coventry is \"disappointing\", West Midlands Mayor Andy Street says.\n\nTata Group is reported to be considering either Somerset or Spain for its gigafactory.\n\nIt had been hoped the car maker would choose a site at Coventry Airport which has been identified for a gigafactory.\n\nMr Street said there were \"technical aspects\" of that site which had not met the firm's criteria.\n\nHowever, the mayor rejected the suggestion that the decision was a \"snub\" to Coventry where JLR has historical links.\n\n\"Just because they [potentially] build the battery factory in Somerset does not mean they are snubbing their home city,\" he said.\n\n\"It's disappointing news, but they will still be employing lots of people in research and development and, of course, there's all the questions of the supply chain that will support this and their support for the manufacturing plant so it's not all bad news.\"\n\nOutline planning permission was given last year for a gigafactory at Coventry Airport with the hope of creating 6,000 jobs on the site.\n\nThe mayor insisted the JLR owner's decision was \"not the end of the road\" for the project.\n\n\"There are already negotiations with other potential investors and we are very, very confident that our offer is a very good one for them,\" he said.\n\nMore and more car manufacturers are swapping diesel and petrol models for electric vehicles, with some 45,000 jobs tied to the wider automotive industry in the Midlands.\n\nElectric vehicles are seen as the future of the automotive industry\n\nIt has been reported by the Financial Times that Tata is asking for £500m in government support to build a battery factory in the UK rather than Spain.\n\nAndy Palmer, chairman of the battery maker InoBat Auto, told the BBC the amount of money \"doesn't seem unreasonable\" as energy costs are higher in the UK than Spain.\n\nHe added that the UK had to compete with the US and European Union in terms of incentive packages.\n\nMr Palmer, the former head of Warwickshire car maker Aston Martin, said: \"I think it's really important now that the UK government decides if it wants a car industry. If it does then it needs to provision probably a lot more money than it has so far.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Five things to know about Ron DeSantis\n\nFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis will announce his 2024 presidential bid in an online appearance with Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday.\n\nMr Musk is scheduled to host a Twitter Spaces conversation with Mr DeSantis at 18:00 local time (22:00 GMT).\n\nAn official launch video from the DeSantis campaign is expected later the same evening.\n\nMr DeSantis, 44, is viewed as former president Donald Trump's chief rival for the Republican Party's nomination.\n\nThe governor joins a growing list of contenders seeking to unseat Mr Trump, who leads by more than 30 points in national opinion polls.\n\nRepublican voters go to the polls in a series of primary elections beginning next February to determine which candidate will face President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the November 2024 general election.\n\nTwitter Spaces is a platform that allows \"creators\" to host live audio conversations that other Twitter users can join and engage with.\n\nWednesday's event will be moderated by tech entrepreneur David Sacks, a close ally of the Tesla founder and a supporter of Mr DeSantis.\n\nA Fox News tweet about the upcoming Twitter Spaces \"interview\" was retweeted by Mr Musk to his 140 million followers on Tuesday.\n\nIt was not immediately clear whether the two plan to appear together in person and whether Mr Musk is showing support for the Floridian's campaign by hosting the launch on his platform..\n\nAt a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) event earlier, Mr Musk claimed the occasion will mark \"the very first time\" such an announcement takes place on social media.\n\nHe told attendees that he was not planning to make an endorsement but wants to use Twitter as a public town square.\n\nThe tech mogul has previously expressed support for Mr DeSantis in 2024, including writing on Twitter last November that his preference is for \"someone sensible and centrist\".\n\nMr DeSantis's announcement will come on the first day of a fundraising retreat in Miami where his supporters will reportedly be briefed about the upcoming campaign.\n\nIt will end months of speculation about when Mr DeSantis will officially announce his candidacy.\n\nHis tenure as Florida's governor has seen the state expand gun-ownership laws, implement restrictions on sex and gender identity education in public schools, and bring in new limits on abortion.\n\nOver the coming months, he is expected to pitch himself as an accomplished politician with a long list of conservative policy achievements and without the \"daily drama\" of Mr Trump.\n\nEarlier this month, he aimed thinly veiled criticism at the former president, saying that governing is not about \"building a brand or talking on social media\".\n\nMr Trump is no longer an active user of Twitter, although his account was re-instated in November after it was removed in the wake of the 6 January riots at the US Capitol.\n\nInstead, Mr Trump uses his own platform, Truth Social, where he has frequently launched broadsides against Mr DeSantis.\n\nTwitter has significantly more active users than Truth Social, potentially giving the DeSantis campaign an opportunity for more publicity.\n\nIt will also give him the ear of Mr Musk's large fan base.", "A drink driver has been caught on CCTV falling off his motorbike whilst trying to order food from a drive-through restaurant.\n\nCameron Dixon, 28, from Eastbourne, was seen by police riding on the pavement at McDonald's in the seaside town and arrested by an officer who had been on a break inside the restaurant at the time.\n\nDixon admitted drink driving and was disqualified from driving for 17 months.", "Home Secretary Suella Braverman apologised \"for the distraction this has caused\"\n\nRishi Sunak has said Suella Braverman's handling of a speeding offence did not breach ministerial rules and would not be investigated.\n\nThe home secretary was caught speeding last year and asked officials for advice on arranging a private course.\n\nOpposition parties had called for an inquiry into whether she had breached ministerial rules.\n\nBut after discussion with his ethics adviser, Mr Sunak said he thought an investigation was not necessary.\n\nIn a letter to Mrs Braverman, Mr Sunak said he had decided \"these matters do not amount to a breach of the ministerial code\", after speaking to Sir Laurie Magnus, who advises the government on ethics.\n\nMr Sunak said while action could have been taken to avoid \"the perception of impropriety\", he was nevertheless reassured that Mrs Braverman took \"these matters seriously\" and had \"expressed regret\".\n\nMrs Braverman was caught speeding in June 2022, while she was attorney general, and given the option of three penalty points or a group speed awareness course.\n\nShe later accepted a fine and penalty points on her driving licence for the speeding offence.\n\nMrs Braverman came under scrutiny, not over the speeding offence itself, but over whether she breached ministerial rules, by asking officials to help her with a private matter.\n\nThe ministerial code requires ministers to ensure \"no conflict arises\" between their public duties and their private interests.\n\nIn her letter to Mr Sunak, Mrs Braverman said she regretted speeding but insisted \"at no point did I try to avoid sanction\".\n\n\"My actions were always directed toward finding an appropriate way to participate in the speed awareness course, taking into account my new role as home secretary and the necessary security and privacy issues that this raised,\" Mrs Braverman wrote.\n\nEarlier this week, as Mr Sunak came under pressure to order an investigation into the matter, the home secretary said she was \"confident nothing untoward happened\".\n\n\"Sunak is too weak to even order an investigation, let alone sack his home secretary,\" Liberal Democrat chief whip Wendy Chamberlain said.\n\nIn a string of quips at Prime Minister's Questions, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer took aim at Mrs Braverman, suggesting Mr Sunak was too weak to sack her.\n\nReferencing a speech in which Ms Braverman suggested ways to bring down immigration to the UK, Sir Keir said the home secretary's \"big idea is for British workers to become fruit pickers\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Labour leader claims the home secretary has a \"let them pick fruit\" policy and asks if the PM backs her\n\nSir Keir asked the prime minister if he wished had the strength to give Mrs Braverman \"a career change of her own\".\n\nIn reply, Mr Sunak said this week's forecast by the International Monetary Fund showed the Conservative government was \"delivering for the British people\".\n\nMrs Braverman - a popular figure on the right-wing of the Conservative Party - resigned as home secretary in October last year after admitting breaches of the ministerial code during Liz Truss's short-lived premiership.\n\nShe returned as home secretary after Mr Sunak became prime minister, and has been spearheading his government's efforts to curb the arrival of migrants on small boats.\n\nIn her letter to the prime minister, Mrs Braverman explained the circumstances of her speeding offence in more detail.\n\nShe said she decided to take the speeding course and had booked a slot, but after being made home secretary in September, she asked officials whether the group session was appropriate \"given my new role\".\n\nMrs Braverman said that in discussions with her principal private secretary (PPS), she was advised that the Cabinet Office's Propriety and Ethics Team (PET) would be \"the best source of advice on whether it was appropriate to seek to do the course in a way that protected my privacy, security, and was least disruptive to the course participants and provider\".\n\nThe PET then advised it was \"not an appropriate matter for civil servants to take forward\", Mrs Braverman said.\n\nFollowing further discussions with her special advisers, who \"contacted the course provider to better understand the range of appropriate options that might be available\", she opted to take the points and pay the fine.\n\nShe added: \"I recognise how some people have construed this as me seeking to avoid sanction - at no point was that the intention or outcome.\n\n\"Nonetheless, given the fundamental importance of integrity in public life, I deeply regret that my actions may have given rise to that perception, and I apologise for the distraction this has caused.\"", "\"It's an absolute warzone here.\"\n\nThat's how the BBC reporter Tomos Morgan described the aftermath of a riot that broke out in Cardiff on Monday after two teenage boys died in a crash.\n\nCars were set alight and objects and fireworks were thrown at police as 100 to 150 people gathered in Ely.\n\nUp to 12 officers may also have been injured in the disorder, South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe sword carried by Penny Mordaunt at the Coronation has become an unexpected star attraction for visitors to the Tower of London.\n\nA new display is being opened this week in the Jewel House, where the crowns and regalia are kept in the Tower.\n\nBut officials at the historical site say the sword of state has become a new talking point for visitors.\n\nMs Mordaunt later admitted she had taken painkillers to help with holding up the ceremonial sword.\n\nThe impact of the TV attention has turned the sword from being a minor part of the display to something visitors to the Tower want to know much more about.\n\n\"It's not an object we might have seen visitors looking for particularly in the past - but we expect that they definitely will now,\" said Charles Farris, a historian of the monarchy at Historic Royal Palaces.\n\n\"It's wonderful to see the ways in which the recent coronation has given people a new found appreciation of the crown jewels,\" he said, expecting the interest in Ms Mordaunt's sword-wielding to make a visit to the Tower more \"vivid\".\n\nPenny Mordaunt's role became a talking point of the Coronation\n\nThe 17th-Century sword, more than 3ft (1m), was carried by Ms Mordaunt in her capacity as lord president of the Privy Council.\n\nOn social media, her appearance was likened to a character from Star Wars, a figure from Greek myth or wearing a logo with echoes of Poundland's branding.\n\nShe later commended the public for its online creativity and said she had taken a couple of painkillers to get through the demanding role.\n\nThe sword is kept in the Tower of London along with the crown jewels and other royal regalia and jewels.\n\nThis includes the controversial koh-i-noor diamond, whose ownership is disputed and which was not included in the Coronation.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown is part of the display in the Jewel House, at the Tower of London\n\nThe new display at the Tower of London now gives visitors more context for the diamond - calling it a \"symbol of conquest\".\n\nThis is meant to be more open and \"transparent storytelling\", showing how it forcibly changed hands over the centuries.\n\nThe Tower curators say public consultations found a particular interest in what had happened to the original medieval crown jewels.\n\nThese were broken up in the 17th-Century, after the Royalists were defeated in the English Civil War - and the display includes a gold coin from that era that could have been made from the melted-down crowns and regalia.\n\nThe only surviving item, a 12th-Century gold spoon, was also used at the Coronation earlier this month.\n\nThe crowns remain the centrepiece of the collection, with the adapted crown of Queen Mary, worn by Queen Camilla at the Coronation, now going on show.\n\nAnd St Edward's Crown, which was worn by the King and will not be worn again until the next Coronation, can be seen close up.", "Highland Council said it had concerns about accidents on bouncy castles\n\nHighland Council says it has put a stop to the hiring of bouncy castles at its premises for health and safety reasons.\n\nThe authority also said the huge size of its region made it difficult for its staff to get to venues to carry out thorough risk assessments.\n\nInverness-based inflatables business Mascot Madness Entertainment has challenged the council to fully explain its decision.\n\nDetails of the ban first emerged in a row reported by the Inverness Courier.\n\nHighland Council said it recognised that inflatables, such as bouncy castles and slides, were a much-loved addition to local events.\n\nBut a spokesman said that because of concerns about accidents the local authority had put in place \"a foreseeable pause on the hiring of inflatables\".\n\nIt said hiring inflatables required thorough risk assessments and quality checks by experienced staff.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"The reality of our wonderful and dynamic landscape is that its considerable size, access to some locations and availability of appropriate staff, creates challenges which mean that is not possible to carry out the checks needed, which occur multiple times a year across a vast estate of over 200 schools.\n\n\"Therefore, until we have the structures in place to meet these requirements, a regrettable pause will be placed on the hire of inflatables.\"\n\nOwners of Inverness-based Mascot Madness Entertainment said they fear for their business\n\nThe Highland Council area represents a third of the land area of Scotland.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"We appreciate and thank our communities continued understanding in this decision to safeguard attendees at our local events.\n\n\"We hope that families will look forward to their upcoming fairs, and enjoy the day with the other activities on offer.\"\n\nBut Mascot Madness Entertainment has challenged the council to explain when the temporary ban was put in place, how the decision was reached and how many accidents it had recorded in the region.\n\nThe business' Danielle Stewart said: \"The local communities which we serve are fully behind us and have a complete lack of understanding towards this decision and firmly believe as do we that events are still able to go ahead safely with inflatables present.\n\n\"The response so far from members of the public is that of shock and astonishment that this decision has been made and firmly believe that many local events will be ruined by this.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are currently fearing for the future of our business, and it also means that kids are missing out again.\"", "Det Ch Insp John Caldwell has been involved in high-profile investigations into dissident republican attacks\n\nDet Ch Insp John Caldwell, who was shot in Omagh in County Tyrone, is one of the best-known detectives in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nHe has been the senior detective in many high-profile inquiries, including the 2011 murder of his colleague Ronan Kerr by dissident republicans.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell was shot multiple times after coaching young people at football on Wednesday night.\n\nHe was putting balls in the back of his car and was accompanied by his son.\n\nThe off-duty police officer had just finished coaching an under-15s football team from Beragh Swifts FC when the attack happened.\n\nRicky Lyons, chairman of the football club, said Det Ch Insp Caldwell was a good man who had played a central role in the club as a volunteer.\n\n\"He cares for the community, he gives back to the community and if that is in you it is in you,\" he said.\n\n\"No matter how busy life is if that's what you want to do that's what you will do and certainly that's what John has done for us.\"\n\nThe football club organised a walk in support of Det Ch Insp Caldwell on Saturday, following the shooting.\n\nThe route from Beragh Swifts FC to Beragh Red Knights GAA club was short but significant - Constable Kerr was a member of the GAA club when he was murdered in 2011.\n\nStephen Brown who attended the walk and knew the senior detective on a personal and a community level said he had touched many people's lives.\n\nBeragh Red Knights GAA club coach Celine Curran said the attack on Det Ch Insp Caldwell had affected the whole community in Beragh.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell, who has been a police officer for 26 years and who is from County Tyrone, often fronts press conferences in the course of major inquiries.\n\nHe had received a number of threats in the past, BBC News NI understands.\n\nHe was aware his investigations relating to dissident republican attacks - including the killing of Lyra McKee in 2019 - made him a high-profile target.\n\nIn January, he spoke to reporters after the killing of Shane Whitla, a 39-year-old father of four who was shot a number of times in the town of Lurgan in County Armagh.\n\nThree men have since been charged with murdering Mr Whitla.\n\nHe was also the initial lead detective investigating the killing of Natalie McNally in Lurgan.\n\nMs McNally, who was 32, was 15 weeks pregnant and was stabbed a number of times at her home on 18 December.\n\nOne man has been charged with the murder of Ms McNally.\n\nThe shooting happened at a sports complex in Omagh\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell was also involved in investigating the murder of Mark Lovell, 58, who was shot a number of times at close range in his car in Newry in County Down on 1 December.\n\nThere have been several attempts to kill PSNI officers in the past few years - most recently when a patrol vehicle was targeted in a roadside bomb attack in Strabane in November.\n\nThe last officer to be killed in the line of duty was Constable Kerr on 2 April 2011.\n\nIn 2021, on the 10th anniversary of his murder in a booby-trap car bomb in County Tyrone, Det Ch Insp Caldwell issued a fresh appeal for information,\n\n\"Despicably, people living in his own community planned and plotted to kill him simply because he was a police officer bravely going out every day to protect people and make communities safer places to live and work,\" he said.\n\n\"No-one deserves to be murdered because of how they earn their respectable living.\"\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said Det Ch Insp Caldwell was \"a father, husband and colleague, and a valued and active member of his local community\".\n\n\"John is held in the highest esteem within our organisation,\" he added.\n\n\"He is a credit to his family and to the police service.\"", "The inflation figure gives us an idea of how fast the cost of living is rising in the UK but here are a few things you might not know.\n\n1. Inflation is falling - so prices are still going up, just not as quickly\n\nPrices are still rising quite sharply compared to a year ago, just at a slower rate than they have been. Prices are still likely to keep going up over the next few months, but not at the rate that has caused such a shock to households and businesses across the country over the last year.\n\n2. Your costs might be rising even faster\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) which calculates inflation, bases its numbers on a basket of goods that reflects what most people across the UK are buying.\n\nSo if you are buying a lot of unusual or niche items, or you have atypical tastes, you might find the cost of your own bag of shopping is going up more quickly - or more slowly - than the headlines suggest.\n\nWhile this might be difficult to believe right now, falling prices aren't always a good thing - here's why. If people expect that prices are likely to fall, they delay spending with the aim of getting a cheaper deal later on.\n\nThat means businesses have less money coming in, so they try to find ways to cut costs - most likely by cutting wages or laying off staff.\n\nSo prices falling can mean people lose their jobs, which in turn makes prices fall further. This is called \"deflation\", a different kind of economic crisis that brings its own set of problems.", "Baroness Falkner is the head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission\n\nThe head of Britain's equality watchdog is being investigated after bullying and discrimination allegations were made by staff.\n\nThe claims against Baroness Falkner, and other members of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) board, were seen by Channel 4 News.\n\nBaroness Falkner said she will present a \"detailed rebuttal\" to the investigators working on the case.\n\nSome campaigners say the EHRC is not protecting transgender rights.\n\nLast year campaigners called for the EHRC's status as an independent group to be revoked over a row about its response to Scotland's plans to make it easier for people to change their sex on their birth certificate.\n\nFurther tensions have since emerged after Baroness Falkner advised the UK government that it was worth considering redefining sex as \"biological sex\" in the Equality Act, in an area that she described as \"polarised and contentious\".\n\nA clarification to the Equality Act could make it easier to exclude transgender people from single-sex spaces.\n\nEarlier this month, 30 LGBTQ+ charities led by Stonewall wrote to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, saying the EHRC was a \"failed institution\" and \"set on a course that would lead directly to a rolling back of trans people's rights in Great Britain\".\n\nDetails of the allegations have not been shared by the watchdog, but Channel 4 News reported on Tuesday that some staff had said:\n\nChannel 4 News also reported that two in five LGBT staff left the EHRC last year.\n\nBaroness Falkner said she took the allegations \"very seriously and with humility\" and would be co-operating fully.\n\n\"I have worked my whole life to promote the principles of equality and human rights, which are close to my heart as a British-Pakistani woman in public life,\" she said.\n\n\"I try to live those values, as well as to promote them.\"\n\nBaroness Falkner said she has not yet been interviewed for the investigation, but intends to present a \"detailed rebuttal\" and has \"every confidence in being exonerated\".\n\nEHRC chief executive, Marcial Boo, said he would not comment on specifics while the investigation was ongoing, but added that the watchdog would \"continue to protect the rights of everyone in Britain, including those with the protected characteristics of sex and gender reassignment\".\n\n\"We treat allegations of bullying and harassment with the utmost seriousness.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said it was aware of the internal investigation and it would be inappropriate to comment until it is completed.", "Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died in a bike crash on Monday\n\nPolice have confirmed for the first time that officers were following two boys whose deaths just minutes later sparked a riot in Cardiff.\n\nHarvey Evans, 15, and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, died in the Ely area on Monday.\n\nPolice and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael initially said police did not chase the boys but CCTV showed their electric bike was followed by police.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Bacon would not answer questions about it at a press conference on Wednesday.\n\nShe said the South Wales Police officers' van was on Grand Avenue when the fatal crash happened on Snowden Road, about half a mile away.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy Chief Constable Rachel Bacon would not answer questions about CCTV\n\nMs Bacon said only the bike was involved in the fatal crash, but would not comment on why police were spotted following the teenagers on CCTV, citing the ongoing police watchdog investigation.\n\nShe told a press conference: \"I want to be as transparent and open as I can with the communities of Ely so they understand what has happened.\n\n\"I've set out the timeline based on the factual information that we have.\n\n\"But the IOPC are conducting an independent investigation on whether any pursuit has taken place so I can't fully answer your question today.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said it had sent investigators to attend the police post-incident procedures and had obtained initial accounts from key police witnesses.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said he felt \"profound sorrow\" for the two teens, as well as the wider \"utterly decent hardworking\" people of Ely.\n\nHe also said the police had questions to answer and there was \"repair work to be done\" on their relationship with the community.\n\nMs Bacon laid out a timeline of events and said the crash, which killed the two best friends, took place half a mile away from the police vehicle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What the CCTV tells us about teens' final moments\n\nHarvey and Kyrees' deaths sparked a riot which saw cars set alight, fireworks thrown at police and 15 officers injured.\n\nSome residents claimed that the boys were being chased by police when they were killed in the crash.\n\nMr Michael initially said officers had not been chasing the teenagers when they died, but at Wednesday's press conference, Ms Bacon said officers were following the boys.\n\nShe added that she was aware of concerns about the timeline of events, including CCTV footage.\n\nAn upturned car burns amid disorder in the Cardiff district of Ely\n\nShe outlined the timeline from when the boys' bike first travelled towards the police vehicle on Frank Road at 17:59, to the crash which happened about two minutes later.\n\n\"I've been really clear that I've given you factual and accurate information,\" she added when quizzed over whether BBC footage contradicted her timeline of events.\n\n\"The situation yesterday morning was still very unclear. I've explained to you the huge amount of work that has had to be undertaken to get to the point where we are.\n\n\"I would have wanted to speak to our communities sooner and I haven't been able to because we haven't had that level of information.\"\n\nThe police have said that, in the minute or so before the crash took place, they turned into a main road and were half a mile away from the scene of the crash on Snowden Road.\n\nThe only reason why they didn't continue on the road towards where the crash took place is because there are bollards between Stanway Road and Snowden Road.\n\nSo, the police were on the main road and they are correct: They were not behind the boys, they weren't in the area where the crash took place.\n\nBut the only reason they weren't there is because they knew they couldn't follow the boys any further because the road was blocked.\n\nThis is a force under pressure.\n\nSouth Wales Police referred itself to the IOPC and did that after the BBC had put out new footage that showed the police were following the two boys before the crash.\n\nA car with its windows smashed on Snowden Road in Ely\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating the incident - the reason which Ms Bacon said was why she could not comment.\n\nUp to 150 people gathered in Ely after the boys' deaths and rioters threw fireworks at police and set cars alight.\n\nThe aftermath was described as a \"warzone\" by a BBC reporter at the scene.\n\nMany tributes to the two boys have been left in Ely\n\nTributes have since been stamped to lampposts and laid out across the street.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, Harvey's mum said: \"He lived life to the full, he had a big heart and deep down he truly cared.\"\n\nKyrees's family described him as \"a loving, caring, handsome young man\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRon DeSantis's long-awaited entry into the 2024 race for the White House was hit by technical glitches after a Twitter livestream malfunctioned.\n\nIt meant the Florida governor's bid for the Republican presidential nomination got under way 20 minutes late.\n\nHe went on to use the event to champion his conservative credentials, his anti-lockdown stance and education reforms.\n\n\"I am running for president of the United States to lead our great American comeback,\" he said.\n\nThe Florida governor is viewed as former President Donald Trump's chief rival to be their party's candidate in the 2024 general election.\n\nMr DeSantis is a relative newcomer in US politics, having first been elected to the House of Representatives in 2012. Just six years later in 2018 - after a failed bid to become a senator - he was elected governor of Florida.\n\nHe has overseen the enactment of high-profile laws that make it easier to own a gun, restrict sex and gender identity education in schools, and curtail abortion access.\n\nHe has claimed that this \"Florida Blueprint\" can act as a guide for federal policies, one that would move the US in a sharply conservative direction.\n\nHe joins a growing list of contenders seeking to unseat Mr Trump, who leads the Republican field by more than 30 points in national opinion polls.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBy the time Wednesday evening's Twitter talk had begun in earnest, hundreds of thousands of Twitter users had left the platform.\n\nSince Mr Musk took the reins at Twitter in October, he has laid off thousands of employees, including engineers responsible for the site's operations and technical troubleshooting.\n\nMr DeSantis's team worked quickly to spin the technical stumbles, writing on Twitter that the announcement had broken \"the internet with so much excitement\", and posting a link to the campaign website.\n\nHis press secretary Bryan Griffin claimed the online event had raised $1m (£808,000) in an hour.\n\nAt one point, the Twitter event drew more than 600,000 listeners, according to Reuters news agency figures, but by its conclusion, there were fewer than 300,000. The BBC's interview with Elon Musk last month drew more than three million listeners on Twitter Spaces.\n\nOnce under way, Mr DeSantis turned the conversation to his conservative credentials, touting his handling of the Covid-19 crisis in his state - an anti-lockdown approach applauded by many Republicans.\n\nHe defended his reforms of Florida's education system, saying his state \"chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination, law and order over rioting and disorder\".\n\nLater, speaking on Fox News, Mr DeSantis outlined more specific pledges including declaring an emergency at the country's southern border on day one in the White House. He also pledged to fire FBI Director Christopher Wray, a Trump appointee, and slash President Joe Biden's \"anti-American energy policies\".\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Mr DeSantis confirmed he would seek the Republican presidential nomination, registering with the Federal Election Commission before releasing a stylised announcement video.\n\n\"Our border is a disaster, crime infests our cities... and the president flounders,\" he says in the video. \"But decline is a choice, success is attainable, and freedom is worth fighting for.\"\n\nMr Trump and his campaign greeted Mr DeSantis's much anticipated arrival into the 2024 field with a barrage of emails and posts to Truth Social, the former president's social media platform.\n\nSoon after the governor told Mr Musk he would study the US Constitution to \"see what buttons can I push\" to invoke executive authority, Mr Trump released a statement addressing Mr DeSantis directly.\n\n\"'Rob,' My Red Button is bigger, better, stronger, and is working (TRUTH!), yours does not! (per my conversation with Kim Jung Un, of North Korea, soon to become my friend!),\" Mr Trump wrote.\n\nThe latest survey from Morning Consult - published last week, before Mr DeSantis's announcement - has him a distant second behind Mr Trump, with a 38-point margin.\n\nThrough a lengthy primary process beginning early next year, Republican voters will decide which candidate will face President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the November 2024 general election.\n\nAnd Florida's last legislative session cleared a potential \"resign-to-run\" hurdle for Mr DeSantis's candidacy after it passed a bill that ensures he does not have to leave the governor's mansion to run for the presidency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Five things to know about Ron DeSantis\n\nMr DeSantis will also have the benefit of a formidable war chest. At the end of last month, he had $88m (£71m) in a fund left over from his Florida re-election campaign that can be transferred to his White House bid.\n\nHe also reportedly has about $30m controlled by an independent committee that his allies can use to support his campaign.\n\nMr Trump, by contrast, reported a combined $18.8m in fundraising over the first three months of 2023.\n\nMr DeSantis is expected to tap Generra Peck to serve as his campaign manager. Ms Peck, Mr DeSantis's top political adviser, led the daily operations of the governor's 2022 re-election campaign, guiding him to a nearly 20-point victory.\n\nAnd hiring is already under way for DeSantis campaign bases in at least 18 states, according to reporting from the Associated Press and the New York Times.", "Honda is to return to Formula 1 in a formal capacity in 2026 as engine partner for the Aston Martin team.\n\nThe company officially pulled out of F1 at the end of 2021 but its engines are still used by the two Red Bull teams and are called Hondas again in 2023.\n\nHonda said on Wednesday that F1's pursuit of carbon-neutrality by 2030 was the \"key factor\" behind its decision to re-enter officially.\n\nNew rules for 2026 will increase the electrical performance of F1 engines.\n\nThe sport's governing body the FIA is mandating the use of fully sustainable synthetic fuels at the same time.\n\nHonda Racing Corporation president Koji Watanabe said: \"In pursuit of its goal in achieving carbon neutrality by 2030, starting in the 2026 season the FIA will mandate the use of 100% carbon-neutral fuel and the deployment of electrical power will be increased significantly by three times from the current regulations.\n\n\"With this massive increase in electrical power, the key to winning in F1 will be a compact, lightweight and high-power motor with a high-performance battery that is capable of swiftly handling high power output as well as the energy-management technology.\n\n\"We believe this know-how gained from this new challenge has the potential to be applied directly to a future mass-production electric vehicle.\"\n\nWhat is behind Honda's change of approach?\n\nF1 has used hybrid engines since 2014 but the new rules will make significant changes in their layout.\n\nThe biggest is the removal of the MGU-H, the part of the hybrid system that recovers energy from the turbo, and a significant increase in the proportion of hybrid power in the engine's power output.\n\nWatanabe said: \"Currently, the electrical power accounts for 20% or less compared to the internal combustion engine.\n\n\"But the new regulations require about 50% or more of electrification, which moves even further toward electrification and I believe the technology for electrification will be useful for us in producing vehicles in the future.\"\n\nThe use of carbon-neutral fuels and their integration into the engine, he said, also \"matches with Honda's direction\".\n\nWatanabe said the extension of F1's cost cap to cover engines was also a factor in the decision as it made \"long-term and continuous participation in F1 easier\".\n\nWhy not continue with Red Bull?\n\nHonda has won the past two drivers' championships with Red Bull and Max Verstappen and added the constructors' title last season. The pairing is well on course to repeat its title double in 2023. Red Bull have dominated the start of the season, winning all five races so far.\n\nRed Bull has decided to build its own engine for 2026, and has formed a partnership with US giant Ford to invest in and badge the power-unit.\n\nAston Martin, who finished seventh in the championship last year, have made a huge step forward in competitiveness in 2023 and lie second in the constructors' championship behind Red Bull before this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix.\n\nTheir driver Fernando Alonso is third in the drivers' championship, behind Verstappen and his team-mate Sergio Perez.\n\nAston Martin's progress has come after a major investment and restructuring programme in the past five years that includes the building of a new factory, which is scheduled to open before the end of this month. A new wind tunnel is also under construction and set for completion late in 2024.\n\nWatanabe said that Honda and Aston Martin's F1 team \"share the same spirit\".\n\nMartin Whitmarsh, the group chief executive officer of Aston Martin Performance Technologies, said: \"Aston Martin is building a team to win in F1. We have been recruiting the right people and investing in the required facilities and developing the right culture and processes to win.\n\n\"To partner a global motorsport titan like Honda is an extremely exciting and important further step for the team. Both organisations share the same relentless ambition to succeed on track. We are very proud, honoured and grateful to put in place this partnership.\"\n\nWhitmarsh, who was instrumental in bringing about Honda's return to F1 in 2015 when he was chief executive and team principal of McLaren, added that \"2026 will require full integration of chassis and power-unit that only a full works team delivers\".\n\nHe added: \"It's very clear from what we've seen from Honda and our recent learnings, they have a huge passion, they want to win, that is what they want to do, and that is our goal. We are already confident this is going be a fantastic partnership for the future.\"\n\nThe partnership will mean the end of Aston Martin's arrangement with Mercedes, from whom the team buy a large part of the rear of their car, including engine, gearbox and suspension.\n\nWhitmarsh admitted that taking on the manufacture of the gearbox and suspension was \"a big challenge but an essential one for us in stepping up\".\n\nWatanabe said that Honda had no plans to supply any other teams \"for the moment\".\n\nAlonso joined McLaren in 2015 to be part of the Honda project but the team and engine company split after three uncompetitive years. In that time, Alonso's relationship with Honda frayed, partly because of some public criticisms of the engine by the two-time champion.\n\nBut Watanabe said that driver choices would be \"fully up to the team\" and Honda had \"no objection\" to working with Alonso again.\n\nAlonso is in the first season of a two-year deal with Aston Martin. He turns 42 in July and would be 44 by the start of Honda's partnership with the team.\n\nWhitmarsh said: \"Honda are a very great partner for us. Fernando sees that. Probably 2026 is outside his planning horizon at the moment. We have to give him a car that can consistently win races.\n\n\"We have made a reasonable step forward. We are not yet where we need to be but we will get stronger. We will have a discussion before 2026, I'm sure, about where Fernando's future lies.\n\n\"I hope he'll be around for a number of years and it'd be great if he's as fit and competitive as he is today. Then it would be fantastic to have him in the car in 2026 as well.\"\n• None Will Wrexham get to the Premier League? A heartwarming look back at the history of the football club now owned by two Hollywood actors\n• None Can you put ten British monarchs into the correct order? Test your memory with this fun challenge", "A woman hit by a police motorcycle escorting Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, through London has died.\n\nThe family of 81-year-old Helen Holland, from Birchanger in Essex, said she fought \"for her life for nearly two weeks... but irreversible damage to her brain finally ended the battle\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duchess was \"deeply saddened\" and sent her \"deepest condolences\" to all the family.\n\nThe police watchdog is investigating the crash.\n\nMs Holland had been in London visiting her sister when she was struck at the junction of West Cromwell Road and Warwick Road in Earl's Court on 10 May.\n\nFollowing the crash, her family said she was in a coma, and on Friday the police said she remained in a critical condition.\n\nAnnouncing her death, her son, Martin Holland, said his mother had died after \"suffering multiple broken bones and massive internal injuries\".\n\nSophie, who is married to the King's youngest brother, will get in touch privately with Ms Holland's family.\n\nShe gained the title of Duchess of Edinburgh when her husband Prince Edward took on a new role in March.\n\nSophie is deeply saddened by Helen Holland's death, the palace says\n\nChief Supt Richard Smith, head of the Metropolitan Police's Royalty and Specialist Protection Unit, said the \"tragic outcome is being felt by colleagues across the Met\" and \"thoughts are very much with the woman's family and loved ones\".\n\n\"Officers know that their actions, both on and off duty, are open to scrutiny and following our referral of the incident, the IOPC launched an independent investigation - we continue to co-operate with and support that inquiry,\" he said.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which investigates the most serious incidents involving officers, said its inquiry was \"at an early stage\".\n\nIt issued a witness appeal last week and said it \"would still like to hear from anyone who saw or recorded any part of this incident who is yet to speak to us\".\n\nThe watchdog also said it had been in touch with Ms Holland's family to explain its role and would keep them updated on the investigation.\n\nThe duchess has recently returned from a two-day visit to Iraq's capital Baghdad where she met the country's leaders and visited a girls' school to hear from pupils about their education.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "A project to bring the native oyster back to the waters around Northern Ireland has taken another step forward.\n\nUlster Wildlife has been working on a second nursery for the molluscs.\n\nMore than 800 oysters were brought over from Scotland and have been settling into Glenarm Marina for almost two months.\n\nVolunteers from Ulster Wildlife painstakingly scrubbed and checked each of the shellfish to ensure biosecurity was protected.\n\nSome 800 oysters were brought to Glenarma Marina from Scotland\n\nThe oysters were then placed in 30 cages which have been lowered into the water off the jetties.\n\nThey will spawn and release up to 800m larvae every year to form reefs in Glenarm Bay.\n\nAnd they can change sex to ensure there is always the correct ratio of males to females to support reproduction.\n\nNative oysters are one of the most imperilled habitats on Earth\n\nBut restoring the oyster population is only half the story, according to Ulster Wildlife senior conservation officer Dave Smyth.\n\n\"It's really the habitat we're after,\" he said.\n\n\"Saving the oyster is part of creating the habitat. So for example, one oyster on its own can accommodate over 100 species on its shell. So if you have a reef of oysters, you can imagine the sort of life that that'll attract.\"\n\nDave Smyth said they want to save the habitat as much as the oysters\n\nMid and East Antrim Council manages the marina where the nursery has been installed and its mayor, Alderman Noel Williams of the Alliance Party, welcomed the project.\n\n\"We are thrilled to be playing our part in restoring this endangered native species.\n\n\"Nestled at the bottom of the Glens of Antrim, Glenarm Marina is the perfect spot to help revive native oysters.\n\n\"As well as increasing water clarity and quality, the project will also deliver enhanced biodiversity and provide rich cultural value to the area,\" he added.\n\nChildren from Seaview Integrated Primary School in Glenarm helped measure the oysters\n\nNative oysters are one of the most imperilled habitats on Earth. It is estimated that reefs have declined by 95% since the 19th century.\n\nWith each oyster potentially filtering as much as eight litres of water an hour, they also improve water quality and are something of an environmental odd-jobs worker.\n\n\"They have a lot of other additional ecosystem services whereby they can change or fix things within the environment,\" said Dave Smyth.\n\n\"One example is, they can actually filter microplastics out over their gills. They'll expel those wrapped in a mucus ball which will end up locked up into the sediment of the seabed.\n\n\"This is a win-win for nature, restoring oysters creates healthier and more resilient seas and their reefs store carbon - crucial if we are to tackle the nature and climate crisis,\" he added.\n\nThe children examined the oysters using a microscope", "Quote Message: I think DeSantis has done a stellar job in Florida and has proven to be a great leader as seen during the pandemic. I live in California where Governor Newsom is just the polar opposite. I love DeSantis's educational background - Yale undergrad and Harvard Law, you can't beat that. He is certainly qualified - and has military service, too. I believe Trump should be worried - all my friends now like DeSantis. The only thing that worries me is that DeSantis is moving too conservative regarding abortion rights to get the independent vote. Florida recently went from a 15-week abortion ban to just six weeks - that will lose a lot of independent women voters right there.\n\nI think DeSantis has done a stellar job in Florida and has proven to be a great leader as seen during the pandemic. I live in California where Governor Newsom is just the polar opposite. I love DeSantis's educational background - Yale undergrad and Harvard Law, you can't beat that. He is certainly qualified - and has military service, too. I believe Trump should be worried - all my friends now like DeSantis. The only thing that worries me is that DeSantis is moving too conservative regarding abortion rights to get the independent vote. Florida recently went from a 15-week abortion ban to just six weeks - that will lose a lot of independent women voters right there.", "Chris Heaton-Harris set Northern Ireland departmental budgets in the continued absence of an Executive\n\nThe Police Federation has accused the Northern Ireland secretary of being uncaring about the PSNI's financial problems.\n\nHe declined an invite to its annual conference and two requests for meetings.\n\nIt said his failure to meet was testament to an \"out-of-touch UK government and secretary of state who seemingly couldn't care less\".\n\nThe federation is holding its conference in Limavady.\n\nIt also criticised \"stop-start\" government at Stormont and said collapsing the executive is like \"throwing the toys out of the pram\".\n\nThe event has been taking place at a time when the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) voiced grave concerns about budget pressures which have resulted in fewer officers.\n\nLast month, the Policing Board was told that a £140m black hole meant more savings would have to be found, including a further reduction in officer numbers.\n\nIt currently represents 6,700 officers, the lowest number since the PSNI was formed in 2001.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a functioning government since February 2022, when the DUP walked out of the first minister's role in protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nSinn Féin won the largest number of seats in last year's assembly election, but no new power-sharing executive could be formed due to the DUP's ongoing boycott.\n\nIn a speech at the conference, the chair of the federation, Liam Kelly, was strongly critical of Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris, the man who set Northern Ireland departmental budgets in the continued absence of an Executive.\n\nLiam Kelly said that two requests for meetings to discuss police finances with the Secretary of State were also declined\n\nPolicing is a devolved matter and the PSNI receives the vast majority of its £750m funding from the Department of Justice.\n\nMr Kelly said the federation had received a \"thanks-but-no-thanks\" reply to his invitation.\n\nHe added that two requests for meetings to discuss police finances with Mr Heaton-Harris had also been declined.\n\n\"It is a real pity he is not here because I would have liked him to hear at first hand of disappointments, frustrations and anger,\" Mr Kelly told the conference.\n\nHe said the PSNI was being treated \"shoddily\" compared to forces in England and Wales where officer numbers have risen.\n\nHe went on to claim that the track record of Northern Ireland politicians \"is every bit as disappointing\" and that policing is \"way down\" the list of priorities.\n\nMr Kelly said Stormont \"is not working\".\n\nPointing to the collapse of devolution, he added: \"There has to be a better way of sorting out difficulties over the Northern Ireland Protocol, and before that crises such as RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive scheme), without throwing the toys out of the pram.\n\n\"Selective withdrawals from the Executive can no longer be tolerated.\n\n\"If it means going back to the drawing board to remove vetoes then so be it.\"\n\nIn response a Northern Ireland Office spokesperson said: \"Policing in NI, and police funding, are primarily devolved matters. It is for the devolved administration to determine the allocation of funding to the PSNI from the Northern Ireland Executive (NIE) block grant. The prioritisation of police resourcing is the responsibility of the Department of Justice, working with the wider NIE.\"", "The official House Price Index saw a 1.8% decline compared to the final quarter of 2022 giving an average price of £172,000\n\nHouse prices in Northern Ireland saw their second consecutive quarterly fall in the first quarter of 2023.\n\nThe official House Price Index saw a 1.8% decline compared to the final quarter of 2022 giving an average price of £172,000.\n\nHowever, prices were still 5% higher when compared with the first quarter of 2022.\n\nA weakening housing market had been expected following the continued rise in interest rates.\n\nData from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) had earlier shown a significant drop in the number of houses being sold in NI since the end of last year.\n\nThe biggest quarterly fall was in the Ards and North Down council district with prices down by almost 5%.\n\nOnly Causeway Coast and Glens saw a price increase, up by 0.7%.\n\nHouse prices in Northern Ireland rose steadily throughout the pandemic and its aftermath and are still more than 20% higher than at the start of 2020.\n\nThe market was exceptionally busy in 2021 with more than 30,000 transactions but returned to a more normal level in 2022 with about 25,000 transactions.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK inflation rate fell from 10.1% in March to 8.7%.", "You hear occasional grumbles about repeats on the BBC.\n\nWell, here's another one.\n\nIt involves Boris Johnson, Covid-19 rules and the police.\n\nOne set of taxpayer-funded lawyers working for Mr Johnson - preparing him for the public inquiry into the pandemic - has come across diary entries from his time as prime minister that they felt were worthy of further investigation.\n\nAnother set of taxpayer-funded lawyers working for Mr Johnson - in this case on his response to Parliament's Privileges Committee, which is examining if he recklessly or intentionally misled MPs over lockdown parties in Downing Street - tell him, he says, he has done nothing unlawful.\n\nAnd this being Boris Johnson, we have a row in capital letters and primary colours.\n\nA threat from his team to sue the government.\n\nAnd one insider describing his claim that what has happened has \"all the hallmarks of a politically motivated stitch up\" as \"Trumpian\".\n\nOn what basis might Mr Johnson sue, and how likely is it?\n\nAs things stand, I'd say it's pretty unlikely.\n\nThe former prime minister is particularly aggrieved at the prospect of the Cabinet Office having suggested in writing that events in Downing Street and at Chequers during Covid restrictions were unlawful.\n\nIf this were confirmed, his team have indicated they would consider all legal options.\n\nBut government sources say there was no such claim from the Cabinet Office.\n\nThey merely passed on what was described to be as the \"raw data\" - the diary entries.\n\nAs for Mr Johnson himself, will we hear from him in Parliament today, defending himself?\n\nHe is part of what is described as a \"power-packed line up\" at the Scale Global Summit in Las Vegas, which I hazard a guess is a more lucrative venture than a day on the green benches in Westminster.\n\nAs for the current prime minister, Rishi Sunak, he is an observer to all this, pretty much like the rest of us.\n\nDowning Street, I'm told, was only informed once the Cabinet Office had contacted the police.\n\nBut, from Mr Sunak's perspective, what all this does do is dredge up, yet again, the stench of chaos which contributed to the Conservatives taking such a hammering in the opinion polls last year.\n\nAnd Mr Sunak - keen as he is to demonstrate he represents a clean break from all that - is, of course, hitched to the Tory brand.", "A photo of Turner adorned with flowers on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles Image caption: A photo of Turner adorned with flowers on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles\n\n... Which we're drawing to a close shortly. We've been taking in the reaction to the death in Switzerland of Tina Turner. The multiple Grammy Award-winning star was 83.\n\nFrom the Obamas to Oprah, Beyoncé to Brian Wilson, numerous big names have been celebrating the life of the late soul star. Many quoted one of her top hits back to her, saying she was \"simply the best\".\n\nAs well as saluting her musical achievements, others paid tribute to her escape from an abusive relationship. As Mariah Carey put it, she was a \"survivor and an inspiration to women everywhere\".\n\nYou can find our full writeup of the tributes here. As for where else to head next, why not check out Tina Turner's life in pictures, or dive into her top 10 songs and the stories behind them?\n\nOr revisit her 2018 BBC interview in which she recalled her experiences of domestic abuse.\n\nThis page was the work of Nathan Williams, Alys Davies, Malu Cursino, Helen Bushby, Ian Youngs, Aoife Walsh, Jasmine Andersson, Frances Mao, Derek Cai, Patrick Jackson and me.", "Kyrees (left) and Harvey were best friends, their families said\n\nFamilies of two teenagers who died in the electric bike crash which sparked a riot in Cardiff have said the pair were best friends.\n\nHarvey Evans, 15, and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, died on Monday evening in the Ely area of the city and soon after riots broke out, with cars set alight.\n\nHarvey's mum said: \"He lived life to the full, he had a big heart and deep down he truly cared.\"\n\nKyrees's family described him as \"a loving, caring handsome young man\".\n\nIn the minutes before the crash, which happened shortly after 18:00 BST on Monday, CCTV footage appeared to show a police van following two people on a bike.\n\nSouth Wales' Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael has since insisted the two teenagers were not being chased by police when they were killed in the bike crash.\n\nHe denied being misinformed when he claimed on Tuesday morning that no police chase had occurred.\n\nAt a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, South Wales Police's Deputy Chief Constable Rachel Bacon said the force's van was on Grand Avenue at the time of the crash, which happened about a mile away on Snowden Avenue.\n\nThe police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), has announced it will independently investigate the incident.\n\nHarvey (left) and Kyrees died on Monday evening in the Ely area of Cardiff\n\nHarvey's family said he was \"a best friend to Kyrees, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family also\".\n\n\"We ask for peace within the community and request that people leave the investigation to the police so we can get the answers we so desperately need to lay Harvey to rest.\n\n\"As Harvey's mum, I want to remember our son as the fun and loving son that he was and not as the media are portraying him now.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What the CCTV tells us about teens' final moments\n\nThe tribute from Kyrees's family added: \"He was loved so much by his grandparents and aunties and uncles and his many cousins.\n\n\"Him and Harvey, along with Niall, were best friends since they were young and went everywhere together, they both had so many friends and were very well liked doing many things together, having fun and laughs.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police said it was investigating the circumstances leading up to their deaths and the unrest that followed.\n\nCars were set alight and fireworks thrown at police during the rioting that followed the deaths\n\nThat saw cars set alight and fireworks thrown at police as more than 100 people gathered following the crash.\n\nFifteen officers were injured, with 11 needing hospital treatment, the force said.\n\nFlowers have been laid near where the boys died in the crash\n\nAfter the CCTV footage circulated, South Wales Police said it was \"studying\" the video and police vehicle tracking data, adding there were \"no police vehicles on Snowden Road\" at the time of the crash.\n\nThe CCTV footage, which has been analysed by BBC Verify, is time-stamped to 17:59 on Monday on Frank Road.", "There are thought to be only around 70,000 kiwi left in New Zealand and, consequently, the world\n\nA US zoo has apologised for mistreating a kiwi, after footage of visitors patting the nocturnal bird under bright lights caused outrage in New Zealand.\n\nZoo Miami said it was \"deeply sorry\" about the incident, which occurred during a paid animal encounter between the kiwi and zoo guests.\n\nThe kiwi encounter has since been removed from the zoo's offerings.\n\nPāora was hatched in Zoo Miami in 2019 as part of a breeding programme aimed at ensuring the kiwi species' survival.\n\nConsidered a national icon in New Zealand, the flightless kiwi bird is symbolic of the country's unique natural heritage and the basis for the nickname applied to its people.\n\nIn videos which went viral on social media on Tuesday, Pāora looked visibly agitated as guests patted him under the lights, and the bird tried to retreat into darkness at times.\n\nThe uproar in New Zealand was swift and widespread, prompting an online petition and comments from Prime Minister Chris Hipkins who thanked the zoo for taking public concerns seriously.\n\n\"They've acknowledged what they were doing wasn't appropriate, or wasn't right, or wasn't fair, to the kiwi,\" Mr Hipkins told a press conference.\n\nA zoo spokesman told broadcaster Radio NZ that the paid visitor encounter had been \"not well conceived\", adding \"we were wrong\".\n\n\"We give you our word that the public will never handle Pāora again,\" said communications director Ron Magill.\n\nPāora is usually kept out of public view, according to Zoo Miami, which says plans are \"under way\" to build a special habitat that will provide him the shelter he needs, while also teaching guests \"about the amazing kiwi without any direct contact\".\n\nKiwi are endangered, with only around 70,000 of the birds left in New Zealand and, therefore, in the world, according the country's Department of Conservation (Doc).\n\nIt is incredibly rare for kiwi to be kept in captivity, with conservation efforts in New Zealand focussed on preserving their natural habitats from predators.\n\nDoc said it would discuss Tuesday's incident involving Pāora with the US Association of Zoos and Aquariums to \"address some of the housing and handling concerns raised\".", "Jill Barclay's body was discovered in Aberdeen last year\n\nA man has been jailed for at least 24 years for the rape and murder of a woman as she walked home in Aberdeen.\n\nMother-of-two Jill Barclay, 47, was attacked and burned alive. Her body was found in a street in the Dyce area of the city in September last year.\n\nRhys Bennett, 23, admitted the crimes, which a judge described as \"wicked and medieval in their barbarity\".\n\nMs Barclay's family said she had been \"a deeply loved life partner, mother and daughter\".\n\nThe High Court in Edinburgh heard that Bennett did not know her before the attack.\n\nProsecutor Lorraine Glancy KC told the court that Ms Barclay was walking home from the Spider's Web pub and that Bennett, from Ballingry in Fife, followed her.\n\nHe brutally attacked and raped her in the grounds of an empty property at Farburn Gatehouse.\n\nBennett then left her badly injured at the scene and returned shortly after in his van. He poured a can of petrol on her and set her alight.\n\nMs Barclay, who worked for energy services firm Petrofac, was found dead in the street near to the Marriot Hotel, at about 03:30 on 17 September.\n\nRhys Bennett's attack was described as \"unimaginably wicked\"\n\nThe court heard that a dog walker had been nearby at the time of the attack.\n\nMs Glancy said: \"He heard a high pitched scream by a female voice followed by her shouting 'no no no'.\n\n\"The scream and shouts came from the direction of the locus. The witness did not make any further investigation and did not contact police at this time.\n\n\"Other witnesses who live in a nearby flat also heard female screams and crying.\"\n\nMs Glancy said forensic evidence suggested Ms Barclay had been alive when she had later been set on fire.\n\nBennett also admitted attempting to defeat the ends of justice by burning the clothes he wore.\n\nJudge Lord Arthurson said the attack had involved \"extreme, sustained and frankly feral violence\".\n\nHe described Bennett's crimes as \"unimaginably wicked and medieval in their barbarity\".\n\n\"You took away her future and the hopes and dreams of her wider family,\" he said.\n\n\"Their lives will never be the same. I have read the most moving and articulate impact statements prepared by Ms Barclay's partner, her elder child and by her mother and aunt.\"\n\nMs Barclay's body was found on a street in Dyce in the early hours of the morning\n\nBennett was also placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.\n\nDefence solicitor advocate Iain McSporran KC said Bennett had no recollection of the events of the evening in question but wanted to admit his guilt.\n\n\"Those who practice in these courts become accustomed to awful cases,\" Mr McSporran said.\n\n\"But I can't think the court has dealt with many cases as awful as this.\"\n\nHundreds of people marched through the streets of Aberdeen in November after the murder.\n\nThey called for action to make city streets safer for women, with more taxis and improved street lighting.\n\nIn a tribute at her funeral, her family said: \"Jill lived a full and happy life, packing more into her 47 years than some do in an entire lifetime.\n\n\"She was struck down in her prime, in an act of unimaginable cruelty.\n\n\"It is outrageous that a woman cannot walk home safely at night.\"\n\nDet Supt Andrew Patrick said it was a senseless crime\n\nHer partner of 20 years - who did not wish to be named - described her as his \"soul mate, the love of his life\".\n\nCity councillor Sandra Macdonald, a member of the Aberdeen Women's Alliance, helped organise the street safety march after Ms Barclay's death.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"I think there was a real reckoning within the city. I do hope out of all of that there will come changes so this never happens again.\n\n\"I think in general Aberdeen is a very safe city to live in. But there are ways we can improve the infrastructure.\"\n\nThe officer who led the inquiry, Det Supt Andrew Patrick, said he hoped the resolution of the case would bring some comfort to family and friends of Ms Barclay.\n\n\"Jill's senseless and brutal murder had a significant impact on the local community in Dyce and throughout the north east,\" he said.\n\n\"Our inquiries, including CCTV analysis, quickly led to Bennett being traced in Fife, where he was arrested and charged later that day.\n\n\"This was a particularly harrowing investigation and it deeply affected everyone involved. I am glad that Bennett will now face the consequences of his depraved and wicked actions.\"", "The official Covid inquiry has threatened the government with legal action if it does not release former PM Boris Johnson's unredacted WhatsApp messages and diary entries.\n\nBut the Cabinet Office has argued some of the material is \"unambiguously irrelevant\" to the inquiry.\n\nDowning Street insisted the government was supplying \"all relevant material\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson will no longer work with government lawyers for the inquiry.\n\nAllies of the former prime minister said he had lost confidence in the Cabinet Office after officials referred him to the police over further potential rule breaches during the pandemic.\n\nCrossbench peer Baroness Hallett, the inquiry's chairwoman, has said a failure to hand over the unredacted material, which also includes Mr Johnson's notebooks containing contemporaneous notes, would be a criminal offence.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the issue related to some documents which were \"clearly irrelevant\", such as personal WhatsApp messages.\n\n\"It's our position that the inquiry does not have the power to compel the government to disclose unambiguously irrelevant material, given the precedent that this would set and its potential adverse impact on policy formulation in the future,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Broness Hallett said passages initially assessed by the Cabinet Office to be irrelevant included discussions between the prime minister and his advisers about the enforcement of Covid regulations by the Metropolitan Police during protests following the murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nShe said those redactions had now been removed but \"it was not a promising start\".\n\nThe Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group said it was \"outrageous that the Cabinet Office think they can dictate to the inquiry which of Boris Johnson's WhatsApp messages they can see\".\n\n\"You really do fear the worst about what they're hiding,\" the group added.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner called on the government to release the unredacted documents so \"those responsible can be held to account\".\n\nThe inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic is due to begin hearings next month.\n\nBoth Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were fined for attending a birthday party in Downing Street\n\nThis week, civil servants referred information to two police forces after reviewing Mr Johnson's official diary as part of documents to be submitted to the public inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic.\n\nMr Johnson was said to be \"livid\" that the material was passed to the police and had lost confidence in the objectivity of the leadership at the Cabinet Office - both ministerial and official.\n\nHe will now appoint new lawyers to represent him at the inquiry, which will be funded by the taxpayer.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said officials had been obliged to disclose the documents under civil service rules.\n\nThe Times, which first reported the story, says Mr Johnson has been referred to Thames Valley police because his ministerial diary revealed visits by family and friends to Chequers - the prime minister's country house in Buckinghamshire - during the pandemic.\n\nBut a spokesman for Mr Johnson has dismissed any claims of rule breaches as a \"politically motivated stitch-up\".\n\n\"The events in question were all within the rules either because they were held outdoors or came within another lawful exception,\" the spokesman said.\n\nDowning Street rejected suggestions Mr Johnson was the victim of a stitch-up, stressing that neither ministers nor the PM were involved in the process and they were only made aware after the police had been contacted.\n\nThames Valley Police said it had \"received a report of potential breaches of the Health Protection Regulations between June 2020 and May 2021 at Chequers, Buckinghamshire\".\n\nThe Met Police released a similar statement but said their information related to potential breaches in Downing Street.\n\nBoth forces say they are assessing the information received but it is understood Mr Johnson has had no contact from the police.\n\nMr Sunak's press secretary said the prime minister \"definitely\" did not go to Chequers in contravention of coronavirus rules when he was chancellor during the pandemic.", "Her stage performances were always energetic\n\nTina Turner's husky contralto and raunchy stage presence made her one of the best-known singers of her generation.\n\nIt was a long and often painful journey from a troubled childhood in rural Tennessee to global stardom.\n\nShe was almost 40 before she broke free from an abusive relationship to establish herself as a solo artist.\n\nBut she went on to record a string of best-selling albums, garner a host of awards, and become one of music's most popular live acts.\n\nTina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on 26 November 1939 in the small rural town of Nutbush, Tennessee. Her father Floyd worked on a local farm.\n\nShe had a disrupted childhood. She and her elder sister Aillene were separated when her parents moved to work in a munitions factory, and the young Anna Mae went to live with strict religious grandparents.\n\nWhen the family were reunited after the war, Anna Mae started singing in a local Baptist church.\n\nHer mother walked out when she was just 11 and, two years later, when her father remarried, Anna and her sister were sent to live with her grandmother in Brownsville, Tennessee.\n\nShe became a cheerleader at her local school, played basketball and enjoyed a hectic social life. On graduating in 1958, she got a job at a hospital in St Louis, Missouri, and set out to become a nurse.\n\nIt was in a nightclub, where she and her sister had gone for the evening, that she first saw Ike Turner perform with his band, The Kings of Rhythm.\n\nIke was already established as a performer and session musician, and his band were one of the biggest attractions on the R&B club circuit.\n\nDuring an interval one night, Anna Mae was offered the microphone - and her performance so impressed him that it led to her being asked to sing with the band.\n\nAt the time, she was in a relationship with the band's saxophonist, Raymond Hill, by whom she had a child, Raymond.\n\nTina Turner finally escaped her first marriage in 1976\n\nShe made her first recording as a backing singer in 1958, but her big chance came two years later on a song called Fool in Love, penned by Turner.\n\nWhen his lead singer, Art Lassiter, failed to show up for the recording, Anna Mae was asked to fill in with the intention that her vocals would later be removed.\n\nBut a DJ who heard the demo was so impressed, he passed it on to a local record label.\n\nIke was encouraged to put his protege in the front of the band and persuaded her to change her name to Tina, a move he later said was designed to prevent former lovers from tracking her down.\n\nFool in Love reached number 27 in the Billboard charts and the follow-up, It's Gonna Work Out Fine, hit the top 20 and won the duo a Grammy.\n\nBy now, she was in a relationship with Ike, who had divorced his fifth wife. The couple finally married in 1962.\n\nThe newly dubbed Ike and Tina Turner Revue went on the road for the best part of three successful years without having the benefit of a hit single to back them up.\n\nTina also made solo appearances on US television in shows like American Bandstand and Shindig.\n\nProducer Phil Spector, impressed by Tina's voice, persuaded her into the studio to record River Deep, Mountain High.\n\nConcerned that Ike, whose controlling tendencies were well known, would try to dominate the recording, Spector paid him to stay away from the studio.\n\nThe record, featuring Spector's famous \"wall of sound\", was credited to Ike and Tina Turner although Tina's was the only voice. It did not initially do well in the US but became a huge hit in the UK.\n\nIt was enough for the Rolling Stones to ask the Revue to back a UK tour, and that led to further European dates and a bigger audience.\n\nWhen the Stones toured the US, the Turners were again asked to support the band, which gained them a performance on the Ed Sullivan Show.\n\nTwo years later, the couple had their biggest American hit single with a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary.\n\nTina Turner as the Acid Queen in Tommy\n\nIn 1973, Tina travelled to London to make a critically acclaimed performance as the Acid Queen in Ken Russell's bombastic film of Pete Townshend's rock opera Tommy.\n\nIn the same year, the duo had their last big hit, Nutbush City Limits - but their personal relationship was on the slide.\n\nBy the mid-70s, Ike was heavily dependent on alcohol and cocaine, and his controlling attitude over his wife's life and career had escalated into physical abuse at home.\n\nHe beat her with a wire coat-hanger shoe stretcher while she was pregnant and burned her with scalding coffee. In July 1976, Tina fled with just a handful of loose change in her purse and spent months hiding with friends while suing Ike for divorce.\n\nTina Turner at home in the 1980s\n\nBacked financially by a friendly record executive, she set out on a series of solo tours that established her as an artist in her own right. She found it difficult at first.\n\n\"A lot of people thought that Tina Turner was history,\" she told German Vogue. \"They only knew Ike and Tina Turner and didn't understand what was going on. So I had to test myself.\"\n\nAfter two albums failed to make the charts, she reinvented herself with a much more gritty sound, which led to gigs with Rod Stewart and another tour with the Rolling Stones\n\nHer 1983 hit Let's Stay Together was the beginning of a career revival. An album, Private Dancer, recorded in London, spawned seven chart hits and launched a major world tour.\n\nShe was back on screen two years later as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and contributed to songs on the film's soundtrack, including the theme song, We Don't Need Another Hero.\n\nIt seemed she could do little wrong as hit followed hit and she played to sell-out tours throughout the 1980s.\n\nSuccess continued through the following decade, including a recording of GoldenEye, the theme song for the first James Bond film to star Pierce Brosnan.\n\nAt the turn of the century, and at the age of 61, she announced she was going into semi-retirement.\n\nTina Turner was hailed as a feminist icon, and, in 2003, attended the Kennedy Center Honours evening where stars such as Oprah Winfrey, Al Green and Beyonce joined President George Bush to pay tribute.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tina Turner spoke frankly about domestic abuse with the BBC's Will Gompertz back in 2018\n\nShe made a comeback in 2008, singing at the Grammy Awards and setting out on tour to celebrate her 50 years as a singer.\n\nDespite the advance of time, her energy seemed undiminished and the voice as strong as ever.\n\nIn 2013, at the age of 73, she became the oldest person ever to feature on the cover of Vogue magazine. \"I will never give in to old age until I'm old,\" she said. \"And I'm not old yet.\"\n\nShe married a record executive, Erwin Bach, after a 27-year relationship, and abandoned her US citizenship to become a citizen of Switzerland.\n\nIn 2020, she released an updated version of What's Love Got to Do with It? It entered the UK top 40, making her the first artist to achieve the feat in seven separate decades.\n\nA year later, Turner sold the rights to her work to BMG Rights management for more than $50m and was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.\n\nBefore she died, Tina Turner found herself the subject of a musical in London's West End that told the story of her incredible life.\n\nShe was once asked what had driven her on through the years of struggle and abuse.\n\n\"I stayed on course from the beginning to the end,\" she said, \"because I believed in something inside of me that told me that it can get better.\"", "Organisations like the Fostering Network Northern Ireland are among those affected by the health funding cut\n\nCuts to Department of Health funding to community and voluntary groups will push some \"to the brink of collapse\".\n\nThat is according to the umbrella organisation for the children's sector, Children in Northern Ireland (CiNI).\n\nMore than 60 community organisations have been told by the department their annual funding is being cut.\n\nA letter from the department's permanent secretary, seen by BBC News NI, said the decision was taken \"with great regret and reluctance\".\n\nThe department launched a consultation on its budget savings plans on Monday.\n\nIts Permanent Secretary Peter May said the health service is currently facing unfunded spending pressures of £472m, of which £375m relates to a pay claim matching NHS England.\n\nAs part of the savings, the Department of Health (DoH) plans to cut £1.8m from its core grant funding scheme this year.\n\nIt provides funding of between £5,000 and £200,000 to 62 organisations in the community and voluntary sector which deliver frontline services in health.\n\nBut the planned DoH reduction will effectively cut the scheme's budget for 2023/24 in half.\n\nThat cut has been passed on to the 62 organisations, who have now been told they will only get funding for six months until September rather than a full year as expected.\n\nMany community and voluntary organisations provide support to people that eases some of the pressures on the health service.\n\nCeline McStravick from The Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action, which is an umbrella body for over 1,500 organisations, said the cut to funding will \"absolutely shift the services\" in the sector.\n\n\"We're talking about just over £3m that goes into our sector for really essential services,\" she told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"This funds core bits of an organisation, so there is no point in saying this is just one part of a jigsaw of funding for that organisation it's the vital part.\"\n\n\"Its staff, its running costs, its what makes that organisation work,\" she added.\n\nMs McStravick urged for political parties to return to the Stormont Assembly as she argued that government ministers could be making more \"informed decisions\" about the budget rather than civil servants.\n\nRelate NI provides counselling and relationship support to thousands of people every year and is one of the organisations losing money.\n\nIt faces a cut of approximately £80,000 of funding, about 8% of its annual budget.\n\nIts chief executive, Duane Farrell, told BBC News NI that the cut would have a \"disproportionate impact\" and that its early intervention work would be particularly hit.\n\n\"It's a very damaging cut on top of how the sector has had to cope in the last number of years,\" he said.\n\nDuane Farrell from Relate NI said the cuts would affect programmes that were aimed at reducing pressure on health services\n\n\"It's part of the ambition of the Programme for Government to provide earlier support to people to avoid crises developing.\n\n\"That's the type of work we've been engaged with.\n\n\"Our mission is about making expert information about relationships available to everyone - families, couples, children and young people.\n\n\"It's a really important way of reducing pressures on the health service in the medium term.\"\n\nChildren in Northern Ireland represents a range of organisations which work with children and young people.\n\nIn a policy briefing for politicians they said the cut \"poses a severe threat to the sustainability of community and voluntary sector organisations that provide essential services for children and families\".\n\n\"The decision to cut core grant funding comes at a time when our members are already grappling with the impact of inflation, pushing them to the brink of collapse,\" the briefing continued.\n\n\"These funding cuts will have far-reaching consequences, including redundancies, reduced services, increased pressure on statutory bodies, and, most distressingly, direct harm to our most vulnerable and marginalised children.\"\n\nOrganisations like the Fostering Network Northern Ireland are also among those affected by the health funding cut.\n\nIt is understood the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action has invited political leaders to a meeting to hear about the damage cuts to community and voluntary organisations are causing.\n\nSome previously lost out when European Union funding was replaced by funding from the UK government.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI the Department of Health said: \"As part of the plans to make £360m in savings this year, the funding for the Core Grant Scheme is regrettably being reduced.\n\n\"Community and voluntary organisations will only receive core grant funding for the first half of this financial year.\n\n\"It is important to emphasise that the department's core grant scheme is a small part of the total health service expenditure which goes to the community and voluntary sector, as most money is for the direct provision of services.\"", "The Russian defence ministry released photos of what it said were abandoned or damaged Western military vehicles, including US-made Humvees\n\nThe US has distanced itself from an incursion into Russia - which Moscow says ended in the defeat of armed insurgents who entered from Ukraine.\n\nParts of the border region of Belgorod came under attack on Monday, in one of the largest cross-border raids since Russia invaded its neighbour last year.\n\nRussia later released pictures of abandoned or damaged Western military vehicles, including US-made Humvees.\n\nThe US insisted it did not \"encourage or enable strikes inside of Russia\".\n\nA state department spokesman acknowledged reports \"circulating on social media and elsewhere\" that US-supplied weapons had been used, but said his country was \"sceptical at this time of the veracity of these reports\".\n\nIn a news briefing on Tuesday, Matthew Miller added: \"It is up to Ukraine to decide how to conduct this war.\"\n\nSome Ukrainian military experts and bloggers have suggested that the images of destroyed US vehicles released by Russia could have been staged.\n\nVillages in Belgorod near the border were evacuated after coming under fire. Russia says 70 attackers were killed, and has insisted the fighters were Ukrainian.\n\nBut Kyiv denies involvement - and two Russian paramilitary groups opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin say they were behind the incursion.\n\nMonday's raid led Moscow to declare a counter-terrorism operation, giving the authorities special powers to clamp down on communications and people's movements.\n\nThe measures were only lifted the following afternoon, and even then, one of the paramilitary groups was claiming it still controlled a small piece of Russian territory.\n\nRegional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said one civilian had died while being evacuated, and several others were injured during the violence.\n\nIn a later development, he said the region had been subject to a \"large\" number of drone attacks overnight on Tuesday. He said the attacks damaged private vehicles, houses and offices, but there were no victims.\n\nMr Gladkov also said a gas pipeline was damaged in the Graivoron district by the drone barrage, which led to a small fire on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe claims by the warring sides have not been independently verified - although the BBC was able to establish that a building used by Russia's main security agency, the FSB, was among those hit during the violence. It is not clear what caused the damage.\n\nAnother Russian photo showed a wrecked vehicle with the words \"for Bakhmut\" written in Russian on the side\n\nCommenting on the hostilities in Belgorod, Russia's defence ministry said a \"unit of a Ukrainian nationalist formation\" had invaded its territory to carry out attacks.\n\nOne of its photos showed a wrecked vehicle with the words \"for Bakhmut\" written on it, a reference to the Ukrainian city which Russia says it has recently captured - a claim disputed by Kyiv.\n\nAs well as killing dozens of what it described as \"Ukrainian terrorists\" in artillery and air strikes, the ministry claimed to have driven the rest of the fighters back to the Ukrainian border.\n\nBut Ukrainian officials said the attackers were Russians, from groups known as the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC).\n\nSocial media posts from the two paramilitary groups appeared to confirm their involvement. Both groups also told Ukraine's public broadcaster Suspilne that they were creating \"a demilitarised zone on the border with the Russian Federation from which they will not be able to shell Ukraine\".\n\nAny assaults on Russian soil make leaders in the Nato military alliance of Western countries nervous - meaning that the developments could prove a mixed blessing for Kyiv.\n\nThe cross-border incursion may be embarrassing for Moscow, and go some way to offset the bad optics for Ukraine of reportedly losing control of Bakhmut after months of intense and bloody fighting.\n\nIt is also likely to be part of Ukraine's shaping operations ahead of its coming counter-offensive, aiming to draw Russian troops away from the south where Kyiv is expected to attack.\n\nBut it is not a development that is likely to be welcomed by the West.\n\nThe long-range weapons these countries have provided to Kyiv - although not used in this attack - still come with the proviso they are not to be used to hit targets inside Russia.\n\nDespite official denials from Kyiv, it is hard to believe this raid was launched without assistance from Ukrainian military intelligence.\n\nIt plays into the Kremlin narrative that Russia's own sovereign security is under attack from malign forces backed by the West.\n\nIt is a narrative likely to be fuelled by reports that some of those who took part are linked to far-right extremism, reinforcing Moscow's claim that it is trying to rid Ukraine of neo-Nazis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "John Caldwell was invited to the garden party hosted by the King and Queen at Hillsborough Castle\n\nDet Ch Insp John Caldwell has attended a garden party in County Down with King Charles and Queen Camilla.\n\nIt is his first public appearance since he was shot in front of his son at a sports complex in Omagh in February.\n\nIt is understood that he had a private meeting with King Charles ahead of the event.\n\nThe Queen spent some time speaking to the police officer during the garden party.\n\nIt is the royal couple's first official visit outside England since the coronation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell, 48, was seriously injured in the attack by two gunmen as he coached a youth football team while off-duty.\n\nPolice believe dissident republican group the New IRA may have acted with an organised crime gang to carry out the attack.\n\nThe King and Queen attended a Garden Party at Hillsborough Castle\n\nThe shooting, which happened in front of school children including Det Ch Insp Caldwell's son, was widely condemned by political representatives across Northern Ireland.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson was also among the guests at the garden party at Hillsborough, the royal residence in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe King and Queen also visited a newly-created Coronation Garden in Newtownabbey, designed by Diarmuid Gavin, during the visit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The King and the Queen cut a crown-shaped cake and were entertained by singing schoolchildren in Newtownabbey", "Donald Trump has said he is not guilty to each of the 34 charges against him\n\nDonald Trump will face a criminal trial in March 2024, a New York judge has ruled, as the Republican's campaign for the presidential nomination will be in full swing.\n\nThe former US president received the news at a hearing on Tuesday in the case about the alleged concealment of a payment to a porn star.\n\nMr Trump was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to each charge last month.\n\nAfter the hearing, Mr Trump aired his frustrations at the timing of the trial on his social network, Truth Social.\n\n\"They forced upon us a trial date of March 25th, right in the middle of the primary season,\" Mr Trump wrote, adding it was \"very unfair\" and \"election interference\".\n\nThe post appeared just hours after Judge Juan Merchan said restrictions on what Mr Trump can do and say in relation to the case would not restrict his ability to campaign.\n\nJudge Merchan said Mr Trump \"is certainly free to deny the charges, he is free to defend himself against the charges.\"\n\nMr Trump has long since decried the case as a \"political Witch-Hunt, trying to take down the leading candidate, by far, in the Republican Party\".\n\nMarch 2024 is set to be a busy month for Mr Trump and the other candidates vying to become the Republican presidential candidate.\n\nCandidates zig-zag across the US for a series of conventions, primaries and caucuses in every US state and territory, beginning in early states like Iowa in February and ending in or around early June.\n\nThe latest hearing was the second time Mr Trump appeared in court for the case.\n\nHe was first arrested and appeared in a New York courtroom in April, where he was charged with 34 felony counts of fraud in a 16-page indictment.\n\nThese charges relate to a $130,000 (£105,000) payment made to adult film actress, Stormy Daniels, who says she was paid to stay quiet after having sex with him.\n\nProviding so-called hush money is not illegal, but the case against Mr Trump centres around how his former lawyer, who paid Ms Daniels, had his reimbursement recorded in Mr Trump's accounts.\n\nMr Trump is accused of falsifying his business records in the first degree by saying the payment was for legal fees.\n\nIt is alleged the payments were intended \"to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election\".\n\nThe case is one of several legal woes faced by Mr Trump.\n\nEarlier in May, a New York civil trial jury found Mr Trump liable for the defamation and sexual assault of E Jean Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, and ordered him to pay her about $5m in damages.\n\nMs Carroll is now attempting to pursue further damages over remarks Mr Trump made after the jury in that case returned its verdict.", "Conservative Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said work at the site was being \"smeared\"\n\nThe government is setting up an independent panel to probe claims of \"corruption, wrongdoing and illegality\" at the UK's largest industrial zone.\n\nLevelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said he had taken the \"exceptional decision\" to order the review into claims at the Teesworks site in Redcar.\n\nLabour MPs had raised concerns over the transfer of millions of pounds of public assets to private developers.\n\nTees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said he \"looked forward\" to its outcome.\n\nIn a letter to Conservative Mr Houchen, Mr Gove said he was acting on a request from the mayor and had \"reflected carefully on the choices available\".\n\nHe said the \"continued allegation of corruption\" had posed a \"very real risk\" to the site, which had \"delivered jobs and economic growth\".\n\nHowever he said, although it was not in the National Audit Office's (NAO) remit to investigate the site, he would \"welcome\" the body to update \"its review of the government's funding arrangements\".\n\nMichael Gove said an independent panel would be set up\n\nMr Gove said he would ask a independent panel to report on the governance arrangements, how decisions are made, and look \"at the value achieved for the investment of public money on the site\".\n\nHe said he would \"invite\" interested parties, including MPs, to make representations as part of \"evidence\".\n\nMr Houchen said the review was necessary to \"show investors\" that there had been no wrongdoing.\n\n\"My officers stand ready to provide any and all information requested by the independent review,\" he said.\n\nAbout 20,000 employees will be working on the site, officials have said\n\nLabour's shadow secretary for Levelling Up Lisa Nandy previously said there were \"serious questions\" that \"remained unanswered\" and had called for an investigation.\n\nIt followed reports publicly-owned land, potentially worth millions of pounds at the former steel works site were handed to private investors for £100.\n\nReacting to news of the investigation, Ms Nandy said: \"This is bizarre. The Secretary of State's letter refers to an organisation that doesn't yet exist to hide the fact that there has been a complete breakdown in accountability on his watch.\n\n\"The NAO has the experience, capacity and independence to carry out an investigation, and Michael Gove has the power to order that investigation. Why, then, is he setting up a review where the terms and members will be chosen by him?\n\n\"The government must not hide from proper scrutiny, and there is no clear justification for not ordering a comprehensive, independent investigation from the NAO.\"\n\nMiddlesbrough Labour MP Andy McDonald had accused developers of financially benefitting from land which had seen millions of pounds of taxpayer investment.\n\nMr Houchen previously denied allegations of wrongdoing, saying the claims were \"untrue\" and that the work was being \"smeared\".\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak caused confusion when he said Mr Gove had \"already announced\" an investigation into Teesworks, hours before his letter.\n\nMPs including Labour's Washington and Sunderland West MP Sharon Hodgson had then written to Mr Sunak asking for clarification.\n\nThe Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said it had not seen any evidence of wrongdoing and repeated Mr Gove's claims that the allegations \"pose a very real risk\".\n\nThe NAO said it would be \"willing and able to carry out\" an investigation if instructed to do so, but added that the government had made \"alternative arrangements\" by setting up the independent panel instead.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Christine Quinn, star of Selling Sunset, alongside her bosses, Brett and Jason Oppenheim\n\nNetflix has started its long-promised crackdown on password sharing in major markets including the UK and the US.\n\nA Netflix subscription in the UK can cost anything between £4.99 to £15.99 per month.\n\nThe streaming giant said it was notifying customers that they must pay an additional £4.99 per month, or $7.99 in the US, if they want to share their account outside their homes.\n\nThe move is intended to boost subscribers.\n\nBut in some countries where it has already been trialled, some are baulking at the expense.\n\nIn Spain, when it started charging 5.99 euros (£5.27) for an additional account, it lost more than a million subscribers in the first three months of the year, according to Kantar.\n\nOn Tuesday Netflix sent an email about sharing accounts to customers in 103 countries and territories including Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Mexico and Singapore.\n\nThe company previously warned investors there would be cancellations as it expands its programme, but said: \"Longer term, paid sharing will ensure a bigger revenue base from which we can grow as we improve our service\".\n\nIn Canada, where the changes were introduced in February, its paid membership base is now larger than it was before the changes, and revenue growth picked up, it said previously.\n\nNetflix had previously estimated that more than 100 million households share passwords despite this being against its official rules.\n\nThe company wants to tap into this audience to make more money, as its subscriber growth slows and increased competition challenges its dominance of the streaming market.\n\nHeavyweights such as Disney and Amazon have weighed in with their own services, and Netflix has a host of other rivals.\n\nThese entertainment giants are vying for customers, many of whom have been under pressure from the soaring pace of general price rises.\n\nNetflix has been trying to tempt users with a less expensive streaming option with ads, and cut prices in 116 countries in the three months to March.\n\nIt has also been expanding its paid sharing programme, which it started trialling in some countries last year.\n\nThe move to notify customers brings the scheme to some of the company's most important markets.", "Reporters confronted police at the end of a press conference about the fatal Cardiff crash and riot which followed in the Ely area.\n\nCh Supt Martyn Stone said South Wales Police has referred itself to the police watchdog.\n\nHe also said the force had received CCTV footage of a police vehicle following the bike which crashed shortly before 18:00 BST on Monday.\n\n\"This will assist us in piecing together the circumstances leading up the the collision,\" he said.\n\nAfter his statement, the officer declined to answer questions.", "King Charles and Queen Camilla have made their first official visit outside England since their coronation earlier this month - a two-day trip to Northern Ireland.\n\nIt was the 41st visit by Charles to Northern Ireland, as prince and king.\n\nHere is the story of their visit in pictures.\n\nFirst stop was a visit to a newly-created Coronation Garden in Newtownabbey\n\nThe royal couple got the chance to get a bird's-eye view of Diarmuid Gavin's design\n\nThe King and Queen met local schoolchildren as they toured Hazelbank Park\n\nThere was even time for a slice of cake - and one fit for a king at that\n\nAfter that the couple were off to Hillsborough Castle, County Down\n\nThe couple meet pupils from Belfast's Blythefield Primary School who have taken part in Historic Royal Palaces' competition to design coronation benches\n\nThe King and Queen planted a magnolia tree in the garden of Hillsborough Castle to mark their coronation, as Queen Elizabeth II did in 1953\n\nThey then hosted a garden party with local dignitaries at the royal residence in Northern Ireland\n\nDay two of the visit saw the King and Queen visit Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland\n\nThe King visited St Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral, where he met representatives from a number of dominations\n\nMeanwhile, the Queen met local school children at the Robinson Library\n\nNext stop for the King and Queen was Enniskillen Castle\n\nQueen Camilla talked with children and was presented with flowers at the castle in County Fermanagh\n\nThe King stayed on dry land for a handshake on the bank of River Erne", "A London teenager who entered someone's home without their permission as part of a TikTok prank video has been fined more than £300.\n\nBacari-Bronze O'Garro, 18, also known as Mizzy, pleaded guilty to breaching a community protection order on 15 May.\n\nA court heard the incident had been distressing for the victim and her family who were at home at the time.\n\nThe judge at Thames Magistrates Court also gave O'Garro a two-year criminal behaviour order.\n\nVarinder Hayre, prosecuting, told the court O'Garro was issued with a community protection notice in May last year, with a condition being he should not trespass into private property.\n\nHe then breached that notice by entering a home of a family, she said.\n\nShe described how O'Garro walked into the property, down the stairs, sat on a sofa and said \"is this where the study group is?\".\n\nMs Hayre added he was asked to leave multiple times by both the victim and the husband.\n\n\"It was discovered that he had filmed the entire incident for a TikTok trend about walking into random houses.\"\n\nThe incident has caused the family \"a lot of distress\" and that the victims' faces and those of their two young children could be seen in the video, she said.\n\nLee Sergent, in mitigation, said O'Garro had apologised to the family.\n\nHe said his client was raised by a single parent and had a difficult upbringing.\n\n\"He is an intelligent young man and a young man with some potential\" Mr Sergent told the court.\n\nJudge Charlotte Crangle ordered O'Garro must not directly or indirectly post videos on to social media without the documented consent of the people featured in the content, that he must not trespass into private property, and that he must not attend the Westfield Centre in Stratford.\n\nShe also ordered O'Garro to pay a fine of £200, as well as a victim surcharge of £80 and costs of £85 - totalling £365.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Legal challenges to the abortion bill are expected once it becomes law\n\nLegislators in the US state of South Carolina have passed a bill that would ban nearly all abortions after around six weeks of pregnancy - before most women know they are pregnant.\n\nThe bill is expected to be signed into law by the state's Republican governor, Henry McMaster.\n\nBut it will now face legal challenges.\n\nThe majority of southern US states have curtailed abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion last year.\n\nThe vote in South Carolina passed mostly along party lines but was opposed by the three Republican women in the state's Senate.\n\nVicki Ringer, the director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, said her organisation would file a request for a temporary restraining order after the bill is signed by Mr McMaster.\n\n\"Twenty-seven Republican men (all of them) voted today to ban abortion in SC,\" Ms Ringer wrote on Twitter.\n\nThe bill, known as the \"Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act\", would ban abortions in most cases after early cardiac activity can be detected in a foetus or embryo - normally about six weeks into a pregnancy.\n\nIt allows for terminations up to 12 weeks in cases of rape and incest, and provides an exception for medical emergencies.\n\nAbortions are currently allowed through the first 22 weeks of pregnancy in the state.\n\nThe bill is a revision of an earlier measure that South Carolina's Supreme Court ruled was unconstitutional in January.\n\nFollowing Tuesday's vote, Mr McMaster tweeted that with the passing of the bill, \"our state is one step closer to protecting more innocent lives\".\n\n\"I look forward to signing this bill into law as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nRepublicans in the state Senate had tried multiple times to pass the bill but had been blocked by a cross-party group of five women, including the three from their own party.\n\n\"What we are doing today is not going to do away with illegal abortions - it is going to cause illegal abortions,\" said Republican State Senator Sandy Senn, who was among them.\n\nSouth Carolina had been seen as a last legal bastion for women in the South seeking abortion but recent efforts to tighten restrictions has put increasing pressure on the state of Virginia.\n\nLast week Republican lawmakers in North Carolina voted to uphold a ban on most abortions after 12 weeks.", "Last Generation activists have blocked traffic and even defaced paintings in museums as part of their campaign\n\nGerman police have carried out raids in seven states in a probe into climate campaigners suspected of forming or backing a criminal group because of their controversial activities.\n\nAmong those raided was Last Generation spokeswoman Carla Hinrichs, whose door was broken down by armed police while she was in bed, the group said.\n\nFor months Last Generation has disrupted traffic in German cities.\n\nChancellor Olaf Scholz has condemned their campaign as \"completely crazy\".\n\nFor weeks in Germany there has been a ferocious culture war about whether Last Generation can be legally defined as a criminal organisation.\n\nConservative MPs have demanded tougher penalties including jail sentences, while left-wingers have warned of a dangerous authoritarian clampdown.\n\nSome 170 police took part in Wednesday's raids on flats and other buildings in Berlin, Bavaria, Dresden, Hamburg and elsewhere, shutting down the group's website and freezing two accounts.\n\nMs Hinrichs's flat in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg was targeted at 07:00 on Wednesday by 25 police officers carrying guns, her colleagues said.\n\nNo arrests have been reported but seven people aged 22 to 38 are suspected of organising a campaign to collect at least €1.4m (£1.2m) in funding mainly to finance \"further criminal acts\". Police and prosecutors said the raids were aimed at establishing Last Generation's membership structure.\n\nTwo of the activists under investigation are suspected of trying to sabotage an oil pipeline running across the Alps from the Italian coast at Trieste to Ingolstadt last year.\n\nIn Berlin, Last Generation activists are making an impact. Roads blocked by activists have become a regular feature in radio traffic reports. Households have been getting leaflets inviting locals to Last Generation information or training events.\n\nLast week,12 streets were blocked in the city as activists glued themselves to the road or to cars. But these street sit-ins have resulted in some drivers lashing out. Countless social media videos show outraged drivers screaming at campaigners.\n\nIn polls, most Germans disagree with the group's tactics. In a survey carried out by left-leaning magazine Der Spiegel this month, 79% of respondents said the group's actions were wrong, with only 16% agreeing with the activists.\n\nBut that doesn't mean all Germans support a clampdown either.\n\nMany left-wing and Green politicians as well as commentators say they disagree with the group's tactics because they enrage people rather than win them over to environmentalism. But they argue activists should still have the right to campaign peacefully.\n\nRaids were carried out across Germany\n\nLast Generation criticised Wednesday's raids using the chancellor's \"completely crazy\" quote, VölligBekloppt, as a hashtag, asking when the authorities would instead search \"lobby structures and confiscate government fossil funds\".\n\nAnother climate action group, Ende Gelände, complained that the raids were targeting people seeking to \"raise the alarm about the climate crisis rather those responsible for it\".\n\nLast Generation said it would continue its activities and some supporters online suggested the raids would galvanise support for their campaign.\n\nThe police response has been welcomed by conservatives, as well as some politicians from two ruling parties, the FDP and centre-left SPD. Some Green politicians said while they disagreed with the group's radical actions, they suggested the raids may have been too heavy-handed.\n\nLeft-wing and environmental groups announced a march in Berlin on Wednesday afternoon with further demonstrations in Leipzig, Munich and Potsdam. Greenpeace and politicians from the left-wing Linke party called the raids a \"new level of escalation\" from police that undermined the basic democratic right to protest.\n\nLast Generation is campaigning for a speed limit on motorways of 100km/h (62mph).\n\nIt played a key role in protests against the expansion of an open coal mine in the village of Lützerath in January, where campaigner Greta Thunberg was briefly detained.\n\nLast October two activists threw mashed potato at a Claude Monet painting at a museum in Potsdam near Berlin and then glued themselves to a wall, an action that mirrored similar protests in the UK by the climate action group Just Stop Oil.\n\nLast Generation is not limited to Germany. Two activists glued themselves to an area in front of the Austrian parliament in Vienna on Wednesday, defying a ban on protests outside the building.\n\nIn Italy, three Italian activists were due in court on Wednesday for gluing themselves to a Vatican museum sculpture dating back to Roman times last August. Activists belonging to the group had also coloured the Trevi fountain in Rome black as a statement against fossil fuels.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jessica and Ryan Ramirez do not live in Uvalde anymore.\n\nThe pain of spending every day in the city where their vivacious 10-year-old daughter, Alithia, was brutally murdered in her classroom a year ago along with 18 of her classmates and two teachers, became too much.\n\n\"I didn't feel safe,\" says Jessica. \"The only choice was to move back to our hometown.\"\n\nNow they live an hour's drive away where family are on hand for much-needed emotional support.\n\nRyan - with Alithia's name tattooed across his right forearm - echoes his wife's sentiments. There was nothing for them but suffering in Uvalde.\n\n\"Just hearing an ambulance or sirens, seeing school buses... just brings us back to that day where we were trying to figure out 'where's Alithia?',\" Ryan says.\n\nAlithia had been in Room 112 of Robb Elementary School when the 18-year-old gunman entered and began extinguishing the children's lives with an automatic rifle he had legally purchased on his birthday.\n\nI first met Alithia's parents just a week after the attack.\n\nIn a house on the outskirts of Uvalde, bedsheets covering the windows to block out the light, they told me of their daughter's hopes of studying art abroad and visiting Paris.\n\nIn her bedroom, her art certificates, fluffy toys and football medals still lay exactly where she had left them.\n\nA year on, they spoke to me again, this time in a static home on a small plot of land, an orange flag with Alithia's name on it fluttering on the decking.\n\nInside, they are recreating her bedroom as a sort of shrine, carefully adding each teddy bear, each colourful drawing.\n\nThey hope the new home will be a space their two other children will be able run around in. Free - at least temporarily - of the darkness that has invaded their young lives.\n\nOver the last 12 months, the entire family has struggled to process what happened inside Robb Elementary School, to comprehend why Alithia is not about to walk in from playing with her siblings to ask for a drink and a snack.\n\nAnd beyond the crippling sense of grief, the family's main emotion is anger.\n\nThey find it inexplicable that 376 well-armed law enforcement officers stood in the hallway outside Alithia's classroom for 77 minutes while the gunman murdered the children inside, before they finally breached the door and neutralised him.\n\nBody-camera footage shows errors, confusion and miscommunication by senior officers which the families believe cost numerous young lives.\n\nIt was later described as \"egregiously poor decision making\" in a damning report by the investigative committee of the Texas House of Representatives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The US 365 days after the Uvalde school shooting\n\nRyan is mild mannered and softly spoken. But the fury in his voice is audible at the mere mention of the authorities' actions that day.\n\n\"They're just standing there saying 'Hold'. But there was a child on the phone asking for help. And they were saying '[the gunman] is still in there. He's still in there.'\n\n\"You're just gonna stand around? Hang up that badge if you're just going to do that.\"\n\nSome families have channelled their grief and their anger into campaigning, demanding a change in gun legislation. Beyond contributing their voices to the calls for an end to gun violence, Jessica and Ryan have shied away from politics.\n\nInstead, they simply cannot get past the events of that day and the abject failure by the authorities to keep their children safe.\n\n\"Do what you got to do. Get injured, get killed. That's a part of putting on a badge: To protect and serve. They didn't do the first thing, which was protect... My blood just boils.\"\n\n\"They just wanted some help. They just want to get out of there,\" Jessica says of the children. \"But the police just didn't seem to care. They just didn't seem to care.\"\n\nThe families are yet to receive any kind of answer to the most basic of questions. How did this happen? Who is responsible for allowing it to happen?\n\n\"Everybody that was there that day has to be held accountable,\" the Mayor of Ulvalde, Don McLaughlin, told BBC News this week. The search for answers had so far come up empty handed, he said. \"We've been blocked since day one.\"\n\nWhen answers come, Mr McLaughlin pledges \"whatever action that we need to take, we will take\".\n\nIt is unlikely to placate or soothe Jessica, though. \"They let me down. I can't trust anybody.\"\n\nThe family will return to Uvalde for a memorial this week including the release of 21 butterflies and a walk past the murals painted around the city, one for each of the victims.\n\nAlithia's mural is partly made up of her own pictures, including her prize-winning anti-bullying poster and some Mother's Day designs she made.\n\n\"I don't have good days,\" Jessica says. \"Even when we have a nice time with the other kids, I'm fighting not to cry because Alithia isn't here enjoying it too.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Bacari-Bronze O'Garro will appear at Thames Magistrates' Court\n\nAn 18-year-old man is due to appear in court following widely shared social media footage showing him walking into someone's home without permission.\n\nBacari-Bronze O'Garro, known on social media as Mizzy, has been charged with failing to comply with a Community Protection Notice.\n\nOther videos allegedly show him pestering train passengers and entering a man's car claiming it is his Uber.\n\nMr O'Garro, from Hackney, will appear in custody before magistrates later.\n\nThe charge follows an investigation into social media footage posted online that include apparently unsolicited approaches made towards members of the public in the street and in their home.\n\nDet Ch Supt James Conway said: \"Understandably there has been extensive comment on this case in the media and on social media.\n\n\"Now that an individual has been charged, I would ask that the judicial process be respected and allowed to take its proper course.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Finley Boden was 10 months old when he was murdered on Christmas Day in 2020\n\nKey documents which led to a court agreeing to return a 10-month-old boy to his parents, who then murdered him, have been obtained by the BBC.\n\nFinley Boden was killed on Christmas Day 2020, 39 days after he was returned to their care. He had 130 injuries.\n\nThe papers from the family court hearing, conducted by phone during the Covid pandemic, were released after a media application to the High Court.\n\nShannon Marsden and Stephen Boden are due to be sentenced on Friday.\n\nThe documents are significant as they informed the crucial hearing about Finley's future - led by two family magistrates.\n\nThe papers were released to the BBC, the PA Media news agency and the Daily Telegraph after a request following the couple's conviction.\n\nThe submissions help establish what happened between Finley being removed from his parents a few days after his birth on 15 February, to the decision to return him to their full-time care by 23 November.\n\nAfter the boy was born, social workers from Derbyshire County Council had decided to remove him from his parents who were living in Chesterfield. The authority believed he was likely to suffer \"significant harm\" at home - the legal threshold in care cases.\n\nThey said Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden were living in squalor - their home was filthy and smelled of cannabis. They described the terraced house as \"very unclean\" and \"at times hazardous, with faeces on the floor\".\n\nThe social workers also said there was a risk of domestic violence, because in the past police had been called during an argument and Stephen Boden had a previous conviction for domestic violence against an ex-partner. Both parents smoked \"between medium and high\" levels of cannabis.\n\nBut over the next six months, the couple persuaded social workers they had made positive changes - aided by Covid restrictions, which limited physical interactions with others.\n\nDuring the 2020 spring lockdown, social workers were not routinely going into homes. In Finley's case, photos were instead sent by his mother which showed her terraced home looking clean and tidy.\n\nA photo of Finley's clean and tidy bedroom, submitted to social workers by Shannon Marsden, before he was returned\n\nBy the summer, some Covid restrictions had eased and the parents could meet Finley in person again. Some sessions were overseen by social worker Lynn Williams, who assessed them as she tried to help them become better parents.\n\nThe report she submitted to the court for the 1 October hearing is among the documents disclosed to us.\n\nIn it, she noted that on one occasion, when the weather was warm, \"Shannon Marsden ensured Finley was in the shade\". The social worker also noted the mother had held his hand when he was in the pushchair - which she described as \"a natural response from a caring parent\".\n\nShe said Stephen Boden had interacted with his son \"by talking to him and making him smile\".\n\nIn August, Ms Williams said she had visited the couple at home, noting that the fridge was well-stocked and the bathroom clean. On a follow-up visit that same month, she observed the house was still relatively tidy and the parents seemed keen to keep it so.\n\nBut Ms Williams' generally positive report was undermined by drug tests taken by both parents as directed by children's services. Marsden told social workers she had given up cannabis in October 2019, but tests of her hair indicated that was not the case between February and August 2020. Tests found Boden had used cannabis too.\n\nA police photograph of Finley's bedroom after his death showing \"filthy conditions\", including a baby milk bottle covered in mould\n\nIn the papers presented to the court for the 1 October hearing, the local authority said Finley should return gradually to his parents' care through a \"transition plan\" over about four months. It proposed that at first, Finley would stay with his carers and only see his parents during the day - initially for an hour and a half, building up to five hours. Then he would be able to stay on a Saturday night.\n\nThe amount of time he could spend with his parents would then increase further - so that by mid-January 2021 he would be in their full-time care. This gradual process was to ensure his time with his parents could be monitored - to make sure he was safe.\n\nBut Marsden and Boden wanted Finley back more quickly. In his statement submitted to the October hearing, Boden said: \"Shannon and I have worked really hard to make changes.\" Marsden admitted she had been using cannabis but said she had been \"given the incentive to quit completely\".\n\nIn care cases like Finley's, the child's guardian can be one of the most influential voices. They are employed by Cafcass, the independent Children and Families Court Advisory Service, and their role is to represent the child's best interests.\n\nFinley's guardian, Amanda O'Rourke, had only been able to see him once, via a WhatsApp video call, while he was with his carers. He was a \"smiler\", she wrote in her report for the court, who liked to \"blow raspberry's\" (sic).\n\nShe acknowledged the squalor, drug use and domestic violence in the parents' past. Her report said she agreed in principle with a transition plan, but said it should take place much faster, given the parents had \"clearly made and sustained positive changes\".\n\nMs O'Rourke's report to the magistrates said he should go back to their full-time care \"within a six to eight week period,\" half the time requested by the local authority.\n\nA statement from Cafcass said: \"It is not possible to say whether a longer transition plan would have prevented Finley's death. What led to his death was the ability of his parents to deceive everyone involved about their love for him and their desire to care for him.\"\n\nStephen Boden and Shannon Marsden were convicted of murder in April - they will be sentenced on Friday\n\nThe 1 October hearing took place in the period between Covid lockdowns - in England at the time, gatherings were restricted to six people and many courts were working remotely.\n\nIn cases like Finley's, parents would normally be in court but, because of the pandemic, everyone was on the phone. Marsden and Boden did not speak at all.\n\nThe final decision was made by two magistrates, Kathy Gallimore and Susan Burns, assisted by a legal adviser. That is because magistrates are not legal experts.\n\nThe barrister for the local authority argued the Cafcass guardian's plan would send Finley back home \"too soon\". He said Covid had disrupted the baby's regular contact with his parents and this needed to be rebuilt. He also said the parents should be tested for drugs as they had been \"dishonest\" about their cannabis use.\n\nBut the barrister for Finley's Cafcass guardian said it was not in the boy's interests for the \"rehabilitation plan\" to be drawn out for such a long period. She said she was \"neutral\" on the question of drug testing.\n\nThe court's legal adviser said drug testing could be ordered if it was \"necessary, imperative and vital to the running of the case\".\n\nIn their judgement that afternoon, Mrs Burns and Mrs Gallimore supported the Cafcass guardian's view - that an eight-week transition was \"a reasonable and proportionate\" length of time which would protect Finley's welfare. They did not order further drug tests of his parents.\n\nThere is no suggestion that the magistrates made a mistake in law.\n\nAnd later - when the High Court agreed to release these documents - Justice Nathalie Lieven described the family court as having made a \"reasonable decision\".\n\n\"Having read the papers here, I have every sympathy with the decision the magistrates made,\" she said.\n\nA child safeguarding review into the circumstances surrounding Finley's death is currently ongoing\n\nChesterfield MP, Labour's Toby Perkins, is now calling for a further inquiry into Derbyshire's children's services. He also says it is \"deeply significant\" that this case was heard by magistrates.\n\n\"It is legitimate to question that entire process, whether the care required for Finley Boden's safety was preserved by that process,\" he told the BBC.\n\nSince these documents were given to the BBC, Derbyshire County Council has said the author of the independent safeguarding review commissioned by the Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership into Finley's death would consider the information in the paperwork \"to help form the partnership's learning findings and recommendations\".\n\nIt added in a statement: \"We remain fully engaged with the statutory legal review process which looks in depth at the role of all agencies following the death of a child.\"\n\nThe new timetable for Finley's return - decided on 1 October 2020 - meant he would stay overnight with his parents during the first week of transition. But by 23 November, he was living with them full-time.\n\nFour days later, social worker Emiley Hollindale was the last professional to see Finley alive. But, when she visited Boden and Marsden's home, no-one responded to her knocks. Peering through the window she could see Finley alone, asleep on the sofa.\n\nJust over a month later, the little boy was dead, in a once-more squalid house, reeking of cannabis.\n• None Parents murdered baby placed back into their care", "A 95-year-old woman who was Tasered by police at an Australian care home, sparking a public outcry, has died.\n\nClare Nowland was critically injured after police responded to reports she was wandering around the home with a steak knife at about 04:00 last Wednesday.\n\nNew South Wales Police (NSW) said she died \"surrounded by family and loved ones\".\n\nThe officer who Tasered Mrs Nowland has been charged with assault.\n\nThe 33-year-old senior constable will face court in early July on charges of recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and common assault.\n\nHe remains suspended from duty with pay while investigations continue.\n\nMrs Nowland lived in a care home in the town of Cooma about 114km (71 miles) south of Canberra, Australia's capital city.\n\nNSW Police said their thoughts and condolences \"remain with those who were lucky enough to know, love, and be loved by Mrs Nowland during a life she led hallmarked by family, kindness and community.\"\n\nLast week, police said she was \"armed\" with a steak knife. On Friday, they confirmed that she required a walking frame to move and the officer discharged his Taser after she began approaching \"at a slow pace\".\n\nMrs Nowland is believed to have suffered a fractured skull and a serious brain bleed after falling and hitting her head during the incident.\n\nIt has prompted calls for a state parliamentary inquiry and the release of police bodycam vision of the confrontation.\n\nIn a statement, Mrs Nowland's family said she was a \"well respected, much loved and a giving member of her local community\" and the \"loving and gentle-natured matriarch of the Nowland family.\"\n\nThey have asked for privacy following her death.", "The second instalment of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals didn't fail to provide a variety of memorable performances.\n\nHere's a selection from the show in Liverpool.\n\nAvailable to UK viewers only", "The government has defended tests for Year 6 pupils across England, after some parents and teachers said a paper in this week's Sats was too difficult.\n\nOne head teacher said the English reading test included some \"GCSE-level\" questions. Some pupils were left in tears and did not finish the paper.\n\nIt has fuelled a debate among teachers and parents about the purpose of Sats.\n\nA Department for Education (DfE) spokesperson told BBC News the tests were \"designed to be challenging\".\n\nThe government had previously said it worked to ensure that \"all tests are appropriate\".\n\nBut asked for further comment on the English reading paper, the DfE added that Sats had to be tough \"in order to measure attainment across the ability range, including stretching the most able children\".\n\nThe government has advised that details of the content of the test paper should not be published until all Year 6 pupils have had the chance to take it.\n\nSats are tests taken by pupils in Year 2 and Year 6 to assess their reading, writing and maths skills - and to test schools' performances.\n\nSarah Hewitt-Clarkson, head teacher at Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham, said it was \"heartbreaking\" to see her pupils struggling to get through the reading paper.\n\nMrs Hewitt-Clarkson, who has two teenage daughters who have taken their GCSEs in the past few years, said: \"I'm not a secondary English teacher, but... some of those questions were definitely of that level. It's just unfair.\"\n\nMrs Hewitt-Clarkson hopes the Standards and Testing Agency - which is part of the DfE - might consider lowering the pass mark this year, in response to how difficult some students found it.\n\n\"For children to fail - or not achieve the standardised score - where we know in class they have been performing at an age-related expected level, or above, it just shows all the flaws of a system that depends almost entirely on one test,\" she said.\n\nThe government says it converts children's raw test scores into \"scaled scores\" so that tests can be compared, even if the difficulty varies.\n\nSarah Hewitt-Clarkson hopes this year's pass mark will be lowered\n\nHeather, from Ipswich, said her son found this week's Sats process \"absolutely fine\".\n\n\"Our school puts very little pressure on our children for the Sats,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"It's been quite a positive experience.\"\n\nBut Davina Bhanabhai, a writer from Leeds, said her daughter was \"really flustered\" by the English reading paper on Wednesday.\n\n\"Children came out feeling distraught, anxious and stressed. These three emotions are not what we want to bring our children up to experience,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"The teachers are stressed because that's the only measure they have that they can show that they're doing their job,\" she added. \"[The children] want to do well, so naturally that stress is going to be passed down [to them].\"\n\nTwo education unions, the National Education Union (NEU) and NAHT, have raised concerns about the paper.\n\nNEU joint general secretary, Mary Bousted, added there were \"better ways of assessing pupils\" than through Sats.\n\nSteve Chalke, founder of Oasis UK, a trust which runs schools across England, said the test had left \"many kids in tears, stressed and anxious\".\n\nHe said texts chosen in the reading test were \"inappropriate in that they were elitist\", and covered experiences that were \"completely outside the cultural context of children that live in poverty\".\n\n\"The texts were boring, they weren't fun, and education should be about fun as much as anything else,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.\n\nIsabel Nisbet, who was the chief executive of the exams watchdog Ofqual between 2007 and 2011, said a fair test is one \"learners can relate to, and the content is something that is meaningful to them\".\n\nShe said the tests will be marked consistently, and she is \"quite confident\" the way the marks are reported \"will take account of how difficult the test was\".\n\nShe told the Today programme: \"The problem is other types of unfairness… and in particular there is a kind of unfairness if people's legitimate expectations are not met.\n\n\"For example if they have practised particular types of text, or particular types of reading, and then the test comes along and suddenly they find it's not what they were brought to expect, and that's an upsetting thing.\"\n\nStandard Assessment Tests, or Sats, are tests that children take in Year 6, at the end of Key Stage 2. They are national curriculum assessments in English grammar, punctuation and spelling, English reading and maths.\n\nThe government's Standards and Testing Agency says the purposes of Sats tests are to:\n\nChildren also sit Sats in Year 2, at the end of Key Stage 1.\n\nLast year, 59% of Year 6 pupils met the expected levels in reading, writing and maths - down from 65% in 2019.\n\nThe national curriculum tests were cancelled in 2020 and 2021, during the pandemic.", "Former US President Donald Trump has filed a court notice of appeal two days after a civil trial found he sexually abused a woman, E Jean Carroll, in a New York department store.\n\nA New York jury awarded Ms Carroll nearly $5m in damages over her allegation that Mr Trump attacked her in the 1990s.\n\nJurors found Mr Trump, 76, liable for battery and defamation, but not rape.\n\nHis appeal comes a day after the former president called his accuser a \"wack job\" during a CNN town hall event.\n\n\"I swear on my children, which I never do. I have no idea who this woman is. This is a fake story,\" he said.\n\nHe accused the civil trial's presiding judge of anti-Trump bias and said that his decision not to testify in person would not have made any difference to the outcome.\n\nThe jury's verdict marked the first time Mr Trump, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women, was found legally responsible for assault.\n\nMs Carroll, a writer and long-time advice columnist, claimed Mr Trump raped her inside a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room and has defamed her by calling her allegation \"a hoax and a lie\".\n\nThe jury of six men and three women deliberated for less than three hours on Tuesday before reaching their decision.\n\nThe standard of proof in civil cases is lower than in criminal cases, meaning that jurors were only required to find that it was more likely than not that Mr Trump assaulted Ms Carroll.\n\nWhile the jury found Mr Trump liable for sexual battery and defamation of Ms Carroll, they did not find Mr Trump liable of raping her. To do so, the jury would have needed to have been convinced that Mr Trump had engaged in non-consensual sexual intercourse with Ms Carroll.\n\nMr Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina told reporters outside the courtroom that it was \"a strange verdict\".\n\n\"They rejected her rape claim and she always claimed this was a rape case, so it's a little perplexing,\" he said.\n\nHe added that, in Mr Trump's hometown of New York, where the former president is now unpopular, \"you just can't get a fair trial\".\n\nThe case will now move to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.\n\nMs Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan earlier expressed confidence to US media that Mr Trump has \"no legitimate arguments for appeal\".\n\n\"I've rarely felt more confident about an appeal than I do about this one,\" she said.\n\nMs Kaplan also told the New York Times that her client was giving \"serious consideration\" toward filing a new defamation suit against Mr Trump over his latest comments on CNN.\n\nMr Trump is currently the frontrunner to once again win the Republican nomination for president in 2024, earning more than 50% support in national polls, including several conducted after the New York trial began.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA royal fan who was mistaken for a protester and detained by police at the Coronation has spoken about her ordeal.\n\nAlice Chambers was handcuffed and held for 13 hours when officers arrested Just Stop Oil protesters she happened to be standing near to on the Mall.\n\nThe architect told BBC Newsnight she was handcuffed, fingerprinted and questioned in a police station.\n\nThe police say they are reviewing the incident and trying to establish the full details of what happened.\n\nThe 36-year-old - who first told her story to the i newspaper - said she spent hours in handcuffs in the back of a police van despite repeated attempts to explain the situation to officers.\n\n\"I was just sitting there waiting for the Coronation to begin. Next I realised the police had swooped in and handcuffed a whole heap of people,\" Ms Chambers said.\n\n\"I tried to say anything I could to say I wasn't part of that group [of protesters] but nothing could be said that made a difference.\n\n\"I gave them my contact details. I showed them my ID and nothing seemed to be able to be said that made a difference really.\"\n\nDescribing how officers eventually questioned her after half a day in custody, Ms Chambers said: \"They asked me, 'What were you doing on the Mall?' I explained everything and they looked at each other in shock.\"\n\n\"It's just been so shocking, and very emotional. It's not something you ever expect, to find yourself in a jail cell for a period of time,\" she added.\n\n\"Really you would think that this should never happen. Clearly there are processes that need to be put in place, or that weren't followed.\n\n\"No-one should endure an extended period under arrest, just because they're an innocent bystander.\"\n\nMs Chambers, who is originally from Australia but lives in London, was released without any further action and missed the Coronation celebrations in their entirety.\n\nShe accused the Met Police of \"finger pointing\" after it responded by saying the officer who arrested her had been drafted into London from Lincolnshire Police.\n\nMs Chambers said the Met \"ultimately took over\" from the arresting officer and detained her. She has lodged a formal complaint.\n\nA Met spokesperson said: \"The arresting officer was from Lincolnshire Police and the complaint has therefore been passed to the relevant force to investigate.\n\n\"The Met will assist by providing any relevant information they require.\"\n\nChief Inspector Simon Outen from the professional standards department at Lincolnshire Police, said: \"We have now received a complaint and we are reviewing the incident, and we are in contact with the complainant to establish the full details of her allegations.\"\n\nPolicing around the Coronation has come under scrutiny after the Met expressed regret over the arrest of the head of anti-monarchy group Republic and five other protesters on the morning of the ceremony, despite them having co-ordinated a legal protest with the force.\n\nIn total, 64 people were arrested in London during the Coronation policing operation.\n\nPolice said 52 of these related to concerns people were going to disrupt the event. Four people have so far been charged.", "The King and his son and grandson were pictured on Coronation day in Buckingham Palace\n\nThe latest official Coronation photograph released by Buckingham Palace sends a strong message about the monarchy's next generations.\n\nKing Charles III is shown with his son Prince William and grandson Prince George, bringing together the King with those next in the line of succession.\n\nThe picture, taken in the palace Throne Room, is part of a set of official photographs taken by Hugo Burnand.\n\nThe King is seen wearing the Imperial State Crown and coronation robes.\n\nIn these formal portraits, he is pictured carrying the regalia from the Coronation - an orb and sceptre - while sitting in a throne made for the Coronation of Edward VII.\n\nIt is an image full of lavish symbolism and regal colours of gold, red and purple.\n\nA second newly released photograph shows King Charles and Queen Camilla with their pages of honour and ladies in attendance.\n\nIt shows some of the members of the Queen's family who had roles in last Saturday's Coronation, including her sister Annabel Elliot, her grandsons Freddy Parker Bowles and Gus and Louis Lopes, as well as her great-nephew Arthur Elliot.\n\nIn a modern development, the Prince and Princess of Wales have released a YouTube video giving some candid shots of their preparations for the Coronation.\n\nThe short clip includes shots of Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis as they get ready to leave home for their grandfather's big day.\n\nThe photo of the Royal Family includes the Queen's sister and grandsons\n\nThe first set of official Coronation photos showed the King and Queen, but also focused on the \"working royals\", highlighting those who will be at the centre of royal duties during the King's reign.\n\nThere are expected to be more official photographs released as part of a Cabinet Office initiative to provide public buildings with a photographic portrait of the King.\n\nAnti-monarchy campaigners have complained about the budget of £8m for the project, calling it a \"shameful waste\", with no details released so far of how the funds might be spent.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "The Most Reverend Justin Welby was caught driving 5mph above the 20mph speed limit, near Lambeth Palace\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury has been fined more than £500 and given three penalty points after he was caught speeding in London.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby was recorded driving at 25mph in a 20mph zone in his Volkswagen Golf last year.\n\nThe 67-year-old had been going along the Albert Embankment towards his official residence at Lambeth Palace.\n\nHe admitted the offence in writing and was sentenced at a private magistrates' court hearing.\n\nThe archbishop, who was caught by a speed camera on 2 October, was prosecuted through the single justice procedure - a method that allows courts to deal with cases without the defendant having to go to a hearing.\n\nHe pleaded guilty online on Wednesday, the same day he appeared at the House of Lords to condemn the government's Illegal Migration Bill.\n\nLavender Hill Magistrates' Court ordered Mr Welby to pay a £300 fine, a £120 victim surcharge and £90 in legal costs, as well as adding the penalty points to his driving licence.\n\nA spokesperson for Lambeth Palace said the archbishop had been unaware the case might be dealt with in court.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"He has tried to resolve this and pay the fine three times. He has all the paperwork to prove that he has tried to pay.\n\n\"Admin errors seem to be causing problems.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scottish Greens minister Lorna Slater has been accused of hypocrisy for using a private ferry for an official visit to an island.\n\nThe boat was hired to take a group of eight people, including Ms Slater, to Rum on Friday morning.\n\nThe Scottish government said it would ensure the best value for taxpayers and allow Ms Slater to \"maximise time on the island\".\n\nBut the Conservatives questioned why Ms Slater did not take a CalMac ferry.\n\nAnd they predicted that the government's decision to hire a private boat would anger islanders struggling to access lifeline ferry services.\n\nThe circular economy minister was travelling with members of the Isle of Rum Community Trust, as well as NatureScot and Scottish government staff on a charter operated by Western Isle Cruises.\n\nThe minister's spokesperson said this would allow her to spend more time on the island and support a small local business.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives described it as a \"vessel of hypocrisy\", saying that islanders have been concerned about the current provision of timetabled ferry services.\n\nThe ferry network faces continuing problems with reliability due to an ageing fleet, something which has long angered island communities.\n\nMs Slater was due to discuss the future of Kinloch Castle which was built in the 1890s as a hunting lodge\n\nDonald Cameron, a Tory MSP for the Highlands and Islands, said the Greens were \"forever lecturing the public on the need to use public transport\" but Ms Slater was \"happy for the Scottish government to charter a private boat to take her to and from Rum\".\n\nHe added: \"Her excuse for doing so - that, essentially, the CalMac timetable doesn't suit - will go down like a lead balloon with Scotland's island communities.\n\n\"Those who rely on lifeline ferry services don't have the luxury of hiring a private boat to travel.\n\n\"Instead, they are dependent on an ageing and unreliable CalMac fleet they've been lumbered with due to the scandalous incompetence of the government Lorna Slater is at the centre of.\"\n\nHe accused Ms Slater of \"breath-taking\" hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness, and added that the \"tone-deaf indifference to them\" was \"another kick in the teeth to betrayed islanders\".\n\nA Scottish Labour spokesperson said: \"This is stunning hypocrisy. While island communities are facing serious disruption to ferry services, Lorna Slater is chartering a private boat.\n\n\"The Greens are out of touch with working people and nothing more than the SNP's little helpers. Scotland deserves better.\"\n\nSteve Robertson from the island's community trust described the row as \"a storm in a teacup\" but confirmed that the CalMac ferry service did not meet the island's needs.\n\nHe said: \"Lorna Slater is coming over to do a very important meeting to try and move things forward for the community.\n\n\"It makes people feel disappointed that that's the story when for us a taxi charter boat is a normal part of island life. We have to use these to make the island anything like sustainable.\n\n\"She can take the ferry service if she wants to have the meeting on the ferry and fit in with the very narrow options to spend time on Rum.\"\n\nRum Community Trust's Steve Robertson said charter boats were needed to make the island sustainable\n\nCalMac runs one return ferry service between Rum and Mallaig on three weekdays and at weekends during the summer season, costing £9.40 per passenger.\n\nOn Fridays the MV Lochnevis leaves Mallaig at 12:45, arriving at 14:10. That gives three hours and 10 minutes on the island before the return crossing departs at 17:20.\n\nA longer day trip is possible on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. On Saturdays the ferry timetable allows a stop on the island of seven hours and 25 minutes.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The minister is travelling to Rum early this morning to meet with islanders to discuss key issues including the future of Kinloch Castle.\n\n\"Eight people, including islanders, staff and the minister, are travelling on the boat for the meeting on Rum.\n\n\"In terms of ministerial travel costs, these are determined in accordance with the Scottish government's travel and subsistence policies, to ensure the best value for the Scottish taxpayer, and will be published in the normal way.\"\n\nKinloch Castle, a former Edwardian pleasure palace, is at risk of deteriorating as it is no longer being used as a hostel.\n\nCity financier and former Tory donor Jeremy Hosking had said he was interested in buying the castle, but blamed Ms Slater's intervention when he withdrew his bid.", "A payment of £2.90 per child per meals is no longer viable, says Prof Kevin Morgan\n\nThe increasing cost of food means school caterers are struggling to deliver the Welsh government's plan for universal free school meals.\n\nSchool food expert Prof Kevin Morgan said the government needs to look at increasing the price per meal given to local councils.\n\nEducation Minister Jeremy Miles said it is looking at the unit price.\n\nIt was set with \"an assumption about possible increases in costs\", Mr Miles said.\n\nHe added: \"The world has obviously moved on and we are doing a review.\"\n\nAt the moment, Welsh councils get about £2.90 per child per meal for primary school meals.\n\nThis price was set before the new universal school meals policy was started last September.\n\nProf Morgan told the BBC's Wales Live \"that £2.90 is no longer a viable rate in my view\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cook Jane Jones looking forward to the challenge when the rollout began\n\n\"That obviously needs to be looked at again,\" he added.\n\nHe said it was important that the food available for children was attractive and high quality to reduce waste.\n\nUniversal free school meals will be rolled out in phases to primary school pupils across Wales\n\nBrad Pearce, the national chairman of the Local Authority Caterers Association, painted a difficult picture for school caterers across Wales.\n\nHe said members had seen increases of 20% on the price of things such as milk, cheese, meat, fruit and vegetables.\n\n\"Cumulatively we'll have seen increases between 50 and 70% since May last year,\" he added.\n\nMr Pearce said the funding per meal needed to rise with inflation to enable caterers to buy good quality produce.\n\nHe said: \"We need those to be reviewed and addressed... to take into account the increase in food costs so we can buy the local, fresh produce to produce the best quality meals.\"\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, food inflation has increased by nearly 5% since September.\n\nUniversal free school meals are being rolled out in phases to all primary school pupils in Wales, as part of a co-operation agreement between the Labour Welsh government and Plaid Cymru.\n\n\"It needed to be a whole school approach, with the additional workload that it's brought,\" says head teacher Gayle Major\n\nBy April, every child in reception, Year One and Year Two was supposed to have been offered a free school meal.\n\nMost schools in Wales have reached that target, but not all.\n\nDespite this, the education minister said he was confident the target of offering all primary school pupils a school meal would be reached by April 2024.\n\n\"The effort which has gone into delivering this policy amongst local authorities right across Wales has been mammoth,\" said Mr Miles.\n\n\"By next year every child in a primary school in Wales will be offered a nutritious hot meal which is an incredible achievement.\"\n\nAt Blaenhonddan Primary School in Bryncoch, Neath Port Talbot, staff said the rollout had been hard work but a success.\n\nHead teacher Gayle Major said parents were \"absolutely delighted\" with the new policy but there were \"significant challenges\" to get it started.\n\n\"It needed to be a whole school approach, with the additional workload that it's brought to the school, the willingness of the staff within the kitchen and within my own staff to take on the extra responsibility has enabled it to be a success,\" she said.\n\n\"The school has taken on two extra permanent members of staff to cope with the increase in demand.\"\n\nMore on this story on Wales Live, which is on BBC One Wales on Wednesdays at 22:40 BST, and on the BBC iPlayer", "Sir Keir Starmer has said he takes allegations of sexual harassment \"extremely seriously\" after a Labour aide received a warning after allegedly groping a junior a staff member.\n\nThe adviser to a member of Labour's front bench was allowed to keep his job, though he has now resigned.\n\nMisconduct allegations \"are taken seriously\" by Labour, Sir Keir said.\n\nAccording to Politico, the aide was alleged to have groped a female intern 20 years his junior -a complaint which was upheld by two separate investigations.\n\nShe complained first to the parliamentary authorities, which resulted in a letter of apology, and then to the Labour Party, which took three years to investigate the case, the news website said.\n\nUnder party rules, allegations of sexual misconduct are investigated by a panel of Labour's National Executive Committee members, advised by an independent legal professional.\n\nAsked whether he was embarrassed the inquiry took three years, Sir Keir Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions, said: \"I think all of these allegations have to be taken extremely seriously, and they are taken seriously by me and the party.\n\n\"I do understand, from my experience as chief prosecutor, how difficult it is for people to come forward.\n\n\"That is among the reasons why we made our process completely independent, so it is not a political process any more.\n\n\"What I would say is: I would encourage anybody to come forward and to feel they are supported through that independent process.\"", "Cefin Campbell says \"unacceptable behaviour\" was tolerated in Plaid Cymru for many years\n\nA culture of bullying and misogyny in Plaid Cymru was allowed to go on \"too long\", one of its MSs has said.\n\nCefin Campbell said rumours of misconduct were known about for \"many years\" within the party and everyone who failed to report it was complicit.\n\nAdam Price quit as leader on Wednesday after a report found \"too many instances of bad behaviour\" were tolerated by senior figures.\n\nMr Campbell said the culture within the party now \"had to change\".\n\n\"For too long... people have known about misconduct in Plaid Cymru, whether it's misogyny, bullying, sexual harassment or whatever unacceptable behaviour,\" the MS for Mid and West Wales told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nHe said he had not seen the behaviour described in a review led by former Plaid politician Nerys Evans since he became a Senedd member in 2021, but admitted he had \"heard rumours\".\n\n\"So we are all complicit in the sense that we haven't maybe reported even rumours, so that has to stop, that culture has to change.\"\n\nMr Campbell said he had supported Mr Price to continue as leader to implement the 82 recommendations in the report.\n\nAdam Price resigned after saying he no longer had the support of his party\n\nBut he said Mr Price had \"lost the dressing room\" among the Plaid's Senedd group and did the \"honourable thing\" by stepping down.\n\nNorth Wales MS Llyr Gruffydd became interim leader of Plaid on Thursday.\n\nMr Campbell said the party is not \"divided\" but the Senedd group has \"differing views\".\n\n\"I think that's always healthy for a democratic party,\" he said. \"I haven't seen any infighting, there have been different views.\"\n\nHe added he still respects those who moved against Mr Price, saying they did what they believed was \"for the good of the party\".\n\nPlaid Cymru has said a permanent new leader will be in place in the summer\n\nKarl Davies, who was Plaid Cymru chief executive from 1993 to 2002, warned that \"if the party has moved from being a place where people felt safe, felt inclusive, and it has become a fearful culture, with people not feeling that inclusion, then the party is in a dire situation\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Cymru's Dros Frecwast programme, he said: \"The party depends on its members in terms of financial resources, to go out and knock on doors during elections, and depends on being part of their community.\n\n\"If the members feel that they are not being led correctly and that the party leadership is maintaining the 'toxic' culture, as it was called in the report, then there will be no motivation to go out and do the work and that will be damning for the party practically as well as culturally.\"\n\nElin Jones believes it would be better if a \"divisive\" leadership election was avoided\n\nMr Davies spoke of a \"feeling that the membership in the Senedd has taken over the party and the members are less powerful\".\n\n\"The new leader needs to ensure that the members of the party feel that they are once again in control, and I really hope that there will be a leader who will understand the grass roots of the party,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Senedd presiding officer and Ceredigion Plaid Cymru MS Elin Jones confirmed in a Facebook post that she would not be joining any leadership race.\n\nShe added that she would rather there was no such election at all, but admitted her view could belong to a \"minority of one\".\n\nMs Jones, who previously ran to lead the party in 2012, said: \"I won't be putting my name forward to be Plaid Cymru leader.\n\n\"Who would I like it to be? In all honesty, I'd like to see unity behind one candidate, thus avoiding a divisive, distracting leadership election so we can carry on with the job for our constituents and our country.\n\n\"There's a lot of work to do.\"", "Parents and teachers of Year 6 pupils say a Sats reading paper was so difficult it left children in tears.\n\nOne mother told the BBC that her child, who loves reading, was unable to finish the paper.\n\nA head teachers' union said even staff had struggled to understand the questions, and it would be raising concerns about the paper.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said it worked to ensure that \"all tests are appropriate\".\n\nSome parents said on social media that their children were \"distraught\" after the paper, which is part of a series of national curriculum tests known as Sats.\n\nA head teacher in Cheshire wrote to her MP calling for Sats to be scrapped after her primary school pupils were left \"broken\".\n\nJill Russell, from Cumbria, said her daughter, Pashley, was \"very close to tears\" when she picked her up from school on Wednesday.\n\nPashley, who is autistic, loves reading and is the subject ambassador for English in her school. She had been worried about Sats, but reading was \"the one she was least concerned about\".\n\nPashley (l) is a keen reader, says her mum Jill (r)\n\n\"She usually ends up having a lot of extra time left over, and she said 'I don't think I got to the end of the paper.... I didn't understand a lot of it. It didn't make sense',\" Ms Russell said.\n\n\"It's definitely made her more anxious about going back in today [Thursday].\"\n\nMs Russell thinks it is \"good, in a way, to have some kind of tests\" before GCSEs and thinks Pashley's school is \"fantastic\", but feels that schools in general are under too much pressure to perform well in Sats.\n\n\"It kind of feels like they're being taught how to pass the test, as opposed to being taught, and then the test is an addition,\" she said.\n\nThe government has advised that the content of the test paper should not be published until all Year 6 pupils have had the chance to take it.\n\nSarah Hannafin, head of policy for the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), said the union was \"very concerned\" about the paper.\n\n\"Members have told us that the choice of texts was not accessible for the wide range of experiences and backgrounds children have and the difficulty was beyond previous tests, leaving children upset and with even staff struggling to understand the questions,\" she said.\n\nShe said the NAHT would raise the concerns with Standards and Testing Agency, which delivers assessments, and Ofqual, England's exams regulator.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the Sats this week had been \"a punishing experience for many pupils and staff\".\n\nShe said that children who do not meet expected standards in results this year \"will take this demotivating label with them into their secondary schools\".\n\n\"This is not a system that is concerned about children and their learning. There are better ways of assessing pupils,\" she said.\n\nA DfE spokesman said Key Stage 2 assessments \"play a vital role in understanding pupils' progress and identifying those who may have fallen behind\".\n\n\"Our test development process is extremely rigorous and includes reviews by a large number of education and inclusion experts and professionals, including teachers, and we trial tests with hundreds of pupils over several years to ensure that all tests are appropriate,\" he said.\n\n\"It's important that schools encourage pupils to do their best, but preparing for these exams should not be at the expense of their wellbeing.\"\n\nLast year, 59% of Year 6 pupils met the expected levels in reading, writing and maths - down from 65% in 2019.\n\nThe national curriculum tests were cancelled in 2020 and 2021.", "Every day this week, we're speaking to one of the leading contenders for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nFor our penultimate chat, we caught up with girl group Vesna, whose feminist anthem My Sister's Crown sailed through Tuesday's qualifiers, thanks to its defiant refrain: \"We are not your dolls\".\n\nAlthough they're representing Czechia (formerly the Czech Republic), the six-piece are actually a multi-national act.\n\nRapper Tanita is Bulgarian, bass player Tereza is Slovak, pianist Olesya is Russian, while songwriter Patricie Kaňok, drummer Marketa and violinist Bára are all from Czechia.\n\nThey even collaborated with Ukraine's Kateryna Vatchenko on their Eurovision entry - whose chorus is sung in Ukrainian as a message of solidarity with their war-torn European neighbour.\n\nDressed in blush-pink suits, with floor-length ponytails, the band are mobbed by fans when they arrive in the Eurovision press centre. After posing for an endless succession of Instagram photos, TikTok video and BeReal snaps, they sit down to discuss their Eurovision experience.\n\nYou've just been mobbed! Is that happening everywhere now?\n\nPatricie: Yes! It still feels a bit crazy. But we're just so happy that our message is being understood. That's what Eurovision is about. So, when the fans come and they love the song, we couldn't be more grateful.\n\nHow has the whole rehearsal and semi-final process been?\n\nPatricie: It's really fine. We feel rooted on the stage and we feel calm. I think we're ready for the final.\n\nHow strange is it to be dancing instead of playing your instruments on stage?\n\nOlesya: It's very strange - because until recently we pretended to play the instruments on stage and it was like, where's the sound? [The technical complexity of Eurovision means that all songs are sung to a backing track]. But now, as we are all dancing, we can express our emotions through our movements.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Vesna This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nI'm a drummer and if anybody asked me to get up and dance, I'd be like, \"I'm good, thanks. I'll stay hidden behind the kit.\"\n\nTanita: Fortunately, our drummer has great moves, so we have no problem.\n\nPatricie: We always say how funny that our first public dance performance will be watched by 60 million people and our second, in the final, will be watched by 200 million. For beginners, that's pretty good!\n\nYou're rocking these incredible floor-length braids, which are part of your dance routine.\n\nTanita; We call it hair-ography! We've been practicing for three months.\n\nHas anyone tripped up yet?\n\nPatricie: No, we have carefully planned the plaits not to be longer than our ankles. Of course, tripping over has happened in our nightmares, but it hasn't happened in real life. And It won't happen.\n\nThe band's performance was a fan favourite in the Liverpool Arena at Tuesday's semi-final\n\nMy Sister's Crown is a really powerful song. Can you tell us a bit about the lyrics?\n\nPatricie: Our message is to stand up for those people who are being put down or being stepped on. If you see somebody being pushed into the corner, or having their crown taken away, we feel it's wrong.\n\nSo it has a message of empowerment - which you can see in our sisterhood. But can also apply to a community or a country that is going through a hard time.\n\nWhen you sing the chorus in Ukrainian, it's a really powerful statement.\n\nPatricie: That's correct. When we sing, \"we stand for you\" in Ukrainian, we are supporting that Slavic country with a message from all the other Slavic counties.\n\nThere's a feminine principle of solidarity and empathy with other, and when you see that basic human rights are being neglected, it's just so painful.\n\nYou've been playing together since 2016. How has the band developed?\n\nTanita: We all met in music school in Prague in the Czech Republic, but we all come from different countries.\n\nPatricie: We've already released two albums at home, and the music usually depicts what we are going through as a band, as women. The more mature we get, we see world in a different way, so every record reflects that growth and I think with time it's getting more and more polished.\n\nSo for example, right now, with the opportunity of having our music exposed to the whole world, we decided to create an EP which is combining other Slavic languages.\n\nI heard a rumour it will be released on Sunday...\n\nPatricie: Yeah, it comes out one day after Eurovision.\n\nThe group have already released two albums, toured with Aurora and collaborated with Hradec Kralove's Philharmonic Orchestra\n\nCzechia's best result in Eurovision is sixth place but there's speculation that you might improve on that. Does that get into your head?\n\nPatricie: Every time when we go on a stage, a few moments before we begin, we just make a circle and we remind each other, \"This is not about us being perfect. It's not about worrying about making mistakes or not making mistakes.\" We're really here to spread a message and that has already happened.\n\nSo if people love it and if they understand it - if it touches their heart - then that's our victory.\n\nPatricie, I know you're a huge Taylor Swift fan... What would you do if she called up to ask for a collaboration?\n\nPatricie: Oh my God. You don't want me into your microphone but, 'Aaaaaaaaaaah'! For sure she could come along. She's a genius songwriter. I don't understand how she manages to write two albums in one year!\n\nTo be fair, that was in lockdown. We all had a lot of time on our hands.\n\nPatricie: That's true. But again, I think we also did a good job of staying creative during Eurovision. We recorded three new songs in the last two months and you can hear them on the EP. So we are in Taylor's shadow but it's a good shadow to be in.", "A teenage Islamic State convert who has admitted plotting attacks on British police and soldiers has had his sentencing delayed after reports he has threatened to behead a prison imam.\n\nThe judge at the Old Bailey has adjourned the sentencing of 19-year-old Matthew King from Wickford in Essex.\n\nHe was put under surveillance after his mother raised concerns that videos he was watching promoted hatred.\n\nJudge Mark Lucraft KC said she had \"done exactly the right thing\".\n\nKing pleaded guilty in January to the preparation of terrorist attacks between 22 December 2021 and 17 May 2022.\n\nAt Friday's sentencing hearing in London, the prosecution outlined the case and the defence began its mitigation, however the judge adjourned the hearing for two weeks for further inquiries to be made at the prison where King is being held.\n\nThe court heard that intelligence reports from the jail suggested King had said he would \"behead the imam\".\n\nKing's barrister Hossein Zahir KC said this was \"a throwaway remark by an angry young man being stuck in his cell\" and asked for further inquiries.\n\nEarlier, the prosecuting barrister Paul Jarvis told the court King had dabbled in drugs since early secondary school, was expelled and left education at 16 with no qualifications.\n\nHe said King converted to Islam in 2020 and, at first, his behaviour improved, but in 2021 he began criticising his sisters' clothing as immodest and attended mosques wearing combat clothing.\n\nHe was put under surveillance after his mother reported him to the government's anti-extremism agency Prevent, because she feared some of the videos he was watching promoted hatred.\n\nSeveral of the mosques he attended also warned him about his behaviour, and one decided he was no longer welcome, Mr Jarvis told the court.\n\nIn 2022, in the weeks before his arrest, King began carrying out reconnaissance in east London, including on police officers patrolling outside Stratford railway station, as well as at Stratford police station itself and the local magistrates' court.\n\nMr Jarvis told the court that one of the videos found on his phone featured footage near the police station, overlaid with a soundtrack including the words: \"Coldly kill them with hate and rage. Plan your perfect killing spree.\"\n\nOn 17 May 2022, a CCTV camera captured him filming after dark outside a 7 Rifles Army barracks in east London.\n\nHe was arrested at his home the following day and his phone examined.\n\nOfficers found Snapchat messages King sent to a girl who was still in the sixth form, known in court as Miss A, in which he said he wanted to travel to Syria to become a martyr.\n\nThey exchanged messages about how they would like to mutilate members of the British and American armed forces.\n\nMiss A wrote to him: \"We can't let them die quick tho. Slow painful death akhi... I'll guide you through it. Or bring him or her home.\"\n\nThe prosecution said King had said he was \"training for Jihad\" and just wanted \"to kill people\".\n\nMr Jarvis told the court that on 17 May 2022, the day before King's arrest, the girl messaged him to say she wanted to concentrate on her exams.\n\nKing replied to say he would \"be worshipping Allah\" and he might soon be \"on the news\".\n\nThe sentencing has been adjourned until 26 May.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. North Wales Police said the incident is being \"fully investigated\"\n\nA police officer who was filmed seemingly punching a man nine times while restraining him has been suspended by North Wales Police.\n\nThe incident occurred during the arrest of a man, 34, in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, north-west Wales, on Wednesday.\n\nIn the footage, a male officer was seen with his arm around the man's neck and appeared to punch him in the face.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had launched an independent investigation.\n\nNorth Wales Police said on Thursday the matter was being \"fully investigated\".\n\nThe man who was being arrested has been released on bail, the force said.\n\nThe video appeared to show the suspect being taken to the ground by a male and female officer after a brief altercation.\n\nSeparate footage showed the man being led to a police vehicle with a swollen and bruised face.", "Prince Harry is one of four people taking action against the newspaper publisher\n\nPrince Harry and other celebrity claimants are a \"long way off\" proving Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) unlawfully gathered information on them, the publisher has told a court.\n\nHarry is among high-profile figures accusing MGN of various illicit practices including phone hacking.\n\nAndrew Green KC, representing MGN, said the evidence was \"slim\" in some areas and \"utterly non-existent\" in others.\n\nHe spoke on day three of a highly anticipated hearing at the High Court.\n\nMGN, which publishes the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People newspapers, vehemently denies the allegations.\n\nDuring Friday's proceedings, Mr Green said the claims had been made with \"no basis\" and \"a sense of outrage\".\n\n\"The evidence in this case is slim in relation to one of the claimants and utterly non-existent for the other three,\" he told the court.\n\nHe also took aim at the newspaper articles that had been submitted as evidence, saying they offered a \"breathtaking level of triviality\".\n\nSome 207 stories, published between 1991 and 2011, make up the bulk of the case's evidence. More than 60% of them are about Harry, Duke of Sussex.\n\nAs well as intercepting voicemails, the claimants have accused the publisher of using private investigators to illegally gather details about them to write stories.\n\nDavid Sherborne, the lawyer representing the claimants, told the court that the board knew about the hacking and covered it up.\n\nIn response, MGN said the claimants were \"smearing\" executives, adding that there had been \"extreme allegations of dishonesty\".\n\nHarry is among four people whose claims are being heard in the trial as \"representative\" cases of the types of allegations facing the publisher. They will also help the court set the level of damages MGN should pay if the claimants win.\n\nOthers involved are Coronation Street actors Nikki Sanderson and Michael Turner, known by his stage name Michael Le Vell, and comedian Paul Whitehouse's ex-wife Fiona Wightman.\n\nMichael Le Vell was pictured arriving at court on the first day of the trial\n\nThe publisher's lawyer argued that Ms Sanderson and Ms Wightman have run out of time to sue for damages, because these types of claims should be brought within six years of the alleged victim knowing what happened.\n\nThe Mirror Group's lawyer said phone hacking has been talked about for at least 20 years, with the publisher publicly apologising for its part in the high-profile scandal in 2014.\n\nTherefore, he argued, any potential victims should have known long ago to get a case started.\n\nBut Mr Sherborne said the claimants would not have suspected they too were victims because MGN covered up their wrongdoings so well and for so long.\n\nMr Green compared this current case to the one in 2015, where MGN conceded that unlawful techniques were used to obtain private information, and was ordered to pay £1.25m in damages.\n\nBut he said this case is different, because back then, there was \"direct evidence\" from Dan Evans, a former Sunday Mirror journalist.\n\nMr Evans \"has not said he hacked any of (the claimants)\" this time around, Mr Green said.\n\nDepending on the outcome of this case, the court could then consider cases from a range of celebrities including former Girls Aloud singer Cheryl and former Arsenal and England footballer Ian Wright.\n\nDuring Thursday's hearing, Mr Sherborne told the court that one of the most \"serious and troubling\" features of the case included \"the systemic and widespread use of PIs (private investigators) by MGN journalists to unlawfully obtain private information\" of various individuals.\n\nHe referred the court to key senior MGN figures who he claimed \"authorised\" the unlawful obtaining of information.\n\nHe said this included former editors Piers Morgan, Neil Wallis, Tina Weaver, Mark Thomas, Richard Wallace and Bridget Rowe, and alleged that managing editors and senior executives also knew.\n\n\"Mr Morgan was right at the heart of this in many ways,\" Mr Sherborne told the court.\n\nMr Morgan, who edited the Mirror from 1995 until 2004, has repeatedly denied any knowledge of unlawful information gathering happening under his watch - in particular phone hacking.\n\nThe trial, which is expected to run for seven weeks, will continue on Monday, when Mr Evans will testify.", "The UK has confirmed it is supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles it requested for its fight against invading Russian forces.\n\nThe Storm Shadow cruise missile has a range of over 250km (155 miles), according to the manufacturer.\n\nBy contrast, the US-supplied Himars missiles used by Ukraine only have a range of around 80 km (50 miles).\n\nThe weapons will give Ukraine the \"best chance\" of defending itself, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said.\n\nThey are fired from aircraft, so the longer range means Ukrainian pilots will be able to stay further from the frontlines.\n\nOnce launched, the Storm Shadow drops to low altitude to avoid detection by enemy radar, before latching onto its target with an infra-red seeker.\n\nThe announcement was made in the House of Commons by Mr Wallace. The decision follows repeated pleas from Ukraine for more weapons from the West.\n\nMr Wallace said the missiles would \"allow Ukraine to push back Russian forces based on Ukrainian sovereign territory\".\n\nHe said the UK took the decision after Russia \"continued down a dark path\" of targeting civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.\n\nMr Wallace wrote to his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu in December, he said, to warn that further attacks could result in the UK donating more capable weapons.\n\nHe said the missiles were \"going into\" or already in Ukrainian hands, and described the move as \"calibrated and proportionate to Russia's escalations\".\n\n\"None of this would have been necessary had Russia not invaded,\" he said.\n\nHe said the missiles would be compatible with Ukraine's existing, Soviet-era planes and praised the technicians and scientists who made that possible.\n\nBut he warned the range of the British-supplied Storm Shadows was \"not in the same league\" as Russia's own missile systems - with some of Moscow's weapons being able to travel far further.\n\nEarlier this year, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov insisted longer-range missiles would not be used to attack targets within Russia itself.\n\n\"If we could strike at a distance of up to 300 kilometres, the Russian army wouldn't be able to provide defence and will have to lose,\" he told an EU meeting.\n\n\"Ukraine is ready to provide any guarantees that your weapons will not be involved in attacks on the Russian territory.\"\n\nThe UK's Royal Air Force arms its Eurofighter Typhoon jets with Storm Shadow missiles\n\nIn February, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was prepared to send long-range missiles to Ukraine, and the British government opened a bidding process for their procurement.\n\n\"Together we must help Ukraine to shield its cities from Russian bombs and Iranian drones,\" Mr Sunak said then. \"That's why the United Kingdom will be the first country to give Ukraine longer-range weapons.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow would take an \"appropriate\" military response to any British-supplied Storm Shadow weapons used by Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe Storm Shadow missile has been operated by both British and French air forces and has been used previously in the Gulf, Iraq and Libya.\n\nThe British-supplied missiles can only be fired by aircraft, but French missiles can be fired from ships and submarines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says his army needs more equipment ahead of counter-offensive\n• None Zelensky: We must wait before starting offensive", "Civil servants advised the home secretary to abandon plans to house asylum seekers at a former RAF base in Lincolnshire, it has emerged.\n\nIn an email from February, seen by the BBC, a senior Home Office official advised Suella Braverman to stop work on the site at RAF Scampton.\n\nThe official noted \"significant challenges to progress\" on the site.\n\nThe Home Office said internal departmental discussions were a routine part of its decision-making.\n\nIt comes after West Lindsey District Council, where the base is located, lost its High Court bid for an injunction to stop work on the site.\n\nThe internal email was part of evidence referred to during a court hearing on Thursday.\n\nRAF Scampton is one of a number of military sites the Home Office wants to convert into large-scale asylum accommodation to house asylum seekers waiting for their claims to be assessed.\n\nWhen it announced the plans to convert it in March, the department said it wanted to reduce the cost of housing people in hotels, currently running at around £6m a day.\n\nThe Home Office says up to 2,000 asylum seekers could be housed at RAF Scampton, a base famous for being the former home of the Red Arrows and the World War Two Dambusters squadron.\n\nThe council had recently secured £300m from a developer to regenerate RAF Scampton into a site to be used for tourism, aviation, education and research.\n\nIn court, the council's lawyers said the Home Office's decision to turn the base into migrant accommodation would \"kill off\" the plan, calling this \"perverse\".\n\nThe email, dated 8 February from a senior official in the Resettlement, Asylum Support and Integration Directorate - does not go into detail about the objections but does make reference to the impact of the asylum proposal on redevelopment plans.\n\nIt recommends that the home secretary \"agree to stop work on proposals for RAF Scampton\", and \"immediately notify the local authorities that the Home Office are no longer developing proposals for the site.\"\n\nIn court, Home Office lawyers insisted the regeneration project had been explicitly taken into account by the home secretary.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the department said the military sites would provide \"cheaper and more suitable accommodation for those arriving in small boats\".\n\n\"Not only are these sites more affordable for taxpayers, they are also more manageable for communities, due to healthcare and catering facilities on site, 24/7 security and the purpose built, safe and secure accommodation they provide,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nWest Lindsey District Council is still going ahead with a broader legal challenge to the government's decision to use RAF Scampton.\n\nBraintree District Council in Essex is also involved in similar legal action over plans to turn Wethersfield Airfield into accommodation for asylum seekers.", "A strike by train drivers caused disruption for rail passengers on Friday and services are set to be affected across the weekend.\n\nMembers of the Aslef train drivers' union walked out from 16 companies, with some running no services at all.\n\nOn Saturday - the day of the Eurovision final in Liverpool - the RMT union is taking separate strike action, which will affect 14 rail operators.\n\nAs well as Friday's walkout, Aslef is also striking on Wednesday 31 May and Saturday 3 June - the day of the FA Cup final.\n\nAslef insisted that Friday's strike was not scheduled to affect travel to the Eurovision final.\n\nBut both Aslef and the RMT have been accused by Transport Secretary Mark Harper of targeting the contest.\n\nTrain companies said the action was \"likely to result in little or no services across large areas of the network\", with services also disrupted on the days immediately after the strikes.\n\nPassengers need to plan ahead and check services before travel, they said.\n\nThe first that Monika, a 26-year-old librarian from Whitstable, knew about the strikes was when she turned up at the railway station on Friday morning.\n\nShe told the BBC she had a flight booked from Stansted to Warsaw for an important family gathering, but when she tried to get a taxi to the airport, they were all busy.\n\nShe then travelled to Canterbury, thinking it would be easier to get a cab, but by the time she got there she had missed her flight.\n\nMonika booked another flight from Heathrow, but then had to get a taxi there. All in, with cab fares and plane tickets, Monika paid out nearly £600 - wiping out most of her savings and forcing her to borrow from her parents.\n\n\"It is a lot for me,\" she said. \"I work in a library so I'm on a low income.\"\n\nMonika said she felt \"really frustrated\" by the situation. But she added that she feels sympathy for the striking train workers and is \"100% behind\" them.\n\nAslef general secretary Mick Whelan told the BBC that if the union had deliberately targeted the Eurovision final, it would have taken action on the \"Friday, Saturday and the Sunday\" instead.\n\nMr Whelan added: \"We don't want to hurt anybody, but there is no good day for a strike. If you pick any one day in any given week you'll hit some event.\"\n\nHowever, the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train firms, insisted that the action was timed to hit Eurovision and would \"disrupt the plans of thousands of fans\".\n\nThe Department for Transport said it was \"hard to believe\" Aslef would be \"unaware of the huge impact\" on Eurovision of its action.\n\nFans have been gathering for events at the Eurovision Village in Liverpool throughout this week\n\nMr Whelan was asked whether Aslef would be able to find a \"middle ground\" with the government, but he said talks were not ongoing.\n\n\"I haven't seen the government since January... they take no ownership,\" he told the BBC. \"They don't talk to us, only the [rail] companies.\"\n\nRail Minister Huw Merriman insisted Aslef had been offered a \"fair and reasonable\" pay deal.\n\n\"We had a good positive meeting... and it was agreed with Mick Whelan and the Rail Delivery Group that they'd go off and have further talks,\" he said.\n\nHe added that a pay offer was put to Aslef but had not been \"put through\" to members to vote on, which he was \"disappointed\" with.\n\nAsked why the government was not doing more to end the disputes, Mr Merriman argued that being a train driver is a \"well-paid job\" and said it would be \"even more so if this pay offer was put forward to members and accepted\".\n\n\"At the moment a train driver is paid on average, for a 35-hour week, just short of £60,000,\" he told the BBC. \"The latest offer would take them up to £65,000.\"\n\nBut Mr Whelan told the BBC it was a \"malicious lie\" that the offer was fair and reasonable \"because the strings attached to it rip up every condition we've gained over the last 140 years\".\n\nHe said the offer was less than inflation \"so in effect it's a 20% pay cut for giving all our terms and conditions\", and negotiations had been \"scuppered\" by union \"red lines\" being put back into the deal.\n\nEurovision fan Harry Cunningham said the strikes were a \"huge disappointment\"\n\nHarry Cunningham, 23, who lives in London, had been planning to get the train on Friday to Liverpool and stay the night for the Eurovision Village grand final on Saturday.\n\nWhen the strikes were announced, he and his friend looked into other transport options but any alternative would have been three times longer than the train.\n\nHe said it was \"crushing\" and \"heartbreaking\" that they wouldn't be able to go.\n\n\"It's a huge disappointment... this is something we've been planning and prepping for since September.\"\n\nThere have already been six strike days in Aslef's long-running pay dispute.\n\nThe industry and the government say the railway's finances are unsustainable, so ways of working have to change and efficiencies be made, in return for wages going up.\n\nUnions point out the pay rises on the table are way below inflation, and argue their members' jobs and working conditions are being attacked.\n\nLast month, Aslef rejected the latest proposals from the group representing train companies.\n\nSeparately, RMT members who work as maintenance workers and signallers at Network Rail voted to accept a deal in March, ending that dispute.\n\nBut the parallel dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions with 14 train companies goes on.\n\nThe RMT's committee has rejected the train companies' latest offer, including a 5% pay rise one year and 4% the next.\n\nAre your travel plans affected by the industrial action? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Russian fleet sent to South Africa for naval exercises was led by the Admiral Gorshkov warship, seen here in Cape Town in February\n\nThe US ambassador to South Africa has accused the country of supplying weapons to Russia despite its professed neutrality in the war in Ukraine.\n\nReuben Brigety claimed that a Russian ship was loaded with ammunition and arms in Cape Town last December.\n\nPresident Cyril Ramaphosa's office said it was disappointed by the claims and said no evidence has been provided to support them.\n\nThe country has maintained claims of neutrality in the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMr Brigety said at a media briefing in Pretoria on Thursday that Washington had concerns about the country's stated non-aligned stance on the conflict.\n\nHe referred to the docking of a cargo ship in the Simon's Town naval base between 6 and 8 December last year which he was \"confident\" uploaded weapons and ammunition \"as it made its way back to Russia\".\n\nThe presence of the ship, the Lady R, had seemed curious at the time and raised questions from some local politicians.\n\n\"The arming of the Russians is extremely serious, and we do not consider this issue to be resolved,\" Mr Brigety said, in a damning accusation that seems to have caught South Africa's officials off guard.\n\nIn the wake of the allegations, the South African government announced the establishment of an independent inquiry led by a retired judge, a spokesman for the president's office said.\n\nThe US has been critical for months about South Africa's continued cosy relationship with Russia.\n\nState Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told journalists on Thursday that the US had previously raised concerns about the Lady R with numerous South African officials.\n\nHe said the US would speak out against \"any country taking steps to support Russia's illegal and brutal war in Ukraine\", but would not say whether there would be any repercussions for South Africa if the claims proved to be true.\n\nWashington has also expressed concerns about South Africa's participation in military exercises with Russia and China during the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa told parliament his government was looking into the claims\n\nThe naval exercises took place over 10 days in February and were criticised by opposition figures as an endorsement of the Russian invasion.\n\nThe South African authorities denied the war games were provocatively timed to coincide with the one-year anniversary and said the country routinely hosts similar drills with other nations, including France and the US.\n\nSouth Africa previously abstained from a UN vote condemning the invasion. It also refused to join the US and Europe in imposing sanctions on Russia.\n\nIn response to a question raised by the leader of the opposition John Steenhuisen, President Ramaphosa told parliament on Thursday that the comments made by the US ambassador would be looked into.\n\nThe president asked opposition parties to allow for the process to be completed, adding that \"in time we will be able to speak about it\".\n\nIf the claims are true, they not only weaken South Africa's claim of neutrality, but some may even go as far as saying the country is complicit in the ongoing aggression of Russia in Ukraine.\n\n\"If South African bullets are found on Ukraine bodies, that is not a position we would want to be in,\" one expert in international relations said.\n\nThe details around the arms cache are still thin. It is not clear if the weapons would have been acquired from a state-owned arms company, or a weapons company based in South Africa.\n\nBut either way, this does not bode well for South Africa's international ties, especially with the US, one of its largest trade allies.\n\nAt the heart of the issue for South Africa now, off the back of these claims, will be the impression this could create that the country is not only non-aligned but has in fact chosen to be a \"soft ally\" to Russia, at a time when some Western countries see Russia as an aggressor guilty of human rights violations.\n\nSouth Africa has modern-day ties with Russia because they are members of the Brics alliance, a group which represents some of the world's leading emerging economies, including China, Brazil and India.\n\nThe country's governing African National Congress (ANC) also has long-standing ties with Russia.\n\nSouth Africa was faced with a diplomatic dilemma in March after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nHe is accused of being responsible for war crimes in Ukraine, including the unlawful deportation of children.\n\nMr Putin was due to attend an upcoming Brics summit in South Africa in August but the warrant meant that Pretoria would have to detain him on arrival.\n\nIn response, last month Mr Ramaphosa said the ANC had decided that South Africa should quit the ICC, before backtracking hours later citing what his office called a communications \"error\".\n\nHistorically, South Africa had a thriving arms industry, selling weapons to countries across the continent. The scale of that arms power to date is currently not known.\n\nSouth Africa's authorities have been less than pleased with the accusation from the US ambassador, saying the matter should have been handled through proper diplomatic channels.\n\nIt is not enough for the envoy to simply claim the existence of the intelligence and there will be an expectation from many in South Africa for the US to provide evidence of its claim.\n\nThis is a hang-over from claims once made by the US of weapons of mass destruction, which led to the invasion of Iraq some years ago.", "The UK grew only weakly in the first three months of the year with the economy hit by strikes, cost of living pressures and wet weather.\n\nThe economy grew by just 0.1% between January and March, figures showed, and it remains smaller than levels seen before the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe UK is also lagging behind growth seen in other major economies.\n\nOn Thursday, the Bank of England said it was more optimistic about prospects, and the UK would avoid a recession.\n\nIts comments came after the Bank increased interest rates to 4.5% from 4.25% as part of its continued attempt to slow soaring prices.\n\nThe ONS figures showed that while the economy grew slightly over the first three months of 2023, in March it contracted by 0.3%, with car sales and the retail sector having a bad month.\n\nThe economy is still 0.5% smaller than pre-pandemic levels, the ONS said.\n\nWhile the UK outperformed Germany in the first three months of the year, many other major economies grew faster.\n\nVictoria Scholar, head of investment at Interactive Investor, said: \"Stubbornly high inflation, negative real wage growth and general cost of living pressures are weighing on the consumer, and in turn the services industry which is typically a key growth engine for the UK economy.\n\n\"Today's figures point to the importance of taming inflation, a daunting task facing the Bank of England and the government, in order to catalyse a revival in services.\"\n\nDarren Morgan, director of economic statistics at the ONS, said while growth during the first quarter of the year had been helped by IT and construction, this had been partially offset by the impact of strikes in the health, education and public administration sectors.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, Mr Morgan also said that car sales had been \"relatively weak\" for March, while retail sales had been hit by wet weather which put people off visiting the High Street.\n\n\"We also saw food store sales slip and retailers told us that the increased cost of living and rising food prices are continuing to affect consumer spending,\" he added.\n\nThe economy just about grew in the first quarter of this year, but at 0.1% that was by the barest possible margin. The fall in March, the latest month, is of some concern with the service sector going into reverse, and car sales disappointing.\n\nStrikes and the weather are factors here, but there is no denying the sluggish pattern that has persisted for a year now, as energy prices have risen. It will be not much comfort that Germany is not growing at all. On a quarterly basis the UK economy has still not regained all the ground lost since the pandemic and Brexit.\n\nThe current second quarter could see a fall too given the extra bank holiday. But forecasters are looking for the second half of the year for growth to start climbing again.\n\nAfter a massive energy shock and other crises, the avoidance of a recession exceeds expectations. As the Bank of England said yesterday, two thirds of the impact of rate rises to date are yet to hit households.\n\nWhile the engine of growth in the economy is on, the UK is going to have to wait a little longer for take-off.\n\nResponding to the latest growth figures, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said: \"It's good news that the economy is growing but to reach the government's growth priority we need to stay focused on competitive taxes, labour supply and productivity.\"\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said: \"Despite our country's huge potential and promise, today is another day in the dismal low growth record book of this Conservative government.\"\n\nDavid Dargan, managing director of construction business Starship Group, told the BBC he was positive about the outlook for the economy.\n\nDavid Dargan says the construction sector is facing a \"new norm\" of higher costs\n\n\"We've had a bit of a perfect storm in construction with rising costs, shortages of material and labour but I think we've been really resilient and have learnt to trade our way through it,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the construction sector was facing a \"new norm\" when it comes to costs and it has taken clients a while to get used to that.\n\nKPMG economist Yael Selfin said the contraction seen in the economy during March \"underscores its fragility\", despite lower energy prices, improvements to the supply of goods, and a pick-up in consumer confidence.\n\n\"While recession is probably no longer on the cards, vulnerabilities resulting from higher borrowing costs... are likely to dampen business and household activity this year.\"", "Elon Musk has named a new chief executive of Twitter, just over six months after his controversial takeover of the social media company.\n\nThe billionaire said Linda Yaccarino, the former head of advertising at NBCUniversal, would oversee business operations at the site, which has been struggling to make money.\n\nHe said she would start in six weeks.\n\nMr Musk will remain involved as executive chairman and chief technology officer.\n\n\"Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app,\" he wrote on Twitter, confirming the decision a day after he had stoked speculation by writing that he had found a new boss without revealing their identity.\n\nMr Musk - who bought the social media platform last year for $44bn - had been under pressure to find someone else to lead the company and refocus his attention on his other businesses, which include electric carmaker Tesla and rocket firm SpaceX.\n\nWith fewer than 10% of Fortune 500 tech companies headed by women, Ms Yaccarino will become that rare example of a woman at the top of a major tech firm, after rising steadily through the ranks of some of America's biggest media companies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Yaccarino was raised in an Italian-American family. After graduating from Penn State, she worked at Turner Entertainment for 15 years before joining NBCUniversal, where she oversaw roughly 2,000 people, and was involved with the launch of its streaming service.\n\nHer work has been marked by close collaborations with big brands, finding opportunities for product placement and convincing them to advertise alongside television shows - even ones with a reputation for edgy content, such as Sex and the City when it first launched.\n\nShe has also built relationships in new media with the likes of Apple News, Snapchat and YouTube.\n\nA 2005 profile in an industry publication portrayed her as a busy, married mother-of-two children, then aged 13 and 9.\n\n\"I have absolutely no hobbies,\" she said at the time.\n\nBusiness Insider's Claire Atkinson has followed Ms Yaccarino's career for two decades and said her background in advertising could help Twitter, which has seen its ad sales drop sharply since Mr Musk's takeover.\n\n\"If Twitter are looking to monetise better than they have been, then that would be the place to start and Linda would be the ideal person to make that happen,\" the chief media correspondent said.\n\n\"She's the kind of person that I can imagine Elon Musk needs,\" Ms Atkinson added. \"She won't be rolled over.\"\n\nIndeed, her negotiating style within the industry earned her the nickname the \"velvet hammer\", according to the Wall Street Journal in 2012.\n\nMs Yaccarino will face the challenge of running a business that has struggled to be profitable, while facing intense scrutiny over how Twitter handles the spread of misinformation and manages hate speech.\n\nWhen Mr Musk first started discussing his plans for Twitter last year, he said he wanted to reduce the platform's reliance on advertising and make changes to the way it moderated content.\n\nHe also said he wanted to expand the site's functions to include payments, encrypted messaging and phone calls, turning it into something he called X.\n\nBut Mr Musk courted controversy when he fired thousands of staff upon his takeover, including people who had been tasked with dealing with abusive posts.\n\nHe also overhauled the way the service authenticates accounts, charging for blue ticks in a move critics said would facilitate the spread of misinformation.\n\nSome of the changes raised concerns among advertisers, worried about risks to their brands, who subsequently halted spending on the site.\n\nMr Musk has acknowledged \"massive\" declines in revenue, though he told the BBC last month that companies were returning.\n\nAt an advertising conference last month Ms Yaccarino interviewed Mr Musk and pressed him on what he was doing to reassure firms that their brands would not be exposed to risk.\n\n\"The people in this room are your accelerated path to profitability,\" she said. \"But there's a decent bit of sceptics in the room.\"\n\nThere has also been some instant scepticism at Ms Yaccarino's appointment on social media, where many were looking for clues to her politics, which reportedly lean conservative.\n\nHer work for the World Economic Forum, an organisation viewed negatively as \"globalist\" by those on the right, has not been well-received in some quarters along with her role in a coronavirus vaccination campaign featuring Pope Francis.\n\nOthers on the left have questioned her political involvement in a White House sports, fitness and nutrition council under former President Donald Trump.\n\nMr Musk, who has also put women in senior positions at SpaceX and Tesla, is known to be a notoriously unpredictable and demanding boss.\n\nEven the announcement unfolded in an unusual manner, after media reports sparked by Mr Musk's post that identified Ms Yaccarino appeared to catch her bosses at NBCUniversal off guard.\n\nAs of mid-Friday in the US, Ms Yaccarino had still not commented publicly on the move.\n\nIndustry watchers will be curious to see how the relationship develops between the New Yorker and the until now hands-on Mr Musk.\n\nMs Atkinson said the two Twitter executives would be facing \"difficult conversations\" about how to handle moderation, especially with the 2024 presidential election approaching in the US.\n\n\"How long Linda can last under these tricky management situations is anyone's guess,\" Ms Atkinson said.\n• None Elon Musk says he has appointed new Twitter boss", "A world-renowned cancer centre hit by whistleblowing concerns over alleged bullying has been downgraded by the health watchdog.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) told The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester it \"requires improvement\" in safety and leadership.\n\nA former trust nurse told the BBC leaders had intimidated staff to stop them voicing concerns to inspectors.\n\nThe trust said it was working hard to ensure staff felt supported.\n\nRebecca Wight worked at The Christie - Europe's largest cancer centre - from 2014 but quit her role as an advanced nurse practitioner in December, claiming her whistleblowing attempts had been ignored.\n\nShe told BBC Newsnight the trust had attempted to manipulate the inspection by intimidating those who wished to paint an honest picture.\n\n\"The well-led inspection was basically run by The Christie,\" she said.\n\n\"The CQC requested a few forums with clinical staff. Those forums were infiltrated by leaders.\n\n\"The forum I went to was attended by senior leaders in the executive team.\"\n\nMs Wight said it was done \"to intimidate staff to not speak up or maybe not speak openly about leadership\".\n\nMs Wight said she and others wrote to the CQC to warn inspectors they were only getting a carefully controlled and inaccurate picture.\n\nAs a result, an off-site session was arranged by the CQC, she said, \"for people to come anonymously and speak to them\".\n\nRoger Kline, an NHS workforce and culture expert from Middlesex University Business School, told BBC Newsnight there was a culture at The Christie which was \"unwelcoming of people raising concerns\".\n\nHe said: \"The trust response is more likely... to see the person raising the concerns as the problem rather than the issues they have raised,\" adding this was \"not good for patient care\".\n\nFollowing the downgrading of the trust's rating, Mr Kline said leaders should now consider their positions, adding: \"I think for a trust like The Christie, a small specialist trust, any form of downgrading is a significant problem.\"\n\nRoger Kline said there was \"poor governance\" at The Christie\n\nThe Christie had been rated as \"outstanding\" in its previous two CQC inspections.\n\nDowngrading the trust's rating to \"good\" following its latest inspection, the CQC criticised The Christie's workplace culture, highlighting that staff did not always feel listened to.\n\nIt followed an NHS England review in February 2022 which found the trust had been \"defensive and dismissive\" when staff raised concerns about bullying and a £20m research project.\n\nThe CQC said while there was some \"outstanding practice\" at The Christie - and praised its commitment to research and innovation to improve cancer patients' outcomes - a number of improvements were required, notably in safety and leadership.\n\nThe report said: \"Very senior executives were heavily invested in the promotion and protection of the trust's reputation.\n\n\"This impacted negatively on some staff; staff did not always feel supported and valued.\n\n\"A minority of staff expressed reservations about raising concerns and others did not always feel listened to.\"\n\nThe CQC's Northern operations director Ann Ford said: \"Although the trust had made some changes to improve the culture, more work needs to be done to address the issues we identified.\"\n\nShe thanked staff who came forward to give feedback, adding: \"I know speaking up in these circumstances isn't easy but it's important it happens.\"\n\nMs Ford praised medical care at the trust, saying \"staff treated people with compassion and kindness, respected their privacy and dignity and met people's individual needs\".\n\nThey also provided emotional support to people, families and carers, she added.\n\n\"However, they didn't always carry out risk assessments in a timely manner which potentially put people at risk of harm.\"\n\nMs Ford praised The Christie's \"research and innovation to improve outcomes for people with cancer and the trust and everyone involved should be proud of that important work\".\n\nBBC Newsnight put the claims about how the inspection process was handled to The Christie but it declined to comment, saying it was a matter for the CQC.\n\nTrust chief executive Roger Spencer said: \"We are pleased the CQC has rated us 'good' despite the difficulties the NHS has faced over the past few years.\n\n\"Demand for cancer services has continued to rise, resulting in us treating more patients than ever before.\n\n\"We are working hard to make the improvements that have been highlighted by the CQC, ensuring that all our staff feel supported and valued and I thank all of them for continuing to put patients at the centre of everything we do.\"\n\nBBC Newsnight understands Mr Spencer wrote to staff on Thursday ahead of the CQC report's publication, pointing out that inspectors had advised the trust to continue its plan \"to ensure that our staff feel supported and valued and are able to speak up to raise concerns\".\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The incident on 1 May was filmed by bystanders and sparked protests across New York\n\nA former US Marine who placed a homeless man in a fatal chokehold on the New York subway is expected to be charged with manslaughter.\n\nDaniel Penny, 24, will be arrested on Friday and accused of causing the death of 30-year-old Jordan Neely in a train carriage on 1 May.\n\nHis lawyers say he could not have known his actions to subdue Mr Neely would lead to his death.\n\nMy Neely was pinned to the ground and put in a chokehold for several minutes.\n\nHe had been shouting at other subway passengers and asking for money, witnesses said, but there is no indication he had physically attacked anyone.\n\nThe incident was filmed by bystanders and sparked protests across New York. A video captured by a freelance journalist on the train shows the former Marine holding the Mr Neely around the neck for two minutes and 55 seconds.\n\nHe was later found unconscious in the carriage and taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. His death resulted from compression of the neck, the city's medical examiner ruled.\n\nMr Penny told other riders to call the police during the struggle, according to CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\n\nHe was questioned and released by police in New York on the day of the incident. But on Thursday, prosecutors said they would bring criminal charges against him.\n\n\"We can confirm that Daniel Penny will be arrested on a charge of manslaughter in the second degree,\" a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said in a statement.\n\n\"We cannot provide any additional information until he has been arraigned in Manhattan criminal court.\"\n\nIt is not clear whether charges will be brought against two other unidentified people who were also seen restraining Mr Neely.\n\nIn a statement earlier this month, lawyers for Mr Penny expressed condolences to the Neely family, and said Mr Penny and other passengers acted in self-defence.\n\nThey said Mr Neely's behaviour was \"the apparent result of ongoing and untreated, mental illness\", which prompted Mr Penny and others \"to protect themselves, until help arrived\".\n\nA witness to the altercation said Mr Neely was shouting about being hungry and thirsty. Police sources also told CBS News that Mr Neely was allegedly acting erratically.\n\nIn a statement earlier this week, Mr Neely's family said that Mr Penny needed to be in prison. \"The family wants you to know that Jordan matters,\" they said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Neely was a Michael Jackson impersonator who frequently performed in Times Square.\n\nHe had a number of previous offences, which New York City Mayor Eric Adams said highlights the need to improve the mental health system so that it can better protect people like him.\n\nHe had 42 arrests on charges such as evading fares, theft, and assaults on three women, according to US media reports.\n\nHis mother, Christie Neely, was murdered in 2007 by her boyfriend, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2012, according to the Jersey Journal.\n\nFollowing his mother's death, Mr Neely began experiencing mental health issues, his aunt, Carolyn Neely, told the New York Post.", "SNP MP Joanna Cherry had said she would take legal action against The Stand if neccesary\n\nThe comedy club which cancelled a Fringe show by SNP MP Joanna Cherry has reinstated the event.\n\nThe Stand had cancelled the show after staff said they were not comfortable with her views on transgender issues.\n\nBut the venue has now said the decision was \"unfair and constituted unlawful discrimination against Ms Cherry\".\n\nMs Cherry said it was a \"very welcome move by The Stand\" and confirmed she will take part in August's event as originally planned.\n\nThe Stand said it had taken legal advice and now accepted it had got its original decision wrong.\n\nIn a statement, the club said it \"publicly and unreservedly apologise to Ms Cherry\".\n\nIt added: \"We have always been clear that we oppose all forms of discrimination and recognise the rights of individuals to air views with which we may disagree.\n\n\"We hope that this apology draws a line under this episode.\"\n\nMs Cherry welcomed the apology and confirmed she will take part in the event.\n\nShe told BBC Radio Scotland Drivetime: \"I didn't want to have to take legal action here and this was never about money.\n\n\"But the fact that The Stand have fully and frankly accepted that cancelling the event on account of my philosophical views as a lesbian and a feminist was unlawful, I really hope that's going to benefit other women, and indeed men.\"\n\nMs Cherry added she hoped the U-turn would discourage discrimination \"against people like me\" - who she said fully support equal rights for trans people but \"don't believe that any man should be able to self identify as a woman\".\n\nThe Stand previously said some of its staff were unwilling to work at the event\n\nThe Stand - which was co-founded by SNP MP Tommy Sheppard - has said it will donate its share of the profit from the event to the Edinburgh Food Project charity.\n\nIt added that management of the event will be discussed with its staff in the coming weeks.\n\nMr Sheppard, who sits on the venue's board and is believed to be one of a number of shareholders, said it would be wrong to characterise it as a dispute between him and Ms Cherry.\n\nMs Cherry was booked to take part in a series of In Conversation With... events with public figures in August.\n\nThe Edinburgh South West MP is a critic of Scotland's gender recognition reform plans, which make it easier for people to change their legally-recognised sex.\n\nThe MP previously said she felt she had been \"cancelled and no-platformed\" because she was a lesbian who holds gender-critical views, and had vowed to take \"whatever legal action is necessary\" unless The Stand admitted that it acted unlawfully, issued an apology and reinstated the event.\n\nThe Stand has released a copy of the letter its legal team sent to Ms Cherry.\n\nThe Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow was ordered to pay almost £100,000 in damages to a controversial evangelical US preacher after axing his event in 2020.\n\nFranklin Graham's appearance at the Hydro was scrapped following pressure from Glasgow City Council, Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie and campaigners over his views on issues such as homosexuality, Islam and Donald Trump.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many of Eurovision's performances have been described as out of this world.\n\nAnd last year's near-win by Sam Ryder, who sang Space Man, brought the 2023 final to Liverpool.\n\nBut Scots singer-songwriter Rikki Peebles was on the trend decades before.\n\nHe represented the UK in 1987 with a song inspired by his sighting of a UFO in his home city of Glasgow.\n\n\"All my adult life I have had an affinity with all things UFO, not of this world,\" Peebles said.\n\n\"It was about 1984 and I was in my car driving on the new M8 motorway. I sat at a junction after coming off .\n\n\"I looked up and I saw this massive light in the sky but it moved from my left, right across my vision to the right and then slowly disappeared.\n\n\"I thought I had to report this to authorities. I did and the next day the same thing had been seen over parts of Wales. I knew it wasn't just me. This was something not of this earth.\"\n\nThe experience inspired Peebles to write a song. He had been signed by a small independent music label and was putting an album together after releasing several singles in Europe.\n\nHe was also writing songs for Scottish pop group Middle of the Road (who famously sang Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, written by Lally Stott).\n\nThe 67-year-old told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme that he knew nothing about Eurovision until he walked into the studio one day.\n\nHe said: \"I was recording an album at the time. One day a staff member came in and said one of my songs had been put forward for Eurovision. I didn't know.\n\n\"Then they contacted me and said the song was through to the last 60. It's strange but I knew right then that this song would go the full road, I could feel it.\"\n\nIt got to the last 20, then the last 12. And then Only The Light became the UK's official entry.\n\nPeebles walked on the stage at the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Brussels just after discovering he was joint favourite to win - along with the Irish entry sung by Johnny Logan.\n\nHe tried to soak up the whole Eurovision experience.\n\n\"Eurovision then, I imagine, was on par with going to an Olympic Games,\" he said.\n\n\"You are thrust into all these countries with so many people involved. You don't have much time to make friendships as you are so wrapped up in the week leading in to the performance.\n\n\"But it was an amazing feeling of being elevated from an ordinary person and into this world of Eurovision.\"\n\nThe stage is set in Liverpool for the Eurovision final on Saturday\n\nHistory was made in Brussels that night but sadly not for Rikki Peebles.\n\nOnly The Light came 13th with 47 points.\n\nThe other favourite, Hold Me Now by Johnny Logan won with 172 points. This made him the only artist to have won the contest twice, after his 1980 winner What's Another Year.\n\nLogan went on to win a third time as the composer of Linda Martin's winning entry Why Me? in 1992.\n\nPeebles is now retired from music and works as a cabbie in Glasgow.\n\nRikki Peebles is not the only Scottish link to Eurovision.\n\nThis small nation has had a hand in many aspects of the contest over the years.\n\nThe last Scot to represent the UK was Scott Fitzgerald, who came within a point of beating Celine Dion to the title in 1988.\n\nBefore Rikki Peebles, in a strange coincidence, the two previous Scottish entrants played together as children in the east end of Glasgow.\n\nScott Fitzgerald played with Lulu when they were children, in a tenement back court in Glasgow\n\nOne of them, Marie Lawrie, grew up to be Lulu, who won the competition in 1969 with Boom Bang-a-Bang.\n\nAlmost 20 years later wee Billy McPhail, who says he used to play with Lulu in a tenement back court, represented the UK under his stage name Scott Fitzgerald.\n\nIn 1966, Scottish traditional singer Kenneth McKellar was the UK entry for the contest in Luxembourg. Despite donning a kilt for the occasion, A Man Without Love placed a disappointing ninth out of 18 entries.\n\nIn 1967 the UK celebrated the first of its five Eurovision victories with Sandie Shaw's Puppet on a String. The success of the song was in no small part due to its writer, Govan-born Bill Martin.\n\nMartin also wrote the 1968 UK entry Congratulations, performed by Cliff Richard.\n\nIn 1972, Scotland hosted the competition. Monaco, the previous winners, were unable to host, so the contest was held in Edinburgh instead.\n\nThe Usher Hall was the venue, with Edinburgh Castle the location for the all-important juries.\n\nPaisley songwriter David Sneddon, winner of BBC's Fame Academy in 2002, wrote the Greek entry Better Love for the 2019 Contest.\n\nAnd in 2020 Scotland hosted the Eurovision Song Contest again - on screen, that is.\n\nThe Netflix film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, starring Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams, featured Edinburgh as host city, confusingly using Glasgow's Hydro as the concert venue.", "A Ukrainian soldier firing an anti-tank grenade launcher at a front line near Bakhmut (pictured on 3 May)\n\nUkraine says it has recaptured ground in Bakhmut, a rare advance after months of grinding Russian gains in the eastern city.\n\nKyiv said its forces advanced 2km (1.2 miles) in a week. Russia said its troops had regrouped in one area.\n\nThe claims signal a momentum shift in Bakhmut - but more widely, there is no clear evidence of a Ukrainian counter-offensive.\n\nHowever, two explosions were reported on Friday in Russian-occupied Luhansk.\n\nImages posted on social media, verified by the BBC, show a big plume of black smoke rising from the city, which lies about 90km (55.9 miles) behind the front line in eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe blasts come a day after the UK said it had supplied Ukraine with long range Storm Shadow cruise missiles.\n\nKremlin-appointed officials said six children in Luhansk were injured in a missile attack alongside Russian parliamentarian Viktor Vodolatsky. The authorities there have blamed the attack on Kyiv.\n\nLuhansk is beyond the reach of the Himars rockets Ukraine has previously relied on for deep strikes against Russian targets.\n\nBut Russian-appointed officials in the region said they thought Ukrainian-made missiles were responsible, hitting administrative buildings of two defunct enterprises.\n\nEarlier Russia's defence ministry said Russian troops in one Bakhmut area had changed their position for strategic reasons.\n\nIt said units of the southern group of Russian forces had taken up a better defensive position in the Maloilinivka area, something which took into consideration \"the favourable conditions of the Berkhivka reservoir\".\n\nHowever the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin said what the Ministry of Defence was talking about \"is unfortunately called 'fleeing' and not a 'regrouping'\".\n\nAs the intense, bloody battle has worn on, Bakhmut has become symbolically important - though many experts question its tactical value.\n\nIn a post on Telegram, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar claimed Russia suffered significant troop losses as Ukraine gained 2km without losing any positions.\n\nMeanwhile Russian military bloggers reported Ukrainian advances or troop movements in several areas.\n\nThe Institute for the Study of War also said Ukrainian forces had probably made gains of 2km in Bakhmut.\n\nThe BBC has verified video of soldiers with Ukrainian-identifying markings posing in front of a gate and a tank in the distance, also with Ukrainian markings.\n\nThe video, published on 11 May, has been located to an area around Bakhmut industrial college, until recently held by Wagner troops.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says his army needs more equipment ahead of counter-offensive\n\nAway from Bakhmut, the exiled mayor of Melitopol reported a large explosion on Friday morning in the centre of the south-eastern city, which has been occupied by Russia since the start of the war.\n\nIt was not known what caused the blast, but the Ukrainian air force made 14 strikes on Russian forces and military equipment on Thursday, Ukraine's armed forces said.\n\nAlongside the air strikes, Ukraine said it destroyed nine Russian drones and carried out successful attacks on dozens of military targets - including artillery units, an ammunition warehouse and air defence equipment.\n\nAfter months of stalemate, a Ukrainian counter-offensive - helped by newly-arrived Western weapons - has been openly discussed. But Ukraine's president said on Thursday it was too early to start the attack.\n\n\"With [what we already have] we can go forward and, I think, be successful,\" President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview.\n\n\"But we'd lose a lot of people. I think that's unacceptable. So we need to wait. We still need a bit more time.\"\n\nDespite President Zelensky's words, pro-Kremlin Russian war correspondent Sasha Kots claimed the counter-offensive had begun.\n\nUkrainian tanks were on the Kharkiv ring road heading towards the border with Russia, he said, quoting \"trusted\" sources. His claims could not be independently verified.\n\n\"There are low loaders in the columns carrying Western [tank] models among others,\" Kots added.\n\n\"In other words,\" he said, \"Kiev [Kyiv] has decided to aggravate the situation along the northern front in parallel with the start of offensive actions on the flanks of Artyomovsk [the Russian name for Bakhmut].\"\n\nAnother Russian war correspondent, Alexander Simonov, wrote on Telegram that Ukrainian forces had broken through near the village of Bohdanivka, close to Bakhmut, taking \"several square kilometres\" of ground.\n\nUkrainian military analyst Oleksandr Musivenko said Kyiv recognised that the anticipated counter-offensive might not necessarily defeat Russia \"in all occupied areas\".\n\nHe told Ukrainian NV radio there was every possibility the war could continue into next year. \"It all depends on how the battles develop. We can't guarantee how the counteroffensive will develop,\" he said.\n\nAn unnamed senior US military official told CNN that Ukrainian forces were preparing for a major counter-offensive by striking targets such as weapons depots, command centres and armour and artillery systems..\n\nUkraine's spring 2022 advances in the southern and north-eastern parts of the country were also preceded by air attacks to \"shape\" the battlefield.\n\nDaniele Palumbo and Richard Irvine-Brown contributed to this article\n\nFrank Gardner weighs up the possible outcomes for the war, as Ukraine prepares a counter-offensive against Russian forces.", "Rock band Maneskin won last year's Eurovision and have gone on to score top 10 hits in the US, the UK and the rest of Europe\n\nRussia will no longer be allowed to participate in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, the European Broadcasting Union has said.\n\nThe EBU, which produces the event, said Russia's inclusion could bring the competition into disrepute \"in light of the unprecedented crisis in Ukraine\".\n\nRussia launched an attack on its neighbour Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday.\n\nWestern governments have ramped up international sanctions in response.\n\nJust 24 hours ago, the contest had said Russia would be allowed to compete, so this is a rapid change in stance for the EBU.\n\nIt follows the announcement that football's 2022 Champions League final would be played in Paris, after Russia was stripped of the match following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nF1's Russian Grand Prix, due to take place in Sochi in September, was also cancelled.\n\nEarlier this week, Ukrainian broadcaster UA:PBC urged the EBU to suspend Russia's Eurovision membership and ban it from the contest.\n\nState broadcasters from countries including Iceland, Finland, Norway and the Netherlands had called for Russia to be banned from the contest.\n\nFinland said if Russia took part, it would not send a representative to the contest in Turin in May.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Eurovision Song Contest This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe EBU said it remained dedicated to \"protecting the values of a cultural competition which promotes international exchange and understanding, brings audiences together, celebrates diversity through music and unites Europe on one stage\".\n\nUK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries tweeted: \"Eurovision stands for freedom, unity and respect between countries - watched and enjoyed by tens of millions around the world. Glad to see Eurovision taking action and kicking Russia out.\"\n\nThe 66th edition of Eurovision is due to take place in Turin, after Italian rock band Maneskin won the 2021 contest.\n\nManizha represented Russia at last year's Eurovision Song Contest with an ode to female empowerment, Russian Woman\n\nRussia had not announced its act for the contest, which it last won in 2008 with Dima Bilan singing Believe.\n\nIn recent years, it has been one of the strongest Eurovision performers, with five top five finishes in the past decade.\n\nUkraine has selected hip-hop trio Kalush Orchestra, whose song Stefania was written as a tribute to their mothers.\n\nThe band replaced the country's original contestant, Alina Pash, who withdrew last week after facing scrutiny over a trip she made to Russia-controlled Crimea in 2015.\n\nWhile there is no suggestion Pash entered Crimea from Russia, she said the controversy over her visit had overshadowed her participation in the contest.\n\nThe Ukrainian government considers people who enter the territory via Russia to have crossed the border illegally.\n\nTensions between Russia and Ukraine have overshadowed previous editions of the song contest.\n\nRussia were favourites to win the competition in 2016, until Ukrainian singer Jamala stole a last-minute victory with a song that depicted the deportation of Crimean Tatars by Josef Stalin in 1944 - a horrific chapter the nation's parliament has described as tantamount to genocide.\n\nThe lyrics were widely interpreted as a criticism of Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. Jamala, who is herself a Crimean Tartar, appeared to confirm the link when she told the press: \"The main message is to remember and to know this story. When we know, we prevent.\"\n\nOn the path to victory, her song picked up several important votes from former Soviet countries who have traditionally voted for Russia. Eurovision expert John Kennedy O'Connor called the result \"a pointed slap in Russia's face\".\n\nA year later, Russian contestant Julia Samoylova was blocked from entering Ukraine, which was hosting the competition, because she had reportedly toured Crimea without entering it through the border with the Ukrainian mainland.\n\nRussian television station Channel One then announced it would not broadcast the contest or take part.\n\nJamala has now called on Eurovision fans not to ignore Russia's actions in Ukraine.\n\n\"I don't know how this is possible, but they bombed peaceful people,\" she said in an Instagram video. \"Please support Ukraine. Stop Russian aggression.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pavel Kuzin was killed in Bakhmut amid brutal fighting around the eastern Ukrainian city\n\nStaff sergeant Pavel Kuzin took his position at the machine gun - the only soldier still able to fight. Everyone else in his troop lay dead or injured.\n\nSuffering from shell-shock and with one arm bandaged, the 37-year-old fired at the waves of Russian soldiers trying to storm his position. They didn't even try to take cover, but simply walked towards him across the open field.\n\nIt was clear Pavel wouldn't be able to hold the position for long, but he needed to buy time for a rescue team to arrive. His final action in life was to ensure his wounded comrades got to safety.\n\nThe Ukrainian military says Bakhmut is now the scene of many \"unprecedentedly bloody\" battles like this, where they now have to repel up to 50 attacks on their positions every day. Russia has concentrated massive forces in this area, and their brutal strategy of launching human wave attacks helps them to advance slowly - but at a very high cost.\n\nPavel was in charge of a forward observation group that consisted of six Ukrainian soldiers. On 17 February, shortly after the start of their watch, they came under heavy fire. A tank began hammering their position.\n\nUnlike relentless mortar rounds, the tank's aiming was chillingly accurate. Shells were landing a few metres from their trenches. Two soldiers were wounded and Pavel told them to go into a dugout. A combat medic went down to tend to their injuries and prepare them for an evacuation. Moments later, the wooden shelter was directly hit by a shell.\n\n\"There was a bright flash,\" one of the wounded soldiers with a callsign Tsygan told the BBC. \"I was thrown onto the logs with such force that it nearly crushed me. I couldn't understand whether I was dead or alive. Someone was shouting, it seemed the sound was coming from 100m away.\"\n\nI couldn't understand whether I was dead or alive\n\nIt was Pavel's voice who was checking on them. The other soldier was half-buried under dirt and logs. He was dead.\n\nTsygan could barely move and Pavel had to drag him up over the splintered logs that blocked the way. It was painfully slow to move Tsygan just a few metres away into a nearby trench. When the shelling paused briefly, Pavel went back trying to find others.\n\nTwo minesweepers arrived to clear the logs and find the bodies. But yet another shell hit the dug out, killing one of the men and injuring the other. The tank kept firing.\n\nAt that moment, Russian troops started storming their position. Pavel called for a support group to evacuate the wounded and rushed back to his Browning machine gun to stop the Russian infantry.\n\nThe 206th Battalion in which Pavel served had fought in the southern Kherson and north-eastern Kharkiv regions. But the battles over Bakhmut were very different from what they had seen before.\n\n\"The intensity of fighting to break through our positions was shocking,\" says Mykola Hlabets, platoon commander. \"Sometimes, [Russian soldiers] would get as close as 20 metres from us, crawling and moving under a treeline or across an open field. This is where we had our first gunfights at such proximity.\"\n\n\"They would just stand and walk towards our positions without any cover. We wiped out one group after another, but they kept coming.\"\n\nHlabets described them as a suicide squad. Others call them cannon fodder.\n\nUkrainians are trying to fight off Russia's human wave attacks - similar to tactics used during World War One\n\nA number of videos have been shared on telegram channels recently where newly mobilized Russian soldiers appealed to President Vladimir Putin and the authorities to stop what they called \"illegal orders\" to send them \"to be slaughtered\".\n\nLast month mobilised soldiers from Belgorod posted a video saying that they were sent for an assault mission without proper training. After suffering heavy losses, they said they refused to carry out their orders.\n\nOften these poorly trained soldiers are reportedly forced to keep pushing forward. The assault group Storm of the 5th Brigade of the Russian army said in a video appeal that they couldn't leave their position because of zagryad otryad, or blocking troops - detachments that open fire at their own men who try to retreat.\n\nThese wave attacks are similar to World War One tactics, when troops charged the enemy and engaged in close combat. And despite their lack of training and experience, sending newly recruited soldiers to such assaults are bringing some results for Russia, albeit at a very high cost.\n\nUkrainians expose their positions when they open fire to stop those attacks. That allows Russian artillery to identify the target and destroy it, as happened with Pavel's post.\n\nAlso, soldiers at forward positions run out of ammunition while trying to repel numerous wave attacks. They then become an easy target.\n\nThat was the risk Pavel knew he faced as he rushed to his Browning machine gun. But as long as he kept firing, his wounded brothers-in-arms had a chance to be rescued.\n\nTsygan was bleeding in the trench where Pavel had left him. Shrapnel had smashed his pelvis. Another piece had gone through his thigh, and a third had hit his abdomen, \"turning the internal organs upside down\", he said. He was barely conscious.\n\n\"I didn't see much, it was all white,\" he said. \"I lay on the snowy ground for two hours and I didn't feel cold or anything.\"\n\nNext to him was another wounded soldier. The rescue team on an armoured personnel carrier hastily picked them up as shelling resumed. They didn't even have time to close the hatch, Tsygan says.\n\nBy that time, Pavel's machine gun had fallen silent. He died from a head wound: a piece of shrapnel had pierced his helmet.\n\nCommanders of the 206th battalion decided to send a group to retrieve the bodies of Pavel and the other soldiers.\n\nThe next day in the evening, three groups of two soldiers each set off to bring the bodies back.\n\n\"The plan looked good on paper, but things quickly went wrong,\" junior sergeant Vasyl Palamarchuk, who was in the lead group, remembers. They got lost and nearly ran into Russian positions in the dark. When they got close to the dugout, Russians spotted them and opened fire from a tank.\n\nPavel Kuzin died holding off Russian attackers so his wounded fellow soldiers could be evacuated\n\nRussian tanks and artillery had continuously shelled that post in those days, but the Ukrainian big guns had largely stayed quiet. The reason was a massive shortage of shells.\n\n\"Once we counted that the Russians had fired up to 60 shells a day, whereas we could allow only two,\" Palamarchuk explains. \"They destroyed trees and everything else and you had no place to hide.\"\n\nUkraine is struggling to find ammunition for its Soviet-era artillery. Getting shells for weapons donated by Ukraine's western partners has its own limits. As the secretary general of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said recently: \"The current rate of Ukraine's ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production.\"\n\nPalamarchuk's group eventually picked up Pavel's body just a few hours before Russian troops seized the area. Heavy snow turned into a freezing rain. After numerous breaks on the way back, crawling through craters left by shells, they finally arrived. The whole operation over just a kilometre's distance lasted for six hours.\n\nIt was past midnight but the entire battalion gathered at the evacuation point to pay their respects to Pavel, who is survived by his daughter and wife.\n\n\"It was a huge loss for our unit,\" Palamarchuk says. \"He saved two people but died himself.\"", "Sudanese refugees have fled into neighbouring Ethiopia to escape the conflict\n\nAfter nearly a week of talks, Sudan's warring parties have signed a deal to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population, but have made little progress towards peace.\n\nThis is a first step to providing relief for trapped civilians.\n\nThey agreed to allow safe passage for people leaving battle zones, protect relief workers and not to use civilians as human shields.\n\nHowever, they did not agree to pause the fighting.\n\nThere are reports of more air strikes and shelling in the capital, Khartoum on Friday.\n\nThe talks have been mediated by the US and Saudi Arabia, the host country.\n\nUS officials said they were cautiously hopeful there was momentum now for the safe delivery of relief supplies, as both sides committed to let in badly needed humanitarian assistance after looting and attacks that targeted aid.\n\nHowever, the conflicting parties are still quite far apart when it comes to brokering peace, the US said.\n\nThey are still discussing a proposal for a truce and a mechanism to monitor it.\n\nMeanwhile Saudi Arabia said there is still more work to be done, according to Arab News: \"Other steps will follow, and the most important thing is to adhere to what was agreed upon.\"\n\nNot everyone is happy about the new deal, with some Sudanese saying it falls short of what they expect: \"I'm really incredibly disheartened,\" Professor Nisrin Elamin from Toronto University told the BBC's Newsday programme.\n\n\"Ceasefires that they have agreed to in the past have not held. I don't understand why we would ever take them by their word. To me this is really just another closed door negotiations with no civilian actor,\" Professor Elamin added, saying that she still has family who are stuck in Khartoum surrounded by conflict.\n\nThe BBC has heard several accounts of people trapped in Khartoum, who have been witness to loud explosions, gunshots and all-out violence.\n\nThe conflict erupted in mid-April when the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) refused to be integrated into Sudan's army under a planned transition to civilian rule.\n\nSince then, the death toll has risen to more than 600 according to the WHO, and thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes.", "RMT general secretary Mick Lynch (third from right) joins members of his union on Saturday outside Euston station\n\nRail passengers have faced travel disruption on the day of the Eurovision Song Contest final as RMT union members strike again in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper said the strikes were \"cynically targeting\" the final, taking place in Liverpool on Saturday night.\n\nBut the RMT denies planning strikes to coincide with the event in Liverpool.\n\nIt said Saturday was chosen for a strike as it was the last date allowed under employment laws.\n\nThere will be no further strike action until 31 May.\n\nTrain companies warned passengers should be prepared for disruption on the days immediately after the strikes.\n\nTrain drivers who are part of a different union, Aslef, went on strike on Friday, with some parts of England having no trains all day. It also denies planning strikes to impact Eurovision.\n\nMerseyrail, which operates trains around Liverpool, said it was unaffected by Saturday's strikes and would run late night services.\n\nMost train companies travelling to and from Liverpool had a limited service as a result of the strike action, according to National Rail.\n\nSpeaking at a picket line outside London Euston station, Mr Lynch said was the last Saturday of the union's six-month mandate in which it could strike.\n\nHe then told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme: \"We've not targeted Wembley or Liverpool or any of the activities that people get up to\" - a reference to both Eurovision and to the football National League play-off final at Wembley on Saturday afternoon.\n\nHe said the union \"wouldn't target a cup final\", but did not rule out considering strikes taking place on 3 June, when the men's FA Cup final and Scottish Cup final will be held.\n\nFuture strike dates could be announced as early as next week, he said, adding that the union was available to meet with the government and employers at any time to try to agree a deal.\n\nHe has written to the transport secretary calling for an special summit between ministers, train companies and unions to end chaos on the railways.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Transport said RMT members should be allowed to vote on the latest pay offer.\n\n\"Since coming into office, ministers have met with the RMT leadership four times and helped facilitate three fair pay offers from employers,\" it said.\n\n\"It's now time for unions to give their members democratic say on their future.\"\n\nThe following rail operators will be impacted:\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents 14 train companies, said rail users should plan ahead and check services before travel. It warned that with fewer services running there would be \"wide variations\".\n\nRebecca Dane-Alderman was planning to travel from Milton Keynes to Worthing to watch the Eurovision final with her best friend - a tradition they have shared every year, except for during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said most of Friday was spent trying to find alternative routes, but they were unsuccessful, so instead will watch it in separate locations over a video call.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme: \"Most of yesterday I was quite sad and I felt quite devastated by it all.\n\n\"I know there are bigger problems in the world, but it was just something that, like I said is a tradition to us, and we were really looking forward to doing.\"\n\nThe RDG offered rail workers a backdated pay rise of 5% for 2022, with a second year's pay rise was dependent on reforms being negotiated.\n\nMr Harper has called on the RMT to allow its members to have a vote on the offer that the RDG has put forward.\n\nBut Mr Lynch said the RDG had \"torpedoed\" the talks aimed at ending the long-running dispute because agreement would have prohibited further industrial action.\n\nHe told BBC One's Breakfast: \"We haven't got enough people, and our members, and Aslef members, are having to work extended shifts, extra days, six and seven days out of the week, when they're sick and tired of it.\"\n\nResponding in a statement, the RDG said the RMT had \"time and time again... blocked the deal negotiated line by line by its top team from going out to its membership for a vote\".\n\nIt said in a statement it was \"time the union leadership and executive finally agreed on what they want from these negotiations\".\n\nMeanwhile, train drivers with Aslef have rejected a two-year offer which would see members receive a backdated pay rise of 4% for 2022 and a 4% increase this year.\n\nHowever, there has been some resolution between the rail industry and the unions. A revised offer from Network Rail, which owns and operates the UK's railway infrastructure, was accepted by RMT members on 20 March, ending that separate dispute.\n\nAslef drivers will strike again on 31 May and 3 June, affecting services across on the day of the FA Cup final in England and the Scottish Cup final.\n\nHow are you affected by the latest round of rail strikes? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ukrainian forces are preparing for a counteroffensive near the besieged city of Bakhmut\n\nIn a bunker just outside the city limits of Bakhmut, Ukraine's 77th Brigade direct artillery fire to support their infantry - their last line of defence on the western edge of the city.\n\nUkraine is still clinging to the last few streets here.\n\nBut the live video feed the artillery gunners watch intently, from a drone flying above the city, suggests that even if Russia can finally wrestle control, it would be little more than a pyrrhic victory.\n\nThe prize is now a crumpled, skeletal city - with hardly a building left unscathed, and with its entire population vanished.\n\nThe battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut has been the longest and bloodiest of this war so far. Western officials estimate between 20,000 and 30,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded here, while Ukraine's military has also paid a heavy price - and it still isn't over.\n\nThe plumes of smoke still hang heavy over the besieged city, accompanied by the relentless rumble of artillery fire.\n\nRussia has been trying to capture Bakhmut for months, and it's been a testament - so far - to Ukraine's determination not to give ground. But it's also a reminder that its coming counteroffensive could prove far more challenging.\n\nDrone footage from above Bakhmut shows the devastation caused by the continuing battle for the city\n\nBack in the bunker, Ukraine's 77th Brigade orders another artillery strike on a house. Seconds later a plume of smoke rises from the rubble. Two men emerge from the smoke, stumbling down a street. One appears to be injured.\n\nI ask if they're Wagner soldiers - the Russian paramilitary force which has been leading the assault. \"Yes,\" replies Myroslav, one of the Ukrainian troops staring at the screen.\n\n\"They are fighting quite well, but they don't really care about their people,\" he says.\n\nHe adds that they don't seem to have much artillery support and they just advance in the hope that they'll be \"luckier than the last time\". His comrade, Mykola, interjects: \"They just walk towards us, they must be on drugs.\"\n\nLooking at this shell of a city it's hard to understand why either side has sacrificed so many lives for it.\n\nMykola admits that the defence has also been costly for Ukraine. He says many soldiers have given their lives, and it's hard to fight in the densely packed streets. He says they've been replaced by troops with less experience, but adds: \"They will become the same warriors as those who fought before them.\"\n\nThe whole point of Bakhmut is to keep the enemy there\n\nTo the south of the city, Ukraine's 28th Brigade has been helping prevent Bakhmut from being encircled.\n\nThe Wagner forces they once faced have already been replaced by paratroopers of Russia's VDV, or airborne forces. But they're still locked in daily skirmishes.\n\nDuring a lull in the fighting, Yevhen, a 29-year-old soldier, takes us on a tour of their defensive position in a small wood.\n\nThe arrival of spring has provided them with some leaves for cover, but many of the trees have been stripped by the constant shelling.\n\nUkrainian troops seek cover behind bushes on the outskirts of the city of Bakhmut\n\nAs we run from a trench, across exposed ground pock-marked by shell holes, the Russians open fire with their mortars. \"That was pretty damn close,\" says Yevhen in perfect English as we reach some cover.\n\nAs we move to another position he says: \"Now we're going to fire back.\"\n\nMinutes later his men follow up with a volley of small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). There are no casualties this time. But hours after we leave one of their soldiers is seriously injured.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky has called Bakhmut \"a fortress\" of Ukrainian morale. Yevhen displays that determination not to give up. \"The whole point of Bakhmut is to keep the enemy there,\" he says.\n\nIf Ukraine gave up Bakhmut, he says, they'd only lose more lives later. \"We could retreat to save a few lives, but we would then have to counter-attack and we'd lose even more\".\n\nUkraine's hope is that the fight over Bakhmut has blunted Russia's ability to conduct its own offensive operations, and exhausted its army and supplies.\n\nIn a bunker just outside the city limits, Ukraine's 77th Brigade direct artillery fire to support their infantry\n\nBut Russia has also been preparing to stymie Ukraine's upcoming offensive.\n\nRecent satellite images of the occupied south show it has built hundreds of miles of deep trench lines and dragon's teeth tank traps to slow down any attempted advance. More difficult to punch through than the razor wire and mines we saw in front of these Ukrainian positions.\n\nSouthern Ukraine is where many expect the focus of the Ukrainian offensive to be. Russia has already ordered a partial evacuation near the nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia.\n\nUkraine, too, has been rationing artillery rounds in preparation for an attack that will be spearheaded by newly trained brigades of troops and some of the 1,300 armoured vehicles and 230 tanks supplied by the West. Though we have also witnessed convoys of Western military equipment heading East.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has tried to dampen down expectations - warning against \"overestimating\" the outcome.\n\nI ask Yevhen if he feels that pressure too. He says he knows it won't be easy, but adds: \"We've already changed the whole world's opinion of the Ukrainian army and we still have lots of surprises.\"\n\nBut this time it may prove harder to conceal the element of surprise.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA former US Marine who placed a passenger in a fatal chokehold on the New York subway has appeared in court to be charged with manslaughter.\n\nDaniel Penny, 24, is accused of causing the death of 30-year-old Jordan Neely on 1 May. He did not enter a plea.\n\nHis lawyers said he could not have known his actions to subdue Mr Neely would lead to his death.\n\nMr Neely, who was homeless, was pinned to the ground and restrained for several minutes on the train carriage.\n\nHe had been shouting at other passengers and asking for money, witnesses said.\n\nMr Neely was later found unconscious in the carriage and taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. His death resulted from compression of the neck, the city's medical examiner ruled.\n\nHands cuffed behind his back, Mr Penny appeared at Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday to be formally charged and was later released on $100,000 (£80,000) in cash bail.\n\nHe must return to court on 17 July or a warrant will be issued for his arrest, the judge said. He must also turn over his passport and seek permission to cross state lines.\n\nOn the day Mr Neely died, Mr Penny was questioned by police and then released.\n\nBut footage of the altercation on a northbound F train set off protests, and the Manhattan district attorney's office launched an investigation.\n\nThe video, captured by a freelance journalist on the train, shows the former Marine holding Mr Neely around the neck for two minutes and 55 seconds.\n\nThe journalist who filmed it, Juan Alberto Vazquez, told the New York Times that Mr Neely had shouted at passengers but did not attack anyone.\n\nHe recalled Mr Neely saying \"I don't mind going to jail and getting life in prison\" before he was restrained.\n\nOn Friday morning, Mr Penny arrived in a black SUV at a police station in Manhattan to surrender to authorities. Wearing a black suit and white shirt, he did not speak or answer any questions from reporters gathered outside.\n\nHis lawyer, Thomas Kenniff, said his client has \"his head held up high\" and had willingly surrendered \"with the sort of dignity and integrity that is characteristic of his history of service to this grateful nation\".\n\nMr Penny \"risked his own life and safety, for the good of his fellow passengers\", Mr Kenniff added, expressing confidence he would be \"fully absolved of any wrongdoing\".\n\nHe faces a count of second-degree manslaughter and up to 15 years in jail if convicted.\n\nAccording to New York law, that charge will require a jury to find that Mr Penny engaged in reckless conduct that created an unjustifiable risk of death.\n\n\"The investigation thus far has included numerous witness interviews, careful review of photo and video footage, and discussions with the Medical Examiner's Office,\" said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in a statement.\n\n\"As this case proceeds, we will be constrained from speaking outside the courtroom to ensure this remains a fair and impartial matter,\"\n\nNew York defence attorney Jeffrey Lichtman told the BBC he thought prosecutors would fail meet this standard, and show Mr Penny knew his actions would kill.\n\n\"If litigated properly this is a slam dunk acquittal,\" he said, calling Mr Penny a \"sympathetic defendant\".\n\nIn a statement released a few days after Mr Neely's death, Mr Penny's lawyers said their client had \"never intended to harm Mr Neely and could not have foreseen his untimely death\".\n\nMr Penny spent four years in the Marines, rising to the rank of sergeant before being honourably discharged in June 2021, according to his lawyers. He is now enrolled in a full-time bachelor's college degree studying architecture.\n\nAcross the street from the court, a small memorial dedicated to Mr Neely has been assembled with signs urging officials to prosecute Mr Penny.\n\nIn a statement earlier this week, Mr Neely's family said that Mr Penny needed to be in prison. \"The family wants you to know that Jordan matters,\" they said.\n\nMr Neely was a Michael Jackson impersonator who frequently performed in Times Square. \"He sang, he danced, he entertained,\" a lawyer for the family said.\n\nHis mother, Christie Neely, was murdered in 2007 by her boyfriend, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2012, according to the Jersey Journal.\n\nFollowing his mother's death, Mr Neely began experiencing mental health issues, said Donte Mills, a lawyer for the Neely family.\n\n\"He had demons. He went through tragedy at a very young age,\" Mr Mills said. \"And then his mother was taken from him and her body was dumped in a suitcase on a highway, and it changed Jordan's mentality forever.\"\n\nMr Neely had 42 arrests on charges such as evading fares, theft and assaults on three women, according to US media reports. He had recently pleaded guilty to assaulting a 67-year-old woman leaving a subway station in 2021.\n\nMr Mills addressed the arrests on Friday, saying that Mr Penny \"did not know Jordan Neely before this incident. He did not know how many times he had been arrested.\"\n\n\"So that's a non-factor,\" he added.\n\nMayor Eric Adams has said the case highlights the need to improve the mental health system so that it can better protect people like Mr Neely.\n\nMr Adams and New York state Governor Kathy Hochul have increased the presence of police to address rising crime on the city's subway.", "Volodymyr Zelensky met Rishi Sunak during a trip to Downing Street in February\n\nRishi Sunak is \"disappointed\" Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has not been allowed to address this year's Eurovision, his spokesman says.\n\nThe organisers, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), say it would breach its political impartiality.\n\nBut Downing Street said it would be \"fitting\" for Mr Zelensky to speak given Russia's invasion of his country.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is also calling for the Ukrainian leader to be allowed to make a speech.\n\nUkraine was meant to be hosting this year's Eurovision after winning it last year, but it is taking place in Liverpool instead after Russia's invasion.\n\nIt has been reported that Mr Zelensky wanted to make a video appearance at the contest's final on Saturday, to an expected global audience of 160 million.\n\nBut in a statement on Thursday, the EBU said it had turned down a request from the Ukrainian president to address the event, despite his \"laudable intentions\".\n\n\"The Eurovision Song Contest is an international entertainment show, and governed by strict rules and principles,\" it added.\n\n\"As part of these, one of the cornerstones of the contest is the non-political nature of the event. This principle prohibits the possibility of making political or similar statements as part of the contest.\"\n\nBBC Director General Tim Davie told the BBC's Eurovisioncast he understood the EBU's decision and that throughout its history, Eurovision \"has not been a platform for political statement\".\n\nBut he stressed the BBC was hosting on behalf of Ukraine and that it is \"a celebration across Europe for freedom, for democracy\".\n\nThe EBU said that a Ukrainian design agency had been involved in designing artwork for the event, and 11 Ukrainian artists, including last year's winners Kalush Orchestra, would be performing.\n\nHowever, Mr Sunak's spokesman questioned the decision not to have Mr Zelensky speak, saying: \"The values and freedoms that President Zelensky and the people of Ukraine are fighting for are not political, they're fundamental.\"\n\nHis spokesman argued that Eurovision \"themselves recognised that last year\" by banning Russian artists from participating.\n\nHowever, he added that the prime minister had no plans to intervene and ask broadcasters to change their mind.\n\nUkraine's ambassador to the UK, Vadym Prystaiko, said the final of the contest would have been a \"great moment\" for Mr Zelensky to address a huge audience.\n\nBut speaking to PA Media, he added: \"We understand all the internal politics and the unbiased sort of approach to all this, that's why we don't have to push too much.\"\n\nUkraine will be represented at this year's contest by Nigerian-Ukrainian pop duo TVORCHI\n\nIn statement, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"It's vital that we all continue to keep the plight of the Ukrainian people front of mind as they stand up to Russian aggression on behalf of us all.\n\n\"Eurovision is an expression of international unity and freedom, and President Zelensky should be able to address it as a great defender of both.\"\n\nThe EBU initially said it would allow Russia to participate in the 2022 final, following its invasion of Ukraine two months before it was due to be held in Italy.\n\nBut it then changed course within 24 hours, saying that allowing Russia to take part would \"bring the competition into disrepute\".\n\nUA:PBC, Ukraine's public broadcaster, as well as those from Iceland, Finland, Norway and the Netherlands, had called for Russia to be banned.\n\nBoris Johnson, who was British prime minister during Russia's invasion and oversaw the UK's initial response, said \"it would have been right to hear\" from him during the final on Saturday.\n\nFormed in 1950, the EBU has 68 broadcasting organisations as members, including the BBC - which is hosting this week's finals and semi-finals.\n\nEurovision was conceived in the 1950s as a way of promoting post-war unity between European states. As a result, politics has always been kept at arm's length.\n\nIt's a policy that's never been easy or comfortable to enforce. In 2005, Lebanon was due to make its debut when it refused to air Israel's entry. As a result, it received a three-year ban from the contest, and never took part.\n\nGeorgia also fell foul of the rules in 2009, when they submitted a song called \"We Don't Wanna Put In\".\n\nThe lyrics were a thinly-veiled critique of Russia's Vladimir Putin, following the previous year's Russo-Georgian war. When the country refused to amend the song, they were suspended.\n\nThe commitment to neutrality is so strong that, last year, organisers agonised over what to do about Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAlthough Russia was eventually banned, Eurovision's executive supervisor Martin Osterdahl said it had been a hard decision to make.\n\n\"It was, and it still is,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nBut, he added: \"How Europe feels very much affects the contest. When we say we are not political, what we always should stand up for are the basic and ultimate values of democracy.\"\n\nCritics of the decision to decline President Zelensky will say the contest has already made a political move by banning Russia. And their argument isn't without merit.\n\nBut the EBU would counter that supporting a war-torn country is very different to allowing the leader of that country to make a call to arms.", "British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been extradited to the US to face criminal charges over the $11bn sale of his firm Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard.\n\nMr Lynch - once dubbed \"Britain's Bill Gates\" after the Microsoft co-founder - will stand trial on charges including fraud, which he denies.\n\nHe is accused of overinflating the value of his software firm when he sold it to HP in 2011.\n\nThe Home Office confirmed that Mr Lynch was extradited to the US on Thursday.\n\nThe 57-year-old businessman, who is a founding investor in the UK cyber-security firm Darktrace, has long fought attempts by US prosecutors to stand trial in America.\n\nAccording to US court documents, Mr Lynch has been ordered to pay bail of $100m with authorities claiming he is a \"serious risk of flight\" following his years of fighting extradition.\n\nHe will be confined to an address in San Francisco, guarded by private security which he must pay for himself.\n\nMr Lynch's net worth is estimated to be between £988m and £1.1bn.\n\nA court filing said: \"After lengthy extradition proceedings in the United Kingdom, Defendant Michael Richard Lynch has finally landed on our shores to stand trial, accompanied by the United States Marshals Service.\"\n\nLast month, Mr Lynch lost an appeal in the High Court arguing that he should instead be tried in the UK.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"On 21 April, the High Court refused Dr Lynch's permission to appeal his extradition. As a result, the normal 28-day statutory deadline for surrender to the US applies.\"\n\nAs a result, he was sent to California on Thursday where the trial will take place.\n\nAt the time of the sale in 2011, Autonomy was the UK's biggest software company and it was the largest-ever takeover of a British technology business.\n\nHP was primarily known as a technology hardware company and buying Autonomy was aimed at diversifying its business.\n\nHowever, just a year later, HP wrote down the value of Autonomy by $8.8bn and claimed it had been duped into overpaying for the company.\n\nHP, Mr Lynch and Autonomy's former chief financial officer Sushovan Hussain have been mired in litigation ever since.\n\nHussain was jailed for five years and fined millions of dollars in 2019 on 16 counts of fraud, securities fraud and other charges.\n\nThe company was founded in 1996 by Mr Lynch out of a specialist software research group called Cambridge Neurodynamics.\n\nAutonomy developed software that could extract useful information from \"unstructured\" sources such as phone-calls, emails or video.\n\nThe software could then do things such as suggest answers to a call-centre operator or monitor TV channels for words or subjects.\n\nIt gained a listing on the US Nasdaq exchange in May 2000 at the height of the technology boom and was listed in London six months later.\n\nThe company suffered when the technology bubble burst, dropping out of the FTSE 100 and having to issue a profit warning in 2001.\n\nBut it grew rapidly and opened joint head offices in Cambridge and San Francisco, with other offices worldwide, to serve 65,000 customer companies.\n\nAutonomy was sold to Hewlett-Packard for $11.1bn in 2011. Mr Lynch left the company in 2012.\n\nLast year, HP won a civil fraud case against Mr Lynch and Hussain. The \"unusually complex\" trial lasted 93 days and involved millions of documents.\n\nAt the heart of the case, according to Mr Justice Hildyard, was HP's claim that \"they were fundamentally misled and are victims of fraud\".\n\nMr Lynch and Hussain's defence was that HP's claim was \"'manufactured' to cover and justify a change of corporate mind, and to cast them as scapegoats for what in reality is buyer's remorse coupled with management failings\".\n\nIn the end, Mr Justice Hildyard found the \"claimants have substantially succeeded in their claims in this proceeding\".\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Lynch's investment firm Invoke Capital for comment.", "A rule requires all the songs to be non-political and yet…\n\nThe international attention that comes with an event the size of Eurovision can lead to controversy.\n\nUkraine has not been alone in recent years in selecting songs which could be seen as aimed at Russia. When the contest was held in Moscow in 2009, Georgia withdrew from the competition after Eurovision organisers asked for changes to some of their lyrics.\n\nTheir song was called We Don’t Wanna Put In, but the chorus sounded an awful lot like \"We don’t want no Putin\". (Russian forces had invaded Georgia the previous year.)\n\nIn 2013, at the end of her performance, Finland’s Krista Siegfrids revealed her song Marry Me was a proposal to another woman by kissing her female backing singer. Not particularly controversial for much of Europe, but perhaps too much for Turkey, which quit Eurovision complaining about some of the competition rules, and for China which edited Siegfrids out of its broadcast.\n\nEurovision’s first openly transgender singer became a Eurovision icon in 1998, winning with the dance-pop anthem Diva. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups in Israel were less than happy about the choice and she received death threats ahead of her performance.\n\nItaly may be the only country to have banned one of its own songs when Gigliola Cinquetti performed Si (meaning \"Yes\") in 1974.\n\nAfter selecting the song, the national broadcaster RAI became worried it might be seen as a message to vote \"Yes\" in upcoming referendum on banning divorce and decided not to show the performace. The song finished second, the Italian public voted \"No\" and divorce remained legal.\n\nFinally, there is the rumour that, after winning two years in a row, Ireland deliberately picked acts it hoped would lose in the mid-90s.\n\nSome fans believe that Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan were chosen in 1994 because their gentle, acoustic song-writing was unfashionable and Ireland would avoid the cost of hosting for a third time. If that was the reason, it backfired spectacularly because they won - and Ireland remains the only country to win Eurovision three times in a row.\n\nAt the start of the grand final, all the finalists walk on to stage accompanied by their national flag. During this year’s parade, listen out for a unique UK-Ukraine flavour as some much-loved former Ukrainian contestants sing their Eurovision entries woven in with British classics.\n\nWatch all of Eurovision on BBC and BBC iPlayer.", "MV Alfred completed its first sailing for CalMac on Friday\n\nCalMac's chartered catamaran MV Alfred has entered service on the west coast ferry operator's Arran route.\n\nBut a technical problem with its starboard thruster has ruled out its use on CalMac's Islay service for now.\n\nThe Scottish government has provided £9m for the nine-month long loan of the boat from Orkney-based Pentland Ferries.\n\nDelays, including servicing of its hydraulic systems, has meant Alfred has only now joined CalMac's fleet.\n\nIt was expected to be available last month.\n\nAlfred's first sailing between Ardrossan on the North Ayrshire coast and Brodick on Arran started just after 11:00.\n\nCalMac said the catamaran would be on a non-bookable, turn-up-and-go basis for the first two weeks to allow for familiarisation and to determine if the passage time and turnaround times were \"realistic\".\n\nThe boat is to be used for two return services a day and will berth overnight in Ardrossan.\n\nPassengers on Alfred's first sailing on CalMac's Arran route\n\nFollowing berthing trials, Alfred has been deemed suitable for use at several other CalMac ports - including Lochmaddy and Ullapool.\n\nIt could also be used at Port Askaig on Islay - but only once the thruster issue has been fixed. Pentland Ferries is to carry out work to resolve the problem.\n\nCalMac said extensive ramp modifications were also needed before it could be deployed fully at Troon and Campbeltown.\n\nChief executive Robbie Drummond said: \"We very much welcome the introduction into service of MV Alfred and the resilience that she will offer.\n\n\"Her addition should mitigate the impact of disruption or when certain islands are reduced to single vessel service.\"\n\nHe added: \"The main route to and from Arran has been operating with one vessel for some time, so the addition of MV Alfred will provide much-needed support to the local community.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Pentland Ferries' own services remain suspended after its vessel MV Pentalina ran aground.\n\nNorthlink, the state-subsidised main ferry service provider to Orkney, has scheduled extra crossings between Stromness and Scrabster until the end of June to meet passenger demand.", "The Australian government has approved a new coal mine for the first time since it was elected - on a climate action platform - last year.\n\nThe government was bound by national environment laws when considering Central Queensland's Isaac River coal mine, a spokeswoman said.\n\nOnly one coal mine proposal has ever been blocked under those laws.\n\nScientists have repeatedly warned that any new fossil fuel projects are not compatible with global climate goals.\n\nThe Isaac River coal mine - which will be built near Moranbah, an 11-hour drive north of Brisbane - is expected to produce about 2.5 million tonnes of coal over five years.\n\nThe mine will extract metallurgical coal, also known as coking coal, which is used in steelmaking.\n\nAlthough a small mine compared to others in the state, its production could amount to some 7 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in its lifetime, think tank the Australia Institute says.\n\nEnvironment groups had called on the government to block the new development, on the grounds it would increase global emissions and damage the habitat of endangered or vulnerable species like the koala, the central greater glider and the ornamental snake.\n\nBut when Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek's proposed decision was announced on Thursday afternoon, the government said no-one had made submissions during the formal consultation period.\n\n\"The Albanese government has to make decisions in accordance with the facts and the ­national environment law - that's what happens on every project, and that's what's happened here,\" a spokeswoman for Ms Plibersek said .\n\nThe proponents of the mine, Bowen Coking Coal, will have the opportunity to respond to any proposed conditions on the development before it is formally approved - usually in a matter of months.\n\nSince it came to power in May 2022 after campaigning on greater climate action, Anthony Albanese's Labor government has enshrined into law a stronger emissions reduction target - of 43% by 2030 - and has negotiated the introduction of a carbon cap for the country's biggest emitters.\n\nBut it has refused to rule out new coal and gas projects.\n\nAnd while it in February blocked a coal mine on environmental grounds for the first time in history, it did not consider climate in doing so.\n\nThe UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says any new fossil fuel projects are not compatible with the aim of the Paris Agreement - limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. In fact, existing fossil fuel infrastructure must be urgently phased out, it says.\n\nGreens environment spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said the decision demonstrated a need for reform.\n\n\"Australia's environment laws are clearly broken. Polluting projects are failing to be ­assessed for the emissions they create,\" she said.", "Media reports have suggested Willoughby and Schofield's relationship has cooled in recent weeks\n\nPhillip Schofield has described co-star Holly Willoughby as his \"rock\" following reports the pair's relationship has come under strain.\n\nThe atmosphere between the two This Morning hosts is said to have recently become frosty behind the scenes.\n\nIn a statement, Schofield admitted: \"The last few weeks haven't been easy for either of us.\"\n\nBut, he added, Willoughby had still been \"an incredible support\" to him throughout a difficult period.\n\nSchofield recently returned to the ITV daytime show after taking pre-planned leave around his younger brother's sex abuse trial at Exeter Crown Court.\n\nIn April, Timothy Schofield was convicted of 11 sexual offences involving a child between October 2016 and October 2019, including two of sexual activity with a child.\n\nSeparately, Willoughby has also recently taken time off presenting This Morning due to illness.\n\nThe Sun previously reported a \"cooling\" of the pair's friendship in recent weeks.\n\nBut in a subsequent statement, Schofield told the paper: \"As I have said before, Holly is my rock. We're the best of friends - as always, she is an incredible support on screen, behind the scenes and on the phone.\n\nThe pair also present ITV's Dancing On Ice together\n\n\"Holly has always been there for me, through thick and thin. And I've been there for her.\n\n\"The last few weeks haven't been easy for either of us.\"\n\nHe continued: \"My family went through a real ordeal, and Holly's support throughout meant the world to me - as did the support of my bosses at ITV, my editor Martin Frizell and the whole This Morning family, including our amazing viewers.\n\n\"And of course Holly has herself been ill with shingles.\n\n\"Whatever happens, we still have each other to count on.\"\n\nSchofield has been a regular presenter on This Morning since 2002, and Willoughby since 2009. The pair also present ITV's Dancing On Ice together.\n\nLast year, they faced criticism after their press visit to the Queen's lying in state was interpreted by many as skipping the 20-hour queue outside.\n\nIn October, following the controversy, Schofield thanked viewers after This Morning took home the daytime prize at the National Television Awards, saying: \"This means so much to us every year, especially this year.\"", "The report from Flintshire council finds that exclusions are generally on the rise across the county\n\nCannabis related issues have led to an increase in exclusions from schools, a council report has found.\n\nData collected in Flintshire showed that absences are increasing in the county, following similar trends across Wales.\n\nThe report highlighted illness, pupil behaviour and substance related issues as having an impact on attendance.\n\nThe council's education committee accepted the report's recommendations at a meeting on Thursday.\n\nThe report, from the council's chief officer for education Claire Homard, looked at the 2021-22 academic year. It found that attendance in Flintshire schools remains lower than pre-pandemic levels.\n\nWhile illness continued to be the main factor impacting on attendance, substance related issues has led to a notable increase in exclusions across the county.\n\n\"The levels of permanent and fixed-term exclusion remain on an increasing trend, particularly across the secondary sector,\" the report said.\n\nIt noted, however, that this increase reflects trends across Wales.\n\nIt also highlighted that exclusions were already increasing prior to the initial Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nBut an \"increasing complexity of need\" and \"wider contributing factors\" such as children at risk of exploitation, substance misuse issues and anti-social behaviour are making providing this support increasingly difficult, the report said.\n\n\"One noticeable increase recorded was in relation to substance related issues mainly associated with cannabis usage.\"\n\nTo combat this, Flintshire council is working with partner agencies such as the drug and alcohol service Sorted and North Wales Police.\n\nOther issues covered in the report were absences related to Covid, holidays, and head teachers challenging parents and carers on unauthorised absences.\n\nFinally, it highlighted that levels of unauthorised absences are gradually increasing.\n\nParents have a statutory duty to ensure their children attend school and action can be taken against those whose children do not attend with good reason, including fixed penalty notices.\n\n\"In 21/22 an initial batch of 10 fines were issued. Of these, seven were progressed and upheld by the magistrates' court resulting in one conditional discharge and six considerable financial penalties,\" the report said.", "Royal Mail boss Simon Thompson is to step down from his role, the owner of the postal giant has said.\n\nMr Thompson said he believed it was the \"right time\" to go after Royal Mail and the main postal union struck a deal that could end a long-running dispute.\n\nHe has had a difficult two years in charge of the firm.\n\nMr Thompson had come under pressure after he was accused of misleading MPs when he denied Royal Mail tracked workers' productivity.\n\nHe will remain in post until the end of October, and the board is in \"advanced stages\" of appointing a new chief executive, it said.\n\nThere were reports that Mr Thompson had become \"increasingly disillusioned\" during strike action by members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU).\n\nIt is believed leaders of Royal Mail's parent company, International Distributions Services, also wanted fresh leadership at the firm after the dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nLast month, union bosses recommended that workers accept the new deal which would end the bitter dispute. Union members will be balloted later this month.\n\nThe company had said that more industrial action, which had already cost it £200m, could lead to Royal Mail going bust.\n\nRoyal Mail will be soon be appointing its third boss in five years.\n\nMr Thompson's predecessor, Rico Back, was ousted after he promised to transform the service but ended up at loggerheads with unions as well as being criticised for commuting from his home in Switzerland.\n\nGiven all the structural challenges the business faces, it feels like the job has become mission impossible.\n\nBut Simon Thompson also didn't do himself any favours with his performance in front of MPs, and his handling of a pay dispute became increasingly confrontational as industrial action wore on.\n\nWhoever the new chief executive is, they will have to improve the Royal Mail's relationship with its workforce, and push through some big changes to modernise the business and make it more efficient.\n\nStriking workers had called for Mr Thompson to go\n\nThe CWU, which had called for Mr Thompson to go, said on Friday that he was \"one of the key individuals responsible for the financial crisis that Royal Mail Group has created over the course of the last year\".\n\nIt called for \"further change in Royal Mail Group's leadership team\", saying Mr Thompson \"was only one of the senior leadership team responsible for the unacceptable actions and behaviours of managers across the UK throughout this dispute\".\n\nMr Thompson's position within the company was weakened after he was recalled by MPs to give evidence to an inquiry in January.\n\nThis followed \"hundreds\" of complaints about the accuracy of an earlier testimony, in which he denied that the firm tracked workers' productivity through their handheld computers.\n\nMPs also questioned his denial that Royal Mail prioritised parcels over letters.\n\nAt the beginning of the year, Royal Mail was also hit by a ransomware attack linked to Russian criminals which disrupted overseas mail.\n\nIt took more than a month for international mail services to resume.\n\nIn the statement announcing his departure, Mr Thompson said he had been \"incredibly proud to lead Royal Mail during this crucial period\".\n\nHe said the firm \"now has a chance to compete and grow\" after changes to the business and the agreement with the union.\n\n\"It is now the right time to hand over to a new chief executive,\" he said.\n\nBoard chairman Keith Williams said Mr Thompson had made a \"significant contribution\" to the firm.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAustralia's Voyager have broken the rock group curse at this year's Eurovision Song Contest by qualifying for Saturday's grand final.\n\nThe five-piece, fronted by immigration lawyer Danny Estrin, sailed through the second semi-final alongside fellow rockers Joker Out, from Slovenia.\n\nTheir success comes two days after the first semi, where every guitar group was eliminated.\n\nThey included Ireland's Wild Youth, who extended the country's losing streak.\n\nIreland, who hold the record for the most Eurovision wins of all time, have now failed to qualify five times in a row.\n\nVoyager's lead singer, Daniel Estrin is a partner at law firm Estrin Saul, who spends his days in court helping migrants sort out their visa issues, before taking to the stage at night.\n\n\"I think I might be the first lawyer to take part in Eurovision,\" he told Australian Broadcaster SBS. \"Although I know San Marino sent a dentist a while ago.\"\n\nThis could be Australia's final chance to win - their contract with Eurovision runs out in 2023, and will need to be renegotiated before next year's contest.\n\nMeanwhile, the song contest's organiser has confirmed it will not allow Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky to deliver a video message at the Eurovision final on Saturday.\n\nThere is expected to be a special tribute to Ukraine on the night with 11 artists performing including last year's winner Kalush Orchestra.\n\nBut the European Broadcasting Union said \"strict rules\" prevented it from allowing the Ukrainian leader to speak.\n\n\"One of the cornerstones of the contest is the non-political nature of the event,\" the EBU said.\n\n\"This principle prohibits the possibility of making political or similar statements as part of the contest.\"\n\nThe second semi wasn't as thrilling as Tuesday's first instalment, with a surfeit of piano ballads sapping the show of energy. A highlight reel reminding fans of the night's songs was essentially a three-minute supercut of women belting out high notes.\n\nBut every so often, the contest showed signs of life. Be-hatted Belgian star Gustaph lit up the stage with his infectious house anthem Because Of You; and Poland's Blanka brought some sunshine to a rainy Liverpool Thursday thanks to her breezy pop hit Solo, which is already a huge streaming hit.\n\nBoth acts made it through to the grand final, where they'll face stiff competition from Sweden's Loreen and Finland's Käärijä, who are favourites to win.\n\nOf the 16 acts who performed on Thursday, the following 10 qualified:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Most notable moments from Eurovision semi-final two (UK only)\n\nHosts Alesha Dixon, Hannah Waddingham and Ukrainian singer Julia Sanina were also back on stage after making their presenting debut on Tuesday night.\n\nThey oversaw a conga line led by cartoon character Peppa Pig, and an exuberant half-time show by drag queens Miss Demeanour, Mercedes Benz and Tamara Thomas.\n\nThe contest itself opened with Danish-Faroese pop singer Reiley, whose wayward vocals set the tone for a night full of fluffed notes.\n\nHis 11 million TikTok followers weren't enough to help his sugary-sweet pop anthem Breaking My Heart qualify for the final.\n\nReiley's pastel-coloured staging was designed to appeal on TikTok\n\nArmenia's Brunette was next up with Future Lover - a yearning ballad, about a lover she has yet to meet. Staged with dramatic lighting atop a perilously titled stage, her self-penned song also made the cut.\n\nBut it was bad news for Romania's Theodor Andrei, whose torrid tale of a toxic relationship (sample lyric: \"Take off your clothes and step on me\") proved too off-putting to pick up votes.\n\nThe other acts who went home were Iceland's Diljá, Georgia's Iru, San Marino's Piqued Jacks and Greece's Victor Vernicos who, at 16 years old, was this year's youngest contestant.\n\nAlbania's ode to family unity, Duje, got the seal of approval, as did Austria's Who The Hell Is Edgar - a slyly subversive anthem about the music industry's mistreatment of songwriters.\n\nTeya and Salena were greeted by huge cheers, as the audience sang their hooky \"Poe, poe, poe, poe, poe\" chorus\n\nThere was a British connection for Lithuanian qualifier Monika Linkyte, whose backing singer is an Adele impersonator who works in an Essex supermarket.\n\nAnd viewers got their first glimpse of the UK's actual entrant, Mae Muller, towards the end of the show.\n\nThe singer spoke briefly to host Alesha Dixon, before introducing a rehearsal clip of her entry, I Wrote A Song.\n\n\"I think it's safe to say on behalf of the whole UK that we're so excited to be hosting on behalf of Ukraine,\" she said, as fans lifted the country's blue and yellow flags around the Liverpool Arena.\n\n\"We love you guys,\" she added.\n\nViewers got their first glimpse of Mae Muller's colourful performance\n\nThe UK is one of five countries - alongside Spain, Italy, France and Germany - who qualify automatically for the final thanks to their financial contribution to the contest.\n\nUkraine, who won last year, also go straight to the final. Their act, Tvorchi, also introduced their song, Heart Of Steel, on Thursday night.\n\nLiverpool is hosting the contest on behalf of the Eastern European country due to the ongoing Russian invasion.\n\nRussia has been suspended from participating as a result, while this week's events have had a strong Ukrainian flavour.\n\nThursday's show featured a moving segment titled \"'Music Unites Generations\", where Mariya Yaremchuk, who represented Ukraine in Eurovision 2014, sang a medley of well-known Ukrainian songs.\n\nShe was joined on stage by rapper OTOY and 14-year-old Ukrainian Junior Eurovision representative Zlata Dziunka, illustrating how music can transcend generations and overcomes darkness.\n\nSeveral former Ukrainian contestants will take part in Saturday's Grand Final, including former winners Kalush Orchestra (2022) and Jamala (2016).\n\nLiverpool's rich music heritage will also be celebrated, with stars including Duncan Laurence, Cornelia Jakobs, Daði Freyr, Netta, and Sonia, performing songs from the host city.", "Helen Holland was critically injured in a crash with a police motorcycle escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh on Wednesday\n\nA woman who was critically injured in a crash with a police motorcycle escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh is in a coma in hospital, her family say.\n\nHelen Holland, 81, was hit at the junction of West Cromwell Road and Warwick Road in Earl's Court, west London, at 15:20 BST on Wednesday.\n\nHer family said they were \"shocked and sickened\" at her injuries.\n\nThe police watchdog said their investigation was in its early stages and evidence was being gathered.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said Ms Holland was in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nMs Holland, from Birchanger, Essex, had been in London visiting her older sister on Wednesday, her family told the BBC.\n\nHer son and daughter-in-law Martin and Lisa-Marie Holland said they were \"shocked and sickened at her extensive injuries\".\n\n\"She is being well cared for by the NHS who we must thank deeply for their help in keeping her alive,\" they added.\n\nSophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, was \"grateful for the swift response of emergency services\", a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesperson said on Thursday the duchess was \"grateful for the swift response of emergency services and will keep abreast of developments\".\n\n\"Further comment at this time would not be appropriate while the incident is being investigated,\" they added.\n\nBuckingham Palace previously said the duchess's \"heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with the injured lady and her family\".\n\nThe Directorate of Professional Standards has been notified about the crash.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show the smoke from the Alberta wildfires\n\nMuch of Canada and parts of the US are blanketed by smoke as wildfires in the province of Alberta continue to rage.\n\nAs of Thursday, there are 75 active wildfires in Alberta, 23 of which are considered out of control.\n\nEarly May is typically the start of wildfire season in the region, but experts have said that this level activity is unusual.\n\nTemperatures are expected to rise sharply in the coming days, fuelling concern of more fires to come.\n\nImages taken by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) show the smoke from the Alberta wildfires has travelled far to the eastern portion of Canada, reaching Quebec and Ontario down to the US-Canada border.\n\n\"Canada's wildfire season is off to an unusually active start,\" NOAA said on Twitter on Thursday.\n\nNOAA's fire and smoke map showed much of Canada covered in light to medium smoke as of Thursday evening. The map also shows light smoke hanging over much of the US northeast and mid-Atlantic regions.\n\nIn the Washington DC area, the National Weather Service said Thursday's bright orange sunset was caused by \"smoke from the Canadian wildfires [that] remains suspended in the upper atmosphere\".\n\nAs the fires in Alberta continue to burn, 300 members of the Canadian military are being deployed to help local firefighters put out the flames on the ground and by air, officials said.\n\nThe military will also aid with community evacuations. Nearly 30,000 people have been forced out of their homes since the fires began a week ago.\n\nOfficials said that 28 schools remain closed due to the fires, affecting more than 6,000 students.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I recognise that this continues to be an extremely stressful time for many Albertans,\" said Mike Ellis, Alberta's minister of emergency preparedness, at a news conference on Thursday.\n\nMr Ellis said while temperatures in the province have cooled in recent days, the region is slated for an \"above normal\" hot and dry weekend that raises the threat of more fires.\n\nThe western Canada province saw 427 fires so far this year that burned through 410,000 hectares - nearly double the five-year average of hectares burned in an entire season.\n\nNearby British Columbia (BC) and Saskatchewan have also seen fires and evacuations in recent days.\n\nLike Alberta, BC is also slated for an unusually hot few days from Friday to Tuesday, raising concerns about both wildfires and floods from snowmelts. Temperatures are expected to hit 30C (86F) on Monday near Fort St John, a town near the BC-Alberta border, where a wildfire is burning nearby.\n\nExperts say that while wildfires can be sparked by direct human involvement, natural factors can also play a huge part.\n\nThe cycle of extreme and long-lasting heat caused by climate change draws more and more moisture out of the ground and vegetation. The world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began.\n\nThere are 75 active wildfires in Alberta as of Thursday evening, 23 of which are considered out of control", "The UK has won Eurovision five times, so what do children think about these past performances?\n\nTo reflect on the UK’s previous success, kids from the Liverpool Philharmonic Melody Makers choir give their honest reviews.", "Trevor Jacob bailed out of a solo flight over the Los Padres mountains in California in 2021\n\nA YouTuber who intentionally crashed an aeroplane for views will plead guilty to obstructing a federal investigation by cleaning up the site of the crash, US prosecutors say.\n\nTrevor Jacob, 29, posted the video of the plane crash to YouTube in December 2021, implying it was an accident. It has over 2.9 million views to date.\n\nIn a plea agreement, he said he filmed the video as part of a product sponsorship deal.\n\nHe could face up to 20 years in prison.\n\nThe 29-year-old pilot and skydiver has agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of destruction and concealment with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation, the US justice department said in a statement on Thursday.\n\nIn November 2021, Mr Jacob left a Santa Barbara, California airport on a solo flight with cameras mounted on his plane. Along with the cameras, Mr Jacob took a parachute with him, as well as a selfie stick.\n\nHe \"did not intend to reach his destination, but instead planned to eject from his aircraft during the flight and video himself parachuting to the ground and his airplane as it descended and crashed\", the US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe plane crashed into the Los Padres National Forest 35 minutes after takeoff. He hiked to the site and recovered the footage.\n\nSome YouTube viewers were sceptical of the crash, noting that Mr Jacob was already wearing a parachute and made no attempt to land the plane safely.\n\nHe reported the crash to the National Transportation Safety Board, who said he was responsible for preserving the wreckage. According to the plea agreement, Mr Jacob later claimed he did not know the location of the site.\n\nHe did, and returned by helicopter and secured and removed the wreckage, which he later destroyed, the statement says.\n\nMr Jacob is expected to make his initial court appearance in the coming weeks.\n\nHis pilot's licence was revoked last year.\n\nMr Jacob's lawyer has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nMr Jacob leaving the plane before the crash", "Prince Harry attended the High Court in March for a separate hearing against the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper\n\nUnlawful information gathering was widespread and authorised by those at the highest levels of Mirror Group Newspapers, a court has heard.\n\nPrince Harry is among high-profile figures accusing the publisher of using private investigators and phone hacking to gain access to stories about them.\n\nHis barrister David Sherborne said millions of pounds were paid to private investigators, with the payments signed off by senior figures at MGN.\n\nIt is alleged that journalists from the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People newspapers obtained private and confidential information about people's lives through a variety of illegal means.\n\nThe bulk of the trial's evidence are 207 newspaper stories, published between 1991 and 2011 - some 67% of which were written about Harry, the Duke of Sussex.\n\nMr Sherborne told the High Court one of the most \"serious and troubling\" features of the case is the extent to which \"widespread, habitual and unlawful\" activities were \"authorised at the highest level\".\n\nThis included \"the systemic and widespread use of PIs (private investigators) by MGN journalists to unlawfully obtain private information\" of various individuals, Mr Sherborne told London's High Court.\n\nMr Sherborne has referred the court to key senior figures in MGN who he claims \"authorised\" the unlawful obtaining of information.\n\nHe said this included former editors Piers Morgan, Neil Wallis, Tina Weaver, Mark Thomas, Richard Wallace and Bridget Rowe, and alleged that managing editors and senior executives also knew.\n\n\"Mr Morgan was right at the heart of this in many ways,\" Mr Sherborne told the court. \"He was a hands-on editor and was close to the board. We have the direct involvement of Mr Morgan in a number of these incidents.\"\n\nMr Morgan was Daily Mirror editor from 1995 until 2004.\n\nMr Sherborne said the alleged unlawful activities also included MGN journalists intercepting landline voicemails, even if the phone numbers were ex-directory - meaning they were not listed in the telephone directory and the phone company would not provide them to those who asked for them.\n\nClaims brought by Harry and three others are being heard in the trial, expected to last six to seven weeks, as being \"representative\" cases of the types of allegations facing the publisher.\n\nThe other claimants are former Coronation Street actors Nikki Sanderson and Michael Turner, known by his stage name Michael Le Vell, and comedian Paul Whitehouse's ex-wife Fiona Wightman.\n\nThey are all expected to give evidence - when the prince does so in June, he will become the first senior member of the Royal Family to appear in court and be cross-examined in modern times.\n\nThe four cases were chosen by the trial judge to help the court set the level of damages MGN should pay if the claimants win, as well as establish the various allegations facing the publisher.\n\nThe court would then consider other cases from celebrities including the former Girls Aloud singer Cheryl, actor Ricky Tomlinson, former Arsenal and England footballer Ian Wright and the estate of late singer-songwriter George Michael.\n\nMGN has denied the allegations, including those of voicemail interception.\n\nIn its defence against some of the claims made by Prince Harry, MGN's lawyers argued that he did not have \"a reasonable expectation of privacy\".\n\nThis argument was made in response to articles about his relationship with Chelsy Davy - the break-up of which Harry blamed on press intrusion, his alleged drug use and one that reported he was forced to carry out farm work as punishment for wearing a Nazi uniform to a party.\n\nIn other instances it claimed published information was \"limited and banal\".\n\nIn response to one of the 33 articles put forward by Prince Harry's legal team, which gave details about his 18th birthday celebrations, MGN lawyers argued that the information came from an interview the duke gave to the Press Association.\n\nThe article published under the headline \"No Eton trifles for Harry, 18\" in September 2002 \"simply repeated the details that the claimant [Harry] had given\" including that he would not be having a party and would be spending the day with his father and brother, MGN argues in court documents. It said there was \"no evidence of voicemail interception\".\n\nHowever on Wednesday, the publisher acknowledged and \"unreservedly\" apologised for a separate instance of unlawful information gathering against Harry, adding that the legal challenge brought by the prince \"warrants compensation\".\n\nOn Thursday, reporters saw the list of 33 stories at the heart of Prince Harry's claim for damages against MGN. He is relying on them to prove phone hacking and other unlawful activity against him. Here are some of them:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"I've never hacked a phone, I wouldn't even know how\" - Piers Morgan (interview filmed in March)\n\nIn Thursday's hearing, Mr Sherborne discussed a Daily Mirror front page story from 1999, which revealed confidential details about the finances of Prince Michael of Kent - cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth II - including that he was in debt to a bank.\n\nPrince Michael's lawyers later told MGN they had deduced that a \"blagger\" had called the bank and, posing as the royal's accountant, obtained confidential information.\n\nMGN eventually settled the claim, published an apology and paid his legal costs, the barrister said.\n\n\"It's inconceivable, given the way this progressed, that the legal department and Mr Morgan were not well aware of the source of the story, and that it came from illegally obtained information,\" Mr Sherborne told the court.\n\nMr Morgan has consistently denied any knowledge of phone hacking during his time editing the newspaper, but this will be the first time a court has been asked to rule on claims about what he knew.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Amol Rajan before the trial began, Mr Morgan said he could only talk to what he knew about his own involvement, adding: \"I've never hacked a phone, I wouldn't even know how.\"\n\nMr Morgan also pointed out he only worked for the Daily Mirror and had no responsibility for the Sunday Mirror, Sunday People or other titles.\n\nIn 2015, MGN admitted journalists had regularly used unlawful techniques to obtain private information - and issued a public apology.\n\nThe High Court ordered the publisher to pay out damages totalling £1.25m to eight phone-hacking victims, including more than £260,000 to the actor Sadie Frost.", "Mae Muller, Victor Vernicos and Gustaph answer six questions from the BBC News Eurovision quiz.\n\nWatch to find out how they got on.\n\nTo have a go yourself, find the filter on the BBC News Instagram account on a mobile device and tilt your head sideways to select 'true' or 'false' in augmented reality.\n\nAnd it's on TikTok @bbcnews - play with it there.", "Keely Morgan's parents said their daughter was \"sensible, kind and not one person ever had a bad word to say about her\"\n\nA teenager was hit and killed by a car on a zebra crossing as she made her way home, an inquest opening has heard.\n\nKeely Morgan, 15, spent Bank Holiday Monday with her family at the seaside in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, and went for a walk after they got home.\n\nShe was hit as she crossed Heol Trelai in Caerau, Cardiff, at about 21:30 BST on 1 May and died at the scene.\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded that she died as a result of \"multiple blunt force injuries\".\n\nCoroner Graeme Hughes said he had reason to suspect the death was \"unnatural or violent\"and that an inquest was needed.\n\nA 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nThe hearing was adjourned while police continue their investigations into what happened ahead of another hearing in four months.\n\nIn a tribute released previously, Keely's parents said she had a \"beautiful smile\" that lit up the room, while her teachers described her as an \"exceptional student\" who loved school.", "Officers from Britain's National Crime Agency arrest a suspect during raids in Grimsby last month\n\nA hacker marketplace used to steal accounts for Netflix, Amazon and other services is still active, despite police saying it had been taken down.\n\nLast month, an international police operation announced that Genesis Market had been seized and deleted from the mainstream internet.\n\nBut the identical version of the market hosted on the darknet remains online.\n\nOn Monday, a post on the unaffected version of the market was said it was \"fully functional\".\n\nGenesis Market is described by police as a \"dangerous\" website specialising in selling login details, IP addresses and browsing cookie data that make up victims' \"digital fingerprints\".\n\nThe service was considered one of the biggest criminal facilitators, with more than two million stolen online identities for sale at the time of the police action.\n\nOperation Cookie Monster was led by the FBI and Dutch police and announced on 5 April.\n\nSeveral agencies around the world celebrated the website \"takedown\", announcing that 119 people had been arrested and describing the criminal service as \"dismantled\".\n\nBut researchers at cyber-security company Netacea have been monitoring the darknet version of the market, and say the website was only disrupted for about two weeks.\n\nUsers trying to log into Genesis on the mainstream internet see a message saying the website has been seized\n\n\"Taking down cyber-crime operations is a lot like dealing with weeds. If you leave any roots, they will resurface,\" says Cyril Noel-Tagoe, Netacea's principal security researcher.\n\nMr Noel-Tagoe praised police for seizing the mainstream internet version of the market, but says the operation was more of a disruption than a takedown.\n\n\"The roots of Genesis Market's operation, namely the administrators, darknet website and malicious software infrastructure, have survived,\" he said.\n\nCriminal administrators have since posted an update to the marketplace saying that they have released a new version of their specialist hacking browser, resumed collecting data from hacked devices and added more than 2,000 new victim devices to the market.\n\nNews and product updates have been posted to Genesis Market this week\n\nExperts at cyber-security company Trellix, who helped police disrupt some of the hacking tools sold on Genesis Market, agreed that the leaders of the website were still at large.\n\n\"It is true that the Genesis administrators quickly responded on Exploit [hacker] forums stating that they would be back online shortly with improvements,\" said John Fokker, head of threat intelligence at Trellix, adding that the darknet site was still accessible.\n\nPolice did not comment on the darknet site remaining online at the time of the \"takedown\".\n\nAn FBI spokesperson has since told the BBC that work is continuing to \"make sure that users who leverage a service like Genesis Marketplace face justice\".\n\nThe UK's National Crime Agency insists that the operation has dealt a \"huge blow\" to cyber-criminals.\n\n\"Although a dark web version of the site remains active, the volume of stolen data and users has been significantly reduced. I have no doubt that the operation damaged criminal trust in Genesis Market,\" Paul Foster, deputy director of the NCA's National Cyber Crime Unit, told the BBC.\n\nAs well as reducing the visibility of the marketplace by taking it off the mainstream internet, police and many experts agree that the high number of arrests of users will have a chilling effect on hackers considering using the site.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is the dark web?\n\nHowever, it's not clear how many of those arrested will face prosecution. The NCA says only one of the 30 people arrested in the UK has so far been charged with any offences.\n\nResearch of hacker forums from Trellix and Netacea does suggest an unease about the marketplace since the operation, but it is hard to know if cyber-criminals have been put off in the short term or permanently.\n\nUser comments are still being posted on the marketplace's news page, but in small numbers.\n\nTaking down criminal websites hosted on the darknet is notoriously difficult as the location of their servers are often hard to find or in jurisdictions that do not respond to Western law enforcement requests, like Russia.\n\nThe US Treasury, which has sanctioned Genesis Market, believes the site is run from Russia. It is not known for sure, but the site offers Russian and English translations.\n\nIn the last year, police have had success in fully removing some darknet markets like the drugs sites Monopoly and Hydra.\n\nRussian-language site Hydra was the highest-grossing dark web market in the world and was thought to be based in Russia but was actually hosted in Germany, which allowed German law enforcement to shut it down.\n• None The darknet drug dealers who keep coming back", "UK Eurovision entrant Mae Muller has had a double surprise on the streets of Liverpool ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest final.\n\nDuring an interview with the BBC, a choir burst into song with her Eurovision entry, I Wrote A Song.\n\nThen one of Liverpool's most famous sons sent her a good luck message.", "David Boyd will be sentenced on 23 May for murdering Nikki Allan\n\nA convicted child abuser has been found guilty of brutally murdering a seven-year-old girl more than 30 years ago.\n\nNikki Allan was repeatedly hit with a brick and stabbed dozens of times before her body was abandoned in a derelict building near her home in Sunderland in October 1992.\n\nDavid Boyd, 55, from Stockton-on-Tees, was convicted at Newcastle Crown Court after a three-week trial.\n\nNikki's mother said the \"evil man\" had \"slipped through the net\" for decades.\n\nHe will be sentenced on 23 May.\n\nBoyd, then aged 25, was a neighbour of Nikki's at the Wear Garth flats in the east end of Sunderland and his partner had been the girl's babysitter.\n\nHowever, he avoided suspicion in the initial Northumbria Police investigation because detectives were focussed on another man - also a neighbour - 24-year-old George Heron.\n\nHe was prosecuted but acquitted at a trial in 1993 after a judge ruled police had used \"oppressive\" tactics when questioning him and said his confession had been obtained under duress.\n\nBoyd was familiar with the abandoned Old Exchange building about 300 yards from where he and Nikki lived, and knew how to get inside through a broken, boarded-up window.\n\nDNA matching his was found on Nikki's clothes and he bore a \"striking resemblance\" to a man seen with Nikki shortly before her death, prosecutors said.\n\nThe trial heard Boyd, of Chesterton Court in Norton, confessed to having sexual fantasies about young girls and was convicted of indecently assaulting a nine-year-old girl in 1999.\n\nHe also had a conviction for indecent exposure in 1997 when he flashed three young girls in a park and one for breaching the peace in 1986 when he grabbed a 10-year-old girl and asked her for a kiss.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProsecutor Richard Wright KC previously told jurors Nikki was lured to the building by someone she knew and the \"irresistible conclusion\" was it was done for a \"sinister purpose\" even though there was no evidence of a sexual assault.\n\nHe said the case against Boyd was \"circumstantial but compelling\" but if he was not the murderer then Nikki must have been killed by a \"phantom\" who had left no evidence behind.\n\nThe jury of 10 women and two men in Boyd's trial reached their verdict after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation.\n\nThe public gallery erupted with raucous cheers and cries of \"thank you\" when the verdict was read out. Police officers had to be summoned into the court to restore order.\n\nBoyd, dressed in a white T-shirt, did not visibly react and was remanded into custody.\n\nNikki Allan was killed in the Old Exchange building in the Hendon area of Sunderland\n\nOutside court, Nikki's mother Sharon Henderson, who campaigned tirelessly to keep her daughter's case in the public consciousness, spoke of the \"injustice\" her family had lived with for three decades.\n\nAddressing the botched police investigation in 1992, she told reporters: \"This evil man slipped through the net to murder Nikki when he was on their files in the first place.\n\n\"Three doors down from Nikki's grandparents [where Boyd had been living]. They should have investigated him straight away.\"\n\nAsked how she had managed to keep fighting for justice, she replied: \"Because Nikki's my daughter and I love her.\"\n\nSpeaking after the verdict, Assistant Chief Constable Brad Howe of Northumbria Police praised Nikki's family's \"patience and strength over the last 30 years\", adding: \"Today is about justice for Nikki and her family.\"\n\n\"David Boyd hid his crime, lying about his involvement and prolonging the family's suffering, knowing all along that he had taken the life of their little girl,\" he said.\n\nHe said the investigation had been one of the \"most complex and comprehensive ever conducted\" by the force.\n\nDet Ch Supt Lisa Theaker, the senior investigating officer in the case, added: \"Nikki would have been 37 now and who knows what her life could have been.\n\n\"But her future was cruelly taken away from her by David Boyd. The pain and suffering that he has caused, and to so many people, is immeasurable.\"\n\nChristopher Atkinson, head of the Complex Casework Unit at Crown Prosecution Service North East, said: \"Despite the unimaginable grief endured by Nikki's family, Boyd continued to pretend that he was not involved in the killing for 30 years.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protesters stand on the train tracks at the Lexington Ave/63rd Street subway station during a \"Justice for Jordan Neely\" protest Image caption: Protesters stand on the train tracks at the Lexington Ave/63rd Street subway station during a \"Justice for Jordan Neely\" protest\n\nMultiple protests erupted in the days after Jordan Neely's death on a New York subway.\n\nOne of the demonstrators, Kyle Ishmael, a 38-year-old who lives in Harlem, said the video of Neely's death \"disgusted\" him.\n\n\"I couldn't believe this was happening on my subway in my city that I grew up in,\" he told BBC's US partner, CBS News.\n\nAt one protest last week, dozens of people were taken into custody after a group of people jumped down onto the subway tracks.\n\nSome of the rallies have turned violent, with images of a bloodied man being taken to a police van circulating widely on media.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is the Title 42 border policy?\n\nTens of thousands of people are waiting to cross into the US from Mexico, officials say, after a pandemic-era border policy expired on Friday.\n\nThe policy, known as Title 42, allowed the US to swiftly deport people without an asylum hearing, using the coronavirus pandemic as justification.\n\nIt ended overnight after three years along with the country's national Covid-19 health emergency.\n\nPresident Biden's new rules to replace Title 42 are facing legal challenges.\n\nSeveral people in the town of El Paso in Texas said they hurried to reach the border ahead of the policy change. They told the BBC they were unsure what the new rules would mean and had been left confused by rumours and misinformation.\n\nJon Uzcategui and his girlfriend Esmaily, both 24, arrived here from Venezuela. They said they were told by smugglers and other migrants that they would be immediately deported if they presented themselves at the border, prompting them to illegally cross the barriers separating El Paso from Mexico.\n\n\"We trusted them, and were starting to move into the US. But we were stopped at a roadblock,\" said Mr Uzcategui, who was eventually allowed in after his asylum claim was heard. \"The agents told us that [what we heard] was all false.\"\n\n\"All the migrants were talking about 11 May,\" he added. \"But there were lots of rumours. We just knew something was changing.\"\n\nThe end of Title 42 triggered a desperate race to the 2,000-mile (3,200km) US-Mexico border. About 10,000 people have been crossing each day - the highest levels on record.\n\nBorder authorities on Friday said they had not seen \"a substantial increase\" in migrants crossing since the end of Title 42.\n\nThe Mexican government put the number of waiting migrants at its border with the US at just under 27,000 - less than half of the US estimate of 60,000.\n\nAhead of the policy's expiration, it was quiet in El Paso where makeshift migrant camps on the city's streets have largely been removed. But local authorities and humanitarian organisations are bracing for what some fear may be a difficult-to-manage rise in attempted crossings.\n\nThe city's mayor, Oscar Leeser, warned that an estimated 10,000 migrants were waiting for an opportunity to cross into El Paso from Ciudad Juarez in Mexico.\n\nAbout 10,000 migrants were crossing the border every day ahead of Title 42's expiry\n\nThe Biden administration has unveiled a raft of new measures aimed at encouraging people to stop crossing illegally and to follow the asylum process.\n\nThese include the opening of regional processing centres in Latin America and the expanded use of a Customs and Border Patrol-run app to book asylum appointments.\n\nOfficials say those crossing the border illegally will be deported, barred from re-entering the US for at least five years and presumed ineligible for asylum.\n\nUnder Title 42, there were no such consequences meaning repeat attempts to cross the border were common.\n\n\"We are ready to humanely process and remove people without a legal basis to be in the US,\" Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said. \"The border is not open.\"\n\nThe new rules and the efforts of immigration officials to assuage the fears of local residents have done little to reassure many of those who help migrants in El Paso.\n\n\"It's going to be a very large challenge for us,\" said Susan Goodell, the chief executive of El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank, which has been feeding hundreds of migrants each day on the city's streets.\n\n\"We're preparing, to the best of our ability, to find the food that we need to feed people living on the street or in shelters,\" she said. \"With the lifting of Title 42, we think it'll be a short time before we start seeing a large number of migrants coming into the community again.\"\n\n\"We're stocking up on food and supplies as much as possible,\" said Nicole Reulet, marketing director of Rescue Mission El Paso, a local shelter that houses migrants.\n\n\"Nobody really knows what to expect, or what the numbers will look like. It makes it hard for us to prepare.\"\n\nOn Thursday, about 25,000 migrants were in Border Patrol custody, far exceeding the agency's capacity to hold them.\n\nTo reduce overflow, officials had planned to release migrants and tell them to report to an immigration office within 60 days. That effort, however, was blocked by a federal judge in Florida. The Biden administration is expected to appeal.\n\nIn the longer term, the lifting of Title 42 is likely to be a contentious political issue in the US. House Republicans, for example, are already considering a package of immigration bills, although they have little chance of passing a Democratic-controlled Senate.\n\nThe country's immigration system has not been significantly updated for decades and both Democrats and Republicans have said it is in need of reform.\n\nBut the two sides have major differences on border policy, meaning there is little prospect of bipartisan legislation that could overhaul the system in future\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Migrant mother tells children: 'We're on a quest to find the treasure'", "Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be the largest explosion ever detected.\n\nThe explosion is more than 10 times brighter than any recorded exploding star - known as a supernova.\n\nSo far it has lasted more than three years, much longer than most supernovae which are usually only visibly bright for a few months.\n\nOne theory is that the blast was caused when a vast cloud of gas was swallowed up by a black hole.\n\nA flash in the sky was first automatically detected and recorded in 2020 by the Zwicky Transient Facility in California. But it wasn't until a year later that it was picked up by astronomers combing through the data.\n\nThey called the event AT2021lwx. At the time they thought it was unremarkable because there was no indication of how far away it was and therefore it wasn't possible to calculate its brightness.\n\nLast year a team led by Dr Philip Wiseman from the University of Southampton analysed the light from the event which enabled them to calculate its distance - 8bn light years away. Dr Wiseman described the moment the worked out the brightness of the phenomenon.\n\n\"We thought 'oh my God, this is outrageous!'\".\n\nOne of the brightest events in the Universe is an exploding star, known as a supernova. The new object is ten times brighter\n\nThe team were completely baffled as to what could have caused something so bright. There was nothing in the scientific literature that could account for something that was so bright that lasted so long, according to Dr Wiseman.\n\n\"Most supernovae and tidal disruption events only last for a couple of months before fading away. For something to be bright for two plus years was immediately very unusual.\"\n\nHis theory is that the explosion is a result of an enormous cloud of gas, possibly thousands of times larger than our Sun, swallowed up by a supermassive black hole.\n\nThis would send shockwaves across space and leave superheated remnants of the cloud surrounding the black hole like a giant ring doughnut.\n\nAll galaxies are thought to have giant black holes at their heart. Dr Wiseman believes that such powerful explosions could play an important role in what he describes as \"sculpting\" the centre of galaxies.\n\n\"It could be that these events, although extremely rare, are so energetic that they are key processes to how the centres of galaxies change over time\".\n\nThe search is now on for more huge explosions like this, according to Dr Robert Massey who is the Deputy Executive Director of the Royal Astronomical Society.\n\n\"We've never seen anything like this before and certainly not on this scale,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I'd be amazed if this is the only object like this in the Universe\".\n\nDr Wiseman hopes to detect more events like this with new telescope systems coming online in the next few years.\n\nThe team are now setting out to collect more data on the explosion - observing the object in different wavelengths, including X-rays, which could reveal the object's temperature and what processes might be taking place at the surface. They will also carry out upgraded computational simulations to test if these match their theory of what caused the explosion.\n\nAn artist's impression of the event - a giant gas cloud sucked into a supermassive black hole\n\nLast year, astronomers detected the brightest explosion on record, a gamma-ray burst known as GRB 221009A, which lasted just over ten hours. Although this was brighter than AT2021lwx, it lasted for just a fraction of the time, meaning the explosive power of the AT2021lwx explosion was far greater.\n\nThe details have been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society .", "Three teachers and a 14-year-old pupil have been injured in a disturbance at Johnstone High School in Renfrewshire.\n\nPolice were called at about 10:45 after a former pupil entered the school.\n\nThree female teachers aged 59, 48 and 34 were taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley with minor injuries to be checked over. The 14-year-old pupil also suffered minor injuries.\n\nPolice said a 16-year-old girl had been charged and would be reported to the Scottish Children's Reporter.\n\nA video showing a girl appearing to strike a teacher is circulating among pupils at the school. No weapons were involved in the incident.\n\nRenfrewshire Council said the school continued to operate as normal and senior staff were providing any support needed to staff and pupils.\n\nThe parent of a Johnstone High pupil told BBC Scotland that there had been \"ongoing issues with violence and vandalism over a number of months\".\n\nHe added: \"The toilets are now permanently closed to all pupils, as they have been completely vandalised and taken out of use on numerous occasions.\n\n\"I have total sympathy for the headteacher, who I believe does an excellent job in very difficult circumstance.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, the NASUWT teaching union said an increase in \"challenging\" behaviour in schools across the country since the pandemic meant teachers were often having to intervene in fights between pupils and called for more to be done to protect staff.\n\nThe union's Mike Corbett said: \"While the full circumstances of this incident are yet to be made public, we have raised repeated concerns about the vulnerability of teachers to violence and verbal abuse from pupils.\n\n\"Teachers have reported to us that the prevalence of poor behaviour appears to have increased since the pandemic and that in too many cases they do not feel adequately protected at work.\"\n\nScotland's biggest teaching union, the EIS, has previously said it has received reports of rising numbers of violent incidents in schools.\n\nSeveral social media videos of fights between pupils have also been highlighted in the media.\n\nIn November, teachers at Bannerman High in Glasgow announced 12 days of strike action over violent and abusive pupil behaviour.\n\nThe following month, teachers at a school in Aberdeen also voted in favour of industrial action over pupil violence against staff.", "Former Labour MP Paul Clark was sentenced to two years and four months in prison\n\nA former Labour MP who shared child abuse material has been jailed.\n\nPaul Clark, who represented Gillingham in Kent for 13 years, was caught with more than 1,400 images on five electronic devices.\n\nDuring his career, Clark worked as a parliamentary private secretary to deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and education secretary Ed Balls.\n\nAt Maidstone Crown Court, the 66-year-old was sentenced to two years and four months in prison.\n\nFollowing his arrest in May 2021, Clark's devices were seized for analysis and officers recovered more than 1,400 indecent images of children.\n\nHe was subsequently charged with three counts of making indecent images of children and six counts of distributing indecent images of children between April 2013 and May 2021.\n\nThe court heard that when Clark was arrested, he initially made no comment, but later told officers, \"I know why you're here\", and \"I kept telling myself to stop\".\n\nThe former politician's defence barrister, Ronnie Manek KC, said Clark was \"a man full of remorse and regret\".\n\nThe court heard there was no evidence that any of the offending took place while Clark was in office.\n\nCatrin Attwell from the Crown Prosecution Service's organised child sexual abuse unit said the examination of Clark's electronic devices revealed imagery of children as young as three.\n\n\"The electronic devices also revealed chatlogs in which Clark discussed his sexual desires, distributed indecent images of children to others for their sexual gratification and used social media to identify and talk to users under the age of 18,\" she said.\n\nClark has also been issued with a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and must sign the sex offenders register.\n\nDanielle Pownall, National Crime Agency (NCA) operations manager, said: \"Behind a significant number of images in Clark's possession was a vulnerable child being abused, just to satisfy paedophiles.\n\n\"He helped fuel the sickening trade in this material by downloading the images and sending them on to other offenders. In doing so, he also re-victimised every child.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The players were honoured at the ceremony at Pittodrie\n\nMembers of the Aberdeen FC team who famously won the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup have been awarded Freedom of the City.\n\nThe Dons beat Real Madrid 2-1 to lift the trophy in Gothenburg, Sweden.\n\nFans gathered at the club's Pittodrie Stadium to watch the Freedom ceremony.\n\nOthers to have previously received the honour include Sir Alex Ferguson, who managed Aberdeen to Gothenburg glory, footballer Denis Law and former Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev.\n\nFormer players honoured at the emotional event on Friday - alongside the club itself - included Willie Miller, Alex McLeish, Gordon Strachan and Eric Black.\n\nThe late Neale Cooper - who died in 2018 - was remembered, with a number four shirt covering an empty seat on the stage.\n\nA video message from Sir Alex was played and was greeted by warm applause.\n\n\"This is a wonderful honour, well done,\" he said, as he recalled the victory 40 years ago.\n\nAberdeen Lord Provost David Cameron said: \"The Gothenburg Greats team are all local heroes and continue to be regarded as some of the greatest players to pull on the red and white colours of Aberdeen Football Club.\n\n\"It is a fitting tribute that we can confer the Freedom of the City to them during the 40th anniversary celebrations of that famous night in Gothenburg.\"\n\nAberdeen FC chairman Dave Cormack said it was a \"humbling\" award for everyone associated with the club.\n\n\"The Freedom of the City is the highest honour the city of Aberdeen can confer,\" he said.\n\nThousands of fans travelled to Sweden in 1983 to see the famous win, many by ferry, and even by fishing boat.\n\nAberdeen remain the last Scottish side to win a European trophy.", "Adam Price says he no longer had the support of his party\n\nAdam Price has quit as Plaid Cymru leader after a report found misogyny, harassment and bullying in the party.\n\nNorth Wales Senedd member Llyr Gruffydd will take over as interim leader, with a new leader in place in the summer, the party has said.\n\nIt follows months of difficulties including allegations of a sexual assault made against a senior staff member, and a toxic working culture.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Mr Price said he no longer had the \"united support\" of his colleagues.\n\nHe said he wanted to resign in the wake of the report's findings, but was initially persuaded not to quit.\n\n\"You have my personal assurance that I will continue to serve my country, my constituents and our party with determination and enthusiasm,\" he said in a letter to party chairman, Marc Jones.\n\nOn Thursday Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford said discussions on his co-operation agreement with Plaid will take place \"in light of recent developments\"\n\nHe thanked Mr Price \"for the constructive way the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru have worked together\".\n\nThe resignation announcement was made following a meeting of the party's ruling body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), late on Wednesday night.\n\nOne source from the meeting said some members raised the possibility of Adam Price remaining in post.\n\nBut it was considered untenable given the seriousness of the findings of the review.\n\nPlaid's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said Mr Price was not asked to resign in the wake of the \"toxic culture\" report because \"stability\" was needed to implement its recommendations.\n\nInterim Plaid Cymru leader Llyr Gruffydd has been in the Senedd since 2011\n\nSpeaking on the Today programme, Liz Saville Roberts said: \"Effective leadership is about balancing conflicting demands.\n\n\"What we felt strongly was that we needed a collegiate approach within the party because it (the report) cuts across all aspects of the party and it requires a change of culture\".\n\n\"In order to do that we would need stability\".\n\nShe also told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that Mr Price had to go because he had become a \"distraction\".\n\nShe ruled herself out of a leadership contest, saying any new leader would have to be an elected member in the Senedd.\n\n\"I'm an MP in Westminster so that's done and dusted,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adam Price apologised last week but said the damning report points to a \"collective failure\" across the party\n\nMr Gruffydd's appointment as interim leader was agreed at a meeting of the party's Senedd members on Thursday and will need to be rubber-stamped by Plaid Cymru's National Council on Saturday.\n\nHe will not stand in the forthcoming leadership contest\n\nMr Gruffydd said he was \"grateful to the Plaid Cymru Senedd group\" for the nomination and thanked Mr Price for his \"vision, commitment, and dedication\".\n\nPlaid Cymru is the third largest party in the Welsh Parliament, with 12 Members of the Senedd and three MPs in Westminster.\n\nThe pro-independence party is in a co-operation agreement with the Welsh Labour government, which means they help them govern.\n\nMr Price was elected party leader in 2018, when he ousted Leanne Wood.\n\nWelsh Conservative leader, Andrew RT Davies, said: \"I have no doubt Adam Price's departure is a moment of personal sadness for him.\n\n\"Following the recent report into the culture within their party, it became clear Plaid Cymru politicians no longer had confidence in his leadership, so his departure became inevitable.\"\n\nFor the converted, the die-hard believers, it wasn't meant to be like this.\n\nAdam Price was touted by many in Plaid Cymru as a \"once in a generation\" politician who could overcome the party's many electoral barriers.\n\nWhen he challenged his predecessor for the leadership in 2018, he said only he could \"create the momentum\" Plaid needed to become Wales' main party of government and install him as first minister.\n\nAnd yet, there was no great advance at the following Senedd election - Plaid remains in third place behind the Welsh Conservatives.\n\nSupporters will say it was an election like no other, one focused almost entirely on the public's broadly favourable opinion of the Welsh Labour government's handling of the pandemic.\n\nIt is clear, though, that some of the sheen had faded and in terms of public support, the party remains no further forward under Adam Price's leadership.\n\nAs it nears its 100th birthday celebrations, Plaid Cymru will seek its 11th leader with many of the perennial questions about its purpose, its lack of reach beyond the heartlands and its relationship with Welsh Labour likely to be raised.\n\nBut it is the drip, drip of negative stories over the last year, culminating in a damning report that found a toxic culture within the party that meant Adam Price's position was no longer tenable.\n\nAddressing those major issues will be his successor's primary focus.\n\nSince last year Plaid Cymru has been dogged by claims of a toxic culture in the party, and it emerged last November that an allegation of sexual assault had been made against a senior member of staff.\n\nSeparately, a serious allegation was also made about the conduct of a Member of the Senedd, Rhys ab Owen, who is now suspended from the Senedd group pending an investigation.\n\nThe party asked Nerys Evans, a lobbyist and former Plaid assembly member, to hold a review last December.\n\nHer working group's report said Plaid needed to \"detoxify a culture of harassment, bullying and misogyny\".\n\nIt said too many instances of bad behaviour were tolerated, and said an anonymous survey of staff and elected members highlighted examples \"of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination\".\n\nMr Price admitted the document left Plaid Cymru \"harmed and tarnished\". He apologised, but refused to quit.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Mr Price said: \"On receiving the report, I informed you that I felt morally bound to step down as leader of the party in recognition of our collective failure.\"\n\n\"You counselled against my resignation as you felt it would make it more difficult to achieve progress in implementing the recommendations.\"\n\nHe said he was \"persuaded by the argument that my stepping down would be an abdication of responsibility\".\n\nBut he added: \"It is now clear I no longer have the united support of my colleagues that would be necessary to follow this course to fruition.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"I want to thank Adam Price for the constructive way the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru have worked together to develop and implement the co-operation agreement. These shared priorities are making a real difference to people across Wales.\n\n\"The co-operation agreement is an agreement between the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru - not between individuals. There will be discussions about the agreement in light of recent developments.\"", "Portugal's parliament has voted to allow medically assisted dying in certain limited circumstances.\n\nMedical professionals will be allowed to help people die if they are in extreme suffering as a result of an incurable disease or severe injury and they are unable to end their own lives.\n\nThe vote overturned a series of vetoes exercised by the country's conservative President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.\n\nDeputies overwhelmingly voted in favour of the law.\n\nAlmost all members of the governing Socialist Party (PS) backed the legislation, as did three smaller left-of-centre parties and the Liberal Initiative (IL). Several members of the largest opposition party, the centre-right Social Democrats (PSD), also supported the bill.\n\nIsabel Moreira, the Socialist Party politician who steered the bill through parliament, hailed the vote as a realisation of freedoms aspired to in Portugal's 1974 Revolution, which ushered in democracy.\n\nOverturning a presidential veto, she said, was \"something normal\" in a democratic state - not least after a public debate on the subject that has lasted for over three years.\n\nMost PSD members voted against the bill, as did the far-right Chega party, the third largest in parliament, and the Communist Party (PCP).\n\nThe Chega leader André Ventura, who like the PSD leadership had demanded a referendum on the subject of euthanasia, told parliament during the debate that he did not believe that the law would ever come into force.\n\nEven if it does, he argued, \"there will not be a single doctor in Portugal\" prepared to act on its provisions, and any future right-leaning parliament would move to repeal it.\n\nPresident de Sousa - who in vetoing the bill in April acknowledged that he saw no legal anomalies in it, unlike previous versions that he sent to the Constitutional Court - is obliged to sign it into law within eight days of receiving it, once it is published in the official gazette.\n\nBut the reform can be derailed in the meantime, or at least delayed, if one in 10 members of parliament formally ask the Constitutional Court to review the legislation.\n\nSeveral PSD members of parliament have already declared their intention to do so.\n\nEuthanasia is fully legal in three European countries: Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. But assisted death and passive euthanasia - of various types - are legal in many more European countries.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 5 and 12 May.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nChris and Mirryn Morris took this photo of some Painted Lady butterflies which they have raised from baby caterpillars, enjoying an orange.\n\nThere were sunny conditions for this Dunoon crossing, as this photo, taken by Daniel White, shows.\n\n\"I took this picture of Andrew Carnegie's statue looking over the city he helped build whilst wandering around Pittencrieff park, which he left to the people,\" says Bob Smart in Dunfermline.\n\n\"Neat sowing of spring cabbage caught my eye near Kirkliston,\" says Lorna Donaldson.\n\nKirsty Darroch was visiting Islay and this donkey \"posed perfectly\".\n\nThe view of Glen Finglas reservoir, taken on a \"dreich holiday Monday walk around Lendrick Hill\" by Derek Elmhirst.\n\n\"Reflections on Delgatie Castle lake - the colours just jumped out at me,\" says Reg Connon.\n\n\"While on a recent visit to Edinburgh Zoo I spotted this giraffe and bird admiring the view over the city together,\" says Jan Dolny.\n\nA view within a view from Harsha Madasu - of a painter in Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh.\n\nJude Bytheway found this puffin taking shelter out of the gale-force winds, at Sumburgh Head on Shetland.\n\nThe hunt for some lobsters off the coast of Staxigoe was submitted by Archie Budge.\n\nThe view from Loch Rannoch Hotel looking over the loch to Schiehallion, by Nick Sproston.\n\nAlex Mackintosh made this discovery after driving across the Applecross mountain road.\n\n\"A big community event in Dollar: a traditional duck race - lots of fun and games,\" says Victor Tregubov.\n\nStuart Lilley captured these rain droplets on a dandelion seedhead, in his garden in Inverness.\n\nThe Art Deco interior of the 1930s observation car on the Strathspey Steam Railway, from Cliff Williams.\n\n\"Tricky access route paid off at Unstan chambered cairn on Orkney,\" says Sarah Sivers.\n\nAn exhibitor at Yardworks 2023, Glasgow's international festival of street art, hosted by SWG3 - from Geoff Der.\n\n\"Newhaven Main Street with the wisteria in full bloom,\" says Nicola Gourlay.\n\n\"Absolutely loved finding my first green hairstreak butterfly at Flanders Moss,\" says Paul Fraser.\n\nThe cherry blossom trees in Dawson Park, Broughty Ferry brightened up a grey day for Alana Willox.\n\n\"Peace and tranquillity\" on a walk at Threave Castle for Viv Alexander.\n\nDavid Brookens says this seat at Kingscross point, between Whiting Bay and Lamlash, gives \"one of the best views on Arran\".\n\nDeer at sunrise in Kildalton, Islay, from David Livingstone.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Adam Price took over as party leader in autumn 2018\n\nAdam Price said Plaid Cymru's \"time has come\" when he took over as leader five years ago.\n\nHis victory was not unexpected - with his imposing presence and strong oratory skills, Mr Price had long been regarded as a future leader.\n\nBut he departs after a report heavily criticised the workplace culture that existed in his party, alleging harassment, bullying and misogyny.\n\nA miner's son from the Amman Valley, Adam Price's politics were shaped by the long miners' strike of the mid-1980s.\n\nHe became an MP in 2001, representing Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, and made his mark in Westminster by leading an unsuccessful attempt to impeach the then prime minister, Tony Blair, over claims that Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.\n\nMr Price stood down as an MP in 2010 before going to study at the prestigious Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the US.\n\nIn 2016 he returned to frontline politics - this time in Cardiff Bay, still representing his home constituency.\n\nOne campaign leaflet that year famously described him as an \"X-factor politician\" and the \"mab darogan\" (the son of prophecy) - a figure from Welsh mythology who it is said will redeem Wales in its hour of need.\n\nAdam Price and other party leaders meeting the Prince of Wales at the Senedd last year\n\nTwo years later he ousted Leanne Wood and became the first openly gay leader of a Welsh political party.\n\nMr Price described the decision to challenge one of his \"oldest friends in politics\" as \"the most difficult thing I've had to wrestle with in my political life\".\n\nMs Wood would later tell the BBC that the move led to the collapse of their friendship.\n\nIn a departure from his predecessor's approach, Mr Price put the notoriously tricky subject of independence at the heart of his political plan, pledging to hold a referendum on the issue by 2030.\n\nBut at the snap general election of December 2019 the party found itself squeezed out of the Brexit-dominated debate, and though Plaid held on to its four seats in Westminster, its share of the vote fell back and it came a disappointing third in its main target seat of Ynys Môn.\n\nLabour First Minister Mark Drakeford and Adam Price signed a co-operation deal in late 2021\n\nAnd so to the 2021 Senedd election, where independence would be front and centre of the party's campaign.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Price said that he would count anything less than becoming first minister as a \"failure\", and he ruled out working with the Conservatives and joining a coalition with Labour as a junior partner.\n\nBut the party slipped back into third place, losing its grip on the Rhondda seat held by Ms Wood, as it struggled to compete with the favourable response towards the Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford's leadership during the pandemic.\n\nMonths later, and with Mr Drakeford having fallen just short of a majority in the Senedd, Mr Price formed a co-operation agreement with the Welsh Labour government.\n\nThis was to be a new kind of deal, and one which would allow Plaid Cymru to push through some of its key policies, including Senedd expansion, the extension of free school meals, and free childcare for two year-olds.\n\nAnd that's why in the run-up to last May's Welsh local elections Mr Price - by now a father of two young children - was able to claim his party was \"making a difference\", and had \"snatched a moral victory from the mawing jaws of defeat\".\n\nBy the end of the year the party was engulfed by claims of a toxic culture within Plaid and criticism of the leadership's handling of the situation.\n\nThat culminated in a report by Nerys Evans which said the party had tolerated \"too many instances of bad behaviour\".\n\nMr Price initially insisted he would remain in post, arguing that quitting would be \"abdicating\" his responsibility.\n\nHowever a week on Mr Price has announced that he will step down and so it will be up to his successor to address the issues raised by the report and set a course for the party into the general election.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe standout stars of this year's Eurovision Song Contest do not just include the competitors - one of the hosts has become a fan favourite as well.\n\nHannah Waddingham has been a leading lady on stage for more than two decades and found wider fame thanks to TV shows Game of Thrones, Ted Lasso and Sex Education.\n\nShe can now add \"Eurovision icon\" to her CV.\n\nHannah Waddingham (right) with fellow co-hosts Alesha Dixon and Julia Sanina\n\nThe English actress is co-hosting the contest's finals with British presenter Alesha Dixon and Ukrainian singer Julia Sanina and the BBC's Graham Norton.\n\nWhile they have all been excellent so far, Waddingham in particular has earned rave reviews, and her appearances have capped her elevation to A-list status.\n\nViewers have responded to her unbridled energy and overflowing sense of fun, plus the effortless composure and assured stage presence that come from years in the West End and on Broadway.\n\nHer enthusiastic facial expressions, exuberant style, impromptu dance moves and language skills also have the crowd eating out of the palm of her hand.\n\nKing Charles met the hosts and commentators at the Eurovision arena last month\n\nAt a press conference on Friday, one reporter informed her she had been dubbed \"mother\" on social media. \"Can I just ask if that's a good thing?\" she responded.\n\nIt is - being a term particularly used in the gay community to refer to iconic women.\n\nWaddingham only hosted her first awards ceremony last month - the Olivier Awards - when she was particularly praised for comforting an emotional winner.\n\n\"It was my first ever presenting gig, [with] this subtle little one being my second,\" she said.\n\n\"As with the Oliviers - the winners and the losers, everyone [at Eurovision] makes the effort of their lives. All of us, all of them on stage, everyone backstage, we're all just trying to put on a beautiful, massive, joyous show, and be unified by music.\n\n\"So it's very much our job to be there for the ups and the downs for the winners and the losers, and that's why I wanted to get involved.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Sounds This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWaddingham and grand final co-host Graham Norton, pictured in 2009, have been friends for years\n\nWaddingham is from London and spent her childhood in theatres watching her mother, a singer with the English National Opera.\n\nBy her 20s, she was in leading roles in the West End herself. Waddingham now has three Olivier nominations to her name - for Monty Python show Spamalot, Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music and Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate.\n\nAfter some TV roles, including in ITV comedy Benidorm, she was cast as Septa Unella, better known as the Shame Nun in Game of Thrones, joining in season five.\n\nIt was \"horrifically difficult\" to be taken seriously enough to make the leap from stage to screen - and she had to go to the US to make a real breakthrough, she has said.\n\nShe went down well when she hosted the Olivier Awards in London in April\n\n\"You see the same faces constantly, I think, on British television. And that was my frustration,\" she told Kate Thornton's White Wine Question Time podcast in 2021.\n\n\"I had to jump over to the other side of the pond in order to get recognised. And I don't think that's right, personally.\"\n\nBut with a baby on the way, she no longer wanted to be on stage six nights a week. She started filming Game of Thrones just eight weeks after giving birth.\n\nWaddingham with Lady Gaga at the 2022 Critics Choice Awards\n\nThat led to shows like Superman prequel Krypton. But while filming that, her daughter, three at the time, became seriously ill with Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP), which affects the blood vessels. It was \"all a bit touch and go\", Waddingham said.\n\nAfter being unable to immediately get home to be with her, so told her agents she no longer wanted acting jobs that would require her to travel.\n\n\"I am first and foremost a mum, and more importantly, a single mum,\" she said. While her daughter was recovering a month later, she stood in her garden one night and \"thanked the Universe\" for making her better.\n\nThe cast of Ted Lasso visited the White House in Washington, DC in March\n\nWhile she was at it, she asked the Universe for another job that would allow her to be near her daughter and keep them afloat financially.\n\n\"And also, can I be so cheeky as to say, could it be something that shows everything that I can do, and things that I don't feel like I've been able to do yet? And is there any way it could just be around the corner?\" she asked.\n\n\"And I'm not joking, within two months the audition came in for Ted Lasso, that shoots 40 minutes away from my house.\"\n\nWaddingham won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series for Ted Lasso in 2021\n\nThe Universe came through. Waddingham won the role in the Apple TV+ comedy as Richmond FC owner Rebecca Welton, who hires hapless US coach Ted because she wants the team to fail to spite her former husband.\n\nIt became a hit, and Waddingham won an Emmy, a Critics' Choice Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.\n\nGlobal fame has come relatively late. \"You don't think your career is going to rev up during your 40s,\" she told the Plot Twist podcast last year. \"Being a mother, you think it's going to slow down a bit.\"\n\nThere's not much chance of that. She recently appeared in Hocus Pocus 2 and ITV's Tom Jones, and will be in forthcoming films The Fall Guy, Garfield and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two.\n\nShe celebrated her Screen Actors Guild Awards win via a video link last year\n\nIf she hadn't made it as an actress, she would have liked to work as an interpreter, she has said. \"I love languages.\"\n\nShe speaks Italian and French - as she demonstrated in the Eurovision semi-finals.\n\n\"I was just keen to show the hands across the water and try giving languages another go,\" she told reporters on Friday.\n\n\"It's that fine line of wanting to be respectful to a language and include it, but not screw it up. So I hope I'm doing OK.\"\n\nAll the build-up, insights and analysis is explored on the BBC's Eurovisioncast.\n\nEurovisioncast is available on BBC Sounds, or search wherever you get your podcasts from.", "At 19, Loonkiito had a longer life than most wild lions\n\nA wild male lion believed to be one of the world's oldest has died after being speared by herders, authorities in Kenya have said.\n\nLoonkiito, who was 19, died in Olkelunyiet village on Wednesday night after preying on livestock.\n\nConservation group Lion Guardians said he was \"the oldest male lion in our ecosystem and possibly in Africa\". Most lions live to around 13 in the wild.\n\nAlmost all lions live in Africa with a small population in India, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.\n\nKenya Wildlife Service (KWS) spokesperson Paul Jinaro told the BBC the lion was old and frail and wandered into the village from the park in search of food.\n\nMr Jinaro could not confirm if he was the oldest lion in the country but noted he was \"very old\".\n\nThe Maasai-operated Lion Guardians group works to conserve the lion population in Amboseli National Park, and said the end of a drought was \"habitually marked by an uptick in human-lion conflict\" as \"wild prey recover and become more difficult to hunt\".\n\n\"In desperation, lions often turn to take livestock,\" it said.\n\nIt added the killing of Loonkiito was a \"tough situation for both sides, the people and the lion\", and eulogised him as \"a symbol of resilience and coexistence\".\n\nPaula Kahumbu, a wildlife conservationist and chief executive officer of WildlifeDirect, said she was pained by the killing of the lion and called for measures to protect wildlife in the country.\n\n\"This is the breaking point for human-wildlife conflict and we need to do more as a country to preserve lions, which are facing extinction,\" Ms Kahumbu told the BBC.\n\nThe average lifespan of a lion is about 13 years in the wild, although they can live much longer in captivity.", "A grain terminal at the port in Odesa in Ukraine\n\nThe head of the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that it will be difficult to feed the world if Russia pulls out of the Ukraine grain deal.\n\nCindy McCain told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that the deal, which is due to expire on 18 May, must be renewed.\n\nThe export agreement has allowed Ukraine to transport millions of tonnes of food despite the ongoing conflict.\n\nThe deal was brokered by the UN and Turkey last July.\n\nIt was agreed to help tackle a global food crisis after access to Ukraine's ports in the Black Sea was blocked by Russian warships following the invasion in February 2022.\n\nUkraine is a major global exporter of sunflower, maize, wheat and barley, and more than half of the wheat grain procured by the WFP last year came from there.\n\nAt the same time, the UN also agreed to help Moscow facilitate its own agricultural shipments.\n\n\"They must renew the deal. We can't possibly be able to feed the region let alone the world unless they do,\" Ms McCain said.\n\n\"As you know, Ukraine used to be pretty much the breadbasket of Europe, and now that's not happening. And we need to get the grain out because it's affecting other countries.\"\n\nThe deal is meant to be extended for 120 days at a time but Russia has threatened to quit the agreement on 18 May over obstacles to its grain and fertiliser exports.\n\nSenior officials from Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN met in Istanbul on Thursday to discuss proposals to extend the deal.\n\nThe meeting appeared to end without Russian agreement.\n\nThe Kremlin said that Russian President Vladimir Putin could speak to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at short notice if needed regarding an extension of the deal, but no such plans have been announced as yet.\n\nMs McCain said the WFP had been sourcing grains from other sources to distribute to countries around the world but it had not been able to feed as many people due to rising costs.\n\nCindy McCain told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that it was \"50/50\" whether the deal would be renewed\n\nShe said the conflict \"has managed to completely cascade around the world difficulties to be able to feed people\".\n\nMs McCain, who took office last month, said she believed it would be difficult for Ukrainian farmers to be able to bring in a harvest this year.\n\n\"I know that there are some farms that are still operating. But you have to remember, a large majority of the land where the crops were grown before are now mined, with land mines,\" she said.\n\n\"The equipment that they use to work the farms are mined. This is a tragic situation. And if the conflict were to end today, we'd be years being able to clear the land and clear the properties to make sure that it was safe to plant and safe to put livestock on.\"\n\nOn whether she thought Russia would sign an extension to the Black Sea grain deal, she said: \"No, I'm not, I'm not confident that they will. The things I've been hearing is that... it's 50/50 right now.\n\n\"It worries me very much. And it should worry everybody else too.\"\n\nShe urged \"every world leader\" to help facilitate the renewal of the deal and end the conflict.\n\nTurkey's Defence Ministry said on Thursday that progress had been made in the talks on the Black Sea grain deal and that the parties had agreed to continue four-way technical meetings.\n\nUkrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said after the talks that the grain deal should be extended for a longer period and expanded. He said the talks would continue online.\n\nRussia has issued a list of demands regarding its own agricultural exports that it wants met before it agrees to an extension, including restarting a pipeline that delivers Russian ammonia to a Ukrainian Black Sea port, which the UN has been pushing for.\n\nYou can see the whole interview on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, this Sunday, on BBC One and iPlayer from 09:00 BST", "The third day of the High Court hearing over alleged phone hacking claims against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) has wrapped up.\n\nThe claims have been brought by Prince Harry and three other high-profile claimants, represented by barrister David Sherborne KC.\n\nThis morning, Sherborne alleged that unlawful information-gathering practices - including hacking voicemails - to obtain private information had been covered up at the paper.\n\nThis was after he alleged on Thursday that such illicit activities were \"widespread\" and \"authorised at the highest level\" at the Mirror Group - which has denied using voicemail interception in these cases.\n\nThis afternoon we heard from the Mirror Group's lawyer, Andrew Green KC, who said the latest claims are of a \"breath-taking level of triviality\" and claimants were \"smearing\" executives by accusing the board of lies to cover up hacking.\n\nGreen argued that the claims before the court in this hearing are essentially out of time - and that they should have been brought earlier. Our legal correspondent Dominic Casciani explained that claims for damages should be brought within six years of the alleged victim knowing what happened.\n\nLater, Green made the case that \"any reasonable person\" would have been aware of the phone hacking scandal that shut down the News of the World in 2011.\n\nHe said two of the claimants, Nikki Sanderson and Fiona Wightman, could have brought a claim against the Mirror Group years earlier.\n\nHe cited coverage of a 2015 civil trial in which the publisher was found to have hacked the phones of eight celebrities - but he argued they have now run out of time to sue for damages.", "Dr Susan Gilby said she faced \"offensively sexist comments\" in meetings\n\nA former NHS chief executive is suing her employer, saying she was \"bullied, harassed, intimidated and undermined\" by the hospital trust's chairman.\n\nIn legal papers, seen by BBC News, Dr Susan Gilby alleges she was effectively unfairly dismissed by the Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust, after she made a formal complaint.\n\nShe has also accused the chairman of putting finance above patient safety.\n\nIn a statement, the trust said it denied all the allegations.\n\nDr Gilby, a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care, was appointed as medical director and assistant chief executive of the NHS trust, in August 2018.\n\nHer arrival came a month after nurse Lucy Letby was arrested on suspicion of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others at one of the trust's hospitals in Cheshire. Ms Letby's trial is ongoing and she denies the charges.\n\nWhen the chief executive resigned in September that year, Dr Gilby was promoted to the role.\n\nAccording to documents prepared for a forthcoming employment tribunal, Dr Gilby alleges the problems began when a new chairman, Ian Haythornthwaite, was appointed in late 2021.\n\nShe claims that soon after joining the trust, Mr Haythornthwaite - a former BBC accountant - sought to \"intervene and influence, and ultimately to control, many operational matters\" beyond the scope of his job.\n\nDr Gilby's claim alleges that the chairman had an \"extremely and unnecessarily aggressive\" approach, with subordinates \"increasingly frightened of crossing him\".\n\nShe also accuses him of appointing friends to the trust's board and putting finance above patient safety.\n\nDr Gilby claims the chairman was \"highly aggressive and intimidatory\" in meetings, that he banged his hand on a desk to emphasise his point, and oversaw a climate where \"offensively sexist comments and ferocious and repetitive criticisms\" were made by either him or his associates.\n\nDr Gilby's complaint accuses the chairman of putting finance above patient safety at the hospital trust\n\nShe made a formal whistle-blowing complaint against the chairman in July 2022, raising her concerns about his behaviour to both the trust and NHS England.\n\nThe trust responded to her concerns, Dr Gilby claims, by proposing that she be seconded to a senior advisory role within NHS England on the condition she withdrew her allegations.\n\nNHS England also contacted her about a role. Dr Gilby responded to the offer in November saying she was not willing to withdraw her allegations; she was suspended by the trust on 2 December. On 5 December, she gave the trust six months' notice of her intention to resign.\n\nDr Gilby is suing the trust and Mr Haythornthwaite for constructive unfair dismissal.\n\nIn a statement, the Countess of Chester NHS Trust said: \"There are significant points of dispute between Dr Gilby and the trust and the trust denies all allegations that she has raised. A number of active internal investigations are in train and the trust will not provide any further comment whilst those investigations are ongoing.\"\n\nMr Haythornthwaite said he had \"nothing to add at this time\" to the trust's statement.", "Supporters of New York City's weight discrimination bill rally in New York\n\nNew York City has passed a bill outlawing discrimination based on weight, joining a growing movement in the US to make size a protected trait on par with race and gender.\n\nMore than 40% of American adults are considered obese and studies show weight stigma is pervasive.\n\nThe bias can bring sharp costs, such as lower wages, especially for women.\n\nCity Councilman Shaun Abreu said weight discrimination was \"a silent burden people have had to carry\".\n\nDuring public hearings, supporters cited difficulty navigating seating at restaurants and theatres, getting turned away by landlords, and butting up against weight limits on the city's bike sharing programme.\n\nCouncilman Abreu, who sponsored the bill, said he became more aware of the issue when he gained more than 40lb (18.1kg) during lockdown and saw a shift in how he was treated. He said the lack of protections had amplified the problems people face.\n\n\"They're being discriminated against with no recourse and society saying that's perfectly fine,\" he said.\n\nThe measure is expected to be signed into law by New York's mayor later this month. The effort received widespread support, passing 44-5, despite scepticism in some quarters.\n\nNew York City council's minority leader, Joseph Borelli, who is a Republican, told the New York Times he was worried the law would empower New Yorkers \"to sue anyone and everything\".\n\n\"I'm overweight but I'm not a victim. No-one should feel bad for me except my struggling shirt buttons,\" he said.\n\nMichigan has barred workplace discrimination based on weight since 1976 and a handful of other cities, including San Francisco and Washington DC, have legislation on the books.\n\nState-level bills have now been introduced in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Jersey.\n\nThe efforts follow a dramatic increase in obesity rates over the past 20 years.\n\nTegan Lecheler, advocacy director for the National Association for the Advancement of Fat Acceptance, which worked with Councilman Abreu on the New York City bill, said she hoped the measure would \"encourage a larger conversation of framing this beyond health\".\n\n\"It's not a health issue. It's a civil rights issue,\" she said. \"This is really about if people are safe and protected and have the right to be in spaces.\"\n\nNew York's human rights law already bars discrimination in housing, the workplace and public accommodation based on 27 characteristics, including age, marital status, disability and national origin.\n\nThe bill adds weight and height to that list, while including exceptions for jobs in which weight and height are a \"bona fide occupational qualification\" or where there is a public health and safety concern.\n\nCouncilman Abreu said he hoped the move by the largest city in the country would encourage other cities and states to follow suit.\n\n\"We want this bill to send a message to everybody that you matter, regardless of if you're above or below average weight,\" he said. \"That's why we pushed this.\"", "Elon Musk says that he has found a new chief executive to lead Twitter.\n\nHe announced the news on the social media platform, which he bought last year for $44bn (£35bn).\n\nMr Musk did not name the site's new boss but said \"she\" would start in six weeks, and he would become executive chairman and chief technology officer.\n\nReports said the incoming leader would be Linda Yaccarino, head of advertising sales at media giant NBCUniversal, which later confirmed her departure.\n\nMr Musk has been under pressure to name someone else to lead the company and focus on his other businesses.\n\nLast year, after Twitter users voted for him to step down in an online poll, he said: \"No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive.\"\n\nHowever, although Mr Musk had said he would hand over the reins, it was by no means clear when or even if it would happen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTesla shares rose after the announcement. Mr Musk has previously been accused by shareholders of abandoning Tesla after his takeover of Twitter and damaging the car company's brand.\n\n\"We ultimately view this as a major step forward with Musk finally reading the room that has been around this Twitter nightmare,\" said Dan Ives from investment firm Wedbush Securities.\n\n\"Trying to balance Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX as CEOs [is] an impossible task that needed to change.\"\n\nAccording to the Wall Street Journal and Variety, NBCUniversal's Ms Yaccarino was in talks to become Twitter's chief executive. The speculation surrounding Ms Yaccarino intensified on Friday when NBCUniversal announced she had left the firm.\n\nTwitter did not comment on the reports.\n\nIt is sometimes difficult to know when the billionaire and owner of Twitter is being serious.\n\nLast month, when the BBC asked Mr Musk who was going to succeed him as chief executive of the social media company, he said he had made a dog Twitter's leader.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Elon Musk says his 'dog is the CEO of Twitter'\n\nBut if Mr Musk has indeed appointed a female executive, it would make her one of the few women to reach the top of a major technology company.\n\nWomen accounted for fewer than 10% of chief executives of tech firms included in America's 500 biggest companies last year.\n\nAlthough Mr Musk has talked about paid subscribers to Twitter Blue, it is advertising that brings in the vast majority of revenue at Twitter.\n\nThe new boss will no doubt seek to improve relationships with advertisers, and smooth their fears over content moderation.\n\nMr Musk, a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, has said he took over Twitter to protect free speech. However, advertisers do not want their content next to misinformation or extremist content.\n\nHe purchased Twitter in October only after a lawsuit forced him to go through with the deal. Upon taking charge, Mr Musk controversially fired thousands of staff in a bid to cut costs at the firm, which has struggled to be profitable.\n\nIn March, Mr Musk said those efforts had paid off and the platform's finances were improving.\n\nAnd last month he told the BBC that most of the advertisers that had abandoned Twitter immediately after the acquisition had returned.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPakistan's ex-prime minister Imran Khan has left court premises in Islamabad, a day after the Supreme Court ruled his dramatic arrest on corruption charges was illegal.\n\nOn Friday evening, Mr Khan's party said he was heading for the city of Lahore.\n\nJudges granted Mr Khan protected bail, meaning he can not be re-arrested on those charges for two weeks.\n\nThe court also ordered he could not be arrested on any charges filed after last Tuesday until 17 May.\n\nDespite the rulings, the corruption charges against Mr Khan still stand.\n\n\"The head of the country's largest party was abducted, kidnapped from the high court, and in front of the entire nation,\" Khan told AFP from the court building.\n\n\"They treated me like a terrorist, this had to have a reaction,\" he said of the protests that followed.\n\nMr Khan remained within court premises after the hearing on Friday seeking preventive bail against other charges, which he told the BBC included counts of terrorism, sedition and blasphemy.\n\nConviction would disqualify the former international cricket star - and Pakistan's prime minister from 2018 to 2022 - from standing for office, possibly for life. Elections are due later this year.\n\nMr Khan had arrived at the hearing under heavy armed guard, and greeted supporters with a single raised fist.\n\nSpeaking during Friday's hearing, Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial said the arrest was unlawful because it took place on court premises.\n\nHe ordered that the \"whole process\" of Mr Khan's arrest \"needs to be backtracked\".\n\nThe 70-year-old - who was arrested on Tuesday as he arrived at a courthouse in Islamabad - pleaded not guilty to the charges when a judge formally indicted him with corruption for the first time in the dozens of cases he faces.\n\nOfficials say Mr Khan unlawfully sold state gifts during his premiership, in a case brought by Pakistan's Election Commission.\n\nImran Khan was surrounded by a crowd of people as he left court on Friday\n\nThe dramatic saga has significantly escalated tensions between Mr Khan and Pakistan's powerful military.\n\nMany analysts believe Mr Khan's election win in 2018 happened with the help of the military, which both parties denied.\n\nBut he later fell out with the army. After a series of defections, and amid mounting economic crises, he lost his majority in parliament.\n\nSince being ousted less than four years into his term, he has become one of the military's most vocal critics, and analysts say the army's popularity has fallen.\n\nAnd his PTI party says the charges against him - which relate to gifts given to him by foreign leaders while he served as prime minster - are politically motivated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis dramatic arrest outside the courthouse on Tuesday sparked outrage among Mr Khan's supporters.\n\nAt least 10 people were killed and some 2,000 arrested as unrest swept the country. Those protests included an attack at a military commander's home residence in Lahore, which was set on fire.\n\nWhile this week's violence petered out after the army was deployed in Islamabad and other areas, such as Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the country remains on edge.\n\nCritics say the PTI has been fuelling unrest through social media posts calling for protesters to take to the streets, and judges told Mr Khan that he must condemn the violence and tell supporters to stop.\n\nMr Khan says he and his party only call for peaceful protest.\n\nPakistan's current Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who took power after Khan was ousted, criticised the Supreme Court's ruling to free Khan in a cabinet speech aired on state TV.\n\nHe alleged that judges had favoured Imran Khan, and their ruling had caused \"the death of justice in Pakistan\".\n\nHe further criticised Mr Khan and his party for their inflammatory language and encouraging protesters to take to the streets.\n\n\"Imran Khan has divided the nation,\" he said.", "The View, pictured left to right: Darren Rennie, Kieren Webster, Pete Reilly and Kyle Falconer\n\nA gig came to an abrupt halt after The View lead singer apparently threw a punch at the band's bassist.\n\nFans were left shocked when the disturbance broke out between Kyle Falconer and Kieren Webster at The Deaf Institute in Manchester.\n\nThe set ended with the musicians walking off stage after the clash was captured in footage shared on Twitter.\n\nFan Saffie Yates, who had waited six years to see the band, said she first thought it was some sort of stunt.\n\nShe said: \"It was very scary to see someone you respect behave like this.\n\n\"The bass player normally plays a couple of songs and it was his birthday yesterday. He wanted to play a third song and the lead singer went for him.\n\n\"He punched the bassist. I didn't know if it was part of the act.\n\n\"The band left the stage and the fans were hanging around waiting to see what would happen.\n\nWarning: The Tweet below contains offensive language and violence.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Window Co This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Window Co\n\nA statement from the band's management apologised to fans who attended the Wednesday night show.\n\nA spokesman said the group's next appearance, booked in London for Thursday night, had been postponed.\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately we are having to postpone tonight's London show.\n\n\"Our promoter is working to resolve the situation.\n\n\"Please keep hold of your tickets for now & we will make a further announcement in a few days. Massive apologies to all our fans.\"\n\nThe band, from Dundee, is also due to play at the Neighbourhood Weekender festival in Warrington at the end of the month before several other festival dates over summer.\n\nFormed in 2005, The View is best known for its hit Same Jeans, which charted at number three in 2007, and their platinum-selling debut album Hats Off to the Buskers which topped the album charts.\n\nThe band split in 2017 and has since played a variety of comeback gigs.\n\nDescribed on its Twitter feed as \"three pals in a band from Dryburgh\", the group is planning to release a new album called Exorcism of Youth in August.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram?You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Primary school children in England have ranked fourth in the international rankings for reading.\n\nThe latest results in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study - known as Pirls - saw England's rank jump from eighth to enter the top five.\n\nBased on tests taken every five years, the study places countries in a global education league table.\n\nThe Pirls tests are taken by nine and 10-year-olds, normally Year 5 pupils in England, at the end of the school year.\n\nThe 2021 testing round assessed nearly 400,000 pupils in 57 countries.\n\nBut 14 of those - including Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland - delayed testing to the start of the next school year because of disruption caused by the Covid pandemic, meaning the students taking part were older.\n\nThe International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), which runs the study, said direct comparisons with those 14 countries should be made \"with great care\".\n\nWhen included in comparisons, Northern Ireland ranked fifth - up from joint sixth in the previous round of testing.\n\nThe IEA said England could be reliably compared with other countries even though it pushed back testing until 2022 to avoid Covid disruption, because it tested the same age group as the other countries.\n\nIn those rankings, Singapore scored the highest result, with an average score of 587.\n\nSecond was Hong Kong with an average score of 573, followed by Russia (567) and England (558).\n\nWales and Scotland do not submit results to Pirls but Scotland is set to join the next cycle.\n\nSchools minister Nick Gibb said England's success was aided by government reforms, including a focus on phonics, which teaches children to read using sounds, and to teachers \"putting reading at the heart of everything they do\".\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said the \"excellent results\" were \"a badly needed piece of good news for an education system that feels beleaguered\".\n\nHe said the success was testament to the \"hard work, skill and dedication of primary school teachers and leaders\".\n\nOverall, girls were ahead of boys in their reading achievement in nearly all of the ranked countries, but the gender gap has narrowed in the most recent testing round.\n\nThe Pirls results came days after a Year 6 Sats reading paper, which some parents said was so hard it left children in tears.\n\nMr Gibb said the assessments had to \"test a range of ability\", but said he would look at the paper because of the concerns.\n\nLast year's Sats results showed overall standards in reading, writing and maths had slipped among Year 6 pupils in England since the pandemic - though individual subject results showed reading levels increased slightly with 74% of pupils meeting the expected standard, up from 73% in 2019.\n\nBy 2030, the government wants 90% of children leaving primary school to reach the expected standards in reading, writing and maths.", "Donald Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani is being sued for sexual harassment by a former employee.\n\nNoelle Dunphy alleges in the $10m (£8m) civil case that he coerced her into sex acts and launched into \"alcohol-drenched\" and racist rants at work.\n\nThe lawsuit claims he exposed himself, took Viagra \"constantly\" and told Ms Dunphy satisfying his sexual demands was a job requirement.\n\nMs Dunphy, who says she was hired by Mr Giuliani's firm in 2019 when he was working as Mr Trump's personal lawyer, filed the legal case in New York state on Monday.\n\nThe lawsuit, which sets out her allegations in graphic detail, says Mr Giuliani began to abuse her almost immediately after she was hired.\n\nIt says the former New York City mayor coerced Ms Dunphy into giving him oral sex \"against her will\" in his flat.\n\nIt also claims Mr Giuliani \"often demanded that she work naked, in a bikini, or in short shorts with an American flag on them that he bought for her\" and would visibly touch himself while on video conference calls.\n\nAccording to the lawsuit, Ms Dunphy made recordings of conversations with Mr Giuliani which included sexual comments and demands for sex as well as racist, sexist and antisemitic remarks.\n\nMs Dunphy is also suing for wage theft, claiming Mr Giuliani refused to pay her a promised $1m salary for the role as it would need to be deferred while his divorce was completed.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Giuliani said he \"vehemently and completely denies the allegations\", describing the claims as \"pure harassment and an attempt at extortion\".\n\n\"Mayor Giuliani's lifetime of public service speaks for itself, and he will pursue all available remedies and counterclaims,\" said Mr Giuliani's communications adviser, Ted Goodman, as quoted by the Associated Press.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Vodafone will axe 11,000 jobs over the next three years as the new chief executive sets out her plans to \"simplify\" the telecoms giant.\n\nThe cuts equal around a tenth of its global workforce and will affect its UK headquarters and other countries.\n\nMargherita Della Valle, who is also Vodafone's finance director, said its \"performance has not been good enough\".\n\nVodafone has 12,000 staff in Britain, based in seven offices including at its UK headquarters in Berkshire.\n\nThe firm, which had 104,000 staff worldwide last year, has already outlined plans to cut jobs in some areas.\n\nThe UK telecoms giant has struggled with higher energy bills which are driving up costs and impacting its profits.\n\nIt has also seen weaker sales in Germany, its biggest market, as well as Italy and Spain where it has struggled to keep pace with rivals.\n\n\"Part of that can be tied to falling customer satisfaction levels in those regions,\" said Matt Britzman, an analyst at investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\nVodafone's broadband service in the UK was the second most complained about of any major provider in the three months to December, according to the industry watchdog Ofcom.\n\nIt also faced embarrassment in April when a problem knocked out its broadband services for around 11,000 UK customers.\n\n\"To consistently deliver, Vodafone must change,\" said Ms Della Valle, who was appointed as Vodafone's new chief in January, and is serving as its interim finance director until a replacement is found.\n\n\"My priorities are customers, simplicity and growth. We will simplify our organisation, cutting out complexity to regain our competitiveness.\"\n\nIt announced the job cuts after reporting a small rise in full year sales to €45.7bn (£39.7bn) and a fall in pre-tax profits.\n\nIt also posted a sharp drop in cash flow and forecast earnings would be \"broadly flat\" for the current financial year.\n\nVodafone's former boss Nick Read stepped down in December following concerns over the company's performance. During his four years in charge the firm's share price fell sharply.\n\nMr Britzman agreed with Ms Della Valle's assessment of Vodafone's business, describing it as \"lacklustre\" in recent years.\n\nHe said her honesty about the challenges Vodafone is facing is \"refreshing\" but investors were yet to be convinced she could turn things around.\n\nShares in the telecoms giant fell by 5% on Tuesday.\n\nVictoria Scholar, from Interactive Investor, the share trading platform, said Ms Della Valle had a tough task ahead with shares \"languishing at lows not seen since the late 1990s\".\n\n\"She needs to continue to focus on cutting costs, the turnaround plan in Germany and M&A [merger and acquisition] opportunities in the UK and abroad to bolster the firm's market share, find efficiencies, and improve its pricing power.\"\n\nDo you work for Vodafone? Is your job at risk? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "One of the world's biggest carmakers has warned it may have to close UK factories if the government does not renegotiate the Brexit deal.\n\nStellantis, which owns Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, had committed to making electric cars in the UK, but says that is under threat.\n\nIt warned it could face tariffs of 10% on exports to the EU due to rules on where parts are sourced from.\n\nIn response to the comments, Rishi Sunak said he believed in Brexit.\n\n\"I voted for Brexit, I believe in Brexit,\" the prime minister told reporters while travelling to the G7 Summit of world leaders in Japan.\n\nMr Sunak cited what he called \"Brexit benefits\" he introduced as chancellor and reforms to retained EU law which he said would save business a billion pounds a year.\n\nHe did not directly address concerns made by Stellantis, but a spokesperson said the government was \"determined\" UK car making would remain competitive.\n\nIt is the first time a car firm has openly called for a renegotiation of the terms of the Brexit trade deal, and the BBC understands all major manufacturers in the UK have raised similar concerns with government.\n\nStellantis warned that if the cost of electric vehicle manufacturing in the UK \"becomes uncompetitive and unsustainable, operations will close\".\n\nThe car giant called on ministers to come to an agreement with the EU to maintain the status quo until 2027, with a review of arrangements for manufacturing parts in Serbia and Morocco.\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer said the country needed \"a better Brexit deal\" to ensure firms such as Vauxhall could continue operating in the UK.\n\nSources said Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch had a \"constructive\" virtual meeting with Stellantis on Wednesday, with them \"cautiously optimistic\" after conversations with the EU which recognised a deal was in both parties' interest.\n\nJust two years ago, Stellantis, which is the world's fourth biggest car maker, said the future of its Ellesmere Port and Luton plants was secure.\n\nBut the firm told a House of Commons inquiry the current trade rules posed a \"threat to our export business and sustainability of our UK manufacturing operations\".\n\nFrom next year, 45% of the value of an electric car should originate in the UK or EU to qualify for trade without tariffs. This will rise to 65% in 2027.\n\nStellantis said it was \"now unable to meet these rules of origin\" due to the recent surge in raw material and energy costs.\n\nIf the government cannot get an agreement to keep the current rules until 2027, exports of its UK-made cars \"would be subject to 10% tariffs\" from next year, it said.\n\nThis would make the UK an uncompetitive place to manufacture cars compared with Japan and South Korea, it added.\n\n\"To reinforce the sustainability of our manufacturing plants in the UK, the UK must consider its trading arrangements with Europe,\" Stellantis said.\n\nA government spokesperson said ministers will take \"decisive action\" to ensure future investment in the industry but Labour said car makers had been let down by a \"government in chaos\".\n\nTrading rules around electric cars were one of the very last issues settled in the Brexit negotiations in 2020.\n\nBut Stellantis warned the current rules meant manufacturers could relocate abroad, pointing to BMW's decision to make its new electric Mini in Germany and Honda's closure of its plant in Swindon.\n\nAlong with trade barriers, a core problem remains the lack of electric car battery plants in the UK, when compared with the US, China and EU which are pouring subsidies into electric car making.\n\nFormer Nissan executive and battery start-up businessman Andy Palmer said the UK was \"running out of time\" to develop its own battery manufacturing industry.\n\nEarlier this week, French President Emmanuel Macron hosted Tesla's Elon Musk, who hinted he might invest in a battery plant - or gigafactory - in France.\n\nMeanwhile, the Spanish government is currently trying to woo the UK's biggest car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, into building a gigafactory in Spain.\n\nWith the rules due to tighten again in 2027 experts believe UK exporters will find it impossible to sell cars overseas tariff free unless they can source batteries domestically.", "Greggs said compared to 2022 sales this year were so far up 17%\n\nGreggs says sales have gone up nearly a fifth compared to this time in 2022, saying its food remains \"compelling\" to customers in the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nThe bakery chain, which opened its first shop in Newcastle in 1951, opened 63 new shops this year and extended some opening hours.\n\nThe company said hot food like chicken goujons, wedges and pizza were popular, adding total sales were up 17% on 2022.\n\nBut it said inflation and pressures on incomes remained challenging.\n\nIt said though it was confident its \"outstanding value proposition continues to be compelling\".\n\nIn the past year Greggs has opened the new shops but closed 25 franchises, leaving it now with more than 2,360 outlets.\n\nThe rise in 2023 was partly because the beginning of last year was impacted by the Omicron variant of coronavirus, Greggs said.\n\nThe bakery announced in March plans to open 150 shops and extend opening hours.\n\nThe national average price of a Greggs sausage roll is currently £1.20, up from £1 at the start of 2022\n\nGreggs' chief executive Roisin Currie said customers were \"loving the versatility\" of hot and cold options.\n\n\"It's all about offering that choice, so people can come in more frequently,\" she said.\n\n\"They can come in time and time again and try lots of different things, as well as they favourites that they love.\"\n\nThe company said sales growth was likely to \"normalise\" throughout 2023 if inflation started to ease.\n\nBut it said it was still expecting cost inflation to reach about 9% to 10% this year, driven by staff pay pressures and higher energy costs.\n\nThe national average price of its takeaway sausage roll is currently £1.20, up from £1 at the start of 2022.\n\nThe company is increasingly targeting busy commuter areas, with new shops opening in London's Canary Wharf station and Cardiff and Glasgow airports.\n\nMs Currie added the company had launched another two new Tasty cafes in Primark stores, including Bristol, to attract customers \"on the go\".\n\nThe group is also currently choosing a location to trial a 24-hour drive thru, she added.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 12% of physiotherapy positions are currently vacant in Northern Ireland\n\nTraining places at Ulster University for degree courses in physiotherapy and other health specialities are to be cut, BBC News NI understands.\n\nThe Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in NI said it was expecting training places to be reduced after a budget briefing from the Department of Health.\n\nThe society expressed extreme concern, saying more than 12% of physiotherapy positions are currently vacant.\n\nThe Department of Health said the move is part of its attempts to save money.\n\nIn a statement, the department said it was making decisions on spending reductions with \"great regret\".\n\nIt added that it is in the impossible position of \"having to fulfil conflicting responsibilities\".\n\nThe department said it was \"living within the budget, acting in the public interest and safeguarding services\".\n\nCivil servants have been tasked with running Stormont departments and managing public services in the absence of a devolved government, but they must stick to the budget published last month by Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris.\n\nThe Department of Health received the biggest allocation, but its budget of £7.25bn was similar to the amount it got last year.\n\nThat has been viewed as a difficult settlement because of the high rate of inflation and outstanding pay disputes involving nurses and other health workers.\n\nThe Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in Northern Ireland said: \"The current political hiatus has created an intolerable situation for public services here and will add to the significant pressures already facing the health and social care system.\"\n\nIt added that although it did not yet have exact figures, it was \"extremely concerned\" by the anticipated cuts to number of physiotherapy undergraduate training places at Ulster University (UU).\n\nThe number of nursing training places is to be cut from September\n\n\"The health and social care service in Northern Ireland already has record numbers of workforce vacancies,\" the society said.\n\n\"Last year saw approximately 900 applications for roughly 100 training places for the physiotherapy course in [UU] Magee.\"\n\nOn Monday, the BBC revealed that the number of nursing training places is to be cut in September from 1,325 to 1,025.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing's Northern Ireland director, Rita Devlin, described the move as an \"act of destruction\".\n\nThe department said it recognised the importance of staffing and was committed to 1,025 new nursing places.\n\nThis was the level in place before the New Decade, New Approach deal, which included provision for an extra 300 nurse training places each year to address staff shortages and concerns over safety.\n\nBut Ms Devlin said the news of cuts had left members \"bewildered\" with almost 3,000 vacant nursing posts in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is unimaginable that the Department of Health has been put in the position of having to cut the number of student nursing places for 2023-2024 because of the political and financial crisis in Northern Ireland,\" she explained.", "A long-awaited report has strongly criticised the FBI's handling of its investigation into alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.\n\nIn a 306-page report, special counsel John Durham said the agency's inquiry lacked \"analytical rigor\".\n\nHe concluded the FBI had not possessed evidence of collusion between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia before launching an inquiry.\n\nThe FBI said it had addressed the issues highlighted in the report.\n\nIn the report, Mr Durham - who was appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr in 2019 - accused the FBI of acting on \"raw, unanalysed and uncorroborated intelligence\".\n\nAmong the investigative mistakes it made were repeated instances of \"confirmation bias\", in which it ignored information that undercut the initial premise of the investigation.\n\nThe report noted significant differences in the way the FBI had handled the Trump investigation when compared with other potentially sensitive inquiries, such as those involving his 2016 electoral rival Hillary Clinton.\n\nMr Durham noted that Mrs Clinton and others had received \"defensive briefings\" from the FBI aimed at \"those who may be the targets of nefarious activities by foreign powers\". Mr Trump had not.\n\n\"The Department [of Justice] and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law,\" the report concluded.\n\nIn a statement, the FBI said it had \"already implemented dozens of corrective actions\".\n\n\"Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented,\" the statement added.\n\nSpecial Counsel John Durham was appointed by then Attorney General William Barr in 2019\n\nThe FBI investigation into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, which was carried out by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, led to dozens of criminal charges against Trump campaign staff and associates for crimes including computer hacking and financial crimes.\n\nIt did not, however, find that the Trump campaign and Russia had conspired together to influence the election.\n\nWriting on his social media platform, Truth Social, Mr Trump said the Durham report showed that the \"American public was scammed\". He cited the report's conclusion that there had not been enough evidence to warrant a full investigation by the FBI. Mr Trump has long claimed that members of the \"Deep State\" are targeting him unfairly.\n\nLast year, Mr Trump said he believed the Durham report would provide evidence of \"really bad, evil, unlawful and unconstitutional\" activities and \"reveal corruption at a level never before seen in our country\".\n\nThe Durham report falls short of the blockbuster revelations and prosecutions that some Trump allies hoped for from the inquiry.\n\nThe four-year investigation has resulted in three prosecutions. They include an FBI attorney who pleaded guilty to altering evidence while applying for permission to eavesdrop on a former Trump campaign official.\n\nTwo other people were acquitted on charges of lying to the FBI.\n\nThe former president cited some court filings by the Durham team as part of a lawsuit he filed against Mrs Clinton and several other Democrats and government officials, alleging that they had plotted to undermine his 2016 presidential bid by spreading rumours about his campaign's ties to Russia.\n\nA judge dismissed the lawsuit as frivolous in January and ordered Mr Trump to pay nearly a million dollars in penalties.\n\nMr Durham and his investigation are not likely to disappear from the national headlines in the immediate future.\n\nShortly after news that the report would be publicly released, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan announced that he would be calling the US former attorney to testify before Congress about his work.", "Tim Westwood has been interviewed under caution over five alleged sexual offences\n\nA review of what the BBC knew about allegations regarding DJ Tim Westwood's conduct has received a \"significant amount of important new information\".\n\nWestwood was interviewed under caution over five alleged sexual offences by the Metropolitan Police earlier this year. He denies the allegations.\n\nThe alleged incidents are said to have occurred between 1982 and 2016.\n\nA dedicated phone line set up to help people contribute evidence to the review will close on Friday.\n\nBarrister Gemma White, who is leading the review, said it was set up to \"expand the ways people can come forward\" and report information.\n\nShe was appointed by the BBC Board last August after an internal review found that the corporation should have paid more attention to a string of sexual assault allegations that had been made against the former Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJ.\n\nThe inquiry, which has already seen more than 50,000 BBC documents, is expected to publish its findings in the summer.\n\nWhite thanked everyone who had used the phone line and said: \"We know that taking the decision to call was not easy for many of you and that speaking to us has taken courage.\n\n\"Your evidence will assist me in my task of independently establishing whether the BBC knew of concerns and responded appropriately to them.\n\n\"If you have been thinking of contributing but have not been sure about whether to do so, please do get in touch now.\"\n\nWestwood, 65, stepped down from his show on Capital Xtra in April last year and strongly denies the allegations.\n\nLast year, a statement from a representative of Westwood said: \"Tim Westwood strongly denies all allegations of inappropriate behaviour.\n\n\"In a career that has spanned 40 years, there have never been any complaints made against him officially or unofficially.", "UK holiday village chain Center Parcs has been put up for sale by its owner, the Canadian private equity firm Brookfield.\n\nThe company is looking to raise between £4bn and £5bn from the sale according to the Financial Times.\n\nBrookfield bought the business for about £2.4bn in 2015.\n\nCenter Parcs runs six holiday villages in the UK and Ireland which attract more than two million visitors every year.\n\nThey are particularly popular with families as they offer a range of activities on-site, with an indoor waterpark as the central attraction and wooden cabins set in cycle-friendly forests.\n\nThe first UK location opened in 1987, at Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. There are now holiday villages at Elveden Forest, Longleat Forest, Whinfell Forest and Woburn Forest.\n\nIn 2019, it opened its first site in Ireland, with Center Parcs Longford Forest close to the town of Ballymahon in County Longford.\n\nThe Financial Times said that Brookfield had appointed investment bankers to sound out potential buyers, including other private equity firms.\n\nDanni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell, said there still appeared to be strong demand for Center Parcs holidays for now, with some wealthier holidaymakers trading down from holidays abroad.\n\n\"During the pandemic Brits rushed to snap up sought after places, but even with cash-strapped families ditching the extra 'staycation' in favour of one holiday, it's clear by the prices and availability that there's still more than enough business to go around - so far,\" she said.\n\nBut rising mortgage costs and the difficult economic climate did raise a question over future growth, she added.\n\nEarlier this year, Center Parcs scrapped plans to develop a new holiday village in West Sussex.\n\nIn July 2021, the company had secured an option agreement to acquire Oldhouse Warren, a privately-owned woodland on the outskirts of Crawley.\n\nHowever, Center Parcs said a \"rigorous\" environmental survey had revealed that the site was not suitable for development.\n\nEnvironmentalists had argued that the site would destroy established woodland and damage the habitats of rare birds.\n\nAt the end of last year Center Parcs said occupancy rates were at 97.3%, and broadly in line with pre-Covid levels.\n\nRevenue of £426.6m between April and December last year represented a 20% increase compared to the same period a year earlier, and 18% higher than before the pandemic.\n\nLast year, Center Parcs was forced to backtrack over a decision to ask guests to leave its sites on the day of the Queen's funeral.\n\nWhen it announced the move, it said the decision was made \"as a mark of respect\" and to allow employees to \"be part of this historic moment\".\n\nBut the move prompted angry complaints from holidaymakers as it would have meant some guests would have had to leave part-way through their break and return afterwards.\n\nCenter Parcs UK is a separate business from Center Parcs Europe, which has holiday villages in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and France. The European business is still owned by Blackstone Group which sold the UK part of the business to Brookfield in 2015.", "\"I hope this cover inspires you to challenge yourself to try new things,\" the businesswoman said\n\nMartha Stewart has become the oldest ever cover model for Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit edition at the age of 81.\n\nThe businesswoman and presenter was one of four cover models chosen for the issue, alongside Megan Fox, musician Kim Petras and model Brooks Nader.\n\nMs Stewart was photographed in various swimsuits in the Dominican Republic.\n\nShe told the magazine that she wanted to inspire other women and said she was thrilled to appear on the cover.\n\n\"I don't think about age very much, but I thought that this is kind of historic and that I better look really good,\" she said.\n\nColombian-born photographer Ruven Afanador took the pictures, which show Ms Stewart wearing a white one-piece swimsuit on the front page of the magazine.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by marthastewart48 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"My motto has always been: 'when you're through changing, you're through', so I thought, why not be up for this opportunity of a lifetime?\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"I hope this cover inspires you to challenge yourself to try new things, no matter what stage of life you are in. Changing, evolving, and being fearless - those are all very good things, indeed.\"\n\nMs Stewart started a catering business in the 1970s and rose to fame in the 1990s when she started her own magazine, Martha Stewart Living. Her media empire later led her to become a billionaire.\n\nIn 2004 she was sentenced to five months in prison after she was found guilty on a number of charges related to an insider trading scandal.\n\nShe has attempted to rebuild her brand since then, starring in her own reality television show, expanding her food products and teaming up with rapper and friend Snoop Dogg in 2016 for a television series.\n\nBefore the celebrity chef, the oldest person to pose for the cover was billionaire Elon Musk's mother Maye Musk at the age of 74.", "More seasonal workers will be allowed into the UK if needed, the prime minister has said after the home secretary said migration must fall.\n\nRishi Sunak told a gathering of farmers and other food producers an extra 10,000 visas will be made available for the agriculture sector.\n\nThis would be on top of the current 45,000 allocated.\n\nBut on Monday, Suella Braverman said there was no reason the UK could not train its own fruit pickers.\n\nAt a speech, the home secretary said it was \"not racist\" to want to control borders and her aim was to reduce net migration.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Sunak said the government was responding to the needs of farmers by offering the extra visas.\n\nAsked by Farming Today on BBC Radio 4 why the number of visas was not higher, Mr Sunak said: \"I think the number is appropriate.\n\n\"We haven't used the 45,000 allocation last year. Before we start saying we need more it's reasonable to extend the current numbers.\"\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the extra visa numbers were also offered to the agricultural sector last year.\n\nAround 70 leading members of the food industry, including farmers and supermarket bosses, met with the prime minister and his colleagues to talk about how the UK can improve the way it produces and sells food.\n\nIt comes against a backdrop of continued high prices, and new research from the consumer group Which? that said the price of some goods had jumped by as much as 25% in April, compared with the same month last year.\n\nDairy products such as cheese saw the biggest rise, the group said.\n\nOverall, in a survey of the UK's eight largest supermarkets looking at 26,000 products, it said food prices rose more than 17%.\n\nSupermarkets are starting to bring down the prices of bread and butter but Which? said prices remained at \"shockingly high levels\" compared with last year.\n\nIt also found supermarket own-label budget items were up 25% in April compared with the same period 12 months ago.\n\nThe consumer group said it was \"concerned the voices of millions of people\" struggling with soaring food inflation had not been heard at the summit.\n\n\"Families up and down the country are facing a daily struggle to put food on the table and it's clear the big supermarkets could...make available a range of healthy budget foods available in all shops,\" it said.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Tesco announced that it was cutting prices of vegetable and sunflower oil, as well as pasta by 15p. But a 500g bag of penne pasta is still 80p - in 2021, it was 50p.\n\nHowever, Bill Grimsey, the former boss of frozen food chain Iceland, warned: \"If anybody thinks prices are going to come down quickly anytime soon, well they're not.\"\n\nFarmers and businesses have been hit by rising operating costs, in part caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOther expenses such as shipping costs - which soared during the Covid pandemic - have since fallen but Mr Grimsey said shoppers are unlikely to see the impact of this on the prices they pay.\n\nThe government also pledged to put greater emphasis on farmers' interests in future trade deals and said it would review horticulture and egg supply chains to \"ensure farmers get a fair price for their produce\".\n\nMany farmers have argued that supermarkets are not giving them a fair deal for certain goods, such as eggs.\n\nAsh Amirahmadi, managing director of the UK's largest dairy producer Arla Foods, attended the summit and told the BBC the meeting was a \"good start\", but added that the government needed to \"follow through\" on its commitment to prioritise the UK's food industry.\n\nArla managing director Ash Amirahmadi said high food price inflation was being felt across the world\n\nMr Amirahmadi said burgeoning costs in the sector were not unique to the UK and were about 40% up before inflation first started rising, though he cautioned against a return to the days of cheap milk.\n\n\"I expect when we fully come out of this prices will be higher than they were before,\" he added.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium (BRC), which represents retailers, has said they are \"doing all they can to keep food prices as low as possible\" and called on the government to streamline regulation around recycling, packaging and Brexit to try to bring down prices for consumers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRhiannon Morgan is used to receiving stares from strangers.\n\nThe 26-year-old is one of the few people in the UK living with a rare genetic skin condition called Epidermolytic Ichthyosis.\n\nIt means her skin grows too fast which makes it prone to blistering and causes her significant mobility issues.\n\nBut she hopes that raising awareness of visible disabilities like hers will encourage better representations across popular culture.\n\nRhiannon's whole life has evolved around people commenting on her rare condition. At the supermarket, people have asked whether the condition is contagious.\n\n\"Although I smile and make light of it, living with a visible difference is exhausting and can be incredibly lonely,\" she said.\n\n\"When I was born, it looked like I had gloves on my hands and socks on my feet,\" said Rhiannon\n\n\"Strangers and peers believed it was ok to ask if I had been burned in a house fire or if I neglected myself.\"\n\nHer rare genetic skin condition means that her skin grows too fast due to a gene abnormality which makes the skin prone to infection, blistering and fragility.\n\nIt causes significant mobility issues such as joint movement and hand dexterity, and often means she is forced to use her \"trusty wheelchair\" to get around.\n\n\"Roughly, five hours of my day is taken up by taking care of my skin,\" said Rhiannon, who lives in Bridgend.\n\nRhiannon has learnt to deal with strangers asking questions\n\nShe was diagnosed with her rare skin condition at birth, where midwives \"floundered\" when she was taken away to be cleaned as her skin came away with just the wipe of a washcloth.\n\n\"When I was born, it looked like I had gloves on my hands and socks on my feet, that was a tell-tale sign of where I would be affected the most,\" she said.\n\n\"I was incredibly lucky to be diagnosed at birth, as I could receive the medical support I needed from the start.\"\n\nBut since then she said she has experienced the social obstacles of living with a visible difference.\n\n\"Some classmates even refused to sit near me,\" she said.\n\nThis greatly affected how she saw herself in her formative years and avoiding mirrors became habitual for her as a teenager.\n\n\"I was a medical anomaly, so when I looked at my reflection, I saw someone who wasn't 'normal',\" she added.\n\nThe rare skin condition and the comments she received \"took a toll\" on Rhiannon's mental health\n\nMost of her hospital appointments were crammed full of students and consultants. She endured years of being looked at under a microscope and getting stared at by strangers.\n\nShe said it \"took its toll\" on her mental health and her perceptions of her own appearance.\n\nWhen she was 13 she went to a medical conference where she said she was forced to sit on a bed in her underwear and vest. There, she had to speak to \"about 100 doctors\" on a rotational basis who wanted to learn all about her skin.\n\n\"Some were friendly, others lacked bedside manners, one even came and inspected me with a wooden tongue depressor,\" Rhiannon explained.\n\nBut she said her condition hasn't just been a bad thing.\n\n\"Nonetheless, having my condition has given me so many skills. I'm able to empathise with others, see beauty where others cannot, and experience the world in a unique way,\" Rhiannon added.\n\n\"I wouldn't change myself for anything.\"\n\nRhiannon (left) often uses a mobility scooter to help her get around\n\nRhiannon is sharing her story as part of the This is Me campaign by charity Changing Faces to coincide with Face Equality Week.\n\nShe hopes that it will raise awareness of visible disabilities and it will encourage more positive representations across popular culture.\n\nA public poll by Focaldata found 33% of the public recalled seeing someone with a visible difference on TV.\n\nChanging Faces is a UK-based charity for anyone with a scar, mark or condition that affects their appearance, and its skin camouflage service helped Rhiannon when she was 17 to try some makeup for her sixth form prom.\n\n\"I learned how to colour correct my skin to curtail redness and what specific makeup products would help hydrate my skin,\" she said.\n\n\"It also gave me someone to chat with who would listen to the concerns I had about my skin without judgement.\"\n\nChanging Faces said in a statement: \"Whilst we wait for brands, businesses, and broadcasters to catch up, our Changing Faces volunteer campaigners and ambassadors, including Rhiannon, are putting themselves out there on social media, saying 'This Is Me' and being the role models they, and many of the public, want to see more of.\"", "Lucy Campbell is calling for the industry to be more sustainable\n\nA top UK surfer has slammed her sport for relying on boards and wetsuits mass-produced from petrochemicals that create tonnes of waste every year.\n\nSeven times British women's champion Lucy Campbell told the BBC the top brands \"need to change\".\n\nDespite surfing's eco-friendly image, it uses plastic boards covered in toxic resins and non-biodegradable wetsuits.\n\nThe industry says it is developing new sustainable boards and the world's first fully recycled wetsuit.\n\nMs Campbell said she would now only work with or accept sponsorship from brands with a clear sustainability ethos.\n\n\"It's often hard to turn down a big pay cheque, if they're a brand that isn't sustainable, but it's definitely more worthwhile in the long run,\" she said.\n\nEnvironmentalists are concerned by the mass production of polyurethane surfboards and neoprene wetsuits\n\nShe said there are already examples of how brands can be more sustainable and how they can have less impact on the environment.\n\n\"I think that they need to take the onus and make that difference. It may come at a higher price but I think eventually that price will come down as technology advances.\"\n\nHistorically, surfing has had an image of a sport and lifestyle that is in tune with, and protects, oceans and the environment.\n\nBut environmental campaigners say the manufacture and export of polystyrene and polyurethane boards and neoprene wetsuits comes with a significant carbon footprint.\n\nOne long-standing study estimated the manufacture of a traditional polyurethane board, covered with epoxy resins and exported across the globe, could be responsible for producing the equivalent of up to 250kg of carbon dioxide.\n\nMeanwhile, if you add in the international travel needed to enjoy the best waves, the average surfer's carbon footprint is said to be 50% greater than the average person's.\n\nLucy Campbell herself is due to compete this month in Olympic-qualifying championships in El Salvador. She tries to offset the carbon cost of her travel, adding: \"You do want to encourage people to get outdoors but at the same time at what cost to the planet?\"\n\nIt has also been estimated that more than 8,000 tonnes of neoprene wetsuits end up in landfill every year.\n\nSurfing's Dirty Secrets - Watch now on BBC iPlayer (UK Only)\n\nDoes the world of surfing need to do more to make it a sustainable sport?\n\nIndustry body the Surf Industry Members Association said it was proud of the environmental progress being made and that businesses had donated up to $80m (£64m) to the work of environmental organisations.\n\nVipe Desai, the association's executive director, said businesses were \"working together to address the environmental impacts of the products the industry produces. This effort was, and continues to be, driven by consumers demanding surf brands do more.\"\n\nThe industry is developing new surfboards made out of recycled material or natural fibres - even mushrooms - and wetsuits made from natural rubber sourced from sustainable plantations.\n\nIn the UK, surf company Finisterre is developing a wetsuit made from recycled neoprene suits, which it says would be a world first. It collected nearly 1,000 old suits to create a recycled rubber that they are currently testing.\n\nMore than 8,000 tonnes of neoprene wetsuits ends up in landfill every year\n\nTom Kay, the company's founder, said more brands had to invest in developing new ideas.\n\n\"Some of the press that's coming out around the toxicity of neoprene is extreme to say the least, horrendous, so if you knew that why wouldn't you change?\" he said.\n\nLast summer, Keep Britain Tidy's Ocean Recovery Project collected more than 1,000 discarded body boards on a handful of beaches across the South West.\n\nIt says cheap mass-produced boards can release thousands of tiny polystyrene balls into the environment when they break, posing a risk to wildlife.\n\nProject manager Neil Hembrow said the number of dumped boards had been \"disheartening\".\n\nBut the industry says it is trying to become more sustainable and to educate surfers about how they can make their boards last longer.\n\nMark Dale, the chief marketing officer for Agit Global, a US company that makes the mass-produced board Wavestorm in Taiwan said their boards were not designed to be thrown away after a few uses.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The misconceptions about Wavestorm is that we are creating this mass of boards that are meant for landfill, but you can use a Wavestorm board for many years. We don't build boards as disposable boards here.\"\n\nHe added that their manufacturing process had been independently audited and each board made produced the equivalent of just 24kg of carbon dioxide,\n\nDr Greg Borne, a social scientist at Plymouth Marjon University, said he was hopeful about the industry's efforts to tackle its environmental impact.\n\nHe said: \"It's a business and they are turning a profit but they are turning a profit now in a way that is starting to consider the sustainability factors.\"", "Facebook parent company Meta has begun rolling out a paid verification service in the UK.\n\nSimilar to Elon Musk's Twitter Blue, the service gives Facebook and Instagram users a blue tick from £9.99 per month.\n\nSubscribers must be at least 18 years old and submit a government ID to qualify.\n\nThe feature is already available in the US, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nPeople who registered interest in Meta Verified will receive a notification when it becomes available to them. It is rolling out to others in the UK in the coming weeks.\n\nThose approved by Meta will get a verified badge, which the tech firm says will give them more protection from impersonation, in part because it will monitor their accounts to check for fakers.\n\nIt says verified users will also get \"access to a real person\" if they have any issue with their account.\n\nThe move comes after Mr Musk implemented the premium Twitter Blue subscription in November 2022.\n\nThe service proved controversial at the time as it replaced the previous system, where blue ticks were used to verify that high-profile accounts belonged to the people they claimed to be.\n\nMr Musk removed what became termed \"legacy\" verification ticks from account holders on 20 April - reserving the \"verified\" blue badge for those who had paid for Twitter Blue, and authenticated their phone number.\n\nThe blue tick removal process led to mass confusion as high-profile users like Hillary Clinton lost their verification badges and subscribers were able to edit their own username to impersonate them.\n\nTwitter later chose to return blue ticks to a number of celebrities, governments and organisations for free.\n\nBoth Facebook and Instagram already have a verification system for notable figures, and Meta does not appear to be planning to scrap this anytime soon.\n\nAccording to the support pages for the platforms, as well as subscribing to Meta Verified, users can still apply for a verified badge if they are \"a public figure, celebrity or brand and meet the account and eligibility requirements\".\n\nThe decision to add a paid-for verification system amounts to a change of direction for Facebook and Instagram, which have previously both been free to use in all circumstances since they rose to prominence.\n\nThe services have relied on advertising income, which makes up the vast majority of Meta's revenue.\n\nWhile both can still be used for free, the decision to add a paid tier which increases prominence is an attempt to find other ways of monetising the platforms.\n\nIt comes six months after the company announced 11,000 job losses as a result of what it said was over-investment during the pandemic.\n\nAt the time, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg said he had predicted an increase in the company's growth but that ultimately had not happened.", "The government does not want Sats tests to be \"too hard for children\", England's schools minister has said - after claims a Year 6 reading paper was so difficult it left pupils in tears.\n\nNick Gibb said the assessments had to \"test a range of ability\" but he would look at the paper because of the concerns.\n\nHe said he looked at the tests each year once they were publicly available.\n\nThere is no suggestion there will be any kind of formal review.\n\nLast week, one head teacher said the reading test included some \"GCSE-level\" questions.\n\nIt has fuelled a debate among teachers and parents about the purpose of Sats.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) previously told BBC News that Sats were \"designed to be challenging\".\n\nMinisters will not have access to the reading paper before it becomes publicly available next week.\n\nMr Gibb said the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) - which is part of the DfE - tested the paper last year \"with a large group of children\".\n\n\"They monitored the response of those children to the test, to the questions, they found that 85% [enjoyed] taking the test,\" he said.\n\nHe said Sats \"do have to test a range of ability to make sure that we can show what proportion of children are exceeding the standard\".\n\n\"But we don't want these tests to be too hard for children. That's not the purpose,\" he said.\n\n\"The purpose is to test the range of ability and the Standards and Testing Agency is charged with making sure that these tests are appropriate for this age group.\"\n\nHe added: \"I will certainly look at this because I know that there has been concern expressed by some schools.\"\n\nStandard Assessment Tests, or Sats, are tests that children take in Year 6, at the end of Key Stage 2. They are national curriculum assessments in English grammar, punctuation and spelling, English reading and maths.\n\nThe government's Standards and Testing Agency says the purpose of Sats tests are to:\n\nChildren also sit Sats in Year 2, at the end of Key Stage 1.\n\nLast year, 59% of Year 6 pupils met the expected levels in reading, writing and maths - down from 65% in 2019.\n\nThe national curriculum tests were cancelled in 2020 and 2021, during the pandemic.", "Building work is yet to start for 33 of the government's 40 promised new hospitals in England, the BBC has found.\n\nMost are still waiting to hear what their final budget will be for the projects with a 2030 deadline. Only two are finished and open.\n\nMinisters aimed to have six ready for 2025 - but none of this group has full planning permission or funding yet.\n\nThe government insists it remains committed to meeting the targets.\n\n\"We are developing a new national approach to constructing hospitals so they can be built more rapidly, ensure value for money, and we continue to work closely with all trusts on their plans,\" an official said.\n\nHealth leaders say they need urgent clarity.\n\nThe BBC looked at the issue last year and since then there has been little progress.\n\nWhen the pledge was announced, in 2019, there was some controversy about exactly what counts as a \"new hospital\".\n\nNHS guidance says it can range from an entirely new building on a new site to a major refurbishment or alteration.\n\nBy October 2020, the commitment was confirmed, with an initial budget of £3.7bn.\n\nOf the 40 hospitals on the list, eight were projects already planned.\n\nBBC News contacted them all, asking for a progress report:\n\nInvestment seems to be a factor:\n\nOne of the six due to be completed in 2025 is Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, near London.\n\nSome parts of St Helier's site look more like a derelict building than a functioning NHS hospital.\n\nA makeshift wooden roof at the back is held down with sandbags.\n\nOne of the three intensive-care units has a problem with ventilation, so it can be used only as a storeroom.\n\nStaff are using a bucket to catch the drips from the leak in the ceiling\n\nIn another, staff are working around a leak.\n\nIn winter, it is not unusual for entire corridors to flood.\n\nWhen we met Chief Medical Officer Ruth Charlton outside a condemned ward, she told us: \"It's not safe to enter - the foundations are crumbling and windows are falling out.\"\n\nShe cannot see a new build happening by 2025. Her \"optimistic\" estimate is 2027. Ms Charlton would not be drawn on a realistic guess but was blunt about how sad and frustrated she felt.\n\n\"I'm frustrated on behalf of our patients, their families or staff that they can't receive healthcare in the sort of facility that I would want my family to receive healthcare in,\" she told us.\n\nAs we talk, we can hear the sound of a maintenance crew drilling.\n\nThe trust says its backlog maintenance - to bring buildings and equipment up to standard - will cost £130m.\n\nAcross the NHS in England, backlog-maintenance costs have more than doubled, from £4.7bn in 2011-12 to £10.2bn in 2021-22.\n\nIn other words, it has become twice as expensive just to keep the doors open.\n\nHealth think tank the Nuffield Trust chief executive Nigel Edwards says the government started with a \"big and slightly vague promise - and it was never clear there was enough money available to do anything like the scale of construction that they wanted to\". And ministers hitting their 2030 target is \"extremely unlikely\".\n\n\"They've underestimated how long it takes to change the way they design, build, and plan hospitals,\" he says.\n\n\"It's a great ambition - but I think a bit of realism is now starting to sink in.\"\n\nIn 2019, Boris Johnson assured voters he could build the 40 new hospitals but only \"because we're running a strong economy\".\n\nThe government has never explicitly allocated a budget for this project - but it has undoubtedly become more expensive.\n\nInflation means prices have gone up sharply, especially in construction.\n\nInstitute for Financial Studies senior research economist Ben Zaranko says: \"Either the government sticks to that pledge and accepts it will need to spend more on hospital building or it decides it scales back the number and scope of hospitals.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We remain committed to delivering all 40 new hospitals by 2030 as part of the biggest hospital-building programme in a generation.\"\n\nThe logic here is the New Hospital Programme is developing a new national approach to building these hospitals across England - and a standard approach should mean more a rapid process.\n\nBut there is another - potentially dangerous - complication. Several hospitals across England are at risk of collapse, with roofs propped up with scaffolding and posts, because they were built using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) - a lightweight concrete with bubbles inside like \"a chocolate Aero bar\".\n\nThe NHS has identified 34 NHS buildings in England containing RAAC planks - and it is believed about five need to be dealt with urgently.\n\nBut only a small number of the hospitals with planned new builds are thought to be affected by RAAC, so it would make sense to expect new RAAC hospitals to be added to the list soon.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We remain committed to delivering all 40 new hospitals by 2030 as part of the biggest hospital-building programme in a generation.\"\n\n\"We are developing a new national approach to constructing hospitals so they can be built more rapidly, ensure value for money, and we continue to work closely with all trusts on their plans.\"\n\nSir Julian Hartley, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents trusts, wants clarity, ideally in the next few weeks.\n\n\"We are at a pivotal moment, a key point, where we cannot leave for much longer the scale of deterioration,\" he says.\n\n'We need to know that if we delay too much longer, the scale of the problems in other hospitals and facilities will get to a critical level.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he added there was an \"absolutely dire need for decisions to be made about making progress... and tackling in the longer term the ageing infrastructure\" of hospitals.", "The ruins of the village have been preserved just as they were after the massacre\n\nAn 88-year-old German man has been charged with involvement in one of the most infamous World War Two massacres.\n\nThe charges relate to Oradour-sur-Glane in central France, where 642 people were murdered by SS troops in 1944.\n\nMany were herded into a local church into which hand grenades were thrown before it was set on fire.\n\nProsecutors in Dortmund said the man had been charged over the murder of 25 people and with aiding and abetting the murder of several hundred.\n\nThe ruins of the village have been preserved just as they were after the massacre, as a permanent memorial.\n\nFrench leader General Charles de Gaulle said it should be a reminder of the cruelty of the Nazi occupation.\n\nSome 60 soldiers were brought to trial in the 1950s. Twenty of them were convicted but all were later released.\n\nGerman investigators said last year they had opened a new inquiry into the massacre.\n\nOn Wednesday, the regional court in Cologne said: \"The prosecutor's office in Dortmund has charged an 88-year-old from Cologne over the murder of 25 people committed by a group, and with aiding and abetting the murder of several hundred people.\"\n\nThe man was named in documents as Werner C, a former member of an SS armoured division who was 19 at the time.\n\nHis lawyer, Rainer Pohlen, told the Associated Press news agency his client was at the village but had nothing to do with the massacre.\n\nDortmund state prosecutor Andreas Brendel said the accused was among six men still facing possible prosecution.\n\nOn 10 June 1944, a detachment of SS troops had surrounded the tiny hamlet in the Limousin region.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oradour-sur-Glane was left untouched following the 1944 massacre\n\nIt is believed by some that they were seeking retribution for the kidnap of a German officer but some say that resistance members were based in a different, nearby village.\n\nMost of the victims were women and children.\n\nThe men had been locked in a barn. Machine-gunners shot at their legs, then doused them in petrol and set them alight.\n\nThe landmark 1970s documentary series, The World at War, both begins and ends with references to Oradour-sur-Glane.\n\nLast September German President Joachim Gauck travelled to the village and joined hands with one of the survivors and with French President Francois Hollande, as a sign of reconciliation.\n\nGeneral Charles de Gaulle said the village should be a reminder of the cruelty of the Nazi occupation\n\nSome 60 soldiers were brought to trial in the 1950s\n\nFrancois Hollande (left) with German counterpart Joachim Gauck (right) and survivor Robert Hebras in September 2013\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The debt ceiling explained - in under 90 seconds\n\nPresident Joe Biden and Republican leaders have expressed cautious optimism that a deal to raise the US debt ceiling is within reach, following emergency talks at the White House.\n\nBut House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters the two sides are still far apart.\n\nThe standoff has forced Mr Biden to cut short a foreign trip.\n\nWithout a deal, the US could enter a calamitous default on its $31.4tr (£25tr) debt as soon as 1 June.\n\nA failure by the US government to meet its debt obligations could trigger global financial chaos.\n\nThe Democratic president said Tuesday's hour-long Oval Office meeting was \"good, productive\", sounding upbeat about the prospects of an agreement.\n\nMr McCarthy said afterwards he believed a deal was possible by the end of this week.\n\nAsked about the risk of the US falling off a fiscal cliff, the California congressman told BBC News: \"The great thing about that question is we've already taken default off the table.\"\n\nHe also told reporters a Biden-appointed representative would negotiate directly with his staff, which he said was a sign that \"the structure of how we negotiate has improved\".\n\nA number of senior Democrats were at the talks, including Vice-President Kamala Harris, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.\n\nIn exchange for support for raising the debt ceiling, Republican leaders are demanding budget cuts. They also want tougher work requirements on government aid recipients.\n\nCiting sources familiar with the talks, the Associated Press news agency reports that this idea was \"resoundingly\" rejected by House Democrats at another meeting earlier on Tuesday.\n\nMr Biden has repeatedly said that a potential debt default and budgetary issues should be separate.\n\nThe president is due to fly to the G7 summit in Japan on Wednesday. He was then expected to head to Papua New Guinea and Australia for further meetings.\n\nBut he will now return after the 19-21 May summit ends in Hiroshima to \"ensure that Congress takes action\" to avert a default, the White House said in a statement.\n\nThe so-called Quad meeting in Sydney has now been cancelled, and the leaders will attempt to meet on the sidelines of the G7, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.\n\nReaching the debt ceiling would mean the US government is unable to borrow any more money.\n\nThis means the government would no longer be able to pay the salaries of federal and military employees. Social Security cheques - payments that millions of pensioners in the US rely on - would stop.\n\nEvery so often the US Congress votes to raise or suspend the ceiling so it can borrow more.\n\nA default - which would be a first in US history - could shatter trust in America's political ability to pay its bills.\n\nExperts have warned it could also see the US spiral into recession and trigger a rise in unemployment.\n\nTreasury Secretary Janet Yellen said at an event on Tuesday that \"a US default would generate an economic and financial catastrophe\".\n\nMeanwhile, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said: \"There's countries like Russia and China that would love nothing more than for us to default.\"\n\nA deal to avoid this scenario has so far proven elusive. In April, Republicans proposed an agreement that would suspend the debt limit by $1.5tn or until 31 March, whichever comes first.\n\nIn exchange, they would maintain spending at key government agencies at 2022 levels for the next financial year and limit spending growth to 1% annually over the next 10 years.\n\nThey argued this would lead to $4.8tn in savings.\n\nThe proposal, however, would scupper several of Mr Biden's legislative priorities, including student loan forgiveness.\n\nThe last time the US was approaching a default, back in 2011, lawmakers struck a deal hours before the deadline.\n\nThat standoff led to a downgrade in the US credit rating, sent the stock market plummeting and increased the government's borrowing costs.\n\n\"Nobody should use default as a hostage,\" Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said at the US Capitol on Tuesday. \"The consequences would be devastating for America.\"\n\nThe US debt ceiling has been raised, extended or revised 78 times since 1960.", "Steven Harnett, 25, and Katie Higton, 27, were declared dead at the scene in Dalton, West Yorkshire Police say\n\nA man and a woman stabbed to death at a house in Huddersfield have been named by police.\n\nSteven Harnett, 25, and Katie Higton, 27, were found at the house in Harpe Inge, Dalton, at about 09:55 BST on Monday, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nA 34-year-old man from Huddersfield has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is being questioned by the force.\n\nThe street remained cordoned off on Tuesday, with investigations at the scene continuing.\n\nParamedics found Mr Harnett, from Huddersfield, and Ms Higton, a mother-of four also from the town, with multiple injuries \"believed to have been inflicted by a bladed weapon\", officers said.\n\nThey were confirmed to have died at the scene.\n\nIt is believed the pair were attacked overnight between Sunday and Monday, with formal post-mortem examinations yet to be conducted.\n\nFlowers and tributes have been left on the street\n\nThe former brother and sister-in-law of Ms Higton, who asked not to be named, paid tribute to her as \"the best mum\" and said the family was \"absolutely devastated\" as they placed flowers at the scene.\n\nHe said his brother had been in a relationship with Ms Higton for seven years and was the father of her two oldest children, daughters aged nine and 10.\n\nHe told the PA news agency the children \"were in the property when the incident took place\".\n\nCards left with flowers at the scene said \"RIP my darling. We love you. No more suffering\" and \"I am so sorry for how things have ended.\"\n\nThe pair were found at the house in Harpe Inge, Huddersfield, at about 09:55 BST on Monday\n\nScott I'Anson, who lives on Harpe Inge, said he did not know Ms Higton but had seen her and her children.\n\n\"They kept to themselves but a lot of people liked them,\" he said.\n\nSpecially-trained officers are supporting their families, police said, with officers conducting patrols in the local area to reassure residents.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Man arrested after two found dead in house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Essex Police have launched an investigation into an alleged serious sexual assault by MP Julian Knight.\n\nThe Met Police referred the investigation onto the Essex force having shelved its own investigation into the Solihull MP in March.\n\nIt is not clear why the case was referred onwards.\n\nMr Knight has been an MP since 2015. The Conservatives stripped him of the party whip when allegations first emerged, and he sits as an independent.\n\nThe Conservative Party refused to restore the whip to Mr Knight after the Met dropped the case, with the party saying at the time that it had received \"further complaints\".\n\nMr Knight has denied what he described as a \"false and malicious accusation\".\n\nOn Tuesday, a statement from Essex Police said: \"We have agreed to take on an investigation which has been referred to us from the Met Police Service.\n\n\"We are investigating an allegation of serious sexual assault.\n\n\"Detectives who specialise in cases of this kind will gather evidence and conduct a thorough investigation.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Andy Waldie will oversee the work carried out by a senior investigating officer with \"extensive experience\".\n\n\"In the interests of justice and of all concerned, we have asked media outlets and others not to enter into any speculative comment or reporting on this matter,\" Essex Police added.\n\n\"We would also remind everyone that victims of sexual offences are entitled to life-long anonymity, regardless of how a case proceeds.\n\n\"The Essex Police investigation remains at an early stage.\"\n\nThe Met Police in a statement said: \"We had been liaising with Essex Police about an investigation which they are now leading on. This was agreed by both the Met Police Service and Essex Police.\n\n\"Whilst we will not comment on this case specifically, as part of any investigation where safeguarding is a factor, liaison with relevant partners and authorities takes place.\"\n\nMr Knight has been approached for comment.", "Sam Altman testified before a US Senate Committee about the potential of artificial intelligence - and its risks\n\nThe creator of advanced chatbot ChatGPT has called on US lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence (AI).\n\nSam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, testified before a US Senate committee on Tuesday about the possibilities - and pitfalls - of the new technology.\n\nIn a matter of months, several AI models have entered the market.\n\nMr Altman said a new agency should be formed to license AI companies.\n\nChatGPT and other similar programmes can create incredibly human-like answers to questions - but can also be wildly inaccurate.\n\nMr Altman, 38, has become a spokesman of sorts for the burgeoning industry. He has not shied away from addressing the ethical questions that AI raises, and has pushed for more regulation.\n\nHe said that AI could be as big as \"the printing press\" but acknowledged its potential dangers.\n\n\"I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong...we want to be vocal about that,\" Mr Altman said. \"We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening.\"\n\nHe also admitted the impact that AI could have on the economy, including the likelihood that AI technology could replace some jobs, leading to layoffs in certain fields.\n\n\"There will be an impact on jobs. We try to be very clear about that,\" he said, adding that the government will \"need to figure out how we want to mitigate that\".\n\nMr Altman added, however, that he is \"very optimistic about how great the jobs of the future will be\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Senator Richard Blumenthal uses ChatGPT to write his statement\n\nHowever, some senators argued new laws were needed to make it easier for people to sue OpenAI.\n\nMr Altman told legislators he was worried about the potential impact on democracy, and how AI could be used to send targeted misinformation during elections - a prospect he said is among his \"areas of greatest concerns\".\n\n\"We're going to face an election next year,\" he said. \"And these models are getting better.\"\n\nHe gave several suggestions for how a new agency in the US could regulate the industry - including \"a combination of licensing and testing requirements\" for AI companies, which he said could be used to regulate the \"development and release of AI models above a threshold of capabilities\".\n\nHe also said firms like OpenAI should be independently audited.\n\nRepublican Senator Josh Hawley said the technology could be revolutionary, but also compared the new tech to the invention of the \"atomic bomb\".\n\nDemocrat Senator Richard Blumenthal observed that an AI-dominated future \"is not necessarily the future that we want\".\n\n\"We need to maximize the good over the bad. Congress has a choice now. We had the same choice when we faced social media. We failed to seize that moment,\" he warned.\n\nWhat was clear from the testimony is that there is bi-partisan support for a new body to regulate the industry.\n\nHowever, the technology is moving so fast that legislators also wondered whether such an agency would be capable of keeping up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Two poultry workers in England have tested positive for bird flu, although there are no signs of human-to-human transmission, the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) has said.\n\nBoth people were known to have recently worked on an infected poultry farm and have since tested negative.\n\nNeither worker experienced symptoms of avian influenza, with both cases found during screening.\n\nThe risk to the general population remains very low, the UKHSA added.\n\nThe UKHSA is running a programme of testing workers who have come into contact with infected birds, but is also running asymptomatic testing.\n\nThe first person who tested positive is thought to have inhaled the virus.\n\nThe second person is thought to be a more complicated case and it is unclear whether they have suffered a genuine infection or whether they too inhaled the virus while at work.\n\nThe UKHSA says precautionary contact tracing has been undertaken for this second individual.\n\nChief Medical Advisor at the UKHSA Professor Susan Hopkins said that globally there is \"no evidence of spread of this strain from person to person, but we know that viruses evolve all the time and we remain vigilant for any evidence of changing risk to the population.\"\n\n\"It remains critical that people avoid touching sick or dead birds, and that they follow the DEFRA advice about reporting,\" she added.\n\nProfessor James Wood, head of veterinary medicine at the University of Cambridge, said the finding should lead to \"greater attention\" on asymptomatic infection and sampling.\n\nHe said it was important to sequence the virus in the two workers and infected birds in order to see if there were any mutations of concern, adding that resampling the workers could indicate whether they had developed an immune response.\n\nThere are various different types of avian flu that have circulated in the past - the latest one infecting birds is H5.\n\nAlthough none of these strains easily infect people, and they are not usually spread from person to person, small numbers of people have been infected around the world, leading to a small number of deaths.\n\nThere have been very few cases of bird flu transmission to people recorded in the UK. The virus is not that well suited to humans and does not spread as easily as it does between birds.\n\nIt usually requires very close contact with an infected bird, which is why experts say the risk to humans is currently considered very low.\n\nThese latest cases do not change that assessment. There is no suggestion that the virus has changed to become more infectious to us or spread from person to person.\n\nA \"mandatory housing order\" for England and Wales was lifted on 18 April, meaning poultry and captive birds could be kept outside again.\n\nThe measures were introduced during the world's biggest ever bird flu outbreak.\n\nGovernment guidance on the signs of bird flu and how to report it can be found here.", "Robert Murray, pictured in 1992, died after paramedics were stood down due to a do not resuscitate order\n\nSome experts are calling for \"do not resuscitate\" orders to be scrapped, saying they are being misused and putting people's lives at risk. One woman told BBC News that her elderly father might still be alive if the DNR in his medical file had been properly checked.\n\nWhen Robert Murray began choking on a piece of fruit at breakfast, staff at his care home called 999. He'd stopped breathing and the ambulance service operator immediately sent paramedics to attend.\n\nBut seconds later, the care home told the dispatcher that the 80-year-old had a do not resuscitate form (DNR) in his medical records. The paramedics were stood down. Mr Murray died minutes later.\n\nHowever, it was all a terrible mistake. It hadn't been made clear to the ambulance service that Mr Murray was choking - the DNR was only meant to apply should he have a cardiac arrest.\n\n\"As soon as you say DNR, it seems to change what they want to do,\" says Robert's daughter, Wendy, who heard the 999 call during an inquest into her father's death.\n\n\"If his heart was failing - he was having a heart attack - I could totally understand that. But when he died of a choking incident, which is not a natural way of dying, it didn't get picked up.\"\n\nMr Murray had a DNR order in place since 2016. He died in 2021\n\nWendy says her father was a kind and patient dad. He'd been diagnosed with early on-set Parkinson's when he was 55.\n\nDespite this - and even after the death of his wife from kidney cancer in 2011 - Mr Murray continued to live at home until 2019, when he finally decided he needed to move to a home for round-the-clock care.\n\n\"He had a DNR in place since 2016,\" says Wendy. \"He completely agreed with it. It was mainly for his heart, as he had a murmur, but he never wanted to come back [if something happened] from Parkinson's.\n\n\"He was on quite strong medication, he had shakes, it took him a lot to time to get himself moving.\"\n\nMr Murray's death, at a nursing home in Eastbourne in June 2021, is an example of what experts call \"mission creep\" in the use of DNR - also known as DNACPR (Do Not Attempt Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation) - decisions.\n\nResearchers from Essex University say some care home residents are \"being inappropriately denied transfer to hospital or access to certain medicines\" due to the recommendations.\n\nWendy Murray believes her father would \"probably still be alive\" if the DNR had been properly checked\n\nDNR and DNACPR decisions are intended to inform clinicians how someone should be treated if their heart or breathing stops.\n\nThe decisions are not legally binding. But they can be appropriate if a person is unlikely to withstand the procedure and can be mandated by a doctor - but crucially only after they've consulted with the patient, or their family.\n\nDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, concerns were raised that such decisions were being taken on a blanket basis. Care homes for both elderly and disabled people were accused of making recommendations without considering the merits of individual patients.\n\nA 2021 investigation by the care watchdog, the Care Quality Commission, found there may have been more than 500 breaches of individual human rights due to the misuse of DNR decisions.\n\nThe Essex University research suggests potential confusion around orders. In a small study of 262 care professionals, most of whom had responsibility for applying the 2005 Mental Capacity Act, researchers found:\n\nIn a subsequent focus group carried out by the university, one participant said: \"Some staff see DNR as 'do not care', or 'do not seek any medical treatment'.\"\n\nThe forms have come to be used \"to inform other medical decisions, around eligibility for hospital care, people being refused IV medication,\" says Prof Wayne Martin, who led the research.\n\n\"That's what we call mission creep - its not what these forms were designed for. It's really a violation of both law and people's rights to care.\"\n\nResearchers are calling for better training for both care professionals and those advocating for them. But Prof Martin says the starting point should be to \"get rid of stand-alone DNACPR forms\", adding: \"They look like they're an order, when they're not legally binding.\"\n\nResearchers say new standardised documentation - based on consultation, a person's individual circumstances, and a clear understanding of the law - are needed.\n\nMr Murray and his wife on their wedding day in 1964\n\nFor Wendy Murray, it will all come too late. The pandemic meant that she never got to hug or touch her father for over a year before his death.\n\n\"He would probably still be alive if they'd actually brushed up on what they needed to do, double checking what is in the DNR, not the fact that, 'Oh, he's got a DNR in place, we won't bother.' It's not a nice way to lose your parent.\"\n\nThe home in which Mr Murray was staying, Avalon Nursing Home, in Eastbourne, said it had updated advice relating to DNACPR forms in all care plans, and that staff had attended refresher training on basic life support.", "Fining parents whose child is persistently absent from school does not work and can make the problem worse, MPs have been told.\n\nPenalties often put more pressure on already struggling families, charity leaders told an inquiry into persistent and severe absence.\n\nPupils count as persistently absent if they miss 10% of school sessions.\n\nThe number of pupils regularly missing school in England remains higher than before the pandemic.\n\nMind associate director of policy Vicki Nash said: \"The idea that the fines are there as a deterrent or a signal that the behaviour is unacceptable doesn't really impact on the behaviour of the young person or the ability of the parents to get the young person back into school.\"\n\nIn some cases, financial penalties and prosecutions were driving families further away from school and into home-schooling, she added.\n\nNational Children's Bureau director Daniel Stravrou told MPs that a disproportionate number of severely absent pupils had complex special educational needs.\n\n\"We're not talking about pupils going to Euro Disney in term time,\" he said. \"It feels misguided to approach this in a punitive way.\"\n\nFines begin at £60 but rise if not paid promptly.\n\nBut a BBC News investigation, last year, found parents in England whose child missed school faced harsher penalties depending on where they lived.\n\nSome local councils told BBC News no penalties had been issued, while others handed out thousands.\n\nFines for unauthorised absence are issued at the discretion of schools and local authorities.\n\nGovernment guidance says they should be used only when likely to change parental behaviour and support has already been offered.", "At least six people have died and others remain unaccounted for following a fire in a hostel, New Zealand's prime minister has told local media.\n\nEmergency services were called to the four-storey Loafers Lodge hostel in Wellington just after midnight local time (12:30 GMT Monday).\n\nMore than 50 people were rescued from the building, but police said 11 people remained unaccounted for.\n\nPM Chris Hipkins warned the number of dead was likely to increase.\n\nPolice added that they could not be more specific on the number of deaths until they could access the building.\n\nThe cause of the blaze is still unknown. Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) said they were treating the fire as suspicious, but police \"don't believe it's been deliberately lit\", the New Zealand Herald reported.\n\nArriving at the scene, firefighters found the top level of the building ablaze. By 04:00 at least 20 fire engines had been sent to the blaze.\n\nLocal media reports said the sprinklers did not work and officials could not confirm whether fire alarms were working.\n\nFENZ district commander Nick Pyatt described it as Wellington's \"worst nightmare\".\n\nMr Pyatt also said the building contained asbestos and urged locals to wear a face mask and keep their windows closed to avoid inhaling smoke, the New Zealand Herald reported.\n\n\"This is a tragic event for all involved. My heartfelt condolences go to the loved ones of those who have lost their lives\", he said.\n\nAuthorities rescued at least five people from the roof of the burning building, while one person sustained serious injuries after jumping from the third floor of the building to escape the flames, local media reported.\n\nOne resident, Tala Sili, told national broadcaster Radio New Zealand he saw smoke coming from under his door and opened it to find the hallway full of smoke. He decided to jump out of the window onto a roof two floors below.\n\n\"It was just scary, it was really scary, but I knew I had to jump out the window or just burn inside the building,\" he said.\n\nLoafers Lodge Hostel has 92 rooms in total and caters to both short and long-term guests.\n\nIt was designated by New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development in 2011 as an emergency accommodation provider. Official figures show that more than 3,300 households currently live in emergency housing as of February.\n\nLoafers customers range from shift workers like nurses and hospital staff to unemployed and homeless people, according to local media reports.\n\nSeveral residents are people who have been deported from Australia, with some still unaccounted for.\n\nIn comments to local media, Mr Hipkins called the fire \"an absolute tragedy\" and paid tribute to local firefighters \"who have put themselves in harm's way over past hours to get people out of the building and put the fire out\".", "Brian Basham gave evidence in court claiming he warned Mirror Group Newspapers about illegal information gathering\n\nAn entrepreneur has accused the former chairman of Mirror Group Newspapers of covering up unlawful information gathering at the publisher.\n\nBrian Basham told the civil trial into alleged phone hacking of the Duke of Sussex and other figures that he warned David Grigson about the activities.\n\nHe claimed he told Mr Grigson to \"clear the decks of all taint\", after looking at MGN for a possible investment.\n\nMGN denies senior executives knew about the practices and failed to stop them.\n\nIt is alleged that journalists from the newspapers obtained private and confidential information about people's lives through a variety of unlawful means between 1991 and 2011 - including accessing voicemail messages on their phones.\n\nMr Basham, a former journalist who ran a business that researched companies, was called to give evidence during the second week of a High Court case brought against MGN.\n\nThe court heard the entrepreneur had spoken to three industry insiders about phone hacking allegations at Trinity Mirror whilst researching whether to invest in the company.\n\n\"David did not heed my advice, which I believe was a big mistake. He behaved badly, the board behaved badly. He covered up and people suffered for years,\" he told the court.\n\nWhen speaking to \"journalistic friends\", he said giving evidence: \"It was like turning on a tap as soon as I spoke to them about this, it all poured out.\"\n\nThe group's legal director, Paul Vickers, was described to him as the \"villain of the piece\" because he was involved in the cover-up\", which chief executive Sly Bailey \"orchestrated\".\n\nHe also claimed he was told the publisher's legal director Marcus Partington once joked that he had left his mobile phone at home but could ask a journalist if there were any messages, because phone hacking was rife.\n\nMr Basham claimed he detailed his findings at lunch with company chairman Mr Grigson in 2012.\n\nDuring cross-examination, Andrew Green KC, on behalf of MGN, suggested Mr Basham had based his view of the company on unnamed informants.\n\n\"You were defaming a wide number of people to Mr Grigson in the hope he would pay you money to sort out the problem,\" Mr Green suggested.\n\n\"That is entirely untrue,\" Mr Basham said.\n\nPrince Harry is expected to give evidence at the trial in June. He is among four people whose claims are being heard in the trial as \"representative\" cases of the types of allegations facing the publisher. They will also help the court set the level of damages MGN should pay if the claimants win.\n\nOthers involved are Coronation Street actors Nikki Sanderson and Michael Turner, known by his stage name Michael Le Vell, and comedian Paul Whitehouse's ex-wife Fiona Wightman.", "The youngest hero of the French Resistance was just six years old - and finally the name Marcel Pinte has been inscribed on a memorial alongside those of other anti-Nazi fighters.\n\nThe boy, who carried messages for the Resistance, died tragically in August 1944, when one of the guerrillas' Sten guns went off by accident.\n\nHe was honoured on Armistice Day at a ceremony in Aixe-sur-Vienne, near the city of Limoges in central France.\n\nEugène Pinte, alias Athos, ran a Resistance network from the remote family farmhouse in La Gaubertie, a hamlet in the Aixe-sur-Vienne area.\n\nThe boy was a liaison agent, carrying secret messages and letters to surrounding farms.\n\n\"With his school satchel on his back he didn't raise suspicions,\" said Marc Pinte, grandson of Marcel's father Eugène.\n\nMarcel surprised people with his \"astonishing\" memory and was trusted to deliver messages to Resistance chiefs, which he hid under his shirt. \"He understood everything at once,\" Marc Pinte told the AFP news agency.\n\nHe said Marcel was happy to spend time in the woods with Resistance fighters, known as maquisards, learning about their clandestine methods.\n\nEugène, his wife Paule and their five children hosted clandestine farmhouse meetings with Resistance fighters and even hid a British paratrooper in the loft, so it was a hive of activity at night.\n\nAnother relative, Alexandre Brémaud, spent years researching Marcel's story, because the official records focused on the Resistance fighters and sabotage operations, rather than on the many helpers - often women and children - who also took risks to defeat the Nazi occupation.\n\nMr Brémaud told the BBC: \"My grandmother described him as an extremely happy, intelligent and brilliant brother, sparkling with mischief\".\n\nMarcel was eager to play his part in the struggle against Nazi Germany - and he became an agent nicknamed \"Quinquin\", or \"the little kid\".\n\nMr Brémaud described how the boy would laugh as the clandestine radio operator, working from the family dining room, would pretend to swallow the cyanide pill he carried.\n\nThe farmhouse was \"a hidden place and very difficult to access,\" and the guerrillas found it \"practical and discreet\", Mr Brémaud told AFP.\n\nMarcel's role was eventually recognised by the French state. In 1950 he was posthumously awarded the rank of sergeant of the Resistance.\n\nThen in 2013 the National Office of Former Combatants and War Victims issued him a posthumous official card for \"volunteer combatants of the Resistance\".\n\nAs the Allies pushed down into France from their Normandy beach-head in the summer of 1944 the Resistance stepped up their operations against the Germans.\n\nOne night Marcel went with a group of maquisards to a parachute drop of munitions and other supplies. They had received a code message via the BBC: \"The forget-me-not is my favourite flower.\"\n\nThe rendezvous was at La Gaubertie and suddenly, as they were waiting, one of the men's Sten guns went off by accident, killing Marcel with several bullets.\n\nHis death certificate was faked to keep the unit's existence secret.\n\nMr Brémaud says the British paid homage to Marcel by using black canvas parachutes in their next supply drop.\n\nIt was a note found by Mr Brémaud in the military archives in Vincennes which told Marcel's story, written by a French army officer. The wartime exploits of Marcel's father Eugène were already well known.\n\nMarcel was buried in August 1944, just hours before the liberation of Limoges, \"in the presence of numerous battalions - the coffin was covered with the tricolour flag,\" said Marc Pinte.\n\nEugène died in 1951, aged 49, and was buried next to his son in Aixe-sur-Vienne.", "The UK will send hundreds of air defence missiles and armed drones to Ukraine on top of the Storm Shadow cruise missiles announced last week.\n\nThe move means the UK is going further than any other country in providing weapons with the potential to tip the battlefield in Ukraine's favour.\n\nEarlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky met the UK's Rishi Sunak as part of his tour of Western allies.\n\nMr Zelensky said it was important for the West to send fighter jets as well.\n\nBut the prime minister said providing fighter jets was \"not a straightforward thing\", although he did say the UK would form \"a key part of the coalition countries\" providing that support.\n\nUkraine is continuing to prepare for a much-anticipated counter-offensive against Russian forces.\n\nLast week, Mr Zelensky told the BBC his country needed more weaponry before it could launch the attack.\n\nOn Monday, the Ukrainian president had about two hours of talks with Mr Sunak at Chequers, near London.\n\nHe arrived on British soil for a surprise visit after a whirlwind tour of Western Europe that also took in Rome, Berlin and Paris.\n\nMr Zelensky said Ukraine and the UK were \"real partners\", while Mr Sunak's spokesman described the meeting as \"warm and collegiate\".\n\nThe Storm Shadow cruise missiles can be used to destroy Russia's positions on occupied Ukrainian territory.\n\nIf Ukraine can destroy Russia's command centres, logistics hubs and ammunition depots in occupied territory, then it may prove impossible for Moscow to continue resupplying its frontline troops in places.\n\nThis is what Ukraine did so successfully in Kherson last year, forcing the Russians to withdraw almost without a fight. It will now be hoping to repeat the process with the help of Western-supplied munitions.\n\nPresident Zelensky's repeated calls for Nato to send F-16 jets are being met with delays and obfuscations, for several reasons.\n\nThe Ukrainian air force has trained its pilots on F-16s, which the RAF do not use, but such training takes months, not days.\n\nLogistics, maintenance and the need to find suitable runways are all important too.\n\nFinally, there is the question of escalation. Nato is struggling to balance giving Kyiv the maximum support it can, without getting directly drawn into this conflict.\n\nIf Nato does end up sending F-16 warplanes, however old they may be, then that, in Moscow's eyes, constitutes a major provocation by the West.\n\nMr Zelensky said he discussed the supply of Western fighter jets with Mr Sunak.\n\nNew jets were a \"very important topic for us, because we can't control the sky\", the Ukrainian leader added.\n\n\"We spoke about it and I see that in the closest time you will hear some, I think, very important decisions, but we have to work a little bit more on it,\" he said.\n\nThe UK has no plans to send fighter jets to Ukraine, according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nBut No 10 said elementary training for Ukrainian pilots would begin this summer, along with British efforts to work with other countries on providing F-16 jets to Ukraine.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman also denied that any drones supplied by the UK would be used to hit targets inside Russia.\n\nThey would be used for the defence of Ukraine on Ukrainian sovereign territory, the spokesman said.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"This is a crucial moment in Ukraine's resistance to a terrible war of aggression they did not choose or provoke.\n\n\"They need the sustained support of the international community to defend against the barrage of unrelenting and indiscriminate attacks that have been their daily reality for over a year.\"\n\nIn response, Russia said the new British weapons due to be supplied to Kyiv would only cause \"further destruction\".\n\n\"Britain aspires to position itself at the forefront of the countries that continue to pump weapons into Ukraine,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.\n\nUkraine secured a new defence aid package from Germany after talks in Berlin with Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday, taking its total military funding to nearly $7bn (£6.44bn).\n\nMr Zelensky described the new pledge of German Leopard tanks and anti-aircraft systems as \"the largest since the beginning of the full-scale aggression\" by Russia in February 2022.\n\nFrance has promised dozens more light tanks and armoured vehicles after President Emmanuel Macron met his Ukrainian counterpart in Paris.\n\nIn February, Mr Zelensky visited London for the first time since the start of the war, during which he attended an audience with the King and addressed Parliament.\n\nHis latest visit to the UK comes ahead of a G7 gathering in Hiroshima, Japan, later this week which will also be attended by Mr Sunak.", "The rapper slowthai was nominated for the prestigious Mercury prize in 2019\n\nGrammy-nominated rapper Slowthai has appeared in court after being accused of raping a woman.\n\nThe 28-year-old singer was charged under his real name, Tyron Kaymone Frampton.\n\nHe appeared before Oxford Magistrates' Court via video link from his home in Northampton on Tuesday.\n\nThe rapper has been charged with two counts of raping a woman in September 2021.\n\nMr Frampton, who was nominated for the best dance recording at 2021's Grammy Awards, is expected to appear before Oxford Crown Court on 15 June.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Sam Lowe said she was currently being evicted and had seen many families lose their homes in court\n\nA woman fighting eviction says the renting crisis must be addressed as she is seeing a \"production line\" of families losing their homes.\n\nSam Lowe, from Oldbury in the West Midlands, said her landlord had started eviction proceedings against her a month after her mother died last year.\n\nShe was part of a rally at Downing Street on Tuesday calling for more security for tenants.\n\nA government spokesperson said it was committed to a fairer deal for renters.\n\nMs Lowe said she had managed to get her family's eviction - due in March - adjourned at Dudley Magistrates' Court and now had until the start of June to find a new home.\n\nBut while at court, she said she had seen many families going through the same thing.\n\n\"When I went to court a couple of weeks ago, it's like a production line - every 10 minutes it's another family being evicted,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a horrible, horrible thing to see, there's just 10 people in a room within an hour all losing their homes.\"\n\nShe lives with her brother and sister in the home they shared with their mother for eight years.\n\nIf they are evicted and have not found a new home, the family faced being split up in temporary accommodation, she said, which was \"terrifying\" after becoming more united in grief over the loss of their mother.\n\nAbout 300 private renters handed in a petition to Downing Street on Tuesday calling for more security for tenants\n\nShe said they were struggling to find new accommodation as landlords were demanding such high rents or deposits.\n\nMs Lowe, a volunteer with Acorn Birmingham, a community-based social justice union, was one of 300 private renters who protested in Westminster on Tuesday urging the government to improve legislation for renters.\n\nOrganised by the the Renters Reform Coalition, the campaigners said they wanted the abolition of no-fault evictions under the Renters Reform Bill, previously promised by the government.\n\nMs Lowe said legislation was too much on the side of landlords, leaving tenants \"powerless\". She described her situation as \"life-wrecking\".\n\nShe said she had returned to the UK from abroad to help care for her sick mother and their landlord had known about her mother's illness, but had begun eviction proceedings without warning or consulting them.\n\nThe family are on a waiting list for social housing but have only moved up a few places since November because of demand, she said.\n\n\"You feel powerless,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a completely life-wrecking experience. You can't make plans, you're constantly looking for a place to live and to learn the law and trying to make sure they're treating you legally.\"\n\nAverage monthly rents had risen in their area from £850 to more than £1,200 since they had been looking for a new home, she said, and she and her siblings would therefore have to move \"really far away from our family and our support network if we did get a private rented house\".\n\n\"It's leaving us completely stuck,\" she said.\n\n\"There needs to be something in place for landlords to give a good reason why they are going to evict people, because with the rental market as it is, people can't just get somewhere to move into.\"\n\nThe government says a Renters Reform Bill will be brought forward in this Parliament\n\nShe said they had struggled to find support as many organisations were overwhelmed with people in a similar situation.\n\n\"There's no support, there's no safety net, everything is lined up in favour of landlords and you just have to accept it.\n\n\"But that's an impossible thing to do when there's nowhere to go and when the most basic thing that we need, which is a roof over our heads, becomes something that's unattainable,\" she added.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said: \"We will bring forward a Renters Reform Bill in this Parliament, abolishing no-fault evictions so that all tenants have greater security in their homes and are empowered to challenge poor conditions and unreasonable rent rises.\n\n\"We are also introducing a Decent Homes Standard for the private rented sector for the first time ever, which will make sure privately rented homes are safe and decent.\"\n\nFamilies were also receiving \"significant support\" over this year and next, worth on average £3,500 per household, as well as uprated benefits and a 10% rise in the state pension in April, the statement added.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A book about the menopause by TV presenter Davina McCall has scooped the top prize at the British Book Awards.\n\nMenopausing, by McCall and Dr Naomi Potter, was named overall book of the year.\n\nThe so-called \"Davina effect\" saw a huge increase in demand for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after a Channel 4 documentary on the subject.\n\nNovelist Sir Salman Rushdie was also honoured, nine months after being attacked on stage in New York.\n\nMcCall and Potter's Menopausing was praised by a panel of judges which included Channel 4 newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy, broadcaster Anita Rani, and DJ Vick Hope.\n\nSix months after publication, it continues to rank highly in the bestseller charts.\n\nGuru-Murthy said the book had helped to start a national conversation about menopause.\n\nHe said the broadcaster and the menopause doctor had produced an authoritative and entertaining book about \"an important and ignored subject\".\n\nLong Lost Family presenter McCall said she was \"walking on air\" after the award was announced.\n\n\"We are so so grateful to everyone that contributed... We will never stop spreading the message,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe has previously said she though she had a brain tumour or Alzheimer's when suffering from perimenopausal symptoms.\n\nHer experience with her changing hormones led her to the decision to campaign to increase awareness and destigmatise the menopause.\n\nHer Channel 4 documentary Sex, Myths and Menopause was broadcast in 2021 and Menopausing was published in September 2022.\n\nHRT prescriptions rose by 42% in the last year leading to shortages due to lack of supplies.\n\nSalman Rushdie says it is now difficult to publish in countries of the west\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Salman Rushdie said he was proud to receive the Freedom to Publish award on behalf of \"everybody fighting that fight\".\n\nThe award-winning writer lost the vision in one eye and spent six weeks in hospital after being attacked on stage ahead of a speech in New York in August 2022.\n\nHe has long faced death threats for his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.\n\nIn his acceptance speech, he said: \"We live in a moment, I think, at which freedom of expression, freedom to publish has not in my lifetime been under such threat in the countries of the West.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Bookseller\n\nThe author said the freedom to publish was also the freedom to read what you want without it being decided for you externally.\n\nRushdie voiced concern about the loss of libraries and books for children in schools.\n\nHe described it as an \"extraordinary attack\" and added: \"It is quite remarkably alarming, and we need to be very aware of it, and to fight against it very hard.\"\n\nHe also warned publishers against altering the work of authors like Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming. He said they should resist that and allow books \"to come to us from their time and be of their time.\"\n\nPhilip Jones, editor of The Bookseller and chair of the judging panel said publishers had played a role in creating conversations around \"mental health, misogyny, sexuality and gender, the menopause and more\".\n\nOthers who were recognised at the awards, which were held in London on Monday evening, include:\n\nMany people don't think about the menopause until they're in their 40s. But it could start much earlier. Four women reveal the shock of it happening to them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anthony Beard supplied passports to murderers and drug traffickers - he was secretly filmed printing photos for the scam\n\nFraudsters who supplied falsified passports to some of the UK's most wanted criminals have been jailed.\n\nAnthony Beard obtained real passports in other people's names then added the photographs of criminals, including two fugitive murderers.\n\nHe was jailed for six years and eight months after pleading guilty. Chris McCormack, who was his link with crime gangs, was jailed for eight years.\n\nJudge Nicholas Ainley said they had helped \"wicked, violent criminals\".\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said Beard's customers made \"an awful lot of money out of organised criminality\".\n\nA third member of the gang, Alan Thompson, was sentenced to three years.\n\nAnthony Beard, 61, a minor fraudster from Sydenham, in South London, first devised a way of obtaining genuine passports for criminals to use, two decades ago.\n\nHe would find vulnerable people in rehab centres and veterans' shelters, many of whom had drug or alcohol problems, and persuade them to lend him their identity in exchange for very little money.\n\nHe would then apply to renew the vulnerable person's expired passport, but the photo he submitted would be a recent picture of a wanted criminal in need of a new identity.\n\nBy using the passport renewal process, he avoided the need for an in-person interview - required for new passport applicants - something that would be impossible for a criminal hiding out in another country.\n\nBeard countersigned the passport photos himself. Later, he involved other people - whose occupations included \"licensees\" and \"psychiatrists\" - to supposedly confirm that the passport photos were true likenesses.\n\nBeard was caught after an extensive surveillance operation by the National Crime Agency\n\nThe NCA said Beard might have supplied as many as 108 fraudulently-obtained genuine passports (FOGs) over a 20-year period, charging as much as £15,000 - £20,000 for each one. The person whose passport was being used was paid as little as £100.\n\nAfter he had been running the scam for some years, Beard met Chris McCormack, 67, also known as Christopher Zietek, a long-time gangster who split his time between South London, Ireland and Spain.\n\nIn the 1990s, McCormack had been linked to a notorious North London gang, known as the Adams Family, the A-team, or the Clerkenwell Crime Syndicate. He once stood trial for torturing a man who owed the Adams family money, in a horrific attack reminiscent of the movie Reservoir Dogs. By the end of the assault, only skin held the man's nose and left ear to his face.\n\nDespite having the victim's blood on his jacket, McCormack was acquitted of attempted murder by a jury.\n\nChris McCormack - aka Christopher Zietek - was allegedly an enforcer for a major crime gang in the 1990s\n\nBecause of his criminal credentials, McCormack was trusted by gangsters who were on the run and became a kind of broker. He acted as the liaison between Beard, in South London, and serious criminals in Spain and Dubai who needed passports to travel undetected.\n\nIt was through McCormack that Beard ended up supplying passports to some of the UK's most wanted criminals.\n\nBeard and McCormack obtained passports for at least five suspected members of the Glasgow-based Gillespie gang, thought to be one of the wealthiest organised crime groups in Scotland.\n\nOne Gillespie gang member, Jordan Owens, fled to Portugal after shooting Jamie Lee dead in Glasgow, in 2017. He was returned to Scotland and convicted of murder, in 2022.\n\nA fraudulent passport issued to Jordan Owens, who was on the run for nearly three years, in the name of Lee Bowler\n\nAnother, Christopher Hughes, murdered Martin Kok in the Netherlands, in 2016. He was eventually captured in Italy in 2020, and also convicted in 2022.\n\nThe NCA thinks Beard and McCormack also provided passports to several suspected drug traffickers in the gang.\n\nAnother leading criminal to whom Beard supplied a passport was Irish cartel boss Christy Kinahan Snr. The US government has offered a $5m reward for information leading to Kinahan's arrest.\n\nOfficers think Beard also obtained passports for Liverpool drug trafficker Michael Moogan, firearms trafficker Richard Burdett, and Jamie Acourt, one of the original suspects in the Stephen Lawrence murder. Acourt never actually received the passport obtained for him. He was arrested in Spain in 2018 and subsequently convicted of drug-dealing.\n\nAlan Thompson was convicted of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, money laundering and two counts of conspiracy to make a false instrument\n\nCraig Turner, NCA deputy director, said he supplied people \"at the top end of serious organised crime\", adding: \"They'd made an awful lot of money out of organised criminality, both in the UK and internationally.\"\n\nThe NCA's investigation - known as Operation Strey - began in 2017 and would become of the agency's most significant inquiries, involving extensive surveillance.\n\nUndercover officers filmed Beard meeting vulnerable people who were supplying him with passports for renewal, and with gang members and co-conspirators. They recorded McCormack in his home discussing passport applications with Beard and with his customers.\n\nThe NCA says it worked closely with His Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO), Police Scotland and Dutch police. Officers obtained recordings of Beard's phone calls to HMPO, in which he can be heard enquiring about passport applications under different names. They also found paper passport applications with his fingerprints on them.\n\nBeard pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and conspiracy to supply fraudulent documents on 3 January, prior to the trial at Reading Crown Court. As a result his sentence was reduced by the judge.\n\nMcCormack, and his co-conspirator Alan Thompson, 72, were both convicted by a jury.\n\nPassing sentence, Judge Ainley described the scam as \"a highly professional, skilled operation\". He said: \"It was to enable very wicked, sophisticated, violent criminals to escape justice by providing them with documents that because they were genuine would deceive the authorities to enable them to escape.\"\n\nThe judge added that Zietek was \"clearly the organiser\", providing a link to serious criminals, while Beard was \"the leg man\" and Thompson had a lesser role.", "MPs have urged the UK government to launch a public inquiry to assess the effects of Brexit in a parliamentary debate triggered by a petition.\n\nA three-hour debate was held after 183,000 people signed a petition calling for a public inquiry into the impact of leaving the European Union.\n\nThe government says Brexit was a \"democratic choice\" and dismissed calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBut some MPs branded Brexit a \"disaster\" and an \"error\".\n\nThe UK officially left the EU in January 2020 after a referendum in 2016 saw Leave beat Remain by a margin of 51.9% to 48.1%.\n\nThe decision meant making big, structural changes to the relationship between the UK and the EU, with areas such trade, investment and immigration affected.\n\nMost economists believe Brexit has had a negative effect on the UK economy, but some argue the benefits of leaving the EU will be seen over time.\n\nMonday's debate in Westminster Hall gave MPs an opportunity to discuss these issues, with most speakers criticising Brexit and those who backed it.\n\nThe discussion was led by Martyn Day, an SNP MP whose party wants an independent Scotland to rejoin the EU.\n\nHe said \"concerns have been expressed that no impact assessment has been carried out to assess the damage that Brexit has created\".\n\nHe cited comments made by Richard Hughes, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility, who recently told the BBC Brexit had been similar to the Covid pandemic in its impact.\n\nThe latest forecast by the OBR assumes Brexit will lead to a 4% reduction in the potential productivity of the UK economy, with the reduction building \"over time with the full effect felt after 15 years\".\n\n\"The economic fallout from Brexit is stark,\" Mr Day said.\n\n\"From my perspective, Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster—politically, economically and socially, for Scotland and the rest of the UK.\n\nMr Day said he backed the petition, which said \"the truth about Brexit\" can only be established \"by an independent public inquiry, free from ideology and the opinions of vested interests\".\n\nPublic inquiries are usually initiated by a government minister, who appoints an independent chair or panel to examine matters of public concern, and produce one or more reports.\n\nOne recent example is the public inquiry into the UK government's handling of the Covid pandemic, which is under way.\n\nSNP MP Martyn Day opened the debate on the impact of Brexit\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse said a public inquiry \"would help us face up to reality and it would give a true picture of the impact on people, business and the whole economy\".\n\nLike Mr Day, she cited analysis by the OBR which, in its latest forecast, assumes that \"UK imports and exports will both be 15% lower in the long run than had we remained in the EU\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have said they would seek a closer economic relationship with EU if they were in government.\n\nThat position is anathema to Brexit-backing Conservative MPs like Adam Holloway, who spoke in favour of leaving the EU during the debate.\n\nMr Holloway said: \"In reality, we are arguing today about whether we should have voted to leave the EU or whether we should rejoin.\"\n\nThe Tory MP said the biggest benefit of Brexit was that \"our sovereignty has been repatriated\".\n\nHe said EU membership had brought \"social problems\" and \"enormous stress on public services\", which some MPs in the room did not understand.\n\n\"It is easy to undervalue sovereignty if the areas in which it was surrendered to the EU do not actually impact one's life,\" Mr Holloway said.\n\n\"It is easy to disdain patriotism if someone is economically and socially mobile and derives their self-worth from a well-paid job, or if their life is made easier by cheap labour as a result of free movement.\"\n\nLeo Docherty, Conservative MP for Aldershot, was the minister put forward to represent the government in the debate.\n\nHe said the government did \"not believe that it would be appropriate to hold an inquiry into the impact of Brexit\".\n\nHe said: \"Britain left the EU to do things differently and make our own laws, but this was not just political theory: our laws and tax framework and the way we spend our money all make a real difference to people's lives.\"", "The Bank of England's top economist has said he is sorry for using \"inflammatory\" language to suggest people must accept they are poorer.\n\nHuw Pill recently said people needed to stop asking for pay rises to keep up with soaring prices because this risked keeping inflation higher for longer.\n\nHowever, his remarks prompted criticism, including from his own boss.\n\nBank of England governor Andrew Bailey said Mr Pill's \"choice of words was not right\".\n\nMr Pill said: \"If I had the chance again to use different words I would use somewhat different words to describe the challenges we all face.\"\n\nHe added: \"Although we have some difficult messages to bring. I will try and bring those messages in a way that is perhaps less inflammatory than maybe I managed in the past.\"\n\nInflation - which measures the rate at which prices rise - remains stubbornly high at 10.1%, mainly due to food prices.\n\nPart of the Bank of England's job is to keep inflation at a target rate of 2%.\n\nIt can try and do this by raising interest rates, which makes the cost of borrowing money more expensive.\n\nThis move, in theory, is supposed to make people reduce spending, so that demand for goods cools and price rises slow.\n\nHowever, if people keep asking for pay rises to keep up with inflation it could result in higher prices for a long time.\n\nLast week, Mr Pill said: \"Somehow in the UK, someone needs to accept that they're worse off and stop trying to maintain their real spending power by bidding up prices, whether through higher wages or passing energy costs on to customers.\"\n\nHe added: \"What we're facing now is that reluctance to accept that.\"\n\nIn response Mr Bailey said the Bank was very sensitive to all people facing higher inflation \"but particularly people on lower incomes\" because they spend more of their budgets on \"the essentials in life\" such as food and energy.\n\nAt the time, he said: \"I don't think Huw's choice of words was the right one in that sense, I have to be honest and I think he would agree with me.\"\n\nThe Bank has raised interest rates 12 times since December 2021 to 4.5%. It is aiming to bring inflation back to its 2% target in three years' time.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Pill said that both he and the Bank of England \"recognise that we live in very difficult and challenging times and those challenges are particularly acute for some parts of society\".", "Elena Gordon says her son's spirit \"remains unbroken\" - but he is preparing to be transferred to a penal colony\n\nImagine being in court and seeing your son - a government critic - sentenced to 25 years in prison.\n\nElena Gordon knows exactly how that feels.\n\nLast month Elena stood beside the dock - a glass cage - in a Moscow courtroom. Locked inside it was her son Vladimir Kara-Murza.\n\nOne of President Putin's most vocal critics, he was convicted of treason and other alleged crimes and jailed for a quarter of a century.\n\nElena, who lives abroad, had flown to Moscow for the verdict.\n\n\"I was the only one from the family and friends to get into the courtroom,\" Elena tells me.\n\n\"Vladimir hadn't been aware that I would be there. So, he was a little bit shocked, but hopefully pleasantly surprised. I had been prepared [for this outcome], although I thought they would give him 24 years and eleven months, as a kind of an insult. In the end they decided to act blatantly. They gave him the maximum.\"\n\nSince her son's conviction, Elena has managed to secure two meetings or svidaniya with Vladimir in jail.\n\n\"He's become very thin,\" Elena says.\n\n\"I'm worried about his health. But he's brave, obviously, and he says his spirit is unbroken.\n\n\"He is surprisingly optimistic. He believes in the future of Russia, and he believes in his own role in the future democratic Russia. But in terms of his own immediate future he is realistic. He is getting ready to be transferred to a penal colony.\"\n\nElena (left) stood by her son Vladimir's glass cage as he was sentenced to 25 years behind bars\n\n\"What about you, his mother?\" I ask Elena. \"Are you optimistic or pessimistic?\"\n\n\"I not only hope, I believe that I will see Vladimir free,\" she replies, \"and I don't intend to wait twenty-five years for that.\"\n\nFor more than a decade Vladimir Kara-Murza has been a high-profile opponent of the Kremlin. He helped persuade Western governments to impose sanctions, including visa bans and asset freezes, on Russian officials engaged in corruption and human rights abuses.\n\nSuch persistent activism sparked anger in the corridors of Russian power. He survived two mysterious poisonings, which he and his supporters have linked to the Russian authorities.\n\nIn the West he spoke out against political persecution at home and against the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nLast year, in a speech to lawmakers in the US state of Arizona, he condemned the \"dictatorial regime in the Kremlin.\" Soon after he returned to Moscow where he was arrested.\n\n\"Vladimir must have known he was putting himself in danger by returning to Russia,\" I suggest to his mother. \"Did you try to stop him coming back?\"\n\n\"I did,\" replies Elena. \"It's a painful topic for me, as a mother. I cannot distance myself and see him as a political figure only. He is first and utmost my son.\n\n\"I begged him not to go back to Russia. He promised to think about this. And as you see, the result of his thinking was negative.\"\n\n\"Has he expressed any regret to you that he returned?\"\n\n\"No, never. Never,\" says Elena. \"I regret it very much. I speak for myself.\n\n\"He has principles. He really believes that he must be with his country and with his people, and that he would have no right to have a say in the future democratic Russia if he had fled and stayed in security.\"\n\nVladimir Kara-Murza's fate is a reminder of the danger in which politicians, activists, individuals who challenge the Kremlin are putting themselves. Most of Russia's leading opposition figures have either fled the country or are now in prison.\n\n\"I am afraid that Russia has turned into a dictatorship,\" says Elena Gordon. \"To me it all looks rather grotesque, actually - that in the 21st century we see around us what was described in the anti-utopias of the 20th century. It's a terrible regression. It's a shame.\"", "Rebekah Vardy is the wife of footballer Jamie Vardy and well known for the so-called Wagatha Christie trial\n\nMedia personality Rebekah Vardy, who grew up as a Jehovah's Witness, has alleged she was sexually abused between the ages of 11 and 15.\n\nShe made the claims as part of a new Channel 4 documentary, set to air on Tuesday.\n\nShe claimed the alleged abuse was covered up by \"elders\", senior male leaders within the religious group.\n\nIn a statement, Jehovah's Witnesses said they \"lacked the information to comment on individual cases\".\n\nJehovah's Witnesses are a Christian-based religious movement with around 8.5 million followers worldwide and which believes the destruction of the world is imminent.\n\nMrs Vardy, who grew up as a Jehovah's Witness, says she hopes by speaking about her experiences that she will be able to show others there is a \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nShe will be seen making the accusation as part of a Channel 4 documentary, Rebekah Vardy: Jehovah's Witnesses And Me, which is broadcast on Channel 4 at 22:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nSpeaking to ITV's Good Morning Britain about the documentary, Mrs Vardy said she was \"scared of the consequences\" of speaking about sexual abuse due to \"the fear of bringing shame on to the family\".\n\n\"I found this part of my life a bit of an obstacle but I wanted to use this obstacle to create an opportunity to help other people that have been in similar situations and just hopefully show that there's light at the end of the tunnel,\" she told the programme.\n\n\"I think I realised that I've probably only just scratched the surface, I think my story isn't unique and there's going to be plenty of others, as have already come out, that will continue to come out.\"\n\nRebekah Vardy pictured during the so-called Wagatha Christie trial last year\n\nJehovah's Witnesses impose a strict moral code on members, including that homosexuality is a sin, and reportedly punish those who deviate from their beliefs by \"disfellowshipping\" them, ostracising them from the community.\n\nIn a statement to GMB, Jehovah's Witnesses said: \"Elders are directed to immediately report an allegation of child sexual abuse to authorities, even if there is only one complainant.\"\n\nThe group added that the \"courts have rejected the allegation that disfellowshipping and so-called shunning results in social isolation and discrimination and it is simply misleading and discriminatory to imply that our religion is controlling\".\n\nThey also said they \"lacked the information to comment on individual cases\".\n\nWhen asked about the long-term psychological effects, Vardy replied: \"I've created part of myself that is really strong now. I have a lot of barriers. I'm quite unemotional. I'm not a very emotional person.\n\n\"I think a lot of that has to do with what I went through in my past... It was an obstacle in my life and I want to use my experiences to help other people.\"\n\nRebekah Vardy, the wife of footballer Jamie Vardy, is best known for her role in the so-called Wagatha Christie trial.\n\nShe sued Coleen Rooney for damages last year after her former friend accused Mrs Vardy of leaking private information about her to the media.\n\nCorrection: This story has been corrected to make clear that Rebekah Vardy's alleged abuser was not necessarily a Jehovah's Witness, although members of the community did allegedly cover up the abuse.", "Nine online talking-therapy treatments for anxiety or depression have been given the green light to be used by the NHS in England.\n\nThey offer faster access to help but less time with a therapist, which may not suit everyone, the health body recommending them said.\n\nThere is huge demand for face-to-face services, with people waiting several weeks to see a therapist.\n\nPsychiatrists said digital therapies were not a long-term solution.\n\nMental-health charity Sane said they were no substitute for a one-to-one relationship and could leave people feeling even more isolated than before.\n\nOne out of every six people in England says they experience a common mental-health problem such as anxiety and depression in any given week.\n\nIn 2021-22, more than half a million people were referred to depression and anxiety services - called NHS Talking Therapies - for problems such as body-dysmorphic disorder, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias.\n\nThe new digital therapies are delivered via a website or an app and use cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT).\n\nThey provide an alternative way of accessing support, which may be more convenient for some, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says. They could also free up resources and help reduce the wait for care.\n\nIts guidance recommends six therapies designed to treat adults with anxiety disorders and three to treat those with depression, including Beating the Blues, Deprexis and Space from Anxiety.\n\nBefore treatment starts, there is a formal assessment with a trained clinician or practitioner but after that, clinicians are involved much less:\n\nDr David Rigby, who jointly chairs the Royal College of Psychiatrists' digital group, said digital therapies could make it easier for some vulnerable patients to access vital mental-health support but were not a long-term solution.\n\n\"Mental health services are struggling with chronic staff shortages which are making it difficult for them to provide patients with quick and effective treatment,\" he said.\n\n\"The government must tackle the workforce crisis by honouring its commitment to publish a comprehensive NHS workforce plan this year.\"\n\nMarjorie Wallace CBE, founder and chief executive of Sane, said digital therapy \"may be very useful for some\" but was \"no substitute for a one-to-one relationship with someone who knows their story\".\n\n\"Our experience with those who contact us is that self-diagnosis and techniques of self-management do not always reach the layers of their inner mental pain and can leave them feeling even more unsafe and alone,\" she said.\n\nMark Chapman from NICE said: \"One of our priorities is to get the best care to people fast while at the same time ensuring value for money for the taxpayer - these digitally enabled therapies do both.\"\n\nBut the choice of online therapy \"must be the right one for the individual\", he said.\n\nWhile some of the digital therapies are already in use, others require further approvals being they can be rolled out.\n\nNICE will look at the evidence from their use over the next few years to work out how cost-effective they are.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Golden Wonder crisp packet is almost certainly from the late 1960s\n\nCrisp packets and sweet wrappers dating back as far as the 1960s have been found on a Norfolk beach.\n\nChris Turner, from Clifton, Bedfordshire, came across the decades-old litter while staying at his holiday home at Scratby, near Great Yarmouth.\n\nThey include pre-decimalisation packets of Golden Wonder crisps, marked with a price of 5d, and 2d Spangles sweets.\n\n\"I think the recent high tides at Hemsby have shifted everything to the surface,\" said Mr Turner.\n\n\"It's only about a mile away, so the plastic could have come from there.\n\n\"I couldn't believe how old they were; I'm not a big eco-warrior but I think the plastic in the seas is dreadful and the amount of litter generally along the beach is awful.\n\n\"I was always told not to drop litter.\"\n\nPlastic kills fish and other sea creatures and takes hundreds of years to break down into less harmful materials.\n\nIt is estimated there are 171 trillion pieces of plastic in the world's oceans.\n\nMr Turner could not find any information on Crispi while confectionery giant Mars has been asked by the BBC to try to date this packet of Spangles\n\nAll the packets were found in Norfolk were in remarkable condition, with labelling and wording clearly visible, and were on top of the sand.\n\nMr Turner, who shared images of his finds on a local Facebook page, said it provided some nostalgia for snacks of yesteryear while providing evidence of just how long it takes for plastic to decompose.\n\n\"When I saw them I thought 'I'm picking that up' - just out of curiosity, really,\" added Mr Turner, who discovered them during three separate walks with his dog.\n\nMr Turner regular spends his weekends at Scratby in Norfolk\n\nNo use-by dates were visible, so Mr Turner searched online for some clues as to their age.\n\nTayto Group, which now owns Golden Wonder, confirmed the packet was almost certainly from the late 1960s and said it had made changes in recent years to reduce plastic packaging.\n\nThe Smiths Horror Bags bacon flavour corn and potato claws were available for about five years in the 1970s and were reportedly criticised at the time for being potentially disturbing for children.\n\nMystery surrounds the provenance of the two empty packets of Crispi and the fruit flavour Spangles could potentially date from the 1960s or early 70s.\n\nThe empty Horror Bags packet could be finding its way on to an auction site\n\nThe chance finds could pay dividends for Mr Turner who will continue to keep an eye out for vintage litter on the beach.\n\n\"The last one I found - Horror Bags - I contacted a group online and was told 'actually, it's really valuable',\" he said.\n\n\"I've had a look and some have gone for over £100 on eBay because they're collectable.\n\n\"So I know what I'll be doing with that very soon.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830", "The home of Ms Sturgeon and Mr Murrell was searched for two days at the start of March\n\nPolice had to wait two weeks before they were given permission to raid the home of Nicola Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell, it has emerged.\n\nThe Crown Office was told on 20 March that Police Scotland wanted a search warrant.\n\nIt was not until 3 April - a week after the SNP leadership contest ended - that the application for a warrant was approved by a sheriff.\n\nOfficers searched the home of the former first minister two days later.\n\nDetails were released by Police Scotland in response to a Freedom of Information Request (FOI) by the Scottish Conservatives that was first reported by the Scottish Sun.\n\nSources close to the inquiry have denied that there was an undue delay.\n\nBut opposition parties said the revelation would \"raise eyebrows\" and questioned the role of Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC, who heads the Crown Office but is also a Scottish government minister.\n\nMs Bain did not answer when she was asked by Sky News whether the warrant had been deliberately delayed.\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"In all matters, Scotland's prosecutors act independently of political pressure or interference.\"It is standard that any case regarding politicians is dealt with by prosecutors without the involvement of the Lord Advocate or Solicitor General.\"\n\nBBC Scotland understands that a draft search warrant was submitted by the police which the fiscal then discussed with officers before its contents were finalised.\n\nThe warrant, which is reported to have included a long list of items the police wanted to seize, was then signed by a sheriff on the same day it was finished.\n\nMr Murrell, who had quit as the SNP's chief executive on 18 March, was arrested when officers investigating the party's finances arrived at the Glasgow home he shares with Ms Sturgeon early on the morning of 5 April.\n\nSeveral boxes of evidence were removed from the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh\n\nPolice spent two days searching the house, with several boxes of evidence being removed. Mr Murrell was released without charge pending further investigations.\n\nThe SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh was also searched on 5 April and a luxury motorhome that sells for about £110,000 was seized from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline.\n\nColin Beattie, who was the party's treasurer at the time, was arrested on 18 April before also being released without charge while further inquiries were carried out. He subsequently quit as treasurer.\n\nThe contest to succeed Ms Sturgeon as SNP leader and Scotland's first minister had ended on 27 March when Humza Yousaf, who was the party hierarchy's preferred candidate, narrowly defeated Kate Forbes.\n\nNewspaper reports earlier this year claimed that some people within Police Scotland were frustrated by the direction they were being given by the Crown Office on the SNP investigation.\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Russell Findlay told BBC Scotland: \"There has been this continual sense of something not feeling quite right and of some frustration being expressed not by journalists, not by politicians, but by police officers and this latest revelation perhaps only feeds into that sense.\n\n\"From what I understand the Crown Office is suggesting this was perfectly regular and routine, but the entire investigation is so sensitive and is subject to a huge amount of speculation and the more transparency there is around it the better.\"\n\nMr Findlay said the case also raised \"fundamental questions\" about the role of the Lord Advocate, who heads the independent prosecution service while also sitting as a minister in Scottish government cabinet meetings.\n\nHe added: \"It doesn't feel appropriate. And that separation needs to happen.\"\n\nJackie Baillie, the deputy leader of Scottish Labour, said the two-week delay was a \"very interesting revelation that will lead to raised eyebrows across Scotland\".\n\nShe added: \"While I accept that the Lord Advocate may not have had a direct influence on the timing, this story underlines why we need to have a serious discussion about separating the role of the Lord Advocate to ensure that no perception of conflict of interest can ever occur.\"\n\nAlba MP Kenny MacAskill, who served as justice secretary in the SNP government led by Alex Salmond, called for a judge-led inquiry into the Crown Office's role in the granting of the warrant to search Ms Sturgeon's house and the SNP HQ.\n\nHe said this would \"reassure the public that the decisions taken by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service have not been influenced by political considerations\".\n\nPrivately, prosecutors and police are deeply frustrated by the latest headlines and vehemently deny that the SNP's leadership contest played any part in the timing of the searches.\n\nSome legal figures describe the two-week process to secure search warrants as unusually long.\n\nA senior lawyer who has worked with the Crown Office in the past said: \"It all depends on why it took two weeks. If it was for operational reasons, there's nothing wrong with that.\n\n\"If it was for further inquiries, there's nothing wrong with that. If it was for political reasons, to delay things, there's a lot wrong with that.\"\n\nOne source close to the inquiry said: \"The concept that there was a delay is misplaced. The decision was taken by a procurator fiscal with no political affiliation.\"\n\nGiven the apparent complexity of the investigation and the fact that the stakes are so high, it would be astonishing if prosecutors were not taking their time and the greatest of care.\n\nInevitably, in something like this, it's a case of \"damned if they do, damned if they don't\".\n\nPolice launched their Operation Branchform investigation almost two years ago after receiving complaints about how a total of £666,953 donated to the SNP by activists was used.\n\nThe party pledged to spend the funds on a future independence referendum. Questions were raised after its accounts showed it had just under £97,000 in the bank at the end of 2019, and total net assets of about £272,000.\n\nLast year it emerged Mr Murrell gave a loan of more than £100,000 to the SNP to help it out with a \"cash flow\" issue after the last election.\n\nThe party had repaid about half of the money by October of that year. It still owes money to its former chief executive, but has not said how much.\n\nMs Sturgeon has previously said the police investigation played no part in her decision to announce on 15 February that she was standing down as SNP leader and first minister.\n\nShe also said the first she knew that the police wanted to search her home and arrest her husband was when detectives arrived on her doorstep.\n\nShe added: \"There are many questions that I would want to be able to answer and in the fullness of time I hope I will answer, but it would be wrong and inappropriate for me to go into any detail of what the police are currently investigating.\"", "Video of the explosions has been circulating on social media\n\nUkraine says it shot down hypersonic missiles amid an \"exceptionally dense\" barrage fired at Kyiv on Tuesday.\n\nKyiv said air defences intercepted six Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, which Russia has claimed can overcome all existing air defence systems.\n\nThey were among 18 missiles of different types fired at the city in a short space of time, officials said.\n\nRussia denies its Kinzhals were stopped and said one destroyed a US-supplied Patriot air defence system.\n\nUkraine declined to comment. The BBC cannot independently verify the claims made by either country.\n\nRussia has stepped up its air campaign in recent weeks - bombarding the Ukrainian capital eight times so far this month - ahead of an expected Ukrainian offensive.\n\nOn Tuesday evening Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Moscow had not fired as many of the Kinzhal missiles as Kyiv had claimed to have shot down.\n\nHowever if Ukraine's claims are true, Moscow will be feeling frustrated that the finest weapons from its missile fleet are now able to be intercepted. This is in large part due to the arrival of modern Western defence systems, including Patriots.\n\nRussia continues to insist that the missiles, which it says can travel at more than 11,000kmh (7,000mph), cannot be destroyed by any of the world's air defence systems.\n\nThe Kinzhal, or \"dagger\", is an air-launched ballistic missile. Most ballistic missiles reach hypersonic speed - five times the speed of sound, or just over 6,000 kmh - at some point during their flight.\n\nKyiv said it shot down a Kinzhal for the first time last week.\n\nIn the past few days, President Volodymyr Zelensky has been on a European tour in which he has been promised several billion dollars' worth of military equipment by Western allies, including UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President Emmanuel Macron of France.\n\nUkraine's capital, Kyiv, has been targeted by Russia eight times so far this month\n\nDuring Tuesday's barrage footage showed air defences destroying targets over the city.\n\nThe head of Ukraine's armed forces, Valerii Zaluzhny, said Russia attacked Kyiv from the north, south and east and that 18 air, sea and land-based missiles had been used.\n\nSerhiy Popko, head of the Ukrainian capital's military administration, described the barrage as being the \"maximum number of attack missiles in the shortest period of time\".\n\nGen Zaluzhny said that also included nine Kalibr cruise missiles, which were launched from ships in the Black Sea, and three land-based missiles.\n\nResidents on Tuesday were warned to keep away from windows as debris from intercepted missiles fell from the sky.\n\nMayor Vitali Klitschko said rocket debris had fallen in central districts, including on the city's zoo. No animals or workers were injured.\n\nKyiv resident Kseniia told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she and her husband were asleep when they heard a \"series of very loud explosions\" above their building. She compared the intensity of the attack to a Star Wars film or an action video game.\n\nShe also said that thanks to the support of its international allies, Ukraine is now capable of tracking down and destroying high calibre missiles.\n\n\"It's such a relief to know Kyiv is under such a strong defence right now\".\n\nAnother resident, Yevhen Petrov, said Tuesday's attack was the first time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 that his house had shaken from the force of an assault.\n\nRussia's resumption of strikes on Kyiv earlier this month came after a lull of over 50 days. The Ukrainian authorities believe Moscow's strategy is to exhaust the air defence systems, which have been extremely successful in intercepting most of the missiles and drones fired.\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine, thousands of civilians and combatants have been killed or injured, cities and towns have been destroyed in fighting, and 8.2 million Ukrainians have been registered as refugees in Europe with 2.8 million of them in Russia, according to data provided to the UN's refugee agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says his army needs more equipment ahead of counter-offensive", "Mould and a broken toilet were just some of the problems Chiara said she and her family faced in their rented home over the past two years.\n\nBut when the teacher complained to her landlord, she said they responded with a no-fault eviction notice.\n\nIt comes as a survey found tenants in England who complain to landlords were more than twice as likely to get an eviction notice than those who do not.\n\nIt has renewed calls to scrap no-fault evictions, known as Section 21 notices.\n\nThe government pledged to ban the use of Section 21 orders in England last June, but since then the number of households threatened with homelessness because of such notices has increased by 34%.\n\nShelter, a major housing charity, said that scrapping no-fault evictions was more urgent than ever, especially with the number of homes available to rent in the UK dropping by a third over the past 18 months.\n\nChiara told the BBC that she, her husband Ben and their three-year-old daughter Maggie had \"lived with disrepair for two years\" in a flat in Leyton, London.\n\n\"We had moths in the carpet, the cellar was flooded, we had no bath, the toilet broke so we had no toilet,\" she said.\n\nWith mould and damp also causing problems, Chiara complained about the state of the flat to her landlord.\n\n\"They responded with a Section 21, giving us two months' notice to vacate the property,\" she said.\n\n\"We were kicked out because we complained.\"\n\nChiara, who is a teacher in Walthamstow, said that after they got the notice in January, the family experienced a frantic search to find a new home, finally moving into a new place two weeks ago.\n\nShe said while searching they discovered that rents had surged.\n\nChiara said it made it \"pretty much impossible\" for them to find another two-bed flat with a garden, so now the family has moved into a one-bed.\n\nAccording to a YouGov survey of just over 2000 private renting adults in England commissioned by charity Shelter, tenants facing issues with properties who then complained about disrepair to their landlord were more than twice as likely to be handed an eviction notice than those who had not.\n\nThe research found that 76% of private renters in England have experienced disrepair in the last year, and a quarter of renters have not asked for repairs to be carried out due to fear of eviction.\n\n\"We just need to get rid of Section 21,\" said Polly Neate, Shelter's chief executive.\n\nShe added there needed to be a \"situation where landlords can evict people for legitimate reasons, and can't evict them just because they complain about the poor condition of their home\".\n\nDavid and Samira from Richmond in North Yorkshire have had a similar experience to Chiara and her family.\n\nThe couple were issued with a no-fault eviction just before Christmas after complaining about damp.\n\nSamira was six months' pregnant at the time.\n\nDavid said the eviction was \"really unfair\" and caused a lot of stress for the parents-to-be.\n\n\"Looking at the options we had as tenants there was very little we could do. It was just really baffling, really confusing, it doesn't seem like a fair process,\" David added, after being outbid or rejected for more than 30 properties they had viewed.\n\n\"Soul destroying is the term I'd use for it, it was just rejection after rejection after rejection.\"\n\nDavid and Samira managed to find a new home just in time for the arrival of their daughter Aila last week.\n\nThe government is due to introduce a Renters' Reform Bill before the summer, which it has said will redress the balance in the market and provide more security for tenants.\n\nHousing rules are different in each of the devolved nations, and Scotland and Wales have already banned no fault evictions.", "The defendants covered their faces with books and folders throughout the trial\n\nFive men have been found guilty of an audacious jewel heist in the German city of Dresden.\n\nThe thieves stole precious items worth €113m (£98m) from the city's state museum in 2019.\n\nPolice recovered many of the jewels, including a diamond encrusted sword, but it is feared the rest of the looted treasure may never be found.\n\nThe men, all members of a notorious criminal family network, face sentences of four to six years.\n\nThis was a meticulously planned heist. The gang, who lived in Berlin, visited the site several times and prepared their entry point in advance, using a hydraulic cutting machine to saw through the bars of a protective window covering before taping them back into place.\n\nThen, in the early hours of the morning of 25 November 2019, they set fire to a circuit breaker panel near the museum, plunging the surrounding streets into darkness while two of the men slipped inside.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch security camera footage showing figures with torches and tools breaking into the museum\n\nCCTV footage captured the thieves wearing masks and wielding axes as they entered the sumptuously decorated Gruenes Gewoelbe - or Green Vault - and smashed the glass display cases to get to the treasure.\n\nThe thieves then sprayed a foam fire extinguisher over the room to cover their tracks before making their getaway in an Audi which they then dumped in a car park, setting fire to the vehicle before they fled back to Berlin.\n\nAfter a year-long investigation, police made their first arrests. All of those convicted today are members of the \"Remmo clan\". There are several \"clans\" in Germany; family networks with Arab roots responsible for major organised crime, including in recent years a raid on a department store and a bank robbery.\n\nOne of the Dresden thieves was previously convicted of the theft of a giant gold coin, which weighed 100kg (15st 10lb), from Berlin's Bode museum in 2017. The coin was never recovered and is believed to have been broken up or melted down.\n\n\"There are people who steal artworks out of passion for art, but this was really the opposite,\" says Prof Marion Ackermann, general director of Dresden's State Art Collections. \"They had no idea of what they had taken.\"\n\nA large diamond-encrusted breast bow that was stolen from the historic Green Vault in November 2019\n\nInitially there were fears that, like the golden coin, the treasure was lost forever.\n\nBut many of the stolen items were returned to the museum after three of the men confessed to the theft and agreed to divulge the location of the loot in return for lighter sentences as part of a deal with prosecutors.\n\nNevertheless, several pieces are still missing, including a very rare diamond called the White Stone of Saxony.\n\nThe items were part of a treasure trove collected in the 18th Century by Augustus the Strong, the Elector of Saxony. He not only amassed pieces covered in diamonds and precious stones but designed the Green Vault in which to display them.\n\nProf Ackermann says that the loss of part of the collection was particularly painful because Augustus' concept then, as now, was that a visitor should see the whole ensemble together and be overwhelmed by the variety of colours and stones.\n\nThe sumptuously decorated Green Vault was designed by Augustus the Strong, the Elector of Saxony in the 18th Century\n\nThe audacity of the heist shocked the art world. But the break-in also raised questions about the adequacy of the museum's security measures.\n\nEven one of the thieves expressed surprise during the trial that they had been able to saw through window bars apparently without detection, despite the noise generated by their cutting equipment.\n\nProf Ackermann, who emphasised that responsibility for the security concept at the museum was shared between Dresden's State Art Collection and another regional body, insisted that the security system was one of the best in Germany.\n\nBut, she added, \"many aspects come together in a security system. The building, the organisation, and also technical aspects. And, like in a chain, every aspect must work and, in this case, many things didn't work.\"\n\nShe says that a system designed to scan the outer walls of the museum had failed, and that guards sitting in the central security room, who saw events unfold on their monitors, were slow to call the police.\n\nA sword encrusted with several large diamonds and dozens of smaller ones was recovered by police\n\nPolice opened an investigation into four security guards at the museum on suspicion that they had helped with preparations and reacted too slowly to the break in itself, but officers ended those enquiries last year.\n\nToday the security system has been overhauled and museum staff have turned their attention to the restoration of the jewels.\n\nExperts are optimistic that Augustus' treasure can be brought back to its former glory and, eventually, go back on public display.\n\nBut curators are resigned to the loss of the rest of the trove, and accept that it is unlikely the collection will ever be whole again.", "The number of adults struggling to pay their bills and debts has soared to nearly 11 million, new figures show.\n\nSome 3.1 million more people faced difficulties in January than they did in May last year, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said.\n\nIt found that 11% of adults had missed a bill or loan payment in at least three of the previous six months.\n\nThe FCA encouraged people to ask for help as household budgets were squeezed by the rising cost of living.\n\n\"Our research highlights the real impact the rising cost of living is having on people's ability to keep up with their bills, although we are pleased to see that people have been accessing help and advice,\" said Sheldon Mills, its executive director of consumers and competition.\n\n\"We've told lenders that they should provide support tailored to your needs,\" he added.\n\nEnergy, food and fuel prices have jumped in the last 18 months, putting pressure on personal finances.\n\nPrices for most things have been rising and inflation, the rate at which prices go up, is at 10.1%, meaning goods are more than 10% more expensive on average than they were a year ago.\n\nResearchers found that 29% of adults with a mortgage and 34% of renters had seen their payments increase in the six months to January this year.\n\nThe team also saw signs that some people had reduced or cancelled their insurance policies as a way of easing the pressure on their budgets.\n\nThe FCA said it had repeatedly reminded firms of the importance of supporting their customers and working with them to solve problems with payments and bills.\n\nBut Helen Undy, chief executive of the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, said the regulator needed to do more by cracking down on \"aggressive\" debt collection practices and limiting the number of times lenders could contact people who had missed a payment.\n\n\"Those actions would go a long way in mitigating the mental health impacts of the crisis, and could even save lives,\" she said.\n\nThe FCA said its survey suggested around half of UK adults (about 28.4 million people) felt more anxious or stressed due to the rising cost of living in January than they did six months earlier.\n\nThe body said it had reminded 3,500 lenders of how they should support borrowers in financial difficulty and added it had told 32 lenders to \"make changes to the way they treat customers\".\n\nThe FCA said this work had led to £29 million in compensation being secured for over 80,000 customers.\n\nUK Finance, the trade association for the UK banking and finance industry, said lenders were contacting customers and would \"always work with them to find the right solution for their particular needs and circumstances\".\n\nIt urged people worried about their finances to contact their lender, and said discussing options would not affect a person's credit rating.\n\nThe FCA released its latest figures after gathering more than 5,000 responses as part of a UK-wide survey of people aged 18 and over.", "Millions more people, including teachers and nurses, will pay a higher rate of income tax, a leading think tank has warned.\n\nA freeze on income tax thresholds from April means more people will pay a 40% rate, in what the Institute for Fiscal Studies described as the biggest tax raising drive since the late 1970s.\n\nIt claimed this will contribute to a sharp fall in household finances.\n\nAnd if inflation remains high, more people will be affected.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt has frozen the point where people start paying more tax until 2028. It means that 2.6 million more people will be caught in the higher bracket.\n\nThe BBC has approached the Treasury for comment.\n\nPeople pay tax of 20% on income over £12,570 a year and this rises to 40% on income over £50,270.\n\nAs wages increase, more people move into higher tax brackets and pay tax on a larger proportion of their earnings.\n\nThe IFS said by 2027-28, the number of people paying the higher rate of income tax will reach 7.8 million, or a fifth of taxpayers.\n\nThat includes more than one in eight nurses, and one in four teachers.\n\nIn contrast, in the 1990s, no nurses and only one in eight teachers, paid higher rate tax.\n\nTeachers and nurses have been striking for higher pay as wages lag inflation.\n\nThe IFS said it is a \"seismic shift\", and the single biggest tax raising measure since Geoffrey Howe doubled VAT in 1979, in the first year of Margaret Thatcher's government.\n\nMr Hunt warned late last year that everyone will have to pay more tax.\n\nFreezing the tax thresholds will also increase cost-of-living pressures, said the think tank.\n\nHouseholds incomes are set to fall by a record amount this year, and a third of that is likely to be due to the freeze, it warned.\n\nInflation, the rate at which prices rise, has been surging and remains stubbornly high.\n\nAt the same time, the number of job vacancies in the UK market remains above one million and employers have been offering higher wages to attract staff.\n\nBut this has been dragging many people into a higher tax bracket, said IFS research economist Isaac Delestre.\n\nMr Delestre said higher-rate income tax over the past 30 years has gone from being something \"reserved for only the very richest\", to something many more people will pay.\n\nWhether or not the government should be doing this \"is a political choice as much as an economic one\", he said, but added that raking in more tax by freezing thresholds means if inflation stays high, more people will be affected.\n\nLaith Khalaf, head of investment analysis at AJ Bell, said that the freeze will add to \"an unholy cocktail of pressures on households\" including \"higher taxes, rising prices, and bigger mortgage payments\".\n\n\"This all limits their ability to spend money, which has a knock on effect on the economy at large, and is a significant contributing factor to flatlining growth,\" he said.\n\nThe UK is now expected to avoid a recession, although inflation is not dropping as quickly as predicted due to high food prices and economic growth has been weak.\n\nAre you now paying the 40% tax rate? Are higher taxes causing you a concern? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A leading NHS consultant psychiatrist has met me in person and concluded I don't have ADHD - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Yet, after shorter assessments online, three private clinics have told me I do - and offered me powerful medication.\n\n\"You fit the criteria for ADHD very well. You'll have it in writing, officially that you have been diagnosed. There is no expiration date for this. You were diagnosed for life,\" says the psychologist through the computer screen, as I sit at my kitchen table.\n\nI am working undercover, using my middle name James, to investigate private clinics that can offer ADHD assessments at a time when NHS waiting times have risen, in some areas, to more than five years.\n\nThe assessment over Zoom, with a clinic called Harley Psychiatrists, costs £685 and takes 45 minutes. As my assessor asks her quick-fire questions, she appears to be slouched on a sofa wearing a tracksuit top.\n\n\"Did I have problems concentrating at school?\"\n\nI try my best to answer but the screen keeps wobbling as she struggles to get comfortable. The whole time she plays with her hair and I get the sense she isn't focusing completely.\n\nAt the end, she diagnoses me with ADHD - a lifelong condition. It is a neurodevelopmental disorder, with symptoms falling into two categories - inattentiveness, plus hyperactivity and impulsiveness.\n\nStunned, all I can say back to my assessor is: \"It's a lot to take in.\"\n\nThings were very different when I met Dr Mike Smith, a consultant psychiatrist who leads a specialist adult ADHD service in the NHS. I told him about my investigation and he said he also had concerns about how some private providers were operating. He agreed to show me how an assessment should be carried out.\n\nAhead of the appointment at his Leeds clinic, my mum, girlfriend and I were forwarded forms to fill out - collecting information on my habits, from my childhood up to now. They took hours to complete. Dr Smith was even interested in reading my school reports.\n\nHe warned me when I arrived: \"This is going to get very personal. Are you OK with that?\"\n\nIn truth, I wasn't prepared for what followed. I was under the impression I was just going to spend the next couple of hours answering questions about my lack of focus, but Dr Smith wanted to get a full picture of my mental health. I found myself telling him about some of my hardest times.\n\nWhen I was 14, I witnessed the aftermath of my sisters being knocked down by a car. Ailis survived, Claire - who was 11 - died. Almost 17 years to the day, my dad died unexpectedly. I was a different person after those events. The reason I am sharing this is because I was told the effect of such trauma can sometimes manifest itself into symptoms similar to ADHD.\n\n\"You do not have ADHD,\" said NHS consultant Dr Mike Smith\n\nA friend of mine - who had been privately diagnosed with the condition - had once suggested to me that I might have it too. Some of ADHD's recognised symptoms felt uncomfortably familiar - I can forget things, I fidget, I will on occasion zone out of long meetings.\n\nMy social media feeds had been filling up with videos talking about ADHD and I could relate to them. But on the whole, I was dubious about whether they related to me. None of these things seemed to really impact my life.\n\nDr Smith took the time to explore these life-altering moments and the struggles they have caused. He says that when considering the symptoms a patient describes - such as finding it hard to focus - it's important to differentiate between ADHD and other things that may explain them, such as the effects of trauma.\n\nBefore diagnosing someone with ADHD, it is also vital to establish that any symptoms are having a serious impact on their life.\n\n\"I can't see any evidence you've got any serious problem with your concentration, your hyper-activity, or your level of activity, or impulsivity,\" Dr Smith told me, after more than three gruelling hours.\n\nContrast this lengthy deep dive into my life and personality with the consultation I received at Harley Psychiatrists - during which there was no interrogation of how prevalent or serious any of my symptoms were. There were few follow-up questions.\n\nAdmittedly I was relieved I didn't have to go over any of the traumatic experiences in my life again, but I felt like the psychologist had missed some crucial background.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) sets out how individuals should be diagnosed in the UK with ADHD. To meet the threshold, a patient will have a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms, which often include:\n\nDr Smith - the NHS consultant - told me I hadn't met the clinical threshold for any of the 18 symptoms associated with ADHD.\n\nBy comparison, the psychologist who assessed me for Harley Psychiatrists told me I had met the threshold for 15 out of the 18 ADHD symptoms. A week later, I discussed treatment plans with a psychiatrist working for the company. This lasted less than 10 minutes and I was quickly prescribed a stimulant commonly used to treat ADHD. There was also no mention of other treatments, such as talking therapy.\n\nThe medication interacts with chemicals in the brain and can help someone with the condition concentrate better, be less impulsive and feel calmer.\n\nThe powerful controlled drug is safe and effective if prescribed properly, but it has the potential to cause serious side effects. ADHD medication can cause insomnia, elevated heart rate and high blood pressure - and in rare cases panic attacks, psychosis and seizures. But the psychiatrists from Harley Psychiatrists simply advised me to have a good breakfast before taking it, without talking through the potential serious side effects.\n\nHarley Psychiatrists' lawyers told the BBC that clinicians also take account of information in pre-assessment forms,. They said: \"diagnosis of ADHD… depends on the answers given by the patient\" and that there had been \"numerous patients [assessed by the clinic] not diagnosed with ADHD\".\n\n\"The suggestion our client is misdiagnosing adults with ADHD is untrue,\" they said, as was the suggestion that adequate checks were not being conducted.\n\nThe clinic accepts that I \"should not have been able to obtain a prescription\", and has updated its processes.\n\nLawyers for the psychologist who first assessed me said that while her testing had produced results \"indicative of a patient having ADHD\", such a \"diagnosis is formally made by a psychiatrist\".\n\nLawyers for the psychiatrist who prescribed the drugs said their client stood by his diagnosis - and would \"normally take between 30 and 45 minutes\", but in this case he \"did not consider it necessary\" because of the psychologist's report.\n\nI think I'd have felt more reassured if I could have seen both the psychologist and the psychiatrist in person. But this wasn't an option, despite the company website saying its \"main clinic\" was located on Harley Street, central London's prestigious medical neighbourhood.\n\nWhen I later visited the address listed on Harley Psychiatrists' website, I was told over the intercom that there were no psychiatrists on site. Harley later told us it has routinely seen patients at that location, even though it doesn't have a permanent clinic on the site.\n\nThis whole investigation began when Panorama received an email from a concerned mother. She had written to us to say she felt her 21-year-old daughter had been diagnosed too quickly by a private clinic and that it had prescribed her strong drugs with no proper follow-up care.\n\nAs I started to research the subject - speaking to NHS staff, specialists, academics, former patients and whistleblower staff at private clinics - I heard a common refrain.\n\n\"If you're willing to pay for an assessment, you'll get a diagnosis.\"\n\n\"I can't imagine them saying, 'No, you don't have it',\" says former patient Casey\n\nA former Harley Psychiatrists' patient I spoke to - Casey - says she chose the company for the name, its location and positive online reviews. Casey was being treated on the NHS for anxiety, but says after seeing an Instagram post about ADHD she became convinced that she had that too.\n\nPut off by the long NHS waiting lists, she borrowed the money to book a £685 appointment. Her experience was similar to mine. She was diagnosed in two stages - with a psychologist assessment, followed by a video call with a psychiatrist. The appointments lasted similar lengths of time to mine and she was prescribed stimulant medication at the end.\n\n\"It was kind of like a diagnostic factory,\" she recalls.\n\n\"If I didn't have ADHD,\" she said, \"I can't imagine them saying, 'No, you don't have it.'\"\n\nCasey says her calls and emails were frequently ignored - and yet the clinic was quick to make contact when she posted a negative review online, demanding that she remove it.\n\nThe clinic emailed her saying her \"false review and all other correspondence\" had been passed on to its \"legal department\".\n\nCasey says she felt deeply upset by the experience and - after leaving Harley Psychiatrists - she was signed off work for four months. Since then, Casey has been seeing a different psychiatrist and her care has improved.\n\nLawyers for Harley Psychiatrists say they have never sought the removal of negative reviews that were truthful, only those that they claim contained falsehoods.\n\nMore and more people are turning to private clinics for an assessment to determine whether they have ADHD. Panorama investigates whether some are giving unreliable diagnoses\n\nWatch the full investigation on BBC iPlayer now\n\nIt will be on BBC One on Monday 15 May at 20:00 in England and Scotland, and 20:30 in Wales and Northern Ireland\n\nBy the time I was booked in for my second private assessment with a company called ADHD 360, I had an idea of what to expect. ADHD 360 is a private provider that has won a number of NHS contracts.\n\nThe government is keen to outsource NHS work to private firms to tackle lengthy waiting times. However, we had been told by patients, former staff and some within the NHS, that there were serious concerns regarding how ADHD 360 assessed people.\n\nIt cost £950 to be assessed and treated by ADHD 360, and my online assessment - carried out by a pharmacist - was longer than with Harley Psychiatrists, lasting just over an hour. There were more follow-up questions about some of the answers I had given, but it did not feel thorough.\n\nAt one point, I did mention that my sister had died, but the clinician - who seemed to be uncomfortable by what I just said - moved on quickly. There was also an interlude as we discussed our favourite Leeds United players.\n\nThe assessor totted up my scores from what appeared to be a checklist of symptoms, confirmed that I met the criteria for ADHD, and proceeded to prescribe a higher dose of stimulant medication than had been recommended by Harley Psychiatrists.\n\nADHD 360 told us it is regulated as an NHS provider and delivers \"high standard assessment, diagnosis, treatment and care\" for thousands of patients. Its \"qualified clinicians\" are trained in its own academy and its \"assessments meet all accepted best practices\". It said on this occasion its \"prescription policy was regrettably not followed\", and \"procedures have now been reviewed\" and enhanced.\n\nMy final online assessment - with ADHD Direct in Glasgow - cost £1,095 and was conducted by a nurse. She was new, and so was being supervised by another nurse. The assessment was a little longer - one hour and 40 minutes - and I had a follow-up appointment three weeks later to get my results.\n\nOnce again, I was told I had ADHD and offered stimulant medication, but this time I told the clinic I was a reporter before I got my prescription.\n\nLawyers for ADHD Direct told us there would have been more checks before I was prescribed any drugs - and that the clinic stood by its diagnosis and had carried out a \"full developmental and psychiatric history\".\n\nA company audit had shown that 10% of patients seen did not have ADHD and that there was \"no incentive… to over-diagnose\" - they said.\n\nSo despite having had a comprehensive NHS assessment carried out by a consultant psychiatrist which concluded that I don't have ADHD - I now also had three private diagnoses saying the opposite.\n\nThere's no doubt that many people who go private will have ADHD.\n\nBut my investigation shows how some clinics hand out unreliable diagnoses - and that can put vulnerable patients at risk.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this story you can visit BBC Action Line.", "An ABC News crew came across a dog trapped underneath a damaged home in Texas, in the US, while covering a tornado that hit the area over the weekend.\n\nTwo members of the crew heard the dog's cries coming from underneath a house, and phoned animal control. While they waited, they found a nearby shovel and began to dig.", "Landlords would be banned from evicting tenants with no justification as part of a long-promised overhaul of the private rental sector in England.\n\nA new law tabled in Parliament would abolish no-fault evictions and end bans on tenants claiming benefits.\n\nThe bill would also make it easier for landlords to repossess properties from anti-social tenants.\n\nHousing campaigners said the bill was a \"huge opportunity\" but warned it risked creating loopholes for eviction.\n\nUnder the new law, tenants would be given the legal right to request to keep a pet in their home, which the landlord cannot unreasonably refuse.\n\nThe law would also make it illegal for a landlord to refuse tenancies to families with children, or those in receipt of benefits.\n\nThe Conservatives promised \"a better deal for renters\" - including a ban on no-fault evictions - in its manifesto ahead of the general election in 2019.\n\nA key piece of housing legislation, known as Section 21, allows landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason.\n\nAfter receiving a Section 21 notice, tenants have just two months before their landlord can apply for a court order to evict them.\n\nUnder the reforms, landlords will only be able to evict tenants in certain circumstances, including when they wish to sell the property or when they or a close family member want to move in, after six months.\n\nHowever, after a three-month period they will be free to put the property back on the rental market.\n\nHousing charity Shelter is calling for these time periods to increase, and for the notice period for evictions to increase from two months to four months.\n\nIt also pointed out that under the current proposals, renters who receive a possession notice will no longer have the right to immediate help from their council to avoid homelessness.\n\nThe bill also makes it easier for landlords to repossess their properties in cases of anti-social behaviour or where the tenant repeatedly fails to pay rent.\n\nLast year, research by Shelter, a housing charity, said nearly 230,000 private renters had been served with a no-fault eviction notice since April 2019.\n\nAmong those to be issued with such a notice was Sam Robinson and his family, partner Amy Herbert, and daughters Phoebe, 10, and Amelia, four.\n\nSam Robinson and his family were issued with a Section 21 notice\n\nThe family rented a property in Greater Manchester for about five years.\n\nThey never missed a rental payment, and were happy with the property, until problems with mould and a leaking roof became progressively worse.\n\nMr Robinson said he reported the issue, and a few days after the property was inspected by the landlord, they were issued a Section 21 notice.\n\n\"I was heartbroken, I didn't know what to say to my partner,\" Mr Robinson said. \"We'd made a family home there. We were there for the long term.\"\n\nNow the family are paying more rent after moving to another property near Manchester earlier this year.\n\nHave you found it difficult to rent a property because you have children or pets? Have you been issued a Section 21 notice? Are you a landlord with views on this story?\n\nMorenike Jotham, who lives in the London suburb of Streatham, has also had bad experiences.\n\nMs Jotham said when she tried to enter negotiations with her previous landlord about a proposed rent increase last year, they responded by issuing a Section 21 notice.\n\nShe had tried to challenge the proposed rent increase, from £550 to £700 a month, because of the state of the house. She claimed there were boiler issues, faulty pipes and a mouse infestation.\n\nShe shared the flat with five other people for two years, including during an intense cold snap in February 2021 when, according to Ms Jotham, the boiler was not functioning.\n\n\"We all had blankets wrapped around us,\" Ms Jotham said. \"We were all staying in the living room to preserve heat. It was really, really difficult.\"\n\nMs Jotham, a paralegal, eventually moved out of the flat in September 2022 and into a different rented house in the same area.\n\nHousing campaigners have long called for tenants to be given the right to safe, secure and affordable homes, free from arbitrary evictions and escalating rent increases.\n\nBut other campaigners, as well as some Conservative MPs, have warned the bill could force more landlords to leave the market and reduce the supply of rental properties.\n\nTory MP Craig Mackinlay, who is also a landlord, said the bill could have \"unintended consequences\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme that landlords had already been hit by extra regulations and higher interest rates and many could choose to sell up as a result of the legislation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What can you do about rent increases? Watch the BBC's Lora Jones tell you, in a minute.\n\nSiobhan Donnachie, spokeswoman for the London Renters Union, said there was nothing in the bill banning \"the huge and unfair rent increases our members are facing\".\n\nShe said: \"A 20% rent hike is simply a no-fault eviction under a different name.\"\n\nThe bill will allow tenants to challenge above-market rate rent increases through a tribunal but landlords will still be able to raise rents annually to market prices.\n\nHousing Secretary Michael Gove said the bill would make sure renters are \"protected from the very small minority of rogue landlords who use the threat of no-fault eviction to silence tenants who want to complain about poor conditions\".\n\nHe told BBC Newsbeat he hoped the bill would become law by the end of the year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Gove says it is important to honour a 2019 manifesto pledge to stop landlords evicting tenants without justification\n\nMr Gove said the bill was also \"a good deal for landlords\", who would be able to quickly evict tenants who are anti-social or persistently fail to pay their rent.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party broadly supported the government's plans but that they could have been carried out more quickly.\n\nLabour has promised to introduce a four-month notice period for landlords, a national register of landlords, and the right to make alterations to rented properties.\n\nLandlords have expressed concerns about some of the reforms promised in the bill.\n\nBen Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, said landlords needed to be confident \"they will be able to repossess their properties as quickly as possible\".\n\n\"Without this assurance, the bill will only exacerbate the rental housing supply crisis many tenants now face,\" Mr Beadle said.\n\nHe said he welcomed a pledge, also in the bill, to ensure landlords can recover properties from anti-social tenants and those failing to pay rent.\n\nBut he added \"more detail is needed if the bill is going to work as intended\".\n\nThe government said the bill will legislate to:\n\nPriced out, pushed out - the young renters fighting for their rights and facing homelessness. Dealing with impossible decisions, what can they do, and where do they end up?", "The Princess of Wales answered questions posed to her by students\n\nThe Princess of Wales has told students that becoming a member of the Royal Family was something she never expected - but she \"fell in love\".\n\nThe pupils quizzed Catherine about being a royal at a charity event in Bath, and the princess said it was something \"she had to learn\".\n\nCatherine was meeting St Katherine's School students supported by the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust.\n\nEarlier, she took on Dame Kelly at a game of bean-bag noughts and crosses.\n\nCompeting alongside the Bristol students, the princess was beaten twice.\n\nAfter the first victory, the track and field star held her arms aloft and admitted she was \"slightly competitive\".\n\nCatherine lost out to Dame Kelly's team twice\n\nThe princess joked back: \"You would never have guessed.\"\n\nWhen the princess later sat down in the Percy Community Centre for a chat with the students, she opened up the floor to questions about herself.\n\nDame Kelly said: \"She humanised everything to say not everyone's perfect. Doesn't matter what you've got, or what you're perceived to have, as an individual you're still going to have those insecurities.\"\n\nThe Olympian founded her national youth development organisation on the belief that every young person needs a champion.\n\nIt pairs world-class athletes with youngsters who may lack confidence or have other issues, so the sportsmen or women can help the students develop their skills and confidence.\n\nDame Kelly founded her organisation on the belief that every young person needs a champion\n\nDame Kelly said: \"I wanted to work with young people, I wanted to make a difference and still believe that one person can make a difference.\n\n\"And I just realised that athletes have ability to draw out those real-life lessons you get in sport.\n\n\"It isn't about sport and being an Olympic champion, but it is about what sport can bring to you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Princess of Wales appeared in a surprise Eurovision cameo a few days earlier\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "If you feel like you're not getting paid enough, you're probably not alone.\n\nWhile average wages have been increasing, they're still not keeping up with the pace of price rises, which means many people are finding it harder to get by.\n\nRecent months have seen waves of strikes, with tens of thousands of workers walking out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions.\n\nMany of these strikes have taken place in the public sector, where workers often do not have the power to negotiate individually.\n\nAnd whether you work in the public or private sector, even if you do have a conversation with your manager there's no guarantee that it will result in a pay rise.\n\nHowever, there are ways to give yourself the best chance of success.\n\nWe spoke to recruiters, a manager and a workplace psychologist to get five tips on how to best negotiate for more money.\n\nJill Cotton, a career trends experts at jobs site Glassdoor, says scheduling a talk in advance will allow you and your boss time to prepare, and means you're more likely to have a productive conversation.\n\n\"Don't spring this on your line manager,\" Ms Cotton says. \"Be upfront and say that you want to book in a conversation that is specifically about pay.\"\n\nRowsonara Begum, who helps her brother run Saffron Indian takeaway in Salisbury, says it also needs to be the right time for the business.\n\nThe takeaway has five members of staff and occasionally takes on additional workers during busy periods.\n\nRowsonara Begum says workers seeking a pay rise should ask at a good time\n\nShe says if workers pick a time when the business is doing well, they will have the best chance of successfully negotiating more money.\n\nIf you're asking for a pay rise, you should have lots of evidence of why you deserve one.\n\n\"Know what you've achieved either from a work setting or what you've done to develop yourself, maybe to support your team, support your line managers. List all the pros of what you've done,\" says Shan Saba, a director at Glasgow-based recruitment firm Brightwork.\n\nThis evidence also helps your manager rationalise why you should be paid more, according to Stephanie Davies, a workplace psychologist.\n\n\"The brain needs a 'why' - why should I pay you this amount?\" she says.\n\nHowever, it's not just about bringing a list of all the things you've done. You should also be clear about what you want to do next, says Mr Saba.\n\n\"If you have aspirations of moving up through your organisation, have a plan of what you're looking to do over the coming year.\"\n\nWhen asking your boss for more money, it helps if you're confident and know your worth.\n\nThat's something Ms Begum has noticed, from her experience of having these talks with staff.\n\n\"Here in Salisbury, it's quite difficult to get the staff we need,\" she says.\n\n\"It's also become harder to recruit from overseas. So workers have negotiating power because they know there's a shortage.\"\n\nOften people don't feel confident because there is a \"stigma\" around talking about pay, says Glassdoor's Jill Cotton, but it's \"an important part of work\".\n\nWomen and people from minority backgrounds can often find it particularly hard to ask for more more, adds psychologist Stephanie Davies.\n\nHer advice to them is to ask for a mentor or role model, who can help guide them through those conversations.\n\nMost experts agree it's best to have an exact figure in mind before embarking on a conversation about pay.\n\nDo your research, advises James Reed, chair of recruitment firm Reed.\n\n\"You can go online and look at job adverts and see what other comparable jobs are being recruited for and what the salaries are,\" he says.\n\nMs Cotton warns the figure should be realistic.\n\n\"We would all love to be paid millions of pounds every single year. But we are being paid to fulfil a role with the skillset we have,\" she says.\n\nIf the above steps don't result in a pay rise, try not to be disheartened.\n\n\"Sometimes these conversations can take a while, even months, but it's important to keep the communication open,\" says Ms Begum.\n\nPay is also not the be-all and end-all, says Mr Reed.\n\n\"It's not just necessarily about money. You might be able to get more holiday or more flexibility around working hours,\" he says, adding you could also negotiate extra training and development.\n\nAnd if you don't feel you're getting what you want from your employer, remember, there are other opportunities out there.\n\n\"You can always look elsewhere, that's the really big lesson,\" says Ms Davies.", "Supermarkets are being investigated by the competition watchdog over high food and fuel prices.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it would look at whether a \"failure in competition\" meant customers were overpaying.\n\nSupermarkets said they were working to keep food prices \"as low as possible\".\n\nBut an investigation into the fuel market, which has already started, has found some supermarkets have increased margins on petrol and diesel.\n\nThe CMA said evidence suggested at least one supermarket had set a higher target for its margin on fuel prices in 2022, which could have led to rivals following suit and raising prices too.\n\nThe BBC has contacted supermarkets individually for comment.\n\nAsda said it would work \"in full cooperation\" with the CMA and added it was \"focused on providing our customers with the best value at the pumps\".\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the BRC, said supermarkets were \"confident\" that they were \"doing all they can to keep food prices as low as possible\".\n\n\"The UK has one of the most competitive markets for food in the world, and as global prices begin to fall we are confident that the competitive nature of the industry will help food inflation fall as a result,\" he said.\n\nHigher food prices have been hitting households hard in recent months, and some have questioned why a drop in the cost of wholesale food globally has not led to falls in the prices charged by UK supermarkets.\n\nSupermarkets have said there is typically a three to nine-month lag to see price falls reflected in the shops.\n\nBut the war in Ukraine has driven up food prices around the world, and the UK has faced other problems on top of this - from Brexit red tape to labour shortages.\n\nCMA chief executive Sarah Cardell, said the watchdog recognised that \"global factors\" were behind many grocery price increases and said it had seen \"no evidence at this stage of specific competition problems\".\n\nShe added due to concerns about high prices, the CMA was \"stepping up our work in the grocery sector to help ensure competition is working well and people can exercise choice with confidence\".\n\nMs Cardell said the watchdog was \"concerned about the sustained higher margins on diesel compared to petrol we have seen this year\".\n\nShe said her team was not satisfied that all the supermarkets had been \"sufficiently forthcoming with the evidence\" on fuel pricing, and said bosses would be called in for formal interviews to \"get to the bottom of what is going on\".\n\nThe CMA said although supermarkets still tend to be the cheapest retail suppliers of petrol and diesel, evidence indicated \"at least one supermarket\" had significantly increased its margin targets last year.\n\n\"Other supermarkets have recognised this change in approach and may have adjusted their pricing behaviour accordingly,\" the watchdog added.\n\nThe CMA noted while Russia's invasion of Ukraine had caused prices to rise, higher pump costs could not be \"attributed solely to factors outside the control of the retailers\".\n\nIt said the higher prices at the pumps appeared to be in part due to \"some weakening of competition\" in the UK fuel retail market.\n\nA review of the fuel market has been ongoing for several months, over initial concerns that retailers and forecourts were failing to pass on a 5p fuel duty cut to motorists.\n\nMotoring groups claimed the findings from the CMA confirmed what they had been campaigning on for some time - that drivers were not getting a fair deal.\n\nIn December, the CMA said it found evidence that so-called \"rocket and feather\" fuel pricing happened in 2022, when fuel prices rise as wholesale costs rise, but then fall more slowly than costs come down.\n\n\"If ever a business sector needed a major shake-up, it's the fuel trade - critical to the cost of living, family finances, transport costs and inflation,\" said Edmund King, president of the AA.\n\nSimon Williams, fuel spokesman for the RAC, added: \"Something badly needs to change to give drivers who depend on their vehicles every day a fair deal at the pumps. We hope even better news will be forthcoming later this summer.\"", "What are the regulations in Europe?\n\nWitness Christina Montgomery is speaking about Europe's AI Act - but what is it? The act, which is due to be voted on by lawmakers soon, is strict. It proposes a complete ban on facial recognition tech in public places, and varying levels of rules depending on the impact of the tool in question – so for example an email spam filter would face less scrutiny than a tool for diagnosing a medical condition. The US, on the other hand, has so far opted for guidelines and recommendations rather than bans. The UK is trying to position itself somewhere in between. In the early days of social media, tech firms insisted they could regulate themselves and didn’t need government intervention. We all know how that turned out. But that lesson has been learned and I think we will now see both lawmakers and tech firms wanting to avoid the mistakes of the past and their unintended, but toxic, consequences. OpenAI – backed, lets not forget, by billions of Microsoft dollars – will be lobbying hard to try to influence the incoming rules in a way which benefits the industry.", "The £2 cap on bus fares in England has been extended again until the end of October, the government has announced.\n\nThe cap, which applies to more than 130 bus operators outside of London, will then rise in November to £2.50 for 12 months, before prices are reviewed.\n\nThe current limit on fares has now been extended twice after warnings hundreds of services could be cut without it.\n\nIts aim is to ease the cost of living pressures on passengers but also to encourage people to use buses.\n\nBus operators have still not seen the same number of passengers return to using services as before the Covid pandemic, with levels recovering to around 85 to 90%, according to the Department for Transport.\n\nThe Confederation of Passenger Transport, which is the trade association for the UK's bus and coach sector, welcomed the extra funding for the scheme and said it would help operators and councils to \"promote and grow services with greater confidence\".\n\nBut Graham Vidler, chief executive of the body, warned the funding and cap extension would \"not save every service in every part of the country\".\n\nThe trade association has repeatedly claimed that up to 15% of services could be scrapped without further funding for the sector. It has said if the government is \"really serious\" about levelling up, then ministers need to \"back our buses for the long term\".\n\nTravel is one of the main costs to come out of household budgets, which have been squeezed in recent months by the rise in fuel, food and energy prices.\n\nPrices for all goods are rising and inflation, which is the rate at which prices go up, is at 10.1%, meaning items are more than 10% more expensive than they were a year ago on average.\n\nNorman Baker, of the Campaign for Better Transport, urged the government to advertise the bus fare cap to attract people who do not usually use buses in order to grow passenger numbers.\n\n\"The huge success of the scheme proves that by making public transport more affordable, more people will use it and revenue can be increased,\" he added.\n\nSome of the longest routes which the cap applies to include:\n\nSome people have gone viral on social media after travelling up and down the UK using £2 bus tickets.\n\nExtending the current cap until the end of October and then subsiding fares at £2.50 until November 2024 will cost £200m, the government said.\n\nAs well as releasing cash to keep the cap in place, the Department for Transport said it would provide £300m to councils and operators until 2025 to protect routes that passengers rely on for work, education and medical appointments, and to improve infrastructure.\n\nAre you a user of buses and will benefit from this cap being extended?\n\nThe government said continuing to cap fares would particularly benefit people on lower incomes who it said take three times as many bus trips than those on higher incomes.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper said the reason for extending the scheme was due to bus travel being \"the most popular form of public transport\", with millions of people relying on them.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak added: \"By extending the £2 fare cap, we're making sure bus travel remains accessible and affordable for everyone, while helping to ease cost of living pressures.\"\n\nThe government said to help support the bus industry, it has provided more than £2bn in funding to recover from the pandemic.\n\nIn 2021, ministers published a National Bus Strategy, involving hundreds of miles of new bus lanes and price caps on tickets which would make buses cheaper and easier to use.\n\nBut the Transport committee of MPs, whose job is to scrutinise the Department for Transport, said in a report released in March that while many of the strategy's ideas \"were on the right track\", progress in implementing them had \"sometimes been too slow, and in some cases, too piecemeal\".\n\nIt said without further rounds of funding for councils and bus companies, the plans would \"barely scratch the surface\".", "Glen Sannox and Hull 802 are still being completed at Ferguson Marine shipyard\n\nMinisters will continue funding the construction of a second ferry at Ferguson shipyard despite it being cheaper to build a new ship elsewhere.\n\nEconomy Secretary Neil Gray said a review had found finishing the ship, known as Hull 802, did not represent value for money in \"narrow\" terms.\n\nBut he said completing the vessel at the nationalised yard was the fastest way of delivering more ferry capacity.\n\nPulling the plug would also threaten jobs and the wider economy, he added.\n\nMr Gray has issued a rarely-used ministerial direction to overrule the financial test.\n\nTwo CalMac ferries were ordered in 2015 when Ferguson Marine was owned by Jim McColl, a pro-independence businessman who had rescued the Port Glasgow yard from administration a year earlier.\n\nThe build soon ran into trouble - and the ships are now more than £200m overbudget and six years late. Mr McColl and the government-owned ferry procurement agency CMAL blame each other for the problems.\n\nThe current boss of the shipyard - which was nationalised in 2019 - now expects the first ship, Glen Sannox, to be delivered this autumn, followed by the as-yet unnamed Hull 802 in the late summer of 2024.\n\nMr Gray told MSPs that a \"due diligence\" review of requests for additional funding had found that completing Glen Sannox at the yard was the \"cheapest option open to ministers\".\n\nBut he continued: \"The case for vessel 802 is more challenging - and I have accepted the judgement of the Scottish government accountable officer that the narrow value for money case has not been made.\"\n\nNeil Gray said the value of completing Hull 802 could not be viewed in \"narrow\" monetary terms\n\nThe minister, however, said it was important to look at wider considerations including the impact on the shipyard, the wider community and national resilience.\n\n\"These are not matters that can be taken into account in a pure value for money exercise but clearly they are matters of the utmost importance,\" he said.\n\nWhile the value for money assessment had concluded it could be cheaper to procure a new ferry elsewhere, that would lead to significant delays, as it could not be deployed before at least May 2027, he said.\n\n\"I do not consider it acceptable for our island communities to wait this further period,\" he said.\n\nThe repeated delays in the delivery of Glen Sannox and Hull 802 have had a major impact on the resilience of the ageing CalMac fleet, which has been hit by frequent breakdowns and soaring maintenance costs.\n\nLast year a BBC Scotland documentary - The Great Ferries Scandal - presented evidence that the procurement process may have been rigged in favour of Ferguson Marine.\n\nThe investigation also questioned the quality of the design presented by Ferguson, even though it was given top marks by CMAL's evaluators. CMAL has denied any impropriety.\n\nMr Gray told MSPs he could not rule out further increases in costs for the two ferries because the shipyard was facing inflationary pressures and was still discovering \"design gaps\", some of which dated back many years.\n\nScottish Labour MSP Alex Rowley said what was missing from Mr Gray's statement was an apology.\n\n\"An apology to the islanders who have been so badly let down, an apology to the workers at Ferguson who have been so badly let down - and ultimately an apology to the people of Scotland for outrageous mismanagement of public funds,\" he said.\n\nFor the Scottish Conservatives, Graham Simpson said: \"The building of ferries 801 and 802 has been a shambles from start to finish.\n\n\"In fact, shambles is not a strong enough word. It has been a scandal.\"\n\nBy his opponents' calculation, Neil Gray is the eighth minister to take responsibility for the CalMac ferry-building contract at Ferguson shipyard. He must hope he'll be the last, but he's off to a difficult start.\n\n\"Due diligence\" is business-speak for checking out the prospects, liabilities and risks. Now complete, the cabinet secretary's admission that the second of the ferries no longer provides value for money is embarrassing, and a hostage to further misfortune.\n\nConvention requires that a civil service \"accountable officer\" can be held responsible for releasing government funds, and must be able to tell auditors that spending provides value for money.\n\nFollowing that due diligence, Gregor Irwin, the director-general for economy in the Scottish government, cannot do that on the second hull. So he has written to his political boss, Neil Gray, saying he will have to give written permission to over-ride that rule. It's a way of saying: \"No minister, you're on your own with this.\"\n\nMr Gray has done so, wanting to give the shipyard a chance to succeed after this calamitous contract. Admitting defeat would surely sink the yard, and lose 340 jobs. Further contracts will require further investment, so the Scottish government is now considering the use of even more scarce public funds.\n\nFormer business minister Ivan McKee also hinted at discussions he must know something about, on selling the yard or entering a joint venture with a private company which could deploy it for the renewable energy boom.\n\nThe risk to jobs on the Clyde and Hebridean islands, because the CalMac fleet is old, unreliable and under-capacity, is on a far greater scale than the jobs at stake in Port Glasgow.\n\nThat leads to the other justification: the prospect of an alternative procurement meaning a further delay for islanders, estimated at 30 months beyond the current (though hardly reliable) delivery date for Hull 802.\n\nWhat's missing is the new cost. Officially, the bill stands at £203m, of which £105m is for Hull 802. That's over and above the original £97m contract price.\n\nHaving only £6m contingency margin is very low for such a project. The Scottish government sunk more than £50m more into the yard when it drove the previous owners into administration.\n\nAsked at Holyrood about updated costings, Mr Gray declined to say. It seems the yard's chief executive will now have to tot up the bill, including increased costs of supplies.\n\nSo either Neil Gray is not admitting how much more the ships are on course to cost, or he doesn't know. And if he doesn't know, how could he know that the project has failed its \"value for money\" test, or how much more money is being risked, by a decision that the civil service can no longer justify?", "A picture of Jean Moulin sat on Daniel Cordier's bookshelf at his home on the French Riviera\n\nFrench Resistance figure Daniel Cordier - who has died at the age of 100 - was one of the last remaining heroes decorated by Charles de Gaulle for their role in fighting the Nazi occupation.\n\nHis death on Friday leaves only one survivor among the 1,038 men and women who received the title \"Compagnons de la Libération\" after World War Two.\n\nThe son of a wealthy merchant in south-western France, Cordier first became involved in politics in the 1930s as a teenage member of the royalist far-right.\n\nIn June 1940, after German forces crushed the French army and the government of Marshall Philippe Pétain sued for peace, Cordier's activism took a different turn.\n\n\"As my mother collapsed into my stepfather's arms, I raced upstairs and flung myself on my bed, and I sobbed. But then (…) I suddenly drew myself up, and I said to myself, 'But no, this is ridiculous,\" Cordier recalled in a 2018 interview with the BBC. \"[Pétain] is just a stupid old fool! We have to do something.\"\n\nDaniel Cordier left to join the Free French in 1940 and returned in 1942\n\nThree days later he and a few friends boarded a ship bound for French Algeria, which was seen as shelter for patriots who refused to surrender. But the vessel was diverted to Britain, where Cordier joined de Gaulle's Free French.\n\nHe joined the movement's intelligence arm and was parachuted into central France in mid-1942. A high point in his life was his meeting with Jean Moulin, the man tasked by de Gaulle to co-ordinate Resistance groups.\n\nCordier had come to deliver a message. The two men hit it off and he became the commander's right-hand man, based in Lyon.\n\n\"I admired Jean Moulin from the moment I first saw him,\" Cordier told the BBC. \"He had an elegance and a kindness, and also a huge capacity for work. In his view, he was the Resistance. I hope in my own small way I was able to serve him as he wanted.\"\n\nTen months later Moulin was betrayed to the Gestapo and killed under torture. Cordier moved to Paris, where he continued to rally the resistance before escaping to London in 1944.\n\nAfter the war he became a painter and a successful art-dealer, promoting contemporary masters such as Braque and Dubuffet.\n\nHe later credited Jean MouIin for initiating him into modern art. The education, he said, had begun as a kind of code. Moulin, he once said, decided to give him loud lectures on painters so as not to arouse suspicion when out and about in the danger zone that was occupied France.\n\nCordier took part in World War II commemoration ceremonies until his late 90s\n\nFocused on his passion for art, Cordier did not speak publicly about his wartime past for decades. But he broke his silence in the 1970s, when a fellow Resistance hero portrayed Moulin - a hallowed figure in France - as a shambolic self-promoter and a Soviet agent.\n\nOutraged, Cordier decided to clear his former boss's name. Delving into his Resistance past, he sifted through Resistance archives and interviewed survivors.\n\n\"I knew it was not true. But to prove it, I had to go back to the records,\" he told the BBC in 2018. The work culminated in the publication of influential biographies of Moulin in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nControversy among historians continued over the nature of Moulin's links with the Communists - who after all were a key component of the Resistance Jean Moulin worked to unify. But Cordier's historical work helped refute many of the wilder allegations.\n\nHis effort to expose the truth did not end there. In a 2009 autobiography Cordier came out as gay, saying it would have been \"utterly unthinkable\" when he was young.", "MPs have urged the government to treat retail investment in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin as a form of gambling.\n\nTheir value could change dramatically and consumers risked losing their entire investment, characteristics closely resembling gambling, the Treasury Select Committee found.\n\nIt also criticised abandoned plans for the Royal Mint to create a non-fungible token (NFT).\n\nThe Treasury told BBC News it did not support using gambling regulation.\n\nThe risks posed by crypto were \"typical of those that exist in traditional financial services and it's financial services regulation - rather than gambling regulation - that has the track record in mitigating them\", a Treasury official told BBC News.\n\nTrade association CryptoUK strongly rejectedthe committee's findings, saying MPs' observations about cryptocurrency were \"unhelpful, false, fundamentally flawed and unsubstantiated\".\n\nThe committee said \"unbacked\" crypto assets - typically cryptocurrencies with no fixed value - exposed \"consumers to the potential for substantial gains or losses, while serving no useful social purpose\".\n\n\"These characteristics more closely resemble gambling than a financial service,\" the MPs added.\n\nGambling helpline charity GamCare told the BBC that, in the past two years, it had heard from more than 300 people who said they were struggling with investing in cryptocurrency and other forms of online financial markets.\n\nResearch cited by MPs found 40% of new Bitcoin users were men under 35, commonly identified as the most risk-seeking segment of the population.\n\nCastle Craig, a rehab clinic specialising in treating people with addictions, put us in touch with a young man who had lost heavily on crypto.\n\nThe former gambling addict told BBC News that, although he had given up gambling, he had turned to crypto.\n\n\"In my head, I just thought this isn't gambling it's just an investment, but clearly it wasn't,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had lost about £150,000 investing in crypto, including money he had borrowed, and that checking his phone to see how the market had moved had become an obsession. \"There was no break at all, I was just I was on my phone constantly watching it and just couldn't sleep,\" he recalled.\n\nHe said he supported the approach of the committee. \"Crypto stuff is gambling,\" he said. \"You can lose everything you've got.\"\n\nFormer sports minister and gambling campaigner Conservative MP Tracey Crouch welcomed the report.\n\n\"At the moment, crypto feels like a Wild West town with no sheriff,\" she said.\n\n\"However, I'm sure, if properly resourced, the Gambling Commission could bring some order into this complex, risky and often confusing area that has unwittingly sucked in consumers by marketing to them via sports such as football, giving a pretence to fans and others that they are safe and protected.\"\n\nCrypto sponsorship has been widespread among football clubs, but those in the Premier League recently agreed to end gambling sponsorship on the front of their shirts from the start of the 2026 season. This was a voluntary move and not required by regulation.\n\nThe report gives little detail on what gambling regulation applied to crypto might mean. MP Harriett Baldwin, chairwoman of the committee, said the report recommended \"that the sort of speculative luring of people into buying particular cryptocurrencies\" was treated like gambling.\n\nShe said the committee had heard a lot of evidence of how \"football clubs are using this as a way of taking money off their loyal supporters\".\n\nIn February, the government asked people to comment on proposals for the financial regulation of crypto assets.\n\nBut the committee said the government plans to regulate cryptocurrencies as financial services would create a false impression they were as secure as traditional investments - a \"halo effect... that leads consumers to believe that this activity is safer than it is or protected when it is not\".\n\nThe committee's report noted surveys suggesting about one in 10 people in the UK hold crypto assets, most investing in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.\n\nThe most mentioned reason for holding crypto assets was they were a \"fun investment\".\n\nDo you invest in cryptocurrency? Please share your experiences.\n\nCryptocurrencies are just one type of asset. More generally, MPs said, while they supported innovation, the potential benefits from crypto asset technologies remained uncertain.\n\n\"In the meantime, the risks posed by crypto assets to consumers and the environment are real and present.\"\n\nThe government has been excited by the potential of crypto. While chancellor, Rishi Sunak announced his ambition to make the UK a global hub for the technology.\n\nThe Treasury believes crypto offers opportunities, but said it was \"robustly regulating the market, addressing the most pressing risks first in a way that promotes innovation\".\n\nCryptoUK's Ian Taylor said the finance industry was embracing crypto: \"Professional investment managers see Bitcoin and other crypto assets as a new alternative investment class - not as a form of gambling - and institutional adoption of unbacked crypto assets has increased significantly.\"\n\nRecognising the potential risks and rewards, the committee recommended a balanced approach, but suggested government avoid spending public resources on projects without a clear beneficial use.\n\n\"The government's recent foray into seeking (and subsequently abandoning) the production of a Royal Mint non-fungible token is a case in point,\" the MPs wrote.\n\n\"It is not the government's role to promote particular technological innovations for their own sake\".\n\nNFTs are \"one-of-a-kind\" digital assets that can be bought and sold like any other piece of property - they are often associated with digital images.\n\nThe committee will examine central bank digital currencies in a separate report.", "Police have had more than 200 tip-offs about unidentified women murdered in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.\n\nIt comes a week after the three countries launched a campaign with global policing agency Interpol to find the names of 22 women, whose bodies were discovered between 1976 and 2019.\n\nIt is the first time Interpol has gone public with a list seeking information about unidentified bodies.\n\nPolice said the women \"deserve to get their names back\".\n\n\"The information we are receiving now gives us hope for several cases. Every tip can make a difference for the next of kin of the victims,\" said Dutch police official Martin de Wit.\n\nPolice said they were following up on 122 potentially useful tip-offs for the cases in Germany, 55 in Belgium and 51 in the Netherlands.\n\nInformation they have received so far includes possible names of victims, and potential leads about clothing and jewellery the women were wearing.\n\nThe so-called black notices released as part of the Operation Identify Me campaign are normally only circulated internally among Interpol's network of police forces throughout the world.\n\nThey include details about the women, photographs of possible identifying items, and, in some cases, new facial reconstructions and information about the cases.\n\nIn a statement, police said they were analysing the information they had received so far, and that their first priority would be informing the family if any of the victims' identities were discovered.\n\nAs the women are believed to have been murdered, they added that any identification would lead to criminal investigations.\n\nMost of the victims in the 22 cases were aged between 15 and 30. Without knowing their names or who killed them, police say it is difficult to establish the exact circumstances of their deaths.\n\nThe campaign was initiated by Dutch police, who were struggling to identify a woman whose body was discovered in a wheelie bin floating in a river on the outskirts of Amsterdam in 1999.\n\nOther cases include a woman with a distinctive tattoo of a black flower with green leaves and \"R'NICK\" written underneath who was found lying against a grate in a river in Belgium in 1992, and a woman's body found wrapped in a carpet and bound with string at a sailing club in Germany in 2002.\n\nDr Susan Hitchin, coordinator of Interpol's DNA unit, said the policing agency was continuing to call on the public to come forward with any information that could \"help investigators connect the dots\".", "The French First Lady condemned the \"cowardice, stupidity and violence\" of the attack\n\nEight people have been arrested after France's First Lady Brigitte Macron's great-nephew was attacked on Monday following a TV address by the French president.\n\nJean-Baptiste Trogneux was beaten up by anti-government protesters in the northern city of Amiens.\n\nHe was hit on the head, arms and legs and is awaiting the result of a scan.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron has called the assault \"unacceptable\", adding that \"violence has no place in a democracy\".\n\nJean-Baptiste Trogneux was attacked outside the family chocolate shop in Amiens, which has repeatedly been targeted by protesters.\n\nLocal police say they have arrested eight people after the attack.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene after neighbours intervened to stop the assault.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Ms Macron said she was in total solidarity with her family and condemned the \"cowardice, stupidity and violence\" of the attack.\n\n\"I have repeatedly denounced this violence, which can only lead to the worst,\" she said.\n\nJean-Baptise Trogneux's father, Jean-Alexandre Trogneux, told French media the attackers \"crossed the line\" and insulted \"the president, his wife and our family\".\n\nThe family of Brigitte Macron has run the Jean Trogneux chocolate shop in Amiens for six generations\n\nThe president of the Republicans party, Eric Ciotti, has condemned the attack and called for the attackers to be punished.\n\n\"Yes to democratic debate, no to violence and terror,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nThe family of Brigitte Macron has run the Jean Trogneux chocolate shop in Amiens for six generations. It specialises in Amiens macarons, a sugary almond-based treat.\n\nThe Trogneux family business - which has shops across northern France - has repeatedly been targeted by protesters since Mr Macron has been in office amid rumours that the first family has a financial interest in the company - which it denies.\n\nJean-Alexandre Trogneux told the Courrier Picard newspaper he did not understand why his family business was targeted.\n\n\"Emmanuel Macron has got nothing to do with our business,\" he said. \"I don't understand all these people who continue to hassle us. Some of them even call for boycotts of our shops and products,\" he told the paper.\n\nMr Macron has faced some of the biggest demonstrations in a generation over his reform to the pension system, which is set to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 later this year.\n\nThe unrest has seen one of the president's favourite restaurants in Paris set alight as well as attacks on offices of local and national politicians.", "Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has denied involvement in phone hacking\n\nPiers Morgan was told a Daily Mirror story about Kylie Minogue was obtained from voicemails during his time as the paper's editor, a court has heard.\n\nOmid Scobie, who wrote a book about Prince Harry, says he heard the conversation while an intern in 2002.\n\nMr Morgan has always denied knowledge of any phone hacking.\n\nPrince Harry is among a group accusing Mirror Group Newspapers of unlawful information-gathering. The newspaper group is contesting the claims.\n\nMGN denies senior executives at the publisher of Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People knew about the practices and failed to stop them.\n\nIt is alleged that journalists from the newspapers obtained private and confidential information about people's lives through a variety of unlawful means between 1991 and 2011 - including accessing voicemail messages on their phones.\n\nMr Scobie was called to give evidence on day four of a High Court case brought against MGN.\n\nThe court heard that as a journalism student, Mr Scobie spent a week at the Sunday People where he claims he was given \"a list of mobile numbers followed by a detailed verbal description of how to listen to voicemails, as if it were a routine newsgathering technique\".\n\nIn a written witness statement describing work experience at the Daily Mirror in the spring of 2002, the royal commentator \"recalls during one of those days in the office the editor, Piers Morgan, came over to talk to someone about a story relating to Kylie Minogue and her [then] boyfriend James Gooding\".\n\n\"Mr Morgan was asking how confident they were in the reporting and was told that the information had come from voicemails,\" the statement adds.\n\n\"I recall being surprised to hear this at the time, which is why it stuck in my mind.\"\n\nThe court was also told there is an invoice from a private investigator firm for £170, addressed to a showbiz journalist at the paper, for \"K Minogue\".\n\nMirror Group Newspapers is contesting the cases and has said there is \"no evidence, or no sufficient evidence, of voicemail interception\" in any of the four claims chosen as \"representative\" cases.\n\nAndrew Green KC, for the group, accused Mr Scobie of \"a false memory\" and being a mouthpiece for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, after co-authoring a book about them - Finding Freedom.\n\n\"What I am doing right now is giving ammunition to the tabloids to continue calling me his friend,\" Mr Scobie told the court.\n\nThe royal correspondent said he did not have Prince Harry's mobile number, adding: \"I am a member of the press trying to do my job... what I am doing today is making my life more difficult.\"\n\nReturning to Mr Scobie's work experience at MGN, Mr Green went on to suggest it was \"somewhat implausible\" that a student intern, who was only at the paper for about a week, would have been asked to hack phones.\n\nMr Scobie replied: \"I was not a stranger to this [journalist], I had already met them at some events, I knew them through another person.\n\n\"The word hack was not used... this was just a journalist telling me how to do something.\"\n\nMr Scobie said: \"It felt wrong. In the moment you just sit there and listen, it's only as it sinks in that it does not feel right.\"\n\nHe said he did not hack any phones.\n\nPrince Harry is expected to give evidence at the trial in June. He among four people whose claims are being heard in the trial as \"representative\" cases of the types of allegations facing the publisher. They will also help the court set the level of damages MGN should pay if the claimants win.\n\nOthers involved are Coronation Street actors Nikki Sanderson and Michael Turner, known by his stage name Michael Le Vell, and comedian Paul Whitehouse's ex-wife Fiona Wightman.", "Asante King's bracelet with gold ornaments and glass beads was taken by the British in the 19th Century, and is at the British Museum\n\nThe ruler of Ghana's Asante people is pressing the British Museum to return gold items in its collection.\n\nThe Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, who attended the Coronation of King Charles, later met the museum director Dr Hartwig Fischer for discussions.\n\nThe British Museum's collection includes works taken from the Asante palace in Kumasi during the war with the British of 1874.\n\nThe museum told us it is \"exploring the possibility of lending items\" to Ghana.\n\nThe British Museum has been under increasing pressure in recent years to return items in its collection to their countries of origin.\n\nThe demands by Greece for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures, often still known as the Elgin Marbles, are the most high profile example in this contested debate. They were removed by the diplomat and soldier Lord Elgin in the 19th century and later bought by the British government and placed in the British Museum.\n\nRestitution issues more commonly apply to countries which experienced colonial conflict.\n\nEthiopia wants the British Museum to return ceremonial crosses, weapons, jewellery, sacred altar tablets and other items taken from Maqdala in the north of the country during British military action in 1868.\n\nThe Nigerian Government has also formally asked the museum to return 900 Benin Bronzes.\n\nThese beautiful bronze and brass sculptures were created by specialist guilds working for the royal court of the Oba, or King, in Benin City from the 16th century onwards. Many were forcibly removed when the British captured the city in 1897.\n\nThe Parthenon Sculptures were removed from Greece and put on display in London's British Museum in the 19th Century\n\nGhana's government made a formal request in 1974 from the then Asantahene, requesting the return of regalia and other items taken by British forces in 1874, 1896 and 1900. Since then, the British Museum says it has worked to establish a positive and ongoing collaboration with the Asantehene and Ghana's Manhyia Palace Museum, which chronicles Asante culture.\n\nIn recent times Ghana's government has set up a Restitution Committee to look at the return of items taken from the Asante palace which are now in collections around the world.\n\nNana Oforiatta Ayim, who sits on that Committee, told the BBC: \"These objects are largely sacred ones and their return is about more than just restitution. It is also about reparation and repair, for the places they were taken from, but also those who did the taking.\"\n\nShe added that they are looking for a new relationship \"not based on exploitation or oppression, but on equity and mutual respect\".\n\nLast Thursday's discussions at the British Museum are the first ever meeting between the Asantehene and the museum director, Dr Fischer.\n\nBenin Bronzes were taken from the ancient city in Nigeria by the British army\n\nOtumfuo Osei Tutu II requested a loan of items of regalia belonging to his forbears, acknowledging the successful ongoing collaboration with the British Museum.\n\nThere are more than 200 Asante gold objects and other regalia within the British Museum collection which were taken by British troops during the Anglo-Asante wars.\n\nBack in the 19th century, the Asante state was one of few African states that offered serious resistance to European colonisers.\n\nA spokeswoman for the British Museum told the BBC: \"Our Director and Deputy Director were pleased to welcome His Royal Majesty Osei Tutu II to the Museum during his visit to the UK for the Coronation of King Charles III\".\n\nShe added that the museum \"is exploring the possibility of lending items from the collection to mark the 150th anniversary of the end of the third Anglo-Asante war, as well as to support celebrations for the Asantehene's Silver Jubilee next year\".\n\nThe Asantehene visited London last week and met with King Charles before his coronation\n\nThe British Museum has not received a formal return request from Ghana since 1974.\n\nIt loans more than 5,000 objects to institutions around the world every year in its efforts to share its collection globally.\n\nFor some Ghanaians however, loans can never be a long term solution.\n\nOforiatta Ayim, who is also a special adviser to Ghana's Culture Minister, said: \"Loans can be a first step in that they can open up dialogue in the kind of institutions and structures that are slow to change. At the end of the day, objects like the ones taken in 1874 were taken under horrifically violent circumstances… There needs to be honesty, accountability and action\".\n\nThis Asante gold neck torc was taken by the British in the 19th Century, and is at the British Museum\n\nShe added: the objects' homes are \"undeniably the places they were taken from\" though could be lent back to British institutions in future.\n\nLondon's Horniman Museum returned 72 items in its collection to Nigerian ownership last year.\n\nAt the time, Nick Merriman, the Horniman Museum director, told the BBC there was a \"moral argument\" to return them. He said \"we're seeing a tipping point around not just restitution and repatriation, but museums acknowledging their colonial history\".\n\nBut some of the UK's most renowned institutions, including the British Museum, are prevented by law from making a decision of this kind. The British Museum Act of 1963 bans the museum from the \"disposal of objects\" except in very specific circumstances.\n\nIt is however free to loan items, if it believes the items won't be damaged", "For the first time, more than 2.5 million people in the UK are out of work because of a long-term health problem. The number has jumped by half a million since the start of the pandemic - but, BBC News analysis reveals, the impact is spread unevenly across the country, with some regions and types of job far more affected.\n\nFor Mary Starling, there are good days and bad days.\n\nThe 61-year-old is on strong painkillers, for arthritis. She needs a knee replacement - but that could mean another 18 months on an NHS waiting list.\n\n\"I feel despair - but I'm resigned to it,\" she says. \"I understand it isn't possible to magic up something, though it's wearing not being able to plan my life.\"\n\nMary, a former nurse who later worked for the World Health Organization, has already had seven knee operations.\n\nShe gave up full-time work in 2004 but continued in part-time and voluntary roles until the pain became too much.\n\nMary is keen to return to that work - but needs her operation first.\n\n\"My job was a huge part of my life and I miss it,\" she says.\n\n\"I miss the camaraderie - and I miss being useful, in a sense.\"\n\nSomething strange seems to be affecting the UK workforce.\n\nThe country is in its fourth year of sharply rising chronic illness.\n\nThe highest rates are among 50- to 64-year-olds - but there have also been significant increases in some younger groups.\n\nAlthough the link is not conclusive, the Bank of England has said record NHS waiting lists are likely to be playing a \"significant role\".\n\nAnd there are hints of this in Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.\n\nSome of the largest increases are in people reporting mobility difficulties, such as leg and back problems, or heart and blood-pressure problems.\n\nMore younger people, in particular, say they are not in work because of different forms of mental illness.\n\nAnd separate NHS waiting-list data for England paints a similar picture - with lengthy delays for knee and hip replacements, cardiac surgery and community mental-health care.\n\nBut the largest increase in long-term sickness is in the catch-all \"other health problems\" category, likely to include some of those with \"long Covid\" symptoms.\n\nPatrick Dumayne training at his gym, subsidised by the Welsh government.\n\nPatrick Dumayne, a milk-tanker driver by trade, caught the virus in July 2020.\n\n\"For a while, I started to recover - and then, I went downhill again rapidly,\" he says.\n\nAs he works out at a gym in Welshpool, Powys, the 54-year-old's breathing is still laboured.\n\n\"At the worst point, I was suicidal. I am a 6ft-tall truck driver and biker - and I just sat down at the end of the bed and broke down,\" Patrick says.\n\n\"A big part of that was not being able to work - both the finances and not having that routine every day. It was truly horrible.\"\n\nPatrick has been receiving support from the Welsh government and now plans to get back behind the wheel early next year.\n\nBoth long waiting lists and long Covid are part of the problem, independent charity the Health Foundation says - but as sickness rates began rising a year before the pandemic, they are unlikely to be the main causes.\n\nBBC News analysis of ONS Annual Population Survey (APS) data shows large variations in sickness, with high - and rising - rates among people who recently worked in transportation, retail or hospitality.\n\nJobs requiring more physical effort are more likely to lead to leg, back and other musculoskeletal disorders. While in solitary jobs, loneliness can be a real problem.\n\nEvery year, one in four truck drivers experiences mental-health issues, according to the Road Haulage Association.\n\n\"It doesn't help that roadside facilities are often poor and when they do find somewhere to pull up for the night, they're faced with unhealthy food choices,\" the association's Sally Gilson says.\n\nWorkers in lower-paid, manual jobs tend to have poorer health and life expectancy in the first place. The reasons for this are complex, taking in everything from diet and smoking, to access to GPs, to the quality of local housing and green spaces.\n\nThe concern - from the Health Foundation and others - is the pandemic might have worsened some of these underlying health inequalities.\n\nBBC News analysis of the latest ONS data, up to June 2022, also reveals stark differences across the country.\n\nThe highest long-term sickness rates are in Northern Ireland, north-east England and Wales.\n\nBut in London, which has a younger population, the numbers have actually fallen 3% since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe largest rises were in the parts of the Midlands, south-east England and Wales. The East Midlands alone has seen a 21% jump, to a record 176,400 people.\n\nMany of the 50- to 64-year-olds now reporting ill health as the main reason for being off work have already been out of the jobs market for several years for other reasons, such as early retirement or caring responsibilities, Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) research suggests.\n\nIf that's the case, the impact on the economy from those missing workers may be not as bad as some had feared.\n\nBut it still leaves the government with two distinct problems - how to:\n\n\"This is a serious change,\" IFS research economist Beatrice Boileau says.\n\n\"And any policy that only looks at one of those issues is not going to be successful.\"\n\nA government review into workforce participation, ordered by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, is due to report back early next year.\n\nMinister for Disabled People Tom Pursglove said: \"It is clear a heathier, more productive workforce is key to driving growth and tackling inactivity.\n\n\"Government and employers must work together to unlock talent for those who may be facing health barriers.\"\n\nYou can follow Jim on Twitter.", "The government has ditched its plan for thousands of EU-era laws to expire automatically at the end of the year.\n\nThe plan - dubbed a post-Brexit bonfire - would see laws that were copied over to the UK after Brexit vanish, unless specifically kept or replaced.\n\nCritics of the bill had voiced concern that it could lead to important legislation falling away by accident.\n\nBut the climbdown is likely to trigger anger from Brexit-backing Conservative MPs and members of the House of Lords.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kemi Badenoch said the cut-off point would be replaced with a list of 600 laws the government wants to replace by the end of the year.\n\nIn a statement, she said the change would be made through an amendment when the Retained EU Law Bill returns to Parliament next week.\n\nTory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, who introduced the bill when he was in government, called the move an \"admission of administrative failure\".\n\nIt showed an \"inability of Whitehall to do the necessary work and an incapability of ministers to push this through their own departments,\" he added.\n\nHe said the move to ditch the deadline represented the triumph of \"the blob\" - a term used by some Tory MPs to describe the Whitehall establishment.\n\nThe UK incorporated thousands of EU laws into UK law to minimise disruption to businesses when the UK officially left the EU in 2020 - with an ongoing audit by civil servants having identified 4,800 so far.\n\nSince September 2021, it has been reviewing this body of legislation to identify opportunities to give British firms an edge over European competitors.\n\nThe Retained EU Law Bill, which began its journey through Parliament during Liz Truss's premiership, would have introduced a 31 December cut-off date for most of these laws to expire, unless ministers replaced or decided to retain them.\n\nHowever opposition parties, trade unions and campaign groups cast doubt on whether the deadline was realistic, given the huge workload in reviewing the legislation.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch acknowledged the deadline had created \"legal uncertainty\" for businesses.\n\nShe said the government had already got rid of, changed or replaced around 1,000 EU-era laws - and was still committed to \"lightening the regulatory burden on businesses\".\n\nBut she added that the \"growing volume\" of EU laws identified during the ongoing audit had started to get in the way of \"meaningful reform\".\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, she added: \"Getting rid of EU law in the UK should be about more than a race to a deadline\".\n\nHowever, Labour called the move a \"humiliating u-turn,\" accusing ministers of trying to \"rescue this sinking ship of a bill\".\n\n\"After wasting months of parliamentary time, the Tories have conceded that this universally unpopular bill will damage the economy,\" said Jenny Chapman, Labour's shadow Cabinet Office minister.\n\nLiberal Democrat peer Lord Fox said the Conservatives had \"dug themselves into a hole\" with the bill, adding: \"While they may have stopped digging, they're still in the hole\".\n\nAsked about Ms Badenoch's article, David Penman, chair of the civil servants' union the FDA, said he read it as a criticism of an \"artificial deadline\" championed by the former business secretary, Mr Rees-Mogg.\n\n\"If you set an artificial deadline, what is a government department going to do? It's going to focus on the things that need to be retained in government,\" Mr Penman told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday. He said this would \"inevitably\" take precedence over focusing on what needs to change.\n\nGovernment is about \"doing things, it's about protecting people, it's about making sure business can work,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on... Brexit and the clash over EU laws\n\nThe bill was passed by MPs in January, but was expected to run into significant opposition when it faces further scrutiny in the House of Lords.\n\nPeers were meant to start debating the bill last month, but the government was reported to have put it on hold until last week's local elections in England were over.\n\nThe government is still expected to face opposition from peers over new powers for ministers to amend or replace EU laws using secondary legislation, a fast-track process that attracts less scrutiny in Parliament.\n\nOpposition MPs, and some Conservatives, say this would rob Parliament of a meaningful say over what is changed.\n\nAround 500 EU laws covering financial services had been exempted from the deadline, as they are due to be repealed by a separate bill making its way through the Commons. The same is expected for EU legislation affecting VAT and customs.\n\nHowever, the footprint of EU-era legislation is particularly large when it comes to environmental regulation.\n\nCampaign groups have warned about a loss of rights and legal protections in areas including water quality, air pollution standards and protections for wildlife.\n\nThe move to get rid of the deadline may be a pragmatic move, but is likely to disappoint MPs on the right of the Conservative Party and leave Prime Minister Rishi Sunak open to the charge he's not delivering the benefits of Brexit he promised.\n\nMr Sunak had promised during his unsuccessful leadership campaign last summer to publish a list of which EU laws would be retained or scrapped within 100 days of taking office.\n\nHowever, he did not keep the pledge after taking office in October after he was chosen to replace Liz Truss as prime minister by Conservative MPs.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nCurtis Jones has scored three goals in his past four games for Liverpool Curtis Jones scored twice as in-form Liverpool brushed aside hapless Leicester to maintain their recent winning streak and push the Foxes closer to Premier League relegation. Jurgen Klopp's side have won their past seven games to bolster their push for a top-four finish and now lie a point behind Newcastle and Manchester United, albeit having played a game more. Another dismal loss for Leicester leaves the 2016 Premier League champions firmly rooted in danger in 19th position, two points adrift of safety with only two games remaining. The Reds scored twice in the space of three first-half minutes through the same combination, Mohamed Salah twice feeding Jones who finished confidently to claim his first Premier League double. It should have been 3-0 before half-time but home goalkeeper Daniel Iversen made a superb reaction save to deny Cody Gakpo from close range. Salah claimed his third assist in the second period by laying off a free-kick for Trent Alexander-Arnold to curl a sublime finish into the top corner.\n• None 'That's the end of them' - Leicester look 'gone' after Liverpool loss Has Liverpool's charge for a Champions League spot come too late? The two Uniteds above them need two wins from their last three games to guarantee a top-four finish but Liverpool are right on their tails and poised to profit from any mishaps. The Reds started slowly at Leicester, Luis Diaz smashing into the side-netting and Fabinho blazing over the pick of their early openings. But they clicked into gear on the half-hour mark as midfielder Jones took his tally to three goals in his last four games. His first was a controlled finish at the far post from Salah's deep cross and the second he thumped home following the Egyptian's through ball. Salah provided a hat-trick of assists by rolling the ball off for Alexander-Arnold's stunning second-half strike, but the Egyptian must wait for his 20th goal of the campaign after a remarkable miss late on, putting wide when through on goal. Liverpool face European-chasing Aston Villa at home on Saturday and round off their season against relegated Southampton knowing maximum points in those games may complete a stunning turnaround in an otherwise disappointing season. Leicester look doomed and are prime candidates to join Southampton in the Championship next season. The Foxes have collected just one win in their last 14 games - earning six points in total during that run - and lost at home for a club-record equalling 10th time this season. Their frailties lie at the back where boss Dean Smith made another change by giving a start and handing the captain's armband to Jonny Evans, who has played one minute of top-flight football in the last seven months. But it was ill-fated defensive partner Wout Faes - the scorer of two own goals in December's reverse fixture - who was culpable for both of Jones' strikes. The Belgian lost the flight of the ball for the first, failing to clear as the it dropped from the sky, and was caught out of position for the second, running out to intercept a pass without success. The hosts had shown bright sparks early on but their confidence ebbed away alarmingly once they conceded. Harvey Barnes forced Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson into a fine flying save with a curling effort in the second half, but the sorry home side never looked like making a comeback. The Foxes have fixtures remaining at Newcastle and home to West Ham as they bid to avoid the ignominy of relegation just seven years after their remarkable title triumph.\n• None Luke Thomas (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Wout Faes tries a through ball, but James Maddison is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harvey Elliott (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by James Milner.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Ibrahima Konaté (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "British men are taking payments of thousands of pounds to pose as fathers for migrant women's babies, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nThey are being offered up to £10,000 to add their names to birth certificates - enabling a child to get UK citizenship and giving mothers a residency route.\n\nScammers are using Facebook to tout for business and claim to have helped thousands of women in this way.\n\nFacebook says such content is banned by its rules.\n\nThe investigation, by BBC Newsnight, found that the fraud is happening in different communities around the UK.\n\nIt uncovered agents operating across the UK who find British men to be fake fathers.\n\nA researcher went undercover, posing as a pregnant woman who was in the UK illegally, and spoke to people offering these services.\n\nOne agent, who went by the name Thai, told her he had multiple British men who could act as fake fathers and offered a \"full package\" for £11,000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch secret filming: \"Thai\" offered to act as a broker for Newsnight's undercover researcher\n\nHe described the process as \"very easy\" and said he \"would do everything\" to get the child a UK passport.\n\nThai, who didn't advertise on Facebook, said he would concoct a convincing backstory in order to successfully dupe the authorities.\n\nHe introduced the undercover researcher to a British man called Andrew, who he said would pose as a father. Andrew would be paid £8,000 from the total fee.\n\nDuring their meeting, Andrew showed his passport to prove he was a UK national. He also took selfies with the researcher.\n\nThe BBC did not pay any money to any of the agents offering the fake father service.\n\nWhen Thai was later confronted about his involvement in the racket he denied any wrongdoing and said he \"didn't know anything about it\".\n\nAndrew has not responded to our request for comment.\n\nAnother agent, calling herself Thi Kim, claimed she had helped thousands of pregnant migrant women.\n\nShe said she could provide a British man and it would cost \"ten thousand for the dad\", with her fee being £300.\n\n\"All of the men I use were born here and have never registered for any babies before,\" Thi Kim told the researcher.\n\n\"I know how to handle everything. You won't have to worry about not having a passport. It will definitely be granted.\"\n\nThi Kim has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThi Kim, an agent who offered to set up an arrangement with a British man\n\nThe fake father scam is described as \"incredibly elaborate\" by immigration lawyer Ana González.\n\n\"It is very sophisticated, incredibly difficult to police,\" she says. \"In a way it's just proof of how desperate these women are and the incredible lengths they're prepared to go through in order to secure the right to remain in the UK.\"\n\nIf a migrant woman is in the UK illegally and gives birth to a child fathered by a British citizen or a man with indefinite leave to remain, the baby is automatically British by birth.\n\nThe mother can then apply for a family visa, which will give her the right to remain in the UK - and apply for citizenship in due course.\n\n\"This rule is to protect children, not to give visas to women who have no papers in the UK,\" says Ms González. \"It's not a loophole. It should not be seen as such.\"\n\nThe BBC could not estimate the scale of the fraud, as the Home Office was unable to provide data on the number of cases it had investigated.\n\nIt also does not publish data on the number of visas granted for non-UK parents of British children.\n\nHowever, last year 4,860 family visas were granted to \"other dependents\" - a category which includes those applying to stay in the UK as parents of British children.\n\nThe Home Office has told the BBC that it has measures in place to prevent and detect immigration fraud using false birth certificates.\n\nIt says that \"a birth certificate alone may not be sufficient evidence of proof of paternity\" and in cases where this needs to be established, \"additional evidence may be requested to enable our checks to be satisfactorily completed\".\n\nHowever, immigration lawyer Harjap Bhangal disputes whether enough action is being taken: \"It's not a one-off, it's potentially thousands... The Home Office has just not picked up on this.\"\n\nHe says that the practice occurs in many different immigrant communities including those from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Sri Lanka, and that it has been happening for many years.\n\nNewsnight's investigation found that the illegal practice is advertised widely on some Vietnamese Facebook groups for job-seekers.\n\nWe found dozens of posts from accounts boasting about their credentials as suitable fake fathers as well as women looking for British men to pose as fathers.\n\nOne account posted: \"I'm 4 months pregnant. I desperately need a citizenship daddy aged between 25-45.\"\n\nAnother read: \"I'm a dad with a red book [Vietnamese slang for a UK passport]. If you're pregnant and haven't got a father then DM me.\"\n\nMeta, the company that owns Facebook, says it does not allow \"the solicitation of adoptions or birth certificate fraud on Facebook\". It says it will continue to remove content that violates its policies.\n\nDivya Talwar investigates an elaborate immigration scam where pregnant migrant women pay British men thousands of pounds to pose as fathers to children that are not theirs.\n\nWatch the full investigation on BBC iPlayer and on BBC World News and BBC News Channel on Saturday 20 May at 10:30.\n\nWe spoke to one woman who told us she had paid a man £9,000 to pose as the father of her child.\n\nShe said: \"He was 30 years older than me. I heard he'd done it before with another woman.\"\n\nThe woman said she didn't have much contact with the man. The pair only met three times including when they went to the register office for the birth certificate.\n\nAnother woman told us she had paid a man £10,000 to pose as a father - only to learn that he had lied about his immigration status.\n\n\"Only a day after getting my baby's birth certificate I found out that he didn't actually have citizenship. I went crazy, because I already put down his details on the birth certificate. I couldn't change it.\"\n\nThe woman now has a stranger as the registered father of her baby and she and her child still do not have leave to remain in the UK.\n\nHarjap Bhangal says the Home Office needs to investigate more visa applications that raise a \"red flag\".\n\n\"If a child claims to be British and has a British parent and the other parent doesn't have a visa - that should be a perfect case for a simple request for a DNA test.\"\n\nIn the UK there is no requirement for DNA testing when registering a birth or applying for a child's British passport.\n\nMr Bhangal doesn't think many people are being prosecuted for this crime.\n\n\"That's why people are doing it - because there's no fear of any repercussions.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised here? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Javad Marandi has donated more than £633,800 to the Conservative Party\n\nA top businessman whose foreign companies were part of a global money laundering investigation is a major donor to the Conservative Party.\n\nJavad Marandi, who has an OBE for business and philanthropy, can be named after losing a 19-month legal battle with the BBC to remain anonymous.\n\nThe judgement against him is a milestone for freedom of the press amid growing privacy laws in the courts.\n\nA spokesman for the businessman said: \"Mr Marandi is deeply disappointed at the court's decision to lift reporting restrictions, knowing the reputational damage that is likely to follow.\"\n\nThe BBC's reporting on Tuesday prompted an urgent question in the House of Commons from opposition MPs asking for an investigation into Conservative donations.\n\nA National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation found some of Mr Marandi's overseas interests had played a key role in an elaborate money-laundering scheme involving one of Azerbaijan's richest oligarchs.\n\nIn January 2022, a judge ruled the NCA could seize £5.6m [$7m] from the London-based family of Javanshir Feyziyev, a member of Azerbaijan's parliament.\n\nTheir British bank accounts received cash that had been removed from Azerbaijan in what the judge said had been \"a significant money-laundering scheme\".\n\nThe family have denied that allegation - and at the outset of the hearing, in October 2021, Mr Marandi was granted anonymity in court.\n\nNow, High Court judges have ruled that Mr Marandi can be identified because he had been a \"person of importance\" in the NCA's case.\n\nMr Marandi, 55, was born in Iran and grew up in London, where he still lives.\n\nHis ties to the Conservative Party emerged through reports of his generous donations. Between 2014 and 2020, he gave £633,800 according to Electoral Commission records.\n\nIn February 2022, the Sunday Times reported he was a member of a group of major donors who had access to senior party members, including to then prime minister, Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Marandi is well known for his philanthropic work and support of the arts\n\nMr Marandi was described in court as a \"highly successful international businessman\" with a broad portfolio of business interests in the UK and abroad.\n\nHe owns the iconic design brand, The Conran Shop, a stake in Anya Hindmarch Ltd, the luxury handbag firm, and an exclusive private members' club and hotel in Oxfordshire.\n\nAlong with his wife, he heads the Marandi Foundation, which funds the Prince and Princess of Wales's charity.\n\nIn 2021, Mr Marandi became a special adviser to homelessness charity Centrepoint, providing guidance on how it could expand its work with disadvantaged young people.\n\nNone of Mr Marandi's UK businesses or these organisations form any part of the NCA's investigation, which looked at earlier events.\n\nThe probe began in 2017, after investigative journalists revealed an enormous money-laundering scheme, which became known as the \"Azerbaijani Laundromat\".\n\nThe Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) revealed how $2.9bn (£2.3bn) of dirty money - cash stolen from Azerbaijan's people and economy - had been spirited away by members of the country's elite. It was largely for their own benefit, but also to bribe European politicians.\n\nPaul Radu, the OCCRP's co-founder, said the Laundromat scheme was one of the most significant examples of post-Soviet looting.\n\n\"The Azerbaijani Laundromat brought a lot of damage on many levels to Azerbaijan itself, to the European Union, to the US, and other parts of the world,\" he said.\n\n\"Small businesses lost a lot of money - they had deposits with a bank that was at the centre of the Laundromat.\"\n\nThose revelations prompted the NCA to investigate the Feyziyev family's finances in the UK - leading to its application, in 2021, to seize some of their UK cash - and the disclosure in court of the link to Mr Marandi.\n\nAccording to documents from the NCA's case at Westminster Magistrates' Court, the suspect money that made its way to the Feyziyev family accounts in London had originated in bank accounts belonging to a company with neither employees, nor traceable records of its activities.\n\nFake companies: NCA says money trail began with cash moved into bogus firm in Baku\n\nBased in Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, Baktelekom looked like a state-owned firm that has an almost identical name.\n\nDistrict Judge John Zani found that \"substantial funds from this criminal enterprise\" were then moved into two bank accounts in the Baltics belonging to Glasgow-registered shell companies.\n\nSome of the cash was then moved onwards to accounts linked to Javanshir Feyziyev and Javad Marandi, according to the NCA.\n\nA series of firms, sharing the name Avromed, were \"central\" to the transfer of this money.\n\nOne of them had been set up in the Seychelles in 2005, with Mr Marandi being its beneficiary.\n\nCourt papers show the Avromed Seychelles company received large sums, as shown in the graphic below.\n\nMoney flowed into the company from other sources. In total, investigators say it paid out:\n\nRuling on the NCA's application to seize cash from the Feyziyev family, the judge concluded: \"I am satisfied that there is overwhelming evidence that the invoices and contracts purporting to support legitimate (and very substantial) business transactions between Baktelekom, Hilux and Polux were entirely fictitious.\"\n\nThey were produced in order to allow \"very significant sums into and out of their accounts so as to mask the underlying money-laundering activities of those orchestrating the accounts\".\n\nSeychelles: Company registered here, with a bank account in the Baltic, received cash from Glasgow-registered firms\n\nThe National Crime Agency told the court it would \"neither confirm nor deny\" whether there was an active investigation into Mr Marandi's finances - but the well-known businessman has adamantly denied any involvement in wrongdoing.\n\nHis lawyers told the court that between 2012-2017, tight currency controls in Azerbaijan meant he had to use exchange houses in Latvia and Estonia to transfer legitimately-owned dividends from Avromed and other businesses.\n\n\"The funds were lawfully earned, and lawfully transferred, and there is no question of money laundering,\" they said.\n\nLegal battle: Began in October 2021 at outset of major NCA case\n\nWhen the NCA's case against the Feyziyev family first went to court, Mr Marandi's lawyers argued that revealing his identity would breach his privacy and cause \"profound and irremediable\" damage to his reputation - not least because no law enforcement body had interviewed or approached him regarding the case.\n\nAfter the court ruled the NCA could seize millions from the Feyziyev family's British bank accounts, the BBC and London Evening Standard argued it was in the public interest to disclose that some of Mr Marandi's overseas interests had been part of the case.\n\nJudge Zani ruled, in May 2022, that Mr Marandi - who was referred to as MNL - could be named under principles of open justice, saying he had been a \"person of importance to the main proceedings\".\n\nThat ruling triggered more than a year of further challenges by Mr Marandi.\n\nHis lawyers succeeded in getting a costly High Court review of Judge Zani's ruling. By this stage, the London Evening Standard had dropped out of the challenge.\n\nLast month, two of the country's most experienced judges ruled the media could name Mr Marandi.\n\nThey concluded that open justice was a fundamental principle and that anonymity should only be allowed in exceptional circumstances.\n\nMr Justice Mostyn said: \"My only surprise is that the anonymity order was granted in the first place. For reasons of procedural unfairness as well as a distinct lack of merit, it should never have been granted.\"\n\nSpeaking after losing the case, a spokesman for Mr Marandi said that he not been the subject of the claim against the Feyziyev family, nor a witness.\n\n\"It is therefore unjust to be named, without having had the fundamental right to rebut these false findings.\"\n\nIn its decision on Monday evening to allow the BBC to report the story, the Court of Appeal said: \"[Mr Marandi] may not have been a party to or a witness in the forfeiture proceedings, but that did not mean that he had no fair opportunity to address the allegations made against him.\n\n\"He could have refuted them in detail when he put in his evidence in support of his claim for anonymity. Instead, he chose to rest on a bare denial of wrongdoing.\n\n\"Moreover in this case, as the [High Court] held, the forfeiture judgment contained no finding that [the applicant] was guilty of an offence.\"\n\nDuncan Hames, director of policy at the anti-corruption research group Transparency International UK, said the Conservative Party had questions to answer.\n\n\"This is a political bombshell,\" he said. \"We've learned today that someone who's given hundreds of thousands to a British political party has, in the words of the judge, been a person of importance in proceedings before the court about a major money-laundering enterprise.\n\n\"That should be a concern, not just to people who are worried about where that money came from, but about what it says about how easily money can reach political parties without [them] doing proper checks on on its origins.\"\n\nThe former Liberal Democrat MP added: \"It's not good enough just to check whether someone is on the electoral roll. Our political parties need to be much more careful about who they take money from. \"\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said in a statement the party only accepts donations from \"permissible sources, namely individuals registered on the UK's electoral roll or UK registered companies\".\n\n\"Donations are properly and transparently declared to the Electoral Commission, openly published by them, and comply fully with the law.\"\n\nIn Parliament, SNP MP Alison Thewliss was granted the urgent question on the implications of the NCA's investigation. She asked Home Office minister Chris Philp to confirm whether Mr Marandi had meetings with ministers or received any government contracts.\n\nLabour MP Margaret Hodge - the former chair of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee - said: \"We should take these allegations very seriously. If true, dirty money has well and truly crept into our politics… Will the government bring forward regulations requiring all parties to do due diligence and checks on the source of all political donations\".\n\nMr Philp said the government was \"committed to making sure the UK does not have dirty money\", and stressed electoral law set out a \"stringent regime of donations' controls\".\n\nHe said the government \"does not and cannot comment on investigations being undertaken by law enforcement operations\".\n\nBBC News has contacted the Royal Foundation and Centrepoint for comment.\n\nIn an earlier version of this story the BBC reported Mr Marandi's Conservative Party donations as £756,300. That figure included donations from another member of his family.", "Excavation work is to start soon to find the bodies of up to 40 German soldiers who were executed by the French Resistance in June 1944.\n\nIt follows the testimony of an ex-Resistance fighter who recently broke eight decades of silence to reveal how the Germans were shot in a wood near Meymac in central France.\n\nEdmond Réveil, 98, is the last surviving member from the local branch of the FTP (Francs-tireurs et partisans) Resistance group, and personally witnessed the mass execution at a place called Le Vert.\n\nIn a recorded deposition, Réveil described how his detachment of 30 fighters was escorting German prisoners through countryside east of Tulle when the order came to kill them.\n\nThe commander of the detachment, whose code name was Hannibal, \"cried like a kid when he got the order. But there was discipline in the Resistance,\" remembered Réveil.\n\n\"He asked for volunteers to carry out the order. Every fighter had someone to kill. But there were some of us - and I was one of them - who said we wouldn't take part.\n\n\"It was a terribly hot day. We made them dig their own graves. They were killed and we poured quicklime on them. I remember it smelled of blood. We never spoke of it again.\"\n\nRéveil, whose codename in the war was Papillon (Butterfly), kept the secret for 75 years, even from his family.\n\nThen unexpectedly in 2019 he rose at the end of a local meeting of the National Veterans' Association and announced he had something to say.\n\nMeymac's mayor Philippe Brugere told the BBC that it was like a weight had been lifted from Réveil's mind.\n\n\"Over the years he had plenty of opportunities to tell the story, and he never did. But he was the last witness. It was a burden to him. He knew that if he didn't speak out, no-one would ever know.\"\n\nBefore local authorities could take further action, however, Covid struck. It was only a few weeks ago that the case was re-opened, and the story broke in the local newspaper La Montagne on Tuesday.\n\nFrench and German historians have confirmed the outline of the events as described by Réveil.\n\nShortly after D-Day on 6 June 1944, Resistance fighters staged a kind of uprising in Tulle, capital of the Corrèze department, during which between 50 and 60 German soldiers were taken prisoner. But on June 9 the Germans retaliated with the public hanging of 99 hostages.\n\nThe site where the Germans were killed\n\nNot far from there on 10 June, the SS Das Reich Division massacred 643 people in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, which has remained an empty monument ever since.\n\nRéveil had taken part in the Tulle uprising, and then joined the escort party which headed east. \"None of the Resistance groups wanted anything to do with (the prisoners). We didn't know what to do with them,\" he recalled.\n\nAt one point some of the prisoners - those who came from countries like Poland or Czechoslovakia - were separated from the rest. And it was around 50 of them who arrived at Meymac on 12 June.\n\n\"If a prisoner wanted to take a pee, he needed to be guarded by two of us. We hadn't planned anything for food. We were under the orders of an Allied command centre at Saint-Fréjoux, and they were the ones who gave the orders to kill them,\" he said.\n\nAmong the prisoners was one French woman who had collaborated with the Gestapo. None of the Resistance fighters wanted to shoot her, so they drew lots and she was killed.\n\nIn the coming weeks officials from the German War Graves Commission (VDK) are expected in Meymac. Their first task is to use ground-penetrating radar to establish the exact site of the graves.\n\nLocal historians said that in 1967 11 German bodies were exhumed from Le Vert but the excavations stopped, and no records were kept of the exact place of the dig. Given the still raw sensitivities just 23 years on - the operation was cloaked in secrecy.\n\nHowever, a local man who was a young boy in 1967 remembers seeing the excavations, and he has given a rough indication of where the graves of the remaining 40 or so soldiers may be.\n\nRéveil, who became a railway-worker in later life, is \"somewhat overwhelmed by the media attention\", said Brugère.\n\n\"He is a wonderfully kind old man. He was against violence and in the Resistance he never fired a shot.\n\n\"All he wants now is for the dead soldiers to be remembered, and their families to be told where they lie. And perhaps for a small memorial to be put up at the spot.\"", "The first human trial of a new type of dirty-bomb-antidote pill, designed to remove harmful radioactive contamination from the body, is starting in the US.\n\nThe drug, HOPO 14-1, is thought to work against several materials that might be used in weapons, including uranium.\n\nIf it proves safe and effective it could guard against potential harm from nuclear accidents or terrorist attacks.\n\nAbout 42 volunteers will try different doses, checking for side effects.\n\nThere will be \"intensive safety monitoring\", with results from the phase one study expected in 2024, say the trial leaders from SRI International of Menlo Park, California, who are receiving funding from US government agency the National Institutes of Health.\n\nAlso known as a radiological dispersal device or RDD, a dirty bomb is an explosive that has been mixed with radioactive material so that when it goes off there will be contamination of the blast zone.\n\nA dirty bomb is not a nuclear bomb - it is \"weapon of mass disruption\" rather than \"mass destruction\", says the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.\n\nThe cloud of radiation from a dirty bomb could be dispersed within a few blocks or miles of the explosion, whereas a nuclear bomb could spread thousands of square miles.\n\nExposure to radiation can damage a person's DNA, tissues and organs, leading to illnesses, including cancer, which is why an oral drug that could counteract some of the effects would be useful.\n\nThere are already two different drug injections that can be used to treat people who have been exposed to radioactive plutonium, americium or curium.\n\nFor decades, experts have also known that iodine tablets can be deployed to help protect people if radioactive iodine has been released into the environment; it was given to people in 1986 when a nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl power plant.\n\nAnother pill, Prussian blue (potassium ferric hexacyanoferrate), can help remove radioactive caesium and thallium.\n\nIf HOPO 14-1 works, it would be another to add to the stockpile, offering protection against uranium and neptunium in addition to plutonium, americium and curium.\n\nThere has not yet been a successful dirty-bomb attack anywhere in the world.\n\nHowever, there have been attempts.\n\nIn 1996, rebels from Chechnya planted a bomb containing dynamite and radioactive caesium-137 in Moscow's Izmailovo Park.\n\nSecurity services discovered its location and it was defused.\n\nIn 1998, Chechnya's intelligence service found and defused a dirty bomb that had been placed near a railway line in Chechnya.\n• None The true toll of the Chernobyl disaster - BBC Future\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sinn Féin is now the largest party in both local government and Stormont for the first time after making huge gains in council elections.\n\nWith all seats counted, the party has won 144, up from the 105 councillors returned in 2019.\n\nIts vice-president Michelle O'Neill called for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to end its boycott of power sharing at Stormont.\n\nThe DUP has 122 seats, with the centre-ground Alliance Party in third place.\n\nStormont's assembly and governing executive is not functioning because of the DUP's protest against post-Brexit trading rules.\n\nIn last year's assembly election, Sinn Féin became the largest party at Stormont.\n\nMs O'Neill described the council election result as \"historic\".\n\nShe said Sinn Féin's campaign, which has seen it make breakthroughs in areas such as Coleraine, Ballymena and Lisburn, was about \"positive leadership, it was about a restoration of the executive, it was about making politics work\".\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said his party wanted to consolidate its vote to have a mandate to seek changes to the post-Brexit rules so it could return to Stormont.\n\n\"That's about ensuring that Northern Ireland's ability to trade with the rest of the United Kingdom is not only respected but protected in law, and that our place in the union is restored,\" he said.\n\nThe Alliance Party, which also came third in the 2022 assembly election, has increased its number of councillors from 52 to 67.\n\nThis includes its first ever council seats in Ballyclare, Fermanagh and Limavady.\n\nIn terms of first preference votes, Sinn Féin, Alliance and Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) increased their share from the 2019 council election.\n\nThe DUP dropped by 0.8% to 23.3%, with falls in first preference vote share also for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said his party's vote had held up well\n\nIt has been a disappointing election so far for the UUP and the SDLP, which have losses in their overall seat tallies.\n\nUUP leader Doug Beattie said his party's message is clear but not resonating.\n\n\"It's clear also that many unionists and people who are pro-union are simply not getting out to vote so we have a real issue getting people out of their doors,\" he added.\n\nThe SDLP leader, Colum Eastwood, said the election had been a \"reassertion of the assembly election last year\", adding he did not believe he should stand down.\n\n\"I have no interest in titles or positions, but if I thought the right course of action was to step down, I would do it in a heartbeat,\" he said.\n\nIn all, 807 candidates competed for seats in Northern Ireland's 11 local councils.\n\nThere were 1,380,372 people registered to vote and turnout was 54%.\n\nThis Sinn Féin victory may not be a surprise but the size of it probably is.\n\nNot only is the party dominant in traditional nationalist areas, but it's reaching places it has never reached before.\n\nThe DUP is secure in second place, with the party claiming an endorsement for its policy of boycotting Stormont over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nNevertheless there have been calls for unionist realignment, with the former DUP leader Edwin Poots saying unionism needs to \"wake up and smell the coffee\".\n\nThe former UUP leader Mike Nesbitt says there should only be two unionist parties - one traditional and one more liberal.\n\nThe Alliance Party is now secure in third place after leapfrogging the UUP.\n\nBut the new political landscape seems to have less room for smaller parties, with losses for People Before Profit and the Greens, whose leader Mal O'Hara lost his seat.\n\nBut remember this election was to Northern Ireland's 11 so-called super councils.\n\nThe results are unlikely to have any immediate impact on the stalemate at Stormont, with the DUP holding out for movement from the government over the Irish Sea border.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Alliance Party deputy leader Stephen Farry said the results so far could \"marginally increase\" the chances of the executive returning.\n\n\"The TUV have not landed blows on the DUP; I think the DUP have perhaps more room for manoeuvre,\" he said.\n\n\"From our perspective there should not be a boycott of the assembly - we should be back in.\"\n\nFiona McAteer, elected for the Alliance Party in Belfast, celebrated with her husband Richard and daughter Emmie\n\nIt has been a mixed picture for other smaller parties in the 2023 council election.\n\nPUP leader Billy Hutchinson, first elected as a Belfast councillor in 1997, lost his seat, with Russell Watton in Causeway Coast and Glens left as the party's only elected representative.\n\nHe said there will be a meeting of the party in the coming weeks to determine its future.\n\nPaul McCusker, who left the SDLP in March, was elected as an independent in Belfast\n\nIndependent Paul McCusker, who left the SDLP in March, was elected in the Oldpark ward in Belfast.\n\nIn the same council, Mal O'Hara, leader of the Green Party in Northern Ireland, missed out.\n\nYou can listen to the BBC's 5 Questions On, where Ireland Correspondent Chris Page explains the significance of the 2023 council election.", "Patrick Kielty said he was thrilled to become the new presenter of the Late Late Show\n\nPatrick Kielty is the new host of RTÉ's The Late Late Show, succeeding former presenter Ryan Tubridy, the Irish broadcaster has announced.\n\nHe is the fourth permanent presenter of the programme - one of the world's longest running late-night talk shows - since 1962.\n\nKielty said he was \"absolutely thrilled\" and that it was \"a real honour\" to take up the role.\n\nThe County Down-born comedian has a long career in TV and radio presenting.\n\nKielty will continue to host his own Saturday radio programme on BBC Radio 5Live while presenting the Late Late.\n\nFrom 1999 to 2003, he fronted Patrick Kielty Almost Live on BBC One and also co-presented talent show Fame Academy with English presenter Cat Deeley in 2002 and 2003.\n\nThe pair later became a couple and married in 2012.\n\nPatrick Kielty is married to the English presenter Cat Deeley\n\nIn March, Ryan Tubridy announced he would be stepping down after 14 years at the helm of the Late Late Show.\n\nHis final programme will be broadcast on Friday 26 May on RTÉ One, with Kielty expected to be on-air in September.\n\nKielty grew up in the County Down village of Dundrum and played Gaelic football for Down's minor team.\n\nHe studied psychology at Queen's University in Belfast before making his first serious steps into stardom as compere at the Empire Comedy Club in the city.\n\nThe comedy club tweeted a throwback photo of a young Kielty performing on stage following the announcement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAround the same time, he got his first break into TV with a children's programme on Ulster Television called Sus.\n\nIn January 1988, during the course of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, his father Jack Kielty was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries.\n\nRyan Tubridy is stepping down after becoming the third person to present the Late Late Show since 1962\n\nKielty said he could not thank RTÉ enough for giving him \"the chance to be a part of the next chapter of such an iconic show\".\n\n\"I'm also genuinely humbled to become part of Friday nights for so many Irish people, at home and around the world.\n\n\"I can't wait to get started on one of the greatest jobs in television.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Patrick Kielty This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJim Jennings, RTÉ's director of content, said: \"Patrick Kielty is undoubtedly one of Ireland's finest comedians, a fantastic presenter with a depth of experience, and a range of talents that will bring an exciting new dynamic to the show.\n\n\"Patrick's personality and passion is sure to connect with audiences and I look forward to it bursting on to screens in September.\n\n\"We have very definite ideas for the show already in the works and we'll be busy behind the scenes shaping the series for launch. We'll be back in August to tell you all about it.\"", "Australian police say they will not release bodycam footage of the moment an elderly woman with dementia was Tasered by an officer.\n\nClare Nowland, 95, is in critical condition after an officer discharged the weapon at a care home in Cooma, New South Wales (NSW), on Wednesday.\n\nPolice say Ms Nowland had moved towards them \"at a slow pace\" with a knife.\n\nNSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said she was \"not sure\" why there were calls for the footage to be released.\n\n\"I am not sure why they want to see it,\" she told reporters at a press conference.\n\n\"Body-worn video is subject to legislative requirements around the surveillance devices act and other things, so it is not routine and we don't intend to release it, unless there is a process at the end of this that would allow it to be released.\"\n\nMs Webb said she had not seen the video but had heard audio from the footage. She said she does not \"see it necessary\" for her to view it.\n\nThe case has made global headlines and sparked an outcry over what advocates say was a disproportionate response.\n\nNSW Police has launched a critical incident investigation, which Ms Webb said would \"take some time\".\n\nOfficers were called to the Yallambee Lodge care home after reports that Ms Nowland was \"armed with a knife\".\n\nPolice say they asked Ms Nowland, aided by a walking frame, to drop the knife before an officer discharged the weapon.\n\nFamily friend Andrew Thaler claimed Ms Nowland was struck twice - in the chest and the back - before she fell, suffering a fractured skull and a serious brain bleed.\n\nHer family are already grieving as they do not expect her to survive, he told BBC News.\n\n\"The family are shocked, they're confused... and the community is outraged.\"\n\n\"How can this happen? How do you explain this level of force? It's absurd.\"", "Parents are scraping out dirty nappies and reusing them, a charity worker said\n\nThe stigma around hygiene poverty is holding people back for getting help, a charity that provides toiletries to 125 foodbanks, schools and refuges in Northern Ireland has said.\n\nThe Hygiene Bank has distributed over 62.6kg of nappies, sanitary items and other products throughout Northern Ireland since 2020.\n\nIts coordinator says some parents are reusing dirty nappies for their babies, in a bid to save money.\n\nHilary Young, from Portglenone, County Antrim, said many people do not want to admit they need help but \"when it comes to basic things particularly it's like a stigma, they feel ashamed they've had to do this\".\n\n\"But more and more people are having to make that step,\" said Ms Young, who stores supplies for the charity in her garage.\n\nMs Young works with the Ballymena unit of the charity but said her work now included areas from Maghera and Magherafelt to Antrim and Ballyclare.\n\n\"We have had reports of if families haven't got nappies to change into a fresh nappy, they scrape the current nappy off, clean as much as they can, and put the nappy back on.\n\n\"It's hard to imagine having to do that, but sadly that's the case. Hard to imagine when you're not in that position, but sadly that's reality.\"\n\nThe charity worker said the need for personal items such as toilet roll and toothpaste is growing, with the charity opening another two bases in Northern Ireland in recent months.\n\n\"Initially we were blinded to the reality of the need out there,\" she continued.\n\n\"It used to be you'd have thought it was a far-off country, not your own country, or your own area. But no - it's very much on our doorsteps, sadly.\"\n\nHilary Young said things are getting worse for families in Northern Ireland\n\nA family of five might only have one toothbrush to share around, and families weren't able to renew these every few months as would be advised, she said.\n\n\"I've been to Africa helping in an orphanage out there, and you expect it out there, but here you wouldn't imagine that to be the case. But sadly it is. And it's getting worse, unfortunately.\n\n\"A lot of the hygiene side of things hasn't been realised as much as it should be because it goes alongside needing food.\n\n\"We all need to eat, we need to wash, we need to do all those basic things, we need to keep warm especially when it's chilly mornings.\n\n\"The hygiene side of things is not talked about but it's very much real.\"\n\nHeather Boyd, the centre manager at the Maghera Cross Community Link, which runs a foodbank that receives donations from The Hygiene Bank, said she worried for schoolchildren who are not being washed for school.\n\n\"If kids are going to school without being washed or clean clothes it causes all sorts of problems for them,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We have seen how important it is to be able to wash.\n\n\"We've had a food bank for around nine years, but people are finding it so much harder.\n\n\"We used to be focused on just feeding people, but now it's so much more, working families are coming to us and steadily a lot of new faces in the last month.\n\n\"Families are grateful for a hygiene bag - those are the items which shouldn't be a treat, a toothbrush, shower gel.\"\n\nAntrim's Baby Bank could open for more than one day a week due to increasing demand, Sharon Caldwell said\n\nSharon Caldwell, the scheme organiser for the Baby Bank in Antrim which distributes essential supplies to families, said referrals had almost doubled in a year.\n\n\"People are not looking for luxuries, they're not looking for all the additional things, they are looking for the things we presume every child should have,\" she said.\n\nMs Caldwell said parents would often go without shampoo or shower gel in order to provide hygienic items for their babies.\n\n\"I wouldn't like to think what would happen if suddenly a place like ours did not exist,\" she said.\n\n\"People have gotten used to knowing that when they face a difficult week, when they are in crisis, if the worst comes to the worst, they know that their baby will have everything that they need.\"\n\nYou can hear Good Morning Ulster's interview with Hilary Young here.", "Greece has been spearheading efforts to force museums and private collections to return stolen artefacts\n\nGreece says it has recovered hundreds of looted artefacts, including a 2nd-Century bronze statue of Alexander the Great.\n\nThe trove was recovered after a legal battle with the company of a British antiquities dealer, officials said.\n\nRobin Symes had amassed thousands of pieces as part of a network of illegal traders.\n\nFor years, Greece has been fighting to recover looted artefacts from museums and private collections world-wide.\n\nThe announcement that 351 objects from Symes's collection were being repatriated after a 17-year legal battle was made by Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni on Friday.\n\nMs Mendoni did not say if the artefacts were linked to the discovery by Italian and Swiss police in 2016 of a haul of archaeological treasures said to have been stored by Symes at the Geneva freeport in Switzerland.\n\nArguably the most high-profile artworks in the debate about whether museums should return items to their countries of origin are the Parthenon Sculptures.\n\nThey were removed from the Parthenon temple in Athens in the early 19th Century by the British soldier and diplomat, Lord Elgin. The sculptures were then bought by the British government in 1816 and placed in the British Museum.\n\nTalks about their return are said to be advancing.\n\nIn March, the Vatican returned three fragments of Athens' Parthenon temple it had kept for centuries.", "Nick's home has become an island during floods\n\nHomeowners risk complacency, expense and trauma unless they consider fitting simple flood protection measures, a new campaign will claim.\n\nThe Environment Agency and others say millions of UK homes are at risk, and families can be forced out of a flood-hit home for a year for it to dry out.\n\nThey say relatively cheap upgrades, including toilet bungs and air brick covers, can help cut damage and costs.\n\nForecasters say flooding in the UK will become more intense and more frequent.\n\nProtection has saved one couple's home despite nine floods in four years.\n\nNick Lupton, who lives next to the River Severn in Worcestershire, said he and his wife Annie had never had to claim on insurance, having kept their house dry despite torrents of water outside.\n\nNick Lupton says the investment is worthwhile\n\n\"We bought the house with our eyes wide open,\" said the retired engineer.\n\n\"We have added a little bit to the mitigation the previous owners put in place which had worked very well, which makes our life a little bit easier.\"\n\nThe property, part of which dates back to the 17th Century, was once the river ferryboat's inn. When it was a pub, the sound of floating beer barrels in the cellar was a sign of the rising water.\n\nNow, double flood barriers in front of the doors and pumps under the floors keep the muddy overflowing river water back. The couple are remortgaging to pay for a flood wall to circle the property, anticipating raising the value of their home as a result.\n\nNot everything is expensive. A £5 sewage bung has saved them from having to bail out the toilets every 40 minutes during the night during a flood.\n\nSuch measures will be central to the launch of the Be Flood Smart campaign on Monday by the Environment Agency and Flood Re - a scheme designed to provide affordable insurance for flood-risk homes.\n\n\"I can't stress enough just how horrendous flooding is, so any action people can take to avoid the turmoil is a good investment,\" said Andy Bord, chief executive of Flood Re, who likened the safety measures to locks to prevent burglary.\n\n\"Insurance covers a lot, but it can't make flooding any less traumatic and protect those really important sentimental items at the heart of your home.\"\n\nToilet bungs are pumped up to avoid sewage backing up during a flood\n\nJust days after the latest set of floods hit the UK, he is urging homeowners refurbishing their homes to consider measures such as waterproof tiling and covers over the holes in air bricks. The latter could prevent water getting in, the former could make any post-flood clean-up quicker and cheaper so residents can move back in sooner.\n\nSuch items are now being put to the test, and their benefits taught to the building trade, at a new flood school in Oxfordshire.\n\nThe BBC was given exclusive access to the Be Flood Ready Property Flood Resilience Centre, built at not-for-profit consultancy HR Wallingford using government funding.\n\nFlooding is simulated here with water pumped into a mock-up kitchen, showing the benefit of raised electrical sockets and appliances, as well as tiled skirting boards.\n\nA simulation shows the impact of flood water and protection measures\n\nAccording to Emma Brown, who leads the flood forecasting team at HR Wallingford, climate change will make flooding \"worse, more intense and more frequent\".\n\nThat includes coastal floods, rivers overflowing, and drainage systems unable to cope with too much rainfall. Summer rain, when the ground is hard, can create flash floods in urban areas.\n\nShe said that the risk of flooding in areas that had not suffered before could lead to some complacency, but technology was helping to highlight the risks.\n\nEmma Brown says computer modelling can alert those at risk\n\n\"State-of-the-art computer models mean we can pinpoint the homes and businesses that are most likely to be flooded. We can go out and be better prepared,\" she said.\n\nThe early results of research in Northampton suggested that every £1 spent on flood prevention in the area could mean £6 saved in dealing with damage, she said.", "There is a danger of more bespoke flavours going off the market due to the cost-of-living crisis, ice cream makers say\n\nFewer ice cream flavours will be available this year after an increase in ingredient and production costs, producers have said.\n\nIce cream makers said they were reducing the variety they offer to save money and ensure sales.\n\nWith less creativity in production, customers could be left to choose from more traditional flavours only.\n\nThe UK government said it would continue to help people and businesses through \"difficult times\".\n\nHaving thrived in west Wales since the 1930s, the Conti family have been known for their ice cream for decades.\n\nTheir recipe is secret and Tom Lewis, a member of the family, is now responsible for producing it.\n\nComparing the current production method with his Grandad's generation, he said the process has become \"much easier\" but the current economic climate was \"much more difficult\".\n\nTom Lewis from Conti's is no longer serving the same variety of flavours\n\n\"I've swapped from organic milk to local milk and my price is still about 50% more than it was two years ago,\" he said.\n\n\"I have some ingredients that are up 100%, sugar [is up] 50%. So, just on price alone, I guess there hasn't been a jump like this ever.\"\n\nAs a way of overcoming the recent cost increases from ingredients to electricity, Tom has started to cut back on flavours - a tough decision having been the one who introduced flavours to his Grandad's plain recipe in the first place.\n\n\"I'm keeping stock of certain things lower because I can't risk having them going out of date by winter,\" he said.\n\n\"I know honeycomb's doubled in price, so I haven't made any of that this year.\"\n\nKnown for their hand-crafted quality ice cream, one company from north Wales is also worried about sales going cold due to rising production costs.\n\nHelen Holland from Môn ar Lwy, based in Bodorgan, Anglesey, said the business has made several cutbacks over recent years.\n\n\"We need to make the most we can when we're in production,\" she said.\n\n\"We've also decreased our flavours. We still have bespoke and about 25 to 30 different flavours on offer every season, but I'm not as creative as I used to be.\"\n\nReacting to the possibility of losing their favourite flavoured ice cream, many in the seaside town of Aberaeron, Ceredigion, were disappointed.\n\nEating her Kinder Bueno flavoured ice cream, Emily Leonard, from Manchester, said: \"I'd be a bit gutted to be honest, if all the boring ones were left… you never know what you're going to pick until you look at all the flavours.\n\n\"I feel like the cooler flavours get more attention.\"\n\nIan Roberts is worried about what a lack of flavours might mean for the summer\n\nIan Roberts said his kids enjoyed a variety of flavours.\n\nHe said: \"If there's less flavours, there'd be a little less fun for the summer wouldn't there?\"\n\nA fan of vanilla ice cream, Jane Guest, from Aberystwyth, suggested ice cream makers should raise their prices depending on the flavour.\n\n\"I don't know why they don't sell it at a higher price,\" she said.\n\n\"If it's something like nuts, pistachio and hazelnut, that does cost more.\"\n\nBut she did acknowledge ice cream was already \"quite expensive\".\n\nThings need to change if the industry is to survive, Tom from Conti's says\n\nMr Lewis said he did not think businesses should \"dump\" large premiums on customers and said things would need to change \"drastically\" for the industry to succeed.\n\n\"People need to get back on their feet. Ice cream is a treat, if people are unable to pay their utility fees, they're not going to be buying ice cream,\" he said.\n\nThe UK government said: \"We were clear that we would help people and businesses in Wales through these difficult times and we continue to do so.\n\n\"We are taking action to reduce inflation while making sure real-time financial support is provided to those who need it, with more than 400,000 people in Wales receiving £301 directly from the UK government in the last few weeks.\"", "The double homicide of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenist Bruno Pereira sparked protests across Brazil\n\nPolice have indicted the former head of Brazil's Indigenous protection agency for his alleged role in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips.\n\nPolice didn't identify the official, named as Marcelo Xavier by state media.\n\nHe was accused of \"possible malice\" for failing to act on information which police believe could have prevented Phillips' death.\n\nPhillips and Brazilian indigenist Bruno Pereira were killed on a reporting trip in the Amazon rainforest last year.\n\nThree men have separately been charged with carrying out the double homicide.\n\nPereira was accompanying Phillips, a veteran journalist who wrote for newspapers including The Guardian and Washington Post, by boat through the Javari Valley near Brazil's border with Peru as part of Phillips' research for a book on conservation efforts in the Amazon.\n\nThe huge region is home to around 6,300 Indigenous people from more than 20 groups and is under threat from illegal loggers, miners and hunters.\n\nThe pair went missing on 5 June 2022 and their bodies were recovered 10 days later.\n\nThe latest development in the case saw federal police announce charges against the former president and former vice-president of Brazil's National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (Funai) agency.\n\nWhile authorities did not name the two officials, a number of media outlets including state broadcaster Agencia Brasil identified one ex-official as Mr Xavier.\n\nThey became aware at a meeting held in 2019, and through other documents, that the life of agency employees - such as Pereira - was at risk in lawless areas like the Javari Valley.\n\nBut they did not take the \"necessary measures\" to protect them, police said in a statement.\n\n\"In this way, they would have assumed the risk of the result of their omissions, which culminated in the double homicide,\" the force added, appearing to suggest Mr Xavier's failure to protect workers indirectly paved the way for the murders of Phillips, 57, and Pereira, 41.\n\nPereira had previously been employed by Funai but was not at the time of his death.\n\nHis and Phillips' disappearance sparked a manhunt in the remote area of the rainforest, and a global outpouring of support for their safe return.\n\nAfter their bodies were discovered and identified, police found the pair had been shot dead, burned and buried in the forest.\n\nThree men were later charged with their murders - Amarildo Oliveira, his brother Oseney Oliveira and Jefferson Lima.\n\nThey are thought to have decided to kill the pair when Pereira asked Phillips to take a picture of their illegal fishing boat.", "It's approaching midnight in Hiroshima, and now seems like a good time to pause our live coverage of the G7 summit for today.\n\nIt was a frenetic day of diplomacy for leaders of the rich allied nations, especially after the arrival of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nHe held talks with four leaders from the Group of Seven - the UK, France, Germany and Italy - as well as the Indian PM Narendra Modi, as he sought to bolster support for Ukraine.\n\nHis visit came after the US announced it would let allies supply F-16 jets to Kyiv, a move which prompted Russia to warn of \"colossal risks\" if the West carried through with supplying the fighter planes.\n\nChina was also voicing its discontent today, this time after the release of a joint statement made by G7 countries where leaders outlined a shared approach towards the country and criticised Beijing on various issues.\n\nAway from the summit, where Ukraine has been front and centre, the battle for Bakhmut continues, with Kyiv denying claims from Russia's Wagner group that it had taken full control of the eastern city.\n\nZelensky is expected to take part in meetings with the G7 tomorrow before the summit concludes. My colleagues in London, Singapore and Hiroshima will be bringing you the latest developments, so until then, thanks for joining us.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA fraudster who conned people out of more than £100m worldwide has been sentenced to 13 years in jail.\n\nTejay Fletcher, 35, founded and ran a complex banking scam called iSpoof, brought down last year in the UK's biggest fraud sting.\n\nThe website enabled criminals to appear as if they were calling from banks and tax offices in order to trick victims.\n\nFletcher, of Western Gateway in east London, pleaded guilty to four charges relating to fraud last month.\n\nJudge Sally Cahill KC said it had been a \"harrowing experience\" for all of the victims.\n\nAs part of the scam, fraudsters using iSpoof were able to disguise phone calls so they appeared to be from a trusted organisation.\n\nThen, posing as employees of those firms or bodies, they would call people at random and warn them of suspicious activity on their accounts.\n\nVictims were encouraged to disclose security information and, through technology, the criminals might have accessed features such as one-time passcodes to clear people's accounts of money.\n\nThe fraudsters posed as staff from banks including Barclays, Santander, HSBC, Lloyds, Halifax, First Direct, NatWest, Nationwide and TSB.\n\nThe judge said the £100m of global losses was a conservative estimate and the figure could have been bigger.\n\nIn the UK alone, £43m was lost and one victim lost £3m. The average lost among the 4,785 people who reported being targeted to Action Fraud was £10,000.\n\nThe iSpoof website itself made about £3.2m in cryptocurrency Bitcoin, with the \"lions share\" ending up with Fletcher, according to prosecutor John Ojakovoh.\n\nFletcher, who has 18 previous convictions, made about £2m from the website and bought a £230,000 Lamborghini, two Range Rovers worth £110,000 and an £11,000 Rolex.\n\nTejay Fletcher was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Friday\n\nHe pleaded guilty last month to charges including making or supplying an article to use in fraud, encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence, possession of criminal property, and transferring criminal property, between 30 November 2020 and 8 November 2022.\n\nHe has been sentenced to 13 years and four months in prison.\n\nSentencing Fletcher, Judge Sally Cahill KC said he \"didn't care\" about those who had been defrauded, adding: \"The late expression of remorse is regret for being caught rather than empathy for your victims.\n\n\"The evidence in my view shows very clearly you had a leading role and an active role in creating a sophisticated article for fraud, which generated a substantial profit for you.\"\n\nWhat makes this case unusual is that the thousands who lost money through sophisticated scams were not direct victims of Fletcher and his junior partners - but they were all victims of fraud directly facilitated by the iSpoof website.\n\nThe prosecution described a business set up so that elements of detailed research and development on the one hand, and marketing on the other, encouraged criminals to cash in.\n\nFletcher bought a Lamborghini Urus with proceeds from the banking scam\n\nKate Anderson, deputy chief crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said the cost to many of the victims \"has not just been financial\".\n\n\"It has also had a huge emotional impact, causing extreme distress and devastation to those affected - many of whom had their life savings stolen from them,\" she said.\n\nDescribing the case as \"complex and challenging\", Ms Anderson thanked the Metropolitan Police for their help in securing the evidence.\n\nThe Met investigation involved 700 days of work and three detectives.\n\nThe force said that at its peak, iSpoof had 59,000 users, and at one point up to 20 people per minute were being targeted by callers using technology bought from the site.\n\nUsers of the website, which was created in December 2020, paid hundreds or thousands of pounds a month for its features, which were marketed on a channel on the encrypted messaging app Telegram called \"iSpoof club\".\n\nLast year, the Met texted 70,000 people to warn them their details had been compromised and they had likely been defrauded.\n\nMet Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said: \"Closing down iSpoof has been the UK's biggest ever fraud operation and was a collective effort.\"\n\nHe said the force was proud to have taken down \"criminals at the top of this fraudulent network\", describing them as \"heartless people\".\n\nSimon Baker KC, defending, said Fletcher was an \"extremely bright young man\" who has a young son, adding: \"It is extremely unfortunate that intellect was not channelled into gainful activities.\n\n\"His guilty plea reflects his genuine regret and remorse for his actions and his sincere wish to apologise to those who have suffered as a result of the frauds perpetrated against them, as a result of the iSpoof website.\"\n\nCommenting on how people can protect themselves against scams, cyber security analyst Jake Moore told BBC News: \"The onus is on the public unfortunately.\n\n\"Do not instantly trust caller ID - the fact is, we can't believe everything we see. And never hand over sensitive information, especially from a cold call.\"\n\nHave you been the victim of bank fraud? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "President Zelensky’s presence dominated the headlines here in Hiroshima from the minute he landed.\n\nBritish Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described it as a moment of “historic significance”. The French president called it a “game changer”. Indeed, the Ukrainian president standing at the centre of the “family photo” shoulder to shoulder with the leaders of the G7 does send a strong message.\n\nThe optics of this trip are just as important as the closed-door meetings and you’d be right to expect them.\n\nIt’s sometimes easy to think that the whole world stands against Russia and it’s military aggression against Ukraine. That’s not the case.\n\nWhile the G7 nations have shown unwavering solidarity and support for Ukraine and its president, other countries – including India - continue to maintain close ties with Moscow.\n\nAt a time when the G7 has announced more sanctions against Russia to stifle its revenue sources, India has maintained that it would continue to buy Russian oil - and large amounts of it at that.\n\nSo, it’s worthy of attention to see President Zelensky next to the Indian prime minister engaging in conversation – uncomfortable as it may have been.\n\nWe’re into the second year of the war on Ukraine and so far Western alliance support has not wavered.\n\nBut the Ukrainian leader knows that this is now a phase where he needs to be physically present on the world stage whenever he can, and he needs to reach beyond his circle of alliance and take the case for his country further.\n\nEven if that means sitting down with leaders of countries with close relations to his nation’s invaders.", "Chris Heaton-Harris indicated the UK government is prepared to consider helping to fund the project\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris has said he is confident the proposed new Casement Park stadium in west Belfast will be built.\n\nThe redeveloped stadium will cost at least £110m, with a 34,500 capacity.\n\nIt has been included in a bid by the UK and Ireland to host the 2028 European Football Championship.\n\nIt will be used primarily for GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) games as well as other sports and concerts.\n\nIn an interview with BBC News NI, Mr Heaton-Harris indicated the government is prepared to consider making a financial contribution to the project, if the Euros bid is successful.\n\nThe initial estimated cost of the stadium was £77m, with most of it coming from the Stormont executive, but that was almost a decade ago.\n\nThe cost may since have doubled but Mr Heaton-Harris believes funding can be secured.\n\n\"We'll get the money, don't you worry,\" he said.\n\nAn artist's impression of the proposed stadium will have a capacity of 34,500-capacity\n\nAsked who would provide the money, he replied: \"All partners. I guarantee it.\"\n\nWhen asked if this included central government in London, he said: \"I'm quite sure the UK government wants to help. But we will work with all partners to deliver the Casement Park stadium.\"\n\nAsked how much money the UK government was willing to contribute, he said: \"I don't actually know how much the whole thing is going to cost. We've seen different estimates. But let's win the bid first.\n\n\"Once we win the bid, we'll sit down round a table and the money will get sorted out.\"\n\nA decision on who will host the 2028 Euro finals is expected to be made by Uefa's executive committee in September.\n\nDublin's Aviva Stadium was also included in the final list of 10 grounds in the UK/Ireland application.\n\nGlasgow's Hampden Park, Cardiff's Principality Stadium and Wembley in London are on the list too.\n\nThe funding of the Casement Park stadium is complicated by the fact that the Northern Ireland Executive at Stormont is currently not functioning.\n\nThe GAA agreed to pay £15m towards the initial cost of the stadium, saying it was their maximum contribution.\n\nIn spite of the ongoing financial and political difficulties, Mr Heaton-Harris remains upbeat about the chances of the west Belfast redevelopment going ahead.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said: \"I've seen from London 2012 (Olympics) what having a big stadium built in a locality can do to change the environment and the positive legacy you get from that, and I think that would be brilliant for Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is a vital part of the bid to have games across the four nations of the United Kingdom, and in Ireland as well. And it is a really, really strong bid. We're bidding against strong opponents in Turkey, and everybody wants it to work.\"\n\nChris Heaton-Harris said having a big stadium can bring positivity to Northern Ireland\n\nThe secretary of state was speaking in south Antrim as he announced a total of £600,000 of funding for 28 local sports facilities in Northern Ireland, in conjunction with the Irish Football Association (IFA).\n\nAmong the clubs to benefit are Crewe United in south Antrim, Enniskillen Rangers FC, Magherafelt Sky Blues FC and Springfield Star FC in Belfast.\n\nThe money is from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and will go towards improving changing facilities, accessibility, goalposts and pitches.\n\nPatrick Nelson, chief executive of the IFA, said: \"We are delighted to work with the UK government to help local clubs provide the facilities needed to increase access to the wide-ranging benefits of grassroots football participation for previously under-represented groups and everyone in our community.\"\n\nMr Heaton-Harris is a qualified football referee and took charge of a youth game at Crewe United as details of the latest funding were announced.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nEngland's Chantelle Cameron delivered the first professional defeat of Katie Taylor's career to retain her undisputed light-welterweight crown.\n\nTaylor's Dublin homecoming was seven years in the making, but the undisputed lightweight champion could not deliver the dream result for her supporters as she lost out on a majority decision.\n\nOne judge scored it a draw, while the other two had it 96-94 to Cameron.\n\nThe 32-year-old extended her undefeated record to 18 wins.\n\n\"If I'm honest, I wasn't expecting the decision to go my way,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live after her win.\n\n\"I'm over the moon it went my way and the right woman got her arm raised.\"\n\nTaylor, 36, suffered her first loss since the 2016 Rio Olympics and her first defeat in 22 pro fights while Cameron staked her claim as one of the world's best by beating the sport's biggest female star.\n\nAs Cameron was embraced by her team when the results were read out, Taylor dropped her arm, visibly distraught at seeing her long-awaited homecoming end in defeat.\n\nThe scorecards deflated the partisan crowd, but promoter Eddie Hearn quickly raised spirits again by revealing there would be an immediate rematch in the autumn in Dublin.\n• None From snubbed champion to main spotlight - Cameron emerges as pound-for-pound contender\n\nCameron said she expected to be treated as the champion in their next fight.\n\n\"I need to speak to my team because everything was in Katie's favour in this fight,\" she said.\n\nTaylor, who grew up just a 30-minute drive from the 3Arena, was humble in defeat.\n\n\"I was expecting a gruelling fight and that's what it was,\" she said.\n\n\"I obviously came up short. I always love a challenge and I'm looking forward to the rematch.\n\n\"This isn't how I wanted the homecoming to go but I'm grateful that this event could sell out in a couple of minutes.\"\n\nIn a career brimming full of incredible achievements, Taylor's homecoming will surely go down as one of her most memorable nights, if not her most accomplished performances.\n\nPro boxing in Ireland has been on its knees since a gangland shooting at a weigh-in at the Regency hotel in 2016 effectively ended big-time boxing in the country.\n\nIt was only fitting that potentially Ireland's greatest ever boxer was the one to bring it back.\n\nTaylor waited her entire pro career, 22 fights, to fight at home again and was competing as the challenger for the first time in four years, having stepped up in weight.\n\nCameron had not been afforded any of the trappings of the champion in fight week, her name second on the posters and the Northampton fighter was the first to make her ring walk, breaking from tradition.\n\nMany had wondered whether the occasion would overawe Cameron, but she cut a relaxed figure as Three Little Birds rang out during her ring walk.\n\nThe first glimpse of Taylor promoted the noise to a new level. Cameron, shadow boxing and sharing jokes with her team, turned her back on Taylor's entrance as her challenger finally appeared.\n\nDressed in gold and black like Cameron, Taylor enjoyed an unusually long ring walk, singing as she slowly made her way to the ring.\n\nShe stopped at the ropes to take one last look at the feverish crowd before entering the ring.\n\nCameron had vowed to swarm Taylor from the off and she made good on that promise in the opening round, piling the pressure on her opponent and rarely firing single punches.\n\nThe 2012 Olympic gold medallist was fighting on the back foot, trying to deliver counters as Cameron continued to push the pace brilliantly.\n\nCameron was light on her feet as the aggressor, but the crowd roared whenever Taylor's renowned accuracy shone through.\n\nThe home favourite landed a right-left combination at her trademark lightning speed in the second to huge roars, but those moments of success were fleeting.\n\nCameron came out quickly in the second, producing a lovely combination on the back foot as Taylor moved in.\n\nTaylor was able to respond moments later and was trying to push Cameron back with straight hands, but could not stop the champion pouring forward.\n\nThe partisan crowd would erupt with every punch Taylor landed, no matter how glancing. UFC star Conor McGregor was among those going hoarse at ringside urging Taylor on.\n\nCameron remained dominant, however, and Taylor's hair began to fall out of her plaits as she tried her best to time power-counters.\n\nBut Taylor needed to move at a relentless pace to avoid Cameron.\n\nCameron regularly mixed up head and body shots, and was in control of the contest at the midway point.\n\nBut Taylor's heart is well documented, she has dug deep in fights before and come out on top.\n\nSearching for that spark, Taylor stood in the centre of the ring in the sixth with Cameron, content to box up close, targeting Cameron's head at speed.\n\nBut as she would do throughout the entire fight, Cameron responded with her own heavy shots and never appeared troubled.\n\nThe Briton then enjoyed a stellar seventh round, landing a right hand in the opening seconds and more heavy punches to the body of Taylor.\n\nInto the eighth, and the crowd urged Taylor to stand and fight with Cameron, which she did, before having to eat a sharp uppercut from the champion.\n\nThe eighth bell arrived with both women swinging from the hips.\n\nThe penultimate round saw Taylor desperately trying to wrestle control, but Cameron expertly rode the storm, landing when she could with some smart boxing.\n\nThe two went toe-to-toe again moments later, both lowering their heads, but once again Cameron appeared to come off the better in exchanges and strolled back to her corner confidently for the final instructions.\n\nThe fight's pace barely slowed throughout and Taylor, sensing she needed a big finish, began to step forward first in the final round, punching in threes and fours.\n\nCameron tagged her challenger with short rights as the crowd began to chant \"Katie, Katie\" trying to encourage their fighter, but a last-gasp knockdown never seemed likely as Cameron reached the finish line with ease.\n\nApprehension filled the arena as both fighters' teams celebrated.\n\nThere were several nervous minutes for Cameron and her corner as they awaited the results.\n\nThey would have been forgiven for fearing the worst when the first scorecard was announced as a draw, but there was to be no hometown controversy as Cameron was confirmed a deserved winner.", "The battle for Bakhmut has become the longest of the war that Russia launched last year\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated the Wagner paramilitary group, after it claimed to have captured the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.\n\nWagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin - posing with some of his fighters - made the claim in a video posted to social media on Saturday.\n\nUkraine's deputy defence minister rejected the claim, but admitted the situation in the city was \"critical\".\n\nOne of the war's bloodiest battles, fighting has raged since August.\n\nWagner paramilitary forces have led the Russian attack on Bakhmut - which analysts say is of little strategic value to Moscow - and has seen thousands of troops killed.\n\nUkraine, for its part, has also decided to make a stand in a battle which has become the longest and bloodiest of the war so far.\n\nBut in comments carried by Russian state media, Mr Putin claimed Wagner troops, supported by Russian air force jets, had completed \"the operation to liberate\" Bakhmut on Saturday after months of intense fighting.\n\nMr Prigozhin, a close ally of the Russian president, leads the thousands-strong group, nominally a private military company.\n\nHe has claimed before that his forces have taken Bakhmut - or most of it - only for Ukrainians to swiftly deny the claims. Mr Prigozhin has also targeted top Russian military officials, criticising them publicly for not supplying his troops with enough ammunition.\n\nIn his latest video claiming control of Bakhmut, Mr Prigozhin said \"no-one can pedantically reproach us for the fact that at least some piece was not taken\".\n\nExplosions can be heard in the background, suggesting fighting continues close to the city, if not inside it.\n\nHe also promised to hand the city over to regular Russian troops later in the month.\n\nHis claims were echoed by the Russian defence ministry on Saturday night, state media in Moscow reported.\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin claimed to control Bakhmut in a video flanked by Wagner fighters\n\nBut in a statement on the messaging platform Telegram moments afterwards, Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said: \"Heavy fighting in Bakhmut. The situation is critical.\n\n\"As of now, our defenders control some industrial and infrastructure facilities in the area and the private sector.\"\n\nWestern officials estimate between 20,000 and 30,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded in Bakhmut, while Ukraine's military has also paid a heavy price.\n\nThere is hardly a building left unscathed, and the city's entire population has vanished.\n\nThe latest Wagner claim came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went to Japan to attend a meeting of the leaders of the world's most industrialised countries, the G7.\n\nHis Western allies pledged more support, including taking a significant step towards providing F-16 fighter jets, and announced more sanctions on Russia.\n\nRussian troops invaded Ukraine on 24 February last year and control parts of its east.\n\nUkraine has been expected to launch an offensive to retake seized territories, but Mr Zelensky recently said that more time is needed to prepare.\n\nHe has called Bakhmut \"a fortress\" of Ukrainian morale.\n\nUkraine's hope is that the fight over Bakhmut has blunted Russia's ability to conduct its own offensive operations, and exhausted its army and supplies.", "Jennifer Lawrence, pictured in late 2022, is the producer on a new documentary called Bread and Roses, which explores the day-to-day lives of three women in Afghanistan\n\n\"You only oppress women,\" the young woman says to the Taliban fighter.\n\n\"I told you not to talk,\" he shouts back, \"I will kill you right here!\"\n\n\"Okay, kill me!\" she replies, raising her voice to match his. \"You closed schools and universities! It's better to kill me!\"\n\nA camera phone has secretly, and shakily, captured this direct confrontation inside a car between the woman and the militant.\n\nShe had just been arrested following a protest and was about to be taken to a holding cell in Kabul.\n\nIt is a scene from the documentary Bread and Roses, which explores the day-to-day lives of three women in the weeks following the takeover.\n\nThe producer is the Oscar-winning actress, Jennifer Lawrence, who is telling the BBC why this moment in the film is so significant to her.\n\n\"My heart was beating so fast watching these women defy the Taliban,\" Lawrence says. \"You don't see this side of the story, women fighting back, in the news every day and it's an important part of our film, and the stories of these women.\"\n\nShe says it is devastating to think about the sudden loss of control Afghan women have endured.\n\n\"They currently have no autonomy within their country. It is so important for them to be given the opportunity to document their own story, in their own way.\"\n\nThe film has been made by Excellent Cadaver, the production company Lawrence set up in 2018 with her friend Justine Ciarrocchi.\n\n\"This documentary was born out of emotion and necessity,\" says Lawrence, who describes feeling helpless and frustrated about what she was seeing on the news.\n\nCiarrocchi says that Lawrence \"had a seismic reaction to the fall of Kabul in 2021 because the circumstances were so dire for women\".\n\n\"And she said, 'We've got to give somebody a platform to tell this story in a meaningful way.'\"\n\nThat somebody was Sahra Mani, a documentary maker who co-founded the independent Kabul production company, Afghan Doc House.\n\n(l-r) Director of Bread and Roses, Sahra Mani, editor Hayedeh Safiyar, Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi.\n\nBoth Lawrence and Ciarrocchi had watched her critically acclaimed documentary A Thousand Girls Like Me, which profiles a 23-year-old Afghan woman who goes on national television to expose sexual abuse by her father, after being ignored by her family and the police.\n\nCiarrocchi tracked down Mani, who said that she had already begun a project, following three women in the country as they tried to establish some kind of autonomy in the months following the Taliban takeover, as girls and women were barred from universities and schools.\n\nMani filmed using covert cameras, and even asked the women to film themselves at safehouses with their friends and families.\n\nAnother sequence captures a secret meeting in a windowless basement, off a side street in Kabul. More than a dozen women sit in rows of desks and chairs, arranged like a makeshift classroom. Steam rises from the drinks in their plastic cups.\n\nThey do not know each other, but all are from different groups who protested after the Taliban retook Afghanistan in August 2021.\n\nOne of the women, a dentist called Zahra, has led the viewer to this secret meeting. When she speaks to the group, she reminisces about wearing high heels and perfume and going to the park with her friends. The women around her smile.\n\nBread and Roses was secretly filmed with the use of multiple covert cameras in the weeks following the fall of Kabul.\n\n\"Women must write their own history,\" Vahideh says passionately to the group, to murmurs of agreement. \"Women are not properly celebrated around the world.\"\n\nMani was well aware of the challenges of filming in such private and dangerous situations.\n\n\"I understand how to deal with difficulties because I am one of them.\n\n\"They are not victims,\" she says, \"they are heroes.\"\n\nBut getting the balance right between keeping the women safe and telling their story was not easy. She tells the BBC that there were several late-night conversations between her, Ciarrocchi and Lawrence during the production process.\n\n\"They were there whenever I faced any issues or problems,\" Mani says. \"When women unite, everything is possible.\"\n\nJennifer Lawrence pictured with director Sahra Mani and producer Justine Ciarrocchi at the Cannes film festival\n\nWith Mani and the other women featured now all out of the country, the producers felt comfortable submitting Bread and Roses for wider distribution, starting at Cannes.\n\nCiarrocchi and Lawrence say their next challenge is to get the film in front of a large audience - not always easy when the story is a snapshot of an ongoing and devastating conflict.\n\n\"There's not an end to this story,\" says Lawrence, \"and you feel pretty much helpless when thinking about how to do anything about it. It's a hard thing to market.\"\n\nAs women executive producers, Ciarrocchi and Lawrence are still in the minority in Hollywood. A 2022 study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film showed that women comprised only 24% of directors, writers and producers in the top-grossing films, a decrease from 2021.\n\n\"I think there's a long, long way to go, but I do feel inspired and positive by the end product when you have more diversity in filmmaking,\" says Lawrence. \"It's what people want. The audiences want it.\"\n\nCiarrocchi adds: \"That's why we take the responsibility of Jen's platform so seriously as a woman who's giving opportunities to other women... to employ women, to tell women's stories, to always employ a diverse body of people.\"\n\n\"That's also because I am a woman,\" replies Lawrence.\n\n\"I'm lucky enough to not have the biased idea that women aren't as good at things!\"", "Volodymyr Zelensky made a scene-stealing arrival at the G7 summit in Japan on Saturday, as world leaders issued a veiled warning to China.\n\nThe Ukrainian president arrived in Hiroshima on a French government plane, after a stopover in Saudi Arabia.\n\nHis hastily-organised visit prompted G7 leaders to issue a statement early, in which they condemned Russia.\n\nThey also warned against \"economic coercion\", which Beijing is accused of using against several countries.\n\nThis year's gathering of the world's richest democracies saw them extending invitations to several emerging economies in the so-called Global South, as well as India and Australia.\n\nTop of the agenda is the Ukraine war, and Mr Zelensky's last-minute appearance has added heft and urgency to discussions - as well as star power.\n\nHe arrived hours after Washington said it would train Ukrainian pilots on American-made F-16 fighter jets and allow allies to provide the advanced warplanes to Kyiv - a move condemned by Russia but hailed by Mr Zelensky as \"historic\".\n\nFor the previous 24 hours, a \"will he or won't he\" drama over Mr Zelensky's trip to Japan dominated the news cycle. News of his possible visit broke on Friday and stole the limelight, just as leaders visited a peace memorial park in Hiroshima.\n\nBut even as news outlets scrambled to confirm it, there were confusing signals from Ukrainian officials on whether the Ukrainian leader was coming. It was a sign that, while his visit was reportedly mooted weeks ago in chats between Mr Zelensky and Japanese PM Fumio Kishida, the final decision was made abruptly.\n\nEven his exact arrival time was shrouded in secrecy, until Japanese TV stations suddenly flashed live footage of him arriving at Hiroshima airport on a plane loaned to him by his close ally French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nMr Zelensky was brisk upon touchdown, running down the stairs into a waiting car and diving straight into one-on-one meetings with various world leaders, including British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who greeted him with a friendly \"You made it!\".\n\nNow that he is here, Mr Zelensky's presence not only adds a zing to the placid diplomatic proceedings, it overshadows them.\n\nBut it is unlikely the G7 leaders will mind. Their sanctions so far have failed to stop Russia's invasion, and Friday's pledge to \"starve\" Russia of resources for its \"war machine\" remains vague.\n\nBut with world leaders literally standing shoulder to shoulder with Mr Zelensky, the optics send a firm message to Moscow that they mean business.\n\nThe leaders also sought to deliver a message to Moscow's ally, China.\n\nBesides addressing key topics such as nuclear non-proliferation and climate change, their joint final statement talked about their commitment to the Indo-Pacific region, which they tried to demonstrate by inviting countries such as Indonesia, India and the Cook Islands.\n\nThey stressed their support of South East Asian and Pacific countries, which have been heavily wooed by Beijing, and called for a \"free and open Indo-Pacific\" - rhetoric used in the past in response to China's territorial claims in the South China Sea.\n\nMore importantly, the leaders took a strong stance against what they called \"economic coercion\" - using trade to bully other countries - and called for China to \"play by international rules\".\n\nStressing their commitment to \"economic resilience\", they vowed to take steps to \"reduce excessive dependences in our critical supply chains\" - a reference to how the G7 countries are still inextricably linked to China in trade.\n\nBut they also said they wanted \"constructive and stable relations\" with China and added that their polices were \"not designed to harm China nor do we seek to thwart China's economic progress and development\".\n\nChina on Saturday expressed \"strong dissatisfaction\" with the G7's joint statement, and complained to the summit organiser Japan, Beijing's foreign ministry said.\n\n\"The G7 insisted on manipulating China-related issues, smearing and attacking China,\" a spokesman for the foreign ministry said.\n\nThe summit will close on Sunday with Mr Zelensky, US President Joe Biden and Mr Kishida expected to speak.", "Footage released by West Yorkshire Police shows the moment two men try to get rid of their mobile phones on the roof of a cannabis farm.\n\nThe men were arrested and charged with possession of a class B drug after police found the large farm in the building.", "Martin Amis, one of the most celebrated British novelists of his generation, has died aged 73.\n\nHe died of oesophageal cancer at his Florida home, the New York Times said, quoting his wife, the writer Isabel Fonseca.\n\nAmis is best known for his 1984 novel Money, the 1989 work London Fields and 1995's The Information.\n\nHe authored 14 novels, several non-fiction books and a memoir in a career spanning 50 years.\n\nBorn in 1949 in Oxford, he was the son of the novelist and poet Sir Kingsley Amis.\n\nThe younger Amis followed in his father's footsteps after graduating from Oxford University. His first novel, The Rachel Papers, was published in 1973 while he was working at the Times Literary Supplement.\n\nThe story follows the romantic exploits of a teenage boy in London before university and - like his father's debut - won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction.\n\nAmis was a contemporary of the likes of James Fenton, Salman Rushdie, and Ian McEwan.\n\nThey belonged to a colourful set which reinvigorated the British literary scene and has been credited with inspiring a generation of younger writers.\n\nHis close relationship with the journalist Christopher Hitchens, who died of oesophageal cancer in 2011, was well-documented.\n\nRushdie paid tribute to Amis, telling the New Yorker: \"He used to say that what he wanted to do was leave behind a shelf of books - to be able to say, 'from here to here, it's me'.\n\n\"His voice is silent now. His friends will miss him terribly. But we have the shelf.\"\n\nAnd another contemporary, Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, told the BBC: \"He was a standard-bearer for my generation of novelists and an inspiration to me personally.\n\n\"For all the bite of his satire, the brilliant swagger of his prose, there was always something tender not far from the surface, a yearning for love and connection. His work will last, surviving the various shifts of fashions and mores.\"\n\nWitty, provocative, linguistically daring - and, in his heyday, a celebrity. Martin Amis was often described as the Mick Jagger of the literary world (and Carrie Bradshaw was seen reading his novels in Sex in the City).\n\nHe was one of the key names on that era-defining first list of best British novelists under 40, famously chosen by Granta in 1983, and every decade since.\n\nAmis was by then already established as the enfant terrible of English literature.\n\nHis semi-autobiographical first novel The Rachel Papers had propelled him onto the literary scene in 1973. It was verbally inventive, with an understanding of the frustrations of a certain type of clever (horny) young man.\n\nHis second novel, Dead Babies, published in 1975, charted a weekend of debauchery and showcased his extraordinary, lacerating use of language.\n\nBack in the 1980s and 1990s Amis was never far from view - often quoted, often photographed. A literary rock star.\n\nHis novels summed up eras, whether that was his satire of the excesses of the shiny, hollowness of 1980s Thatcherism in Money and London Fields, or his exploration of the Holocaust written backwards in Time's Arrow about the life of a German doctor in Auschwitz.\n\nAmis had a truly recognisable voice. He was a British writer who bridged the gap between the somewhat cosy style of the English novel that preceded him and the expansive fiction of America.\n\nThe response to his passing reinforces his stature as one of the great British novelists of his age.\n\nAmis's work was often characterised by its darkly comic subject matter and satire.\n\nHe published two short story collections, six non-fiction books and a memoir, Experience, in 2000.\n\nHe was known as a public intellectual and an often controversial commentator on current affairs and politics.\n\nMoney became his most acclaimed work and is often cited as a defining novel of the 1980s.\n\nThe book, set in New York and London, follows a director of adverts as he attempts to make his first feature film, and was based on Amis's own time as a script writer on Saturn 3, a widely-panned sci-fi film starring Kirk Douglas.\n\nHe returned to the subject of the Holocaust throughout his career in novels such as Time's Arrow and The Zone of Interest.\n\nAlongside Salman Rushdie, left, and others, Amis was part of an influential literary set in Britain in the 1980s\n\nAmis moved from London to the US in 2012 and his most recent novel, Inside Story, came out in 2020.\n\nHis friend Zachary Leader, a literary critic, said Amis was \"charming and very generous\" but \"much bothered by his success\".\n\n\"His life was a series of invitations, many of which he turned down, and not all of which he turned down with kind of good grace he would show to his friends. He wasn't curmudgeonly with the people he liked, I think he tried his best,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAmis's UK editor at Vintage Books, Michal Shavit, said: \"It's hard to imagine a world without Martin Amis in it. He was the king - a stylist extraordinaire, super cool, a brilliantly witty, erudite and fearless writer, and a truly wonderful man.\n\n\"He has been so important and formative for so many readers and writers over the last half century.\"\n\nIn a statement, Penguin Books said: \"We are devastated at the death of our author and friend, Martin Amis. Our thoughts are with all his family and loved ones, especially his children and wife Isobel.\n\n\"He leaves a towering legacy and an indelible mark on the British cultural landscape, and will be missed enormously.\"\n\nThe Twitter account of the Booker Prize posted: \"We are saddened to hear that Martin Amis, one of the most acclaimed and discussed novelists of the past 50 years, has died. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.\"\n\nTime's Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and his 2003 novel Yellow Dog was on the long list.\n\nAmis at his London home in 1987: He penned 14 novels, a memoir and several non-fiction works over 50 years", "Rishi Sunak is to consult his ethics adviser on Monday to discuss Suella Braverman's handling of a speeding offence.\n\nThe home secretary sought advice about arranging a private speed awareness course via officials and an aide, the BBC has been told.\n\nLabour and the Lib Dems have called on the ethics adviser to investigate whether she breached the rules.\n\nMrs Braverman was caught speeding when she was attorney general last summer, and faced three points on her licence and a fine, or a course as part of a group.\n\nShe is under scrutiny, not over the speeding offence itself, but over whether she acted properly in trying to arrange a one-to-one awareness course.\n\nOn Monday the prime minister will talk to Sir Laurie Magnus, the independent official who opposition parties want to examine the claims, after he returns from the G7 summit in Japan.\n\nMr Sunak earlier declined to say whether he would be ordering an inquiry, when asked about the story at the summit.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference, he also declined to say he backed her - but a Downing Street source later said that \"of course\" he did.\n\n\"I don't know the full details of what has happened, nor have I spoken to the home secretary,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"But I understand she has expressed regret for speeding, accepted the penalty and paid the fine.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Did you have any questions about the summit?\" Rishi Sunak asks the BBC's Chris Mason\n\nShadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the prime minister was \"too weak\" to sack her or launch an inquiry.\n\nAnd the Liberal Democrats say Mr Sunak should make a statement in Parliament on Monday to \"explain this farce\".\n\n\"Rishi Sunak is so weak he can't even make sure his own ministers maintain the very basic level of integrity,\" the party's chief whip Wendy Chamberlain said.\n\nAfter being caught speeding, Mrs Braverman was offered the choice of either a fine and points on her driving licence, or a speed awareness course.\n\nA government source told the BBC the senior minister had been \"concerned\" about her insurance premiums, and favoured doing a course.\n\nShe asked civil servants about arranging a course for just her, citing security concerns about doing one as part of a group, but was told it was not a matter for the civil service.\n\nMrs Braverman then asked a special adviser to try to arrange a one-on-one course.\n\nWhen the course provider told her there was no option to do a private course - and after she was reappointed home secretary in Mr Sunak's government - she opted to pay the fine and accept the points because she was \"very busy\" and did not have the time to do a course, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe same government source refused to say whether Mrs Braverman's motivation to do the course in private was to reduce the chances of her being recognised by members of the public.\n\nThe prime minister apparently did not know anything about what happened until the story broke in the Sunday Times.\n\nThis kind of headline, while he is wrangling world leaders abroad, is a headache at home that he certainly does not need.\n\nHaving promised on day one of his job that he would run a government with the highest levels of transparency and integrity, any slight suggestion that his team's behaviour is less than perfect creates political pain for him.\n\nSpeaking to Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Conservative cabinet member Therese Coffey said she knew no more about it than what she had read in the papers, while Tory MP Jake Berry said there were \"definitely questions to be answered\".\n\nHe said he expects the issue to be discussed in Parliament in the coming days. Mrs Braverman is already due in the Commons on Monday afternoon for Home Office questions.\n\nThe ministerial code sets standards of conduct expected of ministers, including that they must uphold the political impartiality of the civil service.\n\nAfter serving as attorney general between February 2020 and September 2022, Mrs Braverman was promoted to home secretary under Liz Truss.\n\nShe resigned on October 19 after sending an official document from a personal email to a backbench MP - describing it as a \"technical infringement of the rules\". But she was reappointed to the same role by Mr Sunak six days later following the collapse of the Truss government.\n\nA source close to the home secretary said: \"Mrs Braverman accepted three points for a speeding offence which took place last summer.\n\n\"The Cabinet Office was made aware of the situation as requested by Mrs Braverman. She was not and is not disqualified from driving.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"It would not be appropriate to comment on the existence or content of advice between government departments.\"", "The ICC's Karim Khan played an integral part in issuing the arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin in March\n\nThe International Criminal Court says it is \"undeterred\" by Russia putting its chief prosecutor on a wanted list.\n\nIt comes two months after the ICC's Karim Khan issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, the court said the move was an attempt to undermine its \"lawful mandate to ensure accountability for the gravest crimes\".\n\nRussia, which is not an ICC member, previously described the warrant against Mr Putin as being \"void\".\n\nMr Khan, a British lawyer, issued the arrest warrant for President Putin in March. It alleged he is responsible for war crimes, and has focused its claims on the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia.\n\nA warrant was also issued for Russia's child rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova on similar charges.\n\nMore than 16,000 children are thought to have been forcibly transferred to Russia from Ukraine since the war began, according to officials in Kyiv.\n\nThe ICC said at the time there were reasonable grounds to believe both Mr Putin and Ms Lvova-Belova bore individual criminal responsibility.\n\nThe Kremlin's investigative committee in turn announced this week that it would begin an investigation into Mr Khan for the \"criminal prosecution of a person known to be innocent\".\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, the Hague-based ICC said it was \"aware and profoundly concerned about unwarranted and unjustified coercive measures reportedly taken against ICC officials\".\n\nBranding the measures \"unacceptable\", the court said it would not be prevented from continuing to \"deliver on its independent mandate\".\n\nMr Khan is yet to comment on the action against him.\n\nMeanwhile, the special representative of the United Nations secretary-general for children and armed conflict, Virginia Gamba, came under separate scrutiny after she reportedly met with Ms Lvova-Belova in Moscow.\n\nThe Russian was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying the conversation was \"constructive and sincere\".\n\nRights groups and senior officials took issue, though, with some suggesting the meeting was inappropriate.\n\n\"Ukrainian victims deserve to see Lvova-Belova behind bars in The Hague, not meeting with high-level UN officials,\" Balkees Jarrah, associate director in the International Justice Programme at Human Rights Watch, said.\n\nLast September, Ms Lvova-Belova complained that some children removed from the city of Mariupol \"spoke badly about the [Russian President], said awful things and sang the Ukrainian anthem.\"", "The Ukrainian leader was in Saudi Arabia ahead of an expected trip to the G7 in Japan\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky has accused some Arab leaders of \"turning a blind eye\" to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, ahead of his trip to the G7 in Japan.\n\nThe Ukrainian president made the comments while attending an Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia on Friday.\n\nOf the Arab League nations, only Syria has openly supported Russia's invasion. Others have sought to maintain good relations with Moscow.\n\nBut some states must reflect on their ties with Russia, Mr Zelensky said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there are some in the world and here among you who turn a blind eye to those [prisoner of war] cages and illegal annexations,\" said Mr Zelensky.\n\n\"I'm here so that everyone can take an honest look, no matter how hard the Russians try to influence, there must still be independence.\"\n\nMr Zelensky also told the assembled leaders in Jeddah that his country was defending itself from colonisers and imperialists, appearing to invoke the Arab world's own history of invasion and occupation.\n\nHost nation Saudi Arabia has walked a delicate line on the conflict - on the one hand supporting a UN resolution calling for Russia to withdraw its troops and pledging $400m in humanitarian aid to Ukraine, while on the other hand resisting imposing sanctions on Russia, preferring to see itself as neutral on the conflict.\n\nSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman renewed his offer for Saudi Arabia to mediate between Moscow and Kyiv to end the fighting at the summit.\n\nSyria meanwhile has only just been readmitted to the Arab League - its leader Bashar al-Assad told the summit there was an historic opportunity for the region to reshape itself without foreign interference.\n\nMr Zelensky also took aim at Iran, which is not a member of the Arab League, for supplying Shahed drones to Russia. Iran denies supplying drones for the conflict.\n\nThe Ukrainian leader will travel from Saudi Arabia to the G7 summit on Sunday, Japan confirmed on Saturday morning. Officials said he will take part in the summit's leaders' session and take part in a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.\n\nEarlier, Mr Zelensky's office also told Ukrainian media that he would meet with US President Joe Biden \"in the next few days\" in Japan.\n\nThe summit kicked off on Friday with a renewed condemnation of Russia and an announcement of further sanctions.\n\nThe group of seven nations, made up of the US, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Canada and Japan, represent the world's richest democracies. This year, eight other countries including Australia and India have also been invited.\n\nG7 leaders slapped more sanctions on Russia on the summit's opening day\n\nThe trip to Japan will be the furthest Mr Zelensky has travelled from Kyiv since the war began in February 2022.\n\nIn the past few days Mr Zelensky has visited Italy, Germany, France and the UK, where he nailed down promises of military support. He also continues to push allies to provide advanced fighter jets to Ukraine, but so far no country has committed to directly providing them.\n\nOnce he reaches Hiroshima he will probably try to persuade more cautious leaders to provide aid, such as Mr Kishida and Indian leader Narendra Modi.\n\n\"By showing up in person, it is a chance for him to ensure he does not come away empty-handed, and that he will head back to Kyiv his arms full with the weapons deals that he wants\", including a promise of lethal weapons from Japan, said John Kirton, director of the G7 Research Group think tank.\n\nThough Japan has been hugely sympathetic to Ukraine, its strict military laws have meant that so far it has only given non-lethal defence equipment.\n\nEarlier on Friday, G7 leaders were welcomed by Mr Kishida at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park where they laid wreaths to honour those who died in the US atomic bombing which hastened the end of World War Two.\n\nThe summit's first day ended with a statement in which member countries pledged \"new steps\" to stop the war in Ukraine and promised further sanctions to \"increase the costs to Russia and those who are supporting its war effort\".\n\nThey said they would \"starve Russia of G7 technology, industrial equipment and services that support its war machine\" and limit Russia's revenue from energy and diamond sales.\n\nSeparately, British PM Rishi Sunak told the BBC the UK would sanction the Russian diamond industry, and would target more people and companies connected to Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nIn response to what it termed \"anti-Russian\" US sanctions, the Russian foreign ministry announced its own set of sanctions on 500 US citizens, including former US President Barack Obama.\n\nThe G7 summit, which ends on Sunday, is expected to end with a communique on the war in Ukraine.", "Japan has become increasingly divided over its commitment to post-war pacifist ideals\n\nToshiyuki Mimaki says he remembers crying as he looked up at a blackened sunset after the nuclear bomb hit Hiroshima.\n\nHe was only three years old at the time, but he remembers the dazed and burnt survivors fleeing past his home in the countryside. He remembers heading into the city with his family, searching for his father in an apocalyptic wasteland.\n\nOver the years he has recounted these fragmented but vivid memories to school children, to journalists, to anyone seeking to document the trauma of the hibakusha, or the atom bomb survivors. These days, they are a small and dwindling group.\n\n\"There are only a few people like us who experienced the war and the atomic bombing. We are dying,\" Mr Mimaki says, while sitting in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park, where world leaders attending the G7 summit laid wreaths on Friday.\n\n\"Sooner or later, there will not be a single hibakusha. How will Japan change by then?\"\n\nIt's a fear that echoes through Japan. The world around them has changed. Japan itself has aged and its post-war miracle economy has sputtered, dwarfed by China's market and might. An anxious Japanese public now wants greater protection from new threats knocking at their door.\n\nThe governing Liberal Democrat Party (LDP), whose hands have long been tied behind its back by voters averse to militarisation, suddenly finds the knots loosening. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government is embarking on the biggest military spending spree in decades, and seeks to expand its armed forces.\n\nEach move to militarise leaves Japan more divided over its pacifist ideals.\n\n\"The world is going through a period of turmoil right now,\" Mr Mimaki says. \"Recently, Prime Minister Kishida started talking about raising the military budget. I thought: Are you going to start a war?'\"\n\nBrought to its knees by the use of atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan transformed from an imperialist power into a pacifist nation in a matter of years.\n\nIts post-war constitution, adopted in 1947 and imposed by occupying US forces, cemented this transformation. It contains a clause known as Article 9: the first paragraph renounces war, while the second promises to never maintain military forces.\n\nThe genesis of Japan's pacifism, Article 9 is at the heart of the country's struggle to balance the need for defence with its desire for peace. Some believe the law has weakened Japan, but others argue that to change it is to relinquish pacifism and forget the painful lessons of history.\n\nFaced with significant public opposition, numerous leaders have tried and failed to revise Article 9. But with every security challenge, Japan's government has succeeded in expanding its interpretation further.\n\nThe Self-Defense Forces (SDF), Japan's answer to a military, were created in response to the Korean War and the start of the Cold War. In the 1990s, during the first Gulf War, Japan sent the SDF on peacekeeping missions, dispatching its forces to overseas conflicts for the first time. More recently and controversially, in the face of a rising China and unpredictable North Korea, the late prime minister Shinzo Abe pushed through laws that allowed Japanese troops to fight overseas alongside allies in self-defence.\n\n\"Pacifism is an idée fixe of the Japanese public… they are not going to abandon it,\" says James D Brown, an associate professor of political science with Temple University Japan.\n\n\"Instead, there is a process of reinterpreting what pacifism means. Where once it meant opposition to the use of armed force, it now means opposition to aggression and acceptance of the use of force in the name of self-defence in a growing list of circumstances.\"\n\nJapan is once again at a turning point, facing unprecedented challenges that have stoked a fear of encirclement.\n\nAn assertive China is spending billions on its military. It has made increasingly daring moves in the South China Sea, especially against Taiwan, which sits on the doorstep of Japan's southernmost islands. This has fuelled Japanese anxiety that should conflict break out in Taiwan, Japan would not only be pulled into a war between the US and China, but also targeted as an ally. It hosts US military bases and has the biggest concentration of troops outside America.\n\nNorth Korea poses a perennial existential threat. Its nuclear ambitions have grown more alarming in the past year, with a record number of missile launches, including several that have flown over Japan. Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the possibility that it might use nuclear weapons - which this weekend's G7 summit is addressing - has also spurred worries of a nuclear war. The perils of a tighter Moscow-Beijing alliance also loom.\n\n\"There is a general understanding in Japan that we are now living in a very rough neighbourhood,\" says Kazuto Suzuki, an international security and political science professor with the University of Tokyo.\n\nCalls for greater militarisation have long been the domain of a minority of conservatives seeking to reclaim national pride. But recent polls show the wider public warming to the idea.\n\nMore people now want a bigger and stronger SDF, from 29% in 2018 to 41.5% last year, according to government surveys. Support for Japan's security alliance with the US has gone up to an overwhelming 90%; and 51% are in favour of amending the second part of Article 9, which stops Japan from having a military.\n\nEven some in Hiroshima are open to it.\n\n\"Every time I hear the news about [North Korea's] missiles, I am horrified,\" says a woman who identified herself as Ms Tanaka. \"There are cases in today's world where people are attacked out of the blue… I wonder if it is necessary to see [the spending] as something to protect ourselves.\"\n\nThe Hiroshima Genbaku Dome was the only structure left standing near the hypocentre of the atomic bomb\n\nThis is music to the LDP's ears. The party, whose founding principle is to advocate for constitutional reform, has always pushed for militarisation, particularly under Abe. In recent years the government has also come under pressure from Washington - notably former President Donald Trump - to do more in their security alliance with the US.\n\n\"The government has always wanted to move forward with increasing capabilities in the SDF. In the past the public has been a brake,\" Prof Brown says. \"Now, that brake is no longer there.\"\n\nUnder Mr Kishida, Japan has purchased fighter jets, refurbished aircraft carriers, and ordered hundreds of Tomahawk missiles. He has pledged to spend 43tn yen ($311bn; £250bn) on defence in coming years. By 2027, Japan's military budget will account for 2% of its GDP, and become the third-largest in the world. The LDP is also once again pushing to revise the constitution to spell out the SDF's existence and make it clear that Japan can maintain a military for self-defence.\n\nIronically, Mr Kishida has long been considered a dovish figure within the LDP. With close ties to Hiroshima - his relatives died in the nuclear attack - he has advocated for a nuclear-free world. He has even written a book on it. The choice of Hiroshima to host the G7 summit appears to be deliberate as he seeks to ram home the importance of an anti-proliferation strategy.\n\nMr Kishida's argument is that to maintain peace in Asia, Japan needs to drastically upgrade its defence. But some observers also believe that his reputation gives his government's push to militarise a more politically acceptable sheen.\n\n\"Dovish figures can make hawkish moves because people don't suspect their motives,\" Prof Brown noted.\n\nBut even Japanese hawks don't broach the idea of building a nuclear arsenal. Unsurprisingly that remains a forbidden topic in the only country to ever be attacked with a nuclear weapon.\n\nYet Japan's pursuit of a sturdier defence has seen Abe and then Mr Kishida cross what some consider to be red lines.\n\nFormer PM Abe and Mr Kishida have both pushed for more militarisation\n\nMany within Japan, and neighbours such as China, worry what other taboos the country might break in the future.\n\nOne possibility currently being debated is whether Japan should send lethal weapons to aid countries under invasion, such as Ukraine. Mr Kishida recently visited and met Volodymyr Zelensky to pledge support. Tokyo already supplies non-lethal defence equipment to Kyiv.\n\nThis, notes Prof Suzuki, would be a \"test case for Taiwan\". There are already questions over how far Japan would aid the US in a conflict with China over the island.\n\nA more controversial idea is hosting US nuclear weapons, a proposal which shocked Japan last year when it was mooted by Abe. Public support for this option, known as nuclear sharing, is still low, and last year Mr Kishida rejected the idea, saying it ran counter to Japan's stance against nuclear weapons.\n\nStill, Japan could change its mind under certain circumstances, experts say. These include South Korea gaining nuclear weapons, an increased threat from China and Russia, or if Russia uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine.\n\nEvery time Japan crosses a new red line, or mulls over taking that leap, it intensifies the struggle over its post-war identity and its commitment to pacifism.\n\nSome argue that despite its drive to militarise, Japan's ideals are still intact. While its pacifism may appear \"seemingly inconsistent\" through the years, its anti-nuclear and anti-war sentiments have remained alive, says Daisuke Akimoto, an expert on pacifism.\n\nWhat is happening now is simply Japan's \"security policy strengthening in response to the changing strategic environment,\" says Dr Akimoto, an adjunct lecturer at Hosei University in Tokyo.\n\nProf Suzuki agrees. \"I do have a trust in the Japanese intent,\" he says. \"I do have the belief that Japan has committed in the last 80 years to not go to war. We had a very bad experience, and we won't do it again.\"\n\nBut others are not so sure. They believe that the constant redefinition of pacifism stretches the principle to its breaking point.\n\n\"I think the way [the government] is doing it is dirty,\" says Sara Ogura, a student visiting Hiroshima. \"They are interpreting in such a way that it deliberately opens up opportunities for the use of force. It leads me to distrust them.\"\n\nWhile the government said \"they have no intention of going to war now, I think they are kind of getting ready to go to war when the time comes,\" says anti-nuclear weapons activist Yuna Okajima.\n\nSome also believe the willingness to militarise is fuelled by the lack of a national reckoning with Japan's own wrongdoings. While there is mandatory \"peace education\" in schools that covers the two world wars, discussion about Japan's role as the aggressor and the atrocities it committed in World War Two is often muted.\n\nGraduate student Misuzu Kanda believes that Japan's \"negative history with other countries is sometimes covered up by the nuclear weapons issue\".\n\n\"I was born in Hiroshima prefecture. The peace education is provided mostly from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki perspective, talking about how we suffered. But at the same time, when we think about peace, I think we need to reflect back on what we did to other countries.\"\n\nHer friend, Ms Okajima, agrees. \"I think it is a kind of proof that the Japanese government is not willing to face this history. That's why they would not teach it to young children, it's to nurture a patriotic spirit, I assume.\"\n\n\"But if we do not look at our history as perpetrators, there is a higher chance we would make the same mistake.\"\n\nCompletely flattened by the atomic bomb, Hiroshima today is a tidy and picturesque city nestled among mountains, carrying few traces of its past apart from the Genbaku Dome, the only structure left standing near the hypocentre of the attack.\n\nAcross a glittering river, at the Peace Memorial Park, lies a cenotaph honouring those who died in the nuclear attack. An inscription is carved in the marble: \"Let all the souls here rest in peace, for we shall not repeat the evil\".\n\n\"The atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the end because we started a war,\" says Mr Mimaki as he gazes at the cenotaph. \"Hiroshima was burned, Nagasaki was burned, and it was the Imperial Japanese Army that made those mistakes.\"", "Humza Yousaf has said he expects businesses to demand compensation from the UK government if Scotland's deposit return scheme does not go ahead.\n\nThe first minister said Westminster had put his government in a \"really difficult position\".\n\nCircular economy minister Lorna Slater has warned that without a Scottish exemption from the UK's Internal Market Act, the Scottish scheme could be axed.\n\nThe UK government is still considering the exemption request.\n\nThe deposit return scheme - which is aimed at increasing the number of single-use drinks bottle and cans that are recycled - requires Westminster to grant an exemption to the UK-wide Internal Market Act, given its possible implications for business elsewhere in the UK.\n\nMr Yousaf told BBC Scotland the scheme \"could be unviable\" if the exemption request is not granted by the end of the month.\n\nHe said: \"If we don't get it this month we have been told by Circularity Scotland, the operator of the scheme, that the scheme could be unviable.\n\n\"There's no reason for the UK government not to grant that exemption. They are playing politics with what is the climate emergency.\"\n\nAsked if the Scottish government would compensate businesses who have already prepared for and spent money on the scheme, he said: \"If the UK government end up pulling the plug on the scheme, because they don't give the Internal Market Act exemption, then I wouldn't be surprised at all if companies are asking for compensation.\n\n\"And I think the UK government would have a real challenge on their hands.\"\n\nMinisters say Scotland's deposit return scheme could prompt a big increase in recycling\n\nA UK government spokesman previously said it received a formal request for an exemption on 6 March and it has not yet been possible to fully assess the impacts of the exclusion request on cross-UK trade, firms and consumers.\n\nThe Scottish government had been due to launch in August this year but was delayed until next March after Mr Yousaf became first minister.\n\nThe scheme has faced opposition from many small breweries and distillers.\n\nIt will see 20p added to the price of a single-use drinks container in Scotland, which will be refunded to people who return the container for recycling.\n\nSome retailers will accept returns over the counter while larger stores, shopping centres and community hubs will operate automated receiving points known as reverse vending machines.\n\nRecycling schemes are currently operated by local authorities, with glass collections being a source of income for councils.\n\nCircularity Scotland, a not-for-profit company established to administer the new scheme, has said the ongoing uncertainty was causing a crisis for its future.", "Guns, ammunition and firearms were found at an industrial unit\n\nA man has been remanded in custody after police uncovered what is thought to be a 3D-printing weapons factory.\n\nNational Crime Agency (NCA) officers believe an industrial unit in Merton, south-west London, was being used to convert blank-firing guns into lethal weapons using 3D-printed parts.\n\nEvan Girdlestone, 47, appeared before magistrates in Croydon on Saturday morning charged with offences under the Firearms Act. No pleas were entered.\n\nHe was arrested in Croydon on Thursday.\n\nMr Girdlestone, from Colliers Wood in south-west London, is accused of illegal possession of a handgun and ammunition. He is due to appear at Croydon Crown Court on 16 June.\n\nOfficers from the NCA's armed operations unit said they initially recovered what they believe to be a functioning converted weapon, and magazines filled with 9mm ammunition, from a car.\n\nDuring a separate search of an industrial unit in the Lombard Road area of Merton, officers found an array of tools and machinery, including parts used in the manufacture of weapons and ammunition.\n\nAlso found were blank firers, more than 100 rounds of live ammunition, about 1,000 rounds of blank-firing ammunition and three potentially functioning converted weapons.\n\nOne of the weapons seized in the operation\n\nOfficers also found several 3D-printing machines suspected of being used to print component parts for converted weapons.\n\nThe seized weapons are being analysed by forensics experts.\n\nDebbie Palmer-Lawrence, from the NCA, described it as a \"significant operation\" and said stopping converted weapons from reaching criminals was a priority.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "\"I myself am a boomer! I'm, like, horrible!\"\n\nThere's something a bit unexpected about one of the most famous people on the planet using what's become a term of abuse about themselves instead of choreographed gushing about their latest project.\n\nBut Arnold Schwarzenegger's path in life has been unexpected, and unprecedented: celebrity bodybuilder; Hollywood action hero; Republican Party governor of California; climate campaigner.\n\nTechnically, he is indeed one of the post-war generation - the baby boomers, much mocked for not moving with the times.\n\nBut when we meet to talk at his glossy climate conference in Vienna where everything, including the hot dogs, is vegan, he teases himself to make a big point.\n\nPoliticians must move much faster, he believes, to preserve the planet for the generations to come. And Schwarzenegger's strong belief is that the technology exists to crack down on emissions but the \"boomers\" might miss the chance.\n\nThis is the man who - as governor of California - in 2006 enacted a landmark climate change bill, the California Global Warming Solutions Act, which established greenhouse gas emission targets for the state.\n\nHe told me: 'We have to change with the times. I would not want to drive, except maybe for fun, a car that is 50 years old.\n\n\"I don't want to make investments that were really cool 50 years ago - you would lose your shirt today if you made those investments. We have to change with the technology, it's as simple as that.\"\n\nAnd his message applies to environmental activists too, calling on campaigners not to try to block development as a solution to climate change, but to push for a different kind.\n\nHe said it's \"the same with the environmental movement, we have to get out of the mode of stopping every project from being built. We've got to go and build, build, build all these green projects.\" In other words, hurry up!\n\nHis challenge is exactly the question that's being put to our governments too. It's true the UK has had a decent record on renewable energy compared with other countries.\n\nEnergy Secretary Grant Shapps boasted last weekend that \"we're ahead of the game because of the level of renewables that we've got coming into our system right now\".\n\nBut there is anxiety about that progress stalling, just when the scale of what's needed becomes clear.\n\nOnly two onshore wind turbines were built in England last year, for example.\n\nThe number of heat pumps that are being installed is woefully behind its ambition - the target is for 600,000 low-carbon heat pumps to be installed every year within five years; currently it's only 50,000 - less than 10%.\n\nJust this week the world's fourth-biggest auto manufacturer Stellantis said the government's post-Brexit trade deal needed to change, otherwise it would have to reconsider building electric cars here.\n\nThe boss of the battery firm that went bust, Britishvolt, claimed the government foot-dragging was partly to blame for it going under - although that was denied by ministers.\n\nAnd National Grid, not exactly prone to hyperbole, said \"unprecedented\" and \"transformative\" change was needed right now.\n\nThe statistics they published this week about what's needed by 2030 illustrate that in a pretty jaw-dropping way. They calculate the UK needs:\n\nLabour's shadow climate change secretary Ed Miliband accuses the government of a \"failure of ambition and action\" when it comes to clean power.\n\n\"The planning ban on onshore wind alone is costing £180 for every family, and a government asleep at the wheel has allowed grid delays to grow to more than a decade,\" he says.\n\nLabour, he promises, will lift the ban on onshore wind generation and \"be builders, not blockers, for the clean power we need\".\n\nAnd when you talk to industry insiders, the frustration with the government's pace is obvious.\n\nOne source told me that \"the government isn't accelerating - it's not doing much more than was agreed at Carbis Bay\" - an international summit two years ago - even though the need is becoming more and more obvious and the conflict in Ukraine has made reliance on fossil fuels precarious in a different way.\n\nAnother, frustrated with the difference between the government's rhetoric and reality, told me Grant Shapps was \"all hat, no cattle\".\n\nThe differences are more obvious as the US has introduced an enormous plan for subsiding firms moving to use or produce green energy, the Inflation Reduction Act. And the EU has brought in its Net Zero Industry Act.\n\nFor now, the UK government is taking a very different approach.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt and Chancellor-turned-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are instinctively, and politically, not fans of that kind of intervention. Although when it comes to specific cases, they may still be prepared to act.\n\nIn fact, there are suggestions that Jeremy Hunt has offered cash incentives to Tata, the owner of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), to build a gigafactory for electric car batteries here. JLR says it hasn't been offered government money, and that decisions about the final location for the Tata factory are a matter for different European governments and Tata.\n\nLabour's plans are in contrast, inspired by what President Joe Biden has done in the US, to use billions of pounds of taxpayers' cash to stimulate green industries and create many thousands of green jobs.\n\nAs we get closer to the election the clash between the two main parties on this will only become clearer.\n\nUpping the pace of protecting the planet is obviously not as straightforward as writing a Hollywood script, or making a speech. It requires huge amounts of cash from somewhere and a reckoning with the planning system - classic material for backbench bust-ups - and political will.\n\nActing decisively on climate change is a long-term game when politicians like the sugar-rush of quick wins.\n\nPublic budgets are tight. Personal budgets in a cost of living crisis more painful still. Yet there is a political and economic risk, as well as an environmental one, to governments that fall behind.\n\nAt 75, self-professed \"boomer\" Arnold Schwarzenegger says: \"Sometimes I'm not with the programme when it comes to technology.\n\n\"Luckily, I have kids that kind of remind me all the time 'daddy, you're so old fashioned, come on, get out of it…' I have somebody that pushes me away from that old-fashioned way.\"\n\nPoliticians can't afford to fall out of fashion or voters may push them out of the way.\n\nClarification 21 May: this article has been updated to make clear that reports suggest the government has offered cash incentives to Tata, not to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), for a UK gigafactory. JLR says it hasn't been offered government money.", "Media reports have suggested Willoughby and Schofield's relationship has cooled in recent weeks\n\nPhillip Schofield has described co-star Holly Willoughby as his \"rock\" following reports the pair's relationship has come under strain.\n\nThe atmosphere between the two This Morning hosts is said to have recently become frosty behind the scenes.\n\nIn a statement, Schofield admitted: \"The last few weeks haven't been easy for either of us.\"\n\nBut, he added, Willoughby had still been \"an incredible support\" to him throughout a difficult period.\n\nSchofield recently returned to the ITV daytime show after taking pre-planned leave around his younger brother's sex abuse trial at Exeter Crown Court.\n\nIn April, Timothy Schofield was convicted of 11 sexual offences involving a child between October 2016 and October 2019, including two of sexual activity with a child.\n\nSeparately, Willoughby has also recently taken time off presenting This Morning due to illness.\n\nThe Sun previously reported a \"cooling\" of the pair's friendship in recent weeks.\n\nBut in a subsequent statement, Schofield told the paper: \"As I have said before, Holly is my rock. We're the best of friends - as always, she is an incredible support on screen, behind the scenes and on the phone.\n\nThe pair also present ITV's Dancing On Ice together\n\n\"Holly has always been there for me, through thick and thin. And I've been there for her.\n\n\"The last few weeks haven't been easy for either of us.\"\n\nHe continued: \"My family went through a real ordeal, and Holly's support throughout meant the world to me - as did the support of my bosses at ITV, my editor Martin Frizell and the whole This Morning family, including our amazing viewers.\n\n\"And of course Holly has herself been ill with shingles.\n\n\"Whatever happens, we still have each other to count on.\"\n\nSchofield has been a regular presenter on This Morning since 2002, and Willoughby since 2009. The pair also present ITV's Dancing On Ice together.\n\nLast year, they faced criticism after their press visit to the Queen's lying in state was interpreted by many as skipping the 20-hour queue outside.\n\nIn October, following the controversy, Schofield thanked viewers after This Morning took home the daytime prize at the National Television Awards, saying: \"This means so much to us every year, especially this year.\"", "Jonathan Hogg, 37, was \"appreciated by everyone who knew him\"\n\nA 37-year-old man who was killed after being attacked by a dog has been described as \"well-loved\" and \"kind\".\n\nJonathan Hogg died in hospital from the serious injuries he sustained in the attack in Leigh, Greater Manchester, at about 21:10 BST on Thursday.\n\nArmed officers were brought in to try to control the dog which \"posed a significant risk\" to the public.\n\nPolice said they used every \"tactic to subdue\" the animal, but it was humanely destroyed.\n\nArmed officers were deployed to Westleigh Lane in Leigh\n\nA 24-year-old man arrested on suspicion of being in charge of a dangerously out of control dog causing injury resulting in death remains in custody for further questioning.\n\nMr Hogg's family said: \"Jonathan was a well-loved, sensitive, and kind person who will never know how loved and appreciated he was by everyone who knew him.\n\n\"We have been inundated with messages of support and we ask for privacy at this time to come to terms with our loss.\"\n\nEmergency services were called to Westleigh Lane and found Mr Hogg with serious injuries.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Polls have now closed in the Northern Ireland council elections, with counting of votes to begin on Friday morning.\n\nVoters cast their ballots to decide who should represent them on Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nA total of 807 candidates are competing for 462 seats.\n\nThe first ballot boxes are expected to be opened at about 08:00 BST on Friday, with counting anticipated to continue into Saturday.\n\nAbout 1.4 million people were eligible to vote in the election, which was originally due to take place on 4 May but was delayed due to the King's Coronation.\n\nIt is only the third election to 11 so-called super councils in Northern Ireland.\n\nGroom Pat Campbell (far right) and part of his wedding party called at the polling station at St Patrick's Primary School in Clonoe, County Tyrone, on the way to his marriage ceremony\n\nIt was also only the second time in 26 years that Northern Ireland held a standalone council election - normally they are run alongside polls for Stormont or Westminster.\n\nVoters used the single transferable vote (STV) system, the same as that used in Northern Ireland Assembly elections.\n\nPeople ranked candidates in numerical preference, marking their ballot 1,2,3 and so on for as many or as few preferences as they want.\n\nCandidates are then elected according to the share of the vote they receive.\n\nTo find out who stood in your area, type your postcode into the bar below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Opens in a new browser tab More information about these elections Is there an election in my area? To provide you with information on local candidates and where to vote the BBC sends your data to the Electoral Commission. Data privacy notice To find your council candidates and polling station\n\nThe number of candidates is slightly down from the 819 people who put their names forward for the previous council elections four years ago.\n• None All you need to know about NI council elections", "President Bashar al-Assad strode into the Arab League summit in Jeddah, relishing the clearest recognition yet that he has won his war for Syria.\n\nHe was embraced by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. A decade ago, the Saudis funded anti-Assad militias. Now the prince, known as MBS, wants to remake the Middle East, and he needs Syria onside.\n\nIn a speech, President Assad insisted that Syria would always belong to the Arab world. But other countries should not interfere with what happened inside its borders.\n\n\"It is important to leave internal affairs to the country's people as they are best able to manage them,\" he said.\n\nBy the people, President Assad meant the leader and his supporters. Between them, the princes and presidents at the summit have locked up many thousands of their opponents.\n\nEvents in Jeddah are being viewed with dismay by Syrians who blame the Assad regime for destroying their country, including all the Syrian refugees I have spoken to in Lebanon.\n\nLebanon, small and poor, has had to tolerate well over a million Syrians fleeing the war. That is the equivalent of a quarter of the Lebanese population - something like the UK accepting over 15 million refugees.\n\nNow many Lebanese have had enough, making Syrians a convenient scapegoat for their own country's chronic economic and political problems.\n\nMore than one million Syrians have fled to Lebanon, to escape 12 years of war in their home country\n\nIn the last few weeks, the army has deported around 1,500 of them back over the border at gunpoint, sometimes leaving children behind in Lebanon or forcing children out without their parents.\n\nA refugee family speaking on condition that their identities were kept secret talked about life in a town near Beirut where a curfew has been imposed on Syrians.\n\nThe children have been thrown out of school. The turmoil in their lives is clear in their teenage daughter's anguished artwork. Their father views the authoritarian Arab leaders embrace of Bashar al-Assad with contempt - and fear.\n\n\"The Assad regime is a dictatorship - the same as the other Arab regimes. They're helping each other, cooperating against the people.\"\n\nIn a refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Assad's presence in Jeddah was another crushing blow. Nasser and Marwa, a couple who've been here since 2013, fear Assad's return to the Arab League might be an excuse for more deportations.\n\nMarwa said she woke up every morning thanking God she hadn't been deported.\n\n\"Now we're always afraid of the raids. I always imagine that they will come and take all the men and deport them.\"\n\nNasser said he faced being drafted into the army if he went back. He escaped Syria to avoid fighting for the regime. He's desperately worried about what would happen to his wife and their 18-month-old daughter Lillas if they are forced back.\n\nNasser, Lillas and Marwa live in fear of deportation back to Syria\n\nNasser was disgusted with the Arab League's decision to readmit Assad's Syria.\n\n\"After everything that he's done, they're hosting him. I don't understand it, after all the killing and destruction, and the misery in Syria - it's not acceptable.\"\n\nSyria, and the Assad regime, remain under US and European sanctions. Amnesty International, the human rights group, said that the president \"turned Syria into a slaughterhouse\".\n\nThe UK government, Amnesty said, should \"strenuously oppose any attempt to bolster Assad's international standing\".\n\nSome members of the Arab League agree. Qatar, which also funded the armed opposition in Syria, does not approve of Assad's gradual return to Arab respectability.\n\nBut as well as the wider geopolitical plans of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who believe the Assad regime is a Middle Eastern reality and Syria a country they need to influence, there are other reasons for wanting to court Assad.\n\nJordan, as well as the Saudis, are fighting the spread of a narcotic drug called Captagon, which is made in Syria and smuggled into their countries. It is an amphetamine that was given to fighters to boost their endurance but is now widely used as a recreational drug.\n\nThe US and UK have imposed sanctions on named members of the Assad family who they say are heavily involved in the Captagon trade. Some estimates say the business is worth more than $50 billion (£40bn) a year.\n\nOther Arab states are fighting the trade in Captagon, made in Syria and smuggled abroad\n\nAt the United Nations, which runs a huge relief operation in Syria and Lebanon, there is cautious hope Syria's readmission to the Arab League might somehow become a circuit breaker that allows diplomatic progress.\n\nImran Riza, the UN's deputy special coordinator for Lebanon, tried to find a positive.\n\n\"If what's happening now in the region is going to help to get us to a political solution then it's a good thing.\"\n\nBut the UN does not support forced repatriation. It insists that Syrian refugees cannot return home until their country is safe and secure. That is a long way off.\n\nPresident Bashar al-Assad broke his country to save his regime. There has been no justice for his victims.\n\nBut there is a lesson for ruthless, authoritarian leaders, not least his close ally, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, whose decisive military intervention in 2015 helped the Assad regime to victory.\n\nWait out the storm and you can outlast your enemies.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe order of the Ukrainian ground team is clear - a Russian Su-35 fighter jet has fired a missile at Silk's aircraft. He knows he has to abort the mission in order to survive.\n\nSilk, which is the pilot's callsign, quickly dives his MiG-29 so low that he can see the treetops. The old Soviet-era aircraft starts trembling as it is pushed to the limit. Silk navigates through towers and hills that he studied meticulously on the map while preparing for this mission.\n\n\"Such flights close to the surface are the most difficult ones,\" says Silk. \"You have to concentrate very hard. And because of the low height, you don't have the time or the space for a safe ejection.\"\n\nFighter jets like the one flown by Silk accompany Ukrainian ground attack aircraft during their combat missions at the front line. Silk's job is to provide cover from Russian air-to-air missiles. But there is not much Ukrainian jets can do to stop them.\n\n\"Our biggest enemy is Russian Su-35 fighter jets,\" says another MiG-29 pilot with the call sign Juice.\n\n\"We know positions of [Russian] air defence, we know their ranges. It's quite predictable, so we can calculate how long we can stay [inside their zone]. But in the case of fighter jets, they are mobile. They have a good air picture and they know when we're flying to the front lines.\"\n\nRussian missiles can fly far further than the ones used by Ukrainian pilots\n\nRussian air patrols can detect a jet's take-off deep inside the territory of Ukraine. Their R-37M missiles can hit an aerial target at a distance of 150-200km (93-124 miles), whereas Ukrainian rockets can only travel up to 50km (31 miles).\n\nSo, Russian planes can see Ukrainian aircraft and shoot them down long before they pose any threat.\n\nSince the start of the Russian invasion, the Ukrainian Air Force has suffered serious losses - although they don't reveal specific figures.\n\nRussia's claim that they've destroyed more than 400 Ukrainian planes doesn't seem plausible, given independent estimates of the Ukrainian fleet's size are at least half that number.\n\nThe IISS Military Balance 2022 report states that the Ukrainian Air Force had 124 combat-capable aircraft before the full-scale Russian invasion.\n\nTo end Russia's superiority in the air, Ukraine wants its Western partners to provide more modern jets like the US-made F-16.\n\n\"Our pilots fly on a knife's edge,\" says Col Volodymyr Lohachov, the head of aviation development department of the Ukrainian Air Force. \"But F-16 jets would allow us to operate beyond the enemy's air defence systems.\"\n\nOur pilots fly on a knife's edge... F-16s would allow us to operate beyond the enemy's air defence systems\n\nAnd their missiles can be effective up to 150km, which will enable them to attack Russian jets as well.\n\n\"Of course, we will still be targeted,\" says Juice. \"But it will be an equal fight. Right now, we don't have any response to them.\"\n\nF-16s have better radars that can detect missiles fired at them. Currently, the team that monitors ground radars must verbally communicate with pilots about threats they face.\n\n\"Our jets don't have a system to warn about [Russian rocket] launches,\" says a pilot of an Su-25 attack jet with the call sign Pumba. \"It's all visual-based. If you see them, then you just try to escape by firing off heat traps and manoeuvring.\"\n\nRussia's air superiority means that Ukraine can afford only a limited deployment of its military aviation close to the front line, which can have a major impact on the success of any future counter-offensive operations. According to Juice, they carry out up to 20 times fewer sorties than the Russian Air Force.\n\nAnd the weapons Ukrainian attack aircraft have are from the stock of old Soviet-era bombs and unguided rockets, which are quickly depleting because of limited supplies.\n\nBut it's not just air support for ground troops. Western jets can also enhance Ukraine's air defence systems, aviators say.\n\n\"Our aircraft have old radars that don't see [Russian] cruise missiles. We are like blind cats when we try to shoot them down,\" Col Lohachov explains.\n\nThe range of western weapons on F-16s will allow them to intercept cruise missiles \"on long distances right on our borders, instead of trying to catch them somewhere in central parts of Ukraine,\" says Juice.\n\nThe MiG-29 jets that Poland and Slovakia have transferred to Ukraine recently do not solve their main problems, Ukrainian pilots say. Those planes have the same old weapons and limited capacity as the Ukrainian fleet.\n\nBut the US administration has ruled out sending F-16 jets to Ukraine. Many are concerned that providing Ukraine with Western aircraft can only escalate the conflict, drawing the US and Europe directly into the war.\n\nAnd even training Ukrainian pilots to fly these planes has not been approved. In fact, Colin Kahl, the Pentagon's undersecretary of defence for policy, said that even \"the most expeditious timeline\" for delivering F-16s would be 18 months, and thus there was no sense training pilots early.\n\nHowever, Ukrainian officials are hoping to get these jets from European countries, which would still require the US's consent, but would be much quicker to deliver.\n\nAs for training pilots, \"we can afford to send only a certain number of people for a limited period at any given time. We must avoid reducing our military capabilities here,\" says Col Lohachov.\n\nSo the best option, he adds, is to start sending small groups now in order to have enough trained pilots when planes arrive.\n\nIt is clear, however, that these jets will not be delivered in time for Ukraine's expected counter-offensive. President Volodymyr Zelensky has already announced that this operation will go ahead without waiting for Western aircraft.\n\nSome experts question the impact F-16s could have in this war.\n\nUkraine would need to upgrade all its airfields if it received F-16 jets, as the planes need longer runways to take off\n\nProf Justin Bronk, Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI), says that these jets would provide an extra layer of defence but \"wouldn't turn the war around on their own\".\n\nEven with F-16 jets, \"Ukrainian pilots would still have to fly very low anywhere near the front lines because of Russia's ground-based threat and that would limit effective missile range,\" Prof Bronk explains. \"And it also means employing air power in the way the West did in wars like Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, isn't possible in Ukraine.\"\n\nLogistical challenges raise questions about whether it's worth the effort to send F-16s to Ukraine. It's not just about training pilots and mechanics - the infrastructure must be upgraded as well.\n\nF-16s are designed for very smooth and long runways. Ukraine will have to adapt its current airfields to meet those requirements - resurface them, clean them and extend them.\n\n\"But doing that will be visible to the Russians from space and through human intelligence sources,\" Prof Bronk argues. \"And if you only do one or two bases, and then try to set up ground support to operate F-15s or F-16s, then Russians will see it and they will strike it.\n\n\"So, you would have to do lots of them. Then you're into the question - is that worth the number of skilled personnel and the amount of political effort and logistical support that could otherwise be used for other things like tanks and artillery, or ground-based air defence systems?\"\n\nFor now, Ukrainian pilots like Pumba, Silk and Juice will have to rely on their old Soviet-era fighters and attack jets.\n\nWhen an alarm signals a new combat mission, they rush towards their aircraft. They give the thumbs up to mechanics to confirm that all systems on board are working.\n\nSome of them have flown more than 100 combat missions. But they know that each flight could be their last.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 May.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nRise and shine: \"I took this photo of my partner Catrina Imray at sunrise from the summit of Beinn a'Chrùlaiste, Glencoe,\" says Daniel Warren. \"An incredible cloud inversion.\"\n\nA touching gesture: \"Two gannets in an archetypal pose,\" says Jacki Gordon at Bass Rock.\n\n\"I had a morning job to do in Kinghorn and managed to grab this beautiful sunrise over the bluebells before I started,\" says John Pow who took this picture.\n\n\"Found this deer on the edge of a rapeseed field in the Carse of Gowrie,\" says Peter Wilkinson of this wonderful photograph.\n\nYvonne Macfarlane took this calming picture at Inverkip just before the weather cleared.\n\n\"An athlete running out the haar into the sunlight on the Kintyre Way Ultra,\" says William Halliday.\n\n\"This squirrel seemed to stop and enjoy the aroma as it approached the peanut feeder on the bird table,\" says Iain MacDiarmid. \"Taken in our back garden at Drumnadrochit.\"\n\nCherry picker: \"I loved how these petals landed amongst the roots of the tree in a street in Perth,\" says Valerie Pegler.\n\nTop dog: Coco trekked up Lochnagar on a glorious day for a majestic view alongside Gillian Thomson and son Andrew.\n\n\"Makes my day when I see a kingfisher, even better when she poses for me,\" says George Kelsey of this superb shot at the Water of Leith in Edinburgh.\n\nWaiting for the weather to clear on Suilven in Sutherland, says Stan Arnaud.\n\nThis lovely swan family action shot is from Katie Paton at Figgate Park in Edinburgh. \"I call this 'look at me mum',\" she says.\n\nPuffin to see here: A contemplative moment captured by Craig Lambert at Isle of May.\n\nMoving moment: \"Taken through the window of our motorhome while traveling on the road home to Perth,\" says Brian Johnston of this shot of Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe.\n\n\"On holiday in Orkney from Lancashire, we went to the Brough of Birsay where I caught this picture of a shag standing watch from a cliff, maybe looking for his dinner,\" says Stephan Devine.\n\nCycle path: \"An image of my gravel bike descent into Glen Feshie,\" says Alan Maclennan. \"This was part of a ride from Aviemore, taking in the new gravel road between Glen Tromie and Glen Feshie.\"\n\nWhale of a time: \"This is a photo I took of the orca bull #34 of the 27s pod (which featured on David Attenborough’s Wild Isles) who gave us a close encounter at St Mary’s Pier in Orkney,\" says Lucy Dobbs.\n\nWell spotted: \"My 12-year-old daughter Edie snapped this photo of a ladybird at our allotment,\" says Aileen Snowden at Newport on Tay.\n\nDouglas Coutts and Margaret-Anne Wilson silhouetted at their wedding, courtesy of Matty Pearce at Lossiemouth East Beach.\n\nThe eyes have it: \"I was up at Troup Head gannet colony,\" says Colin Denholm. \"They do give you a good hard stare if they catch you looking.\"\n\nHigh tea: \"An Exmoor pony grazing beside the Act of Union beech trees that were planted in 1707 on North Berwick Law,\" says Sylvia Beaumont.\n\nQuite a mouthful: Jan Graham spotted this bird ready to feed some newborns at Eden Estuary Centre, Guardbridge, Fife.\n\nPeak viewing: \"This picture is from the summit of Goatfell on Arran, Ailsa Craig in the far distance,\" says Donnie Mathers. \"Six friends, all senior citizens, spent the week walking and socialising. George, pointing out landmarks, first scaled the peak 60 years ago. The six friends live in various parts of the UK ranging from the Highlands to Shropshire.\"\n\n\"This photograph was taken by my daughter Cara, aged 13, in a park in Aberdeen,\" says Andy Freeman. \"She and her friend spent ages waiting for it to settle long enough to allow them to get close. Worth the wait!\"\n\nHat trick: Not the usual traffic cone on the Duke of Wellington statue in Glasgow, spotted by John Dyer.\n\nChain gang: \"A pair of returning swallows taking a well-earned rest,\" says Steven Neish in Dundee.\n\nWoolly jumper: Bryan Wark spotted this lamb admiring the view after scaling a height in Greenock.\n\nRapeseed near St Andrews in an eye-catching image featuring greens, yellows and blues, from John Watson.\n\nLove is in the air: These swans in Victoria Park in Glasgow captured the heart, as seen by Rosie McGeachan.\n\nHouse call: \"Enjoyed an afternoon at Covesea Lighthouse near Lossiemouth,\" says Danny McCafferty.\n\nFirmly planted: Dave Harrower spotted this deer looking settled in an old boat at St Fillans, says daughter Lisa.\n\n\"This tawny owl was enjoying some Spring sunshine in Milton of Campsie,\" says Sarah Thurlbeck.\n\n\"This multi-storey cluster caught my eye on a walk through Craiglockhart woods in Edinburgh,\" says Mike Andrew.\n\nUnpheasant company: \"I took this picture of two pheasants scrapping with each other from the approach road to Muirshiel Country Park,\" says Ken Ramsay.\n\nGarlic spread: \"Wild garlic and bluebells covering the forest floor at Dalkeith Country Park,\" says Huw Rees Lewis.\n\nSwanning around: \"Daisy, aged 11, took this photo whilst walking by Carlingwalk Loch, Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway,\" says Charlotte Taylor. \"It was a lovely sunny evening and her grandma's birthday.\"\n\nWalkies? Millie's thoughts seemed clear at the door in Newburgh, Fife, according to Ben Guthrie.\n\nHello deer: \"A roe deer in amongst the gorse on Perwinnes Moss, Aberdeen,\" says Norval Strachan.\n\nNeigh better feeling: \"I’m so proud of my daughter Millie Boo who won her Riding for the Disabled (RDA) regional qualifier in Glasgow,\" says Steven Smith of this photo with Jake the horse who smiling Millie Boo rode. \"She has cerebral palsy and bilateral hearing loss. She will now attend the RDA National Championships in Gloucester. I think the photo says it all. It captured her feelings.\"\n\nFlower power: \"Bluebells in full bloom at Tornagrain, Inverness-shire,\" says Kirsten Ferguson.\n\nPuppy love: \"My daughter Eva, 16, took this photo of our new puppy, Frank, the miniature dachshund,\" says Stuart Mackinnon in Troon.\n\nIn a spot of bother? \"This cheetah was sleeping as we approached the enclosure and despite our best attempts to be quiet the noise from the gravel path woke him,\" says Mike Tolmie at Five Sisters Zoo in West Calder. \"I think the expression tells you exactly what he thought.\"\n\nOn the right path: \"Managed to capture this beautiful sky on whilst walking the dog at Brodick, Isle of Arran,\" says Fee Proctor.\n\n\"The Milky Way over Arbroath cliffs,\" says Nick MacIvor of this awe-inspiring view.\n\nDriving at night: The scene at Abernethy Golf Club, courtesy of Lucie Bush who too this image of husband David.\n\n\"Walking home after a lovely fish and chip supper in Oban I saw this incredible sunset,\" says Ross Tetlow.\n\nCatching some sun: \"I headed down to Ayr beach in the hope of a decent sunset and managed to capture what looks like a seagull taking the sun in its beak,\" says Claire McIntosh. \"There's always something quite serene whilst watching the sun setting, it brings an inner peace and each sunset is always different to the last, a beauty I hope to never tire of.\"\n\nThe view of this long and winding road persuaded Alex Mackintosh to pull over. \"We had visitors staying and we took them to Gairloch. On the way home we saw this sunset. It was one of those 'we need to stop and take a picture' moments!\"\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Ukraine says one of the Russian missiles shot down over the Kyiv region fell in the backyard of a house\n\nUkraine's capital Kyiv has been attacked from the air by Russia for the ninth time this month.\n\nKyiv's authorities said it seemed all incoming missiles had been destroyed, but debris falling from the air caused some damage in two districts.\n\nOne person has been killed and two more wounded in a missile strike on the Black Sea port of Odesa, officials say.\n\nBlasts were also heard in the central-western regions of Vinnytsia, Khmelnytsky and Zhytomyr.\n\nOverall, 29 out of 30 missiles launched by Russia overnight were shot down, Ukraine's Air Force said in a statement.\n\nRussia has significantly increased the frequency of its missile attacks on Ukraine over the past days and weeks, while Ukraine appears to be shooting down more of Russia's missiles.\n\nSo far in May, Russia has carried out four mass launches - two them between 16 and 18 May alone - compared to one each in April and March, and two in February.\n\nThe last time Russia attacked with such intensity was in the period after New Year, when four attacks took place in quick succession between 31 December and 26 January.\n\nThe train derailed near Simferopol on Thursday morning, Russian-appointed officials in Crimea say\n\nIn a separate development, rail traffic was suspended between Simferopol and the city of Sevastopol after a freight train carrying grain derailed. Simferopol is the regional capital of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nVladimir Konstantinov, the Moscow-installed head of the regional parliament, told Russia's state media that the derailment was caused by an explosion. An investigation is now under way.\n\nIn the latest overnight attack on Kyiv, Russia used cruise missiles and reconnaissance drones, the capital's military administration said in a statement.\n\nIt said that \"a series of air attacks on Kyiv, unprecedented in their power, intensity and variety, continues\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Ukraine said it had shot down six Kinzhal hypersonic missiles as part of an \"exceptionally dense\" attack.\n\nSpeaking before the all-clear was given, Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a fire had broken out in a garage in the Darnytsya area of Kyiv, but added no one had been injured.\n\nThe head of Kyiv's civilian military administration said a heavy missile attack had been launched from Russian strategic bombers over the Caspian Sea.\n\nSerhiy Popko said the attack probably included cruise missiles, adding that Russia had deployed reconnaissance drones over Kyiv after unleashing its wave of air strikes.\n\nHe said a second fire had broken out in a non-residential building in Kyiv's eastern Desnyansky district, but did not give an update on if anyone was hurt.\n\nAt least eight people were reportedly killed - including a five-year-old boy near Kherson - and 17 were injured by shelling on Wednesday, as both sides traded accusations of striking civilian areas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two adults and a five-year-old killed after Russian shell falls near playground\n\nSlowly but surely Ukraine is getting ready to launch a huge assault on Russia's invading forces.\n\nWestern officials say Ukraine's army is at \"an increased state of readiness\" ahead of a long-awaited counter-offensive against Russia's invasion.\n\nThe officials said many of Kyiv's military capabilities were now \"coming together\" - including its ability to deploy tanks, fighting vehicles and combat engineers, as well as clearing mines, bridging rivers and striking long-range targets.\n\nThey said Russian troops were in a parlous state but warned that Moscow's defensive lines in Ukraine were \"potentially formidable\" and guarded by \"extensive minefields\".\n\nSo the officials argued the success of any Ukrainian offensive should be measured not just by territorial gains but also by whether it convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin to rethink his strategy.\n\nThe \"cognitive effect on the Kremlin\", they claimed, was more important than Ukrainian forces cleaving through Russian lines all the way to the border.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met with a Chinese diplomat in Kyiv and rejected any peace plan which would involve them giving up territory to Russia.\n\nBut an agreement allowing Ukraine to export millions of tonnes of grain through the Black Sea has been extended for two months, the day before it was due to expire.\n• None 'We thought it'd be a crisis we could live through'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Detectives are watching 400,000 hours of footage in an attempt to find clues in the John Caldwell case, says Eamonn Corrigan\n\nAn estimated 400,000 hours of CCTV footage has been seized for analysis in the hunt for those involved in the shooting of a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) detective.\n\nThe investigation into who shot Det Ch Insp John Caldwell is one of Northern Ireland's biggest in recent times.\n\nHe was attacked in February by two gunmen as he coached youth football while off-duty in Omagh, County Tyrone.\n\nThe 48-year-old's young son was at his side when he was ambushed.\n\nThe CCTV footage has been obtained from 750 cameras located between Belfast and Omagh.\n\nPolice believe dissident republican group the New IRA may have acted with an organised crime gang to carry out the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell is in regular contact with the team investigating his shooting and there is an \"added determination\" to catch those responsible because he is a colleague.\n\nDet Ch Supt Eamonn Corrigan, who is leading the attempted murder inquiry, said: \"We are lucky John didn't die.\n\n\"He is making a good recovery but it is going to be a long road.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Corrigan said the wounded officer, who was discharged from hospital in April, has given investigators his account of the shooting.\n\nHe added the investigation had made \"significant progress\", but gave no further details.\n\nIt is an overwhelming amount of footage that has been seized - 16,000 days viewing if one person was to watch it from beginning to end.\n\nClearly the police have seized a lot more material than they may ultimately need because they want to have it before it is wiped or deleted.\n\nThe scale of the task is huge. What we can't really quantify is the scale of progress and whether or not they have had a significant breakthrough.\n\nI left the CCTV viewing suite with the overriding impression that this is a resource hungry investigation.\n\nIt is clearly going to take a long time to build a case or indeed cases given the number of people the PSNI believe were involved.\n\nTo date, 15 people have been arrested and there have been 40 searches of premises and land.\n\nMore than 340 witnesses have been interviewed so far.\n\nTwo Ford Fiesta cars used in the attack had been bought about 70 miles away, in Glengormley and Ballyclare, County Antrim, weeks prior to be used in the shooting.\n\nThey were found burned out following the attack.\n\nAttempting to trace their movements has meant obtaining footage from hundreds of cameras spread over a large area.\n\nThis car near a farmyard on the Racolpa Road outside Omagh is thought to have been used by the gunmen and was later burnt out\n\nDetectives are poring over the material in several viewing rooms within a Belfast police base.\n\n\"All the detectives working on the case know the importance of CCTV and the fact that a 15 or 20-second piece of footage could be crucial in building a case,\" said Det Ch Supt Corrigan.\n\n\"An attack of this nature is carried out by multiple people who are organised.\n\n\"We are looking for movements of people and vehicles over time. It is time consuming and a lot of patience is required,\" he added.\n\nThe New IRA has admitted responsibility for the attack, but police believe a crime gang may have aided it.\n\nDet Ch Insp Caldwell has run investigations into both paramilitary groups and organised crime gangs.\n\n\"Whether these people are members of a terrorist organisation or an organised crime organisation, this has been an attack on a serving police officer at the behest of the New IRA,\" Det Ch Supt Corrigan said.\n\n\"How they carry out their operations and support them logistically is not for me to decide.\n\n\"I will follow the evidence and bring people who are responsible before the courts.\"", "The US says it will allow its Western allies to supply Ukraine with advanced fighter jets, including American-made F-16s, in a major boost for Kyiv.\n\nNational security adviser Jake Sullivan said President Joe Biden \"informed his G7 counterparts\" of the decision at the bloc's summit in Japan on Friday.\n\nUS troops will also train Kyiv's pilots to use the jets, Mr Sullivan said.\n\nRussia said countries would run \"enormous risks\" if they supplied F-16s to Ukraine, state media reported.\n\nDeputy foreign minister Alexander Grushko told state-owned news agency Tass that Western countries were \"sticking to the scenario of escalation\".\n\n\"This will be taken into account in all our plans, and we have all the necessary means to achieve our goals,\" he said.\n\nUkraine has long sought advanced jets and President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed the move as a \"historic decision\".\n\nCountries can only resell or re-export American military hardware if the US approves it, so this decision clears the way for other nations to send their existing stocks of F-16s to Ukraine.\n\nAlthough it seems increasingly likely that Ukraine will eventually receive the advanced jets it so desperately wants, no government has so far confirmed it will send them to Kyiv.\n\nThe US and allies had so far \"focussed on providing Ukraine with the systems weapon and training it needs to conduct offensive operations this spring and summer\", Mr Sullivan told reporters in Hiroshima, saying the moves were part of Washington's \"long-term commitment to Ukraine's self-defence\".\n\n\"As the training unfolds in the coming months, we will work with our allies to determine when planes will be delivered, who will be delivering them, and how many.\"\n\nUkraine has repeatedly lobbied its Western allies to provide jets to help in its fight against Russia.\n\nAhead of Saturday's official announcement, President Zelensky said the jets would \"greatly enhance our army in the sky\".\n\nHe said he looked forward to \"discussing the practical implementation\" of the plan at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, where he arrived on Saturday.\n\nThe US had been sceptical about providing Ukraine with modern fighter jets - at least in the near term. Its focus has instead been on providing military support on land.\n\nSome Nato member countries have expressed worries that handing jets to Ukraine would be viewed as escalating the war, risking a direct confrontation with Russia.\n\nSenior US military officials were previously sceptical about the ability of Western-supplied fighter jets to dramatically alter the conflict - there are lots of air defence systems on the ground, and Russia's large air force has struggled to gain air superiority.\n\nIn February, President Biden told reporters that he was \"ruling out for now\" sending advanced fighters to Ukraine.\n\nBut Mr Sullivan told reporters that the US had provided weapons to Kyiv as they were needed on the battlefield, and the decision to pave the way for fighter jets indicated the conflict had entered a new phase.\n\n\"Now we have delivered everything we said we were going to deliver, so we put the Ukrainians in a position to make progress on the battlefield through the counteroffensive. We've reached a moment where it is time to look down the road, and say what is Ukraine going to need as part of a future force to defend against Russian aggression,\" he said.\n\nMr Sullivan also indicated any jets Ukraine received would only be used for defence purposes, and that the US would neither enable nor support attacks on Russian territory.\n\n\"The Ukrainians have consistently indicated that they are prepared to follow through on that,\" he said.\n\nWhile the change in US policy is significant, training pilots to fly F-16 jets will take time.\n\nUkraine has more trained fighter pilots than aircraft at present, but even training experienced fighter pilots on a new plane could take up to four months.\n\nNations will also need to agree to supply the jets.\n\nThe F-16 is widely used by a number of European and Middle East nations as well as the US, which still manufactures the aircraft.\n\nThe UK, Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark also welcomed the US move.\n\nMr Zelensky is joining the G7 leaders in Japan\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tweeted: \"The UK will work together with the USA and the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark to get Ukraine the combat air capability it needs.\"\n\nThe UK does not have any F-16s in its air force itself.\n\nDenmark has announced it too will now be able to support the training of pilots, but did not confirm whether it would send any jets to Ukraine. Denmark's air force has 40 F-16s, around 30 of which are operational.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Sunak and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said they would build an \"international coalition\" to provide fighter jet support for Ukraine.\n\nMr Sunak said the UK would set up a flight school to train Ukrainian pilots. French leader Emmanuel Macron said his country was willing to do the same but would not provide jets.\n\nSome of the opposition to sending the jets has centred around maintenance issues, with former Nato official Dr Jamie Shea saying they require extensive maintenance after almost every fight.\n\nAt the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukraine was believed to have around 120 combat capable aircraft - mainly consisting of aging Soviet-era MiG-29s and Su-27s.\n\nBut officials say they need up to 200 jets to match Moscow's air-power - which is thought to be five or six times greater than Kyiv's.\n\nMr Zelensky has primarily been asking its allies for F-16s. First built in the 1970s, the jet can travel at twice the speed of sound and can engage targets in the air or on the ground.\n\nWhile now eclipsed by the more modern F-35, it remains widely in use. Experts say modern fighters like the F-16 would help Ukraine strike behind Russian lines.\n\nEarlier this year some Eastern European countries sent Soviet-era Mig fighter jets to Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris and Carrie Johnson attended the King's Coronation earlier this month\n\nFormer Prime Minister Boris Johnson's wife Carrie has announced she is pregnant with her third child.\n\nSharing the news on Instagram, Mrs Johnson said she had felt \"pretty exhausted\" for the past eight months but \"we can't wait to meet this little one\" in a few weeks' time.\n\nThe couple, who married in May 2021, already have two children - three-year-old Wilf and two-year-old Romy.\n\nMr Johnson has four children from his previous marriage to Marina Wheeler.\n\nWriting on Instagram, Mrs Johnson said: \"Wilf is v excited about being a big brother again and has been chattering about it nonstop.\n\n\"Don't think Romy has a clue what's coming…She soon will!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by carrielbjohnson This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Johnson, who left Downing Street in September, became the first prime minister to marry while in office for nearly 200 years.\n\nIt was his third marriage, having previously been married to Ms Wheeler with whom he had four children. Their divorce was finalised in 2020. He has a further child from an affair.\n\nHe did not have any children with his first wife Allegra Mostyn-Owen.\n\nIn an interview in 2021, Mr Johnson said it was \"fantastic\" living with a baby in No 10 but \"a lot of work\".", "Joost and Stacey had been together since 2013\n\nA widower who lost his wife to cancer last month faces being ejected from his housing association flat.\n\nJoost ten Wolde was asked to leave the Glasgow property he shared with wife Stacey just 14 days after her death.\n\nStacey, 39, died only six weeks after she signed an agreement on the ground-floor flat - but had not declared her husband was a member of the household.\n\nGlasgow West Housing Association (GWHA) has now rejected his bid to take over the tenancy.\n\nIt said it was providing Mr ten Wolde with housing advice.\n\nThe widower, who is a Dutch national, said his wife would have thought it was an unfair system.\n\n\"I just hope my story can help other people who are going through the same situation,\" he said.\n\nStacey and Joost on their wedding day in March 2022\n\nMr ten Wolde, an engineer, married Stacey O'Brien in March 2022 after being together for more than nine years.\n\nStacey had Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, which makes a person susceptible to developing cancer. Her husband said he became her primary carer in the last 18 months of her life.\n\nThe couple were featured on BBC Scotland in April as part of a university study on poverty during terminal illness.\n\nIt became harder to live in her high rise flat as her condition worsened. After multiple attempts, she was successful in applying for a ground-floor flat in Glasgow in February this year.\n\nStacey signed the tenancy agreement on 27 February. However, she did not add her husband's name to the agreement or declare that he was moving in to the property.\n\nDays before she was due to move in, she was admitted to hospital.\n\n\"She signed the contract and it made her so incredibly happy,\" said Mr ten Wolde.\n\n\"I wanted it to be her dream house. Even when she was in the Marie Curie hospice, I was moving things in and painting it for her.\n\n\"But at the end, she was getting sicker. When I said I needed to get a ramp installed, she said: 'Don't bother'. I realised then it was at the end.\"\n\nStacey featured in a Glasgow University study on poverty during terminal ilness\n\nStacey died at the hospice on 14 April.\n\nOn 26 April, Mr ten Wolde received an email from Glasgow West Housing Association telling him he must return the keys 14 days after her death.\n\nThe email added: \"After this date a daily rent will be charged until all keys and fobs have been received.\"\n\nHe applied for succession of tenancy, but this was rejected on Thursday.\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC Scotland, GWHA told him it was \"satisfied\" the flat in Colebrooke Street was \"not your only or principal home and you are not a qualified person to succeed the tenancy\".\n\nMr ten Wolde said he had a \"postal address\" in the Netherlands. He was hoping to stay at the property in Glasgow for three months \"to grieve\" before returning to his homeland in the summer.\n\nHe continued: \"I don't have any problem paying two or three months' rent ahead, but let me stay here and move slowly at my own pace.\n\n\"I just lost my wife and then three days before the funeral I get an email saying I had to leave the house.\n\n\"The human factor is completely gone.\"\n\nThe housing association based its decision on current housing legislation found in the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001.\n\nIn law, a person is entitled to \"succession\" of a social housing tenancy if they are deemed a \"qualifying person\" such as a spouse, joint tenant or a family member.\n\nIn some cases, an applicant may have to prove they have lived at the property for at least 12 months.\n\nJoost ten Wolde lost his wife Stacey to cancer in April\n\nMike Dailly, a solicitor advocate at Govan Law Centre, said he believed that the law treated people differently if they were either a spouse or a civil partner.\n\nHe said the requirement for someone to have lived in the property for 12 months did not apply if they were a spouse.\n\n\"There is no period of having to live in the property. The test is simply whether it was your only or principal home as at the date of the death of the tenant,\" he said.\n\nGWHA said it was obliged to make sure its decision complied with legislation.\n\nIt said it needed evidence of occupancy of the property when there was an application for succession.\n\n\"When a housing application is made to GWHA, full details of all household members are requested,\" it said.\n\n\"The importance of this information is confirmed before an offer of housing is made; at the time of viewing the property, and again when the tenant signs the legally binding Scottish Secure Tenancy Agreement.\n\n\"The importance of keeping this information up to date during the course of the tenancy is also explained.\"\n\nIt said it was continuing to liaise with the family and was providing housing advice and support.", "And that's a wrap on our 2023 local election coverage.\n\nAfter two days of counting across 11 councils all 462 seats have now been filled.\n\nIf you're still up, thanks for sticking with us.\n\nThere will be plenty of news and analysis across TV, radio and online from tomorrow morning, including an hour-long special of the Sunday Politics on BBC One at 10:00 BST.\n\nBut for now, we're off to bed. Goodnight.", "Counting is continuing in local elections in Northern Ireland, with nearly half of the seats filled\n\nSo far, this has been a good day for Sinn Féin with most seats returned, followed by the DUP and then Alliance.\n\n200 councillors out of 462 have been elected. A total of 807 people are competing for 462 seats in council chambers across Northern Ireland.\n\nA total of 1,305,553 people were eligible to vote, according to the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland.\n\nWith 200 councillors elected, nearly half of the seats were filled by 2100 on Friday\n\nSinn Féin has made breakthroughs with its first councillors elected in Lisburn City and Ballymena. In Foyle, the party appears to have recovered ground lost at the last election. Party vice-president Michelle O'Neill has described it as a very positive day.\n\nThe DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said this election was always about holding ground but said that it was time to stop splitting the Unionist vote.\n\nThe Alliance Party became the third biggest at the NI Assembly election last May and so far it seems on track to replicate that in these council elections. The party has taken its first ever council seats in Ballyclare, Fermanagh and Limavady.\n\nIt will be hoping to increase its share of the vote West of the Bann but, while the party has made gains, it has also had a key loss in Londonderry.\n\nThe SDLP hopes to retain its 59 seats from the 2019 elections, but is under pressure from Sinn Féin.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party is also facing a battle to hold its ground but its leader Doug Beattie said Unionism was likely to take a hit across the board.\n\nIt has not been a good day for the Green Party. Their leader in Northern Ireland, Mal O'Hara, has lost his seat on Belfast City Council. Mr O'Hara became party leader last August after Clare Bailey lost her seat in the Stormont Assembly elections. The deputy leader of the party, Lesley Veronica, has also failed to get elected.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City have been crowned Premier League champions for the third successive season after title rivals Arsenal lost at Nottingham Forest.\n\nThe Gunners, top for the majority of the campaign, are four points behind City with only one game left to play after being beaten 1-0 on Saturday.\n\nPep Guardiola's side have won the title in five of the past six campaigns.\n\nThey also have a chance to claim the Treble, with FA Cup and Champions League finals to come next month.\n\nOnly Manchester United, in 1998-99, have previously achieved that feat - and it is their derby rivals whom City will meet at Wembley on 3 June, before facing Inter Milan a week later in Istanbul, where they will hunt a first Champions League triumph.\n\nCity will lift the trophy after they play Chelsea on Sunday (16:00 BST).\n\nCaptain Ilkay Gundogan - who has scored four goals in the past two league games - said: \"The Premier League is without doubt the most demanding and competitive league in the world, so that tells you everything about what an achievement this is.\n\n\"To have won this trophy three times in a row and five times in six years is incredible. That quality and consistency helps sum up what Manchester City stand for and ensures the club will continue to strive for success going forward.\n\n\"It has been a season I will never forget.\"\n\nCity, champions for a ninth time in the club's history, had trailed Arsenal by eight points on 7 April, although they had played one game fewer than Mikel Arteta's leaders at that point.\n\nIt is only the fourth time that a team has been as many as eight points clear after at least 28 Premier League games and failed to win the title.\n\nOnly one team has ever had 69 points with 10 games remaining - as Arsenal did - and failed to win the title. That was Liverpool in 2018-19, when they finished on 97 points, one behind City.\n\nBut City have won 11 league games in a row - and dropped just two points from a possible 42 - to overhaul Arsenal and clinch the title with three games remaining.\n\n\"Arsenal have pushed us right to the limit,\" said full-back Kyle Walker. \"They've been fantastic and full credit to them, but I think we just went on an incredible run, and we've managed to end up where we have now. They've had a few hiccups and we've managed to capitalise on that.\n\n\"It's the players we've got. We're a bunch of lads who have achieved so much over the last number of years and we understand the standards we've set.\"\n• None 'An unstoppable juggernaut' - where will Man City dominance end?\n\nCity are only the fifth club to win three successive top-flight titles in England, following Huddersfield Town (1924-26), Arsenal (1933-35), Liverpool (1982-84) and Manchester United, who did it twice under Sir Alex Ferguson (1999-2001 and 2007-09).\n\nIt is also the third occasion Guardiola has managed to win three league titles in a row, having done so in La Liga with Barcelona from 2009-11 and in the Bundesliga from 2014-16 with Bayern Munich.\n\nCity's Premier League dominance of five titles in six seasons was last achieved by Manchester United between 1996 and 2001 - a period where they also won the Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League.\n\nUnited also won seven titles in nine seasons between 1993-2001; as well as five titles in seven seasons between 2007-2013 - so City's current dominance is not unprecedented.\n\nBefore that, Liverpool in the late 1970s and early '80s enjoyed similar periods of league success.\n\nCity will complete their league campaign with away games against Brighton and Brentford, before resuming their Treble bid.\n\nTheir push for that achievement has been driven, in part, by Erling Haaland's remarkable goalscoring record since the forward joined from Borussia Dortmund last summer.\n\nThe 22-year-old Norwegian has scored 52 goals in 48 games in all competitions - including a record-breaking 36 goals in 33 Premier League appearances.\n\nHaaland is just the second player in English top-flight history to score more than 50 times in all competitions - and the first to do so for 95 years.\n\nHe broke the Premier League record for goals in a season with his 35th at the start of March, which moved him one clear of Andy Cole and Alan Shearer - whose 34-goal tallies had come in a 42-match campaign.\n\nThe title win comes three months after City were charged by the Premier League with more than 100 breaches of its financial rules following a four-year investigation. The charges cover the period of 2009-2018, since the 2008 takeover by the Abu Dhabi United Group, led by billionaire Sheikh Mansour, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family.\n\nThey are accused of effectively falsifying their accounts and artificially inflating sponsorship and commercial deals over a number of years to allow them to spend more but stay within Uefa and Premier League rules.\n\nCity said they were \"surprised by the charges\" but welcomed the \"review of this matter by an independent commission to impartially consider\" their case, which City said was supported by a \"comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence\".\n\nCity, who have always denied financial wrongdoing, said they \"look forward to this matter being put to rest once and for all\".\n\nThe club has been referred to an independent commission, which can impose punishments ranging from a fine and points deduction to expulsion from the Premier League. It is not known how long the process will take.\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sunak at G7: Russia must \"pay a price\" for illegal Ukraine invasion\n\nRishi Sunak has said he wants to ensure \"Russia pays a price\" for the war in Ukraine, after announcing new sanctions targeting Russian exports.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Chris Mason at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, the prime minister said he was leading the way with new sanctions on Russia.\n\nHe said he hoped other countries would follow suit.\n\nRussian diamond imports to the UK are among the items that will be banned by the government.\n\nThe Russian diamond industry was worth $4bn (£3.2bn) in exports in 2021.\n\nRussian-origin copper, aluminium and nickel imports will also be blocked, under legislation to be introduced later this year.\n\n\"We believe in democracy, freedom, the rule of law - and it's right that we stand up for those things,\" Mr Sunak told the BBC.\n\nUK PM Rishi Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, arriving in Tokyo ahead of the G7 summit\n\n\"I'm hopeful and confident that our partner countries will follow as they have done when we've done this previously.\n\n\"That will make the sanctions more effective, ensure that Russia pays a price for its illegal activity.\"\n\nThe UK government said it was also planning to target 86 more people and companies connected to President Vladimir Putin, including people who were \"actively undermining the impact of existing sanctions\".\n\nSince Russia's attack on Ukraine, the UK has targeted more than 1,500 individuals and entities and frozen more than £18bn assets under the sanctions regime.\n\nLast year the UK, US, Canada and Japan banned imports of Russian gold in an effort to hit the country's ability to fund the war in Ukraine.\n\nDowning Street said more than 60% of President Putin's war chest has been \"immobilised\" - worth about £275bn.\n\nBoth the US and the EU have announced similar sanctions on Russia - with US President Joe Biden setting out plans to ban Russian diamonds, seafood and vodka last year.\n\nThe President of the European Council, Charles Michel, says the EU also wants to restrict trade in Russian diamonds to try to further isolate Moscow.\n\nDiamonds extracted from the Yakutia region by Russian mining company Alrosas Dynasty\n\nMr Sunak is in Hiroshima for the G7 summit, which is made up of the UK, Japan, Italy, Canada, France, the US and Germany.\n\nThe prime minister visited the Hiroshima Peace Park, the site where the US dropped the first nuclear bomb, alongside other G7 leaders before the meeting, where the Ukraine war and economic security are likely to be high on the agenda.\n\nRussia has significantly increased the frequency of its missile attacks on Ukraine recently, while Ukraine appears to be shooting down more of Russia's missiles.\n\nAt the meeting, Mr Sunak is expected to warn other world leaders \"against complacency in defending our values and standing up to autocratic regimes\".\n\nOn Sunday, he will meet the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, who is attending the G7 summit as a guest.\n\nMr Modi has remained neutral on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, calling for peaceful dialogue to end the conflict.\n\nMr Sunak told reporters travelling with him in Japan that he had seen \"positive\" steps from India in its stance on the war.\n\nThe prime minister said the sanctions demonstrated the G7 was unified in the face of the threat from Russia.\n\nHe said: \"We are meeting today in Hiroshima, a city that exemplifies both the horrors of war and the dividends of peace.\n\n\"We must redouble our efforts to defend the values of freedom, democracy and tolerance, both in Ukraine and here in the Indo-Pacific.\"", "Jonathan Hogg, aged 37, was described as a \"sensitive and kind person\"\n\nA woman has been arrested and 15 dogs have been seized after a man was killed in a dog attack.\n\nJonathan Hogg, 37, died in hospital after the attack in Leigh, Greater Manchester, on Thursday.\n\nPolice said the woman, aged 22, had been arrested on suspicion of money laundering and has since been bailed.\n\nThey added that \"items\" with a total value of £37,500, believed to be the result of criminal proceeds, had been seized.\n\nThe dog that attacked Mr Hogg was humanely destroyed after officers used \"every tactic to subdue\" the animal, police said.\n\nThey later seized six adult dogs and nine puppies - believed to be the same breed as that which attacked Mr Hogg - following their search of two houses.\n\n\"These dogs are now being cared for at a specialist facility,\" a police spokesman said.\n\nA 24-year-old man previously arrested on suspicion of being in charge of a dangerously out-of-control dog causing injury resulting in death has been bailed.\n\nMr Hogg's family described him as a \"well-loved, sensitive, and kind person\".\n\nDet Ch Insp John Davies said: \"Dangerous dogs do not have a place in our communities, and we want to reassure the public that we are doing everything in our power to keep people safe.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fuse ODG said he was in \"excruciating pain\" after being handcuffed\n\nThe musician Fuse ODG has made a formal complaint against the Met Police after he was handcuffed by officers.\n\nThe London-born Afrobeat artist, whose real name is Nana Richard Abiona, said he was \"racially profiled\" by four officers in Brixton on 28 February.\n\nOn Thursday he shared footage of the incident on Instagram, in which police told him they could smell cannabis.\n\nThe Met Police said the complaint was being assessed by officers from the Directorate of Professional Standard.\n\nThe force also said a voluntary referral had been made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nWriting on Instagram, Fuse ODG said: \"I spent six hours in A&E due to how tightly they clamped the cuffs on me... (excruciating pain!), as well as suffering neck and back pain for the following weeks.\"\n\nThe British-Ghanaian singer said that he chose not to share the video footage earlier in the year, but had since \"taken the time to process the incident\".\n\nHe was in a car with his manager, Andre Hackett, when officers pulled him from the vehicle and attached handcuffs.\n\nMr Abiona said: \"It's wild that this is the normal reality for too many of us growing up in this country. But even wilder is that this is still the reality in a post-George Floyd world.\n\n\"In the past months, we have seen so many videos of police officers beating up and even kneeling on our black children in the UK. I know because a lot of the time they come to me for help.\n\n\"The sad reality is that as a black man living in this system, it doesn't matter how much money you make or the positive impact that you have on the world, they still only see you as one thing.\"\n\nMr Abiona added: \"We are not holding our breaths for justice from this system.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Fuse ODG: 'We need to redefine our history'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been arrested after allegedly hitting a controversial statue outside the BBC's HQ in London with a hammer.\n\nPolice were called at 04:15 BST on Saturday to reports a man had climbed scaffolding outside Broadcasting House and was damaging Eric Gill's Prospero and Ariel.\n\nThere have been calls for it to be removed because the sculptor recorded abusing his daughters in his diaries.\n\nIt is the second time the 1930s work has been targeted.\n\nThe man was brought down from the scaffold shortly after 18:00 BST.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said he had been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and going equipped and that he would be taken into police custody.\n\nIt comes after a protester took a hammer to the statue in January last year. Repair work from the damage done during that incident is continuing.\n\nThroughout Saturday, a man could be seen on the scaffold wearing a Spider-Man mask and shouting intermittently at officers on the ground. Footage also appeared to show him hitting the statue with a hammer and chisel.\n\nA cordon was put in place and police initially said it was not possible to \"safely detain the man given the circumstances of the incident, including the height\".\n\nThey added that specialist officers were attending the scene.\n\nThe statue was damaged in January 2022 by a protester\n\nBorn in 1882, Gill became an influential artist whose work included several large sculptures for buildings in central London, including Westminster Cathedral and the original headquarters of the London Underground.\n\nHe was also the designer of Gill Sans, a widely used British typeface.\n\nGill died in 1940, but in 1989 a biography was published detailing diary entries in which he described sex abuse committed against his two eldest daughters, an incestuous relationship with his sister, and sex acts carried out on his dog.\n\nThe statue outside Broadcasting House, installed in 1933, features the characters Prospero and Ariel from Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Ariel, a spirt of the air, is depicted as a young naked male.\n\nBBC culture editor Katie Razzall said Gill was an \"incredibly successful and renowned sculptor and artist\" whose career raises questions \"about whether you can judge an artist or anybody based on their actual lives or whether their art stands alone\".\n\nThe BBC has previously said the repair work to the damage done last year was due to be completed on 19 June. There are also plans for a QR code to be placed nearby to provide context about the statue and its history.\n\nThe corporation said the latest incident was a matter for the police and emergency services.", "James Allchurch was found guilty on 10 counts of distributing material to stir up racial hatred\n\nA Neo-Nazi's website is still online despite him being jailed for hate crimes.\n\nJames Allchurch, 51, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years on Monday for spreading racist and anti-Semitic material.\n\nBut the site remained accessible and new posts were uploaded as recently as Friday.\n\nCounter-terrorism police said only material that met a criminal threshold could be removed.\n\nOn the site, Allchurch goes by the name Sven Longshanks.\n\nEdward I, also known as Edward Longshanks, ordered the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290.\n\nIn one recording, Allchurch claimed the site existed to \"encourage virtue among our people\".\n\nIn another, he discussed Diane Abbott's suspension from Labour using racist language.\n\nThere is a series of articles and broadcasts entitled Greatest Britons: Sir Oswald Mosley.\n\nMosley was founder of the Hitler-supporting British Union of Fascists.\n\nThe site also repeatedly employs the Pepe the Frog character, recognised as a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League.\n\nMedia lawyer Steve Kunewicz, of Glaisyers solicitors, warned the material could still be shared online.\n\n\"When you are dealing with something like this, you have got to have a 360-degree approach,\" he said.\n\nAlex Davies, jailed for being a member of neo-Nazi group National Action, guested on his shows\n\n\"This is not just about the person, it is about the content.\n\n\"It is free to be shared and disseminated and commented upon by other people. These things can get traction.\n\n\"The best thing to do it take it down at source. They have gone for the person, now they are going to need to take some steps to get rid of the content.\"\n\nAccording to domain tracer Who Is, the website is hosted for Allchurch, of Gelli, Pembrokeshire, by US based Epik Holdings.\n\nThat has been associated with far-right sites and currently hosts InfoWars, the conspiracy theory site owned by American Alex Jones.\n\nHe was ordered to pay almost $1.5bn (£1.2bn) for falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.\n\nHope Not Hate's Matthew Collins said: \"Despite being in prison, James Allchurch's vile racism is still available for anyone to view online and is likely profiting by having his site soliciting donations.\n\n\"Allchurch's content is dangerous and has the capacity to incite racial hatred.\"\n\nAllchurch was caught after an investigation by counter terrorism police.\n\nThere was a series of articles and broadcasts on Allchurch's site about Sir Oswald Mosley\n\nA spokesman said the recordings that were the subject of the charges had been taken down.\n\nHe added: \"While much of the remaining material on this site is grossly offensive, only that which meets a criminal threshold can be removed.\n\n\"Despite this, we continue to work closely with the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) and the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit to explore all available options.\"\n\nEpik Holdings has been approached for comment.", "Rishi Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, is travelling with him in Japan for the G7 summit\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said personal attacks from Labour on him and his family \"don't bother me\".\n\nMr Sunak told reporters the public were more interested in whether the government was improving their lives.\n\nLabour's attacks on the PM have become increasingly personal in recent weeks, with the party accusing him of being out of touch because of his wealth.\n\nIt has also criticised Mr Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, for previously benefitting from non-dom tax status.\n\nAsked by journalists during his visit to Japan for the G7 summit whether comments about his wealth and upbringing were fair game, Mr Sunak said: \"These things generally don't worry me.\n\n\"I don't think most people sitting at home actually are much bothered about these things either. What they care about is what am I doing for them to make their lives better.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think we've moved beyond judging people by what's in their bank account. I think they're interested in whether I'm going to deliver for them and their families.\"\n\nAsked whether it was hurtful when Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer talked about his family, Mr Sunak said: \"These things don't bother me.\"\n\nIn recent sessions of Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir has accused the prime minister of being \"clueless about life outside his bubble\".\n\nIn the run-up to the local elections in England earlier this month, Labour also put out a number of adverts on Twitter attacking Mr Sunak personally.\n\nThe most controversial claimed the prime minister did not think adults convicted of child sexual assaults should go to prison.\n\nSir Keir defended the advert, saying it highlighted the government's failures on crime, but there was uneasiness about the move among some in Labour.\n\nAnother advert criticised Mr Sunak for raising taxes on working people, while his family benefitted from \"a tax loophole\" - a reference to his wife's non-dom status.\n\nLast year, it emerged that Mr Sunak's wife had non-dom status, which allows people living in the UK to avoid paying UK tax on money made abroad.\n\nShe later said she would start paying UK tax on her overseas earnings.\n\nAt the time Mr Sunak, who was then chancellor, described criticism of his wife as \"unpleasant smears\", arguing it was unfair to attack a private citizen.\n\nHe has also previously admitted he found it \"very upsetting\" when his wife faced criticism over shares she owned in a tech company operating in Russia.", "The US will support the delivery of advanced fighter jets to Ukraine by allowing Western allies to supply American-made F-16s, and by training Ukrainian pilots to use the jets.\n\nIt would certainly be a military boost for Kyiv - but the devil is in the detail.\n\nThe crucial questions are: how many, how quickly, and what weapons will the jets come supplied with?\n\nNo-one doubts the ability of the F-16, which has more than proved itself in conflicts around the world.\n\nThey will be a step up from Ukraine's Soviet era Mig-29s and Su-27s, which fly comparable missions.\n\nThe F-16 radar can see further, allowing hostile aircraft to be engaged at longer ranges.\n\nThey typically come with missiles that do not require the aircraft to maintain a radar lock to hit their target - a capability that Russia currently has, but Ukraine does not.\n\nF-16s can also launch precision bombs guided by laser, GPS, and advanced targeting systems, and are better at targeting and destroying enemy ground-based radars than Ukraine's current fighter jets.\n\nBut it is not yet clear which of these capabilities would be made available to Ukraine if the delivery of the jets goes ahead.\n\nTraining and delivery will also be a challenge for Ukraine. The computer systems on board - such as the avionics - operate in a very different way to Soviet aircraft.\n\nIn combat, pilots need to instinctively select multiple, correct modes in complex scenarios where they are at risk of being overwhelmed by rapidly developing events - a situation known as task-saturation.\n\nImagine as a car driver switching from a Renault to a Mercedes, and having to instantly know the position of the headlight switches, the wipers and the fog lights - all on a hugely more complicated level. It takes time and practice.\n\nUkrainian pilots will receive training on bespoke simulators. But it is also highly likely they would have been practising on commercially available software, which delivers a very close representation of the workflow required to operate an F-16.\n\nNumbers are also key. It is little use sending half a dozen jets which on their own might be vulnerable to the mighty Su-35s operated by Russia.\n\nCombat aircraft are most effective in packages where jets are grouped together for certain roles - all to carry out one specific mission.\n\nFor example, if the mission is to neutralise an enemy radar installation, you might want a \"four-ship\" comprising four jets to carry the missiles or the bombs to destroy that structure.\n\nThat role is called a Suppression of Enemy Air Defences (SEAD) strike. But you do not want that critical flight itself to be vulnerable to attack.\n\nSo you might have another four aircraft flying ahead in a \"SEAD escort\" role, armed with air-to-air weapons, to protect the SEAD strike from enemy planes.\n\nThe point is all this requires many aircraft, and they need to be supported by other assets.\n\nThat would include surveillance planes to warn about enemy fighters in the area, ground maintenance crews to ensure the upkeep of the jets and having, of course, the necessary infrastructure to take off and land safely.\n\nSo the US decision to give the OK to other nations to supply F-16s marks the start of a complicated process and much work will be required to get to delivery.\n• None Biden to let allies supply F-16s in boost for Kyiv", "Phillip Schofield says he has agreed to step down from ITV’s This Morning “with immediate effect” after more than 20 years.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"I understand ITV has decided the current situation can't go on.\"\n\nHis departure comes after reports claimed relations between him and co-host Holly Willoughby had come under strain in recent weeks.\n\nWilloughby said: \"The sofa won't feel the same without him.\"\n\nShe will remain as a presenter on the programme, and will be joined by \"members of the This Morning family\", ITV said, while confirming Schofield's Thursday appearance was his last.\n\nSchofield will continue working with the broadcaster, ITV's statement added, saying this included The British Soap Awards in June and a \"brand new peak time series to come\".\n\nOn Instagram, Schofield wrote: \"Throughout my career in TV - including in the very difficult last few days - I have always done my best to be honourable and kind.\n\n\"I understand that ITV has decided the current situation can't go on, and I want to do what I can to protect the show that I love.\n\n\"So I have agreed to step down from This Morning with immediate effect, in the hope that the show can move forward to a bright future.\n\n\"I'd like to thank everyone who has supported me - especially This Morning's amazing viewers - and I'll see you all for the Soap Awards next month.\"\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, Willoughby said: \"It's been over 13 great years presenting This Morning with Phil, and I want to take this opportunity to thank him for all of his knowledge, his experience and his humour.\"\n\nKevin Lygo, ITV's managing director, media and entertainment, called Schofield \"one of the best broadcasters of his generation\" and thanked him for \"two decades worth of absolutely terrific television\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSchofield has been a regular presenter on This Morning since 2002, and Willoughby since 2009. The pair also present ITV's Dancing On Ice together.\n\nAfter reports of a \"cooling\" in the pair's friendship appeared in The Sun earlier this month, Schofield told the newspaper: \"The last few weeks haven't been easy for either of us.\"\n\nBut he said his co-host was his \"rock\", adding: \"She is an incredible support on screen, behind the scenes and on the phone.\"\n\nWilloughby will take an \"early half term holiday\", ITV said, and will return to screens on 5 June.\n\nSchofield recently returned to the show after taking pre-planned leave around his younger brother's sex abuse trial at Exeter Crown Court.\n\nTimothy Schofield was jailed for 12 years on Friday for 11 sexual offences involving a child between 2016 and 2019.\n\nPhillip Schofield first found fame on children's TV in the 1980s on the BBC's Broom Cupboard, and then on Saturday morning show Going Live!\n\nHe starred in West End productions and fronted TV game shows like Talking Telephone Numbers and Schofield's Quest before joining This Morning.\n\nThe programme has won a host of awards, including the prize for best daytime programme at last year's National Television Awards.\n\nWhile their on-screen relationship may have won plaudits and attracted audiences, Schofield and Willoughby were criticised in September last year over claims - which they denied - that they skipped the queue for the Queen's lying-in-state while attending to film a segment.\n\nWilloughby also took time away from the show in April after she contracted shingles.", "A Wrexham fan from Argentina's Welsh-speaking area of Patagonia is desperate to get to the Racecourse next season.\n\nDavid Mardones has been in love with Wales' oldest football team since 2019 - before the club's Hollywood takeover by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.\n\nThe Red Dragons are soaring again after sealing promotion back to the Football League after a 15-year absence.\n\nDavid's only problem? He'll have to travel more than 7,000 miles (11,265 km) to get to a game.\n\nThe process that led to David becoming a Wrexham fan began in 1865, a year after the club was formed, when 153 Welsh pioneers set off for South America on a clipper ship called Mimosa.\n\nThe Welsh-speaking community established afterwards - Y Wladfa - has endured, with between 2,000 and 5,000 Argentines speaking Welsh to this day.\n\nDavid takes great pride in being one of them.\n\n\"My connection to Wales comes from my mother's roots, she instilled in me the Welsh traditions,\" he said.\n\n\"The language is something that I learn every day, here in Patagonia we are committed to expanding both the culture and the language and to preserve it.\n\n\"My grandparents surname was Jones. One of them lived in the Patagonian mountain ranges at 16 de Octubre.\"\n\nDavid lives in Dyffryn Camwy - The Camwy Valley - which is part of the province established by Welsh colonists in the 19th Century\n\nThe 16 de Octubre valley - or Cwm Hyfryd - is the name given by the Welsh settlers to the area of ​​Trevelin and its surroundings in Patagonia.\n\nNow, David is looking to the future, as he passes on his passion for Wales to the next generation.\n\n\"My daughter is two years old. She has a Welsh name - Aderyn Bryn. She will be the one to continue honouring the Welsh culture in Patagonia,\" he said.\n\nThe Trevelin flag features the blue and white of Argentina's national flag and Y Ddraig Goch - the red dragon of Wales\n\nDavid was contacted by some Wrexham locals after posting pictures on a Welsh Pride Facebook group.\n\n\"One of them - who is like my brother - is Tudur Dylan Jones. Talking to him a long time ago around 2019, he told me 'I am a fan of Wrexham, you must also become a fan, the first in Patagonia',\" he said.\n\n\"I was excited about the idea and when we created the Y Wladfa Wrexham fan group, we began to have connections with many people.\n\n\"It is my dream to go to Wrexham and be at the Racecourse celebrating goals surrounded by fans. I think about it every day.\n\n\"There were hard seasons, the previous season we were close. This time it was completed. I shed tears of joy.\"\n\nWrexham's 3-2 win over title rivals Notts County - which cemented their position at the top of the National League after a Ben Foster penalty save - stands out in David's mind.\n\n\"I followed the game minute-by-minute on Google and through Facebook on the official page. I really had a lot of anticipation and expectation,\" he added.\n\nDavid is now fundraising in his community for his trip to Wrexham.\n\nDavid and Daniel Hughes (left) - president of the St David's Association in Patagonia - follow Wrexham religiously\n\nCefyn Burgess is a textile designer and artist from Bethesda, Gwynedd.\n\nHe was in Patagonia for the 150th anniversary of the Mimosa landing in 2015 to explore the relationship between the Welsh, Argentine and indigenous people.\n\n\"The connection to the Mimosa is a factor of their roots and identity and also an expression of their pride in the achievement of their forefathers in turning a desert into a promised land,\" he said.\n\n\"They are Argentinian first and foremost, but proudly Welsh.\"\n\nCefyn pictured in front of Trelew town hall before meeting the mayor\n\nHe added the association with the descendants of those from the Mimosa had given a strong sense of belonging to the people of Y Wladfa.\n\n\"This is evident in the strength of the eisteddfods, chapels, the gymanfa ganu and the flourishing Welsh schools,\" he added.\n\n\"Today, the Welsh community is a major tourist destination to experience the Welsh tea rooms with their own version of Bara Brith (Torte Negra) and listen to the Welsh choirs.\"\n\nBut how does a Patagonian eisteddfod compare?\n\n\"A very different experience, lively vibrant and chaotic at times, enthusiastic and a wonderful blending of Argentinian and Welsh music, dance and poetry,\" Cefyn said.\n\nThey have their own version of Bara Brith (Torte Negra) in Patagonia\n\nBeth Owen was part of the first team to go to Patagonia post-Covid on the British Council's Welsh-language project.\n\nThe adult Welsh tutor from Bridgend was there from August to December last year.\n\n\"I took part in three eisteddfods over there,\" she said.\n\n\"They have a Spanish and Welsh reciting which is lovely.\n\n\"They've still got a strong Spanish identity but they are very proud of their Welsh identity as well.\n\n\"Even if they spoke no Welsh, they would talk about their Welsh blood.\"\n\nBeth Owen lived in Patagonia for four months\n\nThe biggest shock - and moment of pride - for Beth came at the end of the school day.\n\n\"The children sing the Welsh national anthem at the end of each day,\" she said.\n\n\"I had to pinch myself when that happened. If you think we sing it well in the stadiums, you should hear them.\"\n\nRecord inflation rates of more than 100% have meant the cost of living is high for the Welsh-speaking community and Argentines in general.\n\nHowever, Beth is hoping she can return one day, adding: \"It was an absolute pleasure to be part of it and I'm so grateful to the whole Welsh community.\n\n\"I would go back in a heartbeat - I've made friends for life.\"", "Direct debits are based on estimated annual energy use so your supplier may be able to cut these if the estimate is more than you are using\n\nEnergy bills for a typical household are expected to fall by nearly £450 from July, according to new forecasts.\n\nConsultancy firm Cornwall Insight predicts bills could drop by as much as £446 under a new official price cap set to be announced by Ofgem on 25 May.\n\nA typical user pays no more than £2,500 a year for their energy because of the Government's Energy Price Guarantee.\n\nAnalysts predict the new price cap will be set at £2,054 for July.\n\nThen it is expected to fall further in October to £1,976.\n\nOfgem's current cap for an average household is £3,280, but consumers aren't directly affected by it because the government's guarantee scheme has a lower threshold. That will change in July when the cap falls and the threshold for the guarantee rises to £3,000.\n\nThe guarantee scheme is set to end entirely next March.\n\nGovernment support is thought to have cost the taxpayer around £29.4bn in total.\n\nDr Craig Lowrey, principal consultant at Cornwall Insight, said the new cap was good news for households.\n\n\"Under these predictions, an average consumer would see bills drop by around £450 compared to the existing levels of the energy price guarantee, with bills currently predicted to stay relatively stable over the next nine months,\" he said.\n\nThe price of wholesale energy increased as Covid restrictions were eased and then rocketed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Worried about energy bills? The BBC's Colletta Smith tells you - in a minute - about four discounts and payments that could help\n\nIn January Ofgem's price cap peaked at £4,279, and was predicted to hit £6,000 this year, potentially adding hundreds of pounds to monthly bills.\n\nThe government stepped in to limit bills, and also gave a £400 winter discount to every household, paid in six instalments between October and March.\n\nBritish wholesale gas prices have fallen from a peak of 640p per year in August 2022, to around 70p per therm.\n\nBut Cornwall Insight warned that, while bills were falling, it did not expect them to return to pre-Covid levels \"before the end of the decade at the earliest\".\n\nIt added energy bills are still around £1,000 higher compared to what they were in 2021.\n\n\"Regrettably, it looks as if these prices may become the new normal,\" Dr Lowrey added.\n\nEnergy is regulated separately in Northern Ireland, where bills will be held at £1,950 per year for an average household.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised here? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Former teacher Louise Harris says her divorce settlement is on hold because of the change\n\nDivorcing teachers and NHS staff face delays to their financial settlements while the Treasury recalculates public sector pensions.\n\nBoth current and retired staff are affected, risking a \"severe and drastic\" impact on thousands of divorcing couples, say solicitors.\n\nOne woman told BBC News she was not expecting the change and has been unable to move home.\n\nThe Treasury announced the delay in March, promising a solution by summer.\n\nAlthough only teachers and NHS workers are currently affected, police officers, firefighters and armed forces personnel are expected to be next in line.\n\nLouise Harris, 41, from Kesgrave in Ipswich, says the recalculation of the pension \"cash equivalent transfer value\" - or CETV - means her children are currently stuck in an unsuitable home.\n\n\"It's having a negative impact on my children and also my own mental health,\" the former teacher told BBC News.\n\n\"My family is having to live in a space that isn't suitable. It's unacceptable that this has been put in place unexpectedly.\"\n\nWhen couples separate, they finalise their financial arrangements through a consent order - a legally-binding agreement reached between spouses based on the value of their current assets.\n\nBoth parties must provide details of any property, savings, and pensions they possess.\n\nIf they have a public sector pension, the only way to determine its current value is to request a cash equivalent transfer value (CETV).\n\nIn March, the NHS and teachers' pension schemes both temporarily suspended any calculation of CETV while they awaited new \"factors\" - complex mathematical tables used to calculate the value of pensions.\n\nJames Brien, from Easy Online Divorce, said the Treasury changes and subsequent delay was creating \"a huge amount of unnecessary stress\" for divorcing couples.\n\n\"It began with a couple of teachers who told us they couldn't provide their pension figures because there was an embargo.\n\n\"The phones have been ringing non-stop as more and more people have become aware of this massive problem.\n\n\"For most couples, pensions are the biggest asset they have after their home, so this delay creates a huge amount of unnecessary stress and uncertainty.\n\n\"It is possible to divorce without agreeing on finances, but it's risky, especially with pensions, because you will lose any entitlement to a widow/widower's pension rights or benefits after completing the divorce.\"\n\nThere are about 120,000 divorces a year; about 17% of employees work in the public sector.\n\nHM Treasury says it announced changes to the way public sector pension CETVs should be calculated on 30 March.\n\n\"Following the announcement, the calculation of CETVs was temporarily suspended to allow time for guidance to be updated to reflect the change,\" say official background notes.\n\nAccording to the document: \"Guidance was published on 27 April 2023 by HM Treasury and the suspension has ended\", but solicitors say they are still encountering delays, leaving thousands of divorcing couples unable to move on with their lives.", "UK schools have been left confused by the fast rate of change in artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on education, head teachers are warning.\n\nIn a letter to the Times, educators from the state and private sector say developments are \"bewildering\".\n\nThey are launching a body of experts to advise schools on which areas are \"beneficial, and which are damaging\".\n\nThe technology is moving \"far too quickly\" for government alone to give adequate advice to schools, they say.\n\nAI is the \"greatest threat but also potentially the greatest benefit to our students, staff and schools\", the teachers, led by Sir Anthony Seldon, the headteacher of Epsom College, say in the letter.\n\nThe group has also questioned the role of digital companies behind AI.\n\n\"We have no confidence that the large digital companies will be capable of regulating themselves in the interests of students, staff and schools\" their letter reads.\n\nConcerns have quickly grown in recent months over AI with the prominence of the ChatGPT bot which has passed exams.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak recently said that regulation had to evolve at the same time rapid changes are made in AI. He said \"guardrails\" should be put in place to maximise the benefits of AI while minimising the risks to society.\n\nThe group of educators said it was pleased the government was \"grasping the nettle\" on the issue but felt the need to set up its own body composed of leading teachers \"guided by a panel of independent digital and AI experts\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Education told the Times the education secretary \"has been clear about the government's appetite to pursue the opportunities - and manage the risks - that exists in this space, and we have already published information to help schools do this.\n\n\"We continue to work with experts, including in education, to share and identify best practice.\"", "Anastasia (middle) and her cousins were among 57 people killed in Greece's biggest rail disaster in February\n\nAs backdrops to polling stations go, the view from Kastraki primary school is about as spectacular as it gets.\n\nVisitors are drawn to the scattering of monasteries perched on the edge of huge rocks above.\n\nBut beneath the surface of this striking natural beauty is a community consumed with grief.\n\nThat's because three of their brightest stars, who should have been voting for the first time, were killed in February in Greece's worst-ever train crash.\n\nThey were among 57 people who died when an intercity service carrying hundreds of passengers from Athens to Thessaloniki smashed head-on into a goods train on the same line.\n\nAhead of Sunday's general election, opposition parties have raised the disaster time and again as a symptom of a broken government and dysfunctional state.\n\nBoth Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of centre-right New Democracy and his predecessor Alexis Tsipras of centre-left Syriza have visited the families bereaved by the Tempi train crash.\n\nBut above all, it is a story of personal loss.\n\n\"My Anastasia,\" Dimitris Plakias sighs, as he looks out from the terrace of his family restaurant. Tears well in his eyes as he describes his daughter.\n\n\"I'm fortunate I had her as a daughter, even for just a little while. I will always be proud. She was a rare girl and she only had love to give.\"\n\nKastraki is one of many Greek communities hit by February's disaster\n\nAnastasia and her twin cousins Thomi and Chrysa were travelling together on the passenger train.\n\nThey were all just 20 years old.\n\nLike so many of the other victims, the young women were students returning to the University of Thessaloniki after spending a public holiday with their family.\n\n\"We relatives call it a state assassination of our children, and all the people who were aboard that train,\" says Anastasia's father. \"In which European country could this be possible?\"\n\nMr Plakias shakes his head when I ask if he has faith that any leader or party will help to prevent a similar catastrophe.\n\nThe sense of exasperation that nothing will change is compounded for many voters by the surnames on ballot papers up and down the land.\n\nGreece is far from alone in being a cradle for political dynasties, but powerful family networks still dominate the stage, right along the ideological spectrum.\n\nKyriakos Mitsotakis's father was himself prime minister, his sister was foreign minister and his nephew is the current mayor of Athens.\n\nPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is ahead in the opinion polls but his party is unlikely to secure a majority\n\nTwo hours' drive north of the rocks of Kastraki, in the village of Proti, we watch a taxi driver greet the statue of the founder of modern Greece, Konstantinos Karamanlis, a four-time prime minister and later president.\n\n\"Hello, big guy,\" he calls out to the community's famous son as he opens his boot to reveal a mass of glistening cherries he'll later sell to supplement his income.\n\nBut if Karamanlis immortalised in metal remains a giant from beyond the grave and beyond party lines, his nephew Kostas - himself the cousin of another prime minister - has faced national rage.\n\nThe day after the fatal train crash, Kostas Karamanlis resigned as transport minister, admitting the rail network he was responsible for was not fit for purpose.\n\nHowever, the tears he shed in public as he surveyed the wreckage have not stopped him from standing for re-election this weekend, which has angered many of the grieving families.\n\nIn the village coffee house, we find sympathy for the bereaved, but also support for the youngest of the Karamanlis clan.\n\nThe owner introduces us to Giannis Sarigiannis, 79.\n\nKostas Karamanlis? I spent more time with him when he was a boy, than I did my own children\n\nIt turns out Giannis was a driver for the family, including the revered Konstantinos when he was prime minister.\n\nI ask: couldn't the former transport minister also have resigned from politics as a sign of respect for the dead?\n\n\"It was not his fault, this crash,\" Giannis argues. \"And as for his family, they are a good family. Modest people.\"\n\nAnd that's why he's voting for the ruling New Democracy party, he concludes with a smile.\n\nHead south to the capital Athens, and it's accusations of nepotism and clientelism that fuel the anger of many voters.\n\nBut like so many elections around the world at the moment, the high cost of living is the key consideration.\n\nOutside a supermarket in a left-voting suburb, widowed pensioner Elena talks us through her latest shopping list.\n\n\"Bread, tomato, beans - the price of all of them has gone up,\" she says.\n\nShe will be voting for Syriza, the party that ruled from 2015 to 2019 - during the years of ongoing pain as the Greek bailout dictated strict spending measures.\n\nAlexis Tsipras's centre-left Syriza party is several points behind the centre-right New Democracy party\n\nBut Greek GDP went up 6% last year, I put to Elena, citing EU figures.\n\n\"Oh well, that may well be the case, but I don't feel it. Everything I'm buying is going up 20-30%.\"\n\nDespite the national economy bouncing back, more than a third of Greeks say they can't pay their bills each month - the highest proportion in the European Union.\n\nIf that is a prize no country wants, neither is the label Greece has just been given for the second year in a row - that of being the worst EU country for press freedom.\n\nThe adverse rating was largely down to what became known as Greece's Watergate.\n\nLast year it emerged that politicians - including the leader of the third largest party - and journalists had been spied on using wiretaps and spyware that had infected their phones.\n\nGreece's intelligence chief resigned, as did the prime minister's chief of staff - his own nephew - but the prime minister himself managed to hang on.\n\n\"It was a huge scandal,\" explains investigative journalist Eliza Triantafyllou, from independent outlet Inside Story.\n\nShe and her colleagues have relentlessly pursued the story, but it has not dominated the run-up to this election and she blames the mainstream media.\n\n\"They didn't make it a huge deal when it was first revealed and they just kept taking the answers of the government as truth.\"\n\n[The media] didn’t pressure them. And in a way the government got away with it\n\nIf the polls are correct, no party will secure a majority, so Greeks are likely to face either a coalition government or a second vote in July.\n\nThat is partly down to the scrapping of a 50-seat bonus in the first round for the winning party in the 300-strong parliament.\n\nNick Malkoutzis, political analyst from Macropolis, say voters want to move on from a \"lost decade\".\n\n\"People can see there is perhaps a nascent economic recovery in the making and they have to decide in whose hands they are better off - and opinion polls show it's Mitsotakis they trust most.\"\n\nThe same old names may remain instrumental in Greek politics, but the voters may now look to them to share power.\n\nMany go to the ballot box asking when Greece's economic growth will be shared too.", "Willoughby and Schofield filmed a segment about the lying in state for This Morning\n\nITV's chief executive has backed Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield after the hosts were accused of jumping the queue for the Queen's lying-in-state.\n\nDame Carolyn McCall said the pair did nothing wrong and were \"of course\" safe in their jobs presenting This Morning.\n\nThe reaction in the press and on social media showed \"how misinformation just spreads, and it is really horrible for them\", Dame Carolyn said.\n\n\"I don't think they're feeling great. I mean, it's hard,\" she added.\n\n\"Imagine yourself in the eye of a storm like this, where you're trying to say you've done nothing wrong, and all the noise around you is saying that you have. It's difficult to handle.\"\n\nWilloughby and Schofield were criticised after being seen on a live feed that streamed the viewing of the Queen's coffin. Members of the public queued for many hours to get into Westminster Hall.\n\n\"They did have accreditation,\" Dame Carolyn said. \"Lots of people say they didn't. They were sent by This Morning to do a piece for 20 September, which ran. They were to interview people inside and outside. They didn't displace anyone in the queue. And actually, they've been very misrepresented.\"\n\nWilloughby has said they had \"official permission to access the hall.... strictly for the purpose of reporting\"\n\nThe backlash showed how \"minority shrillness can become very, very loud and can become picked up and can become a story\", she added.\n\nThose taking aim at them included Domino's Pizza, which put out a tweet saying: \"Apologies to anyone waiting on their pizza, we've just received an order from Holly and Phil.\"\n\nDame Carolyn said ITV spoke to Domino's, which advertises on the broadcaster's channels. \"We just said to them, 'What are you doing?'\n\n\"They said, 'We think it's really funny, don't you?' We said, 'No.' They didn't think of the impact that would have on how people would pick that up and start memeing it, and that's what happens with these things.\n\n\"They did not do anything wrong.\"\n\nDame Carolyn was speaking at the Royal Television Society London Convention, in an interview with BBC media editor Amol Rajan.\n\nThe saga of Holly, Phil and The Queue is a very modern one. As Dame Carolyn McCall implied, there is no science as to why some stories take off on social media and others don't. Usually, it is an unlikely, toxic mix of factors.\n\nHere, public affection for the Queen, images of other celebrities who queued for hours, and Holly and Phil's reputation as cuddly and relatable presenters contrived to see them fall foul of the public mood.\n\nDame Carolyn was speaking at a Royal Television Society event where there was some concern about the impact of a recession on the media. She was very interesting on a curiosity of modern capitalism: namely, why some companies making no profit (like some streaming services) have huge valuations, while others whose underlying business is reporting solid growth (like ITV) are seeing their share price fall.\n\nMarket sentiment, as Britain is finding out this week, is not always rational or predictable.\n\nDame Carolyn also discussed the November launch of streaming service ITVX, which is aiming to upgrade the \"very clunky user experience\" of the ITV Hub.\n\nShe said ITVX would offer many more programmes, with more than 9,000 hours available for free in an attempt to appeal to younger audiences.\n\n\"The issue for Hub was that, with that small amount of content, they wouldn't stay. They'd come in for the whole of Love Island and then they disappear. They wouldn't come back, because there was nothing else for them to watch.\"\n\nITV has not yet found Laura Whitmore's replacement as Love Island host, she said. Asked if the company has found a host for the reboot of Big Brother, she replied: \"Not announced yet.\"\n\nOther broadcasting executives speaking at the convention included BBC director general Tim Davie, who said he was not worried by the departures of a number of high-profile presenters for commercial rivals in recent months.\n\nAt the weekend, Fortunately podcast hosts Fi Glover and Jane Garvey became the latest names to leave, following the likes of Vanessa Feltz, Simon Mayo, Emily Maitlis and Andrew Marr.\n\n\"We didn't look like we had a weak squad in the coverage of the Queen,\" Mr Davie said. \"We have a very broad squad of people. There will be people moving in and out of the BBC. That always has been done to a degree. It's a hyper-competitive market.\"\n\nHe also said having former Downing Street communications director Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC board had helped the broadcaster in its quest for impartiality.\n\nSir Robbie's presence on the 13-strong board has attracted controversy, with Maitlis recently claiming he was an \"active agent of the Conservative Party\".\n\nMr Davie told delegates: \"We are absolutely fighting for fair and balanced output with due impartiality.\n\n\"We do take board members with all kinds of background and whatever - some of them have baggage.\"\n\n\"But they have views and they are able to share those views, but they don't shape the output. They don't make the editorial calls. We do.\"", "US President Joe Biden has said that the first batch of Abrams tanks will arrive in Ukraine \"next week\".\n\nThe US is by far the largest contributor of arms to Ukraine.\n\nPoland, which was also a major donor, recently said it would stop supplying it with weapons.\n\nIt is in a dispute with Ukraine about its exports of grain, which Poland says are flooding its market.\n\nThe amount of military aid given to Ukraine is tracked by the Kiel Institute, but the data only accounts for donations up until the end of July.\n\nThe US announced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth up to $500 million.\n\nThe US has also confirmed it will provide cluster munitions, a controversial move which has caused unease among some Nato allies.\n\nUkraine has also received SCALP missiles from France - similar to the UK Storm Shadows missiles that were recently delivered.\n\nDozens of tanks have already been committed. Ukraine says they are urgently needed to defend its territory and to push out Russian troops.\n\nThe Leopard 2 is used by a number of European countries, and is considered to be easier to maintain and more fuel-efficient than most other Western tanks.\n\nDuring the first months following the invasion, Nato preferred member countries to supply Ukraine with older tanks - ones that had been used in the former Warsaw Pact.\n\nUkraine's armed forces know how to operate them, and how to maintain them, and had a lot spare parts for them.\n\nModern Western tanks are more complicated to operate and harder to maintain.\n\nRecent footage of a Ukrainian attack on Russian positions show that at least one Leopard tank and several Bradleys are already in use by Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe UK led the way in Nato by offering to provide the Challenger 2 - its main battle tank.\n\nThe Challenger 2 was built in the 1990s, but is significantly more advanced than other tanks available to Ukraine's armed forces.\n\nUkraine used Warsaw Pact designed T-72 tanks prior to the invasion, and since February 2022 has received more than 200 T-72s from Poland, the Czech Republic and a small number of other countries.\n\nAnnouncing the US decision to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, President Joe Biden described them as \"the most capable tanks in the world\".\n\nThe US and the UK are also providing depleted uranium rounds with the tanks they are donating, which are very effective at piercing armour.\n\nHowever, depleted uranium is slightly radioactive material and there are some concerns that the rounds could contaminate the soil.\n\nMilitary professionals point out that success on the battlefield requires a vast range of equipment, deployed in co-ordination, with the necessary logistical support in place.\n\nThe Stryker is one of the many armoured vehicles that have been donated to Ukraine. The US confirmed that 90 Strykers would be dispatched.\n\nAmong the other vehicles donated by the US were Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. They were used extensively by US forces in Iraq.\n\nIn December, the US also announced it was sending the Patriot missile system to Ukraine - and Germany and the Netherlands have followed suit.\n\nThis highly sophisticated system has a range of up to 60 miles (100km), depending on the type of missile used, and requires specialised training for Ukrainian soldiers, likely to be carried out at a US Army base in Germany.\n\nBut the system is expensive to operate - one Patriot missile costs about $3m.\n\nSince the start of the conflict, Ukraine has been using Soviet-era S-300 surface-to-air systems against Russian attacks.\n\nBefore the conflict began, Ukraine had about 250 S-300s and there have been efforts to replenish these with similar systems stockpiled in other former Soviet countries, with some coming from Slovakia.\n\nThe US has also provided Nasams (National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System) to Ukraine. The first Nasams arrived in Ukraine in November.\n\nIn addition, the UK has provided several air defence systems, including Starstreak, designed to bring down low-flying aircraft at short range.\n\nGermany has also provided air defence systems, including the IRIS-T air defence systems which can hit approaching missiles at an altitude of up to 20km.\n\nAmong the long-range rocket launchers sent to Ukraine by the US are the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or Himars. Several European countries have also sent similar systems.\n\nHimars are believed to have been central to Ukraine's success in pushing Russian forces back in the south, particularly in Kherson in November.\n\nHimars systems are much more accurate have a longer potential range than the Smerch system used on the Russian side.\n\nIn the months following the invasion and Russia's retreat from Kyiv, much of the war centred on the east of the country where supplies of artillery to Ukraine were in heavy demand.\n\nAustralia, Canada and the US were among the countries to send advanced M777 howitzers and ammunition to Ukraine.\n\nThe range of the M777 is similar to Russia's Giatsint-B howitzer, and much longer than Russia's D-30 towed gun.\n\nNato countries say they are planning to ramp up their supply of shells, because Ukraine has been using them much at a faster rate than they are being delivered.\n\nThey are asking their domestic manufacturers to increase production.\n\nThousands of Nlaw weapons, designed to destroy tanks with a single shot, have also been supplied to Ukraine.\n\nThe weapons are thought to have been particularly important in stopping the advance of Russian forces on Kyiv in the hours and days following the invasion.\n\nDrones have featured heavily in the conflict so far, with many used for surveillance, targeting and heavy lift operations.\n\nTurkey has sold Bayraktar TB2 armed drones to Ukraine, while the Turkish manufacturer of the system has donated drones to crowd-funding operations in support of Ukraine.\n\nAnalysts say the Bayraktar TB2s have been extremely effective, flying at about 25,000 feet (7,600m) before descending to attack Russian targets with laser-guided bombs.\n\nThe US had repeatedly rebuffed Ukraine's pleas for fighter jets, instead focusing on providing military support in other areas.\n\nBut in May, President Joe Biden announced the US would support providing advanced fighter jets - including US-made F-16s - to Ukraine and also back training Ukrainian pilots to fly them.\n\nThe US endorsement also allowed other nations to export their own F-16 jets, as the US legally has to approve the re-export of equipment purchased by allies.\n\nDenmark and the Netherlands have since confirmed that they will supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets. Denmark has committed to sending 19 aircraft whilst it is anticipated that the Netherlands will provide more.\n\nAn initial delivery of several Danish F-16s is expected for near the end of 2023.\n\nA wider joint coalition of countries, including the UK, have also agreed to help train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s. In addition to the US, the joint coalition will also help train Ukrainian ground crew to maintain the aircraft.\n\nAdditional reporting by Thomas Spencer. Graphics by Gerry Fletcher and Sana Dionysiou.", "Ms Sturrock was 29 weeks pregnant when she died\n\nThe family of murdered teacher Marelle Sturrock has revealed she was carrying a baby boy when she died.\n\nMs Sturrock was 29 weeks pregnant when she was found dead at her home in Jura Street in Glasgow one week ago.\n\nA statement released by her family has said her unborn baby, who did not survive, was to have been named Jayden.\n\nPolice investigating the murder found the body of Ms Sturrock's fiance David Yates at Mugdock Reservoir last Thursday.\n\nOfficers had been searching for Yates in connection with Ms Sturrock's death. They said no-one else was believed to have been involved and Mr Yates' death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nMs Sturrock's parents Colin and Lorna Sturrock released a statement through Police Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nIt said: \"We are devastated following the deaths of our daughter, Marelle, and soon to be grandson, Jayden Sturrock.\n\n\"Marelle was the happiest person you could ever meet and was always looking to help others the best she could.\n\n\"Marelle and her partner doted on each other, and this incident has come as a total shock to all who knew her.\"\n\nMarelle Sturrock's partner David Yates was being hunted by police in connection with her murder\n\nThey thanked family and friends, colleagues at Sandwood Primary where Ms Sturrock was a teacher, and Police Scotland officers for their efforts and support.\n\nThey added: \"Our family would like everyone, including the press, to respect our privacy at this very sad and difficult time.\"\n\nOfficers attended Ms Sturrock's home in the Craigton area of the city at about 08:40 on 25 April where she was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nDetectives confirmed on Thursday that her unborn child did not survive.\n\nFlowers, toys and messages of sympathy have been laid outside her home, including one message which read \"I will never forget you\".\n\nFlowers were placed outside Ms Sturrock's home\n\nA search was launched to find Yates, with officers confirming they were investigating a murder.\n\nHis car was found in a car park at Mugdock Country Park, prompting an extensive police search in the area.\n\nYates' body was recovered from Mugdock Reservoir on Thursday. Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the murder.\n\nOriginally from Wick in the Highlands, Ms Sturrock moved to Glasgow aged 17 to study musical theatre and later became a teacher.\n\nShe was considered a a \"beloved\" member of staff at Sandwood Primary.\n\nMs Sturrock had been due to give birth in the summer\n\nThe Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) said the Crown Office had instructed them to launch an investigation into the death but it has not clarified what it is investigating.\n\nThe watchdog can investigate serious incidents involving the police, including the death or injury of a person following contact with officers.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Once our inquiries are complete a report will be submitted to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.\"\n\nPolice Scotland has not yet confirmed how Ms Sturrock died.", "More than a million NHS staff in England are to receive a 5% pay rise, after health unions backed the deal.\n\nStaff including ambulance workers, nurses, physios and porters will also get a one-off sum of at least £1,655.\n\nThe pay deal was signed off at a meeting between the government and 14 health unions representing all NHS staff apart from doctors and dentists.\n\nMinisters said it was time to bring the strikes to an end - but three unions are threatening to continue action.\n\nHowever, only one - Unite - currently has a strike mandate and that is for local strikes in some ambulance services and a few hospitals.\n\nUnison head of health Sara Gorton, who chairs the joint NHS union group, said: \"NHS workers will now want the pay rise they've voted to accept.\n\n\"The hope is that the one-off payment and salary increase will be in June's pay packets.\"\n\nBut Ms Gorton said health staff should not have needed to strike on such a scale - nurses, physiotherapists and ambulance staff have all taken strike action since December.\n\n\"Proper pay talks last autumn could have stopped health workers missing out on money they could ill afford to lose,\" she said.\n\n\"The NHS and patients would also have been spared months of disruption.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said he was pleased the offer, proposed in March, had been accepted by the unions after members had voted on it.\n\n\"Where some unions may choose to remain in dispute, we hope their members - many of whom voted to accept this offer - will recognise this as a fair outcome that carries the support of their colleagues and decide it is time to bring industrial action to an end.\n\n\"We will continue to engage constructively with unions on workforce changes to ensure the NHS is the best place to work for staff, patients and taxpayers.\"\n\nDespite some of the unions rejecting the offer, the deal was agreed after a majority backed it as a result of the support of some of the biggest unions in the NHS, such as Unison, the GMB and those representing physiotherapists and midwives.\n\nAll staff will now receive the extra pay.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN), one of the unions that rejected the offer, has warned it will continue to pursue strike action.\n\nBut it needs to hold another ballot of its members, as its six-month mandate expired at the end of Monday, when its latest walkout ended.\n\nRCN general secretary Pat Cullen said the union would start balloting in the coming weeks.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Barclay, she said while she \"entirely respected\" the other unions who had voted to accept, she would continue to fight for her members, who voted to reject the offer despite the RCN leadership recommending it to them.\n\n\"Nursing is the largest part of the NHS workforce and they require an offer that matches their true value,\" she added.\n\nUnlike last time, the RCN is holding a national ballot rather than a series of local workplaces ones.\n\nThat means it will be harder to win a strike mandate - something dubbed an \"all or nothing\" approach, in one last attempt to persuade ministers to return to the negotiating table.\n\nThe health secretary also met the British Medical Association on Tuesday to see if the two sides could agree a way forward in the junior doctors' pay dispute.\n\nThey are on a different contract so not affected by the agreement reached with the other NHS staff.\n\nThe BMA wants a 35% rise, to make up for 15 years of below-inflation wage increases.\n\nJunior doctors have held two strikes so far. Mr Barclay has said the pay claim is unaffordable.\n\nA government spokesman said the discussion was \"constructive\" and both parties would meet again in the coming days.\n\nDo you work for the NHS or are you an NHS patient? What do you think about the proposed pay rise? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC News journalist. You can also make contact in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page but cannot see the form, visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or email HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The cost of a food shop \"should start\" to come down in the next few months, the body which represents UK supermarkets has claimed.\n\nSupermarkets will start passing on cost savings for milk and other dairy goods due to cuts in wholesale prices, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.\n\nIt comes as new figures from the trade body revealed food prices were up 15.7% last month compared to April in 2022.\n\nLast week, Sainsbury's rejected suggestions that prices were too high.\n\nThe denial came after questions over why a drop in the cost of wholesale food prices globally had not yet led to falls in the prices charged by UK supermarkets.\n\nHelen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said customers should \"start to see food prices come down in the coming months as the cut to wholesale prices and other cost pressures filter through\".\n\nShe said that retailers were \"committed to helping their customers and keeping prices as low as possible\".\n\nMany households have felt the impact of rising food bills.\n\nMajor consumer goods companies and supermarkets have blamed higher costs for higher prices.\n\nMarmite-maker Unilever and supermarket Sainsbury's both recently rejected suggestions that they are not protecting customers from rising prices.\n\nWhile overall food inflation rose in the year to April, according to the figures from the BRC-NielsenIQ shop price index, fresh food prices accelerated last month to 17.8%.\n\nMs Dickinson said some goods, such as ready meals, had risen in price because of a \"knock-on effect from increased production and packaging costs\".\n\nShe added the price of coffee had jumped because of an increase in the cost of coffee beans, as well as key producers exporting less.\n\nHowever, she said the price of select items like butter or vegetable oils had already started to come down as retailers passed on some savings.\n\nWholesale food prices have started to fall and the World Bank, which works on solutions to reduce poverty in developing countries, has said it expects them to drop 8% by the end of this year.\n\nBut supermarkets have argued such falls take time to reach the shelves. The BRC has said there is a three- to nine-month lag to see a decrease in wholesale prices reflected in-store.\n\nIn March, the union Unite accused some retailers of \"fuelling inflation by excessive profiteering\".\n\nThe boss of Sainsbury's said the supermarket would pass on any falls in the price of goods as soon as it could and was \"absolutely determined to battle inflation for our customers\".\n\nHowever, Simon Roberts admitted widespread price falls were not likely to come soon as energy and labour costs continued to rise.\n\nVictoria Scholar, an analyst at investment firm interactive investor, said while there was \"hope\" that food prices will come down, it was \"more likely that price growth will just slow instead in the near-term as consumers continue to feel the squeeze from rising weekly food bills\".\n\n\"The unfortunate nature of the type of inflation the UK is facing is that it is affecting essential items such as food, hitting those at the lower end of the income spectrum most acutely,\" she added.\n\nWhile overall food prices continued to rise in April, the BRC said inflation, which is the rate at which prices rise, both food and non-food, had fallen marginally to 8.8% in April.\n\nBut just because the inflation rate has fallen, that does not mean prices are falling, it just means that prices are not rising as quickly.\n\nThe BRC said overall price rises in the shops had slowed slightly in April because of \"heavy spring discounting in clothing, footwear, and furniture\".\n\nHow are you coping with the cost of living crisis? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The government is expected to agree to give NHS staff in England their 5% pay increase at a key meeting later.\n\nGovernment and NHS officials will meet representatives from 14 NHS unions covering all staff except for doctors and dentists at lunchtime.\n\nThe unions will declare if a majority of the workforce are in favour of the deal, which also includes a one-off sum and was first put forward in March.\n\nUnion sources said it was almost certain a majority had been reached.\n\nMembers of Unison, the GMB and the unions representing physios and midwives all voted \"yes\" with just a few of the smaller unions left to declare.\n\nUnite is the only major union other than nurses union the RCN to vote \"no\".\n\nIf the majority give the pay award their backing, it will trigger ministers to sanction the rise and one-off payment, worth at least £1,655, for all staff on the Agenda for Change contract. This includes more than a million health workers and covers everyone from nurses and paramedics to porters and cleaners.\n\nThose unions who have rejected the deal will still be free to carry on with industrial action - Unite is carrying out a series of local strikes this week.\n\nThe RCN would, however, need to hold another strike ballot of its members.\n\nIts six-month mandate expired at midnight on Monday and its latest walkout ended at that point.\n\nIt is expected to start balloting members in the coming weeks, with a result due in June.\n\nUnlike last time, the RCN is holding a national ballot rather than a series of local workplaces ones.\n\nThat means it will be harder to get a strike mandate - something dubbed an \"all or nothing\" approach in one last attempt to get ministers to return to the negotiating table.\n\nBut Health Secretary Steve Barclay has said the 5% pay offer is the government's \"best and final offer\".\n\n\"It's a substantial increase to pay and something that will make a real difference when everyone is feeling the impact of inflation on their daily lives.\"\n\nSpeaking during the 28-hour walkout that ended at midnight, RCN leader Pat Cullen said the government could not consider the pay dispute resolved without the biggest part of the workforce - nurses - on board.\n\n\"It has to do better. Only negotiations can resolve this, and I urge ministers to reopen formal discussions with the RCN.\"\n\nThe health secretary will also be meeting the British Medical Association on Tuesday to see if the two sides can agree a way forward in the junior doctors' pay dispute.\n\nThe BMA wants a 35% increase to make up for 15 years of below-inflation wage increases.\n\nJunior doctors have held two strikes so far. Mr Barclay has described the pay claim as unaffordable.\n\nDo you work for the NHS or are you an NHS patient? What do you think about the proposed pay rise? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK airlifts at an airstrip near Khartoum ended on Saturday\n\nTwo extra evacuation flights carrying British nationals have left Sudan, as UK efforts now turn to diplomacy and humanitarian aid.\n\nThe \"exceptional\" flights - billed as the last UK airlift from Sudan - took off from Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast on Monday evening.\n\nMilitary rescue flights from an airstrip near the Sudanese capital Khartoum ended on Saturday.\n\nNearly 2,200 people had been evacuated as of Monday afternoon.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said it would release passenger numbers for the two latest flights on Tuesday.\n\nBritish nationals and others, including Sudanese NHS staff, were asked to travel to Port Sudan by midday on Monday for the \"additional exceptional\" flights.\n\nThe Foreign Office would not confirm the movements of the flights, but a flight tracking website showed a RAF transport Hercules aircraft had landed in Larnaca, Cyprus, at 22:45 local time (20:45 BST). A RAF Atlas transport aircraft was due to land later.\n\nThe UK government said it had ended evacuation flights from Wadi Saeedna airstrip because of a decline in demand by British nationals and the \"increasingly volatile situation\" on the ground, with the last military plane taking off on Saturday night.\n\nAirstrikes and fighting were reported over the weekend despite a ceasefire between the Sudanese army and its rival the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.\n\nThe UK government described the operation in Sudan as the \"longest and largest airlift\" by any Western nation, with 2,197 people airlifted from the war-torn nation as of 17:30 Sudan time on Monday.\n\nThis figure included 1,087 people from other nations, including the US and Germany.\n\nIn addition, a UK team is providing consular assistance in Port Sudan, where they will be helping British nationals leave by commercial routes. Royal Navy ship HMS Lancaster is supporting evacuation efforts from Sudan.\n\nThe FCDO said the situation remained volatile and \"our ability to conduct evacuations could change at short notice\".\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly said: \"With thanks to the extraordinary efforts of staff and military, the UK has brought 2,197 people to safety from Sudan so far - the largest airlift by any Western nation.\n\n\"As the focus turns to humanitarian and diplomatic efforts, we will continue do all we can to press for a long-term ceasefire and an immediate end to the violence in Sudan.\"\n\nOptions to provide humanitarian assistance to Sudanese people in co-ordination with the UN and non-governmental organisations were being explored, the FCDO said.\n\nBut concerns have been raised by some British nationals attempting to get family, without British passports, into the UK.\n\nDr Hanna Yahya, from Cheadle, Greater Manchester, told the BBC her mother, who has a Sudanese passport and a valid 10-year UK visa, was refused entry on to an evacuation flight at Port Sudan.\n\nShe explained her British passport-holding brother, who had made the journey from Khartoum with his mother, had been told by a British Embassy helpline his mother could be evacuated if he proved she was dependent on him. But at Port Sudan she was told she could not be airlifted out the country as she was not \"immediate family\".\n\nThey are now stuck at the Sudanese border attempting to leave.\n\nDr Yahya said: \"My mother doesn't have anyone to look after her. If she is left alone, she will probably die. She has mobility issues. She can walk for about 10 metres. She uses a wheelchair. a normal chair or a walking aid when tired.\n\n\"My brother will stay with my mom to look after her. It breaks my heart.\"\n\nBritish nationals had to make their way unescorted to Port Sudan\n\nFighting has entered its third week in Sudan. Tens of thousands of people have fled the country since fighting engulfed the country more than two weeks ago.\n\nThe capital city Khartoum has seen the heaviest fighting, with the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary group, fighting for control of the country.\n\nSudan's military said on Saturday it was launching a major new offensive against RSF positions in Khartoum.\n\nThe latest truce, which has not held, was due to end at midnight on Sunday. But the RSF said the ceasefire had been extended for another three days.", "Shares in several regional banks in the US have dropped sharply, as investors fear the banking crisis that has gripped financial markets is not over.\n\nThe falls come a day after the collapse of First Republic, which was seized by regulators and sold after worried customers withdrew more than $100bn.\n\nIt was the second biggest bank failure in US history and the third since March.\n\nShareholders were wiped out - and are now eyeing risks at other banks.\n\nCalifornia-based PacWest Bancorp, which has been under scrutiny for its lending to firms backed by venture capital, saw shares plunge 28%.\n\nThe turmoil comes as the banking sector is adjusting to a sharp rise in interest rates.\n\nThe US central bank has raised its benchmark rate from near zero last March to more than 4.75%. It is expected to announce another 0.25% increase this week.\n\nThe moves are impacting the US economy, which could hurt banks as businesses and households start to struggle to make debt payments.\n\nMany analysts are worried about risks to banks lurking in the commercial property sector, which has been hit by a fall in demand for office space due to the expansion of remote work.\n\nThe rise in interest rates has put some banks in a bind, as higher rates hurt the market value of some debts issued when borrowing costs were lower.\n\nThe fears intensified in March, when panic sparked by the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank - then the US's 16th largest lender - prompted global sell-offs of bank shares and led many US bank customers to shift their money to firms seen as safer.\n\nBigger banks proved to be the winners, while regional firms came under pressure.\n\nThe fears claimed Signature Bank and ultimately First Republic, which could not survive the loss of funds.\n\nPacWest reported last month that its deposits shrunk 16% from the end of December to the end of March, while Western Alliance shares fell 11%.\n\nBoth banks said they had seen deposits start to increase again more recently as the fears subsided.\n\nJamie Dimon, chief executive of JP Morgan Chase, which bought First Republic from the government, said on Monday that he thought the fall of First Republic marked the end to \"this part\" of the crisis.\n\n\"This part of the crisis is over,\" he said. \"Down the road, there are rates going way up, real estate, recession - that's a whole different issue, but for now, everyone should just take a deep breath.\"\n\nAnalysts have said the US banking system - which has more than 4,000 banks - could be poised for a wave of consolidation as the economy weakens.\n\nThey have compared the situation to the 1980s, when hundreds of lenders closed after being caught off guard by a sharp rise in interest rates and bad commercial property loans.\n\n\"It's primarily been an interest rate problem but if we slide into a recession, it could be a double whammy,\" said banking consultant Bert Ely.\n\n\"I think maybe heads are screwed on a little bit better than they were in the 80s but there's still lots of uncertainty that's out there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man was arrested outside Buckingham Palace after throwing suspected shotgun cartridges into Palace grounds, police have said.\n\nA cordon was erected and a controlled explosion carried out following the incident, which unfolded at around 19:15 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe man was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon. There are no reports of any injuries.\n\nThe incident is not currently being treated as terror-related.\n\nOvernight rehearsals for the Coronation on Saturday went ahead as planned.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, deputy assistant commissioner Ade Adelekan said the man approached police asking to see a soldier, but when told that was not possible allegedly began throwing shotgun cartridges over the palace gates.\n\nPolice say the man was searched and a knife was found but that he was not carrying a gun.\n\nWhile being arrested, the man told officers they should handle his rucksack with care, leading to a controlled explosion being carried out on the bag, Mr Adelekan said, adding that the suspect was detained within seconds and arrested within five minutes.\n\nThe suspect has undergone a mental health assessment and has been deemed fit to be interviewed, Mr Adelekan said.\n\nThe arrest comes just four days before the King's Coronation celebrations - which will be attended by world leaders and other royals from around the world.\n\nSecurity minister Tom Tugendhat described the response as \"a fantastic piece of policing\", adding that \"a huge security operation\" is in place ahead of the Coronation.\n\n\"As you saw last night, the police and security services are absolutely ready to intervene when necessary,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nThe King and the Queen Consort - who live at nearby Clarence House - were not at Buckingham Palace at the time of the arrest, although the King did host Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the palace earlier on Tuesday.\n\nChief Supt Joseph McDonald said: \"Officers worked immediately to detain the man and he has been taken into police custody.\n\n\"There have been no reports of any shots fired, or any injuries to officers or members of the public.\n\n\"Officers remain at the scene and further enquiries are ongoing.\"\n\nThe BBC's royal producer Sarah Parrish was in the broadcast compound outside Buckingham Palace when she was told to leave and wait outside.\n\nShe told the BBC News Channel that those who were evacuated had \"heard the controlled explosion and then we were allowed back in again.\"\n\nThe suspected shotgun cartridges have been recovered and will be examined by specialists. Roads in the area have now reopened and the cordons have been lifted.\n\nThe King and Queen Consort will return from the Coronation in the Gold State Coach which was ridden alongside the military during a full overnight rehearsal of the Coronation ceremony\n\nRehearsals for the Coronation saw soldiers dressed in bright yellow and red uniforms file past the palace and along the Mall in the early hours of Wednesday morning.\n\nThe parade also featured soldiers on horseback and the Diamond Jubilee State Coach, which will carry the King and Queen Consort from the palace to Westminster Abbey.\n\nExtra security is expected in the capital for the Coronation, which policing minister Chris Philp has described as a \"huge policing operation\".\n\nAsked about the prospect of protesters disrupting the weekend's events, Maj Gen Chris Ghika, a senior British Army officer overseeing the ceremony, said the Metropolitan Police has \"an excellent security plan in place, which will allow the parade to go ahead\".\n\nChris Phillips, former head of the UK National Counter Terrorism Security Office, told the BBC that police have been planning for the Coronation for years, and that an \"enormous amount of planning\" has gone into the security operation.\n\n\"The police should be celebrated for it, and fingers crossed it all goes well on Saturday,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: First look at golden carriages King will use in Coronation", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour will set out 'fairer solution' on university fees, Sir Keir Starmer says\n\nLabour is set to abandon its promise to scrap university tuition fees in England if it wins power, its leader has said.\n\nSir Keir Starmer told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the party was \"likely to move on from that commitment\", blaming the economic backdrop.\n\nThe Labour leader pledged to support getting rid of fees in his 2020 leadership campaign.\n\nBut he now said the party was looking at alternative options for funding.\n\nHe added that the current fees system, of £9,250 a year, was \"unfair\" and \"doesn't work for students, and doesn't work for universities\".\n\nAsked about the report, Sir Keir said: \"We are likely to move on from that commitment, because we do find ourselves in a different financial situation.\"\n\nHe added there were \"other ways of approaching this\", adding that his party could not \"ignore the current economic situation\" ahead of the next election.\n\nUniversity tuition fees were introduced by Labour under Tony Blair, before being tripled under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, triggering mass protests among students.\n\nUnder former leader Jeremy Corbyn, Labour promised to abolish them, alongside reintroducing maintenance grants for poorer students, in its 2017 and 2019 general election manifestoes.\n\nIn 2019, the Institute of Fiscal Studies, a think thank, estimated the policies would cost the public purse just over £6bn per university year-group.\n\nLabour's leader before Mr Corbyn, Ed Miliband, had proposed cutting fees to £6,000 a year.\n\nIn Wales, tuition fees are capped at £9,000, while in Northern Ireland, home students pay a maximum of £4,630 but those from other UK nations can be charged up to £9,250.\n\nIn Scotland, Scottish students are eligible for free tuition, while those from elsewhere in the UK can pay up to £9,250.\n\nDuring his campaign to replace Mr Corbyn as leader in 2020, Sir Keir promised to abolish fees as part of his 10 leadership pledges, under the heading of \"social justice\".\n\nIn his three years as leader, he has also abandoned leadership pledges to nationalise energy and water companies, increase income tax for the top 5% of earners, and \"defend free movement as we leave the EU\".\n\nOn the Today programme, he said the UK now found itself in a \"different situation,\" including by having left the EU and now having the \"highest tax burden\" since the World War II.\n\nHe added he had made a \"political choice\" to abandon the pledge on energy companies, after a review by his team last year found it would \"cost a lot\" but wouldn't reduce bills for households.\n\nMomentum, the left-wing group set up to campaign for Mr Corbyn's leadership, said Sir Keir's move away from free university tuition was a \"betrayal of millions of young people\".\n\nIt added that it would also \"fly in the face of party democracy,\" with Labour's student wing voting two months ago to campaign to scrap fees.\n\nThe Conservative government is in favour of maintaining tuition fees. In January, it said fees would be frozen at £9,250 for the next two years.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats want to bring back maintenance grants, which were abandoned in 2016, and set up a review of how higher education is financed.\n\nThe Green Party, which favours scrapping fees, criticised Sir Keir's move, with co-leader Adrian Ramsay saying students would pay a \"heavy price\" as a result of \"the latest U-turn from Keir Starmer's Labour\".", "A Ukrainian soldier fires towards Russian positions outside Bakhmut in November\n\nMore than 20,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in fighting in Ukraine since December, the US estimates.\n\nA further 80,000 have been wounded, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, citing newly declassified intelligence.\n\nHalf of the dead are from the Wagner mercenary company, who have been attacking the eastern Bakhmut city.\n\nRussia has been trying to take the small city since last year in a grinding war of attrition.\n\nMoscow currently holds most of Bakhmut, but Ukrainian troops still control a small portion of the city in the west. The fierce battle has taken on huge symbolic importance for both sides.\n\nUkrainian officials have also said they are using the battle to kill as many of Russia's troops as possible and wear down its reserves.\n\n\"Russia's attempt at an offensive in the Donbas [region] largely through Bakhmut has failed,\" Mr Kirby told reporters. \"Russia has been unable to seize any real strategic and significant territory.\n\n\"We estimate that Russia has suffered more than 100,000 casualties, including over 20,000 killed in action,\" he added.\n\nThe toll in Bakhmut accounts for losses since the start of December, according to the US figures.\n\n\"The bottom line is that Russia's attempted offensive has backfired after months of fighting and extraordinary losses,\" Mr Kirby said.\n\nHe added he was not giving estimates of Ukrainian casualties because \"they are the victims here. Russia is the aggressor\".\n\nThe BBC is unable to independently verify the figures given and Moscow has not commented.\n\nA local resident pushes his bicycle down a street in Bakhmut in January\n\nThe capture of the city would bring Russia slightly closer to its goal of controlling the whole of Donetsk region, one of four regions in eastern and southern Ukraine annexed by Russia last September following referendums widely condemned outside Russia as a sham.\n\nAnalysts say Bakhmut has little strategic value, but has become a focal point for Russian commanders, who have struggled to deliver any positive news to the Kremlin.\n\nThe Wagner mercenary group - which widely uses convicts and has become notorious for its often inhumane methods - has taken centre stage in the Russian assault on Bakhmut.\n\nIts leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has staked his reputation, and that of his private army, on seizing the city.\n\nBut he recently threatened to pull his troops out of Bakhmut.\n\nIn a rare in-depth interview to a prominent Russian war blogger, he vowed to withdraw Wagner fighters if they were not provided with much-needed ammunition by the Russian defence ministry.\n\nWagner fighters could be redeployed to Mali, he warned.\n\nHe has often clashed with Russia's defence ministry during the war, accusing officials of not providing his fighters with enough support.\n\nMr Prigozhin also called upon the Russian media and military leadership to \"stop lying to the Russian population\" ahead of an expected Ukrainian spring counteroffensive.\n\n\"We need to stop lying to the Russian population, telling them everything is all right,\" he said.\n\nHe praised the Ukrainian military's \"good, correct military operations\" and command.\n\nA top Ukrainian general said on Monday that counterattacks had ousted Russian forces from some positions in Bakhmut, but the situation remained \"difficult\".\n\nNew Russian units, including paratroopers and fighters from Wagner, are being \"constantly thrown into battle\" despite taking heavy losses, Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine's ground forces, said on Telegram.\n\n\"But the enemy is unable to take control of the city,\" he said.", "A photograph of Princess Charlotte taken by her mother has been released on the eve of her eighth birthday.\n\nThe smiling young royal, who is third in line to the throne, is pictured in a white dress patterned with flowers and sitting in a white chair.\n\nHer mother, the Princess of Wales, took the image in Windsor at the weekend.\n\nThe daughter of the Prince of Wales was born in the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, at 08:34 on 2 May 2015, weighing 8lb 3oz.\n\nCharlotte and her siblings George and Louis are expected to watch their grandfather, King Charles III, be crowned on Saturday.\n\nGeorge will be one of eight pages of honour during the service, joining a procession through the nave and assisting with the holding of robes.\n\nThe trio will also be expected on the Buckingham Palace balcony afterwards along with their parents, Prince William and Catherine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A look at two golden coaches to be used for King Charles III's coronation\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is urging Congress to act 'as soon as possible'\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that the US may run out of cash by 1 June if Congress fails to raise or suspend the debt ceiling.\n\nReaching the debt ceiling would mean that the government is unable to borrow any more money.\n\nOn Monday, Ms Yellen urged Congress to act \"as soon as possible\" to address the $31.4tr (£25.12tr) limit.\n\nPresident Joe Biden has called a meeting of congressional leaders on the issue on 9 May.\n\nThe debt ceiling has been raised, extended or revised 78 times since 1960.\n\nIn this instance, House Republicans have demanded drastic spending cuts and a reversal of some aspects of President Biden's agenda - including his student loan forgiveness programme and green energy tax credits - in exchange for votes to raise the debt ceiling. This, in turn, has prompted objections from Democrats in the Senate and from President Biden, who said last week that the issue is \"not negotiable\".\n\nThe president, however, is coming under increasing pressure from business groups - including the US Chamber of Congress - to discuss Republican proposals.\n\nA default - which would be the first in US history - could upend global financial markets and shatter trust in the US as a global business partner.\n\nExperts have warned that a default could also see the US head into a recession and lead to rising unemployment.\n\nIt would also mean that the US would be unable to borrow money to pay the salaries of government employees and military personnel, social security cheques or for other obligations, such as defence contractor payments.\n\nEven weather forecasts could ultimately be impacted, as many rely on data from the federally-funded National Weather Service.\n\nIn a letter to members of Congress on Tuesday, Ms Yellen said that \"We have learned from past debt limit impasses that waiting until the last minute to suspend or increase the debt limit can cause serious harm to business and consumer confidence, raise short-term borrowing costs for taxpayers, and negatively impact the credit rating of the United States.\"\n\nMs Yellen added that it is impossible to know for sure when exactly the US will run out of cash.\n\nHer announcement came on the same day as the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that there is a \"significantly greater risk that the Treasury will run out of funds in early June\".\n\n\"The projected exhaustion date remains uncertain, however, because the timing and amount of revenue collections and outlays over the coming weeks are difficult to predict,\" the CBO report said.\n\nThe Treasury plans to increase borrowing through the end of the quarter ending in June, totalling about $726bn - about $449bn more than projected earlier this year. Officials have said this is partly due to lower-than-expected income tax receipts, higher government spending and a beginning-of-quarter cash balance that was lower than anticipated.\n\nIn a joint statement on Monday, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that the US \"does not have the luxury of waiting until June 1 to come together, pass a clean bill to avoid a default and prevent catastrophic consequences for our economy and millions of American families.\"\n\n\"Republicans cannot allow right-wing extremism to hold our nation hostage. For generations, Congress has made spending and revenue decisions as part of the annual budget process, which is currently underway,\" the statement said. \"That is the appropriate place to debate and discuss our nation's fiscal picture - not in a hostage-situation in which extreme MAGA Republicans try to impose their radical agenda on America.\"\n\nOn the Republican side, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy accused President Biden of having \"refused to do his job\" and \"threatening to bumble our nation into its first ever default\".\n\n\"The clock is ticking,\" Mr McCarthy said in a statement. \"After three months of the Biden administration's inaction, the House acted, and there is a bill sitting in the Senate as we speak that would put the risk of default to rest. The Senate and the President need to get to work — and soon.\"\n\nIn another letter sent to members of Congress in January, Ms Yellen said that the Treasury Department had begun \"extraordinary measures\" to avoid a government default.", "Pubs are open longer over the coronation, but it will depend on staff working when others are celebrating\n\nWith the Coronation approaching, there has been a call to \"spare a thought\" for millions who will have to carry on working through the holiday weekend.\n\nTrade union leader Paul Nowak hailed those in jobs such as shops, transport and hospitality who will be working, as well as emergency services.\n\n\"Their labour will allow others to make the most of the celebration,\" said TUC general secretary Mr Nowak.\n\nAbout a fifth of workers regularly work on bank holidays, say the trade unions.\n\nThe Coronation on Saturday 6 May will be followed by a bank holiday weekend, with many public events planned.\n\nBut the Trades Union Congress, the umbrella group for unions, said the Coronation celebrations would depend on millions keeping working, whether in public transport, retail, pubs, restaurants and hotels, as well as those in emergency and health services.\n\n\"Their labour will allow others to make the most of the celebration,\" Mr Nowak told the BBC.\n\n\"The fact that so many people work during events like this should pause us to think. We need a national conversation about public holidays in the UK. Everybody should get the chance to enjoy them,\" he said.\n\nMr Nowak warned that workers in the UK had fewer public holidays than in many European countries.\n\nFigures from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development suggest about a quarter of the workforce now work on Saturdays - and the institute says similar numbers could be working this weekend.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Brolly or sun cream? Your weather forecast for Coronation weekend\n\nFor those working in hospitality it is going to be busier than usual, with pubs allowed longer opening times over the weekend.\n\nUK Hospitality, representing hotels, restaurants and pubs, is expecting a £350m spending boost from the weekend.\n\nTravel website Expedia has reported a spike in interest in visiting London and market research firm Euromonitor International says the Coronation is particularly driving an increase in tourism from the US, expected to rise by about 14% compared with last year.\n\nAlso working this weekend will be thousands of police and members of the armed forces, with a major security operation planned and military processions.\n\nSome NHS staff who are not working that day are getting special recognition, with viewing areas provided for about 3,000 health workers on the route of the Coronation procession in London.\n\nAnd trade union leader Mr Nowak says those celebrating should remember the efforts of those toiling away to make it possible.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Are you here to escape legal problems?\" - President Trump questioned on visit to Scotland\n\nDonald Trump has been greeted by staff at his Turnberry golf resort on the second day of his whistle-stop tour of Scotland.\n\nThe former US president arrived at the resort in South Ayrshire after flying in to Prestwick Airport.\n\nTrump Turnberry staff waved hats which said \"we make Turnberry great again\" as they greeted him.\n\nMr Trump had visited his Menie Estate golf course near Aberdeen on Monday in his first visit to the UK since 2019.\n\nThe trip comes as Mr Trump faces court action in the United States. Earlier this month he pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.\n\nStaff greeted Mr Trump on the steps of his Ayrshire golf resort\n\nThe former US president arrived at Turnberry on the second day of his visit to Scotland\n\nHe is also facing a civil trial over an allegation that he raped an advice columnist in the mid-1990s.\n\nA judge has denied his legal team's request for a mistrial.\n\nMr Trump, who is running for the White House again in 2024, is visiting Scotland as a private individual.\n\nHe was escorted by police as he met staff at Turnberry at about 13:00 on Tuesday.\n\nThe 76-year-old then took a golf caddy to play a few holes on the course before stopping on the third green to ask a waiting crowd for their thoughts on his shot.\n\nAfter taking a swing, Mr Trump turned to journalists and locals and asked: \"That looked good, right? The swing looked good, everything perfect.\n\nAfter taking another shot, he said: \"That's on the green, thank you very much. Are you surprised to see that kind of power? I think so.\"\n\nOn Monday he attended a ceremony at Menie to break ground for a second course at the resort, to be named the MacLeod course.\n\nIt is dedicated to his late mother Mary Anne MacLeod who was from the Isle of Lewis.\n\nFollowing his time in Scotland, he will head to his golf course at Doonbeg, Co Clare, on Ireland's west coast.\n\nThe former president sparked a security operation on a 2018 visit with protests in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.\n• None Trump says 'great to be home' on visit to Scotland", "Seven months on from the start of her trial at Manchester Crown Court, Lucy Letby entered the witness box to give evidence.\n\nThe 33-year-old began the day by telling the jury she had \"always wanted to work with children\" and had been traumatised by her arrest.\n\nFighting back tears at times, she said she was “devastated” when she was removed from clinical duties in July 2016.\n\n\"I just could not believe it. It was devastating. I don’t think you could be accused of anything worse than that\", she said.\n\nHer defence laywer, Ben Myers KC asked her: “If you think back to when you were a young woman, you were 25, 26, before you were being blamed for what happened, are you the same person?”\n\nLetby replied: “Everything has completely changed. Everything about me and my life, the hopes I had for the future, everything has gone.\n\n“There were times when I did not want to live. I thought of killing myself.”\n\nMyers said: “Had you done anything wrong?”\n\nDuring the course of the day, Ms Letby was asked about various notes found in her home in police searches.\n\nOn one note she had written \"I am evil, I did this\".\n\nExplaining why, she said: “Because I felt at the time I had done something wrong and I thought, I’m such an awful, evil person, that I had made mistakes and not known.”\n\nLetby was also asked about Facebook searches she had carried out, some of which were for parents of babies in this case.\n\nMyers asked if there was \"any sinister reason\" why she would look at the parents of children in this case, she said out of \"general curiosity, same as the reason I'm looking at a lot of people\".\n\nLetby was flanked by two female prison officers as she gave evidence.\n\nSeveral rows behind, her parents, John Letby, 76, and Susan Letby, 62, looked on, as did family members of the alleged victims on the other side of the public gallery.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nArgentina captain Lionel Messi has been suspended by Paris St-Germain for two weeks after travelling to Saudi Arabia without the club's permission this week.\n\nThe trip followed the French club's home defeat by Lorient on Sunday, in which Messi played the full 90 minutes.\n\nMessi will not train or play for PSG during the period of his suspension.\n\nIt is understood the 35-year-old asked permission to make the journey to carry out commercial work but was refused.\n\nMessi believes he did originally have permission to travel to Saudi, but that was then withdrawn due to a change in the club's training schedule.\n• None Lionel Messi: Why dream return to Barcelona looks very unlikely\n\nMessi, who has also been fined by the club, has a role as a tourism ambassador for Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe World Cup winner's two-year contract with PSG expires this summer.\n\nBarcelona vice-president Rafael Yuste claimed in March that the Spanish club were in contact with Messi about a return to the Nou Camp.\n\nMessi has scored 31 goals and contributed 34 assists in 71 games in all competitions for PSG, and won the Ligue 1 title last season.\n\nHe is set to miss matches against Troyes and Ajaccio as PSG, five points clear with five games to go, look to clinch a ninth league title in 11 seasons.\n\nLionel Messi has taken a decision that effectively calls time on his Paris St-Germain career.\n\nYes, they have three games left after Messi's suspension has been completed and there is work remaining to secure another Ligue 1 title, but PSG are on a different course now - and it does not involve Messi, who less than five months ago achieved the crowning glory of his stellar career by lifting the World Cup.\n\nPSG do not view their actions as being anything extraordinary. In their minds they are effectively punishing an employee who has gone somewhere else on a work day miles away from where he is supposed to be.\n\nBut they also feel it is a statement about the future direction of the club, which they are adamant will be around younger players. It is also confirmation of their zero-tolerance approach to discipline.\n\nPSG's fans don't want Messi any more. It is certain his contract will not be renewed.\n• None 'The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life': Joe Wicks learns why sleep is fundamental to our health\n• None How many footballing milestones do you know? Test yourself in this fun quiz", "Oil and gas giant BP has reported strong profits for the beginning of the year as energy prices remain high.\n\nProfits hit $5bn (£4bn) in the first three months of the year, although this was down from $6.2bn last year with oil prices having fallen from the peak seen after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nBumper profits from energy firms have led to calls for them to pay more tax with households facing high bills.\n\nLabour and the Liberal Democrats called for changes to the windfall tax.\n\n\"Of course we want BP and others to make profits so they can invest but these are profits that they didn't expect to make, these are profits that are over and above because the world price of energy is so high,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said: \"These eye-watering profits are a kick in the teeth for all those struggling to pay their energy bills.\"\n\nHe added that the government had \"let oil and gas giants off the hook for billions of pounds while people and businesses struggle to pay for their gas and electricity\".'\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"Through the Energy Profits Levy we are ensuring excess energy profits... are being used to ease the pressure on families up and down the country.\n\n\"These funds are being used to hold down people's energy bills and fund one of the most generous cost of living packages in the world- worth £94bn which is around £3,300 per household this year and last.\"\n\nBP reported record annual profits last year as the company - along with the rest of the energy sector - benefitted from the surge in oil and gas prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIt has led to big profits for energy companies, but also fuelled a rise in energy bills for households and businesses.\n\nBP chief executive Bernard Looney said the first quarter had been one of \"strong performance\".\n\nThe company said it had seen an \"exceptional\" performance from gas marketing and trading, and \"very strong oil trading\".\n\nNick Butler, a former BP executive and visiting professor at King's College London, said the strong results had come \"from a good internal business performance but also from high prices around the world\".\n\nBut he told the BBC's Today programme the firm's profits were likely to \"come down quite a lot this year\" as oil and gas prices were falling back.\n\nLast year, the UK government introduced a windfall tax on profits made from extracting UK oil and gas - called the Energy Profits Levy (EPL) - to help fund its scheme to lower gas and electricity bills.\n\nThe EPL is set at 35%, and together with existing taxes on oil and gas companies takes the total UK tax rate to 75%. However, companies are able to reduce the amount of tax they pay by factoring in losses or investment in their UK oil and gas business.\n\nThe vast majority of BP's profits are earned outside the UK and are therefore not covered by the EPL.\n\nIn the first three months of 2023, the company paid $3.4bn in tax globally and $650m in the UK - with about $300m due to the EPL. BP says it has now paid an extra $1bn in tax since the EPL was introduced.\n\nWholesale gas prices have been falling, which has raised hopes that household bills will start to come down this summer.\n\nThe price of Brent crude oil has also fallen back to around $80 a barrel from highs of nearly $128 following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nBut BP said oil and European gas prices would remain higher than usual in the three months to the end of June.\n\nUnder the government's Energy Price Guarantee, energy bills for a typical household have been limited to £2,500 a year, although this level of support is due to stop at the end of June.\n\nHowever, experts think that bills will fall below this level in July due to falling wholesale costs. This would make the price guarantee redundant.\n\nBP has also come under fire after it said earlier this year that it would cut back its target to reduce emissions by the end of the decade.\n\nLast week, at the company's annual general meeting (AGM), some of the UK's biggest pension funds voted against reappointing BP's chairman, Helge Lund, in protest at the decision.\n\nBP said that it valued \"constructive challenge and engagement\".\n\nOne of the pension funds also told the BBC that there were concerns over BP's actions on reducing gas flaring, after seeing the BBC documentary Under Poisoned Skies.\n\nThe BBC News Arabic investigation showed that BP was one of several major oil companies not declaring emissions from gas flaring at oil fields in Iraq, which produces cancer-linked pollutants.\n\nAli Hussein Julood, who documented his life in Rumaila, Iraq for the documentary, suspected his childhood leukaemia was due to the flaring. He passed away on 21 April after his cancer returned.\n\nAli's father told BP's board of his son's passing during the AGM.\n\nMr Looney gave his condolences at the meeting to Ali's family and said: \"We are continuing to reduce flaring at Rumaila. We are making progress and it must continue to be made.\"", "A cordon remains in place at the scene of a stabbing on Monday\n\nA man has been arrested after a woman was stabbed to death in south London.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was called shortly after 16.00 BST on Monday to reports of a stabbing in Stockwell Park Walk, Brixton.\n\nThe victim, aged 31, was approached from behind and attacked, the force said, adding there was currently no information to suggest the woman and the man knew each other.\n\nThe 33-year-old was arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nPolice officers, paramedics and an air ambulance attended the incident but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nIn a statement, the force said detectives had reviewed CCTV from the area and spoken to several witnesses.\n\nInvestigators believe the woman \"was walking along Stockwell Park Walk when she was approached from behind by a man who attacked her\".\n\nThe family of the woman have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers.\n\nA number of roads have been closed as officers continue to work at the scene, and a police cordon remains in place.\n\nEmergency services were called to the scene late on Monday afternoon\n\nDet Ch Supt Seb Adjei-Addoh, local policing commander for Lambeth, said: \"This is a shocking attack and my thoughts are with the woman's family and friends as they come to terms with this awful news.\n\n\"We will do everything we can to support them at this incredibly difficult time.\n\n\"I recognise the considerable concern this incident has caused and I'd like to reassure you that a dedicated team of detectives are carrying out a number of enquiries and have made an arrest.\n\n\"Despite this, we have additional officers in the area to respond to any concerns from members of the community and I would ask people to report any suspicious activity to us.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Banking giant HSBC says its profits got a $1.5bn (£1.2bn) boost from the purchase of collapsed Silicon Valley Bank's British business (SVB UK).\n\nEurope's biggest bank posted a pre-tax profit of $12.9bn for the three months to the end of March.\n\nThat is more than three times the amount it made for the same time last year.\n\nIn March, HSBC bought SVB UK for a nominal £1 ($1.25), in a deal led by the government and the Bank of England.\n\nThe London-headquartered lender said the profit included a \"provisional gain of $1.5bn on the acquisition of Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited\".\n\n\"We remain focused on continuing to improve our performance and maintaining tight cost discipline, but we also saw an opportunity to invest in SVB UK to accelerate our growth plans,\" group chief executive Noel Quinn said.\n\nThe bank also got a boost from the reversal of its plan to write-off $2.1bn due to the sale of its French business, as that deal may no longer be completed.\n\nHSBC announced its first quarterly payout to shareholders since before the pandemic in 2019 and said it would buy back $2bn of its shares.\n\nIt also said the completion of the sale of its business in Canada is likely to be delayed.\n\nThe planned $10bn sale, which was originally expected to be completed by the end of this year, is now likely to go through early next year.\n\nThe proposed deal is a key part of its strategy to pull back from slow-growing Western markets.\n\nHSBC's strong performance comes against the backdrop of the global banking sector being rocked by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March and the forced buyout by Swiss banking giant UBS of rival Credit Suisse.\n\nOn Monday, US regulators seized First Republic Bank and sold its assets to Wall Street giant JPMorgan Chase.\n\nThe move was aimed to resolve the biggest failure of a US bank since the 2008 global financial crisis and draw a line under weeks of turmoil in the industry.\n\nIn recent months, pressure has grown on HSBC from its biggest shareholder, Chinese insurance giant Ping An.\n\nPing An has called for HSBC to spin off its Asian operation to increase the amount investors make out of the business there.\n\nHSBC is still run from its headquarters in London but makes the majority of its profits in Asia. These profits effectively subsidise some of the bank's loss-making operations in Europe and the US.\n\nPing An has argued that this is unfair and its solution is to break up HSBC, giving Asian investors a larger share of the profits.\n\n\"If you look at HSBC's share price for the past eight years, Ping An's investment hasn't been a particularly good one. A break-up may enhance the value of the bank for shareholders in Asia,\" says Kenny Wen, head of investment at KGI Asia in Hong Kong.\n\nHSBC has urged its shareholders to vote against the proposal at its annual general meeting, which is due to take place in Birmingham on Friday.\n\n\"Currently HSBC clearly has not earned the right to simply bat away calls for change,\" Manus Costello from Autonomous Research in London said.\n\nA break-up, however, would face \"formidable obstacles, including significant economic and political hurdles,\" he added.", "Tayabullah breathes oxygen through a tube held by his mother\n\nThree-month-old Tayabullah is quiet and motionless. His mother Nigar moves the oxygen pipe away from his nose and puts a finger below his nostrils to check if she can feel him breathing.\n\nShe begins to cry as she realises her son is fading.\n\nAt this hospital in Afghanistan, there is not a single working ventilator.\n\nMothers hold oxygen tubes near their babies' noses because masks designed to fit their small faces are not available, and the women are trying to fill in for what trained staff or medical equipment should do.\n\nEvery day, 167 children die in Afghanistan from preventable diseases, according to the UN children's fund Unicef - illnesses that could and should be cured with the right medication.\n\nIt is a staggering number. But it's an estimate.\n\nAnd when you step inside the paediatric ward of the main hospital in the western province of Ghor, you will be left wondering if that estimate is too low.\n\nMultiple rooms are full of sick children, at least two in each bed, their little bodies ravaged by pneumonia. Just two nurses look after 60 children.\n\nIn one room, we saw at least two dozen babies who appeared to be in a serious condition. The children should have been continuously monitored in critical care - impossible at this hospital.\n\nYet, for the million people who live in Ghor, this basic facility is still the best equipped public hospital they can access.\n\nMothers are left distraught at this Afghanistan hospital where children die of preventable or curable diseases\n\nPublic healthcare in Afghanistan has never been adequate, and foreign money which almost entirely funded it was frozen in August 2021 when the Taliban seized power. Over the past 20 months, we have visited hospitals and clinics across this country, and witnessed them collapsing.\n\nNow the Taliban's recent ban on women working for NGOs means it's becoming harder for humanitarian agencies to operate, putting even more children and babies at risk.\n\nI'm also a mother, and when I saw the baby die, I felt like I've lost my own child\n\nAlready defeated by a lack of resources, medics at the Ghor hospital used whatever little they had to try to revive Tayabullah.\n\nDr Ahmad Samadi was called in to check his condition, fatigue and stress visible on his face. He put a stethoscope to Tayabullah's chest - there was a faint heartbeat.\n\nNurse Edima Sultani rushed in with an oxygen pump. She put it over Tayabullah's mouth, blowing air into it. Then Dr Samadi used his thumbs to perform compressions on the boy's tiny chest.\n\nWatching on looking stricken was Tayabullah's grandfather Ghawsaddin. He told us his grandson was suffering from pneumonia and malnutrition.\n\n\"It took eight hours on rubble roads to bring him here from our district Charsadda,\" Ghawsaddin said. The family, who can only afford to eat dry bread for meals, scraped together money to pay for the ride.\n\nFor half an hour, the efforts to revive his grandson continued. Nurse Sultani then turned towards Nigar and told her Tayabullah had died.\n\nThe sudden silence which had enveloped the room was broken by Nigar's sobs. Her baby boy was wrapped in a blanket and handed over to Ghawsaddin. The family carried him home.\n\nTayabullah should be alive - every disease he had was curable.\n\n\"I'm also a mother and when I saw the baby die, I felt like I've lost my own child. When I saw his mother weeping, it broke my heart. It hurt my conscience,\" said Nurse Sultani, who frequently does 24-hour shifts.\n\n\"We don't have equipment and there is a lack of trained staff, especially female staff. When we are looking after so many in serious conditions, which child should we check on first? There's nothing we can do but watch babies die.\"\n\nThere are no oxygen masks in the hospital small enough to fit a baby's face\n\nMinutes later, in the room next door, we saw another child in severe distress, with an oxygen mask on her face, struggling to breathe.\n\nTwo-year-old Gulbadan was born with a heart defect, a condition called patent ductus arteriosus. It was diagnosed six months ago at this hospital.\n\nDoctors have told us the condition is not uncommon or hard to treat. But Ghor's main hospital is not equipped to perform routine surgery that could fix it. It also doesn't have the medicines she needs.\n\nGulbadan's grandmother Afwa Gul held down her small arms, to try to prevent the little girl from pulling down her mask.\n\n\"We borrowed money to take her to Kabul, but we couldn't afford surgery, so we had to bring her back,\" she said. They approached an NGO to get financial help. Their details were registered but there's been no response since then.\n\nGulbadan's father Nawroze stroked her forehead, trying to soothe his daughter who winced with every breath she took. Stress etched on his face, he pursed his lips and let out a sigh of resignation. He told us Gulbadan had recently begun to talk, forming her first words, calling out to him and other members of their family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I'm a labourer. I don't have a stable income. If I had money, she would never have suffered this way. At this moment, I can't even afford to buy one cup of tea,\" he said.\n\nI asked Dr Samadi how much oxygen Gulbadan needs.\n\n\"Two litres every minute,\" he said. \"When this cylinder gets empty, if we don't find another one, she will die.\"\n\nWhen we went back later to check on Gulbadan, we were told that's exactly what had happened. The oxygen cylinder had run out, and she died.\n\nThe oxygen production unit at the hospital isn't able to produce sufficient oxygen because it only has power at night, and there isn't a steady supply of raw material.\n\nWhen this [oxygen] cylinder gets empty, if we don't find another one, she will die\n\nIn a matter of a few hours, two children died of diseases that could have been prevented or cured. It's a crushing but all too familiar blow for Dr Samadi and his colleagues.\n\n\"I feel exhaustion and agony. Every day we lose one or two beloved children of Ghor. We have almost got accustomed to it now,\" he said.\n\nWalking around the rooms, we saw an overwhelming number of children in distress. One-year-old Sajad's breathing was raspy. He's suffering from pneumonia and meningitis.\n\nIn another bed is Irfan. When his breathing became more laboured, his mother Zia-rah was given another oxygen pipe to hold near his nose.\n\nWiping tears that rolled down her cheeks with her upper arm, she carefully held both pipes as steady as she could. She told us she would have brought Irfan to the hospital at least four or five days earlier if the roads had not been blocked by snow.\n\nSo many simply can't make it to hospital, and others choose not to stay once they get there.\n\n\"Ten days ago a child was brought here in a very critical condition,\" Nurse Sultani said. \"We gave him an injection, but we didn't have the medicines to cure him.\n\n\"So his father decided to take him home. 'If he has to die, let him die at home',\" he told me.\n\nMothers sit alongside children with oxygen cylinders - but the hospital is unable to provide sufficient quantities\n\nWhat we saw in Ghor raises serious questions about why public healthcare in Afghanistan is crumbling so quickly, when billions of dollars were poured into it by the international community for 20 years until 2021.\n\nWhere was that money spent, if a provincial hospital doesn't have a single ventilator for its patients?\n\nCurrently there is a stop-gap arrangement in place. Because money can't be given directly to the internationally unrecognised Taliban government, humanitarian agencies have stepped in to fund salaries of medical staff and the cost of medicines and food, that are just about keeping hospitals like the one in Ghor running.\n\nNow, that funding, already sorely inefficient, could also be at risk. Aid agencies warn that their donors might cut back because the Taliban's restrictions on women, including its ban on Afghan women working for the UN and NGOs, violates international laws.\n\nOnly 5% of the UN's appeal for Afghanistan has been funded so far.\n\nA burial ground in the hills near the hospital in Ghor, where at least half of the new graves belong to children\n\nWe drove up one of the hills near the Ghor hospital to a burial ground. There are no records or registers here, not even a caretaker. So it's not possible to find out who the graves belong to, but it's easy to distinguish big graves from small ones.\n\nFrom what we saw, a disproportionate number - at least half - of the new graves belong to children. A man who lives in a house close by also told us most of those they are burying these days are children.\n\nThere may be no way to count how many children are dying, but there is evidence everywhere of the scale of the crisis.", "Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool boss charged by FA over comments about referee Paul Tierney Last updated on .From the section Liverpool", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City and Everton had to settle for a draw in a chaotic match which leaves both in deep trouble at the wrong end of the Premier League table.\n\nThe two clubs started the game in the bottom three but a point was enough to drag Leicester out of the drop zone on goal difference, while Everton stay 19th, one point behind 17th-placed Leeds.\n\nDominic Calvert-Lewin opened the scoring with just his second goal of the season from the penalty spot, picking himself up to convert after being bundled over by Timothy Castagne.\n\nThe lead lasted just seven minutes as the hosts equalised through Caglar Soyuncu, who rolled home a cool finish from Wout Faes' knockdown.\n\nAnd Leicester turned the game around after 33 minutes as the sprightly Jamie Vardy latched on to James Maddison's through ball before rounding Jordan Pickford and stroking home.\n\nThe Toffees should have levelled before half-time but Calvert-Lewin contrived to miss an open goal from a couple of yards with the ball appearing to strike his heel, before Leicester broke down the other end and Vardy struck the crossbar.\n• None Three from five? Who faces Premier League relegation?\n\nThere was still time in a breathless first half for Pickford to save Maddison's penalty, which was struck straight down the middle by the England midfielder.\n\nIt proved costly as the visitors drew level nine minutes after the restart when Alex Iwobi guided in a low finish, but neither side were able to find a winner.\n\nEverton, meanwhile, will also be concerned by a serious-looking injury to captain Seamus Coleman, sustained in the opening period following a collision with Boubakary Soumare.\n\nThe game ebbed and flowed between two sides aiming for top-flight survival but was a missed opportunity in their aim to escape the relegation mire.\n\nAn electric atmosphere was generated at King Power Stadium by both the home fans with their 'clappers' and the away supporters through their vociferous backing.\n\nUltimately, Maddison's penalty miss at the end of the first half turned out to be the crucial moment - the playmaker was made to wait to take the spot-kick before fluffing his effort straight at Pickford.\n\nIt would have put Leicester 3-1 up and possibly out of sight, but Sean Dyche's men clawed out a draw courtesy of Iwobi's well-taken strike on 54 minutes.\n\nMidfielder Maddison was heavily involved throughout the game as well as the miss from 12 yards, and saw a low drive and curling effort kept out by his England team-mate.\n\nThe home side recovered from Calvert-Lewin's 15th-minute penalty to turn the game around as defender Soyuncu levelled and Vardy rolled back the years with a vintage finish.\n\nBut Leicester's issues lie in defence where a porous backline have now failed to keep a clean sheet in their past 19 games, dating back to November.\n\nThey also missed the opportunity to collect back-to-back victories at home for the first time in a year and bear all the hallmarks of a relegation-threatened team.\n\nDespite being on a three-game unbeaten run, the Foxes have won just one of their past 12, picking up only six points in the process.\n\nLeicester have four games remaining to preserve their top-flight status, away at Fulham and Newcastle and home games against Liverpool and West Ham on the last day of the season.\n\nWhere will Everton's next point come?\n\nLike their opponents, Everton are stuck in a rut. Despite a bright start the Toffees have now won just one of their past 11 games under Dyche, and the eight points gained on that run have not been enough to drag them out of trouble.\n\nThis was a significant chance to get back to winning ways and it started well through Calvert-Lewin's thumping penalty, but it is difficult to see where the points might come in their remaining games.\n\nThey travel to impressive Brighton in their next match, before hosting league leaders Manchester City and rounding off their season at Goodison Park against in-form Bournemouth.\n\nIn between, they face a trip to Wolves - but that too is a tough ask for a side winless in their past 15 on the road and victors in just two of 34 away league games.\n\nThe league's lowest scorers managed to bag two this time, and Dyche will be satisfied to rescue a point, but it could have been so much better with more clinical finishing.\n\nDaniel Iversen made a stunning reflex save to deny Iwobi early in the first half, and the Danish goalkeeper also kept out efforts including Calvert-Lewin's shocking miss and Dwight McNeil's strike from eight yards out.\n\nBut he saved his best until late when Everton pushed for the winner and Abdoulaye Doucoure strode forward before unleashing an arrowed low drive which Iversen turned round the post at full stretch.\n• None Victor Kristiansen (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Nathan Patterson (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None James Maddison (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Abdoulaye Doucouré (Everton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Patson Daka tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Michael Keane (Everton) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Dwight McNeil with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alex Iwobi (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Artificial intelligence (AI) could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs, a report by investment bank Goldman Sachs says.\n\nIt could replace a quarter of work tasks in the US and Europe but may also mean new jobs and a productivity boom.\n\nAnd it could eventually increase the total annual value of goods and services produced globally by 7%.\n\nGenerative AI, able to create content indistinguishable from human work, is \"a major advancement\", the report says.\n\nThe government is keen to promote investment in AI in the UK, which it says will \"ultimately drive productivity across the economy\", and has tried to reassure the public about its impact.\n\n\"We want to make sure that AI is complementing the way we work in the UK, not disrupting it - making our jobs better, rather than taking them away,\" Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan told the Sun.\n\nThe report notes AI's impact will vary across different sectors - 46% of tasks in administrative and 44% in legal professions could be automated but only 6% in construction 4% in maintenance, it says.\n\nBBC News has previously reported some artists' concerns AI image generators could harm their employment prospects.\n\n\"The only thing I am sure of is that there is no way of knowing how many jobs will be replaced by generative AI,\" Carl Benedikt Frey, future of-work director at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University, told BBC News.\n\n\"What ChatGPT does, for example, is allow more people with average writing skills to produce essays and articles.\n\n\"Journalists will therefore face more competition, which would drive down wages, unless we see a very significant increase in the demand for such work.\n\n\"Consider the introduction of GPS technology and platforms like Uber. Suddenly, knowing all the streets in London had much less value - and so incumbent drivers experienced large wage cuts in response, of around 10% according to our research.\n\n\"The result was lower wages, not fewer drivers.\n\n\"Over the next few years, generative AI is likely to have similar effects on a broader set of creative tasks\".\n\nAccording to research cited by the report, 60% of workers are in occupations that did not exist in 1940.\n\nBut other research suggests technological change since the 1980s has displaced workers faster than it has created jobs.\n\nAnd if generative AI is like previous information-technology advances, the report concludes, it could reduce employment in the near term.\n\nThe long-term impact of AI, however, was highly uncertain, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank Torsten Bell told BBC News, \"so all firm predictions should be taken with a very large pinch of salt\".\n\n\"We do not know how the technology will evolve or how firms will integrate it into how they work,\" he said.\n\n\"That's not to say that AI won't disrupt the way we work - but we should focus too on the potential living-standards gains from higher-productivity work and cheaper-to-run services, as well as the risk of falling behind if other firms and economies better adapt to technological change.\"", "US rock 'n' roll band Aerosmith have announced a farewell tour to mark more than five decades together.\n\nThe band, who are now all in their 70s, are well known for hits such as Dream On, Walk This Way and I Don't Want To Miss A Thing.\n\nThey broke the \"earth-shattering\" news in a star-studded video on Monday, featuring celebrity pals including Sir Ringo Starr, Dolly Parton and Eminem.\n\n\"It's not goodbye it's peace out!\" they declared in a joint statement.\n\n\"Get ready and walk this way, you're going to get the best show of our lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aerosmith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe 40-date run of shows across North America will begin in Philadelphia on 2 September 2023 and will end on 26 January 2024 in Montreal, via a New Year's Eve gig in their hometown, Boston.\n\nBut no UK/European tour dates have been announced so far.\n\n\"I think it's about time,\" guitarist Joe Perry, 72, told the Associated Press.\n\n\"It's kind of a chance to celebrate the 50 years we've been out here. You never know how much longer everybody's going to be healthy to do this.\"\n\n\"It's been a while since we've actually done a real tour. We did that run in Vegas, which was great,\" he added.\n\n\"It was fun, but (we're) kind of anxious to get back on the road.\"\n\nLast year, the band cancelled part of their Las Vegas residency after their flamboyant frontman, Steven Tyler checked himself into rehab.\n\nIn a statement to AP, Tyler, 75, said of the forthcoming farewell tour: \"We're opening up Pandora's Box one last time to present our fans with the Peace Out tour.\n\n\"Be there or beware as we bring all the toys out of the attic. Get ready.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by AerosmithVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAerosmith formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970 and went on to sell 150 million records worldwide, as well as winning four Grammys.\n\nKnown for their hedonistic, wild lifestyles as much as their riffs, the group were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2001, the same year that they performed at the Super Bowl halftime show.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is the physical toll of loneliness?\n\nA top US health official has warned the country is facing an epidemic of loneliness that is as dangerous to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.\n\nSurgeon General Vivek Murthy told BBC News he was among millions of Americans who have experienced a \"profound sense of loneliness\".\n\nUS health authorities are calling for social isolation to be treated as seriously as obesity or drug abuse.\n\nNearly 50% of all Americans are thought to have been affected.\n\nMr Murthy said in an interview that his own battles with loneliness came during and directly after his first stint as Surgeon General ended in April 2017.\n\n\"I had neglected my family and my friends during that time, thinking that it was too hard to focus on work, and focus on family and friends,\" he said.\n\n\"I was really suffering from the consequences of that, which were a profound sense of loneliness that followed me for weeks, which stretched into months.\"\n\nLoneliness is reported to increase the risk of premature death by almost 30% - through health conditions including diabetes, heart attacks, insomnia and dementia.\n\nLack of social connection is also linked to lower academic achievement and worse performance at work, according to a new advisory.\n\nMr Murthy said that loneliness is a \"profound public health challenge\" that \"we should talk about\" and address.\n\n\"It... may surprise people to learn that the increased risk of premature death that's associated with social connection is on par with the risks that we see from smoking daily, and greater than the risk we see associated with obesity,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why an 'epidemic' of loneliness affects health\n\nThe issue has been exacerbated by the Covid pandemic, which led many people to reduce the size of their social circles.\n\nOne study quoted in the report found a 16% decrease on average in the social network size of participants from June 2019 to June 2020.\n\nIn order to tackle this, Mr Murthy has called for a collective effort to \"to mend the social fabric of our nation\" in order to \"destigmatise loneliness and change our cultural and policy response to it\".\n\nHis strategy has six pillars that include efforts to strengthen social infrastructure in communities, in part by utilising public health systems.\n\nThe advisory calls for more \"pro-connection public policies\" that are developed with the help of a research agenda to help address gaps in the data surrounding the effects of social isolation.\n\nIt also highlights the need for more data transparency from tech firms and a reform of digital environments.\n\nAdditionally, Mr Murthy said that there \"are steps we can take as individuals\", such as spending 15 minutes with loved ones, avoiding distractions such as devices while speaking to people, \"and looking for ways to help one another\".\n\n\"Service is a powerful antidote to loneliness,\" he said. \"These can all help\".\n\nThe advisory is part of the Biden administration's broader efforts to address mental health, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Monday. May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the US.\n\nWhile the declaration is intended to increase awareness, no new promises of federal funding to combat the issue have so far been made.", "A Ugandan national army soldier has shot and killed a government minister he was guarding.\n\nWilson Sabiiti shot dead retired Colonel Charles Okello Engola, deputy minister for gender and labour, at his home in the capital Kampala on Tuesday.\n\nThe soldier then turned the gun on himself and took his own life.\n\nIt is not yet clear whether there had been an argument between the two men. Sabiiti was assigned to the minister's security detail a month ago.\n\nBefore he took his own life, some eyewitnesses said they saw Sabiiti walking around the neighbourhood and shooting in the air.\n\nAn aide to the minister, Ronald Otim, was wounded during the shoot-out at the house. He is receiving treatment at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.\n\nInitial reports suggest a number of other people may be injured and videos on social media showed locals gathering at the scene in shock.\n\nCol Engola was a senior member of the government, and had previously served as a deputy minister for defence.\n\nThe speaker of Uganda's parliament confirmed Col Engola's death in a short statement while presiding over its morning session.\n\n\"This morning I received sad news that Hon Engola has been shot by his bodyguard and after, shot himself. May his soul rest in peace. That was God's plan. We can't change anything,\" Anita Among told MPs on Tuesday.\n• None Deadly crush during New Year festivities in Uganda", "An open letter signed by dozens of academics from around the world calls on artificial-intelligence developers to learn more about consciousness, as AI systems become more advanced.\n\n\"It is no longer in the realm of science fiction to imagine AI systems having feelings and even human-level consciousness,\" it says.\n\nMost experts agree AI is nowhere near this level of sophistication.\n\nBut it is evolving rapidly and some say developments should be paused.\n\nThe term AI covers computer systems able to do tasks that would normally need human intelligence. This includes chatbots able to understand questions and respond with human-like answers, and systems capable of recognising objects in pictures.\n\nGenerative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4), an AI system developed by ChatGPT chatbot creator OpenAI, can now successfully complete the bar exam, the professional qualification for lawyers, although it still makes mistakes and can share misinformation.\n\nBut this is just one function of AI. AI products are being deployed in many sectors, including health research, marketing and finance.\n\nTechnology billionaire Elon Musk co-signed a recent letter saying further AI developments should be put on hold until effective safety measures could be designed and implemented.\n\nAnd on Tuesday, his ex-wife, Tallulah Riley, tweeted artificial general intelligence (AGI) - AI capable of human-level intellectual tasks - needed \"the equivalent of [environmental activist] Greta Thunberg\" to raise awareness and encourage public debate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science (AMCS), which has compiled the open letter, titled \"The responsible development of AI agenda needs to include consciousness research\", said it did not have a view on whether AI development in general should be paused.\n\nBut it pushed for a greater scientific understanding of consciousness, how it could apply to AI and how society might live alongside it.\n\n\"The rapid development of AI is exposing the urgent need to accelerate research in the field of consciousness science,\" the letter says.\n\nIts signatories include Dr Susan Schneider, a former NASA professor, as well as academics from universities in the UK, US and Europe.\n\nLast year, a Google engineer was fired after claiming an AI system was sentient.\n\nGoogle has maintained Lamda was doing exactly what it had been programmed to do - communicate in a human-like way.\n\nBut Google boss Sundar Pichai recently told US news platform CBS he did not \"fully understand\" how Bard worked.\n\nThe human mind was not fully understood either, he added, which is why the AMCS is calling for more research.\n\nBut there is as much excitement as nervousness around AI. It is the big buzzword in big tech and investment money is pouring in to AI-related projects.\n\nReleased in November, ChatGPT, became an instant viral sensation, the populist \"face\" of AI, with millions of people trying it out.\n\nUsing the internet as a database, it can give written answers to questions in a natural, human-like way.\n\nMicrosoft, which has invested heavily in OpenAI, says AI can take \"the drudgery\" out of mundane jobs such as office administration.\n\nA recent report by Goldman Sachs suggests AI could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs.\n\nAnd while the AI industry will create new human jobs, they are likely to require new skills.", "Tributes have been paid to the singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who has died at the age of 84.\n\nThe Canadian musician became famous in the 1960s and 70s with hits like Early Morning Rain and If You Could Read My Mind.\n\nHis songs were covered by artists including Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand and Johnny Cash.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described him as one of the country's greatest singer-songwriters.\n\n\"Gordon Lightfoot captured our country's spirit in his music - and in doing so, he helped shape Canada's soundscape,\" he said on Twitter.\n\n\"May his music continue to inspire future generations, and may his legacy live on forever.\"\n\nA statement on Lightfoot's official Facebook page said he died of natural causes at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto on Monday.\n\nLightfoot hosted a country and western show on BBC television in 1963\n\nLightfoot was born in Ontario and won a talent competition as part of a barbershop quartet while still in high school.\n\nAged 18 he headed to the US to study music composition, before returning to Canada.\n\nHe made his radio debut in 1962 with (Remember Me) I'm the One, which led to a number of hit songs and partnerships with other musicians.\n\nMarty Robbins' 1965 cover of Ribbon of Darkness reached number one on the US country charts, while Peter, Paul and Mary took For Lovin' Me into the US top 30.\n\nLightfoot made his first appearance in the US Billboard chart in 1971, when If You Could Read My Mind reached number five.\n\nIt was his biggest hit in the UK, where it peaked at number 30 in the same year.\n\nBut it reached a new audience in the early 2000s when it was used on the soundtrack to Channel 4 comedy Trigger Happy TV.\n\nDom Joly, the comedian behind the hidden camera show, described him a \"legend\" in a post on Twitter.\n\n\"RIP Gordon Lightfoot. If you could read my mind was most popular song on any of the Trigger Happy Soundtracks,\" he added.\n\nLightfoot, pictured here in London in 1973, was awarded Canada's highest civilian honour in 2003\n\nMeanwhile actor Ben Stiller said: \"What a genius Gordon Lightfoot was. His music was such a big part of my life. Rest in peace. Grateful for the inspiration he gave all of us.\"\n\nAnd author Stephen King referred to Sundown, one of Lightfoot's biggest hits in his tribute.\n\n\"He was a great songwriter and a wonderful performer. Sundown, you better take care/If I catch you creepin' ' round my stairs,\" he tweeted.\n\nLightfoot had a vast catalogue of more than 200 songs and some were covered by artists including Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead.\n\nDylan once said: \"I can't think of any Gordon Lightfoot song I don't like. Every time I heard a song of his, it's like I wish it would last forever.\"\n\nLightfoot was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1986, which said he was responsible for \"dozens of classic, enduring and chart-topping\" compositions.\n\n\"Few performers have so eloquently captured the adventure, hardship, tragedy and elation of nation building,\" it said on its website.\n\nLightfoot was photographed next to his star on the Walk of Fame in Toronto in 1998\n\nLightfoot was nominated for four Grammy awards, including for the The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, about the drowning of 29 sailors when a freight ship sank in Lake Superior.\n\nHe dominated Canada's Junos in the 1970s, winning 12 awards during the decade.\n\nAnd in 2003 he was awarded the companion of the Order of Canada - the country's highest civilian honour.\n\nHowever, Lightfoot was more reserved about his talents, telling Canada's The Globe and Mail: \"Sometimes I wonder why I'm being called an icon, because I really don't think of myself that way.\"\n\nThe musician remained an active touring artist well into his 80s, only cancelling his planned tour of the US and Canada last month.\n\nHe is survived by his wife Kim Hasse, six children and several grandchildren.", "The Met Gala wouldn't be the Met Gala without a dress train so long that it puts a king-sized duvet to shame, and this year is no different.\n\nWhile Emily in Paris star Lily Collins had a go with a train that had emblazoned on it the single word \"KARL\", Glenn Close also wore an incredible, and very large, blue cape by Erdem.\n\nBut, from an unscientific study, it seems like Pugh's might be the biggest of the night so far.\n\nShe told The New York Times a few days ago that she would be attending the event for the first time in something “big”.\n\nAnd while she is not wrong, the look is more than its train alone – from the cutout, architectural gown to the feathery sculpture on her head, this is an outfit from someone unafraid to run with a brief.", "The Labour MP said she was left feeling humiliated\n\nAn MP has said she was left \"humiliated\" when she was subjected to a social services investigation after a complaint from an internet troll.\n\nThe probe was launched after a man complained to Leicestershire Police that Stella Creasy's children should be taken into care.\n\nThe Labour MP told Today on BBC Radio 4 he made the complaint as he disagreed with her campaign against misogyny.\n\nWaltham Forest Council decided no action was needed against her.\n\nThe Walthamstow MP told the Today programme the man, from Leicester, had initially emailed her office angry about the work she was doing to tackle violence against women.\n\nShe ignored them as she gets \"a lot of emails like that, lots of MPs do and you think people are entitled to their opinion\".\n\nShe then received a call from social services informing her they had held a safeguarding investigation over an allegation her children were at \"direct risk\".\n\nThey then told her they thought she was the person who may be at risk \"because of the way in which this person is targeting me\", she said, adding social services wanted to know how to raise concerns about her safety with the parliamentary policing system.\n\n\"I was horrified and humiliated,\" she said.\n\n\"My children now have a social services record and it sets the green light that in public life, you can target these children. I think most people would think that's unacceptable.\"\n\nThe council said it launched the investigation as it was legally required to following the referral from Leicestershire Police.\n\nA panel, which was made up of social workers, then met to discuss the case.\n\nAlthough the panel decided no action was needed, it is legally prevented from removing the complaint from its record.\n\nThe MP said she was told the complainant would not face criminal sanctions as he was \"entitled\" to his view her children should be taken into care.\n\nLeicestershire Police said it had investigated a \"number of emails\" sent to the MP and gave the man a community resolution rather than a formal sanction because the messages did not meet the threshold for a criminal offence.\n\nIt said the content of the messages had \"understandably caused upset and distress\" to the MP and officers had spoken to the sender who admitted he was responsible and apologised.\n\nMs Creasy said she was not \"pushing for a prosecution\" but for a caution as that would have meant the details would have gone into the police intelligence database.\n\n\"Having worked on harassment legislation myself, the irony is not lost on me that one of the challenges we've been trying to raise in tackling harassment against women, is the attitude of the police and that's exactly what I experienced,\" she said.\n\nMs Creasy added she was \"passionate about safeguarding\" and \"we can't have the system corrupted in this way\".\n\nThe MP is a prominent campaigner for women's rights\n\nThe MP also voiced concerns that instances like this were \"damaging the whole of public life\".\n\nShe said MPs did not want to be \"put into glass cages\" but this was \"the reason why a lot of women are put off\" standing to be an MP as it is \"women who are targeted\".\n\n\"It's not a matter of free speech, the police acted as if his free speech to argue without any evidence at all - he'd never met me, seen my children, he'd never been in a room with us; he simply disagreed with my views.\n\n\"That can't stand in a thriving democracy because it's going to drive people out of it.\"\n\nThe force said it had told the complainant to not contact Ms Creasy and there had been no report of further unwanted contact.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Leicestershire Police takes any report of harassment extremely seriously and will carry out a full investigation into the report and take the appropriate action.\n\n\"The force remains fully committed to keeping women and girls safe, listening to concerns and tackling violence.\"\n\nAccording to the Sentencing Council, a community resolution is an \"informal, non-statutory disposal used for dealing with less serious crime and anti-social behaviour where the offender accepts responsibility\".\n\n\"The views of the victim are taken into account in reaching an informal agreement between the parties which can involve restorative justice techniques,\" it adds.\n\nWaltham Forest Council said: \"All safeguarding allegations are dealt with in line with the national legislation. We have a duty to treat each case seriously and ensure the statutory process is followed.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Partygate investigator Sue Gray was offered a job as Keir Starmer's chief of staff in March\n\nSir Keir Starmer says he is confident that former senior civil servant Sue Gray has not broken any rules in talking to Labour about a role.\n\nMs Gray was offered a job as the Labour leader's chief of staff in March.\n\nSir Keir also said he did not have any discussions with Ms Gray while she was investigating former PM Boris Johnson.\n\nThe Cabinet Office will update MPs later on its investigation into the circumstances around her resignation with a written statement.\n\nThe report is not expected to be the final judgement on Ms Gray's departure, which will come from the independent Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba).\n\nThe watchdog is to recommend how long Ms Gray, who probed lockdown gatherings in Downing Street, should wait before being allowed to take up the job with Labour.\n\nSir Keir accused the government of using the issue to try and deflect from the local election campaign, saying it should be focusing on the cost-of-living crisis instead.\n\n\"[The public are] not sitting at their breakfast talking about Sue Gray, they're talking about their bills,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nAsked whether Ms Gray had broken any code of conduct, Sir Keir said: \"Firstly I had no discussions with her whilst she was investigating Boris Johnson whatsoever.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm confident she hasn't broken any of the rules.\"\n\nUnder the civil service code, officials of Ms Gray's seniority must wait a minimum of three months before taking up outside employment.\n\nSenior civil servants, as well as ministers, are expected to check with Acoba about any employment they wish to take within two years of leaving government.\n\nThe body provides advice and can recommend a delay of up to two years in starting a new job, but it has no power to block appointments.\n\nHowever, Labour has said the party and Ms Gray will abide by its recommendations.\n\nA long delay could hamper attempts to have Ms Gray in place well before the next general election, which is widely expected next year, to help Labour prepare for government if it wins power.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Jeremy Quin has previously said Ms Gray's talks with Labour may have breached civil service rules, including the requirement to inform Acoba before a job offer is announced, and to clear contact with opposition parties with ministers.\n\nMs Gray became well known after she was chosen to look into the Partygate scandal last year.\n\nShe has held a number of senior positions, including head of the government's propriety and ethics team, since joining the civil service in the 1970s.\n\nMs Gray resigned from the post of second permanent secretary in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in March, after it emerged she had been offered a job with Labour.\n\nLabour has insisted it did not approach Ms Gray until after her Partygate report was published.\n\nBur Mr Johnson and his allies have seized on Labour's job offer to claim Ms Gray's investigation when he was in power was an attempt to smear him.\n\nHer report was critical of the senior political and civil service leadership, saying they \"must bear responsibility\" for the culture at No 10 during Covid lockdowns.\n\nIt contributed to Mr Johnson's downfall as prime minister, prompting numerous Conservative MPs to call on him to resign.", "Mexico's ministry of defence has tweeted photos of the puppy as it set off from Turkey\n\nA German Shepherd puppy has arrived in Mexico after being flown from Turkey as a gesture of gratitude from the Turkish government for the help Mexico's search dogs lent after February's earthquake.\n\nTurkey said it hoped the puppy would \"carry on the legacy\" of Proteo, a Mexican rescue dog which died during the search for survivors of the quake.\n\nMore than 50,000 people died in the quake which had its epicentre in Turkey but also affected parts of Syria.\n\nThe puppy is yet to be named.\n\nMexico's ministry of defence, which trains search and rescue dogs for their missions at home and abroad, has asked people to cast their votes for one of three names: Proteo II, Arkadas (Turkish for \"friend\") or Yardim (Turkish for \"help\").\n\nMexico said Turkey's canine gift showed that \"humanitarian aid knows no limits or borders\".\n\nOn its Twitter account, the ministry had also provided a link on which fans of the puppy could track the flight which took it to Mexico City from Istanbul.\n\nThe puppy was given a warm welcome by staff from the ministry of defence at Mexico City's airport. Dog trainers, who were carrying the puppies they are training in rucksack-like pouches in front of them, stood to attention as the new recruit arrived.\n\nA banner reading \"welcome home\" greeted the puppy on its arrival\n\nMexico, a country prone to earthquakes, has a number of civilian and military teams with canine units specialised in searching for survivors when disasters strike.\n\nThe dogs won the hearts of many Mexicans when they saved several lives after the 2017 earthquake which struck central Mexico.\n\nWhen Turkey and Syria were hit by a massive quake on 6 February, Mexico quickly deployed teams with rescue dogs to help locate people under the rubble.\n\nAmong the dogs deployed was Proteo, a nine-year-old German Shepherd, who managed to locate a man and a woman from under the rubble.\n\nProteo died while on duty in the Turkish town of Adiyaman\n\nProteo died while in Turkey. His trainer denied rumours that the dog had been hit by falling rubble, saying that he had died from \"exhaustion\" after the long journey and arduous hours searching for survivors in very cold conditions.\n\nHis remains were returned to Mexico, where he was honoured in an emotional ceremony before he was buried.\n\nOn its Facebook page, Mexico's ministry of defence said that it was \"waiting with open arms\" for the puppy Turkey had donated, saying that it hoped it would follow in his pawsteps.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nBest of Luca Brecel as he beats Mark Selby in world final Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV and Red Button with uninterrupted coverage on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app Belgium's Luca Brecel became the first player from mainland Europe to claim snooker's World Championship with an 18-15 win over Mark Selby in Sheffield. Brecel, 28, is just the fourth non-British winner at the Crucible and the first overseas player to triumph since Neil Robertson in 2010. Brecel won six of Monday afternoon's eight frames to open up a 15-10 lead. A visibly emotional Brecel sealed victory and the £500,000 top prize by taking three frames in the evening. \"It's amazing. [Selby is] the worst opponent to have in the final. He just keeps coming back, he's such a fighter and at 16-15, I didn't fancy winning at all to be honest,\" Brecel told BBC Sport. \"I was missing balls by a mile. I don't know how I did it. Once I got to 17, I fancied it if I got a chance to clear up, which I did. It's a great feeling.\" Despite becoming the youngest player to ever participate in the tournament in 2012, aged 17 years and 45 days, the 'Belgian Bullet' had remarkably never won a single match at the famous venue until this year, losing in the first round on his five previous visits. \"Snooker is a difficult sport and in the first round [this year] I could have lost to Ricky Walden - I beat him 10-9,\" he added. \"If I'd have lost that game then everybody would have said 'he's lost again in the first round' and now I'm the winner, that's the small margins in snooker, it's crazy. I still can't believe it.\" It is a moment that has long been in the making for Brecel, who climbs eight places to finish the season second in the world rankings behind Ronnie O'Sullivan. But it only arrived after he had come through the sternest of examinations from England's four-time world champion Selby, who won five consecutive frames and scored 315 points without reply at one stage to get back to 16-15. With the tension rising Brecel knocked in a timely 51 to leave himself on the brink of victory, which he confirmed with a stylish 112 break.\n• None Snooker will explode in Europe after win - Brecel Brecel comes of age on biggest stage Luca Brecel moves up to second in the world rankings after winning the world title After losing Sunday's opening session 6-2, the manner in which Selby fought back to within one frame in the second session - a run lit up a sparkling 147 maximum break - raised significant questions about how Brecel might respond. But, resuming 9-8 in front on Monday afternoon, Brecel produced an incredible display of attacking snooker to seemingly take the match away from his opponent again, compiling four superb century breaks of 113, 101, 141 and 119. In a contest billed as a test of Brecel's mental endurance as much as his undoubted skill, few inside the Crucible Theatre could have been prepared for his blistering start. Brecel fired in doubles, a succession of stunning long pots and seemingly cleared balls at will as he rattled through the first four frames in under an hour. It was a theme that initially continued into the concluding session, Brecel making several astounding pots to craft a 67 that saw him go 16-10 ahead. Brecel's swashbuckling style has endeared him to fans across the world, in particular the manner of his famous victories over O'Sullivan and Si Jiahui on his run to the final. But when things do not go to plan the drawback is that it guarantees his opponent opportunities - and few in the game are as ruthless as Selby at capitalising on those. A wild effort on a long blue saw Selby reduce his arrears with a break of 78 and he then carved out a superb 122 on his way to reaching the mid-session interval just 16-13 adrift. Selby's charge continued with a half-century in the 30th frame and a fluked red set him on the way to winning the 31st frame. That opened up the possibility of a first Crucible finale to go the distance since Peter Ebdon's 18-17 victory over Stephen Hendry in 2002, but Brecel recovered his composure to get across the line for an emotional victory. \"I battled and gave everything but every credit to Luca he deserves it,\" said Selby, the Crucible champion in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2021. \"Congratulations to Luca, he's a great talent and a great lad with a lovely family. I wish him all the best. It was great to make a 147 at the Crucible, I never thought I would do it in a final. \"It was an amazing achievement and something I will remember for rest of my life but it's not about me today, it is about Luca, he played fantastic over the two days.\" He's been a breath of fresh air through this tournament. It's a refreshing thing to watch. He goes for his shots, he doesn't care if he misses but he pots more than he's entitled to. We talked about Mark's character this evening but how much did Luca show? To get over the line there, that's what champions do. Then in the last frame, to finish like he did with a century, the sign of a champion. Young players will be looking at that and saying 'that's the way to play, that's the way to win'. Don't hang around, don't study every shot, see the shot, go for it, trust your first instincts. It's great to see somebody play swashbuckling snooker but with balance as well and push the game to even more new limits than we thought possible. Sign up to My Sport to follow snooker news on the BBC app.\n• None Which pair will finish first? A frenetic race across Canada without phones and flights\n• None A warm-hearted Aussie rom-com about a flawed, funny couple getting it all utterly wrong", "The settlement is separate from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, which started in September 2017\n\nLawyers acting for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire and bereaved family members have been outlining the details of a civil damages claim settlement.\n\nAt the High Court, barrister Richard Hermer KC said a compensation sum of about £150m had been awarded across 900 cases in the \"global settlement\".\n\nThe June 2017 fire at the west London tower block killed 72 people.\n\nMeanwhile, it has now been confirmed the Grenfell Inquiry report is unlikely to be published until 2024.\n\nThe panel and team working on the phase two report have insisted they will \"spare no effort\" to finish it as soon as possible. Its final hearing was on 10 November 2022.\n\nThe long-running inquiry, chaired by Sir Martin Moore-Bick, is examining the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the blaze.\n\nAt the settlement hearing at the High Court, listings indicate the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea was one of a number of defendants.\n\nThe London Fire Commissioner was also listed as a defendant, while cladding giant Arconic previously confirmed it was another. The firm said it had \"agreed to contribute to a restorative justice project to benefit the community affected by the fire\".\n\nA total of £50m, including £25m from government and £6m from Arconic, has been pledged to the settlement fund.\n\nThose who took part in the claim were represented by 14 legal firms although the settlement does not include all victims of the fire.\n\nIt has been stressed that the agreement does not affect the potential for any criminal charges to be brought in the future.\n\nMr Hermer said: \"No amount of money will ever truly compensate for what the claimants have had to endure.\n\n\"This is a settlement purely of the civil claims for compensation. The settlement does not right the wrong, it does not secure accountability.\"\n\nThe judge, Senior Master Barbara Fontaine, specifically approved financial arrangements regarding the claims made by eight children, as part of the wider settlement. Lawyers said she would examine issues such as investment arrangements for these claimants.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Black smoke seen over the city of Khartoum after recent explosions\n\nAn emergency radio service for Sudan is to be launched on BBC News Arabic on Tuesday, by the World Service.\n\nThe pop-up radio service will be broadcast twice daily for three months, providing news and information for people in the war-torn African nation.\n\nIt will include eyewitness accounts and news on diplomatic efforts, the BBC said, and help counter disinformation.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said the move was \"crucial at a time of great uncertainty\".\n\nThe programme will be broadcast live from London, with input and analysis from teams in Amman in Jordan and the Egyptian capital Cairo.\n\nIt will be available on shortwave radio in Sudan, as well as online, where listeners will be able to hear information on how to access essential supplies and services, the BBC said.\n\n\"The World Service provides an essential lifeline to many around the world where access to accurate news and information is scarce,\" Mr Davie said in a statement.\n\n\"The enhanced emergency service for Sudan will be crucial at a time of great uncertainty in the country.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFighting that has erupted in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere in the country is a direct result of a vicious power struggle within the country's military leadership.\n\nThe clashes are between the regular army and a paramilitary force called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).\n\nLiliane Landor, director of the World Service, said: \"The situation in Sudan has escalated quickly with its citizens seeking clear, independent information and advice at a time of critical need.\n\n\"BBC Arabic's Emergency Radio Service for Sudan will bring vital live updates of the situation on the ground and inform listeners of life-saving resources.\"\n\nThe programme will broadcast at 09:00 local time (07:00 GMT) on 21,510 kHz and 17:00 local time (15:00 GMT) on 15,310kHz. The first programme will be available on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nHave you been affected by the conflict in Sudan? Please email us: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pavel Kuzin was killed in Bakhmut amid brutal fighting around the eastern Ukrainian city\n\nStaff sergeant Pavel Kuzin took his position at the machine gun - the only soldier still able to fight. Everyone else in his troop lay dead or injured.\n\nSuffering from shell-shock and with one arm bandaged, the 37-year-old fired at the waves of Russian soldiers trying to storm his position. They didn't even try to take cover, but simply walked towards him across the open field.\n\nIt was clear Pavel wouldn't be able to hold the position for long, but he needed to buy time for a rescue team to arrive. His final action in life was to ensure his wounded comrades got to safety.\n\nThe Ukrainian military says Bakhmut is now the scene of many \"unprecedentedly bloody\" battles like this, where they now have to repel up to 50 attacks on their positions every day. Russia has concentrated massive forces in this area, and their brutal strategy of launching human wave attacks helps them to advance slowly - but at a very high cost.\n\nPavel was in charge of a forward observation group that consisted of six Ukrainian soldiers. On 17 February, shortly after the start of their watch, they came under heavy fire. A tank began hammering their position.\n\nUnlike relentless mortar rounds, the tank's aiming was chillingly accurate. Shells were landing a few metres from their trenches. Two soldiers were wounded and Pavel told them to go into a dugout. A combat medic went down to tend to their injuries and prepare them for an evacuation. Moments later, the wooden shelter was directly hit by a shell.\n\n\"There was a bright flash,\" one of the wounded soldiers with a callsign Tsygan told the BBC. \"I was thrown onto the logs with such force that it nearly crushed me. I couldn't understand whether I was dead or alive. Someone was shouting, it seemed the sound was coming from 100m away.\"\n\nI couldn't understand whether I was dead or alive\n\nIt was Pavel's voice who was checking on them. The other soldier was half-buried under dirt and logs. He was dead.\n\nTsygan could barely move and Pavel had to drag him up over the splintered logs that blocked the way. It was painfully slow to move Tsygan just a few metres away into a nearby trench. When the shelling paused briefly, Pavel went back trying to find others.\n\nTwo minesweepers arrived to clear the logs and find the bodies. But yet another shell hit the dug out, killing one of the men and injuring the other. The tank kept firing.\n\nAt that moment, Russian troops started storming their position. Pavel called for a support group to evacuate the wounded and rushed back to his Browning machine gun to stop the Russian infantry.\n\nThe 206th Battalion in which Pavel served had fought in the southern Kherson and north-eastern Kharkiv regions. But the battles over Bakhmut were very different from what they had seen before.\n\n\"The intensity of fighting to break through our positions was shocking,\" says Mykola Hlabets, platoon commander. \"Sometimes, [Russian soldiers] would get as close as 20 metres from us, crawling and moving under a treeline or across an open field. This is where we had our first gunfights at such proximity.\"\n\n\"They would just stand and walk towards our positions without any cover. We wiped out one group after another, but they kept coming.\"\n\nHlabets described them as a suicide squad. Others call them cannon fodder.\n\nUkrainians are trying to fight off Russia's human wave attacks - similar to tactics used during World War One\n\nA number of videos have been shared on telegram channels recently where newly mobilized Russian soldiers appealed to President Vladimir Putin and the authorities to stop what they called \"illegal orders\" to send them \"to be slaughtered\".\n\nLast month mobilised soldiers from Belgorod posted a video saying that they were sent for an assault mission without proper training. After suffering heavy losses, they said they refused to carry out their orders.\n\nOften these poorly trained soldiers are reportedly forced to keep pushing forward. The assault group Storm of the 5th Brigade of the Russian army said in a video appeal that they couldn't leave their position because of zagryad otryad, or blocking troops - detachments that open fire at their own men who try to retreat.\n\nThese wave attacks are similar to World War One tactics, when troops charged the enemy and engaged in close combat. And despite their lack of training and experience, sending newly recruited soldiers to such assaults are bringing some results for Russia, albeit at a very high cost.\n\nUkrainians expose their positions when they open fire to stop those attacks. That allows Russian artillery to identify the target and destroy it, as happened with Pavel's post.\n\nAlso, soldiers at forward positions run out of ammunition while trying to repel numerous wave attacks. They then become an easy target.\n\nThat was the risk Pavel knew he faced as he rushed to his Browning machine gun. But as long as he kept firing, his wounded brothers-in-arms had a chance to be rescued.\n\nTsygan was bleeding in the trench where Pavel had left him. Shrapnel had smashed his pelvis. Another piece had gone through his thigh, and a third had hit his abdomen, \"turning the internal organs upside down\", he said. He was barely conscious.\n\n\"I didn't see much, it was all white,\" he said. \"I lay on the snowy ground for two hours and I didn't feel cold or anything.\"\n\nNext to him was another wounded soldier. The rescue team on an armoured personnel carrier hastily picked them up as shelling resumed. They didn't even have time to close the hatch, Tsygan says.\n\nBy that time, Pavel's machine gun had fallen silent. He died from a head wound: a piece of shrapnel had pierced his helmet.\n\nCommanders of the 206th battalion decided to send a group to retrieve the bodies of Pavel and the other soldiers.\n\nThe next day in the evening, three groups of two soldiers each set off to bring the bodies back.\n\n\"The plan looked good on paper, but things quickly went wrong,\" junior sergeant Vasyl Palamarchuk, who was in the lead group, remembers. They got lost and nearly ran into Russian positions in the dark. When they got close to the dugout, Russians spotted them and opened fire from a tank.\n\nPavel Kuzin died holding off Russian attackers so his wounded fellow soldiers could be evacuated\n\nRussian tanks and artillery had continuously shelled that post in those days, but the Ukrainian big guns had largely stayed quiet. The reason was a massive shortage of shells.\n\n\"Once we counted that the Russians had fired up to 60 shells a day, whereas we could allow only two,\" Palamarchuk explains. \"They destroyed trees and everything else and you had no place to hide.\"\n\nUkraine is struggling to find ammunition for its Soviet-era artillery. Getting shells for weapons donated by Ukraine's western partners has its own limits. As the secretary general of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said recently: \"The current rate of Ukraine's ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production.\"\n\nPalamarchuk's group eventually picked up Pavel's body just a few hours before Russian troops seized the area. Heavy snow turned into a freezing rain. After numerous breaks on the way back, crawling through craters left by shells, they finally arrived. The whole operation over just a kilometre's distance lasted for six hours.\n\nIt was past midnight but the entire battalion gathered at the evacuation point to pay their respects to Pavel, who is survived by his daughter and wife.\n\n\"It was a huge loss for our unit,\" Palamarchuk says. \"He saved two people but died himself.\"", "The UK should open more shared banking hubs to help those who feel uncomfortable managing their finances online, a charity has said.\n\nBank hubs - which are spaces shared by several different High Street lenders - are meant to help communities that have seen all their bank branches close.\n\nBut only four hubs have opened so far, while an average of 54 UK branches have shut each month since January 2015.\n\nAge UK said older or vulnerable people could struggle with online banking.\n\nThe charity's research suggests 27% of over-65s and 58% of over-85s rely on face-to-face banking.\n\nCharities and consumer groups have called for an acceleration in the introduction of banking hubs, when all branches have closed in an area.\n\nThese hubs have counter services run for the major banks, often by the Post Office.\n\nThey also have a dedicated room where customers visit community bankers from their own bank, with different banks visiting on different days of the week. The costs of the hub are shared between the participating banks.\n\nAnother 48 banking hubs have been agreed for areas across the UK, but they can take 12 months to find a premises and get up and running.\n\nBanks have pointed to the large reduction in branch use - a trend accelerated by the Covid pandemic - and the popularity of managing money via smartphones, as good reason for diluting their branch network.\n\nBut Age UK said its survey suggested those who were most likely to feel uncomfortable using online banking were aged over 85, female, on a low income, or more disadvantaged than their counterparts.\n\nAmong those who were uncomfortable, the key concerns about online banking were fraud and scams, a lack of trust in online banking services, and a lack of computer skills.\n\nThe survey size becomes relatively small when broken down, but Age UK said that 34% of those with an annual income of less than £17,500 mainly banked face-to-face, compared to 15% of those with an income of £30,000 to £49,999 a year.\n\nSeparate figures show that, since the start of 2020, more branches have closed in poorer parts of the UK than in better-off areas.\n\nIn its report called \"You can't bank on it anymore\", Age UK said it was vital that physical banking spaces were protected. It said the last bank in town should remain open until a hub is ready to open.\n\nCaroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said: \"We need to face up to the fact that huge numbers of older people, the oldest old, especially, are not banking online. Even older people who do bank online often want the ability to talk to a bank employee in the flesh about some kind of transaction.\n\n\"A lack of face-to-face banking will only serve to further exclude the millions of people on a low income who have no or limited access to the internet.\"\n\nJohn Howells, chief executive of cash machine and cash access network Link, said: \"It is vital to protect face-to-face banking services for the millions of consumers who rely on cash.\n\n\"The proposed national network of shared banking hubs being provided by the banking industry are proving a popular and easy to use way to do that.\"", "A cache of classified US documents leaked online sheds new light on American intelligence gathered about other countries.\n\nImages of the covert files have appeared on messaging app Discord since early March.\n\nComplete with timelines and dozens of military acronyms, the documents, some marked \"top secret\", paint a detailed picture of the war in Ukraine and also offer information on China and allies.\n\nPentagon officials are quoted as saying the documents are real.\n\nBBC News and other news organisations have reviewed the documents and these are some of the key findings.\n\nThe US believed the UN secretary general's stance on a key grain deal was undermining attempts to hold Russia accountable for the war in Ukraine.\n\nAntonio Guterres was too willing to accommodate Russian interests, according to files which suggest Washington has been closely monitoring him.\n\nSeveral documents describe private communications involving Mr Guterres and his deputy.\n\nOne leaked document focuses on the Black Sea grain deal, brokered by the UN and Turkey in July following fears of a global food crisis.\n\nIt suggests that Mr Guterres was so keen to preserve the deal that he was willing to give in to Russia's demands - a stance which was \"undermining broader efforts to hold Russia accountable\".\n\nWhile the bulk of the leaked documents concern, in one way or another, the war in Ukraine, there are others that touch on a huge range of unrelated issues. Many of them shed light on some of Washington's global preoccupations.\n\nLike the spread and purpose of Chinese technology.\n\nThe documents appear to have been printed out and folded before being photographed and posted online\n\nThree documents based on intelligence from late February detail discussions among senior Jordanian officials over whether or not to shut the Chinese firm Huawei out of its 5G rollout plans.\n\nJordan's Crown Prince Hussein, in charge of the rollout, is said in the document to be worried about retaliation from China if they keep Huawei out.\n\nNor is this the only place where fears about Chinese technology are revealed\n\nAnother document marked top secret addresses China's \"developing cyber-attack capabilities.\" It says these are designed \"to deny, exploit, and hijack satellite links and networks as part of its strategy to control information, which it considers to be a key warfighting domain.\"\n\nNewly discovered documents suggest Russian officials are at loggerheads over the reporting of casualties.\n\nThe main intelligence agency, the FSB, has \"accused\" the country's defence ministry of playing down the human impact of the war, the files show.\n\nThese findings show the extent to which the US agencies have penetrated the Russian intelligence and military.\n\nOne document, dated 23 March, refers to the presence of a small number of Western special forces operating inside Ukraine, without specifying their activities or location. The UK has the largest contingent (50), followed by Latvia (17), France (15), the US (14) and the Netherlands (1).\n\nWestern governments typically refrain from commenting on such sensitive matters, but this detail is likely to be seized upon by Moscow, which has in recent months argued that it is not just confronting Ukraine, but Nato as well.\n\nOther documents say when a dozen new Ukrainian brigades - being prepared for an offensive that could begin within weeks - will be ready. They list, in great detail, the tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery pieces that are being provided by Ukraine's Western allies.\n\nOne map includes a timeline that assesses ground conditions across eastern Ukraine as spring progresses.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post newspaper, one document from early February expresses misgivings about Ukraine's chances of success in its forthcoming counteroffensive, saying that problems with generating and sustaining sufficient forces could result in \"modest territorial gains\".\n\nUkraine's difficulties in maintaining its vital air defences are also analysed, with warnings from late February that Kyiv might run out of critical missiles.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Pentagon leaks explained in under 60 seconds.\n\nCasualty figures are also listed. One slide refers to as many as 223,000 Russian soldiers killed or wounded, and as many as 131,000 Ukrainians.\n\nSome Ukrainian officials have dismissed the leaks, suggesting they might constitute a Russian disinformation campaign. But there are signs of frustration and anger too.\n\nOne presidential advisor, Mykhailo Podolyak, tweeted: \"We need less contemplation on 'leaks' and more long-range weapons in order to properly end the war.\"\n\nPresident al-Sisi is said to have told officials to keep production of rockets for Russia secret - but an Egyptian official says the allegation is baseless\n\nThe Washington Post obtained access to another document from mid-February, where they found that Egypt had plans to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia in secret.\n\nThe Post said President Abdul Fatah al-Sisi told officials to keep production and shipment secret \"to avoid problems with the West\".\n\nAn official is quoted as saying he would \"order his people to work shift work if necessary because it was the least Egypt could do to repay Russia for unspecified help earlier\".\n\nIt is unclear what the earlier help refers to. In January, Reuters reported that Russia's share of Egyptian wheat imports had risen in 2022, offering one possible explanation.\n\nThere is no indication that Egypt - a recipient of US security assistance, worth around $1bn a year - went ahead with the proposed sale to Russia.\n\nAn unnamed official quoted on Egyptian news channels described the allegation as \"utterly baseless\" and said Cairo did not take sides in the war.\n\nThe Kremlin called it \"just another canard\" and the White House said there was \"no indication\" Egypt was providing lethal weapons to Russia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expert: US and Egypt ready to move forward after leak\n\nA classified document, seen by the BBC, reveals that South Korea was torn about selling weapons for use in Ukraine.\n\nThe report, based on signals intelligence, details a sensitive conversation between national security advisers.\n\nThey are torn between US pressure to send ammunition to Ukraine and their policy not to arm countries at war.\n\nOne of the advisers suggests sending the shells to Poland instead, to avoid appearing to have given in to the US.\n\nAs part of a resupply deal last year, Seoul insisted that the US could not pass the shells on to Ukraine. Seoul has been reluctant to arm Ukraine, for fear of antagonising Russia.\n\nThe leak has triggered security concerns in Seoul, with opposition politicians questioning how the US was able to intercept such a high-level conversation.\n\nThe Post also found that Beijing tested one of its experimental missiles - the DF-27 hypersonic glide vehicle - on 25 February.\n\nThe missile flew for 12 minutes over a distance of 2,100km (1,300 miles), according to the documents.", "Ms Cherry said she was planning to talk about her career in politics as well as her feminist views at the event\n\nSNP MP Joanna Cherry has told BBC Scotland she has been cancelled by an Edinburgh venue for \"being a lesbian with gender-critical views\".\n\nShe was due to appear at The Stand during the Fringe Festival in August.\n\nThe venue has cancelled the event after staff said they were not comfortable with her views on transgender issues.\n\nThe Edinburgh South MP is a critic of Scotland's Gender Recognition Reform plans, which make it easier for people to change their legally-recognised sex.\n\nMs Cherry told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme: \"I would hope The Stand would see sense here. Staff shouldn't be framing editorial and artistic policy.\n\n\"I'm being cancelled and no-platformed because I'm a lesbian, who holds gender-critical views that somebody's sex is immutable.\n\n\"I've made those views clear over a number of years. I have never said that trans people should not have equal rights.\"\n\nThe show was part of an In Conversation With series of events with interview guests including film director Ken Loach, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham.\n\nMs Cherry said she was planning to talk about her career in politics and the independence movement, as well as her feminist views.\n\nShe added: \"Because a small number of people don't like my feminist and lesbian activism, I'm being prevented from talking about all of those things in my home city where I'm an elected politician.\n\n\"I think it says something's gone very wrong in Scotland's civic space.\n\n\"Small groups of activists are now dictating who can speak and what can be discussed.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Scotland on Tuesday, Ms Cherry said that \"many of my SNP colleagues agree with me, they're just afraid to speak out.\"\n\nShe added: \"I've had a lot of private discussions with MPs and MSPs, and many party members, but MPs and MSPs have seen what has happened to me.\n\n\"I know for a fact there are others who are just going along with self-ID for a quiet life.\n\n\"One day, I hope to be in a position to tell the full story of what has gone on behind the scenes in my political party since I stood up for the rights of lesbians to be same-sex attracted and women's rights to safety, dignity and privacy.\"\n\nThe Stand said some of its staff were unwilling to work at the event\n\nAsked if she would take legal action if the Stand did not reverse its decision, the MP - who is also a practicing KC - said she was keeping her options open, but hoped the venue would \"see sense\".\n\nIn a statement on Monday, the club said: \"Further to our previous policy statement on this matter, following extensive discussions with our staff it has become clear that a number of the Stand's key operational staff, including venue management and box office personnel, are unwilling to work on this event.\n\n\"As we have previously stated, we will ensure that their views are respected.\n\n\"We will not compel our staff to work on this event and so have concluded that the event is unable to proceed on a properly staffed, safe and legally compliant basis.\n\n\"We advised the show producers, Fair Pley Productions, of this operational issue and they advised Joanna Cherry that it is no longer possible to host the event in our venue.\"\n\nThe Stand - which was co-founded by SNP MP Tommy Sheppard - said it did not endorse the views of any participant in the In Conversation With series, which is organised by independent producer Fair Pley.\n\nIn a statement The Stand said: \"Following extensive discussions with our staff it has become clear that a number of key operational staff, including venue management and box office personnel, are unwilling to work on this event.\n\n\"We will ensure that their views are respected. We will not compel our staff to work on this event and so have concluded that the event is unable to proceed on a properly staffed, safe and legally compliant basis.\"\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Rachael Hamilton said the Stand had received \"substantial amounts of public money during Covid\" and many people would be \"dismayed\" by the stance it had taken.\n\nShe added: \"Whatever views people have on this sensitive issue, it cannot be acceptable to shut down free speech.\"\n\nLast week, a screening of the Adult Human Female documentary was cancelled for a second time by the University of Edinburgh on safety grounds after protests by trans rights protestors.\n\nThe film is billed as an \"explainer about the issues, how far things have already changed for the worse for women and how difficult it has been to be heard, to be listened to\", with its producers saying that accusations that it is transphobic are \"designed to shut down debate\".\n\nSome university staff and student groups said the documentary contained content that was \"a clear attack on trans people's identities\".\n\nTrans protestors forced the cancellation of a documentary at Edinburgh University last week\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has called on the university to defend freedom of speech and to allow robust debate and discussion.\n\nHe added: \"I see that as no conflict with the other stance that I'm very proud of, which is supporting trans rights. That is something that I am unequivocal about.\n\n\"But we should ensure that our universities - and society more generally - are a place where we can have that robust exchange of ideas.\"\n\nMr Yousaf has launched a legal challenge to the UK government's block on controversial gender self-identification reforms that were passed by the Scottish Parliament in December.\n\nMs Cherry was among the senior SNP politicians who opposed the legislation, which aims to make it easier for people to change their legal sex and lowers the age at which they can do so from 18 to 16.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Cherry also told BBC Scotland she hoped the SNP would get its \"finances and governance in order\" amid a police investigation and the resignation of the party's auditors.\n\nMs Cherry, who resigned from the SNP's national executive committee in June 2021, said: \"I was one of a number of members elected on a manifesto to deliver better transparency and scrutiny over the party's finances and governance.\n\n\"I'm sad to say we failed to do that, and it wasn't for the want of trying.\n\n\"I just regret it's come to this. I would like those who stood in the way of reform back in 2020-21 to reflect on what they've done.\"\n\nMs Cherry also said the party had not done \"the necessary groundwork\" on economic issues under former first minister Nicola Sturgeon to win over opponents of Scottish independence.\n\nShe added: \"I've always argued that the way to win a referendum was to persuade people who voted no in 2014 of the merits of our case.\n\n\"The SNP needs to discuss both how we convince people to the cause of independence and also how we actually win our independence.\n\n\"We need to put the sovereignty of the Scottish people back to the front and centre of our debate.\"", "There is \"no drama\" over whether the public swear allegiance to the King during his Coronation, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.\n\nGuests watching the service will be invited to join \"a chorus of millions\" to swear allegiance in the service led by Justin Welby.\n\nThe \"homage of the people\", revealed on Saturday by Lambeth Palace, is a new addition to the ancient ceremony.\n\nBut campaign group Republic called it \"nonsense\" and \"offensive\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC News, the archbishop reiterated the oath was \"an invitation; it's not a command\".\n\nThe King held an audience with the Archbishop of Canterbury ahead of Saturday's Coronation\n\n\"In every Anglican service, every Christian service, it is normal for congregations to participate,\" he said.\n\n\"It's an invitation - so if you want to join in at this point, by all means do so.\n\n\"If you don't want to, that's fine. There's no drama to it.\"\n\nAsked about some newspaper reports suggesting he had gone \"rogue\", the archbishop insisted the service had been a \"huge, collaborative [with Buckingham Palace and the Cabinet Office] and very lovely process\".\n\nThe full details of the Westminster Abbey service were published by Lambeth Palace over the weekend, including that the theme of the service will be \"called to serve\".\n\nThe public will be given an active role in the ceremony for the first time as they are invited to swear allegiance to the King in a \"great cry around the nation and around the world\".\n\nThis \"homage of the people\" will replace the traditional \"homage of peers\" - where hereditary peers swear allegiance to the new monarch.\n\nWhile reading out the oath, the archbishop will call upon \"all persons of goodwill in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of the other realms and the territories to make their homage, in heart and voice, to their undoubted King, defender of all\".\n\nThe order of service will read: \"All who so desire, in the abbey, and elsewhere, say together:\n\n\"I swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.\"\n\nThe oath will be followed by the sound of a fanfare.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury will then proclaim: \"God Save The King\", and those willing will be asked to respond: \"God Save King Charles. Long live King Charles. May the King live forever.\"\n\nGraham Smith, spokesman for Republic which campaigns for replacing the monarchy with an elected head of state, said: \"In a democracy it is the head of state who should be swearing allegiance to the people, not the other way around.\n\n\"This kind of nonsense should have died with Elizabeth I, not outlived Elizabeth II.\"", "Carl O'Keeffe died in hospital days after being injured inside the indoor cave experience in Keswick\n\nA man has died a week after getting stuck inside an indoor caving experience at a Lake District climbing centre.\n\nCarl O'Keeffe was trapped in the narrow tunnel at Kong Adventure in Keswick for hours and was only freed with the help of specialist cave rescuers.\n\nThe 49-year-old from Lancaster was seriously injured and died on Sunday in Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle.\n\nHis sister Olivia Short said the family were \"broken hearted\".\n\nThe Keswick Mountain Rescue Team fought to free Mr O'Keeffe at the venue on 22 April, along with fire crews, police and ambulance, after staff at the centre were unable to.\n\n\"While the emergency services were deciding on evacuation plans, the climbing wall staff, assisted by visiting climbers, started dismantling sections of the wall to aid access to tunnels hidden behind the climbing wall panels,\" the team said at the time.\n\nA spokesperson for the mountain rescue team said there had been \"growing concern\" for Mr O'Keeffe's health because of the time he had spent trapped, static and in a confined space.\n\nMr O'Keeffe had been with a small group when he became stuck last month\n\nOnce freed, Mr O'Keeffe was taken to Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle but died from his injuries on Sunday.\n\nIn a tribute posted on Facebook, his sister Ms Short said she \"loved him dearly\".\n\n\"He was my baby brother and over the last few years became my best friend,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I also got to spend alternate weekends with him and his children.\n\n\"I'm broken hearted, as are the rest of our family.\"\n\nEmergency teams were called to Kong Adventure centre in Keswick on 22 April\n\nOn its website Kong Adventure says it has a 70m-long caving network at its site in the centre of Keswick.\n\nIn a statement the venue said staff had tried to help Mr O'Keeffe and \"followed all emergency procedures but it became apparent that outside assistance was needed\".\n\nIt added: \"Fire crew, mountain rescue, cave rescue, paramedics and Kong staff then worked to extricate the casualty who was taken to Carlisle hospital for further treatment.\"\n\nKeswick MRT said there had been a \"significant effort\" by rescuers, including the fire and rescue service with specialist cutting equipment, climbing wall staff and Cumbria Ore Mines Rescue Unit.\n\nCumbria Police is investigating Mr O'Keeffe's death on behalf of the coroner.\n\nCumberland Council, which is the regulating body for the centre, said it was also looking into what had happened.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police believe the body of Ivy Webster was among the seven found in a rural Oklahoma home\n\nSeven bodies have been found on a property in Henryetta, a small town in rural Oklahoma, during a search for two missing teenagers.\n\nPolice said they believe the girls they were looking for, Ivy Webster, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 16, were among the dead.\n\nThe corpse of Jesse McFadden, a felon and registered sex offender who police said the girls were travelling with, was also found.\n\nPolice did not list the cause of death.\n\nLocal officials have not publicly identified the other four bodies, but Janette Mayo, 59, of Westville, Oklahoma told AP News the other victims were her daughter, Holly Guess, 35, and her grandchildren, Rylee Elizabeth Allen, 17, Michael James Mayo, 15, and Tiffany Dore Guess, 13.\n\nMs Mayo said the sheriff's office had notified her. She told AP her family had not known about McFadden's criminal record until a few months ago.\n\n\"He lied to my daughter, and he convinced her it was all just a huge mistake,\" she told the outlet.\n\nThe Oklahoma Highway Patrol issued an endangered missing person advisory for Ivy Webster and Brittany Brewer on Monday.\n\nThey were reported to have been friends with Holly Guess, and to have spent the weekend with the family.\n\nAuthorities executed a search warrant at McFadden's home after he failed to attend court on Monday morning. He was due to stand trial for 2017 allegations of soliciting a minor and possession of child pornography.\n\nOkmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice said he believed Ivy and Brittany were found in the search, but said the state medical examiner would need to confirm their identities.\n\n\"Our hearts go out to the families and friends, schoolmates and everyone else,\" Mr Rice said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBrittany's father, Nathan Brewer, told local news he was in shock.\n\n\"I'm lost. I'm really lost. End of school's fixing to be here, she ain't gonna be there. I mean she's gone,\" he said. \"I have five kids but she was like my sidekick.\"\n\n\"Brittany was an outgoing person. She was actually selected to be Miss Henryetta ... coming up in July for this Miss National Miss pageant in Tulsa. And now she ain't gonna make it because she's dead.\"\n\nAt a vigil held on Monday night, Mr Brewer told the crowd \"it's just a parent's worst nightmare\".\n\nHenryetta Public Schools posted on Facebook that it was mourning the loss of several of its students. It cancelled a graduation planned on Monday for kindergarten students until further notice, and said it would provide students with grief counselling and access to mental health professionals.\n\n\"Our hearts are hurting,\" the post read. \"Please continue to keep these families in your thoughts and prayers.\"\n\nTwo fundraising pages naming Ivy and Brittany have been set up to pay for funeral expenses and support the families.\n• None Oklahoma sheriff gives update on seven found bodies", "A forensic and pathology review has been ordered in the case of a Fife man who died from a stab wound to the chest.\n\nColin Marr, 23, died from a single blow from a kitchen knife in 2007 after a row with his fiancée Candice Bonar.\n\nHis family have long challenged the original police conclusion that it was suicide. Ms Bonar has always maintained her innocence.\n\nThe first phase of a police review of the case started in 2021 and has now ended, the Crown Office has revealed.\n\nScotland's prosecution service has said that it and Police Scotland are now \"instructing reviews of the forensic and pathology aspects of Colin's case\".\n\nThe forensic and pathology aspects of the original investigation into Colin's death have been challenged by independent experts.\n\nLeading pathologist Dr Nat Cary has previously said it was \"both possible and plausible\" that Colin's injury was \"inflicted by a third party\", and questioned previous police reports on the location of the stab wound.\n\nIn a recent letter to the Marr family, Dr Cary said the death \"is and always was a homicide until satisfactorily proven otherwise\".\n\nHe added: \"To achieve penetration would have required severe force. Removal may also have required significant force because of a pinching effect when bone is penetrated.\n\n\"The pathological findings are not typical of self-infliction in that there are no tentative wounds.\"\n\nColin, pictured here as a teenager and as a baby with mum Margaret, grew up in Fife\n\nA statement from the Marr family said they \"clearly welcome\" the latest update from the Crown Office.\n\nIt added: \"It is two years past since we presented police with evidence from Dr Nat Cary that clearly states the location of the wound, and thus the significance of the wound, in terms of Colin's death being a homicide.\n\n\"Not only does it raise significant questions, it also gives Colin a chance of getting justice.\"\n\nBoth the then Fife Police and the Crown Office previously produced reports that were critical of the original investigation into Colin's death and issued apologies to his family.\n\nColin's stepdad Stuart Graham handed over a cache of material about the case to Police Scotland in 2021.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Geddes - who led the cold case review of the Renee and Andrew MacRae murders - has been in charge of re-examining Colin's case.\n\nColin's fiancée Ms Bonar has been interviewed three times by the police and voluntarily appeared in person at the 2011 fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into his death.\n\nAt the inquiry Sheriff Alastair Dunlop said he could not decide if the death was suicide or homicide.\n\nSpeaking after the FAI, Ms Bonar said: \"My name is cleared. I have always been honest and declared my innocence throughout this heart-breaking nightmare.\n\n\"What Colin did, he did to himself and that's the truth.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"We appreciate the importance of this work to the family and they will be informed of significant developments.\n\n\"Once further inquiries are complete, all the evidence will be reviewed by a prosecutor who has had no previous involvement in the case.\"", "Fang Bin has been released after three years in jail, sources say\n\nFang Bin, who documented the initial Covid outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has been freed from jail after three years, sources told the BBC.\n\nMr Fang is one of several so-called citizen journalists who disappeared after sharing videos of scenes in Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic.\n\nAfter disappearing in February 2020, he was sentenced to three years in jail at a secret trial in Wuhan, sources said.\n\nHe was released on Sunday and is in good health, they added.\n\nMr Fang is now back home in Wuhan. The BBC could not reach his family for comment.\n\nThe video that caught the attention of the outside world was one where he counted eight body bags outside a Covid hospital in the space of five minutes. He said he was detained that night but released. Then came a video with the message: \"All people revolt - hand the power of the government back to the people\". That was the last video he shared.\n\nAlthough activists have welcomed his release, they are concerned about the fate of another whistleblower - Zhang Zhan, a 39-year-old former lawyer, was detained in May 2020 and jailed for four years in December 2020.\n\nLike Mr Fang, she too was convicted for \"picking quarrels and provoking trouble\", according to activists who say the vague offence has often been used against critics of China's government. Two other citizen reporters Chen Qiushi and Li Zehua also disappeared in Wuhan in February 2020, but surfaced months later.\n\nTheir videos provided a rare glimpse into Wuhan in the early months of 2020. Cases were climbing and lockdowns had come into force, but information from officials remained scarce. Wuhan's 76-day lockdown - which inspired the country's harsh zero-Covid strategy - put the city under severe strain.\n\nMs Zhang, who lived in Shanghai, travelled to Wuhan in February 2020 to report on the outbreak after reading about a resident's experience. She was active on YouTube and Twitter, both of which are banned in mainland China, and continued sharing videos despite reportedly being threatened by local authorities.\n\n\"Maybe I have a rebellious soul... I'm just documenting the truth. Why can't I show the truth?\" she said in an interview with an independent filmmaker that was obtained by the BBC.\n\nShortly after the arrest, she began a hunger strike and was sometimes force-fed as her weight plummeted to under 40kg (88lb), according to the Free Zhang Zhan group. It's unclear if she is still on a hunger strike. Her family knows little about her condition.\n\nLast December, her brother uploaded photos of a letter written by Ms Zhang in now-deleted tweets. She drew flowers on the envelope to reassure their mother, he said.\n\nIn the letter, Ms Zhang mostly asked after her mother, who had recently undergone surgery and chemotherapy. She added that she was being treated well by the authorities.\n\nThis tweet showing an envelope with Zhang Zhan's drawing has been deleted\n\nMr Fang's release came quietly and with no warning as China tries to move on from the pandemic. Years of gruelling lockdowns and unyielding Covid rules took a huge toll, but their abrupt end late in 2022 brought on a devastating Covid wave.\n\nThe country has reported 120,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Nearly half of those were recorded between 8 December 2022 and 12 January 2023. But the numbers don't represent the true toll.\n\nIn February, the Chinese Communist Party's top leaders declared a \"decisive victory\" over Covid, boasting the lowest fatality rate in the world. They also said the country's Covid exit was a \"miracle\".\n\nA new history textbook talks of how the government \"achieved major achievements in co-ordinating the prevention and control of the pandemic\".\n\nAnd China's swift and effective censorship machine also means that the videos and accounts shared by those such as Mr Fang or Ms Zhang will likely fade from memory, if they haven't already.\n\n\"I visited China in March, and my observation is that people there want to move on and leave the past behind,\" says Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.\n\n\"They had to endure the draconian zero-Covid for a prolonged period, and now they yearn for a return to a more normal way of life.\" But, he adds, that this desire to move on is also driven by the lack of public discussion or debate.\n\nNot everyone in Wuhan has forgotten what life was like in early 2020.\n\nOne 31-year-old resident, who did not wish to reveal his full name, said he had not heard of Fang Bin but does remembers Li Wenliang, a doctor who tried to warn the world about the coronavirus and died after contracting it. Mr Li was investigated for \"spreading rumours\", although local authorities later apologised to him.\n\nHe says he often talks about the pandemic with his friends, even though he admits they might be a minority.\n\n\"Society is revising the memory of this period,\" he says. He said he lived with his parents throughout the lockdown. His mother would be so anxious and wash her hands so often that her hands cracked because of it.\n\n\"My mum still doesn't really understand the virus. If the media start reporting about virus again, she will wear a mask. She is really frightened.\"\n\nAnd there are others like Yang Min, who lost her only child to Covid in January 2020. She believes an early warning from officials would have saved her daughter.\n\nNow, three years on, she is still fighting to hold officials accountable and trying to file a lawsuit against the local government.\n\nShe is under surveillance but, she told the BBC earlier this year, she was not afraid.\n\n\"I have already lost the most precious thing in life. What else can they take away from me?\"", "UK house prices rose by 0.5% in April after seven consecutive months of falls, according to the Nationwide building society.\n\nEconomists had been expecting average prices to decrease during the month.\n\nPrices had been falling since August last year, after Liz Truss's mini-budget sparked turmoil on financial markets and drove up borrowing costs.\n\nNationwide is predicting a \"modest recovery\" in the housing market as mortgage rates start to come down.\n\nBut it said any improvement would be \"fairly pedestrian\", as household finances remain under pressure and average earnings have been failing to keep pace with inflation.\n\nThe cost of an average home rose by 0.5% between March and April to hit £260,441, said the lender, which bases the findings on its mortgage data.\n\nHowever, that was still 2.7% lower than a year ago.\n\nConditions in the housing market have \"taken a while to settle down\" since the mini-budget, the lender said.\n\nIn September, former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng promised billions of pounds of tax cuts without explaining how they would be paid for. It spooked financial markets and drove mortgage rates up to a 14-year high.\n\nRates are now \"well below\" those levels, but remain more than twice what they were a year ago, Nationwide said.\n\nHowever, the number of mortgages being approved is picking up and households feel more confident about their finances, said Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist.\n\n\"If inflation falls sharply in the second half of the year, as most analysts expect, this would likely further bolster sentiment,\" Mr Gardener said.\n\n\"This, in turn, would also be likely to support a modest recovery in housing market activity.\"\n\nRising prices will be a blow to potential first-time buyers, who are already facing rising rents. The continuing rise in many regular bills and food prices is also adding to the financial strain.\n\nHowever, views among housing market analysts are mixed, with some suggesting that house prices are not guaranteed to rise.\n\nSamuel Mather-Holgate, from advisory firm Mather and Murray Financial, said: \"The housing market always sees a boost in the spring, but don't confuse this data with the green shoots of recovery.\n\n\"The annual figure is still down, and this is expected to get worse over the next few months, especially if the central bank increases rates again this month.\"\n\nBut Tomer Aboody, director of property lender MT Finance, said: \"Buyers are finally making their move after months of waiting and stalling. More transactions are definitely needed for the overall strength of the housing market.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 108 police officers have been injured in clashes across France with protesters angry at pension reforms, the interior minister has said.\n\nGérald Darmanin said such a large number of police wounded was extremely rare, adding that 291 people had been arrested during the unrest.\n\nHundreds of thousands have been taking part in May Day demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron's reforms.\n\nMost were peaceful but radical groups threw petrol bombs and fireworks.\n\nIt is not clear how many protesters have been injured.\n\nPrime Minister Élisabeth Borne tweeted that the violence was \"unacceptable\", while also praising the \"responsible mobilisation and commitment\" of demonstrators in numerous cities.\n\nThis is the latest day of mass action against changes that raise the state pension age from 62 to 64. Trade unions want them withdrawn.\n\nThe Interior Ministry put the overall number of demonstrators at 782,000, including 112,000 in the capital Paris, but the CGT union say the figure is three times that number.\n\nUnion leaders were adamant that months-long opposition to the reforms was not waning.\n\n\"The page is not going to be turned as long as there is no withdrawal of this pension reform. The determination to win is intact,\" said CGT leader Sophie Binet, quoted by AFP.\n\nIn Paris, one police officer suffered serious burns to his hands and face when struck by a petrol bomb, Mr Darmanin said.\n\nViolence also broke out in Lyons, Toulouse and Nantes, where vehicles were set on fire and businesses attacked.\n\nMost of the protests were peaceful but police clashed with radical groups throwing projectiles and firebombs\n\nThere were also reports that protesters briefly occupied a luxury hotel in the southern city of Marseille. Monday was the first time since 2009 that France's top eight trade unions had backed calls for a protest, AFP news agency said.\n\nMr Darmanin accused far-left groups known as black blocs and numbering a few thousand of being behind the violence and urged that \"those who attacked the police and public property be severely punished\".\n\nThere has been a violent element to the protests ever since March, when the government decided to force the legislation through the lower house of parliament - where it lacks an absolute majority - without a vote.\n\nMr Macron says the reform is a necessity.\n\nHe signed the reform into law on 15 April, hours after France's Constitutional Council broadly backed the changes, but opinion polls show a large majority of the population opposes the higher pension age.\n\nThe reforms are expected to come into force by September.\n\nThe government has promised further talks but the unions are determined to get the changes repealed, and it is not clear where a compromise could be found.", "An investigation into the cause of the incident on 22 March is ongoing\n\nA US Navy vessel which tipped over in a dry dock in Edinburgh has been righted and is now afloat.\n\nTwo tugs manoeuvred the Petrel around Imperial Dock in Leith on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThe 3,371-tonne ship tipped over on 22 March, sparking a huge emergency operation and leaving dozens injured.\n\nThe dry dock is thought to have been flooded to right the ship on Sunday, when pictures of the process were posted on social media.\n\nThe vessel had been leaning at a 45-degree angle.\n\nImages on social media showed the vessel at a 45-degree angle\n\nA US Navy spokesperson said work was undertaken to stabilise the ship, which was then moved along the pier to allow further evaluation and repair work to be undertaken.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launched an investigation after the Petrel became dislodged from its holding.\n\nNHS Lothian said 23 people were treated in hospital and 12 at the scene of the incident.\n\nA HSE spokesperson said: \"A HSE team is continuing to work with Police Scotland on the ongoing investigation of this incident.\"\n\nThe Petrel had been moored at the dockyard since 3 September 2020 due to \"operational challenges\" from the pandemic.\n\nIt was once owned by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who bought the ship to locate historically significant shipwrecks.\n\nIn 2022 the Isle of Man-registered vessel was sold to the US Navy, and is now operated by American-owned firm Oceaneering International.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWith temperatures soaring to more than 40C at this time of the year, I normally sleep outside in my garden, but I am too scared to do that now, as fighter jets roar over my home in Sudan's Omdurman city - despite the latest ceasefire.\n\nI live with my mother and siblings in the centre of Omdurman, just over the River Nile from the capital, Khartoum.\n\nThe fighter jets are a constant reminder that Sudan is now in a state of war. I cannot get used to their terrifying sound.\n\nThe fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is all around us - to our north, south, east and west.\n\nIt came close to our home on Monday afternoon, when a bullet ripped through the roof of my neighbour's house, hitting her leg while she was asleep. Fortunately, she was not seriously wounded.\n\nWe heard loud noises - boom, boom, boom - a short while earlier. We think it was anti-artillery fire, but are not sure. We hid in our homes, as it is too dangerous to even look out of our windows.\n\nFrom morning to evening, ceasefire or no ceasefire, fighter jets fly past our neighbourhood, coming from the same military airport from where foreign nationals have been evacuated, and heading towards Khartoum to strike at positions of the RSF.\n\nFrom all the reports I have received, most of Khartoum is controlled by RSF fighters, with hardly any army soldiers - or police officers - on the streets.\n\nThe RSF fires anti-aircraft artillery to try and bring down the fighter jets, but I am not aware of any aircraft that has been shot down.\n\nThree days ago, some of the projectiles landed in an open field in my neighbourhood. Luckily, they missed a nearby mosque and homes.\n\nThe RSF has its origins in the war that broke out in Darfur two decades ago, and is made up of the Janjaweed militiamen who helped the government crush a rebellion there.\n\nIt had around 20,000 men before the fall of long-time ruler Omar al-Bashir in 2019, but has since turned into a force with an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 fighters.\n\nIt built a strong presence in cities and towns across Sudan, but many of its fighters have now been deployed to Khartoum as RSF commander Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti, fights army commander Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan for power.\n\nThe city is dotted with checkpoints, manned by RSF fighters in pick-up trucks.\n\nHamid Khalafallah, from the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, told the BBC's Newsday programme that people risk their lives every time they have to negotiate their way past.\n\n\"It's basically a gamble. Sometimes they let you through, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they shoot at you, sometimes they steal your things and it's very random,\" he said.\n\nTens of thousands of people have fled Sudan following the outbreak of conflict more than two weeks ago\n\nThe fighting has been most intense around the international airport, presidential palace, and the military headquarters.\n\nAll my friends who lived in these areas have fled - some of them making a long and arduous road journey to Egypt, not lucky enough to be evacuated, like foreign nationals, in specially chartered planes.\n\nI have decided to stay, as my neighbourhood is one of the safest, but I do not know for how long.\n\nA relative of mine, in her early 30s, has died of dengue fever. She was supposed to have got married this month, but died because she could not get treatment as hospitals were either shut or treating only those with gunshot wounds.\n\nThe Omdurman Teaching Hospital is one of the biggest in Sudan, but it is operating at minimal capacity.\n\nMany doctors are unable to get to the hospital, as it is too dangerous for them to travel.\n\nAlong with the breakdown in health services, there is a water and electricity crisis.\n\nSome residents have not had water in their homes since fighting broke out on 15 April, forcing them to rely on the wells of neighbours for their supply.\n\nWe are all hoping that the war ends soon, but our biggest fear is that former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok could be proven right, with Sudan descending into a civil war worse than those in Syria and Libya.", "Michael Allen, 32 was named as the man who died at the scene\n\nA man has been charged with murder after the fatal stabbing of a \"much-loved son\" near a Cornwall nightclub.\n\nMichael Allen, 32, died at the scene in Bodmin on Sunday, and seven other people were stabbed.\n\nJake Hill, 24, of Jubilee Terrace, Bodmin, is charged with murder, three counts of attempted murder and two counts of Section 18 causing grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nHe will appear at Truro Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said officers were called at 03:15 BST on Sunday to Victoria Square in Castle Canyke Road following reports of a person with a knife and multiple people having suspected stab wounds.\n\nSeven people were taken to hospital - one is still recovering after surgery, while the other six have been discharged.\n\nMr Allen's family described him as a \"much-loved son, brother, grandson and uncle, who loved his dogs\".\n\nThe family wished to \"respectfully request privacy at this time\", their statement added.\n\nAnyone with any information is asked to report it to Devon and Cornwall Police on the Major Incident Public Reporting site, under Operation Limbas.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk", "A TV presenter in Switzerland had a surprise when a climate activist walked on stage and glued himself to a podium during a live show.\n\nJeremy Seydoux was hosting a debate on local elections when the man walked on stage. He was later removed.", "British nationals waiting to board an RAF aircraft in Sudan\n\nThe final UK rescue flights are expected to take off from Sudan on Wednesday, the government has said.\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly said British nationals still wanting to leave the country should go to the Coral Hotel in Port Sudan by 10:00 local time (09:00 BST).\n\nHe added that there would be \"no further British evacuation flights\" from the city.\n\nSome 2,341 people have so far been airlifted to safety on 28 UK flights.\n\nIt was previously thought the evacuation had ended on Monday when planes left Sudan for Cyprus.\n\nThe UK government has described its evacuation as \"the longest and largest operation of any Western nation\".\n\nThose rescued during the airlift include Britons, their dependents, Sudanese NHS staff and other eligible nationalities.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Downing Street said 1,195 British nationals had been airlifted out so far.\n\nLast week, a negotiated, short-term ceasefire allowed UK evacuation flights to take off from an airstrip near Khartoum, while the fragile ceasefire held.\n\nOn Monday evening, two additional evacuation flights left Port Sudan carrying mainly British nationals.\n\nThe most recent two flights brought 144 people to safety.\n\nSpeaking earlier in the House of Commons, Africa Minister Andrew Mitchell told MPs the evacuation had \"been extremely successful\".\n\nHe said the UK was maintaining a diplomatic presence in Port Sudan, as well as at Sudan's borders with Egypt and Ethiopia.\n\nAnd the HMS Lancaster ship is off the coast to support Britons.\n\nEfforts are now focused on Port Sudan, \"helping British nationals there who are seeking to leave\", Mr Mitchell said.\n\nHe went on: \"Foreign Office staff who remain are helping British nationals to leave the country, signposting options for departure.\n\n\"British nationals in Port Sudan who require support should visit our team without delay.\"\n\nHe said ending the violence \"remains essential\", and said that \"aid operations are now at a standstill\".\n\nPreviously, BBC Newsnight had reported that 24 NHS doctors had been unable to board evacuation flights to the UK.\n\nMPs were told that the latest figures showed 22 of them had now been evacuated out of the country.\n\nA Sudanese paediatrician whose family's passports were locked in the British embassy in Khartoum has now been evacuated.\n\nElham Babikir, who had been offered a job at Telford NHS Trust and granted a visa, was in the final stages of moving to the UK when the fighting broke out. Along with her husband and three young children, she was consequently stranded in Sudan.\n\nAfter fleeing to the countryside, she eventually travelled to Port Sudan to seek assistance from the British authorities based there. In the last 24 hours she was granted a place on an evacuation flight after an intervention from the NHS.\n\nShe said: \"The officials there were so nice to us… The NHS helped with our evacuation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Baby meets father for first time after evacuation from Sudan to UK\n\nSpeaking earlier on Tuesday to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Cleverly said the focus was shifting to providing humanitarian aid, though he warned that relief efforts were likely to be impeded by continuing conflict.\n\nFighting in the country is in its third week, with thousands of people fleeing since the conflict broke out.\n\nFighting erupted last month between the Sudanese military and paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as they wrestled for control of the country - with the capital Khartoum at the centre of the heaviest fighting.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have fled the country since fighting broke out on 15 April, the United Nations has said, with a further 334,000 people displaced within Sudan.\n\nOfficials are warning of an \"all-out catastrophe\" if fighting does not end.\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC has announced the launch of an emergency radio service to be broadcast into Sudan.\n\nThe pop-up radio service, to be broadcast twice daily for three months on the BBC World Service, will provide \"crucial\" news and information for people based in the war-torn African nation.\n\nIt will include eyewitness accounts and news on diplomatic efforts, the BBC said, and help counter disinformation.", "Michael Allen has been named as the man who died at the scene\n\nTributes have been paid to a man stabbed to death near a nightclub on Sunday whom police have named as Michael Allen, 32.\n\nMr Allen was confirmed dead at the scene close to the Eclipse venue on Castle Canyke Road in Bodmin, Cornwall, following reports of a street brawl.\n\nSeven men and women with suspected stab wounds were taken to hospital.\n\nPolice have been granted by magistrates more time to question a man, 24, in connection with their murder inquiry.\n\nPolice investigations are continuing in the area\n\nThe family of Mr Allen, from Liskeard, said he was a \"much-loved son, brother, grandson, and uncle who loved his dogs\".\n\nThe family wished to \"respectfully request privacy at this time\", their statement added.\n\nThe suspect, also from Bodmin, has been arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nOfficers were called to the scene at 03:15 BST on Sunday.\n\nOf the seven people injured, five have since been released and two remain in hospital recovering from surgery.\n\nBodmin Rugby Club have set up a tribute site for people to remember Michael Allen\n\nA tribute site has been set up at Bodmin Rugby Club, where Mr Allen was a player, for people to gather and remember him.\n\nOfficers will be in attendance to support the local community between 16:00 and 18:00 BST on Monday, and twice daily from 10:00 to 12:00 and then 16:00 to 18:00 for the next week.\n\nThe club said Mr Allen's \"humour and kindness has left a mark on us all, and we will miss him dearly\".\n\nDet Insp Ilona Rosson said police would \"continue to ask the public for their help\" in the investigation.\n\nShe said: \"If you have any information relating to this murder and have yet to have spoken with the police, please come forward immediately. The information you have, no matter how small you may feel it could be, could be vital to our investigation.\"\n\nIt is unclear whether the victims had attended the nightclub prior to the violence outside.\n\nEclipse released a statement saying it was \"deeply saddened\" by the events and its \"thoughts are with the victims and their families\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Midwives in England have voted to accept the latest NHS pay offer, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) says.\n\nThe offer covers two years and includes an additional one-off amount for 2022/23 and and 5% rise for 2023/24.\n\nNurses with the Royal College of Nursing have already turned down the offer and they plan more strike action. Members of the Society of Radiographers also voted against it.\n\nThe RCM said the offer was \"not perfect\" but was a \"step forward\".\n\nThe vote saw a turnout of 48% of eligible members working in the NHS in England, with 57% voting to accept the deal and 43% rejecting it.\n\nThe offer was also made to NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts - which include most workers apart from doctors, dentists and senior managers.\n\nAlice Sorby, director of employment relations at the RCM, added \"the collective unions standing together, with our members behind us, that brought the government to the table and led to this improved offer\".\n\nMembers of Unison, the largest NHS union, also voted overwhelmingly to accept the pay offer aimed at resolving the long-running NHS dispute.\n\nOther unions including Unite, GMB and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists are due to announce their ballot results over the coming days.\n\nA government spokesperson said the decision by the midwives to accept the pay offer showed it is a fair and reasonable proposal that can bring this dispute to an end\".\n\nThe NHS Staff Council - made up of health unions, employers and Government representatives - is due to meet on 2 May and will report back to the government on the outcome of consultations from the unions.\n\nMembers of the RCN are due to begin a 48-hour strike on 30 April. Health Secretary Steve Barclay said he was applying to the High Court to declare the walkout on 2 May unlawful arguing the mandate runs out the day before.\n\nHowever, Mr Barclay shared a letter on Twitter on Wednesday evening in which he appeared to suggest the RCN had not submitted any legal argument that the action planned for 2 May is lawful.\n\nIn the letter, which he had written to RCN general secretary Pat Cullen, he says that he understands that the RCN's legal team have been instructed not to attend court.\n\nIf the government succeeds the strike would still start on Sunday at 20;00 BST but would have to end earlier on 1 May.\n\nThe union's general secretary Pat Cullen wrote an email to staff on Wednesday evening saying \"we expect that ministers could be successful in putting their full weight on the court.\"\n\nShe went on to add that \"if they win, we'll be letting members know that the strike will end at midnight on Monday 1 May and not the following evening.\"", "Partygate investigator Sue Gray was offered a job as the Labour leader's chief of staff in March this year\n\nFormer civil servant Sue Gray has chosen not to be interviewed as part of a Cabinet Office inquiry into talks with Labour about a senior party role, a minister has said.\n\nMs Gray quit the civil service after being offered a job as Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff.\n\nA government appointments committee is investigating whether she breached civil service rules over the move.\n\nEarlier, Sir Keir said he was confident Ms Gray had not broken any rules.\n\nMs Gray has held some of the most senior roles in the civil service and is best known for leading an investigation into the Partygate scandal, which contributed to Boris Johnson's downfall as prime minister last year.\n\nShe ended her decades-long career with the civil service in March, as Labour announced the party had offered her one of its most senior jobs ahead of the next general election.\n\nThe Conservative government said the situation was \"unprecedented\" and ordered an internal investigation into the circumstances of her resignation.\n\nOn Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden issued a written statement to the House of Commons containing an update into the circumstances leading to Ms Gray's resignation.\n\nIn the statement, Mr Dowden said: \"Ms Gray was given the opportunity to make representations as part of this process but chose not to do so.\"\n\nMr Dowden added: \"I am unable at this stage to provide further information relating to the departure of Ms Gray whilst we consider next steps.\"\n\nThe internal investigation by the Cabinet Office is separate to an inquiry by the independent Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), which will provide the final judgement on Ms Gray's departure.\n\nAcoba is to recommend how long Ms Gray should wait before being allowed to take up the job with Labour.\n\nThe BBC has been told that Ms Gray's focus is on Acoba and she has \"fully cooperated\" with them and \"given them all the details requested\".\n\nDave Penman, leader of the FDA union, which represents civil servants, told Times Radio he understood why Ms Gray was prioritising Acoba rather than the Cabinet Office's internal investigation.\n\n\"Acoba is really the real deal when it comes to this and who's going to make a decision,\" Mr Penman said. \"And it really should be, because it isn't doing it for political ends.\"\n\nUnder the civil service code, officials of Ms Gray's seniority must wait a minimum of three months before taking up outside employment.\n\nSenior civil servants, as well as ministers, are expected to check with Acoba about any employment they wish to take within two years of leaving government.\n\nAcoba provides advice and can recommend a delay of up to two years in starting a new job, but it has no power to block appointments.\n\nHowever, Labour has said the party and Ms Gray will abide by its recommendations.\n\nA long delay could hamper attempts to have Ms Gray in place well before the next general election, which is widely expected next year, to help Labour prepare for government if it wins power.\n\nEarlier, Sir Keir accused the government of using the issue to try and deflect from the local election campaign, saying it should be focusing on the cost-of-living crisis instead.\n\n\"[The public are] not sitting at their breakfast talking about Sue Gray, they're talking about their bills,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMs Gray was thrust into the limelight after leading a government investigation into allegations of parties being held in Downing Street during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe has held a number of senior positions, including head of the government's propriety and ethics team, since joining the civil service in the 1970s.\n\nMs Gray resigned from the post of second permanent secretary in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in March, after it emerged she had been offered a job with Labour.\n\nLabour has insisted it did not approach Ms Gray until after her Partygate report was published.\n\nBut Mr Johnson and his allies have seized on Labour's job offer to claim Ms Gray's investigation when he was in power was an attempt to smear him.\n\nHer report was critical of the senior political and civil service leadership, saying they \"must bear responsibility\" for the culture at No 10 during Covid lockdowns.", "An investigation has been launched after claims of \"bullying and a toxic culture\" at publicly-funded Welsh-language channel S4C.\n\nThe independent external investigation comes after the claims were made by a union representing staff.\n\nA letter written by the Bectu union described a \"a culture of fear\" within the organisation.\n\nS4C said it has decided to appoint a law firm to undertake an independent investigation into concerns raised.\n\nThe broadcaster has been based in Carmarthen since moving from Cardiff in 2014.\n\nEstablished in 1982, at the same time Channel 4 was launched, S4C has been an integral part of Welsh media for the past 40 years.\n\nAmong its successes are SuperTed, Sam Tan (translated to Fireman Sam) and long-running soap Pobol y Cwm.\n\nMore recently, hit dramas such as Y Gwyll (Hinterland), Un Bore Mercher (Keeping Faith) and Dal y Mellt (Rough Cut) have registered success in the English language too.\n\nThis investigation will come as a big shock to a TV channel which claims it contributed £141.1m to the Welsh economy in 2019-20.\n\nBectu's negotiation secretary in Wales, Carwyn Donovan, wrote a letter to independent members of the channel's executive board which described \"staff regularly being brought to tears\" and \"too scared to share their experiences\".\n\nMr Donovan said in his letter that the meeting was \"the most shocking\" in his career as a trade union representative, noting \"four staff members broke down in tears\" while \"giving their accounts of the situation\".\n\nS4C chairman Rhodri Williams announced the board had decided to appoint legal firm Capital Law to undertake the investigation.\n\nRhodri Williams says he is \"comfortable\" that the channel has responded in the \"appropriate way\" to the allegations\n\nHe said the letter \"obviously didn't make for comfortable reading,\" and that \"a number of points raised, if proved to be true, would give us serious concerns.\"\n\n\"They are not the type of things anyone responsible for any organisation would like to read, be that a private or a public organisation,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked whether the board had been slow to react to concerns raised by some members of staff, Mr Williams denied it, and said he was \"comfortable\" the board's independent members had responded \"in the proper manner and with the requisite speed\".\n\nHe urged staff to come forward to share any concerns they may have and said he would \"keep an open mind\" as to allowing contributions from any former employees who had recently left S4C.\n\nIf allegations of bullying were proved, he said he would be willing to take \"necessary steps\".\n\nAccording to the letter, S4C chief executive Siân Doyle said that \"the term bullying is shared too easily\"\n\nThe union letter was shared via an anonymous email with the BBC-produced news programme Newyddion S4C.\n\nIt noted that staff have shared experiences with union representatives of \"being ignored, belittled, undermined, or patronised by members of the management team\".\n\nIt also gave examples of management team members acting inappropriately and disrespectfully towards other staff, and when they raised legitimate questions, they received aggressive and confrontational behaviour from management team members.\n\nThe letter also detailed that the situation had been fragile for some time, with the union aware of complaints since last November.\n\nIn a meeting with the chief executive Sian Doyle, the union official said she recognised \"things had been difficult, and that managers were at fault for the way people felt\", but according to the letter, she also said \"the term 'bullying' is thrown about too easily\".\n\nBectu said it was reassured by the prompt and unequivocal response it has received from the S4C Unitary Board - made up of non-executive members who do not work for the channel, and executive members on the S4C management team - regarding its members' complaints.\n\n\"We are pleased they have agreed to appoint an independent investigator, whom we look forward to working with,\" it said.\n\n\"As a union we are committed to stamping out bullying and harassment wherever it occurs and we are here to support.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative culture spokesman Tom Giffard said the allegations were \"deeply concerning\", and for the \"wider impact on the reputation of our Welsh language broadcaster\".\n\nHe welcomed the appointment of the legal firm to investigate, adding: \"It is essential that staff at all levels come forward at this time to share their experiences and that S4C engages fully with the investigation\".", "Triple-glazed windows, highly insulated walls and an airtight construction mean very little energy is lost from the building\n\nA \"groundbreaking\" energy-efficient school will use pupils' heat to keep its classrooms warm.\n\nYsgol Gymraeg y Trallwng, in Welshpool, Powys, which welcomes its first children on Tuesday, is the first hybrid \"passivhaus\" building in the UK.\n\nThat is a German term used to describe buildings that have the absolute highest standards of energy efficiency.\n\nIan Pilcher, of Powys council, said the warmth generated by the pupils is informally known as \"kiddywatts\".\n\n\"We use the heat that the people in the building generate and because it's so thermally insulated we don't lose a lot of that,\" said Mr Pilcher, the council's senior project manager.\n\nA ventilation unit moves this warm air around the building, \"so we don't have big boiler rooms anymore. There is no gas central heating in this building.\"\n\nYsgol Gymraeg y Trallwng will be kept warm by the heat given off by pupils, which has been labelled \"kiddyWatts\"\n\nThe Welsh language school is a hybrid project because its hall and classrooms are in a new building which has been joined to the old Maesydre school, which was designed in the 19th century.\n\nInitial plans were to demolish the old building and rebuild, but after it was awarded Grade II listed status in 2018, a complete redesign of the project was needed to incorporate the old building.\n\nThe school has triple-glazed windows, highly insulated walls and an airtight construction, meaning that very little energy is lost.\n\nAir source heat pumps also provide background heat and solar panels on the building's roof generate the electricity.\n\nIan Pilcher said the aim of the project is to \"maximise the heat in the building and retain it\"\n\nHeadteacher Angharad Davies said: \"I cannot believe that we're here at last - I don't know how to explain it, it's completely out of this world.\"\n\n\"We've had a few hurdles along the way, but the wait has been worth it.\"\n\nThe journey to opening a purpose-built home has been a long one since it was established 2017.\n\nA report to Powys council in 2021 said that the expected cost of the project had increased, due to the redesign and collapse of a previous construction firm, from £6.7m to £9.1m.\n\nThe increase was agreed by the Welsh government, which is co-funding the project with Powys council.\n\nThe school retains so much heat the plan to cool it down is to open windows during the night, said Mr Pilcher\n\nCouncil cabinet member Pete Roberts said: \"The estimated final costs of the project are still to be finalised but the project is not expected to be over budget.\n\n\"Ysgol Gymraeg y Trallwng is the council's flagship Welsh-medium school in north east Powys and our ambition is to ensure that the school is full in a few years' time.\"\n\nThere are 89 children currently in the school in its current location, with space for 150 in the new building.\n\nChair of governors Lindsey Phillips said although the process had been \"frustrating at times\", the \"groundbreaking\" new facility was an exciting prospect.\n\n\"This symbolises the commitment of the local authority to Welsh education in the area,\" she added.\n\n\"98% of our children come from English speaking homes, so only 2% of our children have any Welsh at home, but it's teaching children bilingual skills.\n\n\"I think around the world it's well recognised that bilingualism is really beneficial for children.\"", "Khader Adnan was a senior figure from Islamic Jihad who was awaiting trial in Israel on terrorism charges\n\nIsrael and Palestinian militants in Gaza have reportedly agreed a ceasefire after the death of a Palestinian hunger striker in an Israeli jail on Tuesday led to a flare-up in violence.\n\nMore than 100 Palestinian rockets and mortars were fired into Israel and Israeli warplanes struck sites said to be linked to Hamas, which governs Gaza.\n\nA Palestinian man was killed in a strike on Gaza, local officials said.\n\nThe prisoner who died, Khader Adnan, was a senior figure in Islamic Jihad.\n\nIsraeli authorities said he had refused medical care during his 87-day hunger strike, which he began after being detained in the occupied West Bank on terrorism charges.\n\nBut one of his lawyers accused them of medical negligence and the Palestinian prime minister described his death as a \"deliberate assassination\".\n\nAn umbrella group of militant groups in Gaza, including Islamic Jihad and Hamas, said the rocket fire was \"an initial response to this heinous crime\".\n\nSirens sounded repeatedly in southern Israeli towns as militants launched several rounds of rockets following the announcement of Adnan's death.\n\nIsrael Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Lt Col Richard Hecht said 104 rockets were fired in total. Eleven fell into the sea, 14 landed inside Gaza, 24 were intercepted by Israel's air defence system, and 48 fell in open areas, he added.\n\nAt least one rocket hit a building site in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on Tuesday afternoon. A 25-year-old Chinese worker was moderately injured by shrapnel and two other foreign workers were lightly injured.\n\nTwo other people were lightly injured while running to a shelter overnight.\n\nIsraeli warplanes struck sites said to be linked to Hamas, which governs Gaza\n\nThere were loud explosions and flashes lit up the night sky as Israeli warplanes hit 16 targets in Gaza in response, including what the IDF said were weapon manufacturing sites, military compounds and \"underground terrorist tunnels\".\n\n\"We attacked everything we wanted,\" Col Hecht said.\n\nA Palestinian security source told the BBC that 12 Hamas military sites were hit across Gaza, causing major damage to them as well as nearby houses.\n\nThe Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said on Wednesday morning that a 58-year-old man called Hashel Mubarak was killed north of Gaza City, and that five other people were injured.\n\nEgypt, Qatar and the UN were involved in efforts to reach a truce, which a senior Islamic Jihad official said began at 06:00 (03:00 GMT) on Wednesday.\n\n\"The Palestinian factions have responded positively to the efforts of Egypt and many parties to cease fire,\" the official told the BBC. \"If the occupation [Israel] carries out any aggression, there will be a strong response from the resistance.\"\n\nIslamic Jihad and Hamas also demanded that Israel hand over the body of Khader Adnan to his family for burial.\n\nA car was damaged by shrapnel from a Palestinian rocket in the Israeli city of Sderot on Tuesday\n\nTensions had flared with the death of the 45-year-old, who had been in and out of detention by Israel over the past two decades.\n\nHe had been on hunger strike four times before in protest, helping to make his name well known to Palestinians.\n\nWhile Palestinian prisoners in Israel jails often take a stand by refusing food, this is believed to have been the first such death in three decades.\n\nAdnan began a fifth hunger strike immediately after being detained by Israeli forces at his home in Arraba, near the city of Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank, on 5 February.\n\nIsraeli authorities accused him of supporting terrorism, affiliation with a terrorist group and incitement, and he was due to go on trial this month.\n\nBut the Palestinian prisoners' rights group Addameer said he was being held on \"spurious charges intended to further suppress Palestinian activists\".\n\nLast week, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, another advocacy group, warned that Adnan's health situation was \"very serious\". It said he was refusing nutritional supplements and medical examinations.\n\nAdnan's wife, Randa Mousa, said he was doing that because Israeli authorities had \"refused to transfer him to a civilian hospital [and] refused to allow his lawyer a visit\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the Israel Prison Service announced that Adnan was \"found early this morning in his cell unconscious\", and that was taken to a hospital where he was declared dead after efforts to revive him failed.\n\nA senior Israeli official told AFP news agency that Adnan had risked his life by refusing medical attention, adding: \"In recent days, the military appeal court decided against releasing him from detention solely on the merit of his medical condition.\"\n\nHowever, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said Israel had \"carried out a deliberate assassination against the prisoner Khader Adnan by rejecting his request for his release, neglecting him medically, and keeping him in his cell despite the seriousness of his health condition.\"\n\nKhader Adnan's widow, Randa Mousa, said she wanted no bloodshed because of his death\n\nRanda Mousa said she did not want people to grieve her husband's death.\n\n\"We will only receive well-wishers, because this martyrdom is [like] a wedding, a [moment of] pride for us and a crown on our heads,\" she told journalists in Arraba, according to AFP.\n\nShe also insisted she did not want \"a drop of blood to be shed\" in retaliation.\n\nThe fate of their prisoners in Israel is a top issue for Palestinians, who hold Israel responsible for their well-being.\n\nThere are some 4,900 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, according to Addameer.\n\nMost are serving sentences after being convicted by Israeli courts or are being held for questioning, have been charged, or are awaiting or standing trial. It says another 1,016 are in \"administrative detention\", a controversial measure under which suspects are held indefinitely without charge or trial for renewable six-month periods. Palestinians regard all those held by Israel as political prisoners.\n\nAddameer says the deportation of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to prisons in Israel is illegal under international law. Palestinians also protest that it makes prison visits difficult because of strict conditions on Palestinians entering Israel from the West Bank.", "King Charles will wear layers of golden robes during the Coronation\n\nWe know the date, the time, most of the guest list - and now we know the outfit.\n\nThe heavy and priest-like golden robes King Charles III will wear for his Coronation have been revealed.\n\nDuring the service, the King will put on layer upon layer of glittering vestments, some of which were created for his great-grandfather George V.\n\nPrince William will help during the service by placing a ceremonial robe on his father.\n\nThe Imperial Mantle, seen here, is meant to symbolise the divine nature of kingship\n\nFor the crowning, King Charles will be given a long shimmering gold-sleeved coat to wear called the Supertunica.\n\nThe robe was created for George V in 1911 and has been worn at successive coronations including by the late Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nIt weighs about 2kg (4.4lb), is made of cloth of gold - silk thread wrapped in thin pieces of gold or silver gilt metal - and is embroidered with stylised arabesques and floral motifs.\n\nLayered on top of the Supertunica, there will be a floor-length cloak called the Imperial Mantle, or Robe Royal, which was made for George IV in 1821 - it weighs 3-4kg (6.6-8.8lb).\n\nThe mantle, which fastens across the chest with a golden eagle clasp, is inspired by ancient coronation ensembles and its priest-like style is meant to symbolise the divine nature of kingship.\n\nMade of cloth of gold, it is embellished with motifs including fleur-de-lis, as well as imperial eagles, and national floral emblems of red-pink roses, blue thistles and green shamrocks.\n\nIt has been worn by previous monarchs including Queen Elizabeth II during her coronation in 1953.\n\nThe Imperial Mantle fastens across the chest with this golden eagle clasp\n\nThe weight of the ceremonial robes comes on top of the crown which weighs about 2.23kg (nearly 5lbs).\n\nThe robes are reminiscent of the coronation ceremony, explained Caroline de Guitaut, deputy surveyor of the King's Works of Art at the Royal Collection Trust.\n\n\"They have clearly incredible historic significance, but they're also significant because of the sacred nature of their use during the investiture part of the coronation ceremony,\" she said.\n\nThe garments are usually kept in the Tower of London and form part of the coronation regalia.\n\nIt is tradition for recent monarchs to reuse garments, just as King Charles is, but they usually have a new coronation sword belt and glove to be used during the ceremony.\n\nBut in a move aimed at making the event more sustainable, the King has decided to reuse the belt and glove worn by his grandfather George VI - the last male monarch.\n\n\"It was the King's personal decision\", said Ms de Guitaut, adding that the items remain in \"remarkable condition\".\n\n\"And it's in keeping with this idea of sustainability and efficiency to reuse these pieces,\" she added.\n\nThe sword belt from 1937, also known as the Coronation Girdle, is made of embroidered cloth of gold and has a gold buckle stamped with national emblems.\n\nDuring the investiture, it will be placed around the King's waist, over the Supertunica, and has a gold clip used for briefly attaching the jewelled Sword of Offering, which symbolises being able to decide between good and evil.\n\nMeanwhile, the single coronation glove, also known as the Coronation Gauntlet, will go on King Charles' right hand while he holds the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross during the crowning.\n\nIt is made of white leather and the large cuff is embroidered in the form of national emblems including the Tudor rose, thistle, shamrock, oak leaves and acorns. The back of the hand has an embroidered ducal coronet above the coat of arms of the family of the Dukes of Newcastle.\n\nThe garments are usually kept in the Tower of London and form part of the coronation regalia.\n\nKing Charles decided to recycle the Coronation Gauntlet worn by his grandfather George VI\n\nKing Charles will arrive at Westminster Abbey in George VI's crimson red Robe of State which he will remove for his anointing.\n\nThen for the investiture he will put on a sleeveless white garment called the Colobium Sindonis - Latin for shroud tunic - and will also be given a long, narrow embroidered band of gold silk which goes around the shoulders, known as the Coronation Stole.\n\nAt the end of the service, the King will change into George VI's purple Robe of Estate to leave the Abbey.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Princess Anne on King Charles: ‘You know what you're getting’\n\nThe Princess Royal has said she does not think her brother, King Charles, will be changed by his new role.\n\nSpeaking to CBC News, the BBC's partner in Canada, Princess Anne said the King was \"committed\" to public service and that would \"remain true\".\n\nShe added that her brother's reign would bring a \"shift\" in how the rest of the family supported the monarch.\n\nKing Charles, who acceded to the throne on the death of his mother last year, is set to be crowned on Saturday.\n\nAs part of preparations for the event, the King and Queen Consort will attend a reception at the Palace of Westminster on Tuesday to meet members of both Houses of Parliament as well as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nThe King spent more than 70 years as heir apparent, longer than anyone else in British history, and in his mother's later years frequently represented her on official engagements.\n\nIn an interview at St James's Palace, Princess Anne said: \"You know what you're getting because he's been practicing for a bit, and I don't think he'll change.\n\n\"You know, he is committed to his own level of service, and that will remain true.\"\n\nDiscussing the future role of the rest of the family, the princess said the monarch was the \"key\" figure and that \"we... see ourselves as there to support that role\".\n\n\"What we do, we hope, contributes to the monarchy in the way it can convey continuity... of service, of understanding,\" she said.\n\nReports have previously suggested the King plans to reduce the number of working royals and the size of his staff in order to reduce the cost of the institution.\n\nAsked about the idea of a \"slimmed down\" monarchy, the princess said it was originally proposed \"when there were a few more people around\".\n\n\"It doesn't sound like a good idea from where I'm standing, I would say. I'm not quite sure what else we can do,\" she said.\n\nThe death of the Queen has led to renewed debate in a number of the Commonwealth realms about whether to keep the King as their head of state.\n\nA poll in September suggested that 54% of people in Canada thought the country should now end its ties with the British monarchy, while 46% disagreed.\n\nThe princess acknowledged that conversations about the relevance of the monarchy would be taking place, but added it was \"not a conversation that I would necessarily have\".\n\n\"I think it's perfectly true that it is a moment when you need to have that discussion,\" she said.\n\n\"But I would just underline that the monarchy provides - with the constitution - a degree of long-term stability that is actually quite hard to come by any other way.\"\n\nWhat are your plans for the coronation? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "AI has proved surprisingly effective at the start of the creative process\n\nAs the man widely seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI) warns about growing dangers from how it is developing, businesses are scrambling to see how they can use the technology to their advantage.\n\nGeoffrey Hinton, 75, who used to work for Google has warned that AI chatbots could soon be more intelligent than humans.\n\nMany businesses bosses are telling me that the hot topic presented at board meetings is how to deploy ChatGPT style technology across their businesses as quickly as possible.\n\nA few weeks ago, I watched as the boss of one of Britain's biggest consumer-facing companies looked at his computer, entered the transcript of a customer complaint call, and asked ChatGPT to summarise it and respond to it based on set of rules he made up on the spot.\n\nIn about a minute it came up with a very credible answer, with no need for any coding.\n\nThe end result was, I'm told, about 85% accurate. That is a bit less than human call centre staff, but it cost a fraction of a percentage point of the cost of deploying staff.\n\nThe good news for all, the pure enhancement to productivity, would occur if all the staff were now focused on the 15%, that could not handled by AI. But the scope to go further, and cut back on staff, is clearly there.\n\nAI Large Language Models are, however, getting more powerful. Not yet quite as capable as an intelligent adult, but not far off.\n\nAdvances are occurring faster than expected, and could be reaching the point where they become exponential.\n\nThe pace of change and adoption means there is scope for an economic and jobs shock to the economy as soon as this year.\n\nThe moment it becomes cleverer than the cleverest person, in pretty short order, we could get to \"runaway capability\" - more advanced than the entirety of humanity, on the way to what has been described by another former Google AI insider Ray Kurzweil as the \"singularity\". Are we at the start of that exponential moment right about now?\n\nAI has the possibility of taking a bunch of sectors of the economy, which have been immune to productivity improvements up until now, because they were time and knowledge intensive sectors, and transforming them.\n\nTechnology has given us lots of improvements in the quality of life. All of our smartphones now have all the content we could want, always instantly available on streaming services.\n\nOne top policymaker told me that \"a lot of that innovation has made our leisure time more enjoyable. It's not made our working time, more productive. It may have eradicated boredom as a human experience. But has it made you more productive at work?\"\n\nWill AI lead to the end of call centre jobs?\n\nThe real shock has been that these technologies are usable in a commercial context, not just for \"low-cognitive, repetitive\" - i.e. robotic - tasks, long thought susceptible to automation.\n\nThe surprise has been how deployable these technology is to highly creative, high-value work, which had been assumed to be relatively protected from competition.\n\nThe Open AI/ ChatGPT founder Sam Altman has himself expressed his surprise at the use so far. Specifically, the \"blank page\" or \"first draft\" stage at the start of the creative process of writing copy, creating an image, or music, or coding a programme can be achieved in seconds rather than weeks of briefing and refining.\n\nAgain this is what is possible with AI's not-yet-as-intelligent-as-an-adult human. So the good news is that rapid deployment of this technology, faster than the rest of the world, could solve the UK's longstanding productivity crisis.\n\nThe bad news is that it could occur so rapidly as to overtake workers' ability to adapt in time, creating social and economic crises. Could we face in call centres and creative studios in the 2020s, the equivalent of what happened in the coal mines in the 1980s?\n\nSome of the people most reluctant about the size of government in Silicon Valley have started to suggest that states might need to provide a basic income. The response of techno enthusiasts is the mantra: \"You wont be replaced by an AI, but you might be replaced by someone who knows how to use AI\".\n\nBut they used to say that's why everybody should learn how to code. That might not be such sage career advice any more.", "Six Cadbury desserts have been recalled as a precautionary measure\n\nSix Cadbury desserts, including Flake and Dairy Milk Buttons, are being recalled because of the possible presence of listeria.\n\nThe recall is described by manufacturer Müller as a precautionary measure.\n\nListeria bacteria, which can be found in chilled foods, can cause the rare infection listeriosis. But for most people, the infection is not serious, the NHS says.\n\nMüller has advised people to not eat the products and return them.\n\nNo other batches of Müller or Cadbury products have been affected.\n\nThe alert, issued by the Foods Standards Agency (FSA), relates to the following desserts:\n\nThe use-by dates of concern include 17 May for the Flake and Crunchie desserts and 18 May for the other four.\n\nIn most people, listeriosis has no symptoms or causes or mild symptoms for a few days. But, according to the NHS, for some the symptoms can include a high temperature, aches and pains, chills, feeling or being sick, and diarrhoea.\n\nSome people are at a higher risk of serious infection including those who are pregnant, over the age of 65, newborn babies and people with weakened immune systems.\n\nMüller said all impacted products could be returned for a full refund.\n\nThis was an isolated incident and an investigation is being carried out, said the yoghurt manufacturer.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"Müller produces these products under licence from Mondelez International and has stressed that this does not impact any other products it produces in the UK or other markets.\"", "The latest fighting has worsened the humanitarian crisis in Sudan\n\nMore than 100,000 people have fled Sudan since heavy fighting broke out between rival forces on 15 April, the UN has said.\n\nOfficials warned of a \"full-blown catastrophe\" if fighting does not end.\n\nA further 334,000 people have been displaced within Sudan.\n\nFighting is continuing in the capital, Khartoum, between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), despite a ceasefire due to be in force.\n\nDiplomatic efforts are being stepped up to try and get the warring parties to the negotiating table.\n\nOn Tuesday, South Sudan's foreign ministry said the army and RSF had agreed \"in principle\" to a new seven-day truce from 4 May, and had promised to send representatives to talks.\n\nIts statement came a day after the UN special envoy to Sudan, Volker Perthes, told the AP news agency that the two sides had agreed to negotiate a \"stable and reliable\" ceasefire.\n\nSaudi Arabia was a potential venue for the talks, he added.\n\nIf talks take place, it would be the first meeting between the two sides since the conflict started.\n\nMore than 500 people have been killed and more than 4,000 have been wounded in the fighting, according to Sudan's health ministry.\n\nA series of temporary ceasefires have failed to hold, with the military continuing to pound Khartoum with air strikes in a bid to weaken the RSF.\n\nThe paramilitary group said it shot down a MiG fighter jet over the city, but there is no independent confirmation of the claim.\n\nHeaving fighting has also taken place in Darfur in western Sudan.\n\nUN refugee agency spokeswoman Olga Sarrado told reporters in Geneva that the 100,000 total included people from Sudan, South Sudanese citizens returning home, and people who were already refugees within Sudan fleeing the fighting.\n\nRefugees have also been fleeing over Sudan's border with Egypt in the north and Chad in the west.\n\nMost European states have completed the evacuation of their nationals, but Russia said on Tuesday that it was sending four military planes to fly out more than 200 people - including its nationals and those from \"friendly countries\" - from Sudan.\n\nIn Khartoum, food, water and electricity are running out, but desperately needed aid supplies - shipped by the UN into Port Sudan - are being warehoused because of the violence. Meanwhile, widespread looting means there is no safe way to deliver them.\n\nWorld Health Organization (WHO) regional director Ahmed al-Mandhari said that health facilities have come under attack in Khartoum, and some are being used as military bases.\n\n\"Up to now there were around 26 reported attacks on healthcare facilities. Some of these attacks resulted in the death of healthcare workers and civilians in these hospitals,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Also you know some of these hospitals are used as military bases and they have thrown the staff, they have thrown patients out of these healthcare facilities,\" he added.\n\nOn Monday, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Abdou Dieng, said that more than two weeks of devastating fighting risked turning the country's humanitarian crisis into a \"full blown catastrophe\".\n\n\"Even before the current crisis, one-third of Sudan's population, nearly 16 million people, already needed humanitarian aid. 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